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Dell 2130CN color laser printer – $152.10 shipped Here’s an ultra-affordable Gearsponsor deal on a Dell 2130CN color laser printer. Normally priced at $499 – you can get the price down to a bargain $152.10 by adding the printer to your shopping cart, removing the duplexer and applying coupon code 22X6DLMFK6K92G. The printer has a 1 year basic warranty from Dell and you’ll get fast output of 16 pages per minute (ppm) color and 20 ppm black with a monthly duty cycle of up to 40,000 pages. Actual print speed will vary with use. Especially interesting is the simplified networking that allows for setting changes via the web and the ability to continue printing in black with an empty color toner cartridge.

How to force quit an application on the iPhone 3GS If you’re using one of the new iPhone 3GS models you may have noticed it’s no longer possible to force quit an application by holding the home key down for 5 seconds. This worked on prior models but now holding the home key down will only bring up the voice control. Instead to force quit an application running on an iPhone 3GS press and hold the power button for 5 seconds. When the Quit/Cancel screen appears THEN you can hold the home key for 5 seconds and the application will force quit. When even that doesn’t work I’ve found the combination of holding home and power for 5 seconds will still force a reset.

Colorful Ipod Touch Stickers I totally understand the hard work of the iPod designers to come up with the best design for each series. They have put all their energy and thoughts to create the most stylish, the funkiest, and the most hip design to satisfy the customers. I might have to send my apologize for them, but I really want to change the look of my iPod touch and add my own elements into it. It was like an answered prayer when I found this colorful iPod touch stickers. These stickers get all the elements that I want for my iPod look. I can get all the colorful, unique design on my iPod cover. What else I can ask? This protection skin is also made from high quality vinyl. Scratches cannot ruin the perfect look of my iPod. I also found it easy to apply on my iPod without leaving adhesive marks. Even bubbles will not appear inside it. The designer iPod touch sticker has thought on the perfection of this skin. Beside I get the front and back cover, I also can get the code to downloa...

Vobis HIGHSCREEN PP5420 Android Phone Russian company Vobis Computer launches the HIGHSCREEN PP5420 Android-based smartphone in Russia. The PP5420 is powered by Qualcomm’s MSM7201А 528MHz processor, 128MB RAM and 256MB ROM. It has a 3-inch 240×400 touchscreen display and a 1.15-inch OLED navigation pad. The HIGHSCREEN PP5420 features a 3 Megapixel camera, integrated GPS receiver with A-GPS support, Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR and WiFi 802.11b/g connectivity. The PP5420 supports quad-band GSM/EDGE and dual band 900/2100MHz WCDMA/HSDPA networks. Vobis’s phone is equipped with the G-sensor motion sensor. It runs Android OS 1.5.

Pantech Sky Love Actually IM-U460K Touchscreen Phone Pantech’s Sky introduces a new touchscreen mobile phone, the Love Actually IM-U460K, in the Korean market. Sky’s Love Actually features a 3-inch touchscreen display, a 3 Megapixel camera, integrated DMB tuner and media player. ##CONTINUE## The Love Actually IM-U460K comes with a stylish, elegant design. It supports GSM/HSDPA networks. Other than 255MB built-in memory, there is a microSDHC card slot for expansion.

Boston Acoustics Soundware XS 5.1 Surround Speaker System Boston Acoustics announced the new Soundware XS 5.1 Surround Speaker System that includes small and stylish speakers. The Soundware XS 5.1 features five ultra-compact SoundWare XS satellites that are the smallest loudspeakers from the company, and a compact subwoofer. Each SoundWare XS satellite measures less than 4-inch and ia equipped with a 2½-inch (65mm) woofer and a ½-inch (13mm) tweeter. There is also a 8-inch compact powered subwoofer that has a 100-watt (250-watt Peak) amplifier and 8-inch (200mm) driver. The SoundWare XS 5.1 system will be available in July 2009 in both black and white for $499.

Gemsta's Vaino knock-off If the Vaino "ultraportable" seemed a little too... well, aspirational, the style mavens have dug up a netbook that will certainly correlate with both your awesome sense of style and your self-identification as an OG (that's "original gemsta"). Dug up by some eagle-eyed KIRF-hunters at 2009's Shenzhen International Netbook Industry Fair & Forum, this guy sports an 8.9-inch display, an Intel Atom (Z515 / Z520 / Z530), 1GB RAM, up to 64GB storage, 3G, WiFi, SD card slot and more. We don't have a street date yet for you, but the price should be about 2000 yuan (that's about $294). And the best part? You won't have to worry about these guys stealing your thunder.

Colorware offers up $6,000 Stealth MacBook Pro: it's really dark Colorware's well known for offering up all sorts of consumer electronics in all sorts of hues, but the outfit has definitely stepped up its game with the Stealth MacBook Pro. This limited edition piece is an all-black 15-inch MacBook Pro with a matte display, 3.06GHz CPU, 8GB of DDR3 RAM, 256GB SSD, an 8x SuperDrive, zero gloss finish and a SofTouch coating that'll make it downright impossible for your fingers to stop stroking it. Reportedly, these will be limited to just ten units, and each one will cost a not-at-all affordable $5,999. See Apple, this is what you get when you voluntarily axe the BlackBook. Opportunity, lost.

DSS surveillance tech from Japan makes George Orwell upset We take a break from reporting on the impending doom of the human race to bring you news of the latest innovation designed specifically for making our pre-apocalypse lives miserable. Japanese firm DSS is now offering to snap video cameras and ankle sensors -- yes, the same kind that convicts under home arrest have to wear -- onto your employees for the ultimate in workplace surveillance. Sure, you might find out Bob in accounting takes a really long lunch, but do you really need to spend $20,000 and piss off your entire workforce to prove that? Just stalk his Tweets and Facebook status updates like a good old-fashioned employer would do.

Sony Ericsson "Rachael" Android XPERIA handset unveiled? Hello, beautiful. Danish phone site Mobil has uncovered "internal documents" on what appears to be Sony Ericsson's upcoming Android-based handset, an XPERIA number codenamed Rachael. Under the hood is a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, HSPA and an 8 megapixel camera. It's unclear how big the touchscreen is, and other details are scarce -- there is a 3.5mm headphone jack, so that's nice, but unless we're severely misguided, there doesn't seem to be a slide-out keyboard tucked away inside this thin chassis.

Rumored Sony Ericsson "Kiki" handset isn't a boring one That supposedly upcoming Android XPERIA that Mobil dug up might have our minds, but it's this leaked handset (which, to be fair, looks fairly sketchily rendered), the Sony Ericsson Kiki, that has won our hearts. The screen is made of glass, with an image seemingly rear-projected onto it (teleprompter style), while the keys are, um, scarce. Mobil was able to offer few hints as to how this works or what all it does, and it seems like it falls far short of the functionality of a feature phone, but we're sure we want one whatever it is.

FCC gives Nokia E52 the rose You won't find the mega-slim (9.9mm, to be exact) E52 in the hands of any businessfolk just yet, but as usual, some FCC lab has the guilty pleasure of putting this one through the RF wringer well ahead of release. The version tested here is a Band I / VIII piece, which means it'll do full HSPA on the 900 and 2100MHz bands -- not exactly what your average North American S60 geek is looking for, but with the crazy precedent the N97 has set for launching in NAM flavor first, who knows what'll happen?