Articles on Ruggedized

i-mate announces the 810-F rugged phone - Feb 16, 2009

Crave Dubai-based handheld maker i-mate has been pretty quiet since releasing its Ultimate series of Windows Mobile (WM) phones last year. Much of last year was just waiting for its WM6.1 update ... Read story »

Dell hopes tough guys still buy laptops - Mar 11, 2009

Crave Second-gen ruggedized Latitude from Dell. Dell is back with a slimmed down version of its fully rugged 14-inch laptop. Like the company itself, the XFR's second-gen improvements on the device are ... Read story »

Is there no room for smaller smartphone makers? - Sep 18, 2009

Crave Yesterday, a report originating from ITP.net suggested that mobile phone company i-mate has gone out of business. According to the tech business news site, i-mate's employees were told to take two ... Read story »

Dell unveils rugged tablet PC - Oct 28, 2009

Crave Dell unveiled a 12.1-inch rugged convertible tablet PC, the Latitude XT2 XFR, the first multitouch tablet PC that can withstand ballistic shock, extreme temperatures, dust, sand and moisture. The Latitude XT2 ... Read story »

24-inch LCD ready to do battle - May 30, 2008

Crave A Canadian company that goes by the apt name of Stealth Computer is determined to bring military-grade specs to consumer gear. A few months back it came out with its TuffTouch ... Read story »

General Dynamics' most ruggederiest laptop ever - Mar 17, 2009

Crave "We have the most rugged laptop." "No, WE have the ruggedest!" "Psshhh, ours is even ruggedier!" No, those aren't real words, but that's kind of how the marketing and advertising ... Read story »

A keyboard for spies and messy eaters - Jun 14, 2008

Crave The people at iKey (not to be confused with Ikea) clearly have some sort of James Bond complex. Last fall, they debuted a keyboard made for night-vision goggles, and now they've ... Read story »

The US$2,600 rugged smart phone - Jul 1, 2008

Crave Logic Instrument got FCC approval nearly two years ago for its Tetra T-Pad rugged smart phone, but not much has been heard about it since then. Perhaps the French manufacturer thought ... Read story »

i-mate's innovative PDA-phones - Feb 18, 2009

Crave BARCELONA--The i-mate 810-F may be this show's first ruggedized PDA-phone, but the Dubai company is not done yet. Jim Morrison, CEO of i-mate, said that too many vendors have been copying ... Read story »

11 Nikon D3s go to space with seven lenses - Dec 21, 2009

Crave (Montage by: Leonard Goh/CNET Asia) NASA has placed an order with Nikon for 11 units of its highest-end dSLR, the D3s, and seven AF-S Nikkor 14-24mm F2.8G ED lens to bring ... Read story »

A match made in heaven: Apple's MacBook Air and Iomega's eGo Helium - Sep 18, 2008

Crave Earlier this year, we took a close look at Iomega's eGo line of portable hard drives. We tested both the brown leather eGo and the camo eGo, with superb results: We ... Read story »

New Pretec CompactFlash card gets superfast - Mar 4, 2009

Crave Pretec, a maker of CompactFlash cards including very high-capacity ones, on Tuesday brought the speed of CF cards to a new high. The company unveiled what we believe to be ... Read story »

Top 10 phones at MWC 2009 - Feb 19, 2009

Features We pick 10 of our favorite mobile phones seen at this year's Mobile World Congress and tell you why they made our list. Read story »

A new HP Nettop offering? - May 28, 2009

Blogs OK, HP did NOT announce a Nettop at its "Touch the Future Now" event here in Beijing. But HP did announce a standalone version of its thin client, the t5730w. The ... Read story »

LaCie releases 500GB rugged harddisk - Apr 23, 2008

Crave Ninjas, John Locke, and Bear Grylls take note: your active lifestyle have nothing on the LaCie Rugged Hard Disk. But even if you're not trekking through the trenches and sinister islands, ... Read story »

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