Yeah, we know—"video or it didn't happen," right? Well, we're working on it. Jeez, give us a break guys, Mr T smashed up our offices and the cleanup is immense. Nevertheless, the mammoth mobile totes a working internet connection of sorts and an onboard camera, but it completely lacks a battery, as Mr Tan couldn't build one large enough—what a slacker. The humango-handset relies on a mains outlet for power, and a local journalist verified its functional state by sending SMS messages and making a call.

The project took him 6-months to complete, and his wife was said to be livid with the racket he was making whilst putting it all together. Mind you, if our partners were busy constructing the BFG's cellphone, and they carelessly omitted the vibration function, we wouldn't be best pleased either. [Ananova via textually]

There's no accelerometer and website viewing is landscape only (conversely, navigation is portrait only). No pinching or pulling, either, you tap a zoom button multiple times to get the level you want. Bleh. It tries to make up for being less dynamic with a mode that lets you pan through a site by moving the phone around, using the camera as the sensor. But, it didn't quite work, at least not for Giz, which loaded painfully slow, despite the 3G connection.

Haptic feedback has a lighter touch than the Voyager, though when you scroll through a list, it does this weird undulating vibration wave throughout the entire phone, which is both neat and slightly unnerving. Since it's so beta (dare I say buggy?), it's hard to gauge its true iPhone-killing potential right now, but we'll be keeping our eye on it. (Props to Dave Zatz for letting us jack his iPhone for the size-off.)

I'm still on the fence as to what defines portability. The air pitches it as thinness and weight, and does so well. But the 12-inch powerbook and the Sony Vaio TZ feel smaller. They might have smaller keyboards and screens, but as for throwing them into a man purse or small bag, the units with smaller screens seems a lot easier to tote. But moving from room to room with it, carrying the Air with one hand, it's clear that this is the sturdiest and easiest inner-house haul.

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They were really scant on details, but we did squeeze out a date of first quarter this year, so we should it within the next couple of months.

Maybe someone really would want an elephant in the living room. Well, now it's perhaps someday kinda almost possible, in the fantasy world of Panasonic's gigantic CES plasma displays!

For seven days now, I have comfortably read in many lighting conditions with the Kindle and can safely say it has not been a strain of any kind. I'm a guy who stares at a laptop screen for hours on end, and that can suck. Reading E-Ink from either the Kindle or the Sony Reader is a vacation by comparison. My wife has also stolen it from me every chance she's had, and especially likes reading the New York Times on an airplane, something she says she wouldn't normally do because it's just too much paper. No complaints about readability, guys. I wish you doubters could experience it.

Side by side, fonts appear smoother on the Kindle than on the Reader, and the Kindle has a choice of six font sizes, as opposed to Reader's choice of three. Both let you bump font sizes up or down on the fly, a major convenience. The Reader has active screens—showing animated status indicators and so on—while Kindle screens are always static. If anything on the Kindle page changes, the whole screen does a full refresh.

The Sony has a dedicated music player and JPEG viewer; Amazon hasn't quite nailed that yet. However, the Kindle does have one thing the Reader doesn't have in this department: a speaker. It's not bad either, if you're mostly hoping to hear audiobooks and background music.Even though you can drag and drop files to the Reader, you can only do that with unprotected stuff like PDFs, MP3s and JPEGs. Kindle's drag-and-drop potential is even less, since you can only drag a certain subset of compatible files over to it.

USB disk folder appearance of Sony Reader:USB disk folder appearance of Amazon Kindle:There's no way to download books from Sony's store without using the special eBook Library software, which is cumbersome and works only with Windows PCs.

Using the eBook Library with the Reader, you can get certain views of content that you cannot get in any way with the Kindle, and you can even read books on your computer that are stored on the Reader (though I am not entirely sure why you'd want to do that). Here's a look at the eBook Library interface: This is not a true to-the-death Battlemodo, but it was an attempt to show you the differences between the two devices, beyond mere specs. I have to say, it is this Windows-only, iTunes-wannabe PC reliance that hurts the Sony Reader more than anything, especially because Sony Electronics will never admit to being as bad at software design as they are good at hardware design. The extra $100 for the Kindle means freedom from the PC—if at the same time it means a shackle to Amazon and its potentially limited file friendliness. When you talk to regular non-geeks, downloading books—and those all-important magazines and newspapers—directly to the device makes the most sense. [Sony Reader; Amazon Kindle]

Here is the LX alongside assorted phones competing for its audience: iPhone, Palm Centro and BlackBerry Curve: As you browsed through these Sizemodo shots, you probably noticed that there was no comparison with an older Sidekick. Unfortunately I don't have one here, but I will tell you that, measurement wise, the LX is only 2/10 of an inch slimmer than the Sidekick 3. It is also slightly lighter:

Sidekick LX: 5.1 x 2.36 x 0.7 in. - 5.7 oz.
Sidekick 3: 5.1 x 2.3 x 0.9 in. - 7 oz.

The Slide, built by Motorola, is actually the smallest Sidekick. We'll do a Slide vs. LX Sizemodo when it ships on November 7. Those shots will be much more interesting. [T-Mobile]

Comparison with T-Mobile RIM Blackberry Curve (with Wi-Fi):

But when you're comparing the Flash Zune vs. the iPod Nano, things get a little tricky. The Nano's now fat, which means it's shorter but wider than the Zune, so it's kind of weird. But if you look at the iPod Nano 2G vs. the new Flash Zunes, it's almost exactly the same size. However, Microsoft's player still comes up a little fatter, wider, and thicker. [Sizeasy]

If you look at the profile, especially, you can see that the SoundDock Portable stands about half an inch taller than the original. It has a slimmer look from the side, but there is a ridge down the back. I have to say, however much a lover or hater you are of Bose, the new machine is a vast improvement, even aside from portability:

• The old SoundDock hisses audibly when an iPod is docked, and gets louder when the volume is up. The new Portable has licked the problem almost completely. There's a very faint hiss when you put your ear to it that won't change regardless of the volume setting.

• The auxiliary input is key. For some apartment dwellers, this might be their whole sound system, and being able to plug in other stuff (satellite radio, CD/DVD player, etc.) really matters. I always assumed Bose avoided Aux In because it might mean lost sales opportunities. I suppose, now that the new SoundDock costs $100 more, Bose is willing to take that risk.

• The new remote is better built, with more substantial buttons, including two additional ones dedicated to skipping from one playlist to the next. As a playlist kind of guy, I like this.
• The sound comparison was the most telling. The previous SoundDock has notoriously suffered from a fairly weak stereo image, not enough midrange and a lack of sonic resolution. Bose has definitely read all of the commentary, because those are the three areas that have been improved. The bass levels are about the same, but at higher volumes you get a much richer sound with the Portable, a much more open stereo feel, and a sense of coherence and clarity that you just don't get on the original. In fact, when I was doing side-by-side comparisons, it occasionally sounded like the original SoundDock was playing from the bottom of a well.

I will acknowledge here that I haven't tested the SoundDock Portable against any docks from other makers, and it may be a while before Mark Wilson is up for another Sweet Sixteen. In the meantime, at the very least it's good to know that the extra $100 isn't just for the lithium-ion battery—which I probably wouldn't make any use of—but for a much improved device overall. It really should be called, simply, SoundDock II. [Original Story]

It's the shortest of the bunch (the PPC-6700 is actually taller when you count the antenna), and definitely the thinnest. It's still relatively bulky if you're not used to carrying around an HTC slide-out smartphone, but it's definitely thinner than anything that's come before.

Larger image after the jump.

– Jason Chen

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Take a look at the gallery to see just how small it is, and just how much less of a crotch bulge you'll get when putting this in your pockets. – Jason Chen

The Gallery [Gizmodo]

Update: We've got three more galleries for you now, the most exciting of which is the Ocean vs. LG Prada and iPhone (papercraft). Even though it's not quite in the same category, you guys (in the poll held yesterday) decided that you were looking forward to the Ocean even more than the iPhone. Here they are, head to head.

Make the jump for the Ocean vs. QWERTY phones like the SideKick 3, the Moto Q, Palm 755p, and various other Helio phones.

– Jason Chen

Well, it looks like Apple's still got the upper hand. Although thicker (0.41 vs 0.33 inches), the shuffle is shorter and less wide. Add to that the fact that the shuffle already has a clip built in, as opposed to the Stone, where you have to buy a separate clip, the shuffle seems to be the winner in today's Sizemodo.

Hit the jump for the full Sizemodo.

– Jason Chen

Zen Stone [Gizmodo]

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In fact, business people are so familiar with RIM's little emailing device, eHarmony should have a field measuring your naughty bits in BlackBerries. After all, 1.5 BlackBerries wide and 4 BlackBerries deep make a whole lot more sense to a man than a cryptic "32C". – Jason Chen

FlipStart [Gizmodo]

Nevertheless, Apple's 4.5 x 2.4 x 0.45 inches vs. Meizu's 4.1 x 2.2 x 0.45 inches is pretty much negligible unless you're Barry, Robin, or Maurice Gibb. – Jason Chen

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Helio Heat [Gizmodo]

The biggest difference between the two is the Neo1973's 18.5mm thickness, compared to the svelte 11.6mm thickness of the iPhone. Keep in mind, though, that the Neo1973's edges are much more rounded than that of the iPhone, giving the illusion of a smaller size. – Charlie White

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Sharp and the 108-inch LCD Say: Bigger Is Better [Gizmodo]

Here's the iPod compared to the current market. On the smartphone side, it's got similar functionality, but it's much thinner than the Cingular 8525, our current favorite smartphone (which incidentally runs Windows Mobile). The iPhone also doesn't have 3G.

On the music side, it's got the memory size of an iPod Nano, but needs to cram in a lot more features. – Jason Chen

iPhone [Gizmodo]

Both GPS receivers use the SiRF Star III chipset, and both connect with Bluetooth to whatever devices you have that support GPS inputs. The Visiontac has 17-20 hours of battery life, and comes in a piano glass finish.

How does this one compare to the Navicore? Make the jump to see the Sizemodo.

As you can see, the Visiontac comes out to be 23,574 cubic millimeters, and the Navicore is 21,120 cubic millimeters. So close! – Jason Chen

Product Page [Visiontac]

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Add in the "less than 1-inch thick" spec, and the fact that it's ultra-portable, which puts it in line with laptops like the Sony VAIO VGN-TXN15P/W, the dimensions should be quite a bit smaller than even the regular MacBooks. In fact, it's may be as much smaller than the MacBook than the MacBook is compared to the MacBook Pro.

Of course, this is all conjecture, since we don't believe there's going to be an Ultraportable MacBook coming out any time soon with those ridiculous specs. – Jason Chen

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But if Travis the satellite radio lover is disappointed, there's nary a hope for the rest of us. – Jason Chen

Product Page [Sirius]

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Some additional thoughts after the jump.

The Zune is taller and thicker than the current 30GB iPod, but has the same width. The Zunes didn't feel heavy at all, and was actually pretty nice to hold. As you can see from the graphic, it took Apple a few tries to get the iPod down to 0.43-inches for a 30GB model, whereas the Zune is doing fairly well at 0.58 inches, which about the same as a 4G iPod.

Also, since this Zune is a Toshiba OEM, it's carrying some extra weight. The second generation, in-house Zune, should shape up to be a bit slimmer. – Jason Chen

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Further reading: Zune Review, Zune Gallery.

Other problems: Coleco Industries tried to do too much and made a hardware expansion module (the Adam), turning the console into a full blown computer. Consumers balked at the $600 price tag, despite the Adam containing a new Digital Data Pack, which were higher capacity than older audio cassette drives. The failure weakened Coleco, which eventually filed for bankruptcy.

Jump to see the titans clash.

– Jason Chen

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Reference: Coleco Adam, Coleco.

Linux Computer Shrinks in Size [Gizmodo]