Filed under: Digital Cameras

Fujifilm‘s got a new ruggedized camera for those whose photography takes ‘em into less than ideal conditions — or anyone that just tends to beat up their equipment, we suppose. Its BIGJOB HD-3W also doesn’t seem to skimp too much on features to accommodate your abuse, packing in a reasonable six megapixels and a 3x optical zoom, along with ISO settings up to 1600, VGA video recording, 23MB of built-in memory, and an xD slot for expansion. Just don’t plan on going too crazy with it — Fujifilm apparently doesn’t recommend drops of more than two feet, although the cam is water and dust resistant. Price and availability are as yet unknown quantities, as is so often the case.

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Filed under: Handhelds, Tablet PCs

With the “Origami lifestyle” being portrayed as so fun and carefree, we were surprised to see that UMPCs will also be tasked with the decidedly less fun-filled duty of helping soldiers locate and terminate their targets. The latest high-tech addition to the military’s mobile arsenal is a pocketable 1.4GHz Pentium M-powered tablet from General Micro Systems known as the P630 Spartan, whose half-inch-thick ruggedized case houses 2GB of DDR SDRAM, a 30GB hard drive, 64MB of dedicated VRAM for OpenGL and Direct-X support, and an optional 16GB of bootable flash memory. You also get a CF slot, optional 802.11g or Bluetooth, USB and FireWire ports, and E-Purge hard drive self-destruct utility for your $3,400, although that price is for 100 of the devices, so we’re not sure if they’ll even be willing to sell just a couple to your militia group.

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Filed under: Handsets, Motorola, Sprint-Nextel

If push-to-talk isn’t too sissy for you now that those href="http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/02/cingular-goes-live-with-push-to-talk/">Cingular kids can do it, Motorola
is prepping a rugged version of their href="http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/31/motos-i870-antibacterial-widen-phone/">i870 iDEN phone, the i580. The
phone has the same WiDEN connectivity, PTT (of course), Bluetooth, 1.3 megapixel camera, and dual displays of the i870,
though the external display on the i580 is a smaller grayscale one. The phone does lose the external MP3 controls,
though it can still play your tunes off of the internal microSD slot. Of course, the main addition is the rubberized
shell and military grade resistance to rain, dust, shock, and vibration that the new handset includes. The i580 should
be available in Q2 of this year for an undetermined price.

[Thanks, Allen]

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Filed under: Handsets, Others, Windows Mobile, GSM, GPRS, EDGE

She may not be pretty or pocketable (and “invincible” might be going a bit far), but unlike your typical consumer-grade Windows Mobile device, Symbol’s beefy MC70 is probably going to handle the occasional drop, dunk, toss, or burn. The quad-band GSM / EDGE handheld comes equipped with your choice of Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Premium or Phone Edition, 802.11a / b / g plus “comprehensive VoIP support,” Class II Bluetooth 1.2, and — being that this is a Symbol device and all — the obligatory barcode scanner, all sitting atop a crazy fast 624MHz PXA270. Of course, we’re suspecting everything-proof smartphoning doesn’t come cheap, but for the accident prone among us, it does have a certain strange appeal.

[Thanks, Cristian P.]

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