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Colorware’s latest victims: the Nexus One and the Nook

Colorware, an online coloring, modding, (whatever) company that paints any popular gadget in every color and finish possible, has claimed two more gadgets as their victims — the Nexus One, and B&N’s Nook. Painting the Nexus One takes about 3 weeks, for $175, or if you’d like to buy it from them, you’ll pay a whopping $800. As for the Nook, pay $125 to get your custom paint job, or $400 for a brand-new one. It’s your call, basically. A shot of a colored Nexus One is after the break.

[ColorWare Nexus One, Colorware Nook]

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Lenovo 57Y6336 Wireless Multimedia Remote debuts

Are you in need of a couch potato remote for your HTPC? Are you unterested in buying stuff that have no real purpose, but you buy anyway? Boy, is this the remote gadget for you! Lenovo’s 57Y6336 Wireless Multimedia Remote is complete with a trackball, and keyboard, which allows you to easily control your favorite TV accessory, the HTPC. It’ll start shipping out in 13 business days, and works on Windows only (duh). $60 bucks. [Lenovo]

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Nokia 6700 Gold Edition is sure to tempt certain people

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Take the Classic Nokia 6700, then wrap it in some 18 karat gold, get a cool wallpaper, and a £370 ($550 USD) pricetag and you get the Nokia 6700 Classic Gold Edition. It’s coming in Q1 2010 to take your common sense and your wallet. [Via Nokia Conversations]

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Joo Joo: the sucessor of the CrunchPad, for $499

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Fusion Garage has a superior sense of humor, don’t they? Currently they claim that Mike Arrington had nothing to do with development of the now dead CrunchPad, and that TechCrunch (who they say is just a blog) did not contribute and does not own any trademarks to the CrunchPad. Period. In the meantime, to make the situation even funnier, it’s called the Joo Joo. Putting the ridiculous name aside, the price is $499. When Arrington said it could be priced at around $200 to $300, Fusion Garage says that is a price like that is completely impossible for what the Joo Joo can do.

So for $499 you get: 12.1-inch touchscreen, a 4GB SSD, accelerometer, and according to FG “enough graphic power to deliver full HD video.” The battery life 5 hours on a single charge with Wi-Fi turned on. Pre orders start on December 11th on the Joo Joo’s official website. Hit the link for another shot of the Joo Joo.

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The CrunchPad: Uh, it’s dead. Officially

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That was not expected. When Mike Arrington said the CrunchPad was well alive, he meant it (we think). Until certain events and an email came along:

But the email went on. Bizarrely, we were being notified that we were no longer involved with the project. Our project. Chandra said that based on pressure from his shareholders he had decided to move forward and sell the device directly through Fusion Garage, without our involvement.

Err, what? This is the equivalent of Foxconn, who build the iPhone, notifiying Apple a couple of days before launch that they’d be moving ahead and selling the iPhone directly without any involvement from Apple.

Chandra also forwarded an internal email from one of his shareholders. My favorite part of the email: “We still acknowledge that Arrington and TechCrunch bring some value to your business endeavor…If he agrees to our terms, we would have Arrington assume the role of visionary/evangelist/marketing head and Fusion Garage would acquire the rights to use the Crunchpad brand and name. Personally, I don’t think the name is all that important but you seem to be somewhat attached to the name.”

And with that, the entire project self destructed.

Basically, Arrington got ripped off at the last second. In order to really understand the obserity of this situation, head over toTechCrunch to hear their story. I wonder what kind FusionGarage will come up with.

[via TechCrunch]

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Palm Pre falls to $80 on Amazon, Pixi falls to its death

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The Palm Pixi is probably the most unliked smartphone of all time. And it deserves that title; but to make things worse (for it), Amazon has chopped to price of the Palm Pre to $80, and get this – no activation fee. Now give me just one reason to buy a Pixi for $25 on Amazon when the data plans are almost the same, and the Pre has no activation fee into the bargain. Things really do look bad for the Pixi.

via Amazon

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Tonight’s Special: PSP Go on Amazon with free $50 PSN Card

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A special that lasts only till 3:00 AM EST tonight. You can get the PSP Go (full price) but with a free $50 PSN Gift Card. It’s not much, but you can still get some games for your overpriced new gadget. [Amazon]

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T-Mobile brings back the Sidekick for sale

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With all of the new and fast, as well as cool looking smartphones around, who would ever buy a Sidekick knowing that everyone lost their contacts and other forms of data for a whole week?

Here’s what T-Mobile said:

“T-Mobile is pleased to announce that Sidekick sales have resumed. New pricing for the Sidekick LX 2009 will be $149.99 with a two-year contract and the Sidekick 2008 will be $49.99 with a two-year contract.”

I know I won’t buy one, and the price might will make some not buy it.
[BGR]

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