All of your friends have jumped onto the musicphone bandwagon, but you're not quite prepared to abandon your trusty iPod in favor of another device with poorer audio quality and smaller storage capacity. Hookup by Lenntek provides a wireless connection between your Apple player and your Bluetooth-enabled cell phone, automatically toggling between streaming music and accepting mobile calls.The wireless Hookup remote gives you all the standard iPod controls you need -- play, pause, volume, forward and reverse -- but it adds the ability to swtich to an incoming call when you need to. The biggest selling feature, though, is the "cool blue slow pulsing LED."
Hookup retails for $130 and is available now.
The next-generation musical offering from Motorola is the E690 -- known as the ROKR E6 in some circles -- and this Linux-powered smartphone with a touchscreen interface has just received the all important stamp of approval from the FCC. We reported on this nifty (and presumably skinny) phone early last month, and it doesn't seem like all that much has changed in the meantime. 
Considering that the current Sony PlayStation Portable has been on the market since September 2004, it only makes sense that electronics giant give this handheld multimedia machine a bit of a boost. According to Kotaku, Sony will be revitalizing the PSP brand with two new models this coming Spring, with one boasting 8GB of on-board flash memory, while the other will rock a hard drive of undetermined capacity.
That's the latest rumor coming out of Think Secret. We're not only going to be treated to a regular musicphone; word is that a full QWERTY'd-out business tool is in the works as well, complete (naturally) with iTunes integration. This new smartphone will make it easy for you to enjoy Apple's new iTunes Movie Store offerings, but you can still take care of your day-to-day work-related tasks as well. There is also a distinct possibility that this new handset will rock WiFi capabilities as well. The Zune can share tunes, but the iSmartphone can make calls. That is, if it's for real. We'll probably find out at January's MacWorld. 
Satellite radio just keeps getting better and better, and the receivers keep getting smaller and smaller.
The battle for mobile operating system supremacy continues. Some enjoy the familiarity Windows Mobile 5, others love the open source-ness of Linux. Symbian fanatics will soon have another option, because Samsung has just introduced the SGH-i520 smartphone, running on Symbian OS 9.2, Series 60 v3.1. This isn't the first Symbian-powered Samsung for Europe, it's the fourth.
There's no denying what the main purpose of this handset is. The circular keypad on the Smart S100 is immediately reminiscent of the iPod's click wheel, but the telephony part isn't exactly an afterthought. It's pretty darn skinny at just 7.7 millimeters, but they've managed to shove in a fair smattering of features including a 2 megapixel camera, 160 x 128 OLED display, and USB (2.0?) connectivity. It is a shame, though, that this GSM candybar is just a dual-bander and it's the wrong two frequencies for us poor saps in North America (it runs on 900MHz and 1800Mhz). No word on price.
