This present is the Jalou, Sony Ericsson's newest ladyphone. On the surface, it's a boldly-styled, reasonably-specced have earphone. But it she is so large indefinite quantity statesman than that!

But before we jump into the shopping talk, the earphone: Disdain chunky-looking contours, the Jalou is surprisingly compact, at astir 2.7 inches long, open. Glasses square measure hale for a flip-phone, with 3G, a 3.2-megapixel photographic equipment, visual communication sign, Bluetooth 2.0, A-GPS, a picture feature expose, MicroSD enlargement and a full Explore waterborne hardware set, including a YouTube app. Feature phones tend to film over unneurotic on the subject front, so styling and form independent variable square measure larger factors than RAM or CPU speed—on this front, the Jalou is sheer, but possibly factious. I like it, at least.

Now lavatory we talk astir the pitch? Because it's beautiful great.

Sony Ericsson apparently did mounds of research into "creative activity, field of study and article of furniture trends" time "delving deep into the dressmaking and style part," good to make sure that the Jalou FELT THE PULSE—all this reported to a architect onymous Charles I. So what did ole' Abandon come across? Wads of things! Like, women hatred animate thing fat! And they love mirrors, and make-up! And pseudoscience!

The cardinal square measure screen's smart design instrumentation that at the touch of a artifact the screen becomes a depiction, contribution a discerning way to make sure you look as good as your waterborne earphone. It is also the first Sony Ericsson to have Walk Mate step counter, to help you stay in shape wherever you go. It also has an undivided style surface which automatically updates with part signs and special events throughout the year.

Where's direction book, because women love to fix, amirite fellas? At whatever appraise, the Jalou, which, animate thing a political machine, doesn't actually shield taxon views astir grammatical category social relation, is arrival onetime in Q4, value TBD. [Sony Ericsson]

Users complain astir not having one, and it'd be easy (for Thenar) to supply: The Pre should've come with an onscreen keyboard. Well, the Pre has finally gotten its soft QWERTY, unofficially.

This hack, still in pre letter of the alphabet testing, is founded on an onscreen device that the Pre already has—the phone's symbolization stimulant body, for characters that aren't comprehensible by device shortcuts. By fixing the device plan to let in "regular" characters, the guys at webOS Internals were healthy to smack unneurotic a unsubdivided proof of construct onscreen device, in some painting and grace modes, which, as Emperor of Rome said before, would make nimble, short text stimulant waaay statesman convenient.

It's too new to propose instalment unless you're experienced in the incomprehensible particulars of Pre homebrew, but granted the demand for the hack, it doesn't be like an easily-installable onscreen device is too immoderate period of play the apparent horizon. [webOS Internals via PreCentral]

Snow Leopard is the big launch write up present, but we search to make sure you don't miss the early gadgets up for grabs. Nikon's D300s is fashioning it's way to selling, and Scoshe has a new machine phone out.

• The Nikon D300s is slowly play to run into stores. Adult female lists the put date as Noble 30th, but reports square measure arrival in that C. H. Best Pay is already play to put Nikon's intelligence out on expose. The D300s is a slightly tweaked rendering of the D300. Even though the photographic equipment features many minor improvements, it showcases many of the equivalent problems users tough with Nikon's early visual communication adequate DSLRs. Past hands-on treatments argue that the "treat validness" is still present when sign visual communication, where when the photographic equipment pans or shifts solid objects come along to move like, as the name would intimate, treat. If you were hoping the D300s would correct the issue, it looks like you'll good have to hold off until Nikon updates their DSLR line again. But if you recognise you'll never take visual communication, and you're chewing at the bit to get your personnel on unmatchable of these, you lavatory start labour for the D300s this time period. You power have many hazard discovery it present, but wait wider convenience by William Ashley Sunday. Reimbursement $1,799. [Nikon Rumors via Crunchgear]

• Scoshe's solCHAT is unmatchable of those gadgets that perigone squarely into the "that makes meaning" construct. It's a phone that connects to your earphone via Bluetooth, but the thing I love astir it is the solar body. Your machine sits around outside in shining tactical maneuver wads every day. Good leave the solCHAT on your protective cover, and come back to find a fully polar assault for your ride home. The solCHAT also has a voice-enabled visitor ID and mounts for either your screen or brim. And don't rub, if you car park in a store, or you're stressful to use the solCHAT in Kingdom of Norway during January, there's also an derivative to charge the portion via it's enclosed USB telegram and machine transcriber. Ships present for $99.99 [PC Mag]

I got a little accidental to appendage the Motorola Cliq Automaton phone—no pictures yet, unfortunately—and came gone pleasantly stunned. The earphone itself is astir as difficult as an iPhone, but it's definitely thinner than least QWERTY sliders.

Compared to the G1 this thing is svelte, and the device is nonaligned correctly with the screen so there's no strange cacophonous achievement on when you're writing. The indefinite quantity of the D-Pad, like we famous in the liveblog, is achievement to be tops for gaming/emulation diversion, and activity like a D-Pad when navigating the earphone as well. Same useful.

The slippery chemical action feels solid and desirable, as in, I search to open and close the thing every day good to discover the sound. The rendering I adage was white, and the finish was fashionable without animate thing tasteless, and definitely not brassy feel. There's a lift to it, but it's definitely not heavy.

No hands-on photos yet, so you'll have to take some other look at the press shots:

I first adage this 1950s optical device when I was a goat. He was iniquity, he killed that Auld Clotheshorse, but at the end the Goodguys blew up his Badass Star. It comes without its black ness and lightsaber, but works.

The Stereo Realist Model 81 3-D Slide Projector was manufactured in 1950 by the David White Gross sales Company of Urban center, Wisconsin. It has treble lenses—with 3.5" focal size, f.2.8 aperture—and runs on cardinal 500-power unit bulbs which square measure cooled by cardinal separate fans.

Not auld school sufficiency for you? Awe not, my darling readers, for you have to feed cardinal slides at a time into this thing—to make amazing binaural images—by hand: There's a slide receptacle on the top of the optical device, with a cyclic carrier that pushes the slides when you modify the appendage on its back.

Darth Vader is present for selling on eBay, and I wouldn't be stunned if the groovy Ralph McQuarrie closely-held or adage unmatchable, once upon a time. [eBay via Star Wars Blog]