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Like always Sony has made us trek all the way over to the convention center for their press conference. We are expecting the regular announcements LCD TVs, new OLED displays, cameras, new computers include the teased P series, new Blu-ray players and more. The one catch will be that Howard Stronger, Sony CEO, will be offering a keynote tomorrow morning and will surely save something for that time—so this can end up being a bit dry. Either way stick around to this page for live coverage of all the announcements (you can reload the page by hitting Ctrl+R or F5).

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How Samsung can fit all of their announcements into a 45 minutes press conference is amazing. If this is like previous years Samsung will be announcing new products across all categories: HDTVs, phones, cameras, camcorders, monitors, printers, portable audio, and maybe even some portable devices/netbooks to replace the Q1 line (maybe the rumored NC20).

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For more CES press coverage head over here or check out our 2009 CES page for all the CES news, CES keynotes, CES photo galleries/booth tours, and more!

Check out the gallery: CES 2009 Press Conference: Samsung live blog

At today’s Netgear press conference at CES 2009, the company introduced their new 3G Mobile Broadband Wireless Router to complement their other networking products.  The device connects to the internet using your existing mobile broadband card, and allows you to transmit the signal via Wifi so others can join in on the internet fun.  I’m sure the mobile carriers are having a field-day with this.  Check out the details from the product’s data sheet below.

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As they announced and showed at last year’s Consumer Electronics Show, the new LG Watch Phone will be released later in 2009.

FROM OUR LG PRESS CONFERENCE LIVE-BLOG: Prototype Watch Phone: touch screen tempered glass face, 2 hours talk time, 61x39x13.9mm, 84g, bluetooth, 3 keys.  Paik has one that is working and tested it out.  Touchscreen interface.  You can even play songs on the watch phone.

Check out the gallery: CES 2008 Exclusive: LG's Watch Phone

T-Mobile has snagged the BlackBerry Curve 8900 and it will be available in February.  This BlackBerry is the “thinnest and lightest full-QWERTY BlackBerry Smartphone.“  Who wouldn’t want to have this baby with its built-in GPS and support for location-based service? 

The specs show a 3.2 megapixel camera which has image stabilization, digital zoom, flash and video recording features.  You can also use the Curve 8900 as a media player since it comes with a 3.5-mm stereo headset jack aside from its standard headset and support for microSD/SDHC memory cards up to 16GB. 

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T-Mobile and Logic Wireless are getting ready to roll out the Logic Bolt, which is what at first glance appears to be an overall basic looking candybar style handset, however the Bolt also includes a built-in projector.  According to the release, the Bolt will be the “World’s First Projector Phone.“  The projector will offer a 640 x 480 VGA resolution and can cast the image anywhere from 36 to 64-inches.  Using the projector, it was mentioned that you can expect a battery life of “more than 2 hours.“

Aside from the projector, the Bolt also features a touchscreen 2.4-inch QVGA display with a resolution of 240 x 320, 3-megapixel camera, Bluetooth, GPS as well as QUAD band GSM/GPRS 850/900/1800/1900 coverage.

The Logic Bolt will retail for $100 along with a two-year agreement, or $600 contract free. No word yet on availability. Of course, the biggest question for me is, just which market this is expected to fill. It does not seem like it will win the hearts of Blackberry business users, and it may be more than your average home user would really need.

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Motorola let three phones creep out this morning, one of which is a snazzy looking touchscreen phone.  I’ve been chastising Moto for their slow phone development, especially when it comes to replacing the RAZR with something worthy.  The three phones released today, while interesting, lead me to believe the companies troubles won’t be solved any time soon.

The MotoSurf A3100 looks like an interesting phone.  Featuring support for a 32GB SD card, two cameras, a skin GUI over Windows 6.1 (suggesting Windows Mobile 7 is a ways off still), a 2.8” display, a-GPS and good looks.  So what leads me to believe this won’t be the company’s standard bearer?

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USB is possibly the most popular connection out there.  Though current models aren’t as fast as Firewire 800, almost every device supports USB in some form.  The main problem with USB, though is all the wires it uses.  Sure, one USB wire isn’t so bad, but when you start getting multiple cables they start getting more then a bit annoying.  Until now cutting those cables has been possible, but not in most devices.  Jungo and Wisair are working together to bring Wireless USB to Linux and Linux-embedded devices. 

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HTC doesn’t want to be left behind in the CES 2009 frenzy and so the company is announcing the new HTC S743 slider phone featuring a 12-key keypad and a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard.  Upon seeing the S743, loyal fans and users of HTC mobile phones would immediately notice the S743’s striking resemblance to the previously released Touch Diamond phone.  Well, that’s because both phones sport what HTC calls as a “faceted design.“ 

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This is where we call out the tech moves that seem odd, out of touch or just plain straight up smokin’ crack.  This special edition points out the posturing, positioning and flat out insanity that came and went with 2008. 

This year’s honoree’s are: Microsoft Windows Mobile, Palm, Sprint, Concert Goers, Microsoft vows to avenge Vista, and Blackberry.

Follow me into the insanity.  Hit “Continue Reading” to, you know, continue reading.

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