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It seems like we’ve been talking about Samsung and its 30nm promise for an eternity, but ever so slowly real products are starting to head out into real consumers’ hands. After recently announcing its forthcoming NAND memory cards , the company is back with word of 2Gb DDR3 DRAM modules that consume 30 percent less power than their 50nm counterparts , yet are also more cost-effective to manufacture. Operating at either 1.5 or 1.35 volts, the 30nm parts are set for mass production in the second half of 2010, so they won’t be here quite as soon as we’d like, but at least we’ll know what to put down in our next Holiday Gift Guide .

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Samsung’s 30nm DDR3 DRAM set to lower costs and power consumption later this year

Still on track to launch its LTE network this year, Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo has today announced that its first prototype handset designed specifically to handle all that bandwidth will be unveiled at MWC 2010. We already knew a cool $10.4 billion or thereabouts were to be spent on Japanese LTE deployment, and now we can break that figure down a little by noting that NTT will be spending between $3.3b and $4.4b on its infrastructure alone.

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NTT DoCoMo will demo LTE prototype at MWC, launch service this year

This right HERE* is called the Lamborghini Madura, and it’s a concept car from another of the fantastic pages in the book of Slavche Tanevski. This designer is on fire with the car designs, let me tell you that. Before we had Tanevski’s “Ankonian,” now we’re gettin yellow! (or blue if you please) Or green! This vehicle’s a Hybrid! That’s right, race fans, join in on the saving of the earth.

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Madura, Laser Child of the Road

Cignias’ NAO Symphony still doesn’t seem to be widely available following its CES unveiling, but our good pal Dave Zatz looks to have sourced one from the wild, wild abyss. He did the world a favor by hosting up unboxing shots and a few first impressions, noting that this “sophisticated” iPod speaker dock actually interests him far more than most of those me-too offerings cluttering shelves today. Unfortunately, he’s still working on getting the iPhone app to connect to a hidden SSID, but feel free to hit the source link and peruse the image gallery while he gets that ironed out

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Cignias NAO Symphony wireless iPod boombox gets unboxed

Controller-type devices baked into wearables have been around since the late 17th century (though we can’t seem to recall one in particular that was made before Nintendo’s Power Glove ), but frankly, we haven’t seen a whole lot of innovation in this department over the past few years. Deanmark’s AirMouse is hoping to change all of that, but if we didn’t know any better, we’d say Microsoft kind of called this concept first. Anywho, the strap-on mouse — which doesn’t seem to boast any sort of price or release date — attaches on one’s wrist and fingers in order to place sensors on areas where you’d normally mouse

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Deanmark’s AirMouse looks more like a ragged glove, less like an input peripheral

• This weekend’s big story has been the row between Amazon and Macmillan , the publisher, over ebook pricing. After temporarily pulling all Macmillan books – including physical ones – from its site as they argued about who can set the price of ebook downloads, Amazon has now relented .

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Breakfast briefing: Amazon’s publishing war, China’s internet war and the Tory’s broadband election

Motorola’s Backflip has yet to springboard itself over to AT&T, but those who call China home can hop on the bandwagon right away. Said phone — which sports a full touchscreen and a physical QWERTY thanks to the horizontal clamshell design — is now available from Moto’s Chinese portal for 4,298 Chinese yuan (in unlocked form), which translates to right around $630

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Motorola Backflip spotted in the wilds of China

Amazon is selling the Magellan Roadmate 1212 for only $99.95 shipped, originally priced at $299.99. Its “Centrality Atlas III processor and built-in high-sensitivity antenna provide the fastest position acquisition in the industry for reliable navigation.” Product page . QuickSpell intelligently searches and checks spelling so you can enter your destination with just a few touches of the screen.

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Deal of the Day: $299.99 Magellan RoadMate 1212 3.5" Portable GPS Navigator for $99.95 Shipped

Virgin CEO Richard Branson has unveiled Necker Nymph, a new $660,287 underwater plane that “can dive to depths of up to 130ft; Richard hopes to one day explore depths of 35,000ft.” Similar to fighter jets, the Necker is piloted via a joystick and uses downward lift from its wings to fly downwards.

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Virgin CEO Richard Branson Unveils Necker Nymph Underwater Plane

Curious folks around the world enjoy a bit of hackintosh every now and then (although once is enough for many), but no geek has successfully ventured as far as Toni Nikkanen of Finland, who became the first person to run OS X on a phone — the Nokia N900 .

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Mac OS X 10.3 installed on Nokia N900 via PearPC, barely usable for impatient geeks

This Roman army knife from 200AD could be one of the first multi-function tools built, complete with an “iron blade, a spoon, fork as well as a retractable spike, spatula and small tooth-pick.” Continue reading for one more picture. Experts believe the spike may have been used by the Romans to extract meat from snails. It is thought the spatula would have offered a means of poking cooking sauce out of narrow-necked bottles

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Roman Army Knife from 200AD

In an abrupt turnaround, the bookselling giant has reversed the stance it had taken with Macmillan over ebook pricing Amazon has given in over the pricing of ebooks which prompted a row with the publishers Macmillan – to the extent that Amazon stopped selling both Macmillan’s ebooks and its physical books in its US store. The initial move had generated a great deal of entirely acceptable heat for Amazon, which wanted to be able to set the prices of ebooks and was prepared to use its power in selling physical ones to do it.

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Amazon admits it will have to give in to Macmillan over ebook pricing

Entelligence is a column by technology strategist and author Michael Gartenberg, a man whose desire for a delicious cup of coffee and a quality New York bagel is dwarfed only by his passion for tech. In these articles, he’ll explore where our industry is and where it’s going — on both micro and macro levels — with the unique wit and insight only he can provide. It was quite the week for Apple, first with its best-ever earnings and then the launch of the iPad .

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Entelligence: Lessons from the iPad launch

Um, okay ? Just days after Apple introduced its exceedingly underwhelming iPad while simultaneously attempting to convince that masses that said product was the portable gaming device they had been waiting their whole lives for, Sony’s own hardware marketing honcho has come forward and extolled Cupertino’s decision to finally make the gaming leap

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Sony’s John Koller: Apple’s entrance into gaming market drives consumers to PSP

Last week, we asked if you thought the iPad was a flop , and many of you told us exactly why. In that comments thread, you joined us in collective head-scratching and fist-shaking over the price point and the lack of certain key features. It’s clear that many of us won’t be flocking to the nearest Apple store to pick up one of these gadgets

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Open Thread: What Features Should iPad’s Competitors Have?

This week was a busy one as Steve Jobs unveiled Apple’s iPad on the same day President Obama delivered his annual State of the Union address – two events with significant impacts on startups and entrepreneurs. In this week’s ReadWriteStart Weekly Wrapup, we discuss what the iPad could mean for startups, how mobile developers are excited about HTML 5, and how to find the perfect co-founder for your startup. We also check in with our semi-weekly series, Never Mind the Valley, in which we chronicle communities outside of Silicon Valley with booming startup scenes.

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ReadWriteStart Weekly Wrapup

Smell that? That’s a smell of a real man’s budget computer, doing real manly things like task processing and pixel churning. MSI’s new CX420, CR420 and CR720 laptops aren’t much for looks, but under the hood you can find new-gen Core i Series processors across the board and ATI Radeon HD5470 graphics in the CX420 (pictured).

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MSI’s new CX420, CR420 and CR720 laptops put Intel’s new processors to good, workaday use

Panasonic is nothing like shy about pushing out a plethora of compacts , but while it was talking up specs for the new Lumix F-series of compact cameras back at CES, we’ve just now got some prices and a release date to chew on. The FH1 (12 megapixel, 720p video) goes for $160, FH3 (14.1 megapixel, 720p) is $180, and the FH20 (14.1 megapixel, 720p) is $200.

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Panasonic clamps down prices, release window for latest F-series line of compact cameras

Macmillan’s US CEO, John Sargent just confirmed that Amazon pulled its inventory of Macmillan books in a powerful response to Macmillan’s new pricing demands. Macmillan offered the new pricing on Thursday, just a day after Apple announced Macmillan as a major publishing partner in its new iBookstore — a revelation that certainly factored into the discussions along with Skiff and other emerging e-book distribution and publishing models

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Amazon pulled Macmillan titles due to price conflict — confirmed (update: they’re back!)

Well, it’s quite a ways off the November 2009 launch date the company initially promised, but Dual Electronics is now saying that its XGPS300 navigation cradle for the iPod touch will really, honestly be available sometime in “late February.” The price presumably remains at the same $179.99 as before, which also includes a bundled NavAtlas navigation app and, of course, an adjustable windshield mount. Not exactly the easiest sell, to be sure, especially considering how much the GPS market has changed in just those few short months

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Dual Electronics’ iPod touch GPS cradle now shipping in late February