Samsung has unveiled its latest ZX310 9 Series premium lightweight laptop. The new ZX310 9 Series is actually thinner than the Mac Book Air and is made from duralumin which is twice the strength of aluminum. Beneath the hood there’s an Intel i7 processor, up to 8GB memory, a 256GB solid state drive and it sports a 13.3 inch display.

The Samsung ZX310 9 Series is targeted at power users and mobile professionals. The OS is Windows 7 and it has a 12 second boot time, a 1.3MP HD webcam, a touch sensitive gesture pad and a powerful lithium-polymer battery.

Here’s some good news from Apple. Apple has now dropped the price of the last generation iPhone, the iPhone 3GS to $49 with a new two year mobile contract. This goes along with the recent price drop from AT&T on the iPhone 3GS and comes just as we are expecting Verizon Wireless to announce the Verizon iPhone, so this is AT&T’s chance to lock customers into a new two year contract before Verizon starts selling the iPhone.

We aren’t sure if Verizon will be selling a version of the 3GS as well as the iPhone 4, but we suspect that it will just be the iPhone 4 and we won’t see another iPhone available on the network until Apple launches the next iPhone.

Radio Shack has announced that the HTC Evo Shift 4G smartphone is now available for purchase in its stores. The Shift 4G was just unveiled officially at CES last week and the 4G smartphone will also work on the 3G network that Sprint operates.

Some features include a 3.6-inch touchscreen, slide out QWERTY keyboard, and a 5MP camera on the back that can record video in 720p resolution. The smartphone will also function as a 3G or 4G hotspot for up to eight devices.

Azpen has been busy showing off their latest dual-boot Windows 7 / Android tablet at CES. The device comes in two versions. There’s a 10.1-inch model with a 16:9 aspect ratio and a 9.7-inch model with 4.3 aspect ratio.

Both models feature a capacitive touchscreen display, an Intel Atom N455 processor, up to 2GB RAM, up to 32GB of storage space, a microSD card slot, two USB ports and they come pre-loaded with the Windows 7 / Android 2.2 OS.

This one is for those of you who like to neglect their babys, then play Call of Duty with a mic, so that I have to hear your whiny kid loud as day while I play. Do us both a favor and put them in another room. Samsung Techwin America will help. Their BabyVIEW product line of video baby monitors makes it easy for you to keep your baby safe and secure.

Parents can share audio and video of their baby or infant with friends and family via sites like Facebook and Twitter and they also support a built-in SD card slot that allows video captured from the monitor to be easily uploaded. Other features include night vision, two-way talk, sound and vibration alerts and remote nightlight.

Plantronics new K100 in-car Bluetooth speakerphone includes dual microphones and digital signal processing (DSP) technology that keeps the user’s voice sharp and clear and also limits the surrounding noise. Also echo cancellation improves listening on both sides of the conversation, while a high-quality speaker makes every call clear.

The Plantronics K100 also has an integrated FM transmitter, so you can hear conversations, stream music, or play podcasts from your smartphone to the car stereo system. It also features large buttons so you can control the K100, while keeping safe on the road.

John Garber, an employee at Club Halo in Atlanta, was shot outside his club, but don’t worry this story has a happy ending. Thanks to a bit of luck and his HTC Incredible, he is alive. The HTC Incredible was in his breast pocket and saved his life.

He will no doubt be an HTC fan for life. Though while his HTC took a bullet for him, some would say that the trade off might be radiation instead, since he had it in his breast pocket, but regardless he is glad he had it there.

Samsung’s Wi-Fi-only Galaxy Tab is taking it’s sweet time to arrive, but Motorola doesn’t want its customers to wait so long. Motorola’s Latin America GM Maurizio Angelone says that a Wi-Fi-only version of the XOOM tablet does exist and that it will arrive in April, which is a month before the 3G version.

We aren’t sure if the dates are for Argentina only or if it applies to everywhere, but at least now you know that a Wi-Fi-only version is coming.

Word on the street is that Samsung is planning to launch its next-generation of Galaxy Tab tablets at the upcoming Mobile World Congress in February 2011, as well as a new range of Android-powered phones.

Some of these new handsets will feature dual-core processors, Super AMOLED Plus displays and run Android 2.3 Gingerbread. They have already outed some great new gear at CES, so we can’t wait to see what they are offering.

Nintendo has some high hopes for their 3DS. And well they should since they had impressive sales last year. Nintendo’s president Satoru Iwata has laid down some ambitious goals for the company’s latest portable. He expects the 3DS to sell 4 million units by the end of March.

That would mean about 1.5 million units in Japan and another 2.5 million units everywhere else. The 3DS should be available in Japan on February 26th, with the US and European markets following in March. We are gonna go out on a limb and say they meet their goal and have an earlier US release.

Android users will be happy to learn that after months of waiting, it has now been confirmed that Hulu Plus will be arriving on the Android platform very soon. They say it will be available on selected devices, so we hope that the selection includes a wide range.

There’s no word yet on an official launch date or a list of supported devices, but those should arrive soon enough. Your wait is almost over.

The PlayStation Phone has found its way into the hands of some folks and now a video has popped up showing one of these lucky guys playing Resident Evil 2 and Rage Racer on it. The hardware seems legit, but the titles had to be loaded through ROM Buddy (a third-party Android app for running ROMs), so we are guessing that the software is still being worked on.

At least that’s what it looks like, but this could be a hoax. You can check out the video for yourself below and let us know what you think.

Motorola’s Xoom made a splash at CES and of course it has a lot of potential. What it also has, according to Moto’s developer page, is a barometer included, along with an accelerometer, magnetometer, ambient light sensor and gyroscope.

A barometer? Well, older humans do like to watch the weather channel. At least one flagship tablet will be compatible with Android 2.3′s barometer support for all you weather geeks.

Apple may be planning an end to its restocking fees at retail which would help fuel the Verizon iPhone launch. The company would permanently waive the 10 percent penalty for anyone returning a device in the usual two-week grace period, starting January 11. That’s the same day as the special event.

However, 9 to 5 Mac didn’t say if it was a permanent policy or just a one time promo with the Verizon deal, but it wouldn’t be exclusive to the one device. Of course the company has not commented on this as yet. This might help get customers to try an apple product, if they were hesitant before.

Samson has a new mic that looks all cool and shiny, called the Meteor Mic. It looks pretty retro and the stand adjusts and can fold up or be adjusted into different positions to hold the mic exactly how you want it. The Meteor comes with the USB cable and a soft carry pouch.

You won’t need to install any drivers to use it and it has a headphone jack so you can monitor what is being recorded. Other features include a 25mm diaphragm and a cardioid pickup pattern. The frequency response is 20Hz to 20kHz and it records in CD quality.