The folks at Dial-a-Phone have just released a sneak-peak of the new Nokia E71 — and it looks like a serious iPhone killer.

The E71 has everything the iPhone offers — and a full QWERTY keyboard to boot! The E71 is a quad-band handset with support for 3G, HSDPA, GPRS, GPS, EDGE and Wi-Fi connectivity. It also includes a 3.2 megapixel camera.

The built-in web browser is so good that it supports YouTube out of the box. The phone supports both Java and Macromedia Flash, so you may have trouble finding a web site which it doesn’t work with.

The GPS works with the included NokiaMaps software, or you can use your own preferred after-market GPS software.

Battery life is an excellent 10 hours of talk time or seventeen days of standby operation.

Frankly, when the E71 becomes available later this month, there is really no reason to purchase an Apple iPhone.

CriminalSearches.com is currently offering completely free criminal record checks online.

The search covers all fifty states. They have a truly excellent Advanced Search feature which lets you limit your search results by address, city, date of birth, or age range.

On the negative side, the database is far from complete. I looked up eight people I know with criminal records and only three of them were found. This is probably not the fault of CriminalSearches.com. City, county, state and federal criminal records are all kept horribly. They are just as likely to be wrong as they are to be right.

This service may not last forever. No completely free criminal background check service so far has. Enjoy it while it lasts!

Props to the nice folks at Be a Private Investigator for this tip!

The JVC DLA-RS2 home theater projector works by utilizing a technology called Direct drive Image Light Amplifier (D-ILA). It is a reflective type of Liquid Crystal Display that provides advanced amount of light.

With this technology, light travels through the layer of the LCD to a mirror. Afterwards, it is reflected back to the viewer. This allows the spectator to take pleasure in the full range of benefits from any high quality source.

This LCD consists of a group of pixels that constitutes a single image dot. In contrast to a conventional LCD panel, the substrate of the Integrated Circuit is situated at the back of the liquid crystal layer. This results to a 93% fill factor. For this reason, the fixed-pattern noise found in many digital projectors is almost entirely removed. This also sends off a nearly flawless picture.

The fixed-pattern noise, popularly known as screen-door effect, is a visual effect of projection technology by some home theater projectors. This is where the thin lines that divide the pixels become noticeable in the displayed image. It usually emerges as a rectangular grid. This is very obvious in other fixed matrix display technologies.

The quality of its image output is supported by analog gradation, high contrast, high brightness, and high resolution. Because of the S-shape response of this technology, analog gradation gives way for the projector to display dark areas with high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR).

High contrast is attained using upright arrangement of liquid crystals in black function. This has high-speed response.

High brightness and high resolution are attained with a reflective mechanism through pixels with high-density. This gives real resolution with indistinguishable pixels. This also allows slick and noiseless motion images with clear and precise high definition and superiority comparable to a film to be displayed.

The JVC DLA-RS2 1080P Home Theater Projector is not the one with the brightest output, but it creates very film-like pictures with precise color rendering, convincingly deep blacks, and unfailing gamma curves. This projector also uses mechanisms that make it possible to reduce reflection and refraction of stray light, lowering black level, and enhancing contrast.

NTT DoCoMo released its new FOMA SH706i handset with the Symbian OS. This new handset will begin shipping in Japan today and it looks like it works just in Japan.

Seagate introduces the 1.5TB HD for notebooks and desktops. The desktop-class hard drive iscalled the Barracuda 7200.11. The specs show that the 3.5-inch drive is made up of four 375GB platters and has a 7,200-rpm rotational speed. It has a 3Gb/second SATA interface, or 1.5Gb/second using Native Command Queuing (NCQ). Apparently the new 1.5TB drive supports a sustained data rate of up to 120MB/second. Many of the existing drives in the 7200.11 series have both 16MB and 32MB cache versions, the 1.5TB will likely only be available with a 32MB cache.

The original iPhone earphones were bad and the ones coming with the iPhone 3G are expected to be of the type. M-Audio Japan has announced the Ultimate Ears. They are a pair of ultra light aluminium earphones and has sound insulation of 26dB, frequency of 20Hz - 16kHz, Input sensitivity of 115dB/mW, and impedance of 29Ω. It has a super sensitive microphone along with a multi function button for receiving calls etc. The earphones come with a stylish and are available in Japan for 16,800 Yen ($ 170).

A lot of iPhone fans have gone home after waiting for an eternity to get their hands on the iPhone 3G. Some unlucky souls only managed to get the white one but whatever, you got one right? These t-shirt’s are meant for the true fans of the iPhone available in all sizes including a baby size. You can get one for $15 - 38 from cafepress.

Ever wondered about having a bike that you can take anywhere? I mean, just about anywhere! Well, this is for you. It’s meant for those elevators, steps and heavy traffic roads where a bulky bike is going to be a hinderance. This bike is made of strong plastic to reduce the weight of the bike.

The Xbox is reducing its price to $299. Thats a $100 less than the PlayStation 3’s 40GB version. Eariler, during the release of Halo 3, they reduced it from $399 to $349.

Kodak released the new Zi6 for the people so that they can have a HD camcorder to record daily life happenings. It’s simple to use, light and its high quality