Japanese construction tool company Makita has launched a tough-guy radio, aimed at adventurers and, I guess, builders. You can throw anything at it - paint, a box of screws - and it will even work in humid conditions. Measurements in inches are 11 x 6.5 x 12 and you will probably need a bicep measurement of at least 25″ as it weighs in at almost 10 lb.

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We’re all quite aware of just how proud Option is of its HSUPA offerings, and while it has raised the bar before in terms of sheer speed, the company is once again kicking out a new way to get your lappie connected to blazing fast internet without a WiFi hotspot in sight. The diminutive GlobeSurfer iCON HSUPA boasts a compact, USB stick design, and even includes a swivel connector as to play nice with just about every USB nook and cranny out there. Aside from touting 7.2Mbps of downstream capacity and 2Mbps on the upbeat, the GlobeSurfer looks to provide web access for those not already sold on the firm’s ExpressCard options. Users can purportedly expect “plug ‘n play” abilities, backwards compatibility with EDGE/GPRS/GSM data connections, tri-band / quad-band support, and a wide range of OS support that includes Windows Vista and OS X. No word just yet on price or availability, but we sincerely hope Option doesn’t keep the USB brethren in the house waiting too awfully long for these high-speed luxuries.

Now that the mobile world has had a little time to digest Microsoft’s latest offering, we thought we’d take this opportunity to circle back, put our ear to the ground, and have a look at some of the press Windows Mobile 6 is generating. LAPTOP Magazine spent most of its time with a Standard device (”Smartphone” in the Windows Mobile 5 world), and although the OS bears a striking resemblance to its predecessor in pretty much every respect, the review manages to focus on the positive: Office document viewing, improved stability (our apologies if we just jinxed anyone), and the modestly improved Pocket Internet Explorer. PC Magazine took a more critical view of Microsoft’s failure to revolutionize its mobile platform, passing on correcting some of its more serious flaws — the lack of true process management possibly the biggest — but still calls it “the best mobile operating system out there,” giving it big props for smooth Vista integration and little efficiency boosts like the email client’s SmartFilter. CNET draws the same conclusion about Windows Mobile 6 being evolutionary rather than revolutionary, pointing out that many basic tasks still require more clicks than they should, but the bundled Office apps were a crowd pleaser. As far as we’re concerned, the biggest news here is not the software but the new (and varied) hardware that’s being launched to run it — at least until Microsoft gets serious about a next-gen mobile UI, anyway.

While skins to make your Pocket PC look like a little more like the iPhone are nothing new, they’ve got nothing on this full-on interface change an enterprising programmer created for his E-TEN M600 smartphone. Unfortunately, it doesn’t do much to pretty up the exterior of the device, but it does manage to successfully emulate some of the iPhone’s more notable bells ‘n whistles, including its trademark finger-touch scrolling, its slide-to-lock feature, and its now-familiar menu system, all of which was apparently written in PPL (Pocket Programming Language). It also appears to have had the not unexpected side effect of bringing down its creator’s site (linked below). Possibly as a result of past brouhahas, it seems that the software won’t be going very far beyond that one lucky E-TEN anytime soon, although you can check it out in action in the video after the break.