Archive for August 6th, 2007
Sophia Mobile has launched a Windows CE 6.0 pda phone in Japan. The NANI pda phone featuring a WVGA wide display screen (4.3 inch 800 x 400) , WiFi (802.11b/g), and accepts W-SIM wireless card (yeah we had to look it up too). Keypad-less design makes good use of with a 4.3-inch display screen. With its Windows CE OS a local favorite here you get a built-in media player supporting many of the media file formats including MPEG, Divx, Xvid, Wav, Wma, MP3 and Ogg Vorbis.Other notable features: RMI Alchemy Au1250 Media Processor 600MHz, miniUSB, 3.5mm headset jack, microSD card slot, 140 x 80.5 x 17 and only 180 grams. More pics at http://www.slashphone.com/111/7915.html
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August 6th, 2007
Koreans have the benefit of checking out the recently launched HP Photosmart A626 that comes with a 4.8″ touchscreen display, letting users add a customized message on photos before printing. The Photosmart A626 uses HP Thermal inkjet print technology and supports a maximum print resolution of 600dpi, taking a mere 78 seconds to print a 10 x 51cm color photo. Better have a piece of cloth handy around, since you’ll be spending a fair chunk of time cleaning up the fingerprints on the touchscreen as curious people walk by to try this one out. The HP Photosmart A626 accepts a wide variety of media including CF, SD, XD, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro Duo, and the classic standby, USB flash drives.
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August 6th, 2007
Lenovo will partner with Novell to bring the ThinkPad T-series of notebook computers that are pre-loaded with Novell’s SUSE Enterprise Desktop 10 Linux operating system pre-installed. This move will come to fruition sometime in Q4 this year, offering computer users an alternative to Microsoft Windows as the operating system of choice. While these Linux-equipped notebooks were aimed at business users in the past, they will also be made available to individual customers now. So, the next time you’re going to pick up a notebook, which operating system will you be gunning for?
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August 6th, 2007
The Space For You concept table printer definitely suits those living in cramped spaces, combining the functions of both a table and a printer in a single piece of furniture. The “drawers” that you see are actually paper loading trays, and the slit allows your prints to come out. It must be pretty inconvenient to have some sort of power cable connected to the Space For You at all times, but that can’t be helped until the advent of wireless power transfer becomes commonplace. Still, I hope that the presence of cables are minimized by integrated some form of wireless connectivity into this concept printer. Any manufacturers out there who want to further improve upon this idea from Lukas Koh?
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August 6th, 2007
While we know that cats are extremely clean pets who love grooming themselves more than a lady in the prime of her youth, their litterbox isn’t exactly the neatest and cleanest part of your home. This Self-Cleaning Cat Box could help change that image, as it removes cat waste while rinsing and drying the reusasble cat box granules automatically. All you need to do is press a button and it will get to work straight away, using a mechanical scoop to remove waste from within, filling up the basin with water and a cleaning solution, rinsing the granules to eliminate both germs and odors. Once the rinsing process is complete, the built-in hot air blower will get to work for a fresh and neat cat box. Pamper your kitty today with this $329.95 device.
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August 6th, 2007
Lenovo has just dropped an announcement that it will introduce a low-cost computer that targets China’s vast rural population in order to bridge the vast digital divide in the rest of the country. This new computer will retail for a mere $199 and can be plugged into the TV, pre-loaded with educational software. You can choose from 40GB or 80GB varieties, with Windows XP being the operating system of choice. I know that TVs are dirt cheap these days (for those fat CRTs of course), but will the rural folks be able to fork out money for the TV as well? Anyway, resolution on such TVs are notoriously poor compared to a regular computer monitor, so perhaps starting an optometry practice there would be a good idea.
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August 6th, 2007
Kingston Technology announced it is releasing an all-in-one Mobility Kit that includes a microSD card with dual adapters and a USB card reader to give mobile consumers handy storage access when using SD- and USB-compatible digital devices. Neat. Hmmm…not much to say really, it’s usefull collections of all the adapters you might need with your shiny new memory card. Here is a quote from Wendy Lecot a marketing manager with Kingston:“With our Mobility Kit at their fingertips, consumers can store their entire mobile life - photos, songs, text messages, video clips, and contact info on the microSD card and then work with it seamlessly across multiple device platforms, The combined convenience of miniSD and full-size SD adapters and USB reader lets users easily convert their cards to navigate between mobile phones, PCs, and other digital devices”. Available with a stylish black USB reader in the 1GB kit and a red reader for the 2GB version, the Mobility Kit also includes a keyloop to hang from a cell phone…look at my cell phone bling. Now that you mention it however, it is nice to have that very handy.http://www.kingston.com/flash/sd_mmc_home.asp
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August 6th, 2007
Engadget has posted their mashup summary of the C200 and frankly with so little info out there and a long line of “via: news source” links I’m just gonna quote Engadget verbatim (sorry guys its a Monday):Commodore, a company which had long been considered dead and gone, continues to mount its inexplicable return to the spotlight with its latest offering, the Gravel C200 media player. As excited as we are that the C64-makers are back on the scene, it’s hard to get too excited about this media-player, which is about as rote as you can get. The HTC Touch look-alike rocks a 1.8-inch color screen, comes in 512MB, 1GB, and 2GB storage varieties, and plays back all sorts of file formats like MP3, WAV, WMA, MPEG 2, MPEG 4, DivX, XviD, and WMV. Although the form-factor is nice and utilitarian, Commodore is going to have to do something really special to entice a purchase out of us… like, maybe add C64 emulation?Sources:Engadget: Commodore unveils Gravel C200 media playerTech DigestCommodoreworldbrokenflicker
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August 6th, 2007
If you’re a sucker for classic gaming and love the good old days of 8-bit and 16-bit gaming, perhaps the OneStation pocket game emulator from China could fill this need. Priced between $30 to $40 each, these mini-consoles come with a 320 x 240 resolution color LCD display and closely resembles the Game Boy Micro form factor. Games are stored on cartridges, although the poor quality of translation has led to games being mislabeled as Hally Poter Goblet of Fire, Beanty and the Beast, Tom and Jirry, Ninja Tutles and Marblr Madness. Each cartridge retails between $5 to $6, but some of them are filled to the brim (fancy having 99 titles on a single cart?) and cost a little bit more. Fancy giving this a shot, or do you prefer to stick to your Game Boy Advance SP as the last true bastion of 2D gaming?
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August 6th, 2007
Word on the street has it that there will be a bunch of fully unlocked iPhones that will arrive on Hong Kong shores this Tuesday. These iPhones are supposedly able to send and receive SMS/MMS, make calls without an AT&T SIM card, as well as go online via GPRS. Only 8GB iPhones will be made available, and they will be priced at a princely $1,200. I suppose only the hardcore would fork out such a huge amount of money for one of these, as the rest of the general populace will probably sit this one out. You must be pretty desperate to pay more than double for an unlocked iPhone. Heck, with that kind of money I could get all three current gen consoles with some change left over.
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