[photopress:samsung_i320_lg1.jpg,thumb,alignleft] The new i320 Smartphone was unveiled at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona.
The mean’n'lean, wafer thin, none-more-black smartphone weighs in at a sprightly 95g, with a 2.2″ 262K colour TFT screen offering QVGA (320 x 240 pixels) resolution – a healthy improvement on the Treo 700w’s paltry 240×240 screen.
The pocket-friendly i320 runs on Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0, and offers the new Direct Push Email functionality via the Messaging & Security Feature Pack when used with Microsoft Exchange Server SP2.
For a fully featured smartphone, the dimensions aren’t too bulky- 111mm x 59mm x 11.5mm only – so you won’t feel too much of a berk walking around with it stuck to your ear. (more…)
[photopress:Pantech_Curitel_PT_L19003.jpg,thumb,alignleft] Today akihabara published some photos of the new Pantech&Curitel cell phone model named PT-L1900. This is the first phone with installed full digital Amp Chipset, which gives it features like 11 acoustic modes, a 7 band equalizer and 3D stereo sound… With 128Mb of internal memory it is a nice place to store your mp3′s.
[photopress:k800i_aka_Wilma.jpg,thumb,alignleft] Before we’ve discussed a new Sony Ericsson phone called Wilma. The German SE fans on the se-world have concluded that the most expected k800i is the Wilma and imagined the possible appearance of it. It’s only a 3D model – not the real one, as some of our colleagues have presumed.
[photopress:Sony_Ericsson_Wilma_2.jpg,thumb,alignleft] Not only the sky is leaking heavy this year.. New Sony Ericsson product known as K750i successor has passed through hands of “omnipresent” spies. The “code” name of the new-comer is Wilma and it is gifted with 3.2 Mpx camera, QVGA screen, support for all possible Bluetooth profiles including the A2DP Stereo Bluetooth profile, stereo sound speakers like the W550i, 466 MB internal memory and support of EDGE, UMTS and video-telephony with an extra camera on the front.
[photopress:Toshiba_HDD_poster.jpg,thumb,alignleft] The info of a new 4GB hard drive cell phone has leaked out recently. The official announcement is expected sometime around March, but photos of the phone and promotion materials are already in the Net.
The specs include a 2.4-inch LCD, 3.2 megapixel camera, and Bluetooth. It looks like I’m going to say bye-bye to my HP 735
[photopress:sony_vaio_talking_mouse.jpg,thumb,alignleft] It looks like there is a tendency to multifunctionality at the accessories’ market. Today I’ve found two mice: from YapperNut and Sony. Both devices are similar in essence (mouse converting into VoIP supporting receiver), though have different design and, undoubtedly, price
In the case “Who was the first” I guess Sony looses, but in the case “Who will skim the cream off” the situation is vice versa.
[photopress:W398.jpg,thumb,alignleft] I’m a proud owner of Motorola E398 (actually, patched yesterday to ROKR E1). What was a surprise when I’ve seen today on Engadget a brand new Chinese cell phone Shuoying W398 – a twin brother of black version representative of Motorola Family. The impostor’s specs are cooler than of the original’s tube: a dual-band GSM/GPRS handset with a 2.0-inch LCD screen, a 1.3 megapixel digital camera, and a TransFlash memory card slot, MP3 and MPEG4 media player, but a nasty 100 song limit. And it doesn’t support iTunes as my fresh firmwared Motorola E398.
[photopress:DMB_PT_LP1800.jpg,thumb,alignleft] Pantech & Curitel has just unveiled 2 new DMB phones in Korea, the PT-L1800 for LG Telecom and the PT-K1800 for KTF. Quite a success from a design point-of-view, and these phones offer more than DMB too (MP3 player, digital camera, GPS, QVGA TFT screen, …). But sorry to disappoint you, these are Korea-only devices …
[photopress:card_handheld.jpg,thumb,alignleft] This card would make mp3 players like iPod history and most PDA’s and cell phones look bulky and old. It is called “All-in-One Card” or AIO Card” (or Advanced Input Output Card) It has almost everything you need in a modern gadget and more.
AIO card is a thin client. It is like a remote display on a card over wireless. It means all its processing, and storage remains on a powerful server. It uses the same thin client technology found in Sun Rays. It only needs a small processor that does nothing but send the touch and other inputs to a server, and the server sends the display and sound back. Since all the storage is on a server, it gives you virtually unlimited storage for your data, pictures and songs. (unlikes iPods and mp3 players which have a limited memory)
Who needs Blu-ray? This is the Sony reader that uses the display technology from E-Ink I’ve been hearing so much about. To give you an idea of just how good this display looks… I walked up to the counter, looked at the text on the screen and asked, “So when will you have working units to play with?” The reply: “This is a working reader.” I mistakenly though the text on the screen was some kind of plastic overlay—that’s how ink-like it looked. Then the PR rep increased the text size, searched through the table of contents and showed me some Manga comics. It is the first e-reader that seemed like I could sit down and spend hours on without experiencing eye strain. Part of the reason it works is that it does not have a backlight, so forget about reading in the dark. There is also zero flicker, as far as I could see. It’s small and lightweight too (.5 inches thick and smaller than a hardcover book). The reader accepts both Memory Stick and SD flash memory cards. It’s got a USB plug, and could be used to download and read websites, JPEGs or PDF docs. The battery life, as they are selling it, is equivalent to “7,500 page turns, avid readers can devour a dozen bestsellers plus War and Peace without ever having to recharge.”
The books will be available through the Connect Store, and there is some Connect software for managing your books (so far this is the only drawback). Random House, HarperCollins Publishers, Penguin-Putnam, Simon & Schuster and Time Warner Book Group are all on board with titles, along with Manga publisher Tokyopop. Sony is promising to deliver this reader by Spring.
Who needs Blu-ray? This is the Sony reader that uses the display technology from E-Ink I’ve been hearing so much about. To give you an idea of just how good this display looks… I walked up to the counter, looked at the text on the screen and asked, “So when will you have working units to play with?” The reply: “This is a working reader.” I mistakenly though the text on the screen was some kind of plastic overlay—that’s how ink-like it looked. Then the PR rep increased the text size, searched through the table of contents and showed me some Manga comics. It is the first e-reader that seemed like I could sit down and spend hours on without experiencing eye strain. Part of the reason it works is that it does not have a backlight, so forget about reading in the dark. There is also zero flicker, as far as I could see. It’s small and lightweight too (.5 inches thick and smaller than a hardcover book). The reader accepts both Memory Stick and SD flash memory cards. It’s got a USB plug, and could be used to download and read websites, JPEGs or PDF docs. The battery life, as they are selling it, is equivalent to “7,500 page turns, avid readers can devour a dozen bestsellers plus War and Peace without ever having to recharge.”