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Over the last year we have seen a lot of gadgets old/new and various fancy stuff, one of them is definitely a ‘Mp3 watch’ which i own personally. This is a Stainless Steel Mp3 watch with 1GB of memory. The watch looks pretty good just like any other watch, but the main feature is the storage capacity and its usefulness.
You can play MP3 files (MPEG 1/2 and Layer3) and the memory is U Disk formatted. The battery life of the watch (for MP3 playback) is close to 9 hours when fully charged. This is really good for such a product. There is also a recording feature by which you can record audio in WMA format.
MP3s can be saved on the storage watch through USB 2.0 transmission. The Stainless steel MP3 watch will cost you around $75 which is not a great deal of money. Along with the watch you get the needed Usb cables and a earphone. It is currently available at Brando.com.hk, with free shipping so get over there if you need one of these.
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Logitech has added more speakers to their already impressive collection with the release of the X-240 speakers. These are a bit similar to the Logitech Z10 but those come with a LCD display ofcourse and are much more expensive that these.
The Logitech X-240 cost you only $50 and they will be available from Q2 of 2007. These are pretty good for the price and come with a iPod and Zune docking stations. You can connect your Mp3 player via the Auxiliary input and enjoy great music from your iPods/Zunes. These speakers don’t have on board controls for changing tracks, but you can always stretch yourself to the player and do the needful.
The Logitech speakers come with 2 year warranty and 50 watts of peak power. The speakers measure 6.9″ x 2.6″ x 3.8″ while the sub woofer is of 8.7″ x 5.9″ x 8.7″.
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Fujifilm has released the low-end versions of their digicams for beginners or people who just can’t afford those slim and tiny cams.
The Finepix A610 comes with a 6.3 megapixel CCD with 3x optical zoom. It has between 100-400 ISO range and comes with a 2.5 inch LCD display. The camera has a xD picture card slot as well as a SD card slot for storing your photos and videos along with 10mb of internal memory. The A610 comes with a 2 shooting modes and 14 scene positions.
The Fujifilm A800 camera has a 8.3 megapixel CCD also with a 3x optical zoom and 2.5 inch LCD like the A610. The difference between them is the 12mb of internal storage plus 3 scene positions more than the A610.
The cost for the A610 and A800 is $129 and $179 respectively. The reason for this low pricing is that the camera is more heavy and bigger in size than the others. Also these cameras use AA batteries instead of rechargeable ones which are expensive.
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2007 has surely started with a bang as far as Hitachi goes and for the media storage market. Hitachi had earlier said they will be announcing the 1TB hard drive soon, but we thought it would take much more time that they suggested.
Well, we have been proved wrong and they have actually announced the launch of the 7K1000 Hard drive which comes with 1TB of space. These babies will cost you about $400, which is pretty aggressively priced in our opinion. The disk is available in both SATA II and PATA 144 variants.
The 7K1000 comes with a 32mb buffer, super quiet whilst operation feature and 7200 rpm sindle speed. We thought we could get a 10k rpm drive from them but they have stuck to the much common lower speed drive. The transition from 7200 rpm to 10,000 rpm has not been quick at all but we expect a few manufactures to go aggressive on this one and probably come out with a 15k rpm drive by the year end.
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Mitsubishi has come out with a 22inch widescreen LCD display. The LCD has a very standard 800:1 contrast ratio with 5ms response time. A straight competitor to this would definitely be the Dell E228WFP which was recently released in Canada and is about to be announced in the US.
The RDT221WM was announced a few weeks back and will be available soon, to be precise the date is set for a January last week release. The LCD has a 160 degrees display angle and comes with a 1680 x 1050 display resolution. The TV has an impressive 16 million color display and 300 cd/square brightness measure. The audio is not too great with a 1W plus 1W stereo output.
The Mitsubishi LCD will cost you around $500 and is pretty much priced in line with the other LCD monitors and TVs. The RDT221WM measures close to 505.2 × 210.8 × 427.8 mm and weighs approximately 20 pounds. We will be looking forward to more additions by Mitsubishi in their LCD showcase, but for the moment lets just be content with this one.
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Microsoft’s move to give away heavily loaded Acer Ferrari’s to various tech bloggers out there has back fired on them. Earlier last month Microsoft had given away quite a few Acer Ferrari models, the Acer Ferrari 1000 and the Ferrari 5000 worth almost $2500 dollars each.
These laptops were loaded with their latest operating system, ‘Windows Vista’ and the bloggers were encouraged to review the machines and if possible for them to post their feedbacks on the heavily read blogs. This has not gone down well with a few and have come out angry saying that it’s a ploy for MS to bribe them in giving away good reviews of their latest Operating System.
After all this, the company sent out letters and emails asking them to only evaluate it on true basis and after doing that they could return it or give it away. This was certainly a pretty foolish thing to do (sending letters/emails) as it made the situation even worse.
I for one would definitely not mind an Acer Ferrari 5000 coming my way, would you ?
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Dyne has rolled out new players to add to their Tuny line-up. This time they have decided to skip the number ‘10’ and have gone with the Tuny 9 and Tuny 11.
The Tuny 9 comes with 3 different memory sizes, 512mb - 1GB - 2Gb. The player measures 45 x 82 x 14 mm and comes with a 2inch display which has 260k colors and a 176 x 220 pixel resolution. The Tuny 9 comes with a pretty good battery which lasts for over 18 hours of audio and close to 8 hours video. There is a FM Radio, Bluetooth and surprisingly a TV-Out port. We are not sure the extent we can use the BT in the player, whether you can transfer data using it or its just for the Stereo Bluetooth speaker/ ear phones.
The Tuny 11 is priced lower than the 9, and comes with limited features. It looks like the iPod nano and comes with a 1.7 inch display. The memory sizes in this player are the same as the Tuny 9.
They have been released in Korea and other parts of Asia and South-Eastern countries. No word on a world wide release or pricing of this product.
The iRiver S7 is going to be the next Mp3 player from iRiver and it looks pretty good. The iRiver S7 Mp3 player measures close to 40 x 32 x 9.6 mm and is very similar to the dimensions of the new iPod shuffle. As a matter of fact it is even thinner than the shuffle. The iRiver S7 weighs close to 15 grams which is really light.
The iRiver S7 is a very different player on appearance. The design is good and complete but it comes with fast forward and rewind buttons in the form of human pictures as you can see in the photo. Yes, this is no skin or cover it is how the player is made. The Chicken on top should be representing volume up and the dog standing for volume down.
This MP3 player can play SF, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, WMA and many other audio formats which is not a worry at all. The only problem seems to be a missing pause button. The player comes with an inbuilt FM Radio which will accompany you on your long journeys when you are bored of your own music collection.
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Dell has decided to start its competition with Sony Vaio and have announced its first Blu-ray notebook. The first from Dell is the Dell XPS M1710 laptop. This one comes with a 17 inch UltraSharp UXGA display with TrueLife. The processor used in the XPS is the Intel Core 2 Duo T7600 with a clock speed of 2.33 Ghz and comes with 4mb L2 cache and 667 Mhz FSB. The front side buss speed allows the RAM to function faster and you can put upto 4GB of SDRAM.
The laptop can be pushed in with a 160GB HDD at 5400 rpm or you can go with a faster 100GB HDD at 7200 rpm. The best part is the Blu-ray and with the Blu-ray drive you can burn and read Blu-ray discs. It also comes with dual layer write compatibility too. The Dell XPS M1710 comes with a really powerful graphics card in the form of a 512MB NVIDIA GeForce Go 7950 GTX. The only downside to the laptop is the keyboard, but that is with all Dell laptops in which it does not come with a full numeric keypad. On the whole the XPS 1710 looks really impressive.
The Dell XPS M1710 starts at $3699 which is pretty expensive, but with the amount of features you are getting you have to say that it is worth the cash.
Tags: blu ray discs, dell xps m1710, intel core 2 duo, nvidia geforce, uxga
Maxfield has introduced a new MP3 player which is the MAX-IVY. This player is available in various capacities. The player is extremely sleek and the design is simply too good. The MAX-IVY comes with a 1.8 inch TFT-LCD display with a illuminated touch screen buttons.
The MAX-IVY has a photo viewer and along with this it supports all type of audio media. The supported formats include MP3, WMA and OGG. The MP3 player will be available in 1GB which costs around $185 , 2GB which will be $235 and the maximum capacity one is the 4GB player which will set you back close to $335. The player at this point in time does not have support for video files, so you will have to stick to your iPod videos for that. On the whole it is a decent alternative to the iPod since it has a longer battery life too. The battery lasts for over 14 hours on a single charge which is pretty good.
The MAX-IVY player also supports .lrc files, which means you can read the lyrics whilst listening to the songs on the player. The release date for the player is not yet known but we will be waiting for the launch.
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Transcend are the world leaders in portable storage especially when it comes to Usb drives that is flash drives. They recently announced their new range of JetFlash V10 USB flash drives which are compatible with Usb v2.0.
The JetFlash V10 series is extremely small and measures about 64 x 21 x 10 mm. It weighs close to 11grams. This series comes without a cap, so it makes use of the slider button which pops open the connector. This is now becoming the norm in the flash drive market and more and more companies are using this.
The JetFlash V10 comes with PC-Lock, which is a new thing that allows you to lock your computer using the drive. There is a DataBackup function which allows you to restore, backup and synchronize your data. Other features like Secret-Zip, Email function and favorites feature is also included but are not often used by people. Along with all these functions lets just have a look at the run of the mill type features like, ‘easy plug and play’, compatible with all versions of Windows, Linux, and Mac OS 9.0 or later.
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Incipio has come out with yet another innovative device for the iPod lovers. This time we can have a look at the IncipioBud or in more general terms we can call it the ShuffleBud. The ShuffleBud is a very small and handy dvice which you can attach to the 2GB apple iPod Shuffle instead of the cable which comes with the iPod. The ShuffleBud can be connected to any Usb port.
The IncipioBud can handle high speed data transfer for your music, and is also compatible with working with iTunes. One of the best features of the IncipioBud is that it can charge your iPod too. The ShuffleBud costs around $10 and is really cheap for its use. It does not take any space and you can carry it in your pocket too. It weighs around 5 grams and measures 47mm X 16mm. So throw your cables away and get this neat useful thing.
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The guys over at Toshiba are really working hard in all departments, be it phones, LCDs, Plasmas, or other computer hardware. This time the Toshiba Storage Device Division, the (TSDD) has come out with a 1.8inch 100 GB hard disk.
Samsung and Seagate have also come out with Hard disks of this size but none of them with such a high storage capacity. The Toshiba MK1011GAH hard disk is due to be released in January and when it actually comes out it will be the best in its class. To add to the increased storage ability it is also quite a bit smaller than its counterparts in size. The hard disk comes with a 8mb cache and supports all kinds of storage from all sources.
The HDD measures about 54 × 71x 8 mm and weighs close to 60 grams. It comes with four heads and works at 4200 rpm. The price of these is not yet known, but as we hear from Toshiba that it will be out within a month.
The Usb – Flash Drive market is rising day by day and it is progressing in the right manner in terms of new technologically advanced features. We have seen Biometric laptops from IBM and other such devices.
The Biometric flash drive by Elecom is one of the first ones in the market. The drive encrypts the data on the drive with the fingerprint of the person and it can be decrypted by the same fingerprint only. It looks pretty good and is small in size too.
The Elecom CR-FP2 drive costs around $75 and is not too expensive at all. At the moment, it is only available in 512mb sizes but we can definitely expect high memory ones to come out soon from Elecom or for that matter other companies too. There is no particular date when it is going to be launched but the rumor has it that we should see some of these babies by the start of the Holiday season.
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Ronaldinho has been a brand ambassador for the computer manufacturing company since a while now. The two have now decided it is time to do some charity work. 15 IBM Lenovo notebooks will be auctioned off at eBay and the proceedings will go the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). The deal is also part of the Barcelona – UNICEF tie-up. The auction will be held on eBay and will last for 10 days. It begins from today evening itself, so get yourself there for a good cause!
The Laptops which will be auctioned are the IBM Lenovo Thinkpad 3000 series. There are two basic types of the 3000 series notebooks. One of the C-Series which was the first to come, then came the V-Series with the Ultra portable range of notebooks, and last the N-Series with the extremely light weight laptops. All these come with a Pentium M or a Celeron M processor.
Which series of the Laptops will be auctioned is not yet known, nor their configurations are. Although that’s not of too much importance since the focus of attention is actually the auction and your contribution for this great cause.
It is time that we now have to move to the generation of Blu-ray and HD-DVD. DVDs are now a thing of the past and storing about 9GB is just not enough when it comes with High definition stuff. The Samsung BD-P1000 Blu-ray Disc Player is one of the first Blu-Ray disc players in the market and something that you will cherish if you have the right TV to view it on.
To take complete advantage of the quality from your Blu-ray player, make sure you have a HDTV in place first otherwise it is just rendered useless. The Samsung BD-P1000 Blu-ray Disc Player provides you with full 1080p output and delivers up-conversion according to your needs.
The players measures 16.94(W) x 3.11(H) x 12.8(D) inches and is pretty normal when it comes to size. It weighs close to 10 pounds.
The Blu-ray player comes with a Composite video out, S-Video out, HDMI connections and Y/Pb/Pr out ports. For audio ther is audio out(L/R), 2 and 5.1 channel sound, 1 Coaxial and Optical connection each.
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The days of recording videos on analog tapes are over, and its all being converted to DVD recording now. The Samsung DVD Camcorder SC-DC564 is a 1.1 megapixel CCD with a massive 26x Optical zoom. The camcorder also supports 1200x digital zoom, which makes it one of the first to offer such high specifications in the DVD camcorder range.
The Samsung DVD Camcorder SC-DC564 houses a 2.7inch Wide LCD display with a 200k pixel resolution. With this camcorder you can view and record videos at 16:9 aspect ratio. The Camcorder supports DVD-RW/+-R/+RW (dual layer). It also comes with a remote control for auto photos and videos.
The Samsung DVD Camcorder SC-DC564 offers you great USB 2.0 PictBridge technology which allows you directly print your photos via a Usb printer. The camcorder can also work effeciently as a webcam. In addition to DVD recording, there is a 4-1 memory card slot for that bit extra you need to store.
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The Samsung HL-S4676S is a 46 inch Slim DLP released just recently. The Samsung HL-S4676S DLP comes with only a 10 inch deep cabinet so it’s Slim alright! The DLP TV weighs around 50 pounds and is not that heavy at all compared to its counter parts. With DLP you will surely get great picture quality and the design gives you a neat and stylish TV on the whole.
The Samsung HL-S4676S DLP provides you with a decent 1280 x 720p high definition resolution. The TV uses SRS TruSurround XT sound system that gives you an experience of watching the movie/TV on a home theatre. It also comes with a HDTV tuner, HDMI connections and other features delivering a technological advanced gadget. The ATSC allows you access streaming and digital movies over a network.
The TV also comes with a USB v1.1 port so you can attach your device to the tv and view your videos and photos with everyone. A PC-input also gives you the freedom to use it as your monitor with your portable laptop or desktop computer. The Samsung HL-S4676S costs around $2000 and is a good buy.
Tags: dlp tv, hdtv tuner, samsung
