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I'm going out to Europe for a few days....Vacations again!... Please, stay tuned. I will return on September 24th. Then, I will upload more and more news, reviews, pictures, rumors more news, etc... Bye....See you! Mavilonus Toshiba's SD Multi Tool and SD Photo Editor are a nice, touchable surprise ![]() Toshiba is offering up a nice respite from the inane quantity of LCDs and, um, more LCDs at IFA this year. The SD Multi Tool and the SD Photo Editor are two touchable handhelds, offering up some beefy features where similar devices lack, and also skipping over some of the more traditional MID OS features that might put these over the top -- a confusing mix, but again, not an LCD, so we're hooked. The SD Multi Tool is the real wild one, offering dual 3.5-inch touchable (finger or stylus) LCDs, rated at 960 x 480 each if the spec sheet is telling the truth -- that could be a combined resolution. The device offers wireless connectivity of some sort, and can handle web browsing, email, videos, photo editing and pretty much anything else that isn't an actual phone call -- though it can't be tough to squeeze some VoIP in there. Meanwhile, the SD Photo Editor really earns its 'SD' moniker with dual SD card slots, while the Multi Tool just has one microSD slot. The Photo Editor runs a similar OS, but seems distilled down to mainly the photo browsing and editing functions, with a bit of PMP functionality thrown in we hope. A 5-inch WVGA screen with 16 million colors should be plenty of room to work your magic. No word on what OS is under the hood, but it seems to be mostly homegrown Toshiba fare. We know the Multi Tool does HDMI out, and we'd hope the Photo Editor does as well, since they're both supposed to hit in 2009 for a similar price point: around $300 US. If the shots below aren't enough for you, check out the coverage at Engadget Spanish. (Via Engadget.) Toshiba to present the world's lightest LED projector -- (Via AVING WORLD | English.) Sony Promises Budget Hi-Def Projector
Sony promises Bravia VPL-HW10 HD SXRD to be full 1080p HD projector that offers high quality cinematic experience within consumer’s financial reach. This LCD projector features triple-panel Sony SXRD (Silicon X-tal Reflective Display) and 8-stage image processing by the renowned BRAVIA ENGINE 2. Moreover, the VPL-HW10 is equipped with the All Range Crisp Focus (ARC-F) lens which offers a 1.6x manual zoom and both vertical and horizontal adjustment, making it easy to set the projector up and achieve a good picture, regardless of the device’s actual position. The Sony Bravia VPL-HW10 will retail at an unconfirmed $3,000 pricetag. We’ll keep you posted for more. (Via TechFresh.net - Cell Phones, Laptops, Video Games, iPods, Cameras.) Transcend T.photo 720 (fancy) digital frame ![]() ![]() With features like calendar, clock, radio, music player and an alarm, the T.photo looks more like a fancy alarm-clock than a digital photo frame to me: I hope that it also has a light sensor to dim the backlight when in the dark.'Transcend claims that it is using a special algorithm to 'enhance the skin color tone' on the photos, but that sounds like some marketing fuzz that should be discarded. The device also has an orientation sensor to go from portrait to landscape when you hold it. You can copy your photos to the MicroSD card via USB. There is no word on pricing and availability. (Via UberGizmo, the Gadgets News Blog.)
Epson has recently unveiled its new EH-TW420 projector, jam-packed with native 720pixles resolution and plenty of sophisticated features. It will let customers enjoy watching games with the latest HD EH-TW420 projector. It comes with the user-friendly features. The high-end projector utilizes the most updated 3LCD technology that creates superb and outstanding images. It also supports perfect brightness at 2000 lumens and allows users to shoot brilliant images even in sun-light with efficiency. The Epson EH-TW420 projector has been designed for multiple purposes and lets you view TV shows, movies, slideshows and even sports programs. Moreover, users can also enjoy a lot more playing video games and music. The device is indeed a jack-of all trades and gives complete worth to your money. The Epson EH-TW420 projector is expected to reach stores by September 2008 at a suggested price of € 800 RRP including VAT. (Via Cybertheater.com.) SANYO PLV-Z60 Home Theater Projector
Sanyo, a leading electronic maker, has announced its new PLV-Z60 Home Theater Projector. This new projector provides a high contrast ratio of 10,000:1. Incorporating an installation-friendly lens shifting function, PLV-Z60 features Sanyo’s innovative 3D color management system. 'The PLV-Z60 offers a high performance, extremely cost-effective solution for high definition projection,' states Mark Holt, Vice President and General Manager for SANYO’s Presentation Technologies Division. 'The flexibility of installation, the quite fan, and simplicity in user adjustable operations makes the PLV-Z60 an excellent choice for setting up a home theater.' The new PLV-Z60 Home Theater Projector provides a high brightness of 1200 lumens and 1280 x 720 pixels resolution. Its 12-bit digital processing provides video decoder, scaler and gamma curve generator for a superb picture performance. Sanyo PLV-Z60 Home Theater Projector will be available at a price of $ 1,295.00 from September 2008 onwards. (Via Cybertheater.com.) EPSON Released Home Cinema High-End LCD Projector
EPSON recently has come up with a new high-end projector, Epson EH-TW5000. It features 1600 ANSI Lumens brightness, full high-definition 1080p, with a dynamic contrast ratio of 75,000:1, utilizing advanced DeepBlack technology and E-TORL lamp. Connectivity includes a relatively modest two HDMI slots, plus composite, component, S-Video and D-Sub inputs. Expect a full blown Cinema display, at the comfort of your own home. The device is set for retail in October for £2,400, premium price for top of the class performance. (Via TechFresh.net - Cell Phones, Laptops, Video Games, iPods, Cameras.) EPSON All-In-One DVD Player/Speaker/Projector
Epson has revealed a new all-in-one projector hybrid that incorporates 1200 lumen projector with a DivX-capable DVD player and 8W stereo speakers. Epson EH-DM2 is 3LCD based, which is basically a new technology that removes rainbow effects and offers more colors. It also has a USB port for memory devices , digital cameras and the like, so you get to do things like viewing slide-show of photos, and listen to MP3s in the background. The projector will come in a slender physique that is practical to carry about. The Epson EH-DM2 home cinema video projector will be available in September at an estimated price of €600, not bad for a bundle entertainment solution. (Via TechFresh.net - Cell Phones, Laptops, Video Games, iPods, Cameras.) Delta Full HD LED Home Theater DLP Projector
Delta electronics has announced its latest and enduring full HD LED home theater DLP projector. The projector features high LED optics, excellent 1080 pixels resolution, broad color scale and a lot more. It provides customers an excellent experience of viewing a new home theater. The DLP projector boasts of superior and highly developed LED projection technologies. The LED technology provides users long-term equipped life, striking colors and free of mercury and so on. 'The viewing experience is amazing. The image quality of the projector’s full HD resolution plus saturated color and dynamic contrast is extremely impressive. With this product, we believe the era of the LED projector has arrived. Home theater projectors are just the beginning,' said Jeff Fu, Director for Projection Display at Delta’s Display Solutions Business Unit. Moreover, the Delta full HD LED home theater DLP projector is a better choice to meet the commercial, as well as the personal requirements. It provides unique and high-quality images unparalleled by any other lamp projector. Overall, it is perfect in each aspect! (Via Cybertheater.com.) iLuv intros the iMM173 dual-dock iPod / iPhone alarm clock ![]() Putting two iPhone / iPod docks in an alarm clock is a simple and clever idea that's so far only shown up in the JVC-PN7 (which we have and love), but it looks like iLuv's getting in the game as well with the new iMM137. Apart from the two shielded iPhone 3G-compatible docks up top, it's the usual iLuv kit with 5 watt jAura sound, an aux input, and dual alarms -- not a bad deal for an MSRP of $129 that'll almost certainly be lower at retail when this hits in September. (Via Engadget.) Panasonic's new digital camera 'Lumix FX180' - Detailed Image
(Via AVING WORLD | English.) Canon’s Latest Entry Level Cameras A2000/A1000 IS
Canon has released their latest model to the point-and-shoot camera lineup. A2000 IS is launched as a sequel to 720 IS. It features 10-megapixel capture, a 6x optical zoom with image stabilization, a 3-inch LCD screen, and an overall slimmer housing. It will allow even complete newbie to shot stunning photos. It is available in silver and gray, and retails for $250. A cheaper version comes with A1000 IS and E1 model with slightly smaller 4x zoom and 2.5″ LCD, and is available in purple, blue, silver, and brown color choices for S1 or pink, baby blue, and white for E1. The models will be available to public late September. (Via The Digital Camera Blog.) Sony Adds Hi-Def Recording To Cybershot DSC-T500
Sony has announced new Cyber-shot® DSC-T500 model enhancing it with high-definition movie recording capability. Users get to shot up to 10-megapixel stills and full-screen 720p movie recording at 30 frames per second (3x higher resolution than standard-definition movies). The model also uses AVC/H.264 codec for video compression and stereo audio - known for its high compression rate producing high-quality video as well as small file sizes that are easy to download, upload and share. T500 is extensible with a Memory Stick® media card (media sold separately), which now has capacities up to 16 GB. Detailed specs are as following; wide (16:9), 3.5-inch touch panel LCD screen, Carl Zeiss 5x optical zoom lens with a wide field of view (33 – 165 mm, 35 mm equivalency), Optical SteadyShot™ image stabilization and high sensitivity settings up to ISO3200. Sony DSC-T500 will ship in elegant black with a brushed metal finish in late September for about $400. (Via The Digital Camera Blog.) Garmin 785T GPS and Friends: Free Lifetime Traffic, Lane Assist, 3D Transparent View and Bluetooth
All seven units are expected to be released in October at prices ranging between $300 and $700 for specific models. Aug 27, 2008 07:00 Sony Walkman S, E and B Series Official Sony has announced 3 new Walkman series. besides the NWZ-E series, the 7.5mm thin NWZ-S630F and S730F have been added to the Walkman lineup. They come pre-loaded with 8 video clips from BMG artists Chris Brown, Sandi Thom, among others. The S730F comes with nois-cancelling technology. The NWZ-B series are MP3 players that are going head on with the Samsung U4. All new Sony Walkmans will be shipped September. (Via PMP Today.)
Let's be clear: If you hate BlackBerry phones, you will still intensely dislike the Bold. As many coats of polish as RIM has thickly layered on the Bold, it is still a BlackBerry, with all of its suit-and-tie DNA fully intact. Fundamentally, it works and plays just like every other BlackBerry, but with a load of small-to-medium improvements, updates and tweaks that add up to a richer, more refined phone that also looks far better than the rest while doing its thing. Screen Keyboard Body It's larger and wider than the Curve, but it still feels fine in my hands, which aren't giant-sized by any means. The faux-leather backing, however, is absolutely puzzling, like RIM tried to add a touch of class in the same way Donald Trump's hairdo gives him a touch of handsome. In other words, it's fake as crap and feels tacky. Insignificant, really, but it's actually the thing I hate most about this phone. Nonetheless, it feels rock solid. Connections Battery Browser It's the best BlackBerry browser ever (this phone is a lot of 'best BlackBerry ______ ever'), and one of the most usable mobile browsers around. In other words, it's actually usable. Not a miracle. The trackball isn't the most elegant way to navigate pages—largely because of the zoom metaphor—but it gets the job done, and the vast majority of the time, the Bold shows you pages the way they're supposed to be. It definitely sets a standard for what mobile browsers should do at a minimum, and it's fine for light surfing. Email Media But! Watching videos on this thing is a-maz-ing. The sample Speed Racer trailer was so gorgeous and yummy, I almost wanted to watch that 80-car-pile-up of a movie. Almost. The external speaker is surprisingly good, too, with richer sound than the iPhone's. Still, this is one of the areas of the phone that needs work—the video quality nearly woos me into giving it a pass—but I can't emphasize enough how much it needs a decent media manager. OS & UI All of the top-level menus have been cleaned up as well, with crisp white text on a black background. It feels nice, and goes with the look of the handset itself, conveying the sense of it being modern and powerful. Unfortunately, when you go into applications themselves—mail, contacts, etc.—or deep into settings, you feel like you've entered a time warp three years into the past. It's like eating a tuna sandwich after a piece of sashimi—the tuna sandwich alone, uncontextualized, is fine, but next to a pure, clean slice of maguro it looks like crap. Startup on this device has been exceptionally slow—I initially thought my unit was busted or something (maybe it is), though I suppose BBs are always damn sluggish on cold starts. For the for first minute or so after booting, the OS kind of chugs as well, but after clearing the pipes, I guess, it runs totally smoothly, as it should with its speedy 624MHz processor. Still, overall, it's the same BlackBerry OS as before, just prettier and running on snappy hardware. If you're used to a BlackBerry, you won't have any problems getting around. If you're not, well, it's one of the easier mobile OSes to learn and deal with, everything is more or less up front, and on top, at least, it's pretty. Conclusion For other people who were eyeing it as the time to switch to BlackBerry, the issue is less straightforward. As I said in the intro, it's coming into a complicated world, where it has more consumer crossover appeal than a flagship RIM device—currently, the 8800—ever has before. (No doubt, even more people are looking at it in light of the iPhone 3G's problems, either suit-and-ties who were considering the jump, or people looking for their first high-end smartphone, though more of the former.) At its heart, this thing is a corporate workhouse. It will play movies, music, browse the internet and all of the things consumers usually want—and do it well—but it is coming from a different mindset than the iPhone, something to keep in mind if you're torn between these two phones. AT&T has not set a price (or a date for that matter) but we're hearing that it will not touch the $199 mark when it launches in September. Depending on how aggressively RIM and AT&T want to push it, it looks like it could go as low as $249, but $299 seems more likely, another factor that makes it more suited to corporate than consumer. (Update: We're hearing that it's definitely $299, and it will hit September 12.) Still, whichever side you're on, this is a fantastic phone that perhaps pushes the BlackBerry experience to its peak. The flipside of that is that with its next generation of phones, RIM might have to radically reinvent it to stay ahead of the game. Huge, huge thanks to Wireless Imports for providing us with the hardware! (Via Gizmodo: Cellphones.) I read this review this morning on WMExperts as I was traveling from Maine to Vermont on a quick trip and wanted to pass it on because it was a great review.' As many of you know, the Treo Pro is the latest addition from Palm featuring Windows Mobile. We can expect it in the US later this Fall in an unlocked, non-carrier-subsidized form for $549. Clearly a business user device, it has some great features that you just might like and I believe that those of you that love Palm’s form factor will love it no matter what you use a device for.' So what do the folks at WMExperts think about this new entry from Palm?
It is a well done review that you will enjoy reading.' You can check it out here at WMExperts. (Via Mobility Site.)
The latest BenQ MP512ST Projector makes excellent demonstrations possible through the use of latest technology integrated with hordes of utilitarian functions. Its list of stunning features includes a resolution of 800×600 dot, 2,200 lumina brightness, 185W lamp and 12,500:1 contrast ratio in addition to 5Wx2ch built-in speaker and F2.5lens. Other than HDMI input for images the MP512ST Projector also supports analog RGB (D-sub 15 pin) and Simage inputs. It also has a mini-stereo audio input. With the power consumption of up to 280W, the 2.4Kg projector is available for 69,800 Yen in the Pearl white color. (Via Cybertheater.com.) Creative Whips out USB Style X-Fi Audio Dongle (Via Everything USB News, Reviews, Tips.) ![]() The Intel Health PHS5000, better known as Dr. Touch, is a device that functions as an in-house health monitor that is smart enough to monitor and check out various problems caused by different diseases. Of course, it is always wiser to rely on a trained physician whenever you don't seem to recover from whatever ails you, but I think the Dr. Touch is good enough to diagnose the average flu attack. No idea on pricing, but it comes with a simple and easy-to-use user interface. If I have this at home, I'll probably take my blood pressure readings for a week until the novelty wears off. (Via UberGizmo, the Gadgets News Blog.) ![]()
(Via UberGizmo, the Gadgets News Blog.) IOGEAR Wireless USB to VGA Kit ![]() IOGEAR is first off the blocks to roll out the Wireless USB to VGA kit that allows users to extend or clone their desktop onto a different monitor without getting entangled in a mess of wires. This device has already received the green light from the USB-IF, making it compatible with just about any machine that has a free USB port to stream video content to either a TV or projector at a maximum resolution of 720p. It has a 30-foot radius as long as the USB dongle remains plugged into your machine while the VGA connector is hooked up to a display. Those running on Macs will be disappointed as the Wireless USB to VGA kit works with Windows XP 32-bit or Vista 32/64-bit only. It will retail for $229.95 when released next month. (Via UberGizmo, the Gadgets News Blog.) Genius SW-T2.1 1800 New Touch Control Speaker
Genius recently launched its new Touch Control Speaker SW-T2.1 1800 based on DRD sound effect technology. The three piece speaker system delivers powerful base and high acoustic range. The touch panel screen enables you to adjust volume and base with one touch. The integrated equalizer ensures that you listen to your type of music be it jazz or classical or pop or rock or any other. Plug in the headphone jack and enjoy your favorite songs. Rock your party with distortion free loud music using 6’ subwoofer. It suffices the needs of all high-tech music lovers with its rich sound and look. The speaker system in black-onyx is priced at $179.00 and is available at Comp USA, Amazon.com, Tiger Direct, New Egg.com etc. (Via Cybertheater.com.) Udea Expert 300 Multimedia Dictionary
JCHyun has recently introduced its Internet multimedia electronic dictionary ‘Udea Expert 300′ for Korean market. The Udea Expert 300 features 82 kinds of dictionary and language content including Korean, English, Chinese, Japanese and Spanish. It comes loaded with other multimedia features including video playback, mp3 player, T-DMB, FM radio, voice recorder and more. Its currently suggested retail price is 418,000(KRW). (Via TechFresh.net - Cell Phones, Laptops, Video Games, iPods, Cameras.)
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