Bluetooth Music Receiver By Belkin

Belkin has introduced a new Bluetooth Music Receiver. It will stream music from your iPod Touch or iPhone via Bluetooth.
Its a Bluetooth 2.0 will get reliable and high quality sound. Bluetooth Music Receiver available priced at $49.99.
Belkin Bluetooth Music Receiver
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Griffin PowerBlock Reserve - AC charger and rechargeable backup battery

“PowerBlock Reserves for iPhone or iPod” is introduced by Griffin. PowerBlock Reserves looks like your another battery, a removable Reserve battery pack. while you are charging internal battery of your iPhone or iPod, at the same time its recharge the removable Reserve battery pack.

PowerBlock is AC charger/adapter for USB-rechargeable devices, including iPhone, iPod, and other phones and MP3 players. PowerBlock works in almost any AC wall socket, with electrical service from 100 to 240 volts, and delivers safe power level for iPhone, iPod, MP3 players and other USB devices. Take the removable battery pack with you (its small to fit in your pocket). The Reserve battery snaps into your iPhone’s or iPod Dock Connector, adding hours of additional time on your iPod or iPhone. Best Selling Product PowerBlock Reserves priced at $40.

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New Core i7 Dekstop for Around $1,047

If you are living in Japan, then you are lucky because you can purchase a powerful Core i7-powered desktop PC with an affordable price tag. Mouse Computer has recently launched the Lm-i460S for only 99750 Yen ($1,047). Available in either Microsoft XP Home/Pro SP3 or Vista Home Premium 64Bit (Ultimate in option), the desktop comes jam packed with a 2.66GHz Core i7-920 CPU with an Intel X58 Express, a 3GB of RAM (PC3-10600), a 1TB of HDD, a DVD Super Multi, and a 512MB nVidia GeForce 9500GT. If you need more powerful desktop PC, you can change the previous settings (for a fee) with a Core i7 945 or 965 CPU, up to 12GB of RAM, a 1.5 or 2TB of HDD, a 8x Blu-Ray burner, and an nVidia GeForce 9800GT or GT250. [Akihabara]

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Sonix7 Media Pro: the patriotic PMP

Sonix7 Media Pro PMP With 20-hours of Battery Life

The Sonix7 Media Pro isn’t just any old generic PMP: it’s a 3.2 inch touchscreener with an immense battery life, and it’s made right here in Britain!

The British car industry may be on its last breath, but if the Sonix7 Media Pro takes off like it deserves to, perhaps we’re about to see jobs opening up in the PMP and MP3 player industry here to make up for it.

The Sonix7 Media Pro isn’t just another shoddy Shenzhen PMP though: it’s made right here, costs less than an iPod nano, and will get you a 77% bigger screen (QVGA still) and incredible 20 hours of video playback from one charge.

If that’s not enough, the Sonix7 Media Pro also packs a camera, MP4, AVI and Xvid support, plus eBook capability. We’ll be testing one out to see if the Sonix7 Media Pro can meet those incredible claims shortly, but if you’re looking for a way to show your colours with more than just a Union Jack, you can order a Sonix7 Media Pro right now.

Out Now | £89.99 (8GB) £104.99 (16GB) | Sonix7

[Electricpig via iPod and MP3 Players]

Silicon Case to Protect Your Samsung Omnia

Samsung is no stranger to Windows Mobile, having produced half a dozen smartphones running the Standard and Professional versions of the operating system. Yet the Omnia is different to what the company has released in the past. By shrugging off the shackles of a physical keyboard - one of the defining characteristics of past Samsung Windows Mobile devices - the Korean company has developed a touchscreen-operated smartphone with more of a consumer bent, consistent with the smartphones we’re seeing from other vendors.
Samsung Omnia SGH-i900

Yes, the Omnia bears a striking resemblance to the Apple iPhone, so we'll go ahead and get all those comparisons out of the way. Measuring 112 x 56.9 x 12.5mm, it's a little shorter and narrower - and just a hair thicker - than the iPhone 3G, and weighs eight grams lighter at 125g. The touchscreen is also half an inch smaller at 3.2 inches. Internationally, the Omnia is available in 8GB and 16GB denominations, and with both black and white backplates, but in Australia it's only been launched in an 8GB black model so far.

Design

Similarity to the iPhone notwithstanding, keen-eyed observers will notice some of the subtle differences in the Omnia’s hardware design, not the least of which is the prominently placed 'Samsung' branding below the screen. It’s got more buttons, for starters, including answer and end call keys below the screen, the unfortunately-named 'finger mouse' nestled in between them (which we'll come back to shortly), and various other buttons along the edges of the device.

Its build quality isn’t quite as luxurious or distinctive as that of the iPhone 3G, but it’s still an attractive and sleek little package, with nicely rounded corners and a reassuringly solid feel to it. But there are a couple of let-downs in the Omnia’s design: first, the microSD card slot – located behind the battery cover – is designed such that you have to remove the battery to insert a memory card; and second, Samsung has stuck to the same multi-port connector used on all its other phones, so the headphones, sync cable and charger all attach to the same port. This saves on space, but on a phone as long as the Omnia, it’s not so much of a concern, and it means you can’t have headphones connected while you’re syncing or charging the device.

User interface

Some of the best Windows Mobile phones we’ve seen lately are the ones that add a customised front-end to make the operating system easier to navigate and use one-handed, and Samsung has thrown its hat into the ring with a few enhancements and applets of its own.

The most prominent of these is the widget system on the Today screen, letting you drag and drop mini-apps like a monthly calendar, world clock and photo speed dials from a sliding ticker-style panel onto the main desktop area. It’s a novel idea that mimics Dashboard on the Mac and Windows Sidebar in Vista, but given the limited wiggle room on the screen and the fact that you can’t add new widgets (at least, not yet), the novelty wears off quickly.

We ended up turning the widgets off and alternating between the two beautifully-designed Samsung Today layouts, both of which use Samsung’s TouchWiz UI. Samsung has also thrown in a ‘Main Menu’ launcher with custom TouchWiz icons (much nicer than the default Windows Mobile graphics) for all the Omnia’s main programs and functions. Hitting the close button within any application only minimises it rather than shuts it down, but pressing and holding the menu button brings up a running tasks window for jumping between programs and properly closing applications.

For the most part, you won’t need to resort to using a stylus –a good thing, as Samsung has clumsily neglected to put a stylus holder on the Omnia itself. Instead, the included stylus dangles awkwardly from the lanyard loop. Most of the text throughout the system is larger than average, and you can scroll through most windows by dragging your finger down the screen. But the Start menu and OK/Close button are still the same size, tapping on the tiny system icons in the taskbar like volume and wireless requires a long fingernail if not a stylus, and tapping on links in the web browser with your finger can prove beyond the capabilities of those with average-sized hands.

We can only assume the ‘finger mouse’ – essentially a track pointer for maneuvering a cursor around the screen – is meant to be a stylus substitute, but you can just as easily tap on the screen directly instead of taking twice as long trying to coax the cursor to the right location. Thankfully, you can configure the finger mouse to work as a four-way controller instead.

Screen and input

The Omnia is well-equipped with it comes to screen size, offering a decent 3.2in horizontal, with excellent viewing angles, brightness and visibility. A built-in motion sensor automatically adjusts the screen orientation to match whichever way you’re holding it, complete with funky rotation animations to keep things interesting. The motion sensor can also be set to mute incoming phone calls when you turn the phone on its face.

Where the Omnia falls behind is on screen resolution, offering an underwhelming 240 x 400 pixels on the display – essentially identical to the standard 240 x 320 resolution, but slightly longer to allow for the wider aspect screen. It’s a poor effort compared to competing smartphones like the iPhone 3G (480 x 320) and HTC Touch Pro (480 x 640), and as a result text and graphics aren’t as sharp as we’ve become accustomed to. That said, it’s mainly an aesthetic thing, and the only time a higher resolution would have practical benefit is when zoomed out of a webp age in Opera Mobile – on the Omnia, you can’t make out the text when the page is displaying in full desktop layout.

The multi-touch and capacitative scrolling features found in Apple and HTC smartphones respectively have been left off the menu, but the Omnia does offer haptic feedback –a small vibration on the screen when you tap it – to compensate for the lack of tactile buttons. It isn’t enabled universally, and mainly comes into play when using the software keyboard.

The Samsung-specific software keyboards on the Omnia (including a standard QWERTY and roomier two-letter-per-key arrangement) are excellent, albeit slightly cramped when using them in portrait orientation due to the narrow dimensions of the screen. These offer an auto-correct feature like the iPhone, but go one better by showing other suggested words (including the word you actually typed) above the keyboard so you can insert less-common words without too much fuss.

Internet features

The Omnia doesn’t lack for anything when it comes to network connectivity and wireless, with 7.2Mbit/s HSDPA (although the two carriers currently offering the Omnia, Vodafone and 3, don’t actually support it yet), 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and A-GPS all on board.

All of these functions are put to good use with a respectable selection of applications, including Google Launcher, Google Maps, Podcasts, RSS Reader, ShoZu (for uploading pictures and videos to online destinations like Facebook, YouTube, Flickr and WordPress), Messaging and Opera Mobile 9.5. The lack of physical keyboard means the Omnia isn’t the best smartphone for processing lots of email, but the Messaging application itself doesn’t lack for any features.

Conversely, the absence of a keyboard has allowed more space for the screen, giving Opera Mobile 9.5 lots of room to shine. After Safari on the iPhone, it’s the best mobile browser on the market, and most desktop-formatted web pages fall into line with minimal struggle. Zooming in and out of a web page is as effortless as double-tapping on the relevant area, and features like full-screen view, multiple tabs, a download manager, a password manager, and a thumbnail overview of the page when you’re scrolling through it makes the Omnia a delight to use for web browsing.

Multimedia

Samsung hasn’t taken the challenge of coming up against the iPhone lightly, and the multimedia functions on the Omnia are best in class. On the hardware side, it comes with a spacious 8GB of internal memory, from which you can add up to 16GB more with a microSD card (currently available for less than $150). TV Out functionality is included for showing the Omnia’s display on a television, and while our review unit didn’t come with a cord in the box, Samsung assured us that all shipping units would come with one. While it uses a multi-connector for hooking up a set of headphones, Samsung has bundled an adapter for using standard headphones, with a microphone and call button on the adapter itself so you’re not missing out on headset functionality when your own earbuds are attached.

As to software, the Omnia is loaded with no less than eight separate media-centric applications. Our favourite is Touch Player, which operates as a front-end to Windows Media Player and adds extra features like large finger-friendly buttons, a full-screen view with large album art, and compatibility with a greater number of audio and video codecs like DivX, XviD, MPEG-4, AAC, MP3 and OGG.

The Omnia is one of the few phones on the market that’s DivX-certified, and compared to the usual experience of playing a desktop-formatted video on a smartphone, the difference is obvious right off the bat. We played a few of our downloaded TV shows and movies on the Omnia without any conversion, and all of them played flawlessly, with no skipped frames or audio sync issues. The same can’t be said for the iPhone, which requires that you convert videos to a certain resolution in either MPEG-4 or H.264 – neither of which are formats commonly used for distributing movies and TV shows on the internet.

The Omnia also offers a USB mass storage setting, so transferring content from a computer to the Omnia is simply a case of connecting it, dragging and dropping the files and playing them on the Omnia.

Camera

Another point of distinction is the Omnia’s five-megapixel camera – a feature that isn’t so common on smartphones save for those in the Nokia N-Series range. The megapixel count is a little misleading, though, as it only speaks to the maximum size of the photo rather than the actual image quality. Theoretically, more megapixels mean you can capture more information with each image, leading to better overall photos, but when the image sensor is the same size as it is on a 3.2-megapixel or two-megapixel camera phone, there isn’t much benefit in upping the megapixel count.

Such is the case with the Omnia’s camera. It’s stacked with cool features like an auto-focus, multiple scene and shooting modes, and face detection, but we found these made minimal difference to the photos we took. An LED flash can be used for taking photos in low lighting, but it’s only good for illuminating objects a couple of feet away. The Auto Flash setting didn’t appear to work either – sitting in a dim room, the camera wouldn’t fire the flash off, and we had to resort to manually switching it on to use it.

We tested the camera using different subjects and lighting conditions, and while the photos are decent, they’re not going to blow you away or have you throwing your compact camera in the bin any time soon. Photos still look very much like they were taken with a camera phone, with the tell-tale fuzzy outlines around objects, soft focus and muted colours. Even in full daylight, we were seeing a lot of noise around the edges, and found the camera had trouble keeping everything in the frame properly focused.

We were more impressed with the Omnia’s video recording capabilities. It can’t record in slow motion like some of the latest LG five-meg camera phones, but it handles motion well and automatically adjusts to different lighting conditions – better than it did for still photos, in fact. Videos can be recorded at up to 640 x 480 (at 15fps – reducing it to 320 x 240 lets you record at 30fps) in the MPEG-4 format, and it uses up roughly 300KB per second. You’ll probably need to convert the videos before you can play them on a desktop – QuickTime refused to play them altogether, while VLC Player played back the video without the audio.

Performance and battery

Windows Mobile is notorious for being a sluggish operating system, but you wouldn’t know it after using the Omnia. It runs the fastest mobile processor currently available – a 624MHz Marvell Xscale PDA312 chip – along with a 128MB helping of RAM, and for the most part it’s responsive and doesn’t slow down excessively with multiple programs open. A one-tap close button for shutting down programs would’ve boosted performance further, but you can shut down applications manually in two steps using the dedicated menu button on the right.

Between the large screen, fast processor, multiple wireless options and hi-res camera, there are a lot of demands on the Omnia’s battery. The good news is that the back cover pops off and you can replace it for a fully-charged cell once the first one is run down (unlike a certain popular smartphone beginning with ‘i'), and it’s a good-sized 1,440 lithium-ion battery.

Our testing procedure consisted of watching an XviD movie full-screen for an hour, web browsing over Wi-Fi and 3G for an hour, playing music for 20 minutes, taking 15 photos and five minutes of video, half an hour worth of calls - with push email active the whole time - and it lasted one and a half days before dying. Compared to other smartphones in the same class, this is an excellent result. Advertised talk and standby times over 3G are four hours and 400 hours respectively.

Conclusion

The market for touchscreen-operated and media-centric smartphones has gotten extremely crowded since the iPhone 3G was first released, but the Samsung Omnia is far from a me-too device. It’s the only touchscreen smartphone we’ve seen with a five-megapixel camera, and it’s also the only smartphone with DivX certification.

Other things that cause the Omnia to stand out are the expandable memory (8GB on-board plus up to 16GB with a microSD card), replaceable battery with a relatively good run-time, well-designed software input options, and loads of great software pre-loaded.

We would’ve loved to see a higher resolution screen and we’d trade the finger mouse for a built-in stylus holder any day, but the make or break aspect of the Samsung Omnia is the fact that it runs Windows Mobile. Microsoft’s smartphone operating system has come a long way since the original Pocket PC days, but even at version 6.1, it’s not the most intuitive system to use. Once you get around its various quirks and shortcomings, there’s a lot to like – and even love – about the operating system, but those coming from a standard feature phone will face a steep learning curve before they master the Omnia’s rich feature set.











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Novatel’s MiFi 2200 Portable EV-DO Router

Sprint has released the Novatel Wireless MiFi 2200 portable EV-DO router for use on its network. The battery-powered EV-DO router allows users to connect up to five WiFi-enabled devices to Sprint’s EV-DO Rev. A network, and it’ll be marketed in stores as the Sprint Mobile Hotspot. According to the carrier, this device will be the first in the US to support MiFi’s GPS capabilities, allowing users to take advantage of select location and mapping applications. [Sprint via Engadget]

Sprint’s Samsung Exclaim M550 Phone

The Samsung Exclaim M550 messaging handset for Sprint is claimed to be the successor to the Samsung Rant. It comes with an alphanumeric and a QWERTY keypad, a 2.6-inch QVGA display, EV-DO Rev. 0 connectivity, social networking applications, GPS navigation, a 2MP shooter, and a microSDHC memory card slot. Sprint will release the Samsung Exclaim M550 on June 7, 2009 in either blue or purple. No info on pricing at this time. [UnWiredView via Upcoming Cell Phones]

It looks a lot like the Samsung Lucello / Cello we saw in that leaked Sprint roadmap, doesn’t it? In fact, it’s probably the same device.

Knowing this, the features of Samsung Exclaim M550 should include:

• A 2.6 QVGA display
• EV-DO Rev. 0 connectivity
• Social networking applications
• GPS
• 2MP camera
• Memory expansion slot, up to 32GB

It’s said that Sprint plans to release the M550 on June 7, in blue and purple. Sadly, the phone’s price is not known.

In other Samsung news, Verizon’s Alias 2 U750 was recently caught on video (two videos actually), so now we can see its e-ink “Magic Keypad” better





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20-inch LCD Monitor From Iiyama Japan

The ProLite E2008HDS-B from Iiyama Japan is available in two versions. The 20-inch model features a 1000:1 contrast ratio, a 250cd/m2 brightness level and a maximum of 1600×900 pixels resolution. Meanwhile, the 21-inch model provides Full HD resolution, a 300cd/m2 brightness level and 1000:1 contrast ratio. The 20-inch and 21-inch models are priced at 17,800 Yen () and 15,800 Yen (), respectively. [Akihabara]








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SmartDevices SmartQ 7 MID

SmartDevices is back with another one of its mobile internet device known as the SmartQ 7. This new MID boasts a 7-inch WVGA touchscreen with 800 x 480 resolution, WiFi connectivity, two USB ports, a TV output, an integrated stereo speakers and Linux OS with preloaded IM clients, internet access and PMP features. Unfortunately, there’s no word on pricing and availability yet.

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Cowon S9 32GB Portable Media Player

The Cowon S9 32GB portable media player is now available at Amazon.com for only $299 a pop. Available only in titanium black, the player features a 3.2-inch AMOLED display with 16 million color support at 480 x 272 resolution, Bluetooth connectivity, an integrated voice recorder with internal microphone, a built-in FM radio and TV out. Its battery provides up to 11 hours of video playback or 55 hours of audio playback on a full charge.

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Solar Hat Fan

Here is the cool gadget the solar power hat fan that helps you to keep you cool when temperatures climb. you just simply clamp this fan on to your favorite hat (stiffer-type brims and baseball caps are recommended). the solar panel get the solar energy to directly power the fan. Its Priced $10.






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EagleTec USB Nano Flash Drive

The EagleTec USB Nano Flash Drive is Extremely Tiny, Light and Compact Flash Drive. You can leave it at your Laptops or Computers USB Port. Features Below.

Features:
Nano Size USB Design
Compact & trendy
Dimension: 19 x 15 x 6mm (approx.)
Weight: 3g
Up to 15Mb/s Read; Up to 6Mb/s write
USB 2.0 High speed data transfer
Compatible with USB1.1 & 2.0
Password protection (Optional download by user)
Support Windows 2000/XP/Vista, Mac OSX (10.2 or above)

This fashionable and stylish mass storage device priced at 4GB $22; 8GB $33.

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The Trouble With Tiny Windows Computers

Things don’t look good for OQO, the company behind a series of handheld computers that ran full-blown Windows. As Eliot Buskirk reports over at Wired.com, the company has lost its CEO and resellers have stopped taking preorders for its next-generation model; rumors are that it’s running out of time to make it as a stand-alone entity.

If OQO folds, it’ll be sad–but the funny thing is that it’s already a pock-marked survivor in the product category of tiny Windows devices. The similar FlipStart PC (backed by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen) was on the market for only a year. And as far as I can tell, Sony has discontinued its pocket-sized UX handheld. Microsoft’s once-hyped Ultra-Mobile PC (UMPC) platform, meanwhile, is alive but far from thriving.

And yet, the funny thing is that there’s never been more interest in extremely portable computing devices than there is today, nor as many attractive choices. It’s just that very few of them bear much resemblance to the OQO and its direct rivals. Smartphones like the iPhone 3G and T-Mobile G1 are pocket-sized computers by any definition I can imagine; netbooks such as Asus’s Eee PC 1000HE are bigger than the OQO but smaller than garden-variety notebooks.

So how come OQO-class machines have never caught on? I can think of several reasons:

Windows was never designed to run on devices that small. It wants a display with both decent resolution and a fair amount of physical space. They assume the availability of a decent QWERTY keyboard (and I’ve never seen an OQO-class gadget that even had as good a keyboard as I think could be crammed into the available space). They benefit from a mouse, or at least a large touchpad. The whole idea behind these devices is providing the benefits of the world’s most widely-used operating system–such as scads of applications–but the fundamental usability hassles canceled the virtues out for most folks.

They’re full of advanced engineering that didn’t deliver enough user benefit. It’s a small miracle that OQO was able to get full-strength Windows to run on a machine that small at all, and a tribute to the company’s designers. But smartphone engineers have a head start, since they aren’t stuck with the challenge of making a desktop OS run on a tiny device. And netbooks, almost by definition, don’t include any sophistcated engineering–and don’t have to, since they’re large enough that miniaturization isn’t required. (There’s a reason why most netbooks are actually rather chunky.)

They’re too dang expensive. A couple of years ago, the OQO and FlipStart both cost $2000, or more than most people pay for a traditional notebook. Today, OQO starts at a grand. You could buy both a smartphone and a netbook for that, and have money left over.

I know that there are people who are passionate fans of the OQO and similar devices–but there don’t seem to be enough of them to add up to a robust business, and that just isn’t that surprising. Will OQO’s woes scare other companies off from building other computers of this sort? Maybe not: Intel is forging ahead with its Mobile Internet Device platform. I wish it luck. But I’m thinking that consumers have already rendered their verdict–and as usual, theirs is the only one that counts.

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Nokia’s New Nokia 6220 Classic

Nokia has announcedThe newNokia 6220 classic. It is a HSDPA phone that comes with 2.2 inchdisplay, 5.0-megapixel camera with autofocus and xenon flash, A-GPS functionality, TV-out, Bluetooth, FM radio with RDS& a microSD slot. Nokia 6220 classic is preloaded with new Nokia Maps 2.0 application which will Help you find the best routes or explore any city for new restaurant, hotels and other point of interests. Nokia 6220 classic is expected to be available innext couple of months in selected markets with an estimated price of 325 euro, before taxes and subsidies.

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Mitsubishi WD510U and WD500U-ST projectors

WD510U and WD500U-ST NEW projectors released by Mitsubishi.More:

• 1,280 x 800 native resolution with 16:10 aspect ratio
• 4,000 hours lamp life
• Texas Instruments DDP 2230 DMD chip with DLP technology
• VGA inputs, DVI-D with HDCP support, 3.5mm audio jack,
• contrast ratio of 2,000:1 (WD510U)/ 2,500:1 (WD500U-ST)

and 2,600 lumens (WD510U)/ 2,100 lumens (WD500U-ST).

Priced at $1,495 and $1,695 respectively.

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Braille Hi-Touch for the Blind by Auguste Reymond’s

Auguste Reymonds Braille Hi-Touch is the new Classic quartz watch designed specially for the blind.

Features raised hour-markers with special hands allows those visual impaired with a way to read time with their fingertips.

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Onkyo MHP-UW2 wireless headphone for iPod

ow enjoy music from your iPod with Onkyo MHP-UW2 wireless headphone. The Onkyo MHP-UW2 wireless headphone utilizes the 2.4 GHz digital connection and it is equipped with emitter that attaches to the iPod to broadcast music for more then 8 hours. It weighs 35 grams and can be recharged via AC adapteror USB. Available in Japan from November and priced around $200.






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Colorful Casing for Sony Ericsson W580

You have Sony Ericsson W580? Are you getting sick with plain case on it? then now its time to coustomize it with colorful and protective case. price is only $3.50usd.













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Kingston 32GB DataTraveler 150 Flash Drive

Normally when we get high affection movies and stuff 1GB and 2GB is no best for us. Thats why Kingston has release its DataTraveler 150 Flash Drive in 32GB of storage capacity priced at $139.


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Nikon Wifi-enable UP300x Headphone

Nikon Corporation in Japan has announced their latest Media Port UP. It is a wifi-enabled multimedia playback headphone device. Nikon includes the display screen, headphones, Wi-Fi capability, mobile A/V player, high-capacity memory, and power source in one bunched device. The accessory is priced about $587.

The UP300x comes with congenital motion sensor that allows hands free operation (volume adjustment, etc…). It has up to 8GB of flash memory, USB port, Wi-Fi b/g, and two Sanyo eneloop rechargeable batteries and acknowledging the WMV9, MPEG-1, MPEG-2 video files, and MP3, WMA9, AAC, audio files. It is compatible with HTML 4.01, Flash Version 7, JavaScript, added media capacity are downloadable from Nikons service.

Unfortunately, they are accessible only in Japan.

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