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September 2007 Archives
Check out this interesting mobile phone design called the Infobar 2. Capable of receiving single wave-band television, the phone does away with an ugly antenna. The Infobar 2 features a 2.6 inch, power-saving OLED (Organic LED) screen. For memory expansion, it comes with a microSD memory card slot. There's also 3D speakers to boot. The manufacturers claim a talk time of 290 minutes.
Available in four colors, the Infobar 2 measures 138mm x 47mm x 15.5mm and weighs in at 104 grams. Hard to believe.
Well, it would do as a great gift for your girlfriends or for your significant other.
Apple has just released the iPhone's Firmware Update 1.1.1. But users beware(at least those illegitimate ones), the Firmware update has some unexpected fixes. The update includes the iTunes Wireless Store, for those legit users, but if you are one of those who unlocked the phone, take note that the firmware may make your iPhone unusable.
The iPhone Dev Team, infamous for their iPhone unlocking software, conducted several hours of testing and found out that the update does the following:
• The update will work ok in iPhones with no modification.
• The update will work ok in iPhones with Installer.app (although it gets wiped out; the apps seem to remain in the iPhone, but they won't appear in your screen).
• The update will work ok in unlocked iPhones, but it will return your iPhone to the activation screen. From there, no activation is possible. The iPhone doesn't get bricked but —as expected— so if you want to keep using it, don't update your iPhone.
• This has been confirmed with both anySIM and iPhone Sim Free.
• "Third-party applications won't work after the update" (confirmed by Dev Team.)
• "Firmware 1.1.1. relocks iPhone properly" (confirmed by Dev Team.)
• Unlocked iPhones updated to 1.1.1 will work with legit AT&T cards (confirmed by Natetrue)
Oh well, the most probable thing to do then is for the Dev Team to update their unlocking software. I mean, they already did it right? So why not do it again? If Apple has version 1.1.1, then the Dev Team could come up with a software patch to unlock version 1.1.1.
The new Toshiba Satellite P205D-S7479 features 2.2Ghz AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-64 processor, 250GB hard drive, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 graphics card with 256MB memory which support 1440 x 900 resolution , up to 4GB memory RAM,dual layer DVD burner, a/g/n wireless, webcam, microphone and bundle with Windows Vista.
On the other hand, the new Toshiba Satellite P205D-S7438 comes with similiar specification but S7438 support 1.9GHz Athlon 64 X2 TK-55 chip, , ATI Radeon Xpress X1200M and 160GB hard drive. Both of Toshiba notebooks now avaiable for $1350 and $850.
The French company will market the handset through its wireless unit Orange. The iPhone will go on sale in France as well as in Germany and the UK this November.
Being one of the first handsets with 3.6 Meg HSDPA, the Vario III will provide the highest quality Internet, video calling and email experience available on a mobile device. Coupled with T-Mobile’s web’n’walk service, the Vario III is set to give users the ultimate mobile experience, as they will be able to explore any site on the Internet as they would on their PC.
The next generation Vario III is packed full of the latest technology and runs on the new Windows Mobile 6 operating system – allowing users to access and edit familiar applications like Microsoft Outlook, Word and PowerPoint on the move. Furthermore, the Vario III also boasts an in-built GPS receiver, and is fully compatible with the new CoPilot Live 7 satellite navigation system.
The MDA Vario III will be available from 28th September to purchase from T-Mobile stores and online at www.t-mobile.co.uk.
Zipit Wireless Inc. today announced the launch of the Zipit Wireless Messenger 2. The new Zipit is a sleek portable Wi-Fi instant messaging (IM) device that provides teens a way to access their favorite Instant Messaging (IM) services wirelessly.
The Z2 is the only device that offers wireless IM connectivity with no monthly or per message fees and supports all the major IM platforms -- AOL, Yahoo and MSN. On any home wireless network or any open or free wireless "hotspot," the Z2 allows teens to have multiple, concurrent conversations with their friends, across all popular IM networks at no cost.
In addition, the Z2 includes a fully capable music player called "MyTunez" that provides instant access to music collections stored on an optional Mini-SD card or streamed from the Internet. Teens can also view photos and slideshows with the built-in "MyPhotoz" feature. To compliment the new Z2 device, the Zipit Web site, www.zipitwireless.com, takes users to an interactive, virtual city where they can learn more about the Z2 device, play games and personalize their Z2 with backgrounds, themes and other content.
bility to create and communicate their own personal style."
The Zipit Wireless Messenger 2 can be pre-ordered for $149.99 exclusively at www.zipitwireless.com beginning October 1, 2007.
An AM/FM/HD Radio multicast tuner, the KT-HDP1 adapts to most vehicles and has three installation options: a do-it-yourself car install kit that does not require removing the radio; a simple home kit; and, a professional car kit that does require removing existing radios. HD Radio data is show cased on a full dot matrix LCD display. Other features include white back light and blue key illumination, 5-way navigation keys, 18FM and 6 AM preset channels HD Radio station scan and seek and 3.5 mini plug audio out.
The device is available for $129 for the tuner itself plus $49 for the home and do-it-yourself car kits or $39 for the provision car installation kit.
Palm, Inc. and Sprint has announced the Palm Centro smart device. For only $99.99, you get voice, text, IM, email, web, contact and calendar capabilities, a full-color touch screen and full keyboard. In addition, Centro brings Palm simplicity and organization to customers who want to stay connected with co-workers, friends and family. Centro will be exclusive through Sprint in the United States for 90 days and is available in onyx black or ruby red.
With a fun, new compact design, Centro is the smallest and lightest Palm phone to date. Centro has a modern, stylish look that feels comfortable in the hand, pocket or evening purse. Centro was designed as a great phone, messaging, and organizational device, and is incredibly easy to use.
With Centro, Sprint customers can quickly and easily text co-workers and friends, manage email, keep track of their schedules, check stock quotes, watch videos on YouTube, keep current on the latest news, capture and share pictures, browse restaurant reviews on Yelp, and get directions on Google Maps - all in one small, compact phone.
Expected mid-October, the Palm Centro will be available in Palm stores and online at www.sprint.com and www.palm.com/centro for $99.99 with a two-year service agreement, available discounts and promotions and required service plan.
Mio Technology announced its latest addition to the DigiWalker line-up of portable navigation devices. The new Mio DigiWalker C230, unveiled at the DigitalLife technology tradeshow in New York, is an upgrade to the C220 series and comes in a compact form-factor that is still affordable and comes with pre-loaded maps of the U.S. The C230 boasts text-to-speech directions, something that is hard to find at such a low price. For memory expansion, it presents an SD/MMC memory card slot.
The C2xx series has always been considered entry-level, but the C230, with its ability to speak actual street names, appears to be a nice addition to your gadget collection. There's a backlight feature, as well as an updated anti-glare display that lets you see maps and menus even on in bright sunlight. Points-of-interest are aplenty with restaurants, hotels and gas stations. Voice guidance in 16 different languages (including English, French and Spanish) is available on the C230, and is powered by an SiRFstar III GPS chipset.
Measuring 3.54" x 3.30" x 0.94", it weighs in at 144 grams (5.08 oz) and is priced at US $249.95. It will hit the markets in October.
High-speed internet on your mobile phone is here, thanks to the new Nokia N95 with support for High Speed Download Package Access (HSDPA) in North American networks. The spanking new N95 is now shipping across the US. Featuring some new upgrades - including Assisted GPS (A-GPS) technology - N95 users can also take advantage of the new SlingPlayer Mobile for Symbian OS to enjoy your home TV programming. You can even watch broadcasts of content recorded to a DVR from anywhere a HSDPA or WiFi network is available.
The Nokia N95's integrated A-GPS combined with Nokia Maps is great for mapping and routing in over 150 countries and there's support for full turn-by-turn satellite navigation in over 30 countries. If you hurry, you can also get a 1-month navigation license, a city guide of your choice and additional maps pre-loaded on a 1GB memory card.
Priced at US $699, the new Nokia N95 is now available at the Nokia Flagship Store in New York City and Chicago. It is definitely tempting me to chuck out my Nokia N73 music edition phone but at that price I'd probably keep my N73 for a few more months.
Now, gone will be the days when taking a complete DNA test takes about one day. NEC’s new portable system, designed specifically for law enforcement officials and planned for release in 2008, can do it in approximately 25 minutes.
The system will be exhibited at the 18th International Symposium on Human Identification scheduled for October 1 to 4 in Los Angeles, and at a meeting of the Japanese Association of Sociology of Law scheduled for November 8 in Tokyo.
The device measures approximately 86.8 × 48 × 12.3-mm and still supports ATRAC in addition to non-DRMed WMA and AAC, MP3, and linear PCM audio playback with SonicStage doing the sync work back to your PC.
Rounding things out are an FM tuner, direct encoding from your CD/MD player, clear audio noise canceling headphones, and a battery capable of juicing up to 6 hours of television or 36 hours of audio. The premium NW-A919/BI (pictured) will sell in November for ¥47,800 while a 4GB NW-A916 should pop for about ¥30,000 ($9).
The new system also comes with a 2.0MP camera in place of the 151's 1.3MP, plus a fingerprint reader. Oddly enough, the 15.4" screen's resolution is down a tad: the 151 had 1680x1200, while the 152 has 1680x1050. It also weighs more: 7 lbs, instead of the 151's 6lbs.
Naturally, the 152 supports DirectX 10 and has NVIDIA's GeForce 8600GT 512MB graphics card.
Toshiba announced the new Toshiba Satellite A215 notebook computer, featuring AMD's latest mobile dual-core processors including the Turion 64 X2 Gold Edition and Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core processor. The Satellite A215 is equipped with ATI Radeon X1200 graphics. One of the higher end models in the A215 series, the Satellite A215-S7472, boasts an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400 graphics card with 128 megs of memory for better aming and graphics.
The series also includes a serial-ATA hard drive (with capacities up to 250GB), a DVD SuperMulti drive and 15.4 inch diagonal widscreen TruBrite display. Certain configurations in the Satellite A215 series also come with 1.3 megapixel webcam, Labelflash technology and Ulead DVD MovieFactory 5 for Toshiba.
The Toshiba Satellite A215 configurations are now available.
In a surprising twist of events, Vonage, a publicly held commercial voice over IP (VoIP) network and SIP company that provides telephone service via a broadband connection, was ordered to pay $69.5 million in damages to Sprint when a federal jury found the company had infringed on six patents held by Sprint Nextel.
In 2005, Sprint sued Vonage for allegedly infringing seven patents from Sprint that dealt with connecting Internet phone calls. Vonage denied the claims and argued that Sprint's patents shouldn't have been approved in the first place. However, after the verdict recently released, Vonage will appeal the verdict and will try to develop workarounds that don't infringe on Sprint's patents.
This is the latest in a series of legal setbacks the voice over Internet Protocol provider has faced this year. In March, a jury in Virginia found Vonage had infringed on three patents held by Verizon Communications. And the court ordered Vonage to pay $58 million in damages, plus 5.5 percent in royalties on future revenue earned while it was infringing on the patents. Vonage is currently appealing the decision.
The pictures that have surfaced looked real enough and does not look as if its a hoax. However, these details are not verified as of the moment so we'll just have to wait and see.
DataViz, an Office compatibility solutions provider, announced RoadSync, a Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync client for Motorola's Symbian UIQ based MOTO Z8 mobile phone. RoadSync is apparently the first and only Z8 solution offering a secure, direct push sync of email, calendar, contacts and attachments to Exchange Server 2003 and 2007. The UIQ platform hasn't been as much in the news as the S60, but some neat apps keep trickling in once in a while.
What's more, DataViz is also offering Documents To Go for free (view-only edition) to all Moto Z8 customers. This allows you to view Word, Excel and PowerPoint files right on your Z8. All you need to do is register at DataViz and download a free copy.
RoadSync for Moto Z8 carries a price tag of US $49.99 per user when purchased in volume license options for five or more users. Available right now online as well as through distributors worldwide. A free eval copy is also available.
RoverBook Voyager V553 is specifically designed for office use. However, with its new additional features, it is ready to compete with other domestic high-end laptops. The Voyager is powered by either (depends on the model) an Intel Centrino Duo or an Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 2.4 Ghz and up to 4MB cache.
In addition, it can store most of your valuable files with its 160GB SATA HDD. The notebook also comes in with multimedia capabilities. It comes with an NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS 256MB video card, which is more than enough for those gamers out there. Lastly, it incorporates a 5-in-1 card reader that is compatible with (SD/MMC/MS/MS Pro) flash cards.
Sony Europe’s Recording Media & Energy has announced the launched of three high speed CompactFlash cards to meet the capacity and speed demands of professional D-SLR photographers and ambitious amateur photographers. The new Sony CompactFlash 300x card, which complement the existing line-up of 66x and 133x cards, will be available with capacities of 2GB, 4GB and 8GB. They will be branded as part of Sony’s Alpha D-SLR camera system.
The high speed CompactFlash 300x cards allow UDMA-enabled D-SLR digital camera users to record more frames per second in continuous advance shooting mode and to transfer their images to the PC very rapidly to make room for new photographic projects. An 8GB CompactFlash card can hold up to 2,000 JPEG photos taken in 12 Megapixel resolution in the ‘Standard’ image setting, or up to 1,363 photos in ‘Fine’ mode. Even if both RAW and JPEG image data are recorded, the 8GB card offers enough space for more than 313 digital photos.
The Sony CompactFlash cards are compatible with a wide range of products featuring a CompactFlash slot, including many D-SLR Cameras, many digital cameras, printers and other imaging and computer peripherals. Many PCs feature built-in CompactFlash slots as standard, while there are adaptors and card readers available on the market to allow users to access and transfer their data onto CompactFlash cards using any PC or laptop.
The new Sony CompactFlash 300x cards will be available from October 2007.
Not only will the Sidekick be available in blue and black colors, it will also come in brown and possibly a white one at that. One surprising thing to note from the pictures is that T-Mobile’s system says there’s a street date of 10-21-2007. One can guess that this means that T-Mobile stores will have the device on the 21st. So bribery and sweet-talking an employee just might get you a sneak peak.
There will also be LEDs around the body of the device that flash with alerts.
