Delphi has just announced its newest addition to technology, the Nav300. The Nav300 is a GPS device that integrates the latest cutting-edge hardware and software into a lightweight, portable package with an easy, intuitive interface at an extremely compelling price point.

The Nav300 features a a wide array of functions that makes it one of the best in the market. It has a 2 GB SD card preloaded with maps of the U.S. (including Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico) and Canada, bluetooth connectivity coupled with the integrated microphone that allows users to answer calls and access contacts via your phone’s voice commands, and it also find points of interest using reviews from the prestigious ZAGATSurvey guide - the world’s leading provider of consumer survey-based dining, travel and leisure information.

Furthermore, the Nav300 is not just for navigation. It has text-to-speech (TTS) functionality that takes navigation one step further. TTS announces street names and gives turn-by-turn directions as you navigate the road. And, as an added measure, it sports a full suite of popular entertainment features. This allows users to Watch movies and listen to music MP3s downloaded from your computer onto an additional SD card (sold separately). Additional convenient features include picture viewer, calculator and game.

The Nav300 is currently available at an MSRP of $399.

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To every Transformer fans, tech geeks and music aficionados out there, here’s a new product that would make you drool with envy. A speaker for your MP3 or iPod units has just been released, and it’s not just any speaker, its a Bumblebee speaker. Bumblebee is part of the autobots from the successful Transformers franchise which also released its movie adaptation earlier this month.

The Bumblebee speakers definitely knows how to morph your music! It’s a speaker for your music and will dance along to all your favorite beats. In a twist of customized cool, Bumblebee takes your tunes and plays them back to you with TRANSFORMERS sound effects! Touch Bumblebee to mix beats with your music, or sit back and watch it dance!

The speaker is currently available and is priced at around US$58.90

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Panasonic announced that it will soon launch a new 8GB high-speed SD memory card. The RP-SDV08GU1K 8GB high capacity SD (SDHC) memory card adds up to Panasonic’s line up of Pro High Speed models which already include the 1GB, 2GB and 4GB models. All are rated at a Class 6 Speed specification.

Later this year Panasonic will also unveil a 16GB model in this series. With new hi-res digital cameras and HD camcorders, the need for space on these gadgets is ever-increasing. Thanks to SD Memory Card v2.0 compatibility and the high capacity, the memory card guarantees minimum data transfer speeds of 6MB/sec.

The RP-SDV08GU1K memory card can record up to 2 hours of high definition video in AVCHD normal mode or about 3080 high resolution images. Fast enough for professional, broadcast-use digital cameras, you won’t have to worry about consecutive shooting on your new digital SLR camera.

The RP-SDV08GU1K will be priced at US $159.99 and will be available starting 8GB.

Specs in extended entry.

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For everyone that’s been holding their breath and waiting, the good news arrived this morning. Dell has finally started the large-scale production of the Dell XPS M1330. The XPS M1330 will be shipped beginning this week to all regions.

Earlier, there has been some issues concerning the Dell XPS M1330 specially with regards to its LED display that added time to the estimated ship date.

The shipment for the XPS M1330 was delayed for several reasons. This includes the time it took to ramp production on the new product, issues such as part shortages, technical glitches, simple cosmetic issues, and other unanticipated issues that can arise when mass production starts.

But now, the wait is over. The M1330 that was clearly built with an emphasis on good looks and clean lines is finally on its way. It will be sporting a 13.3-inch screen, configurable with a LED backlight. It gets its muscle from its Core 2 Duo processor Santa Rosa chipset with up to 2.4 Ghz of power. Additional specs are its 4GB DDR2 SDRAM and an external video memory coming from NVIDIA GeForce Go 8400M GS which generates up to 128MB dedicated memory.

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Prima Cases unveiled its new iPhone (did you think Nokia phones? El wrongo!) and iPod cases in some spankin’ new designes, crafted from nothing less than high quality Italian leather. There are 4 cases for theiPhone and 2 for the iPod.

Styles available for the iPhone include a contemporary premium leather book, flip, open face and a lateral design. Of course, they also protect th Apple iPhone screen from scratches - but not your sweaty palms, sorry. Oddly enough, the iPhone’s book style leather case has 2 SD slots: not much use of those for the iPhone, eh?

The Select series of leather cases are targeted at the video iPod and nano players. This lineup includes limited runs of handcrafted, custom leather for your jet-setting lifestyle. Expensive looking yet affordable? You decide. The iPhone cases range from US $29.95 to $39.95, while the iPod video case is priced at US $24.95.

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Here’s a navigation solution for those emergencies where you don’t have your GPS with you. US Cellular offers a simple tool that transmogrifies your cell phone into a navigation device. Called Your Navigator, you can get turn-by-turn directions whether driving or on foot.

The service also offers auto-rerouting if you miss a turn, and has an extensive database of nearly 14 million points of interest from ATM machines to gas stations to whatever else you can think of. The service is based on Networks In Motion LBS platform.

Available to US Cellular customers for US $9.99 per month or $2.99 per day, the service is compatible with Kyocera 312 and LG 245 handsets. Assuming you are crazy and opt for the daily option, that’s US $538 for six months - good for an actual GPS device.

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Want free conference calling on your cell phone? Check out foonzMobile, a free service available in the US that lets you make group calls at the same price as a single phone call. The service works on all phones on any carrier network, which is nice. To start using the service you need to text “START” to FOONZ (36669) from your cell phone. foonzMobile will then reply with a message on how to start the call.

When the call is initiated, foonzMobile also sends invitations via text message to participants on their cell phones. Simply dial the number in the invitation to join the call.

No other charges apply - apart from the normal minutes of a single cell phone call (and, if applicable, for receiving the SMS). The foonzMobile website also offers easy contact management as well as the ability to start instant group calls.

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Its finally here. ANADIGICS, Inc. announced recently the shipment the dual-band ANADIGICS AWT6279R WCDMA power amplifier (PA) module for use in Samsung’s groundbreaking new SGH-U700 smart phone. The SGH-U700 is designed for a high-growth segment of the mobile phone market and sports HSDPA download speeds of up to 3.6Mbps that truly gives its users ultimate broadband capabilities in a sleek and glossy slider phone.

The pocketable (12.1mm) handset is a tri-band WEDGE phone with HSDPA 3G WCDMA capabilities. It has the most comprehensive feature set available today with HTML-enabled web browser, a built-in e-mail client, text and MMS messaging, playback compatibility with all of the most popular multimedia formats, a personal organizer, and even a picture editor.

The 3G phone also features a 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera that delivers brilliant quality and commendable clarity of images. A secondary camera handles video conferences and video calling. All videos are displayed in a 240 x 320 QVGA resolution. A built-in bluetooth is included to enable easy file transfer of images, videos, or files.

Literally a mobile office, the SGH-U700 uses the AWT6279R as its WCDMA power amplifier. It is a third-generation HELP3(TM) WCDMA product with industry-leading performance that makes it ideal for handsets that are ultra- slim and stylish, yet boast all the features users want.

The handset has a sleek, stylish look and measures 103 x 50 x 12 mm. Its media player can handle MP3, AAC, WMA, WMDRM, MPEG4, H.263, and Real formats.

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For the very first time, action sports fans can catch every second of the X-Games on your mobile handset. Verizon has teamed up with ESPN and MediaFLO USA to bring new mobile TV channel , ESPN, to the V CAST Mobile TV. The new station brings all the action and excitement straight to your mobile phone, including live competitions and behind the scenes coverage and commentary.

Viewers can catch all the excitement with live coverage of the event which will include practices and qualifying, daily “Best of X Games” segments, and an ESPN debut of rally car races in which the fans are provided the opportunity to see the race from each driver’s prospective.

Starting July 22 through Aug 1, the dedicated channel will highlight previous year of the X Games. Live coverage of the X Games 13 will begin at 11:30 Pacific on August 2nd and will finish on Sunday August 5th at 3 pm. The coverage will be aired again on August 6-7th.

With the launch of Apple’s iPhone, a lot of companies are rushing to provide the extended accessories for this technologocal phenomenon. One of these is the Ontario based company iSkin which is known for its iPod cases. iSkin released its first iPod case on 2002, now it has announced that its newly announced Revo iPhone Case is now available.

The company is right on track as it announces the availability of its long-anticipated protective skin for the iPhone, the iSkin revo. Designed as a complete protective solution, the revo includes a premium silicone protector, a touch-compatible privacy film and a ViSOR, an ultra-clear polycarbonate scratch resistant screen guard for the large iPhone screen.

The average mobile phone contains large amount of bacteria. This is due to the fact that it goes everywhere we go and placed just anywhere, resulting to the substantial amount of microbial organisms that can stick to it. With the revo, growth of microbial organisms are inhibited due to the embedded anti-microbial agent (Microban) applied to their silicone materials. So its practically safe and germ-free.

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One of China’s leading domestic manufacturers of mobile devices has just announced its latest model to the CECT C-Series. Qiao Xing Mobile Communication Co., Ltd., through it’s subsidiary, CEC Telecom Co., Ltd. announced their newest model, the C1200. The mobile handset incorporates the latest mobile phone technologies available in the market. Built with a stylish and fashionable look, combined with full technological features, this handset will be one of the best units in the market.

The C1200 is the successor of the companies old C1000 mobile phones. It sports a bigger LCD screen with a dimension of 2.0 inches. Its got a thinner profile (13mm) creating that stylish and state of the art look. Its got other cool features like an FM radio built into the phone, an improved receiver that enhances sound quality, and an ultra-long battery life that let’s you enjoy talking to your friends for long periods of time.

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Sony has just announced its latest innovation on portable audio players. Labeled as the first HD Video Walkman, the GV-HD700E plays back HDV as well as miniDV tapes (SP and LP). With this latest portable solution, viewing your favorite HDV and DV tapes while you are on the go, becomes much easier.

The Sony GV-HD700E offers a 1,152K (800×480x3[RGB]) dots resolution for maximum quality on displaying videos and images. It has a 7-inch widescreen LCD that brings out bright and crisp images that boasts of optimum detail and quality. The unit supports a lot of features making it one of the best product in the market today. This includes an all-scan function that lets 100% of the recorded frame fit on the LCD monitor for accurate reviewing of shots. It has six LCD panel setups that can be stored and loaded at any time. It also allows movement of the on-screen time code to any of the six positions according to user preference.

Of course, any devices developed today supports some kind of connectivity option. The developers of the new HD Video Walkman knows this, so they equipped the unit with a wide array of interfaces for recording and playing HDV1080i and Standard Definition DV video from a range of sources. It even has an HDMI output to allow HD viewing on any HD-ready TV or monitor. The GV-HD700E sports a separate HD/SD component output, an i.Link port, and an S Video and RCA input that lets you record analog videos and audios.

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Samsung is joining the ranks of the latest craze in the cell phone markets - touchscreen phones without keypads! While we’ve known about the SGH-P520 Phone for some time now via FCC approvals and other leaks, it’s now been officially confirmed as more than just a pipe dream or figment of our imaginations.

The handset is reported to hit stores soon, but we’re not sure which carriers will be picking it up, or when it will actually be available. Oh, and we don’t know what the cost will be either. What we do know, however, is that the Samsung SGH-P520 features a touchscreen GUI, a three-m

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Remember the WorldMate Mobile Travel Service which is currently available free for Nokia S60 devices? Well, BlackBerry users can now consider themselves lucky as well.

Starting August 2, an open beta for BlackBerry devices will be offered, doubling up as your personal travel assistant that gives customized flight update alerts, schedules, itinerary, maps and more. It automatically pushes trip logistics onto the device.

WorldMate Live can automatically sync information with Outlook. WorldMate Live will have free and premium versions available, with most service available for free. The good news is that everything is free in the beta period. Check it out at http://www.worldmatelive.com/. If you are in Boston, you can also have a look at the demo at the NBTA Conference between July 23-25 at WorldMate’s booth.

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Verizon announced that its V-Cast service now includes a new Veoh channel, featuring the best of video content from the interwebs. The Veoh distribution platform has an array of over 85,000 video publishers.

Now, V Cast subscribers can get the best of Veoh videos including animation, comedy, entertainment and web-series video. To get the videos, you must have a V CAST phone and pay US $3.00 for 24-hour use of the service or $15.00 for a monthly subscription.

Entertainment on the go, but definitely expensive.

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Sounding more trouble for Motorola, Samsung has nudged past the US manufacturer to pick up a coveted #2 position in the cell phone biz. Sure, it’s not a large margin (number crunching puts it at 37.4 million handsets for Samsung version 35-36 mil projected by Motorola).

Samsung seems to be especially making progress in emerging markets, while Motorola is foreseeing an unfavorable result this year. Compared to last year, Samsung’s unit volume has increased by 50%.

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The people on the US that live near the Bay Area, Los Angeles, and New York, will be pleased to know that a new service is being presented by Dial Directions which will surely help them from getting to one point to another specific one by using their mobile phone.

The working mode of Dial Directions is rather simple, users of this service call the number - (347) 328-4467 - from their cellphone and explain where they need to go - by saying an address or an intersection.
Afterwards, the voice recognition service is (hopefully) able to understand where do you want to go, and it asks where you are currently located so it can provide the exact directions.

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In case you are a curious cat and always wanted to know the inside system of the iPhone, there is only one thing you can do which is going into field test mode.

To get in the special mode just dial *3001#12345#* and hit Call - the next menu you will see is the main screen of the field test mode (image on the right). This screen displays the following options: Network Information, Cell Information, GPRS Information, PDP information, Call Information and Versions.

If you keep digging the menus you will have access to some information such as: received signal strength if you are in a call, details of the cell phone towers that the iPhone can currently see, details of the call that you are currently in, and ID of the LCD panel.

Check more details of the iPhone field test mode at WirelessInfo.

PS - MobileWhack cannot be held responsible if you somehow “damage” the iPhone.