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LG has released one of its high-end touchscreen handsets, the LG Secret will be known by their new names of LG SU600, LG KU6000 and LG LU6000. These phones will be rebranded and launched in South Korea. These were previously launched in Europe as LG KF750 and as LG KF755 in South America.

LG Secret is a sleek, slim and stylish slider phone that has dimensions of only 102.8 x 50.8 x 11.8 millimeters and has a weight of 116 grams. The handset is made out of unique materials like tempered glass and carbon fiber. One of the strongest points of LG Secret is probably its strong camera, which is 5 Megapixels letting you click photos of maximum resolution of 2592 x 1944 pixels, auto focus, flash, face detection and video recording.

All the other features are great in this phone, such as its 2.4 inch TFT touchscreen display with 262K colors and its QVGA resolution (240 x 320 pixels), an intuitive Touch Media user interface, 3G connectivity for data transfer speeds of up to 3.6 Mbps.

It also has a music and video player with the popular formats supported, a TV out, FM radio with RDS, pre-installed Google applications, full HTML browser, email, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, USB 2.0, document viewer, 100MB of internal memory and microSD card support for up to 4GB.

via: lg

Check out this cool new headphone from Sony. It's probably built specifically for Sony Ericsson walkman phones for an even greater music experience, but I think it can be used with any device that is compatible with it. You can clip the pendant to your shirt and don whatever headphones suit you best. It has a 3.5 mm input jack that allows you to connect it to you favorite portable music device.

As mentioned, the headphone is built for Sony Ericsson phones. I guess that is why the headphone has a feature that automatically mutes your music when a call comes in, and resumes when you end the call - and you don't even have to touch your phone.

clip the pendant to your shirt and don whatever headphones suit you best. A 3.5 mm input jack allows you to swap them to listen to your music your way.Play the music in your phone through the high-quality stereo headphones of the DS205 without any physical connection between the phone and your ears.

Features:

* Bluetooth technology - 2.0
* Ear hook
* Fast port connector
* Auto pairing

Specification:

* Dimension: Size 13 x 65 mm
* Weight: 13g
* Colour: Dark Grey

via: sonyericsson

I don't know about you guys but when I think about my laptop I want it to be better and more efficient when it comes to doing all that work or entertainment. I don't particularly want it to look better so others can admire it. Same thing goes for my desktop. They aren't cars. I wouldn't tune them up. But Dell sure is investing time and resources in their Studio Laptop line as for some people personalization is important. I am just hoping they are working unde the hood as well.

Besides Mike Ming's touch, multiple colors are rumored and more tech upgrades are waiting inside. We'll have HDMI and eSATA in the 1536 version. There's WWAN options from Sprint, AT&T and Verizon. There's hybrid and dual drive options in the 1735 and as for video cars, we can count on ATI 3450, 3650 and NVIDIA 8600M GT.

All we need now is some prices for this Studio laptops!

via Engadget

ASUS Taiwan has announced the release of the latest Essentio CS5110 Mini PC. It belongs to the family of Eee Station series. Loaded with innovations the Essentio Mini PC lets the users enjoy exceptional quality graphics. Interestingly, Asus CS5110 Essentio Mini PC is the world’s smallest Desktop PC.

Look at the image. It appears elegant. This irresistible PC is provided with a discrete graphic card for best reproduction of high definition movies. You must be wondering what all will it include?

Well, I won’t keep you pondering..It is equipped with a Blu-ray drive, wireless remote for home theater, hard drive, 802.11n Wi-Fi, and NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT card.

You can choose from the available black and white options as per your choice. This model will also reach Computex along with ASUS fantabulous collection of electronic products.

Via: Press

What is it with boys and cars? The first time I read about this news, excitement instantly kicked in. Lamborghini, an Italian manufacturer of sports cars, has just revealed another member of its sports car family, the Lamborghini Murcielargo LP640 Super Car. This was done during the 2008 F1 & Super Car Show.

The Murcielargo LP640 is powered by a 6496cc 12-cylinder engine with 640 horsepower, it can accelerate from 0 to 100km/h in 3.4 seconds and reach a top speed of 340km/h. Now that's what we call speed!

The 2008 F1 & Super Car Show is held at Kim Dae-jung Convention Center in Gwangju, Korea from May 9 to May 18 2008.

via: aving

Do you need to be online a lot? Are you a full time blogger? Are you too carrying your laptop anywhere? Are you tired of your old backpack or notebook case?

If you answered yes to one of the questions above you should take a look at this cool, slick, and very slim laptop backpack made by Built. It's made out of lightweight Neoprene, it's waterproof and stain proof so you could wear it at all times. What it won't do is save your laptop's integrity if it suffers any damage. Maybe the next model?

This Built has three compartments: one for your laptop, one for its accessories and a shoulder pocket for anything else. It retails for just $80 so it's quite a bargain. How do you like it?

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Only goes to prove there's nothing the cute kitty can't conquer. The latest in the long list of Hello Kitty-branded products is a car lighter/mobile charger hybrid to light up a cigarette or juice up your cell phone while driving. The lighter is made of ABS lightweight plastic and is compatible with most Japanese cell phones. It can also charge a cell phone for up to 90% within three hours.

Now go get some kitty love for just 1880 Yen ($18) if you are in Japan.

No matter what cell phone we use, no matter what new dektop or ultra-portable notebook gets invented and released, no matter whether a PC is legal in Cuba or not, names like Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple or Google will always try to get involved in those markets.

This year the Yahoo takeover by Microsoft (hostile or soft) has been one of the headlines over the internet. Whether you were online on your new smart phone or on your company's laptop you must have heard about it. All that hassle and all the talk about how, when and where will this deal finally be signed.

But what a shocker. Microsoft will no longer pursue their Yahoo acquisition. So they say at least for now. How will that impact the mobile world? We'll just have to wait and see! As for now the only winner of this completed deal has one name: Google!

I have been using a computer for more than15 years already. Imagine if I was born in Cuba... Who knows if I would have been able to even dream about purchasing a personal computer. PCs have been banned by the Cuban government for years now. The only available ones were on the black market, if you had the money for it. I don't even want to imagine what you would have had to do to get internet... Dial-up of course!

But fellow Cubans, I heard you were given excellent news. Every Cuban that affords it can legally buy a personal computer: Celeron processors, 512MB of RAM, Windows XP, and a CRT display. The price? $780. Huge, I know, given the average salary is somewhere around $20.

These computers are only available at one store for now. As for Internet access, that hasn't been approved yet for the general public. Only state journalists or trusted officials, whatever that is, will go online. We'll let you know what the future brings. Did any Cuban read these lines? Let us know!