Thursday, January 25, 2007

Samsung Ultra Edition 10.9: An Ultra-Slim Slider

hink the Samsung D900 is plenty slim with its 12.9mm thickness? Samsung is shaving another 2mm off it and turns it to Samsung Ultra Edition 10.9.

The sexy slim slider will sport the following features:

  • 3.2-megapixel camera
  • MP3/video player
  • 80MB of internal memory
  • microSD card support
  • TV-out port
  • Digital power amplifier
  • Stereo Bluetooth

Spy Tie with High Quality Hidden Camera



As its name suggests, the Spy Tie is a tie that comes with a hidden spy camera. Mind you, its video quality is better than you probably expected: 768 x 492 for up to 65 minutes (1GB SD) or 280 minutes (4GB SD).

The tie set comes with a small cigarette box-sized recorder with a 2.4-inch LCD screen for viewing purposes. You can have it begin recording video by manually turning it on, or automatically at a scheduled time or via its motion sensor. It’s a pity that its battery life is merely 60 minutes, not enough for filling anything larger than a 1GB card in one charge.

Samsung K3, Putting Up a fight with iPod Nano

When it comes to slim candybar MP3 music players, I can’t help but compare them with the iPod nano. Like Steve Jobs said yesterday in his keynote, iPod has a 63% market share in the music player market, and the iPod nano has been their best-selling player so far.

  • Thickness: 0.27-inch vs. 0.26-inch
  • Display: 1.8-inch color OLED touchscreen vs. 1.5-inch LCD with blue-white backlight
  • FM-tuner: Yes vs. No
  • Music Formats: MP3, WMA, and PlaysForSure vs. AAC, MP3, Audible, Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV
  • Photo Formats: JPEG vs. JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIFF, PSD (Mac only), and PNG
  • Storage Capacity: 2GB, 4GB, and 8GB vs. Same
  • Colors: Black vs. Green, Silver, Black, Pink, and Blue

As you can now see, they are pretty different MP3 players that will appeal to different crowds. If you want the slimmest MP3 player with FM-tuner support, look no further than the Samsung K3.

Nokia N76: NSeries Gone Slim



Nokia decides to give its fat and bulky Nseries cellphone a diet, and the result is the new Nokia N76. The clamshell phone is not the thinnest around, with a thickness of 13.7mm.

Features:

  • Take photos and control music even when the flip is closed
  • 2.4-inch (320×240 resolution) display
  • 2-megapixel camera that can record videos at 320×240, 15fps
  • Works with standard 3.5mm headphones
  • Plays WMDRM protected music
  • Up to 26 megabytes internal user memory
  • microSD memory card support (hot swappable)
  • Runs on Symbian S60 3rd Edition OS
  • Talk time: up to 120 minutes (WCDMA) / up to 165 minutes (GSM)
  • Standby: up to 8.5 days (WCDMA) / up to 8.5 days (GSM)
  • Video call time: up to 75 minutes
  • Music playback time: up to 8 hours
  • Colors: Black and Red

Introducing iPhone


iPhone combines three products — a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, maps, and searching — into one small and lightweight handheld device. iPhone also introduces an entirely new user interface based on a large multi-touch display and pioneering new software, letting you control everything with just your fingers. So it ushers in an era of software power and sophistication never before seen in a mobile device, completely redefining what you can do on a mobile phone.

Widescreen iPod

iPhone is a widescreen iPod with touch controls that lets you enjoy all your content — including music, audiobooks, videos, TV shows, and movies — on a beautiful 3.5-inch widescreen display. It also lets you sync your content from the iTunes library on your PC or Mac. And then you can access it all with just the touch of a finger.

Revolutionary Phone

iPhone is a revolutionary new mobile phone that allows you to make a call by simply pointing your finger at a name or number in your address book, a favorites list, or a call log. It also automatically syncs all your contacts from a PC, Mac, or Internet service. And it lets you select and listen to voicemail messages in whatever order you want — just like email.

Breakthrough Internet Device

iPhone features a rich HTML email client and Safari — the most advanced web browser ever on a portable device — which automatically syncs bookmarks from your PC or Mac. Safari also includes built-in Google and Yahoo! search. iPhone is fully multi-tasking, so you can read a web page while downloading your email in the background over Wi-Fi or EDGE.

High Technology

Multi-touch

iPhone features the most revolutionary user interface since the mouse. It’s an entirely new interface based on a large multi-touch display and innovative new software that lets you control everything using only your fingers. So you can glide through albums with Cover Flow, flip through photos and email them with a touch, or zoom in and out on a section of a web page — all by simply using iPhone’s multi-touch display.

Intelligent Keyboard

iPhone’s full QWERTY soft keyboard lets you easily send and receive SMS messages in multiple sessions. And the keyboard is predictive, so it prevents and corrects mistakes, making it easier and more efficient to use than the small plastic keyboards on many smartphones.



Ericsson Unveils the First Multi-Functional Communicator Platform

Details: Mobile telecommunications giant Ericsson unveiled the world's first true multi-functional communicator platform at this year's CeBIT 2000 Show in Hannover, Germany. Coined as a first-generation integrated mobile information device, it combines Internet browsing, messaging, imaging, mobile telephony, personal information management, and location-based applications and services.

The Communicator is configured to handle the latest mobile communications protocols, HSCSD (High Speed Circuit Switched Data) and GPRS (General Packet Radio Services), along with triple-band GSM (900/1800/1900 MHz) - which makes the device worldwide capable. Internet access is via either a WAP or HTML browser.

Equipped with both built-in Bluetooth™ and GPS chips, the device employs Bluetooth™ technology to connect wirelessly to a myriad of similarly configured appliances (like other phones, your PC, or the store you are standing in?!), while the GPS interface allows the unit to provide and receive information based upon geo-coordinates - to comply with regulations so that an emergency crew can find you.

An intuitive color touch screen allows for easy navigation, pen-input and handwriting recognition.