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April 2006

Sony Ericsson W300i Clamshell Walkman Phone

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April

W300 Quad Band EDGE clamshell WALKMAN® phone brings music on the move to the mass market

Sony Ericsson today expanded its growing line-up of Walkman® phones with the W300, a quad band EDGE clamshell which aims to bring the mobile phone Walkman® experience to an even greater market. With the same great Walkman® music quality experience as high-end models, a compact and eye catching design plus integrated camera, the W300 allows new users to enjoy the Sony Ericsson mobile music experience.

With today’s announcement of the W300 Sony Ericsson has now launched a total of seven Walkman® phones, targeted at different customer needs and life-style choices. From high-end UMTS models aimed at users who want to enjoy over-the-air downloads, high-speed email and internet connectivity to models targeting more casual music listeners such as the W600 and W800, Sony Ericsson aims to create a Walkman® mobile phone for everyone, everywhere.

The W300 Walkman® phone, which supports both MP3 and AAC music files, offers a great sound experience with up to 30 hours of music listening. The user experience is enhanced by direct music keys, shuffle function, as well as an in-built FM radio with RDS and flight mode. Disc2 phone software supplied with the phone, allows users to easily transfer their favourite CDs to their mobile phone and enjoy them anywhere, anytime without missing a call.

Featuring expressive colours and a stylish compact design, the W300 is shipped with removable 256MB Memory Stick Micro™ (M2™) expandable to 1GB, as well as a stereo headset, USB cable and music management software.

In addition to the great music features, the W300 offers an easy way to take and view great snap-shot pictures or record videos using the integrated camera with 4x digital zoom. The phone’s 262K TFT colour screen makes it perfect for taking fun snap-shot images and enjoying them on the screen, while full MMS support enables these images to be shared with friends and family.

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TAG Heuer MONACO Sixty Nine, All the watch you will ever need

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April

Ever wonder how you wish you could own a watch that you could wear to work and play? Well we got good news for you today! Tag Heuer Monaco Sixty Nine is just the watch you are looking for!

The launch of the MONACO Sixty Nine provides an opportunity to pay tribute to the foundations of the TAG Heuer legend: its sense of technical performance and its pioneering spirit. Since its creation in 1860, TAG Heuer has demonstrated its daring and avant-garde approach by tailoring its products to the aspirations of the contemporary world. In 1916, the world was stunned by the launch of the Micrograph, precise to the nearest 1/100th of a second. A half-century later, the Microtimer set a 1/1000th of a second challenge, and three years later, the Chronomatic, the first ever automatic movement with microrotor, represented a huge technological leap for the entire watch industry. TAG Heuer performances have earned it the role it serves since 1992 as official timekeeper for the Formula 1 World championships. However, one cannot reduce the TAG Heuer brand to its technological performances alone. Its admirable reputation is also built on its constant concern with perfect design. TAG Heuer has successfully asserted an audacious and singular aesthetic appeal that places the brand firmly among the great luxury houses. Revealing this avant-garde spirit in 2002, the Micrograph Formula 1 earned the highest distinction among its peers by winning the 2002 Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève, in the design category, the first time this accolade was awarded to a digital watch!

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NEC TAG - Wearable Cellphone for Fashion Geeks

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April

A visit to the NEC designs website will bring you thousands of suprises, you will be greeted with the below article about Resonantware and how the future designs will influence the way you communicate in the near future.

Resonantware
Near-Future Ubiquitous Networking Devices Visualized by Designers.

designers have created design possibilities with near future paradigms in mind: the world Thanks to the development of ubiquitous technology, hardware is becoming smaller, thinner, and less visible than ever before. On the other hand, the volume of information we handle is expanding at an accelerated rate. In the near future, IT devices will go beyond the conventional framework of efficiency and convenience. NEC where humans and machines resonate with one another. We propose devices that judge situations to meet user’s needs, and interfaces that let users access unlimited information as naturally as breathing.
(These are concept models and not planned to be commercialized at this point.)

And when you scroll down tad abit you will see a device called TAG, what is TAG ?

Tag:
Soft-shell mobile phone.
“tag” is a new, malleable, casual communicator. It is not only soft but also flexible, for example, it can be hung from a belt or wrapped around the user’s arm. Shape-memorizing material and multiple pressure sensors allow the phone to change its shape according to the mode. The user can also alternate the mode by changing the shape.


Nokia 770 Internet Mini Tablet PC

22

April

Neat! but a tablet that only last for 3 hours? i might as well settle for a notebook computer ? Nevertheless its still nice to see Nokia is moving into the Mobile PC sector.

[Updated Nov. 7, 2005] — Nokia demonstrated a compact, handheld tablet powered by Linux at LinuxWorld in New York. The Nokia 770 Internet Tablet is intended to offer convenient Internet browsing and email through built-in WiFi, or via a Bluetooth connection to a compatible mobile phone. The 770 is Nokia’s first consumer product based on Linux.

The 770 Internet Tablet is a small (5.5 x 3.1 x 0.7 in.) tablet with a wide, 4.3-inch, 800 x 480 pixel touch-screen and integrated WiFi and Bluetooth wireless. Bundled software includes: web browser, email client, Internet radio, news reader, media players, image viewer, file manager, search, calculator, world clock, PDF-viewer, notes, sketch, games.

The Nokia 770 is not the first product from Nokia based on embedded Linux — the company has previously marketed Linux-based network infrastructure devices to carriers. Although best known for the proprietary Symbian OS that powers its mobile phones (and which it owns 49 percent of), Nokia is a staunch supporter of open source, sponsoring projects such as Movial’s ingenius scratchbox project, and, according to rumors, the MiniMo (mini Mozilla) project. Still, the 770 may be the first Linux-powered consumer product from the number one handset vendor — and the first in a whole line of Linux-powered Internet Tablets from Nokia.

The Nokia 770 is based on a 220-MHz, ARM9-based Texas Instruments (TI) OMAP 1710, an SoC (system-on-chip) that combines an ARM926TEJ processor core with a TI DSP. TI also offers a chipset for mobile phones based on the OMAP 1710, suggesting that a future Internet Tablet from Nokia could gain direct GSM/GPRS, EDGE, or UMTS support (for example, to enable direct music or movie downloads).

The Tablet lacks a hard drive, but has 64MB of free Flash space for user files, expandable through an MMC slot. Battery life is expected to be about three hours. The device weighs 8.1 ounces.

The Nokia 770 Internet Tablet runs an operating system called Nokia Internet Tablet 2005, which Nokia says is based on Linux and other open source software. The open source distribution includes an on-screen keyboard, Internet Radio, RSS news reader, image viewer, and media players.

Linux software and SDK

The company offers a complete source distribution and software development kit for the distribution, available as Debian source and binary packages, and as a 125MB download. The device runs a 2.6 Linux kernel, and has a GNOME-based GUI.

Nokia has launched a community website to support open source software developers and “innovation houses” working with the Nokia 770, or interested in collaborating with Nokia on future devices and OS releases in the Internet Tablet category. The Maemo.org site offers screenshots, a software roadmap, an FAQ, and more.

Nokia’s VP of convergence products, Janne Jormalainen, said, “With the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet consumers can access broadband Internet services away from their desktop. Linux and the Open Source development platform provide us with fast and efficient solutions to build products for this new Nokia product category. This is the first step in creating an Open Source product for broadband and Internet services. We will be launching regular updates of the software. The next software release, planned for the first half of next year, will support more presence-based functionalities, such as VoIP and Instant Messaging.”

Summary of specifications
Nokia lists the following additional specifications for the 770 Internet Tablet:

* Display — 800×480 pixel (WVGA) 4.3-inch touchscreen with up to 65,536 colors
* Memory:
o RAM — 64MB DDR RAM
o 128MB Flash with > 64MB for user
o Memory card — 64MB RS-MMC (Reduced Size MultiMediaCard)
* Wireless communications:
o WLAN — 802.11b/g
o Bluetooth 1.2
+ For Internet connection and file transfer via phone
+ Profiles supported — dial-up networking, file transfer, generic access, SIM access, and serial port profiles
* Other connections:
o USB device mode for PC connectivity
o RS-MMC
o 3.5 mm stereo audio out
o Power connector (2mm)
* Software:
o Operating system — Internet Tablet 2005 software edition
o Applications (in 2005 software edition) — Web Browser, Flash player version 6, Email client, Internet radio, news reader, media players, image viewer, PDF viewer, file manager, search, calculator, world clock, notes, sketch, games
o Supported file formats:
+ Audio — MP3, Real Audio, MPEG4, AAC, WAV, AMR, MP2
+ Image — JPEG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, PNG, Animated GIF format, SVG-tiny, ICO
+ Video — MPEG1, MPEG4, Real Video, H.263, AVI, 3GP
o Language Support:
+ User Interface — British English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, American English, Canadian French, Mexican Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese
+ User’s Guide: Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, English, French, Dutch, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Greek, Czech, Hungarian, Russian, Canadian French, Brazilian Portuguese, Mexican Spanish
* Physical specs:
o Size — 5.5 x 3.1 x 0.7 inches (141 x 79 x 19 mm)
o Weight — 230 g
o Color — Black and matte silver
o Operating temperature — -10 to +55 degrees C
o Battery –
+ Type — BP-5L
+ Capacity — 1500 mAh
+ Browsing time — 3 hours
+ Standby time — 7 days
* Sales package contents:
o Nokia 770 Internet Tablet
o 2 stylus pens
o Pouch
o Battery (BP-5L)
o Travel charger (AC-4)
o 64 MB RS-MMC memory card
o Connectivity cable DKE-2 (USB)
o Desk stand DT-7
o User guide
o Quick start guide
Options:
o Mobile charger (DC-4)
o Charger adapter (CA-44)
o RS-MMCs

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Samsung SGH-i310 8GB HDD Smartphone

10

April

What has 8gb storage on top of windows Mobile 5, stereo speakers, digital amplifier, bluetooth and only weights 120 grams?? A Samsung SGH-i310 Of course!

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, a leading provider of mobile phones and telecom systems, is reinforcing its technology leadership by unveiling the world’s first 8GB Hard Disk embedded smartphone (model: SGH-i310).

Samsung breaks the storage limit in mobile phones by introducing the world’s first mobile phone equipped with a 8GB hard disk drive (model: SGH-i310). With the large storage of 8GB, SGH-i310 will change the way people manage and use the mobile phone.

Samsung is the first to adopt a hard disk drive into mobile phones and has launched three models equipped with a hard disk drive; the world’s first 1.5GB HDD embedded phone (model: SPH-V5400), the world’s first 3GB HDD embedded phone (model: SCH-V7900) and the world’s first 3GB HDD Music smartphone (model: SGH-i300).

The i310 works as a perfect platform for users by combining a phone, a digital camera, and a MP3 player with its immense storage capacity. It enables users to carry around 2,000 songs (4MB/song) wherever they go.

The i310 comes with the latest version of Windows Mobile 5.0 for Smartphone which allows users to view files and easily carry their music library with them. This Windows Mobile 5.0 enables users to sync the playlists, songs, and videos from their personal PCs so that the experience with the i310 is identical to the users’ personal computer. It also offers USB 2.0 and Plug & Play feature which allows the phone to be utilized as a removable hard disk. Businessmen and students can easily store and transfer files to/from their computers in any format conveniently.

The i310 has all the latest features including a 2 megapixel camera with flash, microSD slot, document viewer and TV output. Users can record video with the 2 megapixel camera in high quality resolution.

It also supports enhanced music function with Bluetooth® stereo (A2DP), digital power amp and dual speakers. Users can download music conveniently from online music store from their personal computer or directly via air.

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