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Gadget Model Ronaldo Wants His Money From Bankrupt BenQ Mobile
2007-03-23 09:20:00
Gadget Model Ronaldo Wants His Money From Bankrupt BenQ Mobile Real Madrid soccer star Ronaldo was doing some gadget modeling for BenQ Mobile who sponsored the Real Madrid team. Apparently he did not get paid yet and BenQ mobile is bankrupt. Real Madrid has still to play with BenQ Mobile shirts until July. BenQ Mobile owes about 1.2 billon Euros (~$1.6 billon) to about 4,000 entities (mostly former employees). Ronaldo is one of creditors. His lawyer hopes to get 20% of the money owed from Ronaldo?s mobile phone endorsement contract. I think, Ronaldo will survive without the BenQ mobile money, others are not so lucky. The pressure on BenQ mounts that they will have to cover for the losses of their mobile unit.
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Pink Zune Confirmed for May Release
2007-03-23 09:10:00
Pink Zune Confirmed for May Release Zune starts with a 30GB digital media player and adds a twist. You can wirelessly share selected full-length sample tracks, playlists, pictures or your home-grown tracks directly from Zune to Zune. You can listen to the full-length songs that you receive up to three times in three days, flag the ones you like and easily buy them the next time you sync up. You can discover new music in the Zune Marketplace, and show off your favorite pictures and videos on the big, bright screen. Zune has all that and a built in FM tuner, too. Let your inner DJ run wild.
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Leica Launch Leica C-LUX 2
2007-03-23 09:03:00
Leica Launch Leica C-LUX 2Leica has announced the launch of its latest compact digital camera at PMA in Las Vegas.If you value style but not weight when you?re out looking for great images, you?ll love the ultra compact LEICA C-LUX 2 ! Sporting a classic black or silver metal body and measuring just 3 1/2 x 2 in, it fits into even the smallest pocket. The elegant exterior design is unmistakably Leica and is matched by an immaculate standard of optics and digital technology inside.
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BenQ P51 PDA Phone
2007-03-20 14:52:00
BenQ P51 PDA Phone BenQ has recently brought out a feature-packed P51 PDA phone with WLAN technology and an integrated GPS receiver. The cell phone is much awaited successor to the P50. This cell phone with lots of features operates on Windows Mobile? 5.0 operating system and comes equipped with a 1.3-megapixel camera, a bright 2.83-inch touch screen display and an ergonomic QWERTY keyboard. Thanks to WLAN support, the users can now chat on MSN and talk via VoIP service providers like the most famous Skype? whenever within range of a hotspot. GPS receiver solves the problem of navigation as through a real-time on-screen map it displays the current location and directs the best route to any destination. You will reach your destination on / before time and will be able to escape the embarrassment of getting late. The P51 is presently available in Singapore and Turkey.
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Casio EX-Z65 Digital Camera
2007-03-20 14:50:00
Casio EX-Z65 Digi tal Camera Casio has announced that it will introduce its new 6.2-megapixel Exilim EX-Z65 with a 2.6-inch wide LCD display, easy shooting mode, 3x optical zoom, and antishake DSP technology to scrap the awful camera-shake and fuzzy photos. This Camera is a successor to the Z60 and has some advance functions to allure people with flair to click snapshots. Exilim EX-Z65 is housed in a slim aluminum casing. Easy Mode is provided in the camera to make photo-shooting easier for the amateur photographers. The EX-Z65 is intended for release in Europe later this month at about $260. We can expect a little downfall in price if it becomes available in the U.S. We are excited about the launch of the EX Z65 Zoom, the new high-quality, high-performance edition to Exilim line,? said Bill Heuer, Vice President of Casio?s Digital Imaging Division. ?Families and other casual camera users enthusiastically welcomed this camera?s predecessor and we are confident that they will do the ...
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CeBIT 2007: Samsung F300 Video Preview
2007-03-20 14:47:00
CeBIT 2007: Samsung F300 Video Preview ?Cellularemagazine.it? gives a hands-on preview of the Samsung F300, straight from CeBIT 2007. Just a quick refresher, this phone boasts a 176 x 220 TFT-LCD display, 2.0-megapixel camera, 100MB internal memory, microSD card slot, Bluetooth 2.0 w/A2DP, USB 2.0, and a music player. Continue reading for the clip after the jump...
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2 New Colors for The Samsung SCH-B500
2007-03-20 14:38:00
2 New Color s for The Samsung SCH-B500 Samsung just presented 2 new colors for their SCH-B500, SPH-B5000 and B5050 (different references depending on the operator), including ?Magic Gold? and ?Magic Brown?. Of course, these phones have retained their original features: 13.5mm slide with a 2Mpix camera, Bluetooth, DMB, electronic dictionary, etc. According to Samsung, the metallic look is popular among users. Already available at SK telecom, LG Telecom and KTF for about ?485, and maybe soon here? wait and see?
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Philips Intros iPod-Ready LCD-TV Kitchen System
2007-03-20 14:36:00
Philips Intros iPod -Read y LCD-TV Kitchen System Philips has introduced a new iPod-compatible, under-cabinet multimedia player. The Philips DCD778 Docking Entertainment System sports an 8.5-inch widescreen LCD display and can play audio and video from an iPod, DVD, (S)VCD, MP3-CD, CD(RW) and Picture CD. The system also offers a built-in ATSC/NTSC TV tuner, digital AM/FM tuner, two 2-inch speakers, cooking timer and clock, and wireless remote. The Philips DCD778?which the company says is compatible with fourth- and fifth-generation iPods, the iPod mini, and iPod nano?ships next week for approximately $400. Got iPod? No?! Hurry up! Go and get it from Amazon.com! New iPods and amazing iPod accessories!
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Samsung Q1 Ultra Introductory Video
2007-03-20 14:33:00
Samsung Q1 Ultra Intro ductory Video The Samsung Q1 Ultra UMPC is the next ultra-mobile pc from Samsung with the HSDPA and WiBro connection. With the development of mobile technology, there are more gadgets will eventually gets the high speed connection which is no longer limited to mobile phones only. Here is a nice video shot from CeBiT 2007.
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Nokia Sues Shops, But Not The N73 Clone Manufacturer (Nokir)
2007-03-20 14:25:00
Nokia Sues Shop s, But Not The N 73 Clone Manufacturer (Nokir) Pictured above is the infamous N73-clone, called Nokir E828, produced by a mainland Chinese company (NOKIR) next to the real Nokia N73 (on the right), it has been selling well enough to catch Nokia?s attention.
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Matchbox Concept Cellphone is Creator?s Revenge Against Boring Phone Design
2007-03-20 14:21:00
Matchbox Concept Cell phone is Creator ?s Revenge Against Boring Phone Desi gn The designer of this matchbox concept cellphone hates ?hi-tech, hi-solution, colorful, sleek, pretty?? cellphones, but admits that he can?t just not use a cellphone. So, rather than complain until he?s blue in the face, he threw together this odd looking cellphone. Its name derives from the way it opens: rather than flip open like so many others, it slides open to reveal its keypad. Now, there?s a about a zero percent chance of this ever seeing the light of day, but it certainly pleases me to see folks constantly try to one-up the big cellphone manufacturers? staid designs.

Mobile Phone Wars: Qualcomm/Nokia
2007-03-19 16:10:00
Mobile Phone Wars : Qualcomm/Nokia Nokia has filed suit in Germany and the Netherlands seeking a declaration that the patent rights concerning chipsets placed on the EU market under Qualcomm?s licence are exhausted. The chipsets are said to have been provided by Qualcomm to Texas Instruments. The IPKat awaits the outcome with interest. Exhaustion of trade marks has attracted a lot of attention recently. It will be good to see the courts get their teeth into patent exhaustion too.
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Toshiba T911, a Smartphone for Softbank
2007-03-19 16:02:00
Toshiba T911, a Smart phone for Softbank 3? screen (480x800, 260K colors), 17.9mm thick and 145g. These are the measurements of the Toshiba T911 smartphone. It has a 3G connection, a 3.2Mpix camera, Bluetooth and 1GB of internal memory. There is also a Yahoo! dedicated key. This smartphone has 140 minutes of battery life in air time and 330 hours in standby. Visiophony is available as well as the complete range of Software bank Mobile services. You just need to chose between metallic gray, white, black or red, and this phone is your. Only available in Japan from March 17 on.
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CeBIT 2007: Mustek Shows OFF Their PMP638
2007-03-19 15:59:00
CeBIT 2007: Must ek Show s OFF Their PMP638 CeBIT 2007 has arrived and it brings a couple new DAP's with it. This one comes from Mustek and is called the PMP638. Upon first glance I thought it was just a rebradnded Meizu M6 but this player builds on the formers design and adds a 2MP camera to it. We don't have a full list of features but it will have 1GB of memory, video playback with AV-Out, and an SD expansion slot. It's slated for an April release and will cost 200 Euros.

M-Bird MP3 Player - The Tiny Tiny BoomBox
2007-03-19 15:57:00
M-Bird MP3 Play er - The Tiny Tiny BoomBox The M-Bird MP3 Player must be vying for the smallest media player with stereo speakers on-board. Of course calling it a ??boombox? may be exaggerating a little, even if the specs ? inbuilt FM tuner, recording from radio etc ? are pretty decent. $189.00 and available in a few colours. Along with MP3, unprotected WMA, and OGG audio files, it?ll play AVI, MPEG, WMV, and ASF video files (after converting with the included software), JPEG images, and TXT files (with auto scrolling). Includes an FM stereo tuner as well with 20 presets. Can record MP3 audio from the FM radio, the built-in mic or the line in/external mic jack. Two voice-activated settings can automatically pause during silences, or break up the recording into multiple files. Also includes some interesting ?insert recorded phrase during playback? features for use with learn-a-language audio files.
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MobiBLU Unveils A3 and A5
2007-03-19 15:53:00
MobiBLU Unveils A3 and A5Two new nearly identical mobiBLU players were announced at CeBIT in Germany this week. As you can see, the A3 and A5 sport a rather eye-catching (albeit familiar) blue LED surrounding their controls. Sadly, though, that's about it. Seriously, aside from the bright lights, the players offer nothing we haven't seen a hundred times before. Equipped with a 1.5" (A3) or 1.8" (A5) 65K-color LCD, the flash DAPs have microSD card slots (no info on internal storage), FM radio and recorder, built-in microphone, photo viewer, and support for MP3, WMA, and MTV files. You've read this a hundred times before, too, but it fits nicely with an unoriginal player so here goes: pricing and availability are currently unknown.
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Site List for iPod Users
2007-03-18 19:24:00
Site List for iPod User sWe have made the list of sites which can help all iPod owners, and that who is going to get it. I think, this site list will help to find all for iPod and about iPod. You know a good site about ipod? Add it!
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Philips 598 Music Phone
2007-03-18 17:27:00
Philips 598 Music Phone Philips announced their latest music phone Philips 598 Targetting at female users, the Philips 598 is a simple music phone with extra simple applications for ladies includes: women?s diary and calendar, buying list, discounts manager, price table, personal card info, body weight index and basal metabolic rate measurement. Philips 598 Specification: * Dimensions: 83 x 43 x 20 mm * Weight: 82 g * Network: GSM Triband 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz * Display: 1.8", TFT, 262K colors (176 x 220) * External display: OLED, monochrome (blue light), 64x64 pixels * Camera: 1.3-megapixel CMOS * MP3 player * 64-tones polyhony * Memory: 128 MB (110 MB user available), microSD (up to 1 GB) storage cards * Connectivity: WAP browser, IrDA, USB, Bluetooth * Messages: SMS, MMS * Built-in JAVA games
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Best "iPhone Killer". Who?
2007-03-17 10:08:00
Best "iPhone Kill er ". Who?So, there are many iPhone competitors at the market of mobile phones. Thus, we wish to ask the Internet users ? ?What " iPhone Killer " in your opinion, can make a real competition at the market of mobile phones?? Express your opinion!
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LG Prada phone Unboxing Video
2007-03-16 18:21:00
LG Prada phone Unboxing Video Label-whores, mobile pros and finger-thumpers rejoice - the PRADA phone (otherwise masquerading as the KE850) is available in Europe, followed by Asia soon.
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Google Confirms the ?Movable Phone'
2007-03-16 11:09:00
Google Confirms the ?Movable Phone 'Isabel Aguilera, Google's head in Spain and Portugal has confirmed that the search engine giant is working on a mobile phone. "Some of the time the engineers are dedicated to developing a mobile phone," Aguilera said on the Noticias.com, a Spanish website. Google's Unites States division declined to comment on the movable phone issue. But the rumor is spreading like wildfire. Earlier this month, Simeon Simeonov of Polaris Venture Partners wrote in his weblog that an inside source told him the Google Phone will be a BlackBerry-like device running C++ at the core with an operating system bootstrap and optimized Java and that it would offer voice over Internet Protocol.
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Griffin Premiers TuneFlex AUX
2007-03-16 11:03:00
Griffin Premiers Tune Flex AUX iPod?-car integration has progressed surprisingly slowly considering the dominant success of Apple's product in the mp3 player market. For years the iPod carrying populace has had few options other than accepting the diminished audio quality that results from the FM-tuner solution, and rather typically American auto manufacturers have been incredibly late in acknowledging the demands of the market, and have only recently begun offering means of getting an iPod hardwired into a car's stereo. In most cases this hardwired option is nothing more than a standard mini-jack input in the car's head unit. Users who connect in this way are treated to much higher quality sound and no interference, but are suddenly left without a means of keeping an iPod positioned in easy reach and fully powered.
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Qrio introduced G4, G7 PMP's
2007-03-16 10:44:00
Qrio introduced G4, G7 PMP's Qrio introduced its 2.5-inch slim size PMP ?G7? supporting enhanced gaming function. You could enjoy 2D and 3D games and use other features such as mp3 player, e-book, movie, FM radio, photo viewer, and voice recorder as well. The company offers pearl white/dark black color model with 2G/4G flash memory. Qrio mini PMP ?G4? too. The G4 comes with in smaller aluminum body, featuring 2.4-inch LCD, 4GB memory and mirror-type design at 62g. A company official said that the G4 adopted essential functions and sleek design with good price. Suggested price is 110,000(KRW).
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Coby MP-C896 a Shuffle Alternative
2007-03-16 10:31:00
Coby MP-C896 a Shuffle Alter native The barebones MP3 player market is currently dominated by iPod's diminutive Shuffle, but there are some notable competitors waiting in the background at the moment. Coby's MP-C896 is one of them, and it looks like another competitor in terms of design, the Sansa Xpress. Features include a crisp LCD display, USB connectivity, an integrated FM tuner and recorder, a built-in microphone, and support for WMA files. The Cony MP-C896 comes with up to 2GB of internal memory, making it the perfect casual MP3 player to tote around when exercising, assuming the price is right.
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Polk Audio MiDock10
2007-03-16 10:20:00
Polk Audi o MiDock 10 Polk Audio , the folks who brought this Uncrater his first set of obscenely loud car stereo subwoofers, is ready to take on the iPod accessory market. The Polk MiDock10 ($180) uses two 3.25-inch full-range drivers with a ported enclosure to produce big sound, and includes an auxiliary port for other inputs, a headphone jack, and a connector to keep your 'Pod connected to your computer while it's in the MiDock10. It also charges the iPod while playing, and will run off wall power or eight C-cell batteries. Built-in handles and a stylish black finish add to what is already an attractive system for the price.
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Cool New Slacker Portable Music Player and Service
2007-03-15 16:53:00
Cool New Slacker Portable Music Play er and Service Startup Slacker, Inc. enters the crowded music player and music service market with an interesting new approach: Free Music. You buy the Slacker digital audio player starting from $149 for 2GB up to $349 for 120GB and select and customize music from a list of various stations. Your music selection is synched via Wi-Fi or USB onto the Slacker player. The listening experience on Slacker is more like radio. You can only skip 6 songs per hour and have to listen to commercials. For $7.50 per month you get commercial-free listening and unlimited track-skipping. Slacker is also planning to introduce a satellite-radio car kit in the second half of 2007 to sync new music on the go.
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E-TEN Glofiish X800 premieres at CeBIT 2007
2007-03-15 16:42:00
E-TEN Glofiish X800 premieres at CeBIT 2007E-TEN Information Systems is moving its own-brand Pocket PC Phone line in to the next generation, with its latest product the Glofiish X800 (previously known as X600). With support for 3.5G connectivity - HSDPA/WCDMA - the Glofiish X800 offers access to new mobile services, while the new Windows Mobile 6 platform and large VGA display deliver improved ways to work with documents, messages and multimedia while on the move. At CeBIT 2007, E-TEN has released details of the company's next Pocket PC Phone which is to be launched in the second quarter 2007. The upcoming Glofiish X800 will deliver three significant innovations that make it the first of a next-generation of Glofiish devices.
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NTT DoCoMo Unveils Secure 3G FOMA F903iBSC Handset for Business Use
2007-03-15 16:38:00
NTT DoCoMo Unveils Secure 3G FOMA F903iBSC Hand s et for Business Use NTT DoCoMo, Inc. and its eight regional subsidiaries announced today that this month they will begin marketing the 3G FOMA™ F903iBSC business-use handset to enable companies to address security issues such as information leaks and non-work-related use of corporate phones. To avoid information leakage, the handset's camera, external memory, USB and infrared ports, and the Osaifu-Keitai™ e-wallet service are not available. In addition, the phonebook is limited to 101 entries. Functions such as phonebook, e-mail, scheduler, data box, call records and screen memos can be reset remotely by DoCoMo at the request of the customer if a handset is lost. This service requires an optional subscription, and will be made available from April.
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Sony Ericsson W660 Walkman Phone
2007-03-15 16:36:00
Sony Ericsson W660 Walkman Phone Sony Ericsson announces the W660 - a Walkman phone which places an emphasis on style and feel. With a tactile finish that just begs to be touched, it's a classic-design 3G phone available in two distinctive colours, Record Black and Rose Red. Also introduced is a compact new music accessory, the Snap-on Speakers MPS-75, which let you play the tracks stored on your Walkman phone out loud. "The Sony Ericsson W660 has a finish that stands out among its peers," explains Steve Walker, Head of Product Marketing at Sony Ericsson. "Although the Sony- Ericsson W660 places the emphasis firmly on design, it is also a full member of our Walkman phone family, able to store several hundred full-length songs.
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NAND Video iPod Could Shake Up Memory Market
2007-03-15 16:30:00
NAND Video iPod Could Shake Up Memory Market A UBS analyst said today that indications point to Apple using a different type of memory in its next video iPod, a switch that would significantly affect suppliers Sandisk and Marvell. UBS analyst Alex Guana said Apple could be working on 16GB and 32GB models of their video iPod that use NAND flash memory, as opposed to hard disk drives, or HDDs. Guana said Sandisk would benefit from the switch and upgraded the company from a "neutral" rating to a "buy." He explained in a client note that a NAND-based video iPod would help increase demand for the memory and drive up its value. Sandisk has been hurt recently by gluts in NAND inventory that sapped prices.
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