Archive for April, 2007
Sony’s new 1, 2 and 4GB Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo
Sony has announced a new line of high speed memory sticks, the Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo, in capacities from 1 to 4GB. The memory cards have a 30Mbps transfer rate and connect trough a 8bit parallel interface, while the old ones were using 4bit interface. Also, Sony will release ExpressCard adapters that will make the [...]
26Apr2007 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
Panasonic Upgrades Ultraportables
Panasonic is upgrading it’s ultraportable laptops, now featuring 1.06Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 64-bit processors. The Panasonic W5a has a 12″ display, 80GB HDD and 1GB of RAM, with a DVD writer, being priced at $2,109 and the T5a lacks an optical drive, having a battery lifetime of 13 hours, while the W5a only lives [...]
26Apr2007 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
Olympus Released X-775 and X-785 Point-and-shoot
Two point-and-shoot digital cameras were released by Olympus. The X-775 and X-785 are mid-end cameras, with 3x optical zoom, xD memory card slot, a 2.4″ LCD display and 7.1 megapixels. The Olympus X-785 also features an ISO up to 640, an image stabilizer and a super macro mode, being also known as Olympus FE-220 in [...]
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Sony Introduced 3 HDR Line Cameras, The SR5, SR7 and CX7
Sony has introduced three new high definition camcorders, the HDR-SR5, HDR-SR7 and HDR-CX7. The Sony CX7 seems to be the world’s lightest and smallest high definition AVCHD camcorder, weighting 15 ounces, including the battery. It records directly on the Memory Stick Pro Duo memory card.
The SR7 has a 60GB HDD, that can hold up to [...]
25Apr2007 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
Iriver B20 DMV Television
iRiver has recently announced a new mini DMB television, the B20 and it sports a 4GB flash memory, expandable via the miniSD memory card slot, a 2.4″ 320×240 LCD display, 260k colors. It can also record voice or the DMB TV and alogn with the FM tuner, it can play MPEG-4, OGG, MP3, WMA, WMV9 [...]
23Apr2007 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
Fine Digital Announced FineDrive M760 GPS
Fine Digital announcd their latest GPS navigator, the FineDrive M760. It’s 1 inch thin and features a 7″ LED backlit display with a 480×234 resolution, realtime TPEG traffic alerts in South Korea, it’s memory can be expanded using the SD memory card slot and has a 800mA battery. DMB television is also supported and it [...]
23Apr2007 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
Minox Update: DC1022
Minox has updated one of it’s digital cameras, the DC8122. The new version is called DC1022 and has a 10.1 megapixel CCD sensor. It’s also 1 inch thicker than it’s older version and the other features are just like the old one, 6x optical zoom, 0.8″ macro ability, 2.8 inches LCD display, digital image stabilization, [...]
20Apr2007 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
Via Announced The VT6047 Pico-ITX mainboard
Via has announced it’s first Pico-ITX mainboard, being 10×7.2 centimeter in size. The VT6047 x86 mainboard is about 75% smaller than the Mini-ITX mainboards and is designed for new compact PCs and to run with Via’s CPUs, C7 and Eden. This mainboard features Ethernet, four USB 2.0 ports, supports SATA and has a memory card [...]
20Apr2007 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
Gateway E-155C Convertible Tablet PC Announced
 Gateway announced another convertible Tablet PC, the E-155C. It sports a 12.1 inches WXGA display, that rotates bidirectionally and a Intel Core 2 Duo Ultra Low Voltage ( ULV ) CPU. The E-155C comes with Windows Vista preloaded, weights 4.5 pounds and is 1.17 inches think, also featuring media reader, fingerprint reader, 1394, 802.11a/b/g Wi-Fi, [...]
20Apr2007 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
BenQ Announced DC X725
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A new tiny, stylish digital camera has been released by BenQ. The 12.5 millimeter DC X725 has a stainless steel body and comes in black, red, silver or pearl, being a nice looking camera, great for teens and low aged. It has many features for its size, like a 1/2.5″ CCD, Super Multi Coating 3x [...]
HP Release a6000, s3000 and m8000 Desktop PC Series
HP has recently announced the release of three new desktop PC series, the Pavilion Slimline s3000, a6000 and m8000. The first one starts with PCs from $500, which sport and AMD CPU and 1GB of RAM, also you can choose an Intel CPU, but you have to add an extra $50. The PC can be [...]
19Apr2007 | Martin J. | 1 comment | Continued
SimpleTech Released 256GB SSD and Announced 512GB 3.5″
SimpleTech has released the 256GB 3.5″ SSD and announced a whopping 512GB one to come in Q3, this year. The drives are called Zeus-IOPS and currently offer the biggest capacity on the market of 3.5 inch SSDs. Upon that, the drives are also extremely fast, at 200x, but, unfortunately are very expensive. The 512GB is [...]
19Apr2007 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
Fujitsu Announced P50WN and P70WN
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Two new convertible tablet PCs have been introduced by Fujitsu. The ultralight P70WN is featuring a Intel Core Solo U1500 processor, while the P50WN runs on a Intel Celeron M443. Both have a 8.9″ 1,280×768 touchscreen, from 60Gb to 80Gb of HDD space and will weight about 2.2 pounds. Price and availability haven’t been disclosed [...]
18Apr2007 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
Magellan Maestro 3000 Lineup
Magellan has released a line of GPS handhelds, the Maestro 3000, which is composed of Magellan Maestro 3100 and Magellan Maestro 3140. The first one features a SiRF Star III chipset, a 3.5″ QVGA touchscreen display, turn by turn guidance, QuickSpell, SmartDetour technology, a battery lifetime of three hours and over 750k POIs.
The second one, [...]
18Apr2007 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
Panasonic to Release A Pair of P2 HD Cameras and a 16GB P2 Card
Panasonic has announced a pair of P2 HD cameras and a 16GB P2 card, that will be available in May for $900, which is not cheap. Also, they promised the 32GB version to be available until the end of this year. The AJ-HPX3000 is a 1080p, five slot P2 HD camera, priced at a whopping [...]
18Apr2007 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued