At the Society for Information Display (SID) Display Week 2008 which will be held in the next few days in Los Angeles, California, AU Optronics (AUO) will unveil the world’s first curved TFT-LCD on glass substrate. They seems to like to be “world’s first” as they will also unveil world’s thinnest ultra-thin 0.63mm TFT-LCD for mobile phone apps.
Last month HTC announced that they will release the Advantage X7510, now they stepped-up and made it available for pre-order. They didn’t make official the prize or the release date, but some retailers already made a pricing list. Clove Technology wants £595 and eXpansys £700, meanwhile GearTrade is asking $800, Smart Mobile Gadgets and On The Go Solutions demands $1300. Who’s right? We don’t know, but we are waiting anxiously for the release.
OQO made a press conference only to announce an update to the OQO Model E2, which is the European version of the Model 02. This updated model features HSDPA / UMTS 2100MHz and GSM / EDGE / GPRS 900/1800 MHz data. It will be priced at €250, somewhere around $367. That is all that OQO announced, but we hope to heare more about the updated OQO Model E2 soon.
Sony recently announced the official sale start of their PRS-505 eBook reader. It is now available for $299.99 and users can purchase it in silver or dark blue colors. Upon buying it you will also get 100 Connect eBook Classic titles without paying an extra dime. It boasts on providing a new experience for readers with a 6 inch display that uses Ink technology in order to make it look as similar to paper as possible at the moment. You can easily read the eBooks even in bright sunshine and there is a near 180 degrees viewing angle with high contrast and high resolution capabilities. You can also magnify the text if the reader has impaired vision. The PRS-505 eBook reader is very portable and easy to carry around on trips. It is very lightweight and this allow the possibility of taking it with you wherever you go. It can hold up to 160 eBooks at a time and weighs just 9 ounces while measuring a thickness of just half an inch. One charge allows for up to 7,500 page turns so it is more than likely you will not run out of battery in the middle of that important chapter of what you are reading. It is definitely easier to carry around Sony’s PRS-505 eBook reader than a regular book and the price is also not that high.
Sony recently announced the VAIO NR Series, the cheapest laptops ever launched by the company and still baring that beautiful textured finish we have come to enjoy with VAIO. We can notice a pretty nice 15.4 inch display and a good enough widescreen resolution at 1280 X 800. The most powerful processor can be noticed on the NR’s most expensive model, an Intel Core 2 Duo platform.In any case, it is not the specs that draw attention with the Sony VAIO NR Series, but the fabric-like finishes. Sony is quoted in saying about the as feeling like “cool linen to the touch”. There are also variations in design as we have one that has a matte silver case looking like linen with rock, one that is Wenge, copper accents on brown texture and Silk, which is quite white but very interesting. If you plan to purchase a Sony VAIO NR series model be ready to pay between $750 (for the 110 model) and just over $800. It looks like this line of models will go on sale next month and we can’t wait to get our hands on one.
