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Sony Delivers Flexible 16.7 million-Color OLED Display

The world of portable media players and cellphones are dominated by LCD screens that displays 16k to 262k colors, and that’s on breakable screens. Sony’s new flexible OLED is capable of delivering a whopping 16.7 million colors. If you look at it in another way, the 60 x 120-pixel flexible OLED about has 80 [...]

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2nd-Gen iPhone to Have GPS?

Will Apple come out with a GPS-integrated iPhone next? This does not have to contradict a previous report that the second-generation iPhone will be a smaller, Nano-like iPhone without a touchscreen, and by all means this iPhone Nano could still be equipped with GPS. But it just seems to me that the current widescreen [...]

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Pink is No. 2-Selling Zune

After only weeks since its debut, the Pink Zune has become Zune’s 2nd bestselling Zune color next to black. The Pink has outsold White and Brown Zune and might have helped Zune increase its market share from 8.7 per cent of the hard drive-based market to 9.2 per cent in April. Now .5% might [...]

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Meizu M6SE in Production

On the Meizu boards there is a post announcing that the Special Edition of Meizu M6 will be dropping the 700mAh and going for 500mAh to achive a significantly thinner product. The player will be coming in at just 7mm (0.27″) and will be most likely only available in 8GB flavor, with a price [...]

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Epson P-3000 and Asuka Tripper V Camera-PMPs

Engadget has posted a couple of very pretty pictures of newly launched cameras in Japan with media playing capabilities. The first one (picture above) is the Asuka Tripper V. The Tripper V has a 4.3-inch 800 x 480-pixel WVGA LCD screen. It supportss MPEG-4, MP3, AAC, JPEG and RAW image file (the direct data from [...]

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Zamm DMB Navigation System for the U.S.

  Zamm is a navigational device with an integrated T-DMB receiver that has just been approved by the FCC for the U.S. market. Zamm boasts a 7-inch 800 × 480-pixel screen and support for SD cards and even an external hard-disk drive. The interesting about this in-car device is the integrated DMB receiver. DMB is universally [...]

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Sony PSP to Have Voice and Video Calling

Sony Computer Entertainment Europa has struck a deal with BT to integrate broadband calling and video conferencing on the Playstation Portable. Both companies will utilize PSP’s new camera, the Go!cam to enable an Internet calling service with video conferencing in BT hot spots or through your home’s broadband connection. The PSP VoIP will first be [...]

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The iPhone May Outstrip Initial Demand

A survey in 36 AT&T stores by Channel Checkers says that Apple and AT&T may not be able to meet initial demands for the iPhone. Well, sort of. Sixty-four per cent of the stores have a 25-person wait list or more, and one store in New York City (which the research rejected as an extreme) [...]

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Pre-Paid iPhone Available for non-AT&T Subscribers?

This is one of the biggest iPhone news yet since Steve Jobs raised the curtain on the iPhone and finally confirmed its existence in January’s Macworld. Boy Genius has managed to get hold of an internal screenshot from AT&T detailing a pre-paid plan for the iPhone. That means some of us do not have [...]

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Watch DVB-H and DMB TV on One Tuner

Sharp has developed VA3B5EZ915, a dual-mode tuner that can work with both DVB-H and T-DMB. This is what the mobile TV industry needs, especially with Europe and Asia going in separate directions. It’s also good news for consumers. The PMP or mobile TV you purchase in Korea can actually work in Europe and in [...]

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