Panasonic Strada F-Series With 7 Inches of Touch Screen

An earlier model in the Panasonic’s Strada in-car PMP/navigation line we covered offers 8 inches of screen. The new F-Series is only 7 inches but it boasts touch screen controls. It has an integrated TV tuner, built-in graphics processor as well as a PEAKS processor, improved GPS sensibility and SD storage. You can download [...]

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NVX 500 PMP and Navigation Device From Scott

Scott’s NVX 500 PMP boasts a 3.5-inch 320 X 240 pixels (QVGA) TFT touch screen. It’s powered by a 300MHz Samsung processor. It navigates with a SiRF III GPS chip and Alturion navigation software Navteq maps (radar locations and warnings included). It supports video playback on AVI, MPEG1, MPEG4, WMV9 and ASF and plays MP3, [...]

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The iPhone is on The Way; AT&T Gets Busy Striking Cingular Brand

Like Moses, Cingular will henceforth be striken from every wall and papyrii of Egypt… Well, not yet anyway, but just as Apple is making use of every day it has left before the end of June, AT&T is busy readying the house for iPhone’s coming. Cingular had 1,800 shops to rebrand into AT&T shops. Cingular [...]

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Costly Trojan Virus Targets N95 and Other Symbian Smartphones

This virus called Trojan-SMS.Symb.OS.Viver specifically targets smartphones running Symbian 60 OS. Kaspersky Labs in Russia spotted it first, and kudos to them, because this virus will cost you a lot of money as it sends SMS to a premium SMS number. This virus is not meant to be purely malicious; the virus author has profit [...]

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PMX-M70 PMP: It’s a Sony!

The Sony PMP has been rumored since April, and, indeed, few people could believe it. But just a couple days ago, it was officially announced to the Chinese market along with the smaller PMX-U50. It looks like Spider Man had also something to do with it. The M70 boasts a 4.3-inch 480×272-pixel screen with [...]

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The iPhone Pusher: A New Breed of Techie

Tomi Ahonen is the world’s foremost 3G guru has written a rather provocative article titled “Entering iPhone Era: Marking Time in Mobile.” Just how provocative it is. Here is his premise: Mobile phones will be chronologically measured based on BI and AI or “before iPhone” and “after iPhone.” Other phones including “Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, SonyEricsson, [...]

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Eyesee1000 Portable iMax

We don’t know if this new (for evaluation) PMP from China uses genuine IMAX film format - probably not, since it is speeled spelled with a low-cap “i” - but the 4.3-inch TFT screen with 480 x 272 pixels and 16 million colors is quite impressive. It has just managed to be portable for [...]

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No Need to Line Up For iPhone

  According to Bear Stearns analyst Andy Neff the iPhone will be available in 2000 stores. Apple aparently is making good on its promise (or threat) of selling 10 million in 2008. If you’re still in doubt about the iPhone’s release date, Andy Neff had this to say, “Apple affirmed its goal of June release for [...]

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Creative Zen Wav Released in Singapore

Creative has a new audio/video playter and it looks unmistakably like an iPod Nano competitor. The specs of the Wav includes a 1.5-inch 56k-color screen, external speakers, FM radio, voice recording capability and video playback (which the Nano doesn’t have). The Wav costs Singaporean $179, which translates into about $117 USD. There’s no announcement about [...]

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COWON Q5 Korean Unboxing

Someone emailed us from Korea about COWON’s new Q5 PMP. We only know him/her by his/her handle “trully 06,” (as it turns out, tand s/he’s got good news for us. S/he’s just received his/her COWON Q5 and Someone has posted the awesome unboxing of the COWON Q5 on a Korean web site. We’ve announced [...]

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