Do you want the thinnest personal navigation device (PND) in the world? The Galaxy GPS-C3250 is only 13mm thin or almost as thin as the iPhone 3G S and it may also be pure coincidence that the user interface that comes with it reminds us of the iPhone. Oh, well, the specs follows: 5-inch touchscreen SIRF Atlas-III Windows [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 16, 2009
MWC ‘09 will be known for all the smartphone announcements, not least of which are Acer’s foursome WinMo 6.1 smartphones. The Tempo series will begin with the X960, M900, DX900 and the F900. All Tempo smartphones will run on Windows Mobile 6.1. and have touchscreens. The Tempo M900 is the most fully featured of the set [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, January 18, 2009
Will UMPCs and MIDs be as big as netbooks? The X70 Atom Communication MID from Viliv seems to suggest that ultra-portable computing does not end with netbooks. This mobile Internet device boasts a 7-inch WSVGA touch screen, a 1.33GHz Atom Z520 CPU, 1GB RAM, your choice of 8GB/16GB SSD and 30GB/60GB HDD, Bluetooth, HSDPA, WiMAX [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, August 24, 2008
IFA - Besides the S9 Curve, COWON has officially introduced the COWON L3, the successor of the L2 Personal Navigator. The screen is still 7 inches but with an improved resolution of 800 x 480 pixels. The Shadow Touch button is also introduced in this player. It’s a full PMP with T-DMB tuner, a SIRF [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Here’s another Korea-only personal navigation device that brings you the most bang for every buck you spend on it. Not only is it a video and audio player, it also has T-DMB and a Sirf III GPS antenna. It even has a built-in phone charger. Most interesting is the onboard alcohol sensor, a personal breathalyzer [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 5, 2008
While iPhone is working hard on slimming down and, ultimately, miniaturizing its products, HTC has the opposite idea. The device the foreign-speaking dude is holding is not an over-sized tablet PC. No, it’s more interesting than that. Clue: it runs Windows Mobile. The guys at PocketPT claims they have talked with top HTC execs. We [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Depending on how you look at it, Waysion Technology’s RoadEX N-4310-2 is a PND with PMP functions, or the other way around. We just hope that the thing really doesn’t display a mirror-image of the map, or you’re in for more than a few surprises. Anyway, it supports ASF, AVI, MPEG-4 and WMV videos, [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 4, 2008
The VFGW-701 from Vensor International is a GPS-loving PMP equipped with a SiRF Star III module precisely for that purpose. TTFF (Time To First Fix) is 4, 35 and 43 seconds for hot, warm and cold starts, respectively. It supports WMV, AVI and ASF videos, MP3, WMA and WAV audio files, and GIF, JPEG, [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, January 12, 2008
Running on Intel’s Menlow platform, Yukyung Technologies‘ sliding Viliv UMPC has a 1.86GHz processor, 512MB of DDR2 RAM and either a 30GB or 60GB HDD. It comes with a WSVGA display, GPS (through a SiRF Star III chipset), Bluetooth, a webcam and a fingerprint scanner. Yes, that is a QWERTY keyboard attached. The [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 2, 2008
The GPS-288 from MTWO Technologies is, you guessed it, a portable GPS unit that happens to support MPEG-2, MPEG-4, AVI, ASF and WMV videos, MP3, WMA and WAV audio files and JPEG, BMP, GIF and PNG images. The device incorporates a SiRF III module and an ARM9 core Samsung processor (400MHz standard, but the [...]
Continue reading...
Monday, July 13, 2009
13 Comments