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...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...Thursday, December 27, 2007
The COWON N3 is another multi-featured PMP from COWON. From the information available now, the N3 does not have the same built-in connectivity options as the Q5, which is a PMP with WiFi, HSDPA and GPS as well as EDGE and GPRS connectivity. Powered by the same Alchemy AU 1250 600MHz and running Windows CE [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, December 22, 2007
Koreans seem to love their multi-purpose portable media players, and the W-700 series from Inkel looks like something that will fly off the shelves in no time. I don’t see why it won’t be a hit when it runs on a Dual Core CPU (360MHz+300MHz), and has Mappy United map software, 128MB DDR SDRAM, [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 18, 2007
Here’s another beauty from the far East that will probably never make its way to American shores. HyOn’s multifaceted Xent X3 features a 7-inch 800×480 resolution display, support for DivX, XviD, MPEG 1 / 2/4, WMV, and also has an internal T-DMB module for grabbing TV shows while on the go. Besides that this [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Mio’s new GPS/PDA/Phone has 2.7-inch touchscreen and a virtual numeric keypad that may just sway some people to opt out of iPhone. Its got a Integrated SiRF Star III GPS complemented by a QuickFix A-GPS (assisted GPS) technology. This should prove to be little more advanced than the Maps feature on the iPhone [...]
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