We weren’t too impressed with the Samsung IceTouch, to be honest, but it appears the Korean company has bigger plans for the new OLED technology… 14-inch transparent laptop displays. The IceTouch will have the enviable task of making consumers feel comfortable about transparent OLED screens, though at $332 it’s a little steep. Next in line [...]
Continue reading...5. February 2010
Ahead of the Apple iPad launch, X2 has released the Windows 7 iTablet. Yes, a non-Apple iTablet and it is available in many sizes from 10.2 inches to 12.1 inches. It is powered by a 1.6 GHz processor and employs a hard-disk storage giving this baby a 35mm thickness, which is really thick. In exchange [...]
Continue reading...4. February 2010
We haven’t tested it and we aren’t entirely sure it’s actually possible for such a small device, but that’s what Yinlips is claiming for the YDP102 MP3 player. The specs are basic for the cheap MP3 player: 2GB storage and support for MP3, WMA, APE, FLAC, AAC, OGG, WAV. The 100 hours is believable but then [...]
Continue reading...22. January 2010
After getting our attention with the Hallods F43, perhaps the world’s first PMP with a 720p screen, the company is now announcing the FH8800, a 4.3-inch PMP with 1080p support. Would you get a matching 1080 screen resolution with that? No. The Hallods FH880 only gives you a typical 800 x 480 resolution. It supports [...]
Continue reading...21. January 2010
The ITG xpPhone was the first to offer the public Windows XP functionality on a mobile phone. However, Viewsonic is now ready to challenge them with their own Windows-capable VPCo8 phone. This MID/phone boasts of a 2-inch display, 512MB RAM, 8GB SSD, WiFi, EV-Do connectivity, and an Intel Atom Z500 processor running at the very heart [...]
Continue reading...21. January 2010
If you’re a little warry about little known China MP4 player brands that promise 1080p full HD support, you might think of the ViewSonic MovieBook VPD550T as a worthy alternative. We all know ViewSonic for their LCD monitors and the 5-inch touchscreen MovieBook VPD550T doesn’t look half-bad. It plays most of the popular video files [...]
Continue reading...15. January 2010
Dutch manufacturer introduced a slew of new MP3 players and PMPs at this year’s CES. They won’t break technological barriers but they’re all nicely metallic and reminds me of MP3 players three years ago. Here they are: Philips Cam: the most interesting of the bunch because of its built-in camera. Not anywhere as thin as the [...]
Continue reading...15. January 2010
We’ve seen the Tainell T500 MID nnounced in the middle of last year and thought nothing much of it. It’s a big and powerful device with WiFi, 3G and GPS. It runs what looks like Windows XP, but today the Tainell is showing off shots of what appears to be a virtual keyboard that fans [...]
Continue reading...14. January 2010
It’s real and it’s here. Famous makers of iPhone clones DigitalRise has found it within their capacity to produce a 10.2-inch multitouch tablet. They’re calling it X9, and it is real multitouch. The specs of the DigitalRise X9 are nothing to laugh at: Atom N270 1.6GHz processor, 2GB RAM, 160GB SATA, GPS, 3G and Windows [...]
Continue reading...11. January 2010
Last year, Coby had an awful time at CES 2009, and they didn’t do themselves any favors by showing up with a the MP836, a touchscreen player that didn’t impress anybody, especially Engadget. Yesterday was a reunion of the two: Coby, have their MP837 iteration and Engadget their usual selves. As would be expected from [...]
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5. February 2010
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