The Sony NWZ-X1000 touchscreen Walkman has gone down in price, at least for the 32GB version, which is now only $299 at SonyStyle. That’s a $100 price drop for the X1000, the first touchscreen Walkman that also happens to have an OLED screen like the Zune HD. The X1000 has had a difficult outing with [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, November 29, 2009
Microsoft’s Zune HD will soon have two earthy color options. Purple and Magenta are colors that would look nice as borders of the ZuneHD OLED screen. They do not call attention and could easily blend in a dim room. In direct sunlight, they are not hurtful to the eyes like red or yellow and do [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 25, 2009
It’s difficult to see manufacturer’s fascination with MIDs. Everyone wants to make a pricey multimedia internet device. Inbrics, a Korean company, will probably have VoIP calling. For now the promise is advanced convergence, and we can glimpse a thin device with a slideout QWERTY and touchscreen. The as-yet unnamed device will have WiFi and GPS [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 19, 2009
What you’re looking at folks is the Sony Ericsson Kurara, the company’s second Symbian powered handset following the Satio. It doesn’t come with a 12-megapixel camera but surely won’t disappoint with its 8.1-megapixel camera, 3.5-inch AMOLED touchscreen, and 720p video recording and playback. The Kurara also features a Cortex A8 processor (yup, that’s the same type [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 21, 2009
When the iPhone first came out, many noticed the toughness of the then glass touchscreen. Now it’s Microsoft’s turn to have an indestructible device. The Zune HD PMP is just such a device. One happy user tried his darndest to ruin the fabulous OLED touchscreen of ZuneHD only to fail after several spirited attempts, once [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 20, 2009
No, this isn’t a new rival to the LG GD910 watch phone, but it is a watch that will supposedly work with a BlackBerry smartphone. Dubbed as the inPulse, this Bluetooth watch is specifically designed to be compatible with BlackBerry phones and comes with a brilliant OLED screen that provides users with real-time notifications [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 19, 2009
The Walkman A840 is Sony’s thinnest ever and with the introduction of the 64GB Walkman A847, it’s about to change the way we see flash MP3 players. This is the sleekest in 3 decades of Walkman experience, so it’s quite the historic Sony PMP. The Walkman A840 is only 7.2mm thin and boasts a 2.8-inch [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 16, 2009
The new A-series OLED PMP from Sony is their thinnest ever Walkman. The NW-A840 is only 7.2mm, so thin in fact that there’s little choice not to make this an OLED player. The screen is 2.8 inches, which means you will need the video out option to fully enjoy the 720 x 480 videos this [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 16, 2009
We’ll let you view the video review of the ZuneHD before we comment. I have to say that what strikes me immediately is the OLED screen of Zune HD, which is being viewed under direct sunlight. The touchscreen responsiveness is excellent. Obviously, Microsoft is more focused on multimedia. The basics, I mean: video and music. If [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 7, 2009
It doesn’t say Nvidia Tegra anywhere but we know it’s there and, besides the OLED, it’s the most interesting feature of the new YP-M1 PMP. According to Akihabaranews, the Samsung M1 is already on sale in Korea, with DMB TV added. The capacity comes in three versions: 8GB, 16GB and 32GB. The M1 plays WMV, [...]
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Tuesday, December 1, 2009
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