Saturday, November 7th, 2009
Acer, third largest vendor in the global PC market, today unveiled its latest range of Smart Handhelds in India. “The new Smart Handheld devices, the neoTouch and beTouch- represents a strategic move for Acer towards becoming a leader in ‘mobility market’ having provided mobile internet solutions to 20 million consumers in 100 countries across the globe” Richard Tan, Country Head India Smart Handheld Business Group, Acer told reporters here.
beTouch E1O1, which targets the mass market, especially the youth, has a 3.2 inches touch screen and equipped with the latest version of Internet Explorer, Windows Marketplace and Live Messenger. “The beTouch E200 is a touch phone created for those who use their mobile device as a mean of keeping in touch with friends, connecting to the Internet and sharing their experiences” Tan said. The Smartphone comes in two colours, black and white and is equipped with a 3.0 inch touch screen, 3.2 pixel camera, among other facilities.They are priced at Rs 11,900 (beTouch e101) and Rs 17,900 (beTouch e200).
The neoTouch, priced at Rs 35,000 is targetted at the high-end market and equipped with functions and applications like Mail, Mobile Internet, multimedia and Microsoft Office Mobile. The Windows phone features a wide, a 3.8 inches high-resolution touch screen, 3G+ connectivity (HSPA), Wi-Fi and bluetooth, among other facilities. “We have tied up with Tata Docomo for the new devices which enables the end user to get 500 mb free download for every month for six months”.
[Via: unwireindia]
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Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
HTC is brining the new model HTC Touch 2 to Indian market. After the much popular HTC Magic and HTC Hero, the Touch2 would be almost like Touch 3G. However the Touch 2 is loaded with Windows Mobile 6.5 and would be available with Reliance GSM connection. The offer says you can have free data usage upto 200 MB every month for next 6 months.
Pricced at Rs. 24,490, HTC Touch 2 has a 528MHz Qualcomm MSM7225 CPU. It is equipped with 512MB ROM and 256MB RAM. It has a 2.8 inch touchscreen and a 3.2 MP camera. It also has Microsoft Exchange along with My Phone backup support.
[Via: unwireIndia]
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
Apple today announced the new iPod touch lineup starting at the breakthrough price of just $199, giving users a great iPod, a great pocket computer, a great game player and access to Apple’s revolutionary App Store with over 75,000 applications. iPod touch features Apple’s revolutionary Multi-Touch user interface, a gorgeous 3.5-inch widescreen glass display, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and a built-in accelerometer and speaker-all in an amazingly thin metal design that slips easily into your pocket. The 8GB iPod touch is now available for just $199, along with new models which deliver twice the capacity for the same price, with the iPod touch 32GB model for $299 and 64GB model for $399.
“At just $199 the iPod touch is the most affordable gateway to Apple’s revolutionary App Store with more than 75,000 applications that you can wirelessly download right into your iPod touch,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “You get a great iPod, a great pocket computer with the industry’s best mobile web browser and a great game player, all in this super-thin beautiful enclosure.”
iPod touch is a great iPod for enjoying music, television shows, movies and podcasts. iPod touch has incredible features for music fans such as Cover Flow, Shake to Shuffle, and access to the legendary iTunes Store. And now, the new iPod touch supports Genius Mixes, which automatically creates up to 12 endless mixes of songs from your iTunes library that go great together. Movies and television shows look great on the gorgeous 3.5-inch widescreen display. iPod touch customers have the entire iTunes Store catalog at their fingertips, giving them instant access to the world’s largest catalog of over 11 million songs, TV shows and Hollywood movies to purchase and download directly to their iPod touch.
iPod touch is a great game player with its built-in accelerometer, revolutionary Multi-Touch user interface, its amazing graphics performance and the over 20,000 game and entertainment titles available on the App Store. With support for peer-to-peer connections, the new iPod touch gives users the ability to play multi-player games with people next to them or around the world. iPod touch customers can add new game titles from the App Store over Wi-Fi anytime and anywhere.
iPod touch is a great pocket computer, letting users surf the web, do email, manage their calendars, organize contacts, and use social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. With its award-winning Safari web browser, iPod touch users can experience the Internet like no other pocket-size device. iPod touch comes with the latest iPhone 3.1 software including: Cut, Copy and Paste; Spotlight Search to search across iPod touch or within Mail, Contacts, Calendar and iPod; landscape keyboard for Mail, Notes and Safari; remote lock for MobileMe™ and anti-phishing features.
Apple’s App Store is a phenomenal success with a selection of over 75,000 apps available and customer downloads topping a staggering 1.8 billion apps. iPhone and iPod touch customers in 77 countries can choose from an incredible range of apps in 20 categories, including games, business, news, sports, health, reference and travel. The App Store works with iPod touch over Wi-Fi so users can discover, purchase and download apps wirelessly and start using them instantly.
iPod touch features up to 30 hours of music playback or six hours of video playback on a single charge. The 8GB model holds up to 1,750 songs, 10,000 photos and 10 hours of video; the 32GB model holds up to 7,000 songs, 40,000 photos or 40 hours of video; and the 64GB model holds up to 14,000 songs, 90,000 photos or 80 hours of video.* The 32GB and 64GB models also include up to 50 percent faster performance and support for even better graphics with OpenGL ES 2.0.
iPod is the world’s most popular family of digital music players with over 220 million sold. Apple’s new holiday lineup includes iPod shuffle in five great colors starting at just $59; iPod classic in a new 160GB model holding up to 40,000 songs for $249; the incredible new iPod nano with a video camera available in nine brilliant polished aluminum colors starting at $149; and the revolutionary iPod touch starting at the breakthrough price of just $199.
The new iPod touch is available immediately for a suggested price of $199 (US) for the 8GB model, $299 (US) for the 32GB model and $399 (US) for the 64GB model through the Apple Store, Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers. iPod touch requires a Mac with a USB 2.0 port, Mac OS X v10.4.11 or later and iTunes 9; or a Windows PC with a USB 2.0 port and Windows Vista or Windows XP Home or Professional (Service Pack 3) or later and iTunes 9.
Existing iPod touch users can update to the latest 3.1 software for just $4.95 (US) to enjoy new features including Genius Mixes and Genius for Apps. iPod touch owners who already have the 3.0 software get the 3.1 software update for free. Simply download the latest version of iTunes onto your Mac or PC, and purchase the 3.1 software update via iTunes.
[Via: infibeam]
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
T-Mobile USA has just unveiled the upcoming availability of HTC Touch Pro2, which will be on sale via the fourth largest US carrier starting August 12. Obviously coming as the successor of HTC Touch Pro, the Touch Pro2 can already be bought in Europe and Asia.
The Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphone has many advanced features, including: a 3.6 inch WVGA tilting touchscreen display, 3G GPS, Wi-Fi, 3.2MP camera and, of course, a full QWERTY keyboard. T-Mobile USA’s Touch Pro2 will be available in only one color version, and that’s mocha.
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Monday, July 27th, 2009
This year, Sony unveiled its Vaio P series known as netbook, but Sony disagreed to it and called it a ‘lifestyle PC’. But Vaio P was a big BOO BOO! As the price of it was $1000 too high for a low powered atom processor with a sleek pocket-size design. Leaving it neither a full featured laptop because of the low powered processor and nor a netbook because netbooks due to its price as currently due to recession it does not sell in that price.
Now, it feels as if Sony is on the perfect path with the new release of its Vaio W series, which looks and works like a netbook from all sides.
The new Sony Vaio W netbooks wil be released in mid-August and will have a 10.1″ display. It wil be priced for just $500. The Vaio W series, just like other netbooks will be powered by an Atom processor, 1GB Ram and Windows XP. 160GB although Engadget notes that one should not expect a SSD option.
The W series netbooks will also sport a 1366 x 768 high resolution LED backlit screen that will make browsing web pages easy with no side-to-side scrolling. The series includes SD card slot, webcam built in and for connectivity there is Bluetooth and wifi too although there is no mention about GPS and 3G.
The netbook race is certain to have a tough competition with the new release of Sony. Although price is relatively high than other netbooks in the market, but its SONY brand matters a lot!
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Saturday, July 18th, 2009
Sony Ericsson’s very old news seems to be on June 17, there was this talk about Sony Ericsson announcing its next generation Xperia - the X2. However, the news was a waste as Sony Ericsson hastily cancelled the event of the launch because Samsung (as usual) dropped a bombshell in the form of the Omnia 2 that made Xperia X2’s look low.
Sony Ericsson seems determined to expand its XPERIA mobile phone series and is now reported to have plans of launching no more than three new devices that will fit into the family. The three new upcoming devices are named XPERIA X2, X3 and X5 have been announced to be launched in near future. There were rumors of it to be launched officially on July 17.
XPERIA family is not only adding member to it, but it feels as if it will be expanding to more operating systems than Microsoft’s Windows Mobile that came along with the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1. The new X2 is preferably on the same platform as X1, yet the X5 is suppose to be newly unveiled Rachael, should come to the market with Android.
The upcoming X3 is reported to be an interesting device as it is reported to be none other than the also recently spotted Sony Ericsson Kiki, which will come to the shelves with a transparent display. There is no X4 in the series yet. The information about the device is unfortunately limited to this. Yet, in case the company is indeed set to announce the handsets as soon as rumored, it won’t be long before more info will be obtained.
The news of the near launch was reveled through Twitter, UnwiredView reports, and no exact details on what the company has in store for us have been unveiled, yet we’re pretty sure that the hopes of a lot of enthusiasts out there are high already. Rachael is not the only one most interesting Android handsets in the market, considering the interface it is expected to come with, but Kiki might also become a popular phone, for its design seems rather mysterious, with no visible buttons on the face cover.
[Via: infibeam]
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Friday, May 29th, 2009
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Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
According to a recent rumor, Apple may incorporate cameras in future iPod devices. Thus, next generation iPods could include cameras too according to Hardmac, the English-language version of the French MacBidouille. The cameras could be included in the Touch and the Nano versions of the iPod.
The reason to add a camera to the iPod seems quite logical as it could help widen the camera-related application market on the App Store. Moreover, the applications can be expandable in the future with the release of the upcoming iPhones, as video recording could be one of the highlights of these gadgets.
At the moment no details of these camera enabled gadgets are available, while it can only be guessed if they will be affordable. The next official generation of iPods and iPhones may launch around September, 2009.
[Via: infibeam]
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Monday, May 18th, 2009
Vodafone UK is getting ready to release two new Windows Mobile handsets, the HTC Touch Pro 2 and the Samsung C6625.
It’s not clear yet when the devices will be available for purchase, but they’ve already appeared on Vodafone’s Business website as coming soon.
Both running on Windows Mobile 6.1, HTC Touch Pro 2 and Samsung C6625v come with full QWERTY keypads - the one of Touch Pro 2 being a slide-out one.
Of course, HTC Touch Pro 2 has more advanced features than Samsung’s phone: a 3.6 inch WVGA touchscreen display, accelerometer, Wi-Fi, HSDPA 7.2 Mbps, HSUPA 2 Mbps ands so on.
The prices of HTC Touch Pro 2 and Samsung C6625v with a Vodafone contract agreement are not known, but it’s worth noting that Touch Pro 2’s retail price is of around €650 ($880).
[Via: unwiredview]
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Friday, May 15th, 2009
Nikon has forayed into the consumer digital SLR/HD video category market by unveiling the 12.3 megapixel D5000. The camera captures photos and high definition movies. It also sports a 6.8 cm Variangle LCD monitor. This camera will be available at Nikon authorized dealers from May end onwards art an MRP of around Rs. 48,950 and Rs. 55,950. The latter model comes along with a VR lens kit. This camera is the first to come along with a 450 degree rotating LCD screen. The freedom of movement provided allows users to shoot from many imaginative angles.
According to Managing Director Hidehiko Tanaka, Nikon India, “While its easy-to-use design will attract first-time D-SLR photographers, the D5000’s rich feature set and high performance will also appeal to more experienced enthusiasts. The D5000 is sure to inspire creativity out of the Indian consumers.” Moreover he adds, “The Nikon D5000 represents a cornerstone in Nikon’s D-SLR line, marrying simplicity and instructive features with superior technology and HD video, allowing the user’s ability and creativity to grow - with the camera”.
Another professional artist Adarsh Anand endorses the D5000 and has created a “paint with light” technique. He uses light to define, improve, and give prominence to the subject of his creation. He is definitely excited with the Nikon D5000 and says that “”Apart from using medium and large format cameras with digital back, I have been using Nikon high-end cameras for quite a couple of years. While using new D5000, I am very impressed because it is loaded with features in a compact and lightweight model, which gives very good image quality with 12.3 mega pixels CMOS sensor. It allows me to shoot in studio, on location or indoors with equal ease.”
According to Nikon, this camera is for consumers who are progressing from a point-and-shoot digital camera or those who want to upgrade their current digital SLR to allow them to bring their digital expression to the fore. The D5000 incorporate the advanced D-Movie Mode and expanded automatic scene modes. This enables Nikon to deliver its originality and innovation in the form of a compact and user friendly design.
The camera incorporates various advanced elements like the Nikon DX-format CMOS sensor, high extended ISO sensitivity, GPS geo tagging, picture control, active D-Lighting, plug and play HDTV compatibility, in camera photo retouching and Nikon expeed image processing system.
[Via: Infibeam]
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