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Samsung is still very much in love with the slide form factor and now they’ve released the world’s first DVB-H TV slider phone. It’s called the Samsung P960. It will first appear in Holland through KPN. The P960 will support other European mobile TV standards like DVB-CBMS and OMA-BCAST.
You can view TV shows on its large 2.6-inch QVGA TFT screen with image-enhancing DNIe. Viewers can also benefit from features such as Electronic Service Guide (ESG) that provides an on-screen TV guide, much like the one that comes from your cable or satellite TV provider. It also has picture in picture and a time shifting feature that shifts TV program schedules when a show is interrupted by incoming calls, so you don’t miss any of it. (more…)
Yeah, you read that right. The Dell XPS 730 comes packed with 4GB of Corsair DDR3 overclocked to 1600MHz. Previous Dell XPS systems were running at just 800MHz. Both Dell and Corsair put a lot of testing into this machine to ensure that it remained stable, while operating at a very high clock frequency.
According to Andy Paul, president of Corsair, “The performance computing community is very aware of the improved game play that 4GB of memory offers, as well as corresponding improvements in task switching and program load times.”
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LG has released their new BE06, GBC-H20L and GBW-H20L Blu-ray drives which feature ultrafast read and write speeds of 6X.
The drives are also compatible with DVD, CDR and CDRW. The BE06 is perfect for laptop or external use, and it can be connected through a USB 2.0 interface.
The GBC-H20L and the GBW-H20L are designed for desktops and can write up 50GB of data on a Blu-ray disc. (more…)
Intel along with a wireless startup will be demonstrating a new Personal Area Networking (PAN) technology based on WiFi (802.11x) this week. The WiFi-spinoff technology, developed by Ozmo Devices (Palo Alto, California) will allow short range, high bandwidth communication to several Ozmo-enabled peripherals at once.
That is like being connected to multiple Bluetooth devices at once, but instead of Bluetooth it would be 802.11x WiFi. That would eliminate the need for Bluetooth devices, and according to analyst Johnathan Gruber, PAN technology “will definitely be a threat to Bluetooth technology.”
Ozmo based devices are slated to be released sometime in 2009 and will include Ozmo enabled headphones, keyboards, stereo speakers and mobile phones. (more…)
Designer Art Lebedev has revealed the upcoming successor to the ever popular Optimus Maximus keyboard, called the Optimus Popularis. Each key can display a different image, because they are laid over an LCD screen. Their old Maximus keyboard featured an OLED in each key.
The new one features transparent keys laid over a single screen. The use of a single screen, as opposed to the use of a screen in each key should significantly lower production costs, thus lowering the price too. (more…)
With all the talk these days about electrical power wastage, global warming, extreme weather, food shortages and so on… Our team at The Hottest Gadgets has decided to put together a list of green devices that will help us all, gadget Lovers and others alike, to live less wasteful and energy efficient lifestyles!
Here’s our list of eco-friendly gadgets that you can buy now, soon and sometime in the future! Most notable are the 100mpg CityCat Airpowered Car and the Kill-A-Watt power strip/meter. Be sure to add your comments and other green gadget discoveries to our comments at the bottom.
Today’s Green Gadgets
- The Voltaic Solar Backpack
This solar powered backpack produces 4 watts of solar power to charge any of your gadgets pretty quickly. It also has a battery pack which can store the electricity for when the sun don’t shine. The solar panels also protect fragile items inside.
- The Recyclable EarthDrive USB Drive
This USB drive has been built with the maximum amount of bio-recycled materials. It is waterproof, dustrpoof and shockproof. If you ever decide you don’t want it anymore, simply recycle it. A portion of every EarthDrive sale goes to planting new trees around the world.
- Antec Earthwatts, Energy Efficient PSU -
This Power Supply Unit from Antec claims to be 80% efficient, meaning that only 20% of the electricity you feed it gets transformed into waste heat. This is cool, literally, as less heat means less cooling which means less fan noise and less wattage. Sounds like a good deal to me 
- USB Rechargeable Cell, AA Battery with USB! -
A really convenient gadget, these rechargeable batteries actually have a 5V DC USB plug attached to the cell, allowing you to recharge them from your laptop or any other USB Source. Perfect for recharging any digital camera that uses AA Batteries without the need for bulky chargers and cables.
- Bamboo Computers, Casings Do Grow on Trees! -
Plastics are really bad for the environment, and with the millions of gadgets disposed of each year, plastic cases are really going to fill up landfills for decades. Bamboo on the otherhand is a sturdy, biodegradable material that is produced rapidly by the fast-growing bamboo plant. Whilst we can recycle the computer’s innards, a bamboo casing would allow us to recycle the casing as well! My only gripe?: Doesn’t that make the notebook heavier?
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The Motorola ZN5, also referred to as the Motorola Xperl camera phone features a 5 Megapixel camera with a Kodak lens. This quad-band EDGE device has a ROKR type touch wheel, 100MB of internal memory, a microSD slot for added storage, Bluetooth and WiFi.
It is running on MOTOMAGX linux and it has a slide out keypad. (more…)
It’s not the Chocolate, but it’s still sweet. The new LG VX8610 , also known as the Verizon Decoy, is said to be arriving as soon as June 16th.
So what’s the big deal with this new slider that has everybody talking? It is the first phone to have a built in removable Bluetooth earpeice on the backside of the phone.
No it’s not extra, it comes included at no extra cost.
This device is definately raising the bar on slider phones. The navigation is based around a wheel similar to the Blackberry and it comes packed with a 2-megapixel camera, a microSD slot and support for Verizon V-CAST music and video services.
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Their has been some more breaking information about the new features in the upcoming 3G iPhone from Apple.
I remember when I got my iPhone the first week it came out, the download speeds used to be a lot faster when I was browsing the web or using YouTube. Within a few weeks after that, their was noticeable difference in speed. BoyGeniusReport noted that prior to the rush of iPhones, the Edge network was getting around 200-250Kbps. I think anyone who has an iPhone now can tell you it is a lot slower than that today. That’s where 3G comes in.
The new 3G iPhone offers a drastic improvement on download speeds, possibly up to 1500Kbps.
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Acer is entering the UMPC market with a vengeance with their Acer Aspire One. This 8.9″ UMPC is coming with a native resolution of 1024×768.
At the core is said to be a 1.6Ghz Intel Atom Diamondville processor running Windows XP SP3. It will come with 512mb of RAM and it’s is likely to have a battery life of 2-3 hours.
Sources expect a release as early as next month but are still unsure of regional availability. (more…)
