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Palm Sized DVD Player
A portable palm sized DVD player is not a new concept by any means. But this model from Hammacher may just be giving a different look from the usual designs that you see out there. Most of such portable DVD players you see are of the flip top variety. This palm sized DVD player is designed much like the portable CD players of the past.
This palm sized DVD player from Hammacher measures six inches in diameter and can fit comfortably in your hand. It has a 3.5 inch TFT LCD screen in front and with built-in stereo speakers. This model also features anti-skip technology that allows you to watch DVD movies without any problems of skipping as what may happen on bumpy rides or when moving along. Read the rest of this entry »
Google-Nexus-One-002
Last Tuesday, Google finally confirmed it was entering the hardware market with the launch of its mobile handset. The Nexus One is made to Google’s specifications by HTC, a Taiwanese company, and runs the latest version of Android software, an open source operating system already running on some handsets, including those made by HTC, and Motorola.
Salivating over a head-to-head competition between Google, Apple and the mainstream news media made so much of it as they could. The BBC has even sent its technology correspondent, Rory Cellan-Jones, to Google’s headquarters, where he obeyed has asked whether the company thought its new mobile competition for Apple’s iPhone would give. The Google spokeswoman waffled, but need not have bothered. The reality is that, in most respects, the Google phone is inferior to the products of Apple. Read the rest of this entry »
Analysts Foresee an Explosion of Apps for 2010
The International Data Corporation (IDC) has recently published its list of tech-related predictions for the coming year. What struck the most is their statement that year 2010 will be the year of the app. Although it may appear to be common nowadays, the analysts over at IDC say that it is just the beginning.
The coming year, according to the IDC report, “will be a watershed year in the ascension of mobile devices as strategic platforms for commercial and enterprise developers as over 1 billion access the Internet, iPhone apps triple, Android apps quintuple, and Apple’s iPad arrives.” Read the rest of this entry »
Metro Pink Cosmopolitan Phone
Today’s phones can be a bit boring, that is, if you are in color. I mean, what with all the stuck-up, blah-looking gray? Good thing this phone is quirky in a pretty pink!
Metro Pink Cosmopolitan is “girlified” Cellphone version of Metro, which has gained quite a following in China. It has a unique 2.8-inch QVGA screen that shows a swivel QWERTY keyboard after turning around the screen. Metro Pink Cosmopolitan comes as an open, quad-band, dual-SIM phone, providing better coverage and freedom to choose up to two wireless networks that you want to register. It also has built in the mirror in the back of the rotary screen for quick touch-ups and also serves as a monitor “preview”, you get people with her digital camera photos, which also doubles as a camcorder. Read the rest of this entry »
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