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Verizon Launches Motorola Krave Flip-Phone

Verizon Launches Motorola Krave Flip-Phone

Hot on the heels of the introduction of a flip-style BlackBerry phone Verizon Wireless is going live with the Motorola Krave, a new interactive touchscreen flip-phone that features haptic feedback and a transparent lid so users can access key information and functions without actually having to open the phone. The phone features two layers of touch: a full touchscreen inside the phone, and and interactive features build into the clear flip lid.

"Motorola Krave is uncompromising. It delivers high-quality multimedia experiences while remaining true to the way consumers expect a phone to work and feel," said Motorola’s VP for mobile devices Ken Hallman, in a statement. "The clear, touch-enabled flip over the large, high-resolution touch-screen is nothing like you’ve seen and yet it’s totally intuitive."

Asus Offers "Instant-On" Notebooks

Asus Offers "Instant-On" Notebooks

Last month Asus announced it would include the flash chip Splashtop on all its motherboards, allowing for a virtual instant-on of a few applications including IM, Firefox and Skype.

Now it’s going one better by including an instant-on version of Linux, made by Device VM. The Splashtop distro will appear alongside Windows Vista on the Asus M70T, M50V, M51Vr and F8Va/Vr notebooks later this summer, and will eventually expand to the entire notebook range.

By complementing Windows, Splashtop will give users a choice of OS.

Henry Yeh, general manager of Asus’ notebook business unit, said:

Verizon Adds LG VX9400 to Mobile TV Lineup

It’s not every day a mobile operator can announce that it has doubled the number of phones which support its top-flight content offerings…but that’s exactly what Verizon Wireless was able to do today by adding the LG VX9400 to its list of offerings which support its new V Cast Mobile TV service.

Fujitsu Recalls 287,000 Sony-made Batteries

After announcing last week that it would participate in Sony’s global battery replacement program for notebook batteries, Japan’s Fujitsu announced today that was recalling 287,000 Sony-made made batteries used in the company’s notebook computers. Combined with recalls from Dell, Apple, Toshiba, and Lenovo, the number of recalled Sony-made notebook batteries has climbed to over 7.5 million.

The batter recall is another blow to electronics giant Sony, which has suffered a series of technical and public relations blows this year, including repeated delays on its forthcoming Playstation 3 gaming console, a format war between Sony-backed Blu-Ray and HD DVD next-generation DVD disks, a legal and privacy furor over copy protection software clandestinely included in Sony BMG music CDs. Sony’s share price has declined more than 10 percent since the laptop battery problem emerged in August 2006.

Microsoft Zune Ready for Holidays

Microsoft Zune Ready for Holidays

Microsoft has released details of the first products to ship under its new Zune brand of portable media players. The first devices will sport 30 GB hard drives, wireless sharing capabilities, and come in three colors in time for the end-of-year holiday buying season.

“The digital music entertainment revolution is just beginning,” said J. Allard, Microsoft VP of design and development. “With Zune, we are not simply delivering a portable device, we are introducing a new platform that helps bring artists closer to their audiences and helps people find new music and develop new social connections.”

Motorola Refreshs RAZR Line

Motorola today refreshed their stylish RAZR line of cell phones as they revealed two new colors and two new versions of the popular handset. These new models – the RAZR V3i, V3c, RAZR in Pink and RAZR in Blue – will be availablein various regions around the world and through various carriers by the end of the year.   The most interesting of these phones – and the one generating the most buzz – is the RAZR V3i. Thisparticular model is compatible with Apple’s iTunes online music store in the same way that Motorla’s ROKR phone is. Other features of the RAZR V3i include a large internal color screen, quad-bandtechnology, a 1.23 megapixel digital camera with a full-screen viewfinder and 8x digital zoom, Bluetooth wireless technology, an external display, airplane mode and a hot swappable TransFlash memorycard which be used for storage and playback of downloaded iTunes music.   As for Motorola’s other new RAZRs, the V3c’s main features include a 1.3 megapixel digital camera, EvDO technologysupport, CDMA support and Bluetooth support. The Pink and Blue RAZR models function much in the same way the current RAZR does and are targeted towards “a select group fashion elite and Hollywood‘it’ girls”.   “We wanted to evolve the Motorola RAZR without compromising the integrity and philosophy of the original design,” said Leslie Dance, Corporate Vice President of Global Marketingand Communications. “These four new phones complement the millions of RAZRs already in use, enabling consumers to choose the experience that best fits their personal style and mobile needs.”

Acer TravelMate 4020

Acer TravelMate 4020

Acer’s newest notebook the TravelMate 4020 is designed for home office or SOHO use and comes packed with an Intel Centrino chipset, PCI-Express technology (we assume graphics subsystem, although the graphics is integrated) 512MB of RAM (upgradeable to 2GB), a 1.6GHz Pentium M processor, integrated WiFi and Bluetooth and a 60GB hard drive.

The TravelMate 4020 notebooks come with Microsoft Windows XP Professional pre-installed (with Recovery CD) in addition to a complete selection of useful utilities. These utilities include Acer eManager (ePresentation, eSetting, ePowerManagement and eRecovery) and Acer GridVista. The first offering provides access to a number of notebook management utilities, while the second allows up to four windows to be screened simultaneously, each associated with a different application.

Toshiba Announces New Laptops

The Tecra S2 is one of the first notebooks to incorporate the new NVIDIA(R) GeForce Go 6600 graphics controller with 128 MB or 64 MB dedicated video memory, which is designed to maximize response time, provide better platform image management and deliver crisp vivid colors.

Toshiba’s Tecra S2 offers users a complete suite of communication technologies, including Gigabit Ethernet, V.92 modem, fast infrared, optional Bluetooth, and the choice of two wireless networking options: Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection (802.11b/g) or Intel PRO/Wireless 2915 ABG Network Connection (802.11 a/b/g). To simplify the user’s connectivity experience, the Tecra S2 comes bundled with ConfigFree, Toshiba’s intuitive graphic connectivity management utility.

ADB Introduces 17′ MHP LCD TV

Advanced Digital Broadcast (www.adbglobal.com), a vendor of digital TV set-top boxes and software solutions for interactive television, announced today the introduction of the i-CAN170T, its first Integrated Digital TV (IDTV) based on the DVB-T MHP open standard.

Mass production of ADB’s i-CAN 170T is planned to start this October and its introduction will follow during the autumn in various retail outlets in Italy. It will also become available in other European countries which have adopted the MHP platform from the DVB.

The Future Of DVI

Quote from the article:

“Recently, I’ve been getting e-mail from folks inquiring about whether they should buy a DVI-equipped DVD player for their new HDTVs. DVI, which got its start in the computer world, is an all-digital video connection that enables you, in theory, to receive the best possible picture quality on a TV with a like input. How much of an improvement you’ll get over component video depends on a lot of factors, but I’ve certainly noticed the difference, and videophiles agree that DVI is the way to go for hooking up either a DVD player or an HDTV receiver.

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