Archive for September, 2010

Epson rolls out new 3LCD projectors for budgets big and medium

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by in Peripherals

Since it’s CEDIA time, Epson has seen fit to unveil several new 1080p projectors, ranging from price brackets in the (reasonable for this crowd) sub-$7,000 category with the new Pro Cinema 6100 to the Home Cinema 8350 which comes in at less than $1,300. The Pro Cinema 6100 (above) debuts the company’s new 3LCD Reflective and UltraBlack tech courtesy of a dual-layered auto iris that is its first to reach dynamic contrast ratios of up to 1,000,000:1, while the Pro Cinema 31000 and Home Cinema 21000 beamers feature similar lens technology with appropriately lower-end chipsets, stats and prices when all of them ship in December. The next jump down is the Home Cinema 8350 and 8700UB models that eschew the new HDMI 1.4 ports and more exotic lens technology of the higher end models while still bringing improved specs over last year’s lineup to retailer shelves when they ship later this month. Detailed specs follow after the break if you’re wondering just how far an extra dollar or two will go.

T-Mobile G2 pre-orders go live for current customers, available to all on October 6

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by in Cellphones

Just as promised, T-Mobile has started offering its subscribers that “exclusive access” to early G2 pre-orders. There have been a couple of early hiccups with the pre-order page for that select group, but they’re being ironed out as we type and there’s also word that the rest of us unwashed Android geeks will be able to join in on October 6. One of our tipsters forwarded along a bill for his purchase showing the phone to be valued at $249.99 and an estimated delivery date of September 30. That’s quite the steep entry fee, considering Best Buy will have the phone on October 6 as well for just under $200 and Radio Shack is undercutting all with a $150 price on the typical two-year contract.

Panasonic’s hair-washing robot: rinse, kill, repeat

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605 days
by in Peripherals

If Panasonic can build an exercise horse then surely a robot that washes your hair should come as no surprise. Imagine being lifted from your robotic bed by a plush care-assist robot and placed into a chair for an automatic shampoo and scalp massage. That is the future of care for the elderly and sick in Japan, or the rich and lazy everywhere else. Panasonic’s hair-washing robot scans each human head three-dimensionally to apply just the right amount of pressure during the shampoo, massage, and rinse phases. It recognizes repeat customers and then applies that person’s preferred massage course using its human-like sixteen “fingers.” Each arm contains a trio of motors to power swing, press, and massage motions… or to snap your spinal column should you decide to sass.

MacBook Air suffers another bout of 11.6-inch display rumors

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605 days
by in Laptops

You know a device is due for a refresh when the only thing left to write about it is rumormongering of a possible upgrade. Today it’s the turn of Apple Insider, citing sources in Taiwan, to declare that an 11.6-inch LED-backlit display will be headlining a long overdue update to Apple’s MacBook Air. We’ve heard this scuttlebutt before, and the idea that the Air would be shrunken in order to better differentiate it from the MacBook Pro line carries a lot of believability, but we’re still a little jaded from previous misleading rumors on the same subject. At least this one comes with all the gravitas of DigiTimes, whose scribes suggest Quanta has an order to build up to half a million 11.6-inch “MacBooks” for Apple in 2010. All that said, we still wouldn’t be surprised if Apple let another holiday period go by without updating its unhealthily thin 13.3-inch laptop.

Samsung NX100 preview

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605 days
by in Digital Cameras

It’s arguable, but we’d say that Samsung’s NX100 is the news coming out of Photokina 2010. You could say that Panasonic’s Lumix DMC-GH2 (and its 3D interchangeable lens), Fujifilm’s not-yet-released FinePix X100 or Sigma’s Foveon-packin’ SD1 were of equal importance, but it’s pretty clear who stands to lose (or gain) the most from their ginormous push in Cologne. You wouldn’t know that Samsung even brought another product to the show if you casually glanced at its booth, and we were able to take the outfit’s newest starlet out for a spin in order to gain a few impressions. Priced at just $599 (with a 20-50mm lens; the 20mm pancake lens bundle will run you $50 more), this October-bound camera is certainly positioned to rival the other major players in terms of MSRP. But does it actually live up to the hype? Join us after the break to find out.

Android 1.6 Window N5 with G-Sensor Already In-Stock

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by in Ownta News, PMPs

Window N5 MP5 PMP Player with Android System and G-Sensor – 8GB

This is the first PMP player that adopts Android system. Window N5 is intelligent PMP player that built in Android system, that means there are thousands of applications. Comply with office business, entertainment, PDF, Flash reading, games in one devices. Comes with 5.0 inch 800×480 pixels. Support Widget touch and keypads besides dual operations. Similar with other Window players, Widget built in, DIY your desktop. G-sensor built in, brings more fun to play games, such as Need For Speeds series.

Product page:　http://www.ownta.com/window-n5-mp5-pmp-player-with-android-system-and-g-sensor-8gb.html

Window N5 MP5 PMP Player Features:

  • 5.0 inch LCD, 800×480 pixels
  • Android System OS1.6 built in
  • Widget system, support touch and keypads operations.
  • G-sensor, bring more fun to play games
  • Support PDF, FLASH reading
  • 8GB memory onboard

Plus: we offer big discount for SmartDevices SmartQ V7 at present, only need $199.99 !!! You can buy it from this page: http://www.ownta.com/smartdevices-smart-v7-mid-1080p-player-with-hdmi-output-wifi-and-bluetooth.html

Sony Ericsson says it has ‘no plans’ for any new Symbian products

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by in Cellphones
Symbian has taken some pretty hard hits as of late, and it’s just been dealt another big one — Sony Ericsson has confirmed earlier talk that it is indeed abandoning the operating system. As Sony Ericsson spokesperson Aldo Liguori bluntly puts it, “we have no plans for the time being to develop any new products to the Symbian Foundation standard or operating system.” That doesn’t completely close the door on Symbian, of course, and Liguori also said that Sony Ericsson still remains a member of the Symbian Foundation. Those future meetings should certainly be interesting, no?

Sonos Wireless Dock hands-on

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Sonos Wireless Dock

What you have pictured here is the latest Sonos music device. In person the Sonos Wireless Dock is exactly what you were thinking when you read the press release yesterday.The demo unit had a special Sonos branded half case that left the bottom unaltered, because like many other docks, the cases get in the way of proper docking. The dock does accept the standard iPod dock inserts, so maybe there’s still hope that a case manufacturer will ship it with a special insert made with the intent to simplify the life of one who like to use both an iPod case, and a dock together.

How would you change Dell’s Streak?

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605 days
by in Laptops

Oh, sure — our international contemporaries have been toying with the Dell Streak for the better part of 2010, but Americans have just recently had their equal opportunity to indulge. It’s a mini tablet, or a huge phone. Or both. And sometimes neither. But whatever the case may be on any given Sunday, the 5-inch Streak has caused more of a stir for the folks in Round Rock than any product since the Adamo. For those who eagerly pre-ordered and then not-so-eagerly paid the credit bill upon receipt, we’re interested in knowing exactly how things are going so far. Are you still stoked about having a 5-inch phone? Would you have made it any larger / smaller? Changed the casing? Made it available on another carrier? Thrown in a slide-out QWERTY keyboard? Let us know in comments below, capiche?

Free Shipping New Ployer G6Pure G6Value G6Touch Ebook Readers

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605 days
by in e-book, Ownta News

Ployer G6Pure Colour E-book Reader

Ployer G6Pure adopts chinachip CC1800 chip, features 7.0 inch 800×480 pixels pixels touch screen. As color reader, G6Pure suppport PDF, CHM, HTML, PDB, UMD, EPUB, HTM, TXT  formats, almost formats exsit.  font change and TTS functions, screen rotary etc. G6Pure is also to be good media player compatible with multiple video formats, include H.263、H.264,VC-1、RMVB、MKV、FLV、3PG、MP4、AVI、MOV、WMV、DVD、VCD formats etc. supports max up to 1920×1080 pixels playback. Other features include GBA Games, vocie record and OTG interface.

Product page: http://www.ownta.com/wholesale-dropship-electronic-gadgets/e-book-reader/

Ployer released 3 new ebook readers: G6Pure and G6Touch come with 7 inch touch screen, G6Value has cheaper price with 5 inch touch screen, all of them support OTG function.

Some features as below:

  • 800×480 pixels touch screen
  • Adopts chinachip CC1800 chip
  • Video playback ability, max up to 1920x1080p playback, AVI, RM, RMVB, MKV, WMV, MOV, MP4, DAT, VOB, PMP, MPG, FLV, ASF, 3GP etc. formats etc.
  • Powerful E-book function: PDF, CHM, HTML, PDB, UMD, EPUB, HTM, TXT etc.  formats, almost formats exsit.  font change and TTS functions, screen rotary etc.
  • OTG interfaces
  • MP1, MP2, MP3, ACC, OGG, APE, FLAC, SIPR, ATRC and WMA formats music formats, JPG, BMP, GIF and PNG pictures
  • Speakers and microphone built in
  • GBA etc. Games and application software built in
  • 4GB memory onboard, support TF memory card (max up to 8GB expansion)
  • Powerful li-ion battery, last 3.5-6.5 hours reading
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