Archive for 2007

By January 8, 2007 Read More →

Worlds smallest USB Bluetooth Dongle

Newton Peripherals, the developer of the revolutionary MoGo Mouse™, today announced the MoGo Dapter™, a breakthrough in Bluetooth™ adapters that makes it easier than ever for millions of laptop users to use Bluetooth-enabled wireless devices.

Mogo USB Bluetooth Dongle

The MoGo Dapter is the world’s smallest Bluetooth adapter, specifically designed for “road warriors” and other mobile computer users. Newton Peripherals’ engineers designed the Dapter, miniaturizing and encapsulating the patent-pending technology so that the adapter simply plugs into any free USB port and virtually sits flush, without protruding like standard adapters. In doing so, the Dapter delivers “set it and forget it” Bluetooth functionality, eliminating the current requirement of unplugging and carrying a bulky adapter when traveling.

The MoGo Dapter will be available in the second quarter of this year from a worldwide network of authorized resellers, at an MSRP of $49.99 See the product page HERE.

Matt

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By January 8, 2007 Read More →

Cingular launch Treo 750

Palm, Inc. and Cingular Wireless today announced the first Palm Treo smart device running on Cingular’s 3G/UMTS network, providing mobile professionals with an exceptional phone experience and blazing-fast download speeds in U.S. markets and in dozens of countries around the world. The highly anticipated Treo 750 five-band world phone running Windows Mobile 5.0 with Direct Push Technology offers Palm’s exclusive usability improvements with powerful business features, including email, security, and web access on the go.

Treo 750

The Treo 750 combines the Palm experience of a multifunction mobile phone with email, messaging, web browsing, organization software and a robust application portfolio with Cingular’s next-generation 3G network. Its new compact design features an internal antenna, soft-touch finish, and contoured edges to make it comfortable in the hand. The Treo 750 also has a full QWERTY keyboard for easy messaging, a 1.3-megapixel camera, a bright 240×240 touch screen and support for Bluetooth(R) stereo headsets. The built-in 60MB of user-available storage can be enhanced by using the miniSD slot to add memory cards of up to 2GB, which are great for storing data, photos, music and video.

Matt

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By January 7, 2007 Read More →

Pioneer announce Blu-ray combo drive

At the International Consumer Electronics Show today, Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. announced the new BDC-202 combination Blu-ray Disc® BD-ROM computer drive with enhanced DVD and CD writing and reading capabilities. The newly designed Pioneer drive offers playback of BD-ROM discs allowing users to view Blu-ray Disc high definition programs directly on a properly configured computer. The Pioneer BDC-202 can play multiple Blu-ray Disc formats, as well as provide high-speed reading and writing of DVD and CD formats.

Pioneer Logo

With a focus on BD-ROM playback, the new Pioneer combination computer drive will be a significant contributor in the emergence of the Blu-ray Disc format for both professional and consumer use on computers. In addition to BD-ROM playback, the BDC-202 allows users to access and transfer A/V and data files rapidly to DVD and CD.

With up to 50GB of storage capacity, the Blu-ray Disc format allows for copious amounts of high definition video and audio content on a single disc, including advanced interactive features and extensive bonus materials. The BDC-202 drive allows computer system builders to provide a cost effective playback solution for advanced Blu-ray content as well as DVD and CD recording and playback.

The Pioneer BDC-202 combines fast DVD and CD recording speeds with enhanced BD-ROM playback to the delight of audio video enthusiasts who now have the capability to view recently released film titles directly on a computer for times when they are not in a home theater environment.

Matt

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By January 7, 2007 Read More →

MircoCircuit review

MircoCircuit is by Viex Games and is available for both Pocket PC and Palm OS. It is considered a strategy game.

MicroCircuit

The basic idea of the game to get the different coloured cars safely around the track, by switching the crossroads, and return them to their garage within the time allowed.

MircoCircuit starts of very simply with one coloured car and simple figure-of-eight track with one crossroad. By the time you get up to level 12 there are four different car colours and 11 junctions to manage! You get an average of about 5 cars coming out of each garage on each level.

The game is over when two of the cars crash into each other (cars stop at the junctions if the road is the incorrect way!) or you run out of time on a level.

I enjoyed playing this as it my kind of game, however I think a little more thought could have been put in to the levels at it is really easy to start with and gets difficult very quickly, thus for me making it quite short lived. The thing I did like about it though was you could start at any level you had unlocked so you didn’t have to keep playing the basic levels and could come straight back to the harder levels. This makes it an ideal game to have on your phone as you can just pick it and continue from the level you were stuck on and it also means that you can complete just a level at a time and not have to worry about re-doing previously completed levels.

Overall a good game but does require some thought!

Check out MicroCircuit in our Mobile Game Shop.

Tracy

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By January 7, 2007 Read More →

Parrot Photo Viewer gets bigger

You may remember that I reviewed the Parrot Bluetooth PHOTO VIEWER a few months ago and one of the main criticisms was that it was too small. Well today Parrot announced a new version of the Photo Viewer this time with a 7″ Display.

Parrot Photo Viewer

The larger format Bluetooth-enabled digital photo frame will hold more than 500 images and have a seven-inch active-matrix TFT screen for exceptionally bright, crisp photo images. The new Parrot PHOTO VIEWER 7″ joins Parrot’s 3.5-inch model introduced earlier this year that holds 120 photos.

The Parrot PHOTO VIEWER 7″ will be available online and through retailers in the U.S. in the second quarter of 2007 with an MSRP of $249.

Photos can be transferred quickly and easily to the Parrot PHOTO VIEWER 7″ from a Bluetooth-enabled cell phone, digital camera, laptop other storage device.

Parrot 7″ Photo Viewer Specification

  • Active-matrix (TFT) screen with 720×480 pixels
  • 262,144 color display
  • Bluetooth v2.0 + EDR
  • Bluetooth BIP, OPP and FTP profiles
  • 128 MB internal memory for storing more than 500 JPEG images
  • Software-controlled image resizing
  • Accepts JPEG images from 700 K to 7M pixels
  • Portrait or landscape position sensor
  • Light sensor adjustment of brightness, contrast and backlight
  • Fixed display and slide show functions
  • Size of the frame: 8.75 x 7 x 1 inches
  • Weight: 17 ounces

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    By January 6, 2007 Read More →

    izenMobile introduce more Eten variants

    Another day, another set of Eten device variants!

    A couple of days ago Pharos announced their Eten X500 based ‘GPS Phone’ device and today we have just heard that the little known, San Diego-based izenMobile is introducing its 2007 phones at CES: the KRMA (Eten X500) and the KSMT (Eten M700).

    izenMobile

    Press Release:

    izenMobile(TM), a San Diego-based converged device company, is introducing its 2007 phones at CES: the KRMA(TM) and the KSMT(TM). The brand is positioned to meet the needs of small and medium-sized businesses (SMB) with specific Microsoft(R) Windows Mobile(TM) wireless devices that create a simplified digital experience through value-added services.

    “We are introducing two devices that, when combined with izenMobile’s service and support, will make digital life easier and more effective for this underserved market,” says Jon Driscoll, president and CEO.

    The KRMA and KSMT handsets will be unique in the marketplace. The KRMA combines pocket pc functionality with a smart phone form factor. The KSMT features a slide out QRTY keyboard with 39 keys. Both devices include:

  • Windows Mobile(TM) 5.0 software for Pocket PCs
  • Samsung SC3 2442 400MHz processor
  • 128 MB Flash ROM, 64 MB SDRAM
  • GPS with faster fixed times, improved coverage and longer battery life
  • GSM/EDGE Quad-band; GPRS/EGPRS, Bluetooth and Wifi
  • ergonomic design with touch screen for stylus or fingertip, navigation button, and power button, plus application buttons and volume control
  • built-in 2.0 mega pixels CMOS camera and a SIZE display
  • expandability through a MicroSD card slot
  • built-in microphone and speaker, mini USB sync and headset jack
  • range of izenMobile exclusive applications, incorporating phone and multi-media tools, MMS message, utilities and GPS tools

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    By January 5, 2007 Read More →

    2GB SD Card for just £15!

    Those people at Clove have done it again!

    Clove Technology

    Currently you can buy a 2GB SD Card for just £15. We’re fairly confident that’s the lowest price you are going to find right now.

    Not only that, but if you need a higher spec, faster card then 150x 2GB SD Cards are also on offer for £24.

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    By January 5, 2007 Read More →

    Virtual Earth Mobile 1.69 released

    Virtual Earth Mobile is a funny beast. Microsoft doesn’t appear to push it, support it, or beta test it. Instead one guy, Jason Fuller, takes it upon himself to not only release and occasionally update, but to provide the source Visual Studio product.

    The product itself is really good, and definitely a program to show off the capabilities of your device.

    Virtual Earth Mobile Large Screenshot

    Rather like Windows Live Local, VEM is a small application which allows access to the Virtual Earth servers, with mapping and decent quality aerial imagery too. The original release of the program wasn’t terrible, but suffered some annoying bugs, and in my experience struggled to maintain a connection to the servers.

    The new version is very much improved. A brief overview of the updates are listed below (taken from Jason’s blog)

  • For those of you who asked to be able to drag the map with the stylus, I’ve finally gotten around to implementing it.
  • I also added the option of getting directions in text form, for those of you who prefer written directions.
  • And I fixed a bug in “Add to Contacts” that appeared because the server is no longer returning zip codes.

    • Virtual Earth Mobile 1.69 can be downloaded from the Windows Mobile Team Blog.

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    By January 5, 2007 Read More →

    Samsung i320 Review

    Kerry Woo from the Gadgeteer has just published a great review of the Samsung SGH-i320 which, by the way, is now available on the Vodafone UK business website.

    Samsung i320

    “I am simply amazed at how cell phones have evolved from the “portable” bag phone to today’s vast selection of featured laden mobile phones. Built in cameras, music players, text messaging and voice dialing are just some of the options available in mix and match feature laden phones. Add to the mix WiFi and Bluetooth, push email, robust calendar and contact management with Internet access plus a large catalog of third party software makes today’s smartphone a compelling reason to leave the laptop at home.”

    Samsung SGH-i320 Specification

  • Standard: GPRS Class 10 (900/1800/1900 MHz)
  • Camera: 1.3 Megapixel Camera
  • Display: 2.3” 240×320 65K Color TFT
  • OS: Windows Mobile 5 Smartphone
  • Push Email (Messaging & Security Feature Pack)
  • Input: QWERTY Keyboard
  • Video Recording & Messaging (MPEG4 / H.263)
  • Audio: MP3/ AAC / AAC+ / WMA/ WAV / OGG
  • Dual Speaker / Speakerphone
  • Connectivity: Bluetooth 2 EDR / USB
  • Memory: 120MB embedded , External Memory (microSD)
  • Size: Slim Design: 111 x 59 x 12mm
  • Weight: 95g
  • 140 hours standby, 200 minutes talk time

    • Read the full review here.

    Matt

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    By January 5, 2007 Read More →

    New Eten Glofiish X500 offer – save £20

    Following a successful promotion with our friends from Clove Technology, we have a new Eten Glofiish X500 offer!

    Eten Glofiish X500

    To take advantage of this brilliant offer all you have to do is type TM2JAN07 into the voucher box on the order form once you have selected to buy the Eten X500 and £20 will be deducted at the checkout stage. Visit the Eten X500 on the Clove Technology site.

    This another excellent offer and we are still confident that this is the cheapest X500 in the UK and we are offering you £20 off to boot!!

    This offer is for our readers only and is valid until the end of January 2007.

    Matt

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