Sony Ericsson today announced its latest addition to the Walkman line-up of phones, the W508, featuring a flip design.

The W508 is a complete music device featuring external music keys, gesture controls, and of course the Walkman music player. On the design front, it features removable external covers and will be available in a plethora of colors. The gesture controls of the phone include a feature where you can shake the phone to increase the volume or shuffle the tracks. A sweep of the palm over the screen can turn on/off the alarm functions. TrackID and SensMe also find their way into the list of features.

The phone sports a 3.2 megapixel camera and Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP. The international version of the phone will have quad band and will support GSM/EDGE and UMTS/HSDPA on the 2100MHz band. The W508a slated for the Americas will have additional UMTS/HSDPA support for the 850 and 1900MHz bands.

The card comes with a 1GB Memory Stick M2 and an extra style-up cover.

LG is in the news again this time with another totally touchscreen handset. The KS660 is also their first ever Dual-SIM mobile handset. Other than the lack of 3G capabilities the KS660 is a feature rich handset.

Some of the features include –

400 x 240 pixel, 3-inch TFT touchscreen display
Dual-SIM card support
Memory expansion via microSD cards, 50MB internal memory
Bluetooth 2.0
USB 2.0
FM radio
Media player for audio and video (hopefully with DivX support)
EDGE and GPRS support
Video recorder

Dual-SIM handsets fare quite well in the Indian market so we can only hope it’ll make it to our shores, but there’s still no official information of the availability or the pricing of the KS660 so stay tuned.

It seems that every day there are new USB devices. Some are cool and some are not. I think that anyone that even has a little bit of geek in them will appreciate any of these. Some have practical uses and some are just fun, but all twenty of these gadgets are awesome.

1. Digital Photo Keychain:

I’m sure you’ve seen these cool devices. They can hold up to 35 pictures and you can download them right from your PC. Now you can have pictures of your kids, dog, girlfriend, or wife with you all the time. Just make sure that you don’t have your wife and your girlfriend on the same key chain.

2. Phone Book Cell Phone/ PC Flash Drive:

The IdeaCentre might be Lenovo's "star of the show" at CES 2009. This thin all-in one PC has an interesting design in which most of the components are placed into the bottom of the computer, allowing the display itself to appear thinner than other all-in-one competitors (Lenovo claims that it is the "Thinnest all-in-one PC"). It comes with a Lenovo keyboard complete with a touchpad, but the second hero in this announcement is Lenovo's Motion Drive Remote that is also a VOIP handset, an "air mouse" (moves the cursor with hand gestures) a game controller and a (Media Center) remote, of course. We wonder if Lenovo will sell it as a stand-alone device.

Here are some high quality pictures on the Sony Ericsson C510 aka Kate, the successor of the Sony Ericsson K770. The phone will be shipped in feb 2009.

Specifications:

Motorola http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola has added yet another handset to its portfolio of MOTOYUVA handsets. The latest in the block is the MotoYuva EM325.

The W595 is a Walkman phone but this time the focus is on sharing music with others. As a proof of this the W595 has powerful stereo speakers which can play your music loud and clear for others around you to enjoy. Also the headset has two 3.5mm jacks so now you can connect two pairs of headset to the same phone and share you music one one more person.

Sony Ericsson's new W595 is a slider handset with a 3.2-megapixel camera, and it replaces the popular W580i from last year.

Features
One big upgrade is the camera, which has jumped from 2 megapixels to an impressive 3.2 megapixels. It still lacks a flash, mind, so you can rule out good-looking photos under strobe or moonlight.

A 2GB proprietary Sony Memory Stick Micro card comes in the box, and M2 cards of up to 8GB were supported in our tests. Sadly it's inaccessible inside the handset, so you'll have to whip out the battery to get to it.

Accessing media on these cards requires a simple touch of a dedicated Walkman button, thrusting you into a clean media manager interface for browsing multimedia, Flash games and RSS feeds. They're intuitively laid out and fun to browse — plus, a built-in accelerometer automatically rotates pictures and videos depending on whether you hold the phone horizontally or vertically.

ASUS has introduced the launch of their ASUS P565, with an 800 MHz processor running on a Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional OS that easily makes it the fastest handset in the world at the time of this announcement. It was announced in November of this year and features ASUS’ touch-driven user interface – Glide. The handset comes with a leather-accented design and posted Vsbenchmark scores almost two times better than that of competing products in its class.

About the launch of this new PDA phone Edward Wang, Business Head, Mobile Communication Business, ASUS (India) said, "The ASUS P565 is the fastest business PDA phone in the world with an uncompromising 800Mhz CPU, VGA screen and an elegant leather design. This phone is a fusion of unparalleled performance with unrivaled style to give the discerning business professional an ultimate productivity tool that fits in his pocket."

Other features include

* 2.8-inch touch screen running at a resolution of 480 x 640 pixels
* GPS with SatNav’s SatGuide map pre-loaded on it (information of 200+ cities and also 1.5 million destinations)
* Wi-Fi, 3G capabilities with HSDPA speeds up to 3.56Mbps, EDGE/GPRS
* MicroSD card support
* 3 Megapixel AF camera
* Java J2ME support

Samsung YP-P3 is a new flash portable multimedia player that will come with revamped interface, and a brushed aluminum body. Other features of the YP-P3 include :-

• Display and UI: 3.0″ Haptic touchscreen (480 x 272), Flash-based UI with widget support
• Supports MP3, WMA, AAC, Ogg, and FLAC audio files
• Supports WMV9, MPEG-4, H.264 (480 x 272) video files
• Bluetooth 2.1
• Built-in Speaker
• FM Tuner/recorder, Voice recorder
• Extras: Flash games, Text, and Dictionary
• Battery Life: 30 hours for audio, 5 hours for Video
• Dimensions: 52.7 x 102 x 9.9mm (96g)
• Colors: Black or Silver

It schedule to available in Korea on early January with three flavor 4GB (~$180US), 8GB (~$211US), and 16GB (~$248US).

The mobile phone market now even has a separate category of multimedia handsets for this specific purpose - gaming. Some gaming mobiles are more generic in nature but do still manage to offer superb capabilities to be used for handheld mobile gaming. In case you like to take your games everywhere and already have a Nintendo DS or PSP or other portable gaming devices that satisfy your fetish for gaming hardware, here're a few mobiles phones you might want to consider.

Spice X1 Rs. 8,000
Spice’s X1 gaming mobile may have taken mobile gaming to the next level by reviving an older SE idea of a joystick attachment accessory for a mobile phone. The X1 comes bundled with this attachable controller that makes game-play a great experience. The handset itself also comes with a set of ‘X’ and ‘O’ action keys and you don’t necessarily need to use the controller.

Intex has announced today Intex IN-3030 tri-band GSM Candybar style mobile phone equipped with water and dust resistant technology and it features 265K colors CSTN display, MP3 ringtones, FM Radio, GPRS and Bluetooth functionality, and offers upto 7.5 hours of long battery time.

The Intex IN-3030 mobilephone allows upto 1000 number phonebook, 300 SMS memory and 20 dialed, 20 received and 20 missed call records.

Weighing just 73 grams, the new Intex IN-3030 music phone also offers support for upto 2-GB expandable memory storage via T-flash memory card.

The Intex IN-3030 music phone is equipped with water, sweat & dust resistant technology making it one its kind amongst the other phones available in the same price band.

Not only for music aficionados, the Intex IN-3030 mobile phone is ideal for users whose lifestyle involves lot of traveling, rugged & sporting activities and also for the common man which includes farmers, fishermen, factory and construction workers, etc., who are mostly likely to use the phone with sweaty and dusty hands.

In addition, Intex IN-3030 music mobile phone comes equipped with integrated FM Radio Tuner with option to record Live and Scheduled Recording.

A unique feature of Intex IN-3030 mobile phone is its ability to block upto 5 unwanted callers simultaniously right from with in the handset software.

• Good audio player
• Fun motio sensitive games
• Great design
• Plenty of entertaining games
• Decent battery life

Bad about F305:

• Camera is quite average
• Only one game included to be used with the dedicated gaming keys

Samsung India has announced its entry into the portable PC segment with a lineup of notebook PCs and has also made a foray into the fast growing netbook segment with its N series.

Samsung X360 and X460

Weighing just 1.27 kg, notebook is touted to be the lightest in its class, beating the MacBook Air and Lenovo X300. It sports a 13.3-inch WXGA (1280x800) LCD screen and is powered by Intel Centrino 2 ultra low-voltage processor technology. Equipped with DDR3 1066MHz 1GB memory, expandable upto 4GB, it also packs an external DVD super multi=dual layer writer.

The X360 also features the option of an ultra-fast and reliable 128GB Solid State Drive (SSD) with a boot time that is 25-50% faster and data access times that are 300% faster
(53 MB/s) for reading and 150% faster (28 MB/s) for writing. Read more.

Samsung X360 is priced at Rs. 115,014

Acer Extensa 4420 Specs:

• Dimensions: 13.2 x 9.8 x 1.62 inches
• Weight: 5.4 lbs
• Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 TK-57
• Memory: 2 GB DDR2 RAM 667 MHz
• Optical Drive: 8X DVD ± RW / CD-RW DL
• Display: 14.1 inch WXGA TFT-LCD CrystalBrite Display, 1280 x 800 pixels
• Hard drive: Hitachi 160 GB SATA HDD, 5400 RPM
• Graphics: ATI Radeon Xpress X1250 graphics with 256 MB VRAM
• Speakers: 3D Sonic stereo speakers with HD audio support
• Operating System: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
• Wireless: Acer InviLink wireless LAN (802.11b/g)
• Ports: 4 USB 2.0 ports, VGA out, S-Video out, Ethernet Port, Microphone and Headphone jack, Modem, 5 in 1 card reader, Kensington Lock slot, Optical Drive

Pros

1. Small, light weight. If you travel a lot, you got to love this notebook.

The ThinkPad W700ds appears to be the first laptop ever to sport two LCD screens -- a 17-in. primary and a 10.6-in. secondary screen.

The souped-up "mobile workstation," as Lenovo calls it, also comes with customers' choice of quad-core Intel Core 2 processors and Nvidia Quadro mobile graphics CPU with as many as 128 cores. It also comes with as much as 8GB of DDR3 memory and a pair of hard drive/solid-state drive bays for up to 960GB of storage.

A recent dig through Dell’s trademarks turned up a couple of curiosities – “Adamo” and “Adamo by Dell.”According to the documents, the trademarks cover computer hardware, including possibly desktops and laptops.

The whole “Adamo by Dell” bit sounds rather fancy for a company that lumps all of its computers under just a handful of brands. But, apparently, this computer isn’t your regular Dell computer. It has its own Web site after all, which says the product is coming soon.

Throw Adamo and Dell into a search engine, and you get nothing. Well, make that almost nothing.

A luxury goods publication appears to have some early marketing collateral from Dell for Adamo. “Rumor has it that Dell is coming out with a computer called Adamo that will rival the MacBook Air,” Uptownlife.net writes.

But most telling of all might have been the reaction of Michael Tatelman, Dell’s vice president in charge of consumer sales and marketing, to my question about whether or not Dell had an Air-like product in store. Mr. Tatelman’s mouth gaped open and his eyes darted away from my face.

If looks could reveal product dimensions, then I’d guess that Dell’s going even thinner and lighter than Apple.

Sony Ericsson has announced the launch of the W705 Walkman phone, a slider handset with a metal finish and a 2.4-inch screen.

The W705 gets Wi-Fi wih a YouTube app for video viewing, Bluetooth, 4GB memory card and Google Maps.

With Clear Bass, Clear Stereo and "premium" headphones, Sony Ericsson says the W705 "delivers a sound that has crystal clear clarity and is dynamic, rich and natural".

The W705 includes Walkman features such as the music recognition application TrackID and SensMe, as well as the Shake control to change tracks with the flick of your hand.

There's also a 3.2-megapixel camera, FM radio and auto rotation between vertical and horizontal modes by tilting the phone.

With 10 hours talk-time, the phone measures 95 x 47.5 x 14.3mm and will be available in red or silver in selected markets from early Q1 2009.
Key Features of the Sony Ericsson W705

• The W705 is a 3G slider with HSDPA support.
• The introduction of Wi-Fi is a first for a Walkman phone, adding considerable versitility.
• A 3.2 megapixel camera with a flash, plus a secondary video call lens, are also featured.
• The latest Walkman v3.0 software, an FM RDS radio and the YouTube video service take care of the media duties.

Dell's anticipated Inspiron Mini 12: the little netbook with the big 12 inch screen goes on sale mid-November for $999

Is it going to be Macbook vs. Mini?
The 12 inch screen officially makes this the world’s biggest netbook, but the word ‘big’ just doesn’t seem to suit the Inspiron Mini 12. Even when you know the stats – that the profile tapers from 24mm to 21mm, and when fitted with the three cell battery the netbook weighs in at 1.24kg – you can’t appreciate its sylph-like proportions until you hold this this featherweight flybook in your hand.

Alltel Wireless expanded its range of mobile phones, with its latest addition the LG Swift.

America’s largest network, Alltel Wireless and LG have jointly rolled out a fast and easy-to-use, LG Swift phone in the US market. With it unparalleled features, the phone stands apart from others.

The stylish LG Swift comes up with FasTap layouts as hot keys which integrate together with a regular phone key pad with raised buttons for each of the alphabet that provides the same functionality as the QWERTY keyboard offers. With the unique feature of the FasTap technology, a user can have an instant access to different functions like emails, navigations, music, games and various other functions without interfering with the main menu.

FasTap technology with FasTap Press-to-Experience keys offers one touch access to services and applications like the Alltel Navigation services, Shop and image library.

Announcing the launch, Brian Ullem (Vice-President, device strategy, Alltel Wireless) said, “The LG Swift is an innovative phone that helps our customers explore and enjoy Alltel’s most popular data features.”

“The introduction of FastapPress-to-Experience keys enables us to delivers information andentertainment to our customers faster than ever before”, added Ullem.

Nokia announced that the latest E-series device Nokia E63 at 12 November 2008 this is a cheaper alternative for Nokia E71. Nokia E63 Smart Phone is totally designed for people who need to manage their business and personal lives as well. According to Soren Petersen, Senior Vice President of Nokia, people want a device that takes care of their personal and professional lives, but to help separate the two. The phone will be available in ruby red and blue overseas. The Nokia E63 has no connection HSDPA and GPS. The E63 has a QWERTY keyboard and can change modes with a single button is pressed between “business” and “personal” Points.

The much anticipated Sony Ericsson Xperia X1, touted as iPhone killer, has finally been launched in India and that too at a whooping price of Rs. 44500 -- only (pun intended)!

Sony Ericsson, a 50:50 joint venture between Sony and Ericsson, on Thursday launched its touch-screen smartphone, ‘Xperia X1’. Priced at Rs. 44,500, the new multimedia device has been launched to cater to users’ need of converged entertainment and mobile web communication experience.

Launching the phone here, Sony Ericsson India President Anil Sethi said ‘Xperia’, aimed to offer energizing communication and premium mobile experience with the promise of quality and functionality.

Loaded with Windows Mobile, ‘Xperia X1’ comes with a 3-inch wide screen and a full keyboard within a quality metal-finish body. The handset comes with a 4-GB card, which can be upgraded to 32 GB. “We have launched this high-end phone to target the premium multi-media devices market which is doubling every year,” Mr. Sethi added.

The ASUS Eee PC 904HA keeping in the tradition of Eee PC is tiny while packing a real punch. The system sports a 160GB hard-drive, 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor, 1GB of RAM, a 8.9-inch widescreen display, VGA output, three USB 2.0 ports, a memory card slot and audio in/out. But that’s not all, the 904HA also houses a 6-cell battery pack allowing for a whopping 7 hour battery life. The ASUS Eee 904HA will be available in stores for Rs 22,990 (not including taxes) and comes with a standard one year warranty.

More-than-ample Viewing Area with 8.9 inch Display
The Eee PC 904HA features an 8.9" screen size for more viewing space – making it more comfortable on eyes when in use. It also supports a resolution of 1024 x 600 allowing you to view a single A4 page without the need to scroll left or right for easier reading and editing of documents.

Highlights of the study include:

- In the first year of ownership, the iPhone had a 5.6% malfunction rate, half the rate of the
Blackberry and one-third the rate of the Treo.

- The iPhone is projected to have a 9-11% malfunction rate in the first 2 years of
ownership, compared to 14.3% for BlackBerry and 21% for Treo handsets.

- Touch-screen issues were the most frequently reported iPhone problem, accounting for
nearly one-third of all reported malfunctions.

- The iPhone is prone to failure due to accidental damage, with 33% more failures reported
in the first year. Nearly one quarter of iPhone handsets are projected to fail due to an
accident in the first two years of ownership.

Introduction: Comparing the iPhone 3G with its peers

Apple’s extraordinary success with the iPhone has not come without complaints and skepticism.
Shortly after both the 2.5G and 3G launches, hundreds of users expressed grievances with the

Key features include an 8MP camera, one of its kind first in the INNOV8 and now following suit are Sony Ericsson and LG. Also it has 16GB of internal memory and these are just a few of the biggies in the INNOV8. The Samsung INNOV8 is even loaded with DivX playback and more so it seems very promising. Let's get down to drilling it thoroughly.

Highs of Samsung INNOV8 i8510:

• 2.8-inch Screen
• 8MP Camera
• 16GB internal memory
• Symbian S60 9.3 rel3.2
• Powerful Processor
• Audio Quality
• 3.5mm jack
• GPS Route66 Navigation
• Application Bundle, Battery.

Lows of Samsung INNOV8 i8510:

In designing the N Series notebooks, ASUS utilized cutting-edge technologies, particularly in the use of In-Mold Roller Technology which creates a scratch-resistant panel that retains its sheen even after prolonged use. Boasting a streamlined exterior with shiny metal-like inlaid patterns inspired by modernist art-deco, N Series notebooks deliver performance with style.

The ASUS N50Vc and ASUS N50Vn is truly the pinnacle of mobile computing, designed for intuitive control and user-friendliness.

Basically, the N50Vn and N50Vc are the same. Both of them are powered by an Intel Core 2 Duo T9400/P8600/P7350/T5850 processor, and up to 4GB of memory, They get up to 500GB hard drive and either a DVD SuperMulti burner or a Blu-ray DVD Combo drive.

One of the differences between them is the graphic card. The N50Vc has a NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS with 512MB VRAM while the N50Vn is equipped with a NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GT, with 1GB VRAM.

Asus N50Vn and Asus N50Vc feature also a 15.4-inch LED backlit LCD display, a 2 Megapixel webcam, and a 8-in-1 card reader. They both offer WiMAX mobile broadband, WiFi 802.11a/b/g/n and optional Bluetooth connectivity. The N50Vc comes with also 3G/3.5G module. They have also a Hybrid TV Tuner (Analog+DVB-T) and Altec Lansing speakers and offers HDMI input, and an eSATA port.

MSI has announced the new EX623 16 inch notebook with true 16.9 widescreen display, and a Blu-ray drive as standard. The MSI EX623 is based on Intel’s Centrino 2 platform with a Core 2 Duo CPU.

Feature wise the MSI EX623 offers, NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS graphics, up to 4GB of DDR2 RAM, up to a 320GB hard-drive, Bluetooth, WiFi b/g/n, eSATA port, stereo speakers, subwoofer and a 2 megapixel cam in its screen bezel.

Intel Nehalem will be unveiled at an event in San Francisco on November 17th and it will become “the fastest processor on the planet.” The Core i7 was announced a while ago and we can’t wait to get our hands on this architecture, however, the pricing might be a problem.

The Core i7 will be manufactured in three different quad-core models : 2.66 GHz Core i7 920 available for the under $1000 PC class, the 2.93 GHz Core i7 940 which will be available for $1500-$2000 PC class and the 3.2 GHz 965 Extreme Edition for the fastidious PCs which most of us will never afford.

The 920 costs 284$, the 940 will be $562 and for the Extreme Edition you will have to pay $999. Anyhow you should expect the retail prices to be 10-15 percent higher.

High Points of Nokia 5220 Xpress Music

• Unorthodox yet stylish design
• Slim and light
• 3.5mm standard ear-phone port
• decent camera
• well-priced.

Lows of Nokia 5220 Xpress Music

• Mediocre bundled ear-phones
• slow data transfers
• inconvenient side-buttons placement
• average battery life
• average readability of the screen under sunlight

Bundle:

- Nokia 5220 XpressMusic phone
- Battery Charger
- Stereo Headset (HS-48 model)
- USB Data Cable
- 1 GB microSD card
- Instruction Manual and CD
- Lanyard

After the HP Mini 1000 netbook, HP has launched its new netbook the HP Compaq Mini 700 Netbook.It is a 10.2-inch display screen netbook with the Inetl N270 1.6GHz Atom processor.
It will feature:
* Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz Processor
* 10.2-inch WSVGA display screen ,1024×600 resolution,16:10 aspect ratio
* 60GB Hard Disk or 8GB/16GB SSD
* Bluetooth v2.0
* Wireless LAN
* Webcam
* 1.1Kg weight
* Optional WWAN, HSDPA/3G and SD card slot
Price: The HP Compaq Mini 700 Netbook price will start from Indian Rupee(INR) 25,000.

The Compaq Mini 700 has just been revealed and one thing we noticed right away was how eerily similar it looks to the also recently announced HP Mini 1000. And looking at the specs, the similarities don’t just stop at their looks.

And while the biggest obvious difference is the Compaq logo, it also provides consumers the option of an HSDPA modem, which the HP model does not have. We can also get our hands on the Compaq model quicker than the HP, since the Mini 700 will be released in the UK in December and the Mini 1000 will be released in February of next year.

The X 193HQ features a slim profile with an adaptable black color scheme and rear-cable management. The control buttons are located below the panel to enable easy cleaning and intuitive use.

Available at Rs. 8,500, X 193HQ complies with Windows Vista operating systems. The wide viewing angle of the monitor maintains color consistency and image clarity.