New Sony noise cancelling Bluetooth headphones

Sony’s new Bluetooth® headphone range lets you immerse yourself in perfectly clear audio without any cable clutter. Whether you are listening to music or making a phone call, Sony’s echo and noise cancelling technology will ensure exceptional sound quality. In addition, compatibility with the latest Bluetooth® 2.1 standard means not only can you say goodbye to troublesome wires, but reduce interference as well.

The new Bluetooth® headphone range from Sony is comprised of two models; DR-BT100CX and DR-BT101. Both feature simple, easy to use finger-tip controls which make it straightforward to adjust the volume, play and skip music tracks, and accept or reject incoming calls at the touch of a button.

The DR-BT100CX in-ear headphones are the perfect partner for your MP3 player or mobile. USB charging and cord free styling make them easy to use, whilst three sizes of silicon ear bud ensure superior sound quality can be enjoyed in comfort. With eight hours of playback time, these lightweight Bluetooth® headphones will keep you in connected, whatever you’re listening to.

For a headband headset without the inconvenience of cables, the DR-BT101 Sony headphones are the ideal choice. Enjoy rich, clear sound for hours on end through the headphone’s 30mm neodymium driver; twelve hours of playback means there is no risk of running out of power on long journeys. As both models support A2DP, AVRCP, HFP and HSP Bluetooth® profiles, Sony’s new Bluetooth® headphone range keeps you connected and cable free whether you’re travelling, exercising or just listening to your favourite tracks at home.

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Samsung’s latest 29mm thick PDP TV

Samsung announced this Sunday the full HD 850 PAVV, a 50” PDP (Plasma) “Finger Slim” with a thickness of just 29mm, as well as being 40% more power efficient that Samsung PDP previous Generation TVs and 20% lighter (26kg).

Our 850 PAVV 50” PDP TV feature Samsung’s Full HD Crystal Engine, DLNA Support, “USB 2.0 Videos” giving you the possibility to watch DivX videos, photos, or play your MP3 directly from an external HDD or USB Thumb key to your TV.

If 50” is not enough for you, Samsung also happen to have 58” model ready to ship for you. Unfortunately there are not much information on the 58” thickness, Samsung only state that this model is 50% slimmer than before and just weight 36kg.


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Novac's Latest Mp3 Wonder: Cassette Tape to Digital

There are plenty of LP to MP3 solutions, but not many cassette tape to MP3. If you're looking for one, well, we happen have exactly what you're looking for, Novac's latest cassette to digital MV-CM001U.

Simply put an old cassette tape in this little wooden box, hit "record," and voila! You've digitally saved your music as an MP3, WAV, or WMA file.

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DV4S and DV4M, LG's Latest Two Ultra Design DVD Players

DV4S and DV4M, LG's Latest Two Ultra Design DVD Players

Samsung introduced impressive Blu-ray and DVD players at the CES. Today it was LG's turn with thier DV4S and DV4M DVD players.

Both built for different usages, these DVD players feature different functions, the DV4S supports Dvix HD video and the DV4M is a more music oriented DVD player it directly converts CD audo to MP3 for storage and USB device playing.

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Akihabaranews

HTC Max 4G, world’s first GSM-WiMax Cellphone

World’s first GSM-WiMax Cellphone


Yesterday HTC announced officially ,the HTC Max 4G, which is basically your average HTC HD minus the HSDPA (3.5) but with a big jump over WiMax and making it the very first Windows Mobile 6.1 4G phone ever. So what is the advantage of the WiMax, compare to the HSDPA? Well with this new baby in town, you will be able to get “descent” data speed of 70Mb/sec (symmetric). Yep, I can see some of your drooling like babies, want one? No problems, but just brush up your Russian and get your passport ready since this baby is so far only available there.

Processor: Qualcomm® ESM7206A™ 528 MHz
Platform: Windows Mobile® 6.1 Professional

Memory: ROM: 256MB / RAM: 288MB / Flash: 8 GB

Dimensions: 113.5mm X 63.1mm X 13.9mm

Weight: 151 grams (with battery)

Display: 3.8-inch TFT-LCD flat touch-sensitive screen with 480 x 800 WVGA resolution

Network: Tri-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE:900/1800/1900 MHz, Yota Mobile WiMAX 2,5-2.7 GHz

Device Control: TouchFLO™ 3D

GPS: Inbuilt GPS

Connections: VoIP, Wi-Fi®: IEEE 802.11 b/g ,Bluetooth® 2.0 with EDR, HTC ExtUSB™

Main camera: High-resolution with autofocus

Second: VGA-camera

Additional: Motion G-sensor (automatically rotating picture), Proximity sensor (saving energy while talking due to the switching the display off), FM-radio

Audio: Ring tone formats: AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, QCP, MP3, WMA, WAV, 40 polyphonic and standard MIDI format 0 and 1 (SMF)/SP MIDI

Battery: Li-Pol, 1500 mAh

Talk time: GSM: up to 420 minutes, VoIP: up to 230 minutes

Standby time: GSM: up to 350 hours, VoIP: up to 50 hours

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All In One Digital Photo Frame with Integrated Printer

All In One Digital Photo Frame with Integrated Printer

Keian Japan will soon release the P71-A2-JP, a 7” (480 x 234) digital photo frame. It features SD (SDHC with max 32GB) and MS support, USB Host, Mp3 audio file support (for music listening while viewing photos), and a nice integrated printer that saves shots directly from a memory card once selected from the screen.

With its USB host it will be interesting to see if a larger external HDD drive full of pictures can be connected to it. If so, this will be a nice little device.

Printing resolution is about 300dpi on 100 x 150 mm photo paper.

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Sanyo's Gorilla GPS Navigator

Sanyo Announces Their New Gorilla GPS Navigator

Sanyo announced their new Gorilla GPS, the NVA-GS1580FT. Equipped with a solid state drive, it features a 7-inch touch screen, 4GB of SSD, and dual tuner TV (12Seg / 1Seg and terrestrial). Of course it has many features, like the EcoDrive Function to optimize you driving style.

As for the AV function, it reproduces MP3/WMA/AAC audio files, and plays DVD and CD. It's also compatible with SD cards for saving CDs, and equipped with a built-in 43W x 4 (4 Ohms) amplifier.

Available November 20th, we no information on the price.

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Cowon O2 available on japanese market now

Cowon O2 available on japanese market now

Introduced a couple months ago, the new Cowon O2 will be available on November 13 in Japan. Regarding the price, the 32GB version will cost 350€, the 16GB version 280€ and the 8GB around 240€.
As a reminder, our PMP features a 4.3'' touch screen, 8GB, 16GB, or 32GB of memory, T-DMB, electronic dictionary, and SD card slot ... and is Compatible with DivX, XviD, MPEG4, WM9, H .264 video files and WMA, MP3, AC3, AAC, FLAC, OGG audio files....

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RetroSound - Elegant Modern Stereos For Vintage Cars

RetroSound - Elegant Modern Stereos For Vintage Cars

The $299 RetroSound Model One neatly solves the problem of adding modern digital sound to your classic vehicle. It includes an Infinimount system that allows you to space the control knobs as required to fit virtually any console. The distinguished-looking front panel is removable and features a mini USB jack and analog aux input for connecting an mp3 player or streaming music directly from a portable thumb drive.

The Model One also includes an integrated AM/FM tuner with 30 presets, 4 x 60W amplification and RCA pre-amp outputs if you'd like to pump out Dark Side of the Moon at slightly more earth shattering levels. There's even a trunk mountable 10 CD changer for old timers who haven't yet joined the iPod revolution.

RetroSound offers dozens of different faceplates to ease installation into most vintage vehicles from the 1940s to the present, including such classics as the 1967-1968 Camaro/Firebird, 1970-1978 Datsun 280Z and even the 1976-1987 Chevy Chevette (oh, the humanity!)

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Samsung Yepp Q1, YP-Q1, Hit korea stores.

Samsung Yepp Q1, YP-Q1, Hit korea stores.

Not a really new product per se, but the Q1 from Samsung we talked about at the end of August finally found its way in Korea stores.

In a Nutshell, our Q1 is available in 4, 8 or 16GB, has an 2.4” QVGA screen, the DNSe 3.0 with sound upscaling for improved audio quality.

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Shake, Tap, Flip the new Samsung's Music Phones

Shake, Tap, Flip the new Samsung's Music Phones

Samsung has just introduced two new music phones, the Samsung BEATb (model M3410) and the Samsung BEATs (M3200). Both feature the interesting ‘Motion Play’ allowing you to control your music with simple motion. For Example, you can play or pause music by tapping your phone, mute your music by flipping it, or Shake it and you play the next song

The Samsung BEATb is a slim bar type music phone (9.9mm), and features the DNSe technology, an Auto EQ, and the Motion Play. It is also equipped with 2.0-Inch LCD screen, 2Mpix camera, Bluetooth 2.0, a 3.5mm audio Jack input, and is compatible with MP3, WMA, e-AAC+, AAC+, AAC.

The Samsung BEATs, a slide phone, is also equipped with an amplifier (B&O ICEpower), a stereo speaker, a 2.0-Inch LCD Screen, 2Mpix camera, and almost the same specs as the BEATb.

Samsung announced the BEATb for September and the BEATs for October.

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1TB HDD and XDE technology from Toshiba

3 New DVR with 1TB HDD and XDE technology from Toshiba

As you may be aware now, Toshiba decided for you that a crappy up-scaling technology (eXtended Detail Enhancement) is what you need and not this fancy HD tech that you may find on these Blu-Ray disks... Anyway since Toshiba Strongly deviled in this “advance” (LOL) tech, they decided to bring today 3 New DVR supporting the XDE (eXtended Detail Enhancement).

So let’s start with the High-end model, the RD-X8, which has 1TB of HDD, XDE, Digital TV Tuner, Support of the MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 codec, and a DVD DL burner, then you have the RD-S503 with 500GB and the RD-S303 with only 320GB.

Now if you are not interested in the DVR solution you can still get an XDE (LOLTECH) player the SD-XDE1...

PS We found a new acronym for the XDE, the LOLTECH.
PS II Seriously there is indeed some interest in the XDE, and this can bring an interesting upgrade for the actual DVD format, but as I am concerned HD is the best thing ever.

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Two New DAPs from Kenwood

Two New DAPs from Kenwood

Kenwood Japan just announced two new MG-E Media-Keg series DAPs with 2 or 4GB of internal memory. Rest assured, you can expand the memory with a MicroSD card.

Kenwood worked hard at improving the audio quality with an improved DAC. Our DAPs are MP3, WMA and AAC friendly, feature a 1.5” OLED screen and provide up to 54h of play time (MP3 at 128kbps), at just 43g with a size of 92.5x41x11.8mm.

Lord these DAPs better be good in order to counter the iPOD Nano.

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ZEN Mozaic

ZEN Mozaic is Available Now 16GB of Storage Capacity

Creative announced the availability of a 16GB version of their ZEN Mozaic. There are no changes concerning specs, the ZEN Mozaic still features a 1.8" LCD screen, FM radio, and built-in speakers. It’s also compatible with MP3/WAV/MP3 audio files, as and AVI , and BMP/GIF/JPEG/PNG/TIF files.

This new version will cost around 100€ in Japan.

TEAC Reference 380

TEAC introduced new Hifi systems, the Reference 380

TEAC Corporation unveiled, in Japan, HiFi System which features a CD player (PD-H380), AM/FM Tuner (TH-380), an Amplifier (A-H380), and Two Speakers (LS-H250).

About our Amplifier, the A-H380, provides a maximum power of 45Watts x 2 (6Ω, 1 kHz, 0.1%), a Signal-Noise Ratio of 100dB (IHF-A), a frequency response of 10Hz～65kHz and Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) of 0.1%. This amp also features 5 RCA inputs, 2 RCA Outputs, as well as an iPod dock Adaptor. It’s announced a price of 290€.

The CD player, the PD-H380, allows to play MP3/WMA files, as well as CD-R/RW. It features an USB port, and provides a frequency response of 20Hz-20,000kHz ±2.0dB, a Total Harmonic Distortion of 0.005% (1kHz, 0dB), a signal noise ratio of 120dB (1kHz, 0dB, A weight). 260€.

Our AM/FM Tuner provides 30 Presets. About the FM-Tuner specifications, it offers a frequency range of 76.0-90.0 MHz, a Signal ratio of 57dB (Stereo mode), and a THD of 0.50%. Concerning the AM-Tuner, it offers a frequency range of 522 kHz – 1629 kHz, a S/N ratio of 35dB and a THD of 1.5%. This Tuner will cost 160€.

Lastly, we have the speakers, the LS-H250, which offers a maximum power of 50W, with an impedance of 6Ω, a frequency response of 50Hz-20kHz, and a crossover frequency of 3kHz. The LS-H250 feature 130mm carbon woofer, and 25.4mm Tweeter. These speaker cost 105€ (Pair)

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PMX-M80: Stylish New PMP from Sony

PMX-M80: Stylish New PMP from Sony

According to PMP Today, Sony has introduced a nice, new PMP, the MPX-M80. Our device features the Map Browser Suite, a 4.3’’, 480x272 LCD touchscreen, 16GB of internal memory, memory stick slot, and built-in microphone. It supports MP4/AVI/WMA/MP3 and AAC formats.

You know what? It’s only available in China at an expected price of 210€!!!

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Akihabaranews

Creative Zen Crystal

Zen Crystal: A new DAP from Creative?

According to AnythingbutiPod, it seems that Creative Introduced a new MP3 Player, the Zen Krystal. Our new DAP features 4GB of Memory, FM Radio, a blue OLED display, a built-in pedometer and support for MP3 and WMA files.
It measures 57 mm x 37 mm x 10.8 mm, and is available on Creative’s Hong Kong Web site for around 55€

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Samsung M150 GSM Phone

M150: Samsung's New Bar Type Mobile Phone

Samsung Electronics introduced another bar type phone, the M150. This new GPRS dual-band mobile phone features a softly brushed hairline pattern and is available in five colors: Light Gray, Charcoal Gray, Pure White, Lavender Pink, and Ice Blue.

The M150 features a 1.77’’ LCD Screen in 128x160, 20MB of memory, VGA camera, Bluetooth 2.0, FM radio, and music player (MP3, AAC, AAC+, e-AAC+, WMA, RA). It can record MPEG4 video.

It measures 106.5x45.4x12.7mm and should be available in Germany at the middle of August, then in the rest of the world.

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Samsung

Creative Zen X-Fi

Zen X-Fi, the Zune Wannabe from Creative?

Just arrived on the market in Asia and worldwide, here's the Zen X-Fi from Creative. Our new PMP is available in three flavors, 8GB, 16GB or 32GB, but only the 16GB and 32GB feature a wireless LAN module.

Not only is our little beast kinda good looking, but it's also pretty small. 83x55x12.8mm at just 68.75g with a 2.5” QVGA screen.

Obviously our X-Fi supports MP3, WMA and AAC audio files, but also WMV, MPEG-4 SP/XviD and motion Jpeg video.

Like many PMPs on the market, the X-Fi has a FM radio tuner and voice recorder.

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Creative

Button ATH-FW3

Button ATH-FW3: New Ladies Headphones from Audio-Technica

Until recent times, we didn’t have to choose new MP3 players or DAPs, now we don't know what to buy as new earphones and headphones come out every week. This time, it's Audio-Technica who will release new headphones At the end of the month.

Our ATH-FW3 will provide a frequency response of 15Hz-22,000Hz, a sound pressure sensitivity of 100dB/mW, an impedance of 32Ω, and 30mm drivers.

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