NEC's Eco Friendly Wireless Router

NEC released two new wireless lan routers from the AtermWR8150N Series, (BGN), with an Eco Button,when pushed switches off ALL LEDs except the Power to provide 30% less power consumption. If you're too lazy to push a single button you can set your router into Eco Mode where it will do it automatically depending on your usage and predefined settings.

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NEC

O.T Stealth.Com Releases a Powerful Rugged Fanless Mini PC

O.T Stealth.Com Releases a Powerful Rugged Fanless Mini PC

Early January Stealth.com (Toronto) introduced the LPC-650, an Ultra Compact desktop PC powered by a Core 2 Dou… And yesterday for us in Japan or Friday in North America, Stealth.com announced the LPC-625F a fanless mini Core2Duo
In Just 200 x 200 x 60mm Stealth.com succeed to fit a Penryn Dual Core P8400 CPU (optional P9500), from 1 to 4GB of RAM, 120 to 500GB of HDD Sata with optional SSD, Intel GMA X4500, HDMI & DVI Out, WiFi… For $1,595… Way more expensive than a Mini but also way more powerful too.

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Akihabaranews

Sony Cybershot DSC-G3

Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-G3, The World’s First WiFi Camera with Web Browser

Here's Sony's DSG-G3, a 10.1Mpix point and shoot camera featuring not only a WiFi module, but also a Web browser for accessing and uploading art to the most popular Websites like Dailymotion, YouTube, Picasa, Flickr... on the fly without a PC... A serious blogger's perfect weapon!

LAS VEGAS (CES Keynote), Jan. 8, 2009 – With a focus on making photo sharing easier and more convenient, Sony today introduced the world’s first Wi-Fi® enabled digital camera that uploads photos and videos to Web sites through any public hotspot due to its built-in Web browser.

The new Cyber-shot DSC-G3 digital still camera answers one of the most pressing needs for photo enthusiasts: how to share those amazing photos and video clips of family, friends and events as soon as you shoot. The Cyber-shot camera makes it easy to upload images and video directly to popular photo and video sharing sites wherever a Wi-Fi connection is available.

“Research shows that our customers greatly value sharing images and video clips, but they often forget or don’t have enough time if they wait to get home to upload images,” said Phil Lubell, director of digital camera marketing at Sony Electronics. “Our new Cyber-shot DSC-G3 camera provides the simplicity and convenience of sharing in the moment, while the impulse is still fresh in people’s minds.”

The camera can wirelessly connect to any public hotspot, including hotels, restaurants, coffee shops and airports. Like a computer, the camera can connect to free or fee-based hotspots, as well as to secure and unsecured access points.

The new DSC-G3 model comes with complimentary AT&T Wi-Fi access to Sony’s Easy Upload Home Page until Jan. 31, 2012. It includes Wi-Fi access at thousands of AT&T hotspots across the United States, including participating coffee shops, selected book stores and major quick-serve restaurant locations, as well as hundreds of upscale hotels and airports.

“By collaborating with Sony to launch the first digital still camera with a built in Web browser and embedded access across the entire AT&T Wi-Fi service network, we’re enabling consumers to gain quick and convenient access to Sony’s Easy Upload Homepage through thousands of AT&T Wi-Fi hotspots across the country,” said Glenn Lurie, president of AT&T’s emerging device organization. “The wireless capabilities and cutting-edge features of the G3 camera with the reliable coverage of AT&T’s Wi-Fi network offers a unique consumer experience.”

Uploads Made Easy

The new camera makes it easy to connect to the Internet and upload images. By pressing the WLAN button on the camera, you can open its embedded Web browser.

After connecting to the Internet via wireless access points, the camera automatically navigates to the Sony Easy Upload Home Page, which includes direct links to photo sharing sites like Shutterfly™ and Picasa™ Web Albums; video sharing sites like YouTube™ and Dailymotion™; and a photo and video sharing site, such as Photobucket™. Also, the DSC-G3 camera allows you to access other sharing sites for uploading photos and videos through its Web browser.

Through the Sony Easy Upload Home Page, you can send e-mail notifications from the sharing Web sites to let friends and family know that you have posted new images and videos for viewing. This is perfect for sharing with loved ones that were not with you when you took the pictures or shot the videos.

When friends and family are nearby, you can use the camera to access photos you may have already uploaded to sharing sites and display them on its high resolution 3.5-inch LCD screen.

The camera supports DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) guidelines. By connecting to such DLNA-compatible devices as Sony BRAVIA® televisions via access points, photos in the camera can be played back with high-definition quality. In addition to BRAVIA TVs, the camera can connect to other DLNA-compatible devices, such as Sony VAIO® PCs.

* Smart Camera

In addition to its wireless sharing capabilities, the new camera is built for high-performance imaging. The 10-megapixel camera is about three-fourths of an inch thin and includes a 4X optical zoom Carl Zeiss® Vario-Tessar lens. Although compact enough to fit in the camera’s slim dimention, this lens provides excellent sharpness and color accuracy.

The Intelligent Scene Recognition™ feature automatically identifies a total of eight types of scenes — backlight, backlight portrait, twilight, twilight portrait, twilight using a tripod, portrait, landscape and macro — and automatically optimizes camera settings for each challenging shooting situation, taking an additional shot in low and bright light scenarios.

With Sony’s Face Detection technology, the DSC-G3 camera detects faces in a scene and adjusts auto focus (AF), auto exposure (AE), flash and white balance accordingly. It can also distinguish between children and adults, allowing users to to prioritize faces according to their preference .

Combining the Intelligent Scene Recognition feature with Face Detection technology, the camera includes an anti-blink function that helps make closed-eye photos a thing of the past. The camera automatically takes two shots and then determines whether the subject(s) have closed eyes. It will record images with open-eyed subjects. If both pictures have subject(s) with closed eyes, the cameras will record one and display a warning so you can try again.

Sony’s Smile Shutter™ technology automatically captures a smile the moment it happens. You can use the adult or child priority setting when shooting scenes containing both adults and children, and the camera will distinguish one face from another.

The camera’s Dynamic Range Optimizer (DRO) determines the best exposure and contrast settings in almost any shooting environment, giving images a natural look with clearer details that match what you see with your naked eye. DRO also balances the contrast in scenes with strong highlight and shadow, recovering detail normally lost in shadow areas. Combining the benefits of Optical SteadyShot™ image stabilization with high sensitivity mode, Sony’s Double Anti-blur feature helps reduce camera shake blur, especially when there is low light .

Photo Library

The Cyber-shot DSC-G3 model is also a “photo album in your pocket” and has 4GB of internal memory that can store nearly 1,000 full-resolution or 40,000 VGA-quality photos. The 3.5-inch (measured diagonally) wide touch panel Xtra Fine LCD™ screen is perfect for photo-like viewing with high contrast and wide-angle viewing. This Xtra Fine LCD screen delivers high resolution images (921,600 dots) that is approximately four times higher than conventional LCDs.

The camera also makes it easy to sort thousands of images. While shooting, images are organized automatically in albums by date. All images in an album can be displayed simultaneously as thumbnails on the screen, and the desired image can quickly be selected.

There are four ways to view photos: standard folder view, date view, favorites and event view. Images can be stored and managed on both the camera’s 4GB internal memory and an optional Memory Stick® media card.

In addition to the in-camera organization and search functionality, bundled Picture Motion Browser (PMB) software allows you to quickly organize images on a compatible PC. The software lets you search and organize images by event or face, and you can display images in calendar or chronological views organized into folders.

Pricing and Availability

The Cyber-shot DSC-G3 camera is now available in black for about $500. The camera and a range of accessories can be purchased online at sonystyle.com, at Sony Style® retail stores (www.sonystyle.com/retail), at military base exchanges and at authorized dealers nationwide.

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Akihabaranews

New All In One Desktop from MSI... Like Lenovo but Uglier!

New All In One Desktop from MSI... Like Lenovo but Uglier!

Behold the MSI Wind NetOn, a Dual Core Atom or Core 2 Duo CPU all in one desktop that screams HELP! Kill me now I'm ugly!



The new Wind NetOn will be at the up-coming CES and in two flavors, 22" and 19” screens.
 So far there is little information available, but the 22” model will be powered by a Core 2 Duo CPU and support Full HD video, while a low end version will be powered by an Atom Dual Core CPU (like for 19” version) and can only support 720p videos.

Whole New All-In-One Wind NetOn Starting an Era of Dual-Core Atom

MSI will present 4 of it’s new All-In-One species “Wind NetOn” at CES, including 22” AE2203, 19” AP1900, AE1901 and AP1902. AE1901 is the world’s first All-In-One model equipped with the dual-core Atom processor that helps to not only improve operational performance, but also save energy. Its power consumption is only 20% of that of normal PCs (250W). The advanced model, AE2203, is fully equipped with advanced AV and entertainment functions and supports up to Full HD.

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Akihabaranews

Live From Fujitsu HQ: Water-Cooled LifeBook N70

Live From Fujitsu HQ: Water-Cooled LifeBook N7010 with Built-in 4” Secondary Touchscreen Available Now

A month ago we introduced the Lifebook N7010 featuring a nice secondary 4” touchscreen above the keyboard and Water-Cooled Notebook. This nice gadget was only available overseas, not in Japan.

And I would like to say finally, Japan will get the FMW-BIBLO NW with built-in secondary display! Available December 26th, it will feature a 16-Inch LCD screen with a resolution of 1,366x768, an Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 (2.40GHz), 2GB of memory, 320GB of HDD, an Intel GM45 Express Chipset, a Blu-ray drive, and digital TV tuner, four USB ports, Wifi b/g/n, HDMI output.

The second display is a 4-Inch LCD touchscreen with a resolution of 480x272. According to David, this mini touchscreen seems responsive.

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New Color for the MSI Wind U100 in Japan

New Color for the MSI Wind U100 in Japan

MSI Japan added a new color “Angel White” to their Netbook U100, available from December 13th. No changes regarding specs, a 10.2’’ LCD screen with a WSVGA resolution (1,024x600), an Intel Atom (1.6GHz), an Intel 945GSE Express chipset, 1GB of memory, 160GB of HDD, as well as Wifi b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.0, and 1.3Mpix web camera.

Price: 56,800 Yen (480€).

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MSI WIND

Asus N10JC

Asus N10JC Available in Japan This Month

Asus Japan announced the availability of their N10JC Notebook in Japan. As a reminder, it features a 10.2-Inch LCD screen with a WSVGA resolution (1,024x600), an Intel Atom N270 CPU (1.6GHz), a GeForce 9300M GS, 160GB of HDD, 1GB of RAM, Wifi b/g/n, HDMI output, 1.3Mpix camera, and SD/MMC/Memory Stick/xD Picture cards slot.

It comes with Windows XP Home Edition with a price of 74,800 Yen (600€).

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Akihabaranews

Kouziro, the latest Netbook from Japan

Kouziro, the latest Netbook from Japan

Here you are the FRNU302/BK Kouziro, the latest Netbook from Frontier in Japan. So nothing new here the specs are quite “average” with your usual suspects, an Atom N270, 1GB of RAM, 120 or 160GB of HDD, a 10.1” WSVGA LCD, 945GSE Express Chipset, XP Home or Pro or Vista Home Premium, Wifi…

Anyway… nothing new here. Price are starting from 49800 Yen (400€)

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Frontier

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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HTC

Iriver Cell Phone

Iriver Cell Phone, the other iPhone?

The Korean company behind iRiver, Reigncom, announced today a direct competitor to the iPhone an Iriver phone. Started as a concept during the last CES 2008, and with pretty few information available even in the Korean press release, this new phone will feature obviously a touchscreen, WiFi, a Dictionary, PMP (Video and Audio), handwriting recognition software as well as being able to access to an iTunes music store like the “Bug Music Service”.

Anyway we will have to wait a bit more to get more info on this device but it seems that Iriver is on the path to create another “Jesus phone”?

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Reigncom

ASUS G70, the Gaming Laptop from ASUS

ASUS G70, the Gaming Laptop from ASUS now available for UK Market

The Asus 17-Inch G70 laptop is now available on UK market for 1,999 £ (2520€). Our new gaming Laptop features a 17-Inch LCD screen in WUXGA / WXGA+ resolution, 1GB of RAM, 640GB of HDD, a Intel Core 2 Duo T9500 CPU, two independent GeForce 8700M GT graphics card, Blu-Ray writer, WiFi, Bluetooth, Dolby Home Theater System and TV Tuner.

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AkihabaraNews

HTC Diamond, IPhone Competitor ?

HTC Diamond: Finally Real Competiton for the iPhone?

Powered by Windows Mobile 6.1 and featuring a VGA screen, a quad-band HSDPA and HSUPA module, an accelerometer, TouchFLO, Opera, a 3Mpix camera, 4GB internal memory... Here's the most advance HTC device ever made.

I admit that on the paper the Diamond appears to be an attractive device, but with only 4GB and WM 6.1? The Diamond may not be the real iPHONE killer that we are all waiting for, I honestly believe that next year WM7 will be as stunning on this device as the iPHONE was in 2007... but few years late... Anyway, the Diamond is by far the best WM device ever... God job guys !

Come on Microsoft! Please stop wasting your time and forget about 6.1 already. WE WANT 7!

LONDON — May 6, 2008 — Born from a unique heritage of innovation and a deep desire to blend design with simplicity, HTC Corp., a global leader in mobile phone innovation and design, today unveiled its new flagship phone, the HTC Touch Diamond. Delivering unmistakable style and meticulous craftsmanship the HTC Touch Diamond is defined by its compact size, game-changing Internet and its new captivating 3D touch interface called TouchFLO™ 3D. The result is an uncompromising mobile phone that sets a new benchmark for phone sophistication and shapes consumer expectations for how a phone can be used.

"Today we mark a new era in mobile phone evolution, an era where beauty and size integrate with uncompromising innovation at broadband speeds," said Peter Chou, president and CEO, HTC Corp. "The HTC Touch Diamond will make browsing the Web and using Web-enabled applications just as practical and easy to use as making calls."

A New Dimension To Touch
HTC has taken a great leap forward in touch screen innovation with the introduction of its new 3D touch interface called TouchFLO 3D. TouchFLO 3D provides animated access to people, messaging, email, photos, music, weather and more. In addition, HTC is introducing a new innovative touch-sensitive control for interacting with Touch Diamond.

Making The Mobile Internet Fun
With the introduction of the Touch Diamond, HTC delivers an entirely new mobile Internet experience that utilizes broadband-like speeds with HSDPA 7.2 Mbps and HSUPA wireless connectivity. Committed to improving Web browsing, HTC provides a new customized mobile Web browser that enables easy viewing and effortless navigation of Websites in the way they were designed. As part of this browsing experience users can zoom and pan Websites with one-hand and automatically view optimized content that has been specially created to fit the display. Turning the device sideways automatically rotates the web page view from a portrait to landscape view.

In addition to Web browsing, the Touch Diamond includes a customized new, HTC-developed, YouTube application for watching a variety of user generated video content as well as utilizing Google Maps for mobile for mapping and traffic data.

Unmatched Style and Size
The Touch Diamond is crafted with precision to fit comfortably in a user's hand without compromising on features or functionality. Blending contrasting design elements of metal and unique geometric facets, the Touch Diamond complements a user's personal style.

Bursting with Innovation
The Touch Diamond delivers an unrivaled combination of features and functionality that set a new standard for integrating mobile phone innovation into a small package. The 2.8 inch display provides near-print quality viewing that enables beautiful Web browsing and viewing of photographs. The built-in camera includes an optical auto-focus lens that ensures the photos you take will be clear and consistent. Advanced wireless and auto sensor screen pivoting are just a few of the features that make the Touch Diamond experience a stand out.

Availability
The HTC Touch Diamond™ will be available to customers across all major European carriers in June. It will be available later this quarter in Asia and the Middle East. The North American and Latin American versions of the Touch Diamond will be available in the second half of 2008.

"Our long-standing relationship with HTC meant they shared their phone concept and worked with us from the earliest stage. This early collaboration is important to us because at Orange, we know that the right multimedia experience is about more than just the phone," said Olaf Swantee, EVP of Orange's global mobile operations. "Our approach is to select and test the best phones and integrate our applications, combining them with access to the Orange World portal, the best tariffs, integrated billing, a user-friendly interface and excellent customer support. With the Touch Diamond from Orange we have created a unique phone which has taken advantage of our latest service innovation to build upon the consistently rich experience customers expect from Orange."

HTC Touch Diamond Key Specifications
Size: 102 x 51 x 11.33mm
Weight: 110 g
Connectivity: WCDMA / HSPA: 900/2100MHz. HSDPA 7.2 Mbps and HSUPA
Operating system: Windows Mobile® 6.1 Professional
Display: 2.8-inch VGA touch screen
Camera: 3.2MP, with video calling
Internal memory: 4 GB Internal Storage, 256 MB flash, 192 MB RAM,
Bluetooth: 2.0 with EDR
Wireless: WiFi 802.11b/g
GPS: GPS/AGPS
Interface: HTC ExtUSB™ (mini-USB and audio jack in one; USB 2.0 High-Speed)
Battery: 900 mAh
Talk time: GSM: up to 4 hours
Standby time: GSM: up to 300 hours/100 hours with push email
Chipset: Qualcomm® MSM 7201A™ 528MHz

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Akihabaranews

Samsung Korea In Love with HSUPA

Samsung Korea In Love with HSUPA

Samsung Electronics is jumping into the HSUPA market fast with the release of its HSUPA phone.

The new HSUPA smart phone (SCH-M470) supports various wireless internet features including video call, web browsing, push mail, and Google browsing. In addition, a 2Mega pixel camera, Wifi, and Bluetooth 2.0 are also available.

SKT (SK Telecom) plans to start 2Mbps speed upload demonstration services in designated areas, then extend the service to more areas.

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Samsung