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Phones

Alienware Futuristic Android Phone

Alienware’s powerful machines are known for many years. Yet, only recently, has the concept of galactic designs been put into practice and inspired the company to join forces with Dell in order to create an alien phone concept, running an Android OS platform inside, with a blue glowing grill and a slider shape structure from the outside. Sensitive touch keys and navigation joystick are part of the deal as well, but prices and availability are still missing. Connection between galaxies seems imminent.

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Accessories, Audio, General

E-Light Sports A Lamp And Stereo Speakers In One Place

E-Light is an indoor/outdoor entertainment light, featuring  high-output LED lights, providing 6 – 12 hours of glowing illumination. This cordless light clamps onto your umbrella pole for a convenient outdoor decoration or indoor design. The E-Light has a standard headphone jack, allowing you to connect your iPods and listen to your favorite music via acoustically balanced stereo speakers, delivering high-quality sound. The E-Light comes with 4 AA NiMH rechargeable batteries and you can get yours for $99.50.

E-Light

[via gmp3]

General, Mobile, Video

Motorola Launches A New 4.3" TV With GPS

Motorola wants to go all the way with the new DH01n portable 4.3-inch DVB-H TV, sporting GPS navigation system and Tele Atlas maps. The new DH01n is a personal DVR device, including pausing and playing back live TV signals, automatic channel scan, High-quality widescreen LCD display with stereo sound, SD/MMC slot and more. No details concerning price and availability.

 motorola-dh01n

[motorola via engadget]

Computers, General

MacBook Surface Gets Whiter With Toothpaste

Macbook users tend to complain about those ugly marks and dark smudges, decorating their surface as a result of palm contact or dust accruement. To solve the problem and get back to the original shiny white color, Lifehacker posted an interesting solution: All you have to do is spread on some white toothpaste on the given area, let it dry, clean it with a damp clout and…voila ! back to the first days when the white was bright glowing.

 stains-macbook-clean

[via Lifehacker]

Accessories, General, Media Players, Mobile, Phones

Novodio Miniplug Helps Charging Your iPod On The Go

This new USB mini-plug adapter from Novodio can easily connect your iPod player (or your iPhone) into the wall and charge it without other accessories. The tiny plug has a USB hub on one side and an outlet connection on the other side, for direct charging. Being so small, it takes no place in your luggage and costs around 22$.

novodio-usb-miniplug-adapter

[via gmp3]

Another picture after the break.

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General, Video

Holocube 3D Display Goes Down To Home Users

To all of you, star trek fans, wishing you could hologram yourself and your items, Holocube created this holographic projector. The device features a 20″ display with a 40GB HDD, capable compressing up to 18 hours of 3d hologram presentation with 1080i content. Designed for home users, it can be a nice piece of technology to flaunt with. No details about price or availability.

holocube-3d

[via slashgear]

Check out the video after the break.

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Audio, Communication, General, Mobile, Phones, Video

Garmin Nuvifone Gets Two Video Commercials

A week after we’ve reported the announcement of the Nuvifone by Garmin, the company released two commercial videos that gives you a glimpse to what they call the new revolution. Though the following promo videos ain’t the greatest we have seen, they expose us to some of the applications the Nuvifone features but it’s not enough and we expect some improved presentations to be released.

Check out the video.

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Another video after the break.

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Audio, General, Media Players, Music

iPod Firmware 1.1 Brings Electric Pulses To Your Ears

Firmware version 1.1 can be a dangerous escapade for iPod Classic owners, as we hear the headphones are getting damaged once the update is installed and the device is turned off. For some reason, the latest update sends electric pulses, up to 500mv, causing a real danger to the users and to their earbuds. I guess you should wait with this update until it gets fixed by Apple. If you ran out of patient and already installed it, you should dowgrade to an earlier version.

apple-ipod-classic

[via slashgear]

General, Media Players, Music

Microsoft Zune 8GB Gets Cheaper

Now it’s official, the Zune 8GB gets 20$ price cut, so you can find the player across the US for just $179. The reason for the latest discount wasn’t stated but I believe Microsoft wants to increase the competition with Apple’s iPod players. The reduction brings the Zune 4GB only 30$ away from the 8GB player, which makes it dispensable.

 zune-8gb-price-down

[via engadget]

General

Creative Zen 32GB Goes Live

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Finally, after months of expectations, the new Zen 32GB is available for customers, incidentally on Xmas time. This credit card-sized player comes with 2.5″ screen and plays music, videos and photos.

specifications:

  • Display: 2.5″ TFT 16.7 million colors (320 x 240 pixels).
  • Audio: MP3, WMA, WAV, Audible 2/3/4.
  • Video: WMV9, transcode MPEG2, MPEG4, DivX and XviD.
  • Pictures: JPEG, transcode GIF, TIFF, PNG and BMP.
  • Features: SD slot card, FM radio, Voice recorder and more.
  • Battery Life: 30 hours audio, 5 hours video.
  • Size:3.26″ x 2.16″ x 0.44″.

Price: $349.99

[via engadget]

Media Players, News

Archos 605 – Harry Potter Package

Archos_Warner Following the Archos 605 Charlie Chaplin bundle, Archos signed on a new partnership with Warner Bros Entertainment, to distribute Harry Potter films through its Archos 605 WiFi players. The new package is expected to be available around xmas time.

The Archos 605 Harry Potter limited edition will be equipped with 20GB of storage and the first 4 Harry Potter films:

1. Harry Potter and the School of wizards.

2. Harry Potter and the Chamber Of Secrets.

3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner Of Azkaban.

4. Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire.

The fifth Harry Potter film, The Order Of The Phoenix, will be available to download via Archos Content Portal.

Price is set to 279.99 €.

[via ArchosLounge]

Computers, Hardware

Toshiba Qosmio G40 With HD DVD-RW Drive

Toshiba-Qosmio-G40

The new Toshiba Qosmio G40 is not just another notebook stud, it is the first laptop to include HD DVD-RW drive – pretty neat isn’t it?

Toshiba was the first company to announce on HD DVD-RW drive for notebooks, on June this year. Now they released this multimedia laptop, equipped with Intel Core 2 Duo T7500 2.2Ghz, Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT graphic card, 17″ WUXGA screen, 2x 200GB HDDs, HDMI out, WiFI, Gigabit LAN, 4GB of memory, HDTV tuners and more. Price should be around $3,530.

[via engadget]

News, Phones

Over 10000 iPhones Snatched In Germany On 1st Day

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Good news for Apple. The iPhone selling in Germany turned to be a huge success. Apple, via T-Mobile, managed to sell over 10,000 units, just after 24 hours (!). It seems the Germans are excited with the new shiny phone that has landed in the European continental and already makes huge waves.

In addition, we are hearing that Apple upgraded the European iPhones, and installed a new firmware version in the bundle. Version 1.1.2 supports multi-language system and multi virtual keyboards. Also, there are hints for an optional voice recording in the latest firmware. As for the open/closed saga, you have guessed right, the phone is locked and unjailbreak, so the cat and mouse game is still on…

[via generationmp3]

Media Players

Archos Gen 5 – New Players On The Block

Archos released, worldwide, its new fifth generation players, and they are already becoming one of the best portable players distractions money can buy.

The new shiny serious comes with some novel traits and very attractive price tags.

  • Archos 405 (2GB) : $149.
  • Archos 605 WiFi : (4GB) $199, (30GB) $299, (80GB) $349, (160GB) for $399.
  • Archos 705 : (80GB) $399, (160GB) $499.

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As a result of a limited storage capacity (8/16 GB) and a mediocre screen and video capabilities from the new Apple iPod Touch, many consumers have turned to search for other alternatives, and realized there is a very strong iPod buster in the market – the Archos Gen 5 players.

Despite its bulky body, compared to the iPod, the Archos fifth generation present stellar abilities (specially the 605 series).

With a stunning 4.3 inches touch screen and an amazing resolution of 800 x 480 – pixels, the Archos is without any question, the big winner.

It has a built in WiFi, an optional Opera browser with flash 7 (plugin cost 30$ and can ran youtube and google maps easily), supports many music/video formats, and even has an optional DVR station to record any TV or DVD movie with a simple push of a button from your couch.

The new generation supports UPnP technology which allows the 605 unit to stream files and videos from your own PC, directly to your player/TV.

For more about the new Archos 605, read the following review from ArchosLounge.

archos605wifi

[via engadget]