Gadgets and New Technologies

AT&T team up with LG to Incite the masses

admin — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:38:42 +0000

AT&T, the nation’s largest network operator, has come together with Korean cell phone manufacturer to launch the LG Incite. Touted to be the first true LG smartphone in the US, the Incite does come with a whole host of features that will definitely leave you drooling, although it might not do enough to sway the minds of those who have already set themselves on getting the iphone 3G. More on the LG Incite right after the jump, specifications and all.

The LG Incite does not fall short when it comes to features, in fact, it is chock full of them. Not only do you get domestic 3G capability, you are able to receive that boon when overseas as well, but you would do well to be prudent then unless you want to get slapped with an insanely large bill when you return home from your business trip halfway across the world. Don’t worry about getting lost either, since there is aGPS to help you find your way around. For moments where you don’t want to rely on your 3G connection, there is always built-in Wi-Fi connectivity to help you take advantage of numerous Wi-Fi hotspots that have mushroomed around us over the years. With Bluetooth 2.0 support, you can now hold handsfree conversations when you’re driving. Powered by Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, included software include Microsoft Office Mobile, Microsoft ActiveSync 4.5 and Windows Media Player 10.

For multimedia purposes, the LG Incite comes with a 3″ touch screen display, while the 3 megapixel camera is enough to capture great looking candid shots with video recording capability. Since there is no physical keyboard, you will have to make do with a full QWERTY virtual keyboard ala iPhone, but this one goes one up since it boasts haptic keys for vibration feedback. Other features include a microSDHC memory card slot and support for AT&T Navigator.

Interested parties can pick up the LG Incite for $199.99 with a new two-year agreement and mail-in rebate.

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Samsung Instinct Review - Miami Herald

admin — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:22:45 +0000

Miami Herald reviews the Samsung Instinct and writes, “The camera doesn’t have auto focus, so I ended up with photos that were fuzzy…This is a well-designed phone, and the fast-responding touch screen. Considering what this phone can do and the large display, it’s a good deal at $130 and worth getting if you’ve comfortable using a touch screen.” Read more about the Samsung Instinct. (Read the full post about ‘Samsung Instinct Review - Miami Herald’…)

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Ditech improves Bluetooth Headsets with VQABlue Solution

admin — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:36:02 +0000

I’m sure there are many Coolest Gadget readers who can’t live unless there is a Bluetooth headset attached to your ear. I’m sure that you have noticed a few problems that come attached to them, like mild discomfort and bad reception.

Fortunately, Ditech is on the job and worked to improve Bluetooth headsets with VQABlue solution. VQABlue is software available to headsets, and the user does not have to increase the memory of his or her headset for it.

VQABlue also improves the dual-microphone design, and now users can wear headsets in a way that is most comfortable to them. That means no more fiddling around with the headset until the caller actually has to be uncomfortable to hear his or her calls.

Ditech has also created “bi-directional algorithms” which can actually improve voice quality on both ends of the call. Many of the audio improvements on headsets today can improve the quality on the other end of the call, but not the sound for the caller.

Other dynamic features include Adaptive Noise Cancellation, Acoustic Echo Control, Enhanced Voice Intelligibility, and Adaptive Listener Enhancement.

VQABlue is available directly from Ditech, and can be downloaded from CSR’s website as a plug-in. As for the price, you can send an email to info@ditechnetworks.com or call 1-800-234-0884.

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All in One - New Multifunctional Gadget

admin — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:36:37 +0000

All in One - New Multifunctional GadgetNov 19, 2008 New multifunctional gadget was presented to the public. Now, this gadget with extremely unusual design represents a combination of digital photoframe, web camera, alarm clock and thermometer. These all useful functions are integrated into one device. This gadget also allows to use it as a device for video conferences, using the internet connection. Also you can make fotos wih such formats as JPEG BMP and GIF. This novice, can be just conditionally be named “digital photo frame” has 8Mb built-in memory, and has an accumulator. (Read the full post about ‘All in One - New Multifunctional Gadget’…)

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Roofus Helps You Shovel Snow

admin — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:40:15 +0000

Having kids is a good thing - once they’re old enough, you can always boss them around the house with this thing called “chores”, and shoveling snow from the driveway is one of those tasks involved. The Roofus concept could be a replacement for kids with heavy bones though, as it is able to collect and dump snow automatically or via a remote, where the latter is certainly much more fun as you get to perform your house chore from the comfort and warmth of your home with a mug of hot chocolate on the table, waiting to reward you once the chore is done. Good thing the designers have decided to make the Roofus versatile, as it can be hooked up to a bunch of attachments for use around the garden even after winter is over. (Read the full post about ‘Roofus Helps You Shovel Snow’…)

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LG’s hot new touchscreen at AT&T

admin — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:44:43 +0000

Check out this one: LG’s Incite. The 3G world phone has some impressive features as well as an interesting price tag: $199. The lineup of $199 touchscreen phones in the AT&T stable is getting crowded. So how is this one different?

The Incite features Windows Mobile 6.1, so it plays well with the MS Office docs, Outlook and the like. It’s camera is a 3mp jobber and the 3” display has 240x480 QVGA going for it. A bonus stylus tells you fingers may or may not be the best input device. As a note, the Samsung Epix also offered a stylus and I found most tasks (save for clicking the close box in the upper left) were easily done with fat fingers.

Interestingly the screen is haptic (a buzzing is made so you can feel when pressing keys) and the onscreen keyboard comes in two varieties: a basic QWERTY keyboard in landscape or a 20 key keyboard in portait. The switching between the two is automatic based on the devices orientation.

Other bonus features include aGPS, WiFi and Bluetooth; staples for any business user. Also in there is AT&T’s video share, “the first-ever service in the U.S. that allows users to share live video over wireless devices while participating in a voice call.“ The unit has an SD memory slot that is 16GB card compatible according to the press release but the AT&T site disagrees, saying it can handle 32GB.

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Welcome to Den-Den Town, Osaka’s Akihabara

admin — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:16:10 +0000

FROM GAMERTELL - Akihabara, the epicenter of all that is otaku, has got some stiff competition coming from a little place in the western city of Osaka named Nipponbashi, or now better known as Den-Den Town. MORE » Keep up with the latest gadget goodness! - Subscribe to our feed → (Read the full post about ‘Welcome to Den-Den Town, Osaka’s Akihabara’…)

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Apple Fixes Wonky Glass Trackpads

admin — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:03:54 +0000

Apple has issued MacBook Pro Trackpad Firmware Update 1.0, a fix for the trackpad troubles experienced by many users of the new glass-trackpad equipped unibody notebooks. Many owners have reported that the muti touch trackpads were failing to register clicks on the giant, full-pad button, with some seeing a failed click around one time in 10 (Kevin Rose and Leo Laporte both mentioned this on the This Week in Tech podcast). It’s an odd firmware update which acts more like a plain calibration fix — normally a firmware update requires a restart. Our suspicion is that Apple was a little conservative with the click-detection settings in the original release to stave off complaints about accidental clicking, and has simply tweaked them with this release. (Read the full post about ‘Apple Fixes Wonky Glass Trackpads’…)

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Gadgetell Interview: TripIt’s Gregg Brockway

admin — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:40:22 +0000

As a frequent traveler, I am awash in trip confirmations, hotels, and rental car info. I often forget who I’ve told I am going away and who I’ve not. TripIt aims to change all that. By simply forwarding them your confirmation emails, they scan the doc and import in the pertinent information into their system and put it out there for you and anyone you give access to. Talk about handy.

I’ve been using TripIt for a bit now and must say it works as promised. It takes email forwarded from sites like Travelocity and Expedia as well as from the airlines directly and travel agents. Entering in new trips was effortless and the data entered was spot on. Even when JetBlue changed a flight time on me, I forwarded the email wondering if it would throw their system for a loop; nope, it changed my data just as I hoped.

My contacts could easily find my trip info and when i was on the road, accessing the data was a snap. I enjoy the service but had some questions. Luckily, Gregg Brockway, CEO and founder of TripIt was willing to answer my questions. Gregg comes out of the travel industry and seems to know his stuff.

Gadgetell: Are there plans for a native iphone/android app?

The mobile app is nice, but having the data locally or at least the commands to get the data might be interesting. Yes, this is a feature request we occasionally see. We’re exploring options to provide this. Native apps are one solution. We believe that browser based apps are the future of mobile and as browsers become more powerful, new solutions to this problem are also emerging which we are exploring. Suffice to say, TripIt will provide offline access to your travel information in the near future.

Gadgetell:. How is the site going to make money? Will we see ads at some point?

TripIt is a free service for travelers and plans to add online advertising in the future. However, our approach is likely to be more targeted by working with relevant brands and closely-related travel services, rather than standard banner advertising. We’re also looking into developing premium services for business travelers and corporate travel programs.

Gadgetell:. What is next for the company?

TripIt is growing quickly with great support from our users and the online community. We focused our first year on building out most of the core services that our users requested. Now we’re focusing on being an open platform and working more with partners. We currently support email confirmations from more than 250 booking sites, and have partnerships with Sabre VirtuallyThere (Sabre is one of the largest travel companies in the world) and most recently LinkedIn. With LinkedIn, TripIt was one of a few selected applications to launch to their professional network last week, and in lets their users see where their connections are traveling. These are representative of the other partnerships we’re working on to help our travelers make it easy to organize and share their travel plans online. We’re happy to share more on that in the coming months.

Gadgetell: How secure is the info in TripIt’s hands, how secure is the email forwarding? What precautions should users take?

TripIt takes security of information very seriously and we’re constantly reviewing industry best practices. Email as a way of distributing information has been around for decades. Once the information reaches TripIt, we make sure that our travelers have full control over who is able to access their travel information and how much of that information others are allowed to see. For example, I think it’s very important that my wife see all my travel plans, including flight numbers, hotel addresses, etc. However, for my broader network, I typically only want people to know my destination city and possibly the dates I’ll be there. In some cases, I don’t want anyone to know my plans and I will mark these trips private. TripIt gives travelers the ability to set general rules and update these on a trip by trip basis if needed.

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TV Tuner And USB Drive From Buffalo

admin — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:29:23 +0000

TV Tuner And USB Drive From BuffaloNov 18, 2008 Many people, whose life is related closely to computes, sometimes have no time to watch TV. But actually there is no need for this. All necessary new we can get threw internet. Nevertheless, Buffalo - the Japan company presented a new gadget.

Actually I was surprised, this gadget combines a 8Gb USB drive and 18eg TV tuner. This novice was named DH-KONE8G/U2DS 1Seg 8GB.

You can use it with PC platform and Mac PC. Apart from watching TV and listening FM radio you can also record about 40 hours of video and AppleRemote.

Size of this gadget is 79 x 20 13 mm, weight - 23g.

The cost of DH-KONE8G/U2DS 1Seg 8GB in Japan is 138 Euro.

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