Category: Gadgets

Sony now announced the latest Bloggie pocket cams: Bloggie Live and Bloggie Sport. Bloggie Live is able to shoot video and broadcast it live to another device courtesy of the Qlk platform. All the videos taken with the Bloggie Live are in 1080p, and are uploaded in mp4 format so you can share it to Facebook and YouTube. It packs a built-in WiFi. On Still images front, Bloggie Live still has your smartphone beat with a 12.8MP sensor. It sports a 3-inch touchscreen, with a flip-out USB arm for charging and uploading, 8GB of memory, and an HDMI-out port. The software includes Play memories online platform, lets you view pictures from your iOS and Android devices once you downloaded from Playmemories mobile app.

Sony fights the OLED feature, while LG and Samsung did it before, they have apparently moved from the tech, choosing to highlight a 55-inch Crystal LED prototype at CES 2012. Its display relies on ultrafine mounted on each RGB color, equivalent to number of pixels, which all affixed directly to the front of the display. We are not having the full details, Sony is claiming 3.5 times contrast, and 1.4 times the color gamut and 10 times faster response time than LCDs.

Sonys Walkman Z its a range of Android-running PMPs is arriving now finally to the stores after a long wait. Gingerbread runs the show on these devices that packs 802.11 b/g/n WiFi and Bluetooth radio and will throw your media to Sonys DNLA connected range of TVs and home audio equipment. The 8GB device retails for $250, 16GB for $280, and 32GB model retails for $330. For more details read the press release.

Here comes the official announcement from Nokia and AT&T on CES 2012, the device packs a 4.3-inch ClaerkBlack AMOLED 800*480 capacitive touchscreen, 512MB RAM and Mango. There is an 8MP camera around the back with a 28mm f/2.2 Carl Zeiss lens with a dual-LED flash and a front facing f/2.4wide angle lens. The polycarbonate bodied 900 got a single-core 1.4GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU, and it packs LTE modem for high speed internet. There is an 1840 mAH battery for 7 hours of talk time and 300 hours standby. It will arrive in the states side in next couple of months in lovely black and can colors. There is no word on pricing yet. Dont forget to look at the video, for more details read the press release.

Lenovos Chinese folks teased a certain IdeaTV or LeTV for launch this year, finally its named as K91, the 55-inch IPS 3D HDTV running on Android Ice Cream Sandwich, inside it got a 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon APQ8060 processor, 1GB of RAM, 8 GB of storage, SD card expansion, 802.11 b/g/n WiFi, 10M/100M Ethernet, HDMI and USB 2.0 connectivity. It will also come with Lenovos cloud services, includes app store and video on-demand, along with voice control and facial recognition using the 5MP webcam. No words on pricing and availability yet.

Samsungs inTouch is just another camera on top of your TV, it runs on Android 2.3, replete with WiFi and a 3MP camera. The combination of them enables apps like Skype, YouTube, and a Web browser your TV. Controlled a QWERTY remote, it will be yours for $199 and hit the market on March. For more details read the press release.

Samsung just unveiled two WiFi surveillance cameras. Bith can be easily paired with routers that support WPS and offer remote tracking from Sammys SmartCam website. That video feed is 640*480 at 30fps and encoded in H.264. On the WiFi smartcam, footage can automatically upload to YouTube based on predefined activity. Both of them will survive in complete darkness, got built-in infrared up to few meters at least. Both will hit the market on March, starts at $149. For more details read the press release.

Lenovos announcing a Tablet and a keyboard combo, its IdeaPad S2, packs 10-inches screen, the full package will run on Android 4.0, and it sports a 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon 8x60A or 8960. It got 0.34-inch(8.69mm) thickness, and a 1.27 pound(580 grams) weight. Other features includes a 1280*800 LED-backlit IPS display, 3G with call support, 1GB LPDDR2 RAM, SSD of up to 64GB, HDMI micro connection and front 1.3MP camera and rear 5MP with auto focus camera. The battery life, the tablet alone can make it up to 9 hours, sliding into the keyboard dock gives you additional 9 hours, got two USB 2.0 ports, a multi-touch trackpad and an SDHC reader. No words on availability and pricing yet.

Direct sunlight and Amazons Kindle have always gone hand in hand you cant read the E-Ink without a strong light source. Now SolarKindle cover basks in the suns rays, charges for days and days. It is making sense of lighting requirement with a solar panel, pack into a convenient case, toss in reading lamp and give readers the gift of effortlessly extended battery life exactly what SolarFocus intends to do. It is scheduled to be shown in this week CES, it adds three months of unplugged use, in addition to 5 hours for its included LED lamp. It is slated for January 15th bow, and costs you $80. For more details read the press release.

The 3D feature is incorporated in everything from movies to TVs and now mobiles, gaming consoles and smartphones. Now a Chinese manufacturer Aigo coupling the device with Googles Ice Cream Sandwich and their own glasses-free 3D display (3D Pad) that utilizes a high resolution LCD display similar to Nintendos 3DS, lets users turn the effect on or off. No words on pricing yet or launching plans, but it can be announced outside of a planned February 2012. Dont forget to look at the video.

ViewSonic smartphone has just revealed ViewPhone 3 (V350) which just cleared the FCC. It is previously geared towards Russian and European users, now the company hopes to make a splash with the device at CES. The View Phone 3 features dual-SIM technology and will be marketed in Latin America. It offers quadband GSM and EDGE, and also for North American purposes, 3G limited to 850MHz spectrum. It packs 3.5-inch HVGA display, 512MB RAM and delivers two upgrades over international version an 800 MHz Qualcomm CPU and Android 2.3. ViewSonic planned to sell the unlocked version for mere $250.

Motorola launching two Android devices for the Greater Chinese, European, and Latin American Markets, first one is higher end Motorola MOTOLUXE which we have already seen in China as XT615, packs 4-inch display, 8MP camera with flash, and a nifty lit lanyard slot on the front for email, text, and voicemail notifications. The least dynamic of this duo is the dust-proof, water-resistant, Gorilla-glass-toting DEFY MINI, features 3MP camera, 3.2-inch display, 1650mAh battery that got 10 hours talk and 21 days stand by time. There is no word on pricing yet, but the devices will be available on February. Dont forget to look at the video and for more details read the press release.

Brando introduces a new tablet named GADMEI T863-3D Tablet. The slate runs on Gingerbread offers up 3D images and video on its 8-inch display, without the need for glasses. It also got a HDMI out, a microSD card slot it can be extended up to 32GB, a front-facing camera. It got 512MB RAM on-board, this tablet just costs you $199. Dont forget to look at the video of the tablet and the specs.

US cellular let it be known on Twitter that its first LTE smartphone would arrive in April. Now the question is the device is from Samsung, known internally as SCH-R930. Previously outed by Pocketnow in September as a US cellular device, the device has just made its way through FCC, with a LTE support. The Belief Network currently lacks a top-tier Samsung smartphone, the model number indicates that, we will be looking for a clone of Galaxy Indulge.

AT&T has done a thing for its 2012 Developer Summit, this slot of them making most of them a pause. Titled A Metro Style Hemi, an afternoon session at event will showcase a Windows 8 tablet, reportedly powered by Qualcomms many chips. There are no details on whether or not a physical unit will be on hand with an active LTE radio, but it is useful to know that Microsofts already talking with the carrier about hosting such devices. We are still believing that Windows 8 based tablets are a few months out, but if already AT&Ts already got one in its lab for testing, we should be looking to handle a LTE + Windows 8 tablet sooner than expected.

OLPCs XO 3.0 tablet is finally ready to be unveiled at CES. Nicholas Negroponte apparently either found the unbreakable screens he was looking for or simply decided the crowds at CES 2012 should get to see the tablet first. Its powered by Marvell APM PXA618 SoC that runs Android or Linux and has the same pixel Qi display seen in other OLPCs. It has special charging circuitry, it can top up its battery using solar cells, and hand cranks like its XO1.75. Its useful feature in places electrical sockets are hard to come by. For more details read the press release.

UK retailer Clove technology is accepting pre-order for Googles latest smartphone, complete with 16GB storage and smothered in a milky-white finish. Interested people living across can part with 498 ($770 VAT included) on February 6th to acquire this white Ice-Cream-Sandwich running device. If you are stateside, the retailer also offers shipping to US you can import the Nexus for around 431 or $666. Hit on the source link to pre-order yours.

Samsung introduces some new accessories for its mobile devices. A pair of Bluetooth headsets is on the tap, the HM1800 and HM6000, but, oddly enough, it the companys your sound wired models that are getting the bulk attention. The EHS-60, 63, 70, and 71 all offers a twist on the wired stereo headset models. The high end 70 and 71 are crafted of aluminium and includes welcome features like anti-tangle cords. The interesting one here is, the EHS63 features an in-ear bud for higher frequencies and an open air speaker for lower end. For more details read the press release.