From the monthly archives:

February 2007

Sony KDL-46V3000 and KDL-40V3000: 40″ and 46″ 1080p LCD TVs

February 28, 2007

Sony announced many consumer electronics goodies on February 27 including seven new LCD TVs. But only two were capable of Full HD 1080p, so I will focus on the V-series

Samsung PAVV Cannes PDP TV: 42″ HD, 50″ HD, 63″ Full HD

February 27, 2007

Samsung Electronics’ Cannes plasma display panel (PDP) TV is the culmination of the company’s many display enhancement technologies such as: Ultra DayLight, Natural True Color, and Real Motion Studio. The Cannes PDP TV features a contrast ratio of 1000:1 in a bright room and a much improved 15000:1 in dark rooms due the its Ultra [...]

Sharp AQUOS R Series

February 23, 2007

Sharp is introducing five AQUOS R Series LCD TV models on March 10, 2007 in the Japanese market. The five R Series include a 42″, 46″, 52″, 57″ and a 65″ LCD TV and all of them feature a 120Hz frequency that is double the normal of 60Hz resulting in better on screen performance with [...]

Canon PowerShot TX1: Video and Pictures

February 22, 2007

Finally, Canon has come out with the PowerShot TX1. It’s function is very similar to Sanyo’s HD1 in that it is capable of recording video in 720p or with a pixel format of 1280 x 720. (The HD1 only takes pictures at 5.1 megapixel.) I have never really liked the aesthetics of Sanyo’s HD1 so [...]

Sony IMX017CQE: 1/1.8″ CMOS Sensor with 60fps Output

February 19, 2007

Sony’s IMX017CQE is a high-speed image sensor that is only 1/1.8″ in size and outputs an amazing 60fps with a 6.4 megapixel format. 6.4 megapixels at 60fps equals to 384 megapixels per second! What does this mean? With this single chip, not only can you take 6.4 megapixel images, which would be good enough for [...]

HTC Advantage X7500: 5" Windows Mobile 6 Device

February 19, 2007

The HTC Advantage X7500 sports a 5″ touchscreen LCD with a pixel format of 640 x 480 and features a 3 megapixel camera, a second camera with 640 x 480 capability, Bluetooth 2.0, TV output, GPS with TomTom, a 8GB hard disk and a miniSD expansion slot. The HTC Advantage X7500 is rated to last [...]

HP TouchSmart: Touch Screen PC

February 19, 2007

HP’s TouchSmart PC is an all-in-one touch-screen PC and is powered by Microsoft’s Vista and AMD’s Turion 64 X2 TL-52. HP held a consumer press launch in Seoul, South Korea from January 24 to 25. There is only a single power cord coming out of the TouchSmart. The LCD is a 19″ wide with a [...]

Meizu M8, miniOne: Apple iPhone Look Alike

February 13, 2007

I opened up Engadget and there it was, Apple’s iPhone. But, no, not really, just something that looks very close to it. It is Meizu’s M8 or miniOne. The OS within the miniOne is clearly in Chinese but the icons, their shapes, sizes and locations bear clear resemblance to Apple’s iPhone.

According to the article, there [...]

Kavli Institute for Nanscience, Philips Research Labs: Quantum-dot Nanowire LED

February 12, 2007

Scientists from the Kavli Institute for Nanoscience and Philips Research Labs were able to develop a light-emitting diode from a single quantum-dot nanowire that may lead to single nanowire based fabrication of optoelectronic nanodevices. The quantum-dot nanowire LED could enable the combination of single-electron transport and single-photon optics. Nanowire based LEDs are more efficient in [...]

Samsung SPH-P9000 Deluxe MIT: Unique UMPC

February 12, 2007

Samsung’s SPH-P9000 Deluxe MIT is a unique UMPC that opens up to reveal a pretty large QWERT keyboard. Another unique feature of the SPH-P9000 is the Mobile WiMax capability. Although Engadget was able to test it’s WiMax capability, whether it was the network or the prototype, connection was dialup-slow.

The SPH-P9000 also has CDMA EV-DO connectivity, [...]


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