Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, a leading mobile phone provider, announced the launch of Soulb, “Spirit of Ultra” (Soul) in bar form factor. By containing all the merits of Soul DNA, Soulb outstands from all of the other bar type handsets available in market today, setting a brand new standard for bar handset category. Continuing the [...]

Almost three years after The Bridge was unveiled, the unit’s successor has finally emerged. Harman Kardon chose today to announce the simplistically named The Bridge II, which effectively connects compatible iPods and the iPhone to any H/K The Bridge-ready component. Once connected, you’ll find obligatory audio / video playback through your home entertainment system as [...]

iRiver isn’t tired of creating new audio devices, and to prove that point the new PMP is the LPlayer. Taking in consideration the features and the cost, I’d say it is pretty good - £75 for 8GB isn’t the price tag you usually see on the market.
Anyhow, if 8GB is too much for you, there [...]

Every now and then the world of technology takes an unexpected turn that revises our settled beliefs. The recent announcement of OLPC’s XO-2 laptop as well as an update that this device could get dual-touch sensitive displays was such a moment and we have to admit that, although it is in an early development stage, [...]

The Korean giant has decided stick Cupertino’s web service into the Symbian S60–based phone, which is due to find its way into gadget–hungry palms in Europe this August.Previously, the only phone you could find with Safari was the, yep you guessed it, iPhone. Obviously it’ll find its way onto the 3G version too, but this [...]

BenQ announced the launch of the world’s slimmest 8-mega-pixel digital camera, the T850 with 1600 ISO, 3x optical zoom and smc PENTAX lens. Sleek and compact at 14.9mm thick, the T850’s chic stainless steel casing (available in black or red) reflects the minimalist operating ease of the camera. Exceptional efficiency and user-friendliness are made possible [...]

LaCie announced today that is has doubled burn speeds to 4x for it d2 Blu-ray Drive and has updated the aluminum alloy case and software suite. The drive records, rewrites and reads 25 gigabytes (GB) or 50GB BD-R (recordable) and BD-RE (rewritable), as well as DVD±RW DL and CD±RW. The LaCie d2 Blu-ray Drive come [...]

Hot on the heels of the N95 NAM, the N95 8GB NAM has just received a firmware refresh courtesy of Nokia. The changes? You guessed it; just about the same as all the other v20 firmware out there, although N95-4 owners already had much of the functionality N95 NAM users had been waiting for. After [...]

VIA is trying its hand once again at the “mini-note” form factor, with a new OpenBook reference design. Its first go round, the Nanobook, was generally panned in light of the ultra-successful Eee PC, but certainly wasn’t ignored. The new design is right in line with the new wave of subnotebooks, with an 8.9-inch 1024 [...]

The first thing to note is that the XPERIA X1 is absed on Widows Mobile 6.1, which marks a departure for Sony Ericsson phones as they’ve never used Windows Mobile before. This brings greater synchronization with the desktop (at least if you have a Windows-based PC, anyway), but at the cost of the dreadful Mobile [...]

The new Orbitsound T6 iPod docking system is supposed to produce a fuller, warmer sound than regular speakers through a ’single point stereo’ sound system (of a single, smallish speaker). The Orbitsound T6 uses triode valve (or tube) amplifiers and (in combination with its patented AirSOUND technology) creates a balanced sound field throughout the room. [...]

Amazon has modestly cut the price its Kindle E-Book reader. Barely released late last year, the white hand-held reader is now 10% off at $359 and buyers will also receive free two-day shipping. Amazon hasn’t released an official statement about the price cut (at least not yet), but this should provide a decent boost in [...]

Japan’s Panasonic will release their new RP-HJE900 earphones on June 15th. Our earphones adopt zirconia, a material generally used in the manufacture of fake diamonds which should suppresses sound distortion. Sound pressure sensitivity is around 100dB/mW, and frequency response is 6Hz–28 KHz! (Impedance: 26Ω). They also feature something interesting… Removable cables.
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