Well Sony is swinging around those new VAIO X Media Center boxes we mentioned a bit ago. The VAIO XL1 Digital Living System includes HDMI video out, WiFi, an external DVD changer, and a wireless keyboard with track pad. PC Magazine has the review, and they’re definite fans: they say it’s got more inputs and outputs than any other Media Center they’ve spied, and the 200 disc DVD changer can rip through 200 CDs automatically, or burn 200 blank DVDs without monitoring. There’s a catch though: just one analog TV tuner. Well, that and Sony’ll take a hefty sum of money off your hands while they’re at it — $2300 will net you the set.

Source: Engadget.com and PCMag.com
More pictures and review here.

Sony’s NW-A1000, barely a month old, is already getting a bump from 6 to 8GB (which makes this one of the first 8GB 1-inch drive based portable music players we’ve yet seen). The new NW-A1200 will go on sale exclusively in Japan via their SonyStyle website, available in any color you want as long as you want gold or black.

Source: akihabaranews.com and engadget.com

Sony announces new All-in-One LCD TV and PC.

New Sony VAIO VA TV-PC VGC-VA10G and VGC-VA11G feature a 20 inch LCD TV (1366x768pixels) with Sony XBRITE technology. The PC inside the monitor is powered by a Intel Pentium 4 with either 3 or 3.2Ghz. The Sony VAIO VA TV-PC runs Windows XP Media Center Edition. Other features include, DVD-Burner, wi-fi, 1GB RAM, 250GB/320GB HDD and a Radeon X700 video card.
The Sony VAIO VA TV-PC will be available later this month for about $2,000.
More details in this Sony press-release.

Source: 14u.com and engadget.com

Normally we’d just skip right over yet another random Pocket PC Phone, especially one that is almost definitely not going to find its way over here, but Lenovo’s new ET980 stands out from the crowd because it just happens to sport a built-in four megapixel digital camera. Not the biggest or baddest you can do in a cellphone (that honor goes to Samsung’s seven megapixel SCH-V770), but this is the highest resolution you can get in a Windows Mobile device, at least for the time being. Can’t vouch for image quality (why do we have this feeling that the optics on this thing are for crap?), but the ET980 has a 312MHz processor, 64MB of RAM, and 128MB of flash ROM.

Source: Engadget.com
More pictures here

A new Nokia 6803 (what’s also been referred to as the 6780) smartphone has apparently turned up in China. The 6803 (or whatever it is) apparently rocks the Symbian 9.1 + UIQ 3 platform and appears to feature a 1.3 megapixel camera with flash, SD slot, MP3 player, QVGA touchscreen, and weighs-in at 5.3 ounces. At 4.6 x 2 x 0.7-inches it’s both narrower and thinner than the Sony Ericsson P990 although just a tad longer.

From Engadget.com
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Portable audio enthusiast site The MP3 Players has a side-by-side comparitive gallery featuring the iPod nano and the rebranded Dyne Telecom Tuny8 (which is being sold in China as the Cube T8). For those of you just tuning in, the Tuny8 is/was a smallish DAP with video playback that bears some resemblence to Olympus’ m:robe MR-100 (the one that arrived with a bang and disappeared with a whimper). As you can see, the T8 is smaller but thicker than the nano, although it makes good use of that extra space by including an FM tuner and a bigger, more colorful screen than Apple’s darling. For more style and less money (and availibility in the US), though, the nano seems like the way to go.

From: Engadget.com
For more size comparison pictures, click here.