First we had separate tellies, videos, phones, cameras, computers, games-consoles and Walkmans ™, etc. Then we progressed and had tele-video/DVDs, phones with cameras, PDAs, mp3-players (also with phones and cameras and kitchen sinks).

Now here we have an mp3 player, video player (with surround(!) sound), ‘PDA-functions’, games, optional GPS, photo-viewer, and the bedroom, bathroom and kitchen sinks all in one! Though it’s lamentably missing a camera. Though fear not, I daresay they’ll have one in the next generation.

What does speak to me however is the screen-saving clamshell design, the continuous-video 4-hour battery life (8hrs for audio), and the drag-and-drop file transfer (without tediously converting all your files into bizarre formats). Not bad if you have an attention-span long enough to look at the same 4″ for 2 hours or more! [Sara Wallen]

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From Shinyshiny

Some of you may remember, back in 2004, a company called Eopstech we planning to make an SDIO TV tuner which got all us E200 users quite excited. Well, its been some time coming but it looks as though the reality of an SDIO TV tuner is finally upon us. Listed as being both NTSC and PAL compatible, this add-on is due to rock our analogue TV worlds sometime in March. Although from the pictures it would seem that not only does it need a separate battery pack but the sound will be off-board too! Not being able to use your device’s own sound system, while disappointing, could be to do with the bandwidth limitations of SDIO.

More information can be found HERE

From MSMobilenews

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A comparison with a Nintendo DS, for some reason. The “too big for a mobile phone” W-ZERO3 can hide in the shadow of the gigantic DS.

More pics and review from Engadget

The Coby V-ZON portable DVD player was made, as you can see, basically for kids. With just a 3.5-inch LCD and shockproof technology that plays DVDs, CDs and MP3, it’s easy to tote, simple to use and comes with a rechargeable battery that will last 6 hours for music and 2.5 hours for movies. Nothing great, but OK. Now, it looks like the V-ZON will also come with 12 Sega games built in (see package details). That’ll keep ‘em busy for sure.

COBY, portable DVD player with SEGA games built-inside [AVING]

Pricing for Coby portable DVD players [Amazon]

From Gizmodo.com

Here’s one for the “traveling-executive-by-day/extreme-gamer-by-night” crowd. The Raptor 766X actually has two graphics engines: an Intel integrated graphics processor for number crunching and an nVIDIA 6600 G-Force Go for fragging. Why not just go with the more powerful graphics card and burn through those spreadsheets? Xtreme figures there are times when you’d like to preserve your batteries, and running a less robust graphics engine is one way to do that. We’re not sure how much juice that actually saves, compared to other measures like stepping down your CPU’s clock speed, lowering your display’s brightness (the display, after all, accounts for as much as a third of a laptop’s power consumption) and spinning down your hard drive. But if it helps you justify writing this off as a business expense, more, er, power to you.

[Via LAPTOP Magazine]

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From Engadget

The first ideas about a smaller, cheaper P990 (call it “P970″ or “P980″) involved the lack of the Qwerty keyboard and the resulting reduction in size, but new spyshots of the external case of what could the final design or just a prototype prove that we’ll still have a Qwerty keyboard under the screen, with wiser arrangement of the number keys. Even so, shots comparing it to a W800 show it is indeed smaller than a P990, and a lot slimmer. The lack of 3G and WiFi must have helped, I wonder what other features are going to be downgraded. The JogDial and QVGA touchscreen seem to be there, at least. Click through for all the pics.
[Via Gsmport.hu, thanks Johannes for the tip]

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