Archive for January, 2009 - Page 14

Once again iRiver has set out to impress with news concerning their new 7” touchscreen, Ethernet based iRiver Wave-Home (or WAVE-HOME as they refer to it) which serves as a multi-faceted communications and multimedia device which offers VOIP, web browsing, a photo viewer, FM tuner and a remote control which [...]

Without anything by way of a fanfare (or a heads-up) Dell have now released their new 13” Dell Studio XPS 1340 and 16” Dell Studio XPS 1640 laptops via their own online store, both of which come with Intel Core 2 Duo processors (namely the 8400 CPU), Nvidia and ATI [...]

Pioneer has announced three BD-Live Blu-ray Disc players – BDP-120, BDP-320, and Elite BDP-23FD. All three models will offer full decoding and bit-stream output for hi-res audio formats such as Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio. Each model will be available with either an on-board memory or an expandable memory. [...]

The LG VX8360 is has been positioned by LG Electronics and Verizon Wireless as a middle-level offering which means it is not as pricey or feature-rich as LG Lotus. It is expected to retail for $50, which given its capabilities as explained below, is a fairly good price. You need [...]

The Ford Sync Version 3.0, essentially a navigation system, is the latest in line from the Sync series. It comes with vastly expanded functionalities at the core of which is Bluetooth capability. When paired with a Bluetooth mobile phone, the Sync 3.0 offers data via the voice channel on almost [...]

Following on from news concerning the new LaCie’s Hard Disk Max which, just like this HDD comes with Neil Poulton minimalist styling, LaCie have just announced their new LaCie LaCinema Classic hard disk which, as the name would suggest, has been developed specifically for serving multimedia content.

Following on from the news concerning Sony’s new X-Series Walkman, Sony Ericsson have announced a new model in its Walkman series of cell phones – the GPS enabled (specifically aGPS) Sony Ericsson W715 Walkman – which comes with both stereo Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity and a 2.4” 262k color 240 [...]

In a press release kindly sent to us by Sony, Sony have detailed their latest model in the ever enduring Walkman series of digital audio players, the new Sony X-Series Walkman, which has the distinction of being the first in the Walkman series of DAPs (though, in the case of [...]

Sony has expanded its Xplod range with no less than eight new in-dash Xplod CD receivers – namely the CDX-GT77UI, CDX-GT930UI, CDX-GT730UI, CDX-GT430U, MEX-BT3700U, MEX-BT2700 and the MEX-BT5700U – of which three offer Bluetooth connectivity whilst all but one come with integrated USB ports.

Iomega’s latest external storage device released at CES has a rather descriptive name. It is called the Home Media Network Hard Drive. It is a single drive device available in two sizes, 500Gb and 1Tb. The Iomega offering is a  simpler one as compared to the MediaSmart EX487, a device [...]