Archive for January, 2009 - Page 5

If you’re constantly running short of available capacity with your digital Video Recorder, forcing you to wipe programs you’d rather not simply to free up space, then this external hard drive unit from Apricorn, known as the Apricorn DVR Xpander, could be exactly what you require in offering additional recording [...]

Dual Electronics has launched the XNAV43HD – a portable navigation device that makes use of HD Radio technology to bring to you live traffic updates. In fact, this HD-radio based navigation information is a first in the U.S. The increased bandwidth offered by HD Radio means that the service can [...]

The GO 740 Live is the latest model out of the TomTom stable of portable navigation devices. The GO 740 receives information via a built-in SIM card and a GPRS modem. The information features include real-time traffic information updated every two-five minutes; local search powered by Google; fuel-price information, weather [...]

Toshiba are set to release two new Vardia digital video recorders to the Japanese market, namely the Vardia RD-G503 and the Vardia RD-E303 DVRs, which come with integrated analogue/digital tuners, offer DVD upscaling to HD and each of which, interestingly, come with two remotes (as if we didn’t already had [...]

Alpine has introduced three car receivers at…the CES, of course. The three receivers, namely the iXA-W404, iDA-X305, and CDE-102 all have their own feature sets with the iXA-W404 being the leader of the pack featuring a 4.3-inch QVGA touch screen digital media receiver and mimicking the iPod coverflow. All three [...]

HTC have taken the wraps off a new, updated version of the GPS touting HTC Touch Cruise smartphone which now comes complete with HTC’s Footprint geo-tagging functionality billed as enabling ‘people to permanently chronicle their special moments by capturing a digital postcard on their phone’.

Audiovox and MediaFLO have joined hands to launch FLO TV to provide in-vehicle mobile TV. The Audiovox and MediaFLO combination will ensure that subscribers can enjoy live, in-vehicle mobile TV at vehicle speed and that too in urban environments.

Blaupunkt and miRoamer launched the world’s first in-dash internet car radio at the CES held earlier this month. Blaupunkt provides the hardware for this exciting idea which frankly in our opinion should have happened earlier. The internet sets you free and now you’re free to access internet radio in all [...]

HP have now detailed their new HP Mini 1100 netbook range which consist of four new models – specifically the HP Mini 1133CL, 1135NR, 1140NR and 1141NR – and, whilst there’s nothing that particularly stands out (yes, they’re atom N270 powered, yes they come with 1GB RAM…) its interesting to [...]

Phonesuit have followed on from their previously released Mophie Juice Pack with the MiLi Power Pack which has been developed specifically for use with Apple’s iPhone (both 2G and 3G models) and which, according to PhoneSuit, will offer an additional 350 hours of standby endurance or six extra hours of [...]