Thursday 06 July 2006

Acer e310: a new GPS-navigator    [ 06-07-2006 15:59 ]

Author: Verа Kozlova     Translation by:     

The European unit of Acer has announced a new compact GPS-navigator Acer e310 with low price. It is equipped with a GPS-module SiRFStar III and preinstalled Navteq 2006 software. In addition to navigation the device can view digital photos and play MP3-files.

The navigator has compact size – 103x58.4x17.5 mm and weighs 130 g. Besides there is a 2.8” LCD supporting landscape and portrait orientation. The approximate price makes up €269, i.e. about $345, the release is scheduled for August.

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Sharp announces shipments of the PV200 aka Sidekick 3    [ 06-07-2006 14:37 ]

Author: Verа Kozlova     Translation by:     

Sharp has announced the start of shipment of its PV200 communicator to the North American operators. The device is known under the name Sidekick 3, which was recently announced by T-Mobile. Sharp says, this is its first communicator totally made by itself – from design to production. The release date of the PV200 is set for July 10, 2006.

The specs of Sharp PV200:

• GSM (850/1800/1900 MHz), GPRS and EDGE
• TFT LCD 65K colors
• 1.3-megapixel CMOS-camera with flash
• QWERTY-keyboard
• MP3-player
• 64 RAM and 64 MB flash memory
• Slot for miniSD cards
• Bluetooth 2.0
• HTML-browser supporting Java Script
• IM messengers AIM, Yahoo Messenger and MSN Messenger
• Talk time – 4.5 hours
• Standby time - 72 hours
• Dimensions – 130x59x22 mm
• Weight - 182 g

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LG MX240 CDMA clamshell approved by the FCC    [ 06-07-2006 11:20 ]

Author: Serge Novikov     Translation by:     

Today the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved a dual-mode CDMA 1x mobile phone MX400 made by LG Electronics.

The short specs of LG MX240:

• Dimensions: 84x44x22 mm
• Weight: 80 g
• Internal LCD: TFT, 128x160 pixels, 262K colors
• External LCD: OLED, 96x64 pixels, 65K colors
• Messages: SMS, MMS
• Games: Brew
• VGA camera with video capture
• Sound: 32-tones polyphony
• WAP-browser
• Other: address book for 500 contacts, notes (40 x 32 symbols), calendar (100 alarms), 3 alarm clocks, calculator, converter, world time.

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Gigabyte released a GPS-handset g-YoYo    [ 06-07-2006 11:06 ]

Author: Verа Kozlova     Translation by:     

Gigabyte Communications, a subsidiary of Gigabyte Technology, has announced the release of its new mobile phone g-YoYo. I’d remind you it was introduced at CeBIT 2006 in March.

The g-YoYo is peculiar for the rich set of GPS-functions. It comes with e-maps (apparently maps of Taiwan) containing 14 thousand objects. For example, it has the function of arrival alarm, so you won’t miss marked objects, besides there are voice instructions and SOS function, which sends an alarm message after the special button is pressed.

The specs of g-YoYo:

• GSM (900/1800/1900 MHz), GPRS Class 10
• 2” TFT LCD 262K colors
• 2.1-megapixel camera with video capture opportunity
• 64-tones polyphony
• MP3-player
• Electronic dictionary (English-Chinese and Chinese-English)
• Slot for miniSD cards
• Li-Ion battery 1050 mAh
• Talk time – up to 5 hours
• Standby time – up to 300 hours
• Dimensions – 99.7x48.5x19.8 mm
• Weight - 105 g

The recommended price for the Taiwanese market is 10900 new Taiwanese dollars, i.e. some $340.

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Archos to introduce a media player supporting Wi-Fi and GPS    [ 06-07-2006 01:52 ]

Author: Klimov Oleg     Translation by:     

At the website of Archos, a popular maker of compact multimedia devices, you can watch a video clip devoted to the new device, which will soon be unveiled.

The model under the index 504 will have a traditional 4.3” LCD, a 30 GB HDD, Wi-Fi, GPS and an integrated 3.5G modem (it might support HSDPA technology) to download digital content to the player. Unfortunately, there are no more details so far.

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