Friday 19 May 2006

Media players are more successful than PDA in Korea    [ 19-05-2006 15:09 ]

Author: Klimov Oleg   Source: akihabaranews     Translation by:     

The increasing number of different compact devices is leading to gradual generalization and appearance of ever more functional products on the market. Recently the Korean market has been witnessing the popularity of personal media players (PMP), according to the analysts, they will force out handheld PC in future.

The matter is that the emerging media players support plenty of technologies and services – DMB, GPS, radio broadcasting, they are equipped with a large LCD and tools to view Internet pages, i.e. often the functionality is higher than that of PDA. If the forecasts come true, the annual number of sold PMP in Korea would exceed 6 million by 2009.

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30GB media player based on Win CE 5.0    [ 19-05-2006 13:07 ]

Author: Klimov Oleg   Source: brighthand.com     Translation by:     

The choice of media players on the market is ever growing, and the manufacturers offer more functional products. Next month we’ll see a new device by the Korean company Tinnos. It is powered by Win CE 5.0 operating system working on a 1.8” 30 GB HDD.

Its 4.3” LCD has a 1600x1200 pixel resolution typical for screens with a 20” diagonal or longer. The player weighs just 200 g and measures 131x76x22 mm. The player has an audio jack to plug standard headphones and USB 2.0 interface for PC connection. The shipments will start in June, the price is not yet disclosed.

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Shareholders of Seagate and Maxtor approve the deal    [ 19-05-2006 08:57 ]

Author: Klimov Oleg     Translation by:     

As you may know, last December Seagate announced the acquisition of another popular drive maker – Maxtor. The deal is estimated at $2 bln. The shareholders of both companies have recently approved the deal.

Over the first quarter 2006 the earnings of Maxtor dipped by $102 million to $881 million, a 17% decrease. Seagate, on the contrary, was successful with $2.29 bln of income and $274 mln of earnings.

The total staff of the united will make up 56500 employees – 43000 employees of Seagate plus 13500 employees of Maxtor.

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LG VX8400 – a dual-band CDMA clamshell with Bluetooth    [ 19-05-2006 08:54 ]

Author: Serge Novikov     Translation by:     

At the FCCsite (the US Federal Communications Commission) you can find the info on a not yet announced dual-band CDMA clamshell by the South Korean company LG Electronics. The index of the model is VX8400. It supports Bluetooth.

Other features of the VX8400 are two color LCD, a 1.3-megapixel camera, 64-tones polyphony, GPS-services (gpsOne), a media player with control buttons on the top. Unlike its junior model it lacks slots for storage cards.

The main specs:

• Chipset: Qualcomm MSM6550
• Memory: 1Gbit NAND flash, 256 Mbit LP-SDRAM
• Main LCD: 2.2”, TFT, 176x 220 pixels, 262K colors
• External LCD: 1.3”, TFT, 96x96 pixel, 65K colors
• Stream MPEG-4 video (QCIF resolution, 15 fps, up to 15 minutes)
• Camera: 1.3-megapixel, CMOS with backlight
• Voice functions: voice recorder, voice marks, voice dial
• Graphical 3D-menu and animation

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