Wednesday 29 November 2006

Motorola ROKR E6 for China    [ 29-11-2006 17:10 ]

Author: Klimov Oleg   Source: engadget.com     Translation by: Rytchkova Anja     

Motorola ROKR E6 is said to be available in China. Moreover the new product has passed through FCC approval and soon will appear in the US, supposedly at T-Mobile. As for the technical specs, they produce favorable impression.

Motorola ROKR E6 features a 2.4” 260K color QVGA display, a 2-megapixel camera, a barcode scanner, Linux OS, the support of push-to-talk, handwritten text input, PDF and MS Office documents. It doesn’t support iTunes service, however there is RealPlayer supporting MP3, MPEG4, AAC+, WAV and RealAudio.

In addition there is an SD slot (up to 2 GB cards), Bluetooth A2DP profile, a 3.5” headphones jack, an FM-tuner, player buttons, USB 2.0 port. It works for 235 hours standby and 7 hours in the talk mode. The price tag is $545.

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Samsung preparing its YP-K3    [ 29-11-2006 16:31 ]

Author: Klimov Oleg     Translation by: Rytchkova Anja     

Samsung is said to expand its compact audio player portfolio with a new model YP-K3, which is a junior model of the YP-K5 player.

There is little info on the new product: a 1.8” OLED LCD, an FM-tuner, 1, 2 or 4 GB onboard (even 8 GB is rumored), the support of main multimedia formats. By the way, it looks like Philips GoGear SA9100 / SA9200, but we don’t mean the plagiary.

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Nintendo sold 600 thousand Wii consoles over a week    [ 29-11-2006 13:03 ]

Author: Klimov Oleg   Source: tgdaily.com     Translation by: Rytchkova Anja     

November turned to be the hottest month for console gamers – this month gamers got the opportunity to buy long-awaited game consoles: Sony PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii. Sony experienced definite problems with meeting high demand for its consoles, at the same time Nintendo sold 600 thousand Wii consoles over the first week!

Well, Nintendo raised some $190 million over the first week on sales of its 250-dollar console, accessories and games for Wii. I’d note that Nintendo Wii had a more successful start compared to Sony PS3 and Xbox 360. Last year Microsoft sold about 400 thousand units over the first week. Let’s see what will be next.

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Nokia’s outlook for 2007: mobile phone sales to grow and the average price to drop    [ 29-11-2006 11:24 ]

Author: Verа Kozlova     Translation by: Rytchkova Anja     

At Capital Market Days event Nokia has shared its forecast for mobile industry in the year to come.

The company predicts that the mobile market will grow by 10% in 2007 compared to the estimated 970 million in 2006. The growth will exceed 15% in the Asia Pacific region, China, Africa, Mid and Near East, while in Europe, North and Latin America it will be lower than 10%.

Despite of sales growth the company expects cutting down of average release prices for mobile phones, this is a sign of stronger effect of developing markets and tough competition among vendors. Besides Nokia has shifted the 3 billion mark of the subscriber’s base from 2008 to 2007.

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New Philips Xenium 9@9g    [ 29-11-2006 09:11 ]

Author: Serge Novikov     Translation by: Rytchkova Anja     

The US Federal Communications Commission has approved a GSM mobile phone Philips Xenium 9@9g developed by the French company WIZ4COM Technologies. This is a classical candy bar phone with a color display and a 1.3-megapixel camera, and the support of Bluetooth wireless technology.

The short specs of Philips Xenium 9@9g:

• Connectivity: Bluetooth, IrDA, USB
• Messages: SMS, MMS, e-mail
• Display: 65K colors
• Voice dial
• Connection to TV
• Camera: 1.3-megapixel
• Built-in games
• Java
• WAP browser
• Other specs: calculator, currency converter, organizer, world time, voice recorder, alarm clock, stopwatch, timer.

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