Samsung's 70-inch LCD TV biggest yet to hit retail

Sure, those 100-inch LCDs are all well and good if your living room happens to encompass a large international tradeshow at all times, but if you'd prefer an LCD TV you can actually purchase and lug home for reals, Samsung's new 70-incher is your biggest option yet. They're busting out this monster in the first half of 2007, and are packing in all the niceties like a 2000:1 contrast ratio, a sub-8ms response time, 600 nits of brightness and of course a juicy 1080p resolution. The display bests the 65-incher from Sharp which currently holds the LCD throne, and Samsung will be showing it off at the upcoming International Meeting on Information Displays on the 23rd of this month -- where we doubt it will fail to impress.

Silver K800 for the secret agents

Never miss a shot, James Bond style, with Sony Ericsson’s limited edition silver Cyber-shot™ phone

Sony Ericsson announced new "top secret" versions of the highly popular Sony Ericsson K800 and Sony Ericsson K790 mobile phones. The new "eyes only" versions are styled in silver and are featured in the upcoming James Bond movie "Casino Royal".

Daniel Craig stars as James Bond in the new 007 reel by Sony Pictures and the restyled Cyber-shot camera phones along with the Sony Ericsson M600 smartphone are put to good use in saving the world from yet another threat.

Of course, the camera phones will come with rich 007 content such as wallpapers, ringtones, and full video movie trailer. The "Casino Royale" is due to be released globally on 17 November 2006 while the special edition Silver K800 and K790 Cyber-shot phones will be available for a limited period of 3 months during Q4 2006.

Sony Ericsson press release

Never miss a shot, James Bond style, with Sony Ericsson’s limited edition silver Cyber-shot™ phone

London, October 12, 2006 – Sony Ericsson today announced special silver versions of the K800 and K790 Cyber-shot™ camera phones as used by James Bond in the eagerly awaited new Bond movie, Casino Royale. These exclusive new camera phones which will be available for a limited period of three months, enable the world’s most famous secret agent to stay on top of the action with exactly the same sense of style and performance as Sony Ericsson phones bring to everyday life. So whether it’s ‘enemy surveillance’ or you just want to take high quality photos and share them instantly with friends and family, the Cyber-shot™ K800 and K790 phones are a must.

Casino Royale is released globally on 17 November 2006. Daniel Craig stars as "007" James Bond, the smoothest, sexiest, and most lethal agent on Her Majesty's Secret Service. Based on the first Bond book written by Ian Fleming, the story reveals the making of the world's greatest secret agent.

The silver K800/K790 phones are a natural fit with the cool, sophisticated style of James Bond – a man who doesn’t do things by half-measures. Both are highly capable mobile phones that also provide cutting edge camera features, a 3.2 Megapixel camera with Autofocus, Xenon Flash for lowlight conditions and BestPic™, which allows the user to take nine pictures of a moving object simultaneously and choose to keep the best shot. High speed 3G data transfer then allows the user to share images easily and instantly so you can share them with friends, colleagues - or even MI6 – as you take their picture.

No special edition handset of this caliber would be complete without a host of “007”-themed content. The silver K800 and K790 Cyber-shot™ phones are equipped with Bond wallpapers, music ringtones and the full video movie trailer. The phones also offer Picture Blogging for uploading photos to a personal online blogsite & PictBridge™ for printing direct to a printer, without the need for a PC or laptop.

The special edition Silver K800 (Dual mode UMTS 2100MHZ & GPRS) and K790 (Tri Band EDGE) Cyber-shot™ phones will be available worldwide during Q4 2006.

Microsoft announces Vista prices

Microsoft has just announced the official, real-dealprices for Windows Vista. So, without the benefit of a timpani drumroll, here's the deets, straight from the horse's mouth (this time): Windows Vista Business ($300 full, $200 upgrade); Windows Vista Home Premium ($240 full, $160 upgrade); Windows Vista Home Basic ($200 full, $100 upgrade); Windows Vista Ultimate ($400 full, $260 upgrade). Although Vista is to be released to the "volume license customers" in November 2006 and the general public in January 2007, what if you wanted a preview sooner than that? Our peeps up in Redmond have also said that the company will be make the Release Candidate 1 available through the soon to be re-opened Vista Customer Preview Program. The only question we have left is which VAR is going to release the first Mac with Vista pre-installed?

Nokia at CES - N93i, N76, N800 tablet

The 40th annual Consumer Electronics Show, a major international technologies event, hosted the announcement of several new Nokia devices - the updated version of the Nokia N93, the new Nokia N76, the Nokia 6131 NFC and the internet tablet Nokia N800.

The Nokia N93i is the Nokia's answer to all the criticism that the original N93 received due to its hefty size and weight. The updated camcorder, as we like to call it, due to its unique video capturing capabilities, has obviously been on a strict diet since now it comes a whole 10 mm shorter, 3 mm thinner and weighs 17 g less. Furthermore, the retail package of the Nokia N93i would now include 1GB miniSD card instead of the original 128MB one. The difference in size was in fact achieved by using a smaller capacity battery which is not that good idea since the N93 didn't score well in that department even with the original 1100mAh. The new Nokia N93i battery life would possibly be even worse thanks to the new power-hungry 16 million colors TFT display it would be equipped with. The Nokia N93 would be the first of the Nokia mobiles that would come preconfigured for use with the new direct image & video uploading service Vox. The Nokia N93i is expected to start shipping in the first quarter of 2007 with an estimated sales price of approximately 600EUR.

The Nokia N76 is the truly new addition to the N-series. It's a stylish ultra slim clamshell, running on the Symbian 9.1 S60UI. The Nokia N76 would be a music-oriented device which is clearly stated through the presence of dedicated music keys on the handset cover. It would also sport a 2.4" 16M colors TFT display, a 2 megapixel camera, a secondary QVGA camera for video calls, and a FM radio. The connectivity features of the new slim Nokia would include quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support plus UMTS, Bluetooth 2.0 and USB. The new Nokia N76 would come in an elegant design with a thickness of 13.7 mm which would make it a tad slimmer than the once famous Motorola RAZR. The Nokia N76 is expected to start shipping in the first quarter of 2007 with an estimated sales price of approximately 390 EUR.

The N800 Internet Tablet is a portable multimedia device based on the Internet Tablet OS 2007 (the Nokia's desktop Linux based OS code-named Maemo). It would measure 144/75/13 mm and would weigh 206 g. The N800 would be equipped with a 65K wide screen touchscreen TFT display with a resolution of 800x480 pixels and would have 128MB ROM and 256MB flash memory expandable with the two integrated memory slots. The N800 won't have a phone hardware but some attractive features include stereo speakers, VOIP calls with an integrated webcam, fullscreen QWERTY keyboard and various connectivity options. The Nokia N800 is commercially available immediat?lly in the United States and in selected markets in Europe at estimated retail price of 399 EUR/USD.

PS3 hits Europe: March 23, €599 ($776), 60GB only

Well friends, the moment many of you have been waiting for has finally arrived: Sony's just lifted the months-long veil of secrecy that's been shrouding the PlayStation 3's impending European launch. The good news -- and there's not much of it here, folks -- is that March 23rd is indeed the date you need to circle on your calendars; all that talk of an April release turned out to be bullplop. However, there will only be a million consoles available for the entire continent, and as we mentioned before, each and every one of those will be of the pricier 60GB variety. Now, will they cost the same $600 that consumers have been paying in the US? Hardly; expect to drop a cool £425 (that's over 840 freakin' bucks) for the privilege of getting your PS3 on -- assuming that you can even procure one without looting or rioting, that is. We'll have more on the launch as this story develops, but we're thinking that you might wanna stop wasting your time here in favor of securing a place in line at your local gaming retailer -- as we know all too well, things are gonna start getting pretty hairy pretty quick

Nokia 8800 Sirocco review: Luxury redefined

Sirocco is currently the most expensive Nokia model on the market. It has a sapphire protecting glass and glossy steel panels; among its standard accessories are a leather case, two batteries, a earphone, a Bluetooth handsfree, and a cleaning cloth. Apparently, future owners of Nokia 8800 Sirocco will be happening to rarely run one into another if ever: the reason? Nokia 8800 Sirocco costs a good deal of money.

Key features
luxurious design
body made of glossy steel
display protected by a sapphire glass
fine TFT display with 262K colors
special ringtones and themes
2-megapixel camera
EDGE
Bluetooth
extensive, high-quality accessories in the retail package


Main disadvantages
high price
no memory card slot
EDGE and GPRS of Class 8
no system connector
few innovations as to the forerunner Nokia 8800

Rich managers in gleaming limousines, celebrities, businessmen, directors and all kinds of important social figures need toys, and, out of principal, these are usually supposed to be expensive. Nokia is one of the mobile manufacturers that has been constantly meeting such requirements for plenty of years now, launching one model after another within the so called 8-line. You surely remember the 8910 model as well as the following improved one 8910i; two years later Nokia 8800 hit the market. Today we’ve got a new jewel - Nokia 8800 Sirocco Edition.

apple reinvents the phone.iphone

iPhone combines three products — a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, maps, and searching — into one small and lightweight handheld device. iPhone also introduces an entirely new user interface based on a large multi-touch display and pioneering new software, letting you control everything with just your fingers. So it ushers in an era of software power and sophistication never before seen in a mobile device, completely redefining what you can do on a mobile phone.

Equipped with 4 or 8GB of integrated memory, the Apple iPhone has got more than the needed storage space to bring your photos, videos and music to life straight into your palm. It's much like iPod in that respect and features a large 3.5" touchscreen TFT display with a resolution of 320x480 pixels. But unlike an iPod it can take pictures with the integrated 2 megapixel camera. It even has an accellerometer which allows it to tell whether you are holding the device in landscape or portrait mode so that it can turn the display orientation correspondingly. And all that mobile virtuosity comes at the meager thickness of 11.6 mm.

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