New Gadgets

Perhaps it is needless to explain that calls through the Internet are cheaper than those made by mobile phone. Once you could make video calls only by using a computer, as there was no video telephony in IP-telephony market. And this is changing.

Asus Company will soon release a AiGuru SV1 phone, designed to work with Skype. You can use the phone without connecting it to a computer. All that is necessary is the access to the Internet.
In this case you can use standard 802.11, Wi-Fi or ordinary Ethernet. The battery will last until 20 minutes of video without connecting to a power source.
The gadget will go on sale in October. Its approximate price will be $299.

Looking at Philips Pronto TSU9800, you will not immediately say that this is a remote control. Large 6.4 inches touch-screen with VGA-resolution will be associated with a laptop computer of Tablet PC format.
Nevertheless, Pronto TSU9800 can be used to control a wide range of home appliances, and thanks to special fasteners can be installed in any convenient place, such as a wall or a desk.
Moreover, it is possible to connect the gadget to your home wired Ethernet-network or wireless Wi-Fi. Price and date of sales of Philips Pronto TSU9800 has not been reported yet.

In January,this year, Garmin announced the upcoming withdrawal of its novelty – Nuvifone – mobile phone and GPS-navigator in a single device.
Massive sales of Nuvifone will begin in the third quarter of this year (if all goes well).

This phone is expected to be equipped with a 3.5-inch screen, 3.5G support, Wi-Fi, photo and video camera, MP3 player and MPEG4/AAC.Currently there is no data on the memory of this device and no possibility to install additional applications.
I think Nuvifone can be an excellent solution for those who do not like Apple, as it has some features and capabilities than iPhone has.

Alarm clock, combined with a radio is not a novelty. But the alarm clock, combined with the Internet radio is something interesting.
Ability to connect to the Internet via Wi-Fi and play Internet radio stations makes this gadget from the company Aluratek a bottomless music box. After all, you can listen to more than 11 000 stations.

If it is necessary, you can use the gadget for playing MP3.
As for the main function, here is provided an opportunity to set two alarm clocks with different options. You can wake up under the tunes of your favorite song, a radio broadcast or one of the preset sounds of the alarm.
The only disadvantage of this gadget is its price. No matter how many radio stations and alarm clocks it has, but $199 seems a little excessive.

Some digital photo frames are used not only for their intended purpose, but also have a very large number of additional functions. The functionality of these gadgets have exceeded the company Sungale introducing new digital photo frames code named ID800WT.

The gadget has a touch-sensitive display with resolution of 800×600 pixels and 512 MB of internal memory. The novelty has a set of widgets for quick access to weather, news, Picasa photos download service, YouTube service, Gmail e-mail and Internet radio.

The device supports image formats such as JPG, TIF, PNG and BMP, music formats are WMA and MP3, and video format of AVI. Connecting to the Internet via Wi-Fi, a gadget is synchronized with your computer via USB-port.

The main advantage of the ID800WT model is its setup: the gadget starts, as it is switched on, no additional manipulation is required, it is easy to find own wireless network. A distinctive feature is the fact that the touch screen responds to the pressing of any location, not in certain areas, like the majority of frames.

It is obvious that Sungale was mainly focused on widgets, but unfortunately, the manufacturer couldn’t implement this objective in a proper way. For example, it’s not convenient to use Google-post because of the small number of rows which are displayed simultaneously, and some widgets are unstable.

The price of this gadget will be 164 dollars 85 cents.

A fourth representative of fashionable Black Label series, made one more step toward the audience. On YouTube was placed a short video demonstrating the user interface LG BL40. Video also confirms most of the characteristics of the device.

LG BL40 has a delightful 4-inch display with a resolution of 800 x 345 pixels, the user interface of S-class, support for 3G and HSDPA.

The screen is covered with a layer of protection against scratches. In addition, among the list of characteristics can be found multi-touch, Wi-Fi and A-GPS.

According to rumors, LG BL40 also has a 5-megapixel camera. Perhaps a more complete list of the characteristics of new items we’ll receive during an official release.

American Company Dell introduced a new model of the stylish thin laptop XPS M1530. This laptop has incorporated all the best features of XPS M1330 and will be on sale a few months later, but it already had time to collect numerous awards and nominations in computer exhibitions.

A portable computer weighing less than 6 pounds has a thickness of 1 inch, but despite this, it has broad capabilities. A laptop with an aluminum surface shell, performed in several composite colors, has a 15.4-inch screen, built-in web-camera, multimedia touch keys and a sensor to detect fingerprints. It also includes a high quality and replaceable optical drive, graphics card that works with DirectX 10, support for HDMI, mobile connector. In addition, Dell XPS M1530 will be able to work in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth wireless networks.

The buyer can choose, the color of his/her laptop: standard “radical black”, snow-white and blood-red. Initial price of Dell XPS M1530 is $999.

Company CompuLab presented its technical innovation – the smallest PC in the world Fit-PC2.

Dimensions of Fit-PC2 have amazing compactness, combined with surprisingly good technical characteristics.

Its size (115x101x27 mm) allows you to place it everywhere. Pipsqueak fit-PC2 operates on the basis of OS Linux (Ubuntu Linux 8.04). But to those who are more conservative, it offers models with Windows XP.

Fit-PC2 has a processor Atom Z530, 1 GB RAM, 160-gigabyte hard drive. There is also a Gigabit Ethernet-Card, Wi-Fi, USB 2.0 (6 pieces), the slot for flash cards miniSD.

Of course, a miniature personal computer can operate with less noise than the traditional-size colleagues.

For those who are used to save electricity, we have good news:  the gadget crumb consumes minimum power, 6 watt in total.

The cost of Fit-PC2 varies depending on the stuffing. For example, the processor Z510 at 1.1 GHz without a hard drive and pre-install OS is about $ 245. And the most expensive version recruited by Z530 1,6 GHz processor and installed Windows XP will cost up to $ 400.

Great news for fans of Android: soon, in the market, there will appear two more Android devices with QWERTY keyboards and touch screen – HTC Lancaster and Motorola Heron.

HTC Lancaster is the successor of HTC Dream, looks more impressive than the previous one.

In the list of characteristics can be found all that we can expect from a smart phone: Qualcomm MSM7225 processor with a clock speed of 528 MHz, 2.8-inch QVGA touch display, 3-megapixel camera, physical QWERTY keyboard and a full set of communication – HSDPA, Wi – Fi, GPS with support for A-GPS, Bluetooth, microUSB, and memory expanding slot microSD.

It is not yet known what version of Android is set to a novelty, but on Aug. 3, after its release on the market, we will know all the information.

As for Motorola Heron, its ability is the same as that of HTC Lancaster.

Motorola Heron has the same processor and screen, QWERTY keyboard, 3 megapixel camera with LED flash and the possibility of recording QVGA video at a frequency of 24 frames per second. All possible networks are also present: HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS with support for A-GPS, Bluetooth, microUSB, and memory expanding slot microSD.

Interesting point: Motorola Heron was originally designed as a Windows Mobile device, so it is very strange that it is Android.
Motorola Heron will appear on the shelves on the 2^nd of November this year.

Microsoft today officially announced Zune HD, rumors about which had recently been posted on all significant sites and blogs. And it seems that Microsoft is preparing the competitor for the iPod Touch, since the new player will be equipped not only with touch screen technology “multitouch”, but the web browser.

So, Zune HD will exactly be equipped with OLED screen with a diagonal of 3.3 inches (8.4 cm) with a 16:9 ratio and resolution of 480 × 272 pixels. As I wrote above, it will have touch screen technology multitouch.

The combination of HD letters in the name of the player can put you on the idea that it would support the video format 720p. Well, the things are a bit more complicated. Obviously, the screen resolution cannot play the video in HD, but when you connect to your TV … Yes, the player will be able to give a picture in HD, but only on the external screen with a special docking station, which is sold separately.

Basically the same applies to HD radio. Zune HD supports HD radio, which should give the opportunity to listen to best quality music, while receiving detailed information about the song and artist.

Wi-Fi support has always been one of the Zune company’s «chips» (how this all worked is another question), but in a new player, this opportunity will be in more demand. Zune HD will initially have a mobile browser based on Internet Explorer.

Zune HD sale is scheduled for «early autumn» which means that in the upcoming months we can expect technical details and first images of new user interface. Unfortunately, all this is the official information from Microsoft.