Wed May 12 2004
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03:59 PM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Portable Audio/Video
With its body of features, the Sony VAIO Pocket VGF-AP1 weighs in at 195g with a USB 2.0 interface. Sony claims maximum of 20 hours of battery life. Sony has developed a unique input button grid dubbed "G-Sense." G-Sense offers up touchpad navigation where users scroll through a list of files simply by gesturing their finger toward their selection. The selected song is played by the click of a button. The VAIO Pocket VGF-AP1 is capable of playing MP3, WMA and WAV audio, but, alas, first converts the formats to ATRAC3. To me the VGF-AP1 doesn't look that hot with the dark grey case, but who knows, maybe Sony will offer other designs as well. |
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03:04 PM by Colin Dunstan in More E-Book Readers | Legacy E-Book Devices
According to The Register, driving the U70 is a 1GHz Ultra-low Voltage Pentium M and Intel's i855GM integrated chipset - so yes, it's a Centrino machine. And, indeed, we find the machine has an 802.11g Wi-Fi adaptor built in. It also has a 20GB hard drive and 512MB of memory. There's a USB 2.0 port, and CompactFlash and MemoryStick Pro ports for expansion. The unit is powered by a slimline Lithium Polymer battery capable of providing around two-and-a-half hours' operating time. Japanese consumers will be able to up that to 5.5 hours, courtesy of an alternative, 'extended' battery. But it added 145g to the weight. The size of the screen is five inches, which stands somewhere between a regular PDA and a Tablet PC. Since I found my PDA always too small for reading longer texts, that sounds like a good solution to me. Only negative: Price is targeted at 1871 USD; even the cheaper version still costs 1595 USD |
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Tue May 11 2004
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07:47 AM by Colin Dunstan in E-Book General | Deals and Resources (No...
Free after a 100% MicroPay rebate. |
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Mon May 10 2004
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06:01 PM by ignatz in Miscellaneous | Lounge Check out this great CD. It collects some of the best open source projects for Windows (including OpenOffice, Mozilla, Blender, etc) and compiles them onto a downloadable .iso file. It has a great autoplay navigator and makes installs very easy. It's a great intro to open source for those friends of yours who aren't yet familiar with the concept. I found a couple of things that I hadn't heard of, and I thought that I was pretty familiar... |
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04:26 PM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Announcements
So after a break or two, I had to bite the bullet. The last few nights I spent most of my time to get as much done with the new site as possible. I am sure there are still a few tweaks here and there to be made, but overall I think the new site is pretty much ready to be released to the public. Some of the new features that are already in place: - A new frontpage article system which allows editors to bring interesting articles to the frontpage (I will write more about this feature tomorrow) As always, I am open to your criticism, suggestions and other kind of comments (please just allow me to have a full night of sleep for once I heartly recommend that you visit our new Community Help thread, where you can regularly find new valuable information how to make your stay here more enjoyable (I will add more FAQ items in the next days). Also, please take some minutes to introduce yourself if you haven't done so yet. Best Regards, |
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07:55 AM by Alexander Turcic in More E-Book Readers | Legacy E-Book Devices
The Final would be available June 1st, 2004, according to their website. Some specs are available in German. The Cybook runs Windows CE 3.0. The following formats are supported:
A Compact Flash memory is supported for storing e-books. |
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Wed April 28 2004
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11:03 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones Scientists at Philips have developed new methods to significantly increase the efficiency of PolyLED polymer OLED (organic light-emitting diode) displays. This opens the way to lower power consumption and will further strengthen the inherent advantages of polymer OLED for mobile and other applications, namely high brightness and contrast, wide viewing angle and excellent video capabilities but also enables the use of polymer OLEDs in solid-state lighting applications. Check out Philips' press release! If you are interested to know more about this technology, you should also check out here. Greets |
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Thu April 15 2004
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04:37 PM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones As AP reports,
You can also read Intel press release here (link). Global Internet,
Once a spring of liberty, Autumn chill so near. |
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