Meizu CEO revealed today in a forum post that the Meizu M6 Mini Player SE announced late 2006 is finally in progress. The M6 SE is identical to the M6 in everything except thickness, it’s expected to be a mere 7mm thin – the same thickness as Meizu’s most recent offering, the Music Card.
Currently, it looks as if only a 8GB version will be produced and sold at 999 CNY (approx. $130 USD) August this year.
While we’re still trying to figure out whether the SE stands for Special Edition or Second Edition, Chinese Meizu fans have been speculating about the M6 SE, predicting that the SE will use the same firmware as vanilla M6, that the current 700mAh battery will be swapped for a smaller 500mAh battery and that internal wirings will need reworking.
Thanks to member xx-c for the find.
[Via Meizu BBS]
Take a look at the Samsung E210, a good example of the level of pretty cellphone technology you can get for around $200. If you’re not looking for email capability, Web access, a QWERTY keyboard, and a monthly cellphone bill that’s more expensive than dinner at a New York steakhouse, maybe this 16.5mm-thin flip phone is for you.
Don’t you just love it when Samsung trickles down its super-slim technology from its Ultra Edition line of cellphones, bestowing its slim benefits on the great unwashed? You won’t suffer too much with this bauble, though—it’s got just the right stuff to get the job done. Take the jump to see the spec list.
GSM 900/1800/1900, GPRS class 10 connectivity
120×160 px, 65K color OLED screen
96×96 px, monochrome external display
1.3 mpx camera
176×144/15 fps video capture
10MB of Internal memory
microSD memory card slot
Bluetooth, USB
Dimensions: 92×44×16.5 mm
Weight: 82g
These phones will first be available in Europe; expect to see that $200 price moving a lot lower if you buy into a cellphone service plan. – Charlie White
Samsung E210 – thin and affordable clamshell [Unwired View]
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- Filed under: General
- Date: May 26,2007
You got this thing wedged in your ear because otherwise you can’t hear what the damn whippersnappers are all yappin’ about. Then along comes this other earpiece you’re supposed to jam in your ear, so that you can talk on your cellphone while driving or juggling or whatever the kids are doing these days. Along comes some German designer who says, why not use the same contraption for both purposes? Figures.
It’s so obvious, I wonder why Jawbone or Plantronics didn’t think of it first. (Maybe they have—readers?) The trouble is probably execution. This prototype was created for an actual hearing-aid manufacturer, but the functional details are scant and in German. All Babel Fish could say is, "In this innovative hearing aid with navigational auxiliary functions applied it falls thus, one on older humans cut handling to develop user guidance and product diagram." Maybe your Deutsche is better. – Wilson Rothman
Hörgerät "Sinus" – Audia Akustik [Triagonale via Yanko Design]
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- Filed under: Displays
- Date: May 26,2007
We took a peek at several of Sotec’s latest machines yesterday, and today we’ve got a 22-inch "Vista-certified" widescreen LCD monitor from the same firm that boasts an HDMI input.
Additionally, you’ll notice a 1,680 x 1,050 resolution, VGA input, five-millisecond response time, a 1,000:1 contrast ratio, dual two-watt stereo speakers built-in, and 300 cd/m2 brightness to boot. Of course, the ho hum design leaves something to be desired, but if you’re lookin’ to do HDMI on your PC display, you can snag the LB22JW-02 right now for ¥49,800 ($410).
[Via Impress]
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- Filed under: Laptops
- Date: May 26,2007
It’s a little late to the game, but Panasonic has now seen fit to bestow some of that Santa Rosa mojo on a couple of its ruggedized Toughbook laptops, recently announcing its new CF-74 and CF-52 models based on the platform.
From the looks of it, the CF-74 (pictured above) will be more or less the same as the existing model of the same name, with the notable exception of all those Santa Rosa-related upgrades, including Intel’s 965 Express chipset, an unspecified Core 2 Duo processor, integrated 802.11n WiFi, and Intel’s Turbo Memory cache card. The CF-52, on the other hand, takes things up a whole digit from the current CF-51 model, with it getting some of the added security benefits of the more business-minded Centrino Pro platform.
According to Panasonic, the CF-74 will be the first out the gate in June, with the CF-52 following sometime in July, although there’s no word on pricing for either of ‘em just yet. [Warning: PDF link]
via engadget
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- Filed under: Handhelds
- Date: May 26,2007
We’ve known for almost two years now that Palm has been cooking up a mysterious mobile computing device for what founder Jeff Hawkins calls the company’s ‘third business’ (with the other two being PDAs and smartphones, obviously), and now several sites are claiming that attendees of Walt Mossberg’s D: All Things Digital conference will be the first to learn hard details about this ambitious project.
Although it’s been public knowledge that Hawkins would be speaking at next Wednesday’s D for some time now, both Brighthand and I4U are reporting that he will indeed be divulging material information on what many people are predicting will be a UMPC-like tablet codenamed ‘Hawk’ and powered by Palm’s recently-announced Linux-based OS; when we contacted Palm, they would only say that "Jeff…will be presenting something to do with Palm."
For whatever it’s worth, we do know that Hawkins shares our love of cramming as much power, storage, connectivity (well, for the most part), and usability into as small a package as possible, so to those folks who have been discounting Palm and its seeming inability to innovate, you may be in for quite a surprise next week.
Read – I4U
Read – Brighthand’s predictions
via engadget
- Author: admin
- Filed under: General
- Date: May 26,2007
Back in April we covered the SmokeSignals smoking cessation system, which monitored your intake of cancer sticks and doled out dosages according to a plan. It’s not a big jump from there to doling out drugs that are actually good for you. From the same people who brought you SmokeSignals, we now have MedSignals, as covered in the San Antonio Express-News…
The portable device beeps when it’s time to take a pill, and it records the time and frequency of the lid openings on its four drug bins.
Lifetechniques Inc., which relocated from Santa Barbara, Calif., to San Antonio a year ago, invented the device, called MedSignals. It sits in a cradle that connects to a telephone and electrical line and is programmed to dial a toll-free number once a day to upload information.
The company’s founder, Vesta Brue, and Chief Technology Officer Jerome Hahn already have launched one product into the marketplace, SmokeSignals. It’s a computerized cigarette case with a built-in smoking cessation program, which monitors cigarette consumption.
Now they are focused on their latest innovation, MedSignals, which is in trials with patients infected with the HIV virus and is expected to hit the market in July, Brue said.
via MedSignals.com
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- Filed under: General
- Date: May 25,2007
Latte Communications Latte Boom has now arrived. Available to purchase at select online shop such as LatteZone or reseller PioneerMobile.
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- Filed under: General
- Date: May 6,2007
Check out our review of Latte’s latest GSM unlocked phone the Latte Boom HERE
- Author: admin
- Filed under: General
- Date: May 6,2007
Check out our review of eholster’s PSP carrying case HERE
