Archive for April 9th, 2008

IOGEAR Introduces a New Portable Media Player

This new IOGEAR PMP has no built-in screen, but it can store and play all your photos, music or movies on any TV set, and easily can upscale your videos to 720p HD resolution, over its component outputs. Equipped with a 120GB hard drive, the portable on the go media player houses up to 34,000 digital photos, 30,000 songs, 9 hours of Digital Video or 50 hours of DVD quality video. It supports MPEG-2, AVI, DivX, XviD, MP3 files and available to purchase for merely $349.95.

Update: we’re just been informed that EMC acquires IOMEGA for $213 million.

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[via akihabaranews]

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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 Audio, Media Players No Comments

Asian Blogger Reviews a Fake iPhone VS. a Real iPhone - Can’t Handle The Touchscreen With Her Fingernails

This is a very funny video of a popular Singaporean blogger, named Wendy Cheng, who’ve been tricked to review an iPhone device, turned to be a fake clone. Seems she preferred the counterfeit piece that has a stylus support rather than the real deal, but she has a point stating the male designers should consider female needs. As for the results - real iphone gets only mediocre grade and a “fucking shitty” touchscreen, while the fake device gets a “not bad for a shitass China phone”.

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[Clicknetwork.TV via gizmodo]

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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 Phones, Video No Comments

HP 2133 Mini Note UMPC Goes Live Officialy

Almost 2 months after HP has revealed its new UMPC Mini Note wonder, it goes live stateside, with a price range from $499 to $849. To refresh your memory, we are talking about a great mini laptop, built from a brushed metal, with Via C7-M processor (1.0 GHz up to 1.6 GHz), an 8.9-inch screen (1280×768) and a full sized keyboard, for easy and accurate typing. It has great loudly speakers on its sides, a built-in webcam, WiFi or Bluetooth connectivity, SD / SDHC slot and many more. The 2133 runs Vista or Linux at your choice and comes with different configurations, like hard drive ranged from 4GB internal flash to 160GB SATA 7200 or 512MB of RAM up to 2GB of RAM. Personally, i think this new lappy from HP is a triumph, but to give you a better view of this magnificent mini notebook, checkout the 30 minutes review from jkOnTheRun, after the break.

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[via HP]

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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 Computers 1 Comment