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Citizen updates i:VIRT Bluetooth hands-free watch

  Citizen Japan today  announced a face-lifted version of their i:VIRT Bluetooth handsfree watch. The difference between the i:VIRT and the SonyEricsson watch (MBW-100) accessible to most of us outside Japan would be that the i:VIRT supports call ID display (the name of the person not just the number),  it will also flash and vibrate when there’s a new call ...

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World’s first cellphone supporting both DVB-T and DVB-H

Taiwanese cellphone company GIGABYTE has unveiled the world’s first cellphone that supports both DVB-T and DVB-H digital broadcasting standards. The t600 is also a smartphone that runs on Windows Mobile 6 Professional, the CPU is an Intel PXA270 520Mhz which is reasonably powerful. The t600 has 256MB ROM and 96MB RAM, external memory used here is microSD. In terms of ...

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Speaker phone over FM radio

We’ve all seen Bluetooth headsets for cellphones, we’ve also seen in-car speaker phone, a lot of us may also own an iTrip, now imagine putting all 3 together; you’ll end up listening to your own voice over the FM radio. Princeton Japan has announced this new in-car hands-free that borrows your car’s HiFi system as speaker for speaker phone, it ...

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Onkyo Japan 80GB BR-NX10 Stereo costs lots of Yen

Onkyo Japan rolls out their newest stereo with a hard drive, the BR-NX10. This newest release is definitely a high-end product, bringing the best of in stereo storage. Many of these Japan released gadgets never see the light of day in Europe or the U.S. Because of the NX10’s large price, this stereo most likely won’t be an exception to ...

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Motorola S9 Bluetooth Active Headphones brings your music to the gym

It is definately time for all headphones to be liberated of the wires they have been slaves to for so long. The new Motorola S9 Bluetooth Active Headphones are contributing their part to this wireless revolution and adding “active-wear” functionality in the process. People don’t just want to listen to music sitting at a desk or laying in bed. Why ...

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New BlackBerry 8800 is full-sized Pearl

The BlackBerry Pearl sure was pretty, wasn’t it? Now the newly revealed BlackBerry 8800 from RIM takes that special design centerpiece (the scrolling ball) and puts it into a full size BlackBerry. The 8800 has a full keyboard with one button per letter, which is the way it should be. Sorry, no camera. RIM is probably sick of the random ...

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MOTORIZR Z8’s new “kick-slider” does not kick your face

Motorola has released the MOTORIZR Z8, and it looks as if this new phone really has some improvements (unlike some other MOTO updates). The MOTORIZR Z8 is one of the first phones to feature what is being called the “kick-slider”. This kick-slider has the phone, when open, curve to fit to the contours of your face. No longer is it ...

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Philips 9@9f phone gives you 30 days of standby and 8.5 hrs of talking

  Philips is relatively unsuccessful in the cellphone market, seriously they are even less popular than the good o’BenQ-Siemens. Today they announced an addition to their Xenium series, with a funky number 9@9f. If you rememberthe 9@9  that was out a long while ago, this would be the follow-up, with markedly improved design and thickness (100.7x44x15.7mm, 77g). The 9@9f is ...

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Review: silex technology SX-2000WG

Now, everyone knows about wired device servers, right? You have to have an ethernet cable routed to wherever you want the server to be, and then to wherever your devices are. But how about wireless device servers? The silex technology SX-2000WG is one and the only wire needed is the power adapter. With claims of up to 8x USB 2.0 ...

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