eK-gadgets info

Meet the Infobar 2 for KDDI’s CDMA-based au network, first peeped as a concept back in November as a possible followup to the wildly popular (in Japan anyway) first generation Infobar launched in 2003. Measuring 47 × 138 × 15.5-mm / 104-grams, it packs a 2.6-inch 240 x 400 pixel OLED display, stereo speakers, microSD expansion, EZ FeliCA support, 2-megapixel camera, and built-in 1Seg mobile TV tuner. It’ll squeeze in about 290 minutes of talk time or 350 hours of standy when these hit Japan in November. Call us spoiled, but we still can’t help but to think that it would look better without those dedicated keys.

The Samsung P520 Armani phone has been officially unveiled during the Giorgio Armani fashion show. The phone has been described as credit card-sized and will be officially 10.5mm thick. Of course, everyone is expecting a thinner phone but that’s what Armani and Samsung are offering customers, besides being a full touch screen gadget.Samsung and Armani have teamed up in other products as well including an LCD TV. According to Armani, “We make as much of a personal statement with the mobile phones that we carry or the televisions that we have in our living rooms as we do with the shoes and bags we wear or the furnishings we choose.”

The Samsung P520’s specs include:

• Triband GSM with EDGE
• measures 88×54x8.9 mm
• weighs 102 grams
• QVGA touchscreen, 262k colors
• 3MPx camera with QCIF video recording
• 50MB internal memory
• microSD support
• stereo Bluetooth
• WiFi with UMA
• Document viewer
• 960mAh battery with estimated 220 hours standby and 3 hours talktime

Sony has just released two new VAIO notebooks, the Type L VGC-LT80DB and the Type A VGN-AR74DB. These models features a blu-ray disc drive and will be available on October 6th 2007.The VGC-LT80DB is available with 22, 15.5 and a 19 inch sizes. It comes built in with a 1.3 megapixel camera and is powered by an Intel Core 2 Duo processor. Other than this, the notebook features a wide array of multimedia functionalities that will blow your mind.

The VGN-AR74DB on the other hand features a 1,440×900 pixel resolution. It also comes in with a Core 2 Duo T7500 (2.2GHz) processor with 2GB memory. In addition, it comes equipped with a 320GB HDD. This notebook will be available in October 13th.

Sony Europe’s Recording Media & Energy has announced the launched of three high speed CompactFlash cards to meet the capacity and speed demands of professional D-SLR photographers and ambitious amateur photographers. The new Sony CompactFlash 300x card, which complement the existing line-up of 66x and 133x cards, will be available with capacities of 2GB, 4GB and 8GB. They will be branded as part of Sony’s Alpha D-SLR camera system.

The high speed CompactFlash 300x cards allow UDMA-enabled D-SLR digital camera users to record more frames per second in continuous advance shooting mode and to transfer their images to the PC very rapidly to make room for new photographic projects. An 8GB CompactFlash card can hold up to 2,000 JPEG photos taken in 12 Megapixel resolution in the ‘Standard’ image setting, or up to 1,363 photos in ‘Fine’ mode. Even if both RAW and JPEG image data are recorded, the 8GB card offers enough space for more than 313 digital photos.

The Sony CompactFlash cards are compatible with a wide range of products featuring a CompactFlash slot, including many D-SLR Cameras, many digital cameras, printers and other imaging and computer peripherals. Many PCs feature built-in CompactFlash slots as standard, while there are adaptors and card readers available on the market to allow users to access and transfer their data onto CompactFlash cards using any PC or laptop.

The new Sony CompactFlash 300x cards will be available from October 2007.