New touch screen phone introduced by LG

LG Electronics Co. of South Korea in collaboration with Italian fashion brand Prada Group has come up with a button less touch screen. This new launch termed as Prada Phone or technically as KE850 resembles the iPhone launched by Apple last week. Like the iPhone, KE850 has a camera of two mega pixel. As regards size, the KE850 is 12 millimeters thick, which means in comparison to iPhone of Apple it is just 0.4 millimeters thick.

This slim metallic black phone will come with a leather case. In the iPhone of Apple, there is no option of expanding the memory but in case of Prada Phone, it is possible to insert cards and thereby expand its memory. As regards the display screen, LG’s KE850 has a 3-inch 400 x 240 screen whereas; the screen of Apple’s iPhone is 3.5-inch 320 x 480 screen.
This new fashion brand of LG will be available in the market from the month of February and could be found in the stores of mobile dealers and Prada stores. The Prada phone has been priced at €600/$778.

Carphone Warehouse bling your phone

I had to top-up my mobile phone credit yesterday and visited a local Carphone Warehouse in London. Sadly mobile phone shops in the UK seem to cater mainly towards 14-year old girls instead of gadget loving geeks or at least business people and their range of high-end mobile phones and smartphones was limited to a SonyEricsson P990 and a XDA mini. But, they do now offer to “bling” your phone - for the “little” amount of 100GBP. Once again, like with the Swarovski laptop, I have to ask myself: why? It does not look good, they aren’t even real diamonds or anything of value.

Toshiba’s first HD DVD-R laptop

Thats it: the first HD DVD-R Laptop, announced by Toshiba. The laptop will sadly just be available in Japan to begin with. Apart from the HD DVD burner the other specs of the laptop, which will cost around $4,000 when it comes out in Europe, are also nice: 17″ display, 160GB HDD and so on. But sadly it is also quite ugly in my opinion.

Netgear Wireless HD

I mentioned this morning in our DIY feature how many cables I have lying around and my distaste of this fact. I remember trying to setup a Linux media center PC a few years back to centrally archive my music, films and other media in one central place. I did not actually get round to getting it work, but imagine how much cabling it would have taken to wire the house to be able to actually receive the media from anywhere.

Netgear have announced a new product to stream your audio and video throughout your house: the Netgear Digital Entertainer HD. Tech Digest report that the number of supported formats is “pretty exhaustive” and that the menu design is nice and easy to use. Best of all: it’s wireless and HD. If it will support full 1080p or stop short at 1080i. Especially nice is the YouTube streaming support and Tech Digest is quite impressed by the WMV 9 HD support, but personally I do not like the WMV format.The Netgear Digital Entertainer HD is to be released in the US in a couple of months

Four new 7.2 mega pixel Cyber Shot Digital Cameras released by Sony

Sony has added wings in its arena of Cyber Shot Digital Camera. It has unveiled four new 7.2 mega pixel cameras with 3x optical zoom capability in this range.

The four new models are an addition in their W and S series. These are DSC-W55, DSC-W35, DSC-S700, and DSC-S650. The positive aspect about these new inclusions is that the cameras are enabled with internal memory, which means pictures can be clicked without any memory card. Sony is also optimistic about the longevity of the batteries and claims that the batteries will be able to take around 380-460 pictures.
Sony claims the new models as a revolution in the world of digital photography. Except DSC-W55, the rest three will be available in silver bodies. DSC-W55’s storage capacity can be enhanced with an 8GB memory stick duo card. This facility of increasing the storage capacity is also available in the other 3 models. W55 model will be available in Caribbean blue, pale pink, black and silver color with 2.5″ LCD screen. This model will be available in the market on February and will be priced around $200.
DSC-W35 will also have 2.5″ LCD screen and comes with a function guide and resolution guide. It will also be available in February at the cost of about $180. W series costs a bit higher than the S series.
DSC-S700 and DSC-S650’s storage capacity can be enhanced with a 4GB memory stick duo card. These two models will also be available in the month of February. S700 will cost about $180 and S650 around $150.

Daily DIY Gadget #2: Chargerbox

It is near to impossible to ever see my desk tidy, which is mainly due to the amount of cables that are clogging it: power cord for the notebook, LAN cable, iPod USB cable, digital camera USB cable, audio cables (about 5), 3 telephone cables, webcam cable, headset cable, … and chargers. I have a charger for my camera, iPod, computer and telephone. Power and charger cables must be the worst thing ever to get organized on a desk and I am sure many gadget lovers have the same problem.
Lisa, from two loose teeth, has come up with a simple DIY solution to this problem: a simple box containing all your chargers and a powerstrip. This should be able to be done within an hour or two and should be on the to-do list for every true gadget fanatic with too many adapters!