Nokia comes out with a Internet Tablet Nokia 770. This is not a surprise to me but … erm, let me ask: “what’s so special about this?” Other then a better resolution, it is inferior in everyway compared to a Sharp Zaurus C3000. I know it is cool Nokia, a mobile handset maker going into […]
Category: Toys and Gadgets
Cell phone with onboard video projector
Siemen is working on a phone which can project the screen and a keyboard onto the table (see left pic) (via BoingBoing). This sound very much like an extension of the Virtual Keyboard (see right pic). Unfortunately, the Virtual Keyboard does not work so well, at least for me. But good to see they trying […]
Nokia N8800
*Drool* (via Joi) I want one! I haven’t seen one from Nokia which makes me drool so much after 8850. I just met a director from Nokia last week and complained to him about the lack of nice phones from Nokia lately. ‘Just hang on’, he said. I am glad I waited.
Convergence, Taiwanese style
Via Yam i519也是OKWAP第一支無天線設計折疊機，主螢幕為26萬色、三頻通訊、重量105公克，130萬畫素照相功能、數位及光學變焦、180度翻轉上蓋拍照、手寫輸入觸控螢幕、免學習聲控、來電簡訊過濾、JAVA遊戲、FM收音機、MP3音樂、MPEG4影片播放、擴充RS MMC記憶卡、1000組電話簿等多種功能，顏色有黑、銀色兩種選擇，建議售價1萬2900元。 Lets see..260k color, triband, weight 105grams, 1.3megapix camera, twirl-able screen, stylus-input, message filtering, java games, fm radio, plays mp3 music and mpeg4 video and cost ..hmm..US$500. (Yes yes, it still remember it is a phone!) 另外，OKWAP昨天也發表一支直立式H105「寶貝機」，鑑於今年初其他業者推出玩具熊造型，只有4個按鍵不夠便利，結果市場反應欠佳的經驗，OKWAP這支「寶貝機」保留了一般手機原有的功能及按鍵，再加上SOS簡訊快撥、通話時間限制、貼心學習、國語字典、英漢字典等功能，單機建議售價5880元。 Okay, another one which comes with (Traditional) Chinese-English dictionary at US$200. Hats off to Taiwanese […]
Zaurus and Zaurus
My new toy – Zaurus C3000 which comes with a 4Gb hitachi harddisk on the right. The C3000 is slightly thicker then my C760 (on the right) and a bit heavier but otherwise, almost the same. The keyboard feel is also much better. I love this series of Sharp Zaurus which unfortunately only sold in […]
Mobile Gadget Form Factors
Russell has a very good article about all the different mobile gadget form factors. I like the diagram he has particularly as it is a fairly good summary of all the form factors we seen so far. We already see devices that ‘transform’ itself to multiple form factors. For example, the Motolora MPx or Nokia […]
VON Exhibits (Part 1)
Walked a little bit around VON Exhibition in the late afternoon but only managed to half of it before they closed. Anyway, lots of gadgets on displays but a lot of it are just “me too”. But here are also some pretty cool toys. 1) Motorola They are finally here – GSM + WiFi phone! […]
Giving out WiFi SIP Phones
This is an exciting day for me. We are giving out Hitachi WiFi SIP Phones at APRICOT 2005. This is part of the APEET ENUM/SIP Live Trial we have been putting together for the last few months. Every wifi phones are assigned with a SIP address which also comes with an ENUM1 number and this […]
Notmad Explorer
Sick of the crappy music organizers that comes with Creative MP3 players? Well, check out NotMad Explorer, a software companion for Creative Nomad, MuVo, Zen etc. It is not iTunes but it probably make it easier to live with a Creative MP3 players. By posting this, I dunno if I am helping Creative or slaming […]
Feedback on Virtual Keyboard
Finally got my hand on the Virtual Keyboard I mention two months back. The manual said it does not work with Mac/OS but I managed to get it to pair with my Mac anyway. Just go to the Bluetooth setup Assistant and instead of selecting “keyboard”, choose Other Device, and the proceed to pair them […]