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LG has the solution by introducing their 3G HSDPA wrist phone, the LG-GD910 that supports both 3G and HSDPA technology.  Pretty cool huh?

Korea-based LG has introduced its latest mobile device, the LG-GD910 wrist-phone featuring support for both 3G and HSDPA technology. The user interface is presented through a 1.43-inch color LCD touchscreen, while a video camera has been integrated into the watch face for video recording or conferencing.

The device also offers text-to-speech (TTS) capabilities, Bluetooth, MP3 playback and voice dialing with speech recognition. The company claims download speeds of up to 7.2 Mbps when using HSDPA.

The LG-GD910 is scheduled for an official debut at CES in January. European and Korean customers will have the first opportunity to purchase the new wrist phones, although pricing has not yet been announced.

Well it is just another “toy” but a darn cool one that got me interested.  It has a 1.43-inch color LCD touchscreen and it has a video camera integrated in the watch face for video recording. In addition, it has text-to-speech, Bluetooth, MP3 playback and voice dialing with speech recognition. I hope to see this at CES  and I will ask if it is just slated for the European market or will we see it in the USA.

The best thing your car would have is the car stereo that has iPod compatibility. The only thing that is change from the old models is the plug-in to dock-in that will swallow your iPod and protect it. It is amazing to know that most cars nowadays have new features like LCD monitors, lightings and enhanced sounds.

It is a hazard for the driver to have so many cables near him while driving. It may bother you while driving, may knock off your iPod when you accidentally pull some wirings. In the saddest thing is when you left your iPod inside the car, the case is theft, it may be tempting to others eyes. So this new built car stereo will keep your iPod safe and make your car organized.

I presume this is the reason why Fusion produced the CA-IP500, which will factually ingest your entire iPod. This will enable the iPod playlist to be broadcasted all the way through your car’s stereo system, and you will be able to control it via the simple CA-IP500’s controls, which bear a resemblance to iPod controls.

Additional features contain a dot-matrix OLED display, AM/FM tuner, 7-band equalizer, SRS Wos sound shaping, and it has a security features so merely the driver is the only able to access his or her iPod. And to add up, the CA-IP500 can also top up the battery of your iPod when it docks inside.

Gadgets are a wonderful thing, indeed. Nothing surprises, intrigues and titillates quite like a new piece of technological wizardry. Being a gadget freak means getting your hands on the latest and greatest piece of hardware out there.

Of course, operating these gadgets can become quite a hassle at some point. The need for power can be become a chore when you have to constantly source for power sources. It could be a boon if you can get A/C power wherever you go. But with portable gadgets, D/C power is the only option.

Batteries are the only source of power for these gadgets. When you are an extremely mobile person you will need a constant supply of batteries to keep powering your various gadgets. Disposables are not eco-friendly and cumulatively it costs so much more so the best thing would be to invest in rechargeable batteries. But then the problem that crops up is how to charge it when it loses its juice.

For the gadget lovers, investing in the Energizer Solar Recharger is worth the money. The charger can charge both AA and AAA batteries. But a wonderful feature is a USB port that can be used to charge gadgets like iPods and cameras. The Solar Recharger can also be charged using an A/C outlet along with solar power, and it’s also weatherproof too!

I think this is a worthy investment. The Energizer Solar Recharger is not yet available in the market but will become available this summer.

With prices of touch screens going down, it is no wonder that there are now touch screen products that make it possible for you to turn your point-and-click netbook into a touch screen one.

If you have time on your hands and $100 to spare, it would be very easy to do this. The very latest in this kind of product is TouchKit, which is manufactured by the Taiwan-based Hoda Technology. The TouchKit allows you to add an interactive touch screen overlay to the LCDs of popular netbooks like the ASUS Eee PC 900/901 series and Acer Aspire One, MSI Wind U100 and the ASUS Eee PC 1000 family.

Installing may seem difficult at first. First you have to remove the screws around the netbook’s LCD housing and the bottom of its chassis. Then you pop off the keyboard and remove the housing below the keyboard. Then you need to find the double-sided tape in the touch screen kit, and put it around the LCD to hold the touch panel in place. Then you have to detach the LCD module from the housing, and detach the Webcam’s cabling harness so you can replace it with the touch screen harness to connect to the motherboard.

Although there is no soldering involved, there are many steps before you get to the point where you can use your netbook as a touch screen, and you progressively expose your netbook’s innards in the process. Read the rest of this entry »

When it comes to the market of the touch screen handheld phones, there have been few contenders in the phone arena since the Apple iPhone came out…until now. Have you heard about the Nokia 5800 Xpress music phone? Chances are you have, because it is a big hit in the cell phone industry today.

Nokia 5800 Xpress music phone has burst out into the picture as being Apple’s first big competition in the market of touch screen phones. When you look at blogs, chats and forums about the Nokia 5800 Xpress music phone, you will see a lot of chatting about how good the Xpress music phone is.

The Xpress music phone has the capabilities to hold up to eight thousand songs. What could you do with eight thousand songs? Do people even have eight thousand songs on their list? The amount of songs you can have is almost endless. For all of you who are pondering about the Apple phone and the Nokia 5800 Xpress music phone and wondering which one is better, then we are going to tell you in the paragraphs below.

When you think about a cell phone, you think about the size and weight, right? We all want a cell phone that we can sit back, relax with and hold in one hand. The Apple iPhone is not a huge phone, but it can be a bit tricky when it comes to using one hand to operate it. However, the Nokia 5800 Xpress music phone seems to be the winner of this category. It is smaller than the iPhone and you will be able to use it with one hand without having trouble. For those individuals who would like to see the size comparisons, read the following lines below: Read the rest of this entry »

Since its launch, Google’s new web browser, Google Chrome, has been applauded for its lightweight look and feel and for the speed of its JavaScript engine. Although the browser still lacks support for things like RSS and browser add-ons, the company has already ripped off the beta label, a move that was probably made in preparation for Google’s upcoming bundling deals with PC manufacturers.

Despite Chrome’s popularity, there are some of us who are a bit uncomfortable with giving Google yet another avenue to track our user data. Luckily, we have several options which can be used to protect our privacy while still enjoying this slick new web browser.

Chrome Privacy Guard was the first tool to automatically delete the unique Client ID that Google assigns to your Chrome installation. With this tool, that ID is automatically deleted before each run of Chrome. To use Chrome Privacy Guard, you launch an executable file ChromePrivacyGuard.exe instead of launching the browser itself. The tool cans the “Local State” file inside the Chrome directory and removes all information regarding the Client ID. It then automatically starts Chrome.

Like Privacy Guard, UnChrome also removes your unique ID from the browser, instead replacing it with a null value. This is a bit more convenient because UnChrome only needs to be run once. After you download and run the tool, you will see a pop-up advertisement for the developer’s other applications, but again, it’s only a one-time thing. Afterwards, your browser will forever have the unique ID removed.

Iron is a fork of Chrome’s Chromium core, the open source project behind Google Chrome. Developed by a German software company SRWare, Iron goes even further than the above tools to protect your privacy. Where the other tools simply remove the unique ID from Google’s version of the Chrome browser, Iron is actually its own, separate browser. In addition to removing the unique ID, Iron also makes sure that no user-specific info is sent to Google, including crash reports. When you enter in a URL incorrectly, Iron does not present any alternative error messages like Chrome does. Finally, Iron does not come bundled with the Google Updater tool, which checks with Google to see if there are any new updates for the Google products you have installed.

Do you use any of these tools to protect your privacy? If so, share your experiences or your preferences in the comments.

Several computer vendors are exploring the possibility of including Google Chrome as the default Internet Web browser of choice. Most PCs and laptops traditionally come with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer installed.

Google Inc is talking with PC vendors to include its Chrome Web browser new desktop PCs, notebooks, and laptops. New PCs customarily come with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer as the default browser. The Microsoft operating system, such as Windows and Vista, include IE as the default.

Even so, top companies such as Dell, HP, Acer, and Toshiba are showing interest in a pre-install agreement with Google. The agreement would replace Internet Explorer as the default Internet Web browser with Google Chrome.

“We could work with an OEM and have them ship computers with Chrome pre-installed,” Sundar Pichai, Vice President of Product Management at Google, said in a statement.

The search engine giant wants to gain more acceptance for its latest project by pre-installing it on new PCs. Some vendors already like the idea.

Internet Explorer currently leads the market which critics say having the browser set as a default is the primary reason. In fact, IE has been the default Internet Web browser for over a decade.

Google Chrome recently came out of beta. New versions of the browser will be released in January 2009 for Linux and Mac computers.

Owning the newest high tech gadget gives you a chance to impress friends, and even strangers. They’ll think you’re the “James Bond” of the local set when you pull out your latest high tech gadgets.

If you’re considering purchasing a high tech gadget for a friend or loved one, there are some important things you should keep in mind.

Tips for purchasing high tech gadgets

1. The fact a gadget is high tech means it’s very new. Lots of new gadgets end up not being popular for a variety of reasons. People might think they’re too complicated, or don’t have useful features. If a new high tech gadget doesn’t have a lot of reviews and a big base of fans, maybe you should steer clear until more guidance is available.
2. New hight tech gadgets tend to be expensive. You have to pay to be on the cutting edge of technology. Often you can wait six months and get the same gadget at a much lower price. Unless there’s a real need for most gadgets, you can generally shop for a cheaper price or wait until overall unit prices get cheaper.
3. High tech gadgets have bugs. Make sure the product you’re considering buying works well. There’s no point in buying someone a gift that turns out to be junk.
4. There are tons of high tech gadgets for sale. Don’t just buy your gadget lover the first gadget that comes along. Feel free to shop and buy them just the right, personalized gift. Match the high tech gadget with the person you’re giving the gift to.
5. Use technology to make your high tech gadget shopping easier. Sign up for RSS feeds, use search engines, and keep abreast of the latest in technological developments. The world of gadgetry is getting bigger daily, so you need to use a technological advantage to sort the data.

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Once you have ripped your entire music collection to your PC, you are faced with the problem of listening to it around your house.

The Sonos does a pretty good job - stick a white box in each room and you can stream different tracks wirelessly to different rooms.

The wireless controller features a good-size color screen and gives you access to all your music, and it is one of the few non-Apple things to feature a scroll wheel.

Sonos also gives you access to internet radio from round the world, and ties into Napster, meaning you can play pretty much any song in the world.

It also lets you get at Last.FM which introduces you to other musicians you may like. It does this by “scrobbling” (taking note of) the songs you play to further educate the service on your tastes.

It is an expensive option for getting music round your house, and sometimes the internet connection can drop, meaning your online music services can go deathly quiet.

But once you have got it, it is hard to understand how you lived without it.

You’d think with the outbreak of the latest Internet browser war, companies like Microsoft and Mozilla would be doing everything possible to make their products competitive.

Microsoft announced that a flaw in Internet Explorer (IE) allowed hackers to redirected users to websites that would download malicious software designed to steal personal information such as user names and passwords onto users’ home computers.

Not surprisingly, the error was listed as critical, which resulted in some security companies calling for a boycott of IE until Microsoft released a patch to fix the flaw. I’ve never been a big fan of IE. In fact, I’ll only use it when I’m forced to, so I smugly sat there and gloated, confident that as a Firefox user I didn’t have to put up with the spreading panic.

Then karma turned around and bit me in the rear. Turns out earlier in the week Mozilla, the company that makes Firefox, issued a patch that fixed six critical flaws. Then Bit9, a US-based company that monitors security flaws, released a report of what it considers the top ten most vulnerable programmes.

Sitting at the top of the list was Firefox. IE didn’t even appear on the list. I was initially sceptical about Bit9’s results, but they make a good point. They based their report on a number of factors, including the number of critical bugs in the software, its overall popularity, and - here are the kickers - how easily updatable and supported the software was. Bottom line, IE is supported and patched by Micro-soft. Read the rest of this entry »