Released in UK on June 24th 2010, Dell describes its new Inspiron R as ‘beautifully designed and useful’. Dell Inspiron R is available in beautiful metallic color selections – Black, Blue and Red, if you don’t like metallic, then maybe you’ll adore Mars (Obsidian) Black, Peacock Blue, Lotus Pink, and Tomato Red in some models. This time, the Dell Inspiron R is built with a rock solid cover and anti-smudge touchpad (easy to clean).

Dell Inspiron R comes in 14, 15 and 17 inches screen, offering a HD (High Definition) display. Start from $449, the Inspiron R is Dell’s affordable series. For 15 and 17 inches Inspiron R, dedicated gaming keys are available as shortcuts. Beside the USB ports at the right side of the laptop, Dell also puts a USB port at the back for a more comfortable plug-in. A webcam, WLAN, multiple media card readers and many types of wireless connection are available, for example the Intel Wireless Display for wireless connection to any HDTVs. And it is also built in SRS Premium Sound to support stereo Home Theater sound.

Running on Intel Core i5 or i3 mobile processors, with up to 1 GB ATI graphics, up to 8 GB DDR3 RAM and 640 GB HDD, Dell Inspiron R comes with Windows7. It is rich of entertainment, social networking, and home/school/work applications. Some of previous useful applications are still available, such as  Dell Safe Local for backing up the images of the software that come with the PC; Data Safe Online for backing up the photos, videos, and files; and Dell Dock for organizing music, photos, and other medias, also managing the mostly-watched videos and mostly-used applications on top of the list. Amazing isn’t it?

Nokia X5 is a slider phone comes in size 74.3 x 66.4 x 16.8 mm and weighs 129 grams, certainly slim and handy. Its glossy and stylish designs certainly melt down your heart at the first glance. It has a high resolution (320 x 240 pixels) 2.36 inches touchscreen display that enables auto-rotate, with answering keys and a navigator key under it. The QWERTY keypad will show itself when you slide the phone. Nokia X5 has a 3.5 mm audio jack to support the speaker sound quality, also the dedicated music keys which allow the direct access to Ovi music. It has very satisfying memory capacity – internal memory 200 MB with 2 GB MicroSD included in the kit, and the MicroSD slot enables up to 32 GB capacity. The smartphone is running on OS Symbian operating system and supported by HSDPA high speed connectivity for web browsing and many online features such as email, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc.. The 5 MP camera has already supported LED flash and 4x digital zoom. Featuring stereo FM Radio, MP3 and MP4 players, Java games, and Document Viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF) for your fun and convenient with a powerful battery which supports up to 24 hours music play, 4 hours 2G talktime, 3 hours and 30 minutes 3G talktime, and 384 hours standby. Available in many fantastic colors -Pink, Azure, Graphite Black, Yellow Green, and Purple, Nokia X5 predicted price is Rs.9,400.

Nokia X6 8GB is a down grader of Nokia X6 32GB and 16GB. It is a touchscreen candy bar smartphone. Comes in size 111 x 51 x 13.8 mm and weighs 122 grams, Nokia X6 is slim and handy. It has an incredible high resolution (360 x 640 pixels) 3.2 inches display with auto turn-off, auto-rotate and scratch-resistant surface. The 3.5 mm audio jack is already there to guarantee the loudspeaker quality. Nokia X6 8GB has 8GB internal memory with no MicroSD slot available. The 5 MP camera is so satisfying with Carl Zeiss optic, autofocus, Dual LED flash, geo-tagging, video recording, and Videocall is also available. Running on OS Symbian operating system, Nokia X6 8GB is supported by HSDPA high speed connectivity which enables GPS, RSS Feeds and WLAN integrated. Using a powerful battery, Nokia X6 8GB enables up to 35 hours music play, 11 hours talktime and 450 hours standby. Available in Azure, Black and Amethyst colors, Nokia X6 8GB predicted price is Rs.13,000.

As of Tuesday, April 07, 2009, Apple has raised the prices of some of its iTunes songs. Instead of costing you $0.99 for a song, you might have to cough up $1.29 for your favorite new releases. Apple has raised the price of some popular new releases by 30 cents.

Apple originally announced the 30 cent price during the MacWorld show in January, citing that the price will go up from $0.99 to $1.29 for some of the popular acts already on the mainstream music stage and that the 30 cent price hike would not affect newer, mostly up and coming acts.

Outrage

Addicted music downloaders are going into in to a frenzy over the latest “price jacking” by Apple. They have started seeking out alternative download sites but have run into similarly raised prices at other sites as well. Most other download sites have hopped on the wagon that Apple created; why shouldn’t they? When an industry leader makes a change, especially where financial gains are to be made, other competitive companies are bound to follow suit.

Apple has left many music lovers with withdrawal effects and made them long for sites like Napster again. Companies like Spiralfrog.com and Limewire.com have seen a jump in their recent business due to the iTunes price hike.

On the Wagon

Other mega-companies like Amazon.com are matching the iTunes change, step for step. Amazon has recently raised their prices for certain popular artist song to the now acceptable $1.29.

The Experts Say…

Ted Cohen, former EMI Music executive, is afraid that increased prices will alienate downloaders and put an even bigger strain on struggling music companies. He went on to tell the L.A. Times that “this will be a PR nightmare” and continued with, “It is for the music industry what the AIG bonuses are for the insurance industry.”

While Apple still needs to make money, Cohen, who is now a partner with the digital media firm TAG Strategies, hopes that the increase will not make his statement a prophecy.

Apple did take one step in the right direction by making iTunes accessible via a digital rights management (DRM) free format which eliminates the burn limits and allows iTunes to be played on devices other that Apple’s. However, with the new price hike, some pundits are skeptical and thinking that Apple is giving in one direction and grossly taking in the other.

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A reliable source has informed us that in September of 2009 Research In Motion will be releasing the Blackberry Storm 2. This comes after the go ahead was given by Verizon Wireless. The latest Storm 2 is the anticipated follow up as well as upgrade to the first touchscreen Blackberry named the Storm. The now commonly used original Blackberry Storm was Verizon’s answer to Apple’s iPhone.

Features

According to our extremely reliable source inside Verizon, Research In Motion (RIM) has made some major important improvements upon the first Smartphone, the Blackberry Storm, of the most complained about was the lack of WiFi. The new Blackberry Storm addresses not only this issue but the issue of the touchscreen display that was often criticized. Assurances have been made that RIM has addressed not only the highly criticized faults in the first Blackberry Storm but has made other important and sought after upgrades.

Business Aspects

The Blackberry Storm 2 will, of course, be using the Blackberry App World as it operating platform. Verizon’s goal is to gain an even larger market share in Apple’s iPhone business. Verizon has been struggling to effectively compete with the iPhone. With the introduction of the new Blackberry Storm 2, Verizon is hoping to utilize the new upgrades—especially the Blackberry Storm 2’s new and improved touchscreen display and more importantly, the much needed WiFi capability—to become more competitive alongside the Apple iPhone and effectively reducing the growing monopoly on Smartphone products produced by Apple.

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Chinese PC maker Lenovo has developed a latest portable media player (PMP) with the new MRT800. While Lenovo is traditionally a manufacturer of very well made PCs and laptops, they have turned their attention to the more portable PMPs after they had already given us the ThinkPad W700d with the slide out screen at the Consumer Electronics Association tradeshow in January 2009.

Features

While the new MRT800 doesn’t really give us any new technology, it does introduce touchscreen technology for PMPs. This new PMP looks basically the same as all the other PMPs on the market today but it does support a plethora of file formats including an FM tuner.

Supported Format:

Video and Audio

o AVI
o WMA
o WMV
o ASF
o MP4
o FLV
o RM/RMBV
o ASF
o OCG
o FLAC
o MP3

Images

o JPEG
o BMP

Tech Specs

• 4.3 inch 480×272 LCD touchscreen display
• 4GB Memory
• Micro SD card slot
• FM Tuner
• Voice recorder

Price Tag

Currently the price amount as well availability of this new PMP isunknown. However, if the price is less than your average iPod then the MRT800 should sell rather well as most Lenovo products do. Almost all other PMPs on the market are flying off the shelf and a PMP with a touchscreen should equally as well if not better.

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Chances are that if you are using a fan in your home or office then it might be a little warm. However, that didn’t stop the inventor of this fan from making yet another useless use for LED lights. The invention of the electric fan happened about 100 years ago but the FanSee fan attempts to improve upon the design by including LED lights display what the current temperature is in front of the fan blades—only in Fahrenheit—so that the user truly knows how miserably hot they are.

Features

Not too hard to figure out the features on the FanSee fan. First of all you have a fan and then you have a super bright LED display, informing you of the temperature. Not to worry though, it also has the added bonus of an oscillation mode. Not really sure if it comes with a variable speed control; the product information didn’t indicate that it did. The LED lights are prominent enough to be seen from across the room, even during the daytime.

Tech Specs

* 9” Diameter fan
* About 12” tall
* Oscillation mode
* LED Temperature display

Price Tag

The FanSee fan retails for $39.99

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Do you like taking pictures using your cell phone? Are you in search of a high power cell phone with an impressive camera features? Well look no more for Sony Ericsson recently announced the latest addition to its family of Cyber-shot camera phones, the Sony Ericsson C903.

The new Sony Ericsson C903 is a stylishly slim slider phone packed with a 5 megapixel autofocus camera. Not only that, the camera also comes with its very own protective lens cover and easy to use camera keys. These allow you to take as many pictures as you like without worrying about the safety of the lens of your cell phone’s camera. It also features up to 16x digital zoom for precision picture taking.

Just like other Cyber-shot camera phones, the Sony Ericsson C903 also offers many features especially with regard to enhancing and getting quality pictures. It comes with Sony Ericsson’s Face Detection, Smile Shutter, and BestPic technologies.

These software features are very limited in other camera phones but Sony Ericsson packed them all together in the Sony Ericsson C903. The Face Detection software can identify three people in the frame for easy focus. On the other hand, the unique Smile Shutter software automatically snaps a picture when someone is smiling. Another great feature is the BestPic software which can fire off nine photos and allows you to choose or search for your favorite photos. The new Sony Ericsson C903 is also compatible for video and picture blogging.

Moreover, you can store images using a Memory Stick Micro M2 external card. In addition, you can also upload images to other photo services available in the internet like Picasa and Flickr. You can also geo-tag your favorite photos using an onboard GPS technology.

The premium Cyber-Shot phone has music integration similar to that of the Sony Ericsson Walkman. It has an album art, media player, PlayNow, Track ID, and music tones (MP3/AAC). It is also equipped with an FM radio and A2DP Bluetooth support for stereo headsets. Another feature is its 2.4 inches auto rotating TFT display and TV-out functionality which allow you to display pictures on your television.

The over-all design of Sony Ericsson is simple. It has wallpaper animation, picture wallpaper, and an autorotate. However, you will surely enjoy its entertainment features which include  3D games, motion gaming, Java, Walk Mate, YouTube, and FM radio with RDS.

Meanwhile, it is also packed with the standard organizer menu which includes a phonebook, alarm, calculator, notes, time, calendar, flight mode, tasks, and stopwatch. On the other hand, its accessories include a user guide which is presented as an E-manual on the phone, battery, battery charger, and a stereo portable hands-free.

The Sony Ericsson C903 also features web browsing, video streaming, and other multimedia features. It is available in Lacquer Black, Techno White, and Glamour Red colors.

The Sony Ericsson C903 is indeed one of the best camera phones and it can be yours at the price of 612 USD or 24,827 INR.

What do you get when Japan’s SoftBank and Sharp work together? No other than Sharp 931SH, a power-packed slider cell phone with a touch screen display with a resolution similar to what we see in a netbook.

The Sharp 931SH is an amazingly solid feature phone known as the world’s highest resolution mobile phone. It has an AQUOS LCD with 1024×480 px XGA resolution. It can display up to 26 million colors, undoubtedly better and more advance than other feature phones out there. Moreover, it has a touch cover size of 3.8 inches which allows 1024h480h points and equipped with a New Mobile ASV LCD.

That’s not all. The Sharp 931SH comes with a 3G system, a special motion sensor, and accelerator. Its position sensor can automatically deploy the images on the display depending on the status of devices in the hands of the user.

Meanwhile, its communication features include Bluetooth v2.0 and IrDA GPS navigation plus a tri band GSM (900/1800/1900 MHz) WCDMA/ HSDPA for national and international networks. These features guarantee easy navigation and network coverage wherever you are.

On the other hand, the Sharp 931SH is likewise equipped with a 5.2 megapixel camera with image stabilizer. You can take several photos and edit them according to your own style using the image stabilizer software. In addition, it also has an autofocus lens to help you take pictures with precision and accuracy. Another feature that comes with this model is the CMOS Camera which is applicable for video calls.

This high pixel screened feature phone comes with an internal memory of 100 MB, considerably higher than other models. Furthermore, it is equipped with a micro SD/micro SDHC slot of up to 4GB. The Sharp 931SH possesses a high memory that can make you save more messages, images, music, and videos without draining the phone’s memory.

The best thing about Sharp 931SH is that you will surely get the kind of entertainment you deserve. With this high-end cell phone, you can watch videos with sharp clear images just like watching DVD at home. There are no blurry scenes with this phone plus you can view pictures of superior quality. In addition, you can also enter web pages and browse the net or send emails because it is 3G ready. Furthermore, you get to watch your favorite TV programs straight from Sharp 931SH through its 1 Seg television tuner, so there’s no need to worry about missing the news or the soaps. It also has a built-in FeliCa contactless payment card.

The Sharp 931SH measures 105×48x15.22 mm and weighs 130 grams. It is available in attractive colors of black, pink-tinted gold, red, and silver. This latest cell phone from Sharp will also be showcased in next week’s World Mobile Congress in Barcelona where it will be unveiled together with other new cell phone models from other manufacturers. Unfortunately, there are no price listing for Sharp 931SH at the moment but hopefully, it will be known to the public after the Congress.

The 2009 World Mobile Congress opens the opportunity for Samsung to showcase once again its mobile phone products. One of its latest high-end mobile phones is the Samsung S7350 which will be unveiled to the general public in Barcelona next week.

The Samsung S7350 is considered as a part of the amazing Samsung Ultra line of products. It is believed to have the same design as the Samsung S8300 Ultra Touch. On the other hand, it has the same specs with that of Samsung Memoir. However, unlike these two models, the Samsung S7350 has no touch screen functionality.

If you think this is enough reason to turn down this new model, then think again. Though it may not be as impressive as other touch screen models, still it has its own special key feature. The Samsung S7350 has a unique “Custom” menu. This menu allows you to add different menu items from any part of the cell phone to a single window where you can view them all at once. This gives the cell phone a more personalized touch plus it makes the unit more practical and easy to use.

The Samsung S7350 is packed with several specifications. One of these is the inclusion of a GSM/UMTS/HSDPA connectivity. This handset also includes a 2.6 inches 420×320 px QVGA, with 16M color TFT display, making it very attractive.

Another addition to its specs is the phone’s 5 megapixel camera with a built-in flash for clearer photos. Moreover, it has a VGA camera which allows you to make video calls anytime, anywhere.

The Samsung S7350 utilizes memory that can reach up to 100 MB. Meanwhile, it is also equipped with a microSD memory card slot of up to 16GB. With regard to its connectivity features, this phone has a USB interface. It has a microUSB and powered by Bluetooth technology. It is packed with an 850 mAh battery which provides you with 350 hours standby time and 4 hours of talk time. It is also compatible with hearing aids.

Other key features of the Samsung S7350 include multiple messaging options. You can send text messages to your contacts, send picture messages and even send video messages with just a few clicks. Furthermore, it also has an organizer similar to other Samsung cell phones. It features an alarm, calculator, converter, memo, task list, timer, stopwatch, and RSS reader. It also comes with a wallpaper.

You can also be notified by Samsung S7350 in case you have a message or a call with its polyphonic ringtones . You may also switch to vibrate mode if you want to. In addition, the cell phone’s phone book alone can hold up to a thousand entries. Moreover, it comes with different games and a music player to entertain you.

The Samsung S7350 is one of the best mobile phones we have to look out for this year. Since it is new in the market, we are yet to find out the exact cost of this new model from Samsung.

Here is yet another phone in the long line of ‘leaked’ Samsung phones.

The M7600 is a touch screen phone which is more music – centric. In an effort to become your very own portable walkman, the phone is equipped with Bang & Olufsen speakers, which will ensure that you’ll get a really crisp sound quality from the phone. It sure does make a difference from the sound that you hear from the speakers of an ordinary phone.

The Samsung M7600 seems to be hell – bent on raising the bar for music – centric phones by allowing you to mix and scratch the songs, just like a DJ does, by using the phone’s touch screen display to do so. The rest of the specifications sheet makes for quite some eye – candy as it has a 2.8 inch AMOLED touch screen (which means that you’ll get a really deep black colour as well as some really bright colors), a 3 MP camera with a LED flash and a self – portrait mirror, HSDPA connectivity, GPS facilities and also natively supports DivX videos. The last feature is really great as you can send in those movies and TV shows you download directly to the phone without having to convert them to another format.

It also has stereo speakers, which will just make your music experience all the more pleasant.

As far as looks go, you really can’t refrain from getting the feeling that it looks a lot like the Helio Ocean 2, which is set to be released by Pantech.

However, the pictures don’t seem to reveal a separate slot for the stylus. This would either mean that the Samsung M7600 comes equipped with a stylus which is attached to the outer part of the body like it is for the Samsung Omnia or that the touch screen is equipped with capacitive technology just like what the recently announced S8300 is supposed to have. Since both seem to be making use of the same user – interface, future users will definitely hope that the latter is the case.

From the leaked pictures, it can be seen that, on one side, there is the volume rocker (which seems to be fairly comfortable to use), a lock button (which will be used to lock the screen when not in use to prevent accidental pressing of the screen) and the USB port to connect the phone to your PC.

The other side seems to contain the microSD memory card slot and the camera button.

The back panel, quite disappointingly, is quite bare. For the eye – candy that the front panel is, Samsung could have put in some more effort to at least put some nice designs on the back. Instead, there seems to be a lot of cells (more like those which are found in bee hives).

The phone is expected to be released somewhere in the second quarter of this year (rumors have it that it might possibly be released in May 2009). However, all this is just speculation, and everything will be confirmed at the MWC 2009!