It weighs 11 grams and has dimensions of 45 x 18 x 9 millimeters. It uses lithium polymer battery which provides up to 10 hours of music play to the player with the charging time of 3 hours (80% charge is reached in 2 hours). It also supports charging from the USB and you can use your player as a USB drive too. Despite the lack of display and a minimum of controls, the new iPod Shuffle is capable of cunning tricks to perform only with the help of a small remote control on the wire with 3 buttons. Two of them manage the volume and the length, located between the two, works as a mouse One. Short click initiates playback or pause. Double click quick launch next song. Triple click rapidly for the previous page. If you press and hold the central key, the player says the name of the song and artist name aloud. Further more, keeping the button pressed distributes audio signals and the player begins to transfer play lists. To select the desired song, its enough to press the button. iPod Shuffle has been marketed and sold in Apple shops at a price of $79 for a single 4 GB version.

In Japanese market there is a new handheld projector CV-MP02 launched by Castrade. Its size is 50 × 115 × 23 mm and weight is 160 grams. It supports the resolution of 640 x 480 and can create an image of 8 to 50 inches diagonally. White LED provides 10 lumens of brightness. It has two ports (composite and VGA). This projector has no built-in speaker. It has a built-in battery, which lasts for 1 hour of continuous play. In Japan, the product will appear for sale at a cost of $400.

At the website of one of Australia’s online stores, there is an unusual product. That is a hard drive from Western Digital with a record high storage capacity of 2 TB. Without any high declaration Western Digital intercepted the initiative of the former leader of capacity Seagate, which has released the first of the world’s high capacity HDD (1.5 TB). Western Digital included energy saving technologies, for example, when necessary, they can switch from a speed of 7200 RPM to 5400 RPM. PCWorld Observers believe that this will, of course, help to save a few watts, but did not affect the hard drive’s performance.

It is anticipated that the new HDD of 2 TB capacity contains four plates of the 500 GB.

With regard to the characteristics of the hard drive WD20EADS, it has a buffer of 32 MB and will be characterized by the average search time of 8.9 ms. During this procedure, speed of the spindle changes from 5400 to 7200 revolutions per minute, thus reducing power consumption. The price of the hard drive will be from $210 to $240.

So far, from all major manufacturers of hard drives, only Samsung can not boast any record of capacity. Hitachi was the first company that issued the hard disk of 1 TB, Seagate terabyte overstepped the first barrier and showed the first HDD of 1.5 TB capacity to the world, a new record for high capacity HDD is made by Western Digital. Without a doubt, competing companies will develop their 2 TB hard drive very soon, and then the struggle for efficiency will also begin.

In addition to its traditional popular products in the form of home theater, Bluray players and cameras at various levels, Sony demonstrated two new photo printers at PMA. New devices are capable of submitting your digital photos for printing very quickly. They have been named as DPP-FP67 and DPP-FP97. The first copy of image takes 45 seconds to print, and the second would require 67 for same operation. The Model DPP FP97 HDMI is equipped with an additional output and 3.5 inch LCD display. It also Supports Bluetooth. Existing direct competitor of this photo printer is Wasabi by Dell. There is a slot for a wide range of flash memory cards, SD, SDHC, MMC, xD and Memory Stick. In general, those who have already evaluated the advantages of mobile photo printers, this device can be recommended to them whole heartedly. Price of new DPP FP6 is $120 and DPP FP97 can be purchased for $200. This unique gadget will be on sale in May.

The company CSR announced a BlueCore Chip “BC7830”, united on a single crystal module are GPS, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, FM receiver and transmitter. Manufacturer claims that the product is the smallest in the world with smart navigation module. Area of circuits does not exceed 11mm2, and low power consumption chip corresponds to the upcoming standard Bluetooth with low energy. BlueCore BC7830 will be used in different mobile technology equipments from mobile phones to media and gaming consoles.

According to a representative from CSR the integration of “BC7830” in mobile GPS receivers costs only one dollar. Similar solutions of competitors costs more, they are bigger in size, or consume more energy. According to the forecasts of analysts low energy Bluetooth technology will be used in 428 million devices by 2010 and BlueCore BC7830 is another step towards the smart low cost gadgets.

Last year, Acer acquired a Taiwanese manufacturer WM Communicators E-TEN. According to the rumors Acer intends to enter the market of mobile phones.

The first phone will be a communicator “Acer DX900”. It does not constitute anything revolutionary, but re-branding of model E-TEN DX900. However, its functionality should be noted as it is in itself quite good. A list of complete specs is as below;

COMMUNICATION STANDARDS AND NAVIGATION

2G: GSM 850/900/1800/1900
3G: UMTS 850/1900/2100 (WCDMA)
VoIP Telephony: Not provided automatically

DISPLAY AND CONTROL

Main: 2.8″ TFT (Touch), 65K Colors, 480 x 640 Resolution
Writing and Navigation: 5 Positions of Sensor

INTERFACES AND SLOTS

Wireless: WiFi b/g, Bluetooth 2.0 (A2DP)
Cable: 2.5 mm for audio, TV Out, Mini USB (USB 2.0)

FRAMEWORK

Operating system: Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
Extras Platform: MIDP 2.0
Synchronization: Synchronization with Windows is Possible

INTERNET AND COMMUNICATION

Data Transfer: HSDPA GPRS (Class 10), EDGE (Class 10)
Mail and Web: Internet Explorer Mobile (WAP 2.0 + HTML), E-mail client is Outlook Mobile (POP3/IMAP4/SMTP) Support
Message Services: SMS, MMS

PROCESSOR
Model: Samsung SC3 6400 533 MHz

MEMORY
Operational (RAM): 128 MB
Permanent (ROM): 256 MB
Extra Drive: No
Memory Extension: micro SDHC
Support memory cards up to 8 GB
Battery, Charger, Stereo, USB Cable, Leather Case, 2 CDs (with drivers and software).
According to some sources in this communicator GPS Navigation is not available.

This handheld printer from Dell and ZINK Imaging is not only compact but also has a pleasing appearance and price. Wasabi PZ310 ZINK is an ultra printer, which prints a photo of 2 x 3 inches in (1) one minute. Wasabi can print photos from any device that supports Bluetooth. The device has a size of 12.2 x 7.1 x 2.3 cm and is available in black, blue and pink shell. So far, as per the advertising campaign, Wasabi printers are offered at a price of 99$ (instant discount price), but the standard price is 149$ as announced by Dell.

The company has demonstrated its Explay Projector “Colibri” at the Mobile World Congress (MWC). The company argues that this tiny device can project a 70” image at VGA, WVGA and SVGA resolutions. Device Dimensions is 24 x 28.6 x 7 mm, and its power consumption is only 1.5 watts. This, as told by the company, is the smallest and most productive and highest resolution Pico projector in the world today.

If you want to manage your personal computer or laptop and do not want to get up from the sofa, then there is nothing better than a remote “USB Media Centre Remote”. The gadget consists of two parts: a wireless receiver connected to the USB port on your computer or laptop and remote control with 43 function keys, which operates up to 6 meters from the receiver. Despite the compact size (124 x 56 x 6.5 mm) and light weight (32 g), USB Media Centre Remote has excellent functionality. The gadget allows you to change the volume in any Windows application, providing full capabilities for playing audio and video in any media player, as well as the ability to work with DVD and TV tuners. The cost of USB Media Centre Remote is $15 only.

Complete specifications are as below;

Volume Control (to adjust the volume up and down in any windows application)
Media Control (to Play, Pause, Fast Forward and Rewind videos)
DVD Menu, Live TV and Recorded TV
Operation Range 20 feet (2.4GHz wireless)
43 Function Keys
OS Support: Windows Vista, XP, 2000, ME
Also Support Microsoft Media Center
Powered by Lithium battery (CR2025)
Dimensions: 124 x 56 x 6.5mm
Weight: 32g

The phone under the name Blue Earth by Samsung is trying to demonstrate that all they talk is about environmental safety - it is not an empty phrase. As a result, we have the phone, which has a body made of plastic from used plastic bottles by recycling, and supporting eco-mode, which optimally adjusts the brightness of the screen, the duration of illumination and the usage of Bluetooth. It has a solar panel on its rear surface, which produces enough energy to make a phone call. Its color is blue but it’s a Green Phone. Unfortunately, no information about its technical characteristics is available so far, except that it is a touch screen phone, but it will be on sale in the second half of this year.

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The company UPEK, which specializes in biometric remedies based fingerprinting, announced the start of sales of a product called Eikon To Go. Previously, the company supplied the Eikon To Go devices to its corporate customers only.

Novelty is a mobile fingerprint sensor. According to the company, Eikon To Go is the first consumer device in its category and the first fingerprint sensor, supporting new versions of Mac OS. Remember, in the form of integrated modules such solutions are already available for quite a long time and are widely used in laptops. Now this device will enable the users of PCs and notebooks to protect your system without embedded sensors.
access to sensitive data or launch specific applications by simply holding your finger on the scanner.

It is important that the sensor has no stored samples of fingerprints. Instead, the memory device contains the results of mathematical processing, which is necessary and sufficient for identification. According to the company, this eliminates the risk of cloning the footprints and increases the degree of protection.

At CES 2009 pureSilicon demonstrated a series of SSD drives by the name of “Nitro”, which has a capacity of 1 TB. New items are durable and have a lightweight body, made of aluminum and composite materials, and provide data transmission speeds up to 240 Mbps for reading and up to 215 Mbps in the process of recording.

Because of the lack of moving parts of such disks, they have more long-term performance and reliability of data storage than conventional reservoirs.

The new series of 2.5-inch SSD-disk from pureSilicon can be used in servers, data centers, supercomputers and, in general, wherever you want reliable operation with large amounts of information.

SSD-drive is the size of 100.2 x 69.85 x 9.5 mm. Four discs with total capacity of 4 TB in size does not exceed a standard HDD-ROM in 3.5-inch form factor.

It is understandable that first customer of terabyte 1 disc will be the military. Mass production of SSD-disc series of Nitro will start at the 3rd quarter of this year. Price of devices have not yet been announced.

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