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Audiovox cellular phone accessory, for the most functional accessory

admin — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:41:54 +0000

Cellular phones have become one of the most functional modern day gadgets. It has evolved from being a luxurious toy for young professional into a necessity for the multi dimensional life of these young professionals. However, cellular phones have different use for different people. Now, minors sport a cellular phone as a functional display, they consider it part of their wardrobe and flaunt having this modern day gadget in there complete get up. However, this is not the function of cellular phone to the business world. They are necessities and not for dressing up. Because of the varied usefulness of cellular phones and the increasing need and want for easy communication, manufacturers are quick to take advantage of this booming industry. Cellular phones and cellular phone accessories now flood the marketplace with different designs and different functionalities. Various cellular phone models and accessories including Audiovox cellular phone accessory comes in beautiful and functional designs.

Audiovox cellular phones and Audiovox cellular phone accessory can be such functional and comes with models that are lightweight and of beautiful designs. Audiovox cellular phone accessory such as premium power cord is a versatile power cord comes with cellular phone conditioning capacity. Audiovox cellular phone accessory also include a hip clip holder that can be functional even when your cellular phone is not Audiovox. In addition, Audiovox cellular phone accessory such as headsets and ear glove produce a hands-free cellular phone function that will help you keep your hands on the wheels. This will avoid accidents due to one hand driving and decreased attention on the road. Additionally, the over ear portable hands-free kit from the wide array of Audiovox cellular phone accessory line also functions to provide hands free telephony and had a built in feature that reduces background noise. You will hear clearly the person on the other line, even while driving or doing other stuff. There is also that Jabra model of Audiovox cellular phone accessory, which is a headset that provides hands-free telephoning. Jabra is small, lighter that other headsets and stylish; it also functions as a speakerphone and thus is a more functional gadget for your cellular phone.

All these prove that Audivox cellular phone and Audiovox cellular phone accessory line are functional and technologically advance. Audiovox cellular phone accessory is a multi-functional accessory, it can function well with Audiovox cellular phone but it can also perform its functionality with other cellular phone brands.

There is also that Audiovox cellular phone accessory like the multi-functional antennae, this is attached to your car while you travel, and it functions well when you talk to another person on the other line while the car is in motion. There are other antennas that limits their functions when you are mobile, not the antennae from the Audiovox cellular phone accessory line. This Audiovox cellular phone accessory design of antennae is very useful for travelers and corporate executives. If you are looking for functionality in your cellular phone, try to find an Audiovox cellular phone and the matching Audiovox cellular earphone accessory for your communication requirements. They are very good for young professional who endeavor doing many things are the same time. Your Audiovox cellular phone and Audiovox cellular phone accessory line can compliment your highly active lifestyle.

Eten Glofiish X800, Excellent with the Third Generation Technology

admin — Thu, 10 May 2007 19:53:23 +0000

In 2007 CeBIT Trade Exhibition held in Hannover, Germany from March 15-21, 2007, Eten exhibited their first 3.5G PDA phone, named Gloofiish X800. This PDA phone offers HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) technology, which promises a fast connection during the process of downloading, internet browsing, email checking, and any other data transferring activities. Gloofish is also ensured to be able to access the latest mobile service technologies, such as VoIP, video streaming, and video calling.

The operation system used in this PDA phone is Windows Mobile 6 Crossbow Professional. Meanwhile, the processor used is 400 MHz Samsung S3C2440, similar to the processor of Glofiish M700 which was released earlier.
With this latest operation system, Eten claimed that Eten Gloofish X800 would ease its users in running features such as web search, email, instant messaging, and blogging.
Eten Glofiish X800â€™s Mobile Office even can provide better performance in document editing, spreadsheets, and presentation.
The resolution in this PDA is 640×480 pixels (VGA), far denser if compared to former Etenâ€™s products. As a result, its multimedia features such as music player, as well as the pictures and videos captured by its 2 mega pixels camera, can be displayed in sharp, smooth, and detailed view.

The other superior features Eten Glofiish X800 has are auto focus camera, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, FM radio, and finally, the SiRF Star III chipset which enables Glofiish X800 to function like GPS receiver.

Specification
Network: HSDPA (3.5G) & Quaband GSM (850/900/1800/1900 MHz); Dimension: 11.3 x 6.05 x 1.58 centimeters; Weight: 146 grams; OS: Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.0 Crossbow Professional; Processor: Samsung S3C2440, 400 MHz; Main Camera: 2 mega pixels (1600×1200 pixels), auto focus, video; Secondary Camera: CGA (Video Call); Screen: 2.8 inches, TFT touchscreen, 65.536 colors, 480×640 pixels; Messaging: SMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging; Data Transfer: HSDPA, EDGE 10, GPRS 10; Browser: HTML (Pocket IE); Internal Memory: 64 MB SDRAM, 128 MB ROM; External Memory: miniSD (TransFlash); Conectivity: Bluetooth v2.0, USB; Other Features: Polifonik/MP3, GPS Receiver with SiRF Star III chipset, video call, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, Games, Pocket Office (Word, Excel, Outlook), eBooks, Windows Media Player 10, FM Radio, Handwriting recognition, Organizer, Voice Memo, Speakerphone, etc; Batteray: li-ion.

Sennheiser PC 160 SK, Special Headset for Professional Gamers

admin — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 09:19:56 +0000

Recently, Sennheiser and SK Gaming Team, a professional gamer community, have collaborated to release a headset which could fulfill the needs of professional gamers. This headset is named Sennheiser PC 160 SK.

This limited edition headset was claimed to be able to offer a spectacular gaming experience with perfect quality of 3D sound. This headset can produce sounds from all directions, including from the upper and lower sides. As a result, this headset can realize the realistic aspects of the game perfectly.

PC 160 SK is equipped with a flexible microphone, whose position can be set at your own preference. With its noise-canceling and voice recognition features, this microphone could filter out noises around the speaker. It also enables you to speak with your teammates in high clarity, so that teamwork coordination in playing multiplayer games is improved.

PC 160 SK uses extra thick single-side cables, which guarantee its maximum durability. Interestingly, PS 160 SK has also been certified by Skype. Sennheisser PC 160 SK is offered at the price US$ 109.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION:
Connectivity: cable; Compatibility: computer, gaming; Design: over the head; Plug Connector: 2 x 3.5 mm (PC/Laptop); Cable Length: 3 m; Earplace: double; Frequency Response: 40 Hz â€“ 18.000 Hz; Impedance: 32 ohm; SPL (at 1 KHz, Vrms): 109 dB

MICROPHONE FEATURE:
Pick-up Pattern: Uni-directional; Freqency Response: 80-15.000 KHz; Impedance: 2000 ohm; Sound Pressure: 114 dB; Sensitivity (1V/Pa at 1 KHz): -38 dB

FM-Based Wireless Headset

admin — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 14:54:31 +0000

When listening to music in cell phones, the stretching headset cable sometimes could be so disturbing, as it makes us uncomfortable to move. To solve this problem, cell phone manufacturers have developed A2DP Bluetooth that enables users to listen to music in their phone via wireless headset.

Unfortunately, the price of such a headset is often unaffordable. The kinds of cell phones which support A2DP Bluetooth are also still limited. Now, with some Do-It-Yourself steps from this article, we can invent our own wireless headset by making use FM radio signals.

The Operation Principles
Basically, this work is done merely by connecting the route of the phoneâ€™s headset with FM transmitter tools. By doing so, the sound which phone produces will be received by the FM radio tool. It is this FM radio tool that would be reconnected to the headset.

The receiving range of this device wonâ€™t be as far as the receiving range of A2DP Bluetooth headset, only around 2-3 meters. However, this device still enables you to change the frequency and listen to another commercial radio broadcast. Besides that, your cell phone will be safer, as you can put it into your bag when riding a motorcycle.

The Things You Need:
1. Mini FM Transmitter
2. Mini FM Radio Tools (Plus Headset)
3. Connecting Device from the Audio Source

Mini FM transmitter is available electronic stores. It costs around Rp. 50,000.00. For those who want to make your own Mini FM Transmitter, follow the next steps:

AstraCam DV 680, Digital Camera and MP3 Player in One

admin — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 23:44:50 +0000

There are various digital camcorders available in the market. AstraCam DV 680 manufactured by Umax is one of them. This device has 6 mega pixels CCD camera, which could be interpolated up to 8 mega pixels.

This camcorder has 2.5 inches swiveled TFT screen, which could be rotated until 2900. Thus, it can provide more comfortable viewfinder appearances for different image capturing positions.

Interestingly, AstraCam DV680 is equipped with Advanced Electronic Image Stabilizer technology, which reduces blur effects during fast movement recordings. Flashlight with auto, auto with red reductions, fill-in, slow, sync, and off menus are also provided. AstraCam DV680â€™s video recordings are in the format of avi extension, and could be played with the camcorderâ€™s playback feature.
Besides as camera and digital camcorder, AstraCam DV680 can also function as MP3 player, webcam, and voice recorder. To connect this device to TV or PC, in/out AV Port plus USB 2.0 are available.

This digital camcorder is also supplied with IR (infrared) remote control, which has the effective range of 150 horizontally and vertically of its front side. Meanwhile, its maximum distance is 6 meters.

UMAX Vega 205, Music Player with FM Transmission

admin — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 01:21:28 +0000

Umax has once again diversified MP3 Player market by the release of its newest product, Vega 205. This MP3 player having 7×4, 15×1, 42 cm dimensions and 44 g weight is equipped with 262k color 1.8 inch OLED screen, far better than its predecessor Vega 205 which still has monochrome display. Vega 205â€™s also has 1 GB memory capacity, four times bigger than Vega 203.

Vega 205 can play mp3, wma, and wav files with 8 kbps-320kbps (mp3) and 16 kbps-192 kbps (wma) bit rates. Not only that, this device can also open video/photo/text formats such as smv, jpeg, and txt (e-book). Vega 205 is also equipped with equalizer feature to compensate for sound distortion.

Interestingly, UMAX Vega 205 is also supplied with FM Transmission feature which enables its users to listen to the played music via Hi-Fi tools. Vega 205 has frequency range of 87.5 MHz-108 MHz and 10 meters effective distance. This device also has FM Radio inside.

To process song transfers from PC, this device provides USB v2.0 connection device. Vega 205 plus its extra equipment such as earphones, USB cables, charger, neck strap, user manual and CD driver is on sale.

IRiver X20, Smart Player, iPod Killer

admin — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:49:20 +0000

Portable Music Player (PMP) in rectangular form is present in 9.85 x 4.9 x 1.48 dimension and 71 gram of weight. Physically it is wrapped with glossy solid black material and white trim along the body sides. Moreover, the â€˜skinâ€™ is prevented from dirt of fingerprints.
This player attaches 2.2 inches screen with 262K color and resolution of 320×240 pixels (QVGA). The display is claimed to have clear and sharp appearance. Moreover, there are 8 brightness setting levels we can operate manually using scroll wheel. So, it is more pleasant for us to explore the circular menus.

iRIVER X20 is capable to play audio video format like MP3, MP4, OGG, WMA, AVI (MPEG-4) and WMV9. It has also photo viewer and radio FM facilities. Equipped with equalizer, its beat of music play is trusted to have thunderous sound.
In addition to make use scroll wheel, the player presents buttons of hold, back, play/pause and 5 directions navigation just like iPod, to control the music play. It has also UMS (universal mass storage) function, which serves as flash disk when connected to PC via data cable. So, we just drag and drop it to transfer files.
Supplied with standard battery, iRIVER X20 is capable to play music for 22 hours. In marketplace, X20 is available in 3 choices of price and capacity, namely 2GB (US$157), 4GB (US$190) and 8 GB (US$250).

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mobiBLU BOXON, Mini Music Player with VoIP Feature

admin — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:20:12 +0000

BOXON is a newest audio video player launched by mobiBLU. It is as small as the size of communication tool in past: pager. You can imagine itâ€™s only 4.25 x4.97×1.25 cm in dimension. Nevertheless, it contains many reliable features.
BOXON is capable to play MP3, WMA, WMA DRM, OGG, and ASF music nicely. Moreover, with SRS WOW and TruBass facilities the music play is more thunderous. Not only that, this small equipment can be used to play video of AVI format. The picture viewer function of JPEG can also be operated.

mobiBLU BOXON attaches OLED 262 K color screen as display media of various information with indicators of lock, battery, song track, duration, bitrate, volume to equalizer graphic.
Uniquely, this portable music player is also supported by VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) technology and prodcast that is similar to cellular instrument technology. Its lithium polymer battery will last for 12 hours to play music, while to play video it is only enduring for 4 hours.
mobiBLU BOXOn is commercially available in two color choices namely black and white. The prices offered are US$129 (2GB) and US$109 (1GB).