Articles for the Topic: 'Wireless Devices'
Kodak EasyShare V610 Bluetooth Enabled Digital Camera
Kodak has recently launched its new dual Lens EasyShare V610 digital camera in India, which is only 2.3cm thick and offers a 10x zoom equivalent to 38-380mm, making it the smallest camera in the world with a big zoom range.
The Kodak EasyShare V610 is Kodak’s second dual lens camera after EasyShare V570 which was designed for wide-angle shooting. The V610’s two lenses give it a total focal range of 38 – 380 mm.
Kodak claims that its EasyShare V610 digital camera is world’s smallest 10x optical zoom camera and it is also one of the world’s first consumer cameras with Bluetooth connectivity built in.
Palm TX Handheld Wireless Gadget
The PDA pioneer Palm has announced release of their new Palm TX handheld PC featuring built-in Wi-Fi, Bluetooth technology and huge 320 x 480 transflective TFT touchscreen display which supports over 65,000 colors.
The new Palm TX handheld wireless gadget is ideal for browse the web and check email from anywhere – campus, or home network and places like airports, cafes, and hotels.
Palm TX handheld allows users to carry their Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents for mobile presentations and makes web pages, presentations, spreadsheets, photos, and videos come live on its large color screen that rotates from landscape to portrait mode by simple click.
The Palm TX handheld can even be used for listning MP3s music and read eBooks. It’s anything but business as usual.
Logitech Cordless Keyboard S530 for Apple Mac Desktops
Logitech recently released their latest keyboard for Desktop Apple Mac computers. Designed specifically for your Mac, the Cordless Desktop S530 Laser includes a comfortable ultra-flat keyboard and a high-performance laser mouse.
The set consists of a sleek, ultra-flat full keyboard and a laser optical mouse with five programmable buttons. The keyboard features two unique narrow panels one either side of of it, with 15 additional keys that make it easy to launch various applications on one-click.
As compared to Apple’s might mouse, the new Logitech cordless keyboard S530 is certainly more comfortable to use as well as offering more options.
i-mate Announces i-mate JAMin Mobile Phone
i-mate, a specialist vendor of Microsoft Windows Mobile devices, has announce the launch of their most compact Windows Mobile 5.0 based Pocket PC, the ‘i-mate JAMin’.
The new i-mate JAMin mobile phone comes in the same compact form factor as i-mate JAM but houses significant improvements including Quad-band GPRS/EDGE capability, lightning-fast Wi-Fi built in (802.11b and 802.11g), a 2.0 megapixel advanced camera, and all the latest Windows Mobile 5.0 software that includes standard packages such as Pocket Outlook, Phone, Internet Explorer, Power point, MSN Messenger and Games.
The i-mate JAMin mobile phone comes with 64MB RAM and 128MB ROM, MMC/SDIO slot.
Resembling a standard PDA, i-mate JAMin’s larger stature, compared with the size a regular cell phone, allows for a bigger touch screen of 2.8 inches diagonal, with support for 64k colors, as well as a 240×320-pixel resolution.
Panasonic Lauches World’s Lightest LCD Projector – PT-P1SD
Panasonic Asia Pacific Pte Ltd. has announced launch of PT-P1SD LCD projector in India. Panasonic claims that the PT-P1SD is the world’s lightest and smallest LCD projector with built-in SD RAM card slot for standalone slide shows and presentations without the need of being connected to a PC.
The new Panasonic LCD projector, PT-P1SD, provides a new way to present digital still images or moving pictures taken with a digital still camera or camera mobile phone using the SD memory cards for storage.
By simply inserting such a SD memory card pre-loaded with images, pictures or movie clips into the projector’s SD card slot and the Panasonic PT-P1SD is ready to project clear, bright, beautiful images onto a huge screen without the need for a PC or laptop.
The images on the Panasonic PT-P1SD’s SD card are displayed as a list of thumbnails and users simply select the images they want to view. The PT-P1SD also features built-in slide show functions for viewing your digital photos.
ZyXEL P-320W 802.11g Wireless Firewall Router
Zyxel Communications Corp., a global DSL router provider, recently launched its new P-320W Firewall Router featuring 4-port switch with 802.11g Access Point, designed for SOHO and small business network users looking for secure and cost effective wireless internet access over LAN shared environment.
The new Zyxel P-320W wirelsss firewall router has comprehensive wired/wireless security mechanism and features a hassle-free user interface besides being a very cost-effective choice for home users seeking secure Internet connectivity.
Zyxel P-320W wireless router comes with 64/128-bit WEP key, WPA (Wi-Fi protected access) encryption and authentication schemes. The 64/128-bit WEP key, WPA and 802.1X WiFi encryption and authentication schemes also ensure stringent wireless security that protects personal or private information on home networks by blocking unauthorized or unknown users from sharing internet connection.
Nokia Releases Symbian Apache Web Server Source Code for Mobile Web Server
Nokia has released the complete source code of the Symbian Port of the Apache web server for mobile phones, under open source project, potentially empowering any user to create and maintain his own personal mobile websites.
Running an Apache web server on a mobile phone sounds pretty exciting and it throws open some potentially new avenues of many useful applications for this massess in view of the fact that mobile phones users outnumbers PC users.
Background
It has been possible to access the Internet using mobile phones for quite a while over various mobile phone internet access protocols like GPRS and WAP, although the role of the mobile phone handset used for internet access has remained to be strictly been that of a client.
Haier Launches CDMA and GSM Mobile Phones Handsets
Haier, a Chinese electronic consumer products maker, has announced its entry into the Indian mobile handset market with the launch of its CDMA range of mobile handsets in India in association with Tata Teleservices along with the launch of several GSM and CDMA mobile phone handsets priced, starting from Rs 2000 a piece.
Haier also declared its intent for setting up a mobile phone handset manufacturing unit in India in the next 18-24 months to address the target of selling five million mobile phone handsets in India over the next two years.
Company has also introduced a new range of both CDMA and GSM mobile phones in a price range of Rs 2,000 to Rs 20,000 for indian consumers.
Haier has approached one of the largest GSM operators in India to develop customised packages with Haier’s GSM handset range.
Despite its existing brand recognition in India due to presense of its other white goods business in Indian market, this ambitious Chinese brand will have to compete head on with the likes of Motorola, Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Samsung, though its aim is not as immodest as to try toppling the leader, Nokia.
Logitech V500 Cordless Notebook Mouse
Logitech, a major peripheral devices technology vendor, has announced the Logitech V500 Cordless Notebook Mouse featuring a 2.4 GHz wireless technology.
The Logitech V500 Cordless Notebook Mouse is loaded with innovations such as an expandable chassis, a touch-sensitive solid-state scrolling panel, and 2.4 GHz wireless technology. It is designed for the mobile professional and the notebook PC segment.
At 3 3/4 inches by 2 1/4 inches by 1 1/8 inches, this mouse is just 2.3 ounces when packed away, according to a press release.
Wireless Pocket Web Access Gadget Launched By Datawind
Datawind Corp, a Canadian wireless Web access gadget manufacturer, has introduced its new product Pocket-Surfer in India. Pocket-Surfer is a tiny Bluetooth enabled mobile Web access device which Datawind claims to provide the world’s fastest mobile Internet access.
Being able to connect directly to local wireless GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) network of mobile phone service provider, the Pocket-Surfer provides near desktop or laptop quality web surfing experience to users in their palm without having to connecting to a cellular phone or plugging into a landline modem or routers.
Users now have the power to access the web anywhere at anytime, using the technology they desired based on cost and device needs.
Microsoft Offers Windows Live Messanger Beta with VoIP
Microsoft declared that company is extending its VoIP enabled chat service to cover 11 more countries next week as it made its Windows Live Messenger Beta available for download today.
The move comes a week after Skype announced its latest VoIP enabled popular software, and as Microsoft overhauls its MSN service with scores of so called live objects.
In USA, Microsoft tie-up with US phone giant Verizon to enable users make calls to cell phones and traditional landlines for a few pennies a minute. Customers in the US, UK, Germany, France and Spain are already able to access the service, with Austria, Belgium, Finland, Iceland, Italy and the Netherlands coming on next week.
Siemens Launches Single-line Cordless Phone
Siemens, the largest market shareholder in the cordless phone section, launches the H550 model of cordless phone in the Indian market.
The H550 model of cordless phone is boundled with a range of comprehensible features that include FSK & DTMF clip, type 2 call waiting, caller line identification, real time clock, time display in mode (handset), ISDN-PABX accompanied with traits like desktop charger, analog a/b, telescopic antenna (handset and base) with an outdoor range of: 200m and indoor range of 50m.
The H550 is accompanied with traits like Desktop Charger, Analog a/b, Telescopic Antenna (handset and base). The Siemens H550 cordless phone has outdoor range of: 200m* and indoor range of 50m*. The cordless phone also has a standby-time of 4 days and talk-time of 6 hours.
Nokia Unveils E50 – Targeted At Mass Market
Nokia has unveiled a new small mobile phone, the latest in its Nokia E series business range, the Nokia E50, targeted at a mass market of business users in what is seen as its attempt o grab a bigger share of that lucrative segment of the industry.
The new Nokia E50 mobile phone is aimed at both business and leisure use and it comes with pre-installed business applications, an MP3 player, and an optional 1.3 mega pixel camera. It supports corporate mobile e-mail solutions and GSM networks.
The E50, Nokia’s 18th new phone model this year, is expected to begin hitting the stores before the end of June, with volume sales starting in the third quarter, Nokia said.
Sony Ericsson W700 Walkman Mobile Phone
Sony Ericsson introduces W700 mobile phone in the series of Walkman phones.
The new W700 shares the same features as the W800i, with one exception of the new Titanium gold design 
and the memory which has dropped from 512 MB to 256 MB, which can be further upgraded up to 2 GB through slot card.
The pre-installed Disc2Phone communication software now allows the CD tracks be easily converted into MP3, AAC and WMA formats and get them upload to the phone with ease. The new Sony W700 mobile phone comes with high-quality Sony headsets and FM radio with RDS. Connectivity is achieved through Bluetooth, infrared and USB, and WAP for Intenrnet.
Finally, the new Sony W700 now offers a 2 megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom, capable of video recording in MPEG-4 format.
Motorola To Introduce O ROKR Bluetooth Eyewear
Motorola has plans to introduce the O ROKR, is being touted as Gen-Next Bluetooth eyewear from Oakley 
and Motorola that makes for wireless freedom, digital stereo fidelity, as also patented optical clarity.
Mororola O ROKR BlueTooth enabled eyewear that would enable wireless conversation and access to music through two integrated speakers.
The new O ROKR can stream music wirelessly from a compatible Bluetooth-enabled phone or a portable music player with an add-on Bluetooth adapter. You can use the button on O ROKR to pause the music or change songs, giving you control the music wirelessly.
