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CES 2007: Samsung Dual-Screen Ultra Music Phone SGH-F300 Announced
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Smartphones, CES, CES 2007, Music, Portable Audio / Video,
Samsung’s Ultra Music Phone, a union of slim style and function, is an iconic bar handset designed with an added twist: dual LCD screens. An LCD is featured on each side of the device. On one side there is a smaller LCD screen and the dialing keypad for making phone calls. This side also allows contact entry and cell phone menu functions. The reverse side has a large LCD screen and a dedicated touch sensitive pad and serves as the music player for MP3 and WMA files and has multimedia menu functions.
The Ultra Music is equipped with a digital power amp, which offers a dedicated music user interface that makes it easy to navigate through song lists. Additionally, it has a stereo FM radio and a Quick PC Sync, allowing users to create a music library and customized play lists. In addition to dedicated music features, the Ultra Music has all the extra features consumers have come to expect, including a 2 mega-pixel camera, extended battery life and Bluetooth technology. No pricing info has been announced yet, but we do have a picture of the other side of the phone, after the jump.
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CES 2007 Video: Shure Gives Us A Look At Their New SE210, SE310, SE420, and SE530 Earbuds
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: CES, CES 2007, Features, Music, Portable Audio / Video, Videocasts, Videos,
We were able to stop by Shure’s booth at CES Unveiled, where Chris Lyons gave us a look at their newly announced line of in-ear headphones. Focusing on sound isolation, the four new models aim to heighten your listening experience through keeping outside noises away, letting you hear all the details of the music. We have the details of each product after the jump, along with the interview in the video above.
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CES 2007: HDTV Convergence STB Awarded Home Network CES Honors
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: CES, CES 2007, Home Entertainment, Internet, Misc. Tech, Movies, Music, Video Games, Wireless / WiFi,
Ubicod has been awarded a CES 2007 Best of Innovation in Home Network honoree with its HDTV STB (set-top box.) Get the Internet anywhere in your home, remotely record your home entertainment center, utilize its live TV playback function, or plug it into your PC or laptop. You can also transfer multimedia files to other A/V devices and create a UTV photo slide show. Just don’t ask it to play the violin. The STB supports ATSC (U.S., Canada, Korea, Taiwan) and DVB-T/s (Europe,) and utilizes MPEG-4 encoding.
Check out the UMH700H’s demo and contact Ubicod for price and availability.
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| Ubicod via CES 2007 Awards
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Furutech Is Honored For deMag
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: CES, CES 2007, Misc. Tech, Movies, Music, Video Games,
Furutech has won a CES 2007 Best of Innovation award for its deMag, which demagnetizes LPs, CDs, DVDs, game and photo CDs, SACDs, and MDs. It also works on power cords and their connectors, as well as interconnects, to prevent distortion. The deMag measures 19 x 2.7× 18.5-inches and weighs 24 lbs.
The company claims that pigment added to plastic during the manufacturing process causes a minute amount of ferrous material which causes discs to become magnetized. At a price of $1,800.00, check with Furutech for availabilty of its Limited Edition deMag.
Read More | Furutech via CES 2007 Awards
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CES 2007: Zune Wireless: In The Wild!
Posted by Sparky Categories: CES, CES 2007, Features, Music, Portable Audio / Video, Wireless / WiFi,
Here at Gear Live we got our Zune‘s at the official launch in November of 2006, and have been eagerly awaiting our first “in the wild” sighting of another Zune to try the wireless features outside of a “test scenario.”
Now don’t get us wrong, we love the Zune, but market adoption has been rather slow - but today in the SeaTac airport on our way to CES we encountered “ALIENSPAWNER” and had a chance to transfer a few tracks back and forth. Hit the jump for a picture of him with our Zune.
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Samsung YP-K5 Review
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Music, Portable Audio / Video, Product Reviews,
We recently got our hands on the Samsung YP-K5 digital audio player, one of the few MP3 players that has a built-in speaker. The K5 also has an FM tuner, a 1.7-inch color OLED screen, touch-sensitive controls, and 2GB or 4GB of embedded flash memory. Tack on the promise of fantastic battery life, and this one should be a keeper, right? We have provided you with a Samsung K5 unboxing gallery, and also give you our thoughts in our full review, after the break.
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Sex Sells iHolic HTV-200 TV/PMP
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Misc. Tech, Movies, Music, Portable Audio / Video,
Korean company iHolic has unveiled its HTV-200 DMB TV and PMP. The device features a 2.4-inch color TFT display, a SD-Card slot, USB 2.0, 512 MB/1 GB/2 GB internal memory options, MP4 video and MP3 audio support, and a JPG photo viewer. Getting touted with the sexiest of ad campaigns, the black HTV-200 has dimensions of 82 × 50 × 18.5 mm, weighs 76 g, and comes with a remote control and docking station for 188,000 WON on (~$203) iHolic’s website.
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Verizon Offers Freebie New Year’s Eve Ringtone
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Smartphones, Corporate News, Music,
Verizon is ringing in The New Year by offering its customers a free ringtone download December 31. You just text the word “Tone” to the number 2007 with your cell phone and you will receive instructions. Unfortunately, the offer is only available to Verizon customers, which of course is their way of getting us to change our New Year’s resolution from “I will lose 20 pounds” to “I will change my phone carrier” before 2007. Check out the available tunes on the Verizon Get It Now website.
Read More | Mobileburn
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Tri-Fold Mirror Outs Shower Rock Stars
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Smart Home, Misc. Tech, Music, Portable Audio / Video, Wireless / WiFi,
We have already given you a possible solution for attaching your iPod in your car. Now we suggest a way you can keep it close to you when you have the urge to sing in the shower. The Tri-Fold Wireless MP3 Shower Mirror is an FM transmitter which attaches wirelessly to your iPod, TV, or other CD or MP3 player and projects a signal up to 100 feet. It also has a LED clock, a lighted, fogless mirror to watch yourself performing, and waterproof speakers so you can hear what others would probably like to ignore.
At dimensions of 6.25 x 3 x 9-inches and a weight of 9 lbs., the mirror attaches with included tape or suction cups, requires four AA and two AAA batteries (not included,) and can be found at the Discovery Store for $99.00.
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Apple’s iTunes Music Store Gets Flooded
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Apple, Corporate News, Music, Portable Audio / Video,
Recipients of iPods and iTunes gift cards swarmed over Apple’s music store over the last few days, apparently causing 20 minute slowdowns and error messaging. Beginning this past Monday, onliners began to post frantic “help me” messages on their tech forum.
Still looking into the situation, Apple must surely be feeling the cash flow, since online market researcher Hitwise has reported that 4 times as many shoppers visited the iTunes website on Christmas this season as compared to last year. As of now, Apple dominates that market by about 75%, however increased competition could cost them as much as 5% in 2007, according to research analyst Gene Munster.
Read More | USA Today
