The new series of Sony headphones PIIQ

Sony launch the latest wave of PIIQ 5 series of headphones which includes 3 headphones and 2 earphones with dazzling youthful colors and sporty styling that provides high quality sound, and comfortable wearing. Distinctive designs allow consumers to choose any combination of their own players, whether it is dancing while listening to music, or skateboarding, shopping, people can still enjoy music and entertainment, with style.




Sony MDR-PQ1

The new MDR-PQ1 headset stereo headphone driver with 40 mm single, powerful bass, three-dimensional shock for listening enjoyment. Earmuffs and headband are padded, with free to adjust earphone size for more comfort. In addition, this headset is detachable, durable flat headphone cable, 1.2 meters long and intimate attached elastic loop to avoid tangles which allows unrestrained engagement in various activities



Sony MDR-PQ2

MDR-PQ2 ear stereo headset with smooth, seamless shape hoisted to 30 mm earphone to provide a clear drive single bass tone, a comfortable cushion design, and the use of durable flat headphone cable, bringing the music entertainment experience more comfortable.



Sony MDR-PQ3

MDR-PQ3 ear stereo headphones is portable and lightweight body, with bright colors with a single 30mm heavy bass driver, headphones with flat lines, which is more durable and easy to use.




Sony MDR-PQ4

The new MDR-PQ4 closed-ear stereo headphones with neodymium magnet to enhance the sound bass, clear and detailed high and low sounds.




Sony MDR-PQ5

The MDR-PQ5 lightweight body is simple, bright and lively stereo headset, delivers clean, crispy sound quality with a stylish design.

Acer Unnamed new 4.8 inch screen Android smart phone preview at New York

On the 24 of November 2010 in New York, Acer showcase its new product featuring a 4.8 inch screen Android smartphone with resolution up to 1024 x 480 and 21:9 format. This new smartphone is powered by 1GHz Snapdragon processor. 


The rear camera supports 800 million pixel with LED flash while the front camera for video conferencing supports only 200 million pixels only. In addition, it also can record and playback at 720p HD video and supports HDMI output or via DLNA wireless video transmission. However, at this moment, there is no name yet for this Android smart phone from Acer.
    

Large 4.8-inch screen Acer Android Smartphone provides great view for comprehensive Internet browsing and gaming experience


Equipped with a large 4.8-inch touch screen which supports multi-touch, optimized JavaScript support for smooth browsing, supports Adobe Flash Player 10.1 and supports multiple webpages  simultaneously. Since most websites are designed with the width of the 1024 resolution display, screen support by this Acer Android smartphone of 1024x480 resolution screen eases web browsing without having to re-enlarge or scroll left and right. It supports HSDPA 14.4Mbps and 802.11n Wi-Fi.Smooth game play are anticipated with built-in 1GHz Snapdragon processor and 6-axis sensor. In addition, it also provides dynamic operations outside touch, which allows mobile phone game for more possibilities. With resolution supports up to 1024 x 480 with a large 4.8 inch display screen, more icons can be displayed.

Mobile home theater with high-quality audio and video


Acer new Android smartphone provides 21:9 ratio display format support from the original movie format,  LED backlit display which provides the bright and vibrant colors in the 4.8-inch screen thus making it enjoyable for watching movies. Dolby Mobile phone technology is implemented in this smartphone to provide great sound effects.The 720p HD video can be output via HDMI to a HD TV or using DLNA features. With all this great features, it can also be dubbed as a portable multimedia player in addition  to being a mobile phone, to enjoy high-quality audio and video experience at any time.


Unfortunately, this new unnamed Acer Android smartphone would not be on the market till April 2011.
  

The New AMD Phenom II X6

Just about time that AMD users and fans get their hands on the new come up AMD Phenom II X6 which also known as the 'Thuban' processors. The best thing of all are the price is just perfect which is about USD300 and use socket AM3 motherboard.

By using AM3 motherboard it means to upgrade to AMD Phenom II X6, all it costs is just the processor itself. Some AM3 motherboard might need to get their firmware updated in order for the bios to recognize the new AMD Phenom II X6 due to the new voltage which is 125W.   

There are two model available which are the AMD Phenom II X6 1055T at 2.8GHz and AMD Phenom II X6 1090T at 3.2GHz. Both are 6 core processor built on a 45nm chip. Both have L2 Cache of 3MB and L3 Cache of 6MB.

With this two new processors also, AMD introduce Turbo CORE technology which was supposed to increase the speed of the processors.

After Intel have got all the attention some time , now AMD counteract with two new processors which is about time.  

Solar Cell Panel Mobile Cellphone

Ever been in a situation where your mobile cellphone is out of power. Mobile cellphone can be one hell of a power hungry mobile device. However, mobile cellphone producer has come up with new kind of mobile cellphone with built in solar cell panel which you can recharge your mobile cellphone under the sunlight.

From LG comes Model LG GD510 POP which support GSM carriers only, 42 MB internal memory, and supports microSDHC. It's a 3" touch screen at 240 x 400 and equipped with a 3 MP camera. In addition, FM support, video recording, bluetooth, and built in document viewer. Talk time is up to 3.5 hours and stand by time is 360 hours. Just for this LG cellphone model, LG specially made solar cell panel recharger LG PCB-100.














Sharp Softbank 936SH is a waterproof solar handset with built in solar cell panel. It has a 3" full widescreen VGA, waterproof design, high performance 8 MP CCD camera, bluetooth support, 3G high speed, and external microSDHC. Talk time is about 230 minutes and standby time is 300 hours. Besides that, Sharps also introduced a few other models utilizing built in solar panel which are SH7128C, SH7120C and SH6230C group it under AQUOS Mobile ASV.  

As for Samsung, Samsung Blue Earth S7550 with built in solar cell panel, 3" capacitive TFT screen,  180MB onboard storage, microSD card slot (up to 16GB), bluetooth, 3.15 megapixel fixed focus camera with smile detection and QVGA @ 30fps video recording, accelerometer sensor and Wi-Fi and GPS with A-GPS support.

Then PUMA team up with SAGEM to produce a solar charging phone. It comes with 2.8" QVGA capacitive touch screen, 3.2 MP camera with LED flash, bluetooth, and FM. Additional interesting features includes pedometer, stopwatch and GPS tracker to reflect active lifestyles of PUMA.


All these solar panel featured mobile cellphones are directed at eco friendly theme which is great for environmental sustainability.

Steve's 6 Magnificient Thoughts about Flash

Even though why Apple's iphone, ipad and ipod gadgets doesn't have Flash support. Somehow, Steve Jobs from Apple have some provoking thoughts regarding Flash and there are as listed,

1. In terms of web usage, Flash is 100 percent propriety compared to HTML5, CSS and Javascript which are open standards. All Apple’s mobile devices are build with high performance, low power implementations of these open standards.
2. The full web experience by Apple's mobile device users as claimed by Adobe as most video on the web in Flash format but can also be accessed by better utilized format, H.264 which can be viewed by Apple's mobile device. As for Flash games on the web, Steve agrees to it but since Apple's App Store itself contains thousands of games and entertainment titles available and most are free for it's mobile device users.
3. There are reliability, security and performance issues of Flash. Flash security as claimed by Symantec is the worst during the year 2009 and Flash is the number one reasons Mac's crash. Then, Flash performance on mobile device was never good enough.
4. Battery life of mobile device during playing video are longer using hardware decoding compared to software decoding. Difference can be about 5 hours of battery life.
5. Touch capability was not fully supported by Flash websites since most uses rollover function. 
6. Flash is a cross platform development tool which doesn't give the best performance development platform for Apple's mobile device.

Steve's conclusion as listed below,
"Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards – all areas where Flash falls short.

The avalanche of media outlets offering their content for Apple’s mobile devices demonstrates that Flash is no longer necessary to watch video or consume any kind of web content. And the 200,000 apps on Apple’s App Store proves that Flash isn’t necessary for tens of thousands of developers to create graphically rich applications, including games.

New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too). Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind."

The full letter can be read here.

At stand, Steve will surely hold tight on to his magnificent 6 reasons for not supporting Flash in Apple's mobile device.

iphone 4G, AMD Phenom II X6 and 3D TV

The latest buzz around the corner of this time around seems to the upcoming iphone 4G aka iphone 4th generation, the new AMD Phenom II X6 and home television set especially in 3D TV due to the success of the blockbuster movie Avatar.

iphone 4G which is the much anticipated gadgets by iphone fans seems to be at luck to since someone from Apple engineering department accidentally left an almost finish prototype iphone 4G on the bar table. Is it surprising such incident do happen? It's up to you to decide whether is all real or just a publicity setup. Anyway, Gizmodo do have all the details on the lost iphone 4G prototype. http://gizmodo.com/5520438/how-apple-lost-the-next-iphone

At last after some time and finally AMD the one and only competitor of Intel as for now came out with is latest processor the AMD Phenom II X6 to compete with Intel's Core i7-980X. What's so surprising about the new AMD Phenom II X6 is the price compared to Intel's Core i7-980X which is unbelievable and yet affordable to those AMD fans. The price tag is just USD300 while the Intel's Core i7-980X is around USD1000. More details about this new AMD processor which deserve its own post at the later time. 















As TV technology had been stagnated at high definition for a while, came the 3D TV which appeared out of no where due to the effect of the blockbuster movie 'Avatar' makes its way to 3D cinema theater and grabs most of the Oscar awards too. 3D TV will be here for a while and there will be more 3D TV on the market.















As for now that's it.