Nokia E66 S60 Slider Goes Official

Nokia's bringing some new, unsurprising, E series hotness to the States in the form of the new E66 slider. Featuring GSM, EDGE, WCDMA and HSDPA bands galore, the phone is slated for a Q3 release this year. Features include a 3.2 megapixel auto-focus camera, along with a front-facing cam for video calls, WiFi, A-GPS, 3.6mbps web browsing and a 2.4-inch QVGA screen. What really sets it apart from its E series counterparts is the 13.6mm thickness. The battery life is amazing too, with 14 days of standby, and 7.5 hours of talk on GSM, or 3.5 hours of talk on 3G. There's only 110MB of internal memory, but you can supplement that with an 8GB microSD card. The phone comes in "grey steel" or "white steel" (what, no blue steel?), and Nokia is planning to keep this under $500.

Sprint to Offer Samsung Instinct at $199.99 on Contract

If some internal sources at Sprint are to be believed then the Samsung Instinct will run $199.99 on contract after rebates. The earlier speculation that the best Sprint and best Samsung phone ever, Samsung Instinct was going to be $299 after rebate. Looks as if Sprint was just waiting for Apple’s announcement before settling on a price. The best part is that current customers can supposedly buy the phone without renewing their two-year contract, which is pretty great for someone who is planning to change carriers soon. Sprint will also be asking users to sign up for an "Everything" plan when taking delivery of their Instinct, a move that smacks of AT&T's marriage of the iPhone to specific plans.

Samsung i900 Omnia, Finally Announced

The highly rumored Samsung i900 has finally been announced by Samsung. Named Samsung i900 Omnia, the Windows Mobile 6.1 powered phone features a 3.2-inch WideQVGA display (240 x 400 pixels), 7.2 Mbps HSDPA, built in accelerometer, WiFi module, Bluetooth, USB Port, FM Tuner and an optical mouse much like the one found in the Samsung i780. Talking about the camera, the Samsung i900 Omnia offers a 5 megapixel auto focus camera with face and smile detection. Geotagging is also one of the camera features since the i900 also packs a built-in GPS receiver.

Looking at the body of the Samsung i900 Omnia, it looks rather identical to the Apple iPhone. In addition to similar looks the i900 also shares the same massive internal memory. Samsung i900 Omnia will be available in both an 8GB and 16GB i900 versions with the microSD still present for further expanding.

The Samsung i900 comes up with the quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support plus HSDPA 7.2Mbps. The built-in accelerometer lets the UI automatically rotate to follow the handset's current orientation.

And when you are out to compete with Apple’s iPhone, touch interface becomes very important, keeping this fact in mind Samsung has used their TouchWiz user interface for use on Windows Mobile.

The Samsung i900 Omnia will be available from June 2008.

Aiptek PocketCinema V10 Pocket-Size Projector

Aiptek, a brand which is famous for cheap and small is introducing a pocket-sized projector called the PocketCinema V10 over in Taipei. Aiptek's PocketCinema V10, is a pocket size media player projector equipped with 3M's revolutionary miniature projection technology, which can project a 50-inch image. And if there is no source around you, you can still use the projector by using the 1GB internal memory or 3-in-1 card reader. The V10 supports JPEG, ASF, AVI and MPEG-4 formats and features a stereo speaker and built-in battery.

No announcement regarding the price and availability has been made yet.

Newman COOL MAN MP3 Player - Just Pin It Up

Samsung’s S2 Pebble has finally found a competitor in Newman’s COOL MAN mp3 player. Newman has recently launched a new mp3 player called the COOL MAN. And the unique feature that separates it from the rest is that you can clip it on using a safety pin placed in the back of the COOL MAN. It features an OLED display, MP3/WMA support, built-in mic and for the first time a safety pin.

No word on the price as yet, but it certainly looks COOOOOOL.

MSI Launches The Wind - The First 10" Notebook to Feature INTEL Atom CPU

Here's the news many of us have been waiting for, Micro-Star International (MSI) has officially announced the launch of it’s 10-inch, 1,204 x 600 LED-backlit MSI Wind. MSI Computer, a leading manufacturer of computer hardware products and solutions has launched the much anticipated Wind Notebook. The Wind (Wi-Fi Network Device) is the first 10-inch notebook to feature the new Intel Atom 1.6Ghz processor.

Still, when you consider that your $399 buys you a Linux-based system riding atop Intel's 1.6GHz Atom processor, an 80GB 2.5-inch disk, 5.5-hour rated battery, 1.3-megapixel webcam, Bluetooth and 802.11b/g WiFi, it makes the $625 price of the Eee PC 1000(H) pretty tough to justify. $499 XP model and gave it their "editor's choice" award calling the Wind "the best all-around mini-notebook to date."

Weighing in at just 2.6 lbs, the MSI Wind is lightweight and ultra mobile, and features an ergonomically designed keyboard that is only 20% smaller than of a full sized keyboard, with keys spaced a comfortable 0.68 inches apart.

The Windows version of the Wind is priced at $499 MSRP, and will be available for purchase starting June 16th, 2008 at www.msimobile.com. The Linux based models of the Wind will be available at the same site later this summer for $399 MSRP.

Iomega Launches 1TB Super eGo External Hard Drive

After recently launching a portable media player, Iomega, the leaders in storage solutions comes out with a 1TB external hard drive called Super eGo which to me looks like a liquor flask.


The Super eGo uses 3.5-inch desktop hard drives. The external HDD has USB 2.0 connectivity and is powered by an Energy Star qualified adapter. Iomega’s Super eGo external hard drive comes with a one-year warranty and is available in midnight blue, jet black and ruby red for US$269.95.

Willcom 03 smartphone - 1seg-equipped Smartphone

Willcom just announced its new Willcom 03 smartphone, which packs a bundle of features into an eye-catching package. This smartphone features a 3-inch 800 x 480 touchscreen display, which complements the built-in 1seg mobile TV tuner quite nicely. Other prominent features of this phone include built-in WiFi and Bluetooth, 256MB of flash memory, a microSD card slot for expansion, a 2 megapixel camera, and Windows Mobile 6.1 for an OS, to name a few.

Priced at 63,120(JPY) the Willcom 03 smartphone is expected to be available in June.

Samsung 256GB SSD - World's Fastest and Largest Capacity 2.5-inch, MLC-Based Drive

Samsung's just announced their first 256GB SSD that all of us have been waiting for. According to Samsung this is a full 256GB solid-state drive and is said to be the world's fastest and largest capacity 2.5-inch, MLC-based SSD with SATA II Interface. This drive has speeds of 200MBps read and 160MBps sequential write.


Though not available currently, the amazing drive will be available from September. According to official sources the customers will also be able to buy the 1.8inch version.

Samsung's new 256GB SSD is also the thinnest drive with the largest capacity to be offered with a SATA II interface. With a sequential read speed of 200 megabytes per second (MB/s) and sequential write speed of 160MB/s, Samsung's MLC-based 2.5-inch 256GB SSD is about 2.4 times faster than a typical HDD. Samsung 256GB SSD is only 9.5millimeters (mm) thick, and measures 100.3x69.85 mm.

FujiFilm's Z200FD with Love Timer

FujiFilm has just released another of "Z" for Zoom, FinePix shooter. The 20-mm thin Z200fd follows-up the "surprisingly good" Z100fd with a 10 megapixel, 1/2.3-inch CCD sensor; 5x, image stabilized, optical zoom lens; 2.7-inch LCD; SD/SDHC and xD card support; and ISO support up to 1600.

However the interesting and the most amazing feature is the "love timer" with setting for near (1 heart), close-up (2 hearts), and sloppy-tongue-wrestling (3 hearts) depending upon the level of icky-sticky sweetness you'd like to capture.

Set for release in Japan on June 7th for ¥40,000 (about $388 by the time it shows up in the US to document your breakup).