Pros:

• Pocket Size which is what I prefer, easy to carry out as all I need is a shirt with a pocket.
• User-friendly software converts various video file format into the player. Sometimes I don’t even have to convert since the player supported AVI.
• Buttom with LED light allow me to control the player to enjoy movie in the dark.
• Clearm, crisp and smooth display that I never experienced with other MP4 players before. (I had some nightmares with MP4 players before but thanks god that I find a good one now) Also good way to put photos inside to show my friends.
• Great sound, awesome audio let me enjoy great music wherever whenever I go.
• E-Book function allows me to read like a story book.
• The original player come with one game, Tetris but it is my favorite game and love it.
• As I am from Spain, there is Spanish language which is prefect for me.
• The player replaces my old voice recorder as it has voice recording function.
• 4GB Capacity, I can put around 400 songs and 4 movies in the player (assuming 5MB per song and 500MB per movie), and with the Micro SD (T-Flash) card I got, I can even put more.

Cons:

• The touch pad control may be too sensitive and difficult to use the player, which take a bit of getting used to but they don’t take long to master.
• Play time may only last for about 3-4 hours, but I got myself a backup battery (the backup battery is very cheap) which allow me to play MP3/4 for more than 6 hours.

Conclusion:

With the price and quality I couldn’t find any MP4 player can match the OMEGA, please do tell me if you know one.

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The application gives the user gives the user to control and monitor all aspects of their homes from anywhere in the world.

The application developed by CLIQK, a New York based digital lifestyples services firm. It accounced today that its VIP members are being treated to specially customized iPhones.

The custom iPhones include specialized menus, applications, and ring tones not available from Apple or the general public. CLIQK unlocked the true power of the iPhone, allowing people to use this remarkable tool to control their homes’ security, lighting, temperature, shading, and even music -whether they’re in sailing in St. Tropez or simply stuck at the office. The advantages of this accessibility cannot be overstated, whether it is used to enhance security or just comfort.

The home control applications allow users to monitor their homes security, lighting, temperature, shading, and music.

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A new generation game console, Nintendo’s Wii uses a wireless, montion-sensitive controller

that allow players to use their montions to control and play the game has won six Bafta awards.

The Japanese company’s top-selling title Wii Sports won 5 awards at British Academy Video Games Awards, that include best gameplay, innovation and strategy.

Wii Sports is a collection of five sports simulations, designed to demonstrate the motion-sensing capabilities of the Wii Remote to new players. Players use the Wii Remote to mimic actions performed in real life sports, such as swinging a tennis racket. The rules for each game are simplified in order to make them more accessible to new players. The sports included are tennis, baseball, bowling, golf, and boxing.

The other two games: organized crime thriller “Crackdown” & the Greek mythology game “God of War 2″ also picked up a prize individually.

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Really good product that allow to play music using SD cards and USB sticks! It has really good sound quality and fills a room (sufficient for tai chi classes). with the portability of battery power (that lasts around 2 weeks - 16 classes) it means you can take it anywhere.

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Motorola Inc. took a 50 percent stake in UIQ, a move that is likely a reaction to stepped up competition from the iPhone.Under the agreement, Motorola and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB will equally share ownership of UI Holdings BV, the parent company of Symbian user interface developer UIQ Technology AB.Motorola’s interest in UIQ could be an effort for the handset maker to produce more user friendly devices in the face of competition from Nokia Corp. and Apple Inc., said Gerry Purdy, chief analyst at Frost and Sullivan. UIQ was developed early on as a touch-based user interface. That concept has seen renewed interest since the launch of Apple Inc.’s iPhone, which has a unique touch screen user interface.

The investment in UIQ could signal that Motorola plans to release more Symbian phones, Purdy said. The announcement could also mean that Motorola hopes to influence the development of UIQ such that the software could become compatible with other operating systems like Linux, he said.

Motorola is better known for its Linux phones than its Symbian handsets. In fact, in 2003 Motorola sold its stake in Symbian, a decision that many in the industry interpreted as a move away from the operating system.

Sony Ericsson and Motorola are inviting other handset makers to either become shareholders of UIQ or license the technology. Historically, UIQ has been used almost exclusively by Sony Ericsson and Motorola.

UIQ competes with Nokia’s Series 60 software, a user interface that also runs on Symbian. Both efforts have faced difficulties in enticing other phone makers to license the software because of the conflict of ownership. For instance, some phone makers may be reluctant to license Series 60 software from their competitor, Nokia.

UIQ has its roots in an Ericsson development lab founded in 1998. The lab soon became a part of Symbian Ltd. and earlier this year Sony Ericsson acquired the company from Symbian.

from: PC World

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Sony Corp will launch a cheaper model of its PlayStation 3 in the United States, hoping to attract more buyers as it goes up against rival game consoles from Microsoft and Nintendo this holiday.

The company also cut the price of its highest-capacity model by about 17 percent.

The new version of the PS3 will come with a 40-gigabyte hard drive, cost $400, and go on sale on November 2, said Jack Tretton, president of Sony Computer Entertainment America.

The price of the 80-gigabyte version will be cut to $500 from $600.

The 40-gigabyte model has already made its debut in Europe and Japan, and was widely expected to come to the United States ahead of the crucial year-end shopping season that accounts for the largest single chunk of annual video game software and hardware sales.

“I think the educational curve is starting to be broached with the general consumer,” Tretton told Reuters in an interview, when asked about his expectations for the PS3 through the end of the year.

Sales of the PS3, which has a built-in Blu-ray drive for playing high-definition DVDs, have lagged those of Microsoft Corp’s Xbox 360, which comes in versions costing from $280 to $450, and Nintendo Co Ltd’s Wii, which costs $250.

Sony had previously offered a 20-gigabyte model but stopped making it earlier this year and cut the price to clear out inventory after finding most customers were opting for higher-capacity versions.

For the new 40-gigabyte PS3, Sony has removed its ability to play games for the predecessor PlayStation 2, which is still selling strong despite its aging technology.

“We’re choosing to focus on the PlayStation 2 consumer with the PlayStation 2, which remains incredibly relevant, and focus on the PlayStation 3 consumer with the new 40-gigabyte model and the great software coming out,” Tretton said.

“Backward compatibility is a nice secondary consideration, but it’s far from the number-one priority.”

from: Reuters

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An official software-development kit may finally be announced at January’s Macworld. Why the wait? It may have something to do with Leopard

William Hurley loves his iPhone. But he’d love it even more if he could write software for it.

He’s not alone. Hundreds of programmers showed up at an iPhone event organized by Hurley, an executive at software maker BMC (BMC), even though Apple hasn’t released the source code they need to exploit the device. That was in July, and the criticism of Apple’s refusal to open the iPhone hasn’t died down.

Now it appears Apple (AAPL) will soon answer those pleas. Sources familiar with the company’s plans tell BusinessWeek.com that Apple will release a software-development kit for the iPhone in early 2008, enabling programmers to create games, business-productivity tools, and countless other applications for the device. Few details are known, but sources say an announcement will come in January, which suggests it may be slated for Jan. 15, when Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs takes the stage at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco.

Why the wait? Some analysts suggest the delay has little to do with frustrating developers or Apple’s official position about bugs from third-party software posing a threat to cellular networks. Instead, the timing may have more to do with Apple wanting to wait at least until the launch of the new operating system for its Macintosh computers. Known as Leopard, it was originally planned for June, 2007, but is now set for release on Oct. 26. Since the iPhone was built with the current Mac OS, the thinking is that Leopard’s new capabilities will enable more robust features on the iPhone as well.

Cat-and-Mouse Game

Meanwhile, writing and installing individual programs that run on the phone remain officially forbidden, extremely difficult, and somewhat pointless given Apple’s heavy-handed response to such efforts thus far. The only way to do it is to break the iPhone’s software locks, as some hackers have managed to do, only to see Apple cripple such devices with a software upgrade. Not surprisingly, some iPhone owners have responded with lawsuits seeking as much as $2.6 billion in damages.

Naturally, hackers quickly broke through the new set of software locks, suggesting that a cat-and-mouse battle may be under way. But the persistence also demonstrates just how eager programmers—both hobbyists and companies—are to build software for a device that Apple promises will be in the hands of 8 million people by the end of next year. “It’s clear what the user community wants,” Hurley says. “They’re not hacking around with it for fun as much as they are because they want other features on the iPhone.”

Such features might range far and wide, from video and Internet calling to voice recording and instant messaging. But until Apple changes its policy, most developers will have to settle for the next best thing, as they did at Hurley’s event in San Francisco, where they created Web-based applications that can be accessed through the iPhone’s browser, Safari. Despite widespread frustration over the limitations, such events are planned for London and Germany in the coming months.

Those familiar with the process of hacking an iPhone and installing unauthorized applications say doing so requires obtaining “root” access to the device’s underlying software code. In the world of computers that run on Unix-based operating systems—which includes Apple’s Macintosh computers and the iPhone—users with root access have no limitations as to which files and features they can tinker with.

It Pays to Be Picky

In theory this means that root access on an iPhone could be exploited for malicious purposes, such as hijacking a user’s contact list, eavesdropping on calls, or worse. “You can do anything you want, including many things that Apple and AT&T don’t want you to do,” says Rik Farrow, an independent security consultant who has worked on Unix-based cell-phone projects for other companies, but not Apple.

Concerns like that will probably lead Apple to be careful in selecting which programmers are given the tools to build iPhone software. It isn’t clear yet how Apple plans to go about vetting programmers or to what extent it will open the platform to them. Despite the purported risks, Apple’s wireless partner, AT&T (T), isn’t likely to stand in the way. “It’s up to Apple to decide whether third-party applications will go on the iPhone,” says AT&T spokesman Michael Coe. “We have embraced third-party applications on other devices.”

Analysts expect that instead of equipping anyone who wants to build iPhone software, Apple will handpick the companies and individual programmers to be given the software-development kit, much as it already does with development of third-party applications for the iPod. Similarly, iPhone programming tools might be distributed via the iTunes store, which Apple already uses to distribute simple games that run on the iPod. “The real pragmatic way to look at it is, no operator would want to ship a handset that’s completely open,” says Benoit Schillings, chief technology officer at Trolltech, a wireless-software company. “They would want to pick and choose applications to run on it.”

Early VIP Access?

It’s rumored that some major players already have been given the iPhone development kit. The list is said to include gaming software maker Electronic Arts (ERTS) and Google (GOOG), which has already built versions of Google Maps and its YouTube video site for the iPhone. Electronic Arts declined to comment, while a source at Google indicated that the search company hasn’t been give early access to the iPhone kit.

Meanwhile, companies that specialize in software for wireless phones are jockeying for Apple’s attention. “We’ve been working with the Web interface for some time but would love to embed our technology on the iPhone itself,” says Brian Bogosian, CEO of Visto, a privately held software outfit that specializes in e-mail software for mobile phones. Similarly, a startup named iSkoot, which offers an application for making Skype (EBAY) phone calls on mobile devices, says it’s eager to adapt its software for the iPhone platform.

Interestingly, despite all the consternation about hackers, Apple may eventually decide to embrace some of the unauthorized applications now circulating if they prove especially popular. “We think Apple is welcoming these mild hacker attacks [on the iPhone] to discover weaknesses and to see if they should be hiring some people,” says Richard Doherty, head of Envisioneering Group, a technology consulting firm. “There’s a reason why there’s an empty row” on the iPhone’s screen, he says. “It’s for additional applications.”

SOURCE: BUSINESSWEEK

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Apple Inc. as early as this week will expand its iTunes Plus digital download store and reduce the price of the higher-quality, DRM-free music tracks offered through the service by nearly 25 percent, according to a published report.

Citing what we believe to be a very reliable source, ArsTechnica reports that iTunes Plus will expand its reach in the near-term to umbrella certain indie music labels on iTunes, but not all. What’s more, however, Apple reportedly plans to drop the price of all iTunes Plus tracks at approximately the same time.

Presently, Apple sells the majority of its music tracks on iTunes for 99 cents, which come encoded at 128kbps AAC and wrapped in digital rights management (DRM) copy-protection measures that limit their use to five computers and seven burnt CDs. On the other hand, $1.29 iTunes Plus tracks are encoded in the higher quality 256kbps AAC and are not held down by any such restrictions.

“Currently, each track is $1.29 while ‘normal’ DRMed tracks are 99 cents apiece,” Ars said. “That discrepancy will be no longer, as Apple will begin pricing all of its iTunes Plus songs at 99 cents apiece (DRMed tracks will also remain at 99 cents).”

The report goes on to speculate that the move on Apple’s part is in response to the recent launch of Amazon.com’s MP3 Store, which sells some 2 million songs from record label Universal as unprotected MP3 tracks for anywhere between 89 cents and 99 cents.

Apple’s iTunes Plus service is currently comprised of unprotected songs belonging to another major record label, EMI. While the iPod maker has been actively courting other major labels to join its unrestricted service, the company has yet to make any successive announcements since launching iTunes Plus back in May.

Evidence of an iTunes Plus expansion and the associated price drops could surface as early as Wednesday, Ars said.

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Outside of the keyboard, a mouse is the most important input device for any PC. For the most part, the form factor of most mice has been pretty uniform. The amount of buttons, wheels and type of tracking may vary, but the shape is relatively the same. Today’s product takes a different approach to the PC mouse. The USB Finger Optical 3D Mouse is a new approach to a familiar peripheral. Just as Nintendo tried to revolutionize game play with their Wii controllers, this mouse tries to evolve the PC mouse that we know and love. Is this mouse the next phase of development or and evolutionary dead end? Let’s find out.

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Overview

The technical design of the Sunglasses is actually very nice.The MP3 Player components are well integrated into the temples. The casing is held together by little screws. The integrated headphones are easily adjustable.

To charge the Thump glasses I connect it to the USB port. On one temple a USB mini plug is present under a plastic door. A 3 hour charge gives a 9 hour play-time. Connected via USB the mp3 player sunglasses registers as a USB mass storage device and I can copy MP3 and WMA audio files to the glasses.

As with the iPod shuffle the Thump mp3 player has no display. The glasses can be turn on/off easily by three indicator LED.

To operate the music player buttons on each temple are available. On the right temple are the VOL-/ON/VOL+ button, in which you can control pause/stop/next song/vol+/-

The sound is really good even with not having the ear-buds entirely inside the ear. They float a bit in front of the ear tunnel. There are no equalizer settings or other sound options, but I found there is no need to change anything. The maximum volume level is decent, but not super loud.

Conclusion

The MP3 Sunglasses offers with the Thump an innovative and well-designed wearable gadget. The MP3 player is nicely integrated and the weight of the glasses is still low enough for comfortable wearing them. The sound is great, the price is below US$40 for 1GB. To be honest you can’t find another cheapest sunglasses MP3 player elsewhere.

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