My new cellphone wrist watch

I have been scouring Craigslist NYC’s Electronics posting for a while searching for this bad boy,  and I finally got it this past weekend thanks to a Taiwanese woman living in Queens hah! It’s a tri-band cellphone watch with a builtin video camera, touchscreen OS,  stereo Bluetooth, and a lot more.  I popped in a spare AT&T SIM card and was up and running making calls, getting Twitter texts,  snapping pics/vids, and playing music in no time.  It’s pretty crazy to imagine so much capability riding around on your wrist.   Here’s the feature list:

• GSM Compatibility: 900MHz, 1800MHz, 1900MHz
• Screen: 1.3 inch TFT LCD Touchscreen
• Screen Palette : 260,000 Colors
• Bluetooth Profiles: Handsfree and Headset and A2DP (listen to music over Bluetooth!)
• Multimedia:
  - Camera: Still 1.3mp
  - Movie Formats: MPEG4 (AVI), 3GP with audio
  - Music Sound Formats: MP3, WMA, WAV, AMR
• Cell Phone Menu: Phonebook, Messages, Call History, Settings, Multimedia, Games, Profiles, Organizer, Services
• Support for GPRS and WAP
• Micro SD card up to 2 GB (1GB included)

Bluetooth Headset

• Support: Version 1.2, Class 2 (10 Meters)
• Profiles: Headset, Handsfree, A2DP
• Battery Life:
  - Talk Time: Up to 6 hrs
  - Music Play: Up to 6 hrs
  - Stand By: Up to 150 hrs
• Stylus for precise navigation
• Multimedia Features: Camera, Image Viewer, Video Recorder, Video Player, Photo Editor, Audio Player, Sound Recorder, File Manager
• Organizer Features: Calendar, To Do List, Alarm, Calculator, Unit Converter, Currency Converter, World Clock
• Games
• Stopwatch

Here’s a video review I found on YouTube:

LG Vu rocks mobile TV and haptic feedback touchscreen

I got to play with the new LG Vu yesterday and was surprisingly impressed. It’s no iPhone when it comes to it’s interface, browser, or media functions; but it does have Apple beat in a couple of interesting areas.  1.  It’s 3G.  Nuff said.

 2. It has a haptic feedback display.  This eliminates the biggest drawback of having a touchscreen; the lack of feedback to let you know you actually clicked on something.  On the Vu when you touch an item on the screen, that part of the screen vibrates to let your finger know you clicked.  

3.  Mobile TV.  I was really impressed with the mobile TV offering and it’s performance.  It kicks both Verizon and Sprint’s TV ass easily.  Full touchable, scrollable program guide. Real channels you actually want to watch.  Channels loaded almost instantaneously and changing between channels was quick too.  Very slick.

The downside is this baby costs $500.  

New sliding Blackberry gunning for the Sidekick tween market?

Blackberries have always been mundane, utilitarian business devices with little to no appeal for young people.  They’re more of a badge of adulthood;  receiving one means your dreams of youth have been squashed and you’re locked into a cubicle calculating expense reports.  RIM may be trying to change that image.  Check out these concept pics of a possible Blackbery 9000 series device with a slideout keyboard, a-la Sidekick fame.  There’s also a rumored optical touchscreen which RIM has supposedly been developing for a while.  If they emblazoned these with plastic diamonds and anime stickers the kids might just eat these up.

Link to UnWiredView

NVIDIA’s new APX 2500. iPhone killer?

Graphics card maker NVIDIA’s new mobile chipset has some serious power. Aside from the crystal clear high resolution touchscreen on this prototype unit, the real appeal is the 3D graphics power under the hood, demoed playing Quake 3 at full speed. This isn’t just a portable gaming unit though, it’s a full smartphone too. Rocking 3G data at 7.2 Mbps HSDPA (in US and Euro bands), quad-band GSM, WiFi, Bluetooth, cameras, all running Windows Mobile 6 underneath that beautiful user interface.
It looks stringingly similar to a certain talked about product from Apple (cough cough), with several superior specifications. Thanks to Engadget for the pics (lots, lots more here).

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Hands on with the Pantech Duo 3G

The guys at AT&T just got the new Pantech Duo in stock.  It’s much smaller than I imagined and makes the Helio Ocean look like a Newton.  The keyboard feels great and the slide action is smooth.  Just wish it had WM6 Pro instead of Standard, but otherwise this baby’s rockin’ 3G data, decent camera, and all the Exchange Push Mail you can eat.  $249 with two-year indentured servitude.

Sent from my iPhone

Finally a watch-phone that’s not fugly: Hyundai’s W-100

Finally a watch-phone that doesn’t reek of designless Chinese grey market manufacturing.  This little wearable phone from Hyundai looks good enough to be seen in public with.  Inside its iPod white shell it’s packin’  some respectable hardware. International GSM radio for phone calling,  a relatively high resolution touch screen, removeable microSD memory card slot for videos, photos, and tunes, stereo bluetooth and a 1.3megapixel camera to boot. There’s also a removeable SIM card slot behind the battery.

No word on price or availability (I’m sure its already on the streets of Hong Kong as I type) but I’ll be checking my local craigslist underground electronics dealers to see about this one.

via PhoneDaily.com (in CHINESE)