The Vulcania Watch

Heres the Vulcania, a steampunk concept watch designed by Fabrice Gonet and made into reality by HD3 Complication. Dont get your hopes up on getting one of these titanium and platinum Jules Verne and submarine influenced masterpieces though, theres only eleven made which in turn indicates a pretty impressive price tag, sigh.

Meizu’s M8 MiniOne gets touched

Everybodys favorite IP duplication engine is back in the news. Meizus M8 Mini One iPhone clone just received an iPod touch makeover in a bid for protection from Apples lawyers. See, the M8 is a phone, the touch is an MP3 player so toootally different your honor. Theyve also bumped the display from 3.3- to 3.4-inches with pricing still pegged at about $265 / $320 / $400 for the 4GB / 8GB / 16GB models if they ever make it Stateside or locally to China for that matter. Were at 10 months and counting since it was announced.

Nokia

Just a few short weeks after an August announcement, Nokia has officially committed to flipping the switch on the UK outpost of its Music Store tomorrow, November 1. The company perhaps realizing that it faces an uphill battle against its pretty well-entrenched competitors who shall remain unnamed for the purposes of this story is aggressively pricing tunes at 80 pence per track and full albums from 8 (about $16.50). The launch of the store goes hand-in-hand with Nokias two fresh high-capacity devices, the N81 8GB and N95 8GB, both of which also officially launch (even though theyre already readily available in many locales) come tomorrow. Most tracks are said to be 192kbps WMA, so the quality shouldnt be too shabby; let us know what you think if you decided to give it a shot, 0k?

The Samsung Katalyst: T-Mobile’s next @Home handset?

As cool as T-Mobiles HotSpot @Home service may be, its been hampered sofar by a pretty milquetoast phone lineup BlackBerry Curve notably excepted, of course.

Motorola Q9h gets official for AT&T

Weve been hearing about the Q9h coming out on AT&T in months worth of leakedmemos, but now we can finally put it to bed

DXG’s DXG-110 gives you 10 megapixels

Yeah, sure its no Canon or Nikon, but those heavy hitters arent offering you a 10 megapixel. point-and-shoot for under $200, and DXGs new DXG-110 can even boast a brand name Panasonic CCD in its drab gray housing.

Latest MP4 wristwatch sports an FM transmitter

Were all but convinced that nobody actually wears these video-playing watches out in public. but just in case theres some otherworldly group out there that takes pride in adorning their wrists with timepieces that are utterly heinous, youre in luck.

Hands-on Eye-Fi Wireless SD Card

Remember the worlds first wireless SD card – Eye-Fi that day? Look! Engadget got their hands-on with it. They said that the Eye-Fi only connects to trusted, encrypted, pre-configured networks,and doesnt have any means of tunneling back to your home computer. Meaning to say you cant just grab a seat at your local Starbucks and have the card to dump the days photos to Flickr or your home RAID array. More pictures after the jump.

Spice World’s First CDMA/GSM Dual-Mode Mobile Phone

The name of the phone is Twins because it provides you two numbers on a single device. I mean two SIM cards, GSM and CDMA. The benefit of using two numbers in a mobile is that you can have more flexibility while dealing your contacts. Plainly speaking, you can use one number for business and another for personal needs. Keeping this in mind, TechFaith has designed the Twins, which is now the first CDMA/GSM dual mode phone in the world.

Feauters:

Now, get ready to live two lives with India’s first dual mode phone with GSM and CDMA connections active in the same phone! The D-88 is a technological first in mobile phones that offers greater convenience, economy and enhanced efficiency. Jam packed with features that assure you an action packed experience, it promises to double the excitement, every time.

An expandable memory of up to 1 GB lets you store all you want. So get set to save all your music, data, and pictures without a worry

Google puts in its indigenous PC to market

What next Google did for Internet worms is to push much of the processing from processor to Internet itself. For which Google brought gOS, a modified version of Ubuntu of Linux specially made to run Google applications like GMail, Google Document on to your desktop.It will also run OpenOffice, an open-source office suite to handle Microsoft Word documents, a multimedia application like Xing DVD, video player, and Rhythmbox music management.
Anybody would love to have all the necessary software on their desktop for Web 2.0 applications at 1.5 GHz processing, 512 MB of memory and an 80 GB hard drive. In US, Wal-Mart is just waiting to receive only $199, which may change your mindset for sometime, for this Web wonder.

Apple posts fix for freezing iMacs

Not a moment too soon, Apple has apparently delivered on its intentions to squash that annoying freezing bug that plagued some of its latest iMacs.Available now for Leopard (iMac Software Update 1.3) and Tiger (iMac Software Update 1.2), the update reportedly provides important bug fixes and is recommended for 20- and 24-inch iMac models with 2.0, 2.4, or 2.8GHz processors. Unfortunately, were given absolutely no elaboration beyond that, so for any of you out there still limping by on a freeze-happy machine, why not get your download on and let us know if your troubles do indeed vanish?

Onda’s VX888 PMP

Ondas not exactly known for its originality, and even though the VX888 doesnt do much to buck the trend, its not a half bad media player on paper. Aside from featuring an oh-so-trendy chrome backside, a glossy face and a strange connection with Absolut, this unit boasts a two-inch LCD, 1GB of storage, an FM tuner, photo viewer, built-in equalizer and support for XviD / AVI / FLV / APE / FLAC / WMA / MP3 files. Additionally, this player reportedly utilizes Microsofts PlayFX for 3D headphone effects and volume normalizing, but were not entirely sure we believe the claim.

Toshiba Qosmio G40W

Toshiba has upgraded their Qosmio G40 notebook with new processor and graphics card and has renamed it to Qosmio G40W.The laptop now powered by a 2.2Ghz Core 2 Duo T7500 processor, 2GB of RAM, and comes with a GeForce 8600M GT graphic card. Other features include the optical HD-DVD drive, a 17-inch LCD screen with 19001200 resolution, and 2 digital TV Tuners

Keepin’ it real fake, part XCIV: Act-429 PMP puts on a RAZR2 act

Another unimaginative PMP for you this weekend, which happens to vaguely rip-off the design of the RAZR2. Nope, this doesnt have a phone stuck inside: its simply a regular little PMP that features a 2-inch screen and controls that mimic the look of Motorolas flagship. It also has an FM tuner, a speaker hey, at least you could pretend that this is a speakerphone and e-Book and gaming functionality. Dont expect to see this in your local Wal-Mart anytime soon.

Motorola Q9h Hands On

The Motorola Q9h provides AT&T customers an integrated QWERTY keyboard and sports download speed at up to 3.6 Mbps via AT&Ts UMTS/HSDPA-based BroadbandConnect network. This Windows Mobile 6 mobile phone also features built-in GPS capabilities, Documents to Go for document editing, Opera browser, 7 dedicated shortcut keys and a 2.0MP camera with flash.

Google and HTC’s Dream Phone Prototype Semi-Revealed

Sure, a Google-sponsored phone OS in the way of Android is pretty great news for mobile phone land, but what if your really had your heart set on some Google hardware this Monday morning? Well take heart, because Forbes has the skinny on an HTC device labeled Dream, (most likely not pictured above) which could very well be oft-rumored hardware of legend, and could also be hitting the market as early as next year. Apparently the phone is one of roughly five prototypes that Google had built to demonstrate the Open Handset Alliance software to potential members, and HTCs Peter Chou says in the two years its been working on OHA designs, this is the best one weve seen. The device itself, which measures about 3 x 5-inches, sports a touchscreen, navigational controls at the base, and a full swivel out keyboard. When swiveled the screen goes from portrait to landscape mode, but unfortunately thats the limit of info on the actual hardware. The software apparently has time-sensitive touch controls that expands your area control the longer you touch. Icons for your most important apps which are apparently email, text documents, and YouTube are lined up across the top of the screen. Theres also some fancy stuff under the hood to keep an ongoing browser session open to speed launch times, and the browser downloads large files in stages to speed delivery.

Vertu Signature Black & White Diamonds

Vertu has released their new Signature phone which made of golf and encrusted with black and white diamonds. It has six hundred and forty four brilliant cut white diamonds and four hundred and twenty eight brilliant cut black diamonds encrusted into the case and also the keys of the phone. Im sure this will be very expensive

Sony Ericsson W890

Heres another new walkman phone from Sony Ericsson aside from w380, it is the W890 which incorporates the Walkman Player 3.0, the latest Walkman technology that allows you to have the one-click access to the player and simple, intuitive navigation around your music. Specifications and pictures after the jump. W890 has a 2-inch 240 x 320 display, 3.2-megapixel camera, stereo speakers, FM radio, Macromedia Flash and a 2GB M2 memory stick included. The Sony Ericsson W890 will be available in selected markets from Q1 2008. Choose from Espresso Black, Mocha Brown or Sparking Silver colors.

Specifications:
Screen: 262,144 colour TFT
Resolution: 240 x 320 pixels Size: 2 inches

Size: 104 x 46.5 x 9.9 mm
Weight: 78 grams
3.2 Megapixel camera
Stereo speakers
2 GB M2 memory stick
FM radio with RDS
Macromedia Flash
Java
PictBridge printing
RSS feeds
Access NetFront Web browser
Phone memory: Up to 28 MB
Memory Stick Micro (M2) support
Talk time GSM: Up to 9 hrs 30 min
Standby time GSM: Up to 360 hrs
Talk time UMTS: Up to 4 hrs 30 min (W898c: n/a)
Standby time UMTS: Up to 310 hrs (W898c: n/a)
Video call time: Up to 3 hrs (W898c: n/a)
Music listening time: Up to 20 hrs
Networks (W890): UMTS/HSDPA 2100 GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900
Networks (W898c): GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900

Sony Ericsson W380

Finally it has arrived. Sony Ericsson has officially announced their new walkman phone, the W380. This phone comes with a feature that you never seen before and thats the Gesture control which allows users to mute calls with a wave of their hands.Specifications and pictures available after the jump. The external display only shown up when theres incoming calls or when you are listening to your music. W380 also has the TrackID feature that allows you to find out the title and album of the song that you are hearing from the radio. The Sony Ericsson W380 will be available in selected by Q1 2008.

Specifications:
Size: 92 x 49 x 16 mm
Weight: 100 grams
Colours: Electric Purple / Magnetic Grey
Screen: 262,144 colour TFT
Resolution: 176 x 220 pixels

Size: 1.9 inches
External screen: OLED
Resolution: 36 x 128
Phone memory: Up to 14 MB
Memory Stick Micro (M2) support
1.3 megapixel camera
512 MB M2 memory stick
Walkman player
FM radio with RDS
Bluetooth stereo (A2DP)
Java
RSS feeds
WAP 2.0 XHTML
Talk time: Up to 7 hrs
Standby time: Up to 300 hrs
Networks: W380a: GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/1800/1900
W380c/i: GSM/GPRS/EDGE 900/1800/1900

Dell rolls out Precision M2300 laptop

It looks like Dell recently expanded its line of Precision mobile workstations a bit further, with its new 14-inch M2300 model squeezing in just under the larger M4300 and M6300 models. That 14-inch display is of the WXGA+ variety (or 1440 x 900), which gets complemented by some pretty decent specs across the board, including a choice of four Core 2 Duo processors between 2.0 and 2.6GHz, up to 4GB of RAM, a max 200GB hard drive, and NVIDIA Quadro FX 360M graphics. Those looking to join the SSD crowd can also opt for a speedy 32GB drive, although youll have to pay a hefty $550+ premium for that pleasure.

LG Venus

Trying to wrap your noodle around the concept of a pink LG Venus? Us too, and naturally, visuals help the more, the better. On that note, were pleased to present a handful of pictures of the pink Venus with a couple of its darker, statelier cousin thrown in for good measure

Fujifilm Tape Tracker

The Fujifilm tape tracker is a GPS-Broadcasting system within a data tape case. Its designed to put in a tape with data tapes to keep tabs on physical backups when they go off site.Addtional features include a special software called Fuji find that allows you to manage several data tape shipments at the same time from any PC! More info at Fujifilm.

New Handsets for Sony Ericsson 2008

Aimed at the youth market, the Sony Ericsson K660i is designed for using the web, with HSDPA. It also comes with four 1-touch illuminated shortcuts for web browsing. You can view the web in landscape or portrait and the central navigation key becomes they mouse when in web mode.Sony have also for the first time on a generic Sony Ericsson handset enabled Google maps. It comes in two colours, Lime on White and Wine on Black. It comes enabled with instant messaging, RSS feed reader and desktop, Email Client, 2MP camera with 4x digital zoom, Bluetooth, and a music player complete with FM Radio, TrackID, PlayNow and MegaBass.

MD300 USB Modem

Sony Ericsson also launched their first USB Mobile Broadband Modem. It has quad band EDGE and tri band HSDPA. It can operate on Mac-OS X and Windows 2000, XP and Vista. It also has a 128MB internal memory for storing files on it. It has Sony Ericsson wireless manager on it and comes with auto-installation and auto-configuration making it quick and easy to get up and running.

W380i

August 2005 is an important date in many consumers lives; it was the date when the first walkman phones went on sale. Since then over 45 million walkman phones have been shipped. The walkman phone is a phone which combines more storage, better battery life and different accessories. However, Sony Ericsson have now realised that the consumer expects more; more music, more ways of playing the music and more ways to share music. With this in mind, they launched two new walkman phones.
The Sony W380 is the successor to the W300 and comes in a clamshell design. Aimed at the youth market, it comes complete with many unique and original features such as gesture control, which mutes calls or silences the alarm with a wave of your hand. It also has the walkman controls on top of the phone, so that you can easily manage your music. The slogan for this handset is hear, see and feel music which is accurate, as the handset comes with a media manager, that means you can easily share and transfer music, photos and videos between your computer and phone. The W380 comes with TrackID, PlayNow, FM Radio, 512MB memory stick, Bluetooth, MegaBass, 1.3MP Camera with 4x digital zoom, RSS reader, Web, GSM, GPRS, EDGE and comes in Electric Purple, Magnetic Grey and Champagne Black.

Sony W890i

The W890 comes with the slogan Design for music which is exactly what this phone is, complete with a 2 GB memory stick that can store up to 1800 tracks, you will never run out of songs to listen to. The handset itself is really slim and stylish, and is as thin as a CD case. It comes in three colours, Espresso Black, Mocha Brown and Sparkling Silver. It comes with a headset in the same colour to keep the style flowing. It comes complete with FM Radio, PlayNow, TrackID and MeagBass, along with many of Sony Ericssons other music features.
The 3.2 MP camera comes with a digital zoom, and is also enabled for video recording, and picture and video blogging. It also comes with an RSS feed reader, the web, email, Bluetooth, HSDPA, EDGE and GSM.

HTC’s Touch Cruise with GPS gets official

HTC just went live with their Touch Cruise. Touch as in that TouchFLO interface, Cruise as in GPS-enabled. The third addition to HTCs Touch lineup packs HSDPA, WiFi, Bluetooth, a 3 megapixel camera, microSD expansion, and a 2.8-inch touch-screen lying on top of a Windows Mobile 6 foundation. Oh, and its loaded with TomTom Navigator 6 software to make the most of that GPS receiver. Yup, everything mostly what we thought it would be. Available this month from European retailers or SIM-free direct from HTC.

Nokia handsets with Vodafone services

Vodafone made an agreement with Nokia that it would launch an integrated suite of Vodafone services, where it will be combined with Nokias Ovi services on most of the Nokia handsets.
Vodafone and Nokia teaming up have many advantages like:

1) Greater choice of communications,

2) Greater choice of Internet services,

3) Greater choice of content and browsing via a range of premium handsets over high speed 3G and 3G broadband networks.

4) Music: All the Nokia 2008 handsets will have the Vodafone music service and Nokia Music Store in it. It is a great news for all of us as everyone will love music!

Consumers will be happy and get benefited by all this. So, this means that a number of cellphones which have all these features will remain exclusive to Vodafone

Sony Ericsson Headset in HBH-PV703 with K660 reveal

Tucked deep in the darkest recesses of the press release for Sony Ericssons K660 candybar, it turns out, lies a little diamond in the rough: the HBH-PV703 Bluetooth headset. Alright, calling it a diamond in the rough might be just a little lofty it certainly doesnt look like anything special, after all but the company is looking to call some attention to its rather impressive 10 hours of talk time and 350 hours of standby. Its Bluetooth 2.0 compatible and offers up auto-pairing capability, awesome for those incapable of remembering the 0000? that a good 80 percent of headsets on the market use. Itll hit in the first quarter of next year in grey or black; price hasnt been announced and will vary by region, but were guessing this one lies on the lower end of Sony Ericssons headset spectrum

Panasonic gets official with the W7, T7, and Y7 Toughbooks

The all-knowing database gods of the FCC had already tipped us off to Panasonics newest US-bound Toughbooks, but theyve just gotten the official press treatment, complete with beauty shots and most importantly spec sheets. All models check out with WiFi, Bluetooth, 1GB of RAM, 80Gb of storage, and an optional HSDPA or EV-DO WWAN module, but diverge from there: the ultraportable W7 (pictured) weighs in at just three pounds, but features a 12.1-inch screen, 1GHz U7500 Core 2 Duo processor, dual-layer burner, and a seven-hour battery life, while the slightly heavier 3.3-pound T7 tablet alternative drops the burner for a 12.1-inch touchscreen, 1GHz U7500 Core 2 Duo and a nine-hour battery life. Topping out the new line, the 14.1-inch Y7 clocks in at 3.7 pounds with burner and scores a 1.6GHz L7600 Core 2 Duo. Panny says the $2500 Y7 is available now, while the $2100 W7 and T7 should ship in December. We actually got a chance to play with all three just recently, check the gallery for some hands-on action

Nokia 8800 Arte and Nokia 8800 Sapphire Art

Nokia has released their new 8800s. They are the Nokia 8800 Arte and Nokia 8800 Sapphire Arte, featuring an elegant and sophisticated design theme that takes inspiration from nature and sets it apart from the crowd. By tapping the steel surface below the display, you will get an analogue clock appears.More pictures after the jump.

They have the turn-to-mute feature which allows user to quiet their phone by simply turning the over the phone, the screen-side down.

Nokia Nokia 8800 Arte and Nokia 8800 Sapphire Arte come with a 2.0? QVGA 240320 pixels, OLED display with up to 16 million colors, 3.2-megapixel camera with 8x digital zoom, 3G capabilities, 1GB built-in memory storage, microUSB all-in-one connector and an anti-fingerprint coating on its glass and metal.

The Nokia Nokia 8800 Arte will be available in the fourth quarter of 2007 with an estimated retail price of 1000 EUR while the Nokia 8800 Sapphire Arte will follow in the first quarter of 2008 and retail for approximately 1150 EUR, both prices are excluding taxes and subsidies.

Nokia N82 The 5.0-megapixel phone

Nokia N82 has officially been released by Nokia. Featuring A-GPS, 5 megapixel camera, Xenon flash, Carl Zeiss optics and internet connectivity, the Nokia N82 also incorporates all the multimedia computer features common to Nokia Nseries.

Network: WCDMA2100 (HSDPA), EGSM900, GSM850/1800/1900 MHz (EGPRS)
Automatic switching between bands and modes
Weight: 114 g
Size: 112 x 50.2 x 17.3 mm
Up to 100MB internal dynamic memory for messages, ringing tones, images, video clips, calendar notes, to-do list and applications
Hot swappable microSD memory card slot
Battery: Nokia Battery (BP-6MT) 1050mAh
Talk time: up to 190 min (WCDMA), up to 260 min (GSM)
Stand-by time: up to 210 hours (WCDMA), up to 225 hours (GSM)
Music playback: up to 10 hours (offline mode)
Display: 2.4? LCD QVGA (240 x 320 pixels) TFT color display with up to 16.7 million colors
Operating system: S60 software on Symbian OS
User Interface: S60 3rd edition, Feature Pack 1
Automatic screen rotation
E-mail (SMTP, IMAP4, POP3), MMS, SMS
Up to 5 megapixel (2592 x 1944 pixels) camera, Carl Zeiss Optics: Tessar lens, MPEG-4 VGA video capture of up to 30 fps
Direct connection to compatible TV via TV-out or wireless LAN/UPnP

Front camera, CIF (352 x 288 pixels) sensor for video telephony
Integrated xenon flash
Auto focus
Video resolutions: up to VGA (640 x 480 pixels) at 30 fps
Xenon flash

Digital music player – supports MP3/AAC/eAAC/eAAC+/WMA/M4A with playlists
OMA DRM 2.0/1.0 & WMDRM support for music
Stereo FM radio (87.5-108MHz) with Visual Radio support
Bluetooth wireless technology 2.0 with A2DP Stereo audio
Integrated Assisted Global Positioning System (A-GPS)
Java MIDP 2.0, CLDC 1.1 (Connected Limited Device Configuration (J2ME))
Integrated WLAN (802.11 b/g) and UPnP
USB 2.0 via Micro USB interface and mass storage class support to support drag and drop functionality

3.5 mm stereo headphone plug (Nokia AV Connector) and TV out support (PAL/NTSC)
Supported video formats: MPEG-4, H.264/AVC, H.263/3GPP, RealVideo 8/9/10