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Samsung officially announced YP-Q1 PMP on the IFA floor today. No surprise with the specifications as it is the same we mentioned about it yesterday. The only thing to be added is the DNSe 3.0 for added audio enhancement. Another DAP to be announced along with it was YP-U4. It is an upgrade over [...]

 
Sony wants the Walkman players to stay alive and thus they launched three players at the IFA. First is the S series which includes NWZ-S630F/S730F media players. Sony touts these players as format-friendly which support various audio and video formats. The player has a 2-inch QVGA screen, iTunes support for file management and comes with [...]

 
We knew Samsung’s 1.8-inch SpinPoint N2 drives were small enough to sneak easily into gadgets but selling these drives as external and measuring not more than credit cards is extraordinary. These USB powered drives are being sold in China (maybe even in Korea and Japan) in its signature glossy piano black finish. Looks are the [...]

 
Samsung takes a shot at Apple Macbook Air today by revealing the X360 notebook. They have managed to make this 13.3-inch notebook lighter than Air. The notebook will be equipped with a Core 2 Duo ULV processor, 1GB RAM by default (4GB max) and 64GB or 128GB SSD options. The keyboard comes with an anti-bacterial [...]

 
The IFA exhibition in Berlin is buzzing with new and exciting products. This time it’s Toshiba with their HDTV able to upscale standard video content to almost 1080p. The Regza ZF series is the most advanced TV line from them and it is rightly so. The Regza ZF TVs integrate Resolution+ technology which is nothing [...]

 
Sony is on a roll at IFA unveiling a slew of products including the world’s thinnest LCD TV. Another notable product to be announced was the Cybershot T500 digital camera. The peculiarity of this camera is not its sleekness or looks but its capability to record Hi Definition videos. It may sound exciting but the [...]

 
UPDATE: the tentative price of Eye Candy lollipop is $90.
Now that you’re semi impressed with that USB plug as the lollipop’s stick, Eye Candy does more than it meets the eye. The small dots you see on the candy are in fact an array of resonators which helps the candy to make you visualize say, [...]

 
Sony today proudly announced world’s lightest and thinnest LCD TV. The KDL-40ZX1 from the Bravia ZX1 series weighs 12.2kg and measures just 9.9mm thick. The TV’s anorexia figure is possible with the help of wireless media base. The transmission of the data between the base and the LCD is done on a frequency band of [...]

 
It’s a Korean PMP war on the German turf for the companies. Right after Cowon, iRiver announced their devices to be exhibited in IFA Berlin, Samsung steps ahead and shows its Q1 portable media player. Not so attractive like S9 Curve but this one’s not bad either. It has a 2.4-inch screen, diamond shaped touch [...]

 
SanDisk have achieved a breakthrough in the SDHC arena. Their newly released SanDisk Extreme III 30MB/s Edition line card can transfer data at a speed of 30MB/s. Now that’s fast considering the fastest SDHC cards in the market are able to transfer 20MB/s. The card is actually targeted at DSLR users and the first device [...]