MSI unveils New F-series Laptops in India

MSI has launched four new F-series laptops - FX400, FX600, FX700, and FR600, equipped with new Intel Core i5 microprocessors. These MSI F-series laptops are the first in the country to bring Intel Wireless Display technology that was demonstrated at the CES 2010 in January this year. Presented in Color Film Print body, the new F-series laptops will fall in the price range of Rs. 37,000 and Rs. 53,000 depending upon the configuration.

New MSI F-series models - FX400, FX600, FX700, and FR600 are designed to appear stylish. These new F-series laptops come loaded with Intel Core i5 processors that bring Intel Turbo Boost and Intel Hyper-Threading technologies. These technologies adjust the proficiency of the processor on the go. MSI boasts that new GPU Boost Technology will make the best GPU power by automatically switching graphics modes.

MSI proudly trumpets about bringing Intel WiDi (Wireless Display) technology capable laptops to India. This means all you need is a special adaptor to stream your HD audio-video content to a HDTV wirelessly. Of course the respective F-series laptop must have minimum 4GB RAM and Windows 7 (64-bit).

The F-series notebooks come loaded with Nvidia GeForce GT 325M GPU with 1GB GDDR3 video memory for better gaming and graphics experience. Apparently, the automatic discrete GPU to integrated graphics switching technology - Nvidia Optimus has been understated. MSI states that GPU Boost technology helps maintaining balance between performance and battery life.

The FX400 comes with a regular 1.3 megapixel web cam while the rest models have 720p HD quality capable webcams. In terms of sound, the FX700 equips obstruction-free sound providing speaker technology implemented in collaboration with Dynaudio and THX. So expect more realistic sounds while you're watching movies. All F-series notebooks come with HDMI port and have 250GB-320GB internal storage.

Apart from that, MSI's new F-series laptops have touchpad high-designed tech points and matte platinum trim around the base.

Via : techtree.com

Nuu drops interesting iPhone clamshell with keyboard at IFA 2010

Back when the original iPhone launched for the first few weeks I though the onscreen keyboard really sucked. Then I became used to it and now I can type faster on the onscreen keyboard than a real one. If you never got used to that onscreen keyboard, an interesting case surfaced at IFA from a company called Nuu.

The device is called the Mini Key and it is a case that promises to fix the antenna issue the iPhone 4 suffers from, protect the phone, and it adds a physical keyboard as well. The iPhone becomes a fat clamshell phone when inside the case and you can flip it open to access the keyboard for typing messages and notes.

The keyboard has raised keys in the familiar QWERTY layout. The thing uses Bluetooth to connect to the iPhone and has a HID compliant Broadcom chip inside and it runs off a rechargeable internal lithium-ion battery. The price for the case is $69 and it should be in stores in time for Christmas.

Via : Jezlyn, slashgear

Nokia launches entry-level X2 mobile phone in India

Phone giant Nokia has released its new X2 mobile phone in India.

Coming at Rs 5,995, the X2 comes with a 2.2-inch LCD panel with 320×240-pixel resolution and features an 810mAh Lithium-ion battery, good enough for up to 540 hours standby time and up to 13.5 hours talk time.The battery can be recharged via USB.

It’s also capable of playing music – and plenty of it – up to 26.8 hours’ continous. You store your music on MicroSD flash card with the X2 capable of handling up to 16GB.

Ringtone support is extensive including MP3, AAC, WMA and 64-tone polyphonic.

Although essentially an entry-level phone, the X2 comes with a 5MP image sensor, capable of shooting 2592×1944-pixel still images. It includes up to 4X digital zoom and will capture in either JPEG or RAW file formats.

The X2 does have video recording although don’t expect the earth – at best, it’ll capture QVGA (320×240-pixel) video at up to 20fps in MP4 format or .3GP for MMS transmission. Video is captured in either H.264 for MP4 format or H.264 for MMS.

It also comes with a stereo FM receiver plus a decent array of audio codec support including MP3, AAC and WMA.

The retail kits includes phone, battery, AC charger, stereo headset (no mention of USB cable).
It’s on sale now.

Via : techlogg.com

Nokia’s Another Astonishing Mobile Phone Nokia N8

Nokia is one of the leading mobile manufacturing companies, which has provided a long list of models in to the market. Now, Nokia plans to launch its model as Nokia N8. Nokia N8 is providing 3G technology for its users, which provides video Nokia's Another Astonishing Mobile Phone Nokia N8calling facility.

Nokia N8 provides you the features like, WiFi, USB, class 33 GPRS, class 33 EDGE, Bluetooth, 12 mega pixel camera with the resolution of 4000×3000 pixels and 16 GB of internal memory with 256MB RAM and 512 MB ROM. Nokia N8 is having microSD card slot, which can expanded up to 32GB.

This latest handset provides some other additional features like, face and smile detection, Carl Zeiss optics, 1/1.83” sensor size, auto focus, Xenon flash, ND filter and Geo-tagging. Nokia has not mentioned its released date yet.

Via : connectstat.com

Samsung Galaxy Player 50 hands-on

Perhaps overshadowed at IFA, by its 7-inch stablemate, the Samsung Galaxy Player 50 (or YP-G50, to give it its serial designation) is no less important. It is, for the Korean giant, geared up to go toe-to-toe with the new iPod touch. And there's plenty of reasons why it may just become the favourite of many.

Built around the Android 2.1 OS (Eclair) it is, for all intents and purposes, a mobile phone without the phone bit - much like Apple's device. And it does pretty much everything that is expected of a current gen Galaxy handset. Although there's no indication at present as to whether it will be upgradable to Android 2.2 or beyond.

Its main use is as a portable media device, with a 3.2-inch WQVGA TFT LCD touchscreen, but is fully compatible with Android marketplace and gaming apps. Indeed, two games were pre-installed on the demo model at IFA; shoot-em-up Pacific Wings and Paper Toss.

There's a 2-megapixel camera on board, but only rear-facing, so the iPod touch has an advantage in this instant, but the Galaxy Player 50's browser is compatible with Flash, and the variety of file types that it'll play natively, through drag-and-drop, are far more impressive than its peer. It'll happily munch through MPEG4, H.263, H.264, WMV and DivX/XviD video files, plus multiple music files are supported, such as MP3 (obviously), AAC, OGG, M4A and WAV.

An FM radio is inbuilt, and the 8GB or 16GB internal memory can be expanded by the addition of a micro-SD card up to 32GB in size.

A final feature of note, especially in comparison to the iPod touch, is that its battery is removable and replaceable.

We'll be looking more in depth at the specific features and functions on Pocket-lint shortly, but for now, have an ogle at the pics. It's certainly looking tasty.

Via : pocket-lint.com

Take a Look at Cases for iPod Nano and iPod Touch

As iPod Touch as well as Nano are officially introduced, it is time to look at cases that can be availed for the devices.

iPod Touch Cases

It turned out that Belkin is going to introduce a range of cases for the iPod Touch. The company has created three categories of cases. The first category is known as Grip category. It offers a sound design that is available with removable hand strap. The second category is known as Shield cases that protect the device without packing on extra ounces. As for Verve cases, they are stylish. Still the pricing information is not yet known.

Griffin also introduced a range of silicone as well as hard-shell cases due to which users will be able to protect their iPod Touch. With the Outfit Ice which is available for $30 one can keep the device safe. Among other cases one can name Elan Form Graphite, FormFit as well as FlexGrip Acrion, all of them have their own advantages.

iPod Nano Cases

Griffin has also developed a little case for the iPad Nanon, known as the Wristlet. It is made of silicone that is able to protect the device from scratches.

Incipio offers the Linq Wristband, which is considered to be a hybrid polymer case. As for Schosche, it provides two different cases: 3-pack enclosures as well as soundKASE t6.

Via : latestngadgets.com

HTC HD3 Windows Phone 7 device incoming

We at Pocket-lint first brought you word of HTC's HD3 back in March, following a leak of specs and images into the webiverse.

And now we're hearing rumours that the Windows Phone 7 device could be the big announcement at HTC's mystery event in London on 15 September, which Pocket-lint has, of course, been invited to.

If you're not familiar with the HD3, then allow us to fill you in:

Reports suggest an absolute beast of a handset to follow up 2009's HTC HD2 (which ran Windows Mobile 6.5, sadly).

We're expecting a 4.5-inch AMOLED display with a HD resolution of 1280 x 800. Running Windows Phone 7, the phone is said to be powered by a whopping dual-core 1.5GHz ARM-based chip, with 1GB of RAM on board.

There's allegedly 32GB of built-in storage (which can be doubled with a microSD) as well as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and HDMI-out.

The camera is reported to be an 8-megapixel one, with dual LED flash, and it should be capable of capturing HD videos as well.

In short - it sounds like one heck of a device, and will surely create some hysteria for the new Microsoft OS if it performs as it should.

As well as the HD3 being announced, we are hoping that HTC uses the event to give us more info on the Chrome OS tablet that it has supposedly got up its sleeve.

Via : pocket-lint.com

Android source code for the Sprint Epic 4G now available from Samsung

As a manufacturer of Android handsets, Samsung has agreed to release the source code for all devices powered by Google’s popular mobile OS. The latest handset exposed to the world is the recently released Epic 4G. The source code let loose by Samsung has the underlying Android OS for Sprint’s latest and greatest smarthphone, minus all the proprietary content which includes, among other things, Samsung’s TouchWiz UI.

To the average consumer, this underlying codebase is a bunch of un-intelligible files that have little to no value. In the hands of a seasoned developer, though, the source code may form the basis for custom ROMs and other content designed specifically for Sprint’s second WiMAX handset.

To get knee-deep in the Epic 4G code, you will need to point your browser to Samsung’s Open Source Release Center. Click on mobile in the navigation bar and download the source code files which are available in zip format. The Epic 4G is also known as the SPH-D700 and a quick in-browser search should help you find the correct entry.

Via : intomobile.com

BlackBerry Curve 3G 9330 Coming to Verizon in Charcoal and Fuchsia

If you're on the Verizon network and interested in the entry level BlackBerry Curve 3G 9330 you may find it to your liking that it will be available in two colors. There will be a more basic charcoal color as well as a fuchsia for some flair.

If you're on the Verizon network and interested in the entry level BlackBerry Curve 3G 9330 you may find it to your liking that it will be available in two colors. There will be a more basic charcoal color as well as a fuchsia for some flair.

Via : bbleaks.com

Garmin's nuLink! 1695 attracts high-end GPS buyers, nuvi 2200 and 2300 mop up the rest

Looks like Garmin's cellular nüLink! service was something of a success -- it's now become the brand of the company's new top-tier GPS. The Garmin nüLink! 1695 replaces the nüvi 1690 with a model nigh-identical on the outside but for a larger, 5-inch touchscreen, but imbued with the traffic trending features of the 3700 series -- in other words, pretty much just what we expected.

Unfortunately for spendthrifts lusting after its connected search functions (including traffic, weather, Google, fuel prices, flight times and more) and new integrated services store, the price is about what we expected as well, starting at $450 for the unit with a year of nüLink data and $5 a month thereafter.

However, if that's out of your price range Garmin's not going to let you go without a fight -- it's also introduced no fewer than eleven new nüvi 2200 and 2300 series PNDs with a wide variety of features at nearly every wallet size. Press releases after the break, and find the full lineup at our source link.

Via : Garmin, engadget

Apple sucks at Photoshop too

Ladies and gentlemen, presenting the new fourth-generation iPod touch: it's so much like an iPhone that it has a Phone app (wait, what?). Better yet, if you do a Spotlight search on it, it'll return results from a messaging app it's not supposed to have. How's that for value? This would all be a great big enigmatic mystery if we weren't ourselves familiar with the practice (and pitfalls) of splicing disparate images into unholy creations. Well, at least now Microsoft isn't alone in making self-published Photoshop gaffes.

Via : Apple, engadget

Nokia N8 launches September 30, says senior manager

Tapani Kaskinen is Nokia's Senior Comms Manager, so it's fitting that he'd be the first person from the company to communicate a solid release date for its long-awaited N8 handset. The gent in question told Finnish newspaper Kauppalehti that advance orders of the N8 will "begin shipping 30 September." Bear in mind we're chewing through a machine translation here, but that part's pretty unmistakable. It also meshes perfectly with earlier speculation surrounding Nokia purchasing Google AdWords -- that indicated a one-week exclusive starting on September 23rd for Nokia's UK online store, which, if you do the math, again points to a wide release at the end of the month. We asked Nokia about it ourselves and they're remaining mum on the matter, but chances are looking pretty good that October will start with the N8 finally in eager users' hands.

Via : engadget,Kauppalehti.fi, NokNok