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  Samsung’s latest entrant in the world of PMPs is P3. It features a 3-inch WQVGA display with an aspect ratio of 16:9, which somehow wants to compete with Apple’s iPod Touch. Comparisons aside, the 0.39-inch svelte player will come in storage sizes varying from 4GB to 32GB and plays all the popular video, audio [...]

  Steve Ballmer in his keynote at the CES announced the availability of the beta version of Windows 7. While MSDN, TechBeta and TechNet subscribers are eligible to get their hands on Vista successor from today, users like you and me will be able to download the beta from January 9 i.e. Friday. Having used [...]

  Logitech showing up its goods at the CES, revealed its Harmony 1100 universal remote control from the lineup. Winner of the CES 2009 Design and Engineering Award, the palm-sized remote control sports a 3.5-inch touchscreen QVGA display which can be customized with the help of bundled Harmony software. Harmony 1100 can be hooked up [...]

  After creating a prototype of their watch phone in 2008, LG Electronics showed their market ready watch phone at the CES. The GD910 will be the first watch phone to sport 3G video calling as well as quadband network capabilities. It has a 1.43-inch touchscreen display tackling the core phone functions like calling and [...]

  After almost 15 days of aggressive marketing and some leaks, Sony has officially revealed the Vaio P-Series. Sony touts this subnotebook as slightly larger than an office envelope and light enough (638g) to carry it anywhere. There are no changes in the specifications as it has a 1.33GHz Intel Atom processor, 2GB RAM, 3G, [...]

  Asus’ Eee branded products doesn’t seem to stop. The image you’re looking above is a prototype of Eee PC Keyboard. The chicklet style keyboard in fact is a fully functional PC with a small 5-inch touchscreen. An upped version of nettops? The spec sheet includes an Intel N270/N330 Atom processor, 1GB RAM, 16 or [...]

  SanDisk doesn’t seem to have learnt a lesson from its slotMusic initiative. Now that slotMusic has taken a backseat (assuming weak sales), the new bold move comes in the form of slotRadio. The slotRatio line consists of a music player and a microSD card. If a user is willing to shell out $100, he’ll [...]

  Here is another attempt from Motorola to woo mobile phone users. This time its offerings include an environmental friendly W233 Renew and socially active Motosurf A3100 touchscreen phone. W233 Renew is an entry level phone with its housing made completely out of recycled water bottles. It also earns a CarbonFree Product Certification from CarbonFund.org [...]

  We have been getting timely details on Sony’s Vaio P portable device but never managed to get the picture in full glory. Well, here it is. Engadget, taking advantage of the official partner status managed to sneak in some photos from the large display monitors placed at the Sony booth. It looks good but [...]

  HP has announced a new netbook to cater to ‘on-the-go’ professionals. The Mini 2140 which is in fact a bumped up Mini 2133 will be showcased at the CES. It features a 10.1-inch LED backlit screen which will be available in resolutions of 1366X768 and 1024X576 pixels, 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor, storage options of [...]

  Apart from the W700ds announcement, Lenovo revealed a few more products from its IdeaPad range. Slimness is the main USP of these devices which includes an IdeaCentre A600 All-in-One desktop PC and three IdeaPad notebooks – Y650, Y550 and Y450. IdeaCentre A600 is the first ever AIO to come out of Lenovo’s stable. The [...]

  MSI has announced that their new 13.4-inch sleek and shiny portable notebook will be showcased on the CES floor. The X320 from the X-Slim Series has a thickness of 6mm – 19.8mm and weighs just 1.3kg. The specs run include a 1.6GHz Intel Atom Z530 processor, up to 2GB RAM, three USB ports, VGA [...]

  JVC missed by a whisker to beat Samsung, but its LCD promises a lot more than slimness. In fact, the Super-Thin LCD for 32-inch displays is one of the slimmest, lightest and the greenest of the lot. The prototype will be exhibited at the CES which measures 7mm in thickness and weighs just 5kgs. [...]

  LG was touting its 24.8mm thick LCD TV to be the world’s slimmest until Samsung came in to spoil the party. But despite being thrown out of the slimmest race, this baby from LG packs decent features. The LH9500 LCD TV has a 55-inch screen size and boasts a contrast ratio of 2,000,000:1, high [...]

  Samsung, responsible for churning out ‘world’s first’ products, and will now claim to another first in the industry. They have announced that they will showcase their slimmest LED backlit HDTV at the CES which measures not more than 6.5mm – 7mm in thickness. That’s pretty slim considering LG was touting its almost 25mm TV [...]