Posted by hina on November 12, 2009 under Accessories, Cell Phone, PDA Phone | 
According to The Korea Herald, Three of Samsung Electronics Co.’s mobile phones made it into the Guinness Book of World Records.
i) The Ultra Edition 5.9, which is only 5.9 millimeters thick, or less than 0.2 inches, has been named the world’s thinnest phone.
ii) The Ultra Edition 8.4 was included in the book in as the world’s thinnest 3G phone.
iii) Samsung’s 10-megapixel camera phone has been picked by The Guinness Book as the world’s highest megapixel mobile phone.
With the three new entries, Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest electronics manufacturer, holds four Guinness Book world records in the mobile phone sector. The company’s TV phone made its entry to the Guinness World Records in 2001.
A life-sized photo of the Ultra Edition 5.9 will be included in the 2008 edition of the Guinness Book to emphasize the thinness of the record-setting phone, the company said.
Posted by hina on under Accessories, Tips & Info |
Everyday your surrounding creates lots of noise. Why not convert all the noises into usable energy to power your gadgets, lamp, TV etc. The Sonea unit is a conceptual device that can convert noise to energy for you to use.
This device should be best installed at super noisy environment such as construction sites that produce lots of noise everyday and the noise can be converted into energy to power those heavy machines used in construction.
The Sonea unit is able to convert each decibel of sound into 30 watts of power. The noise produced by an airplane taking off at the runway would be able to produce 240kW of power. Of course, the Sonea is just a conceptual device, and some more the figures are simply theoretical, it could result lots of losses in practical use.
Posted by hina on under Accessories, Cell Phone, PDA Phone, Tips & Info |
The best part of a BlackBerry is its full-fledged QWERTY, which is so handy for typing messages using your two thumbs. If you’re an iPhone user, you get only the touchscreen version of QWERTY, which lacks of the actual feel and tactile feedback of a physical QWERTY of a BlackBerry.
Thanks to the iTwinge keyboard, which you can now use it to turn your iPhone into a BlackBerry-like device, presenting you a full QWERTY to ease your messaging on the iPhone.
The iTwinge QWERTY costs you only $30. It simply slips into the bottom of the iPhone, to let your iPhone have a full-fledged QWERTY. The iTwinge works both for the iPhone 3G and 3GS versions, which is what you need if you’re a heavy texter but wish to stick to using the iPhone.
Posted by hina on November 11, 2009 under Accessories, Computer Hardware |
Somehow you’ve got fed up with the PC environment, and you’re thinking of switching to a Mac environment, now there is a highly affordable solution, which you don’t have to bear any high cost for changing the hardware.
Here comes a little internal USB dongle from EFiX, once installed on the mobo of your PC, you’ll be able to install the Mac Leopard OS X onto your PC from a standard retail DVD. This little USB dongle now comes in two versions, which the version 1 is the hand-made version that supports a few more mobos. Since it’s hand-made, there are 200 units of this version have been produced and they carry price tag of $125.
The version 2 will be a mass-produced version, which is expected to be shipped a month later, and should cost cheaper than the version 1
The EFiX USB dongle is to be installed internally, which you need a vacant USB header on your motherboard. The device now has a limited number of hardware compatibility. Hardware such as nVidia is almost all supported, but for mobos, you can only find the Gigabyte in the list. The more detailed of the hardware compatibility list is here.
So far, the maker, EFiX has made deal with distributors in Taiwan and Bulgaria only, meaning it’ll only surface in the market of the two mentioned countries.
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Posted by hina on November 9, 2009 under Accessories, Cell Phone, PDA Phone |
The second generation of iPhone comes with 3G support which allows you to hook up to the Internet with super high-speed HSPA Internet connection. It’s a good idea to share your iPhone’s Internet connection to some of your computers nearby via WiFi.
PdaNet, developed by June Fabrics Technology, has been a popular application for Palm OS and Windows Mobiles-based devices, which turns them into a WiFi router that other computers and gadgets can share the Internet connection. Now, a latest version of this app has been made available for the Apple iPhone, but it’s only usable on a jail-broken iPhone.
Having the PdaNet installed on your jail-broken iPhone, the iPhone can then serve as a WiFi router which lets other computers and gadgets nearby to share its Internet connection via WiFi network.
Having your iPhone to serve as a WiFi Internet router surely drains the battery quickly. So, it’s recommended to charge the iPhone at the same time while it’s being used as a router. I guess the iPhone will get little hot too after it’s been used continuously for a couple of hours with tons of IP packets pumping through it.
Posted by hina on under Accessories |
Various applications have been made for the iPhone which turn it into a great musical instrument. We’ve seen piano, guitar, drum and now we have a Stylophone here.
Stylophone is an electronic musical instrument- a synthesizer that was invented by Brian Jarvis in 1968 and manufactured in the U.K. by Dubreq. The iPhone app that turns it into a Stylophone is called Dubreq iStylophone and developed by the UK-based company which calls themselves Very cool software company
The Dubreq Stylophone seems to be a pretty popular electronic musical instrument in the 70s and it’d been used by various artists including used by artists including David Bowie, Brett Domino, Erasure, Hexstatic, Krafwerk, Marilyn Manson, Orbital, Pulp, The Raconteurs, and They Might Be Giants.
But the Stylophone might have lost its popularity in the 21st century.Now thanks to the Very cool software company, which has brought the Stylophone onto the iPhone. It shall also make full use of the iPhone’s multi-touch capabilities so you could easily churn out fancy tunes on your iPhone’s touch screen. The app costs $5.95 and will be ready for download in December.
Posted by hina on under Accessories, Cell Phone, PDA Phone |
iPhone can now be used as a light dimmer, thanks to Lutron with their new application and wireless modules coming to iPhone and the iPod Touch.
Fix the Lutron’s wireless modules to those lamps that you want controllable by iPhone or the iPod Touch that has the Lutron dimmer application installed. The Lutron dimmer gives you better control of your lights in your living space. You can precisely set the brightness across the room. Some more its easy-to-use interface lets you seperate your house into zones, making it easier for you to manage their brightnesses.
If you want an iPhone-controllable lighting system for your house, you have to fork out for the Lutron’s wireless modules, which can cost several hundreds or thousands of dollars. Fortunately, the application is free and will be available in January.
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Posted by friend on November 7, 2009 under Accessories, Cell Phone, PDA Phone |
If you have an iPod Touch but you don’t have an iPhone, you could access almost all the applications that an iPhone has on the iPod touch. But the only missing is you can’t make phone calls on the iPod Touch.
For some reasons you wanna save your pocket from buying an iPhone, and you wish to make use of your iPod Touch to make calls, then Truphone has the solution for you. Truphone was developed by an UK-based company which is an application that turns iPod Touch into an iPhone.
Strictly speaking, Truphone allows you to make phone calls via Internet telephony service. Once you have the Truphone app installed on your iPod Touch, you’ll be able to make free calls to other users of Truphone, other iPod Touch owner and to Google Talk users.
Currently, the Truphone allows the few mentioned basic Internet phone calls. But they will soon include more features such as the followings: