Filed under: Cellphones, Portable Video
Once again, we tip our hats to the FCC, which today made public Motorola’s new and unannounced MOTORIZR Z6tv slider handset. Equipped with EV-DO, a 2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, 2.5mm jack, and delicious MediaFLO V CAST Mobile TV, if you’re Motosexual this might be one to keep an eye out for. More info as we get it.
[Via Phone Scoop]
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
Filed under: Digital Cameras, Portable Video
Take a Sanyo Xacti CG65, add some waterproofing, and what do you get? Why the Xacti E1 of course. While Sanyo had the “water resistant” CA6 last year, they’re calling this the world’s first “waterproof” camcorder. Like the landlubbin’ version, the E1 is a digital camera / H.264 recorder which writes both 6 megapixel stills and 640 x 480 pixels/30fps videos direct to SD/SDHC cards. Only now, it does so when submerged at depths up to 5 feet for no more than an hour at a time. Available mid-June in choice of Blue, yellow, or white for $500.
Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
Iriver hasn’t exactly made it a secret that it’s planning to release an 8GB
clix 2 sooner or later, but the folks at clixhere! have now published what they claim to be the first pics of the much-desired device, although they unfortunately don’t have much in the way of details to go along with ‘em. As you can see above, it certainly looks like a clix 2, with the notable addition of red stripe running around the edge of the device. Of course, we’ll have to wait for iriver’s announcement to get the official word on that and any other possible changes, although we don’t suspect it’ll be all that different than 4GB clix 2 we got our
hands on last month.
Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
While the rest of the world makes do with the 2-inch, QVGA display on their NW-A800 Walkman, China just nabbed a pair of biggie Sony Walkman branded flash video players under the PMX-M70 (pictured) and PMX-U50 monikers. The M70 series brings a 4.3-inch, 480 x 272 pixel display for viewing MPEG-4 video stored in up to 8GB of flash memory or Memory Stick expansion. It also records audio or video when jacked-in appropriately or plays back MP3, WMA, and AAC audio over the unit’s integrated stereo speakers. The PMX-U50 then, is a throw-back to the ol’ GigaPocket PCVA-HVP20 design with a refreshed spec sheet touting a 2.4-inch TFT LCD, FM tuner, drag-n-drop support (no SonicStage!), voice recorder and more in capacities up to 4GB. Notable by its absence from the press release is ATRAC, again. While three ATRAC-less, SonicStage-less products released in the last 4 weeks certainly does not constitute a trend, it’s tantalizing nonetheless. See the U50 pictured after the break.
Filed under: HDTV, Portable Video
Fujitsu just announced a world’s first H.264 chip capable of encoding/decoding 1920 x 1080 (60i/50i) video in real time. The chip features 256MB of onboard FCRAM and ultra low 750mW power draw when encoding video. That means lickity quick, MPEG-2 quality processing with only a third, or half the required storage. The ¥30,000 ($247) MB86H51 chip is available to OEMs starting July 1st after which you’ll find it bunged into the latest up-scale, consumer-class video recorders.
[Via Impress]
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Filed under: GPS, Portable Audio, Portable Video
Hyundai’s Mobis subsidiary looks set to bust out yet another GPS/PMP/DMB device for the Korean market (which sure is lacking for such things), with its new MDN7300 model offering much of the usual fare in a nice enough package. That includes a 7-inch widescreen display (480×234), an Intel PXA 270 520MHz CPU, the de facto SiRF Star III GPS module, and an included 2GB SD memory card (presumably loaded with the usual compliment of maps). You’ll also get a remote, a built-in FM transmitter to pump tunes through you car stereo, and a picture-in-picture feature for double the distraction while you’re driving. No word on price, it seems, nor is there any indication of exactly when it’ll be available.
