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Are you on a pretty tight budget and yet want a touch screen handset, but cannot afford an iPhone or a Samsung Omnia? Well, LG has just the panacea for you in the form of their affordable LG KP500. This handset won’t break the bank and will be out in Europe officially before the end of next month with the following specifications :-

• Quad band GSM connectivity
• 3? touchs creen display
• 3 megapixel camera
• Built-in motion sensor
• On-screen QWERTY keyboard

You can choose from Black, Vandyke brown, Anodizing silver and Elegant gold colors.

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Microsoft isn’t throwing in the towel just yet for its Zune portable media player, and this time round it has come up with a Gears of War 2 Zune which will see a laser-etched “Crimson Omen” on a glossy black Zune 120. This device will come pre-loaded with 244 pieces of “Gears of War” media, including the soundtrack, concept art, behind-the-scenes vids and so on. Rest assured it will come packaged in a (potentially) highly collectible Gears package for fanboys and collectors alike. How much will this peg you back? 280 clams is the asking price, and it will ship this November 7th.

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[CEATEC 2008] I had heard about this mobile internet device (MID) back in April, but all we had then was paper marketing materials. I’m glad to see this MID in the flesh plastic. The device is supposed to have an extension in the back (wired Ethernet+GPS+40GB HDD), but this was not shown on the show floor. However, even without the extension, this device has respectable specifications:

• 5” WSVGA display (1024×600)
• Atom CPU
• 4GB SSD
• Linux or Windows OS
• WiFi-G, Bluetooth, W-SIM

The battery life is unknown and the lack of keyboard kind of kills it for me, but may be others won’t mind using the stylus with the touch-display. I don’t know what the price is, but here is the European distributor site (with more technical info too!)

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[CEATEC 2008] We briefly talked about the Kohjinsha SC and SX ultra-mobile PC (UMPC) before and most of the time, we’ve shown product photos, but there’s nothing like a good hands-on with these devices to see how they really are. Our impressions? At between $700 and $1000, they are somewhat pricey and you should really look at what you are going to do with them. If you mainly use web applications and basic stuff, then I would recommend getting a much cheaper Nettop (< $400).

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Fancy having a mature sex kitten as the voice on your GPS system? If you’re into MILFs, then you can download Kim Cattrall’s (of Sex and the City fame) voice for your TomTom GPS system all for the low, low price of $12.95 and €9.95, depending on which continent you’re residing on. Of course, with a celebrity’s voice in your car, it might actually cause those too enthralled to concentrate more on the voice instead of driving instead. Special features include peering into what Kim’s thinking at the moment, including “This is the city, darling. Anything goes” or “Don’t touch my Manolos” to break the monotony of a long drive.

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TDK has taken over Toshiba’s position where having the highest surface recording density is concerned, with a new 803Gbits/inch2 1.8″ double sided 260GB drive being paraded at CEATEC. This is made possible courtesy of an improved TMP head. More miniaturization to follow in the near future, that’s for sure, and that would translate into smaller devices with higher capacities for us consumers.

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[CEATEC 2008] Some of you have been dreaming about it for years, but it looks like Nissan might be bringing an R2D2-like robot in their cars soon. Its eyes are equipped with cameras that allow our little friend to analyze the driver’s facial expressions before interacting vocally with him or her. The robotic agent can be used as a guide while you drive, or it can “talk” about simple things like stock quotes and weather forecast. It’s a far cry from hacking the Death Star, but we’re getting there…

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The FCC has taken a look at Motorola’s VU30 clamshell handset and nodded its head in approval, which means the market ought to see a new clamshell handset with the following pretty soon :-

• 2 megapixel camera
• EV-DO connectivity
• Stereo Bluetooth support

While it won’t turn heads with its design, it looks set to be a pretty functional mid-range phone - chances are average Joes will use this as a portable modem most of the time, with some spot of audio playback in between business trips.

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We got the low-down (well, at much of a low-down as one can get from thematic designers) on KDDI’s latest au concept phones here at CEATEC, and the themes are — are you sitting down? — space and soup atomic elements. No, we didn’t make that up. If you’re still with us, hit the break for some pictures and explanations.

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[CEATEC 2008] This is a trend: televisions are doing more and more processing and JVC’s 2D to 3D (stereo) conversion is yet another example of what can be done, in real-time, with videos. JVC was showing how it can convert 2D video into 3D stereo that works with (passive) polarized glasses. The demo was quite impressive: the stereo animation was crisp and didn’t exhibit too much flickering. There was some issues with the caption, but that was to be expected as JVC can’t really extract any depth information from 2D text in overlay on the video. I don’t know if that would “just work” for all video source, but this was worth looking at. Note that JVC is using a left/right (eye) image separation that I’ve never seen before. When watching without the glasses, it doesn’t look like standard stereo video (look at the photo gallery)…

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