New Gadget 2011

Besides ultra mini, ultra light, and ultra portable, it is sold with ultra cheap price. Eee PC 701 or 4G is a 7-inch laptop, equal to most TV car size. This laptop has Solid State Disk storage feature or 4 GB flash memorya. This capacity of course can be said small if compared to harddisk storage capacities in other laptop. But it is more shatterproof.

Asus planted Intel Celeron M ULV 353 900 MHz processor with L2 Cache 512 kb memory in this laptop. RAM capacities used are 512 MB DDR2.

Even small, this laptop has been equipped with Wi-Fi 80211 b/g and Ethernet 10/100 megabyte connection. Moreover, Eee PC also has webcam 0,3 megapixel which applicable to do video conference or videochatting.

It can also do video out transfer through analogue CRT port, and three USB ports, which applicable to connect mouse, external DVD ROM, or external harddisk.

Eee PC also provides memory slot for MMC or SD card (4 GB), microphone in line, and headphone in line. ASUS developed its own full-blown OS based on Linux Xandros. Even though, it also compatible with Windows (available soon, though pricing isn’t set yet).

With big icon picture, its interface system is designed so simpel and friendliness. After computer is booting, in less than one minute, the screen directly presents menu entry choice. It’s not provided desktop display, but directly provides menu tabs choice, and remain to provide task bar.

There is Internet menu for internet service facilitys, Work menu to saved programs to work, Learn menu for the learnings application, Play for entertainment, Setting to do configuration setting, and Favourite to saved most applied application.

Internet provides based on web e-mail service like Gmail, Yahoo!, and AOL, Mozilla browser, iGoogle, Pidgin instant message, Skype free VoIP, and Internet Radio. While at Work menu added the OpenOffice application (for text documents, spreadshet, and presentation), PDF Reader, File Manager, Dictionary, and Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail.

At Learn menu is available learning application which looks like game, for English, Mathematics (fraction or Geometri), Paint, and Natural sciences (periodic table and Astronomi). As for in Play menu available the web camera application, voice recorder, games, and media player which can play music, video, and photo.

With a real cheap price, this laptop provides so much usefulness. The battery can life during 2,5 to 3,5 hours. The Eee PC is tremendous bargain for general-purpose computing. A must have product.

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HP TouchSmart IQ775 PC carries desktop computer concept as family information center. One of the features is video message recorder, what enables one of family member to record video message to be looked by other family member. Besides, there is access for all information by only touch at its 19 inchs LCD screen.

Yes, this computer already equipped with touch screen interface. SmartCenter special software, what enables Windows Vista Home Premium operating system, operated with touch screen. SmartCalender program, which is part of SmartCenter, enables user to manage daily schedule and leaves voice or video message.

As family computer, HP IQ775, which powered by AMD Turion Dual-Core TL-58 1,9 gigahertz processor, also provides entertainment feature, wireless Internet access via Wi-Fi, and NTSC TV tuner to record and watch your favorite tv program.

HP TouchSmart IQ775 PC designed to facilitate computing and entertain, which enables consumer and all family members having a personal and interactive computing experience.

HP TouchSmart IQ775 PC has SATA 500 GB harddisk, 2GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce Go 7600 graphic card, Super-Multi DVD Burner with Lightscribe technology, Ethernet 100-BaseT, HP WebCam 1,3 megapixel, card reader 8 in 1, USB 2.0 slot, and FireWire slot. For now, this computer only available in United States, Canada, Korea, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand with retail price around $ 1599.

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But, Dell Latitude launch is one day overlapped by Portege M700: Toshiba 9th generation tablet PC. Toshiba tablet convertible PC generations started by Portege M205 at 2004. Then evolution becomes Portege M400 which introducing optical activator and standard voltage chip.

Now Portege M700 is Toshiba first tablet PC using light emitted diode (LED) backlit screen which has touch screen feature. Same touch screen ability also owned by Dell Latitude XT. Screen diagonal measure of both tablet PC is also same, 12,1 inchs. So do the screen resolution (WXGA , 1.280 x 800 pixels).

Toshiba touch screen technology can support usage of fingertip and also stylus pen. Portege M700 can detect input method and automatically changes input method from pen to fingertip and on the contrary. If both methods traced, Portege will prioritize pen usage to avoid unintentional touch.

LED backlit screen has anti-glare layer which makes clear picture and easy to seen either at inside and also outside room with various area condition. LED backlit screen produces good picture quality and rich colour saturation. Toshiba claims WXGA widescreen have 30 % more detail compared to standard XGA screen.

Meanwhile, Dell Latitude screen has two choices of light source: LED backlit and cold cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL). Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp gives brighter light, that is 400 nit (level of light), equivalent with candela per meters², suited for eyesight outside room. LED backlit gives 220 nits, for inside room.

Dell Latitude XT has equal specification with Fujitsu LifeBook T2010 and Lenovo ThinkPad X61 Tablet. All three product doesn’t have optical activator and the weight is below 1,8 kilograms. XT uses Ultra Low Voltage Intel Core 2 Duo U7600 (1,2 gigahertz) chip and 1 GB DDR2 RAM. Its also applies Radeon Xpress 1250 from ATI and hard disk 120 GB. Its selling price estimated $ 2499 per unit.

Meanwhile, Toshiba Portege M700 has higher specification, that is Intel Core 2 Duo T75001 (2,2 GHZ) processor, RAM DDR2 2 GB, Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100, DVD SuperMulti, and hard disk 160 GB SATA (5.400 RPM). With the retail price $ 1799 per unit.

Presence of this two touch screen tablet computers becoming strengthens the assumption that touch screen now becomes trend. Touch screen technology rockets when Apple launch iPhone and Microsoft introduce Surface PC. Dell now having experiment their own touch screen technology. The screen with sensors which able to trace fifth of the user finger at least has just emerged next year.

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Name of Asus have never been met at sound-card for PC. But now Asus launchs their new line of sound card, with Xonar sub-brand.

Asus not only wish to present multimedia experience in great visualisation, but also wish to present it in high quality audio. One of sound card product released by Asus is Xonar U1, external sound card which suited for notebook.

The design is simple, stylish, and alike mini UFO or overturn flowerpot. This peripheral is so portable and easy to plug in/plug out because connected to computer through USB cable. Besides for notebook, this sound card is also applicable for desktop computer.

According to Asus, with this gadget a notebook can produced crunchy sound without annoyed by noise. It can eliminate electromagnet interference and noise, which typically produced by an electronic network in computer chassis.

The gamer will be satisfied because Xonar U1 can apply EAX technology and DirectSound for computer which having Windows Vista platform. With other sound card, usually the gamer will lose surround sound from played game because EAX feature will missing in Vista. But, that problem can be overcome by Xonar U1.

By this gadget, user can also change its notebook becomes Home theater personal computer because it can present Dolby 5.1 canals through S/PDIF (Sony Panasonic Digital Interconnect Format) output.

With only connects the computer or laptop and Xonar U1 to home cinema system, user can enjoy PC game or film by 5.1 canals original sound or even with improvement of audio quality to 6.1 or 7.1 canals by Dolby Prologic IIx.

Besides, Dolby Headphone feature will give 3D sound experience although only through headphone. From any kind headphone brand, when play game, for example, user can listen simbal tingkling which likely heard from frontside, applause sound from backside.

Besides amplifier headphone which sophisticated designed, microphone technology provided along with the sound card is designed to accentuate noise sound in around user, what go beyond 20 decibels. Hence sound from microphone can be heard clear although resides in noisy area, suited for VoIP application (Skype MSN, Google) or online game.

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But the name is selected because this phone is designed to please video lover which always mobile. Viewty can play and records video files which having DivX format- a popular enough video format for downloading via Internet. So LG equipped it with high speed Internet access through the HSDPA (3,5 G) network, which in theory can give download speed until 1,8 MB per second.

Viewty is first cellphone which capable to record video in DivX format with speed 120 frame per second or twofold speed from a HDTV frame speed. It means user can play cellphone video record in slow motion.

Its 5 Megapixel phone camera supported by Xenon flash lamp (the feature which also provided by Sony Ericsson K810i), Schneidr Kreuznach lens, image stabilizer feature to avoid blur picture as shake result, and manual focus setting.

The camera is providing adjustment of file size, photo quality, ISO, and white balance. The picture quality which produced is as good as the picture quality produced by Nokia N95.

With a addition application, this phone can upload video record directly to YouTube or on the contrary downloading video directly from YouTube. Something differentiating Viewty with other 5 megapixel phone camera is the touch screen feature.

This touch screen feature is alike the screen applied in LG Prada phone. Both interface design also almost identical, has 3 inch touch screen with resolution 240 x 320 pixels, and three buttons below its, functioning to start talking, end called, and cancelation button.

Not merely it touch control, this phone also can give better touch experience (tactile) because adjustable vibrated when touched. Its interface more interestingly when presenting innovative photo viewer mode. Photos in galery presented like photo pictures which straggling in desk.

To see more detail photo, just click with finger or applies standard mode which will set in line photo one per one. After choosing certain photo, user can enlarge or minimizes picture by rubbing finger at picture in screen.

A photo editing application provided to add text at photo, photo make up, or gives other effects. The purpose is providing best picture quality with newest technology to the users.
But, do not only play video, Viewty also play music from a number of file like MP3, AAC, WMA, WMV, and AMR and also FM radio. Viewty can accomodate a number of multimedia files by providing microSD memory card slot which having capacities until 2 GB.

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