New Gadget 2011

Elegant design isn’t one of the Ibiza’s strong points: Taking cues from other popular devices, it has an iPod- esque screen (2.5 inches, 320-by-240-pixel resolution) and a Zune-like touch-sensitive control pad, but the body of the player is covered with buttons. It isn’t exactly ugly, but it’s not as graceful as an iPod or a Zune. The Ibiza also comes with some adequate-sounding but flimsy earbuds. It didn’t take long for the left ear on mine to give out.

The Ibiza excels at seamless (and wireless) Rhapsody Integration. Samsung’s P2 and the iriver Clix Rhapsody integrate the service into their devices by loading content when you connect to your PC via USB, but Haier has them beat. When powered up, the Ibiza searches for available wireless networks (it uses 802. 11b/g). Once connected, you get Rhapsody’s home page, formatted for the device’s screen. Log in, and all your channels and selections are available. You can save songs to the player-just press the click pad and tunes are downloaded as you listen.

You can move non-Rhapsody content onto the player via Windows Media Player or Rhapsody on your PC. The Ibiza supports DRM-free AAC, MP3 (all bit rates), WMA, and WAV for audio; MPEG-4, WMJV, and H.264 for video; and JPEG and PNG for photos. But once I loaded the player with my own non-Rhapsody MP3s and WMAs, operation became painfully slow-as slow as dial-up. The sluggishness didn’t seem to affect Rhapsody functions, but the wait to listen to tunes or view images from the hard drive was long enough to wreck my mood.

If you want access to your Rhapsody account on the go, you should give the Ibiza a try. On the flip side, if you’re not a Rhapsody fan, there’s no reason to buy this device over an iPod or a Zune. The integration of the service is excellent and the PC-free concept is brilliant, but the interface is too slow. This player is only for the very patient.

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Apple should take notes on a number of the Voyager’s features, including the virtual T9 keypad that makes texting a breeze, the stereo Bluetooth support for music, and especially the way the touchscreen buttons “bite back” with force feedback. It’s a godsend when you use on the touch screen, allowing you to fly through the menu system’s large icons and even type URLs without opening up the phone.

If you don’t want to deal with virtual keys, you’ll find the Voyager’s spacious QWERTY keyboard, plus an additional screen and stereo speakers, once you flip it open. Moreover, the device supports Verizon’s mobile TV service, which provides eight channels of broadcast mobile TV (for $15 per month), making the Voyager a dandy little desktop TV set.

As a phone, the Voyager is fun to dial and use. Tapping the Unlock button on the front screen gives you a main screen with four icons: messaging, phone, address book and main menu. Tap the phone icon and you can dial on a virtual keypad. You can also use voice dialing, whether over a wired or Bluetooth headset, or flip the phone open and dial using the full keyboard. To scroll through the address book, just flick your finger as with an iPhone.

The Voyager’s phone reception and audio are acceptable but not impressive. While the earpiece achieves good volume, sound is distorted considerably at the top of the range. The speakerphone, on the other hand, doesn’t get tremendously loud, and it works only with the clamshell flipped open. The Voyager’s 4.5 hours of talk time isn’t bad for a phone with two huge, power-sucking screens.

There’s a lot to like here: You get a generous 183MB of available internal memory, and the device also has a microSD card slot. The huge internal screen makes the Voyager a great gaming phone, and the device works well with Verizon’s VZ Navigator GPS service. The Teleca browser makes Web pages look good, but surfing is slow despite the phone’s fast EV-DO connection-and there’s no Wi-Fi. But the 2-megapixel autofocus camera takes decent photos.

The Voyager’s flaws illustrate how Apple’s competitors struggle to make their high-end phones just work as well as the iPhone does. Like most other Verizon handsets, it has some frustrating menus and a perplexing inability to sync calendars, contacts, and videos with PCs or Macs.

No, the Voyager isn’t an iPhone killer. But if you choose your network first, and you’ve chosen Verizon, this is the closest you’ll get to a true mobile revolution-for now.

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Its form really looks like a gold necklace. In the form of thin locket pendulum with preciuos stone eye, made from gold material. The USB connector is hidden. Only seen when some of locket edges pulled.

Cruzer Element is available in four variants. According to the preciuos stone type in it centered. The preciuos stone type depicts the four nature element in earth.

Nacre, having white color, symbolises wind. Eye of Tiger, having flame color, symbolises fire. Aventurine, having green colour, represents earth and land element. Iazuli layer, having blue colour, decorates Cruizer Element with white gold material, symbolises water.

Unfortunately, Sandisk has not released formal confirmation about it per unit selling price and launch date. But the rumor says, Cruzer Element will only be made in limited number.

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Earphone series display more or less is equal to ordinary headphone. But, there is something which makes this peripheral so luxuriant. It is a slice of oval Swarovski crystal looked like chicken’s egg.

The earphone product divided in three types. Firstly, there is Amazone model which its form in a flash alike necklace. Earphone cable is placed in necklace backside. It’s also figured in a strap to hang the MP3 player. This model is sold at price of US$ 148.

For data storage product, it’s available four variants. That is, Heart Ware USB Memory Key, Heart Beat USB Memory Key, Lock In USB Memory Key, and Lock Out USB Memory Key.

Heart Ware and Heart Beat is data storage with locket format. Its measure only 4,3 x 4,4 x 1,9 cm. Apposite by its name, the locket is in the form of apart two heart. Half part is a stainless steel USB connector. Other part functioned as USB connector cover with crystal material.

Lock In and Lock Out are in the stainless steel padlock form. Its measure is 5 x 3,3 x 2 cm. The padlock is also functioning as USB with 1 GB capacities. Besides, there is a password protecting feature. Fourth type it’s sold at the price of US$ 178. The products will be available in certain outles started from Februari, to greet the Valentine Day moment.

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At CES 2008 in Las Vegas, they introduce the newest dock for iPod called Vestalife Ladybug. The loudspeaker which gets an award at Audio Components category has cute design and appearance. Its form like a butterfly opening it wings.

Two 1,5 inchs tweeter is looks like wing. When applied, tweeter like unfurl in the left-right of main dock. In off condition, hence tweeter can be folded. Makes dock in circle form and is easier to be kept.

Vestalife guarantees the sound quality which served with digital amplifier system installation. For undertone is produced by one 3 inch subwoofer. As figured in feature, Ladybug compatible with iPod, mini iPod, iPod nano and 4D iPod. As complement, there is USB port for synchronization with computer, AV output, and external jack power which able to be connected to CD player, MP3 player. Remote also figured in to ease the action.

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