Gizmo’s and Gadgets

The Nokia N810 was launched this week. With dimensions a little bit larger than the palm of your hand, it connects to the internet via Wi-Fi and your phone via a Bluetooth connection. With its highly desirable slide-out keyboard, looks like some tough competition for the iPod touch. It also has GPS capability , up to 2GB of internal storage, 4.13 inch 800×480 wide touchscreen and a 400MHz processor. It can be yours for the price of $479.

Nokia N810 Specifications :
* Weight: 226 g
* Length: 72 mm
* Width: 128 mm
* Thickness: 14 mm
* High-resolution 4.13″ WVGA display (800 x 480 pixels) with up to 65,000 colors
* TI OMAP 2420, 400Mhz Processor
* DDR RAM 128MB Memory
* Flash 256MB
* Smooth slide with integrated QWERTY keyboard
* High quality stereo speakers and sensitive microphone
* Integrated VGA web camera
* WLAN standard: IEEE 802.11b/g
* Bluetooth specification v. 2.0. +EDR
* USB 2.0 high speed
* 3.5 mm stereo headphone plug (Nokia AV Connector)

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 Taiwan’s Science and Technology Advisory Group revealed  it’s newest creation : an UMPC device based on Linux that has a 2.8 inch VGA touchscreen and WiMax. It’s name is MTube and is powered by a 1Ghz VIA CPU. Fitted inside the small 8.5 x 8.5 x 2cm body is a 8Gb Hard Drive. Unfortunately they could not squeeze a bigger battery and the one that it has will only last about 4 hours. The good news is that this gadget will become available in 2009 so there is still hope for some improvements in that area.

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