Remember the Sony S-Frame DPP-F700 combination digital photo frame and printer? Announced late last month over in Singapore, the 7-inch WVGA display has just seen its official US launch, and it’s expected to arrive in stores in January for around $200. As well as displaying images on-screen – loaded either via USB or on a memory card, but frustratingly not wirelessly – the DPP-F700 can spit out 4 x 6-inch glossy prints for your mother-in-law to take away.
Video demo after the cut
According to The Phone House (the Dutch branch of The Carphone Warehouse), you’re looking at the Samsung B7610 Louvre. An unannounced update to the Samsung F700, the Samsung B7610 runs Windows Mobile 6.1 and has a full QWERTY slide-out keyboard. If the store is to be believed, the B7610 Louvre is set to reach stores by the beginning of July.
Digital Foci has dressed up a portable multimedia player with a soft leader case and a built-in battery, as a contemporary digital portfolio art book, and readied to showcase at the upcoming PMA 2009. Dubbed “PBK-080 “, the Photo Book features a 8-inch 4:3 SVGA LCD, built-in speakers and a large 4GB built-in memory, along with a host of multimedia card readers to support music, video and digital still image playbacks.
After a Memorial Day delay, Samsung’s F480 Tocco has been delivered and we’re ready to show you the SlashGear unboxing video and share our first-impressions of the touchscreen handset. It’s one of the more unusual unboxings; this is the first time I’ve had to “uncrate” a gadget! The Tocco is an important handset for Samsung – they’re spending big money on its European launch – and despite its compact dimensions they’ve packed in the functionality: HSDPA 3G, a 5-megapixel camera with autofocus and the latest incarnation of the TouchWiz GUI. Read on to see whether the F480 has got what it takes to impress.
Pioneer have released a number of high-end in-car entertainment systems for their AVIC-F range. The three models – AVIC-F700BT, AVIC-F900BT and Premier branded AVIC-F90BT – all feature XM and satellite radio compatibility, Bluetooth with conversational voice recognition that can be used to control navigation, voice control of a connected iPod and a 5.8-inch WVGA touchscreen. The latter two models also have DVD playback and a built-in MSN Direct tuner.
Samsung’s latest and greatest coming at you from Barcelona, Vince finally got some hands on time with the i900 and a phone we haven’t seen before, the U900 Soul. The i900 is supposed to be the slimmer, keyboard-free cousin of the F700v or “Croix”, the U900 on the other hand is completely new.
Vincent hasn’t actually been able to get any real images of the phones as they technically haven’t even been announced yet, but they’re the ones that put up billboards of the phones all over the city, so Vincent got a pic of one of those which shows both handsets. The KF600 is basically the LG Venus, and the KF700 is a full touch-screen phone with haptic feedback.
If you remember the F700 which is also known as the Croix, this phone will be like that, but thinner. It is believed to have a similar interface as the Croix, but with a new icon set for Sprint, it will have CDMA and EV-DO.
Vincent Nguyen got his grubby little hands on another phone the rest of us will just have to dream about, Samsung F700 or the Vodafone Croix. We’ve written about this phone several times before eventually getting some hands on time at CeBIT a few months ago, but Vincent actually got one in for review.
The Christmas season looks set to be a hot one, with Apple’s iPhone coming under attack from the Samsung F700 (our review of which is coming very soon) and Verizon’s Voyager. Both touchscreen cellphones, one a slider and the other a clamshell; we showed you preview footage of the Voyager from the carrier’s booth at CTIA but until now we’ve only had relatively scant details of the phone’s capabilities. Well that’s all changed, after a leaked data sheet has flaunted the Voyager’s innards across the internet.
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