Bluetooth headsets have never been more popular than they are now. The reason for this is that many states have hands free laws on the books that make it a requirement to use a hands free device of some sort. Sound ID has announced its new 400 Bluetooth headset that offers some unique features.
Of all the technologies that we use the most on our mobile phones, wireless connectivity is the most important to most of us. The typical smartphone or feature phone today offers Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity and Bluetooth is arguably the more important of the two allowing for hands free connectivity and more.
Chalk another one up to bizarre branding: you’re looking at the Pierre Cardin PC-729 UMPC, the handiwork of Shenzhen Industries, and while you might assume the Chinese firm have “borrowed unofficially” the designer branding, in actual fact this is the result of a legitimate licensing deal. The PC-729 has a 7-inch 800 x 480 WVGA resistive touchscreen, 1.2GHz VIA C7-M processor and 16GB SSD, and is set to hit Chinese shelves priced at 2980 yuan ($436).
Nokia’s high-end 8800-series handsets have been in need of a new poster-model for some time, and according to the latest leaks that might just be the new Erdos. The Nokia Erdos is a compact slider with a 2.4-inch 320 x 240 OLED display, 3G WCDMA, WiFi, A-GPS and a 5-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss autofocus optics and dual LED flash.
However what makes the S60 Erdos special is that all of that is packed into a compact, stainless steel casing that’s apparently carved from a single block of metal. The OLED display is covered by a mirror-finish glass panel that’s only transparent when the display is active.
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We’re still waiting for official word from Motorola and T-Mobile in the US as to when the new CLIQ Android smartphone will land, but that hasn’t stopped the manufacturer’s UK arm from getting a little more specific. The Motorola DEXT – which is how the handset will be branded outside the US – has been confirmed to arrive on Orange UK in early September, with preordering expected to begin on September 22nd.
Even those who aren’t too keen on Microsoft’s software strategies often admit that the company’s hardware arm pushes out some decent peripherals, and the latest such example of that is their Bluetooth Mobile Keyboard 6000. A low-profile wireless ‘board that comes complete with a separate, Bluetooth-connected numeric keypad, the Mobile Keyboard 6000 borrows the firm’s comfort-curve ergonomic layout for more contented wrists.
Room in your hearts for another generic Chinese MID? Shinchun Electronic Co. certainly hope so, because their UMPC-501 A actually sounds like it may eventually go on sale, unlike some of the OEM designs we generally see. The 5-inch WVGA touchscreen slate runs from a 1.1GHz Intel Atom Z510 processor, with between 8 and 32GB of SSD storage and 1GB of RAM.
If you’ve ever watched a taxi drive off into the distance with your cellphone on the back seat, left your phone under a napkin at a restaurant or just found you’re halfway to work and your BlackBerry is still sat charging in the kitchen, then nio believe they have the solution. The UK firm are offering a Bluetooth keychain and some proprietary software that you install on your cellphone; that creates a roughly 25m link between the two, which if exceeded causes both keychain and phone to flash and sound an alarm.
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If you hadn’t heard, Nokia World happened this week, and a few things were announced along the way. While we had a plethora of information regarding the Nokia N900 (or Rover or even RX-1 if you prefer), which even included a little pre-launch review, we were all waiting to hear from Nokia directly about the full details of the gadget. “We got what we were waiting for”, and that even included the price.
OnStar is a GM product that is offered on most of the vehicles the automotive giant sells and dials for help automatically in the event of an accident and it can provide GPS assistance to drivers. Drivers who don’t own an OnStar equipped vehicle can now get similar service with the addition of a hands free Bluetooth device to their car.
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