Motorola Japan have announced two new Bluetooth speakerphones and wireless speakers. The Motorola EQ7, left, and the Motorola EQ5, right, were designed in collaboration with JBL, and each support the A2DP stereo Bluetooth profile and the AVRCP wireless control profile, and run on battery power for total flexibility.
Hot on the heals of the Sony CMT-Z100iR comes another iPod dock with the same slot-loading CD drive and slightly-relaxed-obelisk styling. The Sony CMT-LX30-iR is a more compact speaker dock, but still offers USB playback, MP3 CD support, an FM/AM tuner, line-in and quick CD to USB sync.
When is a Bluetooth speakerphone not a Bluetooth speakerphone? When it’s also a wireless GPS puck. Hey, we’re a gadget site not a comedy club. The Bluepeaker is intended for car use, and consists of a hands-free speakerphone, wireless music speaker and GPS receiver for navigation, all running on battery power.
French audio firm Focal have announced a new iPod dock and speaker set, the Focal XS, intended to bring studio-monitor level sound quality to your desktop. The Focal XS 2.1 Premium setup consists of the company’s slender-necked stereo speakers and a 70W subwoofer.
In the second of our HTC Touch hands-on pieces, we’re looking at the HTC Touch Pro2. SlashGear met up with HTC’s Dave Catt and Eric Lin at Mobile World Congress today, to find out exactly what makes this QWERTY flagship so impressive. After the cut, the fruits of our interview, a huge hands-on gallery and, as soon as it’s processed, live video of the HTC Touch Pro2.
Update: Video now added – and in HD!
TenonDesign has a $8.00 gimmick promises to give your iPhone 3G a little boost in sound department, and how’s that work? The SoundClip, according to the manufacturer, is a passive sound enchancer, makes out of a much cheaper plastic material to cut cost, fabricates to a tuned conical deflection chamber that directs sound from iPhone toward you.
Along the way, it intensify your iPhone audio by 10dB with signal in between 6kHz and 20kHz, but that’s not all for $8 buck a pop goody. Iphone gaming in landscape mode proven to be difficult on the sound output, as you hands are blocking the ports while engaging in the game, having the Soundclip in place would prevent such incident. Interested? It’s only $8, and you can get one now from the web site here.
Speaker-docks for Apple’s iPod range are big business, but users are expecting more than just music out of their audio accessories, they want video too. Logic3’s i-Station 25 and i-Station Rotate both offer audio playback, but also tackle video playback too, though in slightly different ways. The 25 takes a simple approach, rocking onto its side for widescreen video from your iPod touch or iPhone; meanwhile the Rotate is more advanced, with a swivelling cradle section that rotates 90-degrees.
Full specifications and Unboxing Video after the cut
We’ve all been there, tirelessly slicing through sheet after sheet of paper and nothing but the hum of the blade and our own thoughts to entertain us. Happily there’s salvation at hand – and at a bargain price, too – in the shape of the Fiskars Rock Paper Trimmer: a rotary trimmer with built-in speakers and a cradle for your MP3 player.
There are great presents, and then there are truly awesome presents: this home-built vacuum tube iPod amplifier and speakers falls most definitely into the latter category. Given to Peter Redmer by his engineer father, the setup consists of a quad-tube custom amp in a hand-made wood and copper chassis, together with a pair of custom black lacquer speakers.
Klipsch Audio has announced three affordable 5.1 surround-sound speaker systems, designed primarily for high-end PC multimedia system to entry-level Home Theater entertainment. Unlike their much-advanced Home theater lineup, the new members are reasonably priced but still offering high performance feature such as its heritage horn technology with a MicroTractrix 0.75-inch aluminum dome tweeter; units are compact in size but big in sound with complement subwoofer and powerful digital hybrid/ digital class D amplifier.
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