Tag Archive for 'wifi'
WowWee’s Rovio remote surveillance robot, announced at CES 2008, has finally shown up for pre-order in the US. Previously an exclusive with UK-based retailer Red5, the WiFi-enabled mobile webcam platform is now listed at Hammacher Schlemmer (although, as usual, not by brand name) with a pre-order tag of $299. Ship date is given as September 26th.
Velocity Mobile were a surprise introduction to the Windows Mobile smartphone industry at CTIA back in April, and many assumed the company’s 103 and 111 handsets would never get beyond the drawing board. We met with Velocity this week, however, and found that rather than fading quietly away, the company is planning even more of [...]
Nokia had the usual array of handsets out at CTIA this week, but of particular interest were two new N-series devices announced last month. The N79 and N85 are a candybar and slider respectively, and both feature a 5-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and a dual-LED flash, HSDPA and WiFi.
Microsoft have come clean about their Zune PMP refresh, after details of the blue 8GB flash-based version was accidentally pre-announced on Fry’s website. As expected, both the flash and HDD based Zunes will get more capacity, with a 16GB version of the former and a 120GB version of the latter.
However significant changes have also been [...]
Sony have announced a new digital photo frame with built-in WiFi b/g networking, the VAIO VGF-CP1U. Centered around a 7-inch 800 x 480 display, the CP1U has 128MB of internal memory as well as a memory card reader compatible with Memory Stick, SD and CF and a USB port. While obviously useful for showing digital [...]
Navigon, TomTom and others are doing their best to make the on-screen view of your GPS look as much as possible as real-life, but if you really want realism why not just look outside? That’s the approach Blaupunkt are taking with their new Travel Pilot systems: a video camera on the back of the GPS [...]
Logitech have introduced the Squeezebox Boom, in effect the company’s Squeezebox network music player with built-in amplification and speakers. Setup is straightforward - plug into the mains, enter your WiFi password - and then you have the pleasure of bi-amped 3-inch woofers and 3/4-inch tweeters (with a 24-bit Burr Brown D/A converter behind the scenes) to enjoy [...]
A clutch of new digital photo frames from Samsung today, and the company gets partial-kudos for giving at least some of them WiFi. Two 8-inch 800 x 600 frames, the SPF-85H and SPF-85V, and two 10-inch 1024 x 600 frames, the SPF-105P and SPF-105V, are available, although the ‘V’ versions have WiFi b/g. Each can load [...]
Revo’s Pico RadioStation is still not much use to anyone outside of a DAB service area who wants to listen to digital radio, but the company has included WiFi in this latest model. That means access to hundreds of internet radio stations, and since there’s an FM radio in there as well you can tune [...]
WiFi is great until you start reaching the fringes of your router’s range, at which point throughput slows to a trickle and you start dreaming of nice, reliable ethernet cables. Happily there’s an alternative to snaking CAT-5 around your skirting boards; Open-Mesh makes Mini-Routers that, when plugged in and registered, automatically create a mesh-network and thus [...]
