January 17th, 2008 by toys
Logitech Shows Mini Wireless Keyboard for TVs
from PCWorld
LAS VEGAS — Logitech plans to show off at the Consumer Electronics Show here a mini-keyboard that controls a person’s PC wirelessly from the comforts of their family room sofa.
The handheld QWERTY keyboard, called the diNovo Mini keyboard, is designed for people who have connected their PCs to their TVs, allowing them to access photos, videos and other content on the PCs as well as navigate the Web and watch downloaded shows on their TV, the company said.
The mini-keyboard uses Bluetooth 2.0 wireless technology to control PC functions and includes hotkeys for media players and Web browsers, as well as page-up and page-down buttons that allow people to scroll when surfing the Web and zoom in and out of documents and images. Bluetooth has a range of around 30-feet from the PC, Logitech said.
The device also incorporates ClickPad, a round, thumb-sized pad for use in pointing, scrolling or clicking on a Web link. It can also be used as a media remote and a directional pad to navigate menus and make selections. The ClickPad is backlit in orange when in touch-pad mode, and green when it is in media-remote mode.
The keyboard keys are always backlit in orange to keep the device on the eyes.
The diNovo Mini keyboard is expected to go on sale in the U.S. and Europe in late January for US$149.99.
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January 13th, 2008 by toys
So I am thinking about getting one of these one day…
Overview
The Pantech Duo is a Windows Mobile® 6 double slider phone. It features a 12-key numeric keypad and a QWERTY keyboard inside one impressively compact design. Stay in touch with email, Instant Messaging, plus Picture and Video messaging. Edit Microsoft Word®, or Excel® files and view PowerPoint® files with Microsoft® Office Mobile. Enjoy Music and Cellular Video capabilities at 3G broadband speeds. Utilize simultaneous voice and data–browse the web and talk at the same time. With the Duo’s dual slider keypads and cool convertible design, it’s nothing like you have ever seen!
anyone have anything good or bad to say about use of this as a phone?
It looks good on paper, but I know how that goes sometimes.
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December 6th, 2007 by toys
I must have one of these phones! At least from the way it looks online, and the features it has is seems perfect. I want something like the iphone, but I want it with palm os, not windows or mac. Is this palm centro perfect? Maybe, but from what I can tell it is stuck on the sprint network, and I want to have it on the At&t network. Will unlocked models of this palm centro be available like the few that have been unlocked from other carriers like the iphone?
I can hope…
Life starts after five o’clock. That’s why there’s the Palm® Centroâ„¢ smartphone. Palm Centro gives you voice, text, IM, email and web,1 all in a phone that’s a lot smaller than you think. It even has a touchscreen and a full keyboard, so you can say L8R to those tricky keys on your cell phone. Carry names and numbers, shoot photos and video, and meet up with friends. Centro. Let’s go.
See the cool features in flash animation at the palm store.
By the time you read this, you may have to click on smart phones or something at palm to see it. As of this writings it on the front page, but with electronics we all know how that goes.
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September 10th, 2007 by toys
This is pretty neat.. I look forward to them becoming smaller with less space around the images.. should be some really need varieties of this kind of digital picture viewer coming out soon I hope! I do not think the price is outrageous. I think there could be bluetooth options added for beaming cell phone pics and the like – that would be cool...
From Reuters blog posts
This Heart-shaped Digital Picture Frame Necklace isn’t the most exciting of gadgets but if you’re in to pink gadgets and hearts, then you might appreciate it. The necklace works as a personal photo viewer that can display JPEG, BMP, PNG and GIF files which you can transfer off of your computer via a USB connection. The necklace retails for a steep $34.99.
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July 29th, 2007 by toys
Next on the toys wishlist is the next generation palm device. I imagine the next palm device will be incredible. The organizers that palm has made over the years have been excellent, and I would imagine that soon there will be a new palm device that includes features that people are enjoying with the new iphone.
as suggested from palm addicts .typepad:
The virtual keyboard is great and very easy to learn as I have been practicing on my TX with my finger rather than the stylus. Any Palm user can easily adapt to the iPhone. BUT it is a closed unit to which almost nothing can be added. I would not give up my Palm TX for it. Apple has shown the way for a phone without a hard keyboard. Now if Palm will only wake up and stick a cell phone and camera in a TX, it would have a real winner!
I would love to see a new palm device come out that includes a camera, high capacity SD storage, and the ability to run programs in old palm OS modes. That would bring a lot of software forward into a new device with more capability. I would also like to see a phone based model that could run on any network, with easily updated. Verizon has a new wifi – at home free phone thing going on right now doesn’t it? The ability to download and play flash apps that could connect with youtube like services would be neat as well.
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