When it comes to portable video players, you are going to be amazed with the breathtaking mastodon, Archos 705 WiFi. If you have no problem with the size of your gadget, you can go for Archos 705 WiFi, as this device is available with loads of entertainment in sturdy design and priced at only $499 for 160GB.

The 7-inch widescreen display of Archos 705 WiFi is considered an intimidating and metal-clad gadget, which is useful for clubbing assailants and playing videos. Face of the device is devoid of any button. It relies mainly on the touch screen for taking care of everything. Power adapter input, buttons for power & TV output and Headphone output are located on its left. Bottom edge is packed with many ports for USB hosting and USB transfer. Again, there’s a proprietary jack that can be used for accessories including battery extender, DVR Station and FM receiver.

Packed within the 705 giant metal husk of Archos 705 WiFi, there are music players, video players, photo viewers, PDF readers, Wi-Fi video rental portals and optional web browsers (Opera). Again, you can also find optional widgets including games, weather reports and many more.

Apart from the large screen of Archos 705 WiFi, it has an inbuilt TV output, excellent QWERTY keypad remote control, USB hosting (transferring media from digital cameras and external drives), inbuilt stereo speaker and replaceable battery.

Archos 705 WiFi is a portable video player. The device doesn’t frustrate when it comes to playing back movies. It has the capability of playing AVI, WMV, DIVX and MPEG4 video files. For a little over $20, you can purchase a plug-in of H.264 video playback along with a separate one for VOB/MPEG2 video playback. Once you are actually playing the video, you have the option of bookmarking, resizing and skipping through the movie with simplicity.

Apple iPod Nano 8GB is more colorful in comparison to the previous model of iPod. This is another genius creation from Apple. It also includes accessibility features for visually impaired, music, videos, new tilt sensors, podcast playbacks, calendars, games, alarm, stopwatch, clocks and notes.

Special features of Apple iPod Nano 8GB

Design

Apple iPod Nano 8GB is attractive and available in nine distinct colors. The metal-build body of the device is light and thin. A curved glass covers the screen, which is reflective and glossy, of the player.

Share Photos

Apple iPod Nano 8GB helps you in sharing several photos irrespective of your location. You can even have the option of having the portrait or landscape view of the pictures in your device.

Easy tracking of your favorite numbers

The interface of Apple iPod Nano 8GB is excellent. The device allows the task of finding the list of your favorite songs quite easy. You even have the option of seeing the album art in Cover Flow. By pressing and holding its center button, you can browse the songs by your favorite artist or album. After coming across the one, which you wish to hear, you need to select the song by pressing the center button. This will help you in adding the same to your ongoing playlist.

Games

Apple iPod Nano 8GB is available with all the games, which have been devised especially for iPod Nanos and accelerometer. The thinking behind these games has made many users addictive to them and you are sure to have a blast too. In case your favorite game is not there, you can download from a collection of thousands in the iTune stores.

Movies & TV shows

You’ll find it fun and exciting in watching TV Shows and movies on your new Apple iPod Nano 8GB. The picture visible on the screen appears lifelike and crisp, as the device has a high-resolution 2-inch display.

Get your hands on this amazing offering from Apple. There is no doubt that Apple iPod Nano 8GB is filled with exciting features, which you always wished for!

One of the most popular tools in the world of photography today is Nikon D3. This camera is recognized for its uncompromised versatility and extraordinary speed.

Nikon D3 has a 12.1-megapixel FX format, which ill allow you in capturing astonishing images. They will have the needed extra crispness along with reduced noises, common to modern tools, in spite of being loaded with a higher ISO. D3 has the ability of shooting up to 9-frames in every second consecutively. Such a speed is excellent for photographers, who love capturing sports and fast action in their camera.

With the advanced noise-reduction technology used in Nikon D3, it gives photographers the freedom for choosing ISO range in between 200-6400. It has an extended range that includes Hi-1 (12,800 ISO), Hi-2 (25,600 ISO) and Lo-1 (100 ISO). EXPEED, a new image processing system from Nikon, provides advanced image quality and blazing processing speed.

In Nikon D3, photographers have the option of choosing from 2-bit depths: 12-bit and 14-bit. Both of them bring out excellent image quality, which is induced through D3’s 16-bit processing pipeline. Wide-angled viewing of the 920,000-dot, 3-inch super density and VGA monitor of Nikon D3 provides you with clean and crisp images. Display of D3 is being protected by tempered-glass protection. The improved 3D-color Matrix Metering II and 1,005-pixel provides intelligent capabilities of auto exposure. It also provides smarter auto-white balance detection and has an accurate AF performance.

Super density LCD color monitor of Nikon has teamed with the innovative Virtual Electron Horizon of the company and is delivering accurate and instant confirmation to the position of D3 with relation to the ‘horizon level’.

At an affordable range, Nikon D3 is worth having your hands on, as it will help you prosper considerably in the world of fashion!

HTC Touch Pro is amongst the popular smart phones in the current market. HTC has gone another step closer towards perfection with an addition of a complete 5-row QWERTY keyboard.

When you’ll purchase your HTC Touch Pro, you are going to get a phone, AC charger, 1GB Micro SD-card along with case, extra stylus, wired stereo headset, USB data cable, belt holster, micro-USB headphone adapter and screen protector. It’s slightly thicker than other HTC models, at 4.17×2.05×7 inches. However, it’s considerably light at 5.3 ounces including the battery. Display is 2.8-inch in side and is a TFT-LCD VGA touch screen from Touch Diamond.

Keyboard of HTC Touch Pro has been laid out perfectly. It has designated number keys, which do not make it have a crowded feel. Enter & Shift keys are twice in width to others, which make easy to locate and at the same time, it has shortcuts for messaging applications.

HTC Touch Pro also offers a 3.2MP camera, which can also record video. Taking picture is simple with its auto-focus and inbuilt flash. However, there is no shortcut key dedicated to camera. It’s an option in the 3D user-interface. Touch Pro has the capability of taking panoramic photos virtually seamless. Its videos are also of high quality when compared to other HTC smart phones.

HTC Touch Pro has been loaded with several pre-installed applications. They include Windows Live Messenger and Opera & IE browser. Apart from that, it also supports AOL, Yahoo and Windows Live Messenger. It is also provided with Word Mobile, Excel Mobile, PowerPoint Mobile, JETCET PRINT 5, YouTube, Adobe Reader LE, Live Search, OneNote Mobile and RSS Hub. Unfortunately, its processor doesn’t seem compatible to Windows Mobile 6.1 Pro. Generally, scrolling is choppy with rough animations. TouchFLO 3D didn’t performed according to its potential.

At $299.99, it is a wonderful offering from HTC and you should not miss it!

Blackberry Bold is considered the top BlackBerry released in the market till date. Fundamentally, the phone works similar to other BlackBerry, but has several small-to-medium tweaks, improvements and updates. These modifications have given a richer and more refined option in Blackberry.

Screen

Dazzling screen (480×320) of Blackberry Bold is enough for receiving praises from the critics. Its incredibly rich appearance and stunning pixel density will make you develop a desire to touch it.

Keyboard

BlackBerry phones live and die on their keyboard. After you will get accustomed to the slight angle shift of the keys in Blackberry Bold, it’s going to be a fantastic experience. Its glossy navigation keys are large and make typing comfortable. You might even find its backlighting impressive.

Body

When it comes to the body, with Blackberry Bold you have your hands on an incredibly modern business device. This smart phone exudes power. The body is large and wide, but still feels perfect in hand. However, its faux-leather backing is puzzling. Although its solid, you might not like its presence on your Bold.

Connections

Blackberry Bold is inclusive of Wi-Fi, 3G and GPS. Its powerful network feature will help you in getting full network in most areas. Although GPS delivers a slow performance than expected, especially in map apps, but it will do. On AT&T, it immediately serves as a decent Navigator App.

Battery

Battery Life of Blackberry gold is impressive. With half charge after taking out from the box, you will find it to work for 8 hours in spite of going through considerable 3G browsing, emailing and usage of other everyday applications use.

Media

Watching videos on your Blackberry Bold is amazing, in spite of its Roxie-powered desktop player not being impressive. Its external speaker is good delivering richer sound than most other.

OS

The 624 MHz Processor of Blackberry Bold allows its OS operates smoothly. The BlackBerry OS is pretty. If you’ve been an old user of its phones, you might have little problem in getting around. Again, with little or no knowledge too, it’s easy to get acquainted with in no time.

For Blackberry fanatics, Blackberry Bold at $299 is a treat not to be missed out on!

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Sony Ericsson’s Experia is a mixed bag when it comes to smart phones released in 2008. For each good feature it possesses, you might come across a detracting one too.

From hardware viewpoint, Experia is well built and has an extremely solid feel. However, it is not amongst the slimmest or lightest phone in the market. Its 256 MB RAM and 528 MHz has given the phone adequate horsepower for operating smoothly.

VGA screen (800×400) of Experia is quite beautiful. Anyone can get impressed, especially considering that it is packed in 2.8-inch screen. Appearance of images and videos are sharp, bright and vibrant.  However, of all the hardware, you are sure to get impressed with its keyboard. Keys have been well spaced and are quite responsive, which will help you in removing typing errors. It has also been provided with an optical sensor stuck. It allows you to flick your thumb over the surface, which will help you in scrolling up & down and side-side.

In terms of software, USP of Xperia is the custom panel interfaces that vary from media player interface, distinct types of home screens and a Google-oriented screen. When selected, they serve as the default screen on the phone and every other navigation trackback to the panel. Theoretically, it’s a good concept, but may fail to serve the purpose of the modern world. Media Player is the standout in Experia. Sony Ericsson has taken designing cues from PS3 and PSP for creating an appealing and functional interface. Its media player features is clean and streamlined along with large buttons and icons, which work well even in the absence of a stylus.

Call clarity and signal strength of Experia are good. However, its screen could have been better, as you will find it difficult in identifying missed call, dialed call or received call at once. Battery life of the phone is great, as you’ll be able to make calls, surf the web and play video files at moderate level for 2-3 days without charging. Its 3.2MP camera has good sensors giving clear photos and has touch screen taps for auto focusing on specific objects. However, its slow shutter detracts the camera experience.

At $800, Sony Ericsson’s Experia has a lot to offer to you, if you can overlook all its minor drawbacks.

The cool new gadget which makes you crazy is the virtual laser keyboard. This revolutionary accessory is of the size of a zip lighter with a leather jacket. Once turned on, the device can virtually create a full size operating QWERTY keyboard on any flat surface. It is important that the surface on which you project the keyboard should be flat without projections greater than 2mm. You can seamlessly connect this keyboard to PDA, MAC, Tablet PC, smartphone, Nokia and Blackberry phones.

The laser keyboard virtually created can be used just like an ordinary keyboard. When you hit the keys, you will hear natural tapping sound as well. A new direction technology works based on optical recognition technique to identify and reproduce the keys you have just typed using the virtual keyboard.

The size of the virtual keyboard is less than a small cell phone. You can now use smart office mobiles along with the virtual keyboard to do all your office work at any place. The virtual QWERTY keyboard can be used to type official text, emails and much more. You no more have to struggle with the small keyboards on handheld devices as you can create a full size QWERTY keyboard virtually. Just for doing some typing work, you don’t have to carry your laptop as you can do that with your handheld device and virtual laser keyboard.

The sound produced from the keyboard is controllable and you can turn it off if you feel it is disturbing. Suitable ports are provided with the gadget to connect to any handheld device. The device can be connected to laptops and mobile phones using Bluetooth. The battery associated with the gadget allows you to type continuously for 120 minutes. You can type upto 400 characters per minute, meaning that you don’t have to compromise your typing speed on account of using laser virtual keyboard.

iPhone 3G introduced by Apple,  is the hot gadget of the year after their success with iPod nano. It is best selling gadget around the world today. Apple iPhone is available in two models 8 GB (Color: Black) and 16 GB model (Color white and black)

What is new with iPhone ?

3G speed : 3G technology gives iPhone fast internet access. Iphone uses HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) to download data fast over UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) networks. You can even talk and browse or read your email or see the maps.

Maps: iPhone 3G comes with built in Maps with GPS ( Global positioning system ). Get directions, see traffic and just like Google maps, In Iphone also you can view satellite view, hybrid view or street view.

Other features: You can browse and download games directly to your iPhone.Best email on mobile device, calender, contacts, desktop class web browsing, enterprise applications and more smarter phone features.

Technical specifications for iPhone:

Size and weight:

Height:   4.5 inches (115.5 mm)
Width:    2.4 inches (62.1 mm)
Depth:    0.48 inch (12.3 mm)
Weight:   4.7 ounces (133 grams)

Capacity:

8 or 16 GB Flash drive

Cellular and wireless:
- Bluetooth
- Wifi (802.11b/g)
- GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)
- UMTS/HSDPA (850, 1900, 2100 MHz)

GPS:
- Assisted GPS

Camera and Video
- 2.0 MP camera
- Video formats supported H.264 video

Language Support:
- iPhone supports most of the international languages and dictionary

Display
- 3.5-inch (diagonal) widescreen Multi-Touch display
- 480-by-320-pixel resolution at 163 ppi
- Support for display of multiple languages and characters simultaneously

Audio and head phones:
- Audio formats supported: AAC, Protected AAC, MP3, MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV
- Stereo earphones with built-in microphone

Power and Battery:
- Built in rechargable lithium ion battery
- Charging via computer USB or power adapter
- Talk to upto: 5 Hours on 3G and 10 Hours on 2G

iPhones cool features:

- Brilliant design

- Fast internet browsing

- Good media player

- Touch screen and wide display

If you want to create a digital library with all the media files you have, you will find Neuros OSD media recorder helpful. Irrespective of the format of your media files, this recorder can create an archive of portable files in the latest standard formats. You can create a digital library from DVDs, VCDs, online downloads, cameras and even VHS tapes. The video and audio are encoded by Neuros OSD media recorder for playback using most of the portable devices.

All the files in different formats are converted into desired format such as MPEG4 which is supported by gadgets like laptops, iPods, PSP, Smartphones, and iPhones. The digital photos that you have in your digital camera can also be converted into dimensions that suit mobile phones. Using the same Neuros OSD media recorder, you can create a digital photo album as well.

The Neuros OSD media recorder can be used with any gadget. You have to just plug in the device and play the file you want to duplicate. The digital library will be created instantly and you can watch your favorite old and new movies using the same gadget. To record and backup a movie running on your TV, just connect the hardware to your TV to record the movie in portable format.

Neuros OSD media recorder runs on opensource firmware and provides lots of options for recording. You can store and play the files using media cards and the best thing is you can also use USB hard drive to extract the recorded files. Using the recorder hardware, you can playback different formats such as MP4, AVI, ASF and much more on your television. There is a time recording feature that allows you to schedule the recordings. The collection of YouTube videos is now available on your TV and you can build a list of your favorite videos using Neuros OSD media recorder.