When the best of the best is merged into one amazing communication and media device, this is the outcome. Record videos with the built-in spy camera and and watch them on the beautiful 1.5 inch touchscreen, listen to your favorite songs directly from the audio player, or use the calendar, alarm and to-do list functions to keep your day organized. If you’re not already convinced, here are some more reasons to choose the Terminal:

One for the ages: With a strong stainless steel and weatherproof frame, the Terminal will last for years to come. Rain or shine, this amazing watch will be fully functional no matter where you go.
One phone, three choices: Make and receive calls directly from the watch phone itself with its built-in MIC and speaker, use the wired headest, or the wireless Bluetooth headset.
Jack of all trades: Digital watch, spy camera, FM radio, mobile phone, media player and much more. Why carry around 5 different gadgets for 5 different reasons when the Terminal is at hand every second and does it all?
Multiple call options: Control who gets through and who doesn’t with the Terminal’s extensive caller settings. Functions include caller ID, call waiting, call divert, call barring, black list and much more.
Clear input: The Terminal comes with a highly accurate touch screen and stylus hidden in the wrist strap to provide speedy and reliable input. If that’s not enough, switch to handwriting mode!
Stay connected: The Terminal’s quad-band network allows you to stay in touch from almost anywhere in the world. Heading to a foreign country? Not a problem, just buy a SIM card there and place it into your watch phone and you’ll enjoy the same great service as you did back home.

At a Glance…

• Watch, cell Phone, video camera and media player all in one
• Easy-to-use and responsive touch screen function for smooth navigating
• Full screen ciew – crystal clear viewing with our cinematic full-screen mode
• Wide range of caller options and voice mail capability
• Set ringtones and pictures for each individual caller or a whole group
• Quad band (850MHz, 900MHz, 1800MHz, 1900MHz) unlocked cellphone

This Cell Phone works with the following GSM Frequencies:

Please check that the local cell network matches the phone’s GSM standard.

Click here to view frequencies for all major worldwide cell phone networks.

Manufacturer Specifications

• Built-in 1.5 inch samsung TFT 260k color touch screen
• Handwriting: English, Chinese, and numbers (with speed and pen color options)
• Memory: 1G Micro SD card included, supports up to 4GB
• Message Types: SMS, MMS, Voicemail Server, Chat
  -SMS = Text messaging (300 message storage)
  -MMS = Picture messaging, Video messaging, Audio Messaging (200 message storage)
• Supports GPRS and WAP
• Bluetooth: YES
• Bluetooth Profiles: Handsfree, Headset, A2DP, SPP, DUN, OPP, FTP, AVRCP_T, SAP, FAX, HID, Remote Control
• Included Bluetooth Headset:
  -Description: Stereo Bluetooth Headset with Clip
  -Support: Version 1.2, Class 2 (10 Meters)
• Call Setting Options: Call Waiting, Caller ID, Call Divert, Call Barring, Auto Redial, Closed User Group, Black List
• Security Setting Options: Phone Lock, Auto Keypad Lock, SIM Lock, Fixed Dial, Barred Dial
• Phonebook Features:
  -500 Contact Storage
  -Caller Picture
  -Caller Ringtone
  -Caller Group
• Languages: English, Chinese, French, Spanish, Indonesian, Italian, Russian, German, Arabic
• Battery Type: Rechargeable Li-ion
• Battery Life:
  -Talk Time: Up to 3 hours
  -Media Playback: Up to 6 hours
  -Stand By: Up to 150 hours (depending on settings)
• Dimensions: 62mm x 51mm x 17mm (L x D x W) Watch Face, 190mm Max Wrist Circumference, 260mm with clasp open

Multimedia

• Photo Camera
  -1.3 Mega pixel
  -Capture Format: JPEG
  -Quality: Low, Medium, High
  -Resolution: 640×480、320×240、160×120、128×128、80×60
  -Picture Settings: Quality, Timer, Continuous Shot, Zoom, Color Effect, EV, White Balance
• Video Camera
  -Capture Format: AVI
  -Resolution: 176×144
  -Picture Settings: Quality, Zoom, Color Effect, EV, White Balance
• FM Radio: YES
• Radio Features: Loudspeaker, Favorites, Use earphones as antenna
• Video Player: YES – AVI, 3GP
• Audio Player: YES – MP3, WMA, WAV, AMR
• Sound Recorder: YES – AMR, WAV

Product Notes

• Unlocked phone; can be used with any carrier and SIM card
• Stylus Provided for Precise Navigation
• Pre-loaded software tools include; Calendar, Alarm, To-Do List, E-Book Reader, Image Viewer, User Profile Manager, WAP
• Two active world clocks – keep track of time in your home city and favorite travel city (and see it on your wallpaper!)
• Built-in speaker and MIC
• This is a weatherproof model. Can be used in most weather conditions, but should not be soaked in sustained water or submerged.
• All current Bluetooth cell phone profiles are supported
• Alarm Clock special functions include vibration and/or sound options, tone or midi alarms, and multiple day schedule settings
• Great opportunities to also use as spy watch

Package Contents

• Cellphone wrist watch with stylus
• Bluetooth ear set
• Wired earphones with clip and MIC
• x2 Rechargeable li-ion batteries
• USB Wall Power Adapter (100-240v)
• USB Bluetooth Kit Charging Cable
• USB Watch Charging/Data Transfer Cable
• User Manual – English

FAQ – Frequently Asked Questions

• Is the Terminal water proof?
  No, the Terminal is weatherproof, but not waterproof.
• Why is this phone so affordable?
  Because it is coming straight from the factory to you. No “name brand” taxes are included when you buy this OEM direct model.
• How long should I charge the battery before first use?
  Before your first use, charge the battery for at least 12 hours. After that, 2-3 hours are sufficient.
• How can I access the micro SD card?
  The microSD card sits next to the SIM card both of which are accessible by removing the watch battery.

This cool gadget is priced at RM 695 /USD 205. Please drop me a message using the contact page if you are interested to get one or more.

*First come first serve due to limited stocks available

The iPad is a tablet computer developed by Apple Inc. It features multi-touch interaction with print, video, photo, and audio multimedia, internet browsing, and runs most iPhone OS apps. The device has an LED-backlit 9.7-inch (25 cm)color LCD display and uses a virtual keyboard for text input.

This week’s iPad launch brought publishing’s future back to many media minds; we asked two agency thinkers to argue the pros and cons of the device’s potential for reviving a sagging industry. Arguing pro is Hill Holiday’s Greg Winter; con is Hill Holiday’s Ilya Vedrashko.

Pro: It might take time and some tweaks along the way, but yes, the iPad is going to save the publishing industry.

1. Do or die time
Magazines and newspapers have been giving their product away for far too long. Over the past few years we’ve seen newsrooms shrink and magazines and newspapers disappear. And it’s not necessarily because of declining numbers. More people than ever before are reading news, they just don’t pay for it. Consumers get news content online for free. Good journalism should and will cost something. Or it will disappear. And we need good journalism — it’s part of our democracy (but that’s a completely different story). Also, there are tens of thousands of publishing and news jobs at stake today, and there’s nothing like the survival instinct to spur innovation and action.

2. A new business model
In the same way that Apple helped to create a fair and reasonable pricing and distribution structure for the sale of music, they will help figure out how printed content can be sold. With very small distribution costs (eliminating printing and shipping), the iPad offers a new way for publishers to deliver their content to consumers at greatly reduced costs. The New York Times’ metered payment model planned for 2011, announced last week, was no coincidence.

3. Consumer behavior can, will and does change
The way that consumers purchase and interact with music and video has radically changed over the past few years. ITunes revolutionized music and saved the industry from virtual collapse. It also made Napster obsolete. YouTube and Hulu provide viewers with the opportunity to watch content when, where and how they want. It may be a shift for consumers to pay for and download the Wall Street Journal or an issue of Sports Illustrated to the iPad, but it’s completely realistic.

4. Targeted advertising
Here is an outstanding business angle. The iPad offers the opportunity for a metered payment model for newspaper and magazine content. Would a reader pay 25 cents for a Paul Krugman column? It’s not a stretch. It also offers the opportunity for targeted content based on reader profiles and locations. The built-in GPS capability allows for location-specific advertising messages and offers. All politics is local. And maybe all advertising messages will be on the iPad.

5. Enhanced experience
Today, there are basically two ways that we read a newspaper or magazine article. We can read a printed newspaper or magazine hardcopy or we can lean forward into a laptop or desktop and scan. Laptop reading is an active and often clumsy experience if one is laying on the sofa or in bed. At 1.5 lbs, the iPad offers the potential for a more laid-back, passive and natural reading and viewing experience. The actual content — book, newspaper or magazine — can be delivered in an enhanced and more visually compelling way. For example, a book on botany can be visually constrained by the cost of printing a specific number of high-quality pictures. This constraint virtually disappears with an iPad.

6. It’s Apple
If anyone can figure this out, it’s Apple. Apple has attracted some of the world’s top engineers and creative technologists. They have a track record of solving content distribution and payment model problems (iTunes) and creating leap-frog innovations in existing categories (iPhone). With sleek and simple design and the ultimate in usability, Apple can create an entirely new way for people to consume “print” media. We have seen consumer behavior transform very quickly, in a short period of time. And it’s about to happen again.

Con: The iPad is a life-raft at best and isn’t going to save the publishing industry.

For a long time, lifesavers in Russia used to be adorned with a cheerful slogan that could be roughly translated as “saving the drowning man is nobody’s business but his own.”

This sums up about how I feel about the argument that iPad will single-handedly save traditional periodicals. It’s not enough for the publishers to be thrown a life raft; they will also have to figure out how to last for days without water and how to avoid getting eaten by the sharks (or by each other, for that matter). The iPad, with all of the undeniable advantages that Greg mentions, is just a raft. The rest is nobody’s business but the publishers’.

Conventional wisdom has it that the 125 million credit-card carrying iTunes customers who are used to paying money for small bits of content — music, videos, games, apps and, soon, e-books — are an equally willing customer base for newspaper and magazine content delivered electronically. I don’t think they are. I don’t think people will be willing to pay for newspaper articles the same way they pay for everything else in the iTunes Store for two reasons.

One is that unlike music, videos or even apps, there is no existing price anchor for individual articles. With music, if a CD album costs $15, one fifteenth of it should cost about a buck, and it does, and the sales go briskly. If the second season of “Californication” costs about $20 for DVDs on Amazon and $20 for iTunes downloads, then the only the choice consumers have to make is which format fits their lifestyle better.

No such system of reference exists for buying mainstream newspaper content piecemeal. If an entire newspaper costs 50 cents on the newsstand and has 100 articles in it, what is a single article worth to you? Half a cent? Ten cents? A dollar? So each time you want to buy a newspaper article on iTunes, you will have to make this mental calculation.

The other problem with getting people to pay for individual articles is that, unlike music, books, videos, games or even imaginary animals on Farmville, articles have little perceived replay value. You pay a buck for the latest Lady Gaga hit to enjoy it over and over. How often do you expect you will need to refer back to the latest op-ed piece to justify its price?

And if publishers are hoping to find in the iPad a channel to sell new subscriptions, then the story of the music industry should serve as a cautionary tale. The iTunes Store hasn’t really eliminated illegal downloading — even by the most optimistic estimates, there are still as many pirates as there are upright citizens. What really happened, though, is those people who used to pay for and hoard CDs are now paying for and hoarding MP3s, with CD sales predictably on a steep downward slope. Likewise, the most enthusiastic paying subscribers to the iPad version of the New York Times will be the ones who are now getting the actual paper plopped on their front steps every morning.

The real solution to publishers’ woes lies in rethinking the nature of their now largely commoditized product. I don’t know what the successful formula will look like. Maybe what will get people to pay is a curated stream of all important articles on a single topic, regardless of their source. Maybe it will be something else. But whatever it is, it’s up to the publishers to figure out, not Apple.

Source: http://adage.com/digitalnext/article?article_id=141817

MSI is currently working on a new range of touchscreen netbooks that are powered by Intel’s Pine Trail-M platform, where they hope to be released in time for the holiday shopping season later this year. This new line might drop the Wind naming convention since there is no official word from MSI on what they’re called. Expect them to run on Windows 7 by then, and hopefully MSI will be able to release those in larger screen sizes as well for the benefit of the older generation who want to be seen with hip and happening devices.

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Look what landed on my desk: the “satin” silver version of the Dual Shock 3. In theory this controller is simply a color variant of the classic black one. It also exists in red and (metallic) blue. I played with it a little and the button action (expecially the front L/R ones) is smoother than my PS3’s original controller. I guess that they got better at making these, although any conclusion based on playing with two controllers is probably doomed. Anyway, do you like the color?

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By Sean Captain – Samsung introduced two radical new cameras today with nary a word about traditional specs, such as megapixels and zoom lenses. Instead, the story was about features that make it easier to take and share pictures.

“In the age of connected lifestyle, a company cannot get by with selling a box that simply takes pictures,” said the company’s U.S. co-president, Tim Baxter, before showing off the new models.

Self Portraits

First up was the Samsung TL225 “Dual View” camera, which sports a 1.5-inch LCD on the front so that you can frame self-portrait photos. (And the zoom lens that starts at a wide 27mm will allow you to get a few friends in the picture, too.) The screen also displays a “3-2-1″ countdown when you use the timer function, and it even shows animations to capture the attention or babies so they will look at the camera.

Permalink: Samsung TL225 and CL65 Hands-On!

Samsung’s latest SSD device is the 256GB FlashSSD that will target gamers instead of corporate bigwigs this time round. The FlashSSD is tipped to boast a five-fold improvement in data loading time when placed side by side with traditional hard drives, doing its very best without consuming more power at all. The 256GB FlashSSD will be connected via SATA, where one can theoretically achieve maximum sequential read rates of 220MB/s and write rates up to 200MB/s. So far, Samsung has touted a mean time between failure (MTBF) of 1,000,000 hours which is really, really long – long enough for you to migrate to other generations of computing power without faltering. We have not yet heard from Samsung for an official price point for the 256GB FlashSSD.

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The Nokia 5900 XpressMusic first made its whispered rounds in May this year, and chances are this XpressMusic handset could be very real, sharing many features with the Nokia N97 (whether that is fortunate or not depends on how you view the N97, check out our review here). Rumors have it that the 5900 XpressMusic will come with a similar processor and amount of RAM in addition to a 5-megapixel module and 3.5″ touchscreen display as with the Nokia N97. Some rumors have even gone so far as to speculate that the Nokia 5900 XpressMusic might even boast SDXC memory card support. What do you think?

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Netbooks are notorious for their relatively poor battery life, but manufacturers have come up with larger capacity batteries including 9-cells, and the LG X130 is one such netbook to receive this benefit. The 9-cell battery is tipped to last up to 12 hours according to the good people at LG, and it remains to be seen just how this figure was quoted – was it with all the options turned on, some, or none at all over the course of a dozen hours? Needless to say, getting a larger cell battery for your netbook might be good for your productivity in the long run, but that also means your netbook has just grown a hideous hump behind.

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Here’s yet another digital camera from Samsung – the CL65 that will come with a 12.2-megapixel image sensor alongside the added capability of 5x optical zoom. To make it function even better in a networked environment, the CL65 coms with DLNA compatibility, allowing you to make it play nice with a host of home entertainment devices. Bluetooth 2.0 support enables one to send images to other devices in a jiffy without having to worry about tripping over wires lying about, while the Wi-Fi connectivity lets one upload photos from the camera to social networking websites. Folks who travel a lot might also consider the Samsung CL65 since it comes with geotagging capability and an integrated GPS sensor. Expect Samsung to release the CL65 later this September for $400 a pop.

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Samsung’s latest DualView TL225 digital camera will come with the following functions to suit the entry level point-and-shoot market, including a 12.2-megapixel sensor, a touch-sensitive front display that could potentially turn the shutter button obsolete if it catches on, haptic feedback, a Schneider-Kreuznach lenses with 4.6x optical zoom, digital image stabilization and the ability to handle 720p video recording for posterity. Expect the TL225 and TL220 to retail for $350 and $300, respectively, when they are launched later this September.

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