Philips GoGear SA6185

One of the latest Philips products is Philips GoGear SA6185 multimedia player. This media player is capable of playing videos, music, radio and voice recording. Also pictures can be viewed on it. The version we tested has been equipped with an 8GB internal memory, has a weight of 153 grams and is black. Philips GoGear media player is packed in a plastic package that nicely shows the device.

Included in the package, besides Philips GoGear SA6185, we found a software CD, a quick guide in eight languages, earplugs and a USB cable for recharging the media player and for transferring files. The GoGear media player has been equipped with a 3.5 inch LCD monitor with QVGA resolution of 320 x 240 pixels in 65.000 colors. Philips GoGear is just over one centimeter thick and a tad bigger than a hand sized media player.

Next to the large monitor on the front of the media player, some buttons are positioned. The menu button that lets you return to the main menu at all times, and the navigation buttons with the on and off button in the center that also serves as play and pause button. Furthermore we find two integrated speakers on the front. The bottom side carries a button to lock the GoGear. On the topside the volume button is placed for adjusting the volume and the button on the right side of the device lets you go directly to the playlist.

Sony Ericsson Satio

The ultimate multimedia experience with the new Sony Ericsson Satio multimedia mobile phone. Feast your eyes on movies, TV series’ and video clips thanks to the 3.5 inch screen and crystal clear 16:9 wide screen format just like watching them live. A friend pulling a funny pose? Snap them with the amazing 12.1 megapixel digital camera and share the picture with friends.

Sony Ericsson announced Satio which provides you access to all your media in one place just tap directly into your favorite features with the five standby panels and you're ready to go. First introduced in Barcelona as the ‘Sony Ericsson Idou', Satio puts the future of mobile entertainment in the palm of your hand. You can watch your favorite movies on the bus or catch up with your TV shows while on your lunch break thanks to Satio.

Download exciting music, movies and games from Sony Ericsson PlayNow arena to personalise your entertainment experience on Sony Ericsson Satio and enjoy them in crystal clear 16:9 wide screen format. The Sony Ericsson PlayNow arena provides a full range of mobile entertainment available by dual download to both your Personal Computer and mobile phone with specially developed ring tones and music tones and DRM-free music tracks and TrackID charts from around the world.

Sony Ericsson Satio features

• Visual communication like never before
• True 16:9, 3.5 inch wide screen feast your eyes on movies
• Express yourself through images 12.1 megapixel camera
• Intuitive touch focus, Xenon flash and face and smile detection
• Web albums with messages talk through pictures and share info
• Intuitive full touch media menu tap into your favorites, from web pages
• Symbian Foundation operating system 1000+ applications available online
• Music player play your tunes loud and proud
  

Sony Ericsson Satio technical specifications

• Size : 112 x 55 x 13.3 mm
• Weight : 126 grams
• Colors : Black, Silver and Bordeaux
• Main screen : 16.777.216 color nHD TFT
• 16:9 wide screen
• Resolution : 640 x 360 pixels
• Size : 3.5 inches
• Cell phone memory : 128 MB
• Memory Card Support : SanDisk microSD
  

Sony Ericsson Satio mobile phone supports GSM / GPRS / EDGE 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 and UMTS / HSDPA 850 / 900 / 2100. Sony Ericsson Satio multimedia phone will be available in selected markets from early Q4 in the colors Black, Silver and Bordeaux. As soon as we receive a Sony Ericsson Satio test sample, we will publish a photo gallery with high resolution pictures, followed by an extended Sony Ericsson Satio review.

Plustek BookReader V100

Plustek BookReader V100, which comes with a one year parts and labor warranty, is a niche product. Plustek BookReader V100 says it's aimed primarily at libraries and other institutional users that may find it helpful to convert printed books into audiobooks, particularly for the benefit of the visually impaired. It could also see it being of great interest to someone with, say, macular degeneration, which leaves sufferers with peripheral vision only and makes reading difficult or impossible.

But what Plustek BookReader V100 doesn't do is convert printed books to audio so easily that it's worth doing yourself just so you can, say, listen to books while driving. In reality, Plustek BookReader V100 is a conventional book scanner (more on that in a moment) paired with optical character recognition (OCR) software to turn scanned images into text and text to speech (TTS) software to turn the text into audio. None of these technologies are new or even unusual. OCR software comes with most scanners, and TTS software has been around longer than Windows.

Panasonic Pro AG-HMC150

The cooler than cool Panasonic Pro AG-HMC150 drew big crowds at the 2008 NAB Show. Why? Simply because it offers an unheard of Bang for the Buck, in a 1/3 inch three chip hand held tapeless HD camcorder, while retaining the core versatility of the DVX100B. Panasonic Pro AG-HMC150 sports a 28mm lens right out of the box and a new PH Record mode (21 Mbps) which offers higher resolution with a host of recording formats including 24p.

Add to that, amazing low light performance, long record and battery time and professional Audio capabilities at a price that will make it an instant hit with a wide range of AV Shooters, Indie creators and Event video professionals. Panasonic Pro AG-HMC150 represents a major step forward in the introduction of a next generation solid state HD camera that extends the six year successful track record of the popular DVX100 plus a lot more.