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Much awaited Garmin-Asus nüvifone M20 with a car dock and quality GPS software is finally here, a phone visualizes a world of difference. This never before handset powered by Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional comes with exceptional entertainment combination of a 2.8″ TFT touch screen, QWERTY keyboard , built-in microphone & speakers with 4/8 Gb storage, Microsoft Office , ActiveSync for Outlook, push email and multi-media synchronization. It also features a VGA display that brings video or photos into action and a 3 megapixel camera that geotags every shot automatically. This GSM phone is packed with all the connectivity one could wish for comes with HSDPA, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi that helps to connect to something on your travels. Nuvifone offers a desktop-style web browsing with internet speed up to 7.2 Mbps. Even if there is no mobile network available, the nüvifone still navigates like a standalone portable GPS device providing the level of sophistication. A microSD slot can store 1GB of preloaded Garmin map data and Garmin sat nav comes with the points of interest (POIs) showing hotels, stores and more for Eastern & Western Europe or other regions. The device gives voice prompted turn-by-turn directions and automatically recalculates a turn missed along the way. The other features expand to offer White Pages, real-time traffic information, weather, flight status and movie times. The sleek and colorful nüvifone M20 is designed to take the busy work and personal lives of a fashionable on-the-go professional.

Semiconductor giant Intel has recently released its latest line of quad-core processors, the “Lynnfield” Core i7 and the Core i5. Launched on Intel’s ‘cheaper’ mainstream socket the LGA-1156 rather than the more expensive LGA-1366 like the “Bloomfield” i7s, these processors have been priced with value in mind and takes Intel’s price-point rivalry with AMD’s Phenom II quad-core processors to a whole new level. The initial Lynnfield line is based on 45nm wafer manufacturing technology and consists of two flavors, the Core i7: 870 rated at 2.93GHZ, 860 rated at 2.80GHZ and the Core i5: 750 rated at 2.66GHZ and costing $562, $284 and $196 respectively. The main difference between the two apart from the clock speed is the lack of hyper-threading in the Core i5 processor. This has merely been done to limit its performance compare to its bigger brothers and hence justify their higher cost. The main star among these three is the Core i5: 750. Yes, it’s a crippled version of the new Lynnfield Core i7 but priced much lower at only $196, which is amazing value for a high performance quad-core processor. Its main competitor is the AMD’s Phenom II x4 965 BE which is priced at around $50 more and yet the 750 manages to out-shine it in almost every application, game and benchmark making it exceptionally good value for the money and arguably the best bang-for-buck processor, yet.

Grand Theft Auto IV is the ninth game in the Grand Theft Auto (GTA) series. GTA: San Andreas preceded this game and it will be followed by GTA: Chinatown Wars. The Gaming has never ever seen a level of depth that Grand Theft Auto IV gives us such characters and a world. Rockstar’s new masterpiece has every facet, a worthy of applause. You play as Niko Bellic, an Eastern European who wants to escape his past and the horrors of Bosnian war. He arrives at the Liberty City to realize the American dream, also to discover his cousin Roman. Niko performs as a killer and enforcer having no morals who would give anything to escape. As GTA’s famed the top action over all the time, a new level of sophistication in this game raises the story above the expectation. Struggles of Niko with his ruthless nature might seem to inhibit the game play, but it enhances the emotional gravity of a brilliant storyline. We feel much greater about the very real pathos of Niko Bellic when the action becomes more absurd. Without question, Grand Theft Auto IV is the best game since the time that gaming ever experienced.

Sony that always makes us to feel the real world of entertainment has launched yet more compilations in its new X Series Walkman. The Sony X Series Walkman has made us fall back in love with the SONY Walkman once again after some years. You might have raised a question why? Because it works beautiful in a way it’s worth and this is how the i Pod should have been in the kind of way. Cheers and Thumbs up for going in your way SONY. The New X Series Walkman features 3-inch OLED touch screen is crystal clear. The entire unit comes in at only 50mm thick and a beauty to behold. It even comes with a coverflow-esque application which lets you browse for music on the Walkman. The Sony X Series Walkman incorporates sound processing which restores missing detail in compressed music that comes on the audio site menus. It also features a built-in (yes, in-built) noise reduction feature that’s added to make you dispense with battery powered headphones. The New Sony X-series Walkman will be available in 16GB and 32GB versions for an as yet unnamed price.

The advancements in technology have actually changed the way people live and conduct business today. The gadgets we have today all have wireless attributes that have made us dependent on them. Phones are some of the wireless gadgets that have wireless technology, everyone needs a phone today it helps keep in touch no matter the distance. Blue tooth is a feature supported by the wireless technology that assists in connecting hardware such that you can share information with others. Remote controls, wireless receivers, smoke detectors, transmitters and door openers are some of the wireless pieces of technology that are becoming of great advantage to people. Wireless technology has taken everything to the next level. Look at the entertainment industry; it has been greatly boosted by this technology. Wi-Fi in the internet world, the most common piece of technology, has enabled many users’ access websites via networks and not cables. Wireless technology has been an advantage to computer users as it has helped share information through networking and sending emails. The best thing about wireless technology is that you are always connected no matter the device you are using. Wireless technology makes work easier, at no additional cost, it’s simply the best.

High resolution televisions commonly known as HDTV or flat screen televisions have whipped the entertainment world into a frenzy. These televisions are known for their image quality and captivating designs characterized by a thin frame. The superior resolution plus a surround sound system makes them a must have when looking for a home entertainment theater. The numerous brands of the HDTV manufacturers have brought about a great deal of competition, and this has led to the release of big and better brands. The features of these televisions are far fetched making the viewing experience more pleasant for you. For crisp clear images and picture quality you have to check out these high resolution televisions. The color enhancer allows you to adjust the colors and contrasts according to your preference, meaning you get vivid pictures, images come to life with the HDTV. The audio quality with this piece of technology is outstanding thanks to the virtual surround speakers. The televisions have a gaming mode, where you can play most of your favorite games. Everyone is buying these televisions, they can be mounted anywhere in a room. If you are looking for that unsurpassed TV viewing experience grab yourself one of these.

The digital world is versed with a lot of innovations including the computer integrations. These have made their entrance in many parts of our daily lives. A lot of the circuits that occupied large spaces in olden times have been optimized by the use of super-scaled IC’s. The programming of such circuitry has become even easier with the development of human-like syntax in place of computer languages. With the advent of modern electronics, machinery is working faster due to the integration of more efficient architecture. This has speeded up the handling of tasks by the machinery since they can make faster calculations in binary form. Machinery is therefore becoming cheaper since less material is used for the production of the working parts. The effect of this on communication has been dynamic. Communication activities have since become easier with more instances of message sending being handled. This is as a result of the thankful process of dealing away with the many backlogs. It has become easier to network components with modern technology’s adaptation of open source systems. Handling of discrete electronic components has made its way into the mainstream public making it easier for design of even more community serving hardware.

Blu ray technology simply known as blu ray disk (BD) is a next generation computer storage technology that is applied to the optical disk. To explain the blu ray technology one must first understand how it was created. BD was created jointly by the leading players in the field of electronics, computers and media from over 180 companies that formed the Blu Ray Disk association (BDA) the likes of Apple, Hitachi Dell and HP, Samsung electronics, LG Electronics ,Sun Micro systems, Walt Disney Pictures and Warner Bros. Entertainment to name but a few. This format of recording equipment was created out of the need to enable the high resolution or quality that lacked in other mediums of storage when recording data and information. It was thus created to hold more data up to 5 times as much as traditional DVD s and CD’s that is it can hold up to 25 GB of data at any one time on a single layer disk and double that on a double layered disk! The name ‘blu ray’ is derived from its use of the blue laser ray in encoding data being different to the red laser ray that is used by all the other recording mediums. Since the blu ray is of a shorter wave length than the red it is able to fit more data into the same amount of disk space thus maximizing the disk space better than red laser ray. One has to appreciate the wonders of modern technology to be able to appreciate the flexibility of BD technology.

The Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ7 is a compact camera and comes with 10.1 mega pixels, which I know is not massive in the world of 15 or even 20 mega pixels cameras but it is up there considering the price and quality it produces which is achieved from a massive 12x zoom, 25mm ultra wide-angle lens. Luckily, it doesn’t have the problems of distorting or softening images like other super high zooms. This camera can also be seen as a hybrid of a cam-recorder and a normal ‘conventional digital’ camera. It has a built-in feature called AVCHD which is used in some Panasonic and Sony cam-recorders as well and makes the Lumix DMC-TZ7 capable of recording HD audio and video at 720p resolution although it has to be said that, this is the only area where it some-what struggles to perform in ability, focusing, zooming and the capture speed of fast moving objects (into a video) but the end quality doesn’t suffer much. The camera’s exterior is also of a solid and superior quality to other cameras in the same price range and is very well constructed. It has a superb three-inch high resolution screen which blends in beautifully with the internal features and does justice to the overall product. Other functions and features include an improved face detection and image stabilization system, a mini HDMI port. Overall this is a very good camera in most of the aspects and will fulfill almost all the needs of an average user/photographer.

This refers to the combination of the different digital media such as graphics, photos, video, voice, animations and sound effects. Multimedia technology has brought about so many benefits to the communication world. Multimedia uses visual and audio capabilities to convey its information and knowledge effectively. The multimedia gadgets are made in an attractive and easy to use manner so that they draw the appeal of the users. The multimedia gadgets are used to listen to music, take photos and videos, send graphic emotions etc. They are also incorporated in popular devices such as mobile phones and computers. The multimedia products draw in more people to buy them because they have several features and capabilities all together than single medium gadgets. They make it possible to present complicated ideas and procedures in a simple way. Since the multimedia gadgets are electronic you can be able to reproduce the pictures videos or graphic arts to share them with your friends. It does this in an economical and simple way. You do not need any specialized skill to operate them. The multimedia applications are also used in learning like taking pictures or recording a lecture that you can refer to later in your own time.