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Sharp Waterproof SoftBank 824SH DMB TV Phone

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Sharp Waterproof SoftBank 824SH DMB TV Phone Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Sharp announces a new waterproof DMB TV phone for Softbank in Japan. According to Sharp the 824SH is the thinnest waterproof DMB TV phone.

The features of the Sharp 824SH include 2.8 inch screen, 3.2MP camera, IPX5/IPX7 waterproof, FeliCa, Bluetooth, and irSS. Read more

Posted on Wed, 2 Jul 2008 02:40:31 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New Samsung YEPP P2 DMB and YEPP S3 Players unveiled

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New Samsung YEPP P2 DMB and YEPP S3 Players unveiled Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Samsung introduces the Yepp P2 DMB enabled portable video player and the Yepp S3 DAP.

The new Samsung P2 features besides DMB TV a large 3 inch touchscreen and the slick player is only 11.9mm thick.
Other features of the Samsung P2 include Bluetooth 2.0, and 4GB, 8GB, 16GB capacity options.
The Samsung P2 sells for 259,000 won (~$249), 309,000 won (~$297), and 389,000 won (~$374) respectively in Korea. Read more

Posted on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:05:01 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Panasonic VIERA P905iTV DMB TV Phone

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Panasonic VIERA P905iTV DMB TV Phone Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Panasonic announces the availability of the Panasonic VIERA P905iTV DMB TV Phone on the NTT DoCoMo network in Japan.

The Panasonic VIERA P905iTV is a DMB TV "keitai" with a 3.5 inch screen and 30fps video display (mobile speed W). Read more

Posted on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 02:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

New Samsung HSDPA DMB TV Phone SCH-W350 / SPH-W3500

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New Samsung HSDPA DMB TV Phone SCH-W350 / SPH-W3500 Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Samsung unleashes the SCH-W350 / SPH-W3500 HSDPA DMB TV phone in Korea available on Anycall.

The SCH-W350 / SPH-W3500 features a screen that can be swiveled to watch TV in landscape mode.
Other features of the Samsung SCH-W350 / SPH-W3500 include a 3MP camera, Bluetooth, 7.2Mbps download speeds, global WCDMA/GSM roaming, and DMB TV tuner. Read more

Posted on Mon, 4 Feb 2008 04:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

New iRiver Clix Plus tunes into DMB TV

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New iRiver Clix Plus tunes into DMB TV Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review iRiver introduces a new version of the sleek iRiver Clix media player in Korea. The new iRiver Clix Plus supports new DMB TV, a must have feature in any gadget these days in Korea.

The 8.2mm thick iRiver Clix Plus features a AMOLED color display with QVGA resolution and comes in Pink and purple. Read more

Posted on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:26:28 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

LG T-54 DMB TV and PMP now in funky Colors

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LG T-54 DMB TV and PMP now in funky Colors Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review LG introduces new colors of their quite neat T54 DMB TV and PMP.

LG introduced the new colors with street culture marketing event in Korea. The names of the colors reflect that angle. The new colors are Jazz Blue, Funky Green, Reggae Orange and Techno Black.

Of course LG hired some models to round out the presentation. Read more

Posted on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:05:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

LG T54 DMB TV and PMP

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LG T54 DMB TV and PMP Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review LG offers a shiny portable media player with DMB TV receiver dubbed T54.

Features of the LG T54 PMP include a 2.4 inch screen, the ability to play AVI at 30fps, MP3s, OGG, WMA and WAV audio, displays jpeg photos, supports text viewing and games. Read more

Posted on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:05:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

LG HSDPA DMB TV Phone LG-SH150 lets You surf with 7.2Mbps

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LG HSDPA DMB TV Phone LG-SH150 lets You surf with 7.2Mbps Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review LG introduces the LG-SH150 HSDPA mobile phone with satellite DMB TV receiver in Korea.

The new LG HSDPA slider supports apparently 7.2Mbps download speeds. I do not know if a Korean provider is actually offering these speeds.

Features of the LG-SH150 include a 2.2 inch QVGA color screen, 2MP camera, 2nd VGA resolution camera, talk-time is 150 min and standby is 150 hours. Read more

Posted on Thu, 9 Aug 2007 05:10:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

I4U Top Stories of the Week: Potter, DMB Phones, PSP TV Tuner

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I4U Top Stories of the Week: Potter, DMB Phones, PSP TV Tuner Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review This week brought a mix of technology news without major highlights. The last Harry Potter book raised the most attention. Mostly of course because of the photo leak, the early NY Times review and now the possibility that they can catch the photo leaker because he used a Canon Rebel and the serial number is in the meta data of the photos.

More top stories on I4U NEWS from last week below: Read more

Posted on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 02:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New LG HSDPA DMB TV Phone LG-KH1400

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New LG HSDPA DMB TV Phone LG-KH1400 Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review LG introduces a 3G HSDPA DMB TV phone named LG-KH1400 in Korea.

LG has two gadget models play with the LG-KH1400 in the park. Apparently it is summer in South Korea too.

The LG KH1400 features a 2.2 inch that can be turned to watch in wide-screen mode. A 2MP camera and media player are part of the KH1400 features. Read more

Posted on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Samsung SCH-B750 DMB TV and Video Camera Phone

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Samsung SCH-B750 DMB TV and Video Camera Phone Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Samsung announces the SCH-B750 satellite DMB TV phone with video camera function in Korea.

Samsung is all over UCC (User Created Content). The SCH-B750 is yet another UCC phone from Samsung. (see also the Youtube Samsung Phone).

The Samsung SCH-B750 features a swivel screen with QVGA resolution. Samsung integrated video editing software in the phone to edit the MP4 video on the go. You can record the video with the 3MP camera of the SCH-B750 and store it on the integrated 8GB HDD. Read more

Posted on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Samsung SCH-B710 DMB TV and 3D Phone

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Samsung SCH-B710 DMB TV and 3D Phone Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Samsung officially announces the SCH-B710 satellite and terrestrial DMB TV mobile phone.

The Samsung SCH-B710 features a 2.2 inch screen, PIP function and 3D display. That is right, the Samsung SCH-B710 can display auto-stereo images with its display. Read more

Posted on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:20:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Pantech ultra-slim DMB TV Phone IM-S230

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Pantech ultra-slim DMB TV Phone IM-S230 Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Pantech announces the IM-S230 DMB TV phone, which is only 9.9mm thin.

The stylish new slider style Pantech IM-S320 features a 2.2 inch screen, 1.3MP camera, document viewer, electronic dictionary and MP3 player.

More technical details have not been released at this point in time. Read more

Posted on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 05:30:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Sexy iRiver NV PMP, DMB and GPS Gadget

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Sexy iRiver NV PMP, DMB and GPS Gadget Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review iRiver is very good at designing sexy gadgets. The new iRiver NV is a great example of how a desirable gadget has to look.

The iRiver NV integrates portable media player functions with DMB TV and GPS navigation. A big scroll knob dominates the device.

Other feature highlights of the iRiver NV include a 7 inch LED TFT screen with 800x480px resolution, Camera, FM Tuner, SiRF III GPS, MP3, WMA, OGG audio player, MP1, MP2, MP2.5, WMA7, WMA8, WMA9 video player and 2 SD Card slots. Read more

Posted on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:45:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Cowon L2 PMP, DMB TV and GPS Gadget

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Cowon L2 PMP, DMB TV and GPS Gadget Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Cowon announces in Korea a new all-in-one portable device dubbed the Cowon L2.

The Cowon L2 features a 7 inch screen and combines media player, GPS and DMB TV functionality into one sleek device. Supported formats of the media player include MP4, MP3, WMA and WAV. The photo viewer of the Cowon L2 supports BMP, JPG and PNG.

The L2 has 2GB internal memory that can be expanded via a SD card slot. The GPS functionality is provided by a SiRF III chipset. Read more

Posted on Fri, 1 Jun 2007 06:20:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

LG Prada Phone with DMB TV

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LG Prada Phone with DMB TV Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review LG releases onto the Korean market the Prada Phone with DMB TV.

The LG LG-SB310 and LG LB3100 support watching TV in 4:3 or 16:9 format on the large 3 inch touch screen of the Prada Phone.
The TV antenna is styled in black with the Prada logo on it.

Other specifications of the Korean market Prada phone seem to be the same as the Prada phone available in Europe since a couple weeks.
Read more

Posted on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:25:38 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New LG LG-SB190 Satellite DMB TV and GPS Phone

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New LG LG-SB190 Satellite DMB TV and GPS Phone Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review LG Electronics announces the LG-SB190 Satellite DMB TV phone with GPS based navigation in Korea.

The LG LG-SB190 sports a compact slider design and features a LCD screen with 170 degrees FOV, mobile XD engine, MP3 player, 1.3MP camera, Read more

Posted on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

New LG FM37, T50 and FM33 DMB and PMPs

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New LG FM37, T50 and FM33 DMB and PMPs Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review LG updates its portable DMB TVs and portable media players. The new ones are feature touch screen interfaces similar to the LG Prada Phone.

The new FM37 and FM33 are follow-up models to the FM35 portable DMB TV that LG introduced last year. The interface last year was still featuring conventional buttons.
Read more

Posted on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Sexy iHolic DMB TV PMP

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Sexy iHolic DMB TV PMP Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review The Korean iHolic HTV-200 is a small black DMB TV and portable media player. iHolic knows how to use gadget models to make a small black box sexy.

The iHolic HTV-200 features a 2.4 inch color TFT display, SD-Card slot, 512MB/1GB/2GB internal memory options, MP4 video at 320x200 and 30fps, mp3 audio support (WMA later), JPG photo viewer and USB 2.0.
The HTV-200 comes with a cute docking station and remote control. Read more

Posted on Wed, 3 Jan 2007 04:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Pantech IM-U160 DMB Phone with 2.6 inch Wide Screen

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Pantech IM-U160 DMB Phone with 2.6 inch Wide Screen Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Pantech announces the IM-U160 DMB mobile phone with a 2.6 inch wide-screen display.

The Pantech IM-U160 features besides DMB TV a 2MP camera, MP3 player, document viewer, multi-tasking and GPS. Read more

Posted on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 03:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

New Samsung SCH-B560, SPH-B5600 and SPH-B5650 DMB Phones

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New Samsung SCH-B560, SPH-B5600 and SPH-B5650 DMB Phones Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Samsung updates its DMB phone line with the SCH-B560, SPH-B5600 and SPH-B5650.

The new DMB TV mobile phones are slimmer and belong to the Samsung DMB phones which feature the twistable screen, we know already from the SGH-P900.

Samsung is shipping their DMB phones also outside of Korea, like in Germany for instance. Read more

Posted on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 04:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr