New Sony Walkman NWZ-E450 with Karaoke.
The Sony’s new NWZ-E450 walkman player introduces karaoke mode,it allows you to add .lrc files (lyrics files) which provides scrolling lyrics,which later automatically reduces the lead vocal so that we can also sing along.It supports MP3,WMA,AAC,MP4,WMV formats and it can give 50 hours of music.It also has 2-inch QVGA LCD and voice recorder.It comes in capacities from 4GB to 16GB and in colours black,red,blue,pink and green.
It will be available from august at a price of 108$.
The official press release says like this.
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• WALKMAN® E450: Funky design and rich WALKMAN® sound
• Extra-long battery life up to 50 hour (music)/10 hour (video)1
• SensMe™ channels for themed listening to suit any mood
• Friendly, easy new interface with album scroll and wallpapers
• Fun music options with Lyrics Sync and Karaoke mode
• Excellent Sound Quality with Clear Audio Technologies, Dynamic Normalizer and VPT
• Easy PC transfer with auto video format conversion in Windows® 7
• Bookmark function for easy playlist creation
• Also available with portable stereo speaker dock (E450K – Black)
The WALKMAN® family grows this summer with a choice of exciting new Video MP3 players from Sony. Fun, colourful and easy to use, the latest-generation WALKMAN® E450 is all about must-have looks plus great sound and video performance.
WALKMAN® E450 video MP3 player
Young music lovers with an eye for style can enjoy rich, quality sound by Sony that really stands out from the crowd. Perfect as a first music player, WALKMAN® E450 is available in a choice of five fun, funky colours.
A fresh new interface makes WALKMAN® even easier and more fun to use. The redesigned playback screen lets you scroll through a big, bold view of cover artwork on the crisp, clear QVGA screen. Background wallpapers can be customised from a choice of designs, or use your own photos. New Scene Search makes it easy to pinpoint the right moment in longer videos by scrolling through a series of thumbnail images.
Looking to match your listening to your mood? Unique to Sony, SensMe™ technology automatically analyses and categorises your music library, creating a series of themed channels. Just pick your channel to suit the moment, from mellow to upbeat.
Brand new to WALKMAN®, Lyrics Sync supports the popular .lrc file format, displaying the words of your favourite songs on screen. There’s also a new Karaoke Mode that lets you have fun singing along to your favourite songs. WALKMAN® automatically reduces the original performer’s vocal level, so your own voice is heard clearly over the backing track. If you’re struggling to hit those high or low notes, playback key can also be adjusted up or down to match anyone’s vocal reach without changing playback speed.
Busy students will appreciate the brand-new Language Learning function that makes it easy to master a tricky phrase. WALKMAN® can ‘loop’ a chosen passage for listening at reduced playback speed without changing pitch or losing clarity.
Unique to Sony, a handy Bookmark function lets you create, add to or edit up to five of your own personal playlists. Just pick a playlist to suit your mood or whatever you’re doing.
Like every WALKMAN®, the new E450 series stands out with full, rich sound to get the very best out of your music collection. Clear Bass and Clear Stereo are joined by new DSEE (Digital Sound Enhancement Engine). Developed by Sony, DSEE restores high frequencies that are lost when music files are compressed to recreate more natural, CD-quality sound.
New Virtual Phones Technology adds an extra dimension to enjoying your favourite tracks on headphones. Authentic acoustic modelling by Sony places you inside a choice of five soundspaces, from an intimate club to the biggest arena. As an extra listening refinement, Dynamic Normaliser balances the volume of each song as you listen, reducing jumps in volume as you listen in shuffle mode.
Extra-long battery life now lets you listen for even longer, offering up to 50 hours of music playback time (10 hours video playback) from a single charge1.
Supplied Content Transfer software makes it easy to drag and drop music files and playlists directly to WALKMAN® from your PC or iTunes library (not including DRM files).
WALKMAN® now works better than ever with your PC if you’re running Windows® 7. Connect the WALKMAN® E450 to your PC’s USB port and a new ‘Device Stage’ window launches automatically. This easy-to-use media management function lets you browse files stored on WALKMAN® in Windows Explorer and export media files directly to WALKMAN® from your PC. Windows® 7 even takes care of converting DivX® and AVCHD video files stored on your hard drive to playable format for viewing on WALKMAN®.
Also available (in black only), the WALKMAN® E450K adds a beautifully designed matched cradle stereo speaker, allowing you to enjoy crisp, clear WALKMAN® sound without headphones. Digital Linear Phase Speaker technology ensures a clear, natural soundfield, while Virtual Bass boosts low-end frequencies for a room-filling low end. As an alternative to mains power, the speaker can also be powered directly from the player’s battery, letting you take great WALKMAN® sound with you anywhere.
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pic courtesy:engadget
Sony comes up with interchangeable lens camcorder.
We have been used to changing the lens of SLR or DSLRs according to our requirements,but have we ever throught of changing the lens of a camcorder according to our needs..??
Sony has come up with something similar to like that,a Full high-definition camcorder whose lens can be interchanged.
The NEX-VG10 is an interchangeable lens HD camcorder with Exmor APS HD CMOS sensor.It can shoot 1080p using E-mount and A-mount lenses,it also has the capability to capture photographs at 14.2 megapixels.The equipment comes bundled with 18.200mm lens,it also has Quad Capsule Spatial Array Stereo Microphone,three inch swivel display,Optical Steadyshot image stabilization,BIONZ processor and twin accessory shoes.
The camcorder supports SDHC,SDXC and Memory Stick Pro Duo…the price range will be around whooping 2000$ .
Cisco’s releases tablets.
Cisco,the major network solutions provider has launched their products to be a competitor in the tablets market.
They brought two tablets each running on two different OS and features.They are
Cius Android Tablet
Cius is a business-aimed android tablet with features like HD video streaming,real-time video,multi-party conferencing and the usual features of a tablet like messaging,email and web browsing.It weighs 1.15lbs and is expected to be release in first quarter of 2011.
The second tablet from the company is a countertop unit for home energy management with a 7-inch,800×480 capacitive touch screen,running ubuntu MID on a 1.1 ghz intel atom chip,the home energy controller connects to smart thermostats and appliances over wifi or gigabit ethernet.It provides us with solutions to improve the energy consumption.Forbes reports the device will run at $900 per installation.Check out the video.
“Google ME” ?????
Rumours,rumours and more rumours..
Google is going to launch something big in the web 2.0 , that is gonna be a facebook killer.Lets wait and see whats its gonna be like.The previous two big things from Google – Wave and buzz didnt turn out to be what we really expected,that is the hype was huge but the product was..??
The whole rumour started from the tweet by the Digg founder Kevin rose.
Read about this rumour at the following sites…
Blu-ray expands to 128GB.
50 GB blu-ray disc was too much but here comes 128 GB version of the same thing.
About Blu-ray Disc
Blu-ray Disc is a trademark owned by the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) and licensed for use on discs, players and other products that use BDA’s optical disc format for high definition audio-video and high capacity data software applications. A single-layer disc holds up to 25GB of data and a double-layer disc holds up to 50GB of data.
About the Blu-ray Disc Association
The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) is responsible for promoting and developing business opportunities for Blu-ray Disc – the BDA’s optical disc format for high definition audio-video and high capacity data software applications. The BDA has approximately 170 members. Its Board of Directors consists of individuals affiliated with the following member companies: Apple Inc., Dell Inc., Hewlett-Packard Company, Hitachi, Ltd., Intel Corporation, LG Electronics Inc., Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Oracle Corporation, Panasonic Corporation, Pioneer Corporation, Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Sharp Corporation, Sony Corporation, TDK Corporation, Technicolor, Twentieth Century Fox, Walt Disney Pictures and Television, and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
BDXL discs are available in either triple layer 100GB (re-writable or write-once) or 128GB quad layer write-once discs.
Excerpts taken from the press release.
Shakira becomes X8.
This is a late info,sorry for that was busy with some work.
Official announcement has came stating that the device which was codenamed “Shakira” is conformed for release later this year.Keep checking this blog for the release date.
Sony Ericsson Xperia X8
The Sony Ericsson Xperia X8 is like a junior for SE X10.Those who are not able to get the ultimate phone can be satisfied to a limit with this device and its features. It features a 3″ HVGA (320 x 480) screen with a scratch resistant surface, a 600MHz CPU running Android 1.6 with the same customizations that the X10 mini has and Timescape too.
The camera on the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X8 is a 3.2MP snapper and the phone comes with a 2GB microSD card in the box. As far as connectivity goes, it offers quad-band GSM/EDGE, 3G with HSPA, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS.
Here Comes Nintendo 3DS!!
As the name itself,yeah its the first hand-held to be supporting 3D.
Nintendo 3DS uses a parallax LCD, which uses structural variations in the screen itself to split the image into a separate view for each eye, creating the 3-D illusion.Its a 3.5 inch display that supports the 3D effect.
Nintendo has also added a depth slider to the side of the machine. This simple control makes it easy to “flatten” the 3-D effect until you’re left with a classic 2-D view at the lowest setting. Slide the 3-D depth to zero and you have a screen that looks more or less like you average DS screen in terms of brightness, color and clarity.
The new machine is about the same size as the standard DS, and most of the key buttons are in the same place. But now there is a start, select and home button on the machine’s face, and a quarter-sized flat analog stick in the upper left-hand corner. The stick’s range of motion feels a bit limited, but it seemed responsive enough. Two parallax-positioned cameras on the back also allow you to take your own 3-D pictures.
Spice up your browsers for WC2010!
Lets go through a tutorial to get the maximum out of our browsers for this world cup, lets consider Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox 3.6(cos these are the two most popular browsers in the windows platform)…
Score Card
Firefox has in-built support for add-ons.Lets consider an Add-on called Footiefox.
Footiefox is an add-on which can be used to keep us updated about any football game in this planet(err..i mean the most popular ones),for now we will be concentrating on the World cup.
How to Get Footiefox?
1.Click this link.https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=Footiefox
2.Install the add-on.
3.Select World-cup to get updates on world cup.
4.Now you will be ab;e to see the add-on at the bottom right of the firefox window.It Automatically updates the score card as the game happens else you can right click and see the details of the previous matches.
Likewise in Google chrome we can add extensions.
We will add the official FIFA Chrome extension.
1.Click on the link..https://chrome.google.com/extensions/featured/worldcup
2.Click on the FIFA chrome extension,then select the team you want to follow.
3.Later you will see the official logo on the right top corner clicking on it provides with the latest info about the team and the games.
Change the looks and feels.
What fun in not modifying the skins of the browsers to suite our team colours.???
To do so
In Chrome:Click on https://chrome.google.com/extensions/featured/worldcup and select the team’s theme you want.It will install a new extension and the skin will be automatically changed.
In Firefox:You have to install a new add-on called Persona.Click here to get Persona. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/personas/
After installing click on this link to select the team you are supporting to change the skin.
FIFA World Cup 2010 in 3D!!!!
The whole world is in world cup fever, awaiting to the start of the game,but this is not just football alone,This world cup has lot of first times in technological aspect.
First time an event is transmitted in 3D that too in full HD.Which is an enormous leap in the field of live visual entertainment.Out of 64 games 25 matches will be broadcasted in 3D.
The following is a list of the 2010 World Cup matches that are scheduled to be filmed in 3D
June 11th – South Africa vs. Mexico
June 12th – Argentina vs. Nigeria
June 13th – Germany vs. Australia
June 14th – Netherlands vs. Denmark
June 15th – Brazil vs. North Korea
June 16th – Spain vs. Switzerland
June 17th – Argentina vs. South Korea
June 18th – Slovenia vs. USA
June 19th – Netherlands vs. Japan
June 20th – Brazil vs. Ivory Coast
June 21st – Spain vs. Honduras
June 22nd – Nigeria vs. South Korea
June 23rd – Ghana vs. Germany
June 24th – Slovakia vs. Italy
June 25th – Portugal vs. Brazil
June 27th – Winners of Group B vs. Runner up in Group A
June 28th – Winners of Group E vs. Runner up in Group F
June 28th – Winners of Group G vs. Runner up in Group H
July 2nd – Quarter final
July 3rd – Quarter final
July 3rd – Quarter final
July 6th – Semi final
July 7th – Semi final
July 10th – 3rd place play-off
July 11th – World Cup final
3D filming will occur at five of the 10 World Cup stadiums: Soccer City and Ellis Park in Johannesburg, as well as venues in Durban, Cape Town and Port Elizabeth.
It will be available in ESPN 3D in US.”The 3D feed from these 25 matches will be made available for broadcast on 3D channels, which can be enjoyed by consumers on their 3D-compatible TV sets in the comfort of their home, almost as if they were in football stadiums themselves,” said FIFA TV Director Niclas Ericson, in a statement.
Also it will be available in theaters that support 3D HD.
3D transmission is made possible with the help of Sony inc. Sony technology will be used to film the tournament. According to FIFA up to 25 of the matches will be captured using 3D cameras. Footage will be captured in 3D through Sony’s proprietary multi-image MPE-200 processors, which will be housed in specially designed 3D outside broadcast trucks.It will be supplying its flagship HDC-1500 cameras as well as its new HDC-P1 unit, a compact, point-of-view (POV)-type camera with a 2/3-inch lens. The 3D games will be produced for FIFA by Host Broadcast Services.
Requirements for Watching the event in 3D.
1.You must be in US (or wherever there is enough bandwidth so that the ISP provide with the content ie Spain,Japan and Korea).
2.A good 3D Television.(Sony’s 3D TVs are just hitting the market)
3. Pair of 3D glasses(cheap ones are at 130$ each,multiply with the number of people watching).
OR
The rest of the 26 countries can watch the game in 3D in 3D HD ready theatre.
OR
Watch this world cup in normal TV and start earning cash to watch 2022 World Cup in Japan through 3D Holographic broadcasts.[Yea, they have promised it].
iPhone 4 and its survival..
After the release of Iphone 4 , the question will be who all will be upgrading the new phone , is it worth the $$ you pay for the carrier charges and the device.Lets have a look on a comparison of features of iPhone 4 and iPhone 3Gs.
The 2G network support remains the same for both 3GS and 4 while 3G has a variation with the introduction of 900 netwrok range.
The display size is same but the resolution has been upgraded to 640×960 from 320×480.That really brings some change to the visual experience.
Another notable feature is the introduction of 3-axis gyro.
The rest of the connectivity features like wi-fi,edge,3G,bluetooth are similar to that of 3GS.
Camera: upgraded to 3 megapixel from 3.1,and video recording at 720p @30fps from VGA recording,thats not a huge thing now as many Phones available are having HD recording but its a first time for Apple.
The processor is A4 ie it can give 1 Ghz compared to 600 mhz of 3GS.
Introduction of push e-mail,thats a feature every businessmen need.
Built-in digital compass,active noise cancellation,iBooks application,video/audio editing software,TV-out some of the few features thats new to iPhone.
The main drawback for iPhone 4 is that it supports only micro-sim.
But the main competition lies outside the company,HTC the company who revolutionized touch phones have come up with HTC EVO 4G,the first complete 4G enabled phone in USA,it will be tight competition between both 4-s. Also the competition tightens as the EVO runs on Android OS.HTC EVO comes with 8 mega-pixel,thats a kick for iPhone.
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