Kohjinsha Netbook Boasts Dual 10.1-inch Screens

I remember when I went to visit Japan a couple of years ago, the whole netbook thing hadn’t really caught on in North America yet. Even so, there were tons of ultraportables on sale in Akihabara, including some crazy compact tablet PCs from Kohjinsha. Well, they’ve done it again.
Now that everyone and their mother wants a netbook, it takes a lot more to differentiate yourself from the competition. Instead of increasing the horsepower or tossing in an integrated Wacom tablet, Kohjinsha has produced a netbook with twin displays. That’s right. You get dual displays in a netbook.
Interestingly, I’m not really sure if you can even call this thing a netbook in the traditional sense. Instead of a single screen, this Kohjinsha has a pair of 10.1-inch LCDs that pump out resolutions of up to 1366 x 768 pixels each. Instead of Intel Atom, it gets an AMD Athlon MV-40.
Going further, you can also expect a full four gigs of DDR2 RAM, a SATA hard drive, and Windows 7. The dual display thing happens with a sliding mechanism to hide the second screen when it’s time to hit the road.
As with all other Kohjinsha products, I don’t expect to see this in Canada or the US any time soon. If you must have it, I suggest you book a flight over to Tokyo (or find an importer).

Samsung Moment Android Smartphone Invades Sprint

Maybe the HTC Hero isn’t your cup of tea, but you still want to get in on some Google Android action with Sprint. Maybe you’d prefer to have a slide-out QWERTY keyboard for busting out those emails and text messages. If that’s the case, you may want to take a minute to consider the newly revealed Samsung Moment.
We once knew about this upcoming phone as the Samsung InstinctQ, but it seems that the Korean electronics giant has decided to drop that branding. The Samsung Moment, as you can imagine, comes equipped with Google Android, giving you access to the Android Market and more.
You like nice displays? You’ve got one here in the form of a 3.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen. That should be great for online videos, web surfing, and maybe even a game or three. Other highlights include the 800MHz processor, full QWERTY keyboard, and 3.2 megapixel camera.

Go Global with Samsung i350 Intrepid from Sprint

Clearly going after the same market currently occupied by all sorts of BlackBerry devices is the newly announced Samsung SPH-i350 Intrepid. This QWERTY-packing smartphone gets powered by Windows Mobile 6.5 and it’s being destined for the shelves of Sprint, sitting right alongside the Samsung Moment and HTC Hero.
Helping to attract the corporate market is the inclusion of quad-band GSM support for use on international networks. This way, you can take your Sprint phone and use it everywhere from London to Hong Kong. Naturally, the Samsung Intrepid also handles the 3G EV-DO Rev.A thing while at home with Sprint.
That may look like any old 2.5-inch QVGA display, but that’s actually a touchscreen in there. You also get the aforementioned QWERTY keyboard, as well as a 3.2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, Mobile Office, WiFi, Internet Explorer 6, and Adobe Flash Support. Access to the Windows Marketplace for Mobile rounds out the package.

Charge All Your Gadgets, Keep Them Organized

Trying to keep your gadgets organized when you are on the road can be quite the challenge, especially since you have so many chargers to go along with so many gadgets. The super-handy Charge4All Charge Folio seems to address this very concern perfectly, fitting everything into a package no bigger than a paperback book. You know, those things that came before the Kindle.
The Charge4All Charge Folio looks like one of those CD wallets or perhaps the folio that you got with your car’s user manual and maintenance schedule. Inside, you get a power strip down the spine that can then be used to charge all sorts of doo-dahs.
There are five ports in all: iPhone/iPod, mini-USB, micro-USB, Samsung, and LG. I don’t know how much mileage you’ll get out of those last two unless you happen to have a Korean cell phone, but this is still quite the handy little solution. Slip it into your messenger bag and keep everything in one place.
The Charge4All Charge Folio retails for a touch under $50, so it’s not the most expensive cell phone charger on the block either.

Around the same time that the first Apple iPhone hit the scene, we were also treated to the HTC Touch. Powered by Windows Mobile, it looked like a via

Around the same time that the first Apple iPhone hit the scene, we were also treated to the HTC Touch. Powered by Windows Mobile, it looked like a viable alternative to the handset coming out of Cupertino, but it ultimately ended up playing second or even third fiddle. Well, it seems like it’s back again.
I don’t see any official confirmation one way or the other, but I’d say that the “new” T-Mobile Tap looks a heck of a lot like the original HTC Touch. You get a very similar touchscreen display and the hardware-based buttons underneath look very similar as well.
It’s possible that this is truly a new phone, more or less, since I do not think that this phone is running on Windows Mobile 5. Instead, it seems to be loaded with a regular “dumbphone” or “feature phone” operating system instead.
Specs include a 2-megapixel camera, Bluetooth, web browser, media player, GPS, and that large touchscreen. The T-Mobile Tap will be made available in berry and midnight blue in time for the holiday shopping season.

Fido Reaches Back to 2005 to Find Nokia 6682

You know that legislation that was passed requiring wireless carriers in Canada to provide at least one phone in their lineup that is well-suited for the visually impaired? Whereas big brother Rogers gets the Nokia E71 for this purpose, it seems that the poor visually-impaired dog is getting something much, much older.
To satisfy the requirements laid out by the government, Fido has decided to launch the “all new” Nokia 6682. Does this phone look familiar to you? It should, because the Nokia 6682 was initially released way back in 2005 and has since been discontinued. I guess Fido found some old stock, because it is back.
Just like the modified Nokia E71 for Rogers, the Nokia 6682 for Fido will come preloaded with TALKS, an application that changes text messages and other on-screen content into speech. This is supposed to help people who have trouble seeing

AT&T Garmin nuvifone G60 Gets Reviewed

This phone has taken far too long to reach the market and it’s already lost some of that initial shine even before it hit store shelves. Even so, it seems that the Garmin nuvifone G60 was worth the wait, because Mobileburn is saying that it could offer the best navigation experience on a cell phone today.
You get all the usual bells and whistles associated with most touchscreen smartphones these days, so you can expect to get a camera, mobile web access, a virtual QWERTY keyboard with predictive text, and so on. But what about the navigation?
Since we are coming from GPS-centric Garmin, we should expect the best turn-by-turn GPS navigation experience on a cell phone and it seems that Garmin has delivered on that front. Just as the iPhone was originally seen as a cool iPod and not so big on the “phone” side, the Garmin nuvifone suffers a similar fate.
Mobileburn concludes that it is a great GPS device, but only an “OK” phone. The rest of the features and specs run par for the course, for the most part, and that makes it hard to justify the higher price point. The browsing speeds are slow, the battery life is short, and there’s no car charger included.
Hope on over through the source link below to read the full review.