Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Ultra-Slim Metal Mouse and an emergency charger


I was browsing the inflight shopping catalogue last week, and I found this interesting gadgets from Switzerland. There are a number of things that are actually interesting but I will start with this little tiny thing that we always use everyday... the mouse.

This Ultra-slim metal mouse is really a 5mm edition that is meant for ease portability especially for people who travels a lot. It is really just a card size and foldable. The mouse panel can be adjusted according to the size of hands so that it won't be too small or too large for the varians of people's hands.

It has like the usual retractable cable for connection and it is an optical mouse. It is a plug and play mouse just like almost every mouse you get from anywhere except the live mouse! :)

There are two colours for this mouse which are silver and gold. Interesting to know that the gold version is because of the rat year!


Another thing that might be useful for travellers is the emergency charger. What got my attention was the LED indication. It reminds me of Alien Vs Predator!! :) The LED indicator is to show the power level of the charger.

This emergency charger actually is very compact and light. It should be since it is for travelling! It uses Samsung battery and this is the world's smallest charger with high-capacity portable power charger. More interesting is that it can be used to charge not just one item at one time. It can charge your laptop and your mobile phone both at the same time, so it does saves a lot of hassle in that sense. I think that was what I read before. Correct me if I'm wrong.

For an emergency charger, it does help a lot since it gives a Blackberry PDA enough time with being on stand-by for 16 days! iPhone can have the talk-time at 13 hours, and standby time of 400 hours and 40 hours for audio playback. So you know that other models will surely have longer duration in spite of being an emergency charge. Enough time for you to do what you need. The Nokia phone or Samsung like the F258 can get 16 hours talk time and 1000 hours od standby. What I can say is that Lifetrons (that's the brand by the way) does have interesting travelling gadgets to look at and have them. Very handy when travelling. Check out their website for their range of products in Lifetrons Switzerland.

Well, these products did get my attention and I did feel some might find it very handy! Hey, check out their Ultra-Slim Metallic Internet Phone..interesting too, especially for those of you who uses Skype or any other VoIP ;)










Thursday, October 16, 2008

New gadgets for the Q4 onwards

Well well well....again I was away for so long to tell anything here and now, got lots of things to tell but... I just settle with my blabbering about a few things only for now :)

Interestingly, I was going to say about Nikon new DSLR that comes out and when I was about to say that here, I get itchy fingers that want to type about new touchscreen phones that are coming out at the Q4 of 2008. Two interesting ones are LG Renoir and Samsung Pixon. Hmm... Suddenly I felt there are interesting names coming out than just the usual model number stuff.

Samsung Pixon is another touchscreen model with something more interesting. It is 8MP camera that comes with it!! So, obviously as what I mentioned earlier bout new models, the real competitor will be with the also new LG Renoir. Hmm.... when talking about touchscreen, the first thing that comes to mind to a lot of people is the iPhone. However, my friends and family who use the iPhone seem to generally change and/or switch back to Nokia models after awhile.

That gave me an impression that iPhone is not that great afterall. hahaha... no offence to iPhone fans :) just that my family and friends who use iPhone seem to feel that it is not a practical phone for heavy users like them. I assume it is more like one of the fashion phone and interesting features but rather troublesome for the heavy and busy users of mobile phones.

Anyway back to Samsung Pixon, being new and interesting...it doesn't have the also new things people look out for, which are the Wi-fi and the global 3G. Hmmm.....probably they think that it is not really a necessary feature? Maybe... However, for being rather a direct competitor to Renoir, then it is one feature down, because Renoir has Wi-fi and 3G. But... Pixon has larger screen at 3.2" as compared to Renoir which is only 3". Does that give you a lot of difference? Hmm... maybe to some, while others don't really bother. I know some friends out there are that kind of people. haha...

This Pixon seems to look thicker. I have yet to see it on MY shores so I can have a feel of it. Hmm... soon I will start go hunting again! :)

The layout looks similar to F480 but with "thicker" body, and it is about the same look like the LG Renoir. Hmm..... as I said earlier...real competitor :) Won't be so much as compared to Innov8 I suppose...because Innov8 looks much thicker than Pixon though by seeing the dimensions they are just almost the same. As I said, this Pixon looks like the F480 except that the camera seems to protrude a little bit more. Haaa.....I think it has got to do with the 8MP camera. teehee.... However, the Renoir is also having protruding camera..so they are same. hahahaha.

Well...whatever it is, when these two phones are really in the showcase at the phone shops, I will really get them both sit together and compare.

Anyway, I will continue about the camera later. Enough talk about the mobiles for tonight :)