Asus, one of the leading manufacturers of laptops and notebooks, has brought out an e-book reader like amazon’s kindle.Known as the DR-900 e-reader; the device certainly looks good in its all-black ensemble. It measures 222 x 161 x 9mm and weighs just over 300 grams at 370 grams. The product has been built with a  9 inch SiPix electronic paper monochrome display, with support for 16-grey scale shades and a maximum resolution of 1024 x 768 resolution at 150 parts per inch. The product pack includes the reader, a power cable, USB adapter (charge via a computer), battery and a book cover.

Samsung along with the TL500 has launched the TL350 camera for end users. This sleek camera is equipped with a 10 mega pixel digital image sensor. It extends support for full HD video, going further by allowing users to take panoramic pictures.It also has a dual capture mode, allowing users to capture video whilst taking still photographs – all in high definition. A burst shooting mode is also available – you can take snaps at speeds as high as 10fps while shooting in this mode. Full size digital images can be taken at express pace, whilst using this feature. The camera is expected to cost anywhere between 100 to 400 dollars and is slightly expensive for the features provided.

An android based application, gesture search was recently unveiled by google. Gesture search is simple. You search by drawing letters, the intelligent software recognizes the pattern, searches the mobile phone on the fly and retrieves results based on your query. You can refine your query by adding more letters, one after the other for getting more specific results. The Android OS has a good searching feature and this latest venture from google will certainly improve the software, allowing users to search for things easily, with just strokes of the hand. A good innovation from Google. You can download it from the android market.

Notion Ink, an electronic gadgets manufacturer, has announced the launch of its latest android based tablet – the Adam.

The tablet computer, Adam – is a very good device. It is a nifty gadget with trendy looks. It is very sleek and looks stylish. It weighs a 1.7 pounds and measures 6.3 x 9.8 x 0.6 inches. The tablet is powered by the Dual core ARM cortex A9 CPU, with a clock cycle of 1GHz. It has brilliant features – Bluetooth,WiFi support, USB connectivity and gives 16 hours battery support(without recharge).It is expected to roll out by the end of April. Watch out for this tablet, for it certainly will spice up things with Apple launching the iPad recently.

Lenovo has also unveiled a new thinkpad system. The X201 thinkpad uses an intel processor chip and what’s more there is variety here – you can choose either the Intel Core i7-620M, the Core i5-540M, or the Core i5-520M chipset. The RAM is decent too – with up to 8 GB of RAM support guaranteed. A GPU has been built into this system, targeting enthusiastic gamers. With a spacious 500 GB HDD, this system gives you maximum space, with the option of increasing space being given to the user through external drives. The gadget can be purchased with the latest Microsoft operating system installed in it – the windows 7 bundle is pre-installed in this gizmo.

Lenovo has launched its brand new server for the benefit of business clients. The TS200v is the latest in its range of servers. The server runs on an intel based chip – with the Intel 3450 chipset used as its motherboard, the server’s motherboard can handle Intel’s latest processor chips – the Intel i3-530, the Pentium G6950, or the Intel Celeron G1101. The server model is equipped with a DDR3 RAM. Additionally, 4 extra slots have been provided to add more memory chips. Looking more like a PC based CPU than like a traditional server, this piece of electronic craftsmanship gives so much of flexibility to budding businesses and is easy on their pockets.

The Sansa Fuse, Sandisk’s new mp3 player has been unveiled. It has been portrayed as a MP ¾ player which goes along the same line as iPod Nano. The cool little player portrays a rotating front dial which also acts as the navigation keys. It is equipped with good sound quality and a resolution of 220*176. The Fuze comes in 2, 4 and 8GB versions very similar to the iPod brand – the iPod too is available at these variants as well. The MP3 player is equipped with an FM stereo radio, USB connectivity, easy drag drop file transfer system, a built in microphone and a microSD slot to expand memory capacity. Prices start from 70$.

LG has unveiled the newest in the chocolate series, the Chocolate touch VX8575 with enhanced music features. It is a great phone for music lovers. The Chocolate touch VX8575 features a microSD 16GB internal memory with 1GB Internal memory dedicated for Music storage. It also has extensive HTML Web browsing, Bluetooth connectivity, V cast Music and video, and changeable Black plates. The chocolate phone provides access to Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, and other social networking sites which allow uploading images and videos. It has a music player with built in features such as Dolby equalizer offers sound space for head phones, Natural Bass, High-Frequency Enhancer and Sound Level controller. The LG Chocolate phone is equipped with 3.2 Megapixel Camera and camcorder empowered with varied features. It provides clarity zooming up to 1.6 times, panorama for three guided sequential shots, Facial makeover that removes blemishes and enhances features, Ability to write over images, Image editor with zoom, rotate, crop, added frames and stamps, Customize brightness, white balance, shutter sounds, color effects.

Samsung Electronics America, Inc, a leading manufacturer in consumer electronics has unveiled a high-end compact digital camera, the TL500, specifically meant for keen and highly proficient photographers.  It features a 10 mega-pixel high-performance image sensor which provides high resolutions and image quality. It is also equipped with a high performance imaging processor capable of capturing high quality images, a 24mm wide angle Schneider KREUZNACH lens, highly sensitive CCD sensor that provides image retention capabilities, 3 inch swiveling AMOLED (Active-matrix organic LED). Samsung has also included Dual Image Stabilization technology which helps in cutting down blurring and red spots. It also has video recording facility at 30 frames per sec at 640×480 pixels.

Motorola is about to release the latest mobile phone in its long running motoblur brand of mobile phones. Called the CLIQ XT, this mobile phone is a slender, trendy make. Measuring about 2.3 x 4.6 x .5 inches, it looks beautiful in its all black motif.  The Motorola CLIQ XT has a streamlined look with a black exterior. The 3.1 inch LCD touchscreen display occupies most of the front face, but there is a track pad, a menu button and the home button providing some much needed navigation. The CLIQ XT is a different sort of phone, is varied from the earlier phone CLIQ, also marketed by Motorola. In it, the XT is taller, wider, thinner and lighter in comparison with its predecessor. It is slimmer than the former model and is a feather weight creation, making it easier to slide into one’s pocket. The CLIQ XT sans the slidable keyboard makes room for a slimmer, trendier design.

Motorola’s fifth experiment with the Android, the CLIQ XT runs on the Android 1.5 donut. Considering Android’s meteoric rise, it seems a little outdated in terms of the operating system used, but one can expect upward compatibility being enabled on the device. On the software front, a major revamp from the earlier model would be the media player. The new music player is a fully integrated piece of software. It not only plays music but can also stream live feeds from Shout Cast radio, identify different song genres with SoundHond, and search/view music video files from youtube. You can also tune into the TuneWiki Community, which gives a host of services, such as Music Maps which allows you to see what other people in your city/location are listening to. Music apart, you can purchase tracks from within the media player, allowing you to do many things at once, completely integrated and seamless.

The phone is not equipped with a slide out keyboard but replacing this hardware feature is a software keyboard; not one or two but three keyboard methods are available. Two built-in android keyboards and the third one courtesy Swype. The swype system allows one to drag letters forming words on the fly. The experience may be a little confusing but nevertheless is a new way of typing in words. The on-screen software keyboards though looks somewhat cluttered up and gives one a claustrophobic effect.

The phone runs on a somewhat archaic processor – the QualComm MSM7201A 528MHz processor. It is not a high speed gizmo. One can expect slight glitches as the UI takes time to switch between screen orientations; however, it runs multiple applications simultaneously. In spite of minor setbacks, the overall experience is pretty good with Motorola adding some goodies in the software kitty. Apart from the music/media player, the CLIQ XT comes equipped with a good browser. You can make use of the Android’s web browser. It loads web pages pretty quickly. With built-in flash support, streaming videos on the fly in this browser is quite easy. Video though is slightly slower, as it takes a few extra seconds to buffer, giving it a slight lag.

Equipped with a five mega pixel camera, the picture quality is a big bonus. The camera is excellent and provides good resolutions. The camera comes with LED flash, comes with the digital quality zoom-in feature and has autofocus. It captures video at 24 frames per second, HVGA resolution.

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The 3G network is quite stable, and provides good connectivity – one of the major features of this mobile phone. Providing stable sound quality at quad-band GSM speeds is another major plus. There is no noise whatsoever and the sound quality is definitely top notch. A good speakerphone also is an added advantage and makes this device even more likeable.

The 3G phone is expected to be unveiled in the United States with T-Mobile providing carrier services. With an average talk time of around 6.5 hours, and a stand by of around 13 days, it is expected to be quite decent although there are phones giving better performance on a lithium ion cell.The phone are yet to be priced; the phone has standard features – Bluetooth, GSM and WiFi along with MotoBlur – the integrated social networking functionality specifically added in Motorola based phones. One can however expect the phone to cost anywhere between 100 to 200 dollars, given that the CLIQ mobile phone from the same manufacturer was billed at 199 dollars.