Korea’s Big Beam has recently unveiled its latest portable music player, Ken D. Available in pink and blue in addition to the usual black and white, this lightweight player packs a 2.8-inch touchscreen. It  supports most popular file formats including MP3, WMA, WAV, FLAC, AVI and APE. You can choose between two flavor from 4GB and 8GB models.
Sadly, it seems  lack of memory expansion and no iTunes support making it much more tempting to rely on Torrent downloads for your entertainment purposes. So far, there’s no word on a price either. However, if you’re on the lookout for an affordabel portable media player,  The Ken D from Big Beam might fit the bill.
Samsung is presenting its eight-megapixel Pixon touchscreen cameraphone over to the US as an AT&T device. The 8-megapixel camera that’s actually a Windows Mobile phone dubbed the Samsung Pixon M8800. It has just cleared the FCC, and  has been revealed that it will be fitted with AT&T-compatible 850 and 1900 MHz WCDMA.
The L variant is basically identical to its European counterpart but it sports the coveted 850 and 1900 MHz WCDMA bands. Besides its extremely high-resolution camera with image stabilization, the Pixon can record video at a widescreen 720×480 as well carry FM radio, GPS mapping and a microSD slot for storage. The phone also uses Samsung’s in-house TouchWiz interface for widget-like access to apps and quick information. read more…
The company Motorola posted on its website pictures of its new mobile phone Motorola i9, designed to work in networks iDEN. Anyway, for what it’s worth, the Motorola i9 has got to be one of the better-featured and most gorgeous looking iDEN phone created to date. The i9 is a clamshell (in the RAZR style) that comes with an external screen and lots of external keys that seem to be touch-sensitive.
We can’t deny its obvious resemblance to the RAZR family, but it also has some ROKR flavor to it as it sports the same ModeShift technology featured in the latter. Motorola i9 has built 3.1 MP camera, and the availability of key management player and a camera around the outside of your screen at once spoken on the availability of multimedia capabilities i9. The alphanumeric keypad of i9 is flat and probably easy to use. Other than that, the rumored features of the phone include GPS and Bluetooth. No word on its pricing and release date, but a safe guess would be an early 2009 outing.
Sprint has launched the first push-to-talk BlackBerry in the form of the BlackBerry Curve 8350i, sporting iDEN technology on Nextel Direct Connect. Adding push to talk capability is especially appealing to some enterprise and small business customers who rely on the feature to utiize phones as two-way radios to coordinate teams around a job site and in time-critical operations.  The Sprint BlackBerry Curve 8350i is available today from business sales or Sprint’s sales line, priced from $149.99 with a new two-year agreement and after an $80 instant credit and $100 mail-in rebate (bah). Meanwhile the smartphone will be finding its way into Sprint stores come January 11th.
The BlackBerry Curve 8350i is the first push-to-talk BlackBerry smartphone to offer:
- Built-in Wi-Fi® support, allowing customers to browse the Internet and download email attachments quickly and easily wherever they have Wi-Fi access, and they can also send and receive emails or browse the Internet while talking on the phone.
- Group Connect, enabling customers to instantly set up group conversations with up to 20 participants. read more…
Gresso is a name associated with luxury electronics, and today they have launched their Avantgarde Skeleton Collection. The unique feature of Gresso Avantgarde Skeleton is the scratch-proof high-tech ceramic coverage. This is the material of which the high temperature protection on spaceships is made.  The battery case is made of stainless steel, with a leather cover and magnet release, and the back of the handset features the Gresso logo covered with 10 micron gold. 23 functional keys and the triangle on the front panel are executed of aircraft steel. Luckily, the phone is limited to 15 pieces and will cost $5,000, ensuring that only 15 mentally deficient rich people will be suckered into buying this thing.
The gadget is provided with Windows Mobile 6 Standard, 2 Gb memory, SMS/MMS/e-mail, Internet explorer, Outlook, WAP 2.0, GPRS, Bluetooth, USB-port, mini-USB, PC Synchronization, voice recorder, MP3-player, 2 MP camera.
