XBox 360 - The Digital Entertainer

Looking for top-quality digital entertainment for the whole family? There is an age-appropriate games and entertainment for every member of the family. This hi-tech entertainer comes from Microsoft named X-box. The comprehensive settings allow you to decide what games your kids can play, who they can interact with online, and what movies they can watch.

Fusing powerful hardware, software, and services, X-box 360 fully engages you in a gaming experience that is more expansive, dramatic, and lifelike, where the possibilities are limitless and your imagination knows no boundaries.

Sony Ericsson W910i MOBO Edition Mobile Phone

Sony Ericsson - a key sponsor of this year’s MOBO Awards Show, has announced the latest limited edition phone, termed as W910i MOBO Edition.

Being the MOBO version of the W910i walkman phone, it will also include MOBO content.

“Mobile is now de facto one of the preferred channels for music consumption amongst young people all over the world and we are absolutely delighted to have Sony Ericsson as a partner to help provide exciting MOBO content for their discerning customers as well as drive development of the mobile channel in supporting urban music in the UK,” commented Kanya King MBE, MOBO founder.

Supporting a Walkman Player (version 3.0), the W910i MOBO edition come equipped with TrackID, motion sensor, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, FM radio with RDS, quad-band GSM connectivity with GPRS and EDGE, HSDPA 2100 MHz connectivity. It also bundles a 2.4-inch TFT display with 256K colors and a QVGA resolution, NetFront browser, JAVA MIDP 2.0, a 2.0 meapixel camera with video recording, 40 MB of internal memory and support for Memory Stick Micro cards.

David Hilton, head of marketing at Sony Ericsson UK & Ireland, said “We’ve been heavily involved in the music industry since we launched our first Walkman handset back in 2005. The MOBO Awards Show is a fantastic property for us to align our market leading handsets with and we are confident that, with The Carphone Warehouse support, we can make the W910i is ‘must have’ stocking filler this Christmas.”

The new special MOBO edition of W910i Walkman handset shines in the white and gold color shade and is expected to be available during Christmas exclusively through the Carphone Warehouse. No word on pricing.

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Sony Vaio AW series notebook PC announced

Sony Vaio’s new AW series notebook PC featuring an 18.4-inch LCD display that delivers vibrant colors in stunning 1080p clarity.

The Sony AW series is ideal for multimedia enthusiasts or photographers who view or edit high-definition content on-the go. It equips Intel Centrino 2 technology, up to 1TB storage, XBRITE-FullHD LCD technology (optional), Blu-ray Disc optical drive, 16:9 aspect ratio and an HDMI output. It is pre-installed with your choice of Windows Vista Home Premium, Vista Business or Vista Ultimate OS.

“This new notebook delivers the power of a high-end desktop in a portable form factor,” said Mike Abary, senior vice president of VAIO product marketing at Sony Electronics. “Whether you’re gaming, watching a Blu-ray Disc movie or editing high-def video, it offers all the HD tools you’ll need.”

You can record, store and play personal content on high-capacity BD media. It is ideal for Blu-ray Disc movies and its extended workspace lets you view two full websites or compare two documents simultaneously. An in-built CompactFlash slot lets you transfer photos easily from the digital camera to your PC and the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software offers one central portal to streamline the process of organizing, editing, archiving and printing photos.

The Sony Vaio AW notebooks are available in titanium gray and a glossy piano black finish. Select AW notebooks offer dual 64GB solid state drives (SSD) with RAID technology and 500GB hard drive.

The starting price of the Vaio standard notebook is $1,600 (approx Rs. 72,926) while the premium version starts at $2,000 (approx Rs. 91,150). It will be available at the Sony website. The notebook will also be sold at Sony Style stores, military base exchanges and select retailers later this month.

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Review - Lenovo ThinkPad SL300 13.3-inch Ultraportable Laptop PC

The ThinkPad laptops have always been about durable exteriors but that that also carries a high price. The ThinkPad SL300 looks to balance this durability with a more affordable price tag. To do this, Lenovo has decided to go with a glossier plastic exterior instead of a magnesium shell. This gives the SL300 a different look and feel from other ThinkPads but should stand up to usage.

Performance is one of the better aspects of the ThinkPad SL300. Equipped with the new Intel Core 2 Duo P8400, the system easily outperforsm many other ultraportables. This makes it excellent as a primary system for those that still want to have a high level of mobility. Performance could have been stronger if Lenovo used DDR3 memory with the new platform but the goal is also to keep costs down.

Graphics are really quite good with the ThinkPad SL300. It can use the new Intel GMA X4500 graphics but the NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS graphics give it a bit of an edge over most ultraportables. It won't give it performance for 3D gaming but does improve such tasks as high definition video decoding and playback. The 13.3-inch screen is very bright with good color. Since it uses an LED backlight, it also helps reduce power consumption.

The reduced power consumption of the LED panel and various power states of the new CPU/chipset combination along with a 6-cell battery pack give the ThinkPad SL300 some above average battery life for an ultraportble. This gives users plenty of time to work between charging.

One of the big downsides of the ThinkPad SL300 though is its size. It may have lots of performance and a very reasonable price tag but it ends up being heavier than many other ultraportables that use 13.3-inch display panel.

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Sony Introduces Cheaper Blu-ray Vaios

The Vaio NS and CS series can both be optioned with Blu-ray drives for around $1,000.

With the prices on standalone Blu-ray players finally starting to slowly tick backwards, Blu-ray drives in computers are beginning to follow. Sony introduced two cheaper Blu-ray equipped notebooks on Friday with the NS and CS series Vaios, which will sell for as low as $1,000 in Blu-ray-equipped form.

The two notebooks are primarily differentiated by their form factors: the NS gets a standard 15.4-inch screen while the CS gets a more compact 14.1-inch screen. Both have been tailored for high-def viewing with Xbrite-Eco LCDs, Intel Core 2 Duo processors, and 4GB RAM in the Blu-ray configurations. They also get dedicated A/V modes to cut down on the number of steps needed to get a movie playing or control playback.

Like the NR series that preceded both the NS and CS, Sony will market the new notebooks as fashionable budget machines. The NS will come in nightfall blue, silk white, and granite silver, while the CS will come in four glossy shades: sangria, cosmopolitan, dove and black.

The NS series will start at $650 and rise to $1,000 in its cheapest Blu-ray form, while the CS will start at $920 and leap to $1,070 with the player.

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The ASUS P552w is the latest PDA phone that features, Glide innovative, touch responsive user interface that makes navigating on this mobile phone more intuitive and interactive than ever before.

ASUS P552w incorporates a revolutionary touch-responsive user interface that uses cutting-edge Gester technology which enables users to perform a variety of navigational actions such as selecting, zooming, scrolling and flipping with the simple flicks of their fingers.

The ASUS P552w also has applications that enable users to access a wide range of functions such as looking up the latest news, checking the weather forecast, viewing photo slideshows and listening to music all with a few taps of their fingers. These applications, dubbed Multi-Home, Anytime Launcher, EziPhoto, and EziMusic. EziPhoto enables users to flip through their photo collection with their fingertips, similar to how they would with a real photo album.

EziMusic has an interactive interface that allows you to play and manage your music. The ASUS P552w also houses applications that enable easy access to web content like RSS news-feeds, YouTube movies and photos on Flickr.

The ASUS P552w features Google Maps which not only facilitates navigation, but also capable of supplying users with POI´s (points of interest). The ASUS P552w´s navigation capabilities feature ASUS SMS Location Link. This exclusive feature allows users at two different locations to locate each other by sending each other SMS messages. Clicking on the URLs, which are automatically embedded in the sent messages, will link the phones up to Google Maps, giving users clear directions on how to get to each other´s positions.

The Asus P552W is equipped with a 624MHz processor, 3.5G HSDPA connectivity, GPS and seamless Google integration. It also offers Bluetooth, WLAN 802.11b/g, GPS, USB and other connectivity standards to enable easy data transfers to and from other devices.

ASUS has yet to announce pricing and availability information for its P552w phone.

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Apple MacBook Air Laptop

When Apple launches a major new product they love to raise the bar every time and this is no different when they launched the Apple MacBook Air laptop.

The MacBook Air is ultra portable and ultra thin; it changes what we think about laptops by breakthrough design and the use of wireless innovations.

Apple’s latest notebook takes mobile computing to another level and keeps what’s really needed for its internal hardware, and devices like optical drives are left as external devices, if needed at all.

The main specs include a 13.3-inch LCD, OS X v10.5, a 80GB hard drive or SSD option for more money, 2GB DDR2 memory, and a 1.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with an option to upgrade.

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