Sony preps widescreen sat nav units
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Irate drivers to favour new Nav-U's gesture control? IFA 06 Sony will update its Nav-U GPS-based route-planning product in November, the consumer electronics giant said today. It promised the upcoming widescreen NV-U80 and NV-U81T gadgets will deliver better-than-the-rest accuracy for speed and location.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - In the world of cellphones, it's the equivalent of a big-screen TV. Fujitsu's F904i, which goes on sale in Japan on Friday, packs a 3.1-inch widescreen display -- the largest yet seen on a handset with digital TV reception. When the clamshell phone is opened up, the 16:9 screen sits vertically but a clever mount means it can be twisted horizontally to the left or right allowing TV shows to be watched in widescreen with no letterboxing, which are the back bars seen above and below a widescreen image on a conventional TV. It also makes Web site browsing much easier than on a conventional cellphone screen. The phone also packs a browser for the PC as well as mobile Internet. If an e-mail comes in while TV is being watched, the phone displays an alert. Users can continue watching TV while reading or sending a reply -- thanks to the widescreen display. Other features include GPS (Global Positioning System) navigation, a music player, document viewer and a 3-megapixel camera with Fujitsu's Milbeaut image processor, which is used in conventional digital still cameras. The F904i measures 108 millimeters by 50 millimeters by 22 millimeters and weighs 138 grams. Fujitsu says the battery will provide up to 190 minutes of talk time and up to 550 hours on standby. The phone will be available in Japan through NTT DoCoMo. While it won't be available overseas, it provides a taste of what might be coming soon from other handset makers as digital TV becomes more popular.
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Sony debuted an innovative new bendable 2.5-inch display, one that is less than 0.01 inch thick -- not much thicker than a piece of paper -- and can display full-color video.
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Sony Corp, biggest consumer electronics maker, has is planning to release a new hard disk Walkman to take on Apple&#39;s iPod. Apple has made a success story of their iPod in quite a short time, although the device
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CHIBA, JAPAN -- Sony will begin selling in Japan in November a combination personal computer and video server that can record up to seven channels of television simultaneously, it said at the Ceatec 2004 exhibition here.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. - Sony Corp. says it will introduce its first HD Radio products in July, joining the growing group of companies seeking to make the next-generation digital radio technology a standard feature in audio products over the next several years.
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Sony Corp  on Sunday unveiled  a next-generation super-thin television and a robot-like music  player, hoping to highlight innovation in order to keep  consumers hungry for its line of consumer electronics.
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(InfoWorld) - Hitachi hopes to win market share from rival Toshiba with three new high-capacity hard drives that will reach the digital video recording and automotive navigation markets in 2007. Hitachi will announce new versions of its CinemaStar and Endurastar drives on Friday at the IFA international consumer electronics show in Berlin. The drives are designed for high-end consumer electronics platforms built by third-party vendors. The company hopes these products will be a business success, since their sales in consumer electronics devices have been growing faster than sales for the traditional IT markets of laptop and desktop PCs, said Marcia Bencala, vice president for product strategy and planning at Hitachi Global Storage Technologies. Hitachi claims that its CinemaStar C5K160 will be the industry's smallest size DVR (digital video recorder) disk at 2.5-inches diameter, and that its Endurastar J4K50 and N4K50 will be the largest capacity automotive disks at 50GB. Indeed, these high-capacity drives could act as halo products for Hitachi, enticing customers to buy more mid-range drives as well, said Nicole D'Onofrio, a storage analyst with Current Analysis. "Desktop drives continue to be the bread and butter for hard drive manufacturers, but we're increasingly seeing mobile devices accounting for more sales, and now consumer electronics and automotive," D'Onofrio said. HitachiÂ used perpendicular recording technologyÂ to fit dense storage on its 2.5-inch diameter CinemaStar disk, much smaller than the standard 3.5-inch size used in digital video players. That allows designers of DVRs, portable video players and DVR-enabled televisions to build slimmer products without sacrificing high capacity; 160GB are enough to store 57 movies or 40,000 four-minute songs. Hitachi supplies nearly the entire market for high-end 400GB and 500GB recording disks. The company hopes the new CinemaStar will help it increase its share of the market for smaller-capacity disks, which stands at around 20 percent for 80GB and 160GB disks. Leaders of that segment include Seagate Technology, Western Digital, Fujitsu, and Samsung Electronics. Hitachi plans to reach full volume production of its 160GB CinemaStar C5K160 disk (also available in 80GB and 40GB) by the second quarter of 2007. That means customers could be buying DVRs using Hitachi disks by Christmas 2007, said Bill Healy, senior vice president of corporate strategy and marketing at Hitachi. Hitachi's other new products, the Endurastar J4K50 and N4K50, are designed to be rugged enough to withstand automotive vibration and temperature swings while offering enough capacity for applications like navigation, digital music and audio books. Hitachi did not name the vehicle manufacturers that would use the disks, but such features are commonly found in luxury cars like the Mercedes-Benz and Lexus. Hitachi hopes to improve its 20 percent market share in a huge automotive market that produced 64 million cars and light trucks in 2005. The demand for hard drives in those cars is expected to grow at 38 percent per year from 2005 to 2010, Healy said. The company will reach full production of its 50GB Endurastar J4K50 and N4K50 (also available in 40GB and 30GB) by the first quarter of 2007.
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Sony's new game console may be chock-full of features, but here are some choice accessories for maximizing the experience.
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InfoWorld - Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications plans to make an announcement Wednesday about its strategy for the UIQ interface that runs on the Symbian mobile phone operating system, Sony Ericsson President Miles Flint said Sunday at a news briefing on the eve of the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona.
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Global electronics giant Sony will launch its popular projection televisions with large LCD screens in China early next year, a company official said on Wednesday.
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CHIBA, JAPAN -- Sharp unveiled a 65-inch LCD television at the opening of the Ceatec 2004 exhibition here this week. The company also said it will sell Aquos-brand TVs with LCD panels in size of 50 inches and larger in 2005.
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Make calls, plan routes Is it a satnav, or is it a mobile phone? Garminâs hoping youâll think its latest device is both, because the NÃ¼vifone lets you find locations and make calls through a fancy touchscreen UI.â¦
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Company to offer 3 devices with Bluetooth and GPS capabilities.
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PC World tested 17 new midrange-priced wide-screen LCDs in three size categories that are growing in popularity: 19 inches, 20 or 22 inches, and 25.5 to 28 inches. The results may surprise you: bigger isn't always better.
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By David Magliano, The Walton Sun, Santa Rosa Beach, Fla.  Dec. 16--You know what size television you want, and you know how much  you want to spend, but do you know your LCD from your DLP?   You're not alone.
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The writing's on the flat screen: Sony should change the channel.