Digital photo frames belong both to traditional and modern homes. Every time we have demonstrated a picture frame that can display a slideshow of photos reflected on the screen in bright colors, our audience has been surprised and pleased. Surprised, because not many people know about digital photo frames and pleased when they realize that pictures keep updating on the frame. We tend to recommend picture frames that can access the Internet because the frame owner, for instance grandma, doesn't have to worry about changing new photos to the frame. Since a photo frame is also a highly visible object in a living room, the frame should be designed appropriately. That's exactly what Parrot's new frame does.

Parrot has introduced a digital picture frame you don't have to hide ...

People who daily use a PC for communication, for information search or for social networking hardly give a second thought on how difficult it must feel for an absolute beginner to start using a PC. You have to set up the hardware, configure the operating system, install applications, configure applications, and determine a way to connect to the Internet. The visionary Asus EeePC, which ignited the whole netbook industry, was built on the premise of simplicity. Now, a small company called Litl has brought back care-free, easy-to-use netbooks.

The Litl Webbook is a 12-inch netbook that can be used like an ordinary laptop or like a tablet. The display can be ...

For years, Nokia has regarded the possibility to watch live TV on a mobile phone an important feature. The company has invested plenty of money and resources in the development of international standard for broadcasting digital television signal to low-power devices. The standard, DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcast-Handheld), has been around for a few years. Nokia has introduced a handful of smartphones that can receive DVB-H signal, and some countries are broadcasting or testing a new broadcast network for DVB-H. The adoption of DVB-H and other mobile TV technologies has been slow because of costs involved (additional hardware is required into phones and new network must be built)and increasingly easier access to Internet services like YouTube. Now, Nokia has decided to lower the device price point so low that most people can afford a mobile phone TV.

The Nokia 5330 Mobile TV Edition phone can receive and display live TV broadcasts. It is even possible to record ...

An advanced smartphone may cost up to 500-700 dollars or euros, but it can actually save a lot of money for its owner. First, high-end smartphones come with Wi-Fi connectivity, allowing direct Internet access via hotspots. You don't have to pay your mobile network provider for Web and email access. Second, if you occasionally need to dial international numbers, you can bypass the expensive international billing altogether. The trick is to let the Internet carry your phone call practically anywhere in the world. You need a powerful smartphone that can run a Voip (Voice over the Internet) application, but after you have the device, you pay a fraction (if anything) for your international calls.

Nimbuzz is a smartphone application that lets you make international phone calls to other Nimbuzz users for free or ...

While ereader devices, such as Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader, or iRex are excellent products for storing thousands of ebooks and making it possible for people with normal eyesight to read their book collections from the sharp screen, these new devices haven't really helped people with poor eyesight. There are many people with dyslexia, weak eyes or who are blind altogether. For many years, PC applications that can turn computer text into speech have been available. Intel has taken this idea as the building block into its new ereader device, but the company enhanced the idea with a number of useful features.

The Intel Reader is a portable handheld device that lets you load books, papers, documents and ebooks into its storage. Then, you can ...

First, the world had mobile phones with tiny screens and numeric keypads. As text messaging and email access became popular applications on the phones, some manufacturers designed devices with compact qwerty keyboards for more convenient typing. Another design revolution was originated by Apple when it introduced an excellent touch screen technology to mobile phones. The touch screen was great, but the virtual keyboard on the iPhone screen sucked. Other manufacturers realized the opportunity and a new class of mobile devices was born; smartphones that feature both a touch screen and a hardware keyboard.

The LG GW520 is a compact mobile phone that features both a touch screen and slide-out qwerty keyboard. The touch sensitive display is ...

A new ringtone can give fresh feeling to a mobile phone that's been playing the same old tune for weeks, or even months. Apple iPhone owners are renowned for their appetite for new applications, but how about ringtones? Have you changed the ringtone on your iPhone lately? Now you can change it once a day for the next three years if you have the 1000 Ringtones DVD from Sony.

The Sony 1000 Ringtones DVD has been made with Apple iPhone users in mind, but the ringtones are also compatible with ...

Active outdoors adventurers, hikers, and mountaineers have used sports watches, like the Suunto Vector for years. Primarily, it is a safety device that can tell the altitude, information about the weather, time, and direction derived from a built-in compass. The device can be provide even more safety-related information in real time when a heart rate monitoring feature is integrated with other features. Heart rate monitoring can also assist a person who is training for high altitudes.

The Suunto Vector HR is a sports watch with all key features outdoors adventurers require, but it also comes with ...

Only a couple of years ago, Sony Ericsson's Walkman mobile phones were among the hottest products in the industry. They were stylish, small, features were allright, and above all, they were fine portable MP3 players. Where are Walkman phones today? At eBay and other auction sites, because Sony Ericsson is promoting a new brand; Xperia. The latest device in the product range, the Xperia X10 takes the brand to the next level above Walkman phones.

The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 is a touch screen smartphone designed for multimedia and social networking. The phone is built on ...

In principle, there are two ways to succeed in the mobile phone industry. You can design an attractive phone with all the features technology allows. Apple's iPhone that only wealthy people can buy is an example of this approach. The other way is to make dirt-cheap phones that practically anyone, even in remote villages can buy. The trick is to cut manufacturing costs so low that you can make a profit even when selling a phone for 20 euros. That's what Nokia has done.

The Nokia 1280 is a no-frills mobile phone that can do what a mobile originally was set to do; phone calls and text messages. The phone has been designed to be ...

After the Internet made it possible to route telephone calls to ordinary landline numbers and mobile phones, only people with too much money have made international calls using traditional telephone services. No one has to pay several dollars per minute only to call back home anymore. Fortunately, a number of new telephone services are offering free or low-cost rates for overseas phone calls. FooCall is one of them.

FooCall service is offering low-cost international phone calls for mobile phones, PCs and landline telephones. The rates are low, because ...

As we expected, the trend in ebook reader devices is strongly pointing to touch-sensitive displays instead of exotic keypads featured on devices like the Amazon Kindle or the Sony Reader PRS-505. For instance, the Barnes&Noble Nook, Entourage Edge, and Sony Touch Edition all have touch screens of some sort. Irex, one of the pioneers in the ebook device industry, has introduced a touch screen device as well.

The Irex DR800SG ebook reader comes with 8.1-inch touch screen. Device menus and ebooks are accessed by tapping the screen with ...

What similarities powerful server computers and small smartphones have? Sure, both can connect to the Internet, run applications, and perform many useful things, but there is one core component that's the same: Linux software. Originally developed for a desktop PC almost twenty years ago, Linux operating system has become the de-facto server software for Internet servers and it is becoming increasingly popular on smartphones after Google adopted Linux for mobile devices and labeled it Android. Also Samsung has decided to add Linux smartphones to its product range.

The Samsung Galaxy Spica is a touch screen smartphone designed for ...

For a moment, we thought that all ebook reader devices would be alike. The most popular devices (at the moment) Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader are slim handheld tablets optimised for displaying text alone. Without a color display, without Internet access, without email, without the possibility to write down notes, getting an ebook reader means carrying an extra device along with a laptop PC. Not anymore, if we believe a company called Entourage achieves its goal and can develop an attractive product that merges ebook reader, netbook, and tablet PC into one small device.

The Entourage Edge is a netbook, tablet, and ebook reader with two displays. The black-and-white display is ...

Photographers who take plenty of photos during their shooting sessions tend to carry spare memory cards. It is a sensible solution for ensuring the storage capacity for digital images won't run out. It doesn't, however, solve another nasty problem; losing the photos already stored on memory cards. We have discovered a solution that pretty much protects photos already taken, even if the photographer forgets his backup strategy altogether.

The Epson P-6000 and P-7000 are high-capacity multimedia players that can be connected to a digital camera for instant image backups. When the P-6000 or P-7000 is connected to a camera ...

JoikuBoost is one of the greatest innovations we have recently discovered in the mobile phone industry or one of the weirdest gizmos without real life application (other than being a toy for nerds). JoikuBoost application is aimed at boosting mobile network download speeds by sharing the bandwidth of multiple smartphones. Sounds exciting? We thought so. Let's explore what JoikuBoost smartphone application can do so that you can judge for yourself if you find the application useful.

JoikuBoost is a downloadable application for smartphones running on Symbian S60 software. After you have installed the application into a smartphone, you can connect, for example, your laptop ...

Nokia became an overnight sensation in North America in the late 1990s, after the company had learned the tricks of the unique market with RadioShack. One of the key things was that Nokia was more than willing to customize mobile phones for US operators.

As a challenger, Nokia was agile and innovative. In 1998, it succeeded to beat Motorola in the race for the number one position. Nokia became the largest mobile phone vendor in the world and in the US. In 2001, Nokia introduced its first smartphone, the 7650. Since Nokia was a top ten brand globally and the new Symbian S60 software allowed anyone to create applications for the phone, management made a decision to stop customizing phones for operators. If a customer wanted to have their own version of a Nokia phone, the customer was welcomed to program his own applications and install them to the phone.

The decision was logical and didn't really affect Nokia's sales in Europe or Asia, but it was fatal in the US. Slowly, but surely, US operators stopped distributing Nokia phones ...

The top management of the Barnes&Noble bookstore chain must have been hit by a terrible headache when Amazon launched the Kindle ebook reader device. Matters turned even worse when the device became an instant success. Finally, the Barnes&Noble management decided to re-enter the ebook business which the company left in early 2000s. Fortunately, the company had the foresight to design a different kind of ebook reader device than the Amazon Kindle or Sony Reader. Let's find out if the Barnes&Noble Nook can beat its competition.

The unique feature on the Barnes&Noble Nook ebook reader device is its color display. In fact, the Nook has another unique feature; it has two displays. It is not as crazy as ...

Many smartphones are so powerful that it is possible to store a whole movie on the device and view the flick on the phone display. That's an excellent way to spend time on a train or during a flight. When you want to watch the video clip with friends, you need another solution. A number of smartphones come with TV out connectors for connecting the device to a TV monitor, but you need cables and know how to tweak both smartphone and TV settings. A new, more convenient solution for the small screen problem is to have a projector that can reflect the smartphone screen as a large image to a wall.

Since the key feature of a mobile phone, iPod, or laptop is that it is easy to take the device along, the projector has to be small and portable as well. The Cinemin Swivel is ...

You may know Acer from its PCs, laptops, and netbooks, but lately, the company has been very active in smartphone business as well. It has introduced three smartphone product lines with a number of phone models in each category. Let's take a look at a smartphone with touch scren adnd numeric keypad.

The Acer beTouch E200 is a compact touch screen smartphone that also ...

One of the most common accidents that can destroy a mobile phone (or any electronics) is dropping the device into water. Water resistant mobile phones designed for sports activities are available, but few people find them attractive. It is, however, possible to totally protect a mobile phone from water. You simply slip the phone into a pouch designed for the purpose. We tried out a low-cost waterproof pouch for mobile phones.

Nokia Ovi, a suite of online services for mobile phones and PCs, is a strategic bet for the company's future. While Ovi is critically important for Nokia's top management, the service still has to prove its importance to Nokia customers. The Files service, however, shows potential beyond currently available backup and remote access features. We reviewed the service and analyzed its potential ...