Gadgety News

Sky’s ‘Neon Sign’ (or IM-U300K if you want to get formal) has come into the spotlight in Korea.

The Neon’s name comes from the fact that sports 49 LEDs on the front panel.

Users can take their pick from 46 given icons as well as have animated effects on them.

Supporting T-DMB, HSDPA, WCDMA global roaming and video telephony the Neon Sign phone also packs a 2M camera, mp3 player, electronic dictionary, text viewer and “multitasking functionality”.

It comes in four different colors: white, sky blue, pink and black.

Pricing is around 400,000(KRW) and 500,000(KRW).

More pics and full piece at Aving

This is Toshiba’s new G450 USB HSDPA.

It’s Tosh’s USB HSDPA modem for people that require their data on-the-go - but in a neat 1-2 it also doubles as a capable mobile blower!

With its unconventional keypad and a 96 x 36 pixel OLED display you’re unlikely to want to use it as your main phone - but then again, who am I to tell you what you’ll do or not? You’ve seen the hideous gold/diamond iPhone case that’s on sale yeah?

The modem/phone has tri-band EDGE/GSM, 2100 MHz HSDPA and 300 hours standby time coupled with 3 hours talk time and it comes in a choice of three colours for around $290 in Europe.

Via Unwiredview

Samsung have just released the latest version of their UMPC. 

The Samsung Q1 Ultra HSDPA - Unlike the original Q1 and Q1 Ultra, this new model lets you jump on the interweb anywhere that there is a mobile phone signal.

Samsung calls it ‘Samsung Broadband Access’, but the service is actually provided courtesy of an HSDPA-enabled SIM card which is stowed beneath the battery.  You’ll have to sort yourself out with that SIM card by the way. 

This means the Q1 Ultra works just like any Internet-ready mobile phone, but will reach download speeds of up to 10Mbps which aint too sluggish is it?

The rest of the device is identical to the original Q1 Ultra for better or for worse. The tiny split thumbboard on either side of the 7-inch screen is pretty tricky, the mouse takes some getting used to, and the whole unit is actually quite large and not exactly pocketable in my opinion.

It’s specs run to an 800MHz Intel A110 CPU, 1GB of DDR2 400MHz memory, a 60GB hard drive, Wi-Fi, and an approximate 4-hour battery life.

The biggest drawback is the price: it’ll set you back £849.95 from eXpansys with a T-Mobile Web ‘n’ Walk contract.  How much are those Asus Eee PC’s again?……so £850 divided by £250………you could get 3 Eee Pcs and have change for a load of coffees whilst you and 2 buddies surf away.

via Crave