LG is soon going to launch yet another MP3 player from its UP3 range. Unlike the other UP3 players which are quiet long, the new LG UP3 S2 is very compact is very small. This UP3 S2 is a new MP3 player with a shining stone finish. This UP3 S2 has been designed with a concept of jewelry in mind.

The new UP3 S2 would be available in all jewelry metal shine. LG UP3 S2 would come in five shiny colours crystal silver, black diamond, pink topaz, sapphire blue and ruby red. This MP3 player would be offered with different memory sizes such as 1GB, 2GB and 4 GB.
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Mac and Windows market has a good news after all. The Western Digital My Book Studio Edition II is specially crafted for the very market. This extraordinary RAID hard drive is energy saving and features eSATA port and a FireWire 800. This enables quick data access.

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So it sounds interesting enough, Western Digital’s GreenPower drives are available in 1TB and 2TB sizes. So just go for it!!!

One of the biggest areas where the HTC G1 phone on T-Mobile’s network lags Apple iPhone is the app store. So far, the Android Marketplace allowed only free apps in its online store but that is set to change this…

One of the biggest areas where the HTC G1 phone on T-Mobile’s network lags Apple iPhone is the app store.

So far, the Android Marketplace allowed only free apps in its online store but that is set to change this week. Google is expected to allow developers to start charging for programs sold through the Android market place, says The Wall Street Journal.

Unlike the iPhone App store that has splits the revenue with the developers, Android allows for third party programmers to keep the profits to themselves. Apple keeps 30 percent of the revenue from apps sold through the iPhone store.

The Android marketplace is also open. Apps do not have to be approved by either the carrier or Google which developed the Android mobile operating system. That is in contrast to Apple’s walled garden approach that requires all apps to be scrutinized by the company. iPhone users are billed for paid apps through their iTunes account. It is not clear what kind of payment framework Android will use.

Paid apps should help improve the Android marketplace. At the least, G1 phone users deserve equal access to Tipulator, Super Monkey Ball and iBeer.

Also see:
Android App No Malware, Says Google
Showdown: HTC T-Mobile G1 vs. iPhone 3G
Analysts: T-Mobile’s G1 Android Phone Lacks Sizzle
Annoying: Google Android-Powered G1 Leaves Out Standard Headphone Jack
Photo Gallery: G1 Android Phone Up Close and Personal

Photo: G1 (originalpozer/Flickr)

Source[Wired Gadget Lab]

LAS VEGAS — Despite the recession, more than a hundred thousand people flooded the Las Vegas Convention Center and surrounding hotels this week to get a glimpse of the electronics industry’s latest gadgets and gear. They were not disappointed. The…

LAS VEGAS — Despite the recession, more than a hundred thousand people flooded the Las Vegas Convention Center and surrounding hotels this week to get a glimpse of the electronics industry’s latest gadgets and gear. They were not disappointed.

The Consumer Electronics Show remains the biggest, the most exciting and the most frustrating tradeshow in America. It is also home to some of the most interesting product debuts: for instance, the VCR, the CD and the DVD all made their first appearances on the world stage here.

This year’s highlights:

• The ambitious Palm Pre, a touchscreen phone with a QWERTY keyboard and a brand-new OS. It was the talk of the show, though Palm let few people actually touch the thing. We did manage to get a close look, though: check out Wired.com’s video of the Palm Pre.
• Microsoft’s decision to release the beta version of Windows 7, free, to anyone who wanted to download it. (The beta wound up being somewhat delayed — for more details and download links, see Windows 7 Public Beta Delayed on our sister blog Epicenter.)
• Sony’s impressively tiny Vaio Lifestyle PC.
• A remarkably innovative lineup of new hardware mashups from Asus, including a PC concealed inside a keyboard, a laptop with an embedded secondary screen in the touchpad, and a pair of tablet netbooks.
• The increasing credibility of netbooks as business computers.
• Apple’s likely inclusion (coming soon, our sources suggest) of Surround Sound audio in iTunes — and perhaps the iTunes Music Store.
• A crop of interesting but ultimately doomed budget all-in-one PCs.

For more gadgets and scenes from CES 2009, check out these two galleries:

• Gadget Roundup: Innovation is Back at CES
• Vicarious Vegas: On the Ground at CES 2009

And for more action from the show floor, go to Wired.com Video, and get the latest news from CES 2009 as it develops.

Photo: Jonathan Snyder / Wired.com

Source[Wired Gadget Lab]

LAS VEGAS — Dell doesn’t have a booth here at CES, but the company staked out a floor at the trendy Palms casino to make several product announcements — and to try to win a few style points. The stodgy…

LAS VEGAS — Dell doesn’t have a booth here at CES, but the company staked out a floor at the trendy Palms casino to make several product announcements — and to try to win a few style points.

The stodgy PC maker from Round Rock, Texas has been known for years for its workhorse PCs and notebooks — functional, economical, generally reliable, and butt-ugly. But in the last year, the company has been working hard to change that perception. For instance, its compact Studio Hybrid PC has a sleek look and can be modded with replaceable outer sleeves, so you can color it (red, black, bamboo) to suit your decor. And its line of Studio laptops, which can be customized with any one of more than 100 different artistic designs, has been selling well.

This week, the company rolled out two new laptops, the Studio XPS 16 (shown above with Dell’s head design guy, Ed Boyd) and the Studio XPS 13, that continue the trend of wrapping computers in cutting-edge cases made out of interesting materials. And the company announced a mysterious “luxury brand” called Adamo, which so far seems to be little more than a slim black notebook (or the chassis of a notebook) in the hands of a supermodel.

The XPS 16 and XPS 13 are notebooks with, respectively, 16-inch and 13-inch screens. Both have distinctive multi-toned exteriors in differing shades of black, gray, and charcoal gray, and both include leather trim along the back (hinge) edge of the top lid. While tastes may differ — and some may find the inclusion of animal skin a bit abhorrent — these notebooks have a classy, refined look that’s a world away from Dell’s earlier work.

Both laptops are available now, starting at $1,200.

As for Adamo, very little is known. Dell hired a model to show off the notebook, but no one was allowed to touch it and Dell representatives didn’t turn it on. They also did not release any specifications. So for now, Adamo is little more than a pipe dream.

Read on for more pictures of Dell’s new products.

Dell’s Studio XPS 13 notebook. Photo courtesy of Dell

The 16-inch Studio XPS 16. Photo courtesy of Dell

The Studio XPS 16 has a slim profile and a glowing power connector in the hinge that resembles those on some high-end, slim Sony Vaio notebooks. Photo courtesy of Dell

Dell acknowledged its laptops’ homely past with this display, which showed the stylistic progression of laptops from 2005 to 2008. Photo: Dylan Tweney/Wired.com

Dell’s suite at the Palm casino was bedecked with laptop art available for installation on current laptop models. Some of the artists commissioned to create art for Dell, including graffiti artists Mike Ming and Tristan Eaton, were in the suite, painting giant canvases and printing original designs on T-shirts. Photo: Dylan Tweney/Wired.com

Top photo: Dylan Tweney/Wired.com

Source[Wired Gadget Lab]