Okay, okay, for those of you in the UK that like a good deal, eXpansys have got another spanking good set – but they are only valid between 11am-5pm on 13th November 2009:

Sony Ericsson Satio with £30 eXpansys Vouchers

Normally £489.99 Now £479.99 Save £10 and receive £30 eXpansys vouchers

Samsung i8000 Omnia I Windows Mobile Professional 6.5

Normally £434.99 Now £409.99 Save £25

Nokia 6760 Slide QWERTY keyboard

Normally £195.99 Now £184.99 Save £10

Acer beTouch E101 Windows 6.5 Smartphone

Normally £169.99 Now £159.99 Save £10

Toshiba Portege G910 With £50 Cash Back

Normally £149.99 Now £139.99 Save £10 and receive £50 Cash Back

Premier Systems Fudge the Singing and Dancing Bear

Normally £7.99 Now £4.99 Save £3

Personally I like the look of the SE Satio – having played with it, that is one nice handset!

Novatel Wireless has announced that Pannon, one of Hungary’s leading mobile operators, is the first Hungarian operator to launch Novatel Wireless’ MiFi 2352 Intelligent Mobile Hotspot.

For those of you that don’t know/remember, the funky little MiFi takes a 3G SIM card, and creates a mobile network connection, then spews out a WiFi connection locally that can channel through the mobile connection – meaning in simple terms, you have a portable mini-WiFi cloud at your disposable – a nice change from the chunky USB mobile broadband dongle most of us are familiar with!

The internal (ROM) storage, up to 16GB of expandable memory via MicroSD creates a flexible and robust platform capable of supporting a variety of location-based applications and enabling the storage of personal content such as music, video and pictures.  MiFi does not require any type of installation or previously installed software.  Users simply need to turn on the unit to connect to Wi-Fi enabled handsets or devices.

MiFi is currently available at Pannon’s selected shops and via Pannon’s Netshop.

Vuzix Corporation has officially launched its new line of sunglasses-styled Wrap video eyewear products across Europe.

For those of you that are not familiar, eyewear is an accessory that connects to your (mobile) device, and displays video outputted from it – think two small screens in the glasses that give you a virtual 44-67″ inch screen, and you are getting there!

The Wrap video eyewear range is compatible with (mobile) devices which have composite video-out and comes complete with an iPod/iPhone adaptor. Other devices the Wrap video eyewear connects to, with the appropriate cable adaptor, include: camcorders, portable DVD players, PCs and game consoles. All Wrap devices can also play back 3D content – which as we all know is the buzzword of the moment, but actually when you experience it is very, very, cool indeed!

There are going to be three versions of the Wrap. The Wrap 230 (£129.99 inc VAT), Wrap 280 Widescreen (£179.99 inc VAT), and the Wrap 920 (£249.99 inc VAT). You’ll be able to get them from The Vuzix Store,, and major online retail outlets including the Apple store, Firebox, and Play.com.

I’ve played with these devices before and they are very cool – once you get past the effect of watching the screens, and pop some headphones on, you get an immersive and very coherent viewing experience – and the Wrap rage looks even look vocal too!

My buddy Ron over at picoprojector-info.com has come across a new NTT DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM) device that is packing some serious goodies!

The handset is called the “Separate Keitai F-04B” (made by Fujitsu, and can be separated into a display unit and a keyboard unit. The two can communicate via Bluetooth, and when they are connected they behave like a QWERTY slider. The display unit contains the main board with the communication chip and the application processor. It also includes a 3.4″ touch LCD.

The phone also includes a Pico-Projector unit. This is a DLP projector (LED source) with a 854×480 resolution, 6 lumens and a 800mAh battery (about 2 hours at the highest luminance). The projector unit will be sold separately (no pricing info yet).

That is a bruiser of a device – but it’s certainly got some utility!

[Via: picoprojector-info.com via: Tech-on]

RadioWeave has released Soundbiter, an iPhone and iPod touch app that makes it easy for users to capture and instantly share short-form audio content. When the app is running, Soundbiter is always recording, continually saving the last 60 seconds (or preset length) of audio until the user presses its one giant button. Then – bite! – your sound bite is captured, ready for editing and uploading. Soundbiter is a free application available for download from the iTunes App store and is ideal for the likes of us journos

Like I said, neat and to the point – that’s what we like from our utility apps

RadioWeave has released Soundbiter, an iPhone and iPod touch app that makes it easy for users to capture and instantly share short-form audio content. When the app is running, Soundbiter is always recording, continually saving the last 60 seconds (or preset length) of audio until the user presses its one giant button. Then – bite! – your sound bite is captured, ready for editing and uploading. Soundbiter is a free application available for download from the iTunes App store and is ideal for the likes of us journos

Soundbiter features include:

• Continuous recording mode; users press “bite” to grab the last minute of audio
• Wallpaper customization for the recording screen
• Simple crop-and-preview audio waveform editor
• Ability to tag your bites (for Twitter, these can be automatically posted as #hashtags), including a unique picture with every bite and set per-bite location reporting and listening restrictions
• Batch uploading of captured bites including the ability to lock individual bites to prevent them from being uploaded
• Ability to search for, hear, rate and flag recent and top-rated bites from around the world, including your own
• Option to create your account with your Twitter credentials so all uploaded bites are auto-tweeted

Like I said, neat and to the point – that’s what we like from our utility apps

There’s not to much more to say on this other than it looks like a quality game – let’s home it comes in at a reasonable price, then we can all go out there, download it, and pretend to be Scrat

Two Tribes and Chilligo are just putting the finishing touches to the game “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs”, and it appears to have some pretty gorgeous visuals. The game will be available to download from Apple’s App Store in November 2009, packing a good set of features too:

• Alternative storyline focusing on Scrat’s journey.
• Unique touch-and-go iPhone control system.
• Scrat can climb, hang from the ceiling, shove blocks, break ice, float around, solve puzzles and much more.
• Four environments, each with its own unique gameplay.
• Features Manny, Ellie, Diego, Sid and Scratte as supporting cast.
• Many hours of playtime.
• Replay value due to collectible system.

There’s not to much more to say on this other than it looks like a quality game – let’s home it comes in at a reasonable price, then we can all go out there, download it, and pretend to be Scrat

You might be wondering what a pico projector is, or alternatively you may have a very good idea – however, for those of you that are not au fait, these little (being the operative word) bad boys are a miniaturised version of the old desk projectors we used to know and love at school. However, these things don’t show transparencies, nor do they connect to PCs (typically) – no, no – instead the pico modules fit inside of small housings akin to that which you’d find in a mobile device!

Now, to-date, things have only just started to evolve, but 3M reducing their prices of their dedicated modules is a good example of where things are going. Personally, I wouldn’t want a projector in my device, but I can think of lots of useful applications for such a technology.

3M are currently offering two projectors, and they have lowered the price of both:

• The new MPro-120 now costs 309$ (down from 327$). It’s a 640×480, 12 lumens LCoS based projector with a 4-hour battery life (at low brightness).
• The MPro-110 now costs 171$ (down from 230$). It offers the same resolution and brightness as the MPro-120, but has a lower battery life (the older engine is less efficient, and the battery is smaller).

This one is a trend to watch – expect to see more devices coming online with hi-res pico projectors built in, especially as we get towards HD 720p territory – suddenly your own home cinema is becoming rapidly viable!

(Note: any pico projector manufacturers that want to send me a sample to use, please feel free – I’d be very interested, and I’m sure the readers would too, to see how these things perform!)

[Via: picoprojector-info.com]