It seems Lady Gaga is lending her name and image to more than just over priced earphones, now you can get your own Lady Gaga bluetooth headset and that of other licensed characters and images.
The new Earloomz line of bluetooth headsets range from the rather nice looking, like the Jamaican flag version, to the plain silly, like the Lady Gaga ones. I am sure the headsets do the job that they are intended to do well, but i rather see this product catering to the high school and university crowd. I don't think anyone walking down Wall Street will be sporting anyone of these fancy numbers.
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Another design to divide opinion comes in the form of the Jaybird SB1 Sportsband, a Bluetooth headphone set that guns for innovative looks.
The sleek and curvy thinbins boast 8 hours playback, have quite well integrated controls and can act as a regular Bluetooth headset for calls.
Available now at $89.
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For those living the jet-set lifestyle (or living next to a busy road/deaf old TV-loving neighbour) noise cancelling headphones are pretty much a must.
The latest from Sennheiser have just been unveiled and have been designed with the frequent traveller in mind. The MM400 and MM450 Travel use Bluetooth and are designed to work with all manner of smartphones and other devices as well as folding flat for transit.
The MM450 Travel comes with Noiseguard which will block out 90% of background noise electronically which also packing TalkThrough, a feature that lets you hear people talking while you keep the headphones on – great for anyone who wants to appear rude even though they're not being.
Out September, no pricing details have been released.
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Fresh from China is the ePhone i9s, a touchscreen iPhone clone that could help out Bond on a budget or a tech-savvy voyeur.
Not only does it have the regular iPhone-esque features but it also has two extras hidden up its sleeve - a touch-sensitive numeric keypad which becomes invisible when it's not in use and a wireless spy camera. On top of those two it's a dual-SIM phone with Bluetooth and Java and costs $114.
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Sprint and Samsung have gone green with their latest cellphone, the Reclaim, an eco-friendly phone that is made from 80 percent recycled materials.
The Reclaim's a sliding QWERTY phone cased in a “bio-plastic” case that is made from corn, is mostly PVC and BFR (brominated flame retardants) free.
The phone also comes equipped with a 2 megapixel camera, stereo Bluetooth, microSD slot and has Sprint Navigation. It's green down to the packaging which looks suitably earthy ad is made from 70% recycled materials and printed with soy-based ink.
The handset comes in 'Earth Green' and 'Ocean Blue' and is available mid-August.
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The much awaited Archos 9 PC Tablet has had its innards revealed and here they are laid bare...
-8.9-inch 1024 x 600 touchscreen.
-Atom Z515 1.2Ghz with 1GB of RAM
-1024MB RAM
-WiFi 802.11 b/g+BT
-Bluetooth
-Ethernet 10/100 Mbps
-2 USBs, line in, VGA out
-1.3MP camera
-Windows 7 Starter OS
-60GB, 80GB, 120GB options
It is released on October 22nd and will cost around $500
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Cowan have decided to give their popular and much praised S9 PMP a ceramic white makeover. Only currently available in Korea, it comes in 8GB and 16GB variations and a 32GB model is expected in the future.
For those who missed them the first time round here are the specs of the S9:
3.3 inch 480 x 272 pixel touchscreen that supports 16 million colours, DMB, DAB, FM, A2DP Bluetooth, a Flash-based UI that uses a G-Sensor, a 500 Mhz dual-core processor, support for AVI, WMV, MP4, MP3, WMA, FLAC, OGG Vorbis and to top it off, a TV out.
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Never mind the huge amount of space they'll take up, for now let's just marvel at the capabilities of the forthcoming LG GC990 Louvre flagship phone that sports Schneider-Kreuznach optics.
LG promise “zero shutter lag” and auto or touchscreen focus, xenon flash and claimed ISO 3200 sensitivity for picture taking, on top of that the ability to record 720p video at 30fps. Pictures will also be geotagged thanks to the on-board GPS.
The phone runs LG's S-Class UI and has an auto-rotating 3.2-inch, 19:9 aspect touchscreen display, as well as WiFi, Bluetooth, DivX and Xvid support, a TV-Out jack and support for media sharing with DLNA standard devices.
This is one for spec-heads everywhere.
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RAmos have now released there long awaited bluetooth enabled player, the V85.
RAmos have been here before with bluetooth with mixed response so they thought they would try again. The player is touchsreen based, square in appearance and bucks trend at the moment by using a sigmatel cjip at its heart.
Apart from bluetooth this player is standard on features, touchsreen 2.8" screen, movies, ebook .. you know the score, but will the bluetooth zap the battery to fast
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RAmos seems to have shown off a new player at CeBit (who knew they were even there), the RM955, based on the Sigmatel SMT36 chipset, is a touch screen MP4 player with built in bluetooth capability for wireless audio. The spec sheet at the Cebit, if you don't take into account the bluetooth, shows this player to be rather standard, 2.8" QVGA touch screen with a 240x320 resolution, AVI, MP3, WMA, JPEG and BMP file support and USB 2.0.
The player will come in a 2GB and 4GB model, with expandable memory slot and is slated for an April release. RAmos has previously used the SMT36 chipset and bluetooth combination in their older V150 model and if that player is anything to go by, you can expect the RM955 to be pretty pricey.
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