The new flash-card standard microSD has been announced yestarday. The highest capacity of miniSD is 1GB. At the moment it isn't known big the capacity of microSD will be.

It was predictable: After the big succes of Sonys AIBO (at least in Japan) someone had to develop a similar toy. And surprise, surprise: It's a DOG! ;)
The i-Cybie is capable to do some typical doggie moves such as sit, stand, shake and lie down, as well as
using its robotic brain to respond based on how it’s treated: praise it and the dog will be in a good mood, but scold
it and i-Cybie will behave more passively. Sensors throughout its body help prevent it from bumping into things, and
enable i-Cybie to be sensitive to light changes. In case of "low-bat" the dog will go into the “downward-facing dog” yoga pose to let you know it needs recharging. Cuuute!

Today was supposed to be the big day that
Motorola unveiled the first
iTunes phone (which is probably going to be the
E399), but at the last minute they decided to cancel,
supposedly in response to a “last-minute message from a wireless carrier or carriers.” The official word from Motorola
is that they decided to kill the big announcement after consulting with the carriers who would be offering the phone
because they wanted “to wait to announce it when everybody is in sync with it.”
So what happened? It looks like one of the carriers or several carriers were not happy with the handset and pushed Motorola to postpone the announcement.

The silverish thing showed below is ROB-1
It's a camera on wheels which roves about and captures images. It can move around freely, steered wirelessly by the joy-stick or keypad on your mobile phone or as for P900/P910 with the touch screen, enabling you to see on your phone screen exactly what ROB-1 is looking at. You can then capture these images using your phone just as you would a normal photo.
WICKED!

photo.

Source: slashphone.com

Motorolla is going to launch it's iTunes enabled phone this Thursday (10th of Mars). The device will be called ROKR (see: RAZR and ROCKR) and is definitely not the E1060. Let's wait and see... :)

No, that's not the ROKR

Lenovo, the Chinese company which bought the PC sector of IBM, is going to launch a Windows Mobile Smartphone:

Here you go with the technical specs of the Lenovo ET960 GSM/GRPS Pocket PC


* Operating system: MS Windows Mobile for PPC 2003SE
* Language support: English, simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese
* Processor: 312 MHz Intel PXA272
* Memory: 128 MB (64 MB ROM + 64 MB SDRAM)
* 1.3-Mpx digital camera
* Bands: GSM900/1800/1900 MHz
* GPRS
* Dimensions: 110x62x19 mm
* Weight: 135 g (with the battery)
* Expansion slot: SDIO/MMC
* Interface: IrDA, Bluetooth
* Battery: Li-Ion 1100 mAh
* Approximate price in Europe: about €900.

Cowon is going to release their
Audio 5 MP3 player, which will play back MP3, WMA, OGG,
and WAV, and comes in sizes up to 1GB.It looks like they want to play in the "iPod shuffle laeague". Therefore they would better work on the site of their device: 3.02 x 1.38 x 0.71-inches.
However, this is not the badest and not the ugliest player around, in this sense it's sure worth a look.
Oh, I almost forgot this one: >You can switch between 1000 available display-colors! The iPod shuffle is dead! ;)

Link: Official site here

Well, it appears Philips is due to release two more models, the HDD093 and HDD095, which will have 3GB drives, ten hours of battery life, play back MP3s and WMA, and have grayscale and color screens, respectively. But their new gimmick? It’s called Like Music, and as the name implies if you engage it while listening to a song it’ll pseudo-randomly and intelligently shuffle you up 20 more tracks that it thinks sounds similar to what’s on . I guess they just had to follow the trend started by this player.
Anyways, even if you won't need that, the player is pretty small and well designed.

Ok, so here are the first live-pics of the bluetooth enabled sunglasses from Oakley.
As you can see, they've got a earbud on the left side. You can use these glasses as a headset and/or as a music player.


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With better cameras built into cellphones and the ever groing hunger for more and more features, SanDisk now offers the first miniSD card with ONE Gygabyte of memory.

The SanDisk miniSD card includes an adapter allowing it to be used in any of the existing SD card devices. The new 1GB SanDisk miniSD card is expected to be available at the suggested retail price of $99.99 in Q2 2005.
However here is the official statement:
"The 1GB miniSD card provides a level of storage that significantly enhances the features and usability of these full-featured mobile phones," said Nelson Chan, executive vice president and general manager of SanDisk’s consumer and handset business. "For example, with a 1GB card you can store approximately 16 hours of MP3 songs, record up to several hours of MPEG-4 video or take more than 2000 digital photos on a 1-megapixel mobile phone. With that level of capability, consolidating music, video, digital camera and other key features into the mobile phone platform is much more meaningful and powerful."

SanDisk also announced was the 512MB SanDisk TransFlash, one of the smallest flash memory storage cards designed primarily for the mobile phone market.