The MP3 player was presented at the 2007 Seoul Motor Show in VW booth. The music player produced by LG Electronics and inspired by VW Beetle comes in three colors like the car: Salsa Red, Shadow Blue, and Sunflower Yellow. The VW badge stays in the front announcing the branded MP3 player.

There are not so many details about this player. It features a 2.4″ touchscreen LCD. We suppose it’s a touchscreen because the LG player doesn’t feature any buttons. It is produced in two variants of 2GB and 4GB, respectively. The MP3 player has aluminum case. The battery is said to last around 20 hours of music playing.

Pricing and availability weren’t announced yet. Probably LG and Volkswagen are developing their marketing strategy right now. We will come back with new info as soon as we get. - MIHNEA BOIANGIU

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Verizon Wireless and RIM have announced officially the BlackBerry 8830 World Edition. The smartphone works in the dual-mode CDMA/GSM. The 8830 model is using a SIM card and is able to switch between the two networks offering international coverage. You will enjoy fast data transfer, because the phone is EV-DO capable.

The BlackBerry 8830 gave up to the black color in favor of the silver one. Being a smartphone, BlackBerry 8830 World Edition comes with many utilities like: media player, speakerphone, voice-activated dialing, conference calling, 64MB internal memory and microSD slot. Moreover the mobile features a Bluetooth with dial-up networking capabilities (tethered or wireless) and the BlackBerry push e-mail solution with support for Microsoft Exchange, IBM Lotus Domino, or Novell GroupWise.

For all those who expect this mobile, we have some good news. The BlackBerry 8830 World Edition can be ordered starting from May 14th through direct sales channels and in retail stores starting May 28. The price goes at $299.99 with two years contract in Verizon network. - MIHNEA BOIANGIU

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It looks like AT&T, that recently acquired Cingular, the company that will market the iPhone when it’s released, works hard to ensure the backend of its own systems to be able to sell it to enterprises. This however is still something not officially confirmed since we don’t have anyone from AT&T saying it out loud, only a spoke man under anonymity.

However if this is true it’s not going to look good. Mobile phones marketing gurus are against the proposal and their reasons are reasonable:

1. We all know how Mac computers are not a standard be it for companies or home use, and that’s because people are close-mouthed to use it widely. This is the first phone they will launch and targeting the wrong clients would put it in disgrace.

2. For business it has a few shortcomings like “no removable battery” and that is a must if we think that the new iPhone has multiple processors and will eat lots and lots of Volts.

3. Dialing and browsing with your finger only, because of the touchscreen, you cannot think this is good for business. Could you dial while driving?

4. Running OS X, will not give the option of writing new applications for the company because you need an open OS. This doesn’t happen with Windows Mobile or Symbian, therefore enterprises will move to BlackBerry or other Windows Mobile phones.

5. Why would a company buy its employee a mobile phone with plenty of storage for their digital music collections? Do I want him focused on Eminem and Beyonce or on the business?

Waiting to see if AT&T is really preparing for enterprises or not, because the reasons above really make a good case against the idea. - ALEX ION
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I’ve been thinking that my 2 years old laptop (it’s a good one, don’t laugh at it) could use a new hard drive because I am going to buy myself the new Sony H9 when it releases, and those pictures are going to be pretty big.

The CF-to-SATA adapter is the perfect solution. Just heard about it on Engadget and I think it rocks. You get to use any type of compact flash into the CF-to-SATA hard drive adapter and then connect it to your laptop just like a normal 2.5-inch SATA hard drive. The compact flash is seen like an ordinary drive and you can make it bootable if you need to install your system on, be it Windows, OS X or Linux.

Two more things I need to say. It supports DMA and Ultra DMA modes and only costs $35.99 if you think that a CompactFlash media is shock resistant and a low power consumer. I might buy one just now to test it and post the review here. - ALEX ION

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We have a new release from Inter Genius Systems, Rapsody N35 which is a new multimedia player that you can attach a 3.5-inch HDD from 40GB, up to 1TB. You get to connect it to the PC via wire or wireless LAN through an access point, it has an USB point that you can connect a CD or DVD-ROM, a memory stick or an external HDD.

It also comes with a writing security system, uses DVI (Digital Visual Interface) and to be honest you get to use it as a storage device and you can store WMV, AVI, MPG, MPEG, DAT, M2P, M2V, VOB, IFO, ISO, TP and TRP, JPEG, MPEG 1,2,4 MPEG2-TS, DivX, Xvid and WMV9.

The new Rapsody N35 has 1.8kg without the HDD and the dimensions are 248 x 47 x 244. Last thing is that it’s both Windows and Mac compatible and the price is 28,000Yen which is around $235. We would love to test it a little … - ALEX ION

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