hp iPAQ hx 2110

I used to have one of this model. It was a gift from my wife for my birthday 2 years back...heh..She knew that I love to play with a new "toy", so she bought this for me...heh..

I play with it for 1 day long...heh...never have a pda before...so excited...This hp iPAQ hx 2110 run with Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003 Secomd Edition...I don't care too much about the other software included in this pda...I'm most concern about how I could use this pda to entertain myself like watching the video and listen to the music or playing the games...heh..

So, this pda does has the Windows Media player (ver 9.0 for Pocket PC) to play the video files and MP3 files...Game...there are 2 games preinstalled in this hp iPAQ hx 2110...most common game is of course - Solitaire...another game is Jawbreaker...(not really an entertaining game but its better than nothing)...

The display size is 3.5" TFT active matrix and its support 16 bit or 64k colors. Maximum resolution of the display is 240 x 320. hp iPAQ hx 2110 has a memory of 64Mb of RAM (SDRAM) and 64MB ROM (Flash memory). Its memory can be expandable as it has one slot for the SD card or a Compact Flash card. It uses Intel 312 MHzXscale as its processor. This model is equipped with a mic as its audio input type and a speaker as it audio output type (maximum speaker sound is not that loud, so you might want to use an earphone if you watch a video or listen to the music).The connectivity of hp iPAQ hx 2110 can be done through infrared, Bluetooth or USB cable.

As my work requires me to travel a lot, I need a medium to play a music file or a video file as my mobile entertaiment. And long before I bought my Mp4 player and my Portable DVD player, I used this pda to play my music and video file. Sound quality for Mp3 file is quite ok. In fact, you could setup your own music library and arrange it as per your convenience. However, I found that watching a movie from this pda is not that good enough. Even though the screen is quite big, most of the time the Windows Media player will automatically resize the screen of the movie to a smaller size. And the screen brightness is not that good enough to watch a video file. In fact, if you watch a video using this hp iPAQ hx 2110 in an open environment, you could see the flash of the light on your screen and its really disturbing...

So now, since I bought my Mp4 player and my Portable DVD player, I hardly use this pda. Now, I just keep it in my cabinet as one of my "toy" collection...heh...

Warehouse Sale - Toys for Kids

Hi again, in this post I'm not going to talk about gadget...but something different..heh...toys for my kid...Recently, there was a warehouse sales for toys. Branded name in toys manufacturing like Hot Wheel, Fisher Price, Matchbox and many other brands. The sales took place for 1 week starting form Monday and end on Sunday.

So it happen the warehouse sales was held nearby to my wife working area. So, she went there first to see what she could find for our son. She felt really excited and gave me a call first, just asking whether I'm ok with her spending some money there. No problem and she spend about RM110.00 (USD30) and she got 1 Hot Wheel, 1 Matchbox (featuring the cartoon character, SpongeBob...heh...I just love to watch SpongeBob) and 3 toys from Fisher Price. But, she still felt disappointed cause there were some other toys that she would want to buy was grabbed first by the others...She told me the price of the toys during the sales was so cheap until it drove the people to go crazy and they starting to grab any toys they saw first...heh...

So come to weekend, my wife ask me to accompany her to the warehouse sales and she wanted to get what she couldn't get in her first visit...My wife really have the spirit in that morning..she urge me to prepare as earlier as 8am (normally during weekend, I just love to have a long sleep in the morning...heh..). She wanted to be the first person standing at the front gate of the warehouse ..hehe...

Unfortunately, I got stomach ache on that morning which made us a bit slower and we just arrive there when there was no more parking space in the warehouse...hehe...My wife felt a bit angry with me...heh...

Finally, I managed to get a parking space outside the building. We entered the building and I could saw there was a huge crowd of people grabbing any toys they can see especially at the Fisher Price counter...heh...I just ask my wife to que along with the other people and just takes whatever toys she would want her son to have...

Me..heh...I just walked myself looking to the other counter untill finally I came to the Hot Wheel counter...I grabbed a few Hot Wheel toys and ran back to my wife...My wife asked me to que in front of the Fisher Price counter nd grab any toys when their staff open a new box...

So, on that day we end up with 6 Hot Wheel toys and 4 toys from Fisher Price. All this cost us only around RM280.00 (USD75)....heh...quite a good price....

This is my son in front of his toys collection - just bought from the warehouse sales...heh...But, he played with the toys just for a while only...then he get bored already...heh...

Samsung YP-T9B PMP

First time I saw this model, I thought it was a mini mobile phone. The T9B looks good with its elegant black color - it also comes in red and green but I like it more in black version. First time holding it, a greasy fingerprints are easily attracted to it and you will find yourself constantly cleaning it each time you use it....heh...

T9B has a 1.8" screen blends in nicely with the rest of the player. On top of the player, you will see a 3.5mm earphone jack along with the built-in microphone for voice recording. You will also find most of the functions button on the side of the player. Obviously, it is designed for an easy navigation even with the use of one hand.

The first thing you will notice upon switching it on is its ultrasharp LCD screen which comes as a suprise to me - small device but has an excellent image display. T9B is a fully equipped multimedia centre with music and video playback capabilities. You could also view pictures, read text files and play Flash-based games or listen to the FM radio on it.

Battery life also is really amazing - nearly 30 hours of music playback on a single charge. This is definitely one music player you will want t have with you when you're travelling long distance.

One thing I need to mention, the transfer of media files is done using Samsung proprietary Media Studio software.

As a music player, T9B does not disappoint. Paired with a good set of headphones, the player produces some remarkably sharp and crisp sounding tunes. Samsung's Digital Natural Sound engine (DSNe) emulates various 3D musical environments like a studio, stage or club. T9B also has a Bluetooth capabilities - it support both AD2P and AVRCP - making it possible for you to listen to the music while the player is in your pocket. But, I did found some difficulties while testing the connectivity with an optional Bluetooth headset. However, once I get through it, I'm very much enjoying a wire-free music experience. This gadget would also allow you to transfer songs with your music mobile phone.

While as a video player, T9B display the best looking videos ever seen on such a small media device. However, the player does not support MOV and MP4 files. The common file likes WMV, AVI, ASF and MPEG4 can be played with this gadget. The video quality is still sharp enough to display subtitles of the movie.

Too bad, this T9B only comes with 2GB of memory and no expansion slot for the memory card. So, you'll have to pick and choose what you want to store in the player.

How would you prefer your Blog will look like?

Hi, in this posting I'm not going to write about the gadget...I just want to discuss about - how would you prefer your Blog will look like?...heh, a simple question, but with a long long answer, I guess...
Well, to me...I love to keep my Blog as simple as it can be....Pehaps that is the way how I live my life today...very simple way...
I just don't like to fillup all my blog space with so much scattered information until the readers feel dizzy when they come to my blog...yeargh! with so many scattered information will make one to lost their direction...same goes to me...I prefer to surf just a simple web or blog with one focus topic or area and has a simple skin...So, in a blog I try to write something that is attractive and focus to one topic...But sometime, we can also write something that is out of our Blog's topic so that it could be just like a refreshment to the readers....One analogy, we work and work and work until we get exhausted and we wish if we could escape the work for a while, like going for holiday or just take leave and stay quietly in the house...The same thing goes to the blog...
I try not to show too much of seriousness in my writing...just a simple word to explain what I'm trying to tell...like telling a story to your friend...I believe that is what we suppose to do in making our blog attractive...
And I believe, most of the bloggers would love to make some money from their blog...this is ok...in fact, this is one of the reason why Google insists people to create their own blog...But just remember...writing your own attractive articles with your own word (an honest writing) could make your blog the most visited blog...
I'm not writting this down as an expert....I'm also quite new to the blog world....I just create my own blog on last Feb this year and I just keep actively writing since March....
What I'm most interested is I would love to share my writing and my personal opinion towards of something which could benefit me and the others......Post your comment....Really appreciate that...

Nokia 6680 - Nokia Series 60 Smartphone ***Written for Renny

So, this is the Nokia 6680. I know, many will realize this is not a latest phone from Nokia...but I am interested to write about this phone as 1 of my blog reader use this phone...heh..

Ok, this model was sold worldwide sometime in 2005...so, it has been almost 2 years this model in the market...Of course, there is a lot of feedback that we could collect from all the users...

First come to its design, most of the users feel that this model probably the best looking Nokia's Series 60. It suits both young users and businessmen. The keypad is convenient and provides very decent tactile feedback...but the silver strips on both sides of the phone easily get dirty with your fingerprints..it is true?...heh...

The phone support fast data transmission in 3G (up to 128/384kbps UL/DL). It also support other 3G services, including 2 way video calls with the use of built in VGA camera located in front side of the phone. It also has another camera at the back of the phone (1.23MP, 6x digital zoom) and hidden under a sliding cover. Just slide the cover down and you're ready to shoot pictures and record video clips.

This model has 20MB operating memory with only 9MB available to store pictures or clips. But you could expand it using MMC cards and the best thing is you could take out and put new MMC card without having it to be turned off.

Nokia 6680 can play the MP3 file with clean and good quality but don't expect to hear too much bass with the headset. The screens (178 x 208 pixel, 262thousand colors) has a very good quality, with a very good contrast and brightness controlled by a sensor. Battery life can last long till a few days even when making real use of most of the phone functions.

Photo Editor provides basic edit functions like crop, rotate, autofix(darken, brighten, balance), insert frame, add text and Greeting card. With Image Print, you could print your pictures on compatible Bluetooth printers (XpressPrint) or even using USB cable with PictBridge printers. Using Video editor, you could add transitions, visual effect and sound to your video clips and you could combine multiple clips in one - all through directly from the phone itself.

With Movie director, you can create "muvees", video clips sytle containing video + music + text. Just select your prefered style and let the program edit the clip automatically...heh...Frankly speaking even with this so much sophitiscated functions in a phone, how many people will make use of this functions 100%...Most of the people use their phone to take call and make call and only a few times I use my phone to take photo...hehe...Anyway, this just a quick review of the model...

Price? Hmmm...In Malaysia, for this model the price is around RM900++...around USD250++...

Sony Ericsson W660i Walkman phone

Wow!..I guess I'm too slow or too old already for knowing this model only today...hehe...What a beautiful design of the Sony Ericsson w660i in Rose Red color...so nice...even I want to get one of this for me...How much is the price? need to do some survey first...
Sony Ericsson announced that this model comes in 2 color, rose red and Record Black. Actually, it just been launched somewhere in 14th March 2007. Also introduced a new compact external speaker, model MPS-75, which let you plays the track stored in your Walkman phone out loud. I have attached the picture of this speaker below...

This is a small plug-in speaker unit with excellent sound quality that is powered from the phone - perfect for that party moment. Anyway I prefer to listen to my music using the headset...It keeps me isolate from the other world..hehe.. The W660 Walkman phone also offers Bluetooth Audio Streaming, which allows you to send music wirelessly from the phone to other compatible devices, such as the Music Bluetooth Receiver MBR-100 or the Stereo Bluetooth Headset HBH-DS970.
The w660 equipped with the features of TrackID. If you ever need to identify a piece of music that you don’t recognise, simply record a few seconds of the track, either via the microphone or by tagging a clip straight from the phone’s FM Radio, and TrackID will send the clip to the Gracenote Mobile MusicID database. This quickly identifies the track, the artist and album and relays the information back to your Walkman phone.
As for the memory, you will get 512Mb Memory stick pro when you purchase this phone which can allow you to store up to 470 full length of songs and you could upgrade your memory when your song collection increase.
If you subscribe your phone to the web, this w660 would allow RSS feed to delivered straight to your phone desktop...but for me, I don't prefer to surf the web through my phone...too small...and too slow...heh
One additional features that I like most of this phone is Picture Blogging capability. So, with its 2.0 MP camera, you could capture a picture and upload it instantly to your personal blog site.

LG Chocolate KG800

Heh...My wife wanted to buy this phone as a present to me. She ask me first before she buy it and I said "Wait, let me make a survey first before you buy"...

So, here is what I find out about the LG chocolate...

I have seen it before my eyes and its design really attract my attention. The design is absolutely beautiful and stylish. But how about the spec that I want and what are the specs that are going to be a waste to me...

And how about the price...Well, it seems that eventhough this model is available at the market for quite sometime, the price just still remains the same...Last time I saw the price is around RM900++...

Anyway, I love to see the size and the contrast of the display...it has the size of 31 x 39mm with 176 x 220pixels, TFT 256k color...The design makes it suits your palm...It has 128Mb internal memory and it is not expandable, no card slot available...

Connectivity is through Bluetooth 1.2 and USB 2.0...

Its camera has resolution of 1.3MP...This phone can play MP3 and MPEG4 file...Battery life can last long for 6hrs for talk time and 200hrs in standby...

I have yet to decide to buy this phone...I'm thinking of getting me the Sony Ericsson walkman series...heh...

Car Portable DVD Player

It has become a new trend in car accessories to include the DVD player as an alternative entertaiment for the passenger - not the driver aaa...heh...but sometime I did watch a movie while I'm driving...heh...dangerous...so, don't copy that...only expert can do that.
DVD Players for cars come in 3 categories - underseat DVD players, in-dash dvd players, and car dvd changers. All car dvd players offer premium sound and picture quality and can give you multichannel surround sound. However, while watching a movie from the LCD display during a hot daylight - it could disturb your comfort while enjoying the movie because you could see the flash of the light on your screen.
Car dvd players are small and compact and allow you to mount them underneath a seat or in a cargo area for convenience. The underseat car dvd players would cost from RM600-RM850, the in-dash car dvd players can be from RM600-RM1200, and the car dvd changers are more expensive at RM1200 - RM3000. I have had a portable dvd player in the car for years that mounts to the back of the passenger seat and is perfect for long drives. If you have kids, then this is a must buy for any driving trip.

Creative Zen Vision 30GB PMP

I would love to buy of this PMP model from Creative Zen. Its price is around RM1200 in the local market. This model got 30GB of memory space - more than enough to enjoy more than 120hrs of movies or video clip or thousand of songs. This one's both smaller and lighter than the Zen PMC, and has a CompactFlash memory card slot, a 640 x 480 pixel, 3.7-inch LCD screen, built-in FM tuner, and support for playback of MP3, WMA, and WAV audio files and MPEG4, WMV, DivX, and XviD video files.

Sony Ericsson Walkman W900 3G music phone

TIf you're music lover, maybe you want to try the latest model W900 of Sony Ericsson walkman phone. I saw one of this model while doing my window shopping for the latest gadget. This model come in 2 different color, black and white. Both look stunning but I prefer the black color one...heh..

This model offers the user a choice at start-up - call or music only. The swivel is the same as the W550's, but the screen is larger. The screen is nice with a 240 x 320 resolution and 262,144-hue colour depth. The contours of the phone are smooth and suit the white skin. Nevertheless, the audio suffers as a result - the W900 has only one speaker, mounted on the back of the unit next to the camera.

The headphones, with a lead-mounted display and roll control, fit very well in the ear. The soft rubber collars make the earpieces fit snuggly and seal out a lot of background noise but I still can hear a bit of the background noise...maybe my ear is too sensitive...hehe..Anyway, I'm still satisfy with the sound quality.

Its internal memory has a capacity of 470MB , with a MemoryStick Duo port for more memory space. One nice addition would have been a 3.5mm jack, allowing replacement headphones and the ability to output music to another device.

Nokia N800 series

Make your internet connection mobile with this Nokia N800 series. It use the Internet Tablet OS 2007 developed by Nokia. The display is excellent with the size of 4.1 inches and resolution 800 x 480pixel. Camera can be improved. The first generation use 0.3MP camera and can be used as a webcam. Memory can be extendable with 2 slot of SD card - 1 external and 1 internal. Its RAM uses 128MB and its Flash memory has the capacity of 256MB - enough for below than 100 mp3 files. To me it is ok already. Sound quality good enough but not as good as Sony Ericsson walkman series. Connectivity is done either through IEEE 802.11, bluetooth 2.o or USB 2.o. Battery life can last long for 3 hours in use or 10 days in standby.

Philips PET1002 10.2" Portable DVD / DivX Player

Previously, before I bought the DVD player from Brothers, I was thinking to buy this Philips Portable DVD player. But, because the price is an issue to me...heh...so, I just put it out from my shopping list. Anyway, I would like to share the opinion from one of my friend who had been using this model for quite sometime. The design itself could make one to purchase one of this model. It has a long battery life up to 3.5hrs after its fully recharged, so you can enjoy your movie... mobile. It is lightweight and has a large screen 10.2"with an excellent display. Affordable? heh...to me, its quite expensive...above than RM1200. It is also user-friendly and thus easy to use.Sound quality - excellent.

IRiver PMP-120 (20Gb)

While this is the PMP from iRiver model 120 series. One of my friend got one of this. I'm just taking his opinion about this player. It has a good quality of LCD screen. It also has a built-in kickstand which includes a voice recorder, a line-in audio recorder, and an FM tuner. When he first bought the unit, it came with a stylish carrying case. Its battery is easy to be removed.

However, it does takes a little to get used to it.

Samsung PMP Digimax i6

This is the latest samsung Digimax i6 PMP player. I haven't got the chance to try it and to see how well Samsung's Digimax will hold up to PMP duties, but as far as I know Samsung is billing it as the "world's first PMP slim camera," so hopefully it does something right. The price 6 megapixel i6 is around RM1000. It also comes with a 2.5-inch LCD and a 3x optical zoom, the i6 includes a mini headphone jack for enjoying MP3 files, along with video playback capability for XviD files. The movie file need to be converted first with the included converter. Thickness is aorund 0.7-inch.

Sony PSP

I believe most of the people know about this toy. Yes, this is the PSP from Sony. Very popular across the world...I dream to have one of this..but just don't have the budget...heh..So, since I cannot get one of this...I bought the JXD PMP player which has the similar features of this PSP but of course..low spec compared to the PSP....Quite number of people says that the JXD graphic display is not as good as the PSP...but who cares...Just like me, I don't stick to a gadget for a long time...Once I'm done with it, I'll just put it in my display cabinet...heh...

HUM Digital Photo Frame

This is the digital photo frame that I'm looking to...the price still quite expensive...around RM500...So, I just wait for its price to come down or just find another model which is cheaper than this...heheh....

JXD PMP player series 680

While this the PMP player from JXD that I had bought earlier. Now, I just keep this toy in my cabinet...heh...the screen is 2.5". Can watch a movie using it but I just cn't stare to it for a long time...

Brothers Portable DVD player

My 8.4"screen portable DVD player. It keeps my movie mobile.

Digital Photo Frame

It has been a while I haven't put my writing here....quite busy nowdays. A lot of call from my customer plus with a lot instruction coming from my upper management. I would like to talk about digital photo frame.

Actually, I haven't purchase one of this yet. Still quite expensive. I'm waiting for a cheaper price...heh...Actually, I had seen one of this frame in one of my friend's house. Its really attract my attentation. Its good to have one frame that could play a numbers of sweet memorial pictures of a family or friend.

I plan to buy one and load it with my son's pictures...showing his growing days....hehe...nice...

Portable DVD player with screen

I had bought one portable dvd player with screen, 8.4" screen. Brand Brother's - car accesories brand, quite popular in Malaysia. I bought this player purposely not only can be used in my car but also can be brought while I go outstation. The price also is quite ok - RM888.00

Before I bought this player, I made a survey first - the spec and of course the price. I have seen a lot of brand in our local market. Not only the recognized brand of portable dvd player but also a lot of not so famous brand of this kind of player.

For me if you want to buy an electronic appliance, it is worth to buy any cheap brand. From the experience, normally I'll stick to one electronic gadget for 2 or 3 months only. Then, I'll start to leave it and hardly to use it. And after some time, if I feel I'm not going to use it anymore - I'll just keep it in the drawer or just give it to my siblings.

Back to the player that I bought, this dvd player is powered with Akai electronic as it main component. Quite reliable. The LCD display also quite excellent. It also can be used with the USB thumbdrive and the SD/MMC card. It also has the capability to remember the last chapter of the movie played right before it was switched off. Even if you disconnect the main power supply or the external battery supply, it still can remember that last chapter played.

I frequently bring this player with me while outstation and sometime after I finish the job earlier, I will play a movie and enjoy it with my customer while they still busy with the lab works. Just make sure that their lab supervisor is not around...hehe....if not, he will labell me as a bad element to his staff...heh...

PMP Player

Recently I bought an MP4 player...not really a branded item...I think it is China made...Internal memory just 1G but can add with microSD card...
The purpose I bought it, is because I want to put some movie file inside it and watch it from the player itself...Using the provided movie file converter, I was able to play it from the MP4 player...
Unfortunately, it can't occupied all the movie files...so, I can only watch the movie just half way...quite disappointed with the player...and I can't get my money back....So, what I did...I just gave the player to my younger sister.....

The funny thing is, I found another brand of PMP player which I've been looking for quite some time...Brand JXD, also from China...This time, I don't mind to spend more money to buy the player...quite happy with the player...I manage to play a dvd file from this player....the whole movie contents...not only 1 movie, but 2 movie can be stored at 1 time...for me, this is quite ok...since most of my time during outstation, I spent it with having a chit chat with other people especially with my customer....

The only problem is the display, even though it is a 2.5" bright LCD display...my eyes will easily get tired looking to that smallscreen for a very long time...So now, I seldomly bring the player with me when I go outstation....The player become 1 more collection, kept in the drawer just to be displayed...heheh....

This time, I bought another gadget....portable DVD player - 8.4" LCD screen.....hehehe....

New Tech Gadget

This is my first time trying to create my own blog. It feels good to show and share my opinion with the others. At least with that we could learn a new things and share the knowledge. I select 'New Tech Gadget' as my blog's title as I'm quite crazy about the electronic gadget. I believe there is a lot of people out there sharing the same passion as I have.

I am a person whose work require me to travel a lot. I can tell you that my job requires me to fly frequently around Malaysia area including Sabah and Sarawak. So it happen one time ago, I received a lot of customer's call and need me to attend their problem. During that one month, I fly 20 times. Could you just imagened that? I'm so tired of it. But what to do, it is the nature of my job. Nevertheless, I'm quite happy with what I did. Simply because, I give my services to help make the other life better. And when they happy, I feel really satisfy.

So since I travel a lot, I need to find a way to enjoy my time. How to enjoy my time during the waiting hours at the airport? So, I bought a few electronic gadget just to entertain myself. I can't enjoy the movie with my massive exploded home theatre system, can't watch my favorite tv programme, can't listen to my favorite radio channel, can't select the song that I want, So why not bring it out with me? But I also don't want to bring the laptop, it still big and heavy too.

That is why New Tech Gadget come - Lets put our input to this.