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VideGo 8 GB Video MP3 Player with Touchscreen

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:02:00 +0000

VideGo 8 GB Video MP3 Player with Touchscreen

Features:

Touch Screen 2.8" LCD
8GB
Built In Speaker
Music, Videos, Photos & Radio Stations

Product Description
AMAZING TOUCH SCREEN TECHNOLOGY SIMILAR TO THE I-PHONE! VideGo multi media player is a revolutionary new Portable Media Player with a large multi-touch display screen similar to the i-Phone. The VideGo multi media player is equipped with innovative new software that empowers you to glide through music, videos, photos and radio stations, by simply touching the screen. A unique 2.8" QVGA TFT touch screen color display with a playing resolution of 320x240 will make watching your movies and viewing your pictures a pleasure. Listen to your favorite radio stations on the built-in FM radio tuner with 20 channel presets. The 8 preset equalizer including Natural, 3D, Rock, Pop, Classic, Bass, Jazz and User EQ presets enables you to optimize the audio output when listening to your favorite music or watching your favorite movies. Listen to your movies or music via the built-in speaker or plug in the included earphones for privacy. Multiple repeat modes include once, repeat one, folder once, folder repeat, all once, all repeat, intro. A built-in microphone enables you to record voice memos. The VideGo multi media player is equipped with a Mini SD Card slot. Features: 2.8" TFT LCD color touch screen 8 GB built-in memory. 320 x 240 pixel resolution Support MP3, WMA, MPEG-4(AVI) and JPEG format Built-in MIC Built-in FM radio with 20 channel presets 8 preset equalizer Multiple repeat mode Supports external Mini SD Card (not included) Built-in speaker Built-in 1000 mAh Li-ion battery.

Customer Reviews

Great Touch Screen 8GB MP4 Player! (2008-10-08)
I just purchased the touch screen 8GB MP4 player from Pro Ebiz LLC. Shipping was quick! Here's a short review from the one I purchased... some of the previous ones sound like they were/are faulty......

SOUND:
The instructions are fine... IMHO the player is great! Sound quality is really good. To those who previously wrote on this... Of course, the built in speaker is crap, it's a "mini" player... what are you expecting it to sound like, duh? The head phones are ok, better then the ones that come with the iPod (IMHO). However, I'd still buy head headphones you prefer for comfort.

Touch screen:
It doesn't respond perfectly every touch. Sometimes it takes a touch or two extra to respond. On occasion, the response time is a little slow. I haven't had to press hard, not once.

Build quality is fine. I accidentally dropped it about 3' and it didn't hurt it at all. It's *very* light, made with thick plastic & metal.
I've been listening now for a few hours and battery is about 3/4 with just about all my MP3's at 320kbps.

I haven't tried the radio.... why would I want to? LOL I didn't buy it for video's either but it works fine... I tried the demo movie. Pictures look great.

Over all it's a great touch screen 8 GB MP3/MP4 player for under $[...]!!! Lets see, do I want to spend $[...] or $[...] for an touch screen iPod or $[...] for same function & sound?

What quality? (2008-09-30)
There is zero quality in the construction of this player. The screen wobbles if you press in the upper right on bottom left corners. The chrome rim around the unit is not fully glued in place and lifts in one corner. The response to the touch screen is very slow (processor us under powered).
The product does what it is suppose to do, so it gets two stars.
If I were to do it again, I would save up and get a non-touch ipod model.

Cheap Chinese attempt at IPOD touch (2008-07-30)
If you're looking for a cheap mp3 player, then this will serve your purpose. If you're looking for a Ipod touch knockoff, then forget it.

Pros-inexpensive, touch interface, music sounds good through headphones, read audiobooks (if stored as a .TXT file), bookmark capability, camera, voice recorder. Expandable memory thru sd cards. Has one built in tetris-like game. Picture viewer is satisfactory, (though you will need to upload good pictures). FM radio (needs headphones attached as antenna). Good battery life.

Cons-touch screen is difficult at times to accept requests. The built-in speaker is HORRIBLE, but most don't use that speaker anyway. I tried for a week and was never able to convert a video in the format it wants in order to play on this thing (and no instructions were included-only a CD with drivers and converters). I have yet to figure out how to add any more games to it. Camera is very low quality.

Overall-it's ok for a cheap MP3 player, FM radio and photo viewer, but if you want anything more you should spend the difference and get a name brand with the features you're interested in. Otherwise you will be disappointed.

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Geek Tip: Easily Watermark Your Images with PicMarkr

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:35:17 +0000

Do you know what a watermark is? I'm sure you have seen them on a few geeksugar posts, but do you know what are they used for? A watermark is used to tell people who the photos belong to, and especially helpful if you don't want anyone else using them without your permission. But it's not only blogs or businesses that use watermarks, you can use them too — even in photos you've uploaded to Flickr — to protect your copyrights.

Which is why using PicMarkr is so easy — just upload the photo you want to watermark (from Flickr, from your TeamSugar account, or from your computer), select what type of watermark you want (either text that you type in, or by uploading a logo), and you're done! You can even send your newly watermarked photo from PicMarkr right into Flickr, making it super simple to brand your best work.

Geek Tip: Easily Watermark Your Images with PicMarkr

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:35:17 +0000

South Park iPhone app coming soon!

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:47:57 +0000

Xeni Jardin from BoingBoing visited the South Park headquarters and guess what, they [South Park folks] are preparing a dedicated iPhone application. From what we know, users should expect the ability to stream clips, grab wallpapers, read news, and browse the complete episode index. In addition, there will be able an option to choose character likenesses as contact images and assign them to any phonebook entry. We all have one Cartman and one Kyle in the crew, right? Now you will know exactly who’s calling you.

[Via: BoingBoing]

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Eye-Fi Now Twits

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:00:37 +0000

Eye-Fi has announced Twitter support that lets followers know when you have uploaded photos, along with a link to the new pics. These messages can even be customized for your friends to view, so feel free to concoct some funny and sarcastic remarks. Eye-Fi also enables users to publish their RSS feed of photos to Google Reader, My Yahoo!, bloglines, newsgator, Pageflakes and netvibes among others. Hopefully you won't upload debauched photos in a moment of drunken madness for the world to see - perhaps there is a need for a built-in security feature like the Google Mail Goggles to prevent such moments.

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Eye-Fi SD cards add Twitter, Flickr, RSS support

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:14:25 +0000

In a market saturated by indistinguishable flash memory competitors, Eye-Fi has managed time and time again to smartly separate itself from its memory card doppelgangers... first, simply by slapping a Wi-Fi transmitter and built-in geotracking into an SD card, and now — even neater — with built-in Flickr and Twitter support.

If you download and install the latest version of the Eye-Fi manager software, you'll have access to the new features. The Flickr function allows you to upload photos directly from your camera to Flickr or other supported photo hosting sites, and the Twitter feature allows you to automatically notify your followers with a link to your latest photos... or simply publish an RSS feed with them.

Charlie Sorrel's right on the money: "Eye-Fi gets it. What started as a simple SD card with Wi-Fi transfer and geotagging is fast turning into a full-on Web 2.0 gadget." There's just a giddy neatness to owning an SD card that not only does something besides store data, but gets cool new features pushed to it over time.

Eye-Fi Manager Update Released [Eye-Fi via Gadget Lab]

Eye-Fi Adds Twitter and RSS Support

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:26:27 +0000

Eye-Fi gets it. What started as a simple SD card with Wi-Fi transfer and geotagging is fast turning into a full-on Web 2.0 gadget. Now, when you upload photos direct from your camera to Flickr (or any other supported online storage), you can opt to have a tweet sent to your Twitter followers, or publish an RSS feed so anyone can subscribe to the full fire-hose of your daily snaps.

These new features are enabled in the latest version of the Eye-Fi Manager software. The Twitter integration is, of course, text only, but subscribers to your RSS feed will see all of your photos. It might be wise to turn this off if you plan to be doing any drinking, or lending your camera to your less savoury friends. The newly released Manager also adds in the promised support for uploading direct to Apple's MobileMe and AdoramaPix. If you have an Eye-Fi already, you will get (or perhaps already have) the update pushed to you automatically. If you don't yet have an Eye-Fi card (and you live in the US), you can now buy direct from Eye-Fi's online store.

Press release [Eye-Fi. Thanks, Gina!]

Laptop manufacturers embracing WiMAX - Sprints WiMAX-based XOHM network gets some notebook love

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:08:41 +0000

With Sprint’s WiMAX-based next-generation 4G (well, officially it’s a 3G network) XOHM mobile broadband network officially up and running in Baltimore, the US is poised to see 2-4Mbps download speeds and 1-2Mbps upload speeds blanketing the nation. Sprint has finally started redefining themselves as the premier data-centric carrier in the US, and manufacturers are rallying to give mobile Sprint mobile broadband users a variety of options for WiMAX-enabled laptops.

Both Acer and Lenovo have both released WiMAX-enabled notebooks that are aimed at customers looking to sign up with Sprint’s 4G XOHM mobile broadband service.

The Acer Aspire 4930-6862 and Aspire 6930-6771 will be packing a 1280×800 14.1-inch display and 1366×768 16-inch LCD, respectively. Both laptops use Intel’s combination WiMAX/Wi-Fi Link 5050 Series chipset and sport the same 2GHz Core 2 Duo processor and 3GB of RAM. The Acer WiMAX-enabled laptops will run about $900.

Lenovo is jumping on board the XOHM bandwagon with a new lineup of Lenovo laptops that’ll be surfing those WiMAX airwaves in the near future. Lenovo is now offering WiMAX-connectivity options to their Lenovo X301, T400, Sl300 and SL500 laptops. The company plans to release Sprint XOHM connectivity options on their W500, W700, SL400 and X200 notebooks later this year, with plans to roll out the WiMAX option for the IdeaPad Y530. Like the Acer laptops, Lenovo’s hardware uses Intel’s WiMAX/Wi-Fi Link 5050 Series chipset to lock onto Sprint’s WiMAX-based 4G XOHM network. Lenovo’s WiMAX-enabled offerings start at $720.

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[Via: Electronista]

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Firebox's USB Negative Scanner

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:30:25 +0000

I don't have a non-digital camera anymore, but I do have a lot of old photos in boxes in the hall closet, and a lot of negatives to go with them. My mom even has boxes of slides in her hall closet.

Wouldn't it be good if there was a way to turn old negatives and slides into digital photos? Enter

Firebox's new scanner, which you plug into your computer via USB and then feed negatives or slides into. They are then transformed into good-quality digital images which you can crop, save and upload to photo-sharing sites (or whatever else you like to do with your digital pics).

Plus you can get rid of those old boxes of pics and finally have some room left in your hall closet: it's win-win!

Buy it for $141.50.

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snom m3 review

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:31:14 +0000

The snom m3 SIP wireless (DECT) phone is one of my favorite VoIP phones. I've been testing and reviewing it for a few months but haven't had time to write up the review until now. First, let me point out that the problem with IP-PBXs is they typically give you a desk phone or a softphone with no real mobility options to walk around, which is critical in some vertical markets, such as retail and manufacturing. Even sales professionals want the flexibility to take calls while roaming the office. In the past, I have used analog telephony adapters to connect my cordless phone to my SIP-based IP-PBX, but the cordless phone lacks multiple lines, call transfer, call conference, call waiting, or even a message waiting indication (MWI). Enter the snom m3, a SIP wireless phone that like a home cordless phone which not only gives you mobility while on the phone, but full IP-PBX functionality as well, including call hold, call transfer, message waiting indicator, and more. In fact, while the caller is holding, music-on-hold is available from the IP-PBX, giving the same business professional experience from a desktop phone.

I should mention that there are WiFi SIP phones, but the battery life on these phones isn't great. snom takes advantage of Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT), a wireless communication standard which can seamlessly hand off calls as a handset moves between multiple base stations in a large office, but also has superior battery life than WiFi SIP phones. The Lithium Ion battery offers a very good eight hours of talk time and 100 hours of standby. Additionally, DECT devices use the 1.9 GHz band while WiFi uses 2.4Ghz so they don't interfere with one another. DECT also doesn't suffer the microwave oven interference that often plagues WiFi access points.

snom m3 Main Menu

The snom m3 supports up to 8 different SIP identities (registrations) allowing you to connect to separate IP-PBXs (or SIP service providers) or the same IP-PBX to support multiple lines. The m3 is 2" x 5" and less than an inch thick sporting a nice 1.75" color LCD (128x128 pixels and 65,536 colors), 2.5mm headset jack, and a speakerphone. The headset jack is a nice feature that I haven't seen on any cordless DECT phones. The phone also comes with a belt clip so you can easily use the headset for talking while walking. The m3 is surprisingly very lightweight - much lighter than I would have expected. The phone also has volume controls, the basic 12 dialpad keys, five navigation keys, and two function keys. The snom m3 ships with some documentation, but for real technical details, the snom m3 wiki is the place to go.

The m3 communicates with the base station which is connected directly to your network via a standard Ethernet cable. Once connected and booted up, the base station obtains an IP address from the DHCP server. By default (factory setting), snom m3 phones are configured to use HTTP as the transfer protocol for provisioning, but TFTP can also be used. Since I was testing this with an Asterisk-based trixbox system, I changed the gateway to use TFTP. Also, the snom m3 supports Option 66 on the DHCP server to automatically acquire the IP address of the TFTP server. Nice!

The TFTP boot server address can be an IP address, a fully qualified domain name (FQDN), or an URL. I also created a config file (/tftpboot/m3/settings/0004132A10E4.cfg) on the TFTP server for the snom m3 to download. I was able to get access to the firmware, upload the new firmware to /tftpboot/m3/firmware/ and it automatically downloaded the latest firmware. Even better you can have it set to connect directly with snom's server (http://provisioning.snom.com/m3/firmware/) to download the latest firmware and even set a schedule to automatically grab the latest version.

Features:

Display: 128 x 128 pixels, 65536 colors, backlit
Li-Ion battery pack for 20 hours of calls or 100 hours standby
Range: 50 meters indoors, 100 meters outdoors
12 numerical keys, 5 navigation keys, 2 function keys
Speakerphone on mobile handset
Polyphonic ringtones
Automatic registration of handset
Separate charging cradle for handset
8 handsets per base station
8 SIP registrations with different servers/registrars
Up to 3 concurrent calls per base station
Three-way conference
Remote setup, password protection
Open DECT GAP standard

Since the snom m3 supports multiple handsets, this leads to some interesting multi-handset functionality. For instance, the Telephony Settings on the web interface lets you pick which identity (CallerID) each handset will use when making outbound calls. You can also set which handsets will ring on incoming calls for each SIP registration/phone number. Thus, you can have one SIP registration ring your home office m3 handset, another ring your son/daughter's m3 handset, and another phone number be the shared kitchen m3 phone. In fact, the snom m3 supports three concurrent calls per base station so you can receive 3 simultaneous calls to the handsets.

The snom m3 supports the most common VoIP codecs, including G.711u (PCMU), G.711a (PCMA), G.729ab, and iLBC. G.711 is the standard used by traditional phone systems and it features the best voice quality at the expense of more bandwidth used (80kbs), which isn't ideal for some DSL connections that only sport 256kbs upstream. Fortunately, the snom m3 supports G.729a which only use 8kbps at a slight loss of voice quality. iLBC (Internet Low Bitrate Codec), although not as widely supported, is designed for narrow band speech and supports two bit rates, 15Kbps (20ms frame rate) and 13.3 Kbps(30ms frame rate), though the m3 only supports the 20ms frame rate @15Kbps. iLBC yields slightly better voice quality than G.729a yet also has a higher robustness in dealing with packet loss while using roughly the same amount of bandwidth. It also has a more dynamic range of sound than G.729a. So kudos to snom for including iLBC as a choice.

You can also configure various settings from the phone itself, though it's more tedious. The VoIP settings is protected by a PIN / password which defaults to 0000. From the phone you can configure the timezone and it even supports NTP time servers for accurate time. Additionally, you can add contacts, however adding contacts via the phone is a bit tedious. I wished the web interface let me add them there and then it would push the contacts down to the multiple handsets.

So how's the phone's range? snom claims the phone needs to be within 50 meters indoors or 100 meters outdoors from the base station. I walked around TMC's offices and didn't lose a signal. Then I went outside walked about 250 feet and it was crystal clear. Excellent range I have to say. The voice quality of the earpiece was very good and the remote end said I sounded very good during my test calls. I also tested the speakerphone, and although it wasn't the best voice quality, I didn't expect a fantastic sounding speakerphone on such a small handset. I should mention that you can also perform intercom calls to either a single m3 handset or you can intercom page all handsets. Useful if you are trying to reach someone and don't know where they are located.

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All in all, the snom m3 is an excellent wireless VoIP phone with excellent battery life, very good range, and very good features. The multiple simultaneous SIP registrations is a huge plus. I wished the base station supported PoE, but it's not a big deal for home users since most home users don't have Power over Ethernet switches. I'll be interested to compare the snom m3 with the new line of Polycom KIRK wireless DECT SIP phones, but for now the snom m3 is my favorite cordless SIP-based VoIP phone!

Price:
You can buy the snom complete set (with base + handset) on Amazon for $172 , and an additional handset on Amazon for $142.

Tags: DECT, review, SIP, snom m3, VoIP, wifi

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(Michael Graves on Oct 7, 2008 11:32 AM) Tom, Good overview! Have you tried the v1.19 firmware? It has the ability to provision the contact list from a cvs file. It's in beta at present. I'm also interested in comparing the m3 to Polycom's IP200W which appears to be based upon the same reference platform from RTX Telecom. These two will be differentiated by their firmware development, and so may differ significantly.

(Tom Keating on Oct 7, 2008 1:58 PM) Thanks for the feedback. I heard awhile ago that .csv upload support was coming. I haven't tried the 1.19 firmware. Has 1.19 launched (available on their firmware update server) or do I have to pull some strings to get the latest yet-unreleased firmware? ;)