LG Cookie Plus (GS 500) annoucned

Lg has announced the updated version of its best selling cellphone KP500 better known as Cookie. The Cookie Plus model named as GS500 improves upon KP500 in many ways. The launch date is about early March 2010 in Europe.

The entry level smartphone revolution which was started by LG Cookie, was carried further by Samsung Star duos and Samsung Corby range to fullest. In those days LG was sleeping quite basking in success of its Cookie. But this year they are planning to introduce a slew of products in Cookie range to counter the Corby dominance in this particular price range.

The new generation Cookie has gotten itself 3G, 3.5mm jack and microUSB port. The most significant changes, however, relate to its interface and functionality.

Focused on social networking, the LG Cookie Plus boasts a flurry of friendly networking features, including support for Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and other popular sites. According to LG, some of the coolest new features of the Cookie Plus are the Cartoon-like user interface (is that Corby influence) that comes with 18 colorful themes for greater personal expression and LiveSquare, a peer management application that keeps track of your most frequent contacts.

Silicon Power 128GB CF card

Silicon Power’s 400X 128GB CF card supports PIO Mode-6 and Multi-Word DMA 4 transfer mode in quad-channel configuration. It is faster and more stable for professional photography applications to capture data in fractions of a second. The 128GB of storage space allows photographer to snap away high definition photos at will and not have to worry about running out of storage space or swapping in an additional card. It also comes with Error Correction Code (ECC) functionality for data accuracy and it utilizes Wear Leveling technology to prolong the product lifespan. In turn, it ensures maximum performance and lifespan potential of the CF card and your product. 100% green, it is in compliance with European RoHS directive and comes with a Lifetime warranty.

Product specification

* Dimension: 36.4mm x 42.8mm x 3.3mm
* Weight: 10g-12g
* In compliance with CF Association specifications
* Operating voltage: 3.3V/5V
* Operating temperature: 0℃~70℃
* Storage temperature: -40℃~85℃
* Capacity: 128GB / 64GB / 32GB / 16GB / 8GB
* Humidity: 8% to 95%
* Durability: At least plug and unplug 10,000 times
* Warranty: Lifetime

HTC Smart a BREW MP smartphone

HTC has been known for Windows mobiles recently they have also introduced some smartphones into Android platform and quite successful in doing that. The first google phone is actually made by HTC and known as Google Nexus One.

Now they have announced a new phone that brings the Sense interface to the Qualcomm Brew Mobile Platform. Brew is the platform used on millions of feature phones, and integrated it with the HTC Sense interface looks to further blur the distinction between feature phone and smart phone.

As it appears from news in media sources, the Qualcomms Brew Mobile platform is free to Device vendors and Mobile operators as such the prices of devices should be kept low to submerge the difference between a feature phone and a smart phone.

The HTC Smart is a touch phone that looks like many HTC phones on the market. It is a phone using touch widgets to customize the user experience. I guess you could say that the Smart brings the Brew platform into the smartphone age. Brew makes it possible to produce cheap feature phones due to the low cost of the platform, and this brings Sense technology to a much cheaper class of products.

Microsoft Office 2010 Beta available for download

The Beta version of Microsoft Office 2010 is now available for download at free of charge here.

One can download to check the new features in new programs such as Microsoft Word 2010, Outlook 2010, Excel 2010 and PowerPoint 2010. In addition to enhanced image-editing tools, now one can edit video files right in Microsoft PowerPoint 2010. And Microsoft Office Web Apps make it easy to work on group projects together.

The products included are Microsoft Word 2010, Excel 2010, Powerpoint 2010, Outlook 2010, OneNote 2010, Publisher 2010 and Access 2010.