July 2008

W302 Sony Ericsson Walkman Launched
Of the phone released today, the W302 is bottom of the range, a quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE handset that comes with a 2-megapixel camera, 3D games, FM radio and Bluetooth stereo A2DP with just a 512MB Memory Stick Micro card lobbed in the pack.
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22 July, 2008
W595 Sony Ericsson Walkman Launched
Sporting a similar feature set as the W902 (albeit with a lower camera megapixel count of 3.2MP), the W595 comes with shake control, SensMe, 3D games, FM radio, auto screen rotation, Bluetooth stereo A2DP and a smaller 2GB Memory Stick Micro card bundled.
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22 July, 2008
W902 Sony Ericsson Walkman Launched
The quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE; UMTS/HSDPA 2100 W902 Walkman is the most feature-packed of the three released (W595 & W302), offering a 5-megapixel autofocus camera, shake control, Sens Me, 3D games and comes with a bundled 8GB Memory Stick Micro card.
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22 July, 2008
Sony Ericsson Announces W302, W595 and W902 Walkman Handsets
As the Walkman phone brand hits it third birthday, Sony Ericsson W902 have rolled out another three new handsets to add to the 77 million Walkman phones sold to date.
The Walkman phone range came blinking into the day with the W800 that we got our hand on back in April 2005 and Sony are hoping that the new W302, W595 and W902 models will keep the punters shuffling back for more.
We’ve split the three phones out to separate posts …
W902 Sony Ericsson Walkman
W595 Sony Ericsson Walkman
W302 Sony Ericsson Walkman
22 July, 2008
DMC-FZ28: Panasonic Lumix Boasts 18x Optical Zoom
Heading for the shelves and ready to to start wooing bird-watchers, wannabe paparazzis and other looooong zoom-lovin’ types is the mid-range Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ28 digicam.
Sporting a veritable John Homes of a zoom, the 10 MP DMC-FZ28 packs a colossal 18x (F2.8-4.4) optical range, starting off at a handy wideangle 27mm setting and soaring up to a 486mm – which is probably powerful enough to snap the Phoenix lander on Mars. Possibly.
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22 July, 2008
NXP: Dual View Screen For Car Use
In a world where increasingly people have to watch a flickering screen to be entertained, it’s not surprising that screen in cars has been a big success.
For parents it’s a great way to keep their children quite while they travel to their destination. Heaven forbid that they talk to each other.
That aside, Digital-Lifestyles is all about the development in areas, even if we don’t necessarily use it ourselves, so we want to learn.
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18 July, 2008
Unshredder: Join Together Shredded Documents In Software: Review-ette (20%)
Back in the day, you needed a team of dedicated followers to re-assemble a shredded document, as the Iranians did when the US left their embassy in Tehran in the late 1970s.
These days there’s a darn bit of software to help you do it.
Unsurprisingly it’s called Unshredder and they label it the “first commercial document reconstruction tool in the world!”
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18 July, 2008
Twinity: Berlin Virtualised In A Game
We all know how popular virtual worlds are, with the best known examples being Second Life and World of Warcraft.
These worlds are all very well, but they’re set in a fictional world. Not a bad thing for many people, but some players will hanker for more reality.
Get Real
This is where Twinity comes in. Twinity plan to accurately model cities from around the world and they’re starting with one of our fave cities, Berlin.
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17 July, 2008
Bubba Two: Silent Server
If you’re looking for a server to centralise your data on to, but don’t need to go as far as a NAS – or indeed don’t want to have the noise that normally come with a NAS, you might want to take a look at Bubba Two.
It’s a stylish, silent mini server that can current host up to 1TB of storage, with further expansion possible.
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17 July, 2008
News Spam: A New Type Of Spam
In an ever-evolving story, Spammers are starting a new form of spam – News Spam. Email’s that look like they’re news stories but are indeed spam.
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17 July, 2008