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Sidle up to a Chinese Companion on your next museum visit

Reuben Lee  |  Oct 05, 2007
We can promise you your very own Chinese Companion on your visit to the National Museum of Singapore. But sorry, this one won't make moochie sounds or moo eyes at you. Instead, this personal guide speaks in a pre-recorded voice and is programmed to give visitors access to videos and reading materials on the relevant artifacts and topics in the museum. The National Museum of Singapore claims it is the first and only museum in Southeast Asia, for now, to incorporate an interactive handheld companion to complement its exhibits.

The handheld device, bundled with earphones, is part of the Companion project which involved around two years of conceptualization and research and up to six translators and 35 voice actors. It was developed by Canadian firm GSM. According to the museum, the handheld contains more than 9 hours of audio and video footage and covers a period ranging from the 14th century to 1972. Operating is as simple as keying in the numbers found at the various sections in the History Gallery. An English Companion has already been introduced earlier, with plans for Malay and Japanese Companions later in the year.

Here's a little tech specs here for the techie. The handheld comes with 32MB of onboard flash memory, 64MB of RAM, and runs on Windows CE 5.0. Onboard storage can be extended to 4GB via the CompactFlash card slot for a maximum of 250 hours of audio content. The screen is a 4.3-inch, 16bit-color TFT with a resolution of 480 x 272 pixels. In addition to infrared, the handheld also features RF technology that automatically triggers the relevant content via proximity.

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Headset worships the sun even after summer

Mike Yamamoto, CNET.com  |  Oct 05, 2007
Iqua is an interesting company, and not just because of its unusual name. The Finnish company always seems to come up with noteworthy products, whether it's a wireless "miniUFO" car speakerphone or an L-shaped Bluetooth phone that attaches to the back of the headrest.

Its latest invention has gone green, a wireless headset powered by solar energy. The Iqua "Sun," developed with partner Suntrica, is based on the previous "Vogue" model (pictured here) that was a hit on the French market with conventional batteries, according to OhGizmo. It beats having to wear a solar collar all the time.

Via CNET Crave

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GSM version of Centro leaked

John Chan  |  Oct 04, 2007

The focus of this post on Gear Diary is the unboxing of the now discontinued Palm Foleo. But the real news is the last picture there, one that shows a black Palm Centro which the author calls the Treo 500P.

Palm launched the Centro last week together with Sprint, a US operator that uses the CDMA network. There was no news of a GSM version, until now. The 500P picture on Gear Diary shows two applications named AT&T Mail and AT&T Music. This implies that it will be released by the famous US iPhone-exclusive GSM carrier. By inference, this 500P will be a GSM device.

So for those who saw the CDMA Palm Centro and liked it, there's hope for a version that will work here. The Centro for Sprint goes for US$99.99 in the US with a two-year contract. Let's hope the GSM will be just as inexpensive, too.

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Waiting for Office Mobile 2007

John Chan  |  Oct 02, 2007

We first reported on Office Mobile 2007 in June, the same time Microsoft announced the Japanese version of Windows Mobile 6 (WM6). The company revealed then that this new version of Office Mobile will be available in Q3 2007--but looking at today's date, it has not happened.

Last week, a pre-release version was mistakenly put up for download from the Microsoft site. This has since been taken down. The reason cited was that the file was meant for internal testing and not for public consumption. The upgrade is widely reported as being Office Mobile 6.1, but Microsoft has informed us that it should rightly be referred to by its originally announced name, Office Mobile 2007.

Some of the key points about this upgrade are:

  • It is for devices that already have a version of Office Mobile installed
  • Support for Office 2007 documents will be added
  • It is compatible with all WM6 versions and WM 5.0 Pocket PC edition only
  • WM6 Standard devices without touchscreens will get editing capabilities--it is currently read-only
  • Some WM6 devices shipped already come with Office Mobile 2007

The software giant has not confirmed exactly when this upgrade will be available, though the official word is it will be "soon". We'll bring you more information about that when it happens.

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Samsung SGH-i780 gets official

John Chan  |  Oct 01, 2007

Samsung is not new to the Windows Mobile PDA-phone business. The company has a few products in that category, though till now, there has been no sustained effort to establish itself in this space. We know the company has had some success with the i320N, and after that the i600 smart phones. So there seems to be no reason why that can't be extended to the handhelds arena.

This may be the one that gets Samsung noticed--the SGH-i780. We first reported on its initial sighting during the GITEX tradeshow, a QWERTY-enabled touchscreen model with a mouse cursor. Samsung has since released the official image and it shows a device that's not unlike the i600 in design, though instead of a rectangular display, it has a square one.

The cheabol has yet to officially release this model and so has not release official specifications. From the knowledge harvested around the Internet, we know it will probably come with a 320 x 320-pixel display, HSDPA, GPS and a 3.2-megapixel camera. It's supposed to be just 13.3mm in depth, which makes it extremely thin for a touchscreen handheld. More information will be available in the coming month--we'll bring you those as we receive them.

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