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Does Marks Enterprise know something I don’t? Maybe they’ve got a mole in the Obama administration telling them this DTV transition thing is just hot air. At CES, Chinese company Marks was showing a huge array of analog TV phones – phones whose main selling point will go totally dead when the US turns off analog TV signals on Feb. 17 (or maybe later, it seems.

Otherwise, the Marks phone lineup has all the hallmarks of cool Chinese phones that will never be sold in the US. They’ve got dual SIM cards (so you can have two lines at once), for instance. But companies like Marks are never quite able to get their acts together to make coherent presentations to US carriers, so their phones never come to US shelves.

The Samsung / Chumby digiframe was on hand at CES in a very, very early prototype form. In fact, the demo units didn’t even have a back plate covering up the innards. We were told that Samsung’s contribution is the processor within, and plans are to release it to market before the end of ’09. Our early impressions? The widgets were liquid smooth and lookin’ good; the video playback, however, was less than acceptable. Have a glance below for an early look.

Filed under: CES, Digital Cameras, Displays

Samsung / Chumby prototype digiframe hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Polaroid’s PoGo Instant Digital Camera isn’t for the hardcore geeks — it’s stuck with a 5 megapixel sensor, no optical zoom whatsoever and an LCD monitor that was fanciful in 1998. What it can do, however, is churn out photo stickers in around 60 seconds after a photo is taken without the need for an external printer. Have a look at the March-bound unit below, and look, your kids will love it. Promise.

Gallery: Polaroid PoGo Instant Digital Camera hands-on

Filed under: CES, Digital Cameras

Polaroid PoGo Instant Digital Camera hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:16:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Smartparts has announced two new pocket sized touch-screen digital photo viewers to its current lineup, the 2.4 inch SP24PC and the 3.5 inch SP35PC.

These compact digital photo viewers give people the ability to enjoy their favorite photos on the go. Users upload photos by connecting the viewer …

If you’ve been listening to the Engadget Podcast, you know that Taiwan’s Dr. Mobile is our new favorite fly-by-night Asian netbook vendor, and VIA’s showing off its Nano-powered Freestyle Mini here at CES in a darkened restaurant. (Seriously!) Internally, it’s basically a smaller version of the 11.6-inch Freestyle we played with a few days ago, but it’s in a more traditional netbook package with an 8.9-inch screen. We were pretty blunt in asking the VIA rep why the Nano’s basically been a no-show during 2008’s Atom explosion, and while we didn’t get a straight answer, it sounds like 2009 might be the year the battle for netbook platform dominance is finally joined — the Freestyle and the Freestyle Mini should be available in the next few months. Dr. Mobile, paging Dr. Mobile.

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VIA shows off Nano-powered Dr. Mobile Freestyle Mini originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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