NTT Docomo unveiled its 2013 Spring lineup to a packed house of invited Japanese and technical press at the Prince Park Tower Hotel in Tokyo. They showed off and explained 12 new models that will launch, beginning on January 25th, with a lot of nice improvements over their current line-up of 16 models.
NTT Docomo President and CEO, Kaoru Kato, 7 months into his tenure at the position, gave a confident, nicely-paced, clear and concise presentation of the company’s lineup and vision of …
Sony is utilizing its NFC (Near Field Communication) technology to develop the next generation in backing up and sharing data – “one touch backup”. Photos, videos can be backed-up, saved and shared in the cloud, or locally to its 1TB (terabyte) hard drive, all without going through a PC.
Data will be shared totally wirelessly by a simple wave of your smartphone, tablet, etc., making the whole process of saving, sharing and managing data much more efficient and less …
Sony continues to roll-out high-quality products utilising its wireless NFC bluetooth technology. Smartphones, regular mobile phones etc. can be paired with these wireless headphones to deliver great sound and great mobility.
Multiple devices (up to can be wirelessly paired with the headphones, and listening to the music on your device can be toggled between your headphones and the portable bluetooth SRS-BTX300 and SRS-BTX500 speakers we wrote about on January 18th.
The headphones feature …
Onkyo will release a new 3ch speaker system “D-059LCR” in the Japanese market in February 2013. This will give people an additional very high quality option for expanding the sound system of their flat screen TV. It gives high quality sound and is very simple and elegant in design, and is stylish and fits well in modern living rooms.
Panasonic updated its Toughpad line-up last week and announced today a new addition with the TOUGHPAD JT-B1! Unlike FZ-G1, the JT-B1, powered by Windows 8, the is an Android 4.0 7″ Tablet and comes with a nice OMAP4460（ARM Cortex-A9 Dual Core）by Texas Instrument at 1.5 GHz, 16GB of ROM, 1GB of SDRAM, Wifi or 3G (optional), a nice 7″ WSVGA (1024×600) touchscreen with a 500cd/m2, Bluetooth V4.0+3.0, Felica, Camera, LED Flash… And comes fully prepare for everything by being …
Japanese manufacturers, including electronics manufacturers are world leaders in the push for more eco-friendly products. We have been impressed with the various products being released in the Japanese market that use less electricity, have less emissions, etc.
Now, Pioneer has announced that its popular SC-LX85 amplifier/receiver is certified as low-carbon, low-emissions. They are branding it as the “Low CO2 Kawasaki Brand”.
This will continue to be a trend in the development of …
Ever want to sneak up on your cat and take a cute picture from close up before she runs away? Want to take pictures close to ground level, or have a way to smoothly roll your camera into position?
We’ve found a very interesting camera mount that gives your camera a set of wheels. There are several ways that this stand is adjustable, so that users can get just the right angle and steer their camera-buggy whichever way they choose.
At only 2,999 yen, we think this is an interesting and …
iPhoneLife contributor, Todd Bernhard, just reported on a very cool product that he saw at CES (Consumer Electronics Show). It’s an IndieGogo crowdsourced project, available now at $25 but will be retailing later for $100. Take a look at his write-up and let us know what you think of this product… It is not coming from Japan or somewhere else in Asia but we thought it is really cool.
Here you are another very well designed product from Sony with the XDR-55TV. Unlike the SRS-BTX300 and SRS-BTX500, the XDR-55TV is not a portable Bluetooth and NFC Speaker but a simple AM/FM Radio with 1Seg Support that will stream Japanese TV programs audio wherever you are. The XDR-55TV comes in Black and White, weight 480g for a size of 190x36x95mm run on two AA batteries that will give you enough juice for 17hrs of continuous 1Seg Audio playback!
The XDR-55TV will be sold in Japan early …
Sony announced today not one but two new portable Speaker with the SRS-BTX300 and SRS-BTX500. Announced for a Japanese launch schedule at the end of February at a price around 20,000 and 30,000 Yen respectively, the SRS-BTX300 and SRS-BTX500 comes both equipped with Bluetooth 3.0 and NFC support for NFC Capable smartphones and other devices. Slime and elegant both models are actually technically similar but comes however with 20W output with a 8hrs battery life for the SRS-BTX300 and a 40W …
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