NTT Docomo and MasterCard Worldwide today announced a global business alliance for contactless payments via compatible DOCOMO smartphones. Aiming at a launch in the first half of the fiscal year ending in March 2014, the companies will expand DOCOMO’s iD mobile credit payment system for acceptance at MasterCard PayPass merchant locations around the world.
MasterCard’s innovative payment system, MasterCard PayPass, will be available to DOCOMO customers using smartphones equipped with a …
Here you are the speaker from Onkyo, Japanese most favorite audio brand! Named the iLunar RBX-500, the new speaker comes with a dedicated iPod dock (30 Pin connectors) as well as other Bluetooth compatible devices like Android Smartphones and other PCs, that comes with not 1 or 2 speakers but 6 5W satellite speakers and a 1 10W Subwoofer.
The iLunar RBX-500 features many audio enhancement modes including 3D Sound fine tuned by the “Sonic Emotion“. Equipped with a USB port the …
It seems that there still some room for Iriver’s DAP in Japan after all! Today the once extremely popular DAP (Mp3 Player) Korean manufacturer announced in Japan the Astell & Kern AK100 a luxury and High-end audiophile oriented DAP! Schedule to hit Japanese store October 27th the Astell & Kern AK100 comes by default with 32GB of internal memory as well as a a dual MicroSDHC port capable to expand the total amount of internal memory of the Astell & Kern AK100 up to …
I-O Data outs this morning in Japan a new monitor with the LCD-MF271CGBR. This new 27″ LED Backlight Monitor main feature is its WQHD (2560×1440) IPS Panel and its 420cd/m2 brightness, 1000:1 contrast ratio and 4.3ms response time. Set for a launch nationwide at the end of this month at an announced price of 49,800 yen, the LCD-MF271CGBR comes with a pair if 2W integrated speakers, DVI-D (Dual Link), HDMI, D-SUB and DisplayPort.
NTT Docomo has developed the Hands-Free Videophone, which enables video calls without having to hold the camera. This is part of docomo’s research on creating future glasses-type devices.
The Hands-Free Videophone captures the user’s face with three cameras in each of the left and right sides of the frames. The video sent to the other person is created by combining the pictures with a pre-rendered 3D model of the users face.
“Each camera has 720p resolution, and a fish-eye …
Just a week after Acer’s announcement of their Windows 8 Iconia W700, the company announced yesterday in the USA the Iconia W510 another Windows 8 Tablet but this time powered by an Intel Clover Trail Atom Z2760 CPU! the Iconia W510 will come in four different flavors (see details below) with a price starting at $499.99 USD and sold without its docking keyboard (That also includes an internal battery). By default the Iconia W510 will come for all models with an Atom Z2760, 2GB of RAM, …
We recently got the opportunity to test one of Shuttle’s newest slim PC’s, behold the XH61V. This model is the “Ivy bridge” upgrade from last year’s “Sandy bridge” XH61 model. Both have LGA1155 sockets supporting Intel i3, i5 and i7 CPU’s with the difference that the new XH61V supports the third generation of these aforementioned CPU’s.
What Shuttle says
“More connectivity, performance and efficiency”
The ultra-compact Shuttle Slim-PC barebone XH61V is an ideal basis of a slim-line nettop PC …
Here you are another phone announced today by Softbank but this time manufacturer by Fujitsu with the ARROWS A 201F. Here as well the ARROWS A 201F comes with a nice 1.5GHz Quad Core CPU, 2GB of RAM and 32GB of memory but “only” come with a 4.7″ 720p screen! The ARROWS A 201F is also compatible with Softbank 4G AXGP network, Bluetooth, GPS, WiFi, a 13.1Mpix camera with AF and Android 4.1!
Unfortunately and like the AQUOS PHONE Xx 203SH, the ARROWS A 201F won’t become …
Summer is over and it is time to enjoy Japanese Mobile phone operator new Winter and Spring (2012-2013) collection! As now the second largest mobile phone operator in Japan, since its acquisition of eAccess, Softbank started first and introduces over ten new handsets! Among these new models, the company new flagship phone is designed and manufacturer by Sharp, behold the AQUOS PHONE Xx 203SH!
This new AQUOS PHONE Xx 203SH is by far one of the coolest phone from Sharp and comes by default with …
Here you are final piece on this year CEATEC and like we started it we will finish our coverage with Sharp, the jewel of this 2012 pathetic CEATEC. Set for a 2013 launch, Sharp announced at CEATEC 2012, the Moth Eye Panel, a new technology that and tiny (on a nanoscale level) irregularities on its panel that drastically reduce glare while still being able to display bright and perfect colors and contrast. Anyway let’s wait patiently until 2013 to enjoy TVs featuring this new Moth Eye …
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