Verizon’s New LG Versa Hopes To Be The Most Versatile Touch-Screen Available
Do you want to move into the touch-screen age of cellphones, but are worried that you’ll miss your traditional hard keyboard. Well Verizon hopes to ease those worries and offer a smooth transition to the touch-screen world with the release of the LG Versa. The Versa is unique because you can add external modules to it that suit your preferences. The Versa come with the QWERTY keyboard module and the gamepad module is available to buy, but LG promises the release of more modules in the future. The modules certainly help in the transition to a touch-screen phone, but the Versa is also a great stand-alone touch-screen phone.
- 3 inch, 240 x 480 LCD Touch-Screen Display
- 2 MP Camera
- Email & IM Applications
- Bluetooth
- HTML Browser with Flash Lite Support
- GPS
- Advanced Accelerometer
- Virtual QWERTY Keyboard
- Handwriting Recognition
- Visual Voicemail
- Support for up to 16GB microSD card.
- 1,000 Contact Phone Book
- RSS Reader
- 2.5mm Headset Jack
When I realized my old phone was ready for an upgrade, I zipped over to my nearest Verizon store to see my options. After looking at the other options, I finally got to the Versa, which immediately caught my eye. The touch-screen works very well and the software is great. It has three customizable home screens: Favorites, Media, and Shortcuts. You can set a different wallpaper for each screen and you can even change the background of the charging screen! The Versa’s accelerometer works especially well, a big improvement over the Dare. The screen flips when you turn the device left or right. The only screen that does not flip is the home screen.
Another cool feature is the web browser. It is extremely fast and clear. Though is may be a little difficult navigating at times, you eventually become accustomed to it and navigating becomes much easier. In addition, the Versa fuctions as an excellent Mp3 player. I bought an 8GB microSD card (it can take up to a 16GB) and put all of my favorite songs on it. It offers many different settings and it allows you to listen to music in the background while you do other tasks. The only downside is that I had to buy a headphone adapter so I could use my regular 3.5mm headphones.
All in all, the Versa is a great phone. With tons of ways to customize it, many cool features, intuitive touch-screen, and many iPhone-esque capabilities, the Versa is a great choice for those who want the capabilities of the iPhone, but want to stay on one of the largest, fastest, and most reliable networks available.
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Bigfoot Networks Interview With CTO Harlan Beverly Regarding New Gaming Network Card Technology
Online gaming is one of the fastest growing markets with millions of people playing games over the internet. One of the hottest online games is ‘World of Warcraft’ in which alone has over 12 million subscribers all paying monthly fees to play. Its amazing how booming the online gaming business really is and it makes you start to question what kind of innovative technology is there to help ensure your online gaming performance is the very best.
For the finest gaming experience online one of the key components in your PC system is your network card as this is the holy grail hardware piece when it comes down to processing network data & communicating with the game servers to ensure you enjoy optimal performance. One company that is leading the way with innovation & technology for online gaming is Bigfoot Networks.
Bigfoot Networks launched the world’s first gaming network cards when they introduced the Killer NIC K1 and Killer NIC M1 card. These cards are helping gamers enjoy a smoother & faster online gaming experience plus now opening up doors to allow gamers to ‘do more’ while they plan online like download game patches, bittorrents, and run a hardware firewall. Recently Bigfoot Networks just introduced the Xeno Pro Gaming Network Card that boosts your online gaming experience as well for a faster & smoother game play, but also enabling hardware accelerated voice chat so you can enjoy crystal clear communications while gaming as well. With the introduction of the Xeno Pro an exciting partnershipwas forged with the leading gaming hardware company, EVGA, to bring this new Xeno Pro Gaming Network Card to market.
Check out this interview with the CTO and Co-Founder of Bigfoot Networks, Harlan Beverly to learn more:
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Headphone cords, Symmetrical Design Vs. Asymmetrical Design
Millions of earbuds and headphones are shipped every month with various styles and form factors. The big question from many people seem to be specifically about the cord design for ‘wearing’ your earphones. This is a very important topic for many people assume the normal ‘Y’ style headphone core or Symmetrical design is the only way and any other design is not correct or even a faulty product. This is not true and we aim to dispell this myth and set the record straight.
There are really two main types of headphone cord designs: Asymmetrical or Symmetrical. See diagram here:
Asymmetrical Headphone Cord Design Vs. Symmetrical Headphone Cord Design
How does it work?
For the Asymmetrical design the longer cord wraps around the back of the neck to your other ear and the shorter cord goes directly into the other ear. You put the right cord around your neck. With one cable longer than the other both cords come together off center, to the side of the neck, or close to one ear. This design keeps the cord to the side and out of the way.
For the Symmetrical design the cord just forms a ‘Y’ and goes straight up your chest splitting to both ears in front where the left earbud goes to the left ear and the right earbud goes up to the right ear.
Many new and innovative earphones utilize the Asymmetrical design with the Purebuds being a perfect example because the Asymmetrical design really does help provide a more practical & comfortable experience with the headphone wires.
Benefits Of Asymmetrical Cord Design:
• When you take the earphones out of your ears they hang around your neck instead of dropping to the floor.
• Design provides a cleaner and more comfortable fit
• Form factor reduces the frictional noise from all the wires moving against your clothing.
• With this asymmetrical cord design if the Purebuds fall off, they won’t fall straight to the ground as your neck is supporting it.
• This design makes it clearer to identify which earbud is left & right.
Testimonial:
“…I like the cord style, with one side longer than the other. With my iPod buds I always had a problem wearing my shuffle in my pocket. The even cord always caused one side or another to get dislodged. The uneven cord is great, I can stick the one side around the back of my head and keep my shuffle in the opposing pocket. In addition I don’t have to worry about getting tangled in the cord in the front when I am running….”
We hope this is information is helpful to share the truth about the two main headphone cord designs and how they are different. Asymmetrical and Symmetrical are both two viable headphone cord designs in which we believe the Asymmetrical form is better then the other.
Round 2: Sony X-Series Walkman Steps Into The Ring With The Undefeated iPod Touch
Sony thinks they have what it takes to compete with likes of the iTouch, and I believe they are on the right track. The Sony X-series Walkman, releasing in about a month, is the biggest thing to happen to the Walkman line since its release. The X-series is Sony’s attempt to bring the Walkman into the modern-day realm of touch-screens and wifi. Sony added many cool features that make it a noble competitor against the iTouch.
- 3-inch OLED display with 432 x 240 resolution
- WiFi Capability
- Web Browser (including YouTube and Slacker apps)
- Intuitive Touch-Screen Interface
- FM Tuner
- Integrated Noise Cancellation
The X-series’ touch-screen works as well as (if not better then) the iTouch and the OLED screen looks gorgeous. The Wifi integration is nice, especially when using the Slacker app to listen to tons of free music, but the web browser can be a little annoying to use. It is helpful though because it allows you to download movies straight from the internet, from online stores such as Amazon. Though without the equivalent of an App-store and by not taking full advantage of the opportunites offered by the WiFi capability, Sony’s X-series Walkman is definitely not an iTouch KILLER. The Walkman does offer a wide range of capabilities without sacrificing quality, but being priced similarly to the iPod Touch, I expected slightly more out of one of the largest and oldest companies in the portable music player market.
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POWERSTICK™ – SMART, GREEN and Removes the FEAR of being Powerless.
Our biggest FEAR, as we transcend further into our mobile lifestyle, is to become powerless. In other words, for one of our mobile device’s to use up its battery and no where to immediately charge it… right? Not anymore! POWERSTICK™ by Ecosol® is a small (fits in your pocket or purse), lightweight (1.23oz; 40grams), one-fits-all, portable charger that anyone who uses a mobile device (cell phone, smart phone, PDA, iPhone, iPod, Digital Camera, GPS and/or MP3 player) should own.
The benefit of Ecosol’s POWERSTICK helps the planet by being a whole lot SMARTer with the GREENest charging solution - no disposable batteries, and no wall chargers. This energy efficient charger comes with 9 connectors (Sony Ericsson - LG - Nokia - Motorola - Samsung - Blackberry - Apple IPOD - Palm Treo - Mini USB for Devices such as Bluetooth Headsets and Digital Cameras) reducing the need for more than one charger. This device is:
SMART: 1000+ cycle lifespan GREEN: fewer disposals into our landfills
SMART: controls energy flow GREEN: once full, does not consume any more energy
SMART: automatic sleep mode GREEN: saves energy when the device is not in use
As for powerless, read on…
I pride myself in “always being prepared” however, that can only go so far. How about being prepared for those unknown circumstances or someone else’s unpreparedness? Either way, I was fully prepared for both of those “OOPS” occasions!
The day I received my POWERSTICK, I immediately charged it from my laptop. That evening while attending my daughter’s young student’s dance recital, one of the parents forgot to charge their digital camera. Their daughter’s special dance would not be captured. No worries, I was prepared. I had brought my fully charged POWERSTICK and all of the connectors to show my daughter, my latest “tech toy”. We were able to plug in my POWERSTICK to their camera and saved the day (or night, in this instance). Fortunately for them, I was prepared for both an unknown circumstance and someone else’s unpreparedness.
Besides the benefits of the SMART and GREEN factors, the results removed their FEAR of being “powerless”. Thank you POWERSTICK.
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