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  November 6th 2008

  News Car sat-nav with built in digibox

  We've often looked at digital TV broadcasts tailored for mobile devices, such as the popular systems used in Japan and Korea, but rarely a portable gadget that uses a normal digibox.

  Related categories : Car-tech

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  October 31st 2008

  News Dongle brings digital TV to iPhone

  Japanese iPhone users pining for the 1-seg mobile TV tuners common in home-grown handsets now have an option in the shape of a very odd combo dongle.

  Related categories : Mobile-phones

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  October 31st 2008

  News Super high-res phone lacks only kitchen sink

  Japanese phone users may not have as good a selection of decent hardware as us in the West (they're big on services, mind), but they do at least now have one of the highest-resolution handsets in the business.

  Related categories : Mobile-phones

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  September 3rd 2008

  News Sony does digital waterproof bathroom Bravia

  Just a week after wowing the world with its super-slim new LCD telly, Sony has gone to the other end of the innovation scale and given us a waterproof Bravia for the bathroom.

  Related categories : Tv

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  September 3rd 2008

  News Full-motion video at 30fps hits mobile phones

  Mobile digital TV tuners may be already installed in tens of millions of phones in Japan and Korea, but the networks have one major problem with the technology - it makes them absolutely no money.

  Related categories : Mobile-phones

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  August 31st 2008

  News Real-time TV chatrooms for telly addicts

  If exhortations to 'Push that red button now' are already growing tiresome, then watch out for a novel twist on interactive TV that will have as all chatting online while glued to the goggle box.

  Related categories : Web

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  August 14th 2008

  News Olympic records tumble as TV sales surge

  With the Beijing Olympics almost a week old, we're being inundated by the usual floods of press releases from electronics manufacturers pointing out just how popular the games are making their products.

  Related categories : Tv

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  June 24th 2008

  News Eee killer packs GPS, touch screen into 800g

  If you recall, when we looked at some of the great sub-notebooks from Japanese firm Kohjinsha last month, we felt the top end of the range was a little pricey.

  Related categories : Laptops

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  June 12th 2008

  News Yahoo widget broadens digital TV appeal

  Yahoo Japan has clearly taken the whole widget concept to heart in introducing a new service that helps users get the most out of digital TV broadcasts.

  Related categories : Web

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  June 5th 2008

  News Bath time for Bonzo with waterproof Viera TV

  Previously, Panasonic has extended its strong Viera brand name from flat-screen television sets to mobile phones in Japan, so it's to be expected that it should continue to leverage the brand awareness.

  Related categories : Tv

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  May 15th 2008

  News Japan report: previewing the phones of the future

  NTT DoCoMo's crack squad of powder-blue-suited spokesmodels ushered us off to see the company's vision of the future in a specially constructed facility on the 29th floor of a Tokyo skyscraper

  Related categories : Future-tech , Mobile-phones

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  April 30th 2008

  News Samsung packs dual mobile digi-TV into new phone

  Samsung's typically breathless press people in Korea contacted us today to share the news that the company is launching "the world's first mobile TV slider phone", the P960, which is coming to Europe in a jiffy. However, you may well ask "So what?"

  Related categories : Mobile-phones

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  April 10th 2008

  News Anti-crime car satnav warns where not to park

  See that little red dot near the bottom of the display on Sanyo's newest car satnav system? That's a warning against parking your car there unless you want to have it broken into for all the high-tech goodies on the dashboard

  Related categories : Satnav

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  April 9th 2008

  News USB digital TV clip comes with 4GB onboard

  Most gadget fans in the West have yet to get their hands on mobile digital TV devices like the 1-seg phones and mini TVs in Japan, but there's no reason why we can't give you a sneak preview of the goodies that might come our way one day

  Related categories : Television

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  March 31st 2008

  News Mini PC phone outsmarts the competition

  Smartphones may be commonplace in the West but countries like Japan have yet to make the move to the PDA-like handsets en masse. Instead, companies such as Softbank Mobile bridge the gap with hybrid phones like the new 922SH

  Related categories : Mobile-phones

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  March 3rd 2008

  News Kohjinsha ultra-light PCs make Eee look bad

  It's not easy to keep track of the dozens of different tiny ultra-portable PCs coming onto the market these days. But it is worth remembering that there is life beyond the Asus Eee PC line-up that hogs so much attention

  Related categories : Laptops

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  February 27th 2008

  News Panasonic brings Viera TV to Japanese phones

  Panasonic Japan has just started selling the latest mobile phone to carry its Viera TV branding. The Viera P950iTV mobile phone on NTT DoCoMo's network features a 3.5-inch 262k colour screen (854 x 480-pixel resolution), 30fps video playback and a 4,000:1 contrast ratio using Panasonic's proprietary 'LCD Artificial Intelligence' tech

  Related categories : Mobile-phones

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  February 26th 2008

  News Force is strong in Korean wonder PMP

  It might only ever be available in South Korea, but that won't stop us drooling over the latest high-end PMP from Kaon Media, even if it does run Windows CE 5.0

  Related categories : Portable-media , Mp3-players

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  February 21st 2008

  News World's smallest digital TV tuner for phones

  Remember those Japanese 1-seg mobile digital TVs we told you about recently? They're already small enough to fit in most new phones, but are about to suffer even more winter shrinkage after Sharp created its smallest tuner yet.

  Related categories : Mobile-phones , Portable-media , Television

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  February 20th 2008

  News Two new LiMo phones to challenge Android

  We've already digested everything there is to know about Android, the Google-led open operating system for mobile phones and a little about LiMo, the other open-source challenger. But we'll bet you didn't know there are two spanking new LiMo phones on the market

  Related categories : Mobile-phones