Archive for September, 2009

MSI Wind U110 ECO goes on sale

MSI Wind U110 ECO frontMSI has rolled its new Wind U110 ECO netbook today and split everyone into two groups with it. First say that Wind U110 ECO hasn’t earned their attention largely because its Intel GMA500 GPU. Fair enough, especially if we look back at overly enthusiastic articles that indicate that MSI U110 is going to have ATI graphics. Others reply that the toughest graphic gig it will do on everyday basis is Windows Aero Theme, so they are happy with saving money on graphics. Anyway, MSI Wind ECO netbook has more upsides to consider.

Long battery life in a netbook is sure an upside. MSI U110 sports a 9 cell battery that will last 15 hours from plug to plug. Enough for a whole day out, but it comes to price: its up to you whether 3.2 lbs is easy to carry around or not, so choose wisely here. Price (399 USD) and the rest of specs hasn’t been changed and left the same as we knew it since Wind U110 ECO was announced:

* 1.6GHz Intel Atom Z53 precessor, Intel Poulsbo US15W chipset

* 1 GB DDR2 533MHz RAM

* 2.5 inch 160GB SATA hard drive

* 10 inch LED, 1024 x 600 resolution

* 1.3 MP webcam

* USB 2.0 x 3

* gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi

* Genuine Windows XP Home/Vista Home Basic

* 1 year warranty

 

Headphones MH907

Just recently Sony Ericsson has unveiled their new and quite interesting Motion Activated Headphones MH907. Unlike ordinary headphones, Motion Activated have deserved quite a brief word on the sound quality, which must be fairly good overall, but has amazed everyone at the opening even with their distinctive feature. MH907 works like normal set of ear buds until you want perform an action like stop the music, start it or answer a phone call.

At this point the “motion” part of Motion Activated Headphones MH907 comes in. The idea is that you don’t need to pull the phone out your pocket or wherever it happens to be, you just pull one bud out. That will automatically pause the music and put it on again when the bud is back in. Same with the phone call. Plug just one bud and the call starts, pull it off – call is put on hold. This is really handy, no need to search for the mobile phone in a bag and then pushing buttons. Works best in public transport I think. Sadly though Motion Activated Headphones MH907 are only Sony Ericsson Fast Port compatible. To cheer up watch a funny toon starring MH907.