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Following Dopod and ETEN’s foot steps, Asus announced their first GPS-enabled Pocket PC, the Asus P535 on Wednesday. This new model is powered by Intel Xscale 520MHz processor, 64 MB SDRAM, 256 MB NAND flash memories, and Microsoft Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Phone Edition (AKU3.2). Asus is targeting the P535 at the Asian Pacific market, with retail price of around US$740 (23,900 TWD in Taiwan).

We have seen many MP3 wrist watches which also let you store digital files via USB interface, how often do you see a wrist watch that lets you play video files? Thanko has a MP4 watch on their web based store, supporting video playbacks in MP4 (NXV) format, as well as audio playbacks in MP3 and WMA formats.

The Turbolinux Wizpy is not only a Linux based portable media player that plays MP3, Ogg, WMA, AAC and DivX formats, it’s also a portable Linux drive which lets you plug and boot into Turbolinux’s own Linux OS—Turbolinux FUJI on any PC.

ADS Technologies launches their new video conversion device, the Instant Video To-Go yesterday, offering conversion speed of up to 5 times faster than real time (video length) comparing with regular software conversion which usually takes 4-10 times longer than real time. The Instant Video To-Go is industry’s first hardware-based H.264 conversion solution for consumers, allowing users to convert popular video formats including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, VOB (unprotected), DivX and Quicktime.

If you have a large and decent LCD monitor for your computer, you might wanna utilize it for watching TV shows. If you have subscription to any NTSC cable TV service or if you live in a region with over-the-air ATSC HDTV service, the Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-950 should be one of your top considerations. This hybrid USB TV stick comes with Hauppauge’s WinTV2000 application for watching and recording TV show and WinTV-Scheduler for scheduled recording function.

When Motorola Q successfully penetrated the market of smarthphones with QWERTY keyboard which was previously divided by Blackberry and Palm Treo, did Motorola expect a new great competitor coming from an Asian brand that wasn’t even too well known at the time? Dopod is kicking in their new kid in the block, the Dopod C720W, which is their slimmest smartphone so far. If you’re wondering how good the C720W is, it won against the Motorola Q in CNET Asia’s very own Prizefight, owning the Motorola Q in sexiness, connectivity and call quality while losing for navigation and multimedia.

Samsung revealed the first production ready WiBro convergence mobile device, the SPH-P9000, which will be available for Korean telco KTF’s customers in the first half of 2007. The SPH-P9000 is an UMPC (Ultra Mobile PC) and at the same time a communication device with supports for both WiBro and CDMA2000 1X EV-DO networks. In short, it’s the first 4G mobile “phone”.