Archive for September 11th, 2009

We don’t know much about the Samsung SCH-R355, since it’s been shrouded in “FCC ID Label and Location” secrecy so far.  All we know is this will be a dual band (CDMA and GPS), tri-mode phone with a 1.3 MP camera, QWERTY keyboard, Bluetooth and MP3 playing capabilities.

The only other interesting part of this FCC filing was Samsung’s Fully-anechoic chamber where the device was tested.  Sadly, I don’t know enough about phones to fully explain this chamber, but it appears to be a room designed to measure the signals generated from a device at a variety of levels and angles.

Lenovo slipped their U150 through the FCC tonight.  It measures 11.5 by 7.6 by .94 inches and weighs in at a respectable 3 pounds.  Specs include an Intel Montevina SFF ULF BGA processor (SFF stands for small form factor), an 11.6 inch HD LCD display, 1.3 MP camera and a ton of ports like USB, eSATA and HDMI.  According to the users manual, WWAN and WiMAX versions of the U150 can be expected.

It’s not a bad looking device at all, although I’m not sure if the cover is faux leather or just textured plastic.  The latter would be preferable IMO.

Not much to see here, but LG’s GU280 has hit the FCC.  All there is for now is label info and a test report, but so far we know it’s a GSM device with bluetooth.

Here’s an interesting device from Dior.  The Dior phone looks like a simple enough clamshell device.  But it also comes with the My Dior accessory that acts as a bluetooth headset with call display.

That’s a nice package, I suppose, and much more impressive than your run-of-the-mill luxury phone.

Not a bad looking device from Tiger, a mobile phone manufacturer that serves the Asia/Pacific region.  This device goes by many names, including T106i, WG3, WG5, WG6, W9630, WE72, T518i, T108i, W3000, W5000, and W6000 according to its FCC test report, but I doubt it’ll make it to the US.

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Music, calls, in your car.  Get it?

The GIGA M is a portable mic and speaker set that seems perfect for street performers.  Not so much the silver guys that make robot movements, but more for those guitarists or singers who usually have to set up some sort of ad hoc outdoor auditorium.

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Have Sprint?  Have a bunker?  The Easy-ON tri-band RF repeater is for you!  As SK telecsys’ diagram below shows, just stick a few of these things underground and your Sprint CDMA and iDEN phones are set.

Billed as a ‘pocket-sized mobile computer’, the PM250 seems like a nice little barcode scanning device.  The Windows CE interface looks a little cramped – I mean, it can’t be easy to use WordPad on this thing – but still there’s a lot of functionality packed into this little thing.

The external photos of the device show a Honeywell logo, so that’s likely who’ll be selling this guy in the states.