Archive for November 10th, 2009

Remember those Sharp camera phones that have passed through the FCC in recent weeks?  Well, today Japanese wireless carrier SoftBank unveiled their Winter 2009-Spring 2010 catalog that contains a number of these impressive camera phones (From Engadget).

I love how Japanese carriers introduce a ton of phones at once – it allows customers to pick and choose from a full lineup, rather than having to ‘wait and see’ for the next new device.  But it is a bit sad to known that few, if any of these devices will make their way to the US.

Yesterday a couple of blurry pics of Sensixa’s e-AR fitness monitor popped up on the FCC.  Today, more pics of the actual e-AR monitoring device emerged, revealing a slick, compact design.

I have to admit, I’m very impressed at the e-AR, even though I would never need the wealth of fitness data that it records.

Samsung recently received Wi-Fi certification for their BD-C7500 Blu Ray player.  Filings for the BD-C7500 describe interesting media extender and media server features.

Currently, Samsung’s Blu-Ray players support Netflix and Pandora streaming, as well as media streaming from a PC.  But the description of ‘media server’ features suggest that the BD-C7500 may include an internal hard drive that will allow users to store media on the player itself.

At this point this is purely speculation, but the BD-C7500 is definitely a Blu-Ray player to keep an eye on.

Huawei passed their C6100 mobile phone through the FCC today.  The C6100 is a CDMA device which bears a striking resemblance to Palm’s Centro smartphone.

However, there is little chance that this device will make it to the States.  Huawei will most likely OEM this device to China Telecom.