Dell has just unveiled their newest flagship business notebook, the Latitude Z, a 16-incher that measures only a little over half-an-inch thick and weighs only 4.4 pounds. The Latitude Z is a pretty swank kit, with an attractive angled design built with premiummaterials, while delivering on productivity with a choice of Ultra Low Voltage Intel Core 2 Duo processors for a longer battery life.
iLuv has just released a portable media player, the i1166, that comes with a 9-inch widescreen TFT LCD, an iPod dock, and a built-in DVD drive. It cracks open like a laptop to reveal the DVD drive and iPod dock (it can play movies stored on any movie-playing iPod). The i1166 is held up by a stand–like a rather thick digital photo frame—and comes with a remote to let users sit back and enjoy the show.
Nintendo is planning to give the Wii an online video streaming service soon, according to a regional publication. With the service already lined up to launch in Japan by November, an expansion that includes North America and South Korea could begin sometime next year.
The service could help it compete with the PlayStation Network and the Xbox Live Marketplace, but like Nintendo’s games, expect to see more kid-friendly content. It falls short on native high-end multimedia playback though, but word is out that Nintendo is planning to release an HD-capable Wii in 2011.
TomTom has just announced the XL 340S LIVE, a mid-range GPS kit that updates map and travel info live via AT&T’s mobile cellular networks. The XL 340S LIVE sports a 4.3-inch full color touchscreen and an interface that shows the usual mapping, traffic info and weather forecasts, but adds Google Local Search and gas prices via the live mobile connection. The XL 340S LIVE also features a lane assist function, and considers the live traffic data (and not just distance) to calculate the quickest route from point A to point B.
The XL 340S LIVE is set to sell for $300 with three free months of mobile online access, and $10 per month to continue the service.
Sprint has come out with the Samsung Instinct HD—an update of Samsung’s Instinct touchscreen phone that adds enhanced multimedia capabilities that lets it output HD content to an external HDTV or HD display. Whether it can port 720p or 1080p is unknown, but the Instinct HD does come with other updates that include a 5-megapixel camera and an Opera Mobile 9.7 browser.
