September 18th, 2007

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Price: $799.99 USD

State of the art home entertainment! This Akai PDP5016H HDTV Ready Plasma Television features a large 50-inch Plasma display and 16:9 widesscreen aspect ratio for a cinema-style entertainment experience! The amazing 4,000:1 contrast ratio and 1000 cdm2 brightness delivers brilliant colors and brings your favorite movies to life! The Akai PDP5016H includes a wide selection of connectors, S-Video, composite, DVI-I, VGA and TV inputs, to connect a home theater system, satellite receiver and your computer! With its superb features, this Akai PDP5016H HDTV Ready Plasma Television is the perfect addition to your home entertainment needs!

I have a 50 inch plasma and I am so glad I didn’t go for an LCD or a smaller plasma; the color and sharpness are unbeatable. Friends tell me all the time how great the picture looks. This Akai PDP5016H HDTV Ready Plasma Television
features a large 50-inch Plasma display and 16:9 widesscreen aspect ratio for a cinema-style entertainment experience! The amazing 4,000:1 contrast ratio and 1000 cdm2 brightness delivers brilliant colors and brings your favorite movies to life! The Akai PDP5016H includes a wide selection of connectors, S-Video, composite, DVI-I, VGA and TV inputs, to connect a home theater system, satellite receiver and your computer! With its superb features, this Akai PDP5016H HDTV Ready Plasma Television is the perfect addition to your home entertainment needs!

General Features:

• Silver cabinet
• 50-inch Widescreen Plasma display
• HDTV-Ready (You’ll need to add an HDTV tuner (through DIRECTV, DISH Network, cable box or an off-air HDTV receiver) to receive an HD signal)
• 16:9 aspect ratio
• 1366 x 768 resolution
• 16.7 million colors
• 4000:1 contrast
• 1000 cdm2 brightness
• 160-degree viewing angle
• NTSC/PAL TV system
• On Screen Display (OSD) controls

Connectors:

• RS232
• DVI-I
• 15-pin VGA
• L/R RCA input
• Component Y/Cb/Cr/R/L
• Audio/video input/output
• RF antenna
• S-Video, L/R input
• L/R terminal speaker connectors

Power Specifications:

• 100 - 240V, 50/60Hz, 5A, 2.5A, 480W

Dimensions:

• 31.5 x 48 x 11.5-inches (H x W x D with stand, approximate)

A super value at only $799!

September 18th, 2007

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Price: $144.99 USD

The Sansa e200 Series MP3 players are the flagship products of SanDisks audio line. Created by the leaders in flash memory, this flash-based player provides everything you need for music, photo, and video clip playback. The very attractive, sleek design includes a 1.8 TFT color screen with advanced navigational features and an easy to use interface. You can also avoid scratches and cracks with the durable Liquidmetal backing.

The Sansa e200 provides superior sound playback and supports Microsoft PlaysForSure subscription music. The SanDisk Media Converter supports most image formats to enjoy photos and small personal videos.

September 18th, 2007

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Price: $184.99 USD 

Take a look at this great deal. Imagine a single digital audio player that gives you all the music, sports, talk and entertainment that you love and desire. A digital audio player that delivers new music to you every day and lets you choose tracks to create your own custom play lists and buy tracks with ease. That digital audio player is right here, right now. Introducing the Samsung NeXus 25! Samsung and XM now offer a portable line of MP3 digital audio players that receive live XM Radio reception when connected to a home docking station or car dock. The Samsung NeXus 25 player can store XM content, MP3s, and .wmas for portable listening. The Samsung NeXus 25 can store 25 hours of XM content. Samsung Nexus gives you the best of both worlds!

August 10th, 2007

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The Motorola Q (Multimedia Phone) does everything. Think of it as a hybrid. Overall I love this phone; besides being a good phone you can do just about anything you want with it. Surf the web at high speeds, send/receive email, text with friend or co-workers. There is a big community of techno geeks out there and if you need any help you can get it easily. When reading things that go off the screen the scrool wheel is awesome. Motorola really took the best of the Treo and Blackberry and put it into a slick unit.

The designers of the Motorola Q (Multimedia Phone) borrowed the RAZR’s slim stylishness and mated it with a generous suite of productivity tools. Weighing in at just 4 ounces and ½” thick, the Q contains an awesome array of work and play functions. It includes the popular Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system, Bluetooth Wireless for streaming music, high-speed downloads, and a 1.3 megapixel flash camera.

The Motorola Q (Multimedia Phone) is a compact, great-looking, hard-working, fun machine that you can actually afford to own. It has all of the essentials in a small, very stylish package. It would be nice if it had WiFis. The battery life is very good and the processor is fast. This is a terrific combination of both without getting too bulky. You have to get used to navigating with the buttons instead of a touch screen but anyone who is the least bit tech savy can pick it up in no time. It’s a great smart phone, not a miniature laptop.

I have used many PDA models over the last several years and found the Q to be one of the best values around. Its easier to use than many others I have used and reviewed and also seems to be simpler to use. So why choose an ordinary cell phone when you can get a Motorola Q (Multimedia Phone) that lets you do all this:

• Work on the fly - view Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF files
• Listen to streaming stereo music with built-in Bluetooth Wireless
• Enjoy fast download speeds for data and music
• Use Microsoft’s “Today” screen to quickly find your information and programs
• Take high quality pictures and videos with camera and built in flash
• Send and receive text and instant messages, emails, pictures, videos and more

This kind of versatility at this kind of price (free!) means that the Motorola Q (Multimedia Phone) may just be the bargain of the year.

July 28th, 2007

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Price: $97.85

The Tassimo Hot Beverage System offers a few interesting differences when compared to the Keurig or coffee pod brewers. It makes you one cup of coffee at a time, with no fuss or cleanup. And the T-Discs it uses are a little like K-Cups. But if a K-Cup looks like a big version of a coffee creamer cup, a T-Disc looks a bit like a sealed single serving of butter. In other words, it’s like a K-Cup but shallower.

It’s called a “hot beverage system” rather than a coffee maker because Tassimo has put a lot of emphasis on making a wider variety of beverages. Yes, you can make one cup of coffee at a time. But you can also make espresso, lattes, cappuccinos, teas and hot chocolate. Best if all, you can make those nice milky lattes and cappuccinos without having to worry about using a frothing wand.

With the Tassimo you place the T-Disc in the disc holder, but also have the option to add a second disc containing milk. The milk is pasteurized and doesn’t need to be refrigerated. This means you can use your Tassimo not only you make your morning coffee, but you can also use it to make a very passable cappuccino as well. With just the one machine.

If you’re asking yourself how the Tassimo knows how to set the water temperature and quantity just right for different beverages, it uses a barcode system. Each T-Disc has a barcode printed on its lid. The Tassimo reads the barcode and adjust the water temperature and quantity accordingly. You can use it to make a variety of different hot beverages, with all the simplicity of one-cup brewing. 

Product Features

• Hot-beverage system brews drinks at the touch of a button in about a minute
• Patented T-Disc system with barcode technology; customizable strength settings
• Beverages pour directly from T-Disc into cup; no measuring, no fuss, and virtually no cleanup
• Measures approximately 10 by 15 by 16 inches; 2-year limited warranty

Technical data

• Color: Silver with black accents
• Manufacturer: Braun
• Capacity: 11 ounces
• Timer: No
• Removable water tank: Yes
• Built-in grinder: No
• Pause-and-serve function: No
• Strength settings: Yes
• Cup warming plate: No
• Height: Approximately 16 inches
• Length: Approximately 15 inches
• Depth: Approximately 10 inches
• Weight: Approximately 8 lbs
• Warranty: 2-year limited

July 28th, 2007

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Price: $.05 (Priceless if it saves McDonald’s another lawsuit!)

Smart lids save lips! That’s right, this cup lid changes color with the temperature of your beverage by turning red when it’s “too hot” to drink. It also tells you whether the lid is properly sealed by showing a broken rim line where the lid isn’t attached.

Australian company Smart Lid Systems will ship as many as 100 million units this year. Manufactured with a food grade compliant color-changing additive, when cold, the lid is a regular dark (coffee) color. When hot, the lid turns red to remind your customers to be careful. As the drink cools, the color of the lid changes back to the regular coffee color.

I’ll be looking for mine at Starbucks soon!
http://www.smartlidsystems.com/

July 27th, 2007

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Price: $$99.99 with 2 year contract ($299 without service contract)

Released for Cingular (Now AT&T Wireless), the Motorola RAZR V3xx delivers high-speed connectivity and premium multimedia capabilities in the always popular RAZR form factor. You can download the latest music videos, read the news or watch your a favorite television show via live streaming content, transmitted over-the-air with broadband-quality speed straight to the RAZR V3xx’s clear 2.2-inch color screen.

The RAZR V3xx features an integrated MP3 player with Media Finder for easy navigation and A2DP and AVRCP Bluetooth stereo profiles for wirelessly streaming music to compatible Bluetooth enabled stereo headphones. When the artistic mood strikes, create personalized content in low or high resolution via the RAZR V3xx’s offering of a powerful 1.3-megapixel digital camera. Snaps of friends and family, sights and sounds from travels and even video clips can be effortlessly saved to the optional, hot swappable microSD memory card.

Motorola RAZR V3xx Features

• Descendant from the RAZR phone-lineage with 3G broadband speeds to offer a mix of metal and glass for a sleek and elegant form factor
• Dual cameras including a still 1.3-megapixel camera with 8x digital zoom for low or high-resolution imaging
• Integrated MP3 player with Media Finder and optional mini-USB stereo headset
• HSDPA (Category 6) technology for high-speed data transmission up to 3.6 Mbps
• Optional hot swappable microSD memory card
• Bluetooth stereo Music Profile (A2DP) and Bluetooth Music Control Profile (AVRCP) for streaming music to compatible Bluetooth enabled wireless stereo headphones

Visit AT&Ttoday to get your Motorola RAZR V3xx Phone!

OR

Buy the Motorola RAZR V3xx from Amazon:

July 26th, 2007

NEW Vostro 1500 notebook with Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor, 1GB memory, $599.

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Price: $599

With the hundreds of Dell desktop and laptop products on the market, many computer users are relying on Dell as their household name. In fact, Dell has been coming out with new computer lines in recent times to satisfy computer users of all types. The Dell Vostro laptops are a new line of laptops that have been introduced to the computer market. There are several laptops with this Dell line and the Dell Vostro 1500 is one of their great computers in their sequence of laptops. The Dell Vostro 1500 comes with a 15.4 inch screen and one of the best processors in the computer industry. Dell has equipped their laptop with the Intel Core 2 Duo technology that is rated at 1.6 Gigahertz processing speed. This should be fast enough to satisfy any average computer laptop user and those who use it should also be impressed with the Core 2 Duo processing technology that was included.

There is also plenty of hard drive room to store whatever you need. Business professionals and college students alike will be able to store as many documents as they need in the 160 Gigabyte hard drive. This is about twice the size of an average size laptop computer’ hard drive and should provide more than enough room for thousands of songs, multiple video files, as well as the documents that are stored. Also included with the Dell Vostro 1500 is an excellent video card option. Integrated graphics are included with this laptop, but Dell has placed the NVIDIA GeForce video card with it as well. The GeForce 8400 GS or the 8600 GS are the two options that laptop computer users can choose from when ordering this laptop. Both of the GeForce’s video cards are excellent and should be able to handle any movie or high-graphics game with excellent style and flare.

There are several other features of the Dell Vostro 1500 which make it a great Dell product. For starters, it comes with 4 USB ports so there should be no problem connecting whatever accessories are needed. Whether you want to hookup your digital camera or have multiple iPods or mp3 players, you can do all of this with the 4 USB ports that are available. In addition, there is also an ExpressCard slot so that digital camera users will be assured that they can transfer all of their pictures immediately to their computer’s hard drive. In addition to all these features, Dell can also include an optional 2.0 megapixel camera that is included right on the laptop’s hardware, as well as an optional Bluetooth feature. The Bluetooth feature would make it possible for any of the other Bluetooth pieces of hardware that laptop user’s have that they need to connect to their computer.

The Dell Vostro 1500 is definitely a great computer to go with if you are trying to decide whether or not to actually buy a brand new laptop. It contains many great features for the beginner user as well as offers excellent storage capacity options. Dell has certainly produced great laptops with the Vostro line!

Buy your Vostro 1500 notebook at Dell today - $599.

July 24th, 2007

	Apple MacBook Pro 17-inch	Dell XPS M1330	Sony VAIO Laptop Computer TXN29N/L
Rating	Blackberry 8100c Pearl Blackberry 8100c Pearl	Blackberry 8100c Pearl Blackberry 8100c Pearl	Blackberry 8100c Pearl
Processor	2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 4MB on-chip shared L2 cache running 1:1 with processor speed	Intel 2-GHz Next Generation Core 2 Duo processor	Core Solo U1500 / 1.33 GHz ULV - Centrino
Display	17-inch (diagonal) TFT display with support for millions of colors; optional glossy widescreen display	13.3-inch, 1280 x 800-pixel widescreen	11.1 Widescreen TF
Storage	80 - 120 GB	80 - 120 GB	100 GB
Software	iLife suite, iTunes. GarageBand, Apple Finder	Microsoft Windows Vista Business or Home Edition	Microsoft Windows Vista Business
Features	Apple’s new MacBook Pro is ideal for creative professionals looking for a feature-rich system with plenty of screen real estate.	The full-sized keyboard has a light and bouncy feel, which makes typing a pleasure and speedy. The track pad and mouse buttons are responsive, with horizontal and vertical scrolling function on the track pad and to the right is a fingerprint reader for security-minded users.	Sony VAIO TXN29N/L - Core Solo U1500 / 1.33 GHz ULV - Centrino - RAM : 2 GB - HD : 100 GB - DVD RW ( R DL) / DVD-RAM - cellular mdm / mdm - Sprint - WLAN : Bluetooth, 802.11a/b/g - TPM - fingerprint - Microsoft Windows Vista Business - 11.1 Widescreen TF
Weight	6.8 pounds	4.8 pounds	2.84 pounds
Cost	$3099 USD	$1699 USD	$2,584.99 USD

July 24th, 2007

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Cost: $2,584.99

The Sony VAIO Laptop Computer TXN29N/L with an impressive carbon fiber casing—combines portability and power. Stay connected from virtually anywhere with integrated 802.11 a/b/g wireless LAN and wireless Wide Area Network (WAN) technologies. The brilliant 11.1″ widescreen display lets you see all your media with incredible clarity and the built-in CD/DVD burner lets you share your photos, videos and music with ease. This pint-sized powerhouse weighs only 2.84 lbs, is less than 1″ thin and has battery life good enough to keep you going. And your data’s safe, thanks to built-in security features such as, biometric fingerprint sensor and G-Sensor shock protection. Enjoy your favorite movies and music without booting up the integrated Windows Vista Business operating system.