Two stylish Skype phones, a bumped-up version of the Linux-powered Pepper Pad Plus surfing tablet and Motorola's tap-happy TXTR D7 Bluetooth thumbboard appear at CES.
The annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is now underways - and as always, there's plenty of cool hardware which deserves more attention than it's getting. Naturally, we can't just sit idly by and watch that happen, thus we present you with a few pieces of kit that caught our eye in passing by.
IPEVO Fly-1
Fitted with a 2.5-inch LCD display, this wireless Skype handset untethers the increasingly popular VoIP service to let users make and receive calls while roaming about and is compatible with both Macs and PCs. Similar to your garden variety cordless phone, it relies on a 2.4 GHz RF link and also comes bundled with a USB 2.0 charging cradle. Did we mention it does speakerphone, too? To be available in the first quarter of 2006; price unknown.
Pepper Pad Plus
The Linux-powered, 8.4-inch Pepper Pad surfing tablet receives an upgrade in the Plus edition, now sporting Wi-Fi 802.11g, a 30 GB hard drive and Bluetooth 2.0 as well as 60 percent greater battery capacity. Also new is VoIP and Windows Media 9 Audio/Video playback, plus UPnP support for streaming media over the tablet's wireless connection. To be available in the second quarter of 2006; price unknown.
IPEVO Xing
From the same maker as the Fly-1, the Xing is a Skype conference phone with support for up to 4-6 users in the same room. To be placed on a table top or hung on a wall, the Xing is equipped with a a screened LED indicator showing Skype status of call-in-progress, mute or offline; a 'call attention' button for speech interruption, an analog rotary dial for volume control and a Skype window launch button. To be available in the first quarter of 2006; price unknown.
Motorola TXTR D7
Get your text on with Motorola's Bluetooth-powered TXTR D7, which combines a backlit 4-line display with a QWERTY thumbboard to allow for untethered texting away from the Motorola handset it's used with. Capable of pulling up contacts from the mobile phone, the 48 g accessory also lets you text direct with TXTR-owning 'co-workers' at distances up to 100 meters for up to 24 hours at a time. Due out in the first half of 2006; price unknown.
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