Samsung Galaxy Tab

The Samsung Galaxy Tab is the major tablet release since the Apple iPad launched.

The Tab's body is entirely made of plastic to enables it to stay pretty light at only 380g. Plastic material make the body feels less solid than the aluminium-backed iPad. At just 380g, the Galaxy Tab is a fairly lightweight device that feels comfortable to hold even with just one hand for an extended period of time.

On top of the Samsung Galaxy Tab, there's only one feature -- a 3.5mm socket for plugging in your headphones. Along the bottom, you'll find four touch-sensitive buttons (menu, home, back and search) that will be familiar to anyone experienced with Android devices. Each button glows white while you're using the Tab. The Tab can make phone calls, which is another feature that you would not find in iPad currently.

It has a glossy 7in capacitive touchscreen display with 1,024 x 600-pixel resolution. The Tablet's 1GHz Cortex A8 processor is more than capable of handling full multitasking while keeping the experience fast and snappy. Samsung has left the basic Android 2.2 (Froyo) interface untouched, with all the basic Android applications like Gmail, Google Talk and Google Maps.

In Malaysia, the Samsung Galaxy Tab is retailed at RM2699. However with Maxis contract, it goes for RM1849 with 12 months and RM1749 with 24 months contract. Based on my understanding, the selling price for Galaxy Tab in Singapore is S$998.00 (around RM2400.00) which is RM299.00 cheaper if you bought the device there.

Aztech Skype Phone

The Aztech V500DS-S1 is a stand-alone Skype DECT phone that allows users to access both the PSTN and Skype network. The phone is implemented with an embedded Skype software, which incorporates most of the Skype features such as Voicemail, call forwarding and Skype-In/Skype-Out services.


There is no need to have the Skype application running on a PC (No PC is required make Skype calls). Once the base station is connected to the Internet, the handset will become an embedded Skype device, and the user can make Skype-to-Skype calls, or Skype In/Out calls with fixed-line numbers.

The Skype user contact list is shown on a 1.5” colour handset screen. The users can easily see their contacts’ status and profiles, as well as their Skype credit balances for SkypeOut. New users can be added on the handset.


There are separate call lists for both the PSTN and Skype Calls, and the users can easily identity the call lists as either from PSTN or Skype. The phone has speakerphone, keypad backlight and polyphonic ring tones as standard features.

Apple iphone for USD99 only

Can u believe this? Apple slashed the entry price for an iPhone in half to only $99, announced by Philip Schiller, Apple Senior Vice President for Worldwide Product Marketing. Instead of paying $199, now you only pay $99 for the 8-gigabyte iphone 3GS. A 16-gigabyte version of the 3G S will cost $199 and a 32-gigabyte version will be $299.

The latest iphone operate with faster and more energy efficient processor. According to Apple this allows the new iPhone 3GS to run up to two times faster than the previous version.

Note: When the iphone debuted 2 years ago, a 4-gigabyte version cost $499 & 8GB cost $599.

Windows XP Phone

The world's 1st mobile phone to run on windows xp was released at the Computex exhibition in Taipei. Windows XP Phone will be using chips from AMD, made by In Technology in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou.

The phone has a 120GB hard disk and a 4.8 inch LCD touchscreen with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels, it supports WIFI, WIMAX & GPS. Windows XP Phone will be available in China markets around 3 months times and later worldwide.

NOTE: no screenshot available for the phone yet.