This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of LG Chocolate Touch. All opinions are 100% mine.
Cell phones are traditionally meant, well, for phone activity! All the extra tweaks and perks of a phone, such as camera, mp3 player, video recorder, and etc, are peripheral inclusions. 
Verizon has decided to change that, with their beautiful LG Chocolate Touch. It’s a sleek, lovely design; the phone is a phone, yes; but it’s designed for the media loving, social networking, music listening person. Verizon has really outdone themselves with the LG Chocolate, and left the competition in the dust! I saw the phone at Best Buy, and it is gorgeous. The music quality is superb. The LG Chocolate Touch is receiving high ratings for it’s Dolby Mobile technology. It has some really, really sweet perks:
- Send and receive calls and texts just like any phone, but the LG Touch is geared for social networking: it has a One touch “Social Network Message Key” for easy blogging on the go, to Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and more.
- It provides “Mobile Media,” which is very high-quality visual (photo and video) and audio voice and text messaging, with Visual voicemail.
- The camera, a 3.2 megapixel, takes very clear photos and videos. The LG includes an image editor, too.
- There are numerous visual effects, and the LG handset will vibrate to the beat of the music playing!
- It is the Dolby Mobile technology that makes the LG Chocolate Touch really stand out– the audio is crystal-clear, very nice!
- The screen is very responsive. That’s a nice change from some of the others I’ve seen, where you have to hammer on the screen to get it to do anything!
The phone is a music-lover’s, social media fan’s dream come true. It is so much easier to have in one small gadget everything you need for phoning, texting, listening to music, AND mobile blogging. I’ve read some reviews by C|Net and PC World, and they give the LG Chocolate Touch great ratings. It is a beautiful phone, and the audio quality is incredible. Check out the website for more details about the phone.
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Tags: audio, cell phones, Verizon
This news isn’t going to please the tree-huggers…. the latest development to come down the pike in the insatiable thirst for energy is paper. Yes, paper! Scientists have been tinkering away, and have found that paper, when coated with ink made of silver and carbon nanomaterials, allow it to become a high-energy, highly-efficient source of stored energy. Such “paper battery” storage is said to contain more juice than the lithium-ion battery.
The same feature that helps ink adhere to paper allows it to hold onto the single-walled carbon nanotubes and silver nanowire films. Earlier research found that silicon nanowires could be used to make batteries 10 times as powerful as lithium-ion batteries now used to power devices such as laplop computers.
“Taking advantage of the mature paper technology, low cost, light and high-performance energy-storage are realized by using conductive paper as current collectors and electrodes,” the scientists said in research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
This type of battery could be useful in powering electric or hybrid vehicles, would make electronics lighter weight and longer lasting, and might even lead someday to paper electronics, the scientists said. Battery weight and life have been an obstacle to commercial viability of electric-powered cars and trucks.
Unbelievably, there is speculation that this type of energy will be available for commercial use in the near future. What do you think about this?
This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of LG Chocolate Touch. All opinions are 100% mine.
I got to take a peek at the new LG Chocolate Touch over the weekend, at my local electronics store. I’d been hearing about it a lot, and was curious. (It was probably the word “chocolate” that got my attention!). It’s beautiful.
I currently have TracFone for cell phone service. Yes! I’m an old curmudgeon with cells. I got it a few years ago before I got my WAHM job, and when the kids were smaller. Our needs have changed. For one, the girls and I are always sharing the phone. :S So if they go out somewhere, I’m without a cell, and vice versa. I’ve been shopping around for cell phones and prices. The LG Chocolate is just beautiful– it’s issued by Verizon Wireless (we already subscribe to them for phone and DSL), so it’s with a company I’m familiar with. The LG is a nice, nice cell. But it’s got more to it than making and receiving texts and calls.
These days, we expect a cell phone to do more. The LG Chocolate Touch does MUCH more:
- It’s got Dolby Mobile, with an equalizer and incredibly rich audio features. So playing mp3s is something akin to a “live” performance.
- It gives 1GB of internal memory, with an expandable capacity for 16 more GB. Yow!
- It can automatically download the songs you like from listening to the FM radio!
- It has “Rhythmical Beat” that will vibrate with the song that’s playing. You can even play along with virtual drums, etc. LOL
- It is fully prepared for social media networking with a Social Network Message Key.
- And that’s all besides the other stuff you can do: texting, social media networking, take photos, make calls, etc etc.
It’s a sweet gadget. Check out the website for the LG Chocolate Touch.
Tags: cell phones, wireless
Here’s something that would make a spectacular gift for the music lover in your circle: the Yamaha PDX-60. Wow! It’s gorgeous. But then again, just about everything that Yamaha produces is gorgeous.
The Yamaha PDX-60 is an iPod speaker dock, at its most basic. But there’s a lot more to it. For one, it will play your games, movies, AND music from either your iPod or iPhone. The Yamaha PDX-60 is specially made for beautiful clarity and depth of sound. The functional side of the Yamaha PDX-60 is that it will also charge your iPod or iPhone, which is very nice! The Yamaha PDX-60 comes with a small, separate charging dock as well as a charger within the Yamaha PDX-60 itself. That would clinch the deal for me– the integrated charger as well as beautiful sounds proves that Yamaha pays attention to detail and is sensitive to customers’ needs. I just hate having all these chargers around the house!
The Yamaha PDX-60 is equipped with special Yamaha technology, called yAired. It’s a clear, wireless connection, with no annoying sound delays or diminished audio clarity. Yamaha promises an exceptional sound experience– the Yamaha PDX-60 features uncompressed wireless audio transmission, a remote control for easy operation, simple operation (no Bluetooth hassles), and no sound delays. It’s a very, very classy little piece of technology. I think it would be perfect for the music aficionado, just in time for the holidays! Checkout the Yamaha PDX-60 product page for more information, features, photos of the device, and retailers to get it.
Tags: gadgets, iPod, mp3 players, music, Yamaha
I love technology. I’ve been surfing the specs on various computer hot-rods these days, and am mightily impressed with the leaps and bounds of computer technology these days. And thanks to 64-bit machines (which are rapidly populating the market), you have 6GB, 8GB, 25GB or RAM and multiple processors! Talk about speed! I am trying out the Roxio Creator 2010 software (more on that to come!) and I am IMPRESSED with the way my “hot-rod” unit is able to handle the hefty software program.
The downside to all of this is that there is now entering a “technology glut”: too much stuff added on to the basic computer. I think computer manufacturers are attempting to make the computer an “all in one” machine– word processing/data fax/Internet/telephony/gaming station/audio and video kiosk/television unit. I personally think it’s too much. Too much can go wrong, too much is incompatible (even with my hot-rod, the cheapo power supply stutters when I push the graphics card too far), and I just don’t like the “one size fits all” mentality.
For example– new computers are now being equipped with television capabilities. Sure, it’s rather nice to watch free movies on the computer, or rig up that streaming movie from Netflix onto your widescreen Samsung TV, but… I still see the inconveniences of it all. Call me old-fashioned, I guess. But I am the daughter of an electronics/TV repairman… I know how things can go wrong especially with “all in one” units. Plus, it’s rather uncomfortable, watching TV on your computer. I like the cushy comfortable family room, without the interruption of all the computer activities, to enjoy a good movie on the Philips TV with the kids. I consider the computer to be something for “work” or, at best, temporary amusement (like viral videos or LOLCats!). But to sit there and tolerate a two-hour feature while sitting in desk chairs around the computer screen… yuk. I like my TV and computer separate. There is an abundance of TV deals anyway, so it’s not like we HAVE to have the computer to watch something.
What do you think? Do you think the computer will eventually eliminate the need for a television or other electronic devices? Do you like watching movies at your computer? Do you find it a hassle to connect TV and computer for movie viewing? As for me, I don’t think it’s worth it. So I’m hoping computer manufacturers shy away from adding all the bells and whistles to computers, and go back to… building better power supplies and graphics cards. Because THAT’S what we really need for speedy and efficient computing, don’t you think?
Tags: computers, electronics, TVs
