The Japanese love netbooks, like the rest of the world, and two new models release in Japan today, and it seems we don’t see elsewhere. The Kohjinsha ML6 has a glossy screen of 8.9″ (1024 x 600) and weighs 1kg. Regarding the Trigem Averatec AVN0270NB, this netbook of 10.2″ has a resolution of 1024 x 576 with a battery life of 5 hours. The specifications between these two netbooks include an Intel Atom N270, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive and Wi-Fi connectivity. The ML6 and the AVN0270NB are respectively priced at $408 and $459.

If you need a 30 megapixel digital camera, then you’d better wait for next year because Pentax will release its 645 Digital. Although the rumor was canceled once, it seems that this digital camera is monstrous return for a release in 2010. It looks like the 645 Digital will also be compatible with the lens FA645 55mm f/2.8 out today. It goes without saying that the 645 Digital will be very expensive, because the quantity of megapixels is very higher than ther other digital cameras of the market, so if you still want to, you can start to save today.

The DeLorean from Back to the Future II, at 3 3/4″ … And yes, it makes a noise and light. Available from August 2009 for the price of $34.99. Unfortunately it seems that the figurines Doc and Marty are not planned at this time.

It’s Sony Ericsson which will be happy because in China, Lenovo offers a mobile phone while responding to the name of X1, as the Xperia X1. And Lenovo agrees with everyone, Samsung also will be pleased to see the new Dream Touch interface, like a little much to the TouchWiz interface of the Korean brand.
From the technical side, nothing special since it is an EDGE mobile phone with a touch screen of 3.2″ with a WQVGA resolution, a microSD memory port/SDHC, an integrated GPS, all in 12.5 mm thick.

You are not yet convinced by digital and you stick to the good old film then you should know that it is the month of May that the Voigtländer Bessa III will release, a medium-format rangefinder that will let you have photos 6×6cm or 6×7cm. Supplied with the lens HELIAR 80mm f/3.5, you will have respectively an angle of 53° and 57° depending on the format.
Needless to say, it’s all manual and, despite some electronic elements such as exposure control, for example. With 178×138x109mm for 1kg, it has a CR2 battery. And the price is still €1999!

A new netbook just made its appearance at Samsung, this is the N310. Obviously for the Korean market, it is fairly standard with an LCD screen of 10.1″, a 160GB hard drive, 1GB of RAM, Bluetooht, WiFi, a 1.3-megapixel camera, the 3G/3G+, the WiBro (WiMAX) and a battery life of 5 hours of up to 11 hours with an optional battery. Available in several colors, but no price announced.

The Samsung NC10 is one of the best netbook at the moment but the Korean brand has already announced its successor, the N110. With a thinner design, this new netbook is not so different from its predecessor as it is equipped with a screen of 10.2″ (1024 x 600 resolution), an Intel Atom N270 1.6 GHz with 1GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive, Windows XP and battery life until 8 hours. Price: $469.

Announced for the summer, the HTC TouchPro 2 mobile phone finally took a little in advance, to be launched on eBay in a unlocked version. And for info, the auction has already reached $780, while still 4 days before the sale ends …

There is a slight rebound in the vicissitudes of the Sony eBook Reader: Google gave 500,000 ebooks (which are not protected by copyright) are available for free on the Sony eBook Reader. This could be enough to declare that Sony have the largest library, and it is hard to deny that anything is “free” is hard to beat. However, the ebooks will also be available on the Kindle as PDF – free. So while this is great for Sony, it will not allow it to take off compared to the Kindle 2, which costs only $60 more than the Sony eBook Reader, but that includes free access to the internet on Wikipedia and access to more recent ebooks and magazines.

Launched in October of last year, the Iomega StorCenter ix2 network attached storage (NAS) has been updated. On the menu: the ability to download BitTorrent files, supports Mac (Apple File Protocol, or AFP) and remote access. BitTorrent is supported by most devices in this category, but it is a plus, because nobody would use a PC to download such files. Remote access requires a dynamic domain name, which costs $10 per year (the first year is free). Now it is possible to impose quotas for storage to ensure that all users have fair storage space.