Prototypes & Products to Be: Vol 1

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Sharp Non-iPhone Imitator

Sharp has been working on a phone for 3 years to date, that is better than the iPhone which shows just how much better our Asian competitors are. Not only do they plan better but they follow through with so much better phones in Asia that would kill in North America. This phone is titled the Sharp WSO11SH and was officially announced by Microsoft June 7th 2007 but it is just getting noticed as it is being showed at CEATEC, Japans largest electronics show, this weekend. Microsoft has a stake on this phone as they are using Windows Mobile 6 Classic but it can make VOIP calls which only WM6 Pro can do. The specs of this amazing phone are a 3"WVGA TFT screen with a total phone weight of only 157g and 18mm thin. It also has a 520Mhz CPU, 128MB SDRAM with 256MB included flash memory which can be expanded by a microSD slot. As well, there is a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and is equipped with Wifi. The most important feature though on this phone is it can't recognize 2 fingers, but it can recognize all of five (four if you want to get technical) fingers and on top of that it can scan images such as a business card.
Sony OLED TV
Sony seems like a crap company now that the PS3 is a complete failure but with the continuing success of Ericsson and there TV division finally making some huge strides, they may not be out of the game yet. Sony has just announced an 11 and 27 inch OLED TV with a contrast ratio of 1 000 000:1 coupled with a 1080p resolution and 100% NTSC colour reproduction. It is a smaller package but give it a year and it should be at a reasonable price and being offered with a bigger screen size. For an 11inch OLED TV from Sony, it'll set you back $1,740.50 at the start of the holiday shopping season, permitting the release date doesn't move.
Rivals like Toshiba, Panasonic and Samsung are still in research and development stages but Samsung is a little ahead of the pack behind Sony as they released a 40-inch prototype in May of this year. Sony's version that will go on sale is an 11 inch, 3mm thick TV set. Sony is pushing this technology because they believe it is the next big thing and they don't want to be left behind like they were at the beginning of the LCD boom.
Smile Shutter by Sony
Sony has recently released a digital camera, DSC-T200, with Smile Shutter that has the basic function as Omron Okao Visions system that recognizes how much a person is smiling from 0-100% and bases that on when to take the picture. Omrons system has not yet landed any customers but they are working hard to market it as it is better than Sony's Smile Shutter.