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V-MODA, the company known as the designer of the Vibe luxury headphones, has just introduced the Vibe II noise cancelling earbuds with microphone, compatible with all Apple iPhone and iPod mobile handsets.
They feature not only a high-class style but also the latest sound technologies that enable noise isolation and dual use, meaning you can benefit from the high audio quality, as well as from the headset functionality, together with the smartphone during phone calls.

V-MODA Vibe II noise cancelling earbuds will be available exclusively at the Apple Store and on the company’s official website, in Nero and Chrome Rougue colors, at a retail price of $128, including four pairs of black and clear medical-grade silicone fittings for all ear sizes, lightweight detachable earhooks that allow the headphones to adjust to the ears, a cool designer carrying pouch, and a VIP card with access to the V-MODA Musique podcast downloads, music, fashion, and event previews.
What makes the price high includes the image of fine jewelry and watches, inspired via the unique design lines, durable stainless steel alloy, a stylish jewel accent in the middle and the luxurious fabric cable.



You can use the new Hi-Fi headphones for handsfree calls, call/music controls, and remove the sport earhooks when not needed.

Specifications include the 8-mm V-MASQUE dynamic driver that enables organic 3D sounds, the Bass Level Isolating Soft Silicone technology that reduces the background noises, 12Hz to 22Hz frequency, 45-degree flexible design, and 24-carat gold-plated metallic core.



“We’re excited to introduce Vibe II, as we believe the headphone is the first to bring together the finest elements of design, music, fashion and world-renowned audio - all of which epitomize the V-MODA brand,” said Val Kolton, founder and CEO of V-MODA. “We saw Vibe II as a fashion accessory from its inception and wanted a breakthrough design as the crux. We were inspired by the elegance, design and beauty of Beverly Hills’ most elite rock-inspired jewelers and wanted to integrate this philosophy into our product line.”

We talked about the best portable DVD player models, the best cell phone, best websites for mobile phones, customers’ favorite pink items, best rated computer laptops, and we also showed you a top 5 best very cheap laptops under 500 dollars. Now we’ll see which the best rated TV models under £400 are, according to Reevoo’s customer ratings.

When it comes to electronics, everybody wants to find high quality at the lowest prices, and one of the most trustful websites specialized in collecting impartial reviews from real customers is Reevoo. Its team worked on creating a top 5 of the best rated TV models at the most affordable prices of up to about $800, after the conversion, at the time of writing, choosing from 555 televisions available on the market.
This informative top allows you to decide what’s best to buy during this holiday season, if you include HD-ready TV panels on the shopping list. The other 5 models that complete the top 10 are mentioned on the Reevoo’s blog, decide what to buy.

We’ll start with the 5th position in the top, occupied by the Sony Bravia KDL20S3000, a 20-inch TV available at £285, about $570.
This model scored 9 among Reevoo’s ratings for the overall design, sound quality, imaging, easy of use and value for money.
The Bravia KDL-20S3000 is a High Definition-ready display, meaning it provides HDMI input for connectivity to other compatible systems such as PS3 gaming consoles and Blu-ray Discs.

Its compact design sports a stylish black finish, while the entire system measures 49.7 x 35.8 9.9 cm without the table stand.
Sony Bravia KDL20S3000 has a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels, 4000:1 dynamic contrast, and 160-degree viewing angle.



If you need something larger but at around £356, you could look for the Samsung LE32A436T, a 32-inch TV with a high score for design and value for money. It has a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels, backlight, HDMI connectivity, and 8500:1 dynamic contrast ratio, in a 78.8-mm thick unit.



Another stylish TV panel, found on the third position in Reevoo’s top, is the Sony Bravia KDL-20S3030 characterized by the metallic finish and a classic shape similar with some popular old models from Panasonic, but in a much thinner unit. Customers liked the 20-inch LCD TV mostly for the sound and image quality, easy of use and value for money.
You can find it at around £280 and benefit from its high-end capabilities such as a 1366 x 768 resolution, HDMI input, built-in Digital TV, and the 9.9-cm thickness which allows you to place it anywhere in the room, without occupying too much space.



At just £170, the Goodmans LD1945WD HD-ready TV with its 19-inch diagonal is a very affordable solution if you are in a hurry to find a good model at an attractive price. Customers’ reviews highlight a good image and sound quality in addition to the design and value for money. It features a contrast ratio of 500:1, 1440 x 900 resolution, Digital Tuner, 300 cd/m2 brightness, stereo sound, but a viewing angle of only 90-degrees.

On the top position in top 5 best rated TV models under £400 is another TV from Goodmans, the 32-inch LD3265D, with a similar design as the model on the 4th position, but in a larger format, available at around £330.
It comes with 2 HDMI interfaces, Digital Tuner, 600:1 contrast ratio, 500 cd/m2 brightness, 658i resolution, and stereo sound system.
If you like its design, you’ll probably enjoy also watching quality images on a TV model rated 9.4 for the good value for money.

(Thanks for the tip, Jo!)

One of the new cellular phones launched recently is O2’s XDA Zest, a Windows Mobile-based personal digital assistant working on the O2 telecommunication network and designed by Asus. It supports finger touch input on its large 2.8-inch touch-sensitive TFT LCD display and comes with a 2-week trial of the CoPilot Sat Nav software with GPS mapping features.

The PDA runs on the latest Windows Mobile operating system and brings the Office application suite for document management and Mobile Outlook email support. It enables wireless connectivity via Wi-Fi and the high-speed HSDPA technology and offers built-in 3MP digital camera capability with video recording, multimedia player and FM radio.

O2 made it available on November 10 at a price of £249.99 with Pay&Go and free together with one of the Pay Monthly contracts.



In the same day, AT&T released a new handset destined for intensive texting on phone while on the go, called AT&T Quickfire. The model features touchscreen interface, a side-sliding full-sized QWERTY keyboard, built-in 1.3MP digital camera with 3x zoom, 3G capability, email, Instant Messaging, multitasking, Bluetooth, landscape mode, and a 30-day trial for the AT&T Navigator with turn-by-turn directions.
AT&T Quickfire is available in gray, green and orange, at a price of $99.99 with a 2-year contract and the mail-in rebate.



Samsung introduced its latest cell phone model on the market exclusively at T-Mobile USA. Samsung Behold features a 3-inch touch-sensitive LCD display, full web browsing, high-speed Internet connectivity, microSD memory expanding slot for up to 16GB, stereo Bluetooth, voice-activated dialing, and the TouchWiz technology.
TouchWiz is the phone’s interface and allows users to customize the menus with cool widgets and shortcuts to their favorite applications.

With the new Behold you can take high-resolution pictures with the built-in 5MP camera featuring flash and autofocus, as well as video recording.
In addition, the AGPS feature enables location-based applications support.

“Behold offers a full web browsing experience at your fingertips,” said Bill Ogle, Chief Marketing Officer for Samsung Mobile. “When you combine the high-speed web browsing, powerful 5-megapixel camera and music and video player, Behold is the ultimate phone for people who want to stay connected and entertained wherever they are.”



On November 10, the ClarityLife cell phone for seniors was released on the market in a simple design with support for all GSM networks, large buttons, 20dB amplifier for those with hearing loss, one-touch emergency help button, 4-button operation, and backlit display with large fonts to be visible in the dark.

ClarityLife C900 costs $269.95 and is very easy to use by elderly people. It s most special characteristic is the Emergency Help Button. You can assign up to 5 emergency numbers and if something bad happens you need to press just once and it starts to call or send text messages, cycling through the numbers you set, until someone answers.

“The C900 is the most anticipated product we’ve developed at Clarity in recent history,” said Carsten Trads, president of Clarity. “The buzz has been incredible and it’s no surprise why. The ClarityLife C900 addresses the needs of a market that has been overlooked for years – aging Americans. The volume is amplified, the controls are large and the design is simple. There’s even an emergency button. This is the phone they’ve been waiting for and they can’t wait to get their hands on it.”



Nokia too announced a new cellular phone that looks very similar with the recently introduced Nokia E71, which seems to follow the Blackberry design style.
Nokia E63 is an advanced smartphone with a large QWERTY keyboard and multiple applications to increase productivity on the go.

The retail price set for it surprises us a bit, but we’re glad to know that in a few weeks we’ll be able to see the affordable handset available in stores in Ruby Red and Ultramarine Blue at a little over EUR 199.

Nokia said that it gives you the possibility to switch between the business and personal modes with a key-press. The business modes allows you to view corporate mail, check appointments and intranet information, while the personal mode can be customized with friends’ pictures, personal email access and different shortcuts to your favorite applications including websites.

Other features of the new cellular phones launched by Nokia include the Files on Ovi service with which you can access your computer data remotely even when it’s offline, thanks to the free online storage of up to 1GB, as well as the built-in digital camera with video recording, 3G, multimedia player, up to 8GB external memory, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, Instant Messaging, voice commands, FM radio, and a Li-Po 1500 mAh battery that keeps the phone on for up to 11 hours of talk time or 432 hours of standby.

"Our research shows that people want a device that deals with both their personal and professional lives, but helps them to separate the two. When someone sits down at lunch, they want to update their social network or browse their personal email account and they don't want work getting in the way of that. It's another great case of technology adapting to the people that use it," says Soren Petersen, Senior Vice President, Nokia. "The Nokia E63 is a new proposition for Eseries - a messaging device where people will be just as involved in their social network as they are in their business network."

From the creators of the world’s most expensive desktop computer come the three limited edition F20-SE desktop models destined for fashionable people who prefer luxury designs.
The limited edition consists of 100 systems per model, each available for personalization according to the customers’ preferences with genuine Swarovski Elements crystals from the Crystalized collection.



According to EAZO, the desktop computers’ design is inspired by the Chinese Cheongsam dress for women, known also as the mandarin gown, and sports more than 3,000 crystals inlaid by hand.
If your budget allows you can choose between the Starry Night, Pink Lady and Royal White models featuring unique computer cases and which are meant to inspire a beautiful starry night, a spray of alluring perfume and the royal crowns of the past, respectively.
These new desktop computers come with matching wireless keyboard, wireless mouse and desktop monitor, all with encrusted crystals.



Inside the 17-liter small unique computer cases we discover a powerful Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 processor clocked at 2.66GHz, 4GB of Corsair Dominator memory, dual 500GB Western Digital Green Power hard drives with low-power consume, and the GeForce 9500GT video card with High Definition support including the latest graphics technologies like SLI, PureVideo, PhysX, CUDA and HybridPower.



The F20 series is named after the Chinese word “Fei” that translates to “Extraordinary” and is the world’s smallest quad-core desktop computer.
The three limited edition computers from the series are available for pre-orders starting today at a price of CNY 60,000, or $8,786, including a nice traveling case, and will be shipped on December 1.

This is an interesting product available at a few online gadget stores, which allows you to send creative voice mail messages via email with a push of a button.
Let’s say it is a useful tool for home-based sales agents or customer service operators who need to contact lots of companies worldwide in order to present their offers in the most effective manner. You could use it even for standard emails you use to send to friends and colleagues every day, and it would be a time-saving tool that doesn’t occupy much space on the desk, in addition to looking stylish.

The Email Voice Sender is available at around $40 and is made of a durable plastic-based material, providing two buttons, one for recording your message and another one for send it via email. The LED light indicators tell you when the device is prepared for recording.
Of course, the difference between voice mail and standard text messages is that you can’t insert emoticons and pictures, but it is the fastest way to send your emails to people, or just use it as a voice memo for your daily agenda.

One cool aspect is that it allows you to record messages of unlimited size and comes with a special software that installs on your computer and that offers several utilities for email management and settings. All you need to have is a free laptop or desktop computer USB port and the Windows operating system up to Vista pre-installed. The other people who will receive the email don’t need to install anything.

Email Voice Sender, also known as Vail, measures 3-1/2 x 3-1/2 x 1 inches and powers via USB.