Register Hardware: Register Hardware reported earlier this month that images had been spotted on Nokia’s Polish website of two new phones, called the 7610 and 7510. Each were tagged with the “Supernova” name, but as quickly as the images crash-landed on the Polish website, they mysteriously disappeared. But Nokia’s now confirmed the existence of both, and added two more handsets into the mix: the 7310 and 7210.

The latter two candybar phones are near identical in appearance and rival each other with their two-megapixel cameras. The 7310 sports a TV-out port, which could be handy for playing games on your telly, and, should you get bored of that, then an FM radio and MP3 player are included for musical entertainment.

Whilst 7310 fans will be able to change the phone’s cover to match their outfit – thanks to the Xpress-On covers – anyone opting for the 7210 gets the benefit of an SD memory card slot for expandable memory.

The 7610 slider is the superior snapper of the Supernova series, because it has a 3.2-megapixel camera, whilst the 7510 has a two-megapixel grabber. Admittedly, the 7610’s zoom capability is only 8x digital zoom, so it’s nowhere close to rivalling Sony Ericsson’s C905 but it puts up a good fight with a dual-LED flash.

The slightly lower spec 7510 is the only clamshell of the group, but it features “magical light effects” that Nokia states includes an outer display that stays “hidden-until-lit”. Although the bundled 512MB Micro SD card won’t last you long, the integrated Assisted GPS should guide you to a store where you can buy a larger capacity card.

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Techradar.com: It seems that Pioneer isn’t content with updating its Blu-ray range, as its home cinema setups have been overhauled too. The new range is titled the LX01BD, LX03BD and LX03.

The LX01BD comes with two compact combined front/centre satellite speakers and two rear speakers. While the LX03BD and LX03 comes with a ’sound bar’ called the Front Stage Surround function that sits directly alongside the TV for what Pioneer calls, “the most neat and elegant integration that frees up space and eliminates the potential issues related to running cables to the rear or your room.”

Also included in the setup is a sub-woofer. In the case of the LX01BD, this is a subwoofer-receiver with dual-drive subs, which enables more powerful handling of lower frequencies. The LX03BD and LX03 comes with a compact, yet powerful A4 size down firing subwoofer with acrylic glossy black top.

For the first time in Pioneer’s history, the company offers Blu-ray capabilities to its home cinema system range.

The LX03BD and LX01BD both house the BDP-LX08 stand alone design Blu-ray Player. The LX03 makes do with a standard DVD player.

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Trusted Reviews: While RIM’s BlackBerrys may be vastly outselling the iPhone at the moment, it will have to multiply that by around 600 per cent to catch Samsung. The reason of course is Samsung sells far more devices at the mid and lower ends of the market and does it with some style, as its latest handset demonstrates superbly…

The ‘Sleek’ (presumably nothing to do with the Creative MP3 player of the same name, despite styling similarities) is a minimalistic brushed metal candybar with a touch of the RAZR in it.

Thankfully however all Motorola similarities stop when we remember Samsung does know how to kit out a handset so you’ll get 3.2Mbps HSDPA connectivity, a 3MP camera with LED flash, 2in QVGA display and 1GB of internal memory backed up by audio and video playback, html browsing, an FM tuner, Bluetooth and a 3.5mm headphone jack.

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Crave: The Philips micro hi-fi has a new spin, this time with wireless music streaming implemented using Bluetooth technology.

The BTM630 is designed to work seamlessly with any Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone, media player and laptop. With an inbuilt microphone, it will also double as a handsfree speaker which automatically toggles between voice calls and music playback.

For added versatility, the BTM630 has an iPod dock integrated right on the chassis and a sleek slot-in CD player. These will free you from the constraints of a mobile device’s limited battery life, plus the added advantage of true fidelity offered by CDs.

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Forbes: Shareholders of Japanese consumer electronics maker JVC and audio visual equipment maker Kenwood approved at a meeting on Friday a plan to merge the two companies on October 1, the companies said in a joint statement.

The two companies formed a strategic alliance in July last year, when they also agreed to consider merging their operations under a single holding company. Their management teams reached the merger agreement on May 12 this year.

JVC, an affiliate of Panasonic maker Matsushita Electric Industrial, produced Japan’s first television set and was also the pioneer in making VHS video recorders. But JVC has been struggling due to a lack of popular products in the digital consumer electronics market, where price competition is getting fiercer.

JVC President Kunihiko Sato will become president of the merged entity, which will be called JVC Kenwood Holdings.

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Trusted Reviews: For close to a year Shure has pretty much dominated the market when it comes to in-ear headphones. From the low-priced SE110’s and SE210’s, through the SE310’s and brilliant dual driver SE420’s, to the top-of-the-range triple driver E500PTH’s (now available as the SE530s) whatever your budget, Shure has an earphone to suit it. However, recently, the Shure party gate has been crashed by a relative newcomer called Klipsch.

Now Philips is also throwing a new offering into the ring to fight it out with Shure, in the form of its SHE9850’s. The last pair of Philips in-ear headphones we looked at were the noise cancelling SHN7500’s and we weren’t exactly enthralled, deciding that we preferred the Shure SE210’s. We did, in fact, suggest that if Philips could get similar drivers into a decently-priced package then it could have a winner on its hands.

However, with the SHE9850’s, our suggestion seems to have been heeded. In a nutshell they come in at a price that rivals the SE210’s and should, by also using a single driver, offer audio quality that is at least comparable to the three Shure models below the SE420’s.

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