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PC World: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and audio product maker Bang & Olufsen on Tuesday unveiled their latest joint music-mobile phone, Serenata, which holds 4G bytes of songs and has a number of other music features similar to the iPhone.The handsets will go on sale in Europe by the end of the month, said Anthony Lee, a spokesman at Samsung. Pricing has not yet been determined.

The handset doesn’t look much like a mobile phone: the top half is dominated by a navigation wheel, the designers having dispensed with buttons. The 2.26-inch LCD (liquid crystal display) touch screen is below the navigation wheel, in the place where the buttons are found on conventional mobile phones.

The navigation wheel is intended to be used one-handed. All primary functions on the phone are controlled by the navigation wheel, including searching menus, dialing, writing and accessing music lists, the companies said. The touch screen is secondary.

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Engadget: Style-maven Bang & Olufsen has introduced a new Digital Audio Player into the mix, called the Beosound 6.

Breaking from typical B&O design convention the Beosound 6 is a strikingly simple design; a silver, candy-bar shaped audio player with stripped-down controls and a thin LCD display.

Specs are light at the moment, but it looks like standard MP3 / WMA playback, 4GB of flash memory (jettisoning the company’s previous SD storage scheme), a 65K color LCD screen, and USB connectivity. The player will also be accompanied by a leather case and the company’s A8 earphones, and will retail for around £400 (588 euro).

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HDTV UK:

Bang & Olufsen have introduced their BeoVision 8 high definition TV, a 26-inch screen that stands on its own, or can be mounted on a tabletop stand or wall bracket.

It comes in black and silver finish, has a resolution of 1366×768, brightness of 500cd/m2, contrast ratio of 1200:1, and a 6ms response rate.

Viewing angle is around 88 degrees, and it supports A2 + Nicam stereo.

It has one HDMI connector, 2 Scarts, 3 phonos, and 1 VGA.

The screen is based on a new and progressive anti-glare technology that is supposed to perform well during the day.

Aurally, the TV has been designed with the quality of speech reproduction in mind.

It’s priced at around €2,600 and comes with a Beo4 remote control unit.

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TechDigest: Bang & Olufsen have launched their HDR-2 hard disc recorder with a 250GB hard drive. It can be set up to record TV programmes in a series and automatically delete the oldest watched episodes to conserve space.

It features much of what you’d expect from a PVR: pausing live TV and simultaneous recording and playback.

It also lets you create TV libraries which lets you store content in up to 8 different groups, named as you like. Recordings can be split, trimmed and renamed to save space and group similar programmes together.

The 250GB drive will store up to 110 hours of standard quality or 60 hours of high quality (not high definition) content.

It features 2 SCARTs, Y/C input, and aerial connections.

Price is yet to be confirmed.

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