Filed under: Displays

Sick of news from the Korea Electronics Show? Of course not, that’s why you’re reading Engadget on a beautiful Sunday instead of being outside and enjoying the world. We’ve just come across this new piece of Haier hotness, the HV-2200TSW. Oh yes, it’s comin’ atcha with a 1,680 x 1,050 resolution, packs 300 candelas-per-square-meter of brightness, brings a 700:1 contrast ratio and has a 5-millisecond response time. And we welcome you to guess as to whether we know the price of this display or when you can get it. Yes, it’s just as frustrating for you as it is for us.

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BOLD MOVES: THE FUTURE OF FORD A new documentary series. Be part of the transformation as it happens in real-time

Filed under: Household

We’re not exactly sure what gives an air conditioner “artificial intelligence,” but our buds at AVING claim to have found one at the Korea Electronics Show, now underway in Seoul. Haier Korea, the Korean branch of the Chinese manufacturing jack-of-all-trades showed off two models, including the KFRd-72LW/O (“standard type”) and the KFRd-35GW/O (“wall mounted type”). Both come with an LED display (but what doesn’t these days?), an air purifier, an anion generator and dehumidifier. And if that wasn’t enough, how about the fact that both air conditioners can be controlled via cell phone or PDA? Yeah, we know you want one — sadly, we don’t know when these will be released, nor how many South Korean won you’ll have to dish out to get ‘em. Keep reading if you’re interested in a close-up of the display, or if you just like watching seals slide down snowy hills on their tummies…

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BOLD MOVES: THE FUTURE OF FORD A new documentary series. Be part of the transformation as it happens in real-time

Filed under: Home Entertainment, Wireless, Networking

It’s been over a year since we first spotted Metalink’s draft-802.11n components designed for networked home theater gear, and now it seems that the company has finally found a partner willing to include the technology in a slew of next-generation products. Known as WLANPlus, the chipset family is poised for integration into TVs, DVRs, and DVD players from Chinese manufacturing giant Haier — perhaps best know around here for the pen-like P7 cellphone — which will allow consumers to broadcast multiple high definition streams around the house thanks to draft-n transfer speeds in excess of 200Mbps. The two companies revealed their partnership at this year’s SINOCES, where Haier had several WiFi-equipped TVs on display in a multi-room setup meant to simulate simultaneous streaming in a household environment. GigaOM points out, however, that it may be awhile before we see actual products stemming from this deal hit the marketplace — if we ever see them at all — as Metalink doesn’t seem to be in the best financial shape, having already lost $4.1 million in the first quarter of this year alone.

[Via GigaOM]

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Filed under: Peripherals, LG, Verizon Wireless

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Bluetooth cellphone accessory that took the "hands-free" out "of "hands-free headset," is now
available exclusively from Verizon, and for a little cheaper than the $150 we originally reported. As you’ll no doubt
recall from our original mocking write-up of the Style-i, this href="http://www.engadget.com/2004/10/19/haier-p7-pen-phone/">Haier P7-lookalike is designed for the same purpose
as other Bluetooth headsets — to let you make calls while your phone is charging or in a bag — but without the
convenience of, you know, freeing up your hands. Actually, LG almost had us sold on this $130 product until we found
out that you can’t daisy-chain two of them together — how are you supposed to pick up a call if both your phone and
first Style-i are charging simultaneously?

[Thanks, Brett]

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Filed under: Handsets, Others

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We’re sure the majority of these devices are tri-band Asian phones, but in the last year Chinese manufacturer
Haier has returned triumphantly to CTIA with a veritable cadre of sweet knocks on namebrand cellphones. Take the above
W800 rip, the M260, which features 2 megapixel camera, 262k color touch screen, and MiniSD slot. See, sometimes fake
can be better than real. Click on for the rest.

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Look familiar? Samsung’s Z130 as the A600 features a 2.2-inch 262k color touch scren, MicroSD, 2 megapixel
camera, and push email.

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Samsung’s A940 as the N60 with a 2.2-inch touchscreen,
Linux, and 1.3 megapixel camera.

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The M230 rocks a 2 megapixel camera and MiniSD
slot.

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The Z3 is a little reminiscent of the Nokia
7200-series, no?

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The A63 has a 2 megapixel camera, MiniSD slot, and
2-inch 262k color touchscreen.

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Wow, the A7 is basically a PEBL / Nokia 7380
mashup.

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The C800, yet another touchscreen with a 2 megapixel
camera.

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Hm, that C101 kind of reminds us of the HTC Tornado.
Just a little.

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And, finally, the D1200 is about as low-end as you can
get with a 128 x 160 CSTN display. See you this fall, Haier!

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Filed under: Software, Others, Palm, Palm OS, ALP

The recent months have been dark days indeed for the Palm OS, especially for its spiritual successor, codenamed Access Linux Platform (ALP). Palm is letting its license to the oft-delayed OS expire this December, and we haven’t heard of too many device manufacturers stepping in its place. The good news is that Access-owned PalmSource hasn’t been just sitting around a doing nothing, and they recently hosted a one day mini-conference at LinuxWorld to show off their wares so far. Apparently the core OS is fairly completed, and PalmSource is mainly working on the bundled applications that will ship with the OS. Classic Palm OS emulation is said to work perfectly well, even with the requirement by the OS to scale those 320 x 320 native applications to ALP’s preferred QVGA touchscreen resolution. There were plenty of Haier N60 flip-phones on hand running the chosen res, along with a few prototypes with VGA screens and a keyboard — a good sign of things to come. Unfortunately, the only pics allowed were of the developer tools running a virtualized version of ALP in Ubuntu — a boon to developers, but no device-based eye candy for us. The biggest enhancement so far is multitasking afforded by the Linux base, though sexy features in the NetFront browser, new HotSync interoperability standards, and a newfound return to Palm OS looks of yore seem quite popular as well. In fact, with the OS’s ability to be skinned with SVG graphics, Palm could conceivably make a branded version of the OS that would be quite familiar to old users, and dub it the Palm OS 6 we’ve always wanted. PalmSource says they’re still on track to deliver the OS to licensees at the end of the year, with the first ALP products finally emerging next spring.

[Via Brighthand

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