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HTC announced their new HTC Touch, an innovative touchscreen mobile phone with fingertip control. This handset features the new TouchFLO touchscreen technology which enables navigation on the screen using only your fingers; The phone can also distinguish stylus and finger use. You can see a demo of the new TouchFLO technology by visiting www.htctouch.com.

HTC Touch is a tri-band GPRS/EDGE enabled device with Wi-Fi support. As in all HTC phones, the Touch is working on Windows Mobile operating system and this time it is version 6 Professional. Part of the software pack contains Outlook Mobile, Office Mobile, Windows Live and Internet Explorer. These great features are put together in just 99.9 x 58 x 13.9 mm and 112 grams (about the size of LG Prada, but 2mm thicker and 27 grams heavier). The innovative touchscreen is 2.8″ wide in the diagonal and has 240 x 320 pixels resolution with 65K colors. All your data will be saved either on the 128 MB internal memory or on the 1GB microSD memory card included in the box. HTC Touch has 64 MB RAM. The phone is also equipped with a 2 megapixel camera and comes in two color variants: elegant soft black or alluring wasabi green.

HTC Touch is already available in the United Kingdom and will hit the market in Asia and the rest of Europe until the end of the month. As for South and North America, it will be launched there in the second half of 2007. Come in to Thegadgetlink.com/blog to see when it will become available to local vendors or network provider like Fido, Rogers, Cingular, T-Mobile, etc…

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It looks like those Apple iPods can be deadly after all.  In fact, the popular Mp3 player may be your last song and dance.

We’re not kidding!

According to a study presented by a 17-year-old high school student to a meeting of heart specialists, the world’s most popular Mp3 player can cause cardiac pacemakers to malfunction by interfering with the electromagnetic equipment monitoring the heart.

The study tested the famous iPod on 100 patients outfitted with pacemakers. Electrical interference was detected half of the time when the device was held 2 inches from the patient’s chest for 5 to 10 seconds.

“Like most electronic devices, they emit interference that causes pacemakers to malfunction, said the study’s senior author, Krit Jongnarangsin, an assistant professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Even through the researchers didn’t report any life-threatening conditions, they urged caution when using the device.

“If you’re using an iPod, don’t put it right over your pacemaker,” Jongnarangsin said.

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Thanks to a heavy dosage of marketing and advertising, the market for cheap portable media players is dominated by the Apple iPod shuffle. Apparently, SanDisk aims to dethrone Apple in the low cost segment with their new Sansa Express MP3 player.

SanDisk’s new 1GB player device carries features and functionally beyond the shuffle, such as an a OLED screen for menu navigation, a digital FM tuner, voice recording, and upgradable storage capacity thanks to a microSD expansion slot. Battery life is a lengthy 14 hours.

If you’re in the market for an affordable media player for the gym or during those long bus rides to work, the SanDisk Sansa Express is a definite recommendation, plus it’s cheaper than an iPod Shuffle!

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