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Micro spy remote

2009-06-06T07:58:00.000-07:00

Today i will review a funny thing listed at DealExtreme as

Mini Multifunctional Remote Controller Black. It also can be gray (as on the picture).

It's an IR remote control (with keychain) for various electronics.
This would be useful if you annoyed by sound/TV set in a cafe or bus or whatever :)
So you can turn it off, or set volume lower.

There's a list of supported electronics on the back

So, for $2,34 you can get an amazing present for friends or this will be a useful toy for you.

Power supply: 1 x CR2025 lithium battery

The truth about a chinese PMP

2009-05-13T08:56:00.000-07:00

I already wrote about the PMP i got from DealExtreme.

So it's time to tell what's the thing it is.

Audio player
- Sound quality is good. Maybe too good for this thing.
- Earphones are good too. 32 Ohms
- Built-in speaker sux. Like any other built-in speaker. Use earphones guys.
- Plays mp3, wav, wmv.
- has 6 equalizer presets: normal, dbb, rock, jazz, pop, live
- (!) Does not remember playing position, playing song.
- (!) Can't scroll playing position fast

Video player
- plays mp4, 3gp rather good.
- (!) can't remember playing position.
- (!) can't scroll fast.

DV
- rather good (as almost any other mobile phone cam)
- 160x128 and 320x240 video size
- quality: high, middle, low
- effects: normal, negative, relief, binaries, sepia, blackwhite, shade shot

Camera
- photo size: 320x240, 640x480, 1280x960, 1600x1200 (i wonder how 300KP camera can handle last two sizes, maybe interpolated....)
- rather good quality: you know, it's better than Venus V900 camera. And faster, too.
- quality: high, middle, low
- something called "2D" and don't work. no idea what's this
- same effects as DV
- (!) you can't set up white balance, and EV+/-. it's automatic.

Picture Viewer
- no questions. usual pic viewer

Calculator
- simple calculator

Notepad
this device is really lack of touchscreen or keyboard. it's hard to pick texts symbol by symbol :(
using 4 keys jeypad.

Dictionary
- English-Chinese. LOL.

Ebook
You can read txt files. But... English & Chinese only... No other languages. :(
No utf-8 support, i mean. FUCK.

Game
NES emulator.
- (!) you can't set volume. it's always too fucking loud
- (!) FPS is slow.
- emulation quality: average
- (!) some cool features does not work. for example: double-left, double-right button hits. In some games like Battle toads, Jungle Book, it's really needed.
Well, some pc emulators don't have this feature, too.
- (!) you can't save game states. :( really suck.

SD support
- supports SD card up to 2GB

ATTENTION! This device has too low USB transfer rate. It's about 300 KBytes/sec and i think it's too slow. TOO FUCKING SLOW. When you upload a 250MB video, wtf!? You should wait 15 minutes.... This sucks. This always sucks, whether you use internal PMP memory or SD card. I can't understand how they can make a 2GB device with so fucking slow USB transfer rate.... :(((

Allright then. Anyway it's price ($38) makes me to forget about it's contra's. :)

CCK EG100 Wristfone

2009-05-04T10:32:00.000-07:00

Wow, got this nice thing a couple days ago, still can't finish testing it.
At DX:
CCK EG100 Triband 1.33" Touch LCD GSM Cell Phone Watch with Bluetooth Headset
but it's pink there, i got black from another Chinese shop (guess which).

With a 1GB T-flash, cool ;)
Will make review later :D

PMP console from DealExtreme - unpacking

2009-04-29T10:52:00.000-07:00

Well, this is another toy from DealExtreme.
A personal multimedia player.
Listed as
2.8" LCD Game Console Style MP4 PMP Player with TV-Out and 300KP Camera (2GB with SD Slot)
Shortly about:
- built-in 2GB memory
- Display 320x240
- SD slot
- Audio player (mp3/wav/wmv)
- Video player
- 3,5mm audio jack + speaker
- Game emulator (.NES)
- Photo camera (1MP) ??? not sure yet.
- Calculator, Notepad
- Dictionary (English - Chinese) :D oh wow
- Ebook reader (*.txt files)
- Audio recorder
- Video recorder

What's in the box
- the console
- earphones
- usb charger
- usb cable
- AV cable
- cd-rom (drivers ?)
- user manual

Photos:

A further review will be later, stay in touch.

Venus V900 user guide

2009-04-25T03:17:00.001-07:00

I've spent 40 minutes today to scan the user guide for Venus V900.
This may be useful for those who have lost their own manual or whatever :)
The archive contains 17 printable GIFs (300 dpi).
Enjoy!

Download (14 MBytes):
rapidshare link
depositfiles link

Venus V900 review.

2009-04-18T07:40:00.000-07:00

Well, actually this was my first gadget from DealExtreme, I bought this because it was interesting to test this phone. Nowadays I use it every day. :) It's really good phone.

At DX this phone indicated as
V900 2.1" Touch Screen Dual SIM Dual Network Triband GSM Cell Phone (900/1800/1900)

Shortly about the phone.
- It's cheap, about $55
- It has dual SIM card slots (but anyway i couldn't test this feature because i have only one SIM). This means you can use both SIMs simultaneously (stand-by both SIMs)
- Touch screen feature and stylus
- SMS, MMS ability
- photo camera 0.3 MP, instead of indicated 2MP (!)
- microSD slot with 256M tflash card
- FM radio, sound recorder, audio player, video player(avi,3gp), video recorder (avi).
- Bluetooth
- Java not supported
- built-in games (Mahjong, puzzle)
- Calculator, calendar features

What's in the box
- the phone
- charger with USB cable
- 2 Li-Ion batteries 1100 mAh
- Earphones (hands free headset)

The phone itself was smaller than i thought, similar to NOKIA 1100, just a bit larger.

The speaker is so fucking loud i set it to only 2/6 of it's power :)

I liked the FM-radio. It can store up to 10 stations :D and has a pretty cool receiver.

The supplied earphones have a good quality. They are also a "freehand set" with a microphone.

There's no any driver supported, but they are not necessary (i guess) because the phone recognized as two flash drives. First drive as built-in memmory (about 780K), second as tflash card (if inserted).

You can easily transfer diles from PC to the phone and back, both on Windows and Linux.

The vibration does not work at all, i don't know why. This is a production fuckup, i guess.

You can set custom MP3 phone rings, upload them to the tflash card or built-in memory.

Also there's a book reader, supported Western, UCS2, UTF-8 encodings. You have to upload txt files to the Ebook directory on the tflash or memory.

Radio and player volume are regulated by pushing * and # buttons.

The camera photos & video quality is shitty, and dark :( But sometimes you can make a satisfying photo. It's enough for me, I think.

This phone has a funny feature called "Voice changer" with 8 presets. This is for those who do not want to be recognized during the conversation ;)

Well, i gotta say that this phone is OK because it's too cheap for it's features. I like this phone, really :)

Red Light Dot-Matrix Stainless Steel Wristwatch

2009-04-15T11:58:00.000-07:00

When i saw this watches, i immediately wanted to buy them :) It's sooo "vintage". It's big, it's solid, it' stainless. Like Terminator T-100, yknow. It has a red light dot matrix display that can show current time and date upon pushing top right or top left button. I liked them very much.

It arrived without any box or manual. But i know how all such watches work. Date and time can be set by pushing both top/both bottom buttons :)
Push and hold upper left and upper right at the same time to set time and 12/24h
Push and hold down left and down right at the same time to set date, month:day

How does it work (YouTube Video) You have to push top right or top left button to make the display on. It has some dot matrix effects like scrolling, explosion etc. I think it's funny. Maybe the effects are slow a bit, but i liked them

You can buy it at DealExtreme $10.90

Dingoo Digital A-320 review

2009-04-13T07:14:00.000-07:00

Tehnical data

Screen: 320х240 px, 2.8 ", 16M color depth
CPU: 430 MHz MIPS;
RAM: 64MB
Flash: 4GB built-in flash, Mini-SD HC slot (up to 8G);
Power: built-in 1700 mAh battery;
Output: 1 x mini-USB; 1 x TV-Out (RCA) — ; 1 х 3.5mm earphones socket;
Sizes: 125х55.5х14 mm;
Weight: 110 gm.

What's in the box

The device, USB cable, charger, TV cable, earphones and manual (English + Chinese)

Well, the earphones are pretty shitty. Hope i'll get better ones.

The assembly quality is very good, as well as the body plastic. Screws are covered with semi-transparent gum pads, so that the Dingoo is laying good on surfaces.
The front panel is scratch-resistand. All sockets sre built well. Built-in speakers are truly stereo.

The battery is about 1700MAh of capacity so that you can play or watch video about 7-8 hours.
It looks like the device is not charged then attached to a PC via USB cable.

The console is very compact, just 1/3rd width more than a credit card. With its weight (110 gm) it's easy to put it in a shirt pocket.

Sizes: Dingoo A-320, a credit card, an USB flash:

When attached to a PC, it's recognized as an usual flash memory. It works on Mac, Ubuntu, and Windows PCs as well. Transfer rate is about 4 MBps.

Features

Game consoles emulation: CPS2/CPS1/GBA/MVS/NEOGEO/NES/SFC/SMD
Custow 3D & 2D games (one can develop games using a custom SDK)
Audio player
Video player
FM-radio
Book reader
Voice recorder
Picture viewer

Emulators

This console officially supports the following games:

You also may download and install a Game Boy Color emulator.

Games for NES & GBA are best emulated on this console. There is a built-in ability to save up to 10 game states. Also you can adjust volume, set Frameskip parameter and set up keys.

Nintendo Entertainment System («Dendy»)

This is probably the best emulation on the device. All the games run at 100% speed and without any problems. Digital noises also supported (such as groans and shots) in such games as Jurassic Park.

Battletoads:

Chip and Dale:

Contra

Batman. Return of The Joker:

Game Boy Advance

The GBA emulation is cool as NES emulation. Animation is very smooth. Run Super Mario Advance, as well as last GBA games: Sonic Battle, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, Fire Emblem etc.

All the games can be run in windowed mode or scaled to the full screen.

Super Nintendo

So, the Super Nintendo emulator on the console is really not as well as NES. Sometimes you have to change Frameskip to get the games work more slowly or faster. I could not run games with "Super FX" chip support.

Sega Mega Drive

This is the worst emulator on the console. There's some screen artifacts like interlacing, etc.
Digital sound is good, but music sometimes run faster or slower, i dunno why.

Neo Geo MVS

This emulates a popular japanese game slot. You even have to put in a virtual "coin" hehehe. The emulation quality is rather good, but there's some games incompatible.

Last Blade 2:

Metal Slug 3:

Capcom Play System I, II

Um well, i actually could not find the games for this emulator, sorry :)

3D & 2D games

The Dingoo A-320 has a custom game development SDK that can be downloaded somewhere dunno where :). There's a couple of games that show the SDK features.

The most impressive game is 3D-quest "7 Days. Salvation". It looks like Silent Hill, really good:

Audio player

The playes supports MP3, WMA, APE, FLAC, WAV. It also can play in background (except emulators, videoplayer and radio).

The player does not display music tags when playing. However, you can sort playlists by albums, artists etc. You can choose between 7 equalizer presets and also set up one custom preset. There's also options for enhanced 3D sound, bass amplifying, and high freqs compensation.

The overall sound quality is good only if you use good earphones or speakers. There's no scratches or noises.

Video Player

Supported codecs: RMVB, RM, AVI, WMV, FLV, MPEG, DAT, MP4, ASF. Different versions of DivX & Xvid run ok. Even older DivX 3 supported :) It also can play 700M DVD rips :D.

You should be warned that there's no subs supported!.

Also, those who has iPod or iPhones - the videos from these devices are not supported :(

If you push X the player GUI appears:

Popular FLV also supported:

FM-radio

The FM-radio can store up to 40 channels, autoscan feature supported. You can record from the FM. You can choose FM-banding (China, Europe, USA, Japan) , and the amplifier strength. The FM-radio can play in background, as well as Audio player.

There's some exciting feature that you can listen to the FM without earphones.
Yeah yeah :)

Sound recorder

The sound recorder can record MP3 or WAV files. The microphone is not very sensitive so you should talk right into the microphone hole.

Picture viewer

The viewer can display JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG files. You can zoom, rotate your pics. GIF-animation also supported. You also can set any pic as your wallpaper.

There's also supported SWF up to version 7.

Book reader

Well, this reader supports only English and Chinese. Fuck :)

If you learn Chinese, there's also a cute Chinese woman's voice that can read aloud (English also supported)

Settings

themes

BUY IT!?
Dingoo A-320 2.8" LCD GBA/NGO/SNES/ NES/SFC/CPS1/2/+ Emulator Game Console (4GB Built-in + Mini-SD) Black

Dingoo A-320 2.8" LCD GBA/NGO/SNES/ NES/SFC/CPS1/2/+ Emulator Game Console (4GB Built-in + Mini-SD) White

Welcome to my Gadget Blog

2009-04-07T08:26:00.000-07:00

Hello!

I live in Russia, and absolutely crazy about gadgets.

I like when they're funny. Or funky! :) Or cheap. Or kinky. Or they're cool. So sometimes i buy miscellaneous gadgets (usually in internet shops like DealExtreme).

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