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Sportourer Touch Beat HR Watch Review

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 05:06 AM PST

The Sportourer Touch Beat is one of the most decent looking exercise watches I have ever seen. This is due not only to its slick styling that makes it look less plasticy, but also because of the cleverly designed combo digital/analog face, as well as the dual use heart rate monitor.


ICZ-R50: Sony Shows New Radio Recorder

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 12:38 AM PST

I wasn’t really aware big electronics companies are still making portable radios, but they do. Today, Sony announced [JP] the ICZ-R50 for the Japanese market, an AM/FM radio recorder with 4GB of internal memory. Users can upgrade the memory to up to 32GB with SD/SDHC or Memory Stick Duo cards.

The ICZ-R50 is compatible to MP3/WMA files and can also be used as an over-sized voice recorder. Users can connect the radio to their computers via USB and copy files from the internal memory to memory cards (or the PC) and vice versa. The ICZ-R50 weighs 532g and comes with 0.5Wx2 speakers.

Sony plans to start selling the device in Japan on February 21 for $218, but don’t expect it to be released anywhere else anytime soon.

CrunchGear Week in Review: Space Escape Edition

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 12:00 AM PST

Report: PSP2 To Be Released By Year-End, With OLED Touchscreen And 3G

Posted: 23 Jan 2011 08:41 PM PST

As reported last week, Sony is planning to hold an event (now dubbed “PlaysStation Meeting”) in Tokyo this Thursday, probably to unveil the PSP2. Today, Japan’s biggest business daily, The Nikkei, is reporting that Sony will indeed unveil the device on that day, and they also have some information on what features it will come with.

According to The Nikkei, a usually very reliable source, you can expect:

  • an OLED touchscreen that will be larger than the 4.3 inches the PSP screen has
  • 3G support (in partnership with NTT Docomo – in Japan), as the first game system ever
  • no voice communication but support of game and movie downloads
  • a new processor “powerful enough to display HD images”

The paper also says that the PSP2 will be more expensive than the $203 the PSP currently goes for in Japan (not really surprising) and that Sony plans to roll it out by year-end (in Japan, at least).
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