TRENDnet Launches Wireless N router at 450 Mbps

Just the standard Wi-Fi 802.11n Was ratified , after several years of marketing in many products in a preliminary form, some manufacturers are taking advantage of the relative flexibility of its requirements to pass a new milestone. TRENDnet has actually recently announced the "450 Mbps Wireless N Gigabit Router".

His adorable name itself summarizes the main distinctive feature of this new model as well as almost all of the functions it offers. Also simply called "TEW-691GR, it is the" first "access point Wi-Fi to provide bandwidth, the manufacturer himself acknowledges theoretical 450 Mbps, 300 Mbps cons for devices marketed until to date. Each of its three satellite broadcasts to do three streams. MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output), which aims to improve the scope, is also present. Rest also find devices that will benefit from this improved throughput.

Therefore, there is also a hub with four ports for Gigabit standard, ensuring a higher throughput than wired wireless, the reverse has certainly been the last straw. A fifth Ethernet port lets you connect a modem, which function as the router. We finally come to the WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup), which allows connecting a wireless device with the touch of a button, by crowding the stage forbidding the seizure of the encryption key.

The "TRENDnet 450 Mbps Wireless N Gigabit Router" will soon be marketed in France for a retail price of around $ 160 plus VAT (approximately 160 euros TTC in court today).

A transparent multipoint touch screen GPS with AUO

The transparent screen, the current trend? AUO recently presented at the exhibition display a prototype of Taiwan AMOLED combining partial transparency layer and multi-touch navigation. In a 2.4-inch diagonal, the prototype seems perfectly functional as evidenced by the video below, conducted by Netbooknews.com.

What interest? According to AUO, which now claims 16% of the global market slabs TFT / LCD, this technology could well take place in dedicated navigation devices. In other words, we could see one day appear on a GPS with HUD transparency can also be used for manipulating the system. Prototype 4 and 7 inches diagonal are also in preparation, said AUO.

Lite-On launches 12x Blu-ray in Europe

Lite-On has confirmed the imminent launch in Europe iHBS212, its first Blu-ray player displaying a maximum write speed of 12x for the next generation optical media.

Moved to 5.25 inches, this internal drive uses a SATA interface, LightScribe technology embeds and displays the following performance thus write:

- 12x for single layer Blu-ray
- 8x for dual layer Blu-ray
- 2x for Blu-ray Disc Rewritable.

Unsurprisingly, the iHBS212 also provides burning DVDs with performances by the order of 16x for DVD-R's, 12x DVD-RAM, 8x double-layer DVDs and 6x DVD-RW.

Lite-On announced a suggested retail price of 165 euros for the box version with Cyberlink software, against 149 euros for the bulk version (iHBS112 reference), in line with the current offer on Blu-ray drives .

LG: not less than 20 Android smartphone in 2010

On the smartphone market, the Taiwanese manufacturer HTC has particularly distinguished itself with its many terminals Android. Other manufacturers such as Motorola and Acer have also presented some devices running the Google system. For its part, LG does not want to stay trolling and posting a score of Korean Android smartphones by the end of the year.

Within the mobile communications department of the company's rate of profit has declined considerably to 0.9% against 6.7% last year. According to the CFO of LG, the company did not sufficiently prepared in the smartphone market, which is why it is not now among the industry leaders.

Today in France we find the W620 and LG GT540 Optimus, but LG Electronics plans to release no less than twenty terminals Android in 2010. The company starts to distribute including some in the U.S. as Ally LG, Verizon, LG and LG LU2300 Optimus Q SU2300. The Korean Times reports that agreements with operators in the Middle East are being negotiated.

LG should follow the lead of Motorola, which after several financial setbacks, has also had to refocus its mobile strategy on the Google system.