Pixel Lab Korea launched a 12.1-inch notebook pc ‘Ripple Note T2450’ in Korea market, which features luxury handbag type of style. Running on Intel Core Duo T2450 processor (2.0GHz), it comes with 1280 x 800 WXGA LCD display, 1GB DDR2 SDRAM, and 120GB SATA hard drive. Other features included 1.3M webcam, 7 in 1 multi-reader, and a built-in microphone.

LG Electronics had press event with the launch of its real music phone ‘Rhapsody in Music Phone (model: LG-LB3300)’ in Seoul, Korea. Adopting touch wheel key and LED lighting, the LG-LB3300 supports Bluetooth headphone, a 1GB built-in memory for 256 songs, up to 4GB expandable external memory and 8 equalizer settings including natural, pop, classic, jazz, and etc. According to the company, they will release two models of the phone in black and white. Pink colored model is expected to be available in February, 2008.

TGIC DIGITAL will launch a VIA Ultra Mobility Platform PC ‘Nanobook’ in Korea market. It is based on power efficient VIA C7-M processor but don’t expect any cutting edge performance from it. Equipped with a 7-inch touch screen with 800 x 480 resolutions and a full-size keyboard, the Nanobook features MobilityPlus module support, DVI port, and two USB ports. The small LCD screen on the right doesn’t look good at all, it could have been fitted anywhere else giving room for bigger main display too.

Transcend introduced its 8GB version of its tiny USB flash drive ‘JetFlash V30’ that features a curved, compact body (60mm x 16.5mm x 8.1mm) and only weighs 7g.

With 8GB of storage capacity at down-to-earth prices, the V30 allows you to store your personal files, documents from work, digital photos, movies and music on a flash drive smaller than your finger.

The JetFlash V30 comes bundled with Transcend’s useful software ‘JetFlash elite’ package to help manage your data and increase productivity. The JetFlash elite includes eight handy functions: AutoLogin, PC-Lock, Mobile Favorites, Secret-Zip encryption, Mobile E-mail, DataBackup, Online Update and the My JetFlash browser.

It is also available in4GB, 2GB, 1GB, and 512MB capacities, and is backed by a lifetime warranty.

Microsoft doesn’t seem to learn from its mistakes in consumer electronics and although they wake up but then it becomes too late. First mistake is that they are competing with Apple and trying to do everything what they do with their iPod. Microsoft should try to make Zune better than iPod so that people may have enough reasons to choose it, else get out of this portable players business. When iPod was first launched, it looked like totally a new device with music playing capability and all mp3/mp4 players that were available in market followed the iPod style and Chinese iPod clones flooded the market. Microsoft seems to hold a business meeting with guys in suits and cigars who have no knowledge of electronics and then throw random features in a box and push it in the market.

Cowon Japan expects to launch its 1-Seg PMP ‘COWON D2TV’ in Japan market, which adopts 2.5-inch touch color screen with 320 x 240 resolution.

The COWON D2TV supports 7.5 hours for watching 1-seg mobile TV, 9 hours of video playing and 45 hours of music playing. It comes with two different colors of a white model (D2-2G) with 2GB and a black model (D2-8G) with 8GB. Suggested price is 201,000 (KRW) and 288,000 (KRW) respectively.