Bluedot's 4-inch portable TV with 1Seg and a whole bunch of slim

While the new BTV-400K from Bluedot might lack the common accouterments of its peers, like an SD card reader, GPS or other such functions, the player does seems to do the whole 1Seg thing quite well. The 4-inch display rocks 480 x 272 pixels, and the whole unit is a mere 0.43-inches thick. The three hour battery life is a little on the weak end, but there's also a bulkier option that can offer up 10 hours of juice. With that complete lack of he player won't have much to do with your PC, but you can charge it via USB. This one should be hitting Japan in February for around 30,000 yen ($253 US). Peep another pic after the break.

[GioNYC @ Dec 26th 2006 3:09PM]

Its worthless if it picks up UHF/VHF The reception signal would be horrible.

[mattie @ Dec 26th 2006 3:15PM]

so its a psp that can't play games? nice

[Sean C @ Dec 26th 2006 5:34PM]

"BlueDot" is the company name? What a blatant copy of the larger and older company: "Blaupunkt" which means "Blue Dot" in German. It referred to a mark of quality in the manufacturing industry or something like that.

[Jamar @ Dec 27th 2006 12:06AM]

Bluedot's products have been mentioned here before- Bluedot is the Japanese name for Shinco (yes, that means that this is a Chinese product) which is a Chinese company that is reasonably OK in terms of product quality. I don't know why they chose to go by a different name in Japan, though but they did.

[Matt Hadder @ Dec 27th 2006 3:31AM]

$253 US??!?!

Thats like $300 Canuck... Thats nearly halfway towards a brand new laptop here!

Who would buy this thing and why?

[v_dogg @ Dec 27th 2006 9:03AM]

wait, so theres no hardrive in it?

[Sean Cahill @ Dec 27th 2006 1:50PM]

"BlueDot" is the company name? What a blatant copy of the larger and older company: "Blaupunkt" which means "Blue Dot" in German. It referred to a mark of quality in the manufacturing industry or something like that.