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... and $180 in Norway. Ugh. On the other hand, this certainly makes me look forward to my vacation in the US this summer.
Best feature: The standard 220V outlets between the front seats. (I assume those would be 110V if the car ever makes it stateside.)
This sounds like a good idea to me. Like Tom says above, this camera is intended to take exactly one type of picture, the sort of picture that benefits from a very wide angle and a large aperture stop. This product offers that in a cheap and handy package.

Especially the wide angle is very hard to find in a compact camera - some very few models have started showing up with a 28mm equivalent, but 22mm is almost unheard of in such a small package. The only way to get similar specs would be to get a digital SLR and a 22mm-equivalent lens for it, which would be hard to do for less than $1000, and of course that solution would end up much more bulky.

Of course one would hope that the lens is of relatively high quality - cheap wide angle lenses sometimes have serious problems with distortion.
Actually no, the Mobiblu US2 is about 23.8 cubic centimeters, while the new nano is only about 19.4.
Um... where does it say that this is an eBook reader? It doesn't even look like one.

The product being presented seems to be just an electronic paper display. It could be integrated into a reader, I guess, but that would be a pretty large device considering the A4 size of the display.

And, just guessing here, but could they be saying that a batch of 10 costs 40 million yen? Seems somewhat expensive - I guess that's why we haven't seen any consumer devices with electronic paper devices anywhere near this size. My guess is this is meant for commercial displays, signs, advertisements, things like that.
It's on the Norwegian site too, at 10275 NOK, which is $1690.

But I'm guessing Dell would try to price this in the US the way Sony will be pricing the PS3, namely by doing a straight 1:1 conversion from the price in euros, to offset the nosedive the US dollar has taken on the global currency markets lately. If my guess is right, it would put the US price at somewhere around $1300.
What's the deal with naming here? I can only assume this is the same as the PRO-FHD1 display, but why did they suddenly change its name? Is this new name just for Europe?
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"For a long time I have been searching for a portable device where I can store all of my CDs in MP3 format and stream the songs wirelessly to my HiFi system. The portable device must I've tried FM transmitters, they all suck. I don't want a docking station. Any help? Thanks!" have a display so that I easily can scroll through the playlists (I don't want to use a TV or monitor). I suppose that there must also be a second device that is connected to the HiFi system that would receive the wireless streams from the portable device.
 

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