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Sungale adds a touch of sleek, a pinch of ugly to 4.3-inch Kula TV PMP
Approximately 7.234 Earthlings showed any semblance of caring about Sungale's 4.3-inch Kula when we reported on it back in December, and that's clearly due to the blatant omission of a huge, inappropriate antenna on the top. Inexplicably, the Kula TV -- which is essentially the exactly same 4.3-inch PMP with 2GB of internal storage space -- ships with a flip-up WiFi antenna that's supposed to net you better signal than the month-old Kula. We can't say we're eager to ever find out if said claim is true or not, but you can be our guest this March when it ships for $199.99.
Sungale's Smart Info Engine is none of the above
Jack of trades, master of none: that, friends, is the Sungale Smart Info Engine. There's very little this breadbox-sized hunk of B-grade electronics can't do -- but what it can do, it does with the elegance and ergonomic grace of a tank. In the off chance you figure out a good place to set it in your home, you'll be able to watch YouTube, awkwardly read e-books, get driving directions (heaven forbid you put this on your car dash), connect memory cards, and even check the time -- but considering that it's too big for an alarm clock and too small for a TV, we wouldn't blame if you if you simply opted to do none of the above. %Gallery-82505%
Sungale introduces 4.3-inch Kula: the WiFi-enabled portable TV
Not so keen on coughing up a month's worth of WoW coinage in order to pay for FLO TV services? If so, and you can somehow keep yourself surrounded by WiFi waves at all times, Sungale just might have a cheaper alternative. The outfit has just revealed what it says is its "first IPTV," though frankly it sounds more like a WiFi-enabled PMP with a knack for finding web programming. The 4.3-inch Kula is described as an "ultra-portable WiFi-enabled IPTV that allows users to access a large number of live streaming television programs from all over the world, selectable by country, language and topic like News, Sports and Finance all without the high rates." Aside from using WiFi, there's no mention of any other protocol to tap into various channel "packages," though we're not completely shutting out that possibility until we see this bugger at CES. Other specs include 2GB of internal memory, an SD / MMC expansion slot and support for a slew of file formats. Hop on past the break for the full release, which naturally omits any semblance of a price tag in keeping with the elusive theme.
Sungale's 7-inch Cyberus ID700WTA is neither a PMP nor an ereader, really
Sungale isn't exactly the biggest, most well-known name in consumer electronics, but it's sure trying to make a run with the big boys. A few months after introducing its own WiFi digiframe, the company is hitting back with a hybrid ereader / PMP device that just seems to be caught somewhere in the middle. Boasting a 7-inch color LCD display (800 x 480), the Cyberus ID700WTA can handle most popular multimedia and ebook formats -- from PDF to DivX, it's (pretty much) all covered. It also touts integrated WiFi, support for streaming media from a home network and a built-in clock / calender. There's also the ability to fetch "online news, weather reports, stock prices and charts, maps and traffic routes, YouTube clips, internet radio, Picasa and Gmail," so we're going out on a limb here and suggesting that some sort of web browser or cadre of inbuilt apps are also included. It's available now around the web for $279, and yes, that snazzy leather case is bundled in.
Sungale WiFi Widget photo frame gets a hands-on
Sungale's recently unleashed a WiFi-enabled, widget-having digital photo frame -- the ID800WT -- and the fine folks over at Zatz Not Funny have taken it for a little spin. The 800 x 600 resolution touchscreen boasts 512 MB of internal storage, and widgets for weather, news, Picasa, YouTube, Gmail, and Internet radio. The reviewer didn't find the widgets to be particularly awesome, in many respects -- their implementation, for instance, made the Gmail app "nearly useless" because it displayed only a few lines at a time, and many had trouble connecting to the internet properly. It wasn't all doom and gloom, however -- they really liked the frame in theory, and thought that the company was shooting for the right idea -- they just didn't actually succeed. The frame will be available sometime in the coming month for about $165.
