LG announced two new ultra-thin 55-inch “full LED” LCD TV’s in Seoul. Both the models are extremely thin and promises superior picture quality, quality and design. A total of 3,360 LEDs are used for backlighting, which is seven times more than that used in the existing high-end LED TV’s. The models also feature 5,000,000:1 contrast ratio through enhanced dimming technology that divides the screen into 240 blocks with a refresh rate of 240Hz thus ensuring smooth display even while watching fast-paced action scenes. Another innovative feature in these modes is the enhanced wireless feature, which eliminates the need for image compression. Hence the content from the DVD players and game consoles can be sent wirelessly without and degradation in the image quality.

The model 55LH93 is priced at around KRW 7 million (approximately 5500 US Dollars) and the 55LH95 is priced around KRW 7.6 million (approximately 5900 US Dollars).

REGZA SV670 Cinema Series LED TV utilizes the superior FocalLight Full Matrix LED with Local Dimming technology that creates better brightness uniformity and the local dimming allows the deep blacks with sacrificing on the the peak white brightness. The display has a 2M:1 dynamic contrast ratio, a USB socket, four HDMI connectors, IR pass-through, a PC input and REGZA-LINK (HDMI-CEC).

Toshiba is also shipping the REGZA XV648 Cinema Series LCD TV’s and REGZA ZV650 LCD Series. The former comes with features such as CrystalCoat technology that stops the light reflections and thus providing clear pictures, 30 percent better contrast, and Dolby Volume technology and the latter uses ClearScan 240 technology, which combines the 120 frames per second with advanced Backlight Scanning and creates a 240Hz effect. REGZA ZV650 has a 1000000:1 dynamic contrast ratio,  four HDMI inputs, SD card slot for playback of digital pictures, USB port for playback of digital audio, video and picture files. IR Pass-Through Port and PC input.

Pricing and Availability:

REGZA XV648 Cinema Series LCD TV Series 

• 40XV648U (available August 2009, MSRP $1,099.99)
• 46XV648U (available August 2009, MSRP $1,499.99)
• 52XV648U (available August 2009, MSRP $1,999.99)

REGZA ZV650 LCD TV Series

• 42ZV650U (available June 2009, MSRP $1,299.99)
• 47ZV650U (available June 2009, MSRP $1,699.99)
• 55ZV650U (available June 2009, MSRP $2,399.99)

REGZA SV670 Cinema Series LED TV Series

• 46SV670U (available June 2009, MSRP $2,299.99)
• 55SV670U (available June 2009, MSRP $2,999.99)

No other details are available yet, but the official release is just around the corner. The entry-level configuration will cost £599, expected to hit the UK stores in July.

The HP Pavilion dv2z is a thin 12.1-inch laptop with LED widescreen boasting a display resolution of 1280×800, less than 1-inch of thickness, weight of 3.81 pounds, AMD Athlon Neo processor (1.6GHz), 4GB DDR2 RAM, built-in webcam and microphone, and 320GB HDD.

The HP Pavilion dv6t is an Entertainment Notebook with 16-inch widescreen display, Intel Core 2 Duo T6400 2.0GHz processor, 160 GB hard drive, 2GB DDR2 RAM, and built-in webcam.

The HP Pavilion dv6z Artist Edition has a artistic chassis inspired by the sea and sky in Okinawa, Japan. The design won MTV Notebook Design Contest. The dv6z Artistic Edition comes packed with pre-loaded software applications such as Corel, Corel Painter Sketchpad, Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 and Magix Music Maker 14.

The HP Pavilion dv3t model comes with Intel Core 2 Duo T4200 2.0GHz processor, 2GB RAM, 250GB HDD, 13.3-inch WXGA Display, and webcam.

HP is also offering several printers at affordable prices.

[HP Press]

The new iPhone has longer battery life, 3 megapixel autofocus camera, video recording and hands free voice control features. The 3MP camera can take pictures while adjusting the focus, exposure, contrast and color automatically for best possible pictures. Also the automatic macro focus mode takes care of the close up shots.

Another revolutionary feature in the iPhone 3G S is the Voice Control feature that offers hands free operation for both iPod and iPhone functions. Voice Control feature allows the user to issue voice commands by speaking into the built-in microphone or through the headset microphone. Users will be able to call others by name or by number, skip tracks, pause and play, or even select a song or ask what song is currently being played through the voice commands.

Apple has also put in a digital compass in the iPhone 3G S which can be used with for navigation using the new Compass app that automatically orients any map from the built-in GPS in the direction the user is facing.

The iPhone 3G S comes with the iPhone 3.0 OS and  goes on sale on June 19 and is priced at $199 for a 16GB model and $299 for 32GB model. As usual the 2 year AT&T contract is required.

Also, Apple is now selling the older version for just $99.

What’s new in iPhone 3G S :

• 3.0 megapixel autofocus, auto white balance, automatic macro mode based camera
• 30fps VGA video recording with editing capability
• Voice control for dialing and music playback control
• 7.2Mbps HSPDA, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
• Water and oil resistant finish
• Faster processor (twice as fast as iPhone 3G)
• Enhanced Battery life
• Built-in Digital Compass

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Now, there is a jog like structure with buttons on the bottom, we don’t what it does but it sure looks interesting. It remains to be seen if this new design does anything useful in terms of usage. No word on the pricing yet but will hit the stores in Japan at the end of July.