06.17.2009 by Adm-Blog in
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AMD announced several new projects that will compete with Intel’s Atom processor late next year, according to ExtremeTech. The company expects to add the Caspian and Conesus processors sometime next year. Both products are intended for use in mini-notebooks or netbooks, featuring the same 45-nm architecture of the new Shanghai processor announced earlier this week. Dual-cores will be featured in both, along with DDR-2 memory support. Read more →
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06.16.2009 by Adm-Blog in
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Nokia reportedly unveiled this advertisement for an unnamed, next-generation handset at a Capital Markets Day presentation in Brooklyn on Thursday. Little is known about the cellphone other than what the photo reveals, which is a touchscreen that covers nearly the entire face of the handset with no hard buttons visible. The cellphone breaks from Nokia tradition as it forgoes the use of any form of a conventional keypad or keyboard and instead relies nearly entirely on what the phone maker calls a Direct UI interface. Read more →
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06.15.2009 by Adm-Blog in
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In most parts of the world, the cute little device you’re looking at here would pass as a perfectly acceptable Walkman. In Japan, though, it’s more than just a Walkman — it’s a Walkman phone, people. The Sony Ericsson Xmini has been added to KDDI au’s CDMA-based lineup, measuring just 75 x 44 x 18mm and tossing aside the usual barrage of 8-megapixel cameras and wide VGA displays for a mere 320 x 240 screen and 4GB of on-board memory. Read more →
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05.16.2009 by Adm-Blog in
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The Internet-connected Kindle e-book reader sold exclusively at Amazon will not ship in time for Christmas, instead arriving at buyers’ doors in between 11 to 13 weeks, according to a Friday report. The device was also sold out for the holidays last year, but Amazon’s reason for the low volumes was that production was not yet up to capacity.
Meantime, the Kindle 2, first spied in October, is being delayed until early next year as well. Amazon is being criticized by many for not sufficiently outsourcing Kindle production to keep up with demand. Read more →
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05.14.2009 by Adm-Blog in
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Apple’s latest-generation MacBook Pro systems may face the same material defect in their dedicated graphics hardware as encountered by earlier models, according to an investigation by the Inquirer. A dissection of the GeForce 9600M chip shows the part using the same non-eutectic (higher melting point) soldered contact bumps as the GeForce 8600M, suggesting the graphics hardware is prone to the same long-term heat damage risk as the GeForce 8400M and 8600M series chips, producing the blank screens and other video errors that have triggered recalls of previous MacBook Pro revisions as well as wider-still recalls by Dell, HP and others. Read more →
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04.16.2009 by Adm-Blog in
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The UK’s Logic3 has recently launched its i-Station25 portable speakers meant to work with Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch. The i-Station 25 includes an accelerometer that will adjust the output of the speakers to output at the correct left and right separation when users turn it 90 degrees to better view photos or videos stored on their connected Apple device. The four built-in speakers deliver a total of 8W RMS of power, and each is sized at nearly 1.6 inches. The buzzing noise heard in speakers right before an incoming call is suppressed with the use of TDMA noise distortion circuitry. Read more →
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