The web monster from Nokia, which has an ARM Cortex A8 CPU with a stock clock speed of 600MHz, has successfully been overclocked to boot at over 1GHz. I too have tested the device at 900MHz and 800MHz speeds and I have had no stability issues at all. Especially at 900MHz, everything feels snappier, and even an already great and responsive phone line N900 benefits from the speed increase dramatically.
Now I would never encourage anyone to go out and overclock their devices, especially when very little, if not nothing, is known about how efficiently the device is cooled (passively of course) and how overclocking the ARM Cortex A8 CPU would affect its and the surrounding components’ lifespan. However, if you are willing to take the risks, you can find how by following the below links…
Nokia USA announced the other day that the United States will be one of the first markets to receive the Booklet 3G, being operated exclusively on AT&T and will be sold exclusively by Best Buy at first, for $299 when purchased with a 2 year plan at $60/month.
The Nokia Booklet 3G will be featuring Windows 7, which will allow the device to switch between WiFi and 3G automatically. The light, strong and elegant device, with an aluminum chassis, is a treat to the eyes and its keyboard is easy to use for such a small form factor. The main highlight of Booklet 3G’s features, in my opinion, is the 12-hour battery life that Nokia claims it to offer. Considering how fast a mobile phone’s battery drains under continuous web usage (with screen being on at all times), no wonder Booklet 3G will be a great and helpful companion in that department.
You can see a hands-on video via Engadget, and one via Mobile Burn after the break…
These two have been in the rumor-mill for a while now, but recently EEEPC.it managed to leak documents from Asus with detailed specs on the new EeePCs. The EeePC 1201N, as rumored features nVidia’s Ion chipset (with GeForce 9400M), a dual core Intel Atom N330 CPU at 1.6GHz, 3GB DDR2 RAM, and an HDMI port while the EeePC 1201HA is a lighter model (featurewise) with an Atom Z520 CPU at 1.33GHz, Intel GMA500 graphics, and 2GB DDR2 RAM.
Both models manage to pack a 250GB HDD (and 500GBs of online storage), a 12.1-inch 1366 x 768 pixel screen, 802.11b/g/n WiFI, Bluetooth, Ethernet, VGA, 3 USB 2.0 ports, SD card slot, microphone and headphones ports, a 0.3MP Webcam, a Touchpad with multitouch support and a 6-cell battery for 8-hours continuous operation. With Windows 7 running on top of the hardware Asus seems to managed to design a nice duo of sub-notebook computers.
We’ve all seen some drool-inducing shots of Dell’s new beauty, and finally the mud is beginning to clear. According to Business Week, the 0.39-inch thick (or thin if you look the other way around!) notebook will hit the streets on October 22nd, the same date as Windows 7, with a price tag of $2,000. The Adamo XPS is also said to feature a “heat-sensing strip on the lip, that when swiped with a finger, glows white and automatically opens the aluminum lid.”
I have a simple test with notebook PCs. When I’m checking out a notebook computer, I always try to open its lid with one hand, to see whether the hinge mechanism is high quality or not. If it can be opened with one hand, I believe that notebook to be having a good build quality. So if the new Dell’s lid can open automatically, I don’t think any notebook’s build quality can get higher than that!! We’re still in the dark about the Adamo’s internals, though. We’ll wait and see how much more we can drool…
When ATI announced the 5870 and 5850, with superbly high performance and HD audio bitstream support, we knew it was only a matter of time before they announced and released cheaper cards relying on the same technology with these ground breakingly high performers. Enter Radeon HD 5770 and 5750! Priced at $159 and $109 respectively, the two card are easy on the budget, while still maintaining their positions as high performers with a computing power of over 1 TFLOPS. The early reviews found 5770’s performance to be almost as high as ATI’s past generation star, the 4890.
Another upside of these two mainstream graphics adapters is, of course, HD audio bitstream support for transmitting untouched, HD quality Dolby Digital Plus and DTS HD MA audio to supporting home theater receivers. This translates to HTPC users losing the dedicated audio card in their system while upgrading their graphics adapter. I personally have been using a Sound Blaster X-Fi card with my system and have been waiting for Auzentech’s HD audio solution (and it’s availability where I live). ATI’s latest offerings look almost perfect to me. I’ll probably want to see like products from nVidia as well, as their drivers tend to agree with me more. If you’re system is generally problem-free with ATI’s drivers, I’d strongly suggest these two cards for HTPC systems…
According to statistics from NPD Group published on The Inquirer page, 85% of Mac users “have a pragmatic approach to their machines and use the best tool for the job at hand, whatever they want when they want it”. Additionally, having a Mac was a status symbol and the average household income of those with Macs was around $100,000. The study further revealed that, I love the irony this part implies, 85% of Mac users also have a PC. I agree with ctitanic of Mobility Site that “symbols sometimes are not enough to live in [the] current modern world controlled by PCs”.
Now this is something! A Chinese University’s project outlines an algorithm to choose images from the sketches you make, montage them on the fly, and on the internet, creating sleekly cut and placed objects on a background type you specify. Anything I can say here would be inadequate to explain what you’ll see in the video, so watch on…
TDK Corp developed a write-once optical disc holding within 10 layers and 320 GBs of storage space. The media uses the same kind of blue laser as Blu-ray and manages to offer such large storage spaces with the help of its almost transparent outermost layer which reduces the need for a more powerful laser.
(This is not a usual head-to-head comparison for two products. Also I am not a fan of any of these platforms nor prefer one over another.)
After infinite number of rumors and waiting about Apple releasing a Tablet PC (iTablet for some), there is another product called Microsoft Courier surfaced. In fact, this is not a rumor or a concept, the product is in its late prototype stage already.
I will not talk about in-depth techonological advances of these products like other people, since there is Apple product for comparison. Yet, there are some people announced Apple won this one already, based on a huge nothing. I mean come on, you are not comparing “apples to apples”, there is not even one “apple” after all! What Apple does real good is to make people expect. This is a marketing game and Apple plays this real good. First you throw a rumor, get people’s attention, building more expectations and deliver the most of those.
On the other hand, there is this real product, which has some specifications revealed like dual screen and multitouch + stylus capabilities, even a video is revealed showing the device. This is a sleek device and looks helpful for taking notes and drawings in a class (we don’t know that much about multimedia capabilities yet). But since this is not Apple branded, additionally it is a Microsoft product, it is starting 0-1 against Apple.
The title says it all actually. Windows XP Mode for Windows 7 was still available as a Release Candidate until today. We soon will be able to download the final version of the software…
Although blank media prices are my main concern for Blu-Ray, it’s good to see the main players in the game release better and faster products each day. Although there isn’t any BD-R media that officially supports 12x writing speeds, Pioneer’s latest burner is a step in the right direction, without a doubt. Now, let’s get these media prices lower shall we??
This video appeared on Gizmodo the other day. It focuses on Microsoft Courier’s use as a journal with a UI more consistent with previous Microsoft products. Enjoy!
Level 10, the concept case designed in conjunction with BMW is definitely a jaw dropper, drooler, or simply, whatever you call it, it’s a beauty. With compartments for individual PC components hanging from a central pillar, Thermaltake’s Level 10 is not your ordinary PC case. With advanced aerodynamics to help keep the system cool and quiet, the chassis also features 6 removable HDD cases, with support for both 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch drives, as well as smaller drives such as SSDs. Check out the pictures in the gallery, watch the video by clicking the “Read More” link. To see a (p)review hit the via link…
As the name suggests, it’s FAST! With a bandwidth of 10Gbps, at over 100 meters of distance, Light Peak technology will enable mobile devices, displays and networking devices get connected to other devices/PCs/Macs, at high speeds. Rumour has it that Apple suggested the technology to Intel and that we will start seeing this technology implanted in Apple computers/notebooks as early as 2010…
Freecom announced the other day, world’s first USB 3.0 HDDs. The drives come in 3 flavors, from 1 to 2TBs. Also backward compatible with USB 2.0 specifications, Freecom’s USB 3.0 drives will be out in November.
This one’s a rather different product, but it’s nevertheless important, for people with diabetes. Bayer’s new Contour USB Blood Glucose Meter, not only accurately measures your blood glucose, but also doubles as a USB thumb drive. It manages to store up to 2,000 test results in its memory, and with its special software, helps you monitor your past and present blood glucose levels through your PC or MAC. Not to mention it’s one of the smallest Blood Glucose Meters (if not the smallest of all)… Read on for the press release…
We all have been waiting for Apple to announce a tablet device, maybe an iPod Touch with a much larger screen. But we’ve all been looking at the wrong side. It was Microsoft who was developing a jaw-dropping, mouth-drooling tablet. Enter Courier! The dual 7-inch screens support multi-touch, and stylus input as well as finger action. This definitely goes into my “I WANT!” category…
We all know it was inevitable but it still has news value when you hear something like this. After its defeat against Blu-ray (RIP HD-DVD, seriously) this is the first Blu-ray drive bearing device from Toshiba: The Cosmio X500 (a Blu-ray burner even). A multimedia giant, the 18.4-inch desktop replacement notebook carries within the new Intel Core i7 2.8GHz CPU and nVidia’s GeForce GTX 250MNV GPU with 1GB memory. The X500 is expected to hit the shelves by the end of October. Read more for the press release…
via Slash Gear
Intel announced the Clarksfield mobile chip the other day, which means laptops will get i7ed. There will be 3 different chips at first, two regular quad-cores and one i7 Extreme which will be able to selectively turns off some of its cores to bring more horsepower to the remaining core(s). Below are some reviews of the new CPUs and a link to the press release from Intel…
The web monster from Nokia, which has an ARM Cortex A8 CPU with a stock clock speed of 600MHz, has successfully been overclocked to boot at over 1GHz. I too have tested the device at 900MHz and 800MHz speeds and I have had no stability issues at all. Especially at 900MHz, everything feels snappier, and [...]
Thanks to Apple and the iPhone (or iPod Touch) we’re familiar with the multi touch concept on mobile phones and devices. Nokia, the foremost company in the mobile phone industry, is yet to come up with a multi touch screen phone though… We found out last week that this might all soon change. Nokia patented [...]
The first firmware release for Nokia N97 mini, v10.0.20 / v10.2.20, is now online through Navifirm. This obviously sheds light on N97 mini’s (regional) availability, and while the much anticipated v2 firmware for the larger N97 still remains unavailable, this shows that it will be released very soon. Also we should note that v20.0.19 firmware [...]
