Nokia announced the availability of new firmware of three devices – E71, 5800 XpressMusic and N96. The E71 software now moves to v200.21.118 and includes lots of changes.
Changelog from NokiaAddict:
- Internet Radio application
- My Nokia application
- 3G power reduction for applications using keep-alive style messaging
- User experience improvements:
- Easy Dialing support for Simplified Chinese language
Click Here To Read The Full Article @ TechTicker
Nokia Updates E71, 5800 Xpressmusic And N96 Firmware
Sapphire HD 4670 Ultimate Radeon Pictured
Sapphire looks to continue bringing out new graphics cards based on the Radeon HD 4670, to cater to the sub-$100 segment, this time with the Ultimate Radeon HD 4670. This one is Sapphire’s silent-cooled card that takes advantage of the RV730 core and its favourable thermal properties. The card uses a blue PCB that draws all its power from the PCI-Express interface.
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YouTube Slowly Rolls Out New Download Feature
Good news to the legions of viewers who spend hours each day glued to a computer display watching videos of cats falling asleep - soon the fun won’t have to stop when connectivity drops. That’s right people, it appears as though the YouTube team is in the process of implementing a video download feature. Sure, there are already about 6,000 different ways to download videos from YouTube but none are as fast and simple as a tiny link beneath the player.
Click Here To Read The Full Article @ BoyGeniusReport
Iphone Dev Team Drops Further Evidence Of Impending Jailbreak For Touch 2g
Are you the proud owner of a second generation iPod Touch that’s been a feeling a bit… left out as of late? Thanks to some recent developments on the part of the industrious iPhone Dev team, you’ll soon be able to jailbreak your device, bringing its hacked-ness up to par with the rest of Apple Touch screen devices. The organization has been alluding to an impending jailbreak for quite some time, but just yesterday released some screen shots giving us a bit more insight into their process.
Click Here To Read The Full Article @ BoyGeniusReport
AMD Adds DDR2 Support For Embedded Geode Platform
Fairly invisible to the retail buyer, the Geode processor platform has been AMD’s embedded computing product for several years in continuity. The Geode chip still finds use in embedded machines. Although the processor isn’t in shortage and is available in both new-old stock or available on order by the chip-maker itself, the dated DDR memory it supports seems to be in short supply. To maintain memory compatibility with current memory standards, AMD added support for DDR2 memory.
Click Here To Read The Full Article @ TechPowerUp
Intel Pushing Mainstream Core I7 To August?
Intel could push back the formal launch of its mainstream, desktop Core i7 processors by at least a month, say claims from mainboard producers. Chips based on the quad-core Lynnfield design, which are expected to bring Core i7 below its current high-end focus, are reportedly now being pushed back from late July to at least late August along with the P55 mainboard chipset meant to run it. Poor economic conditions are said to have created significant overstock problems that will require mainboard firms to continue selling existing hardware for longer.
The delay could get longer if the situation worsens, the supposed insiders add.
Click Here To Read The Full Article @ Electronista
Intel Postpones The Launch Schedule Of Lynnfield Cpus And P55 Chipset
I’m afraid that what’s to be told here, is hard to be categorized as good news. Industry observer DigiTimes reports that Intel is about to postpone the initiation of Lynnfield processors and P55 chipset. Chips based on the quad-core Lynnfield design, are supposed to bring Nehalem to more people, because they’ll represent the budget line of Core i7 processors.
Click Here To Read The Full Article @ TechPowerUp
Gigabyte’s AMD 790X-Based MA790x-UD4 Pictured, Detailed
Gigabyte has a complete range of AM2+/AM2 socket-based motherboard range lined up for launch, based on the company’s Ultra-Durable 3 construction. Among its range, Gigabyte has resurrected the AMD 790X chipset and given it a go with in its upcoming GA-MA790X-UD4 motherboard. The AMD 790X is a scaled-down version of the AMD 790FX, based on the RD780 core. While lacking integrated graphics, it provides ATI CrossFireX support, with a maximum of 16 PCI-Express 2.0 lanes to spare for graphics, which usually split into electrically dual PCI-Express 2.0 x8 when used with CrossFire setups. The 790X chipset was largely unpopular when it launched along with the 790FX and 770. It couldn’t stand firm as the middle-ground between performance and value. This, along with competition from NVIDIA’s nForce 750a SLI forced AMD to work on the 790GX chipset that offers all the features of the 790X, plus the integrated graphics.
Click Here To Read The Full Article @ TechPowerUp
Nvidia Ion Rumored To Be Found In Future Apple Tv Or Mac Mini
Nvidia did exhibit the new Ion platform at the CES 2009, although there are no released netbooks or setop boxes using the Ion yet. The NVIDIA Ion platform holds some serious promise with the Intel Atom CPU bundled with an NVIDIA GPU.
Tom’s Hardware triggered a new round of Apple Mac mini rumors by claiming that they heard that Apple would adopt the Nvidia Ion for the new Mac mini version.
Click Here To Read The Full Article @ I4u
Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1 Review
Judging from many of the emails I receive asking for advice about buying cameras, there are a lot of you out there who would like the controllability and image quality of a digital SLR, but don’t want the bulk and weight of a big camera system. Up until now this has meant choosing either a high-end compact like the Panasonic LX3 or Canon G10, or a super-zoom bridge camera such as the Panasonic FZ28 or Nikon P80. While these are all capable cameras, they don’t really come close to the kind of image quality produced by a digital SLR, mostly because they all have small compact-camera sensors, so buyers have had to compromise image quality for portability. All of that could be about to change though, because Panasonic has launched a camera that fills the gap between high-end compact cameras and full-sized DSLRs. It’s called the Lumix G1, and it’s an entirely new kind of digital camera.
Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1 (1)
Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1 (2)
Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1 (3)
Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1 (4)
Features Table
Test Shots - Detail And Lens Performance
Test Shots - Exposure Evaluation
Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 & 295 Video Cards Tested: Expensive But Awesome
NVIDIA’s recently shrunken 55nm GT200 GPU has found its way into the GeForce GTX 285 and GTX 295 video cards, and those cards have ambled onto The Tech Report’s testing bench. Each card takes advantage of a different aspect of the new GT200 version: the single-chip GTX 285 benefits from the increased speed, while the dual-chip GTX 295 uses the smaller die to fit two GPUs onto one card.
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285, then, gets clock boosts all round, with the main GPU clock up to 648MHz, shaders up to 1476MHz, and memory up to 1242MHz. That’s faster than its GTX 280 predecessor, but with lower power requirements (and therefore a less tricky PSU socket). Meanwhile the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 manages not-quite-as-much power as two 285’s, thanks to the loss of a ROP partition, but still plenty; you can also repurpose one of the chips to handle PhysX calculations.
Click Here To Read The Full Article @ SlashGear
Hands On: Scosche Passport For Iphone 3g
Last year, my girlfriend bought me a nifty cable that enabled me to play music through my car stereo while charging my iPhone. It worked as advertised–music sounded great and I never had to worry about the iPhone’s battery dying while I was in the car. When it came time to upgrade to the iPhone 3G, the cable continued to play music from my phone, but the iPhone 3G did not recognize the cable as a power source, so charging was no longer an option.
Click Here To Read The Full Article @ Gearlog
Opticians Say HDTV Lost On Many Due To Poor Eyesight
When you had family over for Christmas, did you show them your amazing HDTV and Blu-ray player? If they’re like a lot of people, they said, “I don’t think there’s a big difference. They’re just trying to make DVDs more expensive.” We hear that a lot. And maybe you’re not the one showing off the HDTV; maybe you’re saying that, too.
Well, either way, that’s fair, it turns out. According to a group of opticians, even if your eyesight is just barely off from 20 / 20 vision, you can’t fully appreciate the difference between standard and high definition video.
Click Here To Read The Full Article @ ObsessAble
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