Transcend has got a new PMP on their hands and it’s the MP850. It boasts of a 1.8-inch TFT-LCD display, FM tuner, voice recorder, and support MP3, WMA, WAV and WMA-DRM-10 audio formats. It also supports video playback though no specific format was mentioned except that it required re-encoding. Battery life is pegged at 22 hours. The Transcend MP850 is available in 4GB and 8GB variants and is priced at 71 Euros and 85.10 Euros respectively. With its meager specs and relatively high price tag, you might find a better deal with one of those China-made PMP clones out in the market today.
Source : PmpToday
Transcend Unveils MP850 PMP
Samsung - X360 Review
Ultraportable is definitely the current buzzword in the computer notebook market, the lighter and thinner the better. The benchmark was raised with the arrival of Apple’s MacBook Air, and Samsung’s response for Windows users is the X360.
In marked contrast to Apple’s pure white, the X360 makes a bold statement from the off, with a striking brushed metal burgundy and glossy black plastic cover and the same jet black interior. It weighs in at a miniscule 1.29kg and although the basic measurements are 311 x 228 x 16.5mm, the height extends to 30.9mm at the rear because of the size of the battery.
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Olympus Stylus Tough-8000 Review
Given the high ratings of Survivor and extreme sports, it makes all the sense in the world that tough digicams are more popular than ever. You’ve gotta record those exploits to share with the world, right? As we reported from PMA, several companies added their names to the growing list offering cameras that can take a serious beating, such as crashing onto rocks, being stepped on, tossed into overboard or just plain manhandled by a rambunctious three-year-old. Olympus started the trend with its Stylus SW series, and now has introduced two new ones with an official “tough” designation.
The 12-megapixel Tough-8000 is the more rugged of the pair and the one we were most anxious to try out. Should it join you on the slopes or white water rafting? Let’s find out. The Olympus Stylus Tough-8000 looks like a tank – especially with its stainless-steel case (appropriately enough, black and blue bodies are also available). The camera looks strong, with metal edges and screws that look like bolts scattered on the front, and feel just as sturdy thanks to some nice heft. It camera measures 3.7 x 2.4 x .85 (W x H x D, in inches), and weighs 7.4 ounces with battery and card in place.
NMT Players - HDX 1000 Review
When we arranged a review of the HDX 1000 we had mixed feelings of what to expect. On paper this device seems like the media jukebox to end all media jukeboxes, such is the massive array of features on offer and promise of untold media-management glory to those lucky enough to get their hands on one. Too many times we’ve been let down by flamboyant press releases and overblown claims, though, so we approached this particular review with some trepidation.
We’ll attempt to summarise the device by saying that the HDX 1000 is a typical media streamer capable of playing back files stored in your media library on a TV, but with a wide range of additional features and online content available.
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LG Arena Officially Launched In Europe
LG’s latest and greatest KM900 Arena multimedia phone is now officially launched in Europe, although the South Korean company didn’t mention how much the device will cost.
We already know there are more than 1 million Arena phones pre-ordered, thus LG probably hopes the handset will be at least as successful as Viewty (the 5MP full-touch phone sold in more than 5 million units).
The KM900 Arena is not a smartphone, as it runs on LG’s 3D S-Class User Interface. However, it’s loaded with lots of cool features, including: a 480 x 800 pixels touchscreen display, a 5MP autofocus camera, A-GPS, Wi-Fi, Dolby Mobile, a 3.5mm headset jack, DivX and Xvid support, 8GB of internal memory and so on.
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Samsung BD-P4600 Blu-Ray Player
January’s CES demonstrated that 2009 will be the year when Blu-ray finally fulfils its potential thanks to a new wave of players equipped with all sorts of exciting innovations. For starters, most of the players coming out this year are BD Live enabled, leaving behind the annoying Profiles nonsense that has blighted the format’s take-up since day one. Furthermore, companies like LG have taken web connectivity one stage further by incorporating video-on-demand access, as we witnessed recently with the marvellous BD370.
Another company pushing the envelope this year is Samsung, which storms back onto the scene with two new standalone BD Live players, the BD-P3600 and BD-P4600. We’ve got our hands on the latter, which has the distinction of being the world’s first wall-mountable Blu-ray player. But while the ability to wall mount the BD-P4600 is the obvious headline grabber, from a technological perspective it boasts some arguably more significant developments, which we’ll discuss in due course.
Sony VAIO FW Review
Sony’s VAIO FW series are all really nice-looking laptops – they bear more than a little resemblance to the latest aluminum MacBook lineup and use the same Intel Centrino 2 CPUs. That’s where the similarities end though. This laptop has a 16.4? LCD in the 16:10 widescreen format and is clearly built for entertainment, and more specifically watching movies.
Our review sample called FW-270j came with a Blu-Ray player, a reasonably fast 2.26GHz Core 2 Duo (P8400) CPU, integrated Intel graphics, 4GB of DDR2 RAM and lots of ugly stickers. Sure, stickers can be removed, but the fact that Sony decided to paste a “Full HD 1080p” on it is more than a little misleading, as the screen resolution is 1600×900.
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G.Skill Titan 128GB SATA SSD FM-25S2S-128GBT1 Review
For the past several years, G.Skill has built a reputation for offering premium-grade products at economy-level pricing. Similar to their competition, G.Skill offers enthusiast products in several different markets. The brand name has been built on a solid history of quality system memory product lines, and not long ago they introduced the very impressive G.Skill FM-25S2S-64GB SATA-II MLC SSD.
Using a pair of JMicron JMF602B SSD controllers to organize two banks of Samsung K9HCG08U1M DRAM modules into a JMB390 controller, the new G.Skill Titan SSD offers an impressive capacity with internal RAID-0 performance to subdue stuttering. Benchmark Reviews tests the performance of the G.Skill Titan 128GB SATA SSD FM-25S2S-128GBT1 against over two dozen other products in this article, including its twin brother, the OCZ Apex.
- G.Skill Titan 128GB SATA SSD FM-25S2S-128GBT1
- Features and Specifications
- First Look: G.Skill Titan SSD
- Titan SSD Internal Components
- SSD Testing Methodology
- Random Access Time Benchmark
- Basic IOPS Performance
- Linear Bandwidth Speed
- Buffered Transaction Speed
- Windows XP Startup Times
- The Truth Behind Heat Output
- Solid State Drive Final Thoughts
- FM-25S2S-128GBT1 Conclusion
G.Skill DDR3 PC3-16000 Triple Channel Memory Review
It’s time to say “Gee” and show you some “Skills” today. Hey everybody and welcome to a new memory review here on Guru3D.com
When Intel released core i7, they introduced along with it an exquisite memory controller. It’s really hard for anyone to ignore the tremendous amount of memory bandwidth we have available, thanks to the point to point technology embedded in that processor, in turn letting go of that bottleneck of a FSB. It’s really exciting stuff, and also why you have seen several DDR3 memory reviews here on Guru3D.com
See, with Core i7 things changed so much. There’s much less overhead to deal with, there’s plenty of bandwidth for the memory controllers and DDR3 memory finally can be utilized to it’s full potential. Ever since our first Core i7 review we where flabbergasted by the memory bandwidth thrown at us. Whether you run that memory at 1066, 1333, 1600 or even 1800 MHz and higher you will be impressed. There however is a a big gray area and to seek the true benefit of high frequency low voltage memory which is more expensive opposed to say more regular DDR3 memory at 1333 MHz. Todat we’ll do exactly that. We see the difference between DDR3 memory at 1333 MHz and 2000+ MHz frequencies.
AMD FirePro V8700 1GB Review
The ATI FireGL graphics cards have been a staple of the workstation graphics scene for about a decade, but last year AMD made the decision to end the FireGL series and create the FirePro 3D series in its place. The FirePro 3D series is now made up of graphics cards ranging in price from under $100 USD and built using their RV730 GPU to their highest-end models costing well over $1,000 and using the RV770XT graphics processor. The ATI RV770XT is what is used by the consumer-grade Radeon HD 4870, which was greeted by same-day Linux support and other firsts for their Linux Catalyst driver like OverDrive, RandR 1.2 support, and CrossFire. The support for the new FirePro graphics cards is also first-rate under Linux with their Catalyst driver, but how is their performance? In this article we are examining the ATI FirePro V8700 1GB workstation graphics card under Linux.
Beyond just dropping in an RV770XT and making a few optimizations for workstation tasks, the FirePro series has a few other new additions. Compared to the previously reviewed ATI FireGL V8600, which was an ultra high-end model, the FirePro V8700 brings DisplayPort to workstation computing and more than double the number of Stream processors. The ATI FireGL V8600 series had 320 Stream processors, which was good for the time, but now the FirePro V8700 boasts 800 Stream processors! The RV770XT core also operates at a higher 750MHz clock speed compared to 688MHz with the FireGL V8600/V8650. When it comes to the video memory, AMD is using GDDR5 with this PCI Express 2.0 graphics card, but on a 256-bit memory interface.
Asus Eee 1002HA Review
If there’s one problem plaguing just about every netbook out on the market right now, it’s that cheap, toy-like feel. Manufacturers just can’t seem to escape it when they’re having their devices manufactured thousands of miles away in factories that seemingly just switched over just last month from building olive-green plastic army men. Asus attempted to remedy the netbook’s image problem with the high-end S101, but price followed suit, and the $800 price tag made us question whether you call it a netbook at all. The Eee 1002HA stands as a compromise between the two, adopting the luxurious look of the latter within the price range ($429 MSRP) of a true netbook.
How do you make a $429 laptop feel like one that costs about double? Asus turned to metal cladding. Both the back of the lid and the wrist rest below the keyboard have been veneered in brushed aluminum, which is tinted in a gunmetal shade Asus calls “argent gray.” Though a few strips of cold metal can’t mimic the rock-solid feel of say, Apple’s latest MacBooks, they do a respectable job toughening up the portions of the laptop likely to see some of the most wear and tear.
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