Apple has something hot ready for this summer, that’s for sure, but will the rumoured netbook manage to impress us and challenge the Eee PCs to a duel? Till the time of its launch, we have a look at the Apple netbook concept below, created by Wendy Lui, from the Retrevo team.
Turns out that this futuristic netbook will feature a gestured-based touchpad, a neat camera, a GPS, an accelerometer, stereo speakers and even a 3.5mm jack. Now, let’s guess the size of the display… Classic 10 inch? Less? Touchscreen, anyone?
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New Apple Netbook Concept Is Promising, 2009ish Enough?
New AT&T Satellite Phone Will Keep You Connected When The Network’s Gone
AT&T will launch a 3G cellphone that also connects to a new satellite phone network by the end of this year. Why this satellite phone will succeed where others have failed remains to be seen.
A company called TerreStar is launching its initial telecom satellite in the next month or so, which will cover the U.S., Canada, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. It’ll be aimed at outdoors types and mariners. Good thing it doesn’t cover Mexico, or the drug cartels would have been their best customers (although who knows how much coverage will extend over the border?). When TerreStar launches a second satellite, TerreStar is hoping to interest the government in its service. There aren’t any plans to provide global coverage, which may limit its appeal.
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Dell XPS 625 Review
Dell’s XPS systems have always been fine physical specimens, so it’s no surprise to find that the XPS 625 is a well-finished alloy-clad beast. But more unexpected is Dell’s use of an AMD CPU.
It wasn’t that long ago that Dell didn’t deign to touch AMD chips, and even recently they were firmly reserved for low-end models. Now they’ve found their way into the XPS performance PC range – and the results are rather mixed.
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AMD Athlon II Quad And Triple Core CPU’s Delayed
AMD originally planned to launch the upcomming Athlon II three-core and four-core CPU’s later this month. Now it appears that AMD is changing plans a bit.
The Propus and Rana 45nm processors are being pushed back to sometime around August or September. This puts the launch right in line with the entry level Pisces chip as well.
However, the dual-core Athlon II Regor CPU still retains the same scheduled launch time of June, right along side the the dual-core Phenom II X2.
AMD Athlon II X4 600-series (Propus) is a quad-core processor with dual-channel DDR2/DDR3 memory controller (depending on platform) and 2MB L2 cache (512KB per core), Athlon II X3 400-series (Rana) is a triple-core central processing unit with DDR2/DDR3 memory controller (depending on platform) and with 1.5MB L2 cache, whereas AMD Athlon II X2 200-series (Regor) is a dual-core processor with 1MB L2 cache per core and DDR2/DDR3 support, depending on the platform.
Source : Tweak Town
Nokia N97 Hits FCC With Glorious Photography
We’re not sure if these are false color images, weird lighting, a Finnish sense of humor, or an actual production color scheme for the N97, but regardless, we like it. Nay, love it. Ship it, Nokia. Anyhow, the FCC has published full submitted details of one of the non-North American varieties of Nokia’s halo device for the year, putting GSM / EDGE 850 / 1900 and WCDMA band II (1900MHz, if you’re curious) through their paces along with the FM transmitter, Bluetooth, and WiFi. We’ve also got a manual to peruse — unfortunately, details on the Ovi Store are missing, but at least we can brush up on our phone basics before we get our hands on a device. Anyone else totally forget that it’s got an internal magnetic compass, or was that just us?
Source : Engadget
Envizions EVO Smart Console
We first told you about Envizions new console back in October. It goes by the name of the EVO Smart Console will be powered by an AMD Athlon 2.4GHz processor, and will be accompanied by a Fedora-based Linux distro. The open-source console will give you game play, Internet access, VoIP communications and HD video playback all in one box.
It should work with Envizions “cloud” computing service, where users can pick up Amiga-based games and a video on demand service where you can choose from over 10,000 titles. The beta shipment for developers will begins next week with a 100 units. More systems will be released later. We have some updated specs below
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HP Compaq Mini 703EA Notebook Review
We thought HP’s original Mini-note 2133 netbook was a great machine, offering one of the best keyboards available on a netbook. The Compaq Mini 703EA looks to continue the trend, also bringing more up-to-date internals and a change of colours.
The 10.2-inch screen features the now-standard 1024 x 600 pixel netbook resolution - a shame considering the higher 1280 x 768 pixel panel found on the Mini-note’s display. We didn’t really miss the extra pixels during daily use - it can be a bit more work when viewing web pages, with the need to scroll more often, but that aside we never found it an issue.
Colour reproduction is excellent, helped by LED backlighting, making it a great choice for watching films or viewing your photographs on. Unfortunately, it’s also one of the most reflective panels we’ve seen on a netbook, limiting use when on the road. It’s more than viewable in bright conditions if you whack up the brightness settings to full, but this obviously impacts on battery life.
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ASUS GTX 275 Features Fuse Protection Technology
Manufacturers that aren’t offering simply a reference design video card seem to be having a great time with all sorts of little tweaks and changes to both the Radeon HD 4890 and GTX 275. ASUS has introduced the ENGTX275 which features Fuse Protection Technology.
The new card comes with 3 sets of Fuse Protection which ASUS claims to double the defense against over-current and offers “Completely Risk-Free Computing”.
The ASUS ENGTX275 Series is just the first of ASUS’ graphics cards to come equipped with a second over-current protection device—Fuse Protection, that eliminates any chance of an excessive or dangerous temperature rise in the conductors on the graphics card. With three sets of input fuses present on the circuit board of the ENGTX275/HTDI/896MD3, at least one of these sets will “break” to interrupt the flow of electrical current if the over-current protection controllers malfunction. With this double protection, users can enjoy risk-free and long-lasting computing—only with ASUS graphics cards.
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Razer Carcharias Gaming Headset Review
There’s a Chinese proverb that says “If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed.” Whoever first said that probably never envisioned it would one day apply to a gaming peripheral company, but in this case, it’s entirely appropriate. Razer’s foray into the gaming audio market marked a logical next step for a company who got off the ground by offering precision mice and later gaming keyboards. Rather than continue down a path focused entirely on input peripherals, Razer’s march into the audio field has been heard by gamers loud and clear, though the sound hasn’t necessarily been all that appealing up to this point.
When we examined Razer’s Barracuda HP-1 5.1 channel headphones, we were stoked with the unit’s ability to offer surround sound, but less enthused with the bass response while in 5.1 mode. Then came the Razer Piranha Gaming Communicator, a lightweight stereo headset that was comfortable to wear for long stretches, but lacked the kind of punch we expect when lobbing a virtual grenade. Now comes the Carcharias, Razer’s newest headset which, like the Piranha, offers a lightweight design but promises lots more bass. Could this third headset to pass through HardwareLogic’s labs be the charm?
Samsung Details 460UT Series
Samsung may have tempered its enthusiasm for OLED but the 460UT series shows that LCD is still getting the attention it deserves. Bezel thickness may not be the main consideration for most when buying a display, but if it is a concern then the 460UT is definitely worth consideration.
All three panels in the range - the 460UT, 460UTn and 460UTn-UD - have the same 4.3mm thick bottom and right and 2.3mm thick top and left bezel (symmetrically apparently an overrated feature). The 460UTn adds network content access over the vanilla 460UT and the 460n-UD ups the ante even further sporting Samsung’s Ultra Definition (UD) software enabling up to 250 displays to be linked together to create a ‘video wall.’
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