17th April 2006 Archive

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• Nokia 6103 low-end mobile phone

  Review Back to basics

  The Nokia 6103 is that rarest of beasts, a drop-dead simple mobile phone. In this fast-moving world of smart phones, music phones, GPS phones, camera phones and gpsmusiccamerasmartphones it's unusual to find a plain old-fashioned phone phone. The Nokia 6103 is just that though, and it's none the worse for its simplicity... …

  Phones 17 Apr 2006, 08:02

• iRiver preps WiMAX UMPC

  W10 to feature WiBro, Wi-Fi too

  South Korea's iRiver is preparing to enter the ultra-mobile PC arena, the company has revealed. This week it demo'd its first UMPC, the W10, at the Hong Kong Electronics Fair. The prototype device shown at the event sports Wi-Fi, WiMax and WiBro connectivity. Despite the UMPC tag, the W10 appears more a compact notebook than …

  PCs 17 Apr 2006, 14:52

• DVD+RW bosses OK double-layer rewriteable format

  DVD+RW DL to offer 8.5GB capacity, 2.4x speed

  The DVD+RW Alliance, the organisation behind the unofficial rewriteable DVD standard, has approved a dual-layer version of the DVD+RW disc specification. Like existing DVD+R two-layer media, the rewriteable form sports a capacity of 8.5GB. According to Japanese-language site PCWatch, the Alliance approved version 1.0 of the …

  Storage 17 Apr 2006, 15:10

• Nvidia preps single-chip integrated chipsets

  MCP61 series due August?

  Nvidia's next-generation single-chip integrated chipsets have begun to appear on the company's roadmap, with three SKUs pitched at the upper and lower reaches of the mainstream-system, and the value-system market segments. So claims a report at DailyTech. The core's codenamed the MCP61 and will appear as the P, S and V …

  Bits 'n' Chips 17 Apr 2006, 15:30