16th June 2006 Archive

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Mio launches C210 Sat Nav in Brussels

And it's cheap, very cheap

Belgian company Mio Technology has launched the C210 Sat Nav package, with a very reasonable retail price of £199. This SiRFstarIII GPS receiver combines a 400 MHz processor, a 2.7 inch screen and an SD slot for the map. It weighs 110g and runs on four AA batteries to provide over 4.5 hours of navigation on foot with the …

Gadgets and Gizmos 16 Jun 2006, 08:32
JVC Alneo XA-F57 'basic' MP3 player

Review Low in features, but not in price

JVC isn't the first company that springs to mind when shopping for an MP3 player, although I'd happily consider many of its other products. The Alneo range of players consists of two models, the XA-F57 at 512Mb and the XA-F107 at 1GB. It's seems strange to launch such low capacity players when the company's competitors are …

Media players 16 Jun 2006, 11:44
Acer MP-500 breaks cover in Germany

Waiting game may be over, but was it worth it?

We've been waiting for Acer's MP-500 PMP for some time now and, if a product page on Acer's German website is anything to go by, it seems that the launch day may be very close. The MP-500's key features are a 3.5 inch QVGA screen with 320 x 240 resolution, a 20GB 1.8 inch hard drive for storage along with an SD slot, …

Gadgets and Gizmos 16 Jun 2006, 13:28
VIA socket-479 CPU appears in Japan

Works with Intel chipsets

VIA has been very quiet recently, especially in the UK. Although it had a stand at Computex this year, there was really very little in terms of new products on display. Then, out of nowhere, this socket-479 processor appears on a Japanese website, without any mention of it from VIA. Admittedly, VIA seems to have been …

Bits 'n' Chips 16 Jun 2006, 14:19
What's Boomtube? Yup, speakers in a tube

Go on, annoy people who are lazing in the park

Think Outside's Boomtube portable speakers are housed in an aluminium tube with ends that twist off that reveal stereo satellite speakers. The central section accommodates a pair of 56mm/2 inch drivers, so that's four drivers, with a total rating of 40Watts RMS. It also accommodates a rechargeable Li-Ion battery that is claimed …

Gadgets and Gizmos 16 Jun 2006, 14:57
ATI denies 80nm problems

No news is good news

When Windows Vista hits the shops at the turn of the New Year it will include DirectX 10 which supports Shader Model with unified Shaders, as opposed to dedicated Pixel, Vertex and Geometry Shaders. This is a significant change for ATI and Nvidia and it means that the next chips will be taking a much greater step than a …

Bits 'n' Chips 16 Jun 2006, 15:24