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26th January 2007 Archive

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  • 3 X-Series not unlimited for some

    Customers complain of unexpected bills

    Customers expecting to be charged a fiver a month for unlimited data, under 3's X-Series Silver plan, have found themselves in receipt of bills topping a hundred quid for exceeding their quota - due to a billing error at 3. Several readers contacted us to report problems customers were having with unexpected bills, and the …

    Phones 26 Jan 2007, 07:02

  • AMD: quad-core Opterons 40% faster than four-core Xeons

    Jam tomorrow

    AMD's 'Barcelona' 65nm quad-core server processors will lick Intel's four-core Xeon 5300 series, out-performing its rival by up to 40 per cent, the chip maker claimed this week, according to a variety of websites briefed by the company. Maybe, but since no one can actually buy a Barcelona-based machine, the point's moot. By …

    Bits 'n' Chips 26 Jan 2007, 10:44

  • T-Mobile announces Ameo UMPC-like PDA

    HTC developing 7in-display version too?

    T-Mobile has confirmed it will ship HTC's Athena UMPC-like PDA phone in the UK and Germany as the Ameo. Meanwhile, HTC is working on a version with a 7in display, it has been claimed. Ameo/Athena has a 5in touch-sensitive display, T-Mobile said. The device also has an 8GB hard drive, HSDPA 3G connectivity, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth …

    Phones 26 Jan 2007, 11:10

  • Nokia N800 internet tablet

    Review It's a phone... but not as we know it...

    The original Nokia tablet, the N770, was something of a departure for the Finnish phone maker: here was a device without cellular connectivity, running a Linux-based OS, and generally unlike anything Nokia had produced before. So here we have an updated version, the N800. But is it a phone or not, that is the question? The …

    Phones 26 Jan 2007, 11:16

  • Moto sees red with Ferrari phone

    Ferrari fans will next week be able to get their merchandise-mad mitts on Motorola's latest limited edition handset: a RAZRmaxx V6 dedicated to the sign of the prancing pony. The RAZRmaxx V6 Ferrari Challenge handset is a 3G phone with HSDPA high-speed data download technology. Beyond the famous Ferrari logo on the outside …

    Phones 26 Jan 2007, 12:00

  • Brando comes clean with Soap media player details

    It's called Soap. It looks like a bar of soap. Sort of. It's an iPod Nano wannabe. It's Hong Kong gadget maker Brando's latest media player. There's 2GB of song and video storage on board, an FM tuner, a bright 1.8in, 65,535-colour OLED screen and a clickwheel-like controller. Brando offers the 45g, 7.5 x 3.9 x 0.8cm device …

    Media players 26 Jan 2007, 12:28

  • WTF has my Wi-Fi network gone?

    Hardware Headaches WLAN standard reaching its limits?

    I own a Linksys WRT54G wireless router, and in the four years I've had it, I've connected it to two Macs, two PCs, a Nintendo Wii and a host of handhelds. It's been a joy to use, more so than the Proxim box I used to own. Until now. Over the last month or so, it's begun to drop connections randomly and without warning. Parts of …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 26 Jan 2007, 14:13

  • Samsung skinny smart phone to ship February

    Samsung's BlackBerry-like SGH-i600 Ultra Edition 'super 3G' slimline smart phone is coming to the UK at the end of February, handset retailers suggest. The i600 was unveiled at the Berlin-hosted IFA consumer electronics show in September 2006, though at the time Samsung was unable or unwilling to say when the Windows Mobile 5 …

    Phones 26 Jan 2007, 16:08