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12th February 2007 Archive

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  • AMD slashes Athlon prices by up to 45%

    Chop, chop

    AMD has followed up last week's Opteron price cuts with a round of reductions applied to its Athlon-brand processors. The latest cuts affect both single- and dual-core versions of the 64-bit CPU family. While Athlon 64 FX and Quad FX processor cost as much to buy now as they did yesterday, the 64 X2 series are now between 8.1 …

    Bits 'n' Chips 12 Feb 2007, 09:53

  • ATI R600 to ship on foot-long board?

    Some snippets have emerged regarding AMD's plan for its upcoming AT Radeon X2000-series graphics cards, better known by the codename R600. Not only that, but a leaked pic of an early version of one of the board shows it's a real biggy - it's over a foot long. The 80nm GPU will apparently ship in three versions: one XT and …

    Bits 'n' Chips 12 Feb 2007, 10:14

  • RIM releases Pearl-esque BlackBerry 8800

    3GSM Hops on GPS bandwagon

    Research in Motion has unveiled the eagerly anticipated BlackBerry 8800 - the first of the company's full QWERTY keyboard devices to sport a trackball-centric design based on its Pearl handset. Among the new features: integrated GPS and MicroSD memory expansion. RIM BlackBerry 8800 Key Features As expected, the 8800 is a …

    Phones 12 Feb 2007, 10:47

  • HP talks up voice-centric iPaq smart phone

    3GSM Long-running PDA line goes candybar

    HP today brought its iPaq brand into phone territory, announcing a candybar-format smart phone pitched primarily at voice usage - including not only GSM but also VoIP. It's also the company's first Windows Mobile 6 device. Dubbed the iPaq 500 Voice Messenger, the device has integrated 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 1.2 and quad …

    Phones 12 Feb 2007, 11:16

  • Canadians lobby for iPod copyright tax - again

    Second attempt

    Canada's Private Copyright Collective (CPCC) is once again trying to find a way to force would-be iPod buyers to pay a copyright tax despite being told in 2004 such a levy is illegal. The CPCC said last week it wants CAD5 levied on players with up to 1GB of memory, CAD25 for up to 10GB of music storage, CAD50 for capacities …

    Media players 12 Feb 2007, 12:05

  • Motorola launches 3G Q smart phone

    3GSM And bringing out a GSM model, after all...

    After apparently canning a GSM version of its Q BlackBerry-like smart phone back in February 2006, Motorola has now said the handset will come to market during the second half of 2007. The 3G Q believed to have played a part in nixing the GSM model - and originally due Q4 2006 - will ship sooner, the company said today. The …

    Phones 12 Feb 2007, 12:38

  • Motorola RIZR slider becomes 'fit-to-face' banana-phone

    3GSM SLVR, KRZR lines updated too

    Motorola today announced a heap of tweaks for its more stylish handsets, SLVR, KRZR and RIZR - the latter, for example, employs a new, curved and spring-loaded slider mechanism that creates what the company called a "fit-to-face profile". The RIZR Z8's other attributes include a sharp 2.2in, 240 x 320, 16m-colour display, …

    Phones 12 Feb 2007, 13:25

  • Samsung shows 'world's slimmest' handset

    Hardware Widow @ 3GSM Ultra Edition Part Deux

    Samsung may have used this week's 3GSM show in Barcelona to re-announce a heap of handsets it launched around the world during the latter half of 2006, but it also showed off its Ultra Edition II line: two skinny sliders, an equally narrow-hipped clamshell and the thinnest phone in the world, Samsung claimed. The sliders are …

    Phones 12 Feb 2007, 14:15

  • 3GSM Nokia raves about new E-series phones

    Nokia today officially announced the E61i, E65 and E90 Communicator handsets, all aimed primarily at the business user but with some consumer-friendly features too. The launch confirmed images and speculation on features which began to appear on the web about a week ago, as we reported. Based on the S60 platform, the E90 is …

    Phones 12 Feb 2007, 15:26

  • Users turn their noses up at mobile TV

    3GSM Turn on, tune in, turn off again

    It's not just the slow uptake of video services that should worry network operators, it seems that more than half of European users who've tried TV on the move decided it wasn't worth the effort. This data comes from a survey of 22,000 European users, commissioned by Tellabs and carried out by M:Metrics. Cost is the biggest …

    Phones 12 Feb 2007, 16:04

  • TV channels demand free-to-air future for HD on Freeview

    Ofcom must act to prevent subs-service domination

    Broadcasters the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Five, along with manufacturers Sony, Samsung, Toshiba and Alba, and Dixons owner DSGI have begun lobbying UK regulator Ofcom to guarantee bandwidth on the Freeview digital TV system for HD broadcasts. And they want consumers to help. Centered on the HDforAll website, the campaign calls …

    HD 12 Feb 2007, 16:07

  • Nvidia rolls out lower-priced GeForce 8800 GTS

    Yes, the 320MB version has arrived

    Nvidia has a launched the anticipated version of its GeForce 8800 GTS graphics chip capable of accessing no more than 320MB of memory. The debut comes just days after the first boards began appearing in retail. The new chip matches the GPU specs of the 640MB 8800 GTS: 500MHz core clock frequency, 96 unified shaders running at …

    Bits 'n' Chips 12 Feb 2007, 16:37

  • Free Nokia route-planning app fails to show

    Got lost somewhere?

    Nokia has clearly been so busy making multiple announcements at 3GSM, it forgot to upload this past weekend the free route-planning software and maps it promised us last week. Then, it said the code would be available to download on "Saturday, February 10th". Alas, it wasn't. Nor was the Smart2Go software - due to be bundled …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 12 Feb 2007, 16:58

  • 3GSM SanDisk readies 4GB MicroSD card

    Here's the world's highest capacity MicroSD card, according to SanDisk that is. The solid-state memory specialist today announced the product, though it would only say the 4GB unit will ship "later in 2007". It hasn't worked out the pricing yet, either. Still, the card meets the key SDHC criteria: a capacity of more than …

    Storage 12 Feb 2007, 18:02

  • 3GSM Motorola 3GSM Gallery

    Motorola announced eight handsets at 3GSM this year. For your viewing pleasure, here they all are... Q q9   Q gsm   W205   SLVR L9   RIZR Z8   W215   KRZR K3   W510   3GSM Galleries Motorola Nokia Samsung

    Phones 12 Feb 2007, 20:13