13th February 2007 Archive

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Orange takes the cloak off Super SIM

3GSM Up, up and...

Orange has announced the availability of its much-anticipated Super SIM supplied by Sagem Orga. The Super SIM has 128MB of storage and, when inserted into a Super SIM supporting handset, automatically installs "the Orange Homescreen, Packet Video player, F-Secure anti-virus client, and a whole series of Orange branded wallpapers …

Phones 13 Feb 2007, 10:13
AMD licenses ATI phone GPU tech

Own products to focus on audio, video?

AMD today said it will license its graphics technology for handheld devices, signing up STMicroelectronics as one of its first customers. The move comes a day after it launched new media processors aimed at... er... handhelds. But maybe these apparently contradictory moves with prove complementary. AMD's launch yesterday …

Bits 'n' Chips 13 Feb 2007, 10:38
HDMI pitches for PC vendor mind share

Battle with DisplayPort begins

The battle to determine which PC display interconnect will dominate the market has begun in earnest. Yesterday, the organisation that licenses the HDMI port claimed more than 50 desktops, notebooks, motherboards, graphics cards and monitors are now shipping with its technology on board. HDMI is a logical successor to the …

HD 13 Feb 2007, 10:59
InPhase begins shipping holographic storage

$180 per 300GB disk

InPhase Technologies has begun bulk shipping of its 300GB holographic storage disks and drives, the firm said yesterday. The Tapestry HDS-300R drive costs $18,000, with the 1.5mm-thick platters running to $180 a piece. The firm already claims a series of high profile customers, including Turner Broadcasting, the US Geological …

Storage 13 Feb 2007, 11:12
HTC slides in slide-out-keyboard communicators

3GSM You want form-factors? We got 'em

HTC has unwrapped a trio of smart phones, including the eagerly anticipated Advantage X7500 - the UMPC-like successor to the manufacturer's Universal 3G handset. It also rolled out its first candybar form-factor phone with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. First, the X7500. The spec's now well known: 624MHz XScale processor, 8GB …

Phones 13 Feb 2007, 11:39
3GSM Nokia turns on N series TV phone

Nokia has introduced its latest digital telly friendly mobile phone: N series member the N77. Ready for viewing, it's equipped with a 2.4in, 320 x 240 display capable of rendering 16m colours. There's a pair of stereo speakers too. The N77 uses the DVB-H digital TV standard - a handset-friendly variation of DVB-T technology …

Phones 13 Feb 2007, 12:28
3GSM Nokia 3GSM gallery

Nokia announced six new handsets at 3GSM this year. For your viewing pleasure, here they all are... N77 3110 Classic 6110 Navigator E90 E65 E61i 3GSM Galleries Motorola Nokia Samsung

Phones 13 Feb 2007, 12:40
Free Nokia route-plan app arrives late, in need of shower, cocoa

Call off the search

Call off the search - Nokia's free Smart2Go route-planning software has arrived at last at its intended destination: the company's Smart2Go website, where it's now available to download. Nokia announced last week the software would be available as a free download this past weekend. However, as we reported yesterday, the …

Phones 13 Feb 2007, 13:23
Kingston offers multi-format SD card pack

Kingston Technology has begun bundling its 1GB MicroSD card with a pair of adaptors that allow the card to slide smoothly into MiniSD and SD memory card slots, respectively. Handy that, if your phone uses MicroSD, but your camera and computer will only handle the other formats. That's Kingston's pitch, at any rate, and since …

Storage 13 Feb 2007, 15:26
AMD confirms RS690 will ship as 690G

And as M690G for notebooks

AMD has confirmed its upcoming RS690 chipset will be available in at least two versions - one for desktops, the other for mobiles - both with the model number 690G, documents released to Register Hardware today reveal. The company's tight-lipped about what the RS690 will do, at least until is launch, which we understand is …

Bits 'n' Chips 13 Feb 2007, 16:47
Cameraphones focus on liquid lenses

3GSM All it takes is a drop of water

The quality of autofocus lenses on cameraphones are set to get a boost with technology from Varioptic, a firm that makes its lenses out of oil and water, rather than using traditional mechanical lenses. The firm was this week celebrating at 3GSM in Barcelona the first inclusion of its nifty lens in a camera module, one made …

Phones 13 Feb 2007, 16:57
3GSM Samsung 3GSM gallery

Samsung announced a handful of new handsets at 3GSM this year and showed off a host more. For your viewing pleasure, here they are... SGH-P110 Ultra Edition II 10.9 (U600) Ultra Edition II 12.1 (U700) Ultra Edition II 9.6 (U300) Ultra Edition II 5.9 (U100) Ultra Smart F700 Ultra Smart F520 Ultra …

Phones 13 Feb 2007, 18:03
Moto's banana beats Nokia's brick

First look Gadget porn stand-off

The surprise of the 3GSM show so far has turned up in the Gadget Porn Department. Nokia's new communicator, the E90, was one of the most eagerly anticipated launches in a long time. But rather like Apple's iPhone, it's somewhat less spectacular once the reality sinks in. For your reporter, the E90 was all but eclipsed by a …

Phones 13 Feb 2007, 23:13