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15th June 2007 Archive

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  • Sony Ericsson intros 5Mp Cyber-shot phone

    HSDPA 3G on board too

    Sony Ericsson is to beef up its line of Cyber-shot camera phones with a new five-megapixel model, but you're going to have to wait until nearly Christmas to get your hands on it. Sony Ericsson's K850: 5Mp snapper The K850 is set to go on sale early in Q4 - October, basically. When it arrives, it will not only sport that …

    Phones 15 Jun 2007, 09:15

  • Sony Ericsson shows shake-to-shuffle Walkman phone

    Symbian smart model too

    Sony Ericsson's been busy, busy, busy this week: in addition to announcing an upgraded Cyber-shot camera phone, it debuted a pair of new Walkman music phones - once controlled simply by shaking, rattling or rolling it. Sony Ericsson's W910: shake it up The W910 has the flick-of-the-wrist control. Select its Shake option, …

    Phones 15 Jun 2007, 10:08

  • Intel price cuts to pave the way for cheaper 'Santa Rosa' laptops

    Faster high-end mobile CPUs too

    Looking for a cheaper 'Santa Rosa' Centrino-branded laptop? Moles in Taiwan reckon you should wait a little while - they claim Intel will be pruning its mobile processor prices sometime during the third quarter. When in Q3 the cuts will come, the sources - cited by local newssite DigiTimes - couldn't say, but the claimed the …

    PCs 15 Jun 2007, 10:25

  • Diamond out to wow with first 1GB Radeon HD X2900 card

    Manufacturer Diamond Multimedia is billing it as "the world's fastest graphics card" and while Nvidia fans may dispute that claim, there's no doubt the Viper HD2900XT is the first board to couple AMD's ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT chip with 1GB of GDDR 4 memory. Diamond Multimedia's Viper HD2900XT: the world's fastest graphics …

    Bits 'n' Chips 15 Jun 2007, 10:52

  • Archos revamps Wi-Fi media players

    Archos has updated its 600-series digital media player line, building on last summer's 604 with a new model that offers a bigger display and more storage. Archos's 605 WiFi: wireless PMP When the Archos 605 WiFi goes on sale this coming August, it'll be offered with a choice of 30, 80 or 160GB of hard drive music and movie …

    Media players 15 Jun 2007, 11:53

  • Canon Ixus 950 IS compact digital camera

    Review If anyone can...

    The new Ixus 950 IS from Canon is an example of a quality, eight-megapixel compact digital camera comfortably sitting at the top end of the mid-range. Known as the SD850 IS across the Pond, it features a 4x zoom lens, with 2.5in LCD display, red-eye correction and a sensitivity of 1600 ISO with auto ISO shift. Despite being …

    Cameras 15 Jun 2007, 12:51

  • Fossil, Sony restyle Bluetooth watch line for the mainstream

    Sony Ericsson's partnership with watch-maker Fossil has again proved fruitful, this time yielding a trio of timepieces in the new MBW-150 series, successors to the MBW-100, which the two companies lift the cuff on in September 2006. Sony Ericsson and Fossil's MBW-150: the 'classic' look The new models have a more …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 15 Jun 2007, 13:35

  • Sony ponders PS3 price cut

    Hurry up, Howard

    The chairman and chief executive of Sony, Sir Howard Stringer, has said the company was attempting to "refine" how much it could afford to reduce the price of the PS3 console by, and has been quoted as saying there was "no question" consumers wanted the price to be lower. Duh. In an interview with the Financial Times, …

    Consoles 15 Jun 2007, 14:20

  • US PS3 sales hold up as Wii, Xbox 360 numbers dip

    PSP demand rises too

    Nintendo's Wii may be outselling Sony's PS3 by an increasing margin in Japan, but the gap's narrowing in the US, the latest North American market figures show. Not that there's much in it, mind... Market watcher NPD this week said some 338,000 Wiis were sold in the US in May. Microsoft sold 155,000 Xbox 360s and Sony sold …

    Consoles 15 Jun 2007, 14:38