29th February 2008 Archive

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LG Glimmer slider spied online

But LG's never heard of it

LG may be unwilling to admit the existence of its latest slider, set to be called Glimmer, but pictures of an advertising flyer photos have already slipped out in the US. LG's Glimmer: only looks set to appear in the US? The handset looks a little like Samsung’s G600 - reviewed here - and has a 2.8in touchscreen housed …

Phones 29 Feb 00:02
Apple unearths Time Capsule

Bested by a basestation, 1TB drive and duct tape

Apple has begun shipping pre-ordered units of its wireless network-attached storage box, Time Capsule, this morning. The device was announced at Macworld last January, and is currently the only really practical way to use Mac OS X Leopard's backup program Time Machine without physically plugging a hard disk into the computer …

Storage 29 Feb 01:31
Metal Gear Solid 4 to launch on 12 June

The game the PS3 was made for, apparently

It's official: Konami has announced that the fourth instalment in its extremely successful Metal Gear Solid series, Guns of the Patriots, will be released across Europe on 12 June. Konami will whet appetites with a public beta version of Metal Gear Online before the release of MGS4, details of which will be released soon. …

Consoles 29 Feb 10:48
Sony preps Blu-ray boosting PS3 bundle

And a separate package for gamers

Now that HD DVD is effectively dead, Sony is going on the Blu-ray offensive and targeting potential customers with a specialist PlayStation 3 starter pack for film fans. According to a number of online reports, the pack consists of a 40GB console and Blu-ray versions of the films Spiderman 3, 300 and Casino Royale. Sadly, Sony …

Consoles 29 Feb 11:20
Paramount, DreamWorks rip up HD DVD release list

Blu-ray discs coming in the summer

Paramount has confirmed its last ever HD DVD releases will go on sale in the States on Tuesday, 4 March. From then on, it's DVD and Blu-ray Disc only. And DreamWorks Animation has clearly had word from Toshiba: it's knocking its HD DVD release schedule on the head too, including the Bee Movie disc, originally due to go on sale …

HD 29 Feb 12:13
Asus to drive in Lamborghini-brand handset

Shift your conversations up a gear

Rumours that Asus is to release a Lamborghini handset are true, it seems, and the phone’s already available for pre-order. Clove's website confirms the ZX1's existance Talk of Asus' expanding Lamborghini phone, an extension of the deal it already has with the sportscar maker to produce branded laptops, has been on insiders …

Phones 29 Feb 12:24
Samsung Armani mobile phone

Review Brand on the run?

Following the fashion set by LG with its Prada Phone, Samsung has become the latest mobile maker to bring together couture culture and touchscreen technology. Running up its own style-savvy Giorgio Armani number, Samsung has embraced the iconic Italian fashion house chic for this premium label handset. Not surprisingly, the …

Phones 29 Feb 13:02
Mobo maker builds 'powerless' processor cooling fan

Stirling Engine put to work

Mobo maker MSI has come up with a novel way of keeping processors cool and conserving energy at the same time: the CPU to drive its own fan. It's actually a new implementation of an old discovery. MSI's Air Power Cooler uses the energy inherent in the expansion of air as it warms up to drive a fan. MSI's Stirling Engine- …

Bits 'n' Chips 29 Feb 14:26
Sony rolls out new digicam, quite literally

No batteries required

Sony usually plugs digicams with titanium shells, exorbitantly high numbers of megapixels and extended battery lives, but that’s not the case with its latest handset. The Japanese electronics giant has designed a prototype camera that doesn’t need batteries and doesn’t even have a display. Sony's Odo: green snapper The …

Cameras 29 Feb 14:36
Intel prices up next-gen desktop chipsets

'Eaglelake' line extended too

Intel has added a low-end discrete chipset to its upcoming 'Eaglelake' product line, it has emerged. The P43 will join the P45, G45, G43, Q45 and Q43 chipsets when they're launched next quarter. An even lesser part, the G41, is scheduled to arrive in Q1 2009, sources claimed. As its name suggests, the P43 is a cut-down P45, …

Bits 'n' Chips 29 Feb 15:22
iPhone jailbreak tools updated to open firmware 1.1.4

ZiPhone, iNdependence tweaked

The latest version of iPhone activation, jailbreaking and unlocking tool, ZiPhone, has been released. The tool promises full access to Apple's handset in under five minutes. The update, which takes ZiPhone to version 2.5 in its command line, Windows and Mac OS X forms, follows Apple's release earlier this week of version 1.1.4 …

Phones 29 Feb 21:15