Updated SensorLock 0.4.0 Now Available
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Some AT&T stores selling BlackBerry Bold handsets?
The Boy Genius Report is reporting that some AT&T retail stores are already selling the new BlackBerry Bold handset. The phone doesn’t officially go on sale until November 4th but if you’re eager to get that new smartphone, give your local AT&T retail store a call. They just might be willing to sell it to you now.
Written by flung on November 2nd, 2008 with no comments.
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MobileBurn reviews the RIM BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220
MobileBurn has published their review of the Research in Motion BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 handset. This is RIM’s first clamshell and features all the goodness you’ve come to expect in a BlackBerry device. The 8220 is a quad band GSM phone featuring a 2 megapixel camera, built-in music and video player, Bluetooth support, microSD slot, and Wi-Fi connectivity.
Here’s what they thought of the handset:
It’s a decent phone, it just doesn’t seem to be the great messaging phone that the Pearl and Curve models are. With that thought it mind, we give the Pearl Flip 8220 a “Recommended” rating and feel that there will be many people that love the device - just not everybody.
You can read more and see a lot more pictures by going to MobileBurn.com.
Written by flung on November 2nd, 2008 with no comments.
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$1,000 Sudoku watch only has one level
I’ll be honest, I don’t understand the whole Sudoku craze. But this beautiful watch based on the game has a great look. It’s a shame it costs a fortune and only gives you a single level. The outlandishly priced watch commemorates one Leonard Euler, the Swiss mathematician whose Latin Squares inspired the game of Sudoku. It will cost you $995 and comes in a game box.
Written by Conner Flynn on November 2nd, 2008 with no comments.
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Doctor Who Tardis USB micro fridge
Traveling through time and space can make a Timelord mighty thirsty. Hell, a nerd can get pretty thirsty just watching it. Well, now you can add this Doctor Who Tardis USB micro fridge to your ever growing collection of Tardis themed items.
This fridge will hold a 12 ounce can of soda, though you’d think it would hold a six-pack since it’s supposed to be bigger on the inside and all. It feature a flashing Tardis light and 30 seconds of Tardis sound effects. Whether your drink goes back and forth in time when the doors are closed is uncertain. The Tardis USB Micro Fridge will be available soon and will retail for $44.99.
Written by Conner Flynn on November 2nd, 2008 with no comments.
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Gateway FX6800-01e Review - Intel Core i7 (Nehalem) Powered Gaming Rig
Sitting on the SlashGear test bench for the past week or so has been Gateway’s FX6800-01e PC, and boy have we wanted to tell you about it. Outwardly there’s little to suggest - beyond the color scheme, which edges on the vibrant - that the FX6800-01e is anything other than a standard Gateway machine, but the giveaway is the discrete Intel Core i7 badge. This is one of the first systems to use Intel’s next-gen processor, formerly known as Nehalem, marking a significant architecture change from the Core series. The FX6800-01e is based on an Intel Core i7-920 2.66GHz quad-core processor; the biggest question remains, is performance increase as revolutionary as the architecture?
Physically, there’s little to distinguish the new FX6800 from the Gateway FX6710, which launched recently. The case stands around 18-inches high, finished in black with orange metallic accents, and up front there’s a 15-in-1 memory card reader, two USB 2.0 ports and a Firewire socket. The first drive bay slot sports a touch panel navigation system, with volume and media controls. Round the back there are a further six USB ports, another Firewire, two eSATA ports and two PS/2 ports, together with gigabit ethernet, a modem and one COM port.
Aside from the Core i7-920, the FX6800-01e has 3GB of DDR3, triple-channel 1066MHz RAM, a 750GB 7,200rpm SATA-II hard-drive, SuperMulti-format DVD burner with LabelFlash and 7.1-channel high-def audio with Creative’s X-Fi XtremeGamer sound enhancement. Graphics come courtesy of ATI’s Radeon HD 4850, with 512MB of its own GDDR3 graphics memory, two DVI ports (with HDMI and VGA adapters included) and a single S-Video output. Gateway made storage expansion straightforward by providing two SATA drive bays fitted with swap-cages in the front drive slot.
OS is Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit with SP1, and there’s the usual bevy of trialware. In fact, despite the new processor, everything seems pretty much as-normal when you turn the Gateway on; start-up time is roughly the same as you’d experience with a similar speed Core 2 Quad CPU.
Of course, the first thing we wanted to run were the benchmarks. The Core i7-920 is the mainstream Nehalem processor, 45nm with four cores capable of eight threads and with a TDP of 130W. Above it lie the Core i7-940, at 2.93GHz, and the Core-i7-965, at 3.20GHz. Our comparison system was based on an Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 CPU running at 3.0GHz, also with 3GB of RAM. We tested using Geekbench v2.0.19 32-bit, which individually assesses the systems in four different categories: integer, floating point, memory and stream.
Benchmarks only tell part of a story (no matter how much we all enjoy seeing different colored graphs), though, and real-world performance of the Core i7 series will depend on a number of factors. Not least among these is the applications you plan on running: a change in processor architecture means that, for software to take full advantage of the i7’s four cores and eight threads, it has to be coded properly. That means that, out of the box, the FX6800-01e excels at media processing and other data crunching tasks, as well as making a damned fine work machine, but if you’re a gamer you’ll perhaps not notice such a leap in performance with the current crop of titles.
Nonetheless, the absence of a massive leap in gaming performance doesn’t mean the Gateway FX6800-01e is any way lacking on that score. The combination of the Core i7-920 and ATI’s Radeon HD 4850 graphics saw 69fps at 1,680 x 1,050 in Call of Duty 4, which is certainly nothing to be sniffed at. Based on the knowledge that developers will soon be coding to take advantage to the new Intel architecture, the FX6800-01e arguably knocks the socks off of current gaming PCs for longevity.
Of course, all that hinges on price, a factor we’re currently in the dark about. In fact, we don’t know exactly when the Gateway FX6800-01e will launch, except that it will be sometime in November to coordinate with Intel’s own official announcement. The FX6710, with its Core 2 Quad 2.66GHz processor, has an MRSP of $1,200 with - CPU and RAM excepting - similar specs to the FX6800-01e; leaked details regarding the Core i7 suggest the i7-920 alone costs $284 (when bought in thousand-unit quantities), then factor in the higher-spec RAM (albeit half the amount).
The latest hardware is seldom cheap, though, and at least with Core i7 you’re buying into the next-generation (with the promise of even higher performance once developers get the hang of Nehalem-style coding) rather than the peak of the current crop. General users won’t need Core i7 today - just as they probably don’t need a Core 2 Quad either - but those with more specialist needs should give the Gateway FX6800-01e (and, more generally, the Core i7 CPU) a closer look.
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- Intel Nehalem next-gen CPU to be called Core i7?
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- Intel Core i7 name confirmed; aiming for Q4 production
- Gateway unveils holiday PC lineup
- Intel Nehalem processors getting ‘Smackdown’
Written by Ewdison Then on November 2nd, 2008 with no comments.
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Samsung releases new 8MP camera phone, PIXON M8800
Samsung has released a new Samsung PIXON M8800 8MP camera phone, known as the Samsung Bresson. The handset will be available on November 10th, 2008 for about 550 euros. The camera phone features a built-in GPS receiver, built-in accelerometer, DivX playback, and supports quad-band GSM and tri-band HSDPA. Some other features include a 3.2-inch touchscreen display (240 x 400 pixels), 8MP camera with auto focus, face recognition, smile detection and blink detection.
Written by Conner Flynn on November 2nd, 2008 with no comments.
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HTC Touch Pro Available from Sprint
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Written by MobileTopSoft news board on November 2nd, 2008 with no comments.
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