ALBATRON HAS BEEN offering more specialty products, and the latest was more than enough to make us sit up and notice, 16GB DIMMs. The company has several memory products to back that up as well.
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EARLIER TODAY LG announced its latest mid-range Android 2.2 handset in the shape of the Optimus One P500, well, at least in Taiwan, although the handset is expected to arrive in most markets later this year. This is LG’s first Android handset to be available with a range of accessories, something that’s not too commonplace in the world of Android phones.
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SURPRISE, SURPRISE, CREATIVE has just entered the tablet market with two new models, the ZiiO 7and 10-inch tablets powered by the ZiiLabs ZMS-08 SoC based on ARM’s Cortex-A8. For what it’s worth, Creative has actually come up with a couple of features that makes the ZiiO tablets stand out from the crowd, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what at least one of these features might be considering Creative’s product history.
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ACER HAS ANNOUNCED yet another Android handset and this time it’s a model called Liquid Metal, but sadly it’s got a stainless steel back, rather than one actually made from liquid metal. The overall design is actually quite similar to Acer’s first Android handset, the Liquid 500, although today’s announced is of a much more refined, slimmer and better looking handset.
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WE DID EXPECT to see some third party SSD upgrades for Apple’s new MacBook Air, but we didn’t expect it to come from Taiwanese PhotoFast. In all fairness, the company has shifted some of its focus towards becoming an Apple accessory company, and its GM2 SFV1 Air upgrade kit (for the MacBook Air) falls nicely in-between this and its SSD product line.
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THE LONG RUMORED PlayStation phone appears to finally have become reality. If the pictures of an early prototype are anything to go by, this might be Sony Ericsson’s biggest hit ever. The fact that it’s running Android is quite a surprise, at least if you consider how proprietary Sony is as a company. Since this is a Sony Ericsson handset, it seems like anything is possible.
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WI-FI IS POSSIBLY the most common wireless interface on notebooks, smartphones and a few other gadgets and accessories. It’s set to become a whole lot more useful thanks the announcement of Wi-Fi Direct. The Wi-Fi Alliance said that it has started certifying devices supporting the new Wi-Fi standard today, although the word is mum as to when we’ll see devices with Wi-Fi Direct support.
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DELL HAS ANNOUNCED a return of its XPS series of notebooks, although the brand has been around as a performance moniker on some of its other notebook ranges, it will once again return as Dell’s performance notebook brand. The company has announced three new models with varying specifications; including features such as GeForce 400M series graphics, Skype HD certified webcams standard, and JBL speakers.
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TODAY, AMD IS launching two new cards from it’s Northern Islands family of GPUs, the HD6850 and HD6870. These cards, based on the ‘Barts’ chip are both mid-range players that will redefine mainstream performance and devastate Nvidia’s margins.
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AS EXPECTED, APPLE has launched its new MacBook Air, well, the company actually launched two new models, a 13.3-inch model, as well as an 11.6-inch model. As rumoured, both models comes with an SSD instead of a hard drive, but sadly Apple decided to stick with the Core 2 platform rather than move the MacBook Air to Intel’s Core i processors.
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AMD SHOWED OFF a Llano board last week in Los Angeles, and again today in Taipei. Take a look at it, and notice two things, how small the heat sink is, and how few components are on the board.
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AMD SHOWED OFF a Llano wafer at TFE 2010. Yay fusion. Click below for some pictures, more to come later today.
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THIS WEEKEND A PICTURE of Apple’s purported upcoming MacBook Air turned up online and it looks like Apple has done some serious work on its new wafer thin notebook. Ok, so it’s not actually wafer thin, but the new MacBook Air, which is expected to launch during an Apple event on the 20th, is said to be not much thicker than a USB port, not counting the lid of course.
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BACK IN SEPTEMBER ARM and Global Foundries announced that they had taped out the industry’s first 28nm ARM Cortex A9 SoC using Gate First High-K Metal Gate technology. Although not much more detail was given at the time, Global Foundries did unveil a little more of what to expect from this partnership at GTC Asia.
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WINDOWS PHONE 7 has finally arrived some eight months almost to the day since the new phone OS from Microsoft was first unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona back in February. One thing that’s certain after today’s launch is that Microsoft has the backing of the device makers with Dell, HTC, LG and Samsung all launching handsets.
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