Sunday, August 17, 2008

Intel I7-The Gamers' Heaven

Intel’s next generation of desktop and mobile processors will retain the chip giant’s Core brand, the company said this morning. No great surprise there, but they won’t be ‘Core 3′ parts.



Nehalem architecture chips will be marked ‘i7′, instead, though Intel further messed it up by telling us to expect other such codes for different next-gen CPUs as the roll-out continues through 2009.

The logos Intel published today suggest that while it will continue to offer Extreme-class CPUs, aimed at gamers, they’ll be distinguished visually simply by a black version of the blue logo to be attached to boxes and machines containing regular desktop Core i7s.



There’s logic to the use of ‘i7′: just as Pentium was Intel’s fifth-generation processor architecture, so the new Cores will be its seventh major x86 CPU design.

The fourth quarter will see the introduction of a pair of mainstream desktop quad-core parts and a single Extreme chip. All three processors are codenamed ‘Bloomfield’. The Extreme part is set to clock at 3.2GHz and connects directly to 1333MHz DDR 3 memory. The other two Bloomfields will run at 2.93MHz and 2.66GHz, respectively, and connect to 1066MHz DDR 3.All three chips can link to three channels of memory.

Nehalem chips will use Intel's new QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) bus. In the case of the Extreme CPU, the bus is tuned to deliver 6.4bn transfers per second (GT/s), while the mainstream desktop chips' QPI bus runs to 4.8GT/s, it's claimed.

All three CPUs clip into LGA1366 sockets. They contain 8MB of L3 cache shared across all four cores - each core has its own complement of L1 and L2 cache; 256KB of the latter - and support all the usual Intel extension technologies except TXT (Trusted eXecution Technology). They're all said to have a power and thermal envelope of 130W.

Monday, August 11, 2008

The Cool Nokia 6500 Slide

"When you have the world at your feet,
here's what you must have in your hands."






Here's the new Nokia 6500 metallic high end mobile phone out in the markets now.It has a cool 16 million colors QVGA 240 x 320 pixels 2.2" LCD display with an ambient light sensor,20 MB user free internal memory with a MiniSD/MicroSD expandable card slot of up to 4GB.It has got a sexy 3.2 Mega Pixel Carl-Zeiss optical lens with auto focus and 8X digital zoom.Still special-"With all these features it has hit the markets with a price tag of just Rs.13,175.





The key feature of this phone is its 3.2MP camera with a powerful double LED flash that makes indoor pictures perfect.you can also share pictures or videos with friends and family via TV-Out.Its 3G video calling helps you feel even closer to the people you care about.You can connect directly to the Flickr™ official website to share your photos with all your friends.





Speaking of the connectivity,it houses a Bluetooth 2.0,a micro USB connector with USB 2.0 and a 2.5mm AV connector for headset and TV-Out.
As far as the web browsing feature is concerned,it stores a WAP 2.0 browser with XHTML support over HTTP/TCP/IP stack,an Opera Mini browser and an OMA Digital DRM 2.0 - including forward lock for content protection, combined delivery, separate delivery and superdistribution.





Now coming to the main feature of this big gun.it has got an Integrated 3.2 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics as stated earlier with auto focus and up to 8x digital zoom,an integrated double LED flash.It is capable of picking Macroshots, landscape mode,sequential shots and dedicated 2-step capture key.Horizontal mode with capture and zoom keys allows you to use the phone like a digital camera as well.


You can use PictBridge™ to print copies of your favorite images.Also add finishing touches to your pictures with Adobe PhotoShop.It supports video recording in VGA (15fps) and QCIF (30fps) resolutions with 4x smooth zoom.Supports H.263 MPEG-4 in .3gp format.It also houses a secondary camera for video calling (QCIF resolution,15 fps).Add a new dimension to your conversations with its 3G TV video calling and TV conference via TV-Out.It can record stream and playback videos in MPEG4 format and 3GPP H.263 format.





Speaking of its battery,it houses a BP-5M battery with up to 6 hrs of talktime,up to 13.25 days of standby time and a capacity of 900 mAh.
All these features are stuffed into a 73 cc packaging (panel),the whole assembly weighing 125 g and measuring 96.5 x 46.5 x 16.4 mm (length x width x thickness).

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

The New Nokia N810 PDA Phone

Here’s the Nokia new internet phone N810 successor to N800. It has a 4.3-inch widescreen display, 2GB of internal memory, TI OMAP 2420 processor, 128MB RAM, 256MB Flash, miniSD/microSD card slot with upto 8GB extendable memory, and a QWERTY keypad. The Nokia N810 will hit stores on the November with a price tag of $479.

Texas Instruments Open Multimedia Application Platform(TI OMAP) is a Texas Instruments proprietary microprocessor for multimedia applications.Some of the processors in the OMAP family contain a dual-core architecture consisting of both a general-purpose host ARM processor and one or more DSP. The Digital Signal Processor featured is commonly one or another variant of the Texas Instruments TMS320 series DSPs.

The ARM architecture (previously, the Advanced RISC Machine, and prior to that Acorn RISC Machine) is a 32-bit RISC processor architecture developed by ARM Limited that is widely used in embedded designs. Because of their power saving features, ARM CPUs are dominant in the mobile electronics market, where low power consumption is a critical design goal.

Today, the ARM family accounts for approximately 75% of all embedded 32-bit RISC CPUs,making it one of the most widely used 32-bit architectures. ARM CPUs are found in most corners of consumer electronics, from portable devices (PDAs, mobile phones, media players, hand-held gaming units, and calculators) to computer peripherals (hard drives, desktop routers); however it no longer has significant penetration as the main processor in the desktop computer market and has never been used in a supercomputer or cluster.

This Internet Phone has a BP-4L battery with an amazing battery life.It can work continuously for 4 Hours with its display and wireless LAN switched on.It is capable of giving a continuous music playback for 10 Hours and can be continuously online upto 5 days.Even though none of us ever goes for standing by the phone for a long period of time,still its battery sustains power for approximately 15 days on standby.

I tell you this phone is simply awesome.It has got nearly everything one would like to have on an internet phone."Some" of the features that I found in this phone

* Smooth slide with integrated QWERTY keyboard
* Built-in GPS receiver
* High quality stereo speakers and sensitive microphone
* High-resolution 4.13" WVGA(800 x 480 pixels) with 65K colors widescreen display
* Integrated desk stand
* Integrated VGA web camera
* HW key to lock touch screen and keys
* Ambient light sensor
* WLAN standard:IEEE 802.11b/g
* Bluetooth V 2.0 +EDR
* USB 2.0 high speed
* 3.5 mm stereo headphone plug (Nokia AV Connector)


All these features are locked under a 72mm long,128mm wide and 14mm thick assembly accounting for a total weight of 226g and a net volume of 128cc.

Its coming all through your way this November!So start saving your piggy bank account pennies now!Good Luck!