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AT&T Gives Qualcomm’s Gobi the green light

By Satsuki Then on Thursday, Sep 11th 2008 1 Comment

AT&T has certified Qualcomm’s Gobi chip to be used on AT&T’s 3G network. The chip gives consumer peace in mind when it comes to wireless network selection – it allows connectivity to be made to both EV-DO and HSPA networks.

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iTunes 8 disabled pwning – iPhone Dev team provide patches

By Satsuki Then on Thursday, Sep 11th 2008 No Comments

And here we go again, the cat and mouse game continues. Apple’s newest iTunes (8.0) seems to have a new protection layer against pwning and making the iPhone/iPod Touch unidentifiable on iTunes. But the iPhone Dev Team is not sitting still, they have provided patches to overcome this “new” protection.

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AMD is gearing up for a new chip to rival Intel’s Atom

By Satsuki Then on Thursday, Sep 11th 2008 No Comments

amd1 Atom has been making its way into the majority of netbook systems and Intel’s success with Atom has triggered AMD to work on its own chip to compete with Atom. AMD has not publicly discussed the upcoming chip much but has shown some indication that the CPU is in the works for quite sometime now.

Leaked information shows that AMD’s UVC (Ultra Value Client) chip will be announced as early as November and will be sold directly to OEM.

The new chips will be paired with 740G platform that AMD recently announced. The 740G features Radeon 2100 GPU with full support for HD decoding and uses SB700 southbridge. The report did not reveal power consumption of the chip and platform.

T-Mobile Sidekick 2008 Review

By Satsuki Then and Mary Wigton on Tuesday, Jul 29th 2008 155 Comments

T-Mobile’s Sidekick is one of the heavyweights in the text-messaging realm for young and socially connected consumers. Today T-Mobile introduces its latest Sidekick, the Sidekick 2008. Previously dubbed the Sidekick Gekko, the new messaging-focused handset kicks off a new naming convention. But how does the new Sidekick fare compared to its predecessors and rivals?

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Fujitsu HandyDrive sports 500GB of storage

By Satsuki Then on Friday, Jul 18th 2008 No Comments

Fujitsu unveiled its latest 2.5-inch external drive that packs half terabyte storage capacity. The HandyDrive itself uses a single drive configuration and measures 141 x 82 x 22mm. Like many other 2.5-inch external drive, it is powered using USB only.

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AT&T WiFi is now available for iPhone users [update: No, it's not]

By Satsuki Then on Friday, Jul 18th 2008 No Comments

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AT&T has started offering free WiFi to its iPhone customers, again! The WiFi service was previously available for iPhone users in on and off fashion. AT&T provides more than 17,000 WiFi hotspots in the country and many of them are in StarBucks locations. While it’s great news, it might not be all that to iPhone 3G users that have fast wireless data connectivity already.

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Intel Classmate PC launched in UK – priced at £239

By Satsuki Then on Thursday, Jul 17th 2008 No Comments

With flock of tiny netbook in the market, it’s about time for us to see one that is targeted towards education market, especially for the younger age tech consumer. Intel Classmate PC aka JumPC aka The Small has arrived in UK.

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Opera Mobile 9.5 Beta is now available for download

By Satsuki Then on Thursday, Jul 17th 2008 1 Comment

Opera kept its promise of making the first beta of Opera Mobile 9.5 available today. The mobile browser displays full web pages rather than strip down mobile version and seems to be quite responsive and polished web browser, even for a beta version.

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Opera claimed the browser is twice faster than Internet Explorer mobile. It features Pan and zoom, better web standards support, AJAX support, and tab browsing. You can download the first beta version here.

iPhone 3G Pwned only four days after launch

By Satsuki Then on Wednesday, Jul 16th 2008 No Comments

It doesn’t take long for iPhone Dev team to jailbreak the iPhone 3G. It has been a mouse and cat games between Apple and the group of iPhone hackers. The iPhone Dev team has managed to jailbreak into firmware 2.0 a day before its official release and now they are showing video of jailbreaking iPhone 3G.

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iRiver Lplayer Multifunctional MP4 Player

By Satsuki Then on Wednesday, Jul 16th 2008 2 Comments

iRiver is no stranger to sleek designed portable media player, and today iRiver unveiled yet another small and sleek player, the Lplayer Multifunctional MP4 Player. The player features iRiver’s unique D-Click control, 2.0-inch TFT Wide LCD screen, and FM tuner.

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