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Toshiba CELL REGZA 55X1 HDTV: 8 simultaneous time-shift channels

By Chris Davies on Monday, Oct 5th 2009 No Comments

Toshiba have announced their latest high-end LCD TV, and it’s the first to include the Cell Broadband Engine for multi-channel display and DVR recording. The Toshiba CELL REGZA 55X1 has a 55-inch, 5,000,000:1 contrast LED-backlit panel, with independent control over each of the 512 LED backlighting zones and 240Hz refresh. It’s accompanied by a processor box, housing the Cell goodies, which can pump out eight channels to be shown on-screen at once, time-shift up to eight channels simultaneously for 26 hours, or boot up a web browser based on Opera.

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Opera Unite browser offers cloud-based file, media sharing

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Jun 16th 2009 No Comments

After Apple made such bold claims about Safari 4 during their WWDC keynote last week, it was only a matter of time until another browser company came along and claimed to “reinvent the web”. Opera have done just that with Opera Unite, a cloud-based system integrated with the company’s browser, that synchronizes user data – including files, music, photos and notes – and makes it available to any internet-connected browser.

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Video demo after the cut

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Samsung Mondi gets ARM11 CPU: doubts over MID performance

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Apr 8th 2009 No Comments

Samsung’s Mondi WiMAX MID had something of a stretched out launch – first being demonstrated at MWC as the SWD-M100, then getting a quiet mention through the company’s own RSS image feed, before Samsung finally came clean early this month. What we haven’t known until now is the processor powering the Mondi, and anybody hoping for something esoteric and interesting will be disappointed: it’s an 800MHz ARM11 chip.

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Samsung Instinct S30 gets official: $130 from April 19th

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Apr 1st 2009 No Comments

After their Korean cousins flaunted it yesterday, Samsung USA and Sprint have officially announced the Instinct S30, follow-up to the best-selling Instinct touchscreen phone. The Samsung Instinct S30 has a 3.2-inch touchscreen, 2-megapixel camera, GPS and Bluetooth 2.0, as well as the Opera Mini 4.2 browser, speech-control (which Sprint are calling Speech to Action) and a new on-screen QWERTY keyboard.

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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.

More Wii internet tomfoolery – Opera 9.0 pre-installed

By Chris Davies on Saturday, Nov 25th 2006 No Comments

Thanks to some lateral thinking on the part of a Wii owner comes the news that much-admired web browser Opera 9.0 is preloaded on Nintendo’s latest console. Apparently the WiiLi.org forum member set up a local DNS server that redirected oss.shop.wii.com to his own webserver, whereupon a simple javascript function displayed the browser’s User Agent string.

Wii Opera 9.0 browser

There’s also a video (after the cut) showing how another creative Wii owner circumnavigated the previous hassle of redirecting the console’s shopping page to google, by instead getting his wireless router to intercept and forward on any request for the shop to the search engine.

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Nintendo DS Opera Browser released in Europe

By Chris Davies on Monday, Oct 9th 2006 4 Comments

In what actually amounts to a short delay compared to many launches, European users of Nintendo’s DS now can get their hands on the Opera web browser that Japanese owners have been surfing with since February this year. £30 (or €40) gets you the much-vaunted browser which can operate in two-modes – either stretching a webpage across both top and bottom displays, or showing the full page on one display and a magnified section on the other.

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