Archive for November, 2008
Thursday, November 27th, 2008
Smaller laptops tend not to integrate high-performance graphics cards, thus avoiding reducing the autonomy of the computer and reduce its cost. Some models include, now, a pair of cards, an integrated and other additional among which we can select to adjust the relationship between consumption and performance.
The Fujitsu Siemens Amilo SA 3650 uses a different solution, Amylose GraphicBooster, an external graphics card that connects to the computer via a port PCI Express 2.0 and available on the inside of an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870.
The laptop has an AMD X2 Dual-Core and comes equipped with up to 4 GB of RAM and a hard drive with 250 GB or 320 GB. Its screen is 13.3 inches with WXGA resolution and incorporates, at its top, a webcam Logitech Quickcam of 1.3 megapixels.
The connectivity options of the Fujitsu Siemens Amilo SA 3650 are broad: Wi-Fi compatible with 802.11n, Bluetooth 2.1, eSATA, FireWire and ExpressCard. It also has a memory card reader 15-in-1 and a DVI-I output, which is complemented with additional DVI and HDMI including GraphicBooster.
The weight of the equipment is 2.4 pounds, rising to almost 3 if we include the additional graphics card.
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Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
The brand Medion has become quite well known in our country thanks to its ultraportable, but has other product ranges such as this Medion Gopal P5430, evolution of previous models to which surpasses features.
Highlights at first sight for her 5-inch touch screen, allowing us to display their content and comfortably handle it without problems in size. But other features put it as a GPS navigator very complete, but in return is a bit more expensive than other models.
The GPS receiver is SiRF’s role InstantFix, which reduces significantly the time to acquire satellites and searched through prediction. It includes maps of Europe provided by Navteq, with roles warning and lane speed limit. Allowed to receive traffic information through TMC and recalculate routes to choose the fastest.
Thanks to the integration of the Bluetooth Medion Gopal P5430 will serve as a hands-free phone and the FM transmitter can use with your computer’s sound drive without installation. As security features include a fingerprint reader and password and, as additional features, music player, travel guide and a game of sudoku.
With 3 GB of internal memory, the Medion Gopal P5430 will have a price of just over 200 euros.
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Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Although the Creative Vado was presented as a camera more or less interesting for the price that it now is almost mandatory that a device thus offering HD resolution.
Hence, his successor, the Creative Vado allows HD recording to 720p, which is in addition to a wide-angle lens, which for a camera of this type is quite interesting. We could replace it with a compact camera, of which there are already plenty of models that record in HD, but that part with some advantages.
With 8 GB of internal memory can record up to two hours of video at high resolution, which increases up to four hours if we choose to do VGA resolution. In either case it is used as H.264 compression format. The result so we can see directly into our TV via the HDMI output built.
If you prefer to edit the video, you turn to your computer using the USB cable, and we’ll do Vado Central, which includes editing application. The USB cable, incidentally, has been integrated into the camera and saved in its interior.
The Creative Vado HD is priced at 230 U.S. dollars and a weight of 320 grams.
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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Samsung has chosen its i780 model, which already leads the market in a while, as the first terminal within its range Bizbee, a new division in its range that is intended for those who want a terminal with Windows Mobile for professional applications. It seems that since the Korean company have realized that having a plot in which care for workers in mobility is a success. If you pay attention, is welcoming the new range.
Turning to the model and Samsung i780, as we see incorporates several details that we make clear his aspirations: full QWERTY keyboard, optical mouse (in previous models, such as the Omnia, we have not obtained some extremely encouraging results) and pointer, which personally I like a lot as an element to accompany the phones with touch screen.
As we have said, the Samsung i780 is the first model of this range BizBee. It is a Windows Mobile 6.1, with no layer ahead, with quad HSDPA and WiFi connectivity, in addition to the GPS navigation system that provides Garmin.
It also incorporates camera of 2 megapixels, more to count as a specification rather than otherwise. The screen, which is kind of touch, has a size of 2.5 inches, somewhat sparse, with resolution of 320 x 320.
Commenting that in the absence of test it further, the QWERTY keyboard is similar in layout and size to the past that has included Palm, and our results with them has not been very satisfactory.
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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
We continue with our special consoles as media centers, we started with the Xbox 360, and we continue now with the Nintendo Wii that is, a priori, which comes less prepared for this purpose.
Although the process is not very intuitive, the Wii can work, without anything extra, like a multimedia center, playing videos, music and photos you have stored on an SD card, which incorporates the relevant reader.
However, the limitations of this approach are quite important. The reproduction is made from photos of the canal, which, despite the name, offers more options. However, the videos must be in. MOV and not all of them work.
The first version of the channel supported files in MP3 format, but then Nintendo dropped this support and replaced it with AAC compatibility. The update was not mandatory, so if we will have even earlier this medium.
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