Tuesday, June 23, 2009

A mini-sub Gateway laptop AMD platform

Returning recently to the European market, the manufacturer Gateway announced today, across the Atlantic, a mini-notebook that has the particularity to be based on an AMD platform. The Gateway actually LT3100 has a processor low L110 AMD Athlon 64 clocked at 1.2 GHz and equipped with 512 KB of cache, AMD chipset RS690E and a graphics chip ATI Radeon X1270.

These components are supported by 2 GB of DDR2 RAM and a comfortable drive of 250 GB can be found in addition to the usual connectors, including 3 USB ports, VGA output, a memory card reader and WiFi G. 3G modem and digital video output, though increasingly common on this type of machine, by their absence.

The machine is built around a WXGA screen (1366 × 768 pixels) 11.6-inch backlit LED, topped with a webcam VGA (300 000 points), and measuring 286 × 203 × 26.4 mm to 1.78 kg with 6 cell battery.

The LT3100 Gateway will soon be available in the United States for about $ 400. It is not yet due on the old continent, but could land under the brand Packard Bell, another subsidiary of Acer.

Sprint announced the LG LX370

It is possible to easy access to e-mail to AOL / AIM, Yahoo!, Windows Live (Hotmail and MSN). Ability to configure the desktop for quick access to text messages, social network MySpace, e-mail.


Technical characteristics of mobile phone LG LX370:

  • Network: CDMA 900/1800 MHz
  • Display: TFT, permission 240h320 pixels, 262 thousand colors
  • Camera: 2 MP
  • Communications: Bluetooth
  • Navigation: GPS
  • Memory: Slot for memory cards microSD
  • Other: 2.5-mm audio jack
  • Opening hours: during a call up to 6 hours
  • Battery: Li-Ion 900 mAh
  • Dimensions: 103 x 48 x 16 mm
  • Weight: 105 g

The cost of vehicle $ 299.99 or $ 99.99 with a contract with an operator for 2 years.

Intel, Nokia to develop mobile Linux devices

The giant semiconductor Intel, and giant mobile phones, Nokia today announced they have formed a strategic alliance. This is for both firms to join forces to develop a new generation of Intel x86 architecture, but also chipset, designed for mobile devices. The idea is to combine the performance of the PC to the speed of wireless broadband today.

By coming together to define a new mobile platform, the two companies hope to go beyond the success of smartphones, laptops and other netBook by creating new devices and new mobile services. But Intel and Nokia are unfortunately not yet able to speak of concrete products since the announcement should not give their first fruits for a few months.

Meanwhile, Intel announced it has licensed technology HSPA/3G Nokia to include in future mobile products. We can thus think that Intel will offer future solutions Centrino native with 3G connectivity. The rest shows the depth that this new license, does not affect its strategy towards technology WiMax, a technology in which Intel still believes.




In September last year, Nokia said the next version of Maemo would incorporate 3G technology for the first time — until now, devices such as the N810 have relied on Wi-Fi for their data connectivity.

"Enabling common technologies across the Moblin and Maemo software environments will help foster the development of compatible applications for these devices – building on the huge number of off-the-shelf PC compatible applications," the companies said in the statement. "The open source projects will be governed using the best practices of the open source development model."

The companies also said they will use open source technologies from Mozilla, oFono, ConnMan, X.Org, BlueZ, D-Bus, Tracker, GStreamer and PulseAudio.