Nokia N900 now in US

Nokia announced that the Nokia N900 is now on sale in the United States and shipping to consumers who jumped on the opportunity to be among the first to pre-order the Maemo-powered mobile computer.

With the Linux-based Maemo platform and with multiple ways to connect to the Internet, the Nokia N900 enables users to be online as it happens with a computer in the palm of their hands.

With the Linux-based Maemo operating platform, 32GB of storage and multiple options of connectivity including access for 3G data networks, consumers no longer need to leave everything that makes them them - their email, favorite websites, social communities, images, music - anywhere but on their Nokia N900. With the Nokia N900, you don't have to worry about missing that next great moment.

Additionally, with the ability to multitask several applications or web browsers at once, the Nokia N900 allows for users to eliminate boredom wherever they go.

Maemo software is based on an open source platform and allows for a variety of different applications to be developed - from home brew to commercial and everything in between; such as podcasting, Twitter and instant messaging applications.

With a web browser based on Mozilla technology, the Nokia N900 allows consumers to access a world wide web that is more computer-like than before. Consumers can view their favorite websites, use drop down menus, watch Flash videos and access the web on a mobile device screen thanks to support for Adobe Flash 9.4 and gesture support within the Nokia N900 web browser.

The Nokia N900 comes with a 3.5-inch touchscreen, full QWERTY keyboard and enables consumers the ability to personalize up to four different home screens as they wish. One can be work related with a calendar widget and contacts application while another can be favorite bookmarked web pages while yet another can be set to show popularsocial networks.

The Nokia N900 comes equipped with a five megapixel camera, Carl Zeiss optics and a dual LED flash along the ability to share those images and videos straight from your device to services such as Ovi Share.

The Nokia N900 is available in a black finish and will retail for USD 649 through Nokia Flagship stores in New York and Chicago, nokiausa.com and various independent retailers and e-tailers including Amazon.com.

Nokia N97 Mini Arrives in India

Nokia launched N97 Mini in India just a few months after the bigger, better endowed Nokia N97 was announced. Positioned as the cheaper alternative to the N97, the phone comes with a slightly smaller screen and unlike the N97, this device does not have the navi-pad on the keyboard.

The Nokia N97 mini is designed for this new social internet and to help navigate people and places. Moreover, it comes in a pocket-friendly size for those out and about. With live feeds, personalized content, Lifecasting with Ovi, Ovi Mail and Ovi Store, the N97 mini provides web centricity to user in a compact case.”

The N97 Mini is powered by a single 434 MHz ARM11 CPU and features 128MB of SDRAM. The camera supports video recording at 640x480 resoultion at 30 frames per second. The phone boasts up to 9.5 hours of talk time and upto 18 days of standby time.

Nokia has also launched a new contest coinciding with the launch wherein 4 winners will be shortlisted by a panel of judges and 2 stand to win Nokia N97 mini for free every week. To enter the contest one needs to visit www.ndtvgadgets.com and the contest will open on November 24, 2009.

AMD ATI Radeon HD 5970 Fastest Graphics Card in the World

AMD announced the flagship installment in the award-winning line of graphics cards, the ATI Radeon HD 5970, the fastest card ever created.1 The new ultra high-end model joins a growing list of the world’s first and only graphics cards to fully support Microsoft DirectX 11 technology and ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology.

Designed to support the most demanding PC games at ultra-high resolutions and image quality settings, the ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 has unlocked overclocking potential, granting access to every bit of power the card has to offer through ATI Overdrive™ technology.2 Now shipping from retailers and available in the channel, the ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 also launches today in new Alienware Area-51, Area-51 ALX and Aurora desktop PCs.

Record-breaking overclocking capabilities take Dragon Platform technology to the forefront for users that demand the utmost control in performance tuning. The unrivaled overclocking capabilities of the ATI Radeon HD 5970 are enabled by the unique design of the card, which features advanced fan and vapor chamber technologies and a fully vented exhaust to keep the card cool and ensure overclocking headroom using ATI Overdrive™ technology.2 The formidable combination of AMD Phenom II processors, AMD 7-Series chipsets, and ATI Radeon HD graphics deliver comprehensive tuning, immersive entertainment, and outstanding value.

Enthusiasts can expand their field of view, ATI Radeon HD 5970, driving up to three displays at once, delivering an unmatched maximum resolution of 7680x1600 and creating an unparalleled game play experience.3 For the first time ever, ATI CrossFireX™ technology leverages the power of multiple graphics processors to deliver even more game performance in 20 of today’s popular titles when using ATI Eyefinity technology, with more to come.

The ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics card delivers nearly 5 TeraFLOPS of compute power, ensuring superior performance in the latest DirectX 11 games, as well as in previous versions of DirectX and OpenGL titles. With the world’s most powerful graphics core built on 40nm process technology harnessing up to 3,200 stream processors, gamers can enjoy DirectX 11 games now, such as EA Phenomic’s BattleForge™ and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.:Call of Pripyat from GSC Game World, with many more titles on the way, including:

• Battlefield Bad Company 2 from EA DICE
• DiRT™ 2 from Codemasters, arriving December 1, 2009,
• Aliens vs. Predator from Rebellion,
• Update to The Lord of the Rings Online from Turbine,
• Update to Dungeons and Dragons Online Eberron Unlimited from Turbine.

New features and functionality of ATI Stream technology allow users to harness the ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics card to enhance their computing experience, helping to improve the performance of enabled media, entertainment and productivity applications.4 ATI Stream technology and the HD 5970 support both Direct Compute 11 and OpenCL industry standards for application acceleration.

Delivering full-fledged performance when needed, the ATI Radeon HD 5970 also leads in power efficiency by automatically powering down unused GPU resources when not in use, resulting in idle desktop power consumption as low as 42 watts.5

The ATI Radeon HD 5970 is supported by a wide range of add-in-board companies, including ASK, Asus, Club 3D, Diamond, Gigabyte, High Tech, MSI, Sapphire, Tul/Power Color, Visiontek and XFX.

Autonomy down for netbooks Windows 7

According to numerous tests, netbooks Windows 7 lose significant autonomy in relation to their counterparts under Windows XP. They talk about 47 minutes on average, which is rather embarrassing for computers dedicated to use mobile.

You have probably noticed, most manufacturers have opted for netbooks operating system Windows XP rather than Windows Vista, but with more features and benefiting from a higher security level compared to its predecessor.

Initially this choice, the consumption of resources and energy more important for Windows Vista, which seem to inhibit those computers with limited performance and dedicated to mobile use.

With its latest Windows 7, Microsoft has promised an OS more suited for netbooks and can run without problem on most models. Numerous tests show that this is indeed the case.

But they also reveal that the concern of energy consumption has not been resolved. Autonomy measured in Windows 7 indicates a reduction of 47 minutes on average compared to Windows XP. The Asus Eee PC 1008HA loses eg 57 minutes, or 16% of its autonomy.

It remains now to see the solution to be chosen by the manufacturers, namely pass Windows 7 while increasing the battery capacity to ensure self-correct, stay with the safe bet is that Windows XP for this type of computer or migrate to the new Microsoft OS without taking account of the decline of autonomy. You can even see a chance for the free OS such as Linux or OS Chrome to prove themselves.