This is probably the most beautiful phone ever!

It comes from a new company called Neonode! When I first saw this phone I was very impressed!

It's so small: Only 88x52x21 large! And you get a digital camera too!

The greatest thing I suppose is it's screen, a touchscreen of 256k colors with a resolution of 176 x 220 pixels.

Also it has 16MB of build-in memory which can be upgraded with a SD Memory Card.

To celebrate the new year, Monster Game, a division of Monster Cable, has announced the XG SSGS-500 5.1 surround sound gaming speaker system for Xbox and PS2. This Dolby Digital-ready 5.1 speaker set features five satellites with two drivers each and an 80-watt max subwoofer (40 watts RMS) boasting a 6.5-inch long-throw driver housed in a bass-enhancing ported wood cabinet. The total power of the speaker set is 130 watts(65 watts RMS)

Thanks to Neowin.net

Just spotted this @ Nvnews.net.

The February 2003 issue of Maximum PC, and PC Gamer, contain previews of NVIDIA's GeForce FX. The Maximum PC web site has posted their preview, which states that a "beta" GeForce FX sample was hand-delivered to them by an Alienware representative.

There's a story over @ The Inquirer.net that should put a smile on a few faces...

IT WON'T JUST BE CREATIVE that will have Nvidia GeForce FX (NV30) graphics cards out by the end of the month, according to reliable sources in the distribution channel! Specifications of one card we've seen show it has full DirectX 9 support, 128/256MB of memory, 16GB/s bandwidth and a memory clock of 500MHz (1GHz DDR II) running at two nanoseconds, and rendering 350 million rather than the 325 million triangles of the Radeon 9700 Pro.

Looks like a bright minded computer geek has found a solution to bypass ATI's locking mechanism to prevent 9700 and 9500 Pro cards from overclocking, which basically shouldnt be an issue because they share the same R300 core GPU/VPU. Kip Hardina therefore is offering modified VGA card BIOS files to be flashed on the corresponding hardware. According to his findings a comparison of the 9700 Pro BIOS, the 9700 non-pro BIOS, and the 9500 Pro BIOS showed only one hexidecimal value that is keeping the 9500 Pro and 9700 non-pro from overclocking.

Update: Just click on the pic for the link.

Another motherboard has appeared with the SIS 655 chipset. Gigabyte has recently updated their site to include the new GA-8SQ800 Ultra motherboard. The strange thing is that the motherboard supports dual channel DDR400 rather than the DDR333 that the SIS 655 is supposed to support (Interesting, eh?) No mention of a release date yet. Hopefully soon because ASUS will be launching their own SIS 655 based motherboard (the ASUS P4SDX) any day now. More details can be found here.

We have seen manufacturers using desktop Pentium 4 as a mobile CPU to lower cost but it is more interesting to use a mobile Pentium 4 as a desktop CPU.

Vr-zone.com has an article up on how to run a mobile Pentium 4 on a normal desktop board and increase the FSB above 200Mhz on air cooled to achieve 100% overclocked. Other interesting findings on how Speed Step Technology and multipliers are being implemented can be found here

There is a new motherboard roundup published in Metku.net. Four i845PE boards and one P4X400 board flexing their muscles to see who is who.

The Radeon 9500 Pro may be good at stock, but we want to see what it can do overclocked! Get the tools and the steps to do it here.

ATI RADEON 9500, RADEON 9500 PRO, RADEON 9700 vs. NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti4200 and GeForce4 Ti4600 At present there are two players in the today's gaming graphics cards market that determine the situation. They are ATI and NVIDIA, two uncompromising rivals, which have been competing with one another for years. Today we will witness the battle between the newest graphics chips from ATI and their direct competitors from NVIDIA! So come join Xbitlabs to see Who will win?

Also wenn dieses Handy so auf den Markt kommt und hält was es verspricht, dann sag ich mal Nokia, Siemens, etc. - zieht euch warm an ...

Following on from my previous story: Just got word that GZeasy.com and OC.com.tw have post the first details and Benchmarks for AMD's upcoming Barton CPU 2500+ with 512K L2 Cache! Here's a quick translation

Well if you remember the babelfish translation it was like a Jedi mind trick but luckily for us Mariuz from Flickerdown.com has translated the whole article into English for your reading pleasure.

A REPORT ON Nikkei Net said that Furukawa Electric has made a copper/aluminium heatsink with remarkable thermal properties.

The heat sink, it claims, will give up to 80 per cent better cooling than conventional sinks. This design is called crimped fin and the firm expects copper to be at the base of the sink, with aluminium* used for the fins. And the fins will be inserted into holes in the copper base with a fin pitch of 1.9 millimetres.The sinks will be manufactured in China and reach a production capacity of two million a month by September next year. Furukawa has quite a few interesting designs in the heatsink arena that it's patented, either alone or with others.

Watch.Impress have posted details of M-AUDIO's 7.1 192kHz/24bit Audio card based on VIA's Envyc24ht Technologies as the sites in Japanese here's a quick translation.

In addition, multichannel playback is actualized the " SRS TruSurround XT " and, to multichannel converts the stereo or monaural sound source falsely with 2 speakers to also to correspond " SRS Circle Surround II ", the control software belongs. In addition, also the software such as WincDvd 4 Dolby digital EX version