The Windows Mobile?-based Smartphone is above all a great mobile phone. You can expect to find all the basic and advanced phone functions, but what makes it a smart phone is the Windows Mobile software that lets you e-mail, instant message, surf the Web*, listen to music, play games, and much, much more. The Smartphone is like no other mobile phone available today. Take this tour to find out everything you ever wanted to know about the Smartphone.

Radeon 9800 XT (R360) und GeForce FX5950 Ultra (NV38) sind noch nicht alt, aber das "Wettrüsten" von ATI Technologies und nVidia geht weiter und die nächste Generation der High-End Grafikchips kündigt sich bereits an. Nach bisherigen, inoffiziellen Erkenntnissen wurde das Tape-Out des NV40 von nVidia im Dezember abgeschlossen, d.h. die ersten funktionsfähigen Musterchips sind gefertigt worden. Mehr Infos auf Hartware.de

The Inq revealed last week that the Nvidia NV40 chip had taped out. And now we know ATI's R420 has not only taped out but is a step ahead of the competition.
While ATI's R420 taped out about the same time as Nvidia's chip in December, it is ready to ship some samples of the chip to its manufacturers. We believe Nvidia will not send such samples to its manufacturers until the end of February.

Hardware Pacers is hosting a giveaway on the X-micro WLAN 11b Broadband Router and the PCMCIA WLAN Card.

Giveaway End Date: January 30, 9:00 PM US Eastern Time / 6:00PM Pacific (Friday)

Takes place at: HardwarePacers

Review Links:
http://www.hardware-pacers.com/pages.php?pid=245&catType=r
http://www.hardware-pacers.com/pages.php?pid=248&catType=r

Images:
http://www.hardware-pacers.com/reviews_images/X-micro/router11b/router.jpg
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With people still gasping over A64 3400+ reviews, and Intel about to introduce the 3.4GHz models, some Prescott, some not, are we ready for the next round from AMD? Ready or not, they are coming at the end of March. Birds singing in our ears have told us that when the S939 boards are launched in about two months, they will be accompanied by A64 3700+ chips. If AMD keeps to the schedule, they will beat their own roadmaps, even if it is only by a day or two.

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"I had a case design lost in my head when I found out that 2cooltek was having a case mod contest. This seems as good a reason as any, right! The idea is simple: take a standard ATX case, take a golf ball returner, and meld them together."


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That was found in a hidden FAQ about the Asus K8V Deluxe

Q:I have heard some rumors saying that the appearance of some capacitors on K8V Deluxe may deform soon after use. Is that true? How do I check if my K8V Deluxe is affected, and what should I do next if mine happened to be like that?

Allem Anschein nach hat ASUS große Probleme mit einigen Kondensatoren (CE18, CE19, CE20, CE21, CE22, CE25 , CE38, CE39, CE45) auf seinen K8V Mainboards und bittet die Käufer, sich bei Problemen an den entsprechenden Händler zu wenden. Dieses Problem tritt allerdings nur mit den Kondensatoren der Bezeichnung RLZ 0333 auf. ASUS will aber nicht sämtliche betroffenen Mainboards austauschen lassen, sondern bittet den Käufer erst bei Fehlern zu reagieren. Einen defekten Kondensator erkennt man leicht dadurch, dass er etwas aufgebläht aussieht und eventuell ausläuft. Nun stellt sich natürlich die Frage, warum gerade ASUS Probleme mit minderwertigen Bauteilen bekommt, denn eigentlich legt man hier besonderen Wert auf die Qualitätskontrolle. Mehr Infos auf ForumDeluxx

TeamXbox reports that Last month, we posted an announcement made by Sony and Toshiba (one of the two Sony?s partners for the PlayStation 3) telling the world that trial production of chips (the cell) using a 65-nanometer manufacturing process would begin this March, with commercial production of the final chips expected for summer 2005.

AMDMD Forum, if you lived in europe and owned a true power 550 did you like i think it gave 32a on the 12v rail thats afterall what it says on their website, at least for now Antec-inc.com

well its not it is as allways has been it seems only 24a mind you they are tearing their specs on the website down as i type i understand! well im not happy are you! please note they allways have said the american version was 24a but the models sold in the rest of the world they claimed had 32a

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ABC News have thrown up some Info on ATI's new Imageon 2300 chip! which is a 3D graphics chipset for cellphones!

The 3D part of the chip is based on some of the technology from the last of the old Rage series of desktop 3D graphics and some of the early Radeon tech, tweaked and shrunk down to cell phone size. There's enough integrated frame buffer in the chip for double-buffered 320x240 displays ? enough for modern cell phones ? and this can be supplemented by up to 2MB of off-die memory integrated into the chip package.

Thanks to Mackey D for pionting out theses two article over at Xbitlabs called ATI R420 and NVIDIA NV40 Presumably Taped Out and Matrox Graphics Prepares PCI Express x16 Graphics Processor ! that's worth checking out! Here's a snip.

ATI has two high-end graphics chips in its roadmap for the first half of they year: R420 and R423. The former is designed for AGP 8x, the latter is developed for PCI Express x16. Other specs of both chips are supposed to be the same.

Just spotted this bit of Info over at Overclockers.com.

We have a roadmap for AMD CPUs for 2004. This includes all the models (including Newcastles and 90nm chips) that are supposed to come out this year. What is most noteworthy for the average person reading this is that the slowest Newcastle will run at 2.2GHz and have a 3400+ rating.

Why is that important? It is important because it almost guarantees that Newcastles are going to be expensive for a very long time to come.

The Inquirer's mole is reporting that NVIDIA's NV40 graphics chip was taped out at the back end of December 2003 and should be hitting retail shelves in April or May;

Just got words from 3dchips.co.kr that they have published a guide how to turn a GeForce FX 5900 into a 5950 by changing the bios.
Here is a snip:As you already know, NVIDIA GeFORCE FX 5900 (simply ?FX 5900?) and NVIDIA GeFORCE FX 5950 Ultra (simply FX 5950 UT) are actually the same model. Both of them uses the exactly same GPU core and they only has different level of power supplying systems and different GPU/MEMORY speed. (Different cooling solutions too) NVIDIA is used to lock the Bios Device ID in physical method from the way back. But 3DChips just have find a interesting fact that FX 5900 can be converted to FX 5950 UT by just simply replacing the BIOS data Read the complete article over here

ATi today added a new graphics card to their line of workstation graphics accelerators. The new card is the FireGL X2-256t which according to ATi delivers the industry?s fastest 3D performance for graphics cards under $1000.

AanandTech have thrown up their updated AMD 2004 CPU Roadmap!

On the chipset side, we are all waiting for Grantsdale and Alderwood from Intel, the successors to the 865 and 875 platforms. But where Intel's 2004 roadmap is pretty straight forward, AMD's is a bit more cluttered with the confusion of varying cache sizes, Socket-939 and model numbers. Although most of the information about AMD's future plans have already been leaked on the net, we decided to put together a quick reference page to AMD's 2004 CPU roadmap to go along with our recent coverage of chipset plans.

NEC Plasma Display Corporation today announced the launch of two 61-inch wide plasma monitors from the PlasmaSync(TM)61XM2+series (a grey bezel model, and a silver bezel model) that are equipped with "Enhanced Split Screen" ability - a high quality, high performance Double Picture function.

Hardware Pacers is hosting a giveaway on the Icemat Mousepad! IceMat consists of metal and thick glass. It does not bend and contains four legs to prevent slippage. Giveaway End Date: January 16, 9:00 PM US Eastern Time / 6:00PM Pacific (Friday)

Guru 3D reports that the French website x86-Secret is leaking a "rumor" on the Web about the provisional release date of AMD's Socket 939 processors. Wether it's true I dunno but according to this unconfirmed data, on March 29 we should see the announcements of the following: