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  • Motorola boosts Milestone XT720 spec with 720MHz CPU and 512MB RAM

    Motorola boosts Milestone XT720 spec with 720MHz CPU and 512MB RAM

    Posted on June 10, 2010 | No Comments
    Some of you weren't too pleased to see Motorola's new Milestone hitting Europe with just 256MB of memory and a 550MHz processor, and it seems like Moto has listened. We're sure the XT720 would've done just fine running Android 2.1 with its previous spec, but we're hardly going to begrudge a free upgrade. The TI OMAP3440 is now running at 720MHz -- something Motorola had told us the phone was always capable of, though the company had initially opted to downclock away from it, presumably in an effort to extend battery life. RAM gets a healthy doubling to 512MB, bringing the Milestone XT720 more in line with its "premium multimedia" boast, while the launch date seems to remain unaltered: later this month for Europe and a big fat question mark for the USA.

    [Thanks, Thomas F]

    Motorola boosts Milestone XT720 spec with 720MHz CPU and 512MB RAM originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • NEC develops eco-friendly, super-efficient CPU cooling system

    NEC develops eco-friendly, super-efficient CPU cooling system

    Posted on April 30, 2010 | No Comments
    NEC has developed an eco-friendly cooling system for CPUs, claiming the technology [JP] uses uses 60% less energy than a water-cooling system and even 80% less than an air-cooling system. The core of the system is a liquid chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) substitute, which circulates around the CPU to draw away heat and has low greenhouse effects.

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  • Intel’s new Gulftown i7-980X CPU reviews well

    Intel’s new Gulftown i7-980X CPU reviews well

    Posted on March 11, 2010 | No Comments
    Intel cut loose some benchmarking samples of their new, top of the line CPU, the i7-980X Extreme Edition. This is not a CPU intended for the causal use, but rather aim directly at the gaming market. MSRP for the CPU all by itself is a jaw dropping $999, and rumors are already circulating that the OEMs are already looking at coming out with systems that utilize the new processors.

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  • Qualcomm chips promises 1GHz speeds in ‘mainstream smartphones,’ simultaneous HSPA+ / LTE support

    Qualcomm chips promises 1GHz speeds in ‘mainstream smartphones,’ simultaneous HSPA+ / LTE support

    Posted on November 12, 2009 | No Comments

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    Qualcomm's Snapdragon has brought about a new wave of possibilities for smartphones, but evidently those chips are just too exclusive to slip into so-called "mainstream smartphones." In order to remedy such a tragedy, the outfit has today introduced the MSM7x30 family of solutions, which uses an 800 MHz to 1GHz custom superscalar CPU based on the ARM v7 instruction set. The chips support 720p video encoding / decoding at 30fps, integrated 2D and 3D graphics (with support for OpenGL ES 2.0 and OpenVG 1.1), 5.1-channel surround sound, a 12 megapixel camera sensor and built-in GPS. In related news, the outfit also announced that it is sampling the industry's first chipsets for dual-carrier HSPA+ and multi-mode 3G / LTE, which ought to make those champing at the bit for a speedier WWAN highway exceedingly giddy. Hit the links below for all the technobabble.

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    Qualcomm chips promises 1GHz speeds in 'mainstream smartphones,' simultaneous HSPA+ / LTE support originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Acer Liquid handled, evaluated, ‘not too shabby’

    Acer Liquid handled, evaluated, ‘not too shabby’

    Posted on November 5, 2009 | No Comments

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    Looks like quite a few folks have got their hands on the Acer Liquid as of late, and lucky for us they've been rather loose-lipped with their thoughts on the subject. As suspected, the handset is running a 1GHz Snapdragon that's been under-clocked to 768MHz. And it looks like Acer didn't go crazy with the User Experience either, pretty much staying true to its Google Android 1.6 roots, albeit with a number of additions, including: social networking integration (Facebook and Flickr contacts and photo sharing), nemoPlayer for multimedia files, DataViz for Microsoft Exchange support, and the Spinlets music streaming service. In addition, Acer has redesigned some of the widgets, including the clock and the task manager, which now includes a preview of open apps. All-in-all, it seems to be a pretty solid Android handset with a few useful additions -- but as always, the verdict is out until we get our hands on one. In the meantime, hit up the read links below for a generous helping of screenshots, hands-on pics, and impressions.

    [Via JK On The Run]

    Read - PREVIEW: Acer Liquid Android 1.6 WVGA Touchscreen Smartphone
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    Acer Liquid handled, evaluated, 'not too shabby' originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Acer Liquid’s Snapdragon processor to be clocked at just 768MHz?

    Acer Liquid’s Snapdragon processor to be clocked at just 768MHz?

    Posted on November 2, 2009 | No Comments

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    Ugh. Just weeks after we figured that Acer's first Android-based handset would indeed ship with a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, a new slide over at an international Liquid presentation is suggesting otherwise. As you can clearly see above, it looks as if the Qualcomm-sourced CPU will be underclocked to just 768MHz, which makes little to no sense on the surface. Granted, most average consumers couldn't care less about the CPU in their next smartphone, but it seems reasonable to think that the Liquid will lag behind its 1GHz contemporaries when used side-by-side. Who knows though -- maybe this is just the thing necessary to squeeze a full week of battery life out of this thing. Or not.

    [Via MobileTechWorld, thanks Gully and Jose]

    Acer Liquid's Snapdragon processor to be clocked at just 768MHz? originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Are we in for a CPU war? 7 Japanese companies team up against Intel

    Are we in for a CPU war? 7 Japanese companies team up against Intel

    Posted on September 3, 2009 | No Comments
    There is exactly one 800-pound gorilla in the CPU arena, and that's Intel. But the company, which controls about 80% of the global CPU market, is soon getting some serious competition from Japan. A pool of Japanese companies has decided to team up and produce a made-in-Japan CPU that's supposed to rival Intel's products. The CPU will be jointly developed by Fujitsu, Renesas, NEC, Canon, Panasonic, Hitachi and other companies from Japan. It will be used in a range of consumer electronics, servers, robots and cars and it's "green". The CPU adopts itself dynamically to the amount of data being processed, resulting in energy savings of up to 30% when compared to the power consumed at normal times.

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