Posted by hina on November 13, 2009 under Accessories, Computer Hardware, Software | 
Following on the tail of the announcement of the ATI Radeon HD 4850, it gets a bigger brother in the form of the ATI Radeon HD 4870, just announced today.
The HD 4870 is a dual slot card, PCIE 2.0, with 512MB of DDR5 memory and a clock speed of 725 MHz. The memory speed is 900 MHz, designed with 800 stream processors.
The games just keep getting prettier, and the graphics cards just keep getting tougher. The good thing is that the Radeon HD 4870 will only set you back about US$230, so we’ll be looking towards it as an affordable way to get your Crysis fix.
Posted by hina on November 11, 2009 under Accessories, Cell Phone, PDA Phone |
Griffin Technology has announced that they’re gonna bring the first poker video game for your iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPod Touch. The Vegas-style poker game is called 5 Card Touch and to be available exclusively on Apple App Store.
The “5 Card Touch” is the first application that Griffin is gonna release on Apple App Store. And of course, followed by some other interesting apps too in later dates. Griffin’s apps don’t need you always stay connected to Internet to use those apps. As you can download them onto your iPhone, and enjoy playing or using them even while the iPhone is turned on with the “Airplane Mode”.
The “5 Card Touch” poker game works in a pretty fast-paced manner, which gets the player to start with $1,000 of virtual money, and it keeps tracks various stats including winnings, hands played and won. You’re allowed to bet for a minimum of 1 credit and a maximum of 5 credits, and then hit the Deal button to start with.
This poker game app also makes use of the touchscreen capability of your iPhone, which you can use your little finger to tap cards to be discarded or tap to let you draw new cards. Of course, how much you’re gonna win all depends on how much you bet each time. A Royal Flush earns you the most points and Jacks or Better wins the minimum prize.
The Griffin’s poker game app is now available on Apple App Store for download, which you just have to pay $1.99 to get it onto your iPhone.
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Posted by hina on November 9, 2009 under Accessories, Cell Phone, PDA Phone |
Phone 3G has just hit the stores for a few days only. But it’s found that it can be easily unlocked using the old SIM card method.
The iPhone 3G shown in the picture, doesn’t show the original carrier, AT&T, which it’s supposed to be locked for. Instead, it shows another carrier, which means it’s been freed from the AT&T’s lock. The method of unlocking the iPhone 3G falls back to the old SIM card method, which uses of a SIM card adapter that works exactly like unlocking the first-gen iPhone.
The mentioned iPhone 3G has successfully been unlocked by some Brazilian guys. And one of them has made a brief statement: “Our procedure consist in using one SIM adapter to simulate a fake IMSI test card. Instead of the AT&T IMSI like in the universals.” The method forges the International Mobile Subscriber Identity, deceiving the phone that it’s working in the network in which it’s supposed to work. I believe a couple of the SIM card adapters that we’ve shown to you before might be able to unlock the iPhone 3G as well. Take a look at the video how the unlock process is carried out below.
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Posted by hina on under Accessories, Cell Phone, Computer Hardware, PDA Phone |
SanDisk has proposed their new idea of having music stored on a microSD card or slotMusic and each album is expected to sell at about $7-$10. Our storage devices are getting smaller and smaller these days. It shouldn’t be too much surprise having music stored on a microSD card after they’ve done it in a USB stick.
Storing music on microSD card seems to be able to capture much wider market. As anyone who drops by a store that sells the music microSD cards, will pick up a few as they’re so tiny and pretty easy to carry around and some more they can be played back right away on the mobile phone/PDA/PMP (with microSD slot) that is inside their pockets.
Music on microSD card or slotMusic will include DRM-free MP3 tracks, which are typically encoded at 320kbps that are high-quality music. The music on microSD cards will come in a 1GB storage and each card will come included with a tiny USB adapter which is for the convenience of letting you backup the music to your computer or transfer to other storage media. And of course, you can then overwrite the card with other music once you’ve got fed up listening to those tracks originally loaded on it.
The main problem is music stored those tiny cards tend to get misplaced by the forgetful geeks. But to the music seller it’ll be a plus, as once you’ve lost a slotMusic you’ll probably drop by the store the next hours to buy another one.
Music on a tiny microSD card wouldn’t sound so nice for giving it as a gift to others. The music on a CD is the more preferred gift due to the size, and it definitely looks nicer once wrapped in a gift wrapper. Lets say giving it as a birthday gift.
The slotMusic will be available in various stores in the States such as Walmart and BestBuy starting next year. And check out more on slotMusic
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Posted by hina on November 8, 2009 under Accessories |
You have lots of cards, business cards, credit cards and phone cards etc. Simply leave these cards in those slots of your wallet will always get you a mess. You want a better way to get them organized.
The Auto Card Manager here is a handy gadget that comes with six slots at the top which allow you to insert your cards into it. And it’s got 6 buttons on the front face where there are clear images of an ATM, Visa, Licence, Medical, Phone and gas. Slide the button that represents the card you need to get it to pop out of the device at the top.
Most of us these days have more than six cards. Fortunately, there is another version that can hold up to 12 cards. But if you have more than 12 then you’ll need a few of these devices, which may give you little more trouble of having to carry a few of these. The six-card version costs $40, while the 12-card costs $60. Check out the video how it’s used to organize cards.
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Posted by hina on under Accessories, Computer Hardware |
It was last year Innovative Card Technologies and eMue Technologies introduced the credit card that comes with its own authentication system, and now Visa Europe has rolled out their newly designed credit card which comes with similar authentication system. (VISA may have purchased those cards from the two companies)
The new credit card introduced by VISA comes with a keypad, and a digital number display. The card is exactly the usual size and there is also a magnetic strip that can be used with conventional card readers. At the back of the credit card, you don’t get the traditional security code number. Instead, you key your pin number on its keypad to get to generate a random security code on the digital display.
You can then enter this one-time security code while making a purchase online. This is definitely much more secure than the traditional security code, as no one could simply guess what the card has generated.
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Posted by friend on November 7, 2009 under Accessories, Computer Hardware |
If your mobile phone doesn’t come with a QWERTY, the LG LBA C-300 keyboard will be what you need to ease those heavy texting tasks. The LG LBA C300 is a credit-card-style QWERTY keyboard that can hook up to LG mobile phones wirelessly via Bluetooth.
The LG C-300 is more or less slightly bigger than the size of a credit card, measures roughly 6 x 9cm. When it’s in your hands for the first time, you may find some problems to figure out what its function is actually is. Just when you have an LG cellphone that does not have a QWERTY, then this little card-style QWERTY will come in handy.
Other than being used for writing and sending messages, its little display also shows you the incoming messages. This card QWERTY also allows you to enter or view your contact information on the paired phone. You also get some functions such as clock, alarm, calendar and stop watch. You can also use the card QWERTY as a remote phone’s camera controller or to reject incoming calls or set the remote phone into silent mode.
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Posted by friend on November 6, 2009 under Accessories |
A cell phone that is in the size of a credit card! You could slide it into one of the card slots of your wallet. This phone is called CARD mobile phone, which is a product of a company called Real Card Phone.
This credit-card-sized phone measures only 5.9 mm in thickness (less than ¼ inch), which is about the width of three credit cards. And it weighs only 1.3 ounces or 37 g. The phone is a dual band GSM GPRS, comes with either a monochrome or color display.
The CARD mobile phone is easy to operate, comes with voice recognition software which supports voice dialing, and is language independent. It doesn’t have a traditional keypad. Instead, it’s presents the user with an onscreen dial pad. It supports text messaging but the outgoing is with fixed messages. The battery can last more than 200 minutes for talk time, and 100 hours on standby. And it’s waterproof which you don’t have to worry about accidentally dropping it into water. This card phone will be available in June or July, scheduled to hit India first or maybe US later.