Nokia has today announced the highly anticipated N900 (aka Rover, RX-51) Maemo 5 handset. The mobile computer is packed with a 3,5 inch 800×480 resistive touchscreen, 600MHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor, OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics accelerator, 32GB of flash memory, WiFi, A-GPS, 3,5mm AV connector, 5 megapixel camera with dual LED flash, FM transmitter and quad band GSM/EDGE and WCDMA at 900/1700/2100MHz — yes, it’s a phone too!
The press release boldly states that the device is “designed for computer-grade performance in a compact size” with the help of Linux-based Maemo 5 OS, browser based on Mozilla technology, Adobe Flash 9.4 support and last but definitely not least 1 gigabyte of application memory (256MB RAM and 768MB virtual memory).
The phone/mobile computer/internet tablet/superman will be showcased next week at Nokia World and will go on sale in selected markets in October 2009 with an estimated retail price of 500 euros before sales taxes.
Nokia Conversations has kindly released couple of videos that give a nice little sneak preview what is the company’s first Maemo-based phone.
More information about Maemo and N900 can be found at http://maemo.nokia.com. Check out the videos and pictures below.
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Intel has licensed Scalable Link Interface (SLI) technology from Nvidia for use with its new Nehalem processors and chipsets. Intel Nehalem is the successor to the Core microarchitecture, and uses a 45-nanometer manufacturing method. The first processor released using the architecture is Intel’s Core i7.
Intel has licensed the SLI technology from Nvidia in order to add improved support for multiple graphics processors to its Nehalem processors and chipsets in high-end gaming machines. The licensing however, does not include next-generation products being developed by Intel that incorporate a CPU and graphics technology on a single chip.
The company has also been improving the graphics capabilities in its chipsets, cutting into Nvidia’s market in PCs. In response, Nvidia is pushing its own chipsets to compete with Intel. The SLI technology, which enables a motherboard to support as many as three Nvidia Geforce cards, has also been recently licensed by motherboard manufacturers including Asus, EVGA, Gigabyte and MSI.
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Microsoft has come out in defense of the much-anticipated Windows 7 operating system after a number of blogs and other sources flaunted a discovered bug as a potential “show-stopper”. Some had reported that a bug with the operating system’s CHKDSK utility could delay the planned rollout, which is being watched closely as hopes are high of Windows 7 providing a much needed jab in the arm for the PC industry.
Screenshots of the Windows Task Manager depicting the CHKDSK process eating up several gigabytes of memory (apparently leading to a BSOD in cases) have circulated around the blogosphere, but Microsoft is denying that the bug is in the Windows software. Instead, Microsoft is pointing at a chipset controller issue as the culprit and advising customers to update their chipset drivers to the latest versions providing by the motherboard manufacturer.
Microsoft’s Windows division President Steven Sinofsky said that the company has not reproduced the crash or experienced any crashes with CHKDSK in any measurable number. “While we appreciate the drama of ‘critical bug’ and then the pickup of ’showstopper’ that I’ve seen, we might take a step back and realize that this might not have that defcon level,” he said.
He continued: “Bugs that are so severe as to require immediate patches and attention would have to have no workarounds and would generally be such that a large set of people would run across them in the normal course of using their PC.” Sinofsky went on to say that this is not a big issue but that Microsoft will continue to pursue and investigate any issues with Windows 7 if/as they arise.
