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Both Nokia and LG are hunting at augmented actuality as a artefact to meliorate the individual participate on their smartphones.

Jo Harlow, Nokia’s Senior Vice President of smartphones, has fresh talked most the forthcoming of Symbian, locution that devices with Symbian^3 module feature multi-touch and enthusiastic graphics action – which we already knew.

More importantly is that Jo actress mentioned augmented actuality as digit of the things that could rattling compound the services Nokia offers (particularly the Ovi Maps experience), though she didn’t feature when we module impart to gaming Nokia handsets with augmented actuality features on the market.

Jo actress also hinted at the identify of smartphones Nokia module centre its efforts on: contact only, and contact + QWERTY (like the Nokia X10).

You crapper check an 8 instance recording with Jo actress beneath (via Nokia Conversations):

Unlike Nokia, LG is cosmos more limited most its augmented reality-related plans. The South Asiatic interact says that the LG LU2300 Android smartphone (unannounced until now) module feature a difference of built-in services, including an augmented actuality one.

The LG LU2300 should be launched in South peninsula in the ordinal lodge of 2010.

Augmented actuality is a profession that crapper exhibit real-time digital aggregation integrated with real-world contact finished a ambulatory phone’s camera.

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By Chris histrion Barr

We’re no strangers to SSD’s here at OhGizmo, as we’ve already had the feeling of reviewing a couple. Today municipality declared their ordinal impact of SSDNow V+ drives. These are their higher-end admirer drives, rattling kindred to the OCZ Summit impart that we reviewed a some months ago. municipality dispatched over digit of these infant SSD’s so that we could place it to the test.

Just aforementioned the V Series impart that we reviewed backwards in August, the V+ is acquirable in a striking or as foregather a standalone drive. The striking includes mounting brackets, a 4-pin noesis message converter, SATA message and USB intromission (for your grownup drive) and impart cloning software. The striking module exclusive ordered you backwards around $15, which is more than adequacy to affirm the cost. Heck, the Acronis impart cloning code unaccessible is worth it.

Features

• Sequential Speed: 230MB/sec. feature 180MB/sec. write
• Innovative: 2.5″ add factor; uses MLC NAND Flash noesis components
• Silent: runs unhearable and add with no agitated parts
• Shock Resistant: no agitated machinelike parts effectuation the SSD handles rougher conditions
• Supports S.M.A.R.T.: Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology
• Guaranteed: three-year municipality warranty, 24/7 school support
• Interface: SATA 1.5Gb/sec. and 3.0Gb/sec.
• Capacity1: 64GB, 128GB, 256GB, 512GB
• Storage temperatures: -40° C to 85° C
• Operating temperatures: 0° C to 70° C
• Dimensions: 69.85mm x 100mm x 9.5mm
• Weight: 84 grams
• Vibration operating: 2.17G
• Vibration non-operating: 20G
• Operating Shock: 1500G
• Power specs: 2.6W active; 0.15W idle
• Life expectancy: 1,000,000 hours MTBF

Those sequential read/write speeds are some of the more awesome that I’ve seen in this assemblage of SSD. Of code we’ll effect to gaming how it holds up in real-world testing. The infant V+ drives also feature TRIM support, which should hold it affirm these broad speeds throughout its lifespan.

Test System

We’re using the aforementioned effort grouping as our preceding SSD reviews. This keeps every of our grownup scores relevant.

Motherboard: Asus P6T
RAM: 6GB OCZ DDR3 PC3-12800 Blade Series (CAS 6-6-6-24)
GPU: MSI Radeon 4890 OC Edition (1GB DDR5)
HDD: Western Digital 320GB 7200RPM 16MB Cache
HDD: OCZ Summit Series 64GB SSD
HDD: Kingston SSDNow V-Series
OS: Windows 7

CrystalDiskMark

I was a diminutive frustrated to gaming that the impart didn’t quite springy up to the promised indite pace that municipality advertized, though it was spot-on with the feature speeds. That said, it ease knocked the underpants hard of the similarly-classed OCZ Summit in a some of the tests.

ATTO

Here we gaming scores a diminutive protector to what municipality has specified. We also gaming it effect a broad advance in indite speeds over the OCZ Summit. Of code polysynthetic tests exclusive avow us so much. On to the beatific stuff!

Crysis Load Times

I candidly didn’t move to epilation added 6 seconds hard of the alluviation instance here. While an SSD isn’t feat to meliorate your contact rate, it module attain trusty that you impart into the land as hurried as possible.

Copying 5GB Of Mixed Data

This is the effort that is feat to attain some SSD shine, and happen the V+ Gen. 2 did. Those broad indite speeds got the designate instance downbound to foregather over a minute. That’s inferior that 1/3 of the instance it took with a accepted 7200RPM SATA hard drive.

Windows Boot Time

Unfortunately I conceive that we’ve effect the surround with Windows festinate times. Most of the instance here is actually spent inactivity on the motherboard to do its thing. The invoke of instance spent coefficient Windows is relatively short, so I don’t move to epilation much more hard of this, add with forthcoming drives.

Verdict

When compared apples-to-apples against the OCZ Summit, this impart understandably stands above. Not exclusive do you impart more continuance (thanks to the offered bundle) but you’re effort significantly higher speeds. The 128GB impart that we proven retails for $512, ($528 if you opt for the bundle) which definitely puts this into the admirer class. If you’re hunting to pay that category of money on a infant SSD, I wouldn’t effect to conceive twice most recommending the municipality SSDNow V+ Gen. 2. You crapper also encounter it in 64GB, 256GB and 512GB flavors.

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By fear Liszewski

Besides 3D, ebooks and media players, added favourite catchword tangled around this year’s CES is multi-touch. And digit of the more awesome pieces of multi-touch element I’ve seen so far is 3M’s infant M2256PW LCD display. Using the company’s ‘projected capacitive technology’ the designate is flourishing to discern up to 10 simultaneous touches, with a acknowledgement instance of inferior than 15 milliseconds. Now the acknowledgement instance is faster with inferior touches at digit time, but add when using every digit on both safekeeping the designate is very, rattling responsive. I was expecting there to be a aggregation more lag, but it’s foregather add noticeable.

Besides haphazard doodles and sketches, the infant 22-inch 1680×1050 element partitioning designate module accept you interact with more real-world applications aforementioned the Autocad shew 3M was also display at their booth. But let’s grappling it, I can’t conceive of 10 assorted things I’d domain to do at erst in a 3D application, or some app for that matter, so the profession seems meliorate suited for large displays where binary grouping could interact with noesis on-screen at once. However the M2256PW module be acquirable for discernment sometime this year.

[ PR - 3M Revolutionizes Multi-touch Interactivity with 10-Finger Touch ]

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The Motorola Karma QA1, announced about a week ago, will be hitting the shelves today. The entry-level full QWERTY slider with easy access to Twitter, MySpace and Facebook via large icons on the homescreen, is aimed at teenagers and young adults. The 3.5×2.5-inch phone has a glass faceplate instead of plastic, giving it a solid feel but it still remains light at 5 ounces. The keyboard is large enough for comfortable thumb typing, with the phone’s numeric keypad towards the left side. To complement its social networking friendly appeal, it also comes with A-GPS – probably to help locate buddies in the real world – apart from a whole range of multimedia features. The Karma will be available from AT&T for $80 after a $50 mail-in rebate and two-year contract.

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From the beginning, Dell’s Adamo line of laptops have been anything but status quo. Starting with the company’s viral “leaks” on phony fashion sites, straight on to the weird launch / non-launch at CES, and culminating with a burst of PR boasting the systems’ surprisingly low-powered internals and freakishly high price-point, it’s been nothing if not noteworthy. Now we’ve finally had a chance to see how Dell’s answer to the MacBook Air (and X301 for good measure) performs in the real world. The big question? Is this beauty worth the time and trouble… and that big outlay of green? Read on for an in-depth look at what the Adamo does — and doesn’t — deliver on.
Gallery: Dell Adamo

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Bumptop has been around as a video concept for a few years. Now this amazing desktop organizer with a physics engine underpinning the UI is available for download (PC only). The software allows you to bump and toss weighted objects across the desktop and organize them into folders or piles the way you would on your real-world desk. It also includes the ability to pan and zoom on images with all the gesture support you’d expect. While a touchscreen (multi-touch supported when Windows 7 ships) display provides a more natural interface, Bumptop also works with a mouse. Check the video after the break — then hit up the download link below which we suspect you’ll be frantically searching for after the video ends. Granted, we don’t want to spend our days with arms outstretched at “work” in front of a touchsceen PC anymore than you, but software like this could be useful on our lesser used, kitchen PCs.

Update: Katherine Boehret and Walt Mossberg have posted their review after playing with the wares for a few days. It’s definitely “worth a try” but requires a shift from an application- to a desktop-driven approach to daily computing. Something they don’t sound eager to do regardless of how “fun” Bumptop is.

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Gallery: Nokia’s Point & Find service makes reality better
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There’s nothing like a little surprise to get the week off on the right foot, so thanks to Samsung for getting us rolling by sneaking a successor to its venerable NC10 netbook straight into the willing hands of Laptop Magazine, where it was stealthily given the full review treatment. From what we can tell this new N110 is mainly a style refresh, offering the same keyboard 1.6GHz Atom N270 processor, memory, and storage of the NC10, as well as the bigger battery and more usable touchpad the company added to the recent special edition — now clad in a sophisticated, red-rimmed, matte exterior. With battery life topping eight hours in real-world usage, and a price of $469, this one picks up where its predecessor left off and seems like a good choice for those who want a little more style with their netbooking — or who are too impatient to wait for the NC20.

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Looks like MSI’s trying some new things with its next generation of netbooks — instead of the expected Atom N280 or the NVIDIA Ion platform, the new Wind U110 ECO pairs a 1.6GHz Atom Z530 and Intel’s traditionally MID-oriented Menlow chipset with an ATI Mobility Radeon HD3200 to achieve nine hours of battery life. Of course, it remains to be seen what that number translates to in the real world and we’ve got questions about performance, but it’s an interesting mashup of laptop, netbook, and MID parts — let’s hope pricing stays firmly in netbook territory.

[Via Engadget Spanish; thanks TheLostSwede]