Archive for May 21st, 2008

First Intel Atom Benchmark

  • Written by Bernie
  • Posted May 21, 2008 at 9:55 pm

Benchmark Result courtesy of Technophone

MSI Wind PC e Asus EEEPC 900, Atom VS Celeron, tempo di benchmark!! | Tecnophone.it

I swear to you that means something in Italian. Lucky for the non-Italian speaking folks (that’s you and me), the benchmark result is pretty universal in showing the Intel Atom getting its back whooped pretty good by a Celeron CPU. Looks like the power-saving features does not come without a pretty hefty price. So I guess it’s a toss between performance and power (and maybe heat).

Personally, I can’t really decide if I want a faster performing unit, or one that doesn’t bloody burn my lap after a few hours on the net. Also keep in mind that despite what Intel wants you to believe, namely shaving off a couple of watts from the CPU will result in dramatic improvements in battery life, that’s not really true. A hard drive and large screen will also draw quite a lot of power, so much that it whatever energy-saving you use might matter less. That is one reason to consider the eeePC still since it uses a fairly small screen (7″ & 9″) and a solid-state drive.

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HTC Touch Diamond Launching In Malaysia - 27th May

  • Written by Bernie
  • Posted at 4:25 pm

Photo sourced from Mobile Hornet

This post in MyPDACafe alerted me that the Touch Diamond will be launching on the 27th May, for the price of RM2799. Here are the specs for this smartphone:

Processor Qualcomm® MSM7201A™ 528 MHz
Operating System Windows Mobile® 6.1 Professional
Memory ROM: 256 MB
RAM: 192 MB DDR SDRAM
Internal storage: 4 GB
Dimensions 102 mm (L) X 51 mm (W) X 11.35 mm (T)
Weight 110 g (with battery)
Display 2.8-inch TFT-LCD flat touch-sensitive screen with VGA resolution
Network HSDPA/WCDMA:

  • Europe/Asia: 900/2100 MHz
  • Up to 384 kbps up-link and 7.2 Mbps down-link speeds

Tri-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE:

  • Europe/Asia: 900/1800/1900 MHz

(Band frequency and data speed are operator dependent.)
Device Control TouchFLOâ„¢ 3D
Touch-sensitive navigation control
GPS GPS and A-GPS ready
Connectivity Bluetooth® 2.0 with EDR
Wi-Fi®: IEEE 802.11 b/g
HTC ExtUSBâ„¢ (11-pin mini-USB 2.0 and audio jack in one)
Camera Main camera: 3.2 megapixel color camera with auto focus
Second camera: VGA CMOS color camera
Audio Built-in microphone, speaker and FM radio with RDS
Ring tone supported formats:

  • MP3, AAC, AAC+, WMA, WAV, and AMR-NB
  • 40 polyphonic and Standard MIDI format 0 and 1 (SMF)/SP MIDI
Battery Rechargeable Lithium-ion or Lithium-ion polymer battery
Capacity: 900 mAh
Talk time:
  • Up to 270 minutes for WCDMA
  • Up to 330 minutes for GSM

Standby time:

  • Up to 396 hours for WCDMA
  • Up to 285 hours for GSM

Video call time: Up to 145 minutes for WCDMA
(The above are subject to network and phone usage.)

Truth to be told, I can’t be bothered. There’s on so much you can cover up Windows Mobile or let me put it this way, there’s only so much sugar you can coat a piece of sh*t to make it sweet.

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Malaysia JUG Meeting for May

  • Written by Bernie
  • Posted at 1:00 pm

Local Java User Group meeting again on May. This time around we Colin Wong from ZoeCity (CEO) to speak about “How to change the world with Web 2.0″. Big words considering there’s no real definition of Web 2.0 ;-)

Still, the talk by an ex-Google employee got my attention and I’ll be going. Anyone interested, you can head over to my-jug.org for more details or give me a way to get in touch with you and I’ll do that.

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