XBOX ELITE

features a 120GB HDD, HDMI output and a $479.99 price tag

After months of unofficial information, Microsoft today has finally pulled the cover off its upgraded console—the Xbox 360 Elite. Corroborating on all previous information, the Xbox 360 Elite will feature a 120GB hard disk drive, up from 20GB in the ‘Premium’ console, and an HDMI output for connection to high-definition televisions. The new upgraded Microsoft system will be easily distinguishable from the current Xbox 360 consoles by its color—the Xbox 360

Elite will come in a premium black finish for the console, wireless controller and Xbox Live headset. Additional Xbox 360 Elite accessories, such as the black Xbox 360 Wireless Controller, Xbox 360 Play & Charge kit and the Xbox 360 rechargeable battery, will be available separately. “Today’s games and entertainment enthusiast has an insatiable appetite for digital high-definition content,” said Peter Moore, corporate vice president for the Interactive Entertainment Business at Microsoft. “Xbox 360 Elite’s larger hard drive and premium accessories will allow our community to enjoy all that the next generation of entertainment has to offer.” Xbox 360 .

Elite will have an estimated retail price of $479.99 and is expected to begin arriving in U.S. stores on April 29. For existing Xbox 360 owners who simply want to upgrade their hard drives, the detachable accessory will be sold separately for an estimated retail price of $179.99. The road leading up to the Xbox 360 Elite is a long and storied one. Whispers of a bigger hard drive—something that gamers have long demanded—started last fall when pictures of a 100GB HDD appeared in presentation materials for Korea. Shortly after, an 80GB HDD appeared in the flesh at a Microsoft press event pushing the Xbox Live Video Marketplace. What started off with rumors of a bigger hard drive morphed into rumblings of a more drastic hardware revision after pictures leaked in January of a prototype Xbox 360 with HDMI output and new scaling hardware. Microsoft’s Chris Satchell quickly responded saying, “At the moment, everything you might have seen is just looking at our experimentation back in Redmond, not really a product that we're thinking about announcing.”

After a couple months of silence, the rumor mill spun again after a gaming magazine leaked key details of an updated Xbox 360 console dressed in black. Then the very machines in question were snapped by a camera phone during their infancies on a Chinese production line. Finally, an XNA Developer made it all but official after replying to a question about coding on the new HDMI Xbox 360.

The shift to a smaller, cooler running Xbox 360 chips, however, is one thing that was unable to make it into the Xbox 360 Elite. Microsoft revealed plans nearly a year ago to shrink its current 90nm chips to the 65nm process, something that’s now slated for later this year

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dailytech.com

SONY ERRICSSON W 880i

We've never seen Sony Ericsson's flagship W880 as close as this, and I think these photos finally show off the finer points that make this phone special. By specs, it's not tops: Its 9.4mm body can't touch the Samsung Ultra 5.9. The 1.8-inch screen is sharp, but not quite big enough to feel stunning, and its 2.0 MP camera is overshadowed by the SonyK800's 3.2MP.
So, what do you get for all that compromise? For starters, the phone's got that Sony Ericsson OS

I love so much. But really, this phone is all about design. A smaller body, measured by width and length, which stands to be as pocketable as the Samsung Upstage. (they both remind me of the gen-1 iPod Nano in proportion.) Now that I've spent time with the W880, I'm not sure if I like the W580 or this one more

source gizmodo

Iriver T-50 DAP

This is the latest DAP from Iriver. The T50 is 2.8 inches long, weighs 1.1 ounces and can store up to 1GB of MP3, OGG or WMA files. I don't know why it is triangular, but it is. Maybe DAPs taste better if they're triangular, or perhaps they blend better. This is such a hideous product, that I am wondering whether it is an early April Fug - sorry, I mean April Fool. I know it's not the first triangular DAP, but Iriver, what were you thinking?

It reminds me of an mid-80s clock radio made by Alba or Saisho. Two AA batteries will give you 52 hours of playtime and it will cost you $80 from Japan. To be honest, it looks like the sort of toy that Gareth from the British version of The Office would have on his desk. There are a couple more pics after the bump

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Nvidia 7600GT Fatal1ty Edition

In an attempt to boost the sales of their flagship mid range offering, the 7600 GT, XFX released a Fatal1ty edition of the card, a silent one. For those not in the know, Jonathan Fatal1ty Wendel is an icon in the electronic gaming (yes, it's called electronic gaming and not waste-of-life) community.

For some reason XFX has decided to go silent with the Fatal1ty version of their 7600GT graphic card. The GPU sits cozily covered with a nice black heatsink with the Fatal1ty logo.
Cooling fins coming out of the heatsink are routed to another air-cooled cooling unit that disperses the hot air with the help of the system fans. The secondary cooling unit runs towards the back of the card, though it doesn't fully cover the back. All said, this is still a single slot card (the first for a silent edition of the 7600GT that we have come across). Since the G73 doesn't require as much power as the higher end 7-series cards, the Fatal1ty 7600GT does not have an extra power connector. The build quality of the card is pretty good, with powder coated braces on the top of the card. The Fatal1ty 7600GT is clocked higher than the stock settings, like a typical XXX edition from XFX stables. The GPU is clocked at 650 MHz and the 256 MB of DDR3 memory is clocked at an effective 1.6 GHz. It sports a dual-DVI setup with an additional S-Video port. Features include SLI compatibility, CineFX 3.0 Engine, Shader Model 3.0, High Dynamic Range (HDR) rendering, UltraShadow II, IntelliSample 3.0 Anti-aliasing, and NVIDIA

PureVideo.

Source:- techtree.com

Commodore Lifts the Curtain on Their Gaming PCs

Their new gaming line will consist of four models ranging from the entry-level Cg to the top-shelf Cxx. The Cxx will have a quad-core 2.66GHz Core 2 Extreme, dual GeForce 8800s, and 4GB of RAM. Sure it's powerful and it'll probably cost more than your credit card can handle, but other than their name (and those killer paint jobs) there's nothing these PCs offer that you can't get from say Alienware or Dell.

source:-

gizmodo.com

Samsung Set to Launch Q1 Ultra UMPC This Week

Samsung is set to pull the wraps off its new Q1 Ultra UMPC this Thursday at CeBIT 2007. Thursday will the one-year anniversary of the launch of the UMPC platform, so Samsung's Q1 Ultra should serve as a fine starting point for second generation UMPC devices.

According to Engadget, the Q1 Ultra will feature a 7" touch screen (1024x600), 1GB of memory and a 60GB hard drive (expect a Flash-SSD variant in the future as witnessed by the Q1 SSD). The Q1 Ultra also features a split QWERTY thumb pad, 0.3MP webcam on the front of the device, 1.3MP digital camera on the back, fingerprint sensor, 802.11b/g, HSDPA/WiBRO, 10/100 NIC, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR and Windows Vista Home Premium.

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Microsoft first promised that second generation “Vistagami” UMPCs would be on the way in late May 2006. Hopefully, the Vistagami UMPCs will also come at price points much more palatable for the buying public than the first generation devices. Microsoft originally planned for the first generation UMPCs to retail for $599 to $999.

Samsung’s current Q1 retails roughly $980 with a 900MHz Celeron-M processor and 512MB of RAM or $1,200 with a 1.0GHz Pentium-M processor and 1GB of RAM. Asus’ R2H can be found for around $900 online.

source:-
dailytech.com

ASUS'S NEW ULTRA SLIM PDA

Asus has launched the A626, a stainless steel ultra-slim PDA thats only 1.57 cm thick and weighs about 158g.

The PDA has a 3.5-inch, 240 x 320 anti-glare touch screen, 1200mAh removable/ rechargeable battery, integrated microphone and speakers, full duplex recording and playback. It has wireless capability (Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g), Bluetooth 2.0 Asus’s “Remote Presenter” application, can be utilized to remotely link and control presentations on a computer via Bluetooth.

The Asus A626 features Intel XScale 312Mhz processor, 128MB Flash ROM and 64MB SDRAM. but you will be surprised to see that it runs on Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0(sad) (they should have used the windows 6.0 version) but all in all its a nice looking PDA;

source :- tech2.com

THE OZ SMARTPHONE

Now that everyone's familiar with the Helio Heat, we can look forward to the next phone out of Helio. Our tipsters tell us that it's going to be called the Oz, of prison sex fame.
What phone is it? It's the dual-sliding Pantech we showed you before. No word on when it's going to be released, but the name and the phone are pretty much all set.

LOOS COOL NAH .

Nikon D40x DSLR

Here's that Nikon D40x DSLR that's been bumped up to 10.2 megapixels from its D40 brandmate, with 3fps shooting instead of the 2.5fps of the plain ol' D40, as well as longer battery life and slightly wider ISO range.
$799 camera,Price seems to be high
Plus there's that long image-stabilized 18-200mm Nikon lens . That aside, this camera's definitely on the bang-for-the-buck radar. If they would just add that Live View feature sweeping the DSLR world...rumor has it Nikon's working on it.