Sony VAIO notebooks are now available with Intel Penryn  based mobo and processors.Intel Penryn is based on 45 nm architecture.As of now 3 notebooks are available with Penryn based CPU’s as upgrade options.

For Sony VAIO FZ4 , CR4 and SZ series of notebooks , you can choose between T8100, T8300, T9300, and T9500 CPU’s which offers you better battery life and operating speed than the previous 65 nm CPU’s.

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Mobile processor manufacturer might just present us with the first device based on Google’s Android mobile operating system by next week in Mobile World Congress Expo at Barcelona.

The device will be running on a processor made by ARM itself.The Android platform has not been shown off much by Google so everyone must be expecting to see the Internet oriented Open source OS in action.

Android is projected to debut in the second half of 2008 and ARM might be getting ready to take the credit for the first manufacturer.HTC , LG, Motorola and Samsung has show their interest in developing Android based phones.The Android makes it possible to browse Internet as if its a PC , it has an inbuilt full page browser like iPhone and will be based on Google’s web services like Maps , Gmail and Search.The main aspect of android is that Google wants it to run as Open Source Code making it possible for any one to write or modify applications in it.

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Android was built from the ground-up to enable developers to create compelling mobile applications that take full advantage of all a handset has to offer. It is built to be truly open. For example, an application could call upon any of the phone’s core functionality such as making calls, sending text messages, or using the camera, allowing developers to create richer and more cohesive experiences for users. Android is built on the open Linux Kernel. Furthermore, it utilizes a custom virtual machine that has been designed to optimize memory and hardware resources in a mobile environment. Android will be open source; it can be liberally extended to incorporate new cutting edge technologies as they emerge. The platform will continue to evolve as the developer community works together to build innovative mobile applications.

Nokia N96 might be looking like N81 but Looks might be deceiving.This a seriously cool phone which is having a whopping 16 GB internal storage plus an external microSD slot in which you can push in another 8 GB as of now.So if you can spend come more cash on this , you will be having 24 GB at your finger tips.Well , With the 5 Megapixel camera at your hand and the VGA Playback of videos @ 30 fps you need to have storage space :).You have to believe this its Nokia Germany who has supplied us with all these nice details.:)

Specifications of this N96 is just unbelievable,its weight is 125gm (means 15 grams less than N81  ) with a slight more width ,length and depth .Its dimensions are 103×55x18mm [ 20mm max. ].In This N96 , Nokia has integrated quite a number of features like 5 Megapixel Camera with AF , Secondary VGA camera , TV receiver and 30 fps Video recording and WLAN / WiFi of 802.11g/b specifications.

Also Nokia tells us that it has 128MB RAM onboard and has a 256 MB system memory solely for its operating system and user preference data.Its having HSDPA , EDGE and a DVB-H class C TV receiver in it.

Its offering a talk time of 220 minutes and standby time of 220 hours.Also Nokia is promising 5 hours of non stop video playback or 14 hours of audio playback.And You can play TV using the DVB-H for up to 4 hours.

Look wise its  just an N81 but slightly larger with 2.8 inch long  QVGA display at 16.7 million colours and resolution 240×320 pixels.

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While Intel is busy unveiling their Silverthorne range of Low power processors designed mainly for UMPC’s in the ISSCC , they are also taking care of the High end Mobile platform processors.Intel is now getting ready to launch the X9000 Core 2 Extreme Edition Mobile Processor by this February end.

The Intel Core 2 Extreme Edition Processor is designed on the 45 nm architecture while the current fastest Extreme processor is based on 65 nm architecture.Intel is promising a certain performance increase than the baseline processor.Intel has optimised performance with HD related media on this processor by using Intel® HD Boost technology.

The X9000 is having a 6 MB shared L2 Cache and is running its FSB at 800 MHz.

Guys , any one wants to dress up their phone everyday just like you change your dress.Well at least all those females will be dreaming about dressing their phones by now. Modu , a newcomer in the phone manufacturing world, founded up by Dov Moran, who first got the patent for USB Flash drives which are now an essential thing especially for business men and students.

Here’s the first true modular phone,Modu , which can switch its cover (known as jackets ) just like putting a coat over you.Plus the jackets can be specifically made enhancing the feature of the phone. For example , Lets say , a music enabled jacket which has music keys specifically or consider a gaming jacket which makes the Modu all set for gaming. How cool is that?!

Modu Phone without any jacket, shown below is a standard credit card

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IBM has announced their all new 45nm architecture based Cell Processor ,which powers the PlayStation 3 .Currently the Cell processor is being manufactured on 65nm architecture and soon IBM will be shifting to the new 45 nm ones .

The 45nm architecture is surely going to save money for the user , both in terms of power intake and manufacturing cost.Indeed IBM is doing this for Sony the biggest customer for the Cell Processor , which was in fact mainly designed as a coprocessor for Super Computers.

The shrink will make the new chip’s die to be around 34% smaller than the 65 nm architecture and each chip will consume only 60% of the power now taken into those 65 nm processors.Sooner or later Sony will be reducing the price of PS3 because of this.So keep your hopes up.

Just after the introduction of the R Series [Radio phones], Sony Ericsson is rumoured to be getting ready for the new G-Series phones and that too, by this weekend ie , by February 10th.

The new Sony Ericsson G-Series is reported to be having two new phones , G900i and G700i.Both of them might be sporting a touchscreen navigation like the new W960i smartphone.

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