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		<title>Android 2.2 Froyo in testing; Google I/O release Overview</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 23:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google is already tipped to test the latest build of Android,  &#8220;Froyo&#8221; 2.2, on devices with a release expected with the Google I / O  Developer Conference on 19 May  coincide. Android and tell me  sighted visitors through their records and made numerous protocols for  Android 2.2. Devices, it seems, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://grid7.biz/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Google-Nexus-One1_grid7.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-46" title="Google-Nexus-One1_grid7" src="http://grid7.biz/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Google-Nexus-One1_grid7.jpg" alt="" width="540" height="428" /></a>Google is already tipped to test the latest build of Android,  &#8220;Froyo&#8221; 2.2, on devices with a release expected with the Google I / O  Developer Conference on 19 May  coincide. Android and tell me  sighted visitors through their records and made numerous protocols for  Android 2.2. Devices, it seems, from  various sources that Google actually testing the updated software,  before an OTA firmware update for the Nexus could be heard. The changes are expected to multi-color track ball  applications, more RAM available to the user that persistent and  resolves problems touchscreen address.</p>
<p>Froyo is also  believed to allow more access to OpenGL ES 2.0 for developers,  potentially allowing better game graphics, along with the rumored  introduction of the JIT compiler and perhaps even the development of the  Nexus One&#8217;s FM radio hardware. While the Nexus One seems guaranteed to get  Android 2.2 Froyo, there is also speculation that the Motorola DROID the  update at the same time is obtained which is due to the fact that  Google will give you both Nexus One and DROID handsets to visitors Google is based I / O.</p>
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		<title>MSI GX640 Features Intel Core i5 Ready for All PC Gamers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We love our gaming laptops, no doubt. It does not help when companies make them look good, either. Such as this latest gaming up by MSI Computer Corp., which quite a few goodies that every PC gamer out there want to take a second look set functions. Who can turn to a brushed aluminum casing [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://grid7.biz/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/GX640_Black-RED_Photo6_grid7.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-36 aligncenter" title="GX640_Black-RED_Photo6_grid7" src="http://grid7.biz/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/GX640_Black-RED_Photo6_grid7.jpg" alt="" width="540" height="359" /></a>We love our gaming laptops, no doubt. It does not help when companies make them look good, either. Such as this latest gaming up by MSI Computer Corp., which quite a few goodies that every PC gamer out there want to take a second look set functions. Who can turn to a brushed aluminum casing and fire engine red accents? Exactly.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The MSI GX640 is a 15.4-inch LCD screen with 1680 × 1050 pixels Notebook PC gaming completely centered. It features Intel&#8217;s new Core i5 processor that can improve the battery life of your notebook by up to 15%. The notebook also supports Intel&#8217;s Turbo Boost technology developed, in order to increase the overall performance of the machine up to 30% to ensure that your title run as smoothly as possible. Also inside you will find 4 GB DDR3 RAM, a 500GB 7200 rpm hard drive, a 9-cell battery, Bluetooth connectivity and Microsoft Windows Home Premium 64 bit 7</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In addition, there&#8217;s an ATI Radeon HD5850 graphics card with 1GB of DDR5. And the GPU in the GX640 rocks DirectX 11 graphics support, which means that the time progresses and new games to come will become your new new laptop be able to show them off. The keyboard should be raised chiclet the variety, which makes it easier for you to type. (Not that you enter it by too much, no?) MSI, the W, S, A and D keys a little more clear with markers, so you can find these frequently used keys faster. You can order now at Amazon for $ 1,099.99, and it shall also be made available from Newegg in the course of this month if you want to feel you can wait. Full press release below.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">City of Industry, CA &#8211; 21 April 2010 &#8211; MSI Computer Corp., a leading manufacturer of computer hardware products and solutions, today announced the availability of the new 15.4-inch GX640 gaming notebook to announce. The GX640 comes Locked and Loaded with powerful new Intel Core i5 processor and the ATI Radeon HD5850 graphics card with 1GB of DDR5. It is the gaming laptop of choice for Evil Geniuses, the number one ranked professional gaming teams in North America.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8220;When you compete at the absolute highest level, your equipment has a huge impact on your performance,&#8221; said Alexander Garfield, Executive Director of Evil Geniuses. &#8220;Our professional players stay on top of competition with the help of the world&#8217;s best gaming notebooks from MSI Computer. They give us the edge we need to bring home championship championship.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">GX640&#8217;s new GPU supports DirectX 11 graphics, the future security of the notebook for the next generation of games and 3D graphics. Its core i5 processor improves the battery life by up to 15% and increase features Intel&#8217;s new Turbo Boost technology, the overall performance by up to 30% can, for smooth gameplay.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The new lightweight notebook is housed in a sleek brushed aluminum case with red accents, fire truck, the GX640 has an increased chiclet keyboard, accuracy and comfort increased while typing and clearly labeled W, A, S and D keys for quick response in gaming.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The GX640 ships with a 15.4-inch LCD screen with 1680 × 1050 pixels, rpm 4 GB of DDR3 memory, a 500GB hard drive 7200, a 9-cell battery, Bluetooth connectivity and Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The GX640 is priced $ 1,099.99 and is now available at Amazon and will be available on Newegg later this month.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">About MSI Notebook</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Based in City of Industry, California, produces and distributes a wide range of MSI Notebook Mobile computing products gaming notebooks, the X-Slim line of ultra portable, includes the Classic Series Notebooks MSI Wind and award-winning series of netbooks. Each product line is developed with the latest technology to be a number of specific requirements for the different classifications of mobile users needs.</p>
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		<title>HP Compaq Airlife 100 Smartbook Available Soon</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 23:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The HP Compaq 100 Airlife certainly looks pretty. But the more we find out about the data, the more I&#8217;m doubting smartbook this first wave.
The Snapdragon 1GHz processor, 512MB RAM and 512MB flash memory (along with a 16GB SSD) are all well and good. But then came the resistive touch screen, the 16-bit TFT display [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://grid7.biz/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/调整大小-hp_compaq_airlife_100_smartbook_1.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-20 aligncenter" title="hp_compaq_airlife_100_smartbook_1" src="http://grid7.biz/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/调整大小-hp_compaq_airlife_100_smartbook_1.jpg" alt="" width="460" height="396" /></a>The HP Compaq 100 Airlife certainly looks pretty. But the more we find out about the data, the more I&#8217;m doubting smartbook this first wave.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The Snapdragon 1GHz processor, 512MB RAM and 512MB flash memory (along with a 16GB SSD) are all well and good. But then came the resistive touch screen, the 16-bit TFT display and an unproven &#8220;Compaq touch experience&#8221; skin on the Android OS. What&#8217;s it all add up to be? Difficult to say without a test drive, but it&#8217;s not a great first volley over the bow of the IPAD, when Smart Books want to be a large tablet or netbook Alternative:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Product Features<br />
Feature Description<br />
Chipset Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset with integrated QSD8250 Scorpion Central Processing Unit<br />
Qualcomm Snapdragon processor QSD8250 1 GHz<br />
Memory 512MB RAM, 512MB Flash Memory<br />
Internal storage1 16GB (15GB user available), 1GB may not be available due to the application requirements. (A program can be downloaded.)<br />
10.1-inch diagonal display with backlight TFT resistive touch screen<br />
Graphics, 16 bit color depth (65K colors), 1024 x 600 pixel (WSVGA)<br />
Keyboard, trackpad, touchscreen display<br />
Power Battery: removable / rechargeable 28 Wh typical Li-polymer battery, AC adapter included (compatible for international use)<br />
Note: 1: for internal storage, GB = 1 billion bytes. Actual formatted capacity less.<br />
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Software Overview<br />
Feature Description<br />
Operating Compaq touch experience of Android powered</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Software</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">* Home screen with widgets and Shortcut Strip<br />
* POP3 and IMAP e-mail<br />
* Calendar and Contacts<br />
* Alarm clock / world clock<br />
* Calculator &amp; Self Portrait<br />
* Camcorder VCR<br />
* The data transfer counter<br />
* Wireless printing (photos)<br />
* Web browser with tabs and supports Adobe Flash Lite<br />
* Music Player<br />
* access RoadSync Exchange (e-mail, calendar and contacts, and synchronization)<br />
* NDrive Navigation with GPS &#8211; comes preloaded with regional maps and Points of Interest installed included1<br />
* Weather application<br />
* Quick Office handler (works with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Adobe PDF files)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Note: 1: Purchase of additional maps and / or GPS navigation software needed to activate some features or allow navigation in certain areas. Availability of maps is limited. Map coverage may vary and is not guaranteed.</p>
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		<title>Aquatic Robots Will Rescue you On sea</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They are not terribly fast, they will swim 59 feet per second and crawl 98 feet per second, and it would cost 18 million U.S. dollars to develop, but like aquatic robots could one day aid underwater search and rescue operations.
South Korea&#8217;s Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs devoted much time and money for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://grid7.biz/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Robot_p01_korea_2010.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-24 aligncenter" style="border: 1px solid white; margin: 2px;" title="Robot_p01_korea_2010" src="http://grid7.biz/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Robot_p01_korea_2010.jpg" alt="" width="460" height="251" /></a>They are not terribly fast, they will swim 59 feet per second and crawl 98 feet per second, and it would cost 18 million U.S. dollars to develop, but like aquatic robots could one day aid underwater search and rescue operations.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">South Korea&#8217;s Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs devoted much time and money for this project is a small army of robots versatile willing to participate in rescue operations and to explore underwater world. The idea is to &#8220;precision camera and audio devices&#8221; built into these creatures, robots and sends it to have on their way.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">There is speculation that devices like this could be a difference when a frigate have in the West Sea made plunged recently, but, as there is no way to hope for certainty about the-let&#8217;s just that it really helps back in service in 2012 made.</p>
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		<title>BlackBerry Curve 8520 Deep Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BlackBerry endeavor. People like us for ages about the track ball, the curve had been in previous models featured groan. The trackball, which gets stuck often and developed a mind of its own. And now they have to get an alternative: a touch-sensitive trackpad. Good work, but somehow they have fumbled the keyboard, and the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://grid7.biz/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/blackberry.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-4" title="blackberry" src="http://grid7.biz/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/blackberry.jpg" alt="" width="285" height="300" /></a>BlackBerry endeavor. People like us for ages about the track ball, the curve had been in previous models featured groan. The trackball, which gets stuck often and developed a mind of its own. And now they have to get an alternative: a touch-sensitive trackpad. Good work, but somehow they have fumbled the keyboard, and the beautiful keyboard response, which appeared on the 8900, been replaced by one that just do not feel quite the same security. What a shame! Nevertheless, the combination of the trackpad plus QWERTY keyboard is not bad and it sure beats struggling to write an e-mail with a conventional alphanumeric keyboard!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Nevertheless, we overtake us. Let&#8217;s take a step back and survey the BlackBerry 8520th What it is place in the BlackBerry family? It is not a 3G phone like the Blackberry Bold, and it lacks features such as GPS, which appear in the BlackBerry 8900th No, this is an entry-level member of the family of curves, equipped with a basic screen and a really clunky camera. But it has several bases &#8211; the push e-mail application and QWERTY keyboard, Black Berries made famous, very well connected and have some decent memory. The connectivity includes WiFi and Bluetooth 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate, plus the advantage of a 3.5 mm audio jack for connecting headphones or plugging in your car stereo.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As a budget BlackBerry, the 8520 is its place in the line-up, but the cost savings compared with the 8900 is not very much. On balance we would prefer the BlackBerry 8900 to 8520, despite the trackball vs. trackpad problem. The 8900 is a better featured mobile phone in various ways, and the exceptionally good keyboard on the 8900 is a major plus for anyone seriously Mobile Messaging.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Features of the BlackBerry 8520 include:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">* 2-megapixel camera with 5x digital zoom<br />
* Video camera (320 x 240 pixels)<br />
* Internal Display: TFT, 240 x 320 pixels (2.46 inches), 65,000 colors<br />
* Media Player (MP3, AAC, AAC +, eAAC +, WMA formats)<br />
* Messaging: SMS, MMS, Instant Messaging, Push e-mail with attachment viewer<br />
* Built-in handsfree<br />
* Voice dialing<br />
* Voice Memo Recorder<br />
* MP3 ringtones &amp; LED call indicator<br />
* Personal Organizer Features<br />
* Vibration alert<br />
* Internet: Web browser, GPRS, EDGE<br />
* Connectivity: WLAN, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, USB, modem, 3.5mm stereo headset port<br />
* Memory: 256 MB plus a microSD memory card slot<br />
* Size: 109 x 60 x 14 mm<br />
* Weight: 106g<br />
* Quadband<br />
* Talk time: 4.5 hours<br />
* Battery Standby: 400 hours</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>My Review:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I got my BB 8520 today &#8211; I  avoided a BB for the longest time, for fear of a slave &#8211; but I am now  come far one.So I like the feeling of responsible IT &#8211; its not so great  is my husband&#8217;s 9000, the my hand fits in a strange way, to drop  what I fear. Its my first BB, and it took me all of 5 minutes to start  the maneuver, as I had had it for years. The camera is decent &#8211; my  last phone had an 8MP camera and photography is a hobby, so this is a  huge step away from what I&#8217;m used to &#8211; but it&#8217;s not bad. I look forward to  my BB and I spend much time together.</p>
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