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Philips M600 with SRS WOW Sound coming to China: for music lovers

Over in the UK or the US we do not get to see many new Philips handsets on the market, and one of those reasons is because Philips are now concentrating on the Chinese market. The reason that China loves Philips new range of cell phones is because the Xenium 9@9 long battery life series. However the electronics maker has a new cell in the form of the Philips M600 which features SRS WOW Technology, the company hope that they are able to target music lovers.

SRS WOW as you know features in a host of other products, I have it on my laptop as well as my TV and adds greater sound quality as well as surround sound capabilities without the need for extra speakers. SRS WOW Technology is also meant to restore spatial cues that sometimes get lost while playing music through small speakers. As you can see the new Philips M600 is a much more stylish handset from Philips with its candy bar design. The handset has MP3 quick keys so you are able to access the MP3 player quickly with just one click.

For now it looks as though it is only China who will be getting their hands on the new Philips M600, but maybe later this year other countries will get to have the handset. The Philips M600 comes with a 2-inch TFT screen and has 256k colors, as well as a 1.3 megapixel camera. As the phone is designed for music lovers, there are Classical, Pop, Rock and SRS WOW equalizer settings.

The phone has a music playback time of up to 40 hours on just one charge.

Source - Slash Phone

Hands on with the AMD Phenom X3 Triple Core CPU

If you are looking for a cheaper processor the AMD might just have the answer with their Phenom X3 Triple Core CPU. Tweaktown tell us that the X3 is in fact an X4 processor but with one of the four cores disabled, this is why AMD are able to offer the Phenom X3 Triple Core CPU at such a cheap price.

In theory a three core processor is still new and it was left to AMD to be the first to use it. The current speeds of the X3 is 8450 clocked at 2.1GHz as well as the 8650 clocked at 2.3GHz, there is also a 8750 clocked at 2.4GHz.

Tweaktown’s final thoughts on the AMD Phenom X3 Triple Core CPU are “AMD may have had a few hurdles with the K10 architecture in the beginning, but so far we have found it to be a good replacement for the K8, and it’s about time too. AMD has fallen behind Intel quite a bit since the Core 2 architecture managed to wrangle the performance crown from AMD two years ago. Since then, AMD has tried to keep up with Athlon 64 X2, but it simply can’t. Its architecture can’t handle what Intel has designed its Core series to do.

Now AMD has managed to follow in some regards what Intel has managed to do. However, K10 is still a direct descendant of the K8, and from this comes a few of the inherent weaknesses in design, making it slower than Core 2 on a clock-for-clock basis as well as its limited core speeds. So far we have only managed to see official parts hitting 2.5GHz, and while overclocking has given us 2.7GHz, this has been done with voltage increases. AMD’s design will soon have to switch to 45nm processes to survive.

Phenom, while being a good processor is in no way a replacement for the Core 2. If you’re still after the highest performance you can get, Core 2 is the choice for now. However, if you’re after a more affordable option with an upgrade pathway for quite some time, Phenom is what you’re after. If you’re an AMD Athlon 64 X2 user with an AM2 board, a Phenom X3 will slot in with a BIOS update to recognize it; you won’t get the benefits of HT3 but you will get a triple core or quad core processor without having to change board, memory and graphics card.

The X3 series of Phenom is a more affordable option, making it a perfect choice to replace Athlon 64 X2s, pushing them back towards the Sempron market area. In all, the X3 fills a good void for AMD and will be a definite hit for from our prospective”.

For the full review visit: Tweaktown

Toshiba launch 4 New High-End HDTV’s: ZH500 and ZV500 series

Toshiba have launched 4 new high end HDTV’s. These are the ZH and ZV series. The ZV allows you to add a HDD via a USB input and the HH has a built in 300GB Hard Drive, as well as a USB input, if you run out of storage space.

Both the ZH and ZV TV’s have a 120Hz LCD Panel as well as the REGZA video image processor. In the ZH500 series you get the choice of a 46 and 52 Inch, and with the ZV500 you get the choice of a 42 or 37 Inch.

Source – Akihabara News