Selasa, 27 April 2010
Nokia N8
Espoo, Finland - The Nokia N8, Nokia's latest smartphone, intuitively connects to the people, places and services that matter most. With the Nokia N8, people can create compelling content, connect to their favorite social networks and enjoy on-demand Web TV programs and Ovi Store apps. Available in select markets during the third quarter of 2010, the estimated retail price of the Nokia N8 is EUR 370, before applicable taxes or subsidies.
The Nokia N8 introduces a 12 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, Xenon flash and a large sensor that rivals those found in compact digital cameras. Additionally, the Nokia N8 offers the ability to make HD-quality videos and edit them with an intuitive built-in editing suite. Doubling as a portable entertainment center, people can enjoy HD-quality video with Dolby Digital Plus surround sound by plugging into their home theatre system. The Nokia N8 enables access to Web TV services that deliver programs, news and entertainment from channels like CNN, E! Entertainment, Paramount and National Geographic. Additional local Web TV content is also available from the Ovi Store
The Nokia N8 introduces a 12 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, Xenon flash and a large sensor that rivals those found in compact digital cameras. Additionally, the Nokia N8 offers the ability to make HD-quality videos and edit them with an intuitive built-in editing suite. Doubling as a portable entertainment center, people can enjoy HD-quality video with Dolby Digital Plus surround sound by plugging into their home theatre system. The Nokia N8 enables access to Web TV services that deliver programs, news and entertainment from channels like CNN, E! Entertainment, Paramount and National Geographic. Additional local Web TV content is also available from the Ovi Store
Social networking is second nature to the Nokia N8. People can update their status, share location and photos, and view live feeds from Facebook and Twitter in a single app directly on the home screen. Calendar events from social networks can also be transferred to the device calendar.
The Nokia N8 comes with free global Ovi Maps walk and drive navigation, guiding people to places and points of interest in more than 70 countries worldwide.
Symbian^3 in actionPowering the Nokia N8 is Symbian ^3, the latest edition of the world's most used smartphone software, which introduces several major advances, including support for gestures such as multi touch, flick scrolling and pinch-zoom. The Nokia N8 also offers multiple, personalizable homescreens which can be loaded with apps and widgets. The new 2D and 3D graphics architecture in the platform takes full advantage of the Nokia N8's hardware acceleration to deliver a faster and more responsive user interface. Symbian^3 also raises the bar in performance by delivering greater memory management allowing more applications to run in parallel for a faster multi-tasking experience.
Getting Qt for DevelopersThe Nokia N8 is Nokia's first device to be integrated with Qt, a software development environment that simplifies the development and makes it possible to build applications once and deploy across Symbian and other software platforms. Nokia has also made the powerful and simple to use Nokia Qt SDK available, in its initial beta, to enable developers to start realizing the potential of Qt.
The Nokia N8 comes with free global Ovi Maps walk and drive navigation, guiding people to places and points of interest in more than 70 countries worldwide.
Symbian^3 in actionPowering the Nokia N8 is Symbian ^3, the latest edition of the world's most used smartphone software, which introduces several major advances, including support for gestures such as multi touch, flick scrolling and pinch-zoom. The Nokia N8 also offers multiple, personalizable homescreens which can be loaded with apps and widgets. The new 2D and 3D graphics architecture in the platform takes full advantage of the Nokia N8's hardware acceleration to deliver a faster and more responsive user interface. Symbian^3 also raises the bar in performance by delivering greater memory management allowing more applications to run in parallel for a faster multi-tasking experience.
Getting Qt for DevelopersThe Nokia N8 is Nokia's first device to be integrated with Qt, a software development environment that simplifies the development and makes it possible to build applications once and deploy across Symbian and other software platforms. Nokia has also made the powerful and simple to use Nokia Qt SDK available, in its initial beta, to enable developers to start realizing the potential of Qt.
Guardiola keeps focus on Barca
Pep Guardiola chose to put the mind games employed by Jose Mourinho to one side ahead of their Champions League semi-final second leg.
Guardiola led Barca to a historic haul of six trophies in his first year in charge, but the Catalans' hopes of repeating last season's Champions League success are in the balance after they lost 3-1 at Inter Milan last week.
It was the first time a Guardiola-led Barca had lost a match by two goals and the Catalans will need a stirring fightback to advance to the final, which takes place at Real Madrid's Santiago Bernabeu on May 22.
Mourinho spoke of Barca's obsession of winning the title at their fierce rivals' home ground and hinted that the Catalans go down too easily.
But the Barca coach, who worked with Mourinho when the Portuguese coach was an assistant to Sir Bobby Robson and Louis Van Gaal at the Nou Camp, believes his players must focus on their own game tomorrow night.
"It's a game of football, not a magic night, and we have to be ourselves - we will go out and try to generate as many chances as we always do," he said today.
"We don't know if we are capable of turning this around, but we will give everything against a great team to try and get to the final.
"Inter doesn't matter, nor their great coach, nor their marvellous players - the only thing that matters is that we are ourselves."
Guardiola was Barcelona captain when Mourinho worked at the Catalan club and the 39-year-old says he could not have imagined the Portuguese coach would go on to become one of the top managers in the game.
"I didn't know he was so talented - I didn't have this view and I have to say that had I seen it at the time, I would have told the president to keep him here," the Barca coach revealed.
Mourinho has since become something of an unpopular figure at the Nou Camp after inciting the Catalan fans prior to Champions League clashes as coach of Chelsea and now Inter, but Guardiola says the 47-year-old could go on to coach Barca.
"Maybe in the future he can come and train this club," he said.
For the moment, Guardiola reminded his players they are in a privileged position.
"We are here in a Champions League semi-final and we don't know when we might be back, so we have to make the most of it," he said.
"We are excited and looking forward to the game, in the most prestigious competition in Europe at club level, with a full stadium - people stop you in the street and cheer you on and that inspires you.
"It is wonderful to be in a profession where people talk about your work all the time, it's an honour, the most special thing there is - film directors and authors would be delighted if people spoke about their films or books all the time."
Guardiola followed Mourinho's lead by calling up every single one of his players for tomorrow's game, but Eric Abidal and Andres Iniesta are both set to miss out through injury.
"I'm not able to guess what will happen, but we will see if we are able to do it - we will go out and be ourselves, we are an exemplary club," Guardiola said.
And that means beating Mourinho.
"We have a good relationship, although we don't call each other or even have each other's phone numbers," the Barca coach said.
"He's the best and that's all, but we'll try to beat him."
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition Review
Forget about 2010 being the Year of the Tablet: It more appropriately needs to be called the Year of Six. First came Intel's six-core "Gulftown" Core i7-980X CPU, which redefined the top of Intel's processor lineup. Then there was AMD's ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity6 Edition video card, which could drive up to half a dozen monitors at once. Now AMD is also meeting up with Intel on the boxcars with the release of its own new family of six-core CPUs: the Phenom II X6.
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Though a few details about the new family were released last month, the chips themselves make their debut today, crowning off the performance segment of AMD's own CPU lines. (The others, in descending order of power, are the X4, the X3, and the X2 families.) The inaugural members of this new clan are the Phenom II X6 1055T ($199 list) and the Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition ($285 list). In terms of price and performance, the 1090T (the one we received to test) gives you exactly what AMD has led you to expect in recent years—for better or for worse. (Or at least for cheaper.)
The Technology
According to AMD, the Phenom II X6 CPUs are the company's new flagship desktop processors, as well as the fastest AMD has put out to date. Given that they also have the most processing cores, this isn't exactly surprising, but otherwise there haven't been that many major changes since the last generation of CPUs.
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One of the most significant is that processors in the Phenom II X6 family support AMD's new Turbo CORE technology. Like Intel's own Turbo Boost, Turbo CORE can "deactivate" unused or underutilized processing cores in order to boost the performance of the others. In the case of the Phenom II X6 chips, a minimum of three cores to "shut off" are required.
The Phenom II X6 processors are designed to be used in tandem with motherboards based on AMD's 8-Series chipsets, particularly the new 890FX chipset, which is launching with the X6 family. These offer features as diverse as support for up to four discrete PCIe video cards, the AMD OverDrive software for overclocking, native support for 6-Gbps SATA, and (at least on many motherboards) USB 3.0. The new 890FX chipset, also launching with the Phenom II X6 CPUs,
Of the two Phenom II X6 CPUs released today, the only real difference comes in terms of clock speed: both actual and potential. The Phenom II X6 1055T has a standard core frequency of 2.8 GHz that can rise to 3.3 GHz when Turbo CORE is enabled, and the 1090T has a standard frequency of 3.2 GHz that can rise to 3.6 GHz.
Otherwise, both CPUs are practically identical, 45nm chips designed for the AM3 socket, with TDPs of 125 watts. Each processor also has one 16-bit/16-bit HyperTransport link at up to 4000 MTps at full duplex or up to 16 GBps bandwidth memory, and an integrated memory controller up to 21 GBps (dual-channel). Intel's CPUs have definitely undergone the more visible changes this time around.
AMD has done it again: come out with a bargain-priced CPU that boasts advancements that either Intel came to market with first or aren't as exciting as they initially seem, at speeds that won't turn performance mavens' heads. This may be a victory of sorts, but compared with AMD's stunning success in ruling the video card field over the last year, it's a somewhat hollow one.
What AMD is doing unquestionably right is its pricing. Those who need to run highly threaded applications can get a Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition for less than a third of what they'll pay for Intel's own six-core CPU, the Core i7-980X, and obtain some real benefit from the purchase. There are plenty of people for whom this will be enough.
But AMD still doesn't give you everything Intel does, and enthusiasts, creative professionals, and hard-core gamers are probably still going to find Intel's offerings more compelling—even if they have to pay more for them. Hyper-Threading effectively doubles the number of cores in play, which puts the Core i7-980X truly in a league of its own and lets even the entry-level enthusiast chip, the four-core Core i7-920, turn in better results in most situations. And it's priced comparably to the Phenom II X6 1090T ($280 on Newegg as of this writing).
As is frequently the case, AMD and Intel are aiming at different markets, so figuring out which one you belong in is the most important step in deciding on your CPU. From a strict performance standpoint, Intel still comes out way ahead. But if price is a major factor for you, the Phenom II X6 1090T will be an excellent upgrade from whatever AM3 chip you may be using now. Just don't expect to be floored by fastness. The Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition is a workhorse CPU at a working person's price, and must be approached with expectations in line with that background. It's in no way a bad buy, but in Gulftown's wake it's unavoidably unexciting.
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Though a few details about the new family were released last month, the chips themselves make their debut today, crowning off the performance segment of AMD's own CPU lines. (The others, in descending order of power, are the X4, the X3, and the X2 families.) The inaugural members of this new clan are the Phenom II X6 1055T ($199 list) and the Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition ($285 list). In terms of price and performance, the 1090T (the one we received to test) gives you exactly what AMD has led you to expect in recent years—for better or for worse. (Or at least for cheaper.)
The Technology
According to AMD, the Phenom II X6 CPUs are the company's new flagship desktop processors, as well as the fastest AMD has put out to date. Given that they also have the most processing cores, this isn't exactly surprising, but otherwise there haven't been that many major changes since the last generation of CPUs.
click on image for full view
One of the most significant is that processors in the Phenom II X6 family support AMD's new Turbo CORE technology. Like Intel's own Turbo Boost, Turbo CORE can "deactivate" unused or underutilized processing cores in order to boost the performance of the others. In the case of the Phenom II X6 chips, a minimum of three cores to "shut off" are required.
The Phenom II X6 processors are designed to be used in tandem with motherboards based on AMD's 8-Series chipsets, particularly the new 890FX chipset, which is launching with the X6 family. These offer features as diverse as support for up to four discrete PCIe video cards, the AMD OverDrive software for overclocking, native support for 6-Gbps SATA, and (at least on many motherboards) USB 3.0. The new 890FX chipset, also launching with the Phenom II X6 CPUs,
Of the two Phenom II X6 CPUs released today, the only real difference comes in terms of clock speed: both actual and potential. The Phenom II X6 1055T has a standard core frequency of 2.8 GHz that can rise to 3.3 GHz when Turbo CORE is enabled, and the 1090T has a standard frequency of 3.2 GHz that can rise to 3.6 GHz.
Otherwise, both CPUs are practically identical, 45nm chips designed for the AM3 socket, with TDPs of 125 watts. Each processor also has one 16-bit/16-bit HyperTransport link at up to 4000 MTps at full duplex or up to 16 GBps bandwidth memory, and an integrated memory controller up to 21 GBps (dual-channel). Intel's CPUs have definitely undergone the more visible changes this time around.
AMD has done it again: come out with a bargain-priced CPU that boasts advancements that either Intel came to market with first or aren't as exciting as they initially seem, at speeds that won't turn performance mavens' heads. This may be a victory of sorts, but compared with AMD's stunning success in ruling the video card field over the last year, it's a somewhat hollow one.
What AMD is doing unquestionably right is its pricing. Those who need to run highly threaded applications can get a Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition for less than a third of what they'll pay for Intel's own six-core CPU, the Core i7-980X, and obtain some real benefit from the purchase. There are plenty of people for whom this will be enough.
But AMD still doesn't give you everything Intel does, and enthusiasts, creative professionals, and hard-core gamers are probably still going to find Intel's offerings more compelling—even if they have to pay more for them. Hyper-Threading effectively doubles the number of cores in play, which puts the Core i7-980X truly in a league of its own and lets even the entry-level enthusiast chip, the four-core Core i7-920, turn in better results in most situations. And it's priced comparably to the Phenom II X6 1090T ($280 on Newegg as of this writing).
As is frequently the case, AMD and Intel are aiming at different markets, so figuring out which one you belong in is the most important step in deciding on your CPU. From a strict performance standpoint, Intel still comes out way ahead. But if price is a major factor for you, the Phenom II X6 1090T will be an excellent upgrade from whatever AM3 chip you may be using now. Just don't expect to be floored by fastness. The Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition is a workhorse CPU at a working person's price, and must be approached with expectations in line with that background. It's in no way a bad buy, but in Gulftown's wake it's unavoidably unexciting.
Barca obsessed with Bernabeu
Jose Mourinho claims Barcelona's aim of winning the Champions League at the Bernabeu has become an unhealthy obsession.
Inter lead Barca 3-1 after last week's semi-final first leg in Milan and Mourinho says a first European Cup title since 1965 would be a dream for the Italian side.
But for the Catalans, champions in 1992, 2006 and last year, a triumph next month at the Santiago Bernabeu, home of Barca's fiercest adversaries, has more to do with obsession than a dream, according to the former Chelsea coach.
He said: "When we came here in November (in the groups stages, when Barca won 2-0), the fans were already singing 'we're going to Madrid'.
"What I want to say to my players is to follow the dream, not make it an obsession, because for us this is a dream and not an obsession - for Barcelona it's not a dream, it's an obsession.
"A dream is about pride and my players will be very, very proud to reach the final in Madrid, Moscow, London or wherever, but for them it is different - they reached the dream by winning the final in Rome, by winning the final in Paris. Now it's an obsession.
"And the obsession is called Madrid and Santiago Bernabeu."
Mourinho worked as a translator and an assistant coach at the Catalan club under the late Sir Bobby Robson and Louis Van Gaal, and remembers what winning in Madrid means for Barcelona.
"I was at the (Copa del Rey) final between Betis and Barcelona in 1997 (when the Catalans won 3-2 after extra-time), I was there as a translator but I understood it - to see Catalan flags at the Bernabeu and hear people shouting Barca was a huge thing for them," he said.
"For Inter it is different - it has been more then 40 years since Inter's players have been in a Champions League final, so it is a dream for Inter's players and supporters."
The dream, however, is not his own.
"It's not my personal dream, because I have won the Champions League before and even though I want to win it again and again, it's a dream for Inter, not for me," he said.
Mourinho walked into the Nou Camp press room flanked by two burly bodyguards while his midfielder Thiago Motta was still addressing journalists.
But the former Chelsea coach missed his player accusing Barca, his former team, of being divers.
"We are used to seeing Barca players who dive a lot," the Brazilian said, having opened the dialogue moments earlier by stressing the importance of "measuring what we say in such an important game".
"We are football players, we play clean, with the intention of playing really well and with the intention of helping the referee."
Mourinho, who arrived shortly afterwards and stole the spotlight from his player as he sat down on the floor in front of his dark-suited minders, refused to believe Motta had said such a thing, but added fuel to the fire with further insinuations of gamesmanship in the Catalan ranks.
"The only thing I told my players was that I wanted them to support the work of the referee and if the Barcelona players want to do the same, it will be easy for the referee," he said.
Asked if the bodyguards were in place to protect him from a baiting Catalan crowd, Mourinho said the idea was a club decision.
"I don't need them... I go to the bench and I don't think anybody will jump," he said.
"I came in the bus, I went to the garage, met everyone who knows me from 13 years ago, and they are always very polite and nice to me.
"There is no problem, no drama, we don't need to go to war, it's a game of 90 minutes - it's something completely in reach of a top quality team."
However, Mourinho confirmed former Portugal winger Luis Figo, a hate figure at the Nou Camp after leaving Barca to join Madrid as a player, will be alongside him on the bench tomorrow night.
Meanwhile, Holland midfielder Wesley Sneijder, who was reportedly doubtful with a thigh problem, trained normally on Tuesday and Mourinho said the former Madrid man will start against Barca.
"Sneijder is okay and will play," said the Portuguese. "He still has a little problem but he will play."
Inter lead Barca 3-1 after last week's semi-final first leg in Milan and Mourinho says a first European Cup title since 1965 would be a dream for the Italian side.
But for the Catalans, champions in 1992, 2006 and last year, a triumph next month at the Santiago Bernabeu, home of Barca's fiercest adversaries, has more to do with obsession than a dream, according to the former Chelsea coach.
He said: "When we came here in November (in the groups stages, when Barca won 2-0), the fans were already singing 'we're going to Madrid'.
"What I want to say to my players is to follow the dream, not make it an obsession, because for us this is a dream and not an obsession - for Barcelona it's not a dream, it's an obsession.
"A dream is about pride and my players will be very, very proud to reach the final in Madrid, Moscow, London or wherever, but for them it is different - they reached the dream by winning the final in Rome, by winning the final in Paris. Now it's an obsession.
"And the obsession is called Madrid and Santiago Bernabeu."
Mourinho worked as a translator and an assistant coach at the Catalan club under the late Sir Bobby Robson and Louis Van Gaal, and remembers what winning in Madrid means for Barcelona.
"I was at the (Copa del Rey) final between Betis and Barcelona in 1997 (when the Catalans won 3-2 after extra-time), I was there as a translator but I understood it - to see Catalan flags at the Bernabeu and hear people shouting Barca was a huge thing for them," he said.
"For Inter it is different - it has been more then 40 years since Inter's players have been in a Champions League final, so it is a dream for Inter's players and supporters."
The dream, however, is not his own.
"It's not my personal dream, because I have won the Champions League before and even though I want to win it again and again, it's a dream for Inter, not for me," he said.
Mourinho walked into the Nou Camp press room flanked by two burly bodyguards while his midfielder Thiago Motta was still addressing journalists.
But the former Chelsea coach missed his player accusing Barca, his former team, of being divers.
"We are used to seeing Barca players who dive a lot," the Brazilian said, having opened the dialogue moments earlier by stressing the importance of "measuring what we say in such an important game".
"We are football players, we play clean, with the intention of playing really well and with the intention of helping the referee."
Mourinho, who arrived shortly afterwards and stole the spotlight from his player as he sat down on the floor in front of his dark-suited minders, refused to believe Motta had said such a thing, but added fuel to the fire with further insinuations of gamesmanship in the Catalan ranks.
"The only thing I told my players was that I wanted them to support the work of the referee and if the Barcelona players want to do the same, it will be easy for the referee," he said.
Asked if the bodyguards were in place to protect him from a baiting Catalan crowd, Mourinho said the idea was a club decision.
"I don't need them... I go to the bench and I don't think anybody will jump," he said.
"I came in the bus, I went to the garage, met everyone who knows me from 13 years ago, and they are always very polite and nice to me.
"There is no problem, no drama, we don't need to go to war, it's a game of 90 minutes - it's something completely in reach of a top quality team."
However, Mourinho confirmed former Portugal winger Luis Figo, a hate figure at the Nou Camp after leaving Barca to join Madrid as a player, will be alongside him on the bench tomorrow night.
Meanwhile, Holland midfielder Wesley Sneijder, who was reportedly doubtful with a thigh problem, trained normally on Tuesday and Mourinho said the former Madrid man will start against Barca.
"Sneijder is okay and will play," said the Portuguese. "He still has a little problem but he will play."
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