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July 26, 2003

this Hard Drive Features Comparison including decibels proves to be very useful when deciding for your next desktop drive... 180GB or 200GB a little louder for same money, eh?

posted at 15:27 by CCC in Hardware | (G) | Com(0)

[New] Moviemaker for P800 Moviemaker allows you to quickly create movies for playback on the Sony Ericsson P800 smartphone. You can take a movie from your DV-camcorder, from a website or from any other source and convert it into a small file, which is optimised for playback on the P800 built-in video player. Watch your favorite tv-show on the train or show your home movies to friends. The software can do a two-click conversion of a video file to a P800 movie. It's easy and fast and all settings are done automatically. The software reduces file sizes, so that a half hour tv-show fits onto a 32 MB Memorystick. A feature film would fit on a 128 MB stick.

posted at 00:19 by CCC in P800 | (G) | Com(1)

July 21, 2003

CDR-Info has a hardware review of the
Pioneer DVR-A06 DVD±RW recorder including a comparison to two current DVD±RW records from Sony and Sanyo (not the NEC 1300A!). Seems like the A06 has a much better RW-overwrite performance than prev. models...

Unfortunately it sucks when it comes to normal CD/CDR and DVD-Ripping support...

posted at 13:48 by CCC in Hardware | (G) | Com(0)

[New] PDF+ for the P800 mBrain Software have released a public beta version of PDF+ - a viewer for Adobe Acrobat files, also known as Portable Document Format (or PDF) files. It is available for download in our Downloads section. [via My-Symbian.com]

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posted at 12:40 by CCC in P800 | (G) | Com(0)

NEC finally released a new NEC 1300A - official Firmware 1.06 for their drives...

All to find out is support for
-Princo DVD-R 4x
-MPO DVD+R 2.4x

The update procedure seems to be done from windows, which could cause a potential crash and damage of the drive I fear... I guess that Herrie is currently analyzing this firmware...

read some user experiences here

posted at 01:41 by CCC in Hardware | (G) | Com(4)

This is the new DVR105/A05 firmware for 2x Write on the 1x Ritek and best of all, ripping speed is now set to 12x. The firmware is base on the latest 1.3 release.

firmware direct download

All this was found in the firmware-forum's page
and of course you could give the firmware patcher Gradius a visit.

posted at 01:27 by CCC in Hardware | (G) | Com(1)

July 20, 2003

posted at 13:37 by CCC in P800 | (G) | Com(0)

Wi-Fi Networking News are right, the new Sony CLIE PEG-UX50 has wireless a-plenty, runs Palm OS, but has odd form factor...

The PEG-UX50 is a "landscape clamshell", with a 480 x 320 pixel screen that runs width-wise rather than vertically, as on nearly every other Palm OS handheld to date. It does, however, use the same "Twist and Rotate" flip design as Sony's previous portrait-oriented handhelds. That leaves room for a new, larger keyboard as well. The entire devices measures 103 x 87 x 18 mm when closed, and weighs in at 175 grams.

Continue reading "Sony CLIE PEG-UX50 nifty tech, odd form"
posted at 00:45 by CCC in Phones | (G) | Com(0)

Matt Croydon really got it - we need a bluetooth keyboard for our handies! regardless if 3650 or p800 - typing faster will make it! where are they?

more here at Brighthand and the
Bluetooth weblog

posted at 00:28 by CCC in Gadgets , Hardware | (G) | Com(1)

July 19, 2003

Tube by VisualIt brings us tube maps of NYC, Paris, Barcelona, Boston, Bruxelles, Chicago, HK, Sydney, Tokyo, Washington to the P800... nice

posted at 01:09 by CCC in P800 | (G) | Com(0)

Jexed P800 - the Vexed port - is available in version 1.02 with undo and fast first move... nice .-)

posted at 01:06 by CCC in P800 | (G) | Com(0)