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AMD RECENTLY had talks with its motherboard partners and revealed to them its 4x4 anti-Conroe strategy.
If all goes well, the boards and the dual Athlon FX CPUs for ultra high-end gaming will be ready for the Yule shopping madness.
Back at Computex and shortly after the show, none of the motherboard manufacturers would confirm that it had started work on 4x4 boards but some vendors did acknowledge that there were talks about it.
AMD wants to take the gaming crown back and it is using Nvidia's strategy also known as, do what ever it takes to regain the performance leadership.
Nvidia taught us all that you can put two cards or even four cards together and flog them, and this is exactly what AMD wants to do.
Two Athlon FX 64s in a dual-CPU motherboard will certainly give Conroe a run for its money, no matter how aggressively Intel clocks its new babies.
Q4 is the target and by, Q1 2007, AMD should have established its quad-core babies to take the fight to Intel's Conroe.

sa: http://www.theinq.com/?article=32605

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Security firm Panda Software says that Browsezilla secretly visits pornographic Web sites if you use the browser.

A free Web browser that bills itself as a tool for privacy protection is, in fact, a click-fraud engine for pornographic Web sites, security vendor Panda Software warned today.

Browsezilla, whose name and Lizard-like mascot are reminiscent of the open-source Mozilla browser products, claims to help surfers cover their tracks when visiting pornographic sites. It does not use browser history or save data to a cache, and it allows users to save their bookmarks on a remote server, according to the product's Web site.
However, Browsezilla also secretly installs adware that boosts the page view counts on certain pornographic Web sites, according to J.J. Schoch, director of marketing with Panda. "It's being used deceptively to get more hits on their site," Schoch says. "This adware opens a series of adult web pages, although they are not visible to the user."

Why the Warning Was Issued
On its Web site, Panda describes itself as a provider of integrated security solutions to protect PCs from viruses, spyware, hackers, spam, and other Internet threats.
The company issued a press release warning about the browser, after noticing that Browsezilla was becoming more widely used. Although the browser has been adopted by users in a number of countries, it appears to be most popular in Italy, Schoch says.
Schoch adds that this is the first browser he has seen that downloads this type of click-generating software.
Panda is drawing attention to the matter because it believes the browser's creators are acting in a deceptive manner that ultimately could harm unsuspecting users, Schoch explains. "It's not going to wreck your computer, but it could taint somebody's reputation," he notes.
Users might already be wary of the software, even without Panda's warning. The Browsezilla download page features an "Adult links" section with hard-core pornographic images, a rarity in browser download sites.
The Browsezilla team called Panda's allegations "unsubstantiated" in a statement on the Browsezilla.com Web site, but the group shed little light on the situation when asked for further comment on Panda's press release.

sa: http://www.pcworld.com/resource/arti...RSS,RSS,00.asp

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Korea's largest telecom company KT recently announced that it has partnered with Microsoft to develop a low-cost "managed PC," although the level of Microsoft involvement is unclear beyond, we'd presume, providing the software. Unlike other low-cost PC initiatives from Intel and, of course, the OLPC, KT's effort looks to primarily be a network-based thin client, which'll give users access to a variety of applications and multimedia content when connected to KT's servers. KT is also touting the security benefits of the PC, which it says will be less vulnerable to viruses and whatnot since all the management is done at the server side. Unfortunately, that's about all KT seems to be saying about the device; we don't even know whether it's a laptop or a desktop, let alone what sort of specs it has. (If we had to guess, we'd estimate it's probably a chunky CRT with an anemic networked embedded box and ports enough for your basic input devices.)

sa http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/24/k...00-managed-pc/

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Brain cells can be enticed into forming uniform functioning patterns using a nano-engineering trick.
The technique could allow the development of sophisticated biological sensors that use functioning brain cells, the researchers say. This type of device would identify a compound - a deadly nerve agent or poison, for example - by measuring its effect on a functioning network of neurons.
A team led by Yael Hanein of Tel Aviv University in Israel used 100-micrometre-wide bundles of nanotubes to coax rat neurons into forming regular patterns on a sheet of quartz.
The neurons cannot stick to the quartz surface but do bind to the nanotube dots, in clusters of about between 20 and 100. Once attached, these neuron bundles are just the right distance from one another to stretch out projections called axons and dendrites to make links with other clusters nearby.
Electrical activity
Axons and dendrites carry electrical signals between neurons. The electrical activity of the neural network can easily be measured because carbon nanotubes conduct electricity and so can function as electrodes.
Existing methods for growing networks of neurons cannot produce such neat patterns and clean links between cells. This is because neurons are normally deposited on surfaces that do not prevent them from growing out of ordered clusters onto projections, which makes for a messier network. This is not a problem for Hanein's group. "There is no chance of the cells migrating outside of there," she says.
Uniform networks
The process makes it possible to create more uniform neural networks, Hanein says. In experiments they last longer than other artificial networks, surviving for up to 11 weeks. This could be crucial for building biosensors using the cells, she claims.
"It is clear they grow very nicely and cleanly," says Leslie Smith, a neural computing researcher at the University of Stirling in the UK.
Smith says finding ways to connect to individual neurons in similar arrangements would be even more useful. "That's the holy grail," he told New Scientist. "The best labs can only really put an electrode near a neuron of interest. Finding a way to connect directly and non-invasively is much harder.

sa: http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=dn9391

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For several years, mobile phone operators and handset manufacturers have used Singapore's CommunicAsia, the region's largest technology tradeshow, to launch their latest products.
This year's event, held at the 62,000-square-metre Singapore Expo, accommodated 2,238 exhibitors from 54 countries. If the last year saw the emergence of the first slim 3G cell phones, this year will offer phones with the benefits of an iPod.
Each company had glitzy booths to showcase their wares and Sony Ericsson concentrated on their Walkman and Cyber-shot mobile phone.
The highlight of the Walkman series was the W850i, with a 262k colour TAT and 240x320 pixels. It is capable of storing up to 1,000 songs on its 1 gigabyte (GB) memory stick, with a track identification that recognises song titles from its FM radio and even the microphone recording of a song.
W950i is a 4 GB music player that holds up to 3,000 songs. The 3G phone is only 15mm thick.
And highlight of the Cyber-shot series is the K790i with a 3.2-mega-pixel camera, built-in xenon flash and auto focus.
Product manager Mekata Satoshi said Sony Ericsson products designed the functions of every product to target different markets.
The Walkman and Cyber-shot phones are expected to draw the most attention in Thailand this year, he said.
At the end of 2006, Sony Ericsson will hold an exhibition to showcase the phones and phones from the Walkman series will be launched throughout the year.

sa: http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2006/06/24/1694494.htm

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In an effort to push the HD-DVD market forward and leading an advantage over Blu-ray, a report saying that Toshiba is selling its first generation HD-DVD players at a "substantial" loss. According to an analysis of Toshiba's bill-of-materials (BOM), its HD-A1 HD-DVD player amounts up to an estimated $674. In fact, costs are likely to be higher because that figure doesn't include costs of packaging, testing, remote control costs, cables and other costs.
One of the aspects of the HD-A1 player is that it uses a general purpose processor -- Intel's Pentium 4. Instead of using embedded application specific processors, Toshiba's player opted to use Intel's processor out of time constraint. The HD-A1 actually comes packed with a list of interesting technologies. For example, it uses a 1GB DIMM from Hynix for system memory, a 256MB flash memory disk from M-Systems and 32MB of MirrorBit flash memory from a company called Spansion. We're uncertain why the player comes packed with three different types of memory but according to iSuppli, all that memory adds up to about $247.
Analysts predict that Toshiba may be able to recoup its losses with subsequent HD-DVD players, but they question whether or not Toshiba's risk was worth taking. Blu-ray itself has been having significant problems making it into the hand's of consumers. Earlier this week DailyTech reported that Sony announced yet another delay in the Blu-ray journey.

sa: http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=3006

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The most computationally intensive computer program ever developed has been put to work simulating the quantum behaviour of atoms.
The simulations help scientists at the US government's Department of Energy determine the reliability of the country’s ageing stockpile of nuclear weapons without actually detonating the weapons.
The program, called Qbox, runs on the world's most powerful supercomputer, Blue Gene/L, built by IBM and installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, US. It performs very complex quantum calculations to simulate the behaviour of thousands of atoms in three dimensions.
Researchers at Lawrence Livermore and IBM fine-tuned Qbox to make the most of Blue Gene/L's number-crunching abilities. They rewrote key parts of the program to let the supercomputer's processors tackle the relevant equations more efficiently.
Critical routines
"The programmers spent a lot of time finding out where the critical routines were and how to distribute them across Blue Gene," says Jim Sexton, a member of the research team from IBM's Watson Research Center in New York, US. "It's a factor-of-four improvement, so it's basically like having a computer that's four times bigger."
Gene/L consists of 131,072 individual processors wired together using specialised high-speed networking gear. It is capable of a peak performance of 360 trillion calculations per second (teraflops), although the software that normallyruns on the machine functions well below this peak, often consuming only about 5% of the machine’s total processing power.
The enhanced version of Qbox, however, reaches a sustained performance of 207.3 teraflops, a record for any software. It simulates interactions between 1000 molybdenum atoms under high pressure using equations that take the quantum behaviour of electrons into account.
Other software can be used to simulate interactions between billions of atoms, but only using classical molecular dynamics. Performing simulations involving quantum-mechanical behaviour is far more complex and, until now, such quantum simulations have only involved about 50 atoms at a time.

sa:[http://www.newscientisttech.com/arti...gram-ever.html

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The search for proof of the existence of UFOs landed Gary McKinnon in a world of trouble.

After allegedly hacking into NASA websites -- where he says he found images of what looked like extraterrestrial spaceships -- the 40-year-old Briton faces extradition to the United States from his North London home. If convicted, McKinnon could receive a 70-year prison term and up to $2 million in fines.
Final paperwork in the case is due this week, after which the British home secretary will rule on the extradition request.
McKinnon, whose extensive search through U.S. computer networks was allegedly conducted between February 2001 and March 2002, picked a particularly poor time to expose U.S. national security failings in light of the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
McKinnon tells what he found and discusses the motivation behind his online adventures in this exclusive phone interview with Wired News.
Wired News: What was your motive or inspiration for carrying out your computer hacking? Was it the War Games movie?
Gary McKinnon: This is a bit of a red herring. I have seen it but I wasn't inspired by it. My main inspiration was The Hacker's Handbook by Hugo Cornwall. The first edition that I read was too full of information.... It had to be banned, and it was reissued without the sensitive stuff in it.
WN: Without this book would you have been able to do it?
McKinnon: I would have done it anyway because I used the internet to get useful information. The book just kick-started me. Hacking for me was just a means to an end.
WN: In what way?
McKinnon: I knew that governments suppressed antigravity, UFO-related technologies, free energy or what they call zero-point energy. This should not be kept hidden from the public when pensioners can't pay their fuel bills.
WN: Did you find anything in your search for evidence of UFOs?
McKinnon: Certainly did. There is The Disclosure Project. This is a book with 400 testimonials from everyone from air traffic controllers to those responsible for launching nuclear missiles. Very credible witnesses. They talk about reverse-(engineered) technology taken from captured or destroyed alien craft.
WN: Like the Roswell incident of 1947?
McKinnon: I assume that was the first and assume there have been others. These relied-upon people have given solid evidence.
WN: What sort of evidence?
McKinnon: A NASA photographic expert said that there was a Building 8 at Johnson Space Center where they regularly airbrushed out images of UFOs from the high-resolution satellite imaging. I logged on to NASA and was able to access this department. They had huge, high-resolution images stored in their picture files. They had filtered and unfiltered, or processed and unprocessed, files.My dialup 56K connection was very slow trying to download one of these picture files. As this was happening, I had remote control of their desktop, and by adjusting it to 4-bit color and low screen resolution, I was able to briefly see one of these pictures. It was a silvery, cigar-shaped object with geodesic spheres on either side. There were no visible seams or riveting. There was no reference to the size of the object and the picture was taken presumably by a satellite looking down on it. The object didn't look manmade or anything like what we have created. Because I was using a Java application, I could only get a screenshot of the picture -- it did not go into my temporary internet files. At my crowning moment, someone at NASA discovered what I was doing and I was disconnected.
I also got access to Excel spreadsheets. One was titled "Non-Terrestrial Officers." It contained names and ranks of U.S. Air Force personnel who are not registered anywhere else. It also contained information about ship-to-ship transfers, but I've never seen the names of these ships noted anywhere else.
WN: Could this have been some sort of military strategy game or outline of hypothetical situations?
McKinnon: The military want to have military dominance of space. What I found could be a game -- it's hard to know for certain.

Continued: http://www.wired.com/news/technology...ory_page_next1

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SINGAPORE (AFP) - Singapore's police investigation of an Internet blogger who posted cartoons mocking Jesus Christ.
"It is not the job of the police to intervene in this kind of case. By targeting this blogger, the authorities have once again shown they attribute scant importance to media diversity and independence," the Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said in a statement.
"In their view, the role of press is simply to educate and orientate the public, a position not very dissimilar to the one taken by the Chinese and Vietnamese regimes."
The Straits Times has reported that the 21-year-old blogger, who described himself as a "free thinker", first posted a cartoon in January depicting Jesus Christ as a zombie biting a boy's head.
He ignored an online message asking for the cartoon's removal and went on to post more caricatures of Christ to spite the sender.
"I never thought anyone would complain to the police because the pictures were not insidious," he told the newspaper, adding that the cartoons had already been removed from his site.
Police told AFP Friday they are continuing to investigate the blogger after first questioning him in March.
The blogger could be jailed for up to three years or fined 5,000 Singapore (3,148 US) dollars or both if convicted under the Sedition Act.
"It is a serious offence for any person to distribute or reproduce any seditious publication which may cause feelings of ill-will and hostility between different races or classes," an earlier police statement said.

SA: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060623...ternetmediarsf

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Audio/Video Can be Distributed To Up To 13 Rooms

Sony Electronics is to answering the needs of the home construction market with the addition of a new whole-home, high performance A/V entertainment system targeted at the semi-custom and custom home markets.
Building on the success of Sony's New Home Solution line of installation-ready products, the expandable system (NHS-3020) fills the home with a range of advanced home entertainment options covering distribution, control, source and display.
The new system includes discrete control and the support of audio and video content for a 7.1 surround sound home theater, and up to 12 additional rooms of audio and video.
The solution incorporates five sources: a 400-disc DVD changer, a 400-disc CD changer, a combination DVD recorder and VCR, a 5-disc DVD player and an AM/FM tuner. With the ability to play each source independently, the system can store a total of 406 DVDs and 400 CDs. By including all of these source devices, separate movies or music can be played back in any of the connected rooms.
Up to three additional components can be added to customize the system. Extra sources can include two HD sources, such as an HD cable or satellite box and Blu-ray Disc™ player, as well as a standard definition source like a security camera.
"This whole-home solution provides custom and semi-custom builders and integrators the ability to separate themselves from the competition, offering homebuyers an integrated solution that is ready to use when they move-in," said Neal Manowitz, director of marketing for Sony Electronics' Consumer Systems and Applications division. "Our New Home Solutions have been instrumental in expanding installed-AV beyond the traditional custom installation market."
Having been programmed, pre-wired and built into a Middle Atlantic™ rack, the entire system comes ready to incorporate into a home. Removing thousands of dollars in integration cost, the integrator simply pre-wires the home using standard wiring and then plugs in the system. A choice of Sony’s industry leading high-definition televisions, such as the BRAVIA™ LCD TV, Grand WEGA™ rear projection TV or the VPL-VW100 SXRD™ based projector, is included.
Additionally, a pre-programmed LCD touch-screen remote for the home theater and in-wall LCD keypads with separate remote make the system easy to use for the homebuyer from virtually any room in the home.
To address the needs of the new home construction market, Sony is providing a one-year limited warranty with in-home diagnostic service and advance exchange when necessary, along with and also a dedicated toll free hotline for consumers to call with operational questions.
The system is currently shipping with an estimated installed price to new homebuyers ranging from $20,000 to $40,000. More information about this system is available online at www.sony.com/newhome.

sa: http://news.ecoustics.com/bbs/messag...81/242481.html

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The GNOME Foundation is welcoming Intel as an Advisory Board member. This is part of Intel's increasing commitment to GNOME and to the free software desktop.
"We are delighted to have Intel on board: it will help us continue our bet of combining the passion of the GNOME community with the need for quality, stability and long term plans of big players who are increasingly interested and involved in free software development," said Vincent Untz, GNOME Foundation member.
The Advisory Board is made up of organizations and companies that support GNOME. The Advisory Board has no decision-making authority but provides a vehicle for its members to communicate with the Board of Directors and help the Directors guide the overall direction of GNOME and the GNOME Foundation.

The Advisory Board consists of representatives from the following GNOME Foundation member corporations and projects:
Debian Project
Free Software Foundation
Hewlett-Packard
IBM
Imendio
Intel
Nokia
Novell
OpenedHand
Red Hat
Software Freedom Law Center
Sun Microsystems
Advisory board member companies pay an annual fee which helps finance the operations of the GNOME foundation. There are two levels for commerical companies.
Small company: 1-49 employees. $5,000 / year
Medium and large company: 50 or more employees. $10,000 / year
No fee is paid by the invited non-profit organizations that are part of the advisory board.

sa: http://www.linuxelectrons.com/articl...60625121815868

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WARNING: This is Not Dual Crossfire Card

Single-board dual RV570 boards in the pipeline

ATI’s upcoming RV560 and RV570 will find its way into single-board, dual-GPU CrossFire configurations. Since the GPU cores have integrated composite engines, the cards are capable of Crossfire support directly on the card.
ATI is recommending to its AIB partners that the new 80nm mainstream and value parts will be joined together on a single PCB with a PLX Technology ExpressLane PEX 8532 PCI Express bridge chip. This bridge chip is currently used on ATI Gemini graphics cards such as the GeCube dual X1600 graphics card. The bridge chip itself is nearly the same size as the GPU but only draws approximately 7.38 watts. Preliminary boards show the PEX 8532 heatsink-less which isn’t surprising considering its low power draw.
On Gemini graphics boards the PEX 8532 bridge chip (PDF) takes one PCI Express x16 interface and divides the bandwidth in half. This allocates eight PCI Express lanes to each GPU similar to how some motherboards divide sixteen PCI Express lanes across two slots on Intel, lower end SLI and CrossFire motherboards. As the PEX 8532 is a generic PCI Express switch it can be used for other implementations besides graphics switching also.
DailyTech has learned Hightech Information Systems (HIS) has dual RV570 products in the pipeline using the PEX 8352 bridge chip. Although RV570 won’t necessarily offer as much horsepower as a Radeon X1900XT, Gemini variants will be able to dedicate one RV570 GPU to physics processing; essentially one GPU can be used for graphics while the second can be used for physics or graphics. Additionally, up to four DVI outputs can be used per card with the help of twin DMS59 interfaces.

ATI’s 80nm RV560 and RV570 are expected to arrive in August and September.

SA: http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=3016

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According to Chinese labor laws, a company breaks the law if it asks employees to work more than 36 extra hours each month.
However, Li Zong, a spokesperson from Foxconn, says Foxconn's complicated salary structure has caused misunderstanding among the media, and the company has paid the workers according to the minimum salary standards of the Shenzhen local government.
Li also says Apple has sent a special team to investigate, but has found no problem with Foxconn.
It was reported earlier that Apple's iPod OEM paid very little to the workers and provided very poor working conditions for them in their Chinese factories.

sa: http://www.chinacsr.com/2006/06/26/f...laws-in-china/

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Samsung mobile phones at CommunicAsia 2006 : Samsung today unveiled a brand new line-up of slim mobiles at CommunicAsia 2006 that takes ‘mobile communications' to a whole new level. The ‘Ultra Edition' demonstrates Samsung's vision for the future of mobile communications in terms of technology and design. The Ultra Edition 6.9 (X820) leads the handset pack, boasting the world's thinnest profile of only 6.9 mm . Also on display is the Ultra Edition 12.9 (D900), the world's slimmest slider with a depth of only 12.9mm and a picture-perfect 3 megapixel camera. Making its debut at CommunicAsia is the Ultra Edition 9.9 (D830), a brand new clamshell handset that is 9.9 mm thin.

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“Ergonomically designed to become one with the user, Samsung's phones move beyond the limitations inherent in slim phones to embody the perfect combi of comfort, simplicity and sophistication to let users do more with less ,” said Mr. Kitae Lee, President of Samsung's Tele-communication Network Business. “ It is human nature for people to communi-cate with others, and Samsung's Ultra Editions are dedicated to bringing people together with functionality and ease of use. With its exceptional sleek and ultra slim design, Samsung's mobile will effortlessly integrate into the user's everyday life, connecting them to the rest of the world.”

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Samsung's growing collection of ‘Ultra Edition' phones is part of the company's aggressive global strategy to take on the leadership position in the mobile phone market . It also illustrates Samsung's sensitivity to consumer needs by delivering smaller and thinner mobiles phones without c ompromising reliability or premium multimedia capabilities. The SPH-N2000, released in 2001, marked Samsung's first foray into slim mobiles with advanced features. This was the company's first well-received 9.8mm mobile phone. Motivated by its early success, Samsung will continue to create slim mobiles in various form factors and features to meet the needs of discerning customers around the world.

Samsung D830 mobile phone - Ultra Edition 9.9
Samsung's Ultra Edition 9.9 (D830) raises the bar in slimness and design of clamshell handsets. With its simple ultra slim folder design and the latest cutting-edge technology, this 9.9 mm ultra slim clamshell is the result of Samsung's constant efforts to go above and beyond the boundaries of form and function. This lightweight mobile comes outfitted with a 2 megapixel camera to capture those special moments wherever you go. Expect no bulges in your pocket when carrying this premium ultra slim clamshell that possess a 2.3” wide display and an external memory slot for extra storage. Navigate effortlessly through functions, thanks to its enhanced user interface with uMenu and uSearch features. The stylish Ultra Edition 9.9's variety of colors and patterned design will surely please the Southeast Asian mobile market later this year.
Samsung D830 Ultra Edition 9.9
• GPRS (900 / 1800 / 1900MHz) + EDGE
• 2 Megapixel Camera (Auto-Focus / Flash)
• 2.3” 240x320 262K Color TFT / 0.8” 96x16 16Gray (1 Fixed-Line)
• Video Recording & Messaging (MPEG4 / H.263)
• MP3 / AAC / ACC+ / WMA
• Bluetooth / USB / BT Printing
• Document Viewer / TV-output
• uMenu / uSearch / uGo / Mobile Flahs
• 80MB embedded, External memory (microSD)
• Size: 103 x 54 x 9.9 mm
• Weight: 85g

Samsung X820 phone - Ultra Edition 6.9
Samsung's groundbreaking Ultra Edition 6.9 (X820) expresses Samsung's commitment to create the slimmest and lightest product in the market today. Weighing a mere 66 grams and measuring a slim 6.9mm depth, the lightweight Ultra Edition 6.9 is today's definitive tool to help users stay connected, take pictures with the 2 megapixel camera, or enjoy their favorite tunes with the music player. The Ultra Edition 6.9 balances slim elegance with a functional keypad and tops off its supreme design with a beautifully beveled cut surface for a natural grip. Fiberglass-infused plastic is also used to increase extraordinary durability to protect the wealth of features that are compressed into the 6.9mm frame using the Smart Surface Mounting Technology (SSMT). The Ultra Edition truly complements the active lifestyle of today's consumers as its sleek and fashionable design will fit into your pocket invisibly for stylish mobility. You can also express yourself as it comes in a variety of the most fashionable colors.
Samsung X820 Ultra Edition 6.9 • GPRS (900 / 1800 / 1900MHz) + EDGE
• 2 Megapixel Camera
• 1.9” 176x220 262K Color TFT
• Video Recording & Messaging (MPEG4 / H.263)
• MP3 / AAC / ACC+ / AAC+ (e) / WMA
• Digital Power Amp
• Bluetooth / USB / PictBridge
• Document Viewer / TV-output / Speakerphone / Off-line mode / uSearch
• 80MB embedded
• Size: 113 x 50 x 6.9 mm
• Weight: 66g

Samsung D900 camera phone - Ultra Edition 12.9
The Ultra Edition 12.9 offers the latest in multimedia technology with premium slide-up design for business professionals. The 12.9mm slide-up is the thinnest slider ever designed to come equipped with a powerful 3.13 megapixel camera -- leading the 3 megapixel camera phone trend in the global market this year. Unique and dynamic user interfaces enhance user's mobile experience. The main screen will reflect networks and call status by displaying animated graphics to alert users of missed calls or unread messages, and imported documents can be viewed on the vivid 262K color screen. You can also enhance your multimedia experience with the Bluetooth stereo headset. Whatever your desires may be, the Ultra Edition 12.9 will “slide up” next to you for your next command.
Samsung D900 Ultra Edition 12.9
• GSM / GPRS (850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900MHz) + EDGE
• 3.13 Megapixel Camera
• 2.1” 240x320 262K Color TFT
• Video Recording & Messaging (MPEG4 / H.263)
• MP3 / AAC / ACC+ / AAC+ (e)
• Digital Power Amp
• Bluetooth / USB / PictBridge
• Document Viewer / TV-output
• uMenu / uGo / uSearch / uTrack
• 80MB embedded, External memory (microSD)
• Size: 103.5 x 51 x 12.9 mm
• Weight: 85g

sa: http://www.letsgodigital.org/en/8759...dition_phones/