The New AMD Phenom II X6

Just about time that AMD users and fans get their hands on the new come up AMD Phenom II X6 which also known as the 'Thuban' processors. The best thing of all are the price is just perfect which is about USD300 and use socket AM3 motherboard.

By using AM3 motherboard it means to upgrade to AMD Phenom II X6, all it costs is just the processor itself. Some AM3 motherboard might need to get their firmware updated in order for the bios to recognize the new AMD Phenom II X6 due to the new voltage which is 125W.   

There are two model available which are the AMD Phenom II X6 1055T at 2.8GHz and AMD Phenom II X6 1090T at 3.2GHz. Both are 6 core processor built on a 45nm chip. Both have L2 Cache of 3MB and L3 Cache of 6MB.

With this two new processors also, AMD introduce Turbo CORE technology which was supposed to increase the speed of the processors.

After Intel have got all the attention some time , now AMD counteract with two new processors which is about time.  

Solar Cell Panel Mobile Cellphone

Ever been in a situation where your mobile cellphone is out of power. Mobile cellphone can be one hell of a power hungry mobile device. However, mobile cellphone producer has come up with new kind of mobile cellphone with built in solar cell panel which you can recharge your mobile cellphone under the sunlight.

From LG comes Model LG GD510 POP which support GSM carriers only, 42 MB internal memory, and supports microSDHC. It's a 3" touch screen at 240 x 400 and equipped with a 3 MP camera. In addition, FM support, video recording, bluetooth, and built in document viewer. Talk time is up to 3.5 hours and stand by time is 360 hours. Just for this LG cellphone model, LG specially made solar cell panel recharger LG PCB-100.














Sharp Softbank 936SH is a waterproof solar handset with built in solar cell panel. It has a 3" full widescreen VGA, waterproof design, high performance 8 MP CCD camera, bluetooth support, 3G high speed, and external microSDHC. Talk time is about 230 minutes and standby time is 300 hours. Besides that, Sharps also introduced a few other models utilizing built in solar panel which are SH7128C, SH7120C and SH6230C group it under AQUOS Mobile ASV.  

As for Samsung, Samsung Blue Earth S7550 with built in solar cell panel, 3" capacitive TFT screen,  180MB onboard storage, microSD card slot (up to 16GB), bluetooth, 3.15 megapixel fixed focus camera with smile detection and QVGA @ 30fps video recording, accelerometer sensor and Wi-Fi and GPS with A-GPS support.

Then PUMA team up with SAGEM to produce a solar charging phone. It comes with 2.8" QVGA capacitive touch screen, 3.2 MP camera with LED flash, bluetooth, and FM. Additional interesting features includes pedometer, stopwatch and GPS tracker to reflect active lifestyles of PUMA.


All these solar panel featured mobile cellphones are directed at eco friendly theme which is great for environmental sustainability.

Steve's 6 Magnificient Thoughts about Flash

Even though why Apple's iphone, ipad and ipod gadgets doesn't have Flash support. Somehow, Steve Jobs from Apple have some provoking thoughts regarding Flash and there are as listed,

1. In terms of web usage, Flash is 100 percent propriety compared to HTML5, CSS and Javascript which are open standards. All Apple’s mobile devices are build with high performance, low power implementations of these open standards.
2. The full web experience by Apple's mobile device users as claimed by Adobe as most video on the web in Flash format but can also be accessed by better utilized format, H.264 which can be viewed by Apple's mobile device. As for Flash games on the web, Steve agrees to it but since Apple's App Store itself contains thousands of games and entertainment titles available and most are free for it's mobile device users.
3. There are reliability, security and performance issues of Flash. Flash security as claimed by Symantec is the worst during the year 2009 and Flash is the number one reasons Mac's crash. Then, Flash performance on mobile device was never good enough.
4. Battery life of mobile device during playing video are longer using hardware decoding compared to software decoding. Difference can be about 5 hours of battery life.
5. Touch capability was not fully supported by Flash websites since most uses rollover function. 
6. Flash is a cross platform development tool which doesn't give the best performance development platform for Apple's mobile device.

Steve's conclusion as listed below,
"Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards – all areas where Flash falls short.

The avalanche of media outlets offering their content for Apple’s mobile devices demonstrates that Flash is no longer necessary to watch video or consume any kind of web content. And the 200,000 apps on Apple’s App Store proves that Flash isn’t necessary for tens of thousands of developers to create graphically rich applications, including games.

New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too). Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind."

The full letter can be read here.

At stand, Steve will surely hold tight on to his magnificent 6 reasons for not supporting Flash in Apple's mobile device.