Geek With Laptop Weekly Roundup 16.07.10

The weekly roundup of the web’s best tech news includes – Motorola Droid X: Top Smartphone Contender This Summer?, Review of Navigon MobileNavigator for Windows Phone, Gigabyte H55N-USB3 HTPC Motherboard, NVIDIA announces GeForce GTX 460 graphics card, Rio Mp3 Player, Keep your phone going, HTC 1 Smartphone Touchscreen Concept is Mind Blowing

Motorola Droid X: Top Smartphone Contender This Summer?

droid Geek With Laptop Weekly Roundup 16.07.10The iPhone 4 is currently at the top of the smartphone tree, but it seems that it may be challenged by the release of the Droid X.  The Droid X certainly comes packed with a colourful array of specs however can we position it within the same club as some of the smartphone elite?

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Review of Navigon MobileNavigator for Windows Phone

navigon2 thumb Geek With Laptop Weekly Roundup 16.07.10Up for review today I’ve got a GPS program for Windows Mobile phones called MobileNavigator and it’s from Navigon. I’ve used many stand alone GPS units and I have TomTom on my phone actually, but in my time with Navigon MobielNavigator I’ve really come to like it. The software works and looks great, it’s fast and it updates quickly to keep up with you. When it comes to navigation you’ve got many options in the settings and several choices for how you want to get where you’re going. you choose POIs, enter your own, or even import contacts from Outlook to navigate to.

Read more at iGadgetLife.com

Gigabyte H55N-USB3 HTPC Motherboard

Gigabyte H55N USB3 Mini ITX Motherboard Geek With Laptop Weekly Roundup 16.07.10GIGABYTE has grown a lot in the market lately. They mainly produce top-notch quality motherboards and GPUs, and they have even entered new areas as well. We couldn’t say they had a specific motherboard for each user until they finally released their Mini-ITX H55N-USB3 motherboard. Last year, Mini-ITX motherboards meant low CPU-performance. But in 2010, things have changed and now you can build a very small PC with great performance and good efficiency. Benchmark Reviews tests the GIGABYTE H55N-USB3 motherboard paired with an Intel Core i3 530 processor and 4GB of RAM to check which kind of performance we can expect from a Mini-ITX HTPC system like this one.

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NVIDIA announces GeForce GTX 460 graphics card

GeForce GTX 460 graphics card Geek With Laptop Weekly Roundup 16.07.10NVidia have announced their new Fermi-architecture based graphics card, GeForce GTX 460, which is based on the Fermi-based GPU, GF10. This graphics card is capable of delivering at DirectX 11 gaming experience and it’ll be available in two models. The first model has 768MB onboard memory, a 192-bit memory interface and is priced $199. While the second model has a 1GB memory, a 256-bit memory interface and carries a higher price tag of $229.

Read more at Techchee.com

Rio Mp3 Player

rio mp3 player Geek With Laptop Weekly Roundup 16.07.10The market has been more and more appreciated with time, as people found it useless to continue listening to radio cassettes players, as long as technology could allow them to aspire for better.

An MP3 player, rather than offering you the possibility of listening to music, it as well offers the possibilities of storing and organizing audio files. The latest MP3 players on the market have the capacity of as well video and image viewing and recording.

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Keep your phone going

turbocell charger Geek With Laptop Weekly Roundup 16.07.10Running low on battery is a major headache for the smartphone and cellphone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone user, unless you have one of these devices. It is the Turbocell battery charger, it will connect with nine different brands of device or more as some use the same type of connector, yet this is a simple device to use and you will wonder why this has not been around before. Simply place a single AA battery into the case and plug it into the phone for up to two hours of power.

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HTC 1 Smartphone Touchscreen Concept is Mind Blowing

htc 1 touchscreen smartphone concept 2 Geek With Laptop Weekly Roundup 16.07.10There are certain things which truly exhibit a perfect blend of sophistication and elegance and one such gadget is HTC 1 Smartphone Touchscreen Concept.

Andrew Kim is the mind behind this amazing concept phone and I wish that it turns out to be a reality. I am a big fan of HTC and just when I saw this phone, I thought of selling my old HTC model, and buy it whenever it comes for sale. The HTC 1 bears a candy bar design with sexy red and blue circles, one on the top and other at the bottom. May be one is a scroll bar and the other indicator light, but, whatever it is, it looks cool.

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