Best 5 navigation systems
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Portable GPS systems become very popular, especially for car navigation. There are a list of top devices.
- Garmin Nuvi 660 - Nuvi series offer great performance, but price is little too high.
- HP iPaq rx5900 Travel Companion - one of the sleekest navigation systems, available for rational price.
- Magellan Maestro 4250 - mid level device with solid performance and reasonable price.
- Mio C520 Navigation Receiver - advantages of this reciver are large screen and advanced navigation features.
- TomTom GO 720 - new generation of TomTom recivers, thinner, faster, and better equiped than pervious models form Amsterdam-based company.
Logiteh
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Logiteh is a leading producer of computer peripherals. This Switzerland based holding is one of the biggest players in PC peripherals field, rivals with Ideazon, Creative Technology or A4Tek.
Logitech produces devices, computer peripherals - keyboards, mouses, cameras, bluetooth dongles and devices, PC speakers, headphones, and gaming controllers. Logitech also produces other electronics like wireless audio devices, MP3 players, and mobile phones.
Company is known from simple, stylish mass-marketed products that made Logitech well-known brand. Production facilities are located in China and US, Taiwan, Ireland.
Qualcomm MSM7200 and MSM7200A
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Qualcomm MSM7200 was released in 2006. This chip based on ARM1136EJ-S processor which works up to 665 MHz, additionally equipped with ARM9 @274MHz coprocessor.
Embedded Digital signal processors - QDSP4000 and QDSP5000 - support such technologies like GPRS/EGPRS, EDGE, HSDPA, HSUPA and MBMS baseband. Embedded gpsOne module, Qcamera, Qtv, Qcamcorder, and Qvideophone are responsible for GPS and multimedia functions.
Build-in ATI Imageon 3D/Imageon 2D supports OpenGL ES 1.0 and Direct 3D, is able to generate 4M triangles and 133M pixels per second.
Qualcomm MSM7200A was launched in 2007 as a improved MSM7200.
New TI OMAP
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Texas Instruments has annouced new OMAP, High Performance family, microprocessors.
OMAP3440 is powered by 800 MHz ARM Cortex A8 processor, IVA™ 2+ (Image Video Audio) accelerator and PowerVR SGX 530 2D/3D Graphics Accelerator. It is the most powerful chip of OMAP34xx subfamily.
TI has introduced new subfamily OMAP35xx - which is powered by 600 MHz ARM Cortex A8 processor. The best equipped OMAP3530, has got PowerVR SGX 530 2D/3D Graphics Accelerator, and new IVA2.2™ Accelerator Subsystem.
Other chips are poorest - OMAP3525 is without 3D accelerator, OMAP3515 is without IVA subsystem, and OMAP3503 is only equipped with Cortex CPU.
Apple iPhone main parts
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iPhone electronic components depends on series of iPhone, but there is a list of most popular parts.
- Apple branded processor - probabli Samsung S3C6400, or an unannounced S5L8900.
- Samsung flash memory - K9HBG08U1M for the 4GB models, K9MCGD8U5M for 8GB models.
- Intel Wireless Flash memory - 1030W0YTQ2 or 1020W0YTQ1.
- S-GOLD2 multimedia Infineon chip, this multimedia processor can decode and encode audio formats, decode H.264 video, drive the camera and the high-resolution display, perform EDGE modem capabilities, and interface with Bluetooth and FM radio.
- Wolfson WM8758BG - audio codec.
- Marvel W8686B13, 802.11bg chip.
- Skyworks SKY77340, the quad-band GSM/EDGE power amplifier.
- Micron MT9D112D00STC - imaging sensor.
Toshiba Satelite R15-s822
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The Toshiba Satelite R15-S822 is a convertible notebook with 14-inch screen and weighs of 6.1 pounds. It is a portable computer between notebook and tablet. Satellite R15 is a bigger version of the Toshiba Portege M205-S809 convertible tablet.
Screen of Satelite R15 has 1,024-by-768 resolution, featured Intel Extreme Graphics 2 video card with 16 to 64 MB of shared video memory. The 14.1-inch screen can be rotated to full tablet mode.
Toshiba Satelite R15-S822 has an integrated 802.11b and 802.11g wireless LAN networks adapter. Moreover, Satelite R15 offer connectivity with USB 2.0 and Firewire.
Toshiba Satellite R15 is powered by 1.6GHz Pentium M processor, 512MB of 333MHz RAM and a 4,200 RPM HD with 60GB of storage.
This tablet was released in 2005, but it is good choices for people who are interested in palatable tablet in good price.
Nikon D300
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Nikon D300 is more revolutionary than specifications suggest.
This camera is featured a 12.3 Megapixel CMOS sensor, new 51 point autofocus 3D subject tracking and it is able to 6fps continuous shooting. Nikon D300 is equipped with 3″ 307,000 pixels LCD screen, Live View facilities, 100% viewfinder coverage, anti-dust capabilities, HDMI port.
Picture Control settings and active D-Lighting lets you to modify photos instead of after shooting.
These good equipped camer is packed into excellent ergonomics body made of rugged magnesium alloy which is sealed against dust and moisture.
Nikon D300 is an ideal camera for high-end enthusiasts or semi professional purposes.
Texas Instruments OMAP
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TI OMAP procesors are used for multimedia applications, like mobile devices - phones, handsets, PDA’s, mp3 and mp4 players, portable game systems, GPS devices etc.
OMAP processors based on ARM processor, and some of theme contain a dual-core architecture.
Whole OMAP family is broken in to three parts: “High Performance”, “Basic Multimedia”, and “Modem and Applications”.
OMAP High Performance series based on the fastest ARM architecture processors. Morover, chips like OMAP3430, OMAP3420 and OMAP3410 are powered by fast up to 1 GHz ARM Cortex A8 processor and PowerVR SGX 535 2D/3D Graphics Accelerator, so they are used for high performance 3D applications like the best mobile phones, handsets and portable devices. OMAP2xxx and OMAP1xxx are slower - 200 MHz to 330 MHz but they are a part of High Performance series.
Basic Multimedia series is dedicate for mas market devices like popular mp3 or mp4 players, or GPS devices with some multimedia functions. This chips, like OMAP3xx besed on ARM9 processor.
Modem and Applications series chips, OMAP8xx and OMAP7xx, are combined multimedia and GSM/GPRS functionality, they are powered by ARM9 processor, and they are used for mass market mutimedia mobiles.
Intel Core 2 processors prices
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Core 2 is a Intel’s x86 64-bit microprocessors, targeted to consumer and business markets.
Whole Core 2 family is branded as a Solo (single-core), Duo (dual-core), Quad (quad-core), and Extreme (dual- or quad-core CPUs for enthusiasts) Intel processors.
Desktop processors which will be released in first part of 2008 will be will be priced - $130 - $160 for Duo, $260 - $550 for Quad, and $1400 - $1500 for Extreme. Price of mobile processors will be form $300 to $500 for Duo.
Pandora console - myth or reality?
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Pandora console is going to be released in Spring of 2008, as a most powerful hand-held. This Texas Instruments OMAP 3430 powered device will be cost $320. But is it real?
When we look at performance, this console looks impressive - High Performance OMAP3430 is the most powerful processor made for mobile device. This processor supports OpenGL ES 2.0, 128MB of DDR SDRAM and 256MB of internal flash. This allow to emulate the Sony Playstation or Nintendo 64 and Nintento DS games.
Moreover, Pandora will be excellent equipped - qwerty keboard, 802.11g (Wi-fi), 4.3 inches 800×480 touchscreen LCD. Pandora will be open-source system running on Linux distribution.
But will it success? The most important factor in game systems are games. Even if console will be the most powerful device ever constructed, and there will be few games, this device will not success. Inside Nintendo DS, there is ARM9E architecture CPU, no High Performance CPU, but there are a lots of games for Nintendo DS, and this is a key factor of success in this field of electronic entertainment.