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One of the Chinese electronics manufacturers from Guangzhou issued in the local market smartphones based on operating system Android 1.6 – T-Smart G68. This is a fairly simple device in a popular form factor besklaviaturnogo monoblock. It is based on Qualcomm processor with 600 MHz, equipped with 256 MB of RAM and 3.2-inch touch screen. Under the screen there are several sensors and hardware buttons.

T-Smart G68 – an inexpensive Chinese smartphone based on Android

You can use this smartphone for photography: for this he has a 5 megapixel camera. It is also reported to support wireless networks Wi-Fi and battery capacity of 1230 mAh (most likely the battery life is not very large). Overall, a pretty good mass model for a low price, less is just an outdated version of the operating system. T-Smart G68 is already sold in the Chinese market, costing about 1,290 yuan, is equivalent to approximately $ 190. Most likely, outside of China is a simple device will not be sold.

Microsoft has described some of the opportunities that are available for its new operating system Windows Phone 7, its release is expected this fall. Thus, communicators based on Windows Phone 7 will be able to connect to the Zune application on your computer through wireless network Wi-Fi. This will sync music, videos and photos. In addition, we plan to release a special website Windows Phone Live. It will be designed for users of Windows Phone publication 7 images, sync contacts Windows Live, OneNote notebook and so on. All this is done through a web interface.

Vroom, in particular the functions of the new service Windows Phone Live will be such as Find My Phone. With it you can find a lost device (its location is displayed on the map). In addition, this option enables remotely lock the phone, erase the information stored there, or start a call. Running Windows Phone Live will take place at the time of launch sales of the first models with Windows Phone 7.

According to the staff Sega, for the shooter Vanquish developed a new mini-addon. Gamers will get it for free, if you will order the project in advance. The kit will include: automatic, powerful armor-piercing gun and a laser gun. Materials will be available one week after release.

New weapons for militants Vanquish handed out to pre-order

Action Vanquish will help restore the popularity of the genre in Japan. The game looks like a mixture of Gears of War and Bayoneta. The main character very quickly maneuvered between shelters, bombarded the enemy with machine guns and the enemy uses robots as turrets. It was mandated to prevent further invasion of Russia on the territory of the United States.

New weapons for militants Vanquish handed out to pre-order

Release militants Vanquish held this winter. The game will be released on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Most likely, this will be the last project of Shinji Mikami to Platinum Games.

Nintendo Company announced that the debut adventure Metroid: Other M will be the third of September this year. Direct involvement in product development take the creators of the cult series of Ninja Gaiden from the studio Team Ninja.

Metroid: Other M tells about the return of the legendary Samus Aran in the ranks of the army. The main character re-enters the battle with the hordes of alien invaders. It is noteworthy that in the mode of first-person protagonist is not able to move around the map. Type “from the helmet will help the player find the caches, but have already run in the third person.

Playing Metroid: Other M appears on the shelves in Europe in September

Project Metroid: Other M will be available only for owners of Wii.

Many owners of the mailboxes from Google Mail for a long time throwing Techcorp company’s request to introduce the possibility to create a formatted signatures using the WYSIWYG-editor (visual editor from England. What you see is what you get – what you see, what you get). Finally, in the company heeded the “prayers” and an opportunity to draw the signature “a pretty” appeared. A programmer from the Gmail team Nihel Mark (Mark Knichel) wrote: “I have repeatedly seen attempts to remedy the situation themselves: users used different scripts and plugins for the browser and even templates responses (canned responses) from Gmail Labs. Others lived with a sense of disappointment is not in a position to change the color or the font size of the signature or add an image and link.

Signed in Gmail now can be beautiful

If you have multiple e-mail addresses to answer, the opportunity to add each of them a unique signature – refers to all the email address associated with the gmail-box.

Signed in Gmail you can now make beautiful

At the moment support formatted signature available with the latest desktop version of your email client. The old version and HTML-version of Gmail, as well as mobile versions of the client only supports text version of the signature.

The website of the company High Tech Computer appeared profiles UA Prof two new mobile devices – HTC Mondrian and HTC Mozart. Both these models are already known by hearsay, and now appears almost an official confirmation of their existence. Judging by the profile file, HTC Mondrian and HTC Mozart worked on the basis Windows Phone 7 and equipped displays with a resolution of 480×800 pixels. Apparently, it is quite large in size touch screens.

Windows Phone 7 communicator HTC Mondrian and Mozart there

No other details about the characteristics of two new products in the files UA Prof is practically no. But they have been known previously, although not confirmed officially. For example, we reported that HTC Mondrian built on Qualcomm processor with a clock speed of 1.3 GHz, equipped with a 4.3-inch touchscreen, and supports network CDMA / GSM. Also on board the device 5 megapixel camera and a digital compass. As for HTC Mozart, then about its characteristics almost nothing is known, but cited time of its release – October this year.

A well-known Taiwanese manufacturer ASRock prepares to replenish its offer one more, apparently, already ninth in a row based motherboard chipset Intel P55, maintenance performed by processors LGA 1156. Novelty was named ASRock P55 Extreme4 and clearly belongs to the decisions of “extreme” series, focused on gamers and enthusiasts.

Motherboard ASRock P55 Extreme4 equipped with four ports SATA 6.0 Gbps

Unlike most on the market motherboards equipped with a maximum of two-port SATA 6.0 Gbps, a new product ASRock is on board as many as four such connectors, sold through third-party controller. In addition, there are four slots for DDR3 memory 2600, two expansion slots PCI-Express x16 support SLI mode, and CrossFireX, as well as six ports SATA 3.0 Gbps.

At the front and back side of the motherboard contains ports USB 3.0, in addition, it is composed of slot Gigabit Ethernet, integrated 7.1 channel audio chip, LED Debug button and Power, Reset, and (probably) Clear CMOS. On the release date and price ASRock P55 Extreme4 not yet reported.

Company Acer, apparently wishing to compete with energy-efficient products Samsung, has expanded its line of S3 new LCD monitor with low power consumption. New feature called S273HL, has a diagonal of 27 inches and equipped with white LED backlight (LED).

Acer is introduced “green” and stylish Full HD monitor S273HL with white LED backlight

The latter feature reduces power consumption Acer S273HL 68 percent compared to traditional LCD display with backlight on the basis of fluorescent lamps with cold cathode (CFFL). In addition, the new monitor boasts a stylish design in black and a little thick – 21 mm.

There is also an L-shaped metal stand with a rough finish, fitted with a LED blue light to signal when power. With regard to the characteristics of the monitor, they include both 1920 x 1080 pixels, a dynamic contrast ratio 12 000 000:1 and response time of 2 ms, as well as the presence of two HDMI ports.

Presence and support of proprietary technologies Acer Adaptive Contrast Management (ACM) and Acer eColor Management, improving the contrast and adapting the display to ambient light conditions.

Resource Macworld has published the results of testing iPhone 4 in the duration of battery life compared to their predecessors and in different conditions. As it turned out, the latest generation Apple device can really work out longer without recharging. Novelty compared with the iPhone 3GS, for example, when playing a standard definition video at full brightness. Within 45 minutes you are downloading video from the iTunes Store on the Wi-Fi, and then it was reproduced in 1 hour 43 minutes.

Apple iPhone 4 works without charge to 40% longer than the iPhone 3GS

After this has been downloaded a free application Pandora from the App Store on 3G, and then produced Internet surfing with streaming audio from Pandora in the background for 30 minutes. And, finally, followed by a 14-minute phone call and then the battery iPhone 3GS dead. As a result, he spent three o’clock 14 minutes.

As for iPhone 4, he survived a 50-minute Web surfing with musical accompaniment, 30-minute phone call and another 44 minutes of video. And only after the battery device over. In total it lasted for 4 hours and 32 minutes – significantly more than the iPhone 3GS, approximately 40%.

Scientists at MIT have developed a computer program which deciphered the dead language of the Semitic family – Ugaritic – a couple of hours, reports Lenta.ru “referring to the site of the Institute.

This program compares Ugaritic word on the words of closely related languages – Hebrew – in search of common roots. The researchers proceeded from the assumption that the elements between different level of related languages can be set unambiguous communication – both in the characters of the alphabet, and the level of word parts (morphemes).

Ugaritic has already been decrypted: otherwise, the researchers could not verify the accuracy of the program. For 29 of the 30 letters of his machine was able to find the right match in Hebrew. Approximately one third of Ugaritic words are “relatives” in Hebrew, of which the program correctly identified 60 percent.

The impetus to work for Massachusetts researchers was the book “Lost Languages by Andrew Robinson, in which he argues that the machines do not possess the blend of logic and intuition that are needed to archaeologists and linguists to successfully decrypt the messages on the dead languages. In a response letter to scientists who sent Robinson his study, he wrote that their results it is still not convinced. In particular, Robinson noted that the new program will not help to cope with texts written in languages decrypted or alive “relatives” are not known.

Nevertheless, Barzilai, Snyder and Knight are hoping that their program, even if not decipher the ancient writing system, will help developers of automatic translators such as Google Translate.