Michelle Maisto

Advanced Micro Devices is rolling out a new graphics card, the ATI Radeon HD 4890, which the chip company claimed is driven by the “world’s most powerful graphics processor.”Testing by GPU Review shows the HD 4890 delivers 1.36 teraflops of raw computing power, versus the 1.06 teraflops of a competing GPU. With the release of […]

Kyocera has introduced the G2GO M2000 and Laylo – both CDMA phones but intended for different users and states of mind.The G2GO (pronounced “good to go”) is being touted as a low-cost, text-centric device with a full qwerty keypad.The G2GO features a 2.4-inch QVGA screen that switches from a portrait to landscape orientation when the […]

Samsung has made two introductions from the floor of CTIA Wireless 2009: the Samsung Mondi WiMax-enabled handheld and the Samsung Instinct s30 smartphone.The attention-grabbing Mondi features a 4.3-inch full touch-screen with Samsung’s TouchWiz user interface-also on the Samsung S5600 Behold, Eternity and Omnia-which offers one-touch access to customizable online widgets, such as weather or news […]

Kyocera Communications announced it is displaying a prototype of its all-in-one LTE base station in its booth at the CTIA Wireless conference, along with three iBurst terminal devices.Kyocera has not yet conducted field trials of the Long Term Evolution base station it has on display, and for now is restricting descriptions of its benefits to […]

Microsoft is sharing new information about the Windows Marketplace for Mobile application store, in anticipation of its keynote address at CTIA Wireless 2009 on April 2. During his keynote, Microsoft’s Robbie Bach, president of entertainment and devices for the software giant, will announce new alliances between Microsoft and EA Mobile, MySpace and Isaac Mizrahi.EA and […]

Ericsson has announced a new mobile-broadband module, the F3607gw, for connecting to HSPA/GPRS/EDGE networks. The module – whose name is less cumbersome if you consider the g is for GPS and the w is for “wake-on wireless” – will be released in June.Three features in particular set the new module apart: support for the Microsoft […]

Intel has updated its processor pricing list to include new chip models for laptops.In addition to the “Nehalem EP” Xeon processors for two-socket systems that Intel officially rolled out on March 30, the chip giant has introduced several other chips, including ultra low-volt and low-volt models for notebooks.Pricing lists released March 29, included four new […]

Motorola on March 30 introduced the Evoke QA4, a cell phone offering means to very extroverted ends.The Motorola Evoke QA4’s 2.8-inch WQVGA full touch-screen slides up to reveal a keypad. Turned on its side, the touch-screen can also act as a virtual full-touch QWERTY keyboard, making it simpler to write longer text messages-which predictive text […]

With CTIA just around the corner, AT&T introduced on March 30 six phones it will make available “in the coming weeks.” This new lineup of smartphones and cell phones consists of the Nokia E71x, the Samsung Propel, the Samsung Impression, the Samsung Magnet, and the lighter-featured LG Xenon and LG Neon.The phones vary in price […]

CEO Michael Dell, speaking at a conference in Tokyo March 24, did little to curb speculations that Dell is considering an acquisition. Some are now suggesting that Palm, which is about to release its Pre smartphone, could be a good match for a company that wants to be more than a computer maker. “It is […]