In the latest round of flash memory wars, Sony announced their surprisingly expensive 8gb Memory Stick Pro Duo. Primarily designed for PSP owners running firmware 2.81 or later, this card capacity goes a long way towards addressing the PSP's lack of internal storage space.
With no PSP redesign rumors emerging, this might be as good as it gets for the PSP faithful--at least until 16gb+ cards arrive later in '07.
But with 8gb SDHC (aka SD 2.0) and CompactFlash card prices plummeting, Sony and Sandisk may have to do some serious price cutting to keep pace. Despite the dearth of hardware supporting SDHC, 8gb SDHC are actually beating out the venerable CompactFlash cards in pricing.
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Philips Consumer Electronics has registered a Linux-powered WiFi videophone with the FCC, for possible U.S. distribution. The Visiophone VP6000 and its earphone-jack- and TV-out-equipped sibling, the VP6500, run Linux on an ARM9-based Freescale i.MX21 processor, and feature vendor-initiated firmware updates.
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It’s not only your expensive game consoles that need firmware updates to iron out creases in the system. Japan’s KDDI and Toshiba today also confirmed that one of their recent phones, the otherwise-lovely A5523T, was riddled with a bug that would kill the handset’s key input function (arguably its most useful function) whenever users dared to compose an email with the phone’s mail application.
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The official firmware for the T-Mobile Dash windows mobile 6 upgrade has been leaked. It's the official T-Mobile release, so there shouldn't be any compatibility problems from having another device's ROM. Gizmodo is the only site with the cajones to include a download link.
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Sony Ericsson promised to offer a new P990 firmware in August. It seems it's available already. From SEUS, there's a new firmware, labelled as R6E28. If you have the guts to update your P990 firmware, go ahead and hit the update button. Unfortunately, there's no information about what h
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A new firmware update is available for the Nokia N76. Continuing the trend set with other devices the update adds the A2DP and AVRCP Bluetooth Profiles for stereo audio over Bluetooth. The menu structure has also been rearranged and there are a number of stability improvements and bug fixes.
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If you have a point-and-click digital camera made by Canon, you may be able to turn on all sorts of features usually reserved for more expensive SLRs. That includes live histograms, depth-of-field calculation, under and overexposure highlighting, and -- best of all -- shooting your pictures in RAW. The secret is CHDK, an enhanced, free software replacement firmware.
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Well, see, here’s the thing…we’ve been informed that all current shipments of iPhones to AT&T stores have been halted. This is to ensure that every iPhone contains the 1.1.1 firmware. Besides normally upgrading the units, which is totally par for the course, they’ve noticed a tremendous amount of people purchasing iPhones in order unlock them and resell (duh!). In order to cut this down, the maxi
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The beta 2.0 firmware that comes with the iPhone SDK has been modified to unlock the iPhone and run any application. Part of the Pwnage Project, the hacked firmware will allow you to do anything you want, including the installation of both official and unofficial apps, and even patches.
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