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More than a year after leaving the first mobile phone from the collaboration between LG and Italian brand Prada, LG will market a successor to its best-seller, + compatible 3G and WiFi, with a large sliding keyboard.

Despite its high price and limited connectivity (Edge only), the LG Prada has been an undeniable success, thanks to its design ‘in the Wind “, its wealth but also its functional interface original touch. In late September, LG claimed to have sold over a million copies of Prada. Today, the Korean manufacturer announced it will market by the end of the successor, Prada II.

This new model is gaining more connectivity 3G/3G + (HSDPA 7.2 Mbps) and WiFi, a photo sensor 5 million pixels and hides behind his great touch screen a full QWERTY keyboard. In short, with these advantages, this mobile phone which is not a smartphone itself (its operating system owns) has ambitions to go compete with the flower of the “smart phone” with similar characteristics and operating Windows Mobile or Android: HTC Touch Pro, Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 or the latest T-Mobile G1.

The LG Prada II could reach a wider clientele, individuals as professionals. To do this, this phone also offers an HTML browser, a client manager e-mail attachments, a viewer documents … Its price has nothing to envy rather than those of smartphones since the LG Prada II will be offered from 600 euros.

For use by professional nomads, Panasonic has introduced its latest Ultraportables very resistant Toughbook, the CF-W8, the CF-T8 and the CF-F8. If the first two, with 12.1-inch screens, mainly do to upgrade their processor, the third model to handle, displays more new features for 14 inches.

Laptops that just submit Panasonic, the CF-W8, the CF-T8 and the CF-F8, are not “hardened” as those designed for example to the military or industry, which resist to dust and spray water, but they are far from being fragile!

Labeled Toughbook Executive, they are designed for traveling executives, architects, lawyers and other professions. And they must endure harsh treatment: Falls (tested up to 76 cm), pressures equivalent to the weight of 100 kg and spills on the keyboard. These requirements were imposed on the previous series.

Moreover, the W8-CF and CF-T8 which have screens of 12.1 inches (1024 x 768 pixels) does not too different from their predecessors. Their chassis have not changed. But their processor, identical to both, is now up to the platform Centrino 2 (vPro technology with remote assistance) are Intel Core 2 Duo SU9300 (1.2 GHz). The installed RAM (DDR2 667) is 2 GB, and the hard disk of 120 GB Autonomy announced by Panasonic is comfortable it would be 7.5 hours (depending on the testing of Mobile Mark 2007). The W8 has a weight of 1.280 kg. While the T8, its touch screen and no optical drive, weighs slightly heavier with 1385 kg.

A 14-inch model, to handle and a mere 1.6 kg

The third computer, the CF-F8 is heavier. But with only 1.66 kg, it is now, according to Panasonic, the laptop with a 14.1 inch screen and an optical drive the lightest in its class. And semi-hardened further. Its screen is wider, with resolution of 1280×800 pixels, Panasonic saying it responds to requests from users. The processor is stronger also is an Intel Core 2 Duo SP9300 running at 2.26 GHz.

The T-Mobile G1 is to be presented to the world today in New York but leaks from the official website dedicated to unveil Android smartphone already plenty of information.

It is the site Tmonews which published photos in the first official Android smartphone manufactured by HTC: they confirm the photos “stolen” from a terminal supposed to be G1, released a few days ago: G1 is a terminal with a large touchscreen and a sliding full keyboard.

The site also provides the main features of the machine compatible with the networks 3G mobile broadband, it weighs 159 g and measuring 116 x 54 x 16 mm (one template very close to the HTC Touch Pro). Its touch screen displays 65 536 colors for a resolution HVGA (480 x 320 pixels). G1 integrates well a GPS receiver and a photo sensor three million pixels. Storage side, it is certainly a memory card slot (up to 8 GB capacity). The manufacturer announces 5 hours of communication and 130 hours of standby time.

Among the shortcomings already identified include lack of support for Bluetooth stereo (what we already knew) and video recording, as some Apple iPhone 3G.

The operator T-Mobile G1 will market its 3G coverage areas in the United States at the same price as the iPhone 16 GB subscription, and will require that the customer has a Gmail account to acquire the G1. T-Mobile Google promises a complete experience, with a one-click access to various Internet applications: Maps (with the traffic and function Street View), Gmail messaging service, video sharing YouTube, Calendar and the VoIP communication service Google Talk. The mention of Google Talk is surprising, since developers of the mobile platform had warned several weeks ago that they would not be able to incorporate this feature in time for the first version of Android.

AMD this week published the latest release pilots to graphics cards in the series of Radeon. In addition to various bug fixes with games like Company of Heroes, Quake 4, Spore, World in Conflict, Assassin’s Creed, DiRT, Jericho, Grid or Age of Conan, these drivers stamped 8.9 introduce three new products, starting with care the display 1080p with a frequency of 50 Hz for all cards series Radeon HD 2000, 3000, 4000 and for the Radeon X1000.

The manufacturer also announced support for the Overdrive in configurations type CrossfireX Quad, which will enable those concerned to have new features relating to overclock. Finally, AMD refers to the care instructions improved OpenGL 3.0.

You can download directly from our servers different versions of these Catalyst 8.9. This concerns the following operating systems: Windows XP (32 and 64 bit), Windows Vista (32 and 64 bit) and Linux. Note that for the moment, care of these drivers on the cards from the family HD Radeon 4600 is not formally guaranteed by AMD.

Presented discreetly in Mexico, the Toshiba Satellite NB105 seems to be the first Japanese manufacturer of netbook, identified by the blog JKK Mobile. This model offers features for a very traditional netbook: Intel Atom 1.6 GHz, 8.9-inch screen with resolution 1024 x 600 pixels, 120 GB hard drive, 1 GB of RAM and Windows XP Home Edition. Side connections, this little machine offers 3 USB ports, an Ethernet port, a site for SD card and the WiFi wireless connectivity.

But despite these benefits approximating a Asus Eee PC 901 or a Dell Inspiron Mini 9, the contours of this mini laptop remain very professional, the antithesis of design “fun” and colorful that competitors Toshiba offer. Yet his name Satellite ranks well in the category of portable general public.

It will take a few more weeks its official launch in Europe to find out which market Toshiba wants to focus with such a machine. Last July, Toshiba had confirmed he was preparing a mini laptop but does not specify whether this future machine would be part of the category of netbooks.

Read, edit and save files Windows will be possible on the iPhone, with 4 Quickoffice applications. Word, Excel and PowerPoint therefore open to users of Apple smartphone, after Nokia.

The Quickoffice software, which allowed previously read documents only on Nokia phones (Symbian) and Palm, arrived on the iPhone and Apple iPod Touch. It is intended, however, the users of the service MobileMe proposed by Apple, which offers a storage space of documents on paid subscription.

Four variations of Quickoffice are emerging for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The first MobileFiles, can read some attachments with messages, including documents Google and Box.net. This was previously not possible on the iPhone.

MobileFiles will normally be available in November, free, but only with the opportunity to read the documents.

To be able to make changes, it will turn to the other three applications. Quicksheet, Quickpoint will respectively Quickword and edit Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word. They will be available thereafter early 2009 in principle.

Only available supply on the market

For each, it will pay $ 10. News.com was able to test at the CTIA conference held in San Francisco this week (10 to 12 September). Quicksheet and Quickword show clearly attachments MobileMe as multipage files, and allow the user to make changes in two ways, by touching the screen.

If you buy all three applications, pay $ 30 may seem a bit excessive for simply can modify and save the three types of documents in its space MobileMe staff since the iPhone. Especially when you know that reading one of the documents is free. It remains to be seen whether a bundle will be offered more advantageous.