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We had a hunch this refresh was coming, and according to information gathered by CNET, it’s all going down on Monday. The 2.53GHz SP9600, complete with its 6MB of cache memory and $316 sticker, will reportedly be revealed alongside the 1.6GHz SU9600, which will be pegged at $289. Furthermore, we should see a single-core 1.4GHz SU3500 ($262) with a thermal envelope of only 5.5 watts, which will obviously cater to those really, really low-power applications where horsepower isn’t a concern. Interestingly, these newfangled pieces of silicon won’t be those rumored CULV chips we heard about in January, as those won’t be good and ready ’til summertime. There’s also a slight chance that we’ll hear a bit more on Intel’s reemergence in the GPU field, but we’re not holding our breath quite so much on that. Dig in below for lots more, or just be patience and wait for the 30th. Totally your call.

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Filed under: Laptops

Intel to officially refresh laptop chips next week? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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When you’re dealing with a major signal reception issue on a phone, it’s easy to believe that the problem isn’t gonna go away without retooling the innards and releasing revised hardware — but for North American owners (and would-be owners) of Nokia’s stricken NAM version of the 5800 XpressMusic, there’s new hope. The Nokia Blog is claiming that word from an inside source confirms that the problem has already been fixed with an unreleased firmware update, which would lead us to believe that Nokia could conceivably get devices back on the shelves relatively quickly — and that current owners will be able to fix their woes without physically exchanging phones. Of course, firmware updates have never come out of Espoo at a firehose pace — particularly for North American versions of devices — so we’ll believe this is resolved when we’ve seen it with our own eyes.

Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds

Reception issues with North American Nokia 5800s to be fixed with firmware? originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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While HP’s dv7t provides a much more subtle way to game on-the-go compared to say, the HDX crew, we don’t see the necessity in keeping these updates all hush-hush. For whatever reason, it seems that said laptop has been updated overnight from 17- to 17.3-inches (we’re talking LCD size, by the way), and the NVIDIA graphics option has been replaced with a pair of ATI selections: the 512MB Mobility Radeon HD 4530 and 1GB HD 4650. The newfangled 17.3-inch panel sports a somewhat deflating 1,600 x 900 native resolution, though there is good news to be shared. The previous $1,229 starting point has dropped to a decidedly more manageable $799.99, though it’ll cost you extra to equip this beast with the 2GHz Core 2 Quad CPU that it really deserves.

[Thanks, Johnny and Coal]

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HP quietly updates Pavilion dv7t gaming laptop originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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No copy and paste here, move along everyone! What you can expect in the new, just-released 2.2.1 software update for the iPhone (and iPod touch) is “improved general stability of Safari” — always encouraging — and a fix for saved Mail images not showing up just right in the camera roll. It’s like Christmas in January!

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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iPhone firmware update 2.2.1 brings minor stability improvements originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sony just dropped some details on its upcoming 2.60 firmware update for the PS3. The big thrust of the update is a new Photo Gallery app, which can sort by various EXIF data, but also the actual content of the image itself, including colors used, number of people in the photo, how old they are, and facial expressions they used when you pulled out your powdered-blue Kodak to take a few historical snapshots. Naturally you can build slideshows with music and the like. Sony’s also adding with this update guest access to the PlayStation Store and DivX 3.11 support. If that’s not enough magic to get you riled up, Sony’s also pushing out a PSP update, firmware 5.03 that addresses “security vulnerabilities” (we wonder what that could be?) and some stability issues. There’s a video walkthrough of the PS3 update after the break.

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Sony ushers in change, hope with upcoming PS3 2.60 firmware update originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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