Event Coverage

Computex Taipei 2006 - Part 6

By Dr. Jimmy Tang - 9 Jun 2006

E-TEN and Kingston

E-TEN's Booth

The E-Ten M600 is a mobile smartphone featuring Microsoft's Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system. It comes with a 2.8-inch 65k color QVGA screen with 64MB RAM, 128MB ROM and a Samsung S3C 2440 400MHz processor. It does not lack connectivity too as it comes with Bluetooth 1.2, GPRS/GPS Quad band and built-in WLAN. E-Ten's bundled software within the phone makes it more user friendly and its friendly integration with Skype is something that E-Ten believes will bring users greater cost savings.

E-Ten's X-10 is their upcoming portable entertainment unit that has both GPS and DAB/DMB receivers built-in. This compact unit comes with a 3.5-inch TFT LCD QVGA display that comes with supports for MP3, DAB/DMB, EPG, FM, audio recording and image viewing. It will come with 128MB Flash ROM and 64MB of RAM with a miniSD slot for further memory expansion. This portable unit runs on Microsoft's Windows CE.NET 5.0 operating system and it has Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity built-in.


Kingston's Booth

Kingston's latest HyperX DDR2-1066 (5-5-5-15 CMD 1T) 512MB module will give overclockers more reason to tweak their systems for more performance.

Kingston's new FB (Fully Buffered) DIMM for Intel's recently announced Bensley server systems. It will be available in DDR2-667 speeds with capacities up to 2GB and latency timings of 5-5-5.

One of the more interesting displays at the Kingston booth is their K-PEX (Kingston Personal Entertainment Xperience) player. This deliciously mini flash based PMP sports a 2-inch screen, plays back a variety of image, audio and video formats and comes in 1-2GB sizes at the moment with a 4GB model to follow.

Are your USB flash thumbdrives to drab for your lifestyle? Kingston shows their new range of DataTraveler Mini Fun thumbdrives come in kaleidescope of colors, sports a funky design and can be strung along like Lego blocks. Sizes range up to 1GB.

Kingston's top-of the-line DataTraveler Elite Privacy thumbdrives make a return at Computex with a new brushed metal design that looks so much more distinguished than the old silver one. Yuo get advanced 256-bit encryption with capacities up to 4GB and good looks to match.

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