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US Electronics major Newegg ships Counterfeit Intel Chips

Newegg, the California based online electronics retailer had shipped hundreds of counterfeit Intel Core  i7 920 processors to its customers over the past couple of weeks. The Intel Core i7 920 processor being a premium and high end processor is now only in its very first revision. The counterfeits were reported by  some users by the Spelling mistakes in the packages of the Processor, typically most counterfeits from China do have these typos in their packaging.

Since then Newegg has banned one of its suppliers IPEX who had supplied these counterfeit chips. Below are some pictures from Overclockers forum.

Counterfeit Intel Core i7 920 processor Box

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Cookie Pep LG touch screen mobile phone in India

First thing which made me wonder is the name of the mobile phone GD510.Now I realise that the name is very much apt for this mobile because of its peppy and stylish looks.But yet to find the reason behind the term “cookie”

Features of this mobile are like other latest mobiles with 3.5 pixels camera,Full touch screen,one touch social networking and mp3 player.Other key feature would be one one home key showing red and green lights based on its operation.Next key feature is the solar panel for battery charging but it is optional.

Talk time – upto 9.8 hr

Standup time – upto 486 hr

With battery charged with solar power talktime is – 2 min 30 sec and stand time in 3 hrs

Will the solar battery charging challenge the Nokia’s self charging handset in near future?

LG Cookie Pep Video

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Nokia reveals the concept of self charging handset

Nokia has exposed their mind blowing technology of self charging handset today. It is soon to reach the market but price of self charging handset would not seem to be too high as per the revealed mechanism of rails.But they are not very sure of when this handset would come to the market since they have not reached up to the mark of regular charging.People also have started giving suggestions on this technology like using solar power and quite other suggestions.
Leaving all these things aside,this new handset is sure to attract all the nokia customers as they need not carry their chargers all the way.Frequent travellers,Consultants would have already marked an alert on google for the release of this product.Though it satisfies the wish list of mobile users other health conscious mobile users who have already started looking for green mobiles are sure to ask questions on their radiation mechanism.