500 LED flashlight will turn your night into day – GSMArena Blog

If you are looking for a flashlight powerful enough to illuminate the Great Wall of China, then by all means take a moment to check this out. This guy has put together some 500 five millimeter super-bright white LEDs and created this big-ass flashlight that you can see in action in the video after the break.

There are a lot controls on the back-end of this beast allowing you to bump its consumption (and in turn – lighting output) all the way up to 50 watts. Now if you are wondering what good is a 50 watt LED flashlight, check out the following video and see how it compares to its regular peers.

Nokia N900 gets FTL speed, overclocked to 1GHz – GSMArena Blog

OK, it’s not the speed that will take you to Pegasus galaxy in an instant, but it’s still quite impressive given the standard 600 MHz processor clock of the Nokia N900. There is no voltage tweak involved in this overclock, only a precompiled system kernel.

Currently, the N900 operates stably only up to 900 MHz. There has been a successful run even at 1GHz (hence my title) but it’s not for mass consumption yet.
For now, you can run your N900 CPU safely at 900 MHz and users report the sped benefit is enormous. Just don’t keep it running like that all the time since you may fry it.

Here is a video demonstrating how fast the N900 is running at 900 MHz:

The iPad torn to pieces, the 1GHz A4 CPU turns out an overclocked iPhone 3GS CPU?

You’ve probably heard all about Apple’s new iPad. Everybody obviously loves the snappiness of the thing and the 1GHz A4 CPU that ticks inside obviously plays a big role in that.

Well, since the guys over at iFixIt tore the thing down, they’ve been working hard on figuring what’s finding what’s hiding under the packaging. And it turned out an overclocked Cortex A8 CPU – the same processor the iPhone 3GS uses at 600MHz.

According to iFixit and their pals from Chipworks, the heart of the Apple’s 1GHz A4 system-on-a-chip has to be a Cortex A8 core.

They X-rayed the thing and their conclusion is that since the processor isn’t a multi-core A9, it has to be an A8. However, while the iPhone CPU is clocked at 600MHz, the iPad is almost twice as fast, packing a processor clocked at 1GHz. Much like the overclocked version of Nokia N900.

So, folks, the iPad is here. And it’s selling great: 300 000 units have been sold in just one day. Not bad, huh? To be honest, I don’t see the point in a gigantic iPod Touch sold for a gigantic amount of money (considering what it offers), but I’m still more than eager to give it a try.

You know, they say everybody finds the iPad captivating when they get it in their hands for the first time.

Now you can send files in iGoogle and orkut chat right from your browser – GSMArena Blog

What’s the easiest way to send a file to someone? Launch whatever IM client you both use and send it. And now, you can do that with the iGoogle and orkut chat right from your browser…

Transferring a file is dead simple – click Actions, select Send a file and that’s it. All kinds of files are supported – documents, photos and others. This works for the chat in iGoogle and orkut, and also if the other person is using the desktop Google Talk app.

It doesn’t work in Gmail (yet) however. The Google team are working on adding support for this feature in Google’s popular mail service, but it works right now in their personalized homepage, iGoogle, and orkut (which, for those of you outside of Brazil and India, is Google’s social network).

The chat UI also got a quick tweak – now the voice and video chat options are more easily accessible. You still need a plug-in for those to work, but I hear HTML5 will eventually give pages access to the webcam and microphone without extra plug-ins.