Nokia's E52 brings 8 hours of talk, 23 days of standby

Check it suits, Nokia just spat another E-series device into the boardroom. What the E52 lacks in looks it makes up for with battery specs: 8 hours of talk or 23 days of standby. Otherwise it's an A-GPS, WiFi, HSUPA data, and 3.2 megapixel candybar with generous support for your IT environments via built-in mobile VPN, Call Connect, and choice of corporate email options including Nokia Messaging, Exchange, and yes, Lotus Notes too for all you accountants. Ships in the second half of the year for €245, pre-subsidy and pre-tax.

Not So Fast: Testing Finds World’s First LTE Network Isn’t Very 4G-ish

In a rather disappointing example of “your mileage may vary,” market research firm Northstream has put TeliaSonera’s shiny new LTE network — the world’s first to go commercial — to the test, coming away with some disappointing conclusions. 

The bottom line is that they never managed to go above about 12Mbps downstream, a pretty wild figure considering that Ericsson is in the process of rolling out 84 purely theoretical megabits per second right now using plain old HSPA+ for 3 Scandinavia.

 The bright side is that they managed a fat 5Mbps on the upstream and experienced consistently lower latency than on the area’s 3G networks; in fact, the firm ended up coming away with a glowing impression of the service, assuming (probably accurately) that this is just the first baby step in finding out what LTE is really capable of. And hey, some lucky jerks are getting over 42Mbps down, so it’s a crap shoot anyway.

KFA2 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 WHDI graphics card is first to go wireless

What you’re looking at is the world’s first wireless graphics card affectionately dubbed the KFA2 GeForce GTX460 WHDI 1024MB PCIe 2.0. 

The card uses five aerials to stream uncompressed 1080p video from your PC to your WHDI enabled television (or any display courtesy of the bundled 5GHz WHDI receiver) at a range of about 100 feet. 

Otherwise, it’s the same mid-range GTX 460 card we’ve seen universally lauded with 1024MB of onboard RAM helping to make the most of its 336 CUDA cores. 

Insane, yes, but we’d accept nothing less from our beloved graphics cards manufacturers.