Specs of Samsung SHV-E120L Emerge: 4.7'', 1.5GHz CPU

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics is expected to bring to the market in the near future a new high-end smartphone, one that sports the model number Samsung SHV-E120L at the moment, and some more info on its hardware capabilities emerged.  The handset should hit the shelves with some of the most appealing specifications a smartphone can pack today, such as the large 4.7-inch touchscreen display, or a 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon application processor.  Moreover, it is expected to pair the CPU with an Adreno 220 GPU, and to deliver an impressive 1280 x 720 HD resolution (though it has been suggested that it might actually boast a WXGA 768 x 1280 resolution).  However, these are only some of the details that can...

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AMD Mobile APU Roadmap for 2012, 2013 Revealed

In 2012 and 2013 AMD will introduce a new series of APUs that go beyond Trinity and the other chips that we have come to know, according to a leaked company roadmap that made its way on the Web. As we have revealed previously, the start of 2012 will mark the introduction of the first accelerated processing units based on the Trinity architecture, that combines the Bulldozer-derived Piledriver cores with a VLIW4 graphics core known as London. The Trinity processors will cover a wide range of market and price points, from the performance to the essential sector. Just as the current Llano-based APUs, these chips will be released into the A8, A6 and A4 series, with some special low-power models being dubbed the E2. In the second half of 2012, low-end...

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Windows 8 Beta – Microsoft Shifting Focus on Next Milestone

With the Windows Developer Preview now available to early adopters worldwide, Microsoft is shifting focus on the next step in the evolution of Windows 8, the Beta.  A member of the Windows team told me at BUILD that work on the Windows 8 Beta has already begun, but of course, there’s still much to do. Windows 8 Developer Preview Build 8102 Milestone 3 (M3) was made available for download over a week ago, at the BUILD conference.  Steven Sinofsky, President, Windows and Windows Live Division, announced the launch of the Developer Preview Build of Windows 8 during the day 1 keynote address of the event.  According to Microsoft Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Steve Ballmer, Windows 8 Developer Preview Build 8102 M3 was downloaded over 500,000 times in less than 24 hours after launch....

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Nikon Finally Outs Mirorless Cameras, Meet the Nikon V1 and J1

Mirorless interchangeable lens cameras have benefited from a huge popularity boost since their introduction, and Nikon has now finally caught up with this trend thanks to the introduction of the V1 and J1, the company's first models to employ a compact ILC design. The V1 and the J1 share nearly identical specs, with the former camera coming as the more feature rich model of the two, thanks to a few minor tweaks. Both however include a 10.1 megapixel CMOS sensor, dual-core EXPEED processing engine, a 1200fps slow motion capture mode, 10fps burst shooting, 3-inch LCDs for reviewing the pictures taken and support for Full HD video capture. Users have the option of choosing between 1080/30p or 1080/60i, with the movie files recorded being capped...

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8 Seconds Windows 8 Boot – The Startup UX Brought into the 21st Century

Windows 8 boots in 8 seconds and even less on new computers equipped with solid-state drives (SSDs) while leveraging the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) to enhance the startup process.  Users can say goodbye to the Power-on Self-test (POST) phase of boot, as well as to the Windows graphical animation displayed as soon as rendering is no longer done by the basic input/output system (BIOS), leading up to the Windows logon UI.  “Once we realized just how fast boot was going to be in Windows 8, it was obvious that it was the perfect time to tackle the user experience to deliver something seamless, beautiful, and of consumer electronics quality,” revealed Billie Sue Chafins, senior program manager lead, Windows User Experience...

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New Windows Phone Resources for Symbian Developers

Microsoft and Nokia have just made a new step towards helping Symbian developers bring their applications to the Windows Phone platform, with the release of a white paper to explain what they need to know about moving from Symbian Qt to WP, and the addition of this development platform to the Windows Phone API mapping tool.  The release of these resources will be accompanied by a series of developer events, the first of which kicks off today in Paris, part of the “Nokia Windows Phone Training” roadshow. All these are aimed at Symbian developers who would like to come up with applications for the Windows Phone platform, and were released as a result of the Microsoft & Nokia agreement signed in early 2011 that will bring Microsoft's...

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AMD Trinity to Enter Mass Production in January 2012

Just a few days ago, an AMD official announced they are getting ready to introduce the first Trinity APUs in Q1 of 2012, and now a leaked company slide comes to reveal that the first Bulldozer-based accelerated processing units will enter mass production in January of 2012. Judging by the document, AMD finalized engineering samples of these chips in early to late August, while the first production candidate samples are expected to come out in late October or early November. These will be followed by a batch of production ready samples coming in December 2011 or January of 2012. The production roadmap also reveals that together with the Trinity APUs, AMD is working on putting together a software stack, which should reach the 1.0 milestone at...

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