New Custom Mango ROM Available for HTC HD7

HTC HD7 has already started to receive the new Windows Phone Mango operating system flavor, with a nice range of enhancements packed inside, yet those who would like to get some more enhancements on their devices should go for a custom ROM, such as the one available from DeepShining. The new unofficial ROM for the HTC HD7 is said to be the very first software package to include no less than nine themes for the device.  Moreover, it is based on the newly shipped ROM for the smartphone, namely HTC Europe 4.05.401.02 build 7.10.7720.68. It features radio version 5.69.09.29a.  Apparently, some of the main features of the new ROM would include:First Worldwide ROM with 9 Themes and 9 Lockscreen Custom Wallpapers plus Black Nokia Accent. Dev/Introp...

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All About iPhone 4S: Tech Specs, Software, Performance

To the disappointment of the better part of the Apple fan-base, Cupertino didn't announce a totally revamped iPhone 5 during yesterday’s event and, instead, announced the "iPhone 4S", a device that looks pretty much identical to the iPhone 4. However, this new model has a lot more brawn. “iPhone 4S has the same beautifully thin glass and stainless steel design that millions of customers around the world love, while being completely redesigned on the inside,” Apple says. According to the company headquartered at 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California, the new iPhone 4S is not only a great phone, it’s also a powerful portable computer. For example, it’s great for gamers. A5 chip “The A5 chip pushes graphics up to seven times faster. So games...

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LTE-Enabled iPhone 5 Only in Late 2012, iSuppli Believes

Yesterday, Apple disappointed a lot of fans with the release of only one iPhone model, which was not the iPhone 5 device that they were all expecting.  The iPhone 4S might seem like a great device, and might even be capable of providing users with increased performance capabilities due to its dual-core CPU, or with global connectivity, but it is not the iPhone 5, which is still expected to land on shelves next year.  Moreover, the mobile phone is said to include support for 4G LTE connectivity, just as some of the previous rumors on it suggested, even if unconfirmed.  According to iSuppli, it's almost certain that the next iPhone model will arrive on shelves with the fourth-generation connectivity capabilities packed inside,...

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AMD FX-8150 CPU Retail Packaging Pictured

While AMD still has more than a week to go until it launches its first FX-Series processors based on the high-performance Bulldozer architecture, pictures depicting an FX-8150 CPU inside its retail packaging have already made their way to the Web. Just as AMD has said before, the CPU is packaged inside a metal box with a cut-out revealing the markings on the processor found inside. Opening this metal can will reveal a cardboard box which actually holds the CPU as well as a case badge with the AMD Scorpio platform logo and the “Unlocked FX Processor” inscription. AMD will use this packaging for all of its eight-core FX-Series processors, so the FX-8100 should also be retailed inside a similar metal box. The FX-8150 is AMD's most powerful desktop...

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AMD Opteron 3200 Series CPUs Also Show Up

AMD is getting ready to take the server market by assault with an impressive series of Opteron processors based on the high-performance Bulldozer architecture, and latest reports suggest the company is also working on single-socket versions of these chips which will be released into the Opteron 3200 product line. AMD hasn't released any single-socket Opteron parts since early 2009 as in the last two year the chip maker has decided to concentrate its efforts on the multi-socket server market. However, judging by the limited information that was uncovered by CPU-World, AMD is now looking to get back into the workstation and uni-socket server space with the introduction of the Opteron 3200 series. As far as we know, Opteron 3200 CPUs are based...

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Windows 8 Start Screen Goodies Coming in the Beta

Microsoft has already revealed that some Windows 8 features will only become available to early adopters with the advent of the Beta development milestone of the operating system.  Among them are examples of functionality for the Start Screen, the evolution of the Start Menu. The Redmond company already demoed naming, grouping, and zooming in the Windows 8 Build 8102 Milestone 3 (M3) Start Screen, but they’re not in the Windows Developer Preview.  It sounds like the software giant needs a tad more time to tweak Windows 8 Start Screen functionality ahead of unleashing it on testers.  Microsoft’s Alice Steinglass, the group program manager for the Core Experience Evolved team, provided some insight into what new features the company...

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Windows 8 Touch Interactions

Windows 8 has been optimized to understand touch interaction like no operating system before, including its predecessor, Windows 7.  And of course, this automatically implies that there’s a great opportunity for Windows 8 developers to put together NUI applications for the next iteration of the Windows client.  The “Designing Metro style apps that are touch-optimized” session at BUILD last month managed to deliver great insight into the natural user capabilities of Windows 8.  The video that’s available on the official BUILD site is a must-watch for those that didn’t make it to the actual session, or for those looking to revisit the things they learned.  Presented by Kay Hofmeester, senior UX lead, and Jan-Kristian Markiewicz,...

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CyanogenMod 7 Plays Nicely with DROID 3 on Video

Motorola DROID 3 users interested in tweaking their devices will soon be able to do so issues free courtesy of fully working CyanogenMod ROMs, it seems.  In the meantime, however, they can only have a glance at how things are looking like at the moment, in the video embedded above.  CyanogenMod 7 has been loaded on DROID 3 and things seem very good, even if not all aspects are now working as they should.  Of course, the CyanogenMod ROMs are work in progress almost at all times, but, in DROID 3's case, it appears that some of the phone's features are not currently functional.  However, things are expected to get better soon, and a working CM release for the Motorola handset should emerge in no time, so stay tune...

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Asus Renames Its Ultrabooks to ZenBooks?

On October 11, Asus will hold a series of events throughout major cities in Europe and the US to announce the introduction of its first ultra-thin laptops designed around Intel's Ultrabook concept, and a recent report comes to suggest these won't actually carry the UX name as previously though, but will instead be called ZenBooks. The Notebook Italia website received an invitation to the Asus even held in Milano, Italy for the launch of the Ultrabooks which reads “Asus invites you to uncover the new ZenBook.” The Taiwanese computer maker hasn't disclosed any additional information about the Ultrabooks (please read that ZenBooks) it plans to launch, but the lineup should include at least two models, the UX21 and the UX31. However, other models...

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Nokia Link App Syncs Media Content Between Nokia N9 and PC or Mac

While Nokia N9 is still shipping in selected markets, the Finnish company has announced the availability of Nokia Link app, which allows N9 users to shift media files from phone to a PC or Mac. However, the Nokia Link does not replace the current Nokia Suite, previously known as Ovi Suite, as the application supports only the N9 smartphone. Still, Nokia fans can use both applications on their computers at the same time, Nokia Link with Nokia N9, and Nokia Suite with other Nokia phones. Even though the application is only compatible with Windows 7, Mac Snow Leopard and Mac Lion, Nokia stated that is currently working hard to add Windows XP support. The PC version of Nokia Link has 10 MB size, while the Mac version has 25MB. Moreover, the application...

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Intel Launches Four New Mobile Sandy Bridge CPUs

Intel recently expanded its mobile Sandy Bridge processor portfolio with four new CPUs from the Pentium and Core product lineups which were designed to cover devices ranging from ultra-portable to high-performance notebooks. All the processors are slightly faster versions of existing models and can be already ordered by Intel's partners who want to use these chips in their products. Making our way from the bottom, the first processor that we encounter is the ultra low-voltage Pentium 967 with dual computing cores. This is a 100MHz higher clocked version of the Pentium 957 that was launched in June and operates at 1.3GHz, while its TDP is rated at just 17W. The second mobile Pentium CPU to be released by Intel is the Pentium B960, which is intended...

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Nokia Play To Application Adds Symbian Belle Support

A new flavor of Nokia Play To application is now available for download, with included support for the new Symbian Belle operating system flavor.  The new mobile software release also brings along a new look and feel, as well as a new feature for all users to enjoy. In Photos, users will be able to easily have details of their photos available on the bigger screen of a TV when using the zoom feature.  There have been some compatibility issues with the new app, and those who stumble upon issues with the installation should look for 'ODML commons repository' in Settings > Application installer, and remove it if installed. That is part of Nokia Maps, and users might have to reinstall this application after that.  The new flavor of Nokia Play To is available for download as well,...

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Need for Speed: The Run Demo Available October 18, Trailer Out Already

Racing fans from all around the world will be able to take the upcoming Need for Speed: The Run for a test drive on October 18, when Electronic Arts, its publisher, and Black Box, its developer, will deploy a demo for it onto consoles like the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Need for Speed: The Run has gotten a lot of people excited, largely because it marks a return to story-based titles for the racing franchise, and because it's running on the all-new Frostbite 2 engine, courtesy of Battlefield 3 developer DICE. We've seen quite a lot of details about The Run appear, including the large array of cars available for its protagonist, Jack, and how his adventures will also include on-foot sequences dominated by quick time events. Now, EA and Black...

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New Windows 8 Features for the Beta

As it’s evolving between Milestone 3 and Beta, Windows 8 still has to spend quite a lot of time in the oven before its fully baked, this much has to be clear. There’s a lot to Windows 8 that the public hasn’t seen yet, and in this regard, the Beta Build will do a much better job at revealing just what the final product will look and feel like.  Ahead of the launch of Windows Developer Preview I opined on a range of occasions that Microsoft was bound to follow the development and release strategy of Windows 7.  That’s why I was not surprised that early adopters received an M3 release at BUILD, namely Windows 8 Build 8102, and not the Beta development milestone, as some were expecting.  Our readers might remember that the same happened with Windows 7, and that at the 2008 edition...

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Kaymak G1 Concept Phone with Quad-Core CPU

A new concept device has just made an appearance into the wild, offering us the possibility to dream a little more of the future.  The new mobile phone comes from Hasan Kaymak from Turkey and is called Kaymak G1, being nothing more than its creator's dream handset.  The specifications that the concept smartphone would include indeed make it a dream device, starting with the powerful quad core application processor that Hasan Kaymak would like it to sport.  However, this is only one of the things that would make this device an appealing mobile phone for any user out there.  The rest of the possible hardware specifications it would include are similarly attractive, including the large 4.5-inch touchscreen display that can...

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New Nokia W7 Windows Phone Concept Emerges

Soon, the first Windows Phone handset coming from the Finnish telecoms giant Nokia is set to arrive on the market and, before that happens, enthusiasts keep on dreaming about the great specs and features that this device might include.  Thus, Deviantart user Larmthe4 came up with a Nokia Windows Phone concept of its own, and named it Nokia W7, which might actually be the very name that the first Windows Phone coming from Espoo would feature.  Of course, the device is only the product of Larmthe4's imagination, and that includes all of the specifications listed below, as well as the photos attached to this article.  First of all, we should note that Nokia W7 is expected to arrive on shelves with the new Windows Phone Mango platform...

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Intel 2012 Ivy Bridge Mobile CPU Gets Pictured

In the second quarter of 2012, Intel is expected to launch the first processors based on the Ivy Bridge architecture and while we are still months away from this moment a series of pictured depicting a mobile CPU based on this architecture made its appearance on the Web. The processor pictured is an engineering sample chip and its features quad computing cores as well as support for the Hyper-Threading technology, which probably makes it an Core i7 CPU. Sadly, the rest of its specifications are not known, but the Website that entered into the possession of this part compared its die size with that of a current Core i7 CPU built on the Sandy Bridge architecture. Not surprisingly, the Ivy Bridge SKU comes 25% smaller that its second generation...

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