NAVIGON for Android Upgraded with Map Management and New UI

After porting their localization application on Windows Phone devices, NAVIGON announced it has upgraded the Android version with new features and an advanced user interface. NAVIGON 4.0 for Android allows users to manage their maps within the app. In addition, users can choose which regions to download to their device, hence reducing download time.  Travelers can also subscribe for quarterly map updates to keep the data updated with road changes while on the move.  As we already mentioned, there's a new user interface available within the application, which provides users with a better overview by organizing menus into tiles that fit perfectly to the screen size of the device. “NAVIGON 4.0 for Android takes Android navigation to...

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Nokia to Unveil Windows Phones Next Week, Ballmer Suggests

Next week, we should be able to learn what does Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia have is store for us in terms of hardware running under the Windows Phone operating system from Microsoft.  There have been many speculations regarding the unveiling of the new devices, and it seems that they can now be put to a rest, as Microsoft's CEO himself has confirmed that these devices will become official next month.  At the Web 2.0 Summit on Wednesday, Steve Ballmer said that Nokia will announce more than just one Windows Phone devices next week, and also stated that these devices are “pretty good.” According to him, the Finnish handset vendor “will have a chance at their Nokia World show next week to show a bunch of new devices running Windows...

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Intel Core i7-3930K and Core i7-3960X Listed in Europe

With a little less than a month to go until Intel will make official its first processors based on the high-performance Sandy Bridge-E architecture, European retailers have started listing some of these chips on their websites, the Core i7-3930K and Core i7-3960X being the first to arrive. These two Intel processors have popped up in Sweden on the PriceSpy website, and the former is available for pre-order with a 5099 SEK price, while the latter is listed at 8981 SEK. After dropping the 25% VAT tax from the price of these CPUs, it would result that the Core i7-3960X is priced at $1086 US, or about 786 Euros, while its slower brother has a retail price of $616 US (446 Euros). Both of these prices are higher than those suggested by previous leaks,...

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NVIDIA Tegra 3 Is Just Around the Corner, New Video Proves It

Tegra 3 is one of the most hyped up products of the latter 2011, so it stands to reason that when NVIDIA leaks a promo video of it, the web would be all over it before it has a chance to remedy the slip.  Some time ago, not too long in fact, NVIDIA leaked a promo video of the Tegra 3 mobile platform.  The Santa Clara, California-based company made it private, but not before the video was taken and uploaded elsewhere, as this report pointed out.  As such, the web has full access to it even now, so people who like their Android tablet news can feast their eyes on the media wonder.  Joke aside, though, the video does a remarkable job of filling time with an almost complete lack of relevant hardware information.  After all, since the product hasn't been launched, the company...

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Nokia 800 First Press Photos Leak

One of the first Nokia smartphones to be announced during next week's Nokia World conference, Nokia 800 has just posed for some press shots. Courtesy to the folks over at Pocketnow, we can safely assume that Nokia 800 is in fact the MeeGo-based N9 with Windows Phone Mango on board. The press photos leaked suggest the Nokia 800 will be available in, at least, three colors: black, blue and pink. According to the latest rumors, Nokia will unveil three Windows Phone Mango devices next week, including the Nokia 800, also known as Nokia Searay, as well as two other smartphones. Although Nokia plans to announce some of its Windows Phone lineup next week, it will interesting to see if some of them will also hit shelves by the end of the year. ...

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Google Now Displays Your IP Address if You're Trying to Determine It

Google has added a very simple but very useful feature to the list of things it provides direct answers to, rather than just search results. Google Search now displays your IP address if you're trying to determine it and do a related search. Most people don't even know what an IP address is, let alone why they would want to know it. But any 'tech inclined' individual has been through this, maybe you're trying to configure a router, maybe you're trying to play an online game with a strange networking problem, maybe you're trying to determine whether a proxy you're using is actually working. So you type in 'my ip address' or 'what's my ip address' and then try to pick the site that seems the least spammy and crowded. Now though, you won't have...

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Gigabyte Teases X79 G1.Assassin 2 Motherboard for LGA 2011 CPUs

After making its initial appearance at the IDF 2011 fair at the beginning of September, Gigabyte has now finalized the design of the G1.Assassin 2 X79 motherboard for Intel's upcoming Sandy Bridge-E processors and released a series of teaser pictures that give us a short glimpse at this unique board. From what we can tell, most of the changes brought to the G1.Assassin 2 have focused on making the motherboard's design more similar to that of previous G1-Killer solutions. As a results, the PCH heatsink has now taken the form of a gun with a skull logo engraved on it. While many may still prefer the initial look of the board, this new cooler fits pretty nicely the overall design of the G1.Assassin 2 and should also come as an attractive feature...

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Cooler Master Hyper 412 PWM Cooler Lands on Top of CPUs

It was only a matter of time before Cooler Master came forth and launched some new item, a short matter of time it turns out, as the Hyper 412 PWM has now appeared.  A while ago, Cooler Master unveiled the Hyper 412 PWM cooler, only for much of the online media to miss it for some reason.  Fortunately for the item, the announcement finally got its overdue attention, even though it doesn't offer all the details people might seek.  What that means is that the company did not provide information as to when shipments will commence, nor at what price.  Still, just by looking at the thing it is possible to see that it will best serve high-end systems. After all, it isn't called Hyper for nothing.  The Cooler Master Hyper...

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Asus Zenbook UX21 Gets the Teardown Treatment

Taking a look at all the high-tech stuff that is usually installed in our day-to-day gadgets is always cool, so for all those of you interested we have come across a dissection of Asus' own MBA killer, the UX21 Zenbook. By now, most of you should be familiar with Asus' Ultrabook and its specs, but this is the first time that we had the chance to take a look inside this ultra-thin laptop and see what makes it tick. According to AnandTech, the internals of this thing are surprisingly familiar with those of the MacBook Air as both notebooks feature about the same internal design with the battery taking most of the space and a rather tiny motherboard packing the CPU, PCH and SSD storage. These are of course some differences, like the cooling solution...

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Introducing Ubuntu 11.10 on ARM

On October 18th, Victor Tuson Palau wrote an interesting article on the Canonical blog, about the new ARM support available in Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot). As Canonical announced back in August 2011 that the new Ubuntu 11.10 operating system will have support for the ARM architectures, Victor Tuson Palau explains he's experience with this first ARM version. Testing Ubuntu 11.10 ARM on a Tegra2-based (Nvidia) Toshiba AC100 netbook it shows off that it's a great and stable platform for computing, especially when running Unity 2D. Among other tested hardware Victor Tuson Palau mentions the TI OMAP4 Panda Board, powered by the Texas Instruments OMAP4430 dual-core 1 GHz ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore CPU, a PowerVR SGX540 GPU, a C64x DSP, and 1 GB of DDR2...

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Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Unveiled

Today in Hong Kong Google and Samsung announced a new flavor of Android, complemented by a new Google phone, the Nexus S.  We already had the chance to have a look at the new smartphone, yet we said little about the new Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, which is, in fact, a major update for Google's mobile platform. The new OS version arrives with a redesigned user interface, and was designed so as to provide users with faster navigation. Moreover, it also offers great multitasking capabilities, along with interactive notifications.  According to Google, the new OS flavor was designed with beauty and simplicity in mind. It was meant to work both on mobile phones and on tablet PCs, so as to bring unity to the platform.  “We created...

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