Samsung Releasing Dual-SIM Galaxy Y Pro

Unveiled back in August, Samsung Galaxy Y Pro is about to receive a twin brother with dual-SIM capabilities. The folks over at GSMArena have been tipped on the alleged dual SIM Galaxy Y Pro, which might be announced by the end of the year. The new device is called Samsung Galaxy Y Pro DUOS, and apart from the dual SIM function, it may also be delivered with a secondary front-facing camera. However, there are no details on the phone’s specs sheet, so we can only speculate on what we noticed from the leaked picture. Those unfamiliar with the Galaxy Y Pro should know that this is an affordable Gingerbread smartphone that offers both worlds, a 2.6-inch capacitive touchscreen and a full portrait QWERTY keyboard. Obviously there’s no word on the...

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Sapphire Readies Pure White A55M for AMD A-Series APUs

It’s certainly been a while since we last laid our eyes on a new Sapphire motherboard design, but after the official announcement of the Pure Black 990FX it has also been uncovered that the hardware maker is working on anew FM1 solution, dubbed the Pure White A55M. Just as its name implies, the Pure White A55M is based on AMD’s A55 Fusion Controller Hub, FCH for short, which was designed specifically to power low-cost FM1 boards. In order to fit into this role, the A55M drops the native USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gbps support found in the more powerful A75, to sport just a standard set of features. Sapphire however decided to take matter into its own hands and installed on the Pure White A55M an USB 3.0 ASMedia host controller, according to VR-Zone,...

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AMD Allows AIBs to Create Custom Radeon HD 7950 Designs – Report

AMD’s upcoming Radeon HD 7950 graphics card will arrive in much more flavors than the company’s previous solutions, as with the release of this new GPU the chip maker will allow AIBs to stray way from its reference design and use their own custom PCBs and coolers. Traditionally, for the first few months after the release of a new high-end graphics card, GPU makers impose their reference designs on AIBs in order to limit the potential problems that could hurt the reputation of their new cores. However, with the launch of the Radeon HD 7950, AMD will ditch this rule and allow its board partners to come out with their own custom designs of the card, according to SemiAccurate. The reason for this decision is unknown, but Hardcore Hardware seems...

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Intel Core i7-3770K Ivy Bridge Compared to SNB Core i7-2700K

In the last couple of weeks we have learned quite a great deal about the performance of the upcoming Ivy Bridge CPUs, but so far nobody showed us how will this stack up against Intel’s current processors.  As CPU-World has uncovered, a user on the hwbot forum had the same dilemma so he put together a quick graph that compared the results achieved by his Core i7-2700K CPU with those of the Core i7-3770K ES processor that was tested a short while ago. While this certainly isn’t the most scientific test in the world, it does go to show just what we should expect from these two similarly clocked chips. Of course that since the Core i7-3770K tested is actually an engineering sample the final revision is expected to feature somewhat better...

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AMD to Release 3.8GHz FX-6200 Bulldozer CPU on December 26

Even though Bulldozer has proven be to a disappointment for many, AMD isn’t going to let this architecture go and until the end of this year will release another FX-series CPU into the market, dubbed the FX-6200. Just as its name implies, AMD’s upcoming processor will feature three Bulldozer modules for a total of six processing cores and according to Donanim Haber it will come clocked at 3.8GHz. The processor will be able to dynamically adjust its operating speed, according to the number of threads run, thanks to the inclusion of the Turbo Core 2.0 technology which enables it to reach a maximum speed of 4.1GHz. The rest of its specs are rather standard for a six-core FX-Series chip as it includes 6MB of L2 cache as well as 8MB of Level...

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Nokia Maps Suite for Symbian Gets Updated

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has just announced the availability of an update version of its Nokia Maps Suite for devices that are based under the Symbian operating system.  The Nokia Maps Suite packs a series of applications that are meant at providing users with location and navigation features on their devices.  It includes Places, enabling users to discover places around them, Public Transport, for easy planning a trip, and Pulse for sharing location, photos, and more.  Most of the enhancements included in the new release of the application are related to Pulse, the changelog shows.  Nokia did not bring changes to the Public Transport and Places, but made the following modifications to Pulse: Login – fewer Nokia...

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Netlist Claims Its HyperCloud Memory Is Faster Than LRDIMM

Netlist, a well known maker of high performance server memory, claims that its HyperCloud DDR3 modules are faster than the more common LRDIMM memory according to the company’s own internal tests. As Netlist explains, these tests were performed on two identical dual-socket systems powered by Intel’s upcoming Sandy Bridge-E Xeon E5 processors and running 3 DIMMs per channel.  The test results, confirmed that HyperCloud memory is able to achieve the 1333 MT/s (mega transfers per second) speeds touted by the maker for such modules, while LRDIMM is only able to achieve 1066 MT/s. Both the LRDIMM and HyperCloud technologies were developed in order to enable servers to support higher capacity memory modules. In the case of the HyperCloud memory...

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Official Ice Cream Sandwich ROM for Samsung Galaxy S II Available for Download

It only took several weeks for an official Android 4.0 to leak into the wild. Although the ROM spotted is just a test build the most important features seems to work. The folks over at Sammobile got their hands on the XXKP1 build, which is in fact an Android 4.0.1 ROM cooked on December 7. According to the ‘insider’ that leaked this official build, all the basics of the phone work smoothly, including calls, SMS, data and the rest. However, there are several apps that force close occasionally, and those who flash this ‘custom’ ROM may experience lags from time to time or even reboots. The current Android 4.0.1 ROM is not recommended to those who usually flash stock ROMs, but those who want to risk it can check it out her...

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