LG Optimus Sol and Optimus Net Dual-SIM Coming Soon to India

Unveiled back in August, the LG Optimus Sol is about to make its debut in India alongside the more recently launched LG Optimus Net Dual. For the time being, both smartphones are listed as “Out of Stock” by Letsbuy, but the major retailer states that they will be available for purchase in the last week of December. The Optimus Sol will be available for a suggested retail price of Rs 16,999 (320 USD or 245 EUR), while the Optimus Net Dual will go for Rs 10,699 (200 USD or 155 EUR). As their prices suggest the Android-powered smartphones are aimed at different targets. The Optimus Sol is a mid-budget handset, while the Optimus Net Dual is an affordable smartphone with dual-SIM capability. Dual-SIM phones are quite popular in India, which means...

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Dell Streak V04B Shows Up at FCC with 1.5GHz Dual-Core CPU

Dell and Baidu, the Chinese search giant hinted to a possible collaboration for the launch of the first smartphone to run the Yi operating system. Although details on the collaboration were scarce it appears that the first results have just been spotted at FCC, the Dell Streak V04B, which is also known as Softbank Pro 101DL. The smartphone has just won approval for the 1,700 MHz WCDMA radio and will probably make its debut in early 2012. According to the folks over at Engadget the smartphone will be introduced in China tomorrow for a suggested retail price of $475 (360 EUR). The smartphone is said to sport a 4.3-inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen display that boasts 540 x 960 pixels resolution, a dual-core processor clocked at 1.5GHz, 8GB...

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 Could Be Up to 60% Faster than Nvidia’s GTX 580

In just a few days from now, AMD is expected to unveil its next-generation graphics cards in the Radeon HD 7900 series and recently a company slide that compares the performance of this GPU with Nvidia’s GTX 580 was just leaked online. The slide details the performance of the Radeon HD 7970 in 11 popular titles including Crysis 2, Metro 2033 and Civilization 5 and in all of these games, the AMD card gets past its counterpart without any difficulty. In fact, the performance gain of the HD 7970 in comparison with the GTX 580 can be as high as 60% in games such as BattleForge, Civilization and Shogun 2, while the smallest difference is recorded in AvP where the AMD GPU surpasses its competitor by a little less than 30%. All the tests published...

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Intel Ivy Bridge CPU Pricing Unveiled

In the second quarter of 2012, Intel is expected to launch its first desktop processors based on the Ivy Bridge architecture and a recent leak has revealed the pricing of some of the upcoming Core i7 and i5 parts based on this 22nm design. The specifications of most of the CPUs listed were unveiled a short while ago and these feature similar features as their Sandy Bridge counterparts, but come with slightly higher base and/or Turbo Boost frequencies. The integrated graphics cores have also suffered a series of changes which make them significantly more powerful that the current HD 2000 and HD 3000, while also receiving support for DirectX 11. However, despite these improvements, it seems like Intel will keep Ivy Bridge prices identical...

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New AMD Radeon HD 7900 Presentation Slides Appear

One by one, AMD’s slides from the company’s media deck for the Radeon HD 7900 make their appearance, and the latest of these focus on the energy-efficiency achieved by this cards. This time too, the slides have originated from Donanim Haber, and they go to show AMD’s advancement into adopting new fabrication nodes as well as its ZeroCore technology. We already talked about this in another article, but this basically cuts power consumption in idle to just 3W by turning off the GPU when it isn’t in use. The technology also works for CrossFireX configurations by completely shutting down the non-primary graphics cards, which AMD claims is a major win over Nvidia’s SLI technology that doesn’t include any such advanced power saving technologies. The...

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IM+ 6 Brings BBM Functionality to iPhone, iPad

SHAPE Services has announced a new version of their popular instant messaging application, IM+, which now comes with a new feature called ‘Beep’. IM+ comes in both free and paid form and supports most IM standards, as well as the most popular social networks, including Facebook and Twitter. Just when you thought things couldn’t get any better, SHAPE coded a bunch of new features for users of the application and deployed them all in version 6.0 - now available from the iTunes App Store for iPhone and iPad. The flagship addition in this update is, of course, Beep, a free mobile-to-mobile in-app messenger. It borrows functionality from Apple’s own iMessage and Blackberry’s BBM, and even goes beyond by providing cross-platform functionality. SHAPE...

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Sony Ericsson LT28AT Specs Emerge

A few weeks ago, we saw a new Sony Ericsson smartphone receiving the necessary approvals from the Bluetooth SIG, and some more info on the specifications that it will land on shelves with has emerged now.  Rumor has it that this might become the next Sony Ericsson flagship smartphone for the North American market, and the leaked hardware specs for it seem to confirm that.  A recently spotted User Agent Profile (UAProf) for this device unveiled the fact that it will pack an HD screen, and the newly rumored specs point in the same direction. The new mobile phone is expected to arrive on shelves with a 4.55-inch Reality display that can deliver a HD 720p resolution (1280 x 720 pixels). Moreover, the new high-end smartphone should...

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New Symbian Belle ROM for Nokia N8 Leaks (Video)

Nokia N8 owners rejoice as a new Symbian Belle ROM for Nokia’s ex flagship smartphone has just leaked and it appears to be much better than the previous version that was published several weeks ago. The new ROM version is 111.030.609 and seems to be newer than the recently leaked Symbian Belle ROM for the Nokia C7. The unofficial Symbian Belle ROM for the Nokia N8 is available for download courtesy to the folks over at Daily Mobile forum. Those who are anxiously waiting for Nokia to release the official Symbian Belle update for the N8 should know that the Finnish company plans to launch the major upgrade in early 2012. Until then we suggest Nokia N8 owners to check out some of the features offered by Symbian Belle for the N8, but we do not recommend flashing this unofficial ROM unless you...

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AMD Radeon HD 7770 Pictures Leaked, Packs Cape Verde XT GPU

The existence of the Radeon HD 7770, the cheapest AMD graphics card based on the Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture, was just confirmed by a series of leaked images that made their appearance on the Web a short while ago. The card will come as the direct descendant of the Radeon HD 5770 and its HD 6770 rebrand as it targets the same mainstream performance class, but this time it will utilize the new Cape Verde XT core. On the outside, the cooling solution employed by the Radeon HD 7700 looks surprisingly similar with that introduced by Nvidia with the GTX 460, although the shroud is now painted in AMD’s colors and it slightly resembles the HD 7970 that was leaked at the end of last week. Moving to the back of the HD 7770 we see that AMD...

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SeaSonic Launches 1000 Watt 80PLUS Platinum Power Supply

SeaSonic showed us the first pictures of its 80PLUS Platinum certified power supplies more than nine months ago, and after a long wait these units have now finally become available for purchase, at least in some parts of Europe. For starters, the series will be comprised of just two models, with 860W (P-860XP) and 1,000W (P-1000XP) ratings, and both PSUs feature completely modular cable management. In addition, the units will pack six PCI Express connectors as well as an 120mm San Ace fan from Sanyo Denki which kicks in only when a higher than 40% load is recorded by the PSU. In the case of the 1000W SeaSonic model, this means that the fan won't start until the system draws more than 400W form the power supply. According to SweClockers,...

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Windows 8 Beta Delivered to Testers, Screenshots Leak

Windows 8 is moving fast towards the first beta release, but it appears that Microsoft still has some work to do on the matter, though the latest Windows 8 screenshots that emerged on the web show new changes brought to the platform’s UI.  The new shots are available courtesy of Winunleaked.tk, which claims that the Redmond-based software giant is very close to completing the first beta builds of the next platform flavor.  Apparently, Microsoft might be ready to sign off the first beta build of Windows 8 as soon as this month, although the platform should be publicly released only sometime in February.  If the beta build is completed in December 2011, users will have two months to wait before it is pushed out, though chances...

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Android-Powered Lynx Satellite Radio by Sirius XM Stars in FCC Teardown

The Lynx satellite radio from Sirius XM may not have yet reached retail, but this Android powered gadget has just starred in an FCC teardown giving us a glimpse at its insides. As you can see in the picture above (provided by Wireless Goodness), at the heart of the device stands a STMicro processor which is seconded by Samsung SDRAM and Flash memory, and by a microSD card slot. Right above this, there’s also an Immersion logo, which seems to suggest that the radio could support its touchscreen haptic feedback technology. For those of you eager to get your hands on the Lynx, Crutchfield is having it for pre-order listed at $250 (192 EUR). Sadly, we still don’t have a release date for this satellite radio, but the FCC visit makes us believe...

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