eFun 9.7-Inch Tablet Will Run Android 4.0 for $250 (€195)

Tablet makers surely have a lot of love for Android 4.0 and the above pictured eFun Nextbook Elite 10 slate is just another example of this fact. Coming from the same company that also developed the Nextbook Premium 9 Gingerbread tablet, this new device will make its arrival at CES 2012 sporting Android Ice Cream Sandwich. Google’s OS will be run by a Broadcom dual-core 1.1GHz SoC that will stand behind a 9.7-inch display with a 1024x768 resolution. The rest of the specs list is largely unknown, but engadget has somehow managed to find out that a 2MP front-facing camera will also be part of the package, while additional apps can be downloaded from the SlideME app market. Access to Google’s Market place would have been a lot nicer if you...

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Intel to Update Atom Cedar Trail Lineup with D2550, N2650, and N2850 CPUs

Even though only a little over a week has passed since Intel has started shipping its first Atom processors based on the Cedar Trail architecture, the chip maker is already working on releasing a refreshed version of these CPUs. As CPU-World has uncovered, the new Cedar Trail Atom processor range will include three models that will be known as the D2550, N2650, and N2850. The first one of these, the Atom D2550, is actually an older acquaintance of ours as it first made its appearance back in December of 2011 in a leaked Intel CPU roadmap. Clocked at the same 1.86GHz frequency as the D2500, this dual-core Atom processor brings a couple of improvements to the specifications list of its predecessor, including a higher 640MHz GPU frequency (up...

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Canon PowerShot G1X Camera Sports Child-Detector for $799 (€622)

Canon’s upcoming PowerShot G1X has joined the ranks of the Fujifilm X-Pro 1 as the digital cam was prematurely detailed before its CES 2012 debut. Leaked by the same Website as Fujitsu’s creation, the G1X is targeting “advanced amateurs” and packs a 4x (28-112mm) optical zoom lens with an F/2.5-16 aperture. Behind it stands a 1.5-inch CMOS sensor that is paired together with one of Canon’s DIGIC 5 image processors to offer a 4.5fps burst rate at the cam’s full 14.3MP resolution and 14-bit RAW file support. Other features include multi-area white balance adjustment as well as a new Smart Auto mode, a “child-weighted” face detection system and a new HDR mode. The PowerShot G1X can also record Full HD 1080p video and sports a 720p “Movie Digest”...

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Nikon Full-Frame D4 Pro DSLR to Arrive in February for $6,000 (€4,664)

Nikon is expected to unveil the D4 professional DSLR at the end of this week and recent rumors suggest that the camera will reach retail a month later with a suggested price tag of $6,000, or roughly 4,664 EUR. Nikon Rumors has spotted this info on Wells Fargo's website, the same publication that also has some details regarding the soon to be unveiled Fujifilm X-Pro1 digital camera. As expected, the Nikon D4 offers quite some nice features for its $6,000 US retail price tag including a 16.2MP full-frame sensor with a native ISO range spanning 100-12,800. Those that need higher light sensitivity have also the ability of activating the expanded mode which increase the ISO range to 50- 204,800. According to the specifications published by Nikon...

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BlackBerry Bold 9900 ‘No Sound’ Issue Gets Fix

There are many BlackBerry fans who purchased one of the latest BlackBerry 7 smartphones unveiled by Research In Motion (RIM) last year, namely the Bold 9900. Some of them experience problems with the phone, which renders the device unusable for phone calls.  If you are one of those who have bought a BlackBerry Bold 9900 and noticed that your phone has suddenly went “silent,” then you might want to read ahead for the solution to this problem. Apparently, the BlackBerry Bold 9900 likes to go “quiet” even if the profile is set to “Normal” or “Loud.” Basically, you won’t be able to hear your phone ring, and certainly you won’t be able to hear anyone talking when someone calls you or when you call someone. Usually, when something like this...

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Check Out Mozilla's Mobile OS Boot to Gecko in Action

For many Mozilla equals Firefox, but the organization is working on a lot more. One of the most ambitious projects is Boot 2 Gecko, which is still in the early stages, an operating system based on the Gecko rendering and layout engine used by Firefox, Thunderbird and all Mozilla-related projects. Saying that making a new operating system, especially a mobile one, is hard is somewhat of an understatement, so it's going to be a while before Mozilla has anything that can appeal to regular users. That is, if it manages to do it at all. But it's working on it and it already has some things to show off. The team demoed their work so far at a MozCamp Asia and you can check out a rather blurry video of that demo, courtesy of Mozilla Tunisi...

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Fujifilm X-Pro 1 Leaked, Packs 16MP Sensor and Hybrid EVF

If you had the feeling that something is missing from Fujifilm’s gush of digital cameras from this early morning, you are definitely right as the long awaited X-Pro 1 was nowhere on that list. Since then however, the successor of the X100 has come out of its hiding thanks to a prematurely posted press release that was uncovered by SlashGear. While nowhere as informative as we would have liked, the document does reveal quite a bit of info about the X-Pro 1 including the fact that is sports a custom 16MP APS-CMOS sensor with a new filter array and proprietary EXR processor as well as a hybrid EVF. Together with the camera, three Fujinon prime lenses will also become available consisting of an 18mm (27mm equivalent) f/2.0, a 35mm (53mm equivalent)...

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RIM to Reveal BlackBerry OS 10 at 2012 Mobile World Congress and Planning to License BlackBerry 10 to Other Handset Makers

Although the recent rumors suggest that Research In Motion plans to license its Blackberry 10 operating system to other handset manufacturer, such as Samsung or HTC, it appears that company plans to announce it next month at MWC 2012.The folks over at Pocketlint were told by a RIM spokesman that BlackBerry 10 operating system will be revealed next month at the 2012 Mobile World Congress, in Barcelona. “2012 will be the year of BlackBerry 10 so we’ll be showcasing the capabilities of our future operating system as well demonstrating the power of BlackBerry 7, with a particular focus on NFC and BBM connected apps.” However, given the fact that RIM said recently that the first BlackBerry 10 OS devices will be launched on the market later this...

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Lenovo Unveils ThinkPad X1 Hybrid Laptop Packing Secondary ARM SoC

Earlier today, Lenovo has announced the new ThinkPad X1 Hybrid laptop that was designed to sport a secondary operating system and an ARM-based Qualcomm SoC in order to deliver up to 10 hours of battery life to its users.  This system is called the Instant Media Mode, IMM for short, by Lenovo and runs a Linux-based OS that can be activated by simply clicking an icon on the laptop's home screen. Powered by a dual-core Qualcomm chip and featuring up to 16GB of memory, the OS can be used to watch videos, view photos, listen to music and browse the web while preserving precious battery life. In the 13.3-inch ThinkPad X1 Hybrid, the special IMM hardware can be paired together with Intel Core i3, i5 and i7 processors and the Windows 7 operating...

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Asus' 7-Inch Tablet Pictured Yet Again

After a couple of days ago we brought you the first picture of an upcoming 7-inch Asus tablet that is expected to make its debut at CES 2012, now a new image of this slate has reached the Web. The picture shows the back of the 7-incher which from what we can tell includes at least a camera, a pair of speakers and a couple of physical buttons. We don’t know what these buttons are for, but Notebook Italia believes that the rear snapper has a resolution of 5MP. More details should be unveiled at CES, when we should also find out the name of this Asus tablet as currently some reports refer to it as the Memo Pad, while others call it the Transformer Mini....

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New LG Windows Phone Emerges Ahead of CES 2012

Next week, South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics is expected to unveil to the world a new smartphone that would run under Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system.  The new handset appears to be different from the LG Fantasy smartphone that emerged last year, and should make an official appearance during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.  The photos attached to this article show a device that appears to be only an engineering sample, and not the final product.  When made commercially available, the smartphone should feature more polished buttons, though they would still be capacitive. The LG Windows Phone will be thin and should feature rough edges.  According to Pocketnow, the specs list of this...

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Windows 8 Reset and Refresh Features Get Detailed

One of the features that Windows 8 will arrive on the market with will be the possibility to reset it either to the original settings, or to a previously working configuration.  In other words, users will be able to revert the PC to a factory state, or to go back to a good configuration that worked for them.  Users who will purchase a computer running under Windows 8 right from the start will certainly grow to appreciate both these options, since they are meant to eliminate the need of performing a clean install of the platform. Of course, tools to enable you to get the PC back to a previous state are already available, though not all of them might be seen as efficient as needed, especially to users who don’t have too much experience...

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