Nokia Lumia 800 Gets New Software Update Over the Next Two Weeks

Unveiled back in October at Nokia World 2011, Lumia 800 has been plagued by some charging and battery issues. It appears that owners of the smartphone were unable to access the full battery capacity of the Nokia Lumia 800, which greatly reduced the autonomy of the phone.  Although the Finnish company recognized the battery problem, along with other minor stability and performance problems, it took a few weeks until a software update was rolled out. Unfortunately, not all the problems reported by Nokia Lumia 800 owners, and confirmed by the handset maker, were corrected with the software update released last month. The latest software release for Nokia Lumia is 1600.2479.7740.11451 and brings a number of performance and usability enhancements,...

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Haier 55-inch 3DTV Uses Wireless Energy Transfer

The TV that Haier recently unveiled is one of those items that stands out through more than one perk, although it is the total lack of cables that truly earned attention. Haier recently showcased a 3DTV with a diagonal of 55 inches and featuring the Wireless Home Digital Interface (WHDI) technology. The company did not focus too much on spelling out each and every specification, according to a TechOn report. Instead, it has focused on the WHDI technology and the implications it has in the long run. The WHDI technology does two things, one of which is the streaming of video content. The other role is to power the TV wirelessly, meaning that the newcomer does not need to be plugged into anything to work. In fact, it totally lacks any and all...

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AMD Radeon HD 7950 Clock Speeds Reportedly Revealed

At the end of this month, AMD is expected to let loose upon the gaming world the second graphics card from its Radeon HD 7900 series, and while no official specifications were made public so far by AMD, a report has come out recently to detail the clocks speeds of this upcoming 28nm GCN graphics core. Citing “reliable” sources with close knowledge of AMD’s plans, Donanim Haber reports that the upcoming HD 7950 will have a reference GPU clock speed of 800MHz, while the memory will work at 1250MHz (5GHz data rate). While this last figure seems to pretty much confirm all the rumors that have been spreading around about the HD 7950, the 800MHz graphics core frequency is 100MHz lower than the value touted previously. Furthermore, this also comes...

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iPhone 5 May Boast 4-Inch Dot LED Screen, Business Report Says

Lately there has been little talk about a 4-inch display on the next-generation iPhone, but that’s not stopping Wall Street from dreaming. In fact, an analyst with Susquehanna Financial believes Apple will unveil just that, later this year. "With respect to iPhone 5, we continue to estimate production to begin around June 2012 and believe this phone will feature a larger 4" screen," Susquehanna Financial analyst Chris Caso wrote in a note to clients. Taking this aspect into account, the analyst has increased his production forecast for calendar first quarter to 36.5 million iPhones, and he also expects between 10 and 14 million iPads to be produced in the first quarter of 2012, according to the IB Times. The report says Apple’s next iPhone...

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Image of Quad-Core-Powered LG X3 Emerges

South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics was the first handset vendor in the world to launch a smartphone powered by a dual-core application processor. Apparently, it is also set to be one of the first to release quad-core handsets, and the first of these has just emerged.  2012 is expected to prove the year of quad-core devices, and LG’s X3 smartphone, which can be seen in the photo to the left (available courtesy of Pocketnow), should be one of them.  Rumor has it that the new mobile phone will run under Google’s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, and that it will feature physical capacitive buttons, the same as many of the devices set to hit the market this year with ICS from the start.  The specs list...

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Intel Bets Quite a Bit on Ice Cream Sandwich

Now that Intel finally has chips that are both powerful and energy efficient enough to put on a good show on the tablet and smartphone front, the company is seriously considering what operating systems to focus on.  We have already mentioned that the Santa Clara, California-based company had Windows 8 slates queued up for production.  That said, it bears noting that Intel is still more confident in Google's Android 4.0 operating system, otherwise known as Ice Cream Sandwich.  According to the CPU giant, since tablets are more about software than hardware, the operating system is very important.  As such, Intel needs to plan its moves well if it is to actually become successful in this field.  "With the silicon integration...

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Canon EOS 5D MK III May Arrive in March with 20MP Sensor

In March of this year, Canon fans everywhere might finally have the chance to go face to face with the long-awaited 5D MK III DSLR, if we are to believe the latest 5D MK III rumors to arrive. According to techradar, Canon plans to release make official the camera right after Japan’s CP+ show, which could make some sense considering that Nikon is also expected to launch the D800 in the next few weeks. While nothing is certain at this point, the rumored specs seem to imply that the Canon 5D MK III will feature a 20MP-something sensor, GPS tagging, a DIGIC 5 processor, 19 AF points and 5fps continuous shooting. Furthermore, all these could be joined by an eye-controlled autofocus feature, which definitely sound cool to us if it turns out to...

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Windows 8 Tablets in the Pipeline, Intel CEO Confirms

Windows 8, Microsoft’s next-generation platform, is expected to become commercially available this fall, and devices to run under it are already being developed.  We’re referring here to tablet PCs, of course, since Windows 8 is the first Microsoft client to feature optimizations for this type of devices.  We already assumed that Microsoft and its partners were working on tablet PCs to be launched when Windows 8 was made available, but no specific confirmation on this has emerged before.  On Wednesday, Intel CEO Paul Otellini said that Windows 8 tablet PCs were already in the pipeline, PCMag reports. However, he did not offer specific details on when these devices might be launched.  Currently, the tablet PCs market is...

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Phase Change Cooling Overclocks Nvidia’s GTX 580 Past 1GHz

Finding new and innovative ways to cool down hardware has always been a hobby for computer enthusiasts and recently a company that is known as PowerQuest showcased a phase change cooler that enabled it to overclock an Nvidia GTX 580 GPU past the 1GHz mark. Popular among enthusiasts a few years back, phase change cooling relies on a compressor that liquefies a gas loaded in the cooling system, which is then used to cool the CPU (the liquid evaporates basically changing its phase). While this type of cooling has the advantage of keeping the components at freezing temperatures, usually under 0 degrees Celsius, one of its downsides is that the compressor used is particularly noisy for day to day operation. This is however were PowerQuest LLC...

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Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 7950 Card Info Leaked

Sapphire, being one of AMD's partners on the video card market, is naturally preparing its own Radeon HD 7900 cards, one of which has become the subject of a recent information leak.  Yet again, information on an unannounced product has found its way to the Internet, whether its maker likes it or not.  As it turns out, Sapphire is working on an item called HD7950 3G GDDR5 PCI-E HDMI/DVI-I/DUAL MINI DP OC VERSION.  Essentially, this is a Radeon HD 7950 board that steps away from the reference design even though it retains the stock clock speeds.  The dual-fan cooler takes up two slots, not too little but definitely not too much space either.  After all, it does not even get close to the amount of room that Yeston's...

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