iPhone 5 Specs Get Leaked by Assembly Partner Foxconn

A Foxconn employee that has been deemed as a reliable source in the past says the iPhone 5 has entered production with a larger, 4-inch display, and a different design than the iPhone 4/4S. Labeling their source as reliable, 9to5mac claims to have received word from Foxconn that the fifth-generation iPhone has kicked into production. There are various iterations floating around, each boasting slight modifications, and none of the devices seems “final”, according to this person. However, all of the units have a few key features that are common among each other. One such feature is the “4+ inch display”. Note that the source doesn’t say 4-inches, but 4-plus inches, which means that if this report is accurate, the next Apple iPhone will be...

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Intel Graphics-Less Sandy Bridge CPUs Confirmed by Gigabyte

At the end of last year we found out that in the first quarter of 2012 Intel planned to release a trio of Sandy Bridge processors that would come with their built-in GPUs disabled. Now, almost a month after this initial report, Gigabyte has confirmed the existence of these chips. The motherboard maker has just added these three processors to their CPU support list, where they were spotted by CPU-World. As we revealed in the last days of 2011, the three chips are the Core i5-2380P, Core i5-2450P and a somewhat older acquaintance of ours, the Core i5-2550K. With a base clock of 3.1GHz and a maximum Turbo Speed of 3.4GHz, the Core i5-2380P greatly resembles the Core i5-2400, sans the integrated GPU of course. The Core i5-2450P on the other...

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Fujifilm X-Pro1 to Hit Japan on February 18

Those of us living in other parts of the world may have to wait until March to get our hands on the Fujifilm X-Pro1, but Japanese photo enthusiasts will be able to buy the camera as soon as February 18. Pricing is still open, but right now Japanese retailers ask 150,000 yen (about $1,929 or 1,464 EUR) for the body, while the 35mm f/1.4 lens will set you back another 54,800 yen (about $705). That’s a great deal more than what Fijifilm will ask for the X-Pro1 in other parts of the world, but I guess that’s the price one has to pay for becoming an early adopter. Those of you that aren’t all that familiar with the X-Pro 1 should know that this retro looking camera comes as the successor of the X100, but it sports a custom 16MP APS-CMOS sensor,...

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Nikon Officially Discontinues D700 and D300S DSLRs

Three and a half year after being made official by Nikon, the D700 full-frame digital SLR camera has been finally discontinued by the Japanese company together with the DX format D300s. Both of the cameras were added by Nikon Japan to its list of discontinued products, and according to the Nikon Rumors website the D700 is no longer on display at the Nikon flagship store in Ginza. The retirement of the D700 was to be expected as the Japanese camera maker will soon introduce its successor, but the retirement of the D300S comes as a bit of a surprise since no rumors regarding a possible D400 made their way to the Web so far. As far as the D800 is concerned, this camera is said to make its entrance at the CP+ Photography show which will be taking...

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Samsung’s Original Galaxy Tab Gets Unofficial Android 4.0 Port

Samsung might have no plans to release an Android 4.0 update for the original 7-inch Galaxy Tab, but the developer community has an entirely different opinion about this matter. For the last few months a few members of the XDA-Developers forums, frustrated by Samsung’s decision, have been working on porting CyanogenMod 9 to the 7-inch tablet. So far, the team managed to make quite some decent progress with the build, as most of the tablet’s features, including WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, are all working. Camera support however is still absent, and the developers don’t know when this functionality will arrive to the 7-inch Galaxy Tab. If you’re curious, you can check out the port in the video above this post, which was shot by Netbook News and shows the tablet being put through its pace...

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Motorola DROID 4 Price Dropped Ahead of Official Launch

Verizon Wireless has yet to announce the upcoming availability of the Motorola DROID 4. About two weeks ago the smartphone’s user guide emerged online and we thought that the carrier would soon launch the device.  Unfortunately, we’re still not sure when the DROID 4 goes on sale at Verizon. However, the folks over at Droid-Life have just learned that the phone’s price has been dropped from the initial $249.99 (190 EUR) to only $199.99 (150 EUR) with a new two-year contract. The new change appears in the most recent MAP (minimum advertised price) list from Verizon Wireless that has just surfaced online. Aside from this change, Verizon’s internal document also mentions that DROID BIONIC’s $199.99 (150 EUR) subsidized price will be slashed...

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More Info on RIM’s 2012 Roadmap Emerges

In 2012, Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion is expected to launch some appealing new devices, including its first smartphones powered by the BlackBerry 10 operating system.  We already had the chance to have a look at the company’s plans for the current year, and we can learn some more details on it now, courtesy of leaked details that emerged over at BGR.  The two BlackBerry Curve 9220 and BlackBerry Curve 9320 smartphones mentioned before will be there, along with a new BlackBerry PlayBook tablet PC that will offer support for 3G networks.  Moreover, the first BlackBerry 10 smartphone from the company, codenamed London, is expected to land on shelves in September, though the roadmap also suggests that it might...

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Jailbreak iPhone 4s and iPad 2 using Absinthe (Full Step-by-Step How To)

Didn’t you hear the big NEWS? Yes Untethered jailbreak for your iPhone 4s and iPad 2 is here and as promised here is my guide for you to flawlessly jailbreak your device.  Absinthe is the Tool that we will be using to jailbreak, you can download it here for Mac and Windows and Linux versions are just in line waiting to be packed and released for the world. We can expect Windows and Linux versions soon! Let’s just recap the firmware and devices Absinthe supports:iPhone4S: 5.0 (9A334), 5.0.1 (9A405) and the “other” 5.0.1 (9A406) iPad2: 5.0.1 (9A405) Note: Please mind that though developers put in all there efforts to remove every possible bug but still make a backup in case something goes wrong. I strongly suggest you to make a backup...

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Intel Buys Next-Generation Video Codec Patents from RealNetworks

Anyone wondering what Intel was doing to improve its video and graphics technologies may want to know of the recent deal it signed with RealNetworks. Right to the point, Intel is going to buy 190 patents and 170 patent applications from RealNetworks, including its next-generation video codec. “Selling these patents to Intel unlocks some of the substantial and unrealized value of RealNetworks assets. It represents an extraordinary opportunity for us to generate additional capital to boost investments in new businesses and markets while still protecting our existing business,” said Thomas Nielsen, RealNetworks president and CEO.  “RealNetworks is pleased Intel has agreed to acquire our next generation video codec software and team. Intel...

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Giada Outs Mini-ATX Intel Cedar Trail Motherboard

Better known to Asian computer users than to us Westerners, Giada has recently unveiled its first mini-ITX motherboard built using Intel’s Cedar Trail Atom platform, dubbed the MI-D2700G, which seems to target HTPC users. Just as its name implies, this compact motherboard is built around an Atom D2700 Cedarview processor, and pairs together the dual-core 2.13GHz x86 CPU with an Nvidia GT 520 graphics card packing 512MB of DDR3 VRAM. Both of these are cooled by an active heatskin that covers most of the PCB space available on the board, forcing the company to drop support for DIMM memory and go instead with the smaller SO-DIMM modules that are usually found inside notebooks. Two such slots are provided offering users the capability to install...

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16-Port Professional USB Charging Station Revealed

Charging consumer electronics is simple enough, but things may get tricky when more than one or two need to be fueled at once, so Datamation Systems created the Power Pad 16. Power Pad 16 may be a somewhat misleading name, since the word “pad” has been and still is used for things like tablets, mouse mats and most everything else that looks like a rectangular sheet of this or that material. That did not stop Datamation from going ahead and naming its latest creation Power Pad 16. Basically, this is a professional USB charging station which, as its name suggests, can deliver energy to up to 16 devices at the same time. It was designed in such a way that Apple devices (iPad, iPhone, iPod, etc.) and anything else that can use an Apple USB-connected...

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AMD Radeon HD 7950 Can't Become HD 7970, Reference Design Suggests

Looks like people who were hoping for a cheaper, albeit more roundabout, way of getting an AMD Radeon HD 7970 will be disappointed.  Until today, it was believed that the Radeon HD 7970 and Radeon HD 7950 graphics cards would share a similar PCB design.  In other words, since the GPU was basically the same, many were hoping that it would be possible to “transform” the 7950 into a 7970 by changing the BIOS.  Alas, photos of what is supposedly the reference design have surfaced online, and they are not too encouraging.  Not only is the cooler different (a top-flow fan instead of a fin-canal design), but also the PCB (printed circuit board) will be more or less unique.  On a related note, while the release won't happen...

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Xbox 720 Has Blu-ray Drive and Kinect 2, Won’t Support Used Games

Another day, another report about the next Xbox console. This time we’re hearing that the device will have support for Sony’s Blu-ray technology and that a special system will be put in place to prevent the console from playing used games. The Xbox 360 will still be around for quite some time, at least according to Microsoft itself, but this isn’t stopping a huge amount of rumors about its successor, the oft-rumored Xbox 720. After hearing yesterday some details about its internal hardware, with IBM creating its system-on-a-chip technology and AMD providing the graphics architecture, a new report has now arrived via Kotaku. The website claims that several sources have confirmed that the next Xbox will use, instead of the current DVDs of...

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Xbox 720 Hardware in Development at IBM, Console Arrives in 2013

Another new report about the next Xbox console has appeared on the web, this time with rumors concerning IBM and Global Foundries, the two companies that are supposedly working on the hardware of the upcoming console, the oft-rumored Xbox 720. The current Xbox 360 will still be around for quite some time, according to Microsoft, but this doesn’t stop plenty of rumors to appear about its successor. We’ve already heard about its various announcement and release dates, with many claiming that the company will present the next Xbox at E3 2012 in summer and release it sometime towards the end of the year. Now, Fudzilla has published a fresh report, this time citing sources from inside IBM, as the manufacturer is supposedly working alongside Global...

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Pentax Optio VS20 Digital Camera Packs Dual Shutter Buttons

Pentax has just announced the introduction of a new compact digital camera dubbed the Optio VS20, which sports a 20x zoom lens, as well as a secondary shutter button and zoom lever for portrait-orientation shooting. While this certainly isn’t the first time that we get to see a second shutter button being added to a compact, the presence of the zoom lever is indeed a nice touch that should make the camera easier to shoot when held vertically. Moving past the dual shutter controls, Pentax’s latest creation packs a 1/2.33-inch 16MP CCD sensor which, helped by the image processor installed, can reach ISOs as high as 6400 in its extended mode (100-1600 in auto mode). The maximum aperture of the 20x (28 – 560 mm 35mm equivalent) lens varies between...

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AMD Branded DDR3 Memory Arrives in Europe and the UK

Two months after making their North American debut, AMD branded memory modules have also reached Europe, and the UK, where they will go on sale in the coming weeks.  AMD’s memory series is split into three categories depending on the market they target. The simplest of these solutions are being released into the Entertainment series which features 1333MHz and 1600MHz speed DDR3 RAM designed for quite HTPC applications, according to the company. Those who require better speeds and tighter latencies will have the option of going for the Performance series, while the fastest of AMD’s memory solutions are released into the Radeon Edition range. Their stock frequencies are set at 1866MHz, but AMD says this type of DRAMs are tuned, tested...

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Official Ice Cream Sandwich ROM for Motorola RAZR Leaks

Motorola Mobility explained last month how it would upgrade some of its high-end devices to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system. However, the handset maker has yet to confirm release dates for these upgrades.  Up until now, Motorola confirmed it would bring Google’s latest Ice Cream Sandwich platform to DROID RAZR, Motorola RAZR, Motorola XOOM (Family Edition included) and DROID BIONIC. True to its promise, the company already delivered the Android 4.0 software upgrade to Wi-Fi Motorola XOOM owners in the United States, but has yet to make it available to the rest of the world. On the other hand, its flagship Android smartphone, the Motorola RAZR, got quite a few unofficial Ice Cream Sandwich ROMs that were more or less...

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