MWC 2012: Live from HTC's Conference - HTC One X, One S and One V Announced

So far we've seen that Huawei boasts having  the fastest quad-core smartphone in the world, the Ascend D quad (XL) and Sony announced two new Android devices: Xperia P and Xperia U. It's now HTC's turn to impress. Stay tuned for live info. So far, they're discussing the highly anticipated HTC One series of mobile devices. It seems HTC is focusing on camera, sound and performance features with this series. HTC One devices will feature ImageSense technology: better module camera, software and UI. HTC Sense 4.0 will come with Dropbox built-in. HTC One owners automatically get 25GB cloud storage space for free for 2 years. Also in HTC Sense 4.0, enhanced music listening experience with BeatsAudio technology. Previously known as HTC Endeavour,...

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MWC 2012: Live from Sony's Conference - Xperia P and Xperia U Announced

Second conference of the day  at the 2012 Mobile World Congress is Sony Mobile's.  Everyone's expecting them to announce new mobile devices, and I have got to say, I'm pretty excited myself. Stay tuned for live info. Xperia U and Xperia P smartphones announced! Xperia P has an aluminum unibody design and the display features Sony's  WhiteMagic  brightness enhancement technology.  Also on board are an 8MP camera and NFC (near field communications) capabilities. Xperia U has a dual-core 1GHz heart, 5MP camera, xLoud sound tehnology and a 3.5" display.  Both smartphones will be shipping in mid-Q2 2012.  As a nice bonus, the already known Xperia S is now available in Barcelona, one week earlier than expected. That's...

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MWC 2012: Live from Huawei's Conference - Ascend D quad (XL) Announced

We're down in Barcelona for the 2012 Mobile World Congress and are wasting no time: the Huawei conference has started. Stay tuned to see what they are about to announce! They're showing the Ascend D quad, which they claim is the fastest quad-core smartphone to date. The CPU inside the Ascend D quad is Huawei's K3V2 64-bit processor, running at 1.5GHz. The 4.5" screen has a 1280x720 resolution and is IPS+, which spells great graphics quality. There's an XL version, which has a 2500 mAh battery, as opposed to the "regular" one which is 1800 mAh. The Ascend D quad also has 1GB of RAM on board, 8MP rear camera with dual LED flash and 1080p video recording, 1.3MP front-facing camera with 720p video recording. And of course, it runs Android 4.0...

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OS X Mountain Lion Features: Notification Center

Apple’s next major version of OS X dropping in this summer delivers some cool functionality that has been ported over from the iPad, and one of those nifty features is Notification Center. While some believe Apple is ripping off Growl, Notification Center is arguably more complex and, therefore, more functional. Not only does it display timely notifications for all kinds of apps, like Mail, IM clients, Twitter, Game Center, and even FaceTime, the tool is so well integrated with the entire OS that we’ll probably wonder “how on Earth did we live without it?” “See what’s new with you. All in one place. Something new is always popping up somewhere on your Mac — an email, an instant message, a friend request, a calendar alert, and more,” reads...

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Nokia Now Leads in Windows Phone Sales

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia needed only four months to become the top Windows Phone manufacturer in the world.  Nokia Lumia 800, the company’s first Windows Phone device arrived on shelves in November last year, followed by Nokia Lumia 710 one month later.  Now, Strategy Analytics is reporting that Nokia is the world’s number one Microsoft smartphone vendor. This is the first time this has ever happened.  “Nokia overtook HTC and others to become the world’s largest Microsoft smartphone vendor with 33 percent market share,” Alex Spektor, associate director at Strategy Analytics, said. “Nokia’s global Microsoft smartphone shipments hit 0.9 million units, as distribution of its Lumia family expanded across numerous countries...

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BlackBerry Travel 2.0.40.99 Now Available for Download

A new flavor of the BlackBerry Travel application is now available for download for the owners of BlackBerry smartphones from Canadian handset vendor Research In Motion.  Pushed in the BlackBerry App World as version 2.0.40.99, the new application release brings along localized content in Bahasa Indonesia, Brazilian, Portugese, and Dutch. Moreover, the new app iteration was meant to provide users with better support for all smartphones that are powered by the latest BlackBerry OS 7.1 release.  The new app version is also said to fix some of the issues that users might have experienced after installing the previous flavor.  At the same time, users will benefit from all of the features and capabilities that the application already...

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No Windows 8 Ultimate SKU – Report

Microsoft might reduce the number of SKUs available for its Windows 8 platform, recent reports suggest.  Apparently, the Redmond-based software company has concluded that the ultimate edition of its previous Windows versions did not sale well enough to offer it for Windows 8 as well.  Previously, the company has been offering the Windows platform in four SKUs, including Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate. The Enterprise SKU is available only for companies, but the rest of the versions were released for the  general public.   However, ZDNet’s Stephen Chapman has managed to grab a series of leaked documents coming from Hewlett-Packard, which mention only three of these SKUs.  When Windows 8 arrives...

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Intel 7-Series Z77 Extreme Motherboards Revealed

Intel has unleashed quite a few motherboards over the past week, like the Media Series and the Executive 7-Series, all part of the 7-Series, and now we get to look at the high-end models too.  According to VR-Zone, there are two high-end 7-Series motherboards on the way, powered by the Z77 chipset.  Like them, we aren't exactly sure why it has taken to launching so many motherboards, knowing that the consumer base will more than likely gravitate towards companies that specialize in such products and have proven their brands' worth over and over (ASRock, ASUS, MSI, etc.).  Nevertheless, Intel has released the DZ77GA and DZ77RE for the high-end market.  The former has the Gasper codename and comes with two PCI Express 3.0...

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DDR4 RAM Demonstrated at ISSCC, Will Enter Manufacture in 2013

DDR4, the next DRAM memory standard, is expected to be massively adopted by 2014, which means that the companies behind its existence have to start showing prototypes now instead of later.  It so happens that the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) has just taken place (between February 19 and 23).  The conference was the perfect occasion for revealing next-generation dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips.  TechEye reports that two companies were willing to show off their inventions.  Hynix is one of the companies with a DDR4 device. The chip works at 2400MHz (2400Mb/s) and needs a voltage of 1.2V. It bears a 64-bit I/O.  The second company to bring out a DDR4 product was Samsung. The clock...

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