OfficeSuite Pro 6 for Android Now Available for Download

The long-awaited OfficeSuite Professional 6 for Android devices has just made its way to Google Play store. The latest version of the application brings lots of new features and improvements. Unfortunately, those who already use a previous iteration of the OfficeSuite Pro and wish to upgrade to the latest version will have to pay $9.99 USD. OfficeSuite Pro 6 brings SugarSync compatibility, Excel filters, Headers and Footers in Word documents, as well as page numbering. In addition, the application now features page view for Word and other text documents, along with objects manipulation in PowerPoint files (move, resize, rotate). The number of functions in Excel has been increased and the cell selection in spreadsheets has...

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 680 Goes Cheaper in India

Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 was launched in India back in February for a suggested retail price of Rs 33,571 (655 USD or 500 EUR) outright. Two months after release the slate’s price got a small price cut. The guys over at AndroidOS have just learned that the Galaxy Tab 680 is now available via Flipkart for only Rs 28,500 (555 USD or 425 EUR). That’s a pretty consistent price drop, but still not quite on par with the new Android 4.0 ICS tablets recently launched in India. Those who are not familiar with the Galaxy Tab 680 specs sheet should know that the slate is powered by Google’s Android 3.2 Honeycomb operating system, though Samsung has already promised it will deploy an Ice Cream Sandwich update by the end of the year. The...

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0) Gets Priced at $310 (€235), Still Not Available

Samsung introduced the Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0) and (10.1) two months ago at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, and promised the tablets would be launched on the market as early as March. However, it appears that the company had to delay both slates due to some problems with the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich optimization. Those who are waiting to purchase the Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0), but don’t know how much they will have to pay for the slate, will be happy to know that the device has just been priced at $310 (€235) at QVC retailer. Obviously, this is the basic 8GB version of Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0), but the enhanced 16GB and 32GB models should be priced around the same amount. No word on the exact release date of the slate, but rumor...

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MacBook Pro "Slim" Stirs Up Competition in Notebook Space - Report

The hit-and-miss DigiTimes is at it again with a new report citing market watchers as saying that the notebook space will witness some fierce competition between Cupertino, California-based Apple Inc. and PC vendors Acer, HP, Asus, and Lenovo - all of which are planning to roll out new, ultra-thin laptopts. Rumored for quite some time to be updating the MacBook Pro line with a design akin to that of the MacBook Air, “Apple will launch its updated MacBook Pro, while notebook brand vendors are aggressively pushing 15-inch ultrabooks,” reads the latest report from Taiwan’s rumor-centric trade publication. As such, market watchers believe thay “the competition will help reduce the overall thickness of 15-inch notebook models. Apple...

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Centon Releases New Server Memory

After all the desktop products announced recently, it is actually quite refreshing to see something unrelated for a change, even though it isn't going to directly enrich the lives of consumers all that much. And by “it” we mean the new server memory that Centon Electronics officially introduced not overly long ago. This isn't an occasion where a company brings out some massive lineup of RAM kits and modules. Instead, Centon has completed the development of a 16 GB ECC Registered DIMM that can have VLP or LP form factors. That is to say, it can be a 240 pin DDR3 VLP (very-low profile) 0.74-inch Registered Mini-DIMM or a 204-pin SODIMM. The capacity of 16 GB is either provided by just one module or achieved by a kit of...

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Microsoft’s Windows Phone Reaches New Milestone: LTE Devices Available

Microsoft’s Windows Phone has come a long way. One year and a half following the initial launch of the platform, the first two LTE-enabled devices came to the market.  These are the Lumia 900 from Nokia and the TITAN II from HTC, both available today at wireless carrier AT&T. This is a key milestone for Microsoft and its mobile platform, which is still lagging behind rivals Android and iOS, as well as for Nokia, which has announced plans to adopt the OS roughly a year ago, but already unveiled four devices powered by it.  Microsoft, Nokia and AT&T are working together for the marketing of Lumia 900, and have already launched the Smartphone Beta Test advertising campaign, as well as Free-Time Machines (FTMs)...

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Nokia Working on QWERTY Slider with 4-Inch WVGA Screen for Sprint – Report

After revealing Nokia’s plans to launch a Lumia PureView smartphone at Verizon Wireless this fall, MS Nerd leaks a new rumor, but this time it’s about a Sprint exclusive device. The good news is that Nokia is reportedly preparing to launch a QWERTY slider at Sprint, which will feature a large 4-inch WVGA capacitive touchscreen display. In addition, the handset is said to be packed with Qualcomm’s latest MSM8960 chipset. This means that the unannounced device might be equipped with a 1.5 GHz dual core Snapdragon S4 processor and an Adreno 320 graphics processing unit. According to MS Nerd, the QWERTY slider will be exclusively launched at Sprint, so no other carrier in the country will get this one. Apparently Nokia plans...

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Here Are the First Z77-Based Desktop PC Systems

It looks like some Japanese built to order (BTO) desktop PC makers really can't wait for the Ivy Bridge processor platform, having hurried to be the first to release computers equipped with the latest motherboards.  To get right to the point, some Japanese PC makers have launched systems powered by the Z77 high-end chipset.  Mouse Computer, SHG Galleria, G-Gear and EX Computer have all brought forth such desktop computers.  People shouldn't be too worried though, or enthusiastic, depending on one's view.  That the latest motherboards have been used doesn't mean that the companies jumped the gun on the CPUs too.  Instead, they chose to equip the systems with existing Sandy Bridge LGA 1155 central...

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MSI Builds GeForce GTX 680 Twin Frozr III Graphics Card

Micro-Star International may have already released some GeForce GTX 680 cards, but it isn't done yet, since it still has to flaunt its special cooling technology. And here, by special cooling technology we, of course, mean the latest iteration of the Twin Frozr, dubbed Twin Frozr III. For those expecting some major clock tweaks and the like, disappointment awaits. While the GK104 Kepler GPU (graphics processing unit) was pushed a bit, the memory was not, even though the cooler could have probably handled it. Then again, the GeForce GTX 680 is such a beast by default that there is hardly any need for major factory overclocking, especially when users can just play with the numbers themselves. That said, the GPU has a base...

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Script: Cassette

Cassette is a C# asset bundling toolkit for .NET web apps development. It was developed to automatically sort, merge, compress, version and cache JavaScript, CoffeeScript, CSS, LESS and HTML files. Cassette readies resources for deploying on live websites. It helps developers neatly package resources, optimize and speed up their app. It's a really helpful tool if the app you're developing grows constantly as features are added to it. Some of Cassette's most important features include correct order of resource loading, auto-detection of file references, automatic compilation of CoffeeScript and LESS files, constantly updated documentation and a cache system that ensures assets are downloaded once per user. Cassette's...

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And Finally, Some Details on the Ivy Bridge Chipset

We know that the first members of Intel's Ivy Bridge CPU collection will be launched in about two weeks, and we also know that the full range won't be out until next year, or late 2012 if the company is really fast.  As we wait for Intel to make it happen, we are, naturally, going to cover whatever leaks, rumors and product releases come our way.  ASUS's Maximus V GENE  is just the latest of the many mainboards with the Ivy Bridge chipset.  Granted, that's not exactly the correct way to put it, since Ivy Bridge is the CPU codename, while Panther Point is the chipset moniker.  Ivy Bridge CPUs are built on the 22nm manufacturing process technology and would have been already selling if they hadn't...

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EVGA’s Z77 FTW Is Now Official

In anticipation of Intel’s Ivy Bridge launch, California-based video card and motherboard manufacturer EVGA has just announced its new EVGA Z77 FTW motherboard on its official website.  The mainboard is targeted at PC overclocking enthusiasts and power users. The mainboard has robust overclocking features, good cooling and high quality components to ensure a reliable and stable system. It supports Intel’s Core i5 and i7 Socket 1155 processors, and is powered by Intel’s own Z77 chipset. On the expansion side, the motherboard has five PCI-e x16 slots supporting 4-way SLI and one small PCI-e 1x slot. It has four memory DIMM slots supporting up to 32 GB of DDR3 2133 MHz memory. There’s lack of concordance here as the announcement...

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Nokia Lumia PureView with Windows Phone 8 Exclusively Launching at Verizon – Report

Last week we reported on a render of a mysterious Nokia device that is said to carry PureView technology and Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 (Apollo) operating system. Some specs details emerged as well, but nothing is confirmed for the moment. The device that appears in the render has a touch-sensitive button that features the new Windows Phone 8 logo, which suggests that Nokia is planning to announce some Apollo-based devices this year. Completely unrelated to the render that leaked online last week, new rumors on the upcoming Nokia Lumia PureView device have just surfaced. It appears that MS Nerd heard some interesting rumors about Nokia’s plans for United States' smartphone market. According to him, the Finnish company plans...

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Haswell Will Have Powerful GPU Thanks to Crystalwell Technology

Intel’s integrated GPUs have always suffered from lack of decent performance, acceptable driver compatibility, stability and image quality. Lately, there have been many rumors creating high expectations for next year’s graphics unit integrated in Intel's Haswell CPU. Semiaccurate’s Charlie Demerjian is reporting that the fastest Haswell GPU, the GT3 variant, will sport 64 MB of on-package GPU memory on an interposer connected through an ultra-wide bus.  Now called Crystalwell, this tech will prove very expensive for Intel in the initial stages. There was much speculation about some sort of L4 cache on an MCM module or something similar, but that made little sense.  Cache-ing the whole CPU has no real point in...

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iPhone 5 Launching in October, Not Summer, Says Foxconn Staffer

After a Japanese television studio interviewed a Foxconn recruiter who said the next iPhone would be released this June, another Foxconn employee appears to have spilled the beans on the launch date. However, this time it’s October. South Korea's Maeil Business Newspaper says it has talked to the head of human resources at Foxconn’s recently established Taiyuan factory who reportedly told them: "We just got the order. It [the release] will be around October." Not that this report should be any more credible than the first, but the October launch has always been more plausible. Last year, Apple broke tradition by releasing its newest iPhone not in Summer, but in Fall at a special even just one day before former CEO, Steve Jobs,...

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Samsung Galaxy Note Running ICS in Tablet Mode

At the moment, Samsung’s Galaxy Note is the closest a smartphone would get to a tablet.  It features a large 5.3-inch touchscreen display and, with the proper software loaded, it can easily offer an experience similar to that of a slate.  In fact, it already does that, thanks to an “imilka” custom tablet ROM based on Ice Cream Sandwich, as can be seen in the video embedded above, courtesy of the guys over at RootGalaxyNote.com.  The handset’s large screen can easily accommodate the UI designed for tablet PCs, but it is not available for all users out there. Only the aforementioned custom ROM - which can be seen detailed in this thread on XDA-Developers forum - offers it.  Those interested in the matter should know that the installation of this unofficial...

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ASUS Special Memory Perk "Stuns" Intel Engineers

With all the Intel Ivy Bridge-ready motherboards that have been launched over the past few days, one might think it is hard to figure out which to choose. It looks like we might have an answer to that or, to be more precise, we found something that could tip the scales on AnandTech. In their preview of the Panther Point chipset, they mentioned that ASUS reworked the memory sub-system. Memory banks are now read in parallel instead of sequentially, which should clearly boost performance. “Their new method stunned Intel engineers but should provide distinct memory speed advantages,” the folks at AnandTech said. Alas, no one seems to know anything more on the matter, but we are pretty sure the ASUS Maximus V GENE ROG motherboard...

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Lenovo S2109 Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Tablet Incoming

Lenovo has officially introduced the S2109 Android tablet, even though it didn't say when sales would start or at what price. The product relies on a Texas Instruments OMAP processor and a TI WiLink WL1281 wireless controller. The screen diagonal is of 9.7 inches in length, and the aspect ratio is 4:3 (the resolution is 1,024 x 768 pixels). Also, the slate includes SRS Trumedia sound support (quad speakers), a microSD card slot, a 1.3 megapixel front webcam and a battery that can keep everything running for up to 10 hours, all in a package with a thickness of 8.9mm 0.35 inches. As for the software, Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) is present, along with Google Play and the Lenovo App Shop. Make sure to let your eyes hover over that video intro embedded above if you're...

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Samsung’s Flexible AMOLED Display Gets a Name: Youm

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung is moving closer to having its flexible AMOLED displays available for purchase around the world.  Last year, the company promised this technology to be commercially available in 2012, and is now unveiling a name for it: Youm.  On Samsung Mobile Display’s website, Youm is listed as the company’s unbreakable, flexible panel, which is also said to be thinner than the previously available products.  On said page from Samsung’s website, we can have a look at a comparison between the various screen technologies that the handset vendor used before, such as LCD and OLED.  Youm is similar to OLED, only that it replaces glass layers with film, so that the screen would be...

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Intel’s “Knights Corner” MIC Architecture on Track for 2013

World’s biggest CPU manufacturer, Intel, has its people making waves and raising expectations in anticipation of the arrival of the “Stampede” supercomputer next year. Intel’s MIC (Many Intel Cores) is the company’s attempt at building a highly parallel architecture that could, someday, compete with AMD and Nvidia’s GPUs. In a statement cited by xbitlabs, Intel’s Radoslaw Walczyk said that, “Knights Corner is in great shape and is exactly where it has to be according to our internal schedule. We have not disclosed any information related to production or launch date of 'Knights Corner'.” Other company representatives, like Diane Bryant, vice president and general manager of Intel's server product group, said that Intel’s MIC...

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NVIDIA Tegra 4 Detailed, Four A15 Cores, 2 GHz Clock

NVIDIA may have been all but locked out of the motherboard chipset and entry-level graphics market, but it is essentially compensating for that by coming up with more and more advanced mobile platforms.  And by compensate we mean to say it is developing a tablet and phone platform to trounce all platforms.  We've known about the incoming Tegra 4 for a while, how it will utilize the 4-PLUS-1 chip layout (like its predecessor) and how it will be used in superphones and the like.  Alas, this may be a case of “too much of a good thing”, where the “good thing” is performance.  Simply put, the Tegra 4 might be too powerful, as in needlessly mighty for the sort of devices that the industry will offer when the...

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Intel Ivy Bridge CPU Range Complete by Next Year

We know that the Ivy Bridge line of central processing unit will be launched on April 23, rumors say so anyway, but not all chips will appear on that date.  In fact, only a small batch of the processors is set for this unveiling, two weeks from now, even though the 22nm processors have already been delayed for months.  Still, getting mainstream desktop chips is better than nothing, especially for those who've already ordered (or bought) a suitable motherboard.  Nevertheless, since VR-Zone decided to report on what it knows about the later releases, we can't help but take a look into the matter ourselves.  The first chips that will follow the mainstream desktop parts are the mobile processors, in early...

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Polarized Glasses Will Affect Your iPad Experience

A two-year old video (embedded below) showing how the iPad does’t get along with polarized sunglasses has re-captured the attention of several Mac-centric blogs which quote screen expert Raymond Soneira as saying that “Using polarized sunglasses all iPads go black in Portrait mode.” (emphasis ours) Despite the fact that said video is featuring an original iPad from 2010, Dr. Soneira, of DisplayMate Technologies, says that all models suffer from this drawback. ZDNet confirms this, offering the physicist’s full statement. According to Dr. Soneira, “other displays go black in Landscape mode [too]. Much better is for the manufacturer to set the extinction at 45 degrees so the display looks good in both Portrait and Landscape modes." "The...

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Pixel Qi on a Lenovo IdeaPad S10-2 Netbook

It has been a week since we reported on Pixel Qi's determination to come up with better displays.  In the meantime, the Pixel Qi DIY kits sold by MAKE magazine have been acquired by some daring users.  Truthfully, you don't need to be all that brave to actually change the display of a compatible laptop, in this case the Lenovo IdeaPad S10-2 netbook.  The whole process takes just 15 minutes and, at the end of it, your netbook will be sunlight-readable.  You'll even get to choose between having it act like an E Ink panel or a standard LCD.  Either way, the visibility and power gains are clear, even though the warranty of your laptop won't survive.  Check out the video above, that the folks at NetbookNews set up for your, and our, conv...

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Facebook Unsocial Reader - Free Google Chrome Extension To Bypass App Install Link

Facebook Apps are definitely a great utility but some of them really get on your nerves, one such Facebook application is "Social Reader". Every time you click on an article link associated with this app to read the article, you are required to grant this app possible privacy invasive permissions to proceed with access to the article. Now if you dont want to do this the "Facebook Unsocial Reader" Google Chrome Extension is the solution to bypass this app install prompt and read the article directly. Download Facebook Social Reader here. ...

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Nokia 808 PureView Up for Pre-Order in Italy for €599 ($785)

Unveiled back in February at the Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona, one of the best camera phones that will soon be available on the market, Nokia 808 PureView has just gone up for pre-order in Italy. That’s one month earlier than expected, as Nokia promised the smartphone would be launched on the market sometime in May, for a suggested retail price of €450 ($585). However, an Italian retailer has just kicked off Nokia 808 PureView pre-orders for those who want to make sure they will be among the first to get it.  Unfortunately, the phone is priced much higher than expected, as NStore.it offers the 808 PureView for no less than €599 ($785) outright. Customers are required to pay a €99 ($130) fee in order to reserve...

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