Samsung GALAXY S III Photo Gallery

The “next Galaxy” smartphone has just been officially unveiled and there's already a lot of debate on the phone's design. Samsung Galaxy S III has been “designed for humans” to mimic nature, hence the curved lines and the “pebble” form factor. Although the device comes with a 4.8-inch capacitive touchscreen display, it fits perfectly in hand. However, there are some who already blame Samsung for adding such a large display, which they fear, makes the phone too big to carry. All in all, the Galaxy S III super-phone comes in two color schemes, Marble White and Pebble Blue. According to Samsung there will be three models launched on the market, each with a different amount of storage, 16GB, 32GB and 64GB. The handset has been...

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Samsung Galaxy S III Outstanding Benchmark Results Unveiled

Samsung officially introduced the Galaxy S III a few hours ago and the smartphone is already controversial among Android enthusiasts. Most people are currently complaining about the phone's design or hardware performance, though the handset has just been announced.  Others are calling the Galaxy S III “ecstatic” when it comes with design, but they say it has the same performance as other Android phones already available on the market. Well, it looks like the folks over at GSMArena have been quick enough to run some tests and the results are impressive, the least to say. Samsung Galaxy S III was put against HTC One X, HTC One S, Samsung Galaxy S II, Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Sony Xperia S, Samsung Galaxy Note, HTC Sensation...

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Huawei M660 Android Phone Spotted at Bluetooth SIG

Chinese handset maker Huawei has big plans for the North American smartphone market. Although the company is mostly known for its low-end devices, Huawei promised several top-tier smartphones would make their way onto shelves this year. Until then, Huawei recently teamed up with T-Mobile USA to offer customers the low-budget Huawei Prism, which can be purchased for as low as $19.99 USD with a new two-year agreement, or $149 USD off-contract. Huawei plans to launch a second budget-friendly Android phone in the States, the M660. The smartphone has just been spotted at Bluetooth SIG and seems to be aimed at MetroPCS. The device is powered by Android 2.3 Gingerbread platform and packs an 800 MHz single-core processor, as well...

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Samsung Galaxy S III: Hands-on Video

Samsung has finally taken the wraps off the Galaxy S III Android flagship smartphone. The device is clearly a huge step up in comparison with the Galaxy S II and not just because it comes with improved hardware. Aside from the beautiful design, Samsung built the Galaxy S III with convergence in mind. The handset has been constructed to make user's life much easier.  With new apps such as S Beam or Direct call, the Galaxy S III is capable of executing quick operations by simply touching another device or by bringing it up to your ear. Not to mention that stunning design that mimics “nature” and recreates the lines of curves of pebbles. Though many complain that the display is too big at 4.8-inch, it looks like the device fits perfectly in your hand. ...

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First Samsung Galaxy S III Video Ad Emerges

Today, Samsung made official its newest Android-based flagship handset, the Galaxy S III, during a press event in London, and the first video ad with the device is now available for your viewing pleasure.  Rocking a 4.8'' Super AMOLED Plus HD screen and a 1.4GHz quad-core application processor, the device features a sleek and thin design, being only 8.6mm thick.  Samsung will make the smartphone available starting with late May in various markets globally, and will launch it in June in countries where LTE networks are available (such as North America, Japan and Korea).  Powered by Android 4.0.4 and featuring a new flavor of Samsung's TouchWiz UX on board, the device will also pack features such as S Beam, Buddy photo share, AllShare, Social tag, and more.  There...

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Samsung Galaxy S III Goes Official

Galaxy S III, the latest flagship Android device from South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung has just been officially announced in London. Following months of expectation, in which a wide range of leaks and rumors on have been spotted around the web, the successor of Samsung's best-selling Galaxy S II smartphone has been fully unveiled.  Just as expected, the device is powered by a fast 1.4GHz quad-core application processor, complemented by 1GB of RAM to aid in delivering high-end performance.  The smartphone was packed with a large 4.8-inch touchscreen display, a Super AMOLED Plus panel capable of delivering an HD resolution.  Samsung has announced 16GB and 32GB flavors of the high-end device, which should...

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Samsung Mandel Windows Phone Poses for the Camera with AT&T Logo

Samsung Mandel, also known as SGH-i667, is no news. The smartphone has been spotted for the first time back in January and we thought it will be announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Unfortunately, the only Windows Phone introduced at that time was the Lumia 900, which is now about to make its European debut. The Mandel appeared one month later at FCC (Federal Communications Commission) where it received approval. Even though it has received all the necessary approvals, Samsung Mandel has yet to go official. Recently spotted in Asia, Samsung Mandel features a glossy white battery cover and a rounded back.  Although the smartphone was only pictured from the back, it looks like the source of the leak...

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Intel Admits Ivy Bridge CPUs Are Hotter Than Sandy Bridge

Microprocessor designer and manufacturer, the American/Israeli company Intel, has reportedly admitted that they actually did cut costs on the Ivy Bridge products. The smaller process node led to denser CPU and a hotter die. Intel still maintains the story that the use of lower quality thermal interface between the CPU dies and the integrated heat spreader was intentional and it is exactly what they’ve planned for. The company claims that the CPUs will actually pass all certification tests, just as the specifications on their box state. Intel’s Ivy Bridge comes with a small die and the smaller the die size is, the better the thermal interface with the IHS must be. If you have a smaller contact area between the IHS and the...

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Current Blackberry Phones Won't Get OS 10, According to RIM

Research In Motion (RIM) officially launched BlackBerry 10 operating system earlier this week and estimated that the first devices powered by the new platform would hit shelves in October. The announcement was made at the BlackBerry World conference in Orlando, Florida where RIM confirmed it would offer each developer attending the event a BlackBerry 10 prototype device for free.  The bad news for BlackBerry fans as RIM has recently announced that existing phones won’t receive an upgrade to BlackBerry 10 OS. Although the announcement doesn’t come as a surprise, BlackBerry owners will surely be disappointed that RIM forces them to upgrade to a new BlackBerry 10 device, though most of them will do it gladly.  On...

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iPhone 5 Specs Leak via Trustworthy Source

A source in touch with iLounge, a tech-centric site with a solid track record on Apple reporting, has leaked what seems to be the first real set of technical specifications pertaining to the next-generation iPhone. Buckle up! The source alleged that “the new iPhone will indeed be longer and thinner than the iPhone 4 and 4S,” iLounge reports. “Approximate measurements are 125mm by 58.5mm by 7.4mm — a 10mm jump in height, nearly 2mm reduction in thickness, and virtually identical width,” according to this person. Apple will reportedly make one major change to the back side of the device – its rear casing will be forged from metal, not glass, or ceramics, as recently rumored. “This panel will be flat,” the report adds, offering...

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GeForce GTX 690 Now in Maingear Monster PCs

The dual-GPU GeForce GTX 690 was launched by NVIDIA just a few days ago, but it already has companies calling on its services.  In a move that isn't all that surprising, Maingear has formally announced that the Kepler-based monster is available as an option on some of its machines.  In case you forgot, the card alone costs $999 in the US and around 900 Euro in Europe, which means that there is no way you'll be able to afford one of those PCs without big bank accounts or deep pockets. Such is the price for art.  "The New Geforce GTX 690 is quite simply a work of art. It reminds us of when NVIDIA introduced the very first GeForce 256, a market dominating product that set the standard time after time," said Wallace...

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ECS Z77-Based X77H2-A3 Motherboard

Elitegroup Computer Systems has a new motherboard on its website, one that has yet to be listed up for sale anywhere, but which shouldn't take too much longer to arrive.  Then again, it isn't really accurate to say that the mainboard has its own product page, because it does, in fact, not have one that we've been able to find.  We did manage to spot the BIOS though. In fact, the software has been available since mid-April.  What's more, the specs have been uncovered, and they are largely similar to those of the Z77H2-A3.  That means that the 4+1 phase CPU VRM, the single PCI Express 3.0 x16 slot and the storage options are the same.  For those who want an elaboration, the product reportedly boasts...

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TSMC Shows 3.1 GHz CortexA9 Dual Core CPU and Doubles 28 nm Shipments

Reportedly, TSMC has just announced that it managed to double its 28 nm manufacturing capacity when compared to the previous quarter. This means that a lot more AMD Radeon 7970 and Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 GPUs will be coming our way. The thing is that TSMC, despite its huge manufacturing capacities, is still not able to fulfill the demands of its high performance customers. The foundry is manufacturing lots of chips in the 150 nm, 130/110 nm, 90nm and 65/55 nm processes. Actually all these products make out around 63 percent of the foundry’s total output. There’s also the popular 40 nm process that amounts for 32 percent of the total manufacturing output, and the most demanded 28 nm process is only left with 5 percent. It’s...

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AMD and GlobalFoundries Interested in FD-SOI for the 20 nm Process

As we said before, SOI is a very resourceful concept and can show amazing improvements in the right conditions. Every foundry needs a SHP (Super High Performance) manufacturing line and GlobalFoundries wants this line to be based on SOI. Compared to the bulk process, enhancing your producing line with SOI technology and using SOI wafers will get you reduced leakage, reduced power consumption and will increase the highest achievable clock frequency of your design. So why doesn’t everybody use SOI? Well, because it involves some extra money and work when compared to the bulk process. If an IC designer develops an architecture and tailors the design of the bulk process, it has quite a good number of FABs to choose from. He can...

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Samsung Series 9 Ultrabook Pre-Released

The Samsung Series 9 NP900X4C ultrabook has been added to the website of the company's UK division, so sit back and enjoy the ride as we say what is what. This item may just be one of the best-looking super-thin mobile PCs yet, but we'll let everyone draw their own conclusions. So, without any more delay, we may as well list the specs of this thing, starting with the CPU. A mid-range chip, the Core i5-3317U, is used, with a base clock of 1.7 GHz and a maximum Turbo Boost frequency of 2.6 GHz (2.4 GHz when both cores are in use). The HM75 chipset makes it work it up, along with up to 8 GB of DDR 3 memory (clock speed of 1,600 MHz). Meanwhile, storage space is provided by what is most likely an mSATA SSD (128GB Solid State...

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Nokia to Launch a Range of Hybrid Devices, Windows 8 Tablets

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has lost a lot of ground on the market in the past years, especially since the first quarter of the last year, when it announced plans to shift to Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system on the smartphone segment.  The company reported €1.3 billion operating loss for the first quarter of this year and is expected to see more harsh quarters moving forth.  However, it appears that the vendor is confident that it will manage to turn the table in its favor. In fact, it has already made plans to return to profitability.  Speaking to Financial Times, Nokia's Chairman, Jorma Ollila, has let slip info on some of these plans, including the fact that there would be Windows 8 tablet...

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AMD Demos GPU Compute at GDC 2012

Passionate people seem to be at the right place and at the right time. So was Semiaccurate’s Charlie Demerjian who was reportedly able to catch a glimpse of AMD’s new Leo Demo. The demo is used to show how a developer can use the GPU compute power of AMD’s APUs and GPUs. We’re talking about rendering a 3D scene that has many lights coming from everywhere. The lights, if rendered in the traditional way, would make the demo move very slow; completely different from real-time. As AMD’s PR put it: “you’d have a non-working demo.” AMD’s software cuts every scene in tiles that are 32 by 32 pixels in size and then calculates and renders only the lights that are visible. We underline the fact that this can be done in the normal CPU/GPU way, but by using GPU compute, the scene...

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Strange Radeon 7850 Surfaces [Pictures]

A prototype of AFOX Radeon HD 7850 has reportedly landed in a test lab. As the benchmark results were much lower than the experts expected, they’ve decided to check it with GPU-Z. A check was truly in order since the 256 Bit Radeon HD 7850 was delivering results closer to the 128 Bit Radeon HD 7770. Using the famous GPU monitoring program, it was found that the GPU had only 768 active Stream Processing Units (SPU).  It is well known that the Radeon HD 7850 will come with 1024 SPUs and a 256-Bit memory interface. AFOX’s version, although just a prototype, not a retail version of the card, came with only 75% of the expected SPUs. This looks more like a Radeon HD 7830 than a HD 7850. AMD didn’t provide any details...

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Official Windows Phone 8 Details Could Arrive in June

Redmond-based software giant Microsoft is gearing up for the release of a new major update for its Windows Phone platform, one that might get detailed as soon as next month, if the latest reports out there are to be believed.  The behemoth will be holding a Windows Phone Developer Summit in San Francisco, CA on June 20-21, and Pocketnow claims that the next-gen mobile OS (supposedly called Windows Phone 8) might be unveiled there.  The invitation sent to announce the event features a mockup of a generic Windows Phone, yet the fonts appear to be changed from what the platform features at the moment.  Of course, this is only speculation right now, but there is a strong possibility that Microsoft will indeed provide...

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Colorful GTX 670 Pictured

Colorful’s version of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 670 video card has reportedly made a public appearance on the net. Although it might seem – by looking at the front – that it’s just a reference design just like the others, Colorful’s version seems to have been thoroughly redesigned. Considering that the cooling system has the same dimensions and characteristics as the one included with the reference design, we can safely conclude that any customization that has been done, was done with something else in mind, other than overclocking. The front of the card doesn’t give away much, but the back side shows us that the PCB is quite shorter than we were expecting. The VRM area seems to have been relocated closer the output bracket,...

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