Sony Xperia ST26i Spotted with 1 GHz CPU and 4-Inch qHD Display

Sony has just announced its Xperia GX and Xperia SX smartphone for the Japanese market, but now an unannounced Xperia phone leaked online. Dubbed Sony Xperia ST26i, the smartphone seems to be a mid-budget Android phone that will probably be officially announced in the following weeks. The folks over at PhoneArena have been tipped on the phone’s specs sheet, though we can’t be really sure of the accuracy of the information.  Sony Xperia ST26i is said to feature an HD video capable rear camera and a decent 4.0-inch qHD capacitive touchscreen display.  On the inside, the smartphone is equipped with a 1 Ghz single-core ST-Ericsson U8500 processor, 512 MB of RAM and 8GB of internal memory.  So far, these are...

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Samsung Delays GALAXY S III Wireless Charging Kit for September

It looks like Samsung won’t be able to launch some of the official accessories for the hotly anticipated Galaxy S III on time. At least that’s the case with the interesting wireless charging kit that was showcased earlier this month at the Galaxy S III launch event in London. According to Slashgear, the South Korean company postponed the accessory for September 2012 without providing any explanations.  Although the Samsung Wireless Charging Dock was listed at MobileFun, the UK-based retailer confirmed the accessory’s launch was pushed back four months until September. This might have something to do with the newly announced Samsung / Qualcomm partnership, which resulted in the new Alliance for Wireless Power organization. Even...

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Sony Mobile Unleashes Xperia GX and Xperia SX in Japan

Xperia NXT series has just got larger with the addition of two new Android phones, the Xperia GX and Xperia SX. Both smartphones have been specifically designed for the Japanese market, so we won’t be seeing these two outside the country. Obviously, Sony might plan to release international variants for both devices in the following month, but for the time being there are no additional details on the matter. Anyway, Xperia GX features the same design lines and curved form factor of the Xperia arc, which was launched on the market last year. Sony Xperia GX comes with a brilliant 4.6-inch capacitive touchscreen display that supports HD resolution and is based on Sony Mobile BRAVIA Engine technology.  Another strong point...

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Fujitsu USB 3.0 Port Replicator Has DisplayPort Support

The name of the Fujitsu USB 3.0 Port Replicator PR08 doesn't really do a perfect job of indicating just what the product is capable of but, fortunately, it doesn't need to. There is a big press release dedicated to the sole purpose of revealing the dock's existence and its multiple benefits. Indeed, this is a docking station that provides USB 3.0 connectivity, but that is just a small part of its assets. The main advantage comes from having the DisplayLink DL-3000 graphics technology IC (integrated circuit) on the inside. Because of it, the USB 3.0 Port Replicator PR08 can deliver video to monitors or TVs, via DisplayPort, in a resolution of up to 2,560 x 1,600 pixels. Businesses and corporations of all sizes may eventually...

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ZTE Nova 4.0 V8000 Spotted at CTIA 2012 En-Route to Cricket Wireless

Chinese handset maker ZTE previously confirmed plans to launch several high-end Android phones in North America.  Mostly known for its budget-friendly devices, ZTE’s first top tier smartphone expected to hit shelves in the United States is the Nova 4.0 V8000. The device has been recently spotted at CTIA 2012 by the folks over at PhoneArena. The handset is powered by Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system and sports a large 4.0-inch WVGA capacitive touchscreen display. In addition, the phone is equipped with a single-core Qualcomm MSM8655 Snapdragon processor clocked at 1.4 GHz, 1 GB of RAM, 4 GB of ROM and microSD card slot for memory expansion (up to 32GB). So far, there are no details on the ZTE Nova 4 V8000...

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LG LS970 with Android 4.0 ICS and Quad-Core CPU Headed to Sprint

It looks like Samsung Galaxy S III won’t be the only Android flagship smartphone that Sprint plans to launch on its airwaves.  The guys over at BriefMobile have been tipped on the upcoming LG LS970 device, which is a top tier Android phone that sports a large display and powerful processor. The good news is that the LG LS970 will be shipped with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system out of the box. The bad news is that the smartphone is slated for a Q4 2012 release. The screenshot of the unannounced device that has just been leaked online confirms that the handset is powered by a quad-core processor clocked at 1.5 GHz.  In addition, the smartphone is said to boast an impressive 4.7-inch capacitive touchscreen...

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NVIDIA Is Now a Priority for TSMC’s 28nm Capacities

Since TSMC decided some time ago to charge its partners for the whole processed wafer instead of charging only for the working chips, the manufacturing costs for its clients went up considerably. Since this was bad news for the IC designers, low yields and low volume were the last drops filling the sorrow cup. TSMC has reportedly decided to award Nvidia “priority” on the 28nm manufacturing process. Nvidia has been talking about 450mm wafers and a different foundry partner for quite some time now, so TSMC decided to give them a “cookie” just to make sure they stick around. Having high costs with the wafers and low yields because of a high speed and complex chip is a lot to take. Enjoying high demand for a successful product and...

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Script: Chosen

Chosen is a jQuery plugin for custom styling simple and multiple drop-down selects, along with optgroups. From the dawn of modern-day web development, custom styling form fields has been a real nightmare. While some form fields are simpler to customize than others, drop-down selects are the worse. Targeting this need for a simpler process, the good folks at Harvest have created Chosen, a jQuery plugin that not only simplifies the process of custom styling the drop-downs, but actually enhances it through some well-thought JavaScript. With just a few lines of JS code, a previously stale form is transformed into a designer's UI heaven, actually adding to the user experience some new useful navigational features and enhancements. Chosen's...

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NVIDIA CUDA Goes Open Source

NVIDIA's GPUs have high parallel processing capabilities, but those capabilities are useless if programs and systems don't have support for them, which means that NVIDIA has had to negotiate special deals and strike partnerships with builders of supercomputers and software makers. From now on, though, it will be easier to implement GPU Acceleration in new software and machines, because NVIDIA has provided the CUDA Compiler source code to LLVM. LLVM is one of the most popular open-source compilers with support for many programming languages, like C/C++, Objective-C, Ada, Haskell, Java bytecode, Fortran, ActionScript, GLSL, Rust, Python and Ruby. NVIDIA's CUDA is a C/C++ architecture. Following this new development though, programmers...

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BlackBerry 10 OS to Offer Enhanced, Multi-Layered Security

When released, BlackBerry 10, the next-gen mobile operating system from Canadian handset vendor Research In Motion will deliver an enhanced security model when compared to the current platform on the company’s devices.  The handset vendor has focused on improving the security of its handsets, and Scott Totzke, RIM's senior vice president, BlackBerry security, has detailed it, networkworld reports.  The company is determined to make its platform appealing again, and this area is one of the important aspects that users take into consideration when planning a purchase.  “The industry has been promising mobile commerce to consumers for years: the idea of using your phone as your wallet. But if that happens, it...

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Quad-Core Exynos CPU Used in Galaxy Note 10.1, Not Dual-Core

Samsung's Galaxy Note, by the name alone, could be mistaken for a sort of electronic notepad or e-reader if it didn't have the “10.1” in its name and, of course, that quad-core Exynos CPU. But that's just the thing: the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 was expected to have a dual-core processor at first, just like the Galaxy S III. The company ended up changing its mind once the Exynos 4412 chipset was finally ready. Now, the Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet is said to use a quad-core ARM chip in conjunction with a Mali graphics processing unit, probably Mali-400MP. According to Rightware's Powerboard database of benchmarked mobile devices, the Note 10.1 scored 60 points (Snapdragon S4 managed 37). That means that Exynos 4412 finally works...

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HP Launches New EliteBook 2760p Convertible TabletPC

HP has just announced today a plethora of new products, including the HP EliteBook 2760p TabletPC, on its official website. The news is the upgrade of the processor to Intel’s 2nd generation of Core processors. That’s right, they’re using Intel’s Sandy Bridge and not the expected Ivy Bridge. The EliteBook 2760p will make use of the integrated Intel HD 3000 graphics which offer significant improvements over past generation graphics, but it will certainly be less capable than Ivy Bridge’s HD 4000 iGPU and a whole lot more handicapped than AMD’s Trinity APU. The EliteBook 2760p is available with a wide range of Core i5 and i7 CPUs and a single Core i3 2350M. Memory is 4 GB as standard, but it can be upped to a maximum...

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Galaxy S III’s Flipboard Emerges Online, Up for Grabs Now

Flipboard, the mobile application specifically designed to provide users with a great experience when it came to news consumption, is now available for download. The application was announced as pre-loaded and exclusive on Samsung’s new Galaxy S III smartphone, which meant that only those who had this device in their hands could use it.  Today, however, the software made an appearance online, via the XDA-Developers forum. Those Android users interested in giving it a try should head over to this thread to learn more on how to download and install it.  Keep in mind that this is not an official release of the application, which means that you will have to use Android’s side-loading capabilities to get it up and...

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Thermaltake Presents Water 2.0 All-in-One Liquid Coolers

Thermaltake may or may not be planning to bank on that non-issue that Ivy Bridge CPU buyers discovered a couple of weeks back.  If the subtitle wasn't enough to remind you, it was found out that, due to a design choice on Intel's part, Ivy Bridge CPUs run hotter than Sandy Bridge ones.  Intel basically admitted to this, not that there is actually a problem with the chips themselves.  Even though Ivy Bridge work at a higher temperature, the heat is not actually high enough to be dangerous in any way.  Still, overclockers may find it troublesome, and so might other people, so Thermaltake launched the Water 2.0 All-in-One liquid cooling systems (LCS).  We're certain Thermaltake would have unleashed...

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ASUS ROG CG8580 Gaming Desktop Released

ASUS, like many other companies, sells fully configured systems in addition to individual hardware parts, so it stands to reason that it would have a gaming line of desktops and laptops. The company usually straps the ROG logo on the products it deems most suited for people who play computer games (ROG is short for Republic of Gamers). One of the computers to most recently get that brand is the CG8580 desktop PC, based on a third-generation Core CPU from Intel: Core i7-3770K, overclocked to 4.6 GHz. As one would expect, the GeForce GTX 680 graphics card, NVIDIA's best single-GPU board to date, is paired with it. The random access memory capacity is nothing to scoff at either. Even though buyers can choose to get less, 16...

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Prolimatech Shows the MK-26 Pro Super Cooler for the Radeon HD 7970

AMD’s record breaking Radeon HD 7970 rightfully deserves a super cooler of its own. Prolimatech is happy to oblige and the new MK-26 Pro VGA cooler for the HD 7970 has just been spotted. The Pro version is an enhanced evolution of its twisted heatpipe older brother. The new cooler is 60 grams heavier than the MK-26 plain version. At 590 g, the MK-26 Pro comes with six heatipes, each 6 millimeters in diameter. That’s a weight of about 1.3 pounds in imperial. We still don’t understand why most of the cooler builders don’t use 8 mm heatpipes, but maybe that’s because they still want to be able to charge us more in the following years. Besides the same number of heatpipes with the same diameter in each of them, the Pro version...

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HP Sleekbook, AMD Ultrabooks from HP

During a launch event in Shanghai, China, HP revealed a great number of products, including some Ultrabooks and their AMD-powered counterparts.  We've known for a while that Advanced Micro Devices would eventually get one of its chips inside super-thin and light laptops.  This is, after all, the purpose of that 17W accelerated processing unit (APU) revealed last month.  Seeing it actually happen is another thing entirely, but we can safely say that the time is finally here: HP has revealed some AMD-based ultrabooks.  Well, almost. The Ultrabook product type name is owned by Intel, so HP had to use a different moniker for the APU versions of the Envy 4 and 6 models.  In the end, Sleekbook was...

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ARM Is Taking Over the Lab Desktop: HP Launches t410 Smart Zero Client

HP has just announced today the powerful HP t410 All-in-One (AiO) Smart Zero Client, on its official website. The t410 is featuring new and innovative one-wire Power over Ethernet (PoE) technology, while still providing outstanding multimedia performance and a true PC-like experience. They’re calling it “PC-like” because this is not your average PC with an overpriced hard drive and an overpriced Intel CPU. This unit is driven by a very power-efficient processor using the popular ARM architecture. In fact, the system is so efficient that, together with its 18.5” screen, it will consume a maximum of 13 watts and that’s why it is not powered from the usual power socked, but by using a LAN cable with Power over Ethernet technology. The...

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HP Launches New Pavilion Notebook PCs

HP decided this was the day when its product line would grow, so it launched a huge collection of business and consumer products, including notebooks, even though availability is weeks to months away. Here we will speak of the new Pavilion notebook PCs for consumers, called Pavilion m6, Pavilion dv-series and Pavilion g-series. Pavilion m6 measures 15.6 inches in diagonal and, though it seems to be thin enough and even has an aluminum case, isn't described as an Ultrabook. Both Intel and AMD CPUs, as well as discrete graphics, will be available to choose from when the product starts shipping this summer. The price has not been disclosed, but we doubt it will be low, given the hardware and HP's exclusive additions, like...

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RIM Officially Unveils BlackBerry Curve 9320 with Dedicated BBM Key

Research In Motion (RIM) recently demoed its BlackBerry 10 OS and released developing tools for those who wish to create apps for the new version of the operating system. Although the company announced the first BlackBerry devices were expected to arrive in October, it might be too late to save the RIM in its attempt to maintain and/or expand its current market share. All in all, RIM has decided to go official with yet another budget-friendly BlackBerry smartphone, the Curve 9320. BlackBerry Curve 9320 is a slightly improved version of the Curve 9220 smartphone, which was recently launched on the market. The handset is powered by the new BlackBerry 7.1 OS, and offers users features such as Mobile Hotspot and Wi-Fi calling.  In...

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EVGA Presents Two GeForce GTX 680 FTW Video Cards

Quality video card manufacturer EVGA has just launched its GeForce GTX 680 FTW Edition graphics cards, on its official website. FTW is short for “for the win,” and it seems to be a statement from the manufacturer that the boards are different from the plain GTX 680 cards out now. The series includes two variants, a 2 GB variant (with the 02G-P4-3686-KR product number) and a 4 GB one (with the 04G-P4-3687-KR product number). The 2 GB version comes with overclocked memory. This is the only GTX 680 that comes with pre-overclocked memory that we can think of this instant. This 2 GB GTX 680 GTW card features clock speeds of 1,110 MHz for the core base, 1,176 MHz when the boost is activated and 6.20 GHz effective memory frequency. The...

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ASUS Transformer Pad Has Screen Problems

The ASUS Transformer Pad 300 TF300 received a warm welcome and got pretty favorable reviews, but some issues are coming to light.  ASUS seems to be establishing a rather unfortunate track record of releasing tablets with hardware and software shortcomings.  The Transformer Prime had to go through more than one update before it stopped restarting randomly and the GPS still doesn't work as it should, requiring a new dongle.  The original Transformer, Prime's predecessor, also suffered Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich issues and went through its own series of updates.  Now, it has come to light that the Transformer Pad 300 TF300T will need a software fix.  What's worse, it has a problem that no amount...

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Instagram for Android 1.1.0 Available for Download

A new version of the Instagram application is now available for download for devices powered by Google’s Android platform.  One key feature that Android users have been waiting for in Instagram was tilt-shift, introduced in the new version 1.1.0 of the app. At the same time, the new application iteration is packed with a filter screen fix for GT-S5830C devices.  Through tilt-shift, users can alter depth of field in photos. The option enables them to add realistic blur to the setting around a focal point, to add emphasis.  “Our popular tilt-shift feature allows you to easily alter depth of field in your photographs,” Instagram notes in a recent blog post.  “By adding a realistic blur to the setting around...

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