galaxy S III (Verizon’s Samsung SCH-I535) Benchmarked with Dual-Core CPU

Galaxy S III, the latest flagship Android-based mobile phone from Samsung, is expected to make an appearance on shelves in the United States this summer, via various wireless carriers out there.  One of these would be Verizon, and its own version of the device was just spotted on a Benchmarking website, sporting model number Samsung SCH-I535. The handset emerged on the NenaMark website with a 1.5GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon application processor inside (which offers support for LTE), paired with the Adreno 225 GPU.  The handset will arrive at Verizon with a screen resolution of 1280 x 720 and will run under Android 4.0.4.  All details suggest that this would indeed be Verizon’s Galaxy S III model,...

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Intel Working on 7nm and 5nm Manufacturing Technologies

It seems strange how every time a scientist, physicist or otherwise, says shrinking silicon semiconductors is will “soon” not be possible anymore, he is proven wrong by the determination of the tech companies to achieve or maintain high profits. Intel is reportedly already working and planning the retrofitting and developing of the 14 nm manufacturing process at the company’s FABs in Oregon, Arizona and Ireland. The company is currently still working on getting more of its FABs up to the 22 nm standard and, in the next years, the presentation shows that Intel’s Israel FAB28, Oregon FAB D1D/C and Arizona FAB 32/12 are the next sites to be retrofitted for 22 nm production. Later in 2013,  D1X Oregon FAB, Arizona FAB...

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Intel Really Wants to Get Inside Tablets

Chip giant Intel is reportedly posed to get Apple’s attention with its future chips. TSMC’s recent demonstration of a 3.1 GHz ARM Cortex A9 dual core chip is certainly more impressive than the empty statements of Intel’s CEO Paul Otellini : “Our job is to ensure our silicon is so compelling, in terms off running the Mac better or being a better iPad device, that as they make those decisions they can’t ignore us.” We believe that for the next year, Apple will indeed not ignore Intel’s chips, but on the contrary, it will pay attention and steer away from the power hog that Intel’s Clover Field will be. Sure Apple has a certain preference for big and powerful GPUs in low power chips and Clover Field will certainly come...

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Panasonic Announces One of the Most Expensive Ivy Bridge Laptops

Japanese giant Matsushita Corporation, owner of the well-known Panasonic brand, has just announced the new Let’s note B11 notebook, on its official website. The Let’s note B11 is made only for sale in the Land of the Rising Sun and comes with Intel’s Core i7-3615QM CPU that benefits from a 6 MB Level 3 cache and runs at a moderate 2.3 GHz frequency. The Turbo Boost option will raise the frequency up to 3.3 GHz when only one thread in demanding attention and all the effort will dissipate a maximum of 45 watts of heat. The HM76 chipset will manage the data exchange between the 4 GB of DDR3L memory working at a modest 1333 MHz and the 640 GB hard disk drive. Panasonic’s new Let’s note B11 also comes with three USB connectors...

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AMD the Likely Winner in Intel’s UltraBook Game

After HP’s marathon product launch of the last week we were left with some interesting data to analyze. As HP’s SleekBooks manifest mostly the same battery life and thickness, Intel’s UltraBook don’t seem so appealing anymore. As much as we like Intel’s new development direction, it seems that most of the goals the Israeli-American company is setting are much easier to reach for AMD. There seems indeed to be a change in the way of doing business at Intel and, like we’ve said:  “it may seem like Intel has become a forward-looking, trend driving, consumer enthusiast company like Apple is.” They’re asking for SSDs, thinner notebooks, longer battery life, lower prices and higher resolutions. But on every such challenge,...

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MSI Launches Thunderbolt Motherboard Z77A-GD80

Micro-Star International has made the formal introduction of the Z77A-GD80 motherboard, which features Intel's high-bandwidth interface standard. Thunderbolt is the fastest data connection available on a PC, running at 10 Gbps and transmitting both PCI Express and DisplayPort signals through a single cable. The former protocol performs data transfer, while the latter obviously adds to the maximum number of supported displays. Even daisy-chaining works. The main point of TB on the new MSI motherboard is to allow extra add-on cards to be installed without straining the bandwidth. The rest of the specs are what one might expect from a high-end motherboard. This is the top-tier Z77 chipset we are talking about after all. The...

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Script: Piwik

Piwik is widely considered the best freely distributed alternative to Google's market-leading  web analytics service. Developed on a PHP and MySQL frame, Piwik can practically do almost anything Google Analytics can, but allowing the user to host his stats and have total access to them on his own server. To activate tracking, Piwik needs, just like Google Analytics, for the webmaster to embed a JavaScript tracking code into the website's source. After including that little snippet, Piwik will start tracking visitor details in real time, providing up-to-the-minute updated information. A demo for Piwik can be accessed here. If you want and can contribute to the Piwik core, development is handled via their GitHub page....

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Hyundai A7HD Tablet on Video, 160 Euro

If you were looking for a nice tablet that didn't completely butcher your savings, the Hyundai A7HD may be just the thing.  Set to cost 160 Euro / $200, it is bound to make its debut alongside two other slates, one of the same size (7-inch) and a 9.7-inch model. The Hyundai A7HD, as reported by AndroidPit, will use a 1,024 x 600 pixel IPS display and the Allwinner A10 processor. Allwinner A10 is a single-Core ARM Cortex A8 at 1.2 GHz. A Mali 400 graphics processing unit backs it.  Other specs include Android 4.0 OS, 8 GB of NAND Flash memory, Wi-Fi, USB ports, audio jacks, etc. Watch the video above to see the unboxing. If you want more storage or better performance and you don't mind paying extra, tablets like Acer's Iconia Tab A700 may be more your...

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Windows 8 Build 8375 Emerges, Visual Changes in Tow

Next month, Microsoft should offer us a full taste of the latest changes in its Windows 8 operating system through the release of a new milestone of the platform, namely Windows 8 Release Preview.  This is, in fact, the Release Candidate version of the OS, but the Redmond-based company decided to rename it in line with previous flavors – Developer Preview and Consumer Preview. The Release Preview of Windows 8 is set to become available in early June, as Microsoft themselves confirmed not long ago.  Soon after, the platform should reach another milestone, RTM, only months before the final version will become official, a move expected to October. In the meantime, however, we can have a look at some of the latest...

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