Dual-SIM Samsung Evan Feature-Phone Leaks

It appears that the Samsung Galaxy Proclaim that emerged a few days ago is not the only handset to be introduced by the South Korean handset maker in the following weeks. Samsung Evan (GT-C3782) is another handset that will probably be quietly launched on some emerging markets. Even though this is a basic feature-phone, Samsung expects to sell quite a few Evan units given its support for dual-SIM capability. In addition, the candybar phone is said to sport a 2.4-inch QVGA display, Bluetooth 2.1, FM radio, 3.5mm headset jack, as well as a 3-megapixel rear photo snapper. Obviously, the Evan also comes pre-loaded with Samsung’s ChatON services. No word on the phone’s connectivity features other than the fact that Samsung Evan won’t...

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Nokia 808 PureView Gets Priced in India, Coming Soon for 560 USD (435 EUR)

Although Nokia 808 PureView was officially launched in India two weeks ago, the Finnish company did not unveil the smartphone’s exact release date and price tag. However, it appears that the folks over at NDTVGadgets heave learned that the Nokia India store website source code contains the PureView 808 price tag. Nokia 808 PureView will be available for purchase in India for a suggested retail price of Rs 29,999 (560 USD or 435 EUR), which is in line with the company’s official statement. For the time being, we have no official confirmation for the price, but the handset is expected to go live within the next few weeks, so the mystery will be solved soon. Made official three months ago at the Mobile World Congress in...

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Lenovo Launches ThinkStation E31 Budget Workstations

Lenovo's workstation line is always growing, even though it is already quite large, and now we get to lay our eyes on the ThinkStation E31 series. The ThinkStation E31 series has just two members, which are really the same hardware configuration with different clothing and luggage. The big one is a full tower with up to three hard disk drive units, which means that the top storage space is 9 TB.  The small one has only two drive bays, meaning that 6 TB is the top capacity. It is, of course, possible to choose solid-state drives instead of magnetic platter spinners, for better speed but less space. The only other area where the workstations differ is that of add-in graphics: the former gets an NVIDIA Quadro...

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AMD’s Processor Hondo Ready for Windows 8 Launch

Texas-based CPU designer Advanced Micro Devices, also known as AMD, is currently preparing and gathering stocks for the Q4 launch of the company’s first tablet targeted processor called Hondo. The chip is reportedly made at TSMC in the same 40 nm manufacturing process as Brazos 2.0. AMD’s long awaited Trinity architecture will arrive this month as we’ve revealed here, while the desktop Piledriver versions will have to wait until August. The Hondo CPU will be an Ultra-Low Power product for AMD and the expected TDP is around the 4.5 watts mark. With such a low power consumption, AMD’s Hondo will likely come in contact with Intel’s Clover Field later next year and a plethora of ARM based CPUs. We honestly don’t know...

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Street View's Latest Curated Collection Helps You Find a Great Vacation Spot

Google Street View is surprisingly controversial for such a seemingly mild product. After all, at its core, Street View is just an online photo gallery with a cool, though somewhat gimmicky, 360-degree view and phone-camera quality shots. Yet controversial it is, people are worried that their neighbors as well as anyone halfway around the world will be able to see what they have in their backyard and that any would-be thief will be able to scout a location from the safety of his laptop. Governments are worried that super-secret locations that thousands of people walk by every day are suddenly going to be exposed to terrorists, or worse. And the list continues. But Google is making an effort to highlight that most of the...

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Samsung WB850F Smart Camera

Samsung is updating its whole product line apparently, having revealed a new point-and-shoot camera around the same time that it started shipping the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 in the US.    The camera we are going to look at here is called WB850F and uses a 16.2 megapixel resolution CMOS sensor. That is not its most advanced asset though. While 16.2 MP is nothing to easily dismiss, it is not precisely uncommon either. That said, the one area where the camera does go all the way is the optical zoom: 21X, the highest among Samsung point-and-shoot cameras.    The sensor has backside illumination, for good low-light shots, and dual optical image stabilization, to make up for shaky hands. What's more, pictures...

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Nvidia Acquires Approximately 500 Wireless Patents

While everybody is waiting for Nvidia’s much anticipated LTE enabled Tegra chipsets, the company is  strengthening its communications IP portfolio by  jointly acquiring approximately 500 granted and pending patents in the wireless communications area, that were developed and owned by IPWireless. Nvidia’s partner in this acquisition is Intellectual Ventures, a mainly IP company. The deal was signed on 30th of April 2012 and no financial terms were made public. The ownership of the patents was split between the two investors, but Nvidia is licensing the patents it did not acquire, while Intellectual Ventures acquired the rest. The wireless developer IPWirelss is retaining perpetual, royalty-free access to all the patents related to the deal in question. It’s...

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Inno3D Presents the iChill Herculez GTX 670 Video Card

Affordable video card manufacturer Inno3D has been working lately on quite a few high-end video card designs.  The company’s new GeForce GTX 670 iChill HerculeZ graphics card is reportedly based on a reference GTX 680 PCB with the GTX 670 GPU stuck on it. The cards working frequencies are closer to GTX 680 video cards, rather than the usual GTX 670 adapters. The PCB has a 5 plus 2 phase VRM and the extra power is needed to clock the GPU at a base frequency of 1020 MHz, rather than the reference default of 915 MHz. The Boost option is also upped at 1098 MHz, over 10% higher than the reference default of 980 MHz Boost. The memory frequency is unfortunately left unchanged. The expected price is around 500 USD....

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Sony Xperia ST27i/ST27a (Lotus) Spotted in UAProf Listings

Sony is preparing the unveiling of new smartphones in the highly popular Xperia lineup, there’s no doubt about that.  One of these could be the ST27i/ST27a smartphone, which was just spotted in UAProf listings, and which is said to feature the codename of Lotus. The ST27i version is supposedly set to hit shelves as the international flavor of the mobile phone, while the ST27a variant might be destined for the United States alone. The two versions of the device are listed with Google’s Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system on board, though they might arrive on shelves with Ice Cream Sandwich right from the start.  Moreover, the user agent profiles for these two models unveil that Sony will pack them with...

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QNAP Launches Two 16-Drive Turbo NAS Devices

For people seeking to set up a SMB server or a data center, QNAP has made a pair of Turbo NAS (network-attached storage) devices called TS-EC1679U-RP and TS-1679U-RP.  The former is a 16-drive 3U rackmount unit run by a quad-core Intel Xeon E3-1225 processor (3.1 GHz clock speed). DDR3 ECC RAM backs up the chip and a hot-swappable 600W redundant power supply brings the needed energy. Four Gigabit LAN ports exist, but there are expansion options for Gigabit + 10GbE networking and even a pair of storage expansion slots.  The TS-1679U-RP is a 2U rackmount unit with a dual-core Intel Core i3-2120 CPU (3.3 GHz), DDR3 RAM and the same sort of PSU and expansion. QNAP made it so that both systems use cable-less drive...

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GALAXY S III GT-I9300 Receives GCF Approvals

Samsung’s Galaxy S III smartphone is nearing its official debut on shelves at the end of this month, and it is currently undergoing testing from various certified agencies around the world.  The Global Certification Forum is the latest of these to approve the new mobile phone for use around the world. The smartphone’s certification appeared on GCF’s website on May 11th, listing model number GT-I9300 and support for GSM 1900/1800/900/850 MHz (I) / 1900 (II) / 900 (VIII) / 850 (V) MHz, and WCDMA 2100 frequencies.  The Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich-powered handset features a quad-core Samsung Exynos CPU, a 4.8 inch HD display, an 8MP camera on the back, and a front camera for video calling. It also sports 16GB, 32GB...

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Leaked Component Indicates the iPhone 5 Will Be Very Different from the 4S

A leaked component reportedly stemming from iPhone 5 prototype units has given birth to intense speculation regarding the phone’s design. Sold under the name “Earphone Jack/ Ear Speaker/ WIFI Cable For iPhone 5,” the component shows clear differences when compared to the same hardware inside the iPhone 4 and the iPhone 4S. This piece in particular combines the iPhone’s headphone jack, earpiece, and Wi-Fi cable, whereas in the one found in previous-generation iPhones the headphone jack is bundled with the volume controls and the mute hardware switch. Radical internal changes spell major changes on the outside as well. Not that it wasn’t already obvious Apple was going to change the design of its iPhone this year. After all,...

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Asus Padfone 2 with 4G Support Leaks in Official Slide

Asus is still struggling to release the 3-in-one Padfone device and now we have new information that points to another Padfone model, which is expected to arrive on the market in the following months. Although Asus confirmed it would launch a 4G version of Padfone late this year, we did not expect the company to keep its promise after the recent Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 shortage. The leaked slide mentions the unannounced Asus Padfone 2, which is listed as an “innovative 3-in-1 4G device.” Furthermore, the handset is expected to be “the key player” on the smartphone market. No other details on the Padfone 2 specs are available for the moment, but rumor has it that Asus plans to introduce this 3-in-1 device sometime this fall. Stay...

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Complete Details of Gigabyte GeForce GTX 680 WindForce 5X

Well-known motherboard manufacturer, Taiwanese company Gigabyte was reportedly scoured by nosy enthusiasts who managed to unveil the complete details about the company’s most powerful GTX 680 card. The Gigabyte GeForce GTX 680 WindForce 5X video card comes with a very special custom PCB (printed circuit board) that will help Nvidia’s Kepler-based GPU to reach record high overclocks. It has an 8 Phase VRM that uses NEC Tokin 0E907 Proadlizer capacitors and Proselytizer film to enhance the card’s power filtering. Like all high-end Gigabyte video cards and mainboards, the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 680 WindForce 5X video card comes with Gigabyte’s well-known Dual BIOS technology. The power is supplied through the use of a 8-pin...

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Sapphire's Radeon HD 7950 Dual-X OC 3GB Graphics Cards

Sapphire decided this was a good time for one of Advanced Micro Devices' high-end graphics cards to get new cooling, so it put the Dual-X to work. Dual-X is a video board cooler that, as its name implies, boasts a couple of fans. It isn't the most advanced of coolers, but it works just fine as a means to differentiate a board from the flock. That said, there are two versions of the Radeon HD 7950 Dual-X: the regular one and the OC version. The former has a GPU frequency of 810 MHz and a clock speed of 5 GHz for the 3 GB of GDDR5 VRAM.  The latter works at 950 MHz and 5.00 GHz, respectively. It also has a black PCB instead of the normal blue. Alas, there are no prices for us to impart, and we aren't sure...

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Samsung Exynos 5250 Cortex-A15 CPU Spotted in Android Source Code

Samsung Galaxy S III has been confirmed for May 30 with an Exynos chipset on board, though the North American variant is expected to be shipped with a different all-in-one chipset solution. There are speculations that indicate the Galaxy S III will be released in the United States with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S4 processor clocked at 1.5 GHz. However, according to a recent Google ad, Canadian carrier Rogers will launch its branded Galaxy S III with LTE support and Samsung’s new Exynos processor.   It is a common fact that Samsung Galaxy S III’s Exynos 4212 Quad chipset does not feature LTE support, which is why the South Korean company needs to replace it with another chipset that will offer users LTE capability. Well,...

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Amazing Capabilities Details of Asus Padfone Demo Video

It’s been more than a year since Asus made the Padfone official, though the company is still struggling to introduce it on the market. To sweeten the wait, Asus added various capabilities and new accessories to the package. So far, there are at least three additional accessories that can be attached to the Padfone smartphone. Since it was announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the Padfone got itself a dock station, a stylus headset and a smart sleeve, which features SIM card slot, cleaning cloth and holder for the stylus. The device even got awarded the Best Innovations prize at CES 2012. Unfortunately, rumor has it that the Padfone will be delayed, again. Although the device was slated for a late...

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Acer E330 (Liquid Glow) Spotted at the FCC

Acer is apparently preparing the launch of a new handset on the US market, none other than the Liquid Glow, a new listing at the FCC shows.  The US agency has approved the smartphone for use in the country with model number E330 attached to it, but let slip no other details on its specs. The Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone might suffer minor changes if set to arrive on the US market, but it remains to be seen what these might be.  We should also mention that the phone’s appearance at the FCC does not guarantee a launch in the country. Specific info on the supposed US version of Liquid Glow will emerge either from Acer itself, or from the FCC, as soon as the 180-day confidentiality period on it e...

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More Leaked Images of Nokia 311 Emerge

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is preparing the launch of some new S40 handsets for the coming months, to complement the availability of high-end Windows Phone devices such as the Lumia 900.  One of these is the Nokia 311, which was spotted in leaked images only several days ago, and which has made another appearance online. This time, the phone is accompanied by a leaked manual, which appears to be quite different from what we’ve already seen coming out from Nokia’s labs. Additionally, there are larger versions of the previously leaked images with the Nokia 311 and Nokia 305 and 306 S40 devices.  Being entry-level handsets, all these phones will arrive on shelves with low hardware specifications, and some...

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