ZTE’s Android 4.0 Smartphones Get 3D UI

Mobile phone maker ZTE Corporation has announced a partnership with Rightware Oy, a leader in embedded 3D user interface (UI) technologies, aimed at the loading of a 3D user interface on ZTE’s handsets. As part of this agreement, ZTE’s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich-powered smartphones will feature Rightware’s Kanzi UI Solution, for a better experience on the go. ZTE is one of the fast growing smartphone makers today, which became the fourth largest vendor in the world in the fourth quarter of last year, with a global market share of 4.9 percent. “ZTE is committed to providing customers around the world with innovative technologies, and our latest smartphone portfolio includes highly differentiated and engaging 3D Android...

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LG Preps White Flavor of LG Optimus LTE II

South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics is getting ready to bring to the market a white flavor of its newly-released LG Optimus LTE II, recent reports suggest. As the first handset in the world to pack 2GB of RAM to power its Android operating system, the Optimus LTE II was launched only in the vendor’s homeland market. The handset was made available in Black initially, but LG is readying the release of a pale flavor of the smartphone too, the photo that leaked over at pocketdroid shows. Optimus LTE II arrives on shelves with a 1.5GHz dual-core processor inside, and it sports a large 4.7-inch True HD IPS (1280 x 720 p) display on the front. It also features 16GB of internal memory, a microSD memory card slot...

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Bitfenix Prodigy Mini-ITX Case Enters

For people who just don't like to take laptops to gaming gatherings, BitFenix has created the Prodigy mini-ITX desktop case, for miniature PCs that are also powerful. BitFenix isn't going to tell you what motherboard you should buy in order to have all you need to build a strong computer. What the company will do is make sure you have a good-looking and tough case to keep that beast of yours in. The Shinobi and Colossus are exhibit A. Exhibit B and C came out a while ago two, along with some others, so we aren't sure what letter we're at now, especially since BitFenix also has fans and card readers for sale, among other things. As such, we'll just go ahead and say what's so great about the BitFenix Prodigy. One...

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ASUS Transformer Pad TF300TL with LTE Coming Soon

ASUS’ Transformer Pad TF300 is very popular lately. The tablet comes with a quad-core ARM Cortex A9 processor from Nvidia, with powerful graphics and a very nice 10” screen. Connectivity is well improved over the first generation of Transformers, but only WiFi is available as a networking option. We have some good news for those that were hoping for a 3G or 4G version. It seems that now FCC is reportedly looking at a 850MHz and 1900MHz communication-enabled tablet from ASUS. The model is TF300TL and the 850MHz and 1900MHz, 700MHz and 1700 MHz communication frequencies are needed for HSPA 3G, as well as for LTE-based 4G. There is no launch date, no rumor and no other suppositions except the fact that this tablet...

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NVIDIA Prepares GeForce GTX 660 Graphics Card

If you were wondering when you'd get a mainstream graphics cards from NVIDIA, you might not have to wait much longer. Swedish website SweClockers claims to have discovered when the GeForce GTX 660 video controller will be formally launched. No precise day was mentioned, but the report did say that we should be looking at late summer, between July and August. That's not as soon as we were hoping, but we'll have to take what we can get. The specifications of the product are predominantly guesswork at this stage, as is the price, but they should be more or less accurate. The GK106 will act as the heart of the card, with its four SMX clusters and 768 CUDA cores. 2 GB of GDDR5 will back up said chip, operating on an interface...

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Samsung Mobile PIN Shops Readying for GALAXY S III Launch

With only four days left until Galaxy S III sales kick off, Samsung has officially launched special standalone stores, which are meant to offer customers the possibility to fully interact with the company’s latest Android flagship smartphone. They will be called Samsung Mobile PINs and will be the first European locations to sell the Galaxy S III, starting in London from May 29. The South Korean company also confirmed the first two Samsung Mobile PINs will open on May 29 in London at Westfield Shepherd’s Bush and Old Spitalfields Market. However, Samsung plans to launch two additional PINs in the UK at some point this summer, which will be located in Hyde Park and Olympic Park. According to Samsung, “the conceptual...

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Apacer Announces New DDR3-1600 16GB ECC RDIMM

American memory manufacturer Apacer has reportedly just launched the new DDR3-1600 16GB ECC RDIMM memory modules. These are high-density 16 GB DDR3 modules with integrated server technologies. ECC is short for error correction code. This is a special technology added to memory modules used in very demanding systems, such as servers, and especially where the user can’t tolerate errors. Usually, memory lapses are caused by the sudden shift of one single memory cell from one state to another. ECC-enhanced memory modules have a special chip that identifies these errors and corrects them on the fly. DRAM memory chips are very resilient, they have a long life and are backed by a very long warranty period, usually lifetime. The...

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Nokia Belle Refresh for Symbian^3 and Anna Phones Leaks, Coming to N8, C7 and E7

In line with the latest news on the upcoming release of Nokia Belle FP1 for the N8, new screenshots of the update have just leaked online. Nokia officials confirmed a few days ago that Nokia N8 would receive a Nokia Belle FP1 update, but to a “lighter” level due to the hardware requirements. Although the Finnish company plans to include a minor overclock to the N8, this will still not be enough to make users’ experience as intended. This is why Nokia decided to create a specially tailored version of Nokia Belle that would be able to run on Symbian^3 and Symbian Anna phones, N8 included. The folks over at UnleashThePhones have been tipped on the upcoming update, which is still under development. There’s a set of...

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Dual-GPU AMD HD 7970 X2 in the Making

You'd think that AMD's Radeon HD 7990 would be the end-all of all dual-chip graphics card efforts, but this does not seem to be the case if recent reports are to be believed. The folks at DonanimHaber may have just stumbled upon the most queer of information pieces this year has seen so far. Apparently, AMD's graphics card manufacturing partners are creating custom-made dual-GPU boards of their own. This would not be at all surprising if said video cards were variations of the Radeon HD 7990. The Sunnyvale, California-based company has, after all, been said to have decided that the dual-GPU beast will appear during Computex 2012, in Taipei, next month (June 05-09). But here lies the strange part: according to...

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Dell’s First Windows 8 Tablet Comes with Atom Clover Trail Pictured

American company DELL is one of the largest computer manufacturers in the world. For a long time an Intel exclusive partner, DELL is reportedly getting ready to launch its first Windows 8 tablet which will be powered by an Intel processor. The device will have quite a large 10.8” screen and will sport the dreaded 1366 x 768 resolution, but for such a medium-sized screen, the “HD Ready” 1366 x 768 resolution will be just fine. Many of you are probably wondering how will Intel’s low performance graphics be able to handle 3D applications running at such a resolution. The answer is “just fine,” as it is likely it won’t be Intel made, but rather a PowerVR GX544MP2 core licensed from Imagination. We’ve seen how Medfield is able...

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Intel's “Secret” Socket 1356 CPUs

Intel's Xeon E5 and E3 socket LGA 1356 processors have been out and about for a while, but so have four chips that people may not have heard of, due to Intel's deliberate secrecy. Of course, “secrecy” may be laying it on thick a bit, since the Santa Clara, California-based company didn't actually wage a covert war or anything. The corporation did do something odd though: it chose not to include a pair of Pentium chips, as well as two Xeons, in its roadmap. Chances are that Intel developed them for specific clients and didn't see the need to shout their existence from the rooftops. On the flip side, having a 20 MB cache CPU and not talking about it is rather strange. That's right, there is an unannounced processor...

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Windows Phone 8 Devices Leak: Nokia PureLambda, PurePhi and Alpha (UPDATED)

We reported yesterday about a certain Nokia Phi device spotted in WP Bench, an application that is used to benchmark Windows phones. Apparently, this Nokia Phi was tested running Microsoft’s upcoming Windows Phone 8 (Apollo) operating system, though no additional details have been unveiled. According to a screenshot leaked online, Nokia Phi was powered by OS 8.0.9698.0, though it’s almost certain that this isn’t the final version of the operating system. Today, no less than three Windows Phone 8 devices have been spotted in WP Bench database, all three manufactured by Nokia: PureLambda, PurePhi and Alpha. The folks over at MyNokiaBlog have been tipped on these smartphones, but other than the fact that there are powered...

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Sony Xperia ST26i Revealed in Benchmarks with Android 4.0.4 ICS

Sony Mobile’s Android roadmap for Q2/Q3 2012 leaked several months ago and we’re expecting some of Xperia devices to be officially announced in the following weeks. The Japanese company is actively working on bringing its smartphones into various markets, which is why we’ve been flooded with leaked benchmarks that give us a glimpse of the their devices’ capabilities. Earlier this month a mid-budget Android phone, Sony Xperia ST26i, emerged along with some of its specs, though no official confirmation has been received yet. Today, the first Sony Xperia ST26i benchmark reveals that the smartphone will come with a capacitive touchscreen display that supports 854 x 480 pixels resolution. No detail on the size of the screen...

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Intel Core i5-3350P Has No Integrated Graphics

It was just days ago that we wrote about the Core i5-3365M mobile central processing unit and how it would be released in the third quarter of the year. Now we are going to write about another 22nm Ivy Bridge CPU set for Q3 launch, one that belongs to the Ivy Bridge line but lacks integrated graphics. Called Core i5-3350P, it is a quad-core chip that has another drawback compared to most of its peers: lack of Hyper Threading support. Fortunately, the Santa Clara, California-based company kept the Turbo Boost, allowing the clock speed to rise from 3.10 GHz to 3.30 GHz. Finally, the thermal design power (TDP) is of 69W and the cache memory (L3) is 6 MB. We don't know whether or not Intel's Core i5-3350P will have an unlocked...

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