iPhone 5 Chip Makers Preparing Their Goods for Apple

A report by the hit-and-miss DigiTimes cites industry sources as saying that mobile chip makers are “stocking their solutions” to meed the demands of one technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California which plans to unveil a new smartphone in a few months. Apple partners Qualcomm, Broadcom, STMicroelectronics, NXP, Texas Instruments (TI), OmniVision, and others have reportedly started to put aside massive amounts of chips (their "solutions”) for the next-generation iPhone scheduled to launch in the second half of this year. The Taiwanese publication goes on to describe each vendor’s activity, such as Qualcomm and Broadcom producing the 4G (LTE) and WiFi radio chips using a 28nm process at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing...

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BlackBerry 10 Hands-On Photos Emerge

Research In Motion has been long touting the features and capabilities of its upcoming BlackBerry 10 smartphones, which are being showcased at its BlackBerry 10 Jam events around the world. The company brought its new operating system and the dev alpha devices that it was loaded on to its meeting in London this week, where CrackBerry's James Richardson had the chance to play with such a handset and to take some photos with it. All in all, it seems that the new platform release is capable to impress right from the start. It comes with seamless integration of applications, enhanced support for screen gestures, and more, all capable of offering the user experience that any enthusiasts has been certainly dreaming of. Moreover,...

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Motorola QWERTY Slider for Sprint Spotted in the Wild

Motorola Mobility and Verizon Wireless have a long history of partnerships. The handset maker released most of its Android phones in United States through Verizon. However, the next new device expected to arrive in the States will be released at Sprint, not Verizon. Although we don't a name to attach to this leaked Android smartphone, we know it's a QWERTY slider. The folks over at AndroidCentral have just published the first picture of an unannounced Motorola QWERTY slider, which is powered by Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system and features on-screen keys. So far, no details on the phone's specs have been leaked, but from the photo we can safely assume it will go on sale at Sprint, especially given the fact that...

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Windows 8’s Calendar App Gets Detailed

Windows 8 has been long said to arrive on devices with a great deal of enhancements that make it fit for the title of “mobile platform”, such as the People app that was detailed only a few days ago. Today, Microsoft offers an overview of another application that is meant to offer a great experience on Windows 8, namely the Calendar app. According to Microsoft, one of the main focuses during the development period of this application was the idea of making things simpler for users. Colin Anthony, a lead program manager on the Windows Live team, notes in a recent blog post that the Calendar app in Windows 8 is capable of providing the clarity that users are looking for, while also eliminating distractions. The app will...

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Intel Pentium B987 Will Arrive in Q3, 2012

Intel's Core series of central processing units is getting all of the attention, but there are other chips in the works, one of which will arrive in the third quarter of the year (2012). In other words, we may see a new CPU within a couple of weeks (July), unless the Santa Clara, California-based chip giant chooses a later date. Anyway, the chip, as reported by CPU World, is a Pentium device with full name Pentium 987. As a dual-core, it possesses 2 MB of L3 cache memory, HD graphics and a frequency of 1.5 GHz. Also, the memory controller handles DDR3-1333 RAM. The integrated GPU will work at 350 MHz, but could jump all the way to 1 GHz if required. All these features, along with AES encryption, Hyper-Threading...

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Samsung Series 5 Laptops Equipped with AMD Trinity

If you were to stop by Samsung's official website, you might discover that the Series 5 laptop line has been updated overnight. The ultrabooks, measuring 14 inches or 13.3 inches, are now equipped with AMD's Trinity accelerated processing unit. To be more specific, the 14-inch Series 5, priced at $850 (672 Euro), relies on the quad-core A10-4655M. Meanwhile, the 13.3-inch machine, at $700 (553 Euro), is equipped with the A6-4455M (also a quad-core). Both APUs have the integrated Radeon HD 7500G GPU. Go here for the smaller laptops and here for the larger of the two. In either case, you'll get a nice amount of RAM (4 GB standard), an HDD (500 or 750 GB) and all the necessary connectivity and I/O. ...

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Toshiba Creates 64-Core Processor for Image Processing and Recognition

Toshiba's fastest multi-core system-on-chip device, originally launched in 2008, has been clearly bested by the new SoC, one with eight times the number of cores and 14 times the performance. The company has introduced a System-on-Chip device with no less than 64 cores, divided into two 32-core clusters. Measuring 209.3 square millimeters, the many-core SoC has 2 MB level-two cache memory for each cluster, shared among the processor cores through a tree-based network-on-chip. The product also integrates a dual-channel DDR3 memory controller. Toshiba's press release says that “the new many-core SoC secures 1.5 tera operations per second at 333MHz, a processing rate 14 times faster than that of its eight-processor multi-core...

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Specs Discovered for Dell Latitude Windows 8 Tablet

A little over a week ago, we reported on how twenty of the unspecified number of upcoming Windows 8 tablets would use Intel's Clovertrail processor. As it turns out, Dell's latitude 10 is one of them. Windows 8 will be launched in the fourth quarter of this year (2012), probably in November, unless Microsoft works fast and brings it out in October. Once the software is out, in its base and Windows RT version, PC, phone and tablet makers will be able to start releasing their items too. For those still unaware, Windows RT is the name Microsoft has chosen for the iteration of Windows 8 aimed at ARM platforms. Needless to say, Dell's business-centric Latitude 10 will not possess that OS, since it won't use an ARM CPU....

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Nokia Teases June 18th Event, Could Be 808 PureView-Related

Nokia is getting ready to announce something on Monday, June 18th, and the company is already teasing us with that. On its Facebook page, the company has uploaded two photos with reference to an event set to take place on that day, without offering specific details on what it will be all about. However, since one of these images appears to be showing a Roland TR-808 drum machine, rumor has it that the event could be related to Nokia 808 PureView’s arrival in the United States. Nokia has already confirmed plans to make the smartphone available in the country, but hasn’t detailed a specific launch date as of yet. According to AllThingsD, insiders have already confirmed that the company is indeed getting ready to push...

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ASUS ThunderboltEX Add-In Card Examined

Certain ASUS Z77/H77 or upcoming AM3+ motherboards will have TB_HEADER pinout, which means they will be able to interface with the company's ThunderboltEX card. We spotted the item around a week ago, but now it has been put through its paces. VR-Zone has tested it with the Rampage V GENE and has found that a new menu appears in the motherboard's UEFI BIOS when the ThunderboltEX is installed. Owners can adjust memory space reservation options and, thus, resolve detection issues that can appear when multiple devices are daisy-chained. Theoretically, a good BIOS should pre-allocate required resources at boot stage and, thus, allow Windows 7 to correctly recognize hot-plugged devices. If this does not happen, a “yellow...

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HP's Popular Pavilion dv6 Laptop Gets AMD Trinity

HP upgraded its Pavilion dv6 mobile workstation back in April, but that particular laptop has once again gone through a hardware revision. In this instance, a new chip has joined the list of available processors: the AMD A8-4500M accelerated processing unit. That's right, HP's popular mobile workstation can now be configured with a Trinity APU, and the move even brings the price down by $100 (80 Euro). Said processor boasts the Radeon HD 7640G integrated graphics and is backed up by 6 GB of RAM (random access memory). The laptop also gets a hard disk drive of 750 GB. For those who forgot what the Intel-powered Pavilion dv6 sells for, the tag is $800 / 635 Euro. That means this APU version is available at $700 / 555...

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