Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 in New Commercial Video

Samsung’s long awaited tablet is still not on the stores’ shelves and there’s no official shipping date in sight, but the company has just unveiled a new commercial for the un-cool gadget. In our opinion, Samsung’s new 10.1” tablet looks cool enough in the new commercial spot, but the pricing is going to be the most important fact. Samsung’s new tablet will be using Google’s Android 4.0 operating system and will feature a Super PLS 10.1” screen with a 1280 by 800 pixel resolution. The touchscreen matrix will be a dual-digitizer and it will come complete with multi-touch support. The operating system will come overlaid with Samsung’s own TouchWiz interface and will have support for the included stylus pen. The CPU powering the gadget is rumored to be a dual-core ARM...

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Xiaomi Phone with Support for Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and Windows Phone 8

The first Xiaomi Phone was launched back in December, but only 200,000 units were available for general public. The handset manufacturer inked a partnership with China Unicom in order to deliver as many Xiaomi Phone units as possible. In fact, the both companies planned to deliver around 1 million Xiaomi Phone devices to customers who were willing to commit to a long-term contract. The phone’s main selling point is the very low price and the impressive specs sheet. The Xiaomi Phone was offered for half the price of a device with almost similar features. Furthermore, the device was a strong competitor for Apple’s iPhone, but also for other Android handset makers. The original Xiaomi Phone features a powerful 1.5 GHz dual-core...

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Windows Phone 8 Benchmarks Show Impressive Performance Gains

Windows Phone 8, the next flavor of Microsoft’s mobile operating system, is only a few months away, promising increased performance and a host of new features on all devices. Among them, there is this Juggernaut Alpha handset that keeps appearing in benchmarking applications, and which shows an impressively high performance level. The latest such benchmark results come from the WP Bench benchmarking site, showing the handset at 151.14 points. The next handset on the list is HTC Titan, with 97.32 points, almost 50 percent less than the new, yet unannounced device. The performance gain is most probably the result of a dual-core application processor packed inside the new phone, along with the enhancements that Windows Phone...

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LG Optimus S with Jelly Bean CyanogenMod 10 Port

One of the oldest Android smartphones that might still be available in some regions, the LG Optimus S survives the onslaught of dual-core and quad-core handsets thanks to the generous community. AndroidCentral forum user drewwalton19216801 has just released a Jelly Bean ROM based on CyanogenMod 10. Yes, it may seem surprising for such a low-end device, but it looks like the guys working on this project managed to boot the ROM on an Optimus S device. Rest assure that there are still some things that need to be ironed out, such as the camera, MMS and Google Now, but this project is a work in progress, so expect more updates in the future. For the time being, the following features currently work: calls (including microphone),...

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Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Confirmed for August 15 brings 5.5-Inch Display

We already know for sure that Samsung will launch its “newest Galaxy device” on August 15, but there were no additional details on the device that the South Korean company plans to launch in mid-August. However, BGR has just learned from a source close to Samsung, that the handset maker will be launching the follow-up to the Galaxy Note “phablet,” the Galaxy Note 2. The only other things that's been confirmed is the large 5.5-inch that will be packed with the Galaxy Note 2, though we're not yet sure if this will be of the same quality as Galaxy S III's. We also believe the smartphone will be shipped with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, so Samsung will probably be wanting to upgrade this one to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update...

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ZTE First Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Smartphone, N880E

Today, Chinese mobile phone maker ZTE announced the availability of their first smartphone powered by Google’s new Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system, the ZTE N880E. The new device was designed to fit the needs of mobile phone users in China, and arrives on shelves with the Google Experience version of Jelly Bean, the handset vendor announced. This is the third Android 4.1 Jelly Bean smartphone in the world, the phone manufacturer notes, adding that it will soon be followed by other ZTE devices powered by the new platform release. “Our aim is to provide the best quality customer experience for the best value, and the N880E is a great example of this,” said Mr. Kan Yulun, vice president and CTO of the Handset Division,...

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Intel Core i7-3970X Extreme Edition with 4 GHz Turbo

World’s biggest processor manufacturer, multinational company Intel is getting ready to launch a new top-of-the-line LGA 2011 processor. The novelty will be called Intel Core i7-3970X Extreme Edition and will feature a default 3500 MHz clock with a 4 GHz Turbo option. This is still a 6-core Sandy Bridge chip just like Core i7-3960X and will feature 15 MB of level 3 cache, hyper threading and an unlocked frequency multiplier, as DonanimHaber reports. Intel will probably wait until AMD launches their new FX 8350 Piledriver-based Vishera processor and only then will the CPU giant release the Core i7-3970X Extreme Edition to trample over AMD’s launch. Therefore, enthusiasts will likely have to wait until Q4 to see Intel’s new flagship. The...

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Sony Xperia GX LT29i Photos Now Available

Sony is reportedly gearing up for the release of its Android-based Xperia GX smartphone on the international market, and a series of photos with the mobile phone have just made an appearance online. The device will land with model number Sony LT29i attached to it (codename ‘Hayabusa’), with looks similar to the Japanese sibling (the SO-04D), which should hit shelves at NTT DoCoMo soon. However, it appears that the leaked photos actually show an early production model of the device, since it still has the Sony Ericsson logo on it. The Sony LT29i ‘Hayabusa’ will land on shelves with the Sony logo at the top, and with the Xperia logo placed at the bottom. Unlike it, the Xperia GX model for NTT DoCoMo has the carrier’s...

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Intel Ivy Bridge-EP and -EN Xeon CPUs Detailed

The folks at CPU World have compiled previous information releases, leaks and educated guesses in order to put together a sort of list of specs for the next generation of Ivy Bridge-EP and -EN CPUs. The next family of Xeon E processors will replace the existing E5-1600, E5-2400, E5-2600 and E5-4600 lines. They will retain the names, but with a ''v2'' suffix, which leads to E5-1600 v2, E5-2400 v2, E5-2600 v2 and E5-4600 v2. These CPUs will be of the Sandy Bridge-EP and/or -EN type. The latter differ from the former in that they have a single QPI link and a triple-channel memory controller (instead of quad-channel). The 10-core Xeons will have TDPs of 70 Watts or 95W, while the 8-core will manage to attain as low as 60W....

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Nokia N9 Runs Firefox OS

It seems that Nokia N9 is an all-rounder when it comes to functionality. Although the smartphone was originally launched with MeeGo platform onboard, it looks like the N9 can run almost any other mobile operating system out there. We’ve already reported that developers and coders already managed to make the N9 booth Google’s Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system, after the smartphone was spotted running Ice Cream Sandwich a while back. Starting today, Nokia N9 unofficially supports Mozilla’s Firefox operating system for mobile devices. The company has just announced that Firefox OS is now available for testing on desktops, the more reasons for devs to put it on new mobile devices. Check out the video above and express your opinion on Mozilla’s upcoming Firefox OS and...

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AMD Trinity is Best Mobile Solution for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

The question of “good enough” performance has been on Intel and AMD’s mind for quite a while. Testing Intel’s reference UltraBook against AMD’s Trinity A10-4600M notebook shows that Intel’s solution is simply not good enough. Everybody was surprised by Rory Read’s statement that today we have enough CPU power and that companies should start working on improving their GPU performance in their products. The thing is that Intel is actually doing the same. Sure, the company has the x86 compute performance superiority, but they’re obviously not concentrating on offering their most powerful CPUs in UltraBooks. Intel’s priorities in UltraBooks are low power consumption, good system reaction times (and SSDs are responsible for...

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Canon EOS M, Canon First Mirrorless Camera

Canon has definitely not stayed idle on the photo and video capture device market, but it has never competed on the MILC sector, something that has finally changed. MILC stands for mirrorless interchangeable lens camera and is a type of photo/video capture device that lies between DSLR and compact cameras. DSLR cameras have interchangeable lenses, large sensors and a through-the-lens (TTL) optical viewfinder: light enters through a lens, reaches a light box and then reflects off a mirror and pentaprism/pentamirror (successively) before exiting through the optical viewfinder. Compact cameras sacrifice quality for size. They lack the TTL viewfinder and interchangeable lenses and rely on smaller sensors, which cannot capture...

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Biostar Hi-Fi Z77X Motherboard Released

Biostar’s Hi-Fi A85X AMD FM2 Trinity motherboard made the news just days ago, and now we get to see an Intel platform part of the same lineup: Hi-Fi Z77X. Biostar made a point of emphasizing one particular feature that the newcomer possesses, the "Puro Hi-Fi Technology." We'll first summarize the normal specs though, starting with the socket: through the Z77 chipset, Biostar chose LGA 1155, for Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge CPU compatibility. That means both second-generation and third-generation (respectively) Intel Core i-Series processors. The Hi-Fi Z77X is an ATX-sized motherboard with four DDR3 memory slots (up to DDR3-2600 performance), three PCI Express slots, Gigabit LAN, Wi-Fi, multiple USB 2.0/3.0 ports (and...

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CyanogenMod 10 Alpha for SONY Xperia S

Owners of a Sony Xperia S smartphone who are willing to tweak the software on their devices can now get a taste of the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean platform release, courtesy of a CyanogenMod 10 Alpha build available for them. The ROM, coming from Team Free Xperia, comes with all the basic phone functions working, along with Wi-Fi, data and Bluetooth capabilities. However, as any alpha build, the software still has a lot of caveats, including the fact that the camera is not working just yet. Xperia S was launched earlier this year with Android 2.3.x on board, yet Sony already delivered the 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update for it. No specific info on when Jelly Bean will officially land on this device has emerged so far, but the...

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Samsung Sells Over 10 Million Galaxy S III Units in 2 Months

Galaxy S III, the latest flagship Android-based smartphone from Samsung, has sold over 10 million units all around the world, in only two months of availability. The info comes from Shin Jong-kyun, the president of Samsung's information technology and mobile communication division, Yonhap News Agency reports. The new mobile phone was unveiled to the world in early May, and became available for purchase before the end of that month. According to Shin Jong-kyun, the device has already become a 10-million seller, though no specific number of sold devices was provided. Apparently, Samsung is currently selling just a bit shy of 200,000 Galaxy S III units each day, which makes it the best-selling handset in the Galaxy S...

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