TL-WR702N 150Mbps Wireless Nano Pocket Router

If TP-LINK's TL-WR702N isn't the smallest wireless router in the world, it comes really close, as it is very convenient to use and carry around wherever one may travel. The full name of TP-LINK's latest invention is TL-WR702N 150Mbps Wireless Nano Pocket Router, quite informative even on its own really. Its purpose is to grant wireless Internet access to any Wi-Fi-equipped device out there, whether at home or on the go. The device is more or less square, with each side measuring 2.5 inches in length, or 63.5 mm, while the depth is 0.75 inches / 19.05 mm. Indeed, even credit cards are larger than this thing, which might cause problems in case the router is ever misplaced. Fortunately, it does have that small light...

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Motorola MOTOLUXE XT685 Dual-SIM with Android 4.0 ICS Live in China

Motorola Mobility has just announced the immediate availability of the MOTOLUXE XT685 in China. Although this is just a mid-range device, the smartphone will be shipped with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system. Beginning this week, customers in China can purchase the Motorola MOTOLUXE XT685 from authorized resellers across the country for a suggested retail price of 1,999 yuan (315 USD or 260 EUR) outright. Design-wise, this is the same MOTOLUXE handset unveiled back in January at the Consumers Electronics Show, but the Chinese version comes in brown and white color options, while the standard model is currently available in licorice and white color schemes. When it comes to software, MOTOLUXE XT685 is clearly...

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BlackBerry Elegance Concept Smartphone with Android

Research In Motion’s BlackBerry smartphones are highly appealing to enthusiasts, especially to those who have been using them for quite some time now. In fact, some are so attached to these handsets that would want to see them offering the same interface as before, even if RIM decided to adopt another operating system for them. This is why the new BlackBerry Elegance concept device sports a custom user interface loaded on top of Android. Called Berry UI, it would be able to enhance some of the features that Google’s mobile platform has to offer. Coming from Bob Freking (via concept-phones), the handset combines a touchscreen display with a QWERTY keyboard in a portrait form factor, much like Palm’s Pixi smartphones did. However,...

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Gran Turismo 5: Academy Edition

Sony and its Polyphony Digital team have presented a brand new version of their hit Gran Turismo 5 racing game, in the form of Gran Turismo 5: Academy Edition, which will be released this September in Europe. Gran Turismo 5 came out back in 2010 and quickly managed to draw in millions of PlayStation 3 owners to its racing simulation experience. Since then, plenty of add-ons have been released for the title, as well as special editions like the GT 5 Spec II in Japan, or XL Edition in North America, which included some of the DLC packs already launched. Now, Sony is preparing a similar compilation for European PS3 owners, as they’ll soon be able to buy the Gran Turismo 5: Academy Edition. This special bundle celebrates...

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New Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, Multiplayer & Co-Op Modes

Activision and High Moon Studios have posted a brand new video of the multiplayer and cooperative modes included in their upcoming Transformers: Fall of Cybertron title. High Moon Studios wants to deliver a proper follow-up to the rather impressive War for Cybertron game and, with the upcoming Fall of Cybertron, the developer is trying not just to continue the story but also deliver a top notch multiplayer experience. In order to show off the online modes in Fall of Cybertron, the studio has released, via GameSpot, a special trailer focused on the competitive multiplayer and the cooperative mode. The multiplayer allows people to customize their own Transformer by buying different parts, ranging from heads, to hands or body pieces. 10 maps are included in the multiplayer...

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Sapphire Two AMD Radeon 7970 GHz Vapor-X Edition Cards

Traditional AMD video card partner Sapphire has now decided to add two more Vapor-X Radeon HD 7970 graphics adapters to the company’s custom line of AMD “Tahiti” GHz Edition. The new cards feature more tamed characteristics when compared to Sapphire’s flagship, but they’re nonetheless impressive by themselves. The most powerful of the two is called Sapphire HD 7970 6GB Vapor-X and comes with a huge amount of GDDR5 memory clocked at 6000 MHz. There are 6 GB of video memory on the card working on a 384-bit BUS. The PCB has 12 layers and features a 10-phase power design that will allow for 1 GHz default GPU working frequency and a 1050 MHz GPU Boost with the standard BIOS. The performance BIOS will up these frequencies to...

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Nokia Belle Feature Pack 2 Update, Demo Video Details

Good news for Symbian fans as Nokia will soon launch a new update for Belle operating system. Dubbed Nokia Belle Feature Pack 2, the update will probably be pushed in the following weeks. Although it’s still a work in progress, a new video that shows off the new features and capabilities of the Nokia Belle Feature Packs 2 update has just been uploaded on YouTube. The short video demos the new lock screen, the new music player and a new keyboard. The guy that uploaded this video claims this is just an early version of the build, so we should not judge the performance and stability yet. Word is that the first device to receive the update will be Nokia 808 PureView, though the Finnish company has yet to confirm this information. Stay tuned for more updates on the matter. via...

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Windows 8 Default Wallpaper Emerges

Windows 8, Microsoft’s next-generation operating system, is expected to become commercially available as soon as October 26th, 2012, while being set to hit the RTM status during the first week of August. The platform will bring along a nice range of improvements when compared to the currently available Windows 8 iterations, including a new default wallpaper, rumor has it. What allegedly would be that very image has just made an appearance online, offering a glimpse at what the desktop in Windows 8 would look like when first accessed. With the Windows 8 RTM flavor approaching fast, it’s no wonder that more info on what the OS could include have started to emerge. There’s no telling on whether the wallpaper will indeed...

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AsRock A55M-DGS AMD FM2 Mainboard, First Windows8 Certification

For those who need a reminder, AsRock motherboard company was founded by ASUS, as the famous mainboard manufacturer was not willing to associate its brand with mid- to low-end products and wanted the ASUS moniker to be associated only with quality and high-end devices. Thanks to ASUS’ good channel contacts, market clout and influence, AsRock did very good and quickly achieved high sales and has eventually spun-off as an independent company. Now that it is on its own, AsRock no longer limits itself to low- or mid-end products and it also launches quality and expensive devices. AsRock’s new AMD FM2 mainboard is called A55M-DGS and the company claims it is the first Windows8 certified mainboard, but we should know better. We...

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Sony LT30p Mint Previewed Ahead of Official Launch

Mobile phone maker Sony is reportedly gearing up for the release of a successor for its Xperia S flagship smartphone, and that device has just got previewed, far before being officially announced. Featuring model number Sony LT30p Mint, the handset was already spotted on the web before, courtesy of a series of leaks and benchmarking results, but no specific info on what it would look like or have to offer has emerged before. Today, however, we can have a better look at the smartphone, courtesy of a full preview of the handset that emerged over at Mobile-review. Although expected to replace the Xperia S, the new handset shows few design similarities with the currently available smartphone. Fitting nicely in the user’s...

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AMD Athlon II X4 for Socket FM2

It looks like Advanced Micro Devices won't be sacrificing every product brand this year, as the Athlon II series of CPUs will live on, even gaining socket FM2 members. The folks at CPU World have discovered three Athlon II X4 central processing units that will be compatible with the FM2 socket. We'd be lying if we didn't say this was at least a minor surprise. After hearing that the Phenom II line won't last the year, we were worried the Athlon II brand would suffer some untimely demise as well. Then again, Phenom II was a high-end desktop line, and AMD doesn't expect, or intend, to compete with Intel there for a while. As such, letting the brand die until they have the technology to revive it, if ever, actually makes...

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HIS Radeon HD 7750 iCooler Low Profile Graphics Card

AMD recently took the clock speed of the Radeon HD 7750 graphics card from 800 MHz to 900 MHz, but HIS decided to tone it back down when it made the Radeon HD 7750 iCooler low-profile.  Advanced Micro Devices recently improved the base clock speeds of many Radeon HD 7000 graphics adapters, in order to better face off against NVIDIA's GeForce 600 line. That is to say 1 GHz editions of the stronger boards were presented, and even the HD 7750 was taken from 800 MHz to 900 MHz, as we mentioned above. The reason HIS tuned the clock back this once is that the Radeon HD 7750 iCooler low-profile, being half-sized, has a smaller cooler and, thus, a reduced ability to dissipate heat. The half-height PCB (printed circuit...

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BlackBerry 10 with Native Picture Editor App [Video]

One of the appealing features that Research In Motion is expected to include inside the upcoming BlackBerry 10 operating system is a native Picture Editor, info on which has just emerged online. Apparently, the application will take advantage of the Scalado technology, while resembling a lot the editing features that users can enjoy now in Instagram. Courtesy of a series of leaked slides and the video embedded above, available via N4BB, we can now have a look at what the software will look like. Through the BlackBerry 10 Picture Editor, users will be able to add various filters to their photos, among others. The best part, of course, is the fact that all these will be available for free, since the application comes from RIM themselves, and not from a third-party developer. We...

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