Motorola DROID RAZR HD 4G LTE

Following the emergence of a series of photos with the Motorola RAZR HD yesterday, we can now have a look at the US flavor of the device, expected to land on shelves at wireless carrier Verizon as the DROID RAZR HD. The images made it on the web via DroidForums and show both the front and the back side of the mobile phone. On the back, the device sports Verizon’s 4G LTE logo, along with Kevlar casing, and an HD camera that reportedly boasts a 13MP resolution. The photo with the handset’s front confirms the DROID RAZR HD name and the fact that it will run Android 4.0.4. Rumor has it that the phone would also include a dual-core 1.5GHz processor and a large 4.5-inch touchscreen display capable of delivering a 720p resolution. Motorola...

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First Toshiba 3.5” SATA3 HDD Available in Stores Now

Many of your readers remember our criticism targeting the authorities that allowed Western Digital and Seagate to buy their competition and become a worldwide HDD duopoly that is now burning our pockets. We’ve explained many times before that Toshiba got some IP and equipment from Western Digital so that the Japanese could pose as the virtual third maker of 3.5” HDDs next to WD and Seagate. This was a requirement for WD imposed by the authorities such that WD would later be allowed to take over Hitachi’s HDD unit. Toshiba only manufactured 2.5” laptop HDDs or 2.5” enterprise units based on Fujitsu’s old HDD division. The Japanese company had no way to present WD and Seagate with any kind of competition in the 3.5”...

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Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Priced at $1660 (€1350)

Lenovo’s highly anticipated 14” UltraBook has just been spotted in mainland China selling for the considerable amount of $1660 (€1350). That’s a whole lot of money, but we must remember that this is a very high-quality device powered by Intel’s Ivy Bridge. The new Lenovo ThinkPad X1 UltraBook is packed with premium features such as 3G connectivity and Lenovo’s own RapidCharge technology that guarantees a near-full battery charge in 30 minutes, along with Intel’s vPro technology packet that allows every security agency to monitor your computer. Graphics are displayed on a 16:9 small matte screen with a 1600:900 resolution and the user only has Intel’s iGPUs to play with, so don’t get your hopes up about casual gaming. In...

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Inno3D iChill GeForce GTX 680/670 Black Series Accelero Hybrid Liquid-Cooled Graphics Cards

Inno3D knows that liquid-cooler hardware is expensive, but it feels that the high-end video adapters based on NVIDIA's GK104 graphics processing unit are worth it. The company has formally launched the iChill GeForce GTX 680/670 Black Series Accelero Hybrid LCS (liquid cooling system). It promises to make either card 200% cooler and capable of functioning while producing a ninth of the noise. The product manages this by virtue of being the first LCS to integrate an active fan specifically meant to cool the RAM chips and VR. “Traditionally GPU liquid cooling is expensive, complicated and adopted by only the most technical audience, the GPU however is now one of the most power hungry and hottest components you'll find...

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ARM Dual-Core RockChip Processor Surprisingly Beats Tegra, Snapdragon and Exynos

Fuzhou Rockchip Electronics Company (or just Rockchip) is a known ARM developer in mainland China that designs and manufactures microprocessors for numerous affordable tablets and other entertainment electronics. The tablet world was taken by storm today once news broke about the performance displayed by RockChip’s new processor. The new design completely obliterates the competition in Rightware's popular PowerBoard list. There are three different devices using the chip that were tested and all three ended up holding the first three positions on the list. The new chip is called RK3066 and it’s a “last year” ARM Cortex A9 design. Some might accept the idea that this chip might be able to compete with Tegra2 chips...

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Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2

Lenovo is preparing to launch its new ThinkPad Tablet 2 mobile computing device once Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system becomes available. The new device uses a very powerful processor from Intel and is targeted at business users. Lenovo ThinkPad series is the only line of notebooks that are certified for use on the International Space Station. These notebooks have always been admired for their sturdiness and overall quality. The company’s new tablet is no different and comes with various business-oriented features such as the usual “squared ugliness.” Yes, the Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2 has no round shapes, no silver metallic strips and no cool keyboard dock that will transform it into a cool UltraBook. The Tablet...

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Shuttle OmniNAS KD20 Network Attached Storage with USB 3.0 and Gigabit LAN

Well-known motherboard and SSF barebone manufacturer Shuttle has just launched a new network-attached unit for the home user. The new device is part of Shuttle’s Omninas product line and comes in a very nice aluminum housing. The official denomination is Omninas KD20 and the aluminum body will give it sturdiness and good looks and, more importantly, much better heat dissipation. This is a 2-bay NAS unit that has support for maximum two 4TB 3.5” hard disk drives. On the connectivity side, the Omninas KD20 comes with a USB 3.0 port for quickly connecting devices that are not part of the network, Gigabit LAN and two USB 2.0 ports. Some of the useful features are the SD card reader and the copy button than will automatically...

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iPhone 5 Dock Connector with 8 Pins

Seemingly attempting to solve a decade-old problem, Apple is reportedly moving forward with plans to include a redesigned connector in its next iPhone that can dock in more ways than one. The plug is also said to be smaller, featuring 8 pins, as opposed to 30, which is the current spec in the iOS ecosystem. Two sources who seem to be quite privy of the prototype devices in testing at Apple are confidently telling iLounge that Apple’s new Dock Connector features only 8 pins. Both sources agreed that “there are eight pins in a line within the new Dock Connector” and, according to the report, the spec should well deserve a brand new moniker too. A third source corroborated the claims, says the report, and confirmed that this...

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TP-Link 450 Mbps Wireless N Dual Band PCI Express Adapter

Having launched a tiny router small enough to flip like a coin, TP-Link is turning its attention back towards the community of customers that want more familiar hardware. Not that there is anything common about the TL-WDN4800. Dual-band wireless devices are, all things considered, still fairly rare. Nevertheless, there are enough of them up for sale around the world that they are no longer an oddity, so TP-Link is actually building on an already solid foundation. The longer name of the TL-WDN4800 is 450Mbps Wireless N Dual Band PCI Express Adapter. It can access the 2.4 GHz and the 5 GHz channels and transmit data at, obviously, 450 Mbps, though this is really just the theoretical upper limit. The real-life performance...

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Motorola RAZR HD International Version

Mobile phone maker Motorola is known to be readying the release of a new handset for US wireless carrier Verizon, the successor of the popular DROID RAZR, which should arrive on shelves as DROID RAZR HD. As it usually happens, the device should make an appearance on the international market as well, where it will lose the “DROID” part of its name, since that goes only for Verizon’s smartphones. Thus, in addition to the upcoming high-end mobile phone on shelves at Big Red in the United States, we should also see a RAZR HD handset being pushed to the market elsewhere, but with the same features and capabilities. Of course, no official announcement on the matter has been made for the time being, but both flavors of the device...

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