Sony Tablet P Available for Just £199 ($311 / €251)

Sony’s dual-screen wonder Tablet P powered by Nvidia’s Tegra 2 power efficient mobile processor has not been the selling success that the company hoped it to be. Now the Japanese electronics giant is apparently trying to clear out the stocks before the new Xperia tablet comes out. The interesting tablet is now available for considerably less than half of its initial price and the amazing thing is that this is happening just nine months after the launch, back in November 2011. The company seems to have given up on trying to make the Tablet P a best seller and, although an Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is planned, there is no other similar successor in Sony’s current plans. There are reports that the innovative tablet has...

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AMD FirePro Series First Official Benchmarks Result

Back in 2011 when AMD first launched the GCN architecture and the impressive “Tahiti” GPU, everybody was amazed at the gaming performance, but not many were expecting the level of GPU compute raw power that the first GCN generation brings. The company has managed to design such a powerful GPU compute architecture that it still takes Nvidia and Intel millions of dollars, tens of thousands of work hours and months to try and match. Intel has been working on the Larabee architecture for more than half a decade now and the Xeon Phi accelerator card that we’ve reported on here is still chasing the 1TFLOP DP FP64 performance goal. Nvidia on the other hand seems to have made a step backwards as the new GK104 GPU is only able...

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HTC Desire Z with Unofficial CyanogenMod 10 Port

The old HTC Desire Z has just received an unofficial CyanogenMod 10 port courtesy of the folks over at XDA Developers. The smartphone was launched on the market in November 2010 with Android 2.2 Froyo onboard. However, the Desire Z got a Gingerbread upgrade, which will also be the last major update the device will get. Still, it looks like XDA forum user Flinny and the Andromadus dev team managed to put together a CyanogenMod 10 ROM for HTC Desire Z. Keep in mind that this is a work in progress, so expect some issues to be present, such as: Wake issue (Kernel); Video playback glitches (mainly in landscape, turn off HW overlay in developer settings as a work around for now); Video camera (doesn’t work at all yet); Wi-Fi tethering;  Glitches...

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Nikon Coolpix L610

Nikon has formally introduced the latest addition to its Coolpix line of compact cameras, a model bearing the name of Coolpix L610 and featuring a 16-megapixel sensor. The general specifications of the product don't stand out all that much really, until the price comes into view and prospective customers realize that the L610 is a very attractive camera indeed. The sum is $249, or 201 Euro if current exchange rates are to be believed to any extent. As we said before, Nikon Coolpix L610 uses a 16 megapixel BSI (backside illuminated) CMOS sensor. Thus, it can snap photos and record videos in very high quality. For those who want specifics, Nikon actually implemented a 1080p movie mode and optical VR image stabilization....

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Intel Haswell iGPU, 300% Ivy Bridge Performance

More and more information about Intel’s Haswell is surfacing the internet and most of it is detailing and debating the most impressive unit inside Intel’s new architecture, the integrated graphics processing unit (iGPU). Haswell’s iGPU is an almost complete revolution when compared with what we have today inside Ivy Bridge. The world’s largest semiconductor company is finally taking 3D graphics and GPU compute seriously. The truth is that Intel needs to do this. While for the past decade all the world’s supercomputers got along just fine with no powerful GPUs inside, nowadays it seems unimaginable to pass up that tremendous efficiency and performance. Therefore, Intel is hard at work with its Xeon Phi accelerator cards. 3D...

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Apple Invents Asymmetric Screw to Keep Us Out of Its Gadgets

The image to the left shows a rendering of a potential new type of screw developed by Apple in Cupertino, California, in an attempt to keep prying hands off its hardware. Repair shop iFixit says the implications are severe, should this leak prove accurate. Apple goes to great lengths to design screws that can only be manipulated using special tools. The Pentalobe screws used in the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S are a good example of that. While some repair shops sell screwdrivers that can unmount them, there are no known tools that can unscrew the piece photographed above. It goes without saying that Apple is at the top of a long list of potential designers for this piece of hardware, though iFixit’s Kyle Wiens is not convinced. Speaking...

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AsRock Z77 OC Formula Technical Details

Well-known mainboard manufacturer AsRock is getting ready to launch its own overclocking oriented Z77 motherboard, featuring the 1155 processor socket. The motherboard was displayed at Computex earlier this year and many thought that it was only a concept as AsRock has a certain market segment it addresses. Years ago, the world’s largest motherboard manufacturer, Taiwanese company ASUS has decided not to associate its brand with low-end products and thus founded AsRock to take care of that market segment. 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...

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Black Samsung Galaxy S III Coming Soon

Samsung launched the Galaxy S III in late May and the phone is currently available in two color options: Pebble Blue and Marble White. However, it looks like Samsung plans to add more color-schemes for its Android flagship smartphone. A black flavor Galaxy S III has recently been spotted on Samsung Olympics Facebook page, which is a clear indication that the device will go official in the next few days. The black Galaxy S III will probably be sold for the same price as the other two colors, but we’re not sure when exactly the phone will go live. It’s likely that this is the international version of the Galaxy S III, so don’t expect to come with LTE support or the 1.5 GHz dual-core processor. It will be interesting to...

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Point of View 1111 MHz GTX 680 UltraCharged 4 GB Graphics Card

Point of View has prepared a very nice surprise of the video card enthusiasts. The company has just launched a special version of Nvidia’s GTX 680 video card that uses hand-picked GPUs and double the usual video memory along with a triple-fan cooler. The new card from Point of View is officially called POV/TGT GeForce GTX 680 4GB UltraCharged “LOW LEAKAGE SELECTION” and these cards use selected GK104 Kepler GPUs that naturally have lower than usual current leakage. The low current leakage in the GK104 chips used for POV’s GeForce GTX 680 4GB UltraCharged allows the GPU to clock stably at much higher frequencies while generating less heat. The default base frequency of the Kepler GPU mounted on POV’s new video cards is...

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Nokia Phi Confirmed with Dual-Core CPU and Windows Phone 8

Rumors on the upcoming Windows Phone 8 devices continue to surface, but we still don’t have any confirmations on their specs sheet. However, it appears that the folks over at NokiaInnovation have been able to confirm that the Finnish company plans to announce not one, but three Windows Phone 8 smartphones at the first Nokia World 2012 event, which is set to kick off on September 5. One of the smartphones that will be announced in early September is currently known as Nokia Phi, though this is just a codename, just like Lumia 900 was known as Nokia Ace before it got launched in the market. Remember the alleged Nokia prototype smartphone powered by Windows Phone 8 (or 7.8) that was leaked two days ago by the folks over at WPDang?...

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Arctic Accelero Hybrid 7970 Liquid Cooling System

Computer cooling expert company Arctic has just launched another hybrid cooling system for VGA adapters. This one is specially designed to fit on AMD’s Radeon HD 7970, 7950, 7870, 7850, 6970, 6950, 6870, 6850, 6790, 5870, 5850 and 5830 video cards and will use both air and liquid to keep the cards and GPUs cool. We’ve already reported about similar hybrid cooling systems from Arctic. Today’s hero is officially called Accelero Hybrid 7970 and it is a two-part cooling device. The main unit is a closed loop cooling system that will be able to dissipate up to 320 watts worth of heat. The big radiator can be mounted on the back of the computer case and it’s cooled by a 120mm fan. The second part of the Accelero Hybrid 7970...

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Rikomagic MK802 Mini PC: ARM Laptops

Since ARM is closer than ever to powering a series of mobile personal computers, it wouldn't do for us to skip on covering the few precursors to that momentous event, like Rikomagic's MK802 Mini PC. To be fair, MK802 isn't really a product made by Rikomagic. The company actually takes cheap Chinese gadgets, overhauls their hardware and software and then sells them in the UK and the rest of Europe. MK802 Mini PC is, for all intents and purposes, a netbook, so we don't really expect many people to flock to it. Nevertheless, the device does possess a fairly well known heart: the Allwinner A10 processor, with two ARM Cortex-A8 cores clocked at 1.5 GHz each. 1 GB of RAM (random access memory) accompanies the CPU, while...

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Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2 with Windows 8 now Official

The Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2 has been cropping up in rumors a lot lately, so we weren't taken off guard by the early press release, despite the very real and very intriguing feature set. Lenovo didn't have to put too much effort into the software. After all, Microsoft did all of the work on the Windows 8 operating system. Thus, it could dedicate most of its resources to creating the optimal hardware combination. Whether or not it succeeded in covering all the bases satisfactorily will be decided when sales finally begin and reviewers have their say. And here is the main issue with the product launch: it is only a “paper launch,” where a device is officially released by a company but sales aren't about to commence for months. Microsoft...

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HTC Windows Phone 8 Devices in September

Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation is expected to bring to the market at least three Windows Phone 8 smartphones in the near future, and might unveil them as soon as next month. In fact, a recent report coming from WPDang suggests that the handset vendor would aim at launching its Windows Phone 8 handsets in the third week of September. This would make HTC the second vendor in the world to announce Windows Phone 8 plans, following Nokia’s supposed unveiling at the beginning of next month. Previous rumors have suggested that HTC would aim at loading Windows Phone 8 on devices ranging from the mid- to the high-end of the market. Codenamed Rio, Accord and Zenith, three such phones have already been rumored to make...

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