Intel Five New Mobile Processors

In a surprising move, the world’s largest PC processor manufacturer, American company Intel is launching today five new mobile processors that replace some models launched just this Spring.  Apparently the company is preparing for the AMD Trinity attack that will follow after the Windows 8 launch. The top three performing CPUs are replacing the Core i7-3720QM, i7-3820QM and i7-3920XM Extreme models that have been just launched in April of this year. The new models are called Core i7-3740QM, i7-3840QM and Core i7-3940XM Extreme and come with higher working frequencies and different prices, CPU-World reports. On the low end, Intel comes with two “new” Sandy Bridge based Celerons, but you can find all the necessary information...

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Lenovo IdeaPad Z Series is 25% Slimmer Than Standard Notebooks

Chinese company Lenovo was apparently on a product launch spree at this year’s IFA event in Berlin, Germany. With the new Z series that have just been announced, the company is trying to offer a powerful mobile computing station in a modestly-sized package. The new product line is officially called Z series and the company claims that the members of this line are overall 25% slimmer than a standard notebook while bringing the same amount of performance and features. The first member of the new Z series is the Lenovo IdeaPad Z500. It comes with a 15.6” LED backlit screen sporting a standard 1366 by 768 pixel resolution and a normal tray-loading DVD Writer along with nice stereo speakers with Dolby Home Theatre v4 audio certification. The...

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Nokia Lumia 920 Pack Wireless Charging and 32GB Memory

While we already know that Nokia is getting ready to unveil to the world two Windows Phone 8 devices as soon as this week, we still don’t have an official confirmation on the matter.However, following the emergence of photos with the two mobile phones, supposedly Lumia 820 and Lumia 920, some more info on the latter has leaked online, enabling us to make a better idea on the device. Expected to become available for purchase as Nokia’s flagship Windows Phone 8 smartphone, the Lumia 920 is now said to be en-route to shelves with wireless charging capabilities inside. The smartphone will arrive on shelves with a magnetic strip hidden in the back, providing the capability to charge the device wirelessly. Moreover, the guys over...

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Samsung's First Windows Phone 8 Handset, Samsung ATIV S

Last week, South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung unveiled to the world its first handset powered by Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 platform, the Samsung ATIV S. Packing the latest technology inside, the new smartphone is expected to provide users with all they want from a handset, both software and hardware-wise. Samsung ATIV S was designed with a thin 8.7mm brushed aluminum body and with an impressive 4.8” HD Super AMOLED display with Corning Gorilla Glass 2 coating. The phone’s internals were meant to impress as well, starting with the 1.5 GHz dual-core application processor that is complemented by 1GB of RAM. The new mobile phone will be released in two capacities, namely 16GB and 32GB, and will also enable users...

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Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 Important Events on September and October

It actually all started early last month, when Microsoft announced the RTM of Windows 8 and plans to make the platform officially available for purchase starting with October 26th, but Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 will remain in the spotlight for two more months. In September, for example, we should expect for a variety of Windows Phone 8-related events to take place, including new launches from Nokia and HTC. In fact, the two handset vendors were already rumored to plan the launch of new devices in the coming weeks, with the Finnish phone maker being expected to make the move as soon as this week, on September 5th. Following the unveiling of Nokia’s new Lumia phones, we should see HTC making its first Windows Phone 8...

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Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 and GTX 660 Launch Date

California-headquartered GPU and mobile CPU design company, American corporation Nvidia is working hard to get out the door its own alternatives to AMD’s Radeon HD 78xx series and HD 77xx series. Nvidia is obviously catastrophically late to the market with these solutions, but we’re glad it is finally here, as this way it will force AMD into a price decrease. As we all know, the GTX 650 video cards will be powered by the GK107 Kepler-based GPU that we know from the GT 640 video cards. The GTX 660 will use the novel GK106 chip that we reported here. The GK107 has 384 CUDA cores and benefits from GDDR5 memory on the GTX 650 cards, while the GK106 reportedly has 960 CUDA cores active with some of them deactivated by the maker. The...

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Intel to Confuse Buyers with 16 New Desktop CPUs

Most of us knew that a Core i5-2xxx processor was using 32nm manufacturing technology and the Sandy Bridge silicon, while the Core i5-3xxx models were designated to 22nm chips using the Ivy Bridge silicon. Just like with the Core i7 and Core i5 switcheroo, Intel today is trying to make buyers mistake Sandy Bridge CPUs for Ivy Bridge processors, naming the former using the Core i5-3xxx pattern. Back in the days of the LGA1366 socket, many were lead to believe that the Core i7 naming scheme was only reserved for top-performing CPUs, but then Intel started designating the high-end moniker on mid-end solutions that use LGA1156 socket and it all went downhill from there. With today’s launch, Intel swamps the market with 16 new...

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Strongest AMD Trinity Will Cost As Much As a Low-End Intel Core i3

AMD did tell us that it intended to play to its strength, that being of offering hardware that was as or almost as good as Intel's but for half or a third of the price. We might have just seen a strong piece of evidence to support this claim. During the meeting at IFA 2012, where we sat down with a couple of representatives and had a talk about Trinity, we were treated to a demonstration of two tablets running the same set of programs in concert. This is something we didn't touch on in our highlights article. One tablet was a Core i5-based model, while the other used an AMD C-60 design with a much lower price. They both performed pretty much the same, and the Core i5 took the lead only when a complicated data document was started,...

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BlackBerry 10 UI Photos Emerge

Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion is moving closer to the release of its next-generation mobile operating system, the BlackBerry 10, which can now be admired in a new set of leaked photos. Available courtesy of BlackBerryItalia, these images reportedly show the upcoming platform in all of its glory, although they have been Photoshopped a little. The tweaking was made only for privacy purposes, it seems, so as to remove serial numbers and bar codes. The looks of the OS, however, were not altered. The first image to the left shows, among other applications that have already been seen on BlackBerry smartphones and on the PlayBook, a Skype app, which is new to the OS. However, some suggest that the icon emerged...

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AMD FX-8350 Vishera 8-Core vs FX-8150 Bulldozer Benchmark

Late last month (August 2012), we reported that the specifications of the AMD FX-8350 Vishera processor had been discovered. Now we are bringing you the results of a benchmark test conducted on the chip, in comparison to its predecessor, the FX-8150 Bulldozer. The folks at OBR-Hardware are the ones that managed to pit the two 8-core units against one another, and they were quite thorough in their tests. Cinebench R20 x64, Cinebench R11.5 x64, Fritz Chess, SuperPi 1M, x264 Benchmark – 720p and wPrime 32 are the names of the benchmarking suites. The results vary, but the overall conclusion is that the AMD Vishera has a 10% better multi-threaded performance and 4-5% better single-thread performance. Thus, the Piledriver...

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Nokia Windows Phone 8 Device Emerge Again

At least two Windows Phone 8 handsets are expected to make an official appearance this week from Finnish vendor Nokia, and one of them appears to have made it online in a new series of images. The phone, resembling a lot the Lumia 820 that we’ve seen earlier today, emerged on the web courtesy of Chinese website CoolXAP. The phone didn’t get a name, but some of its specs were unveiled, such as the 335MB of RAM (512MB in total, most probably), and the WVGA (800 x 480 pixels) screen resolution. By the looks of it, this could turn out to be a low-end smartphone from Nokia, which means that it should be different than the aforementioned Lumia 820. We could presume that it would be a phone resembling the rumored Lumia 610...

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Nokia Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 with Windows Phone 8

This week, Nokia’s next-generation Lumia handsets should become official, with at least two new handsets expected to make their official debut at a press event held in New York on Wednesday. While Nokia hasn’t yet provided an official confirmation on what would be announced at the event, info on the aforementioned new Lumia handsets has started to emerge online. Two new handsets are expected to be officially announced on Wednesday, both of them powered by Microsoft’s upcoming Windows Phone 8 operating system. These devices are said to be aimed at the mid- and high-end segments of the market, thus boasting better specs than previous Lumia phones. First, there’s the Nokia Lumia 820, a mid-range smartphone featuring...

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Nokia Testing Windows Phone 7.8-Based Lumia 610 Successor

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is reportedly working on the release of a new series of handsets in the Lumia range, one of which should be released with the Windows Phone 7.8 platform on board. The company is expected to unveil Windows Phone 8-powered handsets later this week, and it might also throw into the mix the aforementioned Windows Phone 7.8 device, a successor for the currently available Lumia 610 smartphone. Only a few details related to this device are known at the moment, and nothing has been officially confirmed on the phone’s existence for the time being, but it should not be too long before the leading handset vendor decides to make a formal announcement on this, it seems. Codenamed “Glory,” the new mobile...

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