DELL Latitude 10 Business Windows 8 Tablet

American computer maker DELL is actually taking the business tablet concept seriously and the first result is the Latitude 10 tablet. This one is powered by Intel’s Clover Trail SoC. The new tablet is powered by Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system that also brings support for all existing Windows 7 and other Windows-based x86 software. Uninformed business users might be surprised by the low performance of the device. Surely, the tablet will play movies and browse the web decently, but performance wise it won’t be able to hold a candle to a simple Core i5 Ivy Bridge system. The DELL Latitude 10 is a 10” tablet just like its name suggests and has a full 2 GB of RAM memory that is absolutely necessary for the Windows...

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Nokia Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 Receive Bluetooth 4.0 Certification

Nokia’s first Windows Phone 8 handsets, the Lumia 920 and Lumia 820, will arrive on shelves with Bluetooth 4.0 packed inside. This feature has been rumored before to be included inside them, and confirmation on the matter has already emerged. The two smartphones have received Bluetooth certification with this standard packed inside. The Lumia 920 can be seen on the Bluetooth Certification Forum on this page, while the Lumia 820 can be seen here. Bluetooth 4.0 comes with increased power efficiency, while also providing better data transfer, and has been long said to prove a great option for small devices such as smartphones. Nokia’s Windows Phone 8 handsets are expected to become available for purchase starting with...

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iOS 6 Software Update Ready for Download

Apple has released iOS 6 to the masses. Owners of an iDevice can download 600 megabytes packed to the brim with new features like 3D maps with turn-by-turn navigation, new Siri capabilities, Facebook integration, Shared Photo Streams, FaceTime improvements and a lot more. Delivered as an iTunes download or over-the-air (OTA), iOS 6 is the latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system powering iPhones, iPads, and iPod touch players worldwide. Not all device models are getting all the enhancements delivered in iOS 6. In fact, 2009 hardware, like the iPhone 3GS, is getting next to none of the 200+ features, including all-new Maps capabilities, a smarter Siri assistant, system-wide Facebook integration, shared Photo Streams,...

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RIM to Include exFAT File System in Upcoming BlackBerry Devices

Research In Motion’s upcoming BlackBerry devices might arrive on shelves with a new file system packed inside, namely Microsoft’s Extended File Allocation Table (exFAT). The company announced on Tuesday the signing of an agreement with Microsoft for the licensing of the technology, and also confirmed that it would include it in some future BlackBerry devices. However, it did not specify whether the exFAT would make it inside smartphones or next-generation PlayBook tablets, and we can assume that it might be packed in both types of hardware. The new file system provides support for much larger files sizes than its predecessor, and is expected to prove a great option for the use of audiovisual media and to offer faster access...

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Samsung TE4 Leaks with 1.7 GHz Cortex-A15 CPU

Samsung already denied plans to make the successor of Galaxy S III official at next year’s Mobile World Congress, but the company is now confirmed to be indeed working on a new flagship smartphone. Dubbed Samsung TE4, the handset was spotted in a benchmark with an Exynos 5 Dual processor packed inside, which includes 1.7 GHz dual-core Cortex-A15 CPU and Mali-T604 GPU. The Exynos 5 chip is a powerful piece of silicon, and Samsung has been long rumored to plan including it inside a new high-end smartphone. While next year’s Galaxy S 4 could prove to be that device, AndroidAndMe also suggests that it might be packed in a smartphone before this year’s end, most probably inside a new Nexus phone from Samsung. With no specific info on the matter available as of yet, this...

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Intel Windows 8 Tablets Come Next Week

Intel is getting ready for another big event that’s set for next week. The company will apparently hold a Windows 8 tablet launch party where companies like DELL, Samsung and HP will be invited to show their new devices. We’ve reported here on Intel’s Windows 8 tablet reference design and here about the new Clover Trail dual-core processor. Windows 8 tablets will have the benefit of offering compatibility with all Windows 8 and Windows 7 programs, but users should be warned that the performance will be surprisingly modest. Intel’s Clover Trail is basically a dual-core Medfield with an improved iGPU. While the new iGPU is welcomed and absolutely necessary considering just how weak the PowerVR SGX540 on Medfield is,...

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Intel Atom Centerton CPU Specifications

Until less than a day ago, the extent of our knowledge regarding Intel's Centerton central processing units was that servers based on them would ship by the end of the year (2012). Now, though, we have the specifications of the processors (CPU World), or three of them at least. The numbers we are seeing definitely seem to suggest that Intel is taking the idea of Atom-powered microservers seriously. There was a time when Atom was synonymous with netbook processors and nothing else. Netbooks barely exist anymore, though, and the Medfield (for phones and slates) hasn't been getting any praise. That Acer and ASUS have given up on the CPU brand altogether is no encouragement either. Intel isn't scrapping the name though....

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Marvell and Stanford SMILE Plug Computer

Multinational company Marvell is one of the world’s largest ARM developers and today they are announcing the availability of the SMILE plug computer, in collaboration with Stanford. This is a very small system that looks mostly like a router. The SMILE system has a Marvell ARMADA 300 system-on-chip (SoC) inside along with a Marvell Avastar 88W8764 Wi-Fi controller and these offer the user two USB 3.0 ports along with two SD card slots and WirelessN. The ARMADA 300 is a low-power single-issue CPU operating at 800 MHZ, but a 1 GHz and a 2GHz version are also available. It has 32 KB level 1, 4-way associative cache and a 256 KB unified 4-way, set-associative level 2 cache. It can support DDR2 or DDR3 memory with frequencies...

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Zero Devices Z2C Micro Computer, World’s Smallest PC on a Stick

The famous Raspberry Pi has made some serious waves this year, but it seems that a professional solution will always bring higher reliability, higher density and higher performance. Such a solution comes today from Zero Devices. The company is launching today a new ARM micro computer that’s officially called Zero Devices Z2C. Zero’s new unit is literally a PC-on-a-stick. The small dimensions of the device makes it looks exactly like an USB flash drive. Powered by the obvious suspect, the Zero Devices Z2C thumb PC uses a Rockchip RK3066 ARM processor based on the famous Cortex-A9 architecture. The interesting aspect is the fact that this is a dual core CPU that also uses a very fast 1 GB of DDR3 memory. Connectivity...

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Samsung eMMC Pro Class 1500 NAND Chips, World’s Highest Density 1 Tb Embedded NAND Storage Is Now in Mass Production

Samsung is ready with its new 64 Gb NAND chips manufactured in top of the line 20nm technology and Korean company has just announced the integration of 16 such chips into a 1 Tb embedded NAND storage. For the average tablet of smartphone user, this translates into a huge 128 GB storage capacity that’s all being offered by a single 12 by 16 millimeters package that’s built in FBGA technology and soldered on the PCB (printed circuit board). Samsung claims that its new eMMC product is actually one of the world’s fastest embedded NAND storage solutions and we tend to agree as the new package is rated at 140 MB/s when reading sequentially and 50 MB/s write speed. The new chip uses a Toggle DDR 2.0 interface and Samsung calls...

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RIM and Microsoft Sign Deal on exFAT Ahead of BlackBerry 10 Launch

Microsoft and Research in Motion have signed a patent licensing agreement that allows RIM to use the Extended File Allocation Table (exFAT) for certain BlackBerry devices. The exFAT system is an extended version of the popular FAT technology, but as compared to its predecessor, it allows the use of files larger than 4GB. This means that RIM devices will be soon capable of handling very large media files, including HD content created by its handhelds. RIM isn't the first company to sign a licensing deal for the exFAT system, as Microsoft has already partnered with Sony, Sharp, SanDisk and Canon. Of course, RIM hasn't provided too many details on the way it plans to take advantage of exFAT's capabilities, but given the fact...

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Gigabyte F2A85X-UP4 FM2 Motherboard, AMD Trinity-Ready

Among IT companies, Gigabyte is one of those that have a stake on more than the average number of market segments. This time, a motherboard is what it is preparing, though it has yet to launch it. A photo gallery has been posted by OCWorkbench, which means that most of the hardware details can be determined from a visual inspection. This is one of the stronger motherboards that will be paired with the up and coming Trinity accelerated processing units. As such, we suspect it will begin shipping early next month (October, 2012), for $150 to $200 / 115-150 Euro to 153-200 Euro. The A85X FCH chipset offers the FM2 socket and it is wired to four DDR3-2400+ MHz memory slots. That is enough for 32 GB of top-quality RAM. There...

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Windows Phone 7.8 Ported to HTC HD7, Beta ROM Available

Windows Phone 8 might not be set to arrive on all devices that already run under Microsoft’s mobile operating system, but Windows Phone 7.8 will make current WP users a bit happier. While there’s no word on when the platform will actually arrive on devices, owners of an HTC HD7 smartphone can already download and install the platform upgrade. Windows Phone 7.8 beta ROM was made available for them, though with a series of issues, as you’d expect. The ROM features build 7.10.8835.35, and has been compiled based on a Tango 12180 dump from a Nokia phone. Unfortunately, it was not tested intensively, and those who download and install it will do so at their own risk. Undoubtedly, a better release will arrive on HTC's device...

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