Casio Elixim EX-H50 16.1MP 24x Digital Photo Camera

Japanese watch maker Casio has just launched a new compact mega-zoom digital photo camera that comes with various useful features to make a tourist’s life easier. The new model can also film HD movies in 720p mode and sports sensor-shift image stabilizationn. The official denomination of the new model is Casio Elixim EX-H50 and it features a 1/2.3” CCD sensor. We’d really like all compact cameras to move away from 1 / 2.x” type of sensors and to stick to 1 / 1.1x sensors, but it seems that pennies matter much more than quality or user satisfaction these days. The new camera can’t film in FullHD, but it features an impressive 24x optical zoom and this is quite an achievement in such a small body and brings some competition...

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ASUS F2A85-V Pro FM2 AMD Motherboard

World’s largest motherboard manufacturer, Taiwanese company ASUS has just announced its new F2A85 mainboard series that offer support for AMD’s FM2 Trinity processors. The new boards come with high quality components and a rich bundle of hardware and software technologies. The “Dual Intelligent Processors 3” and “DIGI+ Power Control” technologies offer significant power consumption reductions while the latter also brings a possible 68% CPU frequency boost along with increased RAM overclocking capability. One important addition is the USB 3.0 Boost that is actually UASP driver support and, besides the marketing talk, this brings real performance and stability improvements to the USB 3.0 system of the mainboard. The most powerful...

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Intel NUC Cracked Open

We’ve heavily criticized Intel’s NUC and some readers argued that the system demonstrated back then was not actually a production model. From what we’ve heard, this one is and it’s not much different from the one displayed in spring. Maybe the most important aspect we must emphasize is the performance of this small device. The 4” by 4” NUC system from Intel is probably the most powerful computer in its class and there’s nobody denying that. Moreover, it comes with the powerful Intel HD 4000 iGPU and, therefore, it provides decent office graphics. On the negative side we must mention the fact that one of the most important aspects for systems of such small size is the noise level and it’s quite a disappointment that...

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Camera Samples from Alleged Future Google Nexus (Samsung GT-i9260) Emerge

Google has been long rumored to plan the release of new Nexus smartphones this year to celebrate the launch of Android 5.0, and some more info on the matter has allegedly emerged. Photos taken with what is said to be the next-generation Google phone are now available online, showing a GT-I9260 model number and an 8-megapixel camera attached to it. This is the same model number that has been spotted recently in a User Agent Profile, and which was said to be designating Samsung’s next Nexus smartphone. A series of details on the handset have been spotted before, confirming the 8MP photo snapper on the back, as well as a 4.65-inch HD display on the front. The aforementioned images that have been reportedly taken with...

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Apple iPhone 5 Fully Dismantled on Video

RepairsUniverse has released a teardown video of the iPhone 5 to promote its stock of iPhone 5 replacement parts. Die hard geeks are sure to have a lot of fun watching the 9-minute clip. Unlike iFixit, which admittedly offers the best teardowns in the tech blogosphere, RepairsUniverse has released not only photos, but a video that acts as an iPhone 5 repair guide. Embedded above, the footage shows the full disassembly of the iPhone 5 with details on how to replace the screen which, according to the repair shop, “is the most common part of the device to get damaged.” Paul Weatherley founder of RepairsUniverse.com said “It's great that the design of the iPhone 5 makes it easy to repair. Following our free video instructions people will be able to save themselves a lot of...

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Intel Promises LTE-Enabled Medfield Chip in 2012

Chip maker Intel is working on new flavors of its Medfield processor for mobile devices, including LTE-capable versions of the silicone. The company claims that it will be able to showcase the first 4G-capable chips before the end of this year, and that they will be included in products in 2013. Intel has been long showing interest in the smartphone market, yet the first handsets powered by its CPUs were made official only in 2012. The latest of these was the Motorola RAZR i, an Android-based handset capable of delivering 2GHz of raw power. The availability of LTE-enabled Medfield processors will help the company gain some more ground on the smartphone market, while also allowing it to storm the Android tablet segment. To...

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MSI MSI Z77A-G45 Thunderbolt, Intel Z77 Mainboard with THX TruStudioPro Sound

Well-known mainboard manufacturer, Taiwanese company MSI has just announced a new Intel Z77 motherboard that comes with Intel’s own Thunderbolt controller. The new device also comes with SLI and CrossFire certification from AMD and Nvidia. The new product is officially named Z77A-G45 and is THX-certified, as it comes with 7.1 TruSoundPro audio channels. On the video side, the Z77A-G45 comes with support for three different displays with a HDMI connector, a D-Sub 15 output and a mini-DisplayPort. The new motherboard comes with three PCI-Express 3.0 x16 ports with the usual Ivy Bridge configuration, where only the first slot can function with the full x16 bandwidth, while the rest are configurable. On the backside I/O...

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HTC Rumored 5-Inch Phablet to Become Nexus 5

HTC is said to be hard at work with the development of a new Android-based smartphone, one that would sport a 5-inch screen and that would be able to compete against Samsung’s Galaxy Note range of devices. The handset made it to the headlines a few times before, being rumored to land at Verizon in the US, but nothing has been officially confirmed on it for the time being. A new rumor suggests that the phablet could be set to become Google Nexus 5, after being said to be named DROID Incredible X or One X 5 before. With a full HD screen, a 12MP camera on the back, 64GB of internal memory, a 2,500mAh battery and LTE connectivity, it will certainly prove a great device for anyone, provided that it will indeed be released as...

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Intel Tests Pentium CPUs Against AMD Trinity

Intel has just launched two new Pentium processors. If you were wondering about the performance of these new chips, Intel has prepared a marketing-based performance chart in its own sales kit. The company has decided to test its new CPUs against older, Sandy Bridge-based processors and against AMD’s Trinity. The problem with Intel’s choice of benchmarks is the fact that the software suite is officially Intel-optimized and clearly can’t scale correctly on AMD’s hardware. The difference between a 1.6 GHz dual-core Trinity and a 1.7 GHz quad-core Trinity is less than 50%, according to Intel’s marketing. We have a hard time believing that doubling the cores, quadrupling the L2 cache, increasing the base frequency by 100...

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