Nokia Explains Lumia Phones Wireless Charging

Nokia’s new Windows Phone 8 handsets will arrive on shelves with some highly appealing features packed inside, including support for wireless charging. The upcoming Nokia Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 are the first devices from the company to provide users with support for wireless charging, which should make the use of the phone far easier than before. “All you have to do is place your phone onto a Nokia Wireless Charging Plate, Nokia Wireless Charging Pillow by Fatboy, Nokia Wireless Charging Stand, or even the JBL PowerUp Wireless Charging Speaker for Nokia to begin the charging process,” the company explains in a blog post. For those out of the loop, we should note that wireless charging means that energy is transmitted...

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AsRock FM2A75 Pro4 and FM2A75 Pro4-M AMD Trinity FM2 ATX Trinity Motherboards with 2-way CrossFire Support

Well-known motherboard manufacturer AsRock has just launched the FM2A85X Extreme6 motherboard that we presented here, but the company has also launched affordable platforms for cost effective systems. All three motherboards launched today come with dual PCI-Express x16 slots. The first CrossFire certified motherboard is the AsRock FM2A75 Pro4 there is also an ATX model just like the big FM2A85X Extreme6, but it has less fancy features and a more affordable price. This mainboard comes with five SATA3 ports and an eSATA port on the backside I/O panel along with no less than eight USB 3.0 ports. Two USB 3.0 ports on the back panel come from the AMD A75 FCH Hudson-D3 chipset while four other USB 3.0 ports come from an Etron...

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AMD Demonstrates Fanless A10-5700K Trinity System

AMD has surprised everybody today with a set of Trinity pricing that make us go and buy one just to test its capabilities. In Japan, the company decided to show what could be done with its new APUs and, among numerous FM2 motherboards, they’ve demonstrated a completely fanless Trinity system. The case used by the system is a high quality Streacom FC5 OD fanless chassis that can house MicroATX and MiniITX motherboards so MSI should have something to fit inside it as we reported here. The cooling system is very well designed and it takes the heat away from the CPU by using six copper heatpipes with a considerable length and transfers it to the outside part of the case. As a matter of fact, that exterior wall of the...

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BlackBerry 10 London Specs

Research In Motion is expected to launch some very appealing devices running under its BlackBerry 10 operating system in the beginning of the next year, including the long rumored BlackBerry 10 London. The mobile phone was spotted online for the first time a long time ago, and some more info on it is now available, courtesy of a leaked spec sheet that emerged over at rapidberry. The handset is said to include a TI OMAP4 chipset inside, along with an ST-E MS730 chip, while being capable of providing users with support for 21Mbps HSPA+ connectivity. The phone’s specs list also shows that it would arrive on shelves with GSM/EDGE connectivity, and that Wi-Fi and Bluetooth would also be included in the mix. Moreover, the...

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Windows 9 Work Already in Progress, Microsoft Confirms

Microsoft will launch the new Windows 8 this month, but the company has already started work on the next Windows iteration, apparently codenamed Windows 9. Of course, no information is yet available, but James Akrigg, Microsoft's head of technology for partners, confirmed at Misco Expo 12 in the United Kingdom that Windows 9 is the next major project to be released by his company. “It should just work. I'm not going to say we're going to do it [reach perfection] with Windows 8 because we're already working on Windows 9,” he said when asked about his expectations regarding Windows 8. Curiously, sources close to the matter are also suggesting that Microsoft is working on a different Windows iteration called Windows Blue, but...

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Samsung Galaxy S III Mini to Become Official on October 11

Samsung is gearing up for the release of a new device in Germany on October 11th, and has already started sending out invites to the launch event. The company did not offer specific info on what could be unveiled on that day, but it appears that it might have something to do with the popular Galaxy S series. According to SammyHub, the event could involve the launch of a Galaxy S III mini smartphone, which has been rumored before, or might be focused on the unveiling of the recently leaked Galaxy Music. The invitation that Samsung sent to All About Samsung reads “small is now a big hit,” which further suggests a connection with the highly popular Galaxy S III. One way or the other, we should expect a powerful handset...

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MSI MicroATX and MiniITX AMD FM2 Motherboards

AMD has just launched its new Trinity APUs and we were amazed by the affordable pricing of the new chip as we reported here. MSI now launches the perfect mainboard companions for the new APUs. We reported here about the company’s top of the line FM2-A85X-G65 motherboard, but today MSI is presenting the MicroATX models called FM2-A55M and FM2-A75MA-E35 along with the MiniITX FM2-A75IA-E53. Not much is known about the new models, but from the low-quality pictures that MSI has provided we can distinguish that they all feature a full-sized PCI-Express Gen2 x16 slot for a powerful discrete video card when such a graphics adapter is deemed necessary. USB 3.0 support should also be present, along with SATA 3 and RAID support. The...

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Nokia Says Lumia 920 Sensitive Screen Won't Drain Battery

One of the appealing features that Nokia’s first Windows Phone 8-powered smartphone will arrive on shelves with is a sensitive touchscreen, one that can be operated even with gloves on. For the people who are doing a lot of activities in the open this feature should prove great, especially when it’s cold outside and they don’t want to remove the protection of their fingers in order to be using the phone. However, JDB Pocketware suggests that this might actually be an issue with the new smartphone, and that users might find the battery of their Lumia 920 devices to be draining fast due to it. The scenario in which this would happen is simple: if the power button is pressed when the device is in your pocket, the screen will...

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AMD Trinity Desktop APUs Officially Announced at Incredible Prices

Texas-based fabless chip designer AMD has just announced its new desktop APUs previously known as Trinity. The new devices are using the Piledriver enhanced x86 computing cores and a VLIW4 integrated graphics processing unit (iGPU) architecture. AMD’s new chips are still manufactured in 32nm SOI technology, just like most of the processors that the company is selling, but these are benefitting from a mature 32nm process and that has brought numerous advantages. The chips are running at very high frequencies and the lowest default working frequency is a high 3.4 GHz while the highest is a straight 4 GHz. All the new APUs come with Turbo core technology and this allows them a 200 MHz to 600 MHz frequency boost when the software...

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BlackBerry 10 Aristo Detailed

Research In Motion has been long rumored to plan the launch of more than one type of BlackBerry 10 devices at the beginning of the next year, and some new info on one of the company’s upcoming series of phones is now available. Initial rumors suggested that there could be only two family of BlackBerry 10 devices, namely the full-touch L-Series and the QWERTY-enabled N-Series, yet it appears that other sets of handsets are also under development. One of the smartphones that the company will bring to shelves at some point in the future is supposedly the recently leaked BlackBerry 10 Aristo, which should be included in the A-Series, the guys over at rapidberry note. Apparently, handsets in this family of BlackBerry 10 smartphones...

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BlackBerry 10 Laguna Specs

With several months still left until the official launch of BlackBerry 10 devices, the first specs details have started to surface online. The folks over at RapidBerry have been recently tipped on the CDMA version of BlackBerry London, which is expected to be released next year in the United States through Verizon Wireless. Dubbed BlackBerry Laguna, the smartphone will be powered by RIM’s latest BlackBerry 10 OS, and it will be equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8960 processor, though the CPU’s clock speed is still unknown. However, knowing that this particular processor is part of the Pro category of CPUs, we suspect that BlackBerry Laguna’s core will be clocked at 1.5 – 1.7 GHz. RIM plans to include other category...

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