Samsung Galaxy S II Plus Emerges in AnTuTu Benchmarks as GT-I9105

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung might have a nice range of new handsets set to arrive on shelves in the coming months, one of which is now rumored to land as Galaxy S II Plus. The handset was spotted in the AnTuTu benchmark with model number GT-I9105 attached to it, and is suggested to have some kind of connection with last year’s Galaxy S II, which sports model number GT-I9100. According to RBmen, this phone could turn out to be the Galaxy S II Plus, an upgraded flavor of the mentioned handset, the same as the Galaxy S III LTE arrived as GT-I9305, compared to the Galaxy S III GT-I9300. When unveiled, the phone might feature a 1.5GHz dual-core processor inside, while running under Microsoft’s Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream...

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ARM Reveals IP with One Terabit System Bandwidth

What ARM recently introduced is not a new CPU architecture per se, but a technology that will allow it to create advanced architectures and processors capable of uncanny things. ARM named its invention the ARM CoreLink CCN-504 cache coherent network, and claims that the advanced intellectual property (IP) can provide a system with a bandwidth of one terabit per second (1 Tbps). The CoreLink CCN-504 dynamic memory controller is part of an integrated ARM DDR4 interface, (2012-bound ARM Artisan DDR4/3 PHY IP). For one, it offers a high bandwidth to shared off-chip memory, such as DDR3, DDR3L and DDR4 DRAM. Secondly, it makes it possible to create high-performance many-core enterprise systems with up to 16 CPU cores per...

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Nokia Belle FP2 Update Available Once Again

Owners of a Nokia 808 PureView, Nokia 701, 700, and 603 device can now download and install the Belle FP2 update on their handsets once again. The update was made available for all these mobile phones a few weeks ago, yet Nokia pulled it soon after, supposedly due to a series of issues that have been found to affect users’ experience. Today, however, the update is available once again, and those who will head to the Software Updater app on their handsets should see it up for download. The OS upgrade is being released only days after Nokia also made available for download a new version of the Nokia Music application for the platform, one that is compatible with Belle FP2 as well. The new firmware is available through...

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Intel H87 and Q87-Based Haswell Motherboards

We may have covered the high-end mainboards that Haswell chips (LGA 1150) will get to use as a power base in 2013, but we've yet to speak about the range one step below, or the business-oriented chipsets, so we will do that now. While the Z87 powers four mainboards, the H87 only has three under its belt. They should be enough to cover their target consumer segment though (upper mainstream and business sectors). Granted, Intel has the special Q87 chipset for business users, but we'll get to those as soon as we're done with H87, all of which have DVI-I, HDMI and a DisplayPort. The first platform, called Intel DH87MC and codenamed Meadow Creek, has support for up to 32 GB of DDR3 RAM (four DIMM slots), 5 SATA 6.0 Gbps slots,...

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iOS7 App Switcher Concept

There’s a new app switcher concept on the web that Apple could well implement in iOS 7. Posted by Verge user Sentry, the concept shows how Apple could leverage the extra vertical space on the iPhone 5 and iPod touch (fifth-generation). As the image above shows, instead of showing just the application icons, the multi-tasking tray could easily display previews, or snapshots, of the running apps themselves, giving the user a better idea of what to select instantly. In another embodiment (patent filing talk) this new task manager would enable users to easily access core system functions, such as the orientation lock, wireless functions, and the display brightness. Lastly, the same concept can be applied to the Music application....

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Intel Haswell Z87 Chipset Motherboards Arrival Date

We've known for some time that Intel's Haswell central processors would be launched in 2013, but we have not actually learned much about the motherboards that Chipzilla intends to offer for them. Intel is a relative unknown on the motherboard market. Though it has been making chipsets for many years, branded mainboards were few and far between. The corporation was usually content with allowing OEMs to make such things instead. The past couple of years saw it becoming more active here though. As such, we fully expected a production plan to exist, that covered the next few quarters. ComputerBase has published some roadmap slides which expose designs based on the Z87, H87 and Q87 chipsets, featuring the LGA 1150 socket (Haswell-compatible)....

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