HTC Desire SV (Dual-SIM) Now Official with Dual Core CPU and Android 4.0 ICS

Taiwanese handset maker HTC has just announced the upcoming availability of a new Android smartphone, the Desire SV. The smartphone has been recently announced during a press event in Singapore and is aimed at emerging markets such as India and China. AndroidOS reports HTC Desire SV is likely to arrive in India by the end of the year for around Rs 25,000 (465 USD or 360 EUR) outright. Although HTC already launched two dual-SIM Android phones in India, the company wishes to expand its portfolio with a much better device that offers even better capabilities than the Desire V and Desire VC handsets. The new HTC Desire SV is expected to arrive on the market in the following weeks, though we’re still waiting for the handset...

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Nvidia Decides to Make ARM-Based Tesla Supercomputer GPU Cards

The ARM architecture is really expanding its uses, even without ARM Holdings doing much directly. Calxeda, Advanced Micro Devices and NVIDIA, among others, are doing it instead. This is the latest piece of proof that ARM only really needed to make a 64-bit capable architecture in order to enter markets beyond that of smartphones / portable consumer electronics devices. After AMD said it would create ARM CPUs, and with the first 64-Bit ARMv8 cores released, NVIDIA has made a move as well. To be fair, the Santa Clara, California-based GPU maker already has a couple of development initiatives going. One of them is the Tegra SoC series, while the other is known as project Denver. Project Denver is the idea that a GPU...

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Sony to Bring Cyber-Shot Back on Its Android Line, CS8

Japanese mobile phone maker Sony Mobile is reportedly getting ready for the release of a new series of Android devices, Cyber-Shot, marking a separation from the already highly popular Xperia lineup. Back in the days of Sony Ericsson, Cyber-Shot was the mark of handsets with appealing imaging capabilities, and Sony is now rumored to plan launching some more such devices, though with a twist. Cyber-Shot handsets were feature phones a few years back, yet they might become smartphones soon, a post on XinMin China suggests. The first smartphone in the new series is said to be the Sony CS8 Cyber-Shot (shaped like C905, apparently), yet no specific info on the device has emerged so far. For what it’s worth, the launch of...

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