Nokia Details Nokia Maps 3.0 for Lumia 920 and Lumia 820

Lumia 920 and Lumia 820, Nokia’s first Windows Phone 8 devices, arrive on shelves with a nice range of appealing features coming from the Finnish handset vendor itself, including a new flavor of the Nokia Maps application. The new app release brings along a nice range of enhancements when compared to what was already available for users, and those who own a Nokia phone should find it available for download via the official Windows Phone Store today. According to Nokia, there are three different ways in which the application can be updated on a Nokia device, all of them simple and intuitive. The Windows Phone Store live tile on the phone’s screen will prompt users to update to the new app flavor, and the app is also available...

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Zotac ZBOX mini PC Now Using AMD E2-1800 APU

The dual-core 1.7 GHz E2-1800 accelerated processing unit from Advanced Micro Devices may not be Trinity, but it is a fitting choice for the sort of system that Zotac designed the ZBOX as. Being a reasonably strong processor with a genuine integrated graphics processing unit, the APU handles computing and video tasks with the minimum of energy requirements. This is, in fact, one of the main reasons that Zotac decided to equip the latest ZBOX Mini PC with the chip. The other versions of the small, box-shaped computer use Intel Atom D2550 (1.86 GHz Dual-Core) or Atom D2550 (1.86 GHz Dual-Core), though there are some other AMD-based options as well. According to the official website, the AMD E-450 (1.65 GHz Dual-Core)...

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Nokia Readies Lumia 830, a Lower Version of Lumia 820

Although Lumia 920 and 820 currently ship in just a handful of countries, Nokia has plans to launch another Windows Phone device, the Lumia 830. The smartphone has just leaked in China via WPDang and it seems to be a less-featured version of the Lumia 820 (yes, you read that right). According to WPDang, this would be Nokia Lumia 710’s successor. No clue on whether or not Lumia 830 will be powered by Windows Phone 8 or an older version. There are no details on the phone’s specs sheet for the moment, but we expect more info to emerge in the following days. In fact, we do know Nokia Lumia 830 will be available in five color options as shown in the picture. Stay tuned for more updates on the matter. Nokia Lumia 830Image...

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TP-Link 3G/3.75G Wireless N Routers 4G Compatible Now

Owners of a 3G or 4G wireless router may want to check out one or more of TP-Link's products: TL-MR3020, TL-MR3220 and TL-MR3420. These are the so-called newcomers from the company's Wireless N Router series. The older ones are getting 4G support too. Called The Portable Battery-Powered Wireless N Router (TL-MR3040) and Wireless N Routers for home networks (TL-MR3220 and TL-MR3420), they have only supported 3G and/or 3.75G networks before. The networks of Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile are all compatible with the devices. DSL and cable network connections are still preferable of course, being faster and more stable. 4G can be a good backup when they crash though, for whatever reason. "The existing inventory of...

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Gigabyte H61M-DS2 DVI and H61M-DS2 HDMI, Very Cheap LGA 1155 Motherboards

One would expect a couple of micro-ATX motherboards to have more than one distinctive feature, that does not apply here. Only the video ports of the H61M-DS2 DVI and H61M-DS2 HDMI are different, as can be seen from the names. Other than that, they both have 4-phase VRM, four SATA 3.0 Gbps ports, 6-channel HD audio, Gigabit Ethernet and three PCI Express slots: one full-size PCIe 2.0 x16, plus two PCIe x1. In addition to the above, Gigabyte implemented dual-UEFI BIOS (one for backup) and the Ultra Durable 4 Classic components (fiber-weave PCB, anti-surge IC, etc.). Overall, the socket LGA 1155 mainboards (Sandy Bridge- and Ivy Bridge-ready) may be worth more than their price of under $50 / 39-50 Euro. One of them paired...

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RISC OS Is Now Available for Raspberry Pi

The Raspberry Pi mini PC is a very popular platform and already a lot of developers have ported distributions for it, including RISC OS. RISC OS is one of the oldest operating systems still around and it was initially developed by the team that built the ARM processor. According to the developers, RISC OS is owned by Castle Technology Ltd, and maintained by RISC OS Open Ltd. This version is made available free of charge to Raspberry Pi users. Keep in mind that it's not a final version, but a release candidate. It might have some bugs and it should be treated as a development version. Raspberry Pi relies on an ARM processor with a clock speed of 700 MHz, 512 MB of RAM, an SD card slot and a 5V Micro USB connector that...

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