HTC One S Special Edition with 64GB and Jelly Bean Goes on Sale in Taiwan

Six months after HTC launched the One S on the market, the Taiwanese company quietly released a special edition of the smartphone, which comes with improved hardware and software. Two things set it apart from the standard version, newer software and more storage. Obviously, the price for the enhanced variant is much higher. The bad news is that the HTC One S Special Edition has yet to be globally launched. ePrice reports the smartphone has just been released in Taiwan and customers can purchase one for TWD 17900 TWD outright, which is about $615/€485. HTC One S Special Edition is only available in white, but the handset maker might decide to offer additional colors as well. For the time being, we’re not sure whether...

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Dual SIM Samsung Galaxy Note II Arriving in China on November 24

The dual-SIM version of the Galaxy Note II emerged back in September, but Samsung was pretty secretive regarding the phone’s availability and pricing options. Well, it looks like the smartphone re-surfaced in China along with more details on launch and price tag. Chinese site Bolopad reports the dual-SIM Samsung Galaxy Note II will be launched on November 24 via China Telecom. The smartphone comes with two SIM slots, one for GSM SIMs and another one for CDMA SIM cards. Customers will be able to purchase the handset starting next week for around 5200 yuan off-contract, which is about $835/€655. The bad news is that there’s a high chance the dual-SIM Samsung Galaxy Note II won’t be available outside China. However,...

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Matte Grey Nokia Lumia 920 Spotted

A Matte Grey version of Nokia Lumia 920 has just been spotted in Australia at Harvey Norman. The retailer is now taking pre-orders for the Lumia 920 and has this particular color available for customers to choose. The smartphone is available for pre-purchase for $830/€680 and is expected to arrive in stock on December 17. Customers choosing other color-themed Lumia 920 units might end up receiving their devices on November 30 (black) or December 3 (yellow). Check it out here. The Matter Grey Lumia 920 should have been available in the US via AT&T, but the carrier has the cyan version instead. All in all, we expect this grey-themed Nokia Lumia 920 to be rolled out globally early next year, so potential customers...

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ZTE Nubia Z5 Packs a Far Better Display Than Samsung Galaxy S III and Apple iPhone 4S

Chinese mobile phone maker ZTE is expected to bring to the market a 5-inch full HD smartphone in the not too distant future, namely the ZTE Nubia Z5. The upcoming device will deliver a 1920 x 1080 pixel resolution, which should bring a great experience to all users, a series of new comparison photos available courtesy of CNMO show. The handset was put side by side with Samsung’s Galaxy S III and Apple’s iPhone 4S smartphones, and indeed managed to impress in clarity and level of detail. Apparently, the high-res screen is only one of the great features that Z5 will arrive on shelves with, since it was also rumored with a quad-core processor packed inside, and with a 13-megapixel photo snapper on the back. Unfortunately,...

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AMD Firepro S10000, Dual-Tahiti Server GPU Card

At this point, it is clear that NVIDIA had the right idea when it theorized that strong enough GPU compute accelerators would end up supplying the bulk of a supercomputer's performance. AMD is now offering a new product of this type. Long story short, AMD has formally launched the FirePro S10000 compute accelerator card, with two Tahiti graphics processing units and 6 GB of GDDR5 ECC memory. One single adapter has a peak single-precision floating-point performance of 5.91 TFLOPS, and a double-precision performance of 1.48 TFLOPS. It is being advertised as a rival to NVIDIA's Tesla cards and Intel's Xeon Phi x86 accelerators, the latter of which are finally shipping to customers. Virtualization technologies, like Microsoft...

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Briarwood: Intel Next Atom Processors

Back in September, Intel let loose some information about the Centerton line of Atom system-on-chip devices. The company has now let slip some details about another Atom chip line called Briarwood. These system-on-chip devices will be aimed at storage bridge bay and storage area network systems. They will be called Atom S1269, Atom S1279 and Atom S1289. All three will have two “Saltwell” Atom cores (each), single-channel DDR3 RAM support (random access memory) and Hyper-Threading, plus Virtualization technology. Up to 8 GB of DDR3-1333 ECC memory will be possible to pair with each of the processors. Atom S1269 has a clock speed of 1.6 GHz and a thermal design power of 11.7 watts. Atom S1279 is similar, but has a TDP...

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Western Digital My Net AC1300 HD Dual-Band Router and My Net AC Bridge

Western Digital may never turn wireless networking products into a primary revenue source, but that doesn't mean it can't excel at making such things. The My Net AC1300 HD Dual-Band Router and My Net AC Bridge show that clearly. Essentially, these two provide buyers with the benefits of the more or less best 802.11ac wireless technology on the market at the moment, plus the WD exclusive FasTrack technology. For those unfamiliar with FasTrack, the technology identifies when high-bandwidth entertainment services like Netflix, YouTube, online games and Skype are started. In such cases, the network grants them priority, so that communication and gameplay may proceed without lag or image stutter, or anything else. Taking...

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RIM BlackBerry 10 Smartphones to Arrive on Shelves in February

January 30, 2013, will be an important day for Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion, as the company will unveil to the world its next-gen mobile operating system, the BlackBerry 10 platform. Also on that day, we’ll have the chance to have a look at the very first smartphones powered by the new OS version, though it seems that they won’t become available for purchase right away. RIM has already confirmed that it would be showcasing two BlackBerry 10 smartphones on January 30, but did not provide specific info on when they would arrive on shelves. However, a recent article on SFGate notes that these handsets will not be pushed to shelves until February, although RIM will strive to have them released as soon as...

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