Full-Touch BlackBerry 10 in March, QWERTY Devices in June

Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion is once again said to be set to bring its first BlackBerry 10 devices to shelves only in March next year, although it will make them official at the end of January. The company has already confirmed plans to officially launch the BlackBerry 10 platform and handsets running under it on January 30, 2013, yet availability will occur only a few months later, analysts believe. According to Boston-based research firm Detwiler Fenton, cited by Forbes, the first full-touch BlackBerry 10 devices will land in the United States only in March next year. Furthermore, the firm notes that QWERTY-enabled BB10 smartphones from RIM will not be launched before June next year. The research...

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ZTE Nubia Z5 New Photos, Shows 440ppi Screen

Chinese mobile phone maker ZTE has already confirmed plans to bring to the market a 5-inch smartphone as part of its new Nubia series, but it hasn’t provided further details on when the device would arrive on shelves. Dubbed Nubia Z5, the smartphone has emerged in a new series of leaked images, this time showing its 440ppi full HD screen in all of its glory. The handset is also said to arrive on shelves with a unibody design, while also packing a quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro processor inside, and 2GB of RAM. The device is also said to sport a 13-megapixel photo snapper on the back, along with a 7.6mm thin body. Furthermore, ZTE is rumored to plan on making Nubia Z5 official in China as soon as next week. ZTE Nubia...

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New MSI Micro-ATX Released, Supports Intel Core CPUs

PCI Express 3.0 x16, USB 3.0 and dual-channel DDR3 RAM (random access memory) are inherently supported by the Intel B75 chipset, which gives even the weakest of motherboards a lot of potential, if built properly. The entry-level B75MA-G43 motherboard from Micro-Star International definitely does all it can to live up to that potential. Though priced at $60 / 46.41 Euro, is still has everything mentioned above, as well as a PCI Expres 2.0 x16 slot, four USB 3.0 ports, a SATA 6.0 Gbps connector, five SATA 3.0 Gbps ports, Gigabit Ethernet, some USB 2.0/1.1 connectors, and three video outputs (DVI, D-Sub, and HDMI). All Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge socket LGA 1155 processors are supported. All in all, this is a nice motherboard...

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Apsalus Is Scythe New Closed-Loop Liquid Cooler

There are several ways to describe the new product from Scythe: closed-loop liquid cooler, all-in-one liquid cooler, self-contained cooling unit, etc. That means that, despite using a fluid instead of air, it does not need a reservoir and extra pumps to keep the temperature of CPUs low. Speaking of CPUs, the Apsalus liquid cooler (APSALUS3-120) supports not just AMD AM3(+), AM2(+) and FM2/FM1 CPUs and APUs, but LGA 1155/1156/2011/1366 central processing units from Intel as well. Even so, the product is still an entry-level item, meaning that it is actually cheap compared to most others. Though only available in Japan for now, its tag of 6,980 Yen ($84 / 65 Euro) is enviable. The base of Scythe's liquid cooler measures...

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