RIM Sends Press Invites for BlackBerry 10 Launch on January 30, 2013

Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion has confirmed a while ago plans to officially unveil its BlackBerry 10 operating system and the first devices running under it on January 30, 2013, and the company has already sent out press invites for the event. According to the invitation that MobileSyrup received, “The BlackBerry Experience” has been “Re-Designed. Re-engineered. Re-invented.” The event will take place in Toronto, Canada, but RIM is also said to be planning a global unveiling of the platform on that day, and will hold similar events in New York City, London, Paris, Johannesburg and Dubai too. We have already had the chance to take a look at what the upcoming mobile operating system will have to offer to its...

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BlackBerry 10 UI Screenshots

Research In Motion’s BlackBerry 10 operating system will be officially launched in less than a month and a half, and some more info on what it will be able to provide users with is now available online. We already had the chance to admire RIM’s first BB10 smartphone in a series of leaked photos last week, as well as in a hands-on video coming from Tinhte, and screenshots with the platform’s apps and other features are now available online courtesy of the Vietnamese website. Those of you who would like to have a closer look at the BlackBerry 10’s Facebook application, or would like to see what the much-praised BlackBerry Hub will have to offer, should check out the gallery embedded below. We already looked at the native Twitter...

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Nokia Juggernaut Spotted Next to Lumia 820 in Video

Juggernaut is one of the names that emerged online a few times before in relation to Nokia’s plans for the Windows Phone 8 platform, and which has been attached to a device that can be seen in the video below at the 8:15 mark. The device is running under Microsoft’s latest mobile operating system flavor, though it seems that it will never be launched on the market. The reason for that is a very simple one, according to Igor Shastitko from Microsoft Ukraine, who presents Nokia’s devices in the video. Apparently, Juggernaut was the codename for Lumia 820 while it was in the development phase, and was never planned for an official launch. As can be seen in the video, Juggernaut is much larger than the Lumia 820, apparently...

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ASUS VivoBook U38DT with AMD Radeon HD 8550M Leaked

Even though the ASUS VivoBook U38DT will use an AMD A8-4555M quad-core accelerated processing unit, a discrete graphics adapter will be part of the product as well. We've covered the Solar System series of mobile GPUs and, now, we can see one of the few processors in the series, thanks to ASUS. The ASUS Vivobook U38DT has been listed on German retailer Cyberport. According to the specs there, the Radoen HD 8550M lies within. Shipments will begin on December 27, at which point we will get to see how good the chip is and if it can enter CrossFireX with the integrated GPU in the APU. We aren't totally confident that the multi-GPU technology will work here, even if the GPU does turn out to be a rebrand instead of a new-generation...

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Nokia Lumia 920 PR1.1 Update to Resolve Camera Issues

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is reportedly preparing a new software update for its high-end Lumia 920 smartphone, in an attempt to resolve some of the issues that the device has been reportedly affected by. The update, said to land on the smartphone as PR1.1, is expected to resolve the camera fuzziness issues that Lumia 920 has shown since launch, it seems. When it announced the Windows Phone 8 flagship device, Nokia stressed a lot on the phone’s high-end camera capabilities, including its ability to snap great photos in low-light conditions. However, it seems that, although the Optical Image Stabilization technology packed inside the device worked like a charm, photos taken with the phone still showed a lack of details...

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BlackBerry 10 Native Twitter Client

Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion is moving closer to the release of its next-generation mobile operating system, the BlackBerry 10 platform, and seems set to pack it with a nice range of new, appealing applications. Among them, we should see a native Twitter client said to be based completely on the web, and which should look as pictured in the photos attached to this post. These images come from tinhte.vn, which managed to get ahold of a BlackBerry 10 device a few days ago, and which is providing details on what to expect from it. However, it should be noted that the phone is still running under a beta flavor of the BlackBerry 10 platform, which means that the final release might be different and so might...

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Sony Xperia Yuga C6603 Live Photos Emerges

Japanese mobile phone maker Sony Mobile has been long rumored to plan the release of a 5-inch high-end Android smartphone next year, and the device appears to have already emerged in live photos online. A prototype of the phone, said to feature a full HD touchscreen and to prove Sony’s flagship for the next year, has landed in the hands of people over at Mobile-Review, who published a few shots with it. The smartphone will land on shelves with a Qualcomm processor inside, most probably the latest generation, and is said to be very fast. Unfortunately, it is also said to be quite hot, mainly due to the powerful chipset inside it. The smartphone is expected to become official in early January at CES 2013 in Las Vegas with...

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