Oppo R8007 Spotted in GFXBench with Dual-SIM Capabilities

Chinese mobile phone maker Oppo might launch a new Android-based smartphone in the not too distant future, one that emerged in the GFXBench database as Oppo R8007. The handset was seen there with Google’s Android 4.3 Jelly Bean operating system loaded on top, as well as with a 1.6GHz Snapdragon S4 MSM8226 processor inside, with Adreno 305 graphics. The phone is expected to arrive on shelves with dual-SIM capabilities, as well as with TD-SCDMA, CDMA 1xAdv, and HSPA+ connectivity. The phone is also said to sport a display capable of delivering a 1280 x 720 pixels resolution. No further details on the device have been provided as of now, but its processor could allow for a camera of up to 13 megapixels to be included on its back....

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Nokia X Leaks in New Press Photo, Its Name Allegedly Confirmed

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has been long rumored to plan on bringing to the market a smartphone running under Google’s Android operating system, and it seems that the device has leaked in a new press photo, one that also confirms its name. The handset, initially spotted online under the codename of Nokia Normandy, was said not long ago to be launched as Nokia X, and the new leaked photo with it, available courtesy of @evleaks, appears to confirm that. The phone is said to arrive on shelves with a 4-inch touchscreen display and to be featuring entry-level hardware specifications inside. It might sport a 3MP camera on the back, while running under one of the latest Android versions out there. No official confirmation on the...

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New NVIDIA Tegra Note (P1761) with Tegra K1, HD Display and Android 4.4.2 KitKat Emerges

After a new NVIDIA Tegra Note reference design was showcased back in January, the slate makes an appearance in the AnTuTu database this week. At CES 2014 NVIDIA pulled the veil off its next-gen Tegra K1 processor, which is a 192-core super chip bundled with NVIDIA Kepler architecture. Some of you might know that Kepler architecture is behind one of the fastest graphics processing units (GPUS) on the market today, the NVDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti. So basically with the Tegra K1 processor, this performance can be ported to mobile devices, too. Back in Las Vegas, NVIDIA showed a Tegra Note reference design equipped with the new processor and combined with 4GB of RAM. But now the device (codenamed P1761) has been spotted online, specifically...

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Samsung Galaxy S5 Leaked Screenshot “Confirms” 5.25-Inch Display with QHD Resolution

With less than two weeks left until the official unveil of Samsung Galaxy S5, new info comes to confirm the already leaked specs sheet of the flagship smartphone. The folks over at SamsungGalaxyS5Abonnement have just published a small screenshot allegedly taken from the Galaxy S5, which they have received from a tipster who preferred to remain anonymous. The screenshot “confirms” that Samsung Galaxy S5 will come equipped with a 5.25-inch QHD capacitive touchscreen display that supports 2560 x 1440 pixels resolution. The information is not new, but it is a confirmation from another source that Samsung will indeed put a QHD display into the Galaxy S5. Samsung Galaxy S5 is expected to be unveiled later this month at Mobile World Congress...

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Intel “Ivy Town” 15-Core Xeon E7 Processors Detailed

There was a time when computers had only 5 MB of random access memory, but these days, the cache of the CPU is a lot larger than that, and RAM can reach even 64 GB on some motherboards, and much more on servers. The “Ivy Town” Intel CPU series is one of the chips that makes such high performance and capacity levels possible. Or perhaps we should say that the Ivy Town will be one of the processors, since it hasn't been launched yet, though that should happen soon. Called Xeon E7-8800v2, it is made for business servers and other enterprise applications, particularly high-end workstations. First off, the chip is a 15-core model (64-bit Ivy-Bridge cores), which means that the system can use 30 threads, thanks to Hyper-Threading technology....

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