OnePlus One Emerges at the FCC with MicroSD Card Slot Included

Last month, Chinese mobile phone maker OnePlus officially announced the upcoming availability of the OnePlus One, the first handset to arrive on shelves with the CyanogenMod 11 platform loaded on top right from start, and the device has just received the necessary FCC approvals, it seems. The smartphone has been spotted on the FCC’s website with support for with LTE bands 4 and 17, which suggests that it is compatible with the networks operated by AT&T and T-Mobile in the country. However, as PhoneArena notes, the smartphone won’t land at any of these carriers, as OnePlus is set to release it in the country through its own portal. What’s interesting to note about the phone, however, is that it has been listed at the FCC with a...

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Samsung SM-G870A Spotted in AnTuTu, Might Be the Galaxy S5 Active

One of the handsets that South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics has been long rumored to bring to the market is the Galaxy S5 Active, and the phone appears to have just emerged in AnTuTu. The mobile phone has emerged on the benchmarking website with model number SM-G870A attached to it, which has been already rumored to be making an official appearance on shelves at wireless carrier AT&T. No official confirmation on what this phone will be all about has been provided as of now, but it has been already spotted at the FCC with the same model number attached, and it seems that it might not be too long at all before it makes an official appearance. As mentioned above, the handset is expected to be released as the Samsung...

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Intel Devil's Canyon CPUs Should Reach 5 GHz on Normal Cooling

With the Haswell refresh line of central processing units from Intel mostly out, only the unlocked chips are left, the ones that are supposed to debut in the summer. The two main stars of that line are called Intel Core i7-4790K and Intel Core i5-4690K. You might be familiar with the upcoming series of high-end chips by another name: Intel Devil's Canyon, or Haswell Refresh K-series. The K at the end of the name stands for unlocked multiplier, enabling essentially boundless overclocking support, though it's up to you to make sure you have liquid helium or nitrogen for cooling if you go overboard. The CPUs will have a high base performance as well, though. Let's start with the Core i7-4790K, since this is the flagship, the strongest...

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Samsung 13.3-Inch “Warhol” Tablet Will Have 2560 x 1600 Pixel Resolution

Those following the Samsung tablet saga might remember that back in 2013, there was talk suggesting that the Korean tech giant was working on a huge 13.3-inch tablet. There was a lot of speculation regarding this matter, including whispers saying that the slate will be capable of dual-booting between Windows RT and Android. Now new information about Samsung’s mega-tablet project has appeared online. The folks over at GSMArena have managed to receive some new information about the 13.3-inch that is reportedly codenamed “Warhol”. Sources familiar with the matter have disclosed the tablet going by model number T911 for the 3G version and T910 for the Wi-Fi only variant. We should draw your attention to the “T,” which indicates that the...

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K7/K8 Inventor Back at AMD, Prepares Core i7-Strong Excavator APUs for 2015

If the first two generations of Bulldozer microprocessors hadn't had more bad than good traits, Advanced Micro Devices may not have pulled out of the direct competition against Intel on the high-end front. Come 2015, the contest may resume. Bulldozer is defined by the use of compute modules, each of which has a pair of cores and provides integer power like a dual-core, but also multiple multi-threading (SMT) capability like single-core chips. Sadly, the way they share resources between two cores isn't very efficient, and single-threaded performance is low compared to that of Intel chips anyway. It's all this that made FX-series 8-core CPUs achieve lower performance than Intel quad-core Core i7 with the same number of FPUs (floating...

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