BlackBerry 10.3 New Features and UI Changes Roundup

Over the past few weeks, Canadian mobile phone maker BlackBerry has been teasing various new features and UI changes that the BlackBerry 10.3 operating system includes, and the company has decided to reiterate some of them today. For those out of the loop, we should note that BlackBerry has made the BlackBerry 10.3 OS SDK beta available for download for developers on Wednesday, so as to provide them with the possibility to start testing their applications against the new platform iteration. The roundup of various BlackBerry 10.3 new features comes as a natural result of the platform’s release, though it seems that this is not the operating system version that end-users out there will be able to install on their devices later this...

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Gigabyte Prepares GeForce GTX 750 Ti Black Edition

The thing about hardware products is that they don't all last for the same amount of time, even compared to their own kin so to speak. That's why products like the upcoming Gigabyte GeForce GTX 750 Ti Black Edition have customer bases of their own. You see, the “Black Edition” moniker always means some extra qualification, whether in terms of performance or endurance, or both. For Gigabyte's graphics cards, it means that they were put through a 168-hour server level stress test. It ensures that the products can go for hours at full throttle, allowing you to play whatever you want for as long as you want. Sure, the GeForce GTX 750 Ti doesn't provide the same performance limits as GTX 760 and above, but it's better than average, and...

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Samsung Galaxy Tab S AMOLED Tablets Coming June 12 at Galaxy Premiere Event

A few hours ago, we heard rumors that Samsung’s AMOLED tablet line-up, the Galaxy Tab S, might be scheduled to arrive on either the 11 or 12 of June in New York. Well, it seems The Wall Street Journal was right, as Samsung has officially announced the time, date and locations of the so-called Galaxy Premiere event. So, Sammy is going to be present in New York in Madison Square Garden on the 12 of June in order to officially announce the two 8.4-inch and 10.5-inch AMOLED screen tablets we have been drooling over for so long. If we listen to talk on the street, there’s a chance Samsung will also roll out a 13.3-inch tablet dubbed Warhole, that will come with an LCD display instead of an AMOLED one. Anyway Samsung is teasing us with...

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Official: Xiaomi’s MiPad Tablet Has Retina-like Display and Tegra K1 SoC

Xiaomi’s mythical tablet strikes again, this time for real. After being rumored countless times and failing to make a real-life appearance some of us almost gave up hope the device was coming at all. As of today, Xiaomi’s MiPad tablet is official and albeit thinking we knew what the tablet will bring in terms of specifications, we were proven wrong at the launch party. So here we go, the MiPad is an iPad mini with Retina Display clone, coming with a 7.9-inch and boasting 2048 x 1536 pixel resolution. Under the hood lies a surprise, in the form of NVIDIA’s latest Tegra K1 SoC processor clocked at 2.2GHz fitted with 2GB of RAM and backed up by 16GB of internal storage (expandable up to a 128GB). Paradoxically enough, NVIDIA’s rumored...

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K-Touch and Blu Join the Windows Phone OEM Caravan, New Devices Launching Soon

Chinese OEM and ODM K-Touch and US-based handset maker Blu have just been officially confirmed as Microsoft partners for the release of Windows Phone devices. The announcement doesn’t come as a surprise, as Blu has recently teased its first smartphone powered by Windows Phone platform, which is aimed at the mid-range market. K-Touch has yet to announce when and how many Windows Phone handsets it will launch in the not so distant future. However, both companies confirmed during the Qualcomm Reference Design and Wireless Innovation Summit in China that they would launch Windows Phone devices in the next couple of months. According to Liveside, during the same event, another Windows Phone OEM already confirmed by Microsoft, Longcheer,...

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