“NOKIA by Microsoft” Branding Spotted on Supposedly Leaked Lumia 830

One of the changes that Microsoft has been rumored to make to the current series of Lumia devices involves changing their brand name, and the first signs of this appear to have already emerged online. An allegedly leaked press photo with the recently rumored Lumia 830 smartphone shows that the upcoming device might no longer sport the usual Nokia branding on the its back, but that it will feature “NOKIA by Microsoft” instead. This is not the first time that such a rumor emerges, and there is a chance that things will turn out this way in the end, although no official confirmation on the matter has been provided. Of course, there is also the possibility that the said leaked image, which made it online courtesy of baidu, is nothing...

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Possible NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880 Smiles for the Camera

NVIDIA launched the GTX 700 series graphics cards about a year ago, so judging by the usual yearly refresh cycle, the new GeForce GTX 800 series should be making an appearance any time now. According to a leak from Chinese website GamerSky, the new graphics card has already shown up in a photograph. We can’t be sure this is it, especially since the PCB is quite pixelated and blurry in the image, but the card doesn’t seem to be something we have seen before. ComputerBase has done some digging around hoping to find out more information. They have found out that the board has a new GPU, which is reportedly a Maxwell-based GM204. The die area is larger than the GK104 of the first high-end Kepler GPU, but a tad smaller than the GK110. On...

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