Highly rated gadgets
-
9.0
Sony WH-1000XM3
-
9.1
Apple iPhone XS
-
9.1
Apple iPhone XS Max
-
9.0
FujiFilm XF10
-
8.0
BlackBerry Motion
-
10.0
Nikon Z 7
-
9.0
Panasonic LUMIX LX100 II
-
10.0
FujiFilm X-T3
-
8.5
Xiaomi Mi A2
Apple suppliers cut iPhone 4 production ahead of iPhone 5 launch
Like UnlikeFiled in: Cell PhonesAppleiPhone 4iPhone 4s
Printed circuit board (PCB) suppliers in Taiwan have noticed “disappointing orders” for iPhone and iPad hardware, according to DigiTimes. As a result, the suppliers have cut quotes by 10% on average for the second quarter, noting that there’s no sign of a rebound. The drop in iPhone hardware orders suggests that Apple’s highly anticipated next-generation iPhone is imminent; it’s largely expected that the company will take the wraps off of the device in September.
Comments (0) | Permalink More at: www.bgr.com Add additional source
Nokia Now Believes First WP7 Handset Will Launch this Year
Like UnlikeFiled in: Cell PhonesOperating SystemsMicrosoftNOKIAWindows Phone 7
Speaking at an event in Singapore today, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop said the company is on track to release its first Windows Phone 7 handset by the end of the year. Elop said, "I have increased confidence that we will launch our first device based on the Windows platform later this year and we will ship our product in volume in 2012." Nokia has previously been more ambivalent about the launch of its WP7 handsets. Nokia also said that it plans to launch as many as 10 new Symbian handsets during the next 12 months. Nokia is replacing Symbian with Windows Phone 7 as its primary smartphone platform moving forward.
Comments (0) | Permalink More at: Phone Scoop 1 related story Add source
Free Nokia Maps Headed to S40, Anna Arrives in July
Like UnlikeFiled in: Cell PhonesNOKIA
At an event in Singapore today, Nokia announced that its Series 40 handsets will come pre-loaded with Nokia Maps. Nokia Maps for Series 40 uses cell tower triangulation to locate the phone, and Nokia says it is still able to provide turn-by-turn navigation even without GPS. Nokia Maps for Series 40 will first be available to the C2-03 and will ship with local maps installed. Additional maps can be downloaded over the air. In addition to the maps announcement, Nokia also said that starting in July, the Nokia N8, E7, C7 and C6-01 will ship with the Anna update to its Symbian platform.
Comments (0) | Permalink More at: Phone Scoop Add additional source
Intel adds four 17W mobile Sandy Brige CPUs
Like UnlikeFiled in: CPUIntelCeleron 847Core i5-2557MCore i7-2637MCore i7-2677M
All four offerings have 17W thermal envelopes and FCBGA1023 ball-grid-array packages, so they're sure to show up in ultraportables from various manufacturers. The Celeron 847's low price should make it ripe for cheap consumer ultraportables—the kind that rub elbows with Atom netbooks yet feature better displays, faster hardware, and Windows 7 Home Premium.
Comments (0) | Permalink More at: Guru of 3D Add additional source
Firefox 5 Released
Like UnlikeFirefox has been taking a bruising in the browser wars at the hands of Chrome. Mozilla's watched Google's browser gain hordes of new adopters while its own market share sits dead in the water. Finally sick of watching Google get all the glory, Mozilla's instituted a fast-release schedule to get Firefox floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee again, and the first fruits of their labor are finally hitting the streets. Less than three months after Firefox 4 launched, Firefox 5 is now available for download.
Comments (0) | Permalink More at: Maximum PC Add additional source
Google's Chrome Frame Lets IE Users Bypass Sysadmins
Like UnlikeFiled in: MicrosoftGoogle
Stuck in the shackles of a subpar browsing experience because your boss swears by the robust feature set offered in IE6? Want IE9's HTML5 support, but can't get it because your company's still using Windows XP? Google wants to help. They've offered the "Chrome Frame" plug-in for older versions of IE as a technological band-aid for years, but you've always needed admin privileges to install it. Not anymore – the newest Chrome Frame iteration bypasses the need for admin rights entirely, allowing tech-savvy corporate computers users to give the middle finger to IT departments throughout the world.
Comments (0) | Permalink More at: Maximum PC Add additional source
Intel's Ivy Bridge CPU Launch Slips to March 2012
Like UnlikeFiled in: CPUIntel
Power users were hoping to get their hands on Intel's Ivy Bridge silicon by the end of the year, the time frame the Santa Clara chip maker originally gave for the successor to its existing Sandy Bridge CPUs. Now we're hearing that users will have to wait until March 2012 in order to give notebook vendors more time to sell their existing Sandy Bridge systems.
Comments (0) | Permalink More at: Maximum PC Add additional source
Google Quietly Testing Docs Offline Support
Like UnlikeFiled in: Google
The initial response to the first Chromebooks has been rather lukewarm. But that is unlikely to deter Google, which is in it for the long haul. Now all eyes are going to be on the first few installments of changes and new features. Lack of offline functionality is being seen as the Achilles heel’ of Chrome OS. It will become a touch more usable offline when Google Docs offline support returns later this summer after a long hiatus. There are signs of the much awaited return of Docs offline support being just around the corner.
Comments (0) | Permalink More at: Maximum PC Add additional source
AVADirect Adds Quadro 5010M Professional Graphics Option to Clevo X7200 Notebook
Like UnlikeFiled in: NotebooksClevoX7200
Let's go ahead and address the green elephant in the room wearing an Nvidia toga. The Quadro 5010M mobile graphics solution carries a hefty price tag, and in return offers a hefty feature-set for those more concerned with AutoCAD and 3ds Max than they are with Crysis and Mass Effect 3. It's Nvidia's flagship mobile GPU with 384 CUDA cores and 4GB of GDDR5 memory, and AVADirect's now offering it as a GPU option with its Cleveo X7200 notebook.
Comments (0) | Permalink More at: Maximum PC Add additional source
Tilera takes aim at Intel and AMD with 100-core chip
Like UnlikeFiled in: CPUIntelAMD
Tilera on Tuesday announced a new general-purpose CPU with 100 processing cores, which the company hopes will provide headway into a server market dominated by Intel and Advanced Micro Devices.
The low-power 100-core TileGX-3100 chip was co-developed with "leading cloud companies" with the aim of installing it in servers that run database applications and handle large volumes of Internet transactions, the company said. A Tilera spokeswoman declined to name the cloud companies that helped co-develop the chip, saying announcements would be made over time.
Comments (0) | Permalink More at: InfoWorld Add additional source
Intel Has a 50-Core, Supercomputer-Ready Processor on the Way
Like UnlikeFiled in: Intel
Intel's Larrabee may have been a disaster, but that doesn't mean all that research was for naught. It's now surfaced in their upcoming, 50-core Knights Corner supercomputing processor, which will soon be commercially available.
Ars Technica says that it will compete with NVIDIA's Tesla Supercomputer processor, but will aim for ease of implementation, rather than raw performance power.
The main advantage that Intel touts vs. Tesla is that because MIC is just a bunch of x86 cores, it's easy for users to port their existing toolchains to it. (When using Tesla, researchers must port to NVIDIA's proprietary but well-loved CUDA platform.)
Granted, the vast majority of us will never see, let alone ...
Comments (0) | Permalink More at: Gizmodo Add additional source
iPhone 5 could have new case design, possible August launch
Like UnlikeFiled in: Cell PhonesAppleiPhone 4s
Looks like Apple's latest handset might not be an iPhone 4S after all, with the Cupertino based company planning a brand new design for the smartphone.
BGR has cited a reliable source as expecting a "radical new case design for the upcoming iPhone, though we have not been given any additional details".
The website is also pointing to an Apple event at the beginning of August, aiming to get the iPhone 5 into stores by the end of that month.
Apple had until now been believed to be releasing iPhone 5 details at their iPod focussed annual September event. It may now be that they move iPod release information forward so as not to distract from the new phone launch.
The rumours of a case redesig...
Comments (0) | Permalink More at: Pocket-lint 1 related story Add source
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 hitting Sprint on June 24th, bring your own 4G
Like UnlikeFiled in: NotebooksSamsungGALAXY Tab 10.1
Samsung wouldn't get any more specific than "mid-summer" when it revealed that the Galaxy Tab 10.1 would be coming to Sprint, but it turns out you don't have to wait much longer to pick one via the carrier. Sprint has just announced that the WiFi-only tablet will be available through its website and other channels starting June 24th for the same $499.99 it demands elsewhere (though you'll have to wait until July 24th to get one at a Sprint retail store). It also not-so-subtly notes that the tablet is "even more amazing" when paired with an Overdrive Pro 4G mobile hotspot or Novatel MiFi -- sold separately, of course. Full press release is after the break.
Comments (0) | Permalink More at: Engadget Add additional source
Dropbox mistake allows login without password
Like UnlikeLooks like a glitch in Dropbox's authorisation system briefly allowed users to login without a password, exposing accounts to unauthorised entry.
Between 1.54 and 5.46 pm Pacific time yesterday accounts were left totally vulnerable to password free entry.
A post on the Dropbox blog from Arash Ferdowsi explains that the backup service is currently looking into users accounts to see who may have been affected.
"We’re conducting a thorough investigation of related activity to understand whether any accounts were improperly accessed. If we identify any specific instances of unusual activity, we’ll immediately notify the account owner. If you’re concerned about any activity that has occurred in...
Comments (0) | Permalink More at: Pocket-lint Add additional source
Apple tells component suppliers it wants a 10% discount
Like UnlikeFiled in: Apple
I would imagine in the computer component and hardware world, landing Apple for your firm is a big deal. I would also imagine when Apple asks for a price cut rather than lose the contract you probably render unto Jobs what Jobs wants and cut the price. Apple has reportedly demanded that its component suppliers cut their quotes by 10%. The suppliers the cut is said to be asked of cover a lot of hardware used in Apple goods.
DigiTimes reports that the price cut was asked of Apple’s component suppliers that provide things like PCBs, optical hardware, battery modules, and touch panels. The news come from a Chinese language paper called Economic Daily News. Apple is expecting its shipments of com...
Comments (0) | Permalink More at: SlashGear Add additional source