Samsung seems to be gearing up to launch a slew of new Galaxy smartphones with single-letter naming convention. The South Korean tech giant recently announced the Galaxy A3 and Galaxy A5 smartphones with metal unibody designs, and now another smartphone with single-letter naming convention has leaked on Indian import tracking portal – Zauba. A smartphone...
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Indian manufacturer Karbonn is the first to bring its Android One smartphone to the country. Google’s Android One initiative debuted in India with three new smartphones in September this year, and now, one of those three handsets has made its way to the UK. Indian manufacturer Karbonn will be launching the Android One-powered Sparkle V...
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Introduction & Specifications Today we are reviewing Synology’s latest NAS, the DS215j. The DS215j is a home user oriented model and receives some welcome upgrades over its predecessor including a dual core ARM9 processor and USB3.0 support. It fully utilizes the latest features of the Disk Station Manager 5.1 software. The Synology DS215j is a...
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The long, agonizing wait for the Xiaomi Redmi Note is finally over for Indian smartphone buyers. Xiaomi today launched the Redmi Note in the country and surprisingly there are two variants that have been launched. The first is the cheaper 3G variant and the second is the 4G variant that not many were expecting to...
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The update will bring mostly device-exclusive features and changes. While both Apple and Google have been rolling out major updates to iOS and Android recently, Microsoft has been rather mum about the next update to Windows Phone 8.1. However, the Redmond giant has now broken silence on the Lumia Denim update, which comes out of...
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Also, an outrageously high-resolution 5.4-inch Quad HD display, improved 20.7 MP rear camera and 64-bit Snapdragon 805 processor. Anyone thinking of replacing their daily mobile driver this holiday season, and maybe saving a few bucks in the process? You probably don’t need us to tell you it’s usually a good idea to conduct your gadget...
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AMD has officially announced their 2015 APU Roadmap. Carrizo is the successor to Kaveri, while Carrizo-L is actually an entire different chip succeeding Beema. For both APUs, AMD sticks with the mature, though aging, 28nm process, while the entire industry prepares to move to 20nm (or 14nm for Intel). Despite staying on the same process,...
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May 2015 is when Finland-based Jolla estimates its first tablet will be shipped to early “sailors”. While some say the age of the tablets is almost behind us, and the market is too over-flooded to leave room for growth for anyone that’s not Apple, both Nokia and Jolla are gearing up for their solo slate...
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UnionPay cards are now accepted as a payment option by Apple in China. It goes without saying that Apple considers China to be one of its most lucrative markets. The company has already detailed a plan to massively increase its retail presence in the country. It is also working hard to get its new payments...
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Mac owners still facing Wi-Fi bugs after updating to the latest software release. A couple of days back Apple released OS X Yosemite 10.10.1 update. The first line in the changelog mentioned that this release is going to fix Wi-Fi issues that many users are facing. Apple’s official support forums were filled with complaints about...
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You’d have maybe expected sales to rise a little more than 37 percent quarter on quarter, but the unreleased Apple Watch probably made a lot of folks wait. Market research and analysis firm Canalys has come forward with a report we’ve been eagerly anticipating. Their most recent probe of the tech universe confirms smartwatches and...
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The Chinese threat looms larger than ever for Western mobile device makers, as the Meizu MX4 Pro sports Note 4-rivaling specs at half the price. Forget Huawei, Oppo or Xiaomi, it’s Meizu that Apple and Samsung need to be wary of from the rising Chinese mobile scene. The standard MX4 may have left a little...
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Microsoft rarely releases exact product sales numbers, but as far as their first wearable piece is concerned, they want the world to know they’ve pushed “well beyond” 5,000 units to date. While we wouldn’t exactly call it a fiasco, the highly anticipated commercial launch of Redmond’s rookie intelligent timepiece was clearly a disappointment. Although no...
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The update fixes bugs and improves performance on older devices. Apple is continuing its efforts to improve the experience offered by the latest version of iOS with the release of iOS 8.1.1. Available for all devices running iOS 8, 8.1.1 focuses on fixing bugs, though Apple hasn’t listed exactly what bugs are fixed by the...
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While it may seem NVIDIA is in the middle of transition to Maxwell, they haven’t given up on Kepler yet. Latest, and perhaps the last, in the Kepler lineage is Tesla K80, featuring new silicon. Tesla K80 is designed with the singular goal of offering the maximum throughput within 300W. As a result, K80 is...
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Bigger does not automatically mean more popular. Exact sales numbers of Apple’s largest iPhones to date remain a question mark, with almost two months of time in certain markets. Cupertino is clearly approaching an incredible milestone, namely 100 million unit sales, but it’s impossible to speculate exactly how close they are to reaching that peak....
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Today marks the final day of the AORUS VIP Gamers Tour and also the last day of Blizzard’s fan annual event. Although the BlizzCon Cosplay Contest has already ended yesterday, the cosplayers are still out in full force, donning on finely crafted costumes with attention paid to the tiniest details. We’ve got Tracer, Reaper, Widowmaker,...
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Q3 2014 marked a total reversal in the GPU market from Q2, where AMD gained while Nvidia declined. In Q3, JPR reports that AMD’s shipments has declined sharply by 7%, while Nvidia soared by 13% compared to Q2. Intel continued to dominate overall shipments with gain of 11.6%. Of course, this is for the overall...
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A small team of researchers from Sentient Science and the University of Buffalo are developing wearables especially for soldiers and high stress-related occupations. Stress-related health problems are a norm, and one of the main reasons people have to deal with them is because they don’t have an internal alert to tell them to ease off...
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A big pledge, and a timely one too, assuring Lumia owners Microsoft has their backs for the long haul. The rebranded Lumia Twitter account, with no sign of Nokia’s name or logos anywhere, has dropped a major bombshell just as Google is struggling to spread the Android 5.0 Lollipop love to the entire Nexus family....
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ASRock targets the Fatal1ty Killer series of motherboards at the mainstream gaming market. The X99X edition is their latest effort, supporting Intel’s latest and greatest Haswell-E CPUs. The main power supply is through Nichikon 12K Platinum capacitors. Keeping the motherboard cool is a XXL aluminium alloy heatsink. ASRock also targets internet and audio performance with...
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Apparently sales of Apple’s tablet are going to drop by up to 40 percent in Q1, 2015. Ask people about the best tablet money can buy and its likely that majority of the people will point you towards the iPad. It is true that Apple’s tablet has revolutionized the tablet industry as we know it...
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In other words, the latest software now powers over half of all iOS devices in the world. Even though iOS 8 was shown off earlier this year users around the world had to wait until September just to get their hands on it. That’s because iOS 8 was put through a long beta period in...
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Sony is on track to wrapping up 2014 on a high note, after a satisfactory Xperia Z3 US dispatch, but in keeping with tradition, the Japanese mobile OEM is already looking ahead. Don’t roll your eyes, you knew this was coming. The avalanche of CES 2015 teasers and pre-announcements. Yes, that’s pre-announcements, as in the...
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Lollipop goodie packs are widely rolling out now to certain unlocked versions of the second-gen Moto X and G, as well as the Nexus 5, both N7 models and the Nexus 10. It seems LG fans may have celebrated a little early, and Nexus aficionados got worked up over nothing. While G3 users are still...
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That’s obviously not as impressive as the 115 territories targeted by Apple for the launch of the iPhone 6, but it still beats expectations by a landslide. Gimmicky or innovative? A massive step forward for mobile technology, or just another sample of money unintelligently spent to move smartphones in the wrong direction? There’s a case...
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An abundance of availability and pricing information relating to Google’s Nexus 6 has flooded the interwebs, although low inventory concerns are yet to be assuaged. Both Google and Motorola botched the US release of the no-contract Nexus 6, running out of stock through their online retail channels in a matter of hours. Sales should be...
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Although some media outlets report Moto G’s update is still in soak test phase, Ars Technica claims Lollipop is widely available stateside. LG sure caught us off guard with its timely Android 5.0 upgrade announcement for the G3, but as it turns out, the first-to-Lollipop prize ultimately goes to the second-generation Motorola Moto G. No,...
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The second round of pre-orders will hopefully be as error and glitch-free as possible. After months of a frustrating invite-only purchase system, OnePlus put up its ‘flagship killer’ for pre-order for an hour late last month. However, just like the phone’s launch, the pre-order time frame was a rocky one, leaving many prospective consumers high...
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Unsurprisingly, the dual SIM variant of Samsung’s latest flagship will be exclusive to China at launch. Consumers in China love dual SIM phones, and Samsung has always obliged prospective customers in the country by launching variants of its flagship devices with two SIM slots. With the Galaxy Note 4, things are no different – the...
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[Translated from VR-Zone Chinese] Lucky winner Mr Ping has been selected as the winner of the exclusive AORUS VIP Gamers Tour in USA, which includes a first class round trip by United Airlines, Lamborghini pickup, luxurious suite stay, sumptuous meals, private helicopter tour and more! The best part of the whole trip? All the arrangements...
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The Raspberry Pi Foundation has released an updated A model Pi, and has even slashed the price of the board by a few dollars just for good measure. Improvements to the Model A board, now called the A+, include more general purpose input/output (GPIO), a microSD card slot replacing the prior gen SD slot, and...
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The video reveals just how huge a visual refresh Android 5.0 will bring to the Galaxy S4. Last week, Galaxy S4 owners were treated to a sweet video that showed an early build of Android 5.0 Lollipop running on the device. The video showed how Android 5.0 will bring big changes to the look and...
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Black Friday? More like Black November at Microsoft, with discounts on smartphones, tablets, laptops and consoles spread out all month. In a desperate attempt to steal everyone else’s thunder, Microsoft has inaugurated what it calls its “Black Friday Offers” for 2014. Only none of the deals currently listed on Redmond’s online store kicks off November...
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LG seems to be hard at work putting Android 5.0 Lollipop on its devices. LG is already in the running for becoming the first manufacturer to roll out the Lollipop update to its devices, and it seems the company could also beat the competition when it comes to launching a phone running Android 5.0 out...
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Before Samsung and presumably before Google gets a chance to bring their flagship devices up to date, LG is kicking G3’s Android 5.0 Lollipop rollout into gear. We know Google would never admit to playing favorites when dealing with Android-based hardware-making partners, but it’s pretty obvious the search giant has taken a liking to LG...
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Its the malware that broke through the iPhone’s perfect safety record. iPhone fans have long pointed towards the rampant spread of malware on Android as one of the problems that they do not face on their Apple smartphones. Wirelurker is a new malware that broke through the iPhone’s perfect security record. It became widely reported...
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Cydia creator Saurik says that the new jailbreak is “stable enough” for use on iOS devices. Chinese team Pangu has been providing all the jailbreak related news these days. The usual teams are out of the picture and they haven’t come up with a solution to jailbreak Apple’s latest iOS iteration. Pangu was the first...
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It overtakes arch rival Samsung to clinch the top spot. Evidently Apple’s China strategy has been working quite well. The company is now the top mobile brand in China, which is regarded as one of the fastest growing markets in the world for mobile devices. Apple overtakes Samsung to take the top spot as pointed...
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The issue has been reported in both iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus units. Earlier this week it was widely reported that many iPhone 6 owners were not particularly happy with their units because they happened to be crashing and rebooting at will. This particular report pointed out the issue in 128GB iPhone 6 Plus...
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Microsoft has released another update for the Xbox One, and though there’s nothing extremely flashy about it, it’s always nice to switch things up. Here are some of the new features: The update enables you to set the background for the Xbox One’s homescreen. You can just plug in your thumb drive with the JPG...
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Like it or not, the Fire Phone “franchise” is here to stay. You don’t need an industry pundit or financial expert to explain all the ways Amazon’s inaugural smartphone misfired, but apparently, Jeff Bezos doesn’t know the meaning of the word abandonment. Believe it or not, Amazon isn’t planning to surrender to abysmal critical and...
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If Motorola’s Droid Turbo is the Superman of big-battery smartphones, then Gionee’s Marathon M3 is probably Iron Man. They say everything Western mobile phone manufacturers can pull off, the Chinese can do cheaper. Not necessarily better, but often just as good and much, much cheaper. Take Motorola’s most recent engineering feat, which saw a massive...
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Though the name of the unannounced Motorola phone is listed as “TBD”, we feel fairly confident the entry-level Moto E is due for a rehash of sorts. Just because we’ve been overwhelmed with high-end Motorola smartphones of late, that doesn’t mean Lenovo’s daughter company has forgotten all about the low-end sector. Or that they’ve wrapped...
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The new lineup will reportedly put an end to the obnoxiously long names Samsung devices are infamous for. The Galaxy A3 and Galaxy A5 are an important step in Samsung’s strategy. Both devices show the Korean manufacturer is ready to go with market trends in order to rejuvenate its smartphone lineup, especially at a time...
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HTC is taking every precautionary measure to avoid running out of Nexus 9 stock, while further 50 percent discounts seem unlikely. The phenomenal start to HTC’s weekly “Hot Deals” caught plenty of people off guard, as it included a sizzling hot, brand new Nexus 9 tablet offered at half its list price. We couldn’t help...
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In other words, look out for a Sense-running Nexus 9 sans Google identification. Google bestowed a great honor upon HTC when choosing it as the hardware manufacturer in charge with the development of hands down the coolest, sleekest, beefiest Nexus tablet in history. But the Taiwanese will have to find their own way in the...
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One of the early leaders of the fledgling wearable market, Jawbone, has just stepped up its game, looking to fend off rivals like Fitbit, Misfit and Microsoft with “the world’s most advanced activity tracker” and an uber-cheap health-focused gadget. Smartwatches? Who needs those when you can have “the most advanced activity tracker known to man”?...
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While Samsung is believed to still have one or two tricks up its sleeve for 2014 releases, the Koreans are undoubtedly preoccupied first and foremost with the development of a game-changing next-gen Galaxy S. Not overly dazzled by the half-metal Galaxy Note 4? Drawing a blank when thinking of the Galaxy S5? There’s always a...
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The first official Android 5.0 Lollipop updates for HTC devices will go out to the One M8 and M7 flagship phones by February, according to a tweet from the hardware manufacturer. We’ve been harsh on HTC before in regards to their disappointing software support, which is all the more reason to applaud the Taiwanese for...
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