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NVIDIA has announced the Tegra K1, the company’s latest 192-core processor at the International CES 2014 in Las Vegas just now. Last year NVIDIA showed-off Logan mobile SoC with Kepler GPU, now the next-gen Tegra K1 mobile processor uses the same Keplar GPU. NVIDIA has announced that Epic Games would bring Unreal Engine 4 to Tegra K1. Kepler GPU also supports latest OpenGL 4.4 and Direct X 11.1. Continue reading “NVIDIA unveils Tegra K1 192-core processor, also comes in 64-bit variant”
Snappylabs, a one-man company that is known for the burst photography app called Snappycam, has been acquired by Apple, as per confirmation provided to Re/code. Apple’s A7 processor already enables super fast burst photography at 10 frames per second on the iPhone 5s, but from the looks of the acquisition, Apple might want to push for more with their default camera. The Snappycam app, which was recently pulled from the app store, could take up to 30 or even 60 fps high resolution images, which is pretty outstanding for a third party app. The company, which has now been acquired might pave the way for more camera innovation for the iPhone, at least from the software front.
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HTC posted its first losses last quarter, even after the good performance of its flagship device – the One, and was expected to post huge losses this quarter too. Apparently, the Beats buy back seems to have provided some much needed cash for HTC, which has translated directly into small net profits for the company, after taxes. Today, HTC has posted its unaudited Q4 2013 results, with the numbers coming in at NT$42.89 billion(1.43 billion USD) of revenue with operating losses of NT$ 1.56 billion(52 million USD). However, as mentioned earlier, the company made back some of the money it lost on Beats earlier, with 31 million NT$(10.3 million USD) in net profits. These are currently “unaudited” and are usually published as guidance to shareholders before the real deal that will have the entire data.
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2013 came to an end a few days back and so did our quest to see which two phones would emerge as the favourites in our #Smartfone13 championship for flagships as well as budget devices. Two major polls were run in parallel for about a week with several phones knocked out in the weeks before, to bring the tally to the final four. It was Sony Xperia Z1 vs the Nokia Lumia 1020 for the flagship battle and the Nokia Lumia 520 vs the Gionee Elife E6 for the budget devices battle, with the Lumias ending up as the winners. How? Go past the break to find out!
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LG has registered for new trademarks ahead of CES, as reported by Phandroid. LG is all set to showcase their new TVs and home appliances at the CES 2014 next week. New trademark filings including G Bot and Meta Drive has surfaced, which indicates that LG might unveil some mobile devices or software under these new names. Continue reading “LG G Bot, Meta Drive and more trademark filing surface”
Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 805 processor with Ultra HD support and Adreno 420 GPU back in November last year. The chip supports world’s first mobile 1GPixel/s (Giga-pixel per second) ISP with large increase in ISP and CPP (camera post processor) speed and throughput. This offers sharper, higher resolution photos with advanced post-processing features for low light conditions. Continue reading “Qualcomm to demo Snapdragon 805 camera features, Chroma Flash, Action Shot and OptiZoom at CES”
After several reports, Bitspin has confirmed that Google has indeed acquired the markers of Timely alarm clock app for Android. It also announced that the app is now free forever, including in-app purchases. It would work with Google to build new apps. These companies did not reveal the price of the deal. Continue reading “Google acquires Timely Android Alarm Clock app maker Bitspin”
BlackBerry has updated the BlackBerry Messenger Beta for Android that brings BBM Voice and BBM Channels to the Android app. BBM Voice was released on BBM for BlackBerry devices last year that lets users to call your BBM friends directly from the chat screen. BBM Channels was released for BlackBerry devices that lets you join conversations happening with the BBM community such as brands and communities. It also brings faster and better sharing of photos to and new emoticons. Continue reading “BBM Beta for Android brings BBM Voice and Channels”
Salora International launched their Salora Zapper 3G Data Card that supports speeds up to 7.2 Mbps couple of years back. Now the company has launched Zapper3G-SIL 300B, high- speed 3G USB Dongle that offers downloading speeds of up to 14.4 Mbps. It has 3G dongle provides network / operator flexibility by supporting any operator’s SIM Card and also has micro SD card support with an expandable memory up to 32 GB. Continue reading “Salora Zapper3G 14.4 Mbps USB Dongle launched for Rs. 1599”
Sony would unveil a host of home appliances, gadgets and mobile devices at the International CES next week. Sony China has set a press event in China on January 14th 2014. Even though the press invite doesn’t reveal much details , the colors in the Sony China invite shows Lime, Black, White and Pink, similar to the Sony Xperia Z1 f (SO-02F), the Japanese variant of the Z1 mini that was released for NTT Docomo last year. Continue reading “Sony schedules an event on January 14th in China, Xperia Z1 mini expected”
Every year at CES, we are used to seeing a new version of the Corning Gorilla Glass for protecting our smartphone displays, but this year Corning are introducing new. Corning has announced that the new generation of 3D Shaped Gorilla glass is ready for mass production in 2014.
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Pebble unveiled its first SmatWatch at the CES 2013 last year before it started shipping them to Kickstarter backers. This year Pebble has announced that it would show off Something special, in a blog post titled “Something Special This Way Comes to CES…”
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Just a few minutes back, we covered the Acer DA223 HQL which was a 21inch portable Android AIO and now Acer has announced Acer TA272 HUL which is 27inch portable Android AIO.
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Just ahead of the CES, we see numerous manufacturers announce various products and the latest to announce a portable Android AIO is Acer. The Acer DA223 HQL AIO is a huge 21inch AIO that is powered by Android and comes with a built in battery so that it can be used as a big tablet(Yes. A 21inch tablet).
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Acer has announced Iconia B1-720 and B1-721, upgraded version of last year’s Iconia B1-A71 tablet. It ha a 7-inch capacitive touch screen 10-point multi-touch display based on One Glass Solution technology and is powered by a 1.3 GHz dual-core processor (Probably MediaTek MT6572, similar to the Liquid Z5. It runs on Android Jelly Bean OS, but the version is not available yet. It also comes with a 0.3-megapixel (VGA) front-facing camera for video chats. The Iconia B1-721 has 3G support and the Iconia B1-720 comes with WiFi. Both these have 1GB of RAM, 16GB of internal and an expansion slot. Continue reading “Acer Iconia B1-720 and Iconia B1-721 with 7-inch display, 1.3GHz dual-core processor announced”
