Acer has officially presented its latest tablet - the Iconia A1. The new device is budget-oriented and comes with a 7.9-inch IPS display at 1024 x 768 pixels, integrated in a slim 11.2 mm chassis. Weighing just 400 grams the Iconia A1 tablet sports a powerful MediaTek MT8125 SoC with four Cortex-A9 processing cores at 1.2 GHz. The tablet also offers 1 GB of RAM, 8 GB or 16 GB...
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TDK announces SDG4A solid-state drives
10 May 2013 | SSD
The Japanese corporation TDK has announced a new line of 2.5-inch form factor SSDs – the SDG4A. The new SSD line is suitable for industrial applications and provides ultimate reliability in extreme conditions. The new SSD line will shortly be available in three capacities – of 64 GB, 128 GB and 256 GB but a more spacious 512 GB model will follow a bit later. A peculiarity...
AMD may be working on ultra high-end SoC
10 May 2013 | PC
A web site based in China has released an unknown block diagram that shows an extremely powerful upcoming system-on-a-chip (SoC) by AMD with many processing cores, a powerful graphics engine and plenty of memory bandwidth. The information is completely unofficial but if true AMD may have a very powerful product on th...
Possible Radeon HD 9970 specs leaked, ready for late 2013?
9 May 2013 | PC
AMD seems to have leaked some revolutionary information regarding its future GPU plans. Apparently the chip maker has detailed the first preliminary specs of the upcoming high-end Volcanic Islands family flagship – namely the Radeon HD 9970. Furthermore the roadmap states the chip will be ready by the end of 2013. If the information is correct Volcanic Islands will be bui...
Acer prepares Aspire V5 and V7 notebooks
9 May 2013 | Notebooks
Acer has been quietly working on two new Aspire V5 and Aspire V7 notebook lines with both of them expected by the end of the month. The new Aspire V5 series will include three models with 11.6-inch (1366 x 768 pixels), 14-inch and 15.6-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) displays. Certain Aspire V5 models will come with sensor displays too or LED keyboards. As to processors users can c...
AMD starts sales of Radeon RG2133 Gamer memory for gaming PCs
9 May 2013 | PC, PC gaming
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has started selling its latest line of Radeon memory – the Radeon RG2133 Gamer memory line. The new memory complements the already released RE1600 and RP1866 memory lines. Made by Dataram the Radeon RG2133 memory runs at 2133 MHz at 10-11-11-30 latencies. Gamers can purchase the new memory in a kit with total capacity of 16 GB (4 x 4 GB) for USD...
Nokia unveils Asha 501 smartphone
9 May 2013 | Smartphones
The Finnish Nokia has unveiled the Asha 501 smartphone, which is the first company smartphone with the Asha operating system. The Asha 501 is a budget smartphone and maybe this is the reason it was officially demonstrated in India – an emerging smartphone market. The Asha 501 measures 99.2 x 58 x 12.1 mm and weighs just 98 grams but this does not prevent it from having a 3-...
Silicon Power unleashes new generation Xpower DDR3 memory
9 May 2013 | PC
Silicon Power, one of the world's makers of storage technologies has officially presented the next generation of the company's Xpower memory line – the Xpower Overclocking DDR3 memory line. The new DDR3 memory arrives in special metallic heat sinks that provide improved heat dissipation, a larger heat dissipation area as well as higher stability in overclocked conditions. D...
Appeak Poker for Android
9 May 2013 |
If you are an Android user and wanted to play online poker in the past, your options were fairly limited to "social media" apps that were more flash than realistic poker. That has changed with the Appeak Poker app. The app puts more focus on poker and less on the unnecessary extras. For starters, you will notice a much more simplistic look to the interface for Appeak Poker than you will f...
Sony ready to release Vaio Fit 14 and Vaio Fit 15 business notebooks
8 May 2013 | Notebooks
Sony has finished working on two new business-oriented notebooks that will soon arrive on the market under the tradenames of Vaio Fit 14 and Vaio Fit 15. As the product names suggest the Vaio Fit 14 will offer a 14-inch display at 1600 x 900 pixel resolution while the Vaio Fit 15 will have a 15-inch display at 1920 x 1080 pixel resolution. Sony will also offer two more option...
MSI announces GX70 3BE gaming laptop
8 May 2013 | Notebooks, PC gaming
MSI has officially announced the latest in its gaming line of products – the GX70 3BE gaming laptop. The new device is based on a quad-core AMD A10-5750M APU at 2.5 GHz (3.5 GHz in Turbo Mode) and integrated Radeon HD 8970M graphics with 2 GB of VRAM. The MSI GX70 3BE measures 428 x 288 x 28.8-55 mm and weighs 3.9 kilograms. These dimensions include a 17.3-inch display at F...
