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IT News Head Lines (VR-Zone) 12/8/2014

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HTC Hima Ultra, Butterfly 3 and T1H Tablet could be launching alongside Hima next year
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After leaking details on the HTC Hima flagship smartphone for 2015, upleaks is back with more details on HTC’s 2015 plans. The proven leaker has now shared that HTC will also be launching an Ultra variant of the Hima, the Butterfly 3 and also a tablet based on the Google Nexus 9. Apart from these,...

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Apple’s iPhone 6 Plus Leads US Phablet Sales With 41% Market Share
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Apple’s first foray into the phablet market seems to have certainly caught the attention of most American buyers in the past few weeks. According to data collected by market research and consultancy firm Kantar, the Apple iPhone 6 Plus managed to capture 41% of the total US phablet sales for the three months ending in...

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Classy, stylish, artistic, hilarious: these Moto 360 ads are all that, and more
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A leading-edge contraption such as Motorola’s Moto 360 smartwatch deserved all the best in advertising buildup, and that’s exactly what it received. The major players in tech often take themselves way too seriously. Luxury conventional watch makers are even worse, painting their products this extreme picture of innovators in ostentatious commercials starring… words. Big words....

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Purported benchmark lists Samsung Galaxy S6 as 64-bit behemoth with 3 GB RAM
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The specs on the whole look decent for early 2015 high-end Android standards, just perhaps not as awe-inspiring as one would have expected. And we’re off. The 2015 mobile numbers race has already begun, even though 2014 is yet to wrap up. Sony is on the right track towards advancing the first candidacy for the...

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Apple planning on launching a 4-inch iPhone model next year
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Looks like Apple still cares for all the loyal iPhone fans out there that aren’t too happy with the bumped up screen sizes on the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus models. A new report from Taiwan’s Electronic Times claims that Apple is looking at launching a new iPhone model with a 4-inch display...

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ASUS ROG Gladius Gaming Mouse Review
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Before we introduce the Gladius, let’s take at look at some of ASUS’ other competitive gaming mice. At the entry level, we have the GX900 with its unique grip. Do not be surprised if the gaming experience is less than stellar, since beneath the package lies a rather ordinary, run-of-the-mill design. The GX950 is where...

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Specs of HTC’s next flagship smartphone rumored
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The next HTC flagship is reportedly codenamed Hima and will feature top-notch hardware. As we approach the end of 2014, rumors of upcoming Android flagships are expected to come out in higher and higher numbers. Today, specs HTC’s next flagship, codenamed Hima, have been leaked by @upleaks. The phone is expected to be the successor to the HTC...

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Samsung starts updating the Galaxy S5 to Android 5.0 Lollipop
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The Galaxy S5 is the first Samsung device to be updated to the latest version of Android. Android 5.0 has seen the fastest uptake in the history of the OS, with many manufacturers having promised their users the update within a very short time of its official release by Google. Samsung, the largest Android manufacturer...

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GeForce GTX 965M and 960M revealed in latest NVIDIA drivers
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The next 900M series GPUs in NVIDIA’s notebook line-up have been spotted in yet unreleased GeForce 344.77 drivers. The upcoming GPU’s are labeled GTX 965M and N16P-GX respectively, with the latter likely to be 960M. The 965M (13D9) follows under the same Device ID family as GTX 980M and GTX 970M (13DX). This suggests the...

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Android 5.0.1 update hits the Nexus 9, Nexus 7 (2013) and Nexus 10
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The update is a minor one that should fix important bugs in Android 5.0 Lollipop. Many Nexus users are probably still waiting for Android 5.0 Lollipop to hit their devices, but that hasn’t stopped Google from starting to roll out the Android 5.0.1 update. Source code for Android 5.0.1 is currently rolling out to AOSP...

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Rumor: Nexus 6-like Motorola Droid phablet on the way with 4 GB RAM
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If Motorola’s Droid Turbo feels a little small, and you still can’t find the Nexus 6, you may want to wait until halfway through 2015 for the biggest, baddest Droid to date. It looks like Sony’s Xperia Z4 and Samsung’s potentially groundbreaking Galaxy S6 aren’t the only 4 GB RAM Android monsters prepped for early...

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Huawei rules out Windows Phone comeback, says ‘nobody made any money’ with the OS
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Invoking the shaky financials of competitors is probably not the smartest way to reject ongoing spying suspicions. Say what you will about Huawei, but you can’t really describe the China-based smartphone manufacturer as predictable and keep a straight face. Of course, too many strategy shifts often lead to the opposite, namely a certain sense of...

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OnePlus Two confirmed for ‘Q2 or Q3′ 2015 unveil, details remain sketchy
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The fledgling China-based smartphone manufacturer isn’t looking to “settle”, even though the OnePlus One’s release was a fiasco in more than one way. A controversial, convoluted and restrictive invite reservation system. Questionable, risqué and outright misogynistic publicity stunts. Build quality issues. An innate inability to ramp up production on par with demand. They all hurt...

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GIGABYTE announces 3-way SLI GTX 980 water-cooled Kit
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GIGABYTE has introduced a product with a singular purpose of being the fastest gaming GPU system. The GTX 980 G1 Gaming WATERFORCE 3-Way SLI Kit combines three highly overclocked GTX 980 GPUs cooled parallely by a dedicated water cooling unit. The 3 GPUs take up 2 slots each and come with their own radiators and...

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ASUS Crossblade Ranger FM2+ A88X Review
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ASUS is looking for redemption on the AMD FM2+ platform. Does it bring the spotlight back onto AMD APU platforms? Let’s find out. (Pictures used from ASUS with permission) It may seem like a real shame that there hasn’t been a ROG-themed motherboard, but ASUS didn’t think they were in need of a ROG motherboard. The...

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IDC: Android handsets profitability hit dead end by 2018
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The American market research and analysis firm IDC has just posted its latest smartphone market forecast for the 2014-2018 period. One of the main highlights of the report is the forecasted great jump in market share for the Windows Phone platform and decline for Android and iOS platforms. So far, Windows Phone hasn’t been doing...

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Sinclair’s Spectrum ZX gets revived, pre-loaded with 1,000 retro games
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Back in the 1980’s Sir Clive Sinclair helped created some of the most affordable computers around, and one of his most beloved project is being retrofitted for the new digital age. The Sinclair Spectrum ZX, think of it as the UK’s response to the Commodore  64, is getting a reboot and people looking for a...

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KitKat captures 34 percent Android market share in November
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Lollipop, the latest version of the OS, runs on less than 0.1 percent of all Android devices. Google’s Android distribution numbers come out at the start of every month, and the numbers for November have revealed that Android 4.4 KitKat is now running on 33.9 percent of all devices powered by Google’s mobile OS. That’s...

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Microsoft Lumia 1030 comes with a monstrous 50MP camera
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It hasn’t been very long since Microsoft decided to drop the Nokia branding on its Lumia devices and so far the only device that has been announced with the Microsoft branding has been the Lumia 535 that was unveiled last month. However, we could see the first Microsoft Lumia flagship device get unveiled soon, if...

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Intel may power the next version of Google Glass
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Google’s next iteration of Project Glass will purportedly run on Intel’s mobile offering. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the folks tinkering in Google’s lab will double up the amount of ram in its Glass gadget.  However, that’s not the only bit of interesting news about Google’s take on augmented reality.  Purportedly, Google is...

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