Thursday, February 5, 2015

IT News Head Lines (VR-Zone) 2/6/2015

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More HTC One M9 photos leak, show the handset in gold this time
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The One M9 leak extravaganza continues.  HTC has never had an easy time keeping upcoming devices a secret, and that trend seems to be continuing with what is probably the company’s most important flagship smartphone in the last few years. The HTC One M9 has once again made it to the internet in the form of...

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Leaked AMD R9 380X 3D Mark scores put it ahead of NVIDIA’s GTX 980
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Chinese website Chiphell has posted early benchmarks of the upcoming AMD Radeon R9 380X recently and the results are pretty impressive to say the least. The Radeon R9 380X managed to outperform the NVIDIA’s GTX 980 graphics card in the 3DMark test with a significant margin. In the Fire Strike Extreme Graphics test, the AMD...

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Xiaomi could announce debut in the US smartphone market on 12th
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Popularly referred to as the ‘Apple of China’, Xiaomi looks all set to foray into the US market this month. Reports about the company entering the US market started surfacing late last year, and now it looks the time has come finally. According to a few industry sources, Xiaomi is going to hold an event...

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Sony Xperia Z4 front frame picture leaks, looks similar to Z3
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With just under four weeks left for Sony’s press conference at the Mobile World Congress, new images of the company’s upcoming Xperia Z4 flagship smartphone have leaked on the interwebs. These new images don’t surprise us in any way whatsoever, as the design appears to be largely unchanged over the current Xperia Z3 flagship. The...

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Minor OnePlus One update pre-installs SwiftKey keyboard app
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This is one of the more useful cases of a company installing unnecessary apps through an update.  SwiftKey is one of the most popular third-party keyboard apps available for Android, and it has been free for everyone for a few months now. However, OnePlus doesn’t seem to want users of its One flagship to go...

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Android 5.1 makes its debut on Android One phones in Indonesia
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Google hasn’t officially acknowledged the point upgrade to Lollipop.  When Google launched the Android One initiative in India in the middle of 2014, the internet giant made it clear that all Android One devices would receive software updates for two years after their launch. While that might have sounded like a great feature for phones that...

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Alleged Samsung Galaxy S6 metal chassis leaks out in pictures
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Samsung seems to be making the Galaxy S6 visually similar to the iPhone 6 Plus. Leaks are flying in from all directions as we approach the official announcement of the Galaxy S6, and the latest one purports to show the metal chassis of Samsung’s next flagship. A batch of photos have been published by Nowhereelse, revealing a...

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iOS 8.2 reportedly coming next month
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Just in time for the Apple Watch. Apple has only seeded iOS 8.2 to developers right now. The beta versions have been available for a while now and so far there has been no indication from the company when its going to release the next major update for its mobile platform. Apple hasn’t even said...

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iPhone shipments expected to top 50 million this quarter
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Apple could be on track for another stellar quarter. Q4 2014 was undoubtedly great for Apple. The company posted a net profit of $18 billion and that’s the most any company in the world has ever posted in a single quarter. iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus helped take the sales of Apple’s smartphones to...

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Verizon keeps trolling its customers, says the Nexus 6 is ‘coming soon’
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Well, not soon enough, obviously. It’s been almost four months since Google took the wraps off the whale-like Nexus 6, roughly three months since the Motorola-made phablet started shipping from the Play Store, and over two months since AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile joined the launch party. All this time, Big G vowed the highest-end Nexus...

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HTC One M9 for Windows (10) probably coming soon, but not at MWC
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Surprised? Don’t be, the One M8 also got a WP-running variation, and Windows 10 isn’t supposed to see daylight until summer anyway. The newly crowned king of mobile leaks, known on the interwebs simply as @upleaks, has recently disclosed a treasure trove of inside information on several future HTC devices. Some of the intel was...

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Coolpad Ivvi K1 Mini is the new thinnest smartphone in the world at 4.7mm
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Chinese smartphone maker Coolpad today announced the Ivvi K1 Mini that is now the thinnest smartphone in the world with a thickness of just 4.7mm. The title of the world’s thinnest smartphone was previously held by the Vivo X5Max which had a 4.8mm thin profile. What will surprise you though, is the fact that the...

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ARM announces next-gen Cortex-A72 architecture for 2016 mobile devices
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ARM, the British chip designer company, today unveiled its latest Cortex-A72 architecture that it expects to power the mobile devices of next year. The suite of IP announced today includes the Cortex-A72 CPU architecture and the Mali-T880 GPU, together with the CoreLink CCI-500 interconnects. The ARM Cortex A-72 is claimed to be the highest performing...

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LG’s upcoming G4 flagship may have been certified by the Wi-Fi alliance
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Recently we learnt that LG plans to announce its 2015 flagship smartphone only by summer and not at the Mobile World Congress as many were expecting. This could be one of the reasons why the G4 hasn’t been the subject of as many leaks as some of the other upcoming flagship smartphones like the Samsung...

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Razer Blade gets updated with GTX 970M & 16GB RAM
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Razer today unveiled the latest version of its Blade gaming laptop with updated internals. The newest model comes with the new NVIDIA GTX 970M graphics card, 16GB of RAM, and a newer processor under the hood. The greatest change is no doubt the new GTX 970M GPU with 3GB VRAM. Last year’s model came with...

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