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IT News Head Lines (VR-Zone) 5/4/2015

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LG G4 ‘Compact’ could arrive sooner than expected
G4
It has only been a few days since LG officially revealed the G4 to the world but rumors of its smaller sibling have started surfacing already. An alleged LG ‘G4C’ smartphone has been listed by a Dutch retailer, fueling speculation that LG could launch the G4 ‘Compact’ smartphone very soon. The Dutch retailer website lists...

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Alleged Apple iPad Pro dimensions leak, cases shown off on video
ipadpro
Big today for Apple iPad Pro leaks. Not only did the alleged specifications of the 12-inch model appear on the web, a new video has also surfaced that shows off various cases designed for it. The alleged dimensions of the iPad Pro tablet come from Onleaks. In the recent past Onleaks has been quite reliable...

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Microsoft Surface 4 announcement tipped for later this month
Surface
A report published on SlashGear claims Microsoft will be announcing the Surface Pro 4 at a dedicated Microsoft event by the middle of this month. While SlashGear isn’t entirely confident about the information, they do believe that it could be accurate since the Surface Pro 3 was announced last year on May 20th. So it...

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ASRock introduces first Mini-ITX motherboard with quad-channel memory
ASRock
ASRock has introduced the world’s first mini-ITX motherboard with LGA2011v3 and a quad-channel memory interface. The motherboard carries the model number EPC612D4I and is a server-grade board. It offers a total of four DDR4 SO-DIMM slots but they aren’t really of much use currently since compatible RAM isn’t yet available. The board uses the Intel...

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Eurocom Shark 4 is a 15-inch ultraportable with NVIDIA GTX 960M
Eurocom
Eurocom has launched a new ultraportable notebook with the recently launched NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M GPU. The Shark 4 is a 15.6” ultraportable notebook with a slim 1.1-inch chassis and powerful internals. Despite being thin and light, the notebook offers pretty impressive specifications and doesn’t compromise on power or practicality at all. Shark 4 is...

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AMD Radeon R9 285 prices drop before R9 300 series launch
AMDr9
If you have been waiting to buy an AMD Radeon R9 285 graphics card, now is probably the time to buy one. Ahead of the R9 300 series cards launch next month, prices of the R9 285 card have begun to fall in Europe and we expect the same to happen in other regions very...

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Windows 10 for PCs on track for release this summer
windows-10-vr-zone
Windows 10 for PCs is on track for this summer, but phones and Xbox will have to wait a while longer for their upgrades. Microsoft VP of operating systems Joe Belfiore said today that his company is committed to bringing Windows 10 to the PCs first, and other platforms will likely have to wait until...

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Gigabyte announces new X99-SLI high-end motherboard
Gigabyte
Gigabyte today added a new high-end motherboard to its product lineup with the X99-SLI LGA2011v3 motherboard. The motherboard features the standard ATX form-factor and is similar to the Gigabyte X99-UD4 motherboard in a few areas. It offers eight DDR DIMM slots, four PCI-Express 3.0 x 16 slots, M.2 slot, SATA Express 10 GB/s port, ten...

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AMD to take on Intel with 8-core FM3 socket ‘Zen’ desktop CPUs next year
AMD
AMD’s 2015-2016 desktop and mobility roadmaps have been leaked on the web, giving us an early sneak peek at what the company has in store for us in 2016. According to the leaked roadmap, AMD is going to come up with high-performance 8-core desktop processors next year, based on the company’s new Zen CPU architecture....

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BenQ’s XR3501 is the curviest gaming monitor yet
BenQ
Looking for a new curved gaming monitor? Then check out BenQ’s latest curved gaming monitor the XR3501. The BenQ XR3501 is the curviest gaming monitor released yet with a 2000R curvature. Along with the higher than usual curvature, the LCD monitor also boasts of an ultra-wide 21:9 aspect ratio, making it a truly impressive gaming...

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Xiaomi Mi5 Plus rumored to be a bezel-less 6-inch beast
xiaomi-mi-5-plus-
Earlier this week, a rumor from China revealed some information about the Xiaomi Mi5. Today, new rumors have surfaced that detail the specifications of the Xiaomi Mi5 as well as the Mi5 Plus. Just like the previous leak, this time as well the information comes through the Chinese social media website Weibo. According to the...

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti could feature GM200-310 GPU & 6GB memory
GeForce
As we reported a few weeks back, NVIDIA is working on a new Maxwell graphics card, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti. Some new info on the card has arrived today via the website Videocardz. The website claims to have heard from a reliable source that the GTX 980 Ti card will come with half the...

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Philips debuts new 32-inch monitor with WQHD resolution
Philips
Philips today announced a new 32-inch monitor – BDM3270QP. The monitor is the latest in line of WQHD monitors from the company. The BDM3270QP features WQHD 2560 x 1440 resolution with a pixel density of 91.8 PPI. That’s essentially the same pixel density as a 24-inch 1080p monitor. Unlike some of the other WQHD monitors...

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Didn’t get your pre-ordered Apple Watch yet? Blame it on this defective part
Apple Watch
Booming demand is reportedly not the only reason Cupertino can’t keep up. While Apple owes its financial prosperity and mainstream tech popularity in large part to this incredible ability of making iDevices seem both exclusivist and accessible to the masses, the selective nature of the “iWatch” could prove to be a double-edged sword. On one...

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Come again? ZTE Nubia Z9 visits China’s FCC with 3.5 GHz octa-core CPU, 8 GB RAM
Nubia Z9 max
This is madness. This is… most likely a typo-filled Tenaa listing. If household names in the mobile industry generally tend to uncover their “standard” flagships first, then follow them up with diminutive and/or jumbo-sized spin-offs, a China-based up-and-comer recently adopted the opposite strategy and took the wraps off the mini and max versions to whet...

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Asus pushes Lollipop updates for first-gen ZenFones to May
Asus ZenFone
Originally scheduled to roll out right about now, the Android 5.0 packages still need “final verification” and approval. While the whole mobile world is waiting for the spectacular ZenFone 2 to spread the 4 GB RAM love to more markets than just China, Taiwan and India, a couple of million of unpretentious smartphone users want...

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First Intel Skylake desktop CPU benchmarks arrive
Intel
The first benchmarks of the 6th Generation Intel Skylake Core i7-6700K have been leaked by Turkish website PC FRM. The Intel Core i7-6700K is expected to be the flagship Skylake desktop processor and will succeed the Intel Core i7-4770K and Core i7-4790K CPUs currently available. It is a quad-core CPU with a total of eight...

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Samsung Galaxy Note 5 allegedly codenamed ‘Project Noble’
Samsung-Galaxy-Note-
As Samsung’s latest flagship smartphones the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge are starting to become available across markets around the globe, rumors about company’s next big release for 2015 have started surfacing already. A report published by SamMobile today reveals some information about the Galaxy Note 5 and a new Galaxy S6 variant that...

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Simple trick helps boost frame-rates on NVIDIA GeForce GPUs
GeForce-GTX
Do you have an NVIDIA GeForce graphics card on your desktop or notebook computer? If yes, you will be able to easily boost frame-rates in games by up to 5% with a trick shared by a Reddit user. To enjoy the easy performance boost, you will need to disable the NVIDIA Streaming windows service. This...

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TAG Heuer Android smartwatch to carry a $1400 price-tag
tag-heuer-
Earlier this year, TAG Heuer had announced that it was working with Google and Intel on an Android smartwatch. While we did expect that the smartwatch would be priced at a premium, a Bloomberg report published today suggests that it could in fact be priced a lot higher than other smartwatches in the market currently,...

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