Thursday, July 9, 2015

IT News Head Lines (VR-Zone) 7/10/2015

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Apple stages 90M initial production run for iPhone 6s/6s Plus, report claims
iPhone 6s concept
The Wall Street Journal mostly upholds speculation of a recent mass-manufacturing outset, with September eyed as a commercial ETA and record-setting sales on deck by the year’s end. More than a meaningless slogan, “the sky is the limit” has essentially become Cupertino’s game plan heading into new additions to the iPhone roster. It used to...

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Another fire sale on Amazon’s Fire Phone, but is $159 a low enough price?
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GSM unlocked, 4G LTE “optimized” and endowed with 32 GB internal storage, the 4.7-inch handheld also provides free one-year access to Amazon Prime, yet it doesn’t feel like a steal. As we wait for the “second step” in an e-retailer’s so far disastrous path to mobile hardware success, Jeff Bezos & co. show increasing desperation...

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Samsung flip phone powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 SoC spotted on TENAA
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Flip phones may not be all the popular outside Japan anymore, but Samsung isn’t giving up on the form factor just yet. An upcoming Galaxy clamshell Android smartphone was recently spotted at China’s TENAA with the model number SM-G9198. Going by the model number, the smartphone will be a direct successor to the SM-G9098 that...

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Samsung Galaxy Tab S 2 and Tab E international prices revealed
Samsung Galaxy Tab S
There’s still no word on the next-gen Super AMOLED duo timetable, while the entry-level 9.6 incher has recently been unveiled and is expected in emerging markets later this month. It’s truly mystifying why Samsung insists on keeping the Galaxy Tab S 2 8.0 and Tab S 2 9.7 a “secret” after FCC visits, revealing photo...

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Sony’s Quad HD Xperia Z4v for Verizon to go on sale on August 13th
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Sony’s first Xperia smartphone with a Quad HD display, the Xperia Z4v is all set to go on sale next month. The smartphone was announced last month as an exclusive to Verizon Wireless in the US. Back then neither Sony nor Verizon had revealed any details about the availability and price. Today, the carrier has...

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Thanks to Apple Music, iOS 8.4 reaches 40 percent adoption already
Apple Music
Cupertino’s mobile operating system is traditionally immune to fragmentation pickles, especially when offering new, hyped-up services with three months of free music streaming. Technically, the 8.4 iteration of iOS isn’t a big deal. As the version number suggests, it merely introduces minor stability enhancements and bug fixes compared to 8.3, issued to the public back...

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Slim, strong, and fast Lumia flagship tipped for Autumn debut
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Further confirmation on the upcoming Lumia flagships has arrived today courtesy of leakster Ricciolo. The Twitter leakster tweeted earlier today ‘Slim, Strong (GG4) and FAST like no others…WTH is THAT? W10 fans, ready for a hot autumn?’ The tweet doesn’t really tell us anything new except that Microsoft will be using Gorilla Glass 4 on...

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‘All-in-one’ Samsung Galaxy Note 5 SoC uncovered, alongside full S6 Edge Plus specs
Galaxy Note 4
Both high-end smartphones should sport Quad HD 5.7-inch Super AMOLED screens, with a spanking new Exynos chip inside the Note 5, and a Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 jazzing up the S6 Edge Plus. Ready or not, that oft-rumored, derivative jumbo-sized version of the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge creeps up. Shortly after its commercial debut, an even...

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EK Radeon R9 Fury X Water Blocks unveiled
EK
EK Water Blocks has come up with a new single-slot liquid cooling solution for AMD’s new flagship single GPU card the Radeon R9 Fury X. The EK-FC R9 Fury X directly cools the GPU, HBM, and the VRM, with the water flowing over all these important parts of the card. EK claims this design helps...

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HTC One E9 launching in Taiwan next month with a 5.5-inch 720p display
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There seems to be no end to the number of phones HTC is launching in its One series. What do you do when your latest flagship smartphone fails to excite consumers, and so do all of the variants of that particular flagship? In HTC’s case, you apparently come out with yet another variant, this time...

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Samsung Galaxy A8 pictures leak again, pricing and launch date revealed
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The Galaxy A8 could have the smallest screen bezel for a Samsung smartphone. The Galaxy A8 is shaping up to be a very interesting handset, with a mix of hardware specifications from devices like the Galaxy Note 4 and the Galaxy S6 that could make it as good as a flagship smartphone without actually being positioned...

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Speedy internal storage makes Galaxy Note 5 microSD support unlikely
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Also, the wasp waist and overall premium construction that’s widely expected to restrict access to the phablet’s battery as well. The spectacular, near-flawless Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge have again confirmed perfection can’t be achieved. And no matter how hard you try to please the mobile consumer masses with design innovations and ultra-high-end internals,...

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