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IT News Head Lines (VR-Zone) 12/08/2015

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Apple iPhone 6c tipped to go official alongside 6s and 6s Plus in September
iphone-5c
It’s unclear whether “c” stands for compact, cheap or colorful (or all of the above), and if the smaller new iPhone will be constructed out of robust aluminum or chintzy plastic.   Without even looking at sales numbers, it was easy to predict the iPhone 5c would fall well behind the popularity of the 5s....

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Long overdue Huawei Watch US launch is ‘right round the corner’
Huawei Watch
It finally looks to be happening, although there’s still no official debut date attached to probably the handsomest Android Wear timepiece in the world. Extravagant but not tacky, robust yet by no means bulky, “timelessly designed” and “smart within”, the Huawei Watch was poised to give LG’s Watch Urbane a healthy run for its money....

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OnePlus 2 North American shipments delayed by 2-3 weeks
OnePlus 2
“Due to production schedules”, the best affordable Android flagship of 2015 needs to prioritize the old continent over the US and Canada. OnePlus may have managed to rack up mind-blowing sales for a smartphone rookie last year, but the company’s reputation suffered greatly from one too many controversial publicity stunts. Not to mention the infuriating...

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Google is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Alphabet
Alphabet logo
The newly created parent company allows Sundar Pichai to take charge of the slimmed down Google, as Larry Page and Sergey Brin will oversee the operations of all products and daughter outfits collected under the Alphabet brand. Once upon a time just a search engine, Google greatly progressed over the years in its mission “to...

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Lenovo launches new Thinkpad workstations with Intel Xeon CPU & 4K display
Thinkpad
Lenovo has launched the world’s first mobile workstations powered by the latest mobile Xeon processors from Intel and NVIDIA Quadro professional graphics. The new Thinkpad P50 comes with the option of a 15.6-inch 4K UHD or a 1080p resolution touchscreen, 6th Gen Intel Xeon E3-1500M CPU, up to 64GB DDR4 2133MHz RAM, NVIDIA Quadro graphics,...

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Alleged internal document points to a Snapdragon 820 powered Samsung Galaxy S7
Galaxy
A few weeks back it was reported that Samsung is testing the Galaxy S7 with both its in-house Exynos and Qualcomm Snapdragon chipsets. An alleged leaked internal Samsung document has now revealed that the Galaxy S7 could be powered by the upcoming Snapdragon 820 SoC. The document has been posted by an industry insider on...

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Samsung’s 256Gb 3D flash memory doubles the storage of SSDs without any increase in size
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Samsung has announced that it has started mass-producing 256-gigabit 3D V-NAND flash memory, paving the way for higher-storage SSDs. The South Korean vendor already introduced a 2TB SSD in the Evo 850 line earlier this year, and the latest innovation will double the amount of storage on SSDs by retaining the same size. Samsung’s new 3D V-NAND flash memory...

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Qualcomm targets continued dominance in the mid-range with the Snapdragon 616
Qualcomm-Snapdragon
  After taking a stance on making better cores and not offering “more cores,” Qualcomm acquiesced last year with the launch of the Snapdragon 615, an octa-core 64-bit SoC designed to take the fight to MediaTek in the mid-range segment. After rolling out updates to its entry-level line, Qualcomm has now introduced the refreshed variant...

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Qualcomm announces Snapdragon 412 and 212 entry-level SoCs
Snapdragon412
Qualcomm today announced the successors to the Snapdragon 410 and Snapdragon 210 processors that it announced in September last year. The new Snapdragon 412 and Snapdragon 212 processors aren’t a major upgrade over their predecessors, but bring a subtle increase in performance along with a new integrated modem. The Snapdragon 412 comes with four Cortex-A53...

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Phase two of Google’s Android One program will target prices as low as $30
Android One
The search giant’s powers that be have already confirmed the “creative” reboot of the emerging market Nexus counterpart project, although a precise timeline is somewhat up in the air. The recent announcement of the surprisingly well-endowed Lava Pixel V1 in India seemed to suggest the Android One roster was headed for a major overhaul. But...

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Leaked renders suggest the iPad mini 4 will be as thin as iPad Air 2
iPadMini4
Popular leakster @onleaks has posted fresh new 3D CAD renderings of the upcoming Apple iPad mini 4, suggesting a razor-thin profile similar to last year’s iPad Air 2. Famed analyst Ming-Chi Kuo had revealed earlier this year that the iPad mini 4 is likely to be very similar to the iPad Air 2 design wise...

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Skylake based Intel Xeon processors coming soon to notebooks
Xeon
Intel has recently announced that it will soon be bringing its server grade Xeon processor line to notebooks. The decision has been taken after seeing the remarkable growth that the mobile workstation category has seen over the last six straight quarters. Mobile workstation segment happens to be the only one where PC manufacturers have seen...

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Made in India, for India: Xiaomi Redmi 2 Prime goes official at $110
Redmi 2 Prime India
As if the world needed further proof the emerging Indian market is held in the greatest regard by up-and-coming Chinese smartphone producers. Amazon already spilled the beans on Friday, so let’s not act surprised the Xiaomi Redmi 2 Prime is available on Indian shores. Assembled locally, though still from components made in China, the upgraded...

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De-lidded Core i7-6700K gives us a look at the Skylake die for the first time
Core i7-6700K de-lid
Intel uncharacteristically left out several details during the launch of its Skylake platform, with the vendor stating that it would offer more information at the Intel Developer Forum later this month. Japanese tech publication PC Watch got its hands on the Core i7-6700K and removed the heatspreader, giving us a first look at the die powering the Skylake CPUs....

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