Wednesday, August 26, 2015

IT News Head Lines (VR-Zone) 27/08/2015

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AMD Radeon R9 Nano specs leaked ahead of unveil
AMD R9 Nano 3
AMD is scheduled to unveil the Radeon R9 Nano later this week, with the card slated targeted at users looking for high performance in a small form factor. Designed to slot into mini-ITX enclosures, the R9 Nano features hardware that outmatches the R9 Fury, according to leaked specs. That’s because the R9 Nano comes with a fully-enabled Fiji...

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Fresh Rumor details LG Nexus 5 (2015) specifications
LGNexus
A post on China’s Weibo micro-blogging website has revealed the alleged specifications of the LG made Nexus 5 (2015). According to the posted info, the smartphone will come with a 5.2-inch 1440 x 2560 Quad HD resolution display with a pixel density of 565ppi. Under the hood, the smartphone will pack the hexa-core Snapdragon 808...

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Nvidia’s GameStream Co-Op will let you stream games to a second PC
Nvidia GameStream
Nvidia has announced a new streaming mode for its GeForce Experience called GameStream Co-Op. The feature will allow you to invite your friend for a co-op gaming session. Similar in functionality to the PlayStation 4’s Share Play, GameStream Co-Op lets another player join the game, with the ability to take control of the gameplay. The feature also enables network co-op...

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Inno3D iChill GeForce GTX 950 graphics card now official
iChill
Inno3D today introduced its custom-design factory-overclocked iChill GeForce GTX 950 graphics card. The card comes with a fancy custom-designed PCB and an effective cooling solution comprising of an aluminum heatsink with a copper core and a pair of 80mm fans. The fans are placed on a detachable metal cover that you can remove quite easily....

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Cortana for Android enters public beta, available in US only for now
Cortana
Microsoft’s first personal digital-assistant Cortana has now entered the public beta stage for Android users. For now, the app will only be available to US residents. Microsoft had first announced in May this year that Cortana will soon be released for the Android and iOS platforms. So far, only the Android version has been released...

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Say hello to the Verizon-bound Moto X Play, aka Droid Maxx 2
Motorola Droid Maxx 2
Even after an important management change, Motorola seems intent to retain and cultivate its very close relationship with America’s most popular wireless service provider. Verizon and Moto surprisingly followed up the Droid Ultra – Maxx – Mini trio of 2013 with a single Turbo model last year, which suggested the US carrier’s exclusivity over otherwise...

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Beware, the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 S Pen easily breaks if inserted backwards
Samsung Galaxy Note 5
2014 was the year of the “Bendgate” scandal for Apple and the iPhone 6 Plus, so might 2015 produce an “S Pen-gate” controversy as far as arch-rival Samsung is concerned? They say the Galaxy Note 5 and S6 Edge+ got off on the right foot at the box-office, at least in Korea, which is a...

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Microsoft Band now available for $150 ($50 off) from Amazon
Microsoft Band
The cross-platform-compatible smart band is cheaper than ever before, in small, medium and large sizes. They say Microsoft will be looking to revamp perhaps their humblest hardware product in October, in addition to rolling out high-end new Lumia phones, a Surface Pro 4 “laplet”, and possibly an Xbox One Mini too. We mean, of course,...

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iPhone 6s will reportedly be thicker than its predecessor
iPhone 6
A break from tradition it seems. Customers always have an expectation from next generation devices that they’ll be thinner than their predecessors, the iPhone has followed the same thinking over the past few year with each new generation being thinner than the last. If a report is to be believed then that might not be...

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Next gen iPhones could be unveiled between September 4-13th
iPhone 6
The event could take place within those dates. September is almost upon us which means that iPhone fans can now get excited to see what Apple has in store for them, sticking with tradition the company is likely going to announce new iPhones in the coming month though so far Apple has not confirmed when...

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Lenovo, HP, Dell and Asus all cook up new laptops with Intel Skylake inside
Lenovo Yoga 900
It’s raining Intel Skylake upgrades of Windows notebooks and convertibles currently powered by Broadwell SoCs, some of which could go on sale as soon as next month. Technically, Lenovo, HP, Dell and Asus are yet to officially launch products based on the Skylake microarchitecture. But a slew of super-advanced 13-inch ultraportable PCs is coming, and...

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FCC listing suggests Amazon’s next Fire tablets could offer microSD expansion
Fire HDX 8.9
An eagle-eyed tech blogger has tracked down a mysterious “tablet PC” with a microSD card slot that Amazon may be testing under a shell company. Yes, ladies and gents, it’s that time of the year again. The time e-commerce giant Amazon tries to breathe new life into the no-longer-very-popular Fire tablet franchise. We all remember...

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Sony teases ‘smartphone with greater focus'; can you say Xperia Z5?
Sony IFA teaser
The IFA teaser image makes it clear (pun intended) that Sony’s next-gen flagship handheld will debut in little more than a week with an extremely well-endowed rear camera in tow. Just because Sony already revealed the date of its IFA Berlin product announcements, also hinting at the classes of devices due for imminent upgrades, it...

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Leak details what’s coming with Core i3 and Pentium Skylake CPUs
Skylake Core i3
Intel is all set to launch Skylake-based Core i3 and Pentium CPUs on September 1, with the processors becoming available the same day in Asia. With less than a week to go, the folks at CPU World have managed to dig up details on two SKUs, the Core i3-6100 and Pentium G4400, giving us an insight into...

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Phanteks’ Enthoo Evolv ITX will be available in two new color options
Enthoo EVOLV ITX 1
Phanteks has announced that its Enthoo Evolv ITX case will be offered in two new color variants: PH-ES215P_WT, which offers white with a black interior, and PHES215P_SRD, a black chassis with a red interior. With dimensions of 230 x 375 x 395 mm, the Evolv series is designed to be minimalistic, with the ability to accommodate video cards up to...

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Asus eyes ZenFone Zoom and Max reintroductions at IFA 2015
ASUS-ZenFone-Zoom
The recently unveiled battery champion should go international in the fall, while the optical zoom-packing photography hero will be back in the spotlight after (too) many months of peace and quiet. The brand dilution syndrome seems to be spreading in the Android landscape, with Asus apparently contaminated by Samsung or HTC. Just like the former...

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128TB SSDs will be here in three years, according to Toshiba
Toshiba 128TB SSD
With Samsung announcing its 16TB SSD earlier this month, Toshiba is stating that new types of NAND memory would allow drives up to 128TB in size to be available as early as 2018. At a recent event, Toshiba divulged details to launch 128TB SSDs by 2018, aiming to match Samsung’s 16TB offering this year. The vendor is looking to achieve...

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AMD Radeon R9 Nano to make its official debut on August 27
AMD R9 Nano 1
It looks like AMD may unveil the Radeon R9 Nano as early as August 27. One of the highlights of the R9 Nano will be its compact size at a length of 150mm, which was achieved in part by utilizing HBM memory. The advantages of using HBM over GDDR5 are twofold: The die size itself is...

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HTC ‘Aero’ to debut as the A9 with a deca-core chip and 2.5D curved glass
HTC
More details on HTC’s upcoming ‘hero’ phone have surfaced finally. According to a new report from China, the HTC ‘Aero’ will be marketed as the HTC A9 when it launches in October. The device will not be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset but the deca-core MediaTek Helio X20 chipset. It will also feature 2.5D...

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Android running BlackBerry Passport Edition stars in a detailed hands-on video
Passport2
After the leaked images recently, a detailed hands-on video of the Android running BlackBerry Passport Silver Edition has now been posted online by the same source. In the video, we get a detailed overview of the Android Lollipop version running on the device. We also see an app from the Play Store get installed on...

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