Tuesday, April 26, 2016

IT News Head Lines (VR-Zone) 27/04/2016

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OnePlus 3 spotted in benchmark listing with 6GB of RAM
OnePlus 3
The upcoming OnePlus 3 has made its way to two more benchmark databases after AnTuTu. According to the OnePlus 3 listing on GeekBench, the smartphone will be powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 chipset and pack a whopping 6GB of RAM. The GFXBench listing on the other hand, suggests the smartphone will only include 4GB...

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AMD rolls out Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.4.2 driver
AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.4.2
AMD today rolled out the latest Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.4.2 driver. The latest release adds new Crossfire profiles for “Elite Dangerous” and “Need for Speed”. In addition to the new profiles, the Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.4.2 release provides full support for Thunderbolt 3 eGFX ecnlosures configured with Radeon R9 Fury, Nano or 300...

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Colorful intros iGame Z170 Ymir-X high-end gaming motherboard
Colorful iGame Z170 Ymir-X
Chinese graphics card and motherboard manufacturer Colorful has introduced a new high-end gaming motherboard based on the Intel Z170 Express chipset, the iGame Z170 Ymir-X. The motherboard comes with 10K black gold solid caps and SANYO tantalum capacitors with a 14-phase power delivery design to ensure stable and reliable power delivery. For high-speed data storage,...

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Crucial MX300 750GB SSD to be priced at $208
Crucial MX300
Micron’s MX300 750GB SSD with IMFT 3D technology will be priced at $207.99 according to a listing on Amazon. The Crucial MX300 fuses the latest 3D NAND flash technology with the proven success of the previous MX-series SSDs from the manufacturer. In terms of performance, the drives is claimed to hit 530 MB/s sequential read...

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GIGABYTE showcases three of its upcoming X99 motherboards
GIGABYTE X99
GIGABYTE showcased three of its upcoming X99 boards at its PAX East booth recently. All the three motherboards are expected to launch around the same time as the Intel Core i7 “Broadwell-E” processor lineup. The motherboard lineup includes the X99-Designare EX, X99 Phoenix SLI G1, and the X99 Ultra Gaming. All of the above boards...

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AMD Radeon Pro Duo benchmarks leak ahead of launch
duo pro
AMD Radeon Pro Duo is slated to make its debut later this week, and ahead of the official launch, Chinese site Expreview posted its full review of AMD’s offering. Slated to feature dual GPUs, the card is twice as fast as the Fury X at 1080p and 60% faster at 4K resolutions. Several recently announced titles such as The...

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Microsoft Surface Phone could be powered by the Snapdragon 830 chipset
Microsoft
Microsoft’s upcoming Surface Phone could be powered by the Snapdragon 830 chipset from Qualcomm. Microsoft recently updated its “Minimum hardware requirements” page for the Windows 10 platform, adding support for the MSM8998 chipset, which is the codename for Qualcomm’s next-generation Snapdragon 830 SoC. The chipset is also rumored to support up to 8GB of memory,...

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Remedy is fixing Quantum Break issues on Windows 10
Quantim Break
Remedy’s Quantum Break is a fantastic game on the Xbox One, but the PC port has been riddled with issues since it made its debut earlier this month. Remedy is now looking to fix several issues with a patch that will roll out to the Windows 10 version of the game. The studio has signed...

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DriveClub VR outed by ESRB, may turn out to be a launch title for PlayStation VR
DriveClub1
DriveClub VR has been officially rated by the ESRB, suggesting we’ll see a VR-based edition of the game in time for the launch of the PlayStation VR. A virtual reality version of the racing simulator was demoed last year, although nothing materialized. That may all change now that we’ve got a launch date for PlayStation VR. Although...

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Samsung Galaxy C7 specs surface online yet again
galaxy-c7-gfxbench
It seems we are getting extremely close to a launch of the Galaxy C5 and Galaxy C7, devices in Samsung’s new Galaxy C lineup of Android smartphones. The Galaxy C5 has been detailed in numerous leaks, and the Galaxy C7 also had its specs revealed through an online benchmark. The latter has made yet another...

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AMD’s moving out of its iconic Sunnyvale headquarters
AMD Sunnyvale
AMD is moving out of its Sunnyvale headquarters, with the vendor looking to lease a smaller office in Silicon Valley. AMD sold the building and leased it back from New York-based W.P. Carey in 1995 for $95 million, with the lease extending to December 2018. AMD’s 319,000 square feet headquarters is spread across a 32.5 acre site, and the...

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Sirin Labs aims to launch a $20,000 Android smartphone for executives next month
Sirin Labs
British-Israeli start-up Sirin Labs is planning to launch a “groundbreaking” new smartphone next month with a price close to $20,000. The device would primarily be aimed at executives and is claimed to incorporate technology that is not commercially available currently with military-grade security. In fact, the company’s co-founder says the technology used in the phone...

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Huawei Honor V8 to sport a 5.7-inch display & 12MP dual rear cameras
Huawei Honor V8-a
The upcoming Honor V8 has been certified by TENAA in China, revealing its key specifications such as the display size and the camera setup. According to the TENAA listing, the Honor V8 will feature a 5.7-inch 1080p display, with a 2.3GHz octa-core chipset powering the smartphone. Like the Huawei P9 and P9 Plus, the Honor...

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Samsung will start 10nm LPP production later this year
Samsung 10nm
Samsung is currently well underway into its 14nm LPP (Low Power Plus) manufacturing process, which is used in this year’s Exynos 8890 as well as Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820. The South Korean vendor is now looking ahead to the 10nm node, with plans to commence production on the 10nm LPP from later this year: Samsung is already using the 10nm...

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iPhone 7 won’t be a major upgrade over the 6s, says Ming-Chi Kuo
iPhone 6s
KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo warned in a recent research note that the upcoming iPhone 7 from Apple may not be a major upgrade as it apparently lacks any “attractive updates”. The analyst suggests the iPhone 7 will not be very different from the iPhone 6s visually and may not bring any new “game-changing” feature...

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Lenovo Vibe K5 arrives in Europe with a €199 price tag
Lenovo Vibe K5
Lenovo’s Vibe K5 has finally made its way to Europe, almost two months after it was officially unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona earlier this year. The smartphone is now available for pre-order in Greece for €199. It is possible that Lenovo could expand the availability of the smartphone to other markets in...

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ZTE announces the Blade L5 Plus with a 5-inch display & 8MP rear camera
ZTE Blade L5 Plus
ZTE today launched a new entry-level Android smartphone dubbed the Blade L5 Plus. The smartphone comes with a 5-inch 720 x 1280 HD display and runs on a MediaTek MT6580 chipset with 1GB of RAM. Like most other entry-level Android smartphones, the Blade L5 Plus includes 8GB of expandable onboard memory. At the back, there...

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HTC Desire 830 spy shot and specs leak online
HTC Desire 830
An alleged live shot and rumored specs of the HTC Desire 830 have leaked online courtesy of the website NoWhereElse. The upcoming mid-range smartphone will reportedly feature a 5.5-inch display with 1080 x 1920 Full HD resolution and could be powered by the MediaTek MT6753 octa-core chipset clocked at 1.3 GHz. In terms of memory,...

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Meizu m3 announced with a 5-inch display, $92 price tag
Meizu-m31
The Meizu m3 has gone official today, after a couple of leaks that gave us early information on the handset. The m3 features a 5-inch HD display and is powered by the YunOS, an Android fork with Meizu’s FlyMe UX on top. Almost refreshingly, there’s no metal body on the m3, though that reflects on...

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