NOKIA ASHA 501: Phone with 3-inch touchscreen

The range of mobile phones, Nokia Asha 501 model replenished, equipped with a touch screen.

Nokia Asha 501 phone
Nokia Asha 501 phone


New product designed for use in mobile networks GSM 900/1800 MHz. Power supply provides battery capacity of 1200 mA • h Claimed battery life on one charge is up to 17 hours of voice data.

The size of the touchscreen - 3 inches, its resolution is 240 × 320 pixels (the format QVGA). The equipment includes wireless adapters Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11b / g) and Bluetooth 3.0, camera with 3.2 megapixels and FM-tuner. Telephone weighs 98 grams and its dimensions - 99,2 × 58 × 12,1 mm.

ACCELERATOR HIS RADEON HD 7850 ICEQ X2 TURBO

Company Hightech Information System (HIS) today announced a series of graphics cards Radeon HD 7850 of their own design.

Graphics Card HIS Radeon HD 7850 IceQ X2 Turbo
Graphics Card HIS Radeon HD 7850 IceQ X2 Turbo

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The HD 7850 IceQ X2 and HD 7850 IceQ X2 Turbo equipped with an improved cooling system. It consists of two 75-mm fans and copper heat pipes.

Accelerators have 1024 stream processors and 64 texture units. It supports DirectX 11 application programming interface, PCI Express 3.0, and a number of proprietary technologies AMD, including Eyefinity, as well as systems PowerTune and ZeroCore Power, which is responsible for optimizing the performance and power consumption.

Core clock chip the HD 7850 IceQ X2 corresponds to the standard value of 860 MHz RAM - 1200 MHz. Version HD 7850 IceQ X2 Turbo has a factory overclock: core clock chip increased to 1000 MHz.

Both new products are endowed with 2 GB of memory GDDR5.

Equip the ZOTAC ZBOX mini-computer PROCESSOR INTEL CORE I5

Zotac starts selling small form factor desktop computer Zbox third generation performed on a hardware platform Intel Ivy Bridge.

Nettop Zotac Zbox
Nettop Zotac Zbox
In the top version nettop is endowed with 2-core Core i5-3470T processor with a frequency of 2.9 GHz (increases of up to 3.6 GHz). The RAM is 4 GB (expandable to 16 GB), the capacity of the hard drive with a spindle speed of 5400 rev / min - 500 GB.

The equipment includes power controllers ZBox Gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi (802.11n) and Bluetooth 4.0, card reader, "4 in 1", two USB 3.0 ports and USB 2.0, and also HDMI and DVI monitor connection.

The manufacturer guarantees the compatibility nettop with Windows 7 and Windows 8.

Price of the device is not specified.

CUBE U35GT: Tablet with 7.9-inch display

The Cube U35GT tablet running the operating system Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.


CUBE U35GT
CUBE U35GT: Tablet with 7.9-inch display
The computer uses a 4-core Rockchip RK3188 processor with a speed of 1.8 GHz. The RAM is 2 GB capacity flash module - 16 GB.

Touchscreen, on a matrix of IPS, has a diagonal of 7.9 inches with the resolution - 1024 × 768 pixels (the same, by the way, the features on the screen iPad Mini). Claimed viewing angle up to 175 degrees.

The device carries a camera with 2 - and 0.3-megapixel sensor, and wireless adapter Wi-Fi with support for 802.11b/g/n.

HDMI provides an interface for output to an external monitor or TV, a slot for MicroSD, USB port and 3.5mm headphone jack. Claimed battery life on one charge the battery up to 6 hours.

Tablet can be purchased at an estimated price of $ 190.

BENQ CT2200 SMART DISPLAY: SCREEN ANDROID OPERATING SYSTEM

BenQ has developed a "smart" CT2200 Smart Display screen with a diagonal of 21.5 inches, which supports touch control.

CT2200 Smart Display screen
CT2200 Smart Display screen


In fact, this one-piece computer. It is based on a dual-core processor architecture ARM Cortex-A9, functioning at a frequency of 1.0 GHz. The amount of RAM is 1 GB built-in flash capacity module - 8 GB.

The equipment also includes a network Ethernet-controller, wireless adapter Wi-Fi, camera with 1.2-megapixel sensor, MicroSD card slot, and stereo speakers. There is a MicroUSB port and USB, and HDMI digital interface and a 3.5-millimeter headphone jack.

The monitor is installed in operating system Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich. The model CT2200 Smart Display weighs about 5 kg, its dimensions - 508 × 360 × 65 mm.

Specifications Nokia Lumia 928 Smartphone


Nokia announced another smartphone lineup of Lumia - the device has index 928 runs on Windows Phone 8 and is the first device in the line, having a camera with a proprietary technology PureView (8,7-megapixel sensor and lens Carl Zeiss f/2.0).

Nokia Lumia 928 Smartphone
Nokia Lumia 928 Smartphone

Smartphone Lumia 928 uses a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor and is equipped with a 4.5-inch OLED-display with a resolution of 1280x768 pixels. The amount of internal flash memory of 32 GB and the battery - 2000 mA / h.

The first users of Nokia Lumia 928 will be the subscribers of Verizon Wireless. The price of device is still not revealed.

The official announcement of Sony Xperia ZR

Sony Corporation of Japan has announced a new Android-smartphone Sony Xperia ZR, featuring dust and water free in accordance with the standards of IP55 and IP58. The smartphone can withstand diving to a depth of 1.5 m for 30 minutes.

Sony Xperia ZR
Sony Xperia ZR

Sony Xperia ZR has a 4.6-inch HD Reality Display, resolution is 1280x720 pixels. It is equipped with 1.5-GHz processor Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro, 2GB of RAM and 8 GB of internal flash memory, and a slot for microSD cards up to 64GB.

The smartphone supports NFC technology and 4G LTE, has a battery capacity of 2300 mA / h, its thickness is 10 mm, and weight - 140 grams

About the price of new item, it is still unknown but it will appear on the market probably in the 3rd quarter of this year.

The prototype e-Ink-tablet from Sony

Along with the announcement of the smartphone Sony Xperia ZR the company also unveiled a prototype 13.3-inch tablet equipped with a screen e-Ink, which is controlled with a special stylus.
prototype e-Ink-tablet from Sony
Prototype e-Ink-tablet from Sony

Sony is positioning this gadget as a substitute for lecture notes and textbooks for students. 13.3-inch screen of the device corresponds to a standard sheet of A4 size and has a resolution 1200h4600 pixels.

Device has 4 GB of internal flash memory and a slot for microSD.

The touch screen works on the basis of electromagnetic induction and works with complete stylus. The thickness of the gadget is just 6.8 mm and weighs 385 g device supports wireless technology Wi-Fi.

The device will be "field" tests in three Japanese universities, so that the characteristics of the final version may change.

SOFTBANK 204SH: SMARTPHONE FOR SENIORS

May 10 will start selling SoftBank 204SH smartphone platform Android 4.0, developed by Sharp.

SoftBank 204SH
SoftBank 204SH


New product created specifically for the elderly, and people with various disabilities, including visual impairment and hand movements. The device has a specially adapted interface with controls increased size. Provides tactile feedback and support voice commands. The charger is designed as a stand.

The smartphone is built on a 1.4-GHz processor Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8255 single-core. The touch screen has a diagonal of 4 inches, its resolution - 480 × 800 pixels. RAM and a built-in flash memory - 1 GB and 4, respectively.

The device has a 4.9-megapixel main camera, front camera with 0.3-megapixel, wireless adapters Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, an infrared port and a MicroSD-card slot.

SoftBank 204SH model is made in the dust and water tight case. Dimensions are 128 × 64 × 12 mm, weight - 130 g Supported mobile networks W-CDMA.

LAPTOP MOUSE LUVBOOK D EQUIPPED 17.3-inch screen

Mouse Computer began selling laptop LuvBook D (model LB-D720X2-SH) under the operating system Windows 8.

Laptop Mouse LuvBook D
Laptop Mouse LuvBook D 


The basic configuration includes a 4-core processor Intel Core i7-3630QM 2.4 GHz (increased to 3.4 GHz), 16 GB of RAM and a hybrid storage subsystem consisting of a hard disk of 500 GB and a solid-state unit with a capacity of 120 GB . There are wireless adapters Bluetooth 4.0 and Wi-Fi (802.11b/g/n), card reader and a 2-megapixel webcam.

A screen with a diagonal of 17.3 inches has a resolution of 1920 × 1080 pixels, responsible for processing graphics accelerator discrete GeForce GT650M with 1GB of memory. To work with optical media drive provides Blu-ray.

The laptop is equipped with interfaces HDMI, D-Sub, two USB 3.0 ports and one - USB 2.0. Dimensions are 413 × 277,5 × 41,5 mm, weight - 3.2 kg. Claimed battery life on one charge - 3 hours.

The notebook is offered at an estimated price of 1,000 dollars.

MICROMAX will release: The mini-A120 Canvas HD Pro.

The company Micromax, according to network sources, is preparing a hybrid smartphone and tablet mini-A120 Canvas HD Pro.

mini-A120 Canvas HD Pro
mini-A120 Canvas HD Pro


It is reported that the gadget will get a 5.5-inch touchscreen display with 1080 × 1920 pixels (Full HD).

New product must compete with devices such as the Samsung Galaxy Note II and LG Optimus G Pro.

The hardware A120 Canvas HD Pro will serve as a 4-core processor architecture ARM Cortex A7 and graphics accelerator PowerVR Series 5XT. The RAM is 2 GB of internal flash memory.

Said chamber with a 13-megapixel sensor and dual LED flash, a front facing 3.2 megapixel camera module, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, FM-tuner, a slot MicroSD (up to 64GB) and a battery capacity of 3000 mAh

The operating system selected is Android 4.2.1 Jelly Bean. The announcement A120 Canvas HD Pro is expected on June 30, the estimated price - $ 380.

SEAGATE announces new solid-state drive

Seagate introduced the drives based on flash memory Seagate 600 SSD, Seagate 600 Pro SSD and Seagate 1200 SSD, as well as Seagate X8 Accelerator.

Solid State Drive Seagate
Solid State Drive Seagate

Seagate 600 SSD - the first drive of the manufacturer, designed for client systems. To connect to the computer they use interface Serial ATA 3.0; capacity - 120, 240 or 480 GB. Discs made in the form factor of 2.5 inches, will be offered in versions with a thick body of 5 and 7 mm. The model 600 Seagate SSD is designed for ultrabooks and laptops.

Drives Seagate 600 Pro SSD designed for enterprise equipment installed in the data center, cloud systems, etc. They are made in 2.5-inch form factor (body thickness is 7 mm), and use the interface Serial ATA 3.0. There modifications 100, 120, 200, 240, 400, and 480 GB.

Seagate drives have a 1200 SSD Interface Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) with a capacity of 12 Gbit / s. They are designed for high-performance enterprise equipment with a heavy load on the storage subsystem. Capacity up to 800 GB, the form factor - 1.8 or 2.5 inches.

Seagate X8 Accelerator SSD is a PCIe expansion card with high speed. Reported ROE IOPS (input / output operations per second) is equal to 1,100,000, capacity - up to 2.2 TB.

Specifications of the smartphone Samsung Galaxy Core

The Korean company Samsung has announced the completion of another series of smartphones Galaxy - Samsung Galaxy Core, runs on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.

Samsung Galaxy Core
Samsung Galaxy Core

This gadget has a 4.3-inch TFT LCD display with a resolution of 480x800 pixels and is equipped with a dual-core processor running at 1.2 GHz and 1 GB of RAM.

It has 8 GB of flash memory which can be expanded using microSD cards up to 64GB. The battery capacity of the device is 1800 mA / h, Galaxy Core supports wireless data transmission technology Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n and Bluetooth 3.0, can work over cellular networks, HSUPA 5.76 900/2100 and EDGE / GPRS 850/900/1800/1900, and will be available to customers with a single version or two slots for SIM-cards.

Information on the price and terms of the product is not yet known.

Announcement of laptops Sony Vaio Fit

Sony has announced a new line of laptops Vaio Fit, including models of Sony Vaio Fit 15, Fit 15E Fit and 14, which will appear in the Japanese market later this month.

Sony Vaio Fit
Sony Vaio Fit

It is known that the Sony Vaio Fit 15, the thickness of the body which is 22.5 mm, is equipped with 15-inch display with a resolution of 1920x1080 pixels and uses an Intel Core i7-3537U, speed at 2 GHz, 8 GB of RAM and Intel HD graphics 4000 . To store data in a hybrid system with capacity of 1 TB.

Sony Vaio Fit 15 supports wireless technology Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n, NFC and is equipped with a web camera Sony Exmor R. The cost of this notebook in Japan will be about $ 1800.

Toshiba AT10LE-A - Android-tablet based on Tegra 4


The Japanese company Toshiba unveiled images and some features of its new tablet Toshiba AT10LE-A, which uses the latest chipset from NVIDIA - 1.8-GHz Tegra 4 ARM Cortex-A15.

Toshiba AT10LE-A
Toshiba AT10LE-A

Toshiba AT10LE-A runs on Google Android 4.2.1 Jelly Bean and will be bundled with a docking station, keyboard-equipped.

It is known that the new tablet from Toshiba has a 10.1-inch display, a slot for microSD, port miniHDMI, but the other information on the technical characteristics, as well as the price and time of release of the device is not yet known.

Announcement of the tablet Acer Iconia A1

Acer has announced a new tablet Acer Iconia A1, which is equipped with 7.9-inch display with a resolution of 1024x768 pixels and runs on Android 4.2 Jelly Bean.

Acer Iconia A1
Acer Iconia A1

Acer Inconia A1 uses a quad-core GHz processor MediaTek, has 1GB of RAM, 8 or 16 GB of flash memory, as well as two cameras with a resolution of 0.3 megapixels and 5.

The tablet supports wireless technology, Bluetooth 4.0, Wi-Fi and optional 3G-equipped module. New on sale in June for $ 170 for the 8-gigabyte model and $ 200 for a 16-gigabyte.

Nokia is preparing to release a smartphone-tablet?


The company Nokia - again is suspected in preparation for the release of a new tablet. This time the leak promises a transitional option between a smartphone and a tablet with a diagonal of six inches. It is rumored that the device will be released in the very popular line of Lumia.

nokiatablet

If the rumors are true, then we will see the largest ever released Nokia gadget.

By the end of the month of May, the company will send out invitations to an event, to be held in London. At the press conference is likely to demonstrate the smartphone Lumia 928 and perhaps even more devices among whom may be a six-inch monster.

In addition to the six-inch display, the device will be powered by a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 production and two gigabytes of RAM.

Since Microsoft plans to include support for 1080p resolution in Windows Phone 8, six-inch smartphone-tablet is likely to be the first device with a resolution of 1080 x 1920 pixels.

Price will be between 700 and 800 U.S. dollars.

Android-Tablet Archos 80 Xenon 3G


Archos company has expanded its line of Android-plates, a new device - Archos 80 Xenon 3G, which is already available in two European online stores, but for some reason with different characteristics.
Archos 80 Xenon 3G
Archos 80 Xenon 3G

According to the German Amazon, the tablet has a 4-core processor, speed at 1.2GHz, but the French site pc21.fr reports only two cores.

In other characteristics are similar - to 8-inch IPS-display with a resolution of 1024x768 pixels, 1 GB of RAM, 4 GB of flash memory, support for Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and 3G, as well as built-in GPS-receiver.

The gadget runs on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, and its cost also varies: 220 Euro in Germany and in France  160.

Music smartphone premium Vivo Xplay

The well-known the Chinese company BBK has officially introduced a smartphone the highest price category Vivo Xplay
Vivo Xplay
Vivo Xplay

The device has a top-end 4-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor 600 with a speed of 2 GHz. Diagonal Full HD-display is 5.7 inches. Vivo Xplay has 2 gigabytes of RAM and flash memory drive for 32 gigabytes.

Also available slot for memory cards microSD, 13-megapixel rear camera, front camera is 5 megapixels and an impressive battery capacity of 3400 mAh. For better sound quality using a separate chip amplifier Texas Instrument OPA2604. It should be noted that all this splendor fit in body thickness of only 8 mm and managed OS Android 4.2.

The smartphone has a feature Vivo Free Touch, thanks to which  it can interact by shaking or touching. It's quite practical, given the large size of the display. The gadget supports many different formats, including capable of reproducing and files compressed with no loss of information in the audio stream.

BBK Vivo Xplay smartphone will soon be available in some Asian countries. Exact date and time of occurrence in other regions is not reported. Gadget will cost about $ 600.

Drive Buffalo DriveStation DDR: SSD speed at the price of HDD

If you need an external hard drive with decent speed data transfer, and solid-state drives but are not satisfied with the price and / or volume, then maybe you should pay attention to the device Buffalo DriveStation DDR. According to Buffalo, in terms of performance, the device can compete with solid state drives, while having a much larger volume and an affordable price.

Drive Buffalo DriveStation DDR
Drive Buffalo DriveStation DDR

The drive is equipped with USB 3.0 interface and a gigabyte of DDR3 memory for faster data transfer. The manufacturer claims that it is up to 408 megabytes per second, or 2.3 more than the performance of conventional external hard drives with USB 3.0.

Also available in a number of pre-installed software to protect and backup data, reduce energy consumption and a more comfortable working with. Buffalo DriveStation DDR represented in variants of 2 and 3 terabytes, and is offered in the U.S. and Canada for a suggested price of 140 and 180 dollars respectively. The drive is compatible with Windows and Mac.

MSI WIND TOP AE1941: DESKTOP-piece fanless design

MSI has today introduced desktop "all in on" Wind Top AE1941, equipped with 18.5-inch display with LED backlight.

Monoblock MSI Wind Top AE1941
Monoblock MSI Wind Top AE1941 

It has has a fanless design, making no noise at all. His "heart" - a dual-core 1.1-GHz Intel Celeron processor 847, the maximum dissipation of heat energy which is 17 watts. The RAM is 4 GB.

The screen has a resolution of 1366 × 768 pixels and supports a touch-sensitive controls (one-point). The equipment consists of a hard drive to 320 GB, Optical Drive Super Multi DVD, card reader "3 in 1", 1-megapixel webcam and an adapter Wi-Fi (802.11 b / g / n). There is a 3-watt stereo speakers and four USB-ports.

The operating system installed is Windows 7 Home Premium. Its dimensions - 476 × 365 × 49 mm, weight - 7.5 kg.

MICROSOFT SOLD MORE THAN 100 MILLION LICENSES FOR WINDOWS 8

Microsoft released the statistics on sales of licenses for the operating system Windows 8, and the number of subscribers to online services corporation.

Steve Ballmer, head of Microsoft
Steve Ballmer, head of Microsoft, talks about Windows Phone 8.

Platform Windows 8, we recall, was made available at the end of October 2012. A month after the release of the number of licenses sold exceeded 40 million, and two months - 60 million

Since then, the pace of the operating system has slowed down considerably: in Microsoft reported that six months was able to realize more than 100 million licenses. That is now sold every month about 10 million licenses for the operating system.

In addition, the company noted that the number of subscribers to SkyDrive cloud storage now exceeds 250 million Number of active accounts registered on the site Outlook.com, has reached 400 million, and the total number of accounts in Microsoft-services has exceeded 700 million,

INTEL INTRODUCES NEXT GENERATION microarchitecture SILVERMONT

Intel Corporation announced the microarchitecture Silvermont "systems on a chip" the next generation having low power consumption.

Architecture Intel Silvermont
Architecture Intel Silvermont

Silvermont platform uses 22-nanometer technology. This will be produced by the method of Tri-Gate, which consists in the transition from planar to three-dimensional structures of transistors. It enables to create chips that operate at a lower voltage and lower leakage currents.



Intel claims that, compared with current Atom-processor based products, Silvermont provide three times higher peak performance, or five times less energy consumption at comparable speed. And this will help in advanced power management.


"System on a chip" generation Silvermont will find use in a wide range of devices: smartphones, tablets, networking equipment, laptops and entry-level automotive media centers.


For desktops and laptops Intel will release Silvermont-chip Atom Valley View. They will get one or two or four processing cores and their speed range from 1.2 to 2.4 GHz.

In the network and communications equipment will be used product, code-named Rangeley, with up to eight cores and memory controller, DDR3-1600. Clock speed - up to 2.4 GHz, the maximum heat dissipation (TDP) - from 7 to 20 watts.

For tablets with Intel chips will offer four cores Bay Trail.


QUARTERLY SALES of TABLETS increased almost two and half times

The company International Data Corporation (IDC) released quarterly statistics on the world market of tablet computers.
Leading suppliers of tablets (data IDC).
Leading suppliers of tablets (data IDC).


From January to March, according to estimates, was 49.2 million tablets sold on different platforms.

This is 142.4% compared to the first quarter of 2012, when the market size was estimated at 20.3 million units.

Remains the largest supplier is Apple, but the company's share for the year decreased from 58.1 to 39.6%. For the three months were sold 19.5 million "iPads".

Second place goes to Samsung with 17.9% of the market versus 11.3% a year ago. During the quarter, the company delivered 8.8 million tablets.

Closes the three ASUS with 2.7 million units sold. The company's share for the year increased from 3.1 to 5.5%.

Followed by Amazon and Microsoft with 3.7 and 1.8% market share and 1.8 and 0.9 million tablets sold, respectively.

The most common software platform for tablets is now Android - 56,5% of the market (39.4% a year earlier). On iOS has 39.6%, for different versions of Windows - 3,7%. The total share of all other operating systems is 0.2%.

TOSHIBA WT310: TABLET PLATFORM WINDOWS 8

Toshiba Corporation before the end of the of summer  will begin selling the tablet WT310, equipped with multi-touch screen with a diagonal of 11.6 inches.

Toshiba WT310
The Tablet Toshiba WT310

The said PC is aimed to business users. It is based on the processor Intel; plays the role of the operating system Windows 8 Pro (64-bit). The screen has a resolution of 1920 × 1080 pixels (Full HD); some models will be equipped with an electronic pen; DigitizerPen.

The tablet is equipped with wireless adapter Wi-Fi (802.11b/g/n), an unnamed SSD capacity, USB 3.0, the HDMI interface and a slot for MicroSD. Dimensions of novelty - 229 × 189 × 12.4 mm and weighs 825 g

The computer may be equipped with a module for LTE in the fourth generation mobile networks. There is also a mentioned optional support technology Intel Wireless Display (or WiDi), which allows you to transfer the image on the TV screen HDTV via a wireless connection.

Price of the tablet is not yet revealed.

ACER ASPIRE R7: notebook-transformer TOUCH SCREEN

In May 17 will begin the shipping of the new Acer laptop Aspire R7, which has an unusual transformable design.

Acer Aspire R7
Laptop Acer Aspire R7

The device has a touch screen with a diagonal of 15.6 inches, which is mounted on a special stand. The screen can be "put" back of the keyboard, turning a laptop into a tablet. In addition, the computer can be used as a desktop system or as a slide show.

The notebook is equipped with a dual-core i5-3337U (1,8 / 2,7 GHz) or i7-3537U (2,0 / 3,1 GHz) and a discrete graphics accelerator GeForce GT 750M. Touch screen has a resolution of 1920 × 1080 pixels (Full HD).

The standard configuration includes 6GB of RAM, a hard disk capacity of 500 GB flash module for 24 GB, wireless adapters Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, SD-card reader, a backlit keyboard and an audio system with four speakers. There are interfaces D-Sub, HDMI, and three USB-ports, two of which correspond to the standard 3.0.

Lenovo Touchscreen ThinkPad S431 - a laptop with a multitouch display

Lenovo has introduced a line of notebooks replenishment ThinkPad - model Lenovo Touchscreen ThinkPad S431, equipped with 14-inch multi-touch display allowing to use all the features offered by Windows 8.
Lenovo Touchscreen ThinkPad S431
Lenovo Touchscreen ThinkPad S431 

New also is one of the first devices from Lenovo, supporting technology Lenovo OneLink - while charging the notebook with one cable is connected to a docking station ThinkPad OneLink Dock, which is equipped with a discrete graphics card, and also has a USB 3.0 port, and a Gigabit Ethernet.

Lenovo Touchscreen ThinkPad S431 has a 6-row backlit keyboard, which is optimized to work with Windows 8. The notebook is equipped with Intel Core 3rd generation, RAM up to 8 GB and the hard disk capacity is 500 GB.

The device will be available in June of this year, and the price for this touchscreen laptop starts at $ 699.

The second generation of tablet Asus MeMO Pad (rumors)

Online rumors that Asus is working on a new version of the tablet Asus MeMO Pad Smart 10, which should be on sale this summer.
Asus MeMO Pad Smart 10
Asus MeMO Pad Smart 10

According to these rumors, the device will be equipped with a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4, speed at 1.5 GHz, Adreno 320 graphics chip, and the amount of RAM is 1 GB.

It is expected that the tablet will be running Android 4.2 Jelly Bean, and will be equipped with 16 GB of internal flash memory, 13-megapixel camera on the back and front camera with a resolution of 1.2 megapixels.

The manufacturer has not confirmed this information, but as soon as there will be additional information about the new tablet, we'll be sure to inform everyone.

ProDesk3D - the world's first full-color 3D-printer


Company BotObjects created the world's first full-color desktop 3D-printer ProDesk3D, which allows you to create three-dimensional models of various shades's 5-ink system, refillable cartridges.
ProDesk3D
ProDesk3D

Using this system, cartridges and dual 25-micron extruder allows you to perform high-quality multi-colored cover models. The printer is also capable of creating and conventional models (without painting) from ABS plastic.

For more information about the new printer is available on the site, but information on the time of release of such device on the market and its price is still not there.

The rumors about the smartphone Huawei P6-U06

The network has information about the new smartphone P6-U06 from the company Huawei, which will be one of the thinnest devices on the market - it will have the thickness of 6.18 mm.

Huawei P6-U06
Huawei P6-U06

It is expected that Huawei P6-U06 is equipped with a 4.7-inch display with a resolution of 1280x720 pixels, quad-core processor, clocked at 1.5 GHz and 2 GB of RAM.

Also it has an 8-megapixel camera located on the rear panel, and 2-megapixel front. The operating system will be used by Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean.

About the price of Huawei P6-U06 and time of release of the smartphone is not yet known.

Google is working on a tablet Nexus 11 (rumors)

The activities of Google is always shrouded in a variety of rumors, and according to one of them, the company is now working on a new tablet Google Nexus 11.

Google is working on a tablet Nexus 11 (rumors)
Google is working on a tablet Nexus 11 (rumors)

This unit will be develop by Samsung. It will be equipped with 11-inch Super PLS TFT display and 8-core Samsung Exynos 5 Octa.

Also reported on the front 2-megapixel camera and rear, the resolution of which is 8 megapixels. Other information about the Google Nexus 11 is yet to be revealed.

Little Black Box - a media center based on XBMC

If you are looking for a device that could be the basis for a home media center, then pay attention to such a device as the Little Black Box, which is in full compliance with its name looks like a black box with a skewed angle.
Little Black Box
Little Black Box

Little Black Box uses the open source XBMC and equipped with a processor Amlogic 8726-M3 ARM Cortex-A9, 1GB RAM and Mali 400 graphics.

Little Black Box has 4 GB of internal flash memory, has two ports USB, port HDMI, Ethernet-controller and wireless adapter Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n /

It is expected that the sales of Little Black Box will start at the end of May, and pre-orders for the device are taken now, priced at 100 Euros.

Portable Drive Envoy Pro EX from OWC

Other World Computing (OWC), a leader in the production of internal and external hard drives for Macs and PC, has announced a new look "ultra-portable" SSD - OWC Envoy Pro EX.

 Drive Envoy Pro EX
 Drive Envoy Pro EX

Aura Pro SSD, on the basis of which it is built , Envoy Pro EX uses synchronous memory NAND (Tier-1) instead of a common SSD asynchronous NAND-memory. Synchronous NAND memory allows you to "synchronize" the reading and writing of data to the work of the control processor and the SSD, thereby ensuring maximum throughput of the drive. In addition to all Aura Pro SSD technology used DuraWrite, provides an even distribution of data on the memory cells and, accordingly, less wear on the memory chips and high reliability. According to the manufacturer, Envoy Pro EX can provide a hundred times better protection of important data than enterprise-class hard drive.

Specifications OWC Envoy Pro EX:

  • Anodized aluminum housing
  • SSD Aura Pro 6G with effective data
  • USB 3.0 interface and a read speed of up to 436 MB / s
  • Portability. Case Dimensions: 4.5 x 2.125 x 0.4375 inches
  • Weight - 3.8 ounces
  • Absolutely silent operation
  • Three-year warranty
  • OWC Envoy Pro EX is available to the buyer today in two configurations - 240 GB and 480 GB and costs $ 319.99 and $ 599.99.