Hi-Tech Daily News: October 2012

October 31, 2012

Acer release the 27-Inch Monitor S275HLbmii

Acer is currently making the final arrangements for the retail release of a new S Series monitor, the 27-inch S275HLbmii.

Korean PC cooling components maker Thermolab introduced LP53, a new low-profile CPU cooler.

The budget-friendly HTC Desire C has just landed at Cricket. The smartphone is now available for purchase for only $ 180 USD (140 EUR) outright.

French consumer electronics company Archos is introducing another Android tablet to join its line-up. It's the Archos 80 Cobalt tablet. Tipping the scales at 470g while measuring just 12mm thick, the tablet sports an 8-inch display with a 1024 x 768 pixel resolution. The Archos 80 Cobalt is powered by a 1.6 GHz dual-core processor with a quad-core GPU.

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is determined to make its Nokia Lumia 920 smartphone available for purchase in the UK as soon as November 2 and it has already confirmed that.

Appeared in several leaked images earlier this month, the Samsung Galaxy Premier GT-i9260 has been officially unveiled today.

A new Smart Dock for the Samsung Galaxy Note II has surfaced, turning the stylus-toting smartphone into a mini desktop setup with plentiful connectivity for a display and wired peripherals. Listed at Samsung US 'site as well as at UK retailer Clove, the $ 99.99 accessory has three USB ports and a full-sized HDMI output, squirting up to 1080p Full HD onto a TV or monitor.

D-Link has announced the official launch of its Pocket Cloud Router DIR-506L aimed at people who are highly mobile. The router is the latest addition to the Cloud Router family of products providing an easy way to share digital content, and an Internet connection on the go. The slim Pocket Cloud Router is designed to fit into a small handbag or jacket pocket.

As we pointed out, European gamers will be able to pew-pew or grapple on the go with the Neo Geo X alongside their US counterparts on December 6th, and now we know for how much and where: £ 175 in the UK and € 199 elsewhere at Funstock.

I-O Data has today unveiled three fresh additions to its HDCA-UT family of external hard drives. Offering 1 TB, 2 TB and 4 TB worth of storage space, the new offerings measure 39 (W) x 185 (D) x 120 (H) mm, they weight 1.1 kg and feature a fanless design, USB 3.0 connectivity, and an Eco mode for saving power while idle.

Like their predecessors, these models can be installed both vertically or horizontally and can be easily connected to TVs and camcorders for direct, PC-less use. They are backed by a one-year warranty and are coming out gradually - the 4 TB (~ $ 465) drive is already selling, while the 1 TB (~ $ 144) and 2 TB (~ $ 183) will debut in mid-November.

In addition to the three new HDCA-UT Series models, I-O Data has announced a couple more HDCA-U HDDs, 1 TB and 2 TB external hard drives boasting a USB 2.0 interface. Like their USB 3.0-capable cousins, the HDCA-U HDDs measure 39 (W) x 185 (D) x 120 (H) mm, they have a fanless design, they can be installed horizontally or vertically, and can be connected directly to HDTVs to record your favorite shows. They can also be hooked up to camcorders for some PC-free video / photo storing.

The new 1 TB and 2 TB HDCA-U drives cost about $ 133 and $ 173, respectively, and will be available in black and white as of mid-November.

Source: Techpowerup.com

Huawei Ascend D2 Goes Official with 5-inch HD Screen

Chinese mobile phone maker Huawei appears set to challenge some of the largest Android-based smartphones out there, and has just announced the upcoming availability of a new handset that will help it do so, namely the Ascend D2.

While Rogers is already shipping Windows Phone 8 devices to its customers, wireless carrier TELUS is currently gearing up for the release of its own such handsets, and it has already placed the Samsung ATIV S on a coming soon page on its website.

Since AMD and ARM both made world-shaking announcements this week, Intel decided to do something itself, though we had to find out about it through sources other than its newsroom.

AOC is working on two new widescreen PC monitors featuring LED-backlit IPS LCD panels, including the 21.5-inch i2267Fwh and 23-inch i2367Fh.

UK wireless carrier Vodafone is preparing for the launch of Windows Phone 8 devices as well, though it might take a while before its customers will be able to purchase them.

O2 is the first UK carrier to announce Google Nexus 4 it'll be carrying this year's winner of the "most-leaked smartphone" award, which was mercifully launched on Monday.

Here we are with a monitor to go along with your spanking new Windows 8 powered desktop - the LG ET83 Touch 10 monitor, sporting a 10-point IPS display that will definitely expand the horizon of touchscreen technology.

Other World Computing has announced the first SSD drive for the 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro, which Apple recently unveiled. The Aura Pro is a 480GB high-performance solid state drive for those brave enough to crack open their MacBook and do a bit of tinkering. Additional capacities will be announced next month.

Analogix has unveiled a new line of SlimPort accessories for Google's Nexus 4 smartphone. With a SlimPort, you can connect your Nexus 4 to an external display, such as an HDTV or monitor, via its micro USB port. The best part? It will simultaneously charge your phone, meaning that you won't have to deal with the limitations of battery life.

Huawei Ascend D2 is ready to compete with the Galaxy Note II

Huawei has shown a new 4-core Android-smartphone. This time with a 5-inch screen. The device is called the Huawei Ascend D2 and managed by the operating system Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. Presentation of the new items was held in China.

Samsung's upcoming Galaxy Premier I9260 smartphone has been appearing all over the Internet lately, with images cropping up showing off a Galaxy S III-like design and hinting at soon-to-be-announced availability. As it were, that time has come, with Samsung officially announcing the LTE handset, and the Ukraine being one of the first places it will land. The device is slated for release next month.

Belkin has formally introduced the NetCam Wi-Fi Camera with Night Vision, which is exactly what it says on the tin: a wireless webcam with the ability to see in the dark.

Today, mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless made available for purchase a new handset running under Google's Android operating system, namely the LG Spectrum 2.

Asetek Inc., The world's leading supplier of liquid cooling for the computer industry and the inventor of sealed loop, all-in-one liquid cooling, today announced its fourth generation of products based on this patented technology. Asetek is simultaneously releasing the next generation of their flagship ChillControl software, giving computer enthusiasts greater control over acoustics tuning, temperature monitoring and cooling performance.

Corsair unveiled a trio of Enthusiast Series V2 (TX-series) PSUs in Japan.

Initially announced for the Chinese market, Lenovo's ThinkPad Helix tablet is expanding its reach and is set to arrive in Israel, and likely other countries, in the not too distant future.

MSI designed the new Hetris H61 Ultra, a 10 liter commercial barebones desktop for the European market.

Xigmatek has just rolled out a new CPU cooler, a low profile model dubbed PRAETON LD963 that can handle Intel (LGA 1366/1156/1155/775) or AMD (FM1/FM2/AM2/AM2 + / AM3/AM3 +) processors with a TDP of up to 115 W.

Intel has announced the launch of a new series of SSDs called the 335 Series. Intel says that the new 335 Series SSDs use industry-leading 20 nm NAND flash memory process. The 335 Series are the first Intel SSDs to ship using that particular flash memory process.

If you own a Roku set-top box for streaming your favorite TV shows from various services, a new feature has been added that will make it much easier to find what you want watch. In the past if you were looking for a specific show, the only thing you could do was browse through your favorite channels to find what you want to watch. Roku has now added a new search feature that will do all of that browsing for you.

LTE has gone live in the UK, with EE opening up its 4G doors to subscribers hoping for a little extra boost in their smartphone or mobile hotspot. The launch - which has hardly left rival UK carriers happy, waiting as they are for more spectrum before they stage their own LTE deployment in mid-2013 - sees smartphone plans from £ 36 per month with a device, while EE is also offering fiber broadband for homes and businesses.

Pantech has announced that it will be securing its next-generation Android smartphones and tablets using software from a security firm called Mocana. Mocana's VeloDAR solution will be used to integrate FIPS 140-2 certified encryption capability into new Pantech devices. The VeloDAR software protects data at rest on the internal memory of the Pantech smartphone.

The Lumia 920 Windows Phone 8 from Nokia will be available in select Rogers stores in Canada tomorrow. Consumers will be able to nab the phone for $ 99.99 with a three-year contract, or for $ 549.99 with a monthly contract-free plan. According to the announcement, wider availability will be available "in the coming days."

The world can use a few more low-cost, high-powered smartphones. Chinese manufacturer ZTE has announced its new U950 Android mobile, which features a quad-core processor and a low price tag of $ 160. The first 100,000 consumers to step up will be able to place an order on November 11.

Having seen some of its high-end cinema camera thunder stolen by the likes of Red and Arri, Sony has just launched a pair of CineAlta PL-mount cameras with brand new Super 35mm sensors: The PMW-F5 and PMW-F55.

Today, Android enthusiasts interested in the purchase of a Samsung Galaxy Note II smartphone can head over to Daily Steals to take advantage of the offer it has in place for them.

AMD's FirePro APUs built on the "Trinity" silicon, with the GPU feature-set of AMD's FirePro professional GPUs and durability of Opteron enterprise CPUs; and compatible motherboards made by PC Partner (Sapphire) have started selling in Japan. Among the new products on sale are the FirePro A300 (3.40 GHz CPU core, 4.00 GHz CPU TurboCore, 760 MHz GPU, quad-core, 65W), and FirePro A320 (3.80 GHz CPU core, 4.20 GHz CPU TurboCore, 800 MHz GPU, quad-core, 100W), and the AMD reference design micro-ATX motherboard, manufactured by PC Partner.

Apart from launching the HTC 8X and Nokia Lumia 810 (which both run Windows Phone 8), T-Mobile USA will also introduce new Android devices next month. And one of them is the brand new LG Nexus 4 that was announced by Google hours ago.

Affordable 9.7-Inch Zync Z1000 Tablet Now Available in India

Indian company Zync Global Private Limited, makers of Zync tablets, has just announced the immediate availability of its first tablet that features a multi-touch HD display, the Z1000.

While the device may be old news for those living in the states, Barnes & Noble's NOOK Simple Touch is now available for those who live across the pond in the UK. The regular model, as well as the Glowlight model, are now available to purchase. Plus, the UK can now also pre-order the NOOK HD and the NOOK HD +, which is set to arrive late next month.

We already know what the 32GB version of the Nexus 7 will be priced at, thanks to an earlier report of the device showing up on Office Depot shelves. $ 250 will get the 32GB version, while the 16GB model will be $ 199. A second confirmation has just hit Walmart's website, where the retailer is showing the 32GB Nexus 7 as "in stock."

When we reviewed the Huawei Honor last year, we were quite surprised how responsive and well-thought its user interface was. More importantly, we also realized how fast Chinese consumer electronics companies like Huawei are growing and thriving in today's tough market. Today, Huawei is announcing the Huawei Honor 2, an Android smartphone that's powered by its very own K3V2 quad-core chip that has been clocked at 1.4GHz.

The upcoming availability of HTC Windows Phone 8X in the US has already been confirmed for November 12 at Verizon Wireless.

Officially announced by Samsung at the beginning of the month, the Galaxy Music is going to be available in the UK soon.

Verizon and Nokia have officially announced the CDMA version of Nokia's Lumia 820, the Verizon Lumia 822, running Windows Phone 8. Supporting Verizon's EVDO Rev.A and 4G LTE networks, the Lumia 822 is otherwise identical to the GSM model which will be offered on both AT&T and T-Mobile USA, complete with interchangeable covers and the possibility of wireless charging.

DeepCool announced a new variant of the Big Frost dual-tower CPU cooler which made its debut at this year's Computex event, held in June.

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