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September 12th is the data that Apple has penciled in to launch new iPhones and new tablets (and perhaps some additional hardware products). We have seen leaks that claim to give a glimpse at what the new iPhone XS will look like along with the coming Apple Watch refresh. The new iPhones are expected to have refreshed internals and new colors offered. We haven't heard much about what Apple has in store for its new iPad Pro tablets, other than a leaked icon from iOS 12 that showed a tablet with much thinner bezels. Now OnLeaks and MySmartPrice have teamed up to offer new renders based on leaked information. The source information used for these renders is from OnLeaks and shows a tablet that very...
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Plenty of Apple rumors have run rampant claiming to let fans in on what Apple will offer this year when its new devices launch. So far, we've heard that the 2018 iPhone models will ditch the included headphone dongle. We've also seen alleged benchmarks surface showing the A12 SoC is quite the performer. The OLED versions of the iPhone reportedly have 512GB of storage and Apple Pencil support. Fans are always on the lookout for more rumor confirmation, and some of the long-running rumors have been confirmed according to an Apple analyst with a long track record of accuracy. Gene Munster of Loup Ventures says that the new devices landing next month will include a high-end version called D33 internally....
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In the coming months, expect a torrential downpour of tablets from manufacturers left and right. We're not talking about just five or six models either, but potentially dozens of slates, each one intent on dethroning Apple's iPad as the current default granddaddy. But while other manufacturers are gearing up to give Apple a bit of competition in the tablet space, there's already a talk of another iPad on the horizon, one that will address some of the shortcomings of its current-gen slate and could potentially keep the iPad in front of the pack. The latest rumors come from DigiTimes, which is reporting that component suppliers, including touch panel reinforced glass suppliers for Apple's iPad,...
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Supposedly, Motorola is working on a new smartphone that will have one of the largest displays we've seen to date. Code-named Shadow, the smartphone is said to have a 4.3-inch WVGA+ touch screen with a resolution of 850 x 484 and run on the Android operating system. Considering most smartphones today have a 3.7-inch or smaller screen, the Shadow's screen is a definite step up from current models. Currently the Windows Mobile-based HTC HD2 is the only other smartphone on the market that has a 4.3-inch screen. In terms of Android-powered models, the closest competition is the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10, which will sport a 4.0-inch display. Information about the Shadow is still very sparse, but based...
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Details are still pretty sparse, but Nikon Rumors is reporting that Chasseur d'Image (a French magazine that has a history of publishing rumors that turn into reality) has published an article that talks about a new Nikon camera with the code name Nikon VP650. According to the report, the Nikon VP650 is expected to be announced in August and shipping in September. What’s really cool about the Nikon VP650 is that it will have an integrated LED projector that could project up to 8x12 images in good quality in the dark. The VP650 will be a compact camera. Another report from Photo Review offers some additional information, calling the camera the Coolpix S1000pj. According to Photo Review, the camera’s...
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Fans of the best-selling Guitar Hero video game series will have even more songs to fuel their fantasies of pop glory. Activision Blizzard has confirmed that Guitar Hero: Van Halen is in the works according to video-game blog Joystiq. No specific tracks have been named, but Activision has said it will include music from guest bands such as Queen, Weezer, blink-182, The Offspring, and Queens of the Stone Age. The company also plans to release three new music-based video games this year: DJ Hero, Guitar Hero 5, and Band Hero. DJ Hero will use a new controller shaped like a record turntable. The controller will have three colored buttons similar to the five fret buttons featured on Guitar Hero....
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Rumors that Apple is preparing a 32GB iPhone are heating up as a result of reports that indicate Apple has purchased a large quantity of flash memory chips. According to a DigiTimes report, Apple ordered 100 million 1 gigabit NAND Flash chips, mainly from Samsung Electronics. In fact, Apple has scooped up so many chips that some smaller players are worried about a shortage. It is possible Apple could recombine these chips during the manufacturing process to create 16GB and 32GB storing capabilities for new iPhone models. To help put things in perspective, 100 million 8Gb chips would be enough to produce 12.5 million 8GB iPhones or around 3 million 32GB devices. We don’t yet know if the chips...
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It's a rumor that's flown around the block before: HP shutting down the VoodooPC label, which it purchased in 2006. In fact, we wrote earlier when the VoodooPC line was sort of sucked into the regular HP catalog. Even then things seemed to be getting a little iffy around the VoodooPC portion of HP's landscape. At the time, however, it was sold as an easier, faster way to buy VoodooPC hardware through HP channels.At any rate, Techgage wrote a piece in which they cited the typical 'insider close to the situation.' According to that article:An e-mail is apparently being circulated throughout the company noting layoffs, although the number of people to be culled is unclear....
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The other day, Digitimes reported that Abit could possibly exit the motherboard market if the company's upcoming line of motherboards based on the Intel P45 chipset weren't successful. It turns out, however, that Abit is still planning to stick around. Today, we received this quote on the subject, from Thore Welling, Universal ABIT's Global Marketing Director...“abit is a well established and strong brand within the enthusiast and high-end motherboard and components industry. In fact, particularly over the past 12 months we have been able to considerably increase market share not only in traditional markets such as Western Europe, but even stronger so in emerging markets...
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Avian Securities recently reported that a major systems player was experiencing an extremely high return rate of computer products shipped with solid state drives (SSDs). Shortly after the story broke it was widely rumored that the company in question was none other than Dell. Of course not all reports circulating the internet completely accurate, and some are simply bogus.Thankfully this seems like a case of the latter and Dell wants to set the record straight:"Here's the real story: the 20 - 30% failure and return rates cited by Avian Securities don't even vaguely resemble what's happening in our business. It's also true that Avian did not contact us while doing their research....
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There are few companies that can generate as much interest in upcoming products as Apple. That said, let's take a look at some of the pre-MacWorld '08 hardware rumors. Do keep in mind that these are all rumors until we hear otherwise.First up is the Newton. It seems doubtful that the new Newton tablet will be making it's debut at the show:“In its current form, the Newton device -- sometimes dubbed a Mac tablet or slate -- has been described along the lines of a larger iPod touch or iPhone rather than an Apple adaptation of the modern day tablet PC.When the project does come to fruition, it's expected to leverage a more advanced implementation of Apple's multi-touch technology,...
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The pre-MacWorld rumors are always some of the most interesting, but it looks like a few of the rumored products such as sub-notebook and 3G iPhone are virtually done-deals. The 3G iPhone was actually leaked by AT&T CEO Randal Stephenson, so we're moving that one out the rumor file. If that's not enough for you, here's more about the ultra-portable“...he has now heard from manufacturing partners in Asia that Apple is preparing to unveil a new, ultra portable laptop computer at the company's Macworld event next month in San Francisco.The blogs have speculated about this, but he says he now has hard evidence that the smallest laptop ever from Apple is only weeks away. He says the...
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Please remember to take any and all hardware rumors with a grain of salt. That said, let's talk about Intel's upcoming CPU family, dubbed Nehalem. We have heard rumors such as: socket interoperability between Xeons and Itenium CPUs on the server front, the onboard memory controller on all models, and of course the obligatory mentioning of 8-cores is always interesting. Today we're getting our first inkling of what the L2 cache might be like, and if the rumors are true your next high-end rig could have a up to whopping 24 MB of shared L2 cache! We're not exactly sure if that's the same as Penryn's 12 MB (really two seperate 6 MB caches), a single unified 24 MB chunk,...
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A few days ago rumors circulated that the gPhone would be launching within two weeks. Now, aside from the fact that the gPhone is most likely the only thing that will make sites like this stop talking about the iPhone, is there any truth to the gPhone rumor? The grapevine is buzzing this week over the "gPhone," Google's long-rumored mobile device that has been in the works for some time now. And while some of the rumors may carry more merit than others, history has shown that when news picks up, something is on the way.Is a gPhone actually coming? At this point, we think the Magic 8-Ball is saying "Yes." This week's tips come after months of similar rumors that have only gotten louder...
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An interesting collection of rumors and speculations about the next completely new AMD CPU has surfaced.AMD hasn't officially announced the chip yet, so anything can change between now and the target launch date sometime in 2009. AMD plans to launch its third-generation Opteron platform in 2009 with the Sandtiger octal-core processor. Beneath Sandtiger is AMD’s M-SPACE modular approach towards CPUs. M-SPACE allows AMD to mix and match CPU features for specific tasks. The definition for M-SPACE is as follows: Modular: Reconfigurable “building blocks” for design speed/agilityScalable: Linear scaling of multi and single-thread performancePortable: Energy-efficiency for increased mobility/portabilityAccessible:...
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AMD's R600 hasn't even arrived yet and already news regarding its successor, the R650, has emerged. According to a story on The Inquirer, R650 will be a 65nm version of R600, enhanced by AMD private manufacturing techniques, with the ultimate goal of making GPUs more affordable, for both AMD and consumers. "In short, AMD's CPU manufacturing strategy will be introduced to the world of GPUs. This should result in more affordable and better performing parts. Even though AMD is not using its own manufacturing facilities or facilities that use AMD's own procedure called APM, some elements of it will be used to get flexible manufacturing with GPUs as well."If this all shakes out, prices...
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VR-Zone has posted a few more details regarding ATI's upcoming R600 family of GPUs. Still no solid information on final clock speeds, architectural details, etc. Nonetheless, it's still fun to speculate... "ATi briefly mentioned to their partners a 2nd generation Unified Shader Structure and a new hardware Crossfire for R600 family which can be bridgeless yet faster. The retail card is half an inch longer at 9.5" and the OEM/SI version remains the same at 12". It comes with 512-bit memory bus and 1GB DDR4 at more than 2GHz frequency. Core clock remains a mystery as yet." Apparently, the folks at VR-Zone heard some things about the mid-range RV630 GPU as well. You can find information...
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There's a fun article posted over at CNET today outlining what they thing are the Top 10 Apple rumors of all time. Some light reading for you folks still recovering from the Christmas Holiday. "What do you get when you cross a notoriously tight-lipped computer company with rabidly fanatical users? A whole lot of gossip, speculation and hearsay, that's what. Thirty years of Apple Computer has seen the company rise, fall and rise again like a kind of technological Jesus Christ -- there's been plenty to talk about." What about the one about Apple switching to Intel processors? Oh,...
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The Inquirer has posted some information today regarding AMD's upcoming quad-core "Altair" FX processor. According to the rumors, the Altair FX will sport a total of 6MB of cache, spread out amongst the four cores, and it will be manufactured on AMD's 65nm process node. "We managed to dig out a few more details about the real Quad core codenamed Altair FX. It will work at 2.7 to 2.9GHz and will end up with 2MB of dedicated L2 cache memory and an additional 2MB of shared L3 cache memory. When we say dedicated, it means that each CPU has 2 MB of L2 memory, total of 4MB of L2 memory plus 2MB of shared L3."...
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VR-Zone and HardSpell have posted some very interesting rumors regarding NVIDIA's upcoming G80 GPU which seem to contradict all the rumors we've heard thus far. Here, some industry sources have supposedly said G80 will in fact be based on a unified shader architecture much like ATI's R600 GPU. There will be an obscene ~700M transistors with a core frequency scaling up to an unbelievable 1.5GHz. In terms of performance, estimates show roughly 2x the Pixel Shader performance of G71 with an insane 12x jump over G71's Vertex Shader performance! Obviously, we need to take this information with a grain of salt as we have no clue how valid the information could be. Should this...
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Fudo over at The Inquirer reports that ATI's upcoming R580 refresh of their current flagship R580 GPU will be arriving sometime next month with an initial cost being roughly $750. The cost is expected to drop slightly down to $700 once the initial supply catches up with demand. At this time, performance estimates place the new GPU about 7% faster in most benchmark applications though no specific performance numbers have been given. Nearly as important as the increased performance, rumors have it the new card will feature a new heatsink assembly which will be a welcomed change for those currently gaming with a Radeon X1900 XTX with its high-pitched leafblower heatsink. "ATI'S UPCOMING R580+...
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Having two video cards in your system still not enough? For those that can afford it, Quad-SLI is coming. Today FiringSquad gives us a peak of Dell's implementation of the tech. It's great to see they'll be hitting the market, but are these Quad-SLI cards going to be available for everyone, or just system builders such as Dell and Falcon Northwest? "In the case of the Dell demonstration launched at CES, the PCBs for two GeForce 7800 GTX 512MB GPUs were grafted onto one board, requiring one x16 PCI Express graphics slot. You must then combine this card with a second board to enable Quad SLI. The whole setup only requires two x16 PCI Express graphics...
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