ZTE PF200 and N910, launch with Android Ice Cream Sandwich

Every Mobile Company or Oraganization is in the race of faster processing device, Now ZTE will launch two (at least) new phones in Barcelona next week, Their PF200 and N910 will both launch with with Android 4.0 on board, Last month, at the launch of the WP7 Tania smartphone, company representatives from ZTE told us that it would be launching a dual-core premium handset at MWC.

The ZTE PF200 (pictured below) is an LTE / UMTS / GSM handset with 4.3 inch qHD display, Wi-Fi, GPS, NFC, DLNA, front-facing camera, 8MP rear camera with 1080p video recording, and a 1.5GHz processor (we don’t know if this is single-core or dual-core).

The N910 will have a WVGA (800x480) display of unknown size, a five megapixel camera on the rear with autofocus and LED flash along with a 2 megapixel front-facing camera. The N910 will also support LTE networks and will feature Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and DLNA compatibility and will be powered by a 1.5GHz processor.

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Galaxy Nexus White Official Launch Date in UK and Price

We just heard that Nokia is releasing the white Lumia 800, and now Samsung has announced that the white Galaxy Nexus will go on sale in the UK on the 13th of February. With a 4.65-inch 720p display, a 1.2GHz dual-core processor and Android 4.0 ICS to boot, what’s not to love?

Well, if you’re being picky, perhaps you’re yearning for a white GalNex, in which case I have good and bad news. Which do you want first?

The good news is that the white Galaxy Nexus is indeed an official product and it will be available on February 13, which gives you a whole day to use a combination of Google Wallet and Fab to find your sweetheart a nice Valentine’s Day gift.

The bad news is that, according to TrustedReviews, the white GalNex is only available to the UK this week. (Bad news for us, anyways.)

Wait, there’s one extra bonus bit of good news: If you have enough dough, the white GalNex is has a pentaband HSPA+ radio, meaning it will work on both AT&T and T-Mobile’s networks. And by “enough dough”, I specifically mean at least £496.79 ($770), which is what the 16GB model seems to be going for over at UK online retailer Handtec.

Past it’s pale appearance, all the specs will remain the same between the black and white models. However, if you happen to remember when we first noticed the white Galaxy Nexus, you’ll recall that the render within the post showed an all-white bezel. That isn’t the case with the official version, as the front bezel of the phone is still solid black and the back portion of the phone is white.

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Social, Mobile Gifting Service Wrapp Raises $5M From Greylock And Atomico To Launch In The US And UK

Wrapp, a social gifting service, has raised $5 million series A funding from Greylock Partners and Atomico, the VC firm formed by Niklas Zennström, co-founder of Skype, Kazaa and other companies. The startup had previously raised $5.5 million in funding from Atomico and Creandum. As part of the most recent round, Greylock partner and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman will be joining Zennström, and Creandum partner Johan Brenner on Wrapp’s board of directors.Co-founded by Rebtel and SendIt founder Hjalmar Winbladh, Spotify founding CTO Andreas Ehn and others, Wrapp lets friends give, receive and redeem digital gift cards using mobile devices, and allows friends to contribute to gifts given by mutual friends. ]]>

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A Fantasy App Store? CBS Sports To Launch “First Open Platform” For Fantasy Sports

Fantasy sports, just like everything else, have also been making the transition to mobile, with news aggregating apps turning to fantasy sports (a la Taptu, Evri, and more). But few of the big media properties have gotten with the times and opened their data-rich platforms to indie developers and data hounds. Today, it looks like CBS Sports is leading the way, as it is officially opening up its fantasy sports service to third party developers, companies, and startups looking to create apps for their products and services. ]]>

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Droid RAZR MAXX To Launch On January 26th?

While there wasn't much to say about the recently announced Droid RAZR MAXX to begin with (it's essentially the Droid RAZR with a bigger battery and more storage), Motorola and Verizon decided to leave out one key bit of detail: the launch date. That, it seems, has been fixed.]]>

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France Will See Launch Of ‘Le Huffington Post’ Before Year’s End

The Huffington Post Media Group (which also owns TechCrunch) has teamed up with newspaper, magazine and website publisher Le Monde and Les Nouvelles Editions Indépendantes (LNEI) to launch 'Le Huffington Post', a French edition of the news and opinion portal. The new joint venture is currently recruiting editors to prepare for a launch before the end of 2011.Each of the three aforementioned partners will be shareholders in Le Huffington Post.]]>

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Samsung And Visa Partner To Launch NFC-Equipped “Olympics Phone”

Rumors have been floating around for a while now that Visa and Samsung had something special planned for the Olympic Games next year. With about ten months left before the games kick off in London, Visa has formally confirmed that they are building a special phone for the Olympics and that it will, in fact, have an NFC chip. Pocket Lint confirmed the phone with Sandra Alzetta, Visa Europe's head of innovation and new product development, at the Visa Europe Security Summit in Frankfurt, Germany. She added that the phone will be "iconic," and packed full of special Olympics content. As far as availability goes, the phone should be on shelves before, during, and after the Olympic games globally, rather than being a UK exclusive. ]]>

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Dell XPS 14z Launches in China, US Launch Coming Soon

The Dell XPS 14z, the 14-inch counterpart to the XPS 15z that we praised in our review last month, is rolling out in China this week with a US launch soon to follow.

We (and others) noted the XPS 15z's resemblance to the MacBook Pro, and the 14z continues in the same vein: the laptop is less than an inch thick and weighs 4.4 pounds, but still includes dual-core Sandy Bridge processors, an optional Optimus-capable NVIDIA GT 520M GPU, USB 3.0 ports, and an optical drive. The screen resolution is reported to be an unexciting 1366x768, though it isn't mentioned whether the 14z will share the 15z's 1080p upgrade option.

For my part, I find 14" laptops to be a good deal: you can usually get the same amount of power as a bulkier 15" laptop in a package that's not as cramped as smaller laptops can sometimes be. I'm always excited to see PC makers put some thought into their products' designs - hopefully the 14z impresses when it comes to other territories in the coming weeks.

Source: Social Barrel

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The Planets Are Aligned: Facebook’s Spartan And iPad Projects Set To Launch Early Next Week

Earlier tonight, Alexia found and posted some screenshots of something that sure looked a lot like the mythical "Project Spartan". Shortly thereafter, Facebook took down the page in question. And for good reason. That was Project Spartan, we've now confirmed.Whoops.Well, to be fair, I've heard numerous times that they don't actually call it that internally. That may be a name that external developers use. No matter — we all know what I mean. It's the HTML5-based mobile platform that Facebook has been building in secret for months. And now it's done. In fact, it has been done for a while. From what I hear, it has been waiting on one thing...]]>

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ASUS to Launch UX21, UX31 Ultrabooks on October 11

ASUS' new 11" and 13" Ultrabooks, the UX21 and UX31, were shown off earlier this year at Computex, and now they're ready to come to market: an ASUS teaser site cites October 11 as the big day.

Both laptops sport 6Gbps SATA SSDs from Sandisk, as we reported earlier this year, a USB 3.0 port, and Sandy Bridge processors. Pictures from the Computex model also show one USB 2.0 port, a Mini DisplayPort, and a mini HDMI connector. The UX21's 11" display has a resolution of 1366x768, while the 13" display on the UX31 ups that to 1600x900.

As for price, the new laptops have apparently been priced in France: the UX21's starting price is said to be €799 (about $1100), with the UX31 starting at  €999 (about $1350). This is roughly in line with what Apple and others are charging for machines in this form factor, though we'll have to wait to see what the official prices are in all territories.

Source: ASUS, Maximum PC

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GIGABYTE officially launch AMD Llano A series Motherboards

Today we’re officially announcing the launch of our new A series motherboard range, supporting the very latest AMD APUs which we think will offer DIY builders a solid mainstream platform with added graphics muscle. We’ve announced seven motherboard models all based on the AMD A75 chipset. The top SKU is the GA-A75-UD4H which is an ATX form factor board with integrated HDMI, DisplayPort, Dual Link DVI and D-Sub video outputs, two PCIe ports (x16 and x8) supporting CrossFireX and a slew of features including 8 USB 3.0 ports, an 8+2 phase power VRM on a 2oz PCB – all in all, it’s one hell of a board.

We’re predicting that these new AMD APUs will invigorate the mainstream and entry-level DIY segment, offering some pretty decent graphics and 3D gaming performance as well as solid HD video capabilities. The integrated GPU on these Llano chips is really quite impressive. Here’s a video we made showing the platform playing Crysis 2 – not something you’d usually do without employing a discrete graphics card. As you can also see in the video, we also managed to squeeze a substantial overclock from our AMD A8350 APU, hitting a score of over 6000 points in 3DMark Vantage (performance mode). I’m sure you’ll agree….pretty impressive!

As you may have noticed, all these new A75-based boards will be sold as part of our Super4 motherboard product range. This basically means that you’re getting high-end components from top to bottom; features like 2ox copper PCB, 50,000 hour solid capacitors, dual BIOS chips, On/Off charging, dedicated fusing for each USB port and 108db HD audio. I guess GIGABYTE Super4 is a simple way to describe a range of features that will make sure you’re getting a really solid, durable and reliable motherboard regardless of price point.

Check out the press release here.

GIGABYTE A series motherboard site here.

Chinese version of this blog entry here.

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Dell Streak 10 to launch mid-June with Honeycomb

The new Dell’s new 10.1 inch Android tablet comes in June 2011. It will feature the new version of Google’s Android OS, Android 3.0 Honeycomb.

The rest of the specifications is unknown now, but there`s some rumors that it could have similar hardware to the Dell Streak 7, which is pictured above. So it will probably feature an NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor and a five megapixel camera on the back and a 1.3 megapixel camera on the front, as Dell Streak 7 has.

Actually, at this time there isn`t any more details of the new tablet.

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Acer to launch latest notebook -Aspire One 722 Netbook

Acer is ready to launch new Notebook  known as Aspire One 733 netbook. This device comes with unique colours along with a list of superior features for both home and office use.

This Netbook has the special quality of the water drop design which adds to the specification list of it. It comes equipped with the AMD C-50 dual core 1GHz processor and is based on the AMD Brazos platform. Aspire one 722 runs on the Windows 7 operating system and is integrated with the Radeon HD 6250 graphics card.

For the connectivity, this device offers features such as Bluetooth as well as Wifi connection for internet usage. The 11.6 inch display screen offers a pixel count of 1366×768. For video calling purpose, a 1.3MP camera comes fitted in on the front facing side of this netbook. The additional features offered include 3 USB ports, 1GB RAM, 250GB hard drive and Fine Tip Keyboard.

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