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Sony Xperia Z Said to Be the Most Awarded Phone at CES 2013

Japanese mobile phone maker Sony Mobile managed to impress the world with its latest flagship Android-based smartphone, the Xperia Z, which went official last week at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The handset created a lot of buzz around the web even before being officially launched, and has seen...

15 January 2013
07:01 GMT

CES 2013: World's First Lumpy Tablet Makes an Appearance – Video

We actually saw the idea of a screen capable of changing the texture of its surface many months ago, but CES 2013 was the site where the first practical application of the concept appeared. It wasn't even owed to some high-profile company. Instead, an IT player from California, rather fittingly called Tactus, h...

14 January 2013
08:52 GMT

CES 2013: Intel Haswell CPU Graphics Twice As Good As Ivy Bridge

The HD 3000 graphics chips in Intel Sandy Bridge CPUs (central processing units) barely scraped a pass in the gameplay department, and Ivy Bridge HD 4000 actually did acceptably, but the HD 4500 in the upcoming Haswell chips is ready to eclipse them both. Given how advanced the GPUs (graphics processing units) in A...

14 January 2013
02:31 GMT

CES 2013: Pluck the Strings of This MIDI Guitar and Stream the Music over Wi-Fi

Though 4K TVs dominated CES 2013, there were plenty of other things for visitors to feast their eyes upon and, in this, case, to fool around with. Being a Consumer Electronics Show, there weren't many boundaries for what was acceptable. Thus, Zivix felt completely at ease with the JamStik, a MIDI guitar that...

12 January 2013
06:40 GMT

CES 2013: Zalman Demos LED-Backlit LCDs

CES 2013 has ended, but there are still a few products that we didn't get around to mentioning, like the Zalman TM215, the TM230, TM270 and TM270VA LED-backlit LCD monitors. In that order, the displays measure 21.5 inches, 23 inches, 27 inches and, again, 27 inches. The only difference between the TM270VA and ...

12 January 2013
06:21 GMT

iPad mini 2 with Unchanged Design to Roll Out in Two Months from Now, Analyst Says

Checks with industry sources at CES 2013 have led analyst Brian White to believe that Apple is planning to release two new iPad models in March 2013, one of which will be the second-generation iPad mini. In addition to a rumored iPad 5, which is said to be even thinner and lighter than the current-generation model, ...

12 January 2013
06:08 GMT

CES 2013: ADATA Reveals SX1000 Enterprise SSDs and Others

Much like in previous years, most of the solid state drives revealed during the latest trade show ended up flaunting the abilities of SandForce controller ships, and this holds true for ADATA, just like it does for Mushkin, and OWC. True, two of the collections of SSDs use JMicron chips instead of SandForce, but we...

12 January 2013
05:08 GMT

CES 2013: Intel-Powered Lenovo K900 Gets Benchmarked, Results Are Impressive

Chinese company unveiled the Lenovo K900 a few days ago at Consumer Electronics Show 2013 (CES), in Las Vegas, but the handset maker did not disclose any details on the phone’s pricing options. We do know that the K900 will be launched in China sometime in April, but we suspect that the smartphone will be rele...

11 January 2013
20:01 GMT

CES 2013: BenQ Releases Full HD 3D Projectors

BenQ has already mostly filled its monitor quota, and it even has some unusual new ones out and about, but it makes other types of products as well, like projectors. In fact, the company launched two projectors at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2013). Both of them can create 2D and 3D images in a resolution of ...

11 January 2013
10:40 GMT

Huawei Confirms Slim Android Phone in February, 8-Core Plans for 2013

Chinese mobile phone maker Huawei appears set to make a splash on the mobile market this year, with plans for an 8-core processor set for the second half of this year. For the time being, the company hasn’t provided specific info on the octa-core Cortex-A15 chip, but Engadget suggests that it might be either ...

11 January 2013
07:51 GMT

Xperia Z Gets Benchmarked at CES 2013

Xperia Z, Sony’s new flagship Android-based smartphone, is set to arrive on shelves before the end of this quarter with a nice range of high-end capabilities packed inside. The device was made official at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show with a 5-inch full HD screen, a quad-core CPU and 2GB of RAM, and a 13...

11 January 2013
07:21 GMT

CES 2013: OCZ's Respectable Vector PCI Express SSD

PCI Express solid-state drives aren't affordable when viewing them together with all other types of SSDs, but if one were to look only at them, it would be possible to argue that some are actually affordable compared to the rest. OCZ has introduced a solid-state drive add-in board that meets the short descript...

11 January 2013
04:28 GMT

CES 2013: Archos Unveils Four Titanium Tablets Aggressively Priced

Archos, has just announced its new Titanium lineup of Android tablets at Consumer Electronics Show 2013 (CES). Although Archos is known for its cheap tablets, the new Titanium tablets have very good specs and sport extremely competitive price tags. There are four tablets in the Titanium series, each with different...

11 January 2013
04:22 GMT

Linux-Powered Sniper Rifle Presented at CES 2013 – VIDEO

People think that CES 2013 is all about phones, tablets, new processors and similar technologies, but the truth is that a lot of other products are exhibited, and that includes a Linux-powered sniper rifle. It's not really surprising that someone has managed to make use of a Linux operating system in a more uno...

11 January 2013
03:04 GMT

CES 2013: Crucial Reveals DDR4 Memory Modules

DDR4 is the next level in the development of dynamic random access memory, one that the remaining memory chip makers hope will restore some of their lost glory. Crucial has proven to be one of the fastest moving company in this matter. In fact, Crucial is so eager to see DDR4 memory modules in stores that it might ...

11 January 2013
02:57 GMT

ST-Ericsson Unveils NovaThor L8580 Quad-Core Mobile CPU

ST-Ericsson is yet another chip maker who brought to the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas a new processor designed for mobile devices, namely the NovaThor L8580. Unveiled as a quad-core CPU, the new NovaThor L8580 is said to be the fastest mobile processor with LTE connectivity packed inside, while featu...

10 January 2013
21:01 GMT

CES 2013: ZTE and Telstra Announce the T82 Android Phone with “Easy” UI

Already launched in Australia at Telstra, ZTE T82 will soon make its way to other carriers around the globe. The smartphone will be shipped alongside Telstra’s customized “Easy” user interface in the following weeks. The ZTE T82 is known in Australia as EasyTouch 4G and is positioned right after tw...

10 January 2013
19:01 GMT

CES 2013: Lian Li Also Intros Mini-ITX Cases

Unlike other makers of PC cases, Lian Li is keeping things very specialized at CES 2013, having released NUC case replacements, a single micro-ATX enclosure and, as we are seeing now, three cases for mini-ITX motherboards. Named PC-Q27, PC-Q28, and PC-Q30, they get larger and weirder in that order. The PC-Q27 has e...

10 January 2013
14:51 GMT

WordPress for BlackBerry 10 Demoed at CES 2013

On January 30, Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion will officially unveil to the world the next-generation BlackBerry 10 operating system, along with handsets set to run under it. Before that, however, partners and app developers are preparing to have their products ready for launch for the official avai...

10 January 2013
14:41 GMT

CES 2013: Soul Launches Headphones for Runners

Few things help promote a product like a celebrity's endorsement, and while an Olympic champion isn't as well-known as pop stars and actors, they are quite a force on their own, as SOUL Electronics knows all too well. By now, readers would have already figured out what this piece of news is going to be ab...

10 January 2013
14:31 GMT

CES 2013: Whoever Hates Intel NUC's Case Can Call Lian Li for a Replacement

Intel's Next Unit of Computing hasn't made the news so much for its own merit, but for how much attention other IT companies are paying it. Last November, for example, Abee decided to release a bunch of replacement cases for the small box PC. As it happens, Lian Li has done something similar at CES 2013. ...

10 January 2013
13:01 GMT

CES 2013: ATLAS iPhone 5 Waterproof Case Unveiled

Accessory maker Incipio is present at CES 2013 to unveil its iPhone 5 ATLAS Waterproof Ultra-Rugged Case, which they promise you’ll be able to buy at AT&T and online in February. The ATLAS case is waterproof, dustproof, drop-proof and shockproof, Incipio says. It’s engineered with a co-molded Plextonium ...

10 January 2013
13:01 GMT

4K TV May Finally Push for a Leap in Broadband and TV Content

Last year, people had an idea of how quickly 3G would cross to LTE/4G, and the forecasts have mostly proven true so far. 4K may change things though. Many TVs and monitors, and even a tablet, with a resolution of 3840 x 2160 pixels have appeared. They won't take the market by storm yet, not with prices of se...

10 January 2013
10:51 GMT

CES 2013: Panasonic Debuts Bone-Conducting Headphones

This isn’t the first time we’re hearing about bone-conducting headphones, but Panasonic now seems ready to bring such a technology into mass production. The company unveiled at the 2013 CES show in Las Vegas its very own pair of headphones using a bone-conducting system which not only that look futuristi...

10 January 2013
08:23 GMT

Sharp Too Shows Flexible OLED Screen at CES 2013

Apparently, Samsung was not the only company to have brought flexible displays to the floor at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, as Sharp too had similar products to showcase at the event. The company had on display a flexible OLED screen that would provide makers with the possibility to co...

10 January 2013
07:41 GMT

CES 2013: OLPC XO Learning Tablet Launched by Vivitar

The One Laptop Per Child organization has been fairly quiet for the past few months, but then again it never actually made a habit of speaking up very often. Instead, it waits until it has a new product for sale, like now. Still, OLPC won't actually be selling the product now on show at CES 2013. Instead, a pr...

10 January 2013
07:39 GMT

Western Digital Black 2.5-Inch Hybrid HDDs Revealed

Since hybrid drives are bound to become the favored storage solution for ultrabooks, Western Digital is preparing its camp. True, the company has been designing and selling hybrid HDDs for months, but CES 2013 saw the appearance of the WD Black series. Made of two drives, for now, it combined magnetic platter stora...

10 January 2013
06:57 GMT

CES 2013: Polaroid’s M10 Tablet Costs Only $229 (€175)

The Android tablet market has recently received yet another member, as Polaroid has decided to roll out its M10 10.1-inch device at the 2013 CES in Las Vegas. Just like its smaller sibling M7, M10 comes with a resolution of 1,280 x 800 pixels, and boasts a quad-core Cortex A7 processor and 1GB of RAM. Of course, it...

10 January 2013
06:53 GMT

CES 2013: Snooki Launches Fashionable Line of Audio Gear – Video

Snooki is not all about fashion, she can also do technology if she wants. The pint-sized reality star, who is now virtually moving up in the world at the speed of light, is further expanding the Snooks brand with a new line of glitzy audio gear. “Glitzy” being key word here. Snooki took Las Vegas by s...

10 January 2013
06:50 GMT

CES 2013: Viewsonic Unveils 24-Inch Android 4.1 Smart Display

Even though this year’s CES in Las Vegas has been all about Windows 8 tablets, Viewsonic used the trade fair to introduce the company’s latest smart display tablet with a 24-inch screen. Codenamed VSD240, the device integrates a HD LED display with a resolution of 1920x1080 pixels. It runs Android 4.1 Je...

10 January 2013
05:55 GMT

CES 2013: PC-A02, Lian Li's Only Micro-ATX Case

Lian Li has some of the strangest cases up for sale, but that doesn't mean it doesn't make normal ones too, as evident from its CES 2013 exhibition. The chassis in the photo above is called PC-A02 and is the only micro-ATX case at Lian Li's booth in Las Vegas. Measuring 188 x 460 x 386 mm (7.40 x 1...

10 January 2013
05:39 GMT

CES 2013: Antec and In Win Release Mid-Tower ATX PC Cases

Cases may not be the first things that make the news during events like the Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2013), but they are usually more numerous than other devices, so they can't exactly be overlooked. Antec and In Win are just two companies that brought such products to this year's edition, in Las Ve...

10 January 2013
05:21 GMT

Will.i.am Checked Out Ubuntu Phone at CES 2013

CES 2013 has been kind with Canonical and its Ubuntu Phone OS, and they have managed to get a lot of media attention, and especially from one particular celebrity. The Ubuntu stand at CES 2013 has seen a lot of activity. A lot of videos and images have popped up all over the internet. Mark Shuttelworth himself has s...

10 January 2013
04:41 GMT

CES 2013: This Cool iPad Stylus Doubles as a Ball Pen

Accessory maker LUNATIK is at CES showing off a range of protective iPhone cases, as well as a cool stylus for iPhone and iPad that doubles as a regular pen. Apple’s iDevices require touch input to respond to commands and you can’t use iOS apps wearing a glove, for example. However, iPhones and iPads do...

10 January 2013
04:21 GMT

CES 2013: Dell Latitude 10 Essentials Windows 8 Tablet

Windows 8 tablets have been having trouble selling because they are simply too expensive compared to iPads, Android tablets and even Windows RT ones. Dell is doing something about the problem. Last year in October (2012), Dell released the Latitude 10 tablet, which carried the price of $650 / 650 Euro. Curiously e...

10 January 2013
03:49 GMT

Watch: Windows 8 Tablet Gets Dropped and Drowned

Panasonic has used the 2013 CES in Las Vegas to unveil its new Toughpad FZ-G1, a Windows 8 tablet that can withstand severe hits, water and dust. Because it runs Windows 8, and we all know how important Windows 8 actually is for Microsoft’s future, the Redmond-based software company has rolled out a clip to sh...

10 January 2013
03:33 GMT

CES 2013: First AMD Motherboard with PCI Express 3.0 Launched by ASUS

AMD's chipsets and processors, unlike Intel's, do not support the PCI Express 3.0 interface, which is why motherboard makers didn't bother including the interface in their designs, until now. ASUS figured that if AMD's chipsets didn't have what it took to run PCI Express 3.0 x 16 slots, it ...

10 January 2013
03:19 GMT

CES 2013: Samsung Shows Prototypes with YOUM Flexible OLED

As if the development of an 8-core processor for mobile phones was not enough, Samsung unveiled yet another breakthrough advancement in mobile technology, in the form of a smartphone prototype that sports a flexible display. Unveiled under the YOUM brand, the new Flexible OLED screen opens the door to devices with ...

10 January 2013
02:58 GMT

CES 2013: Samsung Shows Exynos 5 Octa CPU for Handsets and Tablets

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics appears ready to make the next step in the evolution of smartphones, and came to the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas with new technology in its pocket, set to show that this is indeed possible. During the company’s keynote at the event, Samsung&r...

10 January 2013
02:36 GMT

CES 2013: Mushkin Reveals PCI Express Enterprise SSDs

Mushkin has multiple NAND Flash storage devices on display at CES, but we haven't looked at the Scorpion PCI Express SSDs, so we will do that now. Just like the new USB 3.0 flash drives, the Scorpion SSDs use the SandForce SF-2281 controller. These aren't the first Scorpion SSDs to see the light of day. M...

9 January 2013
12:21 GMT

CES 2013: Rosewill’s Dual-Bay SATA HDD Dock

Those not physically present in Las Vegas, Nevada might be tempted to think that cases, peripherals and pretty lights are all that Rosewill has to show at its booth. This is not so, according to reports. The company also has a docking station for SATA hard drives that, for some reason or another, lay around uselessl...

9 January 2013
11:03 GMT

CES 2013: MSI Reveals Its First Keyboards

Since we've already seen MSI's usual brood, we may as well take a look at the oddballs in the company's CES 2013 exhibition. And by oddballs we mean the first ever peripherals that the company has created, though likely not the last. Two keyboards have been introduced, called GK Series and GS Series....

9 January 2013
10:53 GMT

CES 2013: Another TP-Link Wireless Router, This Time with Two Bands

While TP-Link's Pocket Router is ready to tackle the needs of people on-the-go, the company has launched a different device for the homes of the well-off. We are referring to a dual-band wireless router called N600 Universal Wireless Dual Band Entertainment Adapter. With the codename TL-WA3164EA, it has four p...

9 January 2013
10:48 GMT

CES 2013: MSI Has Its Own X79 Motherboard

Since EVGA and ASUS have both released E-ATX motherboards with LGA 2011 sockets, Micro-Star International has done so as well. The LGA 2011 socket is the one reserved for Intel's mightiest CPUs, the Ivy Bridge-E (which won't be out for months) and the Sandy Bridge-E (which are already out). MSI's m...

9 January 2013
10:24 GMT

CES 2013: Mushkin Also Launches Normal Enterprise SSDs

Having introduced new USB 3.0 flash drives and PCI Express solid-state drives, Mushkin is rounding up its product lineup with normal SSDs. Truth be told, Mushkin formally announced all these products at the same time, and arranged them all next to one another at its booth in Las Vegas, Nevada, at CES. The ProSpec ...

9 January 2013
10:18 GMT

CES 2013: Panasonic Launches Windows 8 Tablet That Survives Drops, Rain and Dust

While Microsoft’s very own Surface RT is made of vapor magnesium to withstand very severe hits, Panasonic’s Toughpad FZ-G1 is the kind of device that has the power to deal with drops, rain and dust. Launched today at CES 2013, the device comes with a 10.1-inch screen offering a full HD 1920x1080 resoluti...

9 January 2013
09:52 GMT

CES 2013: BlackBerry 10 Demoed on Z10, It Feels Intuitive, Impressive

With just three weeks left until BlackBerry 10’s official launch, Research In Motion is testing its first devices with more than 150 carriers around the globe. Some of them have already confirmed they will carry one or both BlackBerry 10 smartphones that will be announced on January 30, while others are still ...

9 January 2013
09:47 GMT

CES 2013: TP-Link Intros Impressive Pocket Router

Routers are box-like devices, with varying aesthetic value, that use antennas to provide web connectivity by exploiting the principles of electromagnetism. They are, sadly, also a bit complicated to install, and they aren't always easy to take along on a trip. TP-LINK decided to make a router specially designe...

9 January 2013
09:30 GMT

CES 2013: 20-Inch 4K Tablet Revealed by Panasonic

2012 was the year of 3D, and 2013 seems to have become the year of 4K resolution, or UHD: 3840 x 2160. Panasonic is definitely adding credibility to that train of thought, having actually made a 4K tablet. Some may have been tempted to think that the 56-inch OLED, the largest ever OLED TV, would be Panasonic's...

9 January 2013
08:58 GMT

CES 2013: LENMAR Unveils Apple-Approved iPhone 5 Battery Case

The Apple-certified Meridian iPhone Battery Case from LENMAR is now in full swing, according to its creators, who are showing off the product at the 2013 International CES Show in Las Vegas. Demonstrating its iPhone 5 battery case at Booth #5222 in the North Hall, LENMAR is proud to state, “We have just receiv...

9 January 2013
08:55 GMT


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