May 22, 2012

NVIDIA quietly launched three new graphics processors – GeForce GT 610, 620, and 630. Contrary to previous reports, they aren’t based on the 28nm Kepler architecture like GTX 690, 670, and 680. Rather the new line of GeForce graphics cards is based on Fermi, a last-generation design. The 40nm architecture of Fermi is a standard in entry-level desktops and...

May 22, 2012

During this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, MSI showed off a mainboard based on Intel’s Z77 chipset – Z77A-GD80. It was capable of supporting 22nm processors, aka Ivy Bridge. The second most interesting detail is the fact that Thunderbolt was integrated to it. It is one of the few Thunderbolt mainboards announced today, with one of them...

May 22, 2012

AT&T has gone full throttle on Windows Phones and two of their latest offers are Nokia Lumia 900 and Samsung Focus 2. While they belong to different categories – Lumia 900 being high end and Focus 2 being midrange – choosing one over another proves to be difficult. For the most part, both smartphones share similar hardware but each has an advantage over...

May 21, 2012

Zoom H2 was a portable audio recorder released in 2007. Although it looked like a man’s electric shaver, it had great specs and was capable of recording and playing back MP3 and WAV audio formats. The newly announced Zoom H2n – also dubbed “H2next” – succeeds the 2007 release and borrows the same design concept. And since there’s a five-year gap...

May 21, 2012

The LG Optimus 4G LTE was quite a successful device when it first launched, although it was plagued by bad battery life and some software issues. This year, LG is coming back with the Optimus LTE2 – a high end smartphone that is basically the release version of the Optimus 4X HD prototype we’ve seen at the beginning of the year. The phone is launching in...