May 24, 2012

Whoever said that QWERTY keyboards are dead? AT&T just launched Samsung Galaxy Appeal, an Android smartphone with a slide form factor and full QWERTY keyboard. The phone will be part of the GoPhone prepaid lineup beginning July 15. AT&T says it will be the first of slider QWERTY available for GoPhone customers. Design There’s nothing new here....

May 23, 2012

There’s no sense in recording video games you play, at least, from an average user’s standpoint. But for hard-core gamers it means the world to them. Recording played video games allows serious gamers to examine every move made so they can do better next time. Some also use this feature for creating walkthroughs that can benefit less experienced gamers. And...

May 22, 2012

Jetpack 4G LTE MiFi 4620L has been on sale at Verizon for a while now. The $49.99 device acts as a mobile hotspot for connecting multiple devices to the internet, all on the same time. Pros Jetpack 4620L is extremely handy. You can easily slip it into your pocket and literally turn yourself into a walking WiFi hotspot. Just as its name suggests, it is capable...

May 22, 2012

Thunderbolt is the next-generation I/O interface that significantly boosts file transfer rates. With transfer rates of up to 10 Gbps, Intel says that it can transfer a full-length HD movie in less than 30 secs. Compare that to USB 2.0 and it is generations ahead in both read and write speeds. Asus today announced P8Z77-V Premium, a mainboard that supports the...

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...