| 'Leaked' Nokia Lumia PureView concept images brandish bright colors, chunky profile Apr 6th 2012, 22:53  Take the smartphone camera sensor that was the toast of MWC, add in the burgeoning Windows Phone platform and this might be what you might get. Although we hope -- and suspect -- that it isn't. Sneaking out from China with some judicious pixelation, the phones look pretty... dynamic. With a profile more often associated with those tough, rubberized feature phones, the color gamut of black, magenta and yellow is at least very new-generation Nokia. But, if the concept hardware wasn't incredulous enough, wait 'til you hear the specs. A neat paragraph on one slide explains that this Lumia PureView would feature a 4.3-inch curved high-definition touchscreen (a first for Windows Phone), a dual-core process with an Adreno 320 GPU (yet another first) and Nokia's intriguing 41-megapixel camera sensor peeping out from behind a Carl Zeiss lens. We're looking at these renders through some high-prescription skeptic goggles and reckon it's an unlikely new direction for Nokia's hardware design. However, that's not to say a tie-up between Nokia's PureView tech and Microsoft isn't somewhere along the pipeline... 'Leaked' Nokia Lumia PureView concept images brandish bright colors, chunky profile originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 06 Apr 2012 18:53:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink  WMPoweruser |  IT168 | Email this | Comments | | Lenovo K800's initial benchmark scores look promising, but not ambitious Apr 6th 2012, 21:31 If Lenovo's sticking to its promise, it should only be another two months maximum before its Intel Medfield-powered K800 smartphone debuts in China. Until then, we won't know the full potential of the 1.6GHz Atom Z2460 powering Ice Cream Sandwich, but we do have the next best thing for now: what we've just obtained are some benchmark results from a K800 prototype with Android 2.3.7, and while the graphics performance wasn't top notch this time round, the general score performance came close to that of the Galaxy Note (powered by a 1.4GHz dual-core Exynos chipset). However, the K800 did beat pretty much everyone -- including the brand-spanking-new One X and One S from HTC -- in the SunSpider 0.91 Javascript test, where it only took 1,270ms to complete! What remains to be seen is whether Medfield will really deliver a better battery performance than its competitors; so until we find the answer (along with improved scores) on a final unit, you'll just have to make do with our list of scores after the break. Continue reading Lenovo K800's initial benchmark scores look promising, but not ambitious Lenovo K800's initial benchmark scores look promising, but not ambitious originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 06 Apr 2012 17:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | | Email this | Comments | | Samsung's Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1-inch) priced at $399, still unavailable for purchase Apr 6th 2012, 20:57 Office Depot probably isn't the first place you'd think to look for Samsung's incoming Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1), but it looks to be the first legitimate retailer to throw a price tag on the aforementioned slate. Just weeks after cruising through the FCC, the Tab 2 is now being shown with a $399.99 price. Granted, that's for the lowly 8GB model, but it's still a step in the right direction -- you know, towards folks who would like to pay less than $499 for a 10-inch tablet. As of now, it's still impossible to actually check out with one, but those feeling lucky can hit the source link and get 'er a go. [Thanks, Dube] Samsung's Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1-inch) priced at $399, still unavailable for purchase originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 06 Apr 2012 16:57:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Office Depot | Email this | Comments | |
