With Nokia X, the company introduced a radical new UI that was inspired from windows Phone’s metro UI. But not all of us want our Android phone to look like a WP device. For those who prefer stock android look prefer AOSP / vanilla look.
An XDA user has released vanilla Android 4.1.2 for the Nokia X. To flash it you will require CWM or TWRP custom recoveries installed on our phone.
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Pocketbook has launched its latest eReader called Ultra with 6 inch Carta eE Ink display. It also comes with an unusual feature that you normally do not find in an eReader – a camera. Yes the Pocketbook Ultra is equipped with a camera on the back that lets you take pictures of documents and convert them into text files.
After that you can read them on the Ultra’s high contrast epaper display. So it is not only a camera for taking selfies and casual photos but it also acts as OCR that stands for optical character recognition.
Other specifications are not available yet but we have been told that it does come with touchscreen display and WiFi. Expected price is EUR 199.
It would not be making its way to United States as Pocketbook has never sold a thing here. Concrete release date is not specified but one German listing says it will start shipping by end of May.
Sony has released three portal hard disk drives PSZ-HA1T, PSZ-HA50 and PSZ-HA2T that look tough and rugged. All of them look and feel the same but have different storage capacities and of course price tags.
PSZ-HA1T, PSZ-HA50 and PSZ-HA2T have 1TB, 500GB and 2TB storage capacities respectively. Price start for $270 / €197 for the 2TB model.
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According to many reports brewing across the Internet, the Nokia Lumia 630 and 635 does not come with a built in proximity or ambient light sensor, but that is not true.
Nokia has itself confirmed that both Lumia windows phones come with proximity sensor as well as ambient light one. Proximity senses objects in front of screen while ambient one controls the brightness of the display. Here is the screenshot that shows that it has both.
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Toshiba has released four new 13.3 inch laptops in business series, Portege under R30-A series. Four models under this series along with their prices are:
* Portege R30-A-15C: Core i7-4600M vPro, FULL HD, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD, 1,999 EUR
* Portege R30-A-14G: Core i7-4600M vPro, Full HD, 4GB RAM, 256GB SSD, 1949 Euro
* Portege R30-A-157: Core i5-4200M, HD, 4 GB RAM, 128 GB SSD, 1,399 EUR
* Portege R30-A-13X Core i3-4000M, HD, 4 GB RAM, 500 GB HDD, 1,049 EUR
All look and feel similar measuring 316 x 227 x 26.6 millimeters and weighing about 1.5 kilograms. Common specifications include USB 3.0, optional LTE / UMTS, WiFi, HDMI, VGA, fast SSD and 500 gigabyte hard drive.
It shall be noted that none of these Toshiba laptops are touch enabled. If touchscreen is something you want you might have to take a look around elsewhere.
Oppo Find 7a has gone up for pre order and the company has told us that it is going to retail for EUR 399. Its specifications includes a 5.5 -inch Full HD display with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels. The smartphone is powered by a Snapdragon 801 processor operating at 2.3 GHz and backed by 2 GB of RAM.
The internal memory is 16 GB and can be expanded with a microSD card. On the back there is a 13 MP camera that can also shoot 50 megapixel photos. In the super-zoom mode, objects located far-off can be captured really well. The quality of the images is very impressive.
Former employees of the Chinese smartphone company, Oppo have teamed up in a company called OnePlus that intends to bring high-end technology and features at low prices. Their upcoming flagship “One” is based on a modified CyanogenMod running Android 4.4 KitKat OS. It offers a 5.5 inch large IPS display with a resolution of 1,920 x 1,080 pixels. The highlight is the processor: A Snapdragon 801 with 2.3 GHz clock speed which makes it similar to the new HTC One M8 2014 model and the Samsung Galaxy S5.
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The new HTC One M8 was released officially last week in London and New York. This Android phone is now on sale in Amazon Germany with a price tag of EUR 679. However, only the dark gray model is available. The phone will also go on sale for Dhs 2,750 in the UAE. Gold edition is also made available exclusively here.
Lenovo has launched a battery replacement program where it is recalling batteries of ThinkPad T410, T420, T510, W510, X100e, X120e, X200, X201 and X201s and Edge 11, 13 and 14. It shall be noted that not all units are affected and those with following product numbers are affected.
43R9255, 51J0500, 57Y4186, 57Y4564, 57Y4565, 57Y4625, 57Y4559, 43R9254 and 0A36277.
Elgato has released Thunderbolt Dock that adds extra ports by connecting a single port to the back of any Mac. It is a must-have and a very useful accessory for Macbook Air users which is really scarce on the ports-end.
Thunderbolt Dock from Elgato includes 9 ports and one more for 12V power adapter. There are a dedicated thunderbolt port for the input and one for daisy chaining extra peripherals such as HDMI, Ethernet and 3x USB 3.0 ports.
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