Buying Guide: Best high resolution and multi GPU graphics cards: 10 reviewed
The road to 4K gaming
Want to justify that £829 graphics card you just bought? Need to figure out how to drive that massive-o-screen that almost melted your credit card? Well, the only realistic answer is either incredibly high-resolution gaming or going for a multi-GPU setup that might melt your PSU, as well as your personal wealth.
The thing is, despite the fact that graphical hardware has evolved at an astounding rate over the last few years, panel and game technology hasn’t really kept up.…
HTC One Google Edition ‘is real’ and will launch this summer, report claims
The hotly-tipped ‘pure Android’ incarnation of the HTC One handset will arrive this summer, according to a report on Friday night.
CNET claimed to have "confirmed" that the handset, which would dispense with HTC’s polarising Sense UI in favour of the stock Android Jelly Bean 4.2 operating system, is definitely on the way.
The claim follows reports earlier on Friday claiming that the handset would be launched within two weeks, although CNET’s sources only quoted a "summer" release timeframe.…
Intel’s power-saving Haswell chips to boost laptop battery life by 50 per cent
Apple MacBooks and Windows laptops with Intel’s new Haswell chips will benefit from a 50 per cent boost in battery life, the company has claimed.
The new generation of processors, which will focus on lowering power consumption without compromising on performance, are set to be officially unveiled at next month’s Computex show in Taipei.
According to Rani Borkar, corporate VP and GM of the Intel Architecture Group, the Haswell processors will offer a huge improvement over the current-gen Ivy Bridge chips when it comes to battery longevity.…
Is the Samsung Galaxy S4′s camera really better than the iPhone 5′s?
Apple’s iPhone range has long been the standard bearer for smartphone cameras, but it has now been bested by its great rival Samsung, according to new tests.
In photo and video tests DxO Labs, the Samsung Galaxy S4 camera performed higher than the Apple iPhone 5 by an overall score of 75 to 72.
The Galaxy S4 ousted Apple as well as the Nokia Lumia 920 in most of the main categories for photos and videos and was especially good in bright light, according to the tests.…
Google and Microsoft to co-develop YouTube app for Windows Phone
Microsoft and Google have put aside their differences and agreed to work together to finally give Windows Phone users an official YouTube app.
Microsoft had incurred Google’s wrath by launching its own YouTube app which did not serve advertisements, leading the search giant to demand its removal.
Microsoft responded by saying it would be happy to work with Google, but cannot add advertisements without the company’s technical know-how.
It seems the olive branch was well received at Mountain View and the two sides will now align for a forthcoming, shiny, official YouTube app.…
Report: No reactivation fees for used Xbox One games
Questions remain regarding Microsoft’s official stance on used games for the Xbox One, although one report claims there’ll be no fee to reactivate the titles on users’ consoles.
Earlier this week, it was hinted that anyone purchasing a second hand game would need to pay a re-authentication fee when installing the game in order to transfer ownership onto their console.
However, Polygon sources claimed once the new game is installed on the Xbox One, the old account will automatically become deactivated and the license will belong to the new owner.…
Did you just buy a new phone? Tell us about it
Just bought a shiny new Galaxy S4? Showing off your sleek new HTC One? Holding it down with a BlackBerry Z10? Tapping away on a new Q10? Bucking the trend with a Sony Xperia ZL?
We know you love your phones, otherwise you wouldn’t put up with our blathering all week long. We also know you love talking about your new phones!
After having spent a bunch of time with these new releases, we’ve formed our own opinions, which you can read in our many recent reviews.…
Updated: CTIA 2013: our top 5 moments
Top 5 moments
The book is closed on the final spring CTIA ever. Starting in 2014, this show and the fall’s MobileCon will be combined into one super show, and we must say, thank goodness.
While this conference wasn’t completely lacking in new tech to check out and brains to pick, it was by and large a lackluster affair.
There were a few gems in the sands of this Expo center, however, and we’ve compiled our list of the top 5 moments from CTIA 2013 right here.…
Interview: Microsoft on WP8, Build 2013 and how it will win the cheap phone wars
Microsoft skipped out on making major announcements at this year’s CTIA, but in a catacomb of meeting rooms beneath the main show floor, Senior Marketing Manager Greg Sullivan made sure the company and its Windows Phone 8 weren’t forgotten.
Sullivan’s energy about WP8 was palpable; he quickly pointed to IDC figures that show Windows Phone has overtaken BlackBerry for the third spot in the mobile OS race. It’s still far beyond Android and iOS, but that did nothing to dampen Sullivan’s spirits.…
Microsoft predicts record-breaking Xbox 360, Xbox One sales
Reports of the Xbox 360′s death are greatly exaggerated. Sure, Microsoft announced Xbox One this week, but the company is still hoping to sell a total of 100 million Xbox 360 consoles.
"We believe over the next five years we can break a 100 million unit installed base," said Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft’s senior vice president of Interactive Entertainment Business to the Official Xbox Magazine.
These rough numbers would mean that Microsoft would have to sell another 23 million Xbox 360 systems, having last reported 77.2 million units sold worldwide in April.…
