New Dell Venue 7 and 8 with Intel Merrifield Available in the US, Starting at $160 / €116

Earlier this month, the new Dell Venue 7 and 8 tablets were spotted making a stop at the FCC, so it was pretty clear to us they were going to be making it into retail soon enough.

Well, this day has come and now Dell has announced both slates have been made available in the US. The original Venue tablets were introduced back in 2013 and now Dell is taking an opportunity to refresh the lineup by bumping their speech sheet a little bit.

First off, the two tablets now enjoy the services of the Intel Merrifield platform. The 8-inch model delivers FHD resolution (1920 x 1200 pixels) while relying on a 2.1GHz Intel Atom CPU Z3480. The tablets are fitted with 1GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage (expandable via microSD card).

The 7-incher doesn’t offer the same advanced resolution, limiting itself to bringing just 1280 x 800 res to the tablet. The CPU under the hood is an Intel Atom Z3460. Both slates run Android 4.4 KitKat out of the box, so you won’t have to wait for any soft updates if you purchase this bunch.

The 7-inch will take you back with $159 / €116, while the 8-incher will sell for $199 / €146. You can pick up both from the Dellwebsite.

Nokia Lumia 930 Goes on Sale Worldwide; Listed as 'Coming Soon' in India

Microsoft on Monday has announced the availability of its recently unveiled Lumia 930. Priced at $599 (approximately Rs. 35,800), the sales of Lumia 930 will begin this week in Asia, Europe and the Middle East. The company also said that "further rollout throughout the world (except the US) will continue over the coming weeks."

The Lumia 930 was first unveiled in April at Microsoft's Build 2014 conference along with the Lumia 630 and Lumia 635.

The smartphone is already listed on various online retailers (Buy Nokia Lumia 930 from Flipkart, Infibeam, HomeShop18) in India without price.

The Nokia Lumia 930 features single-SIM support and runs Windows Phone 8.1 out-of-the-box. It features a 5-inch full-HD (1080x1920 pixel) ClearBlack OLED display with a pixel density of 441ppi. The display boasts of a Gorilla Glass 3 screen, the 'Super Sensitive Touch' feature, and 'a near 180-degree viewing angle'. The Lumia 930 is powered by a 2.2GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 SoC coupled with 2GB of RAM, and 32GB of built-in storage.

It sports a 20-megapixel PureView camera with dual-LED flash, which has optical image stabilisation (OIS) and Carl Zeiss optics. A front-facing 1.2-megapixel wide-angle camera is onboard as well, apart from four directional microphones and integrated Dolby Surround Sound. The Nokia Lumia 930 comes in 32GB of built-in storage (additional 7GB free OneDrive cloud storage), but there is no expansion option for microSD card.

Various connectivity options on the Lumia 930 include Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi direct, Bluetooth 4.0, NFC, Micro-USB, 3G and LTE. The Lumia 930 runs on a 2420mAh battery which is rated for up to 21.7 hours of 2G talk time and 17.9 hours of 3G talk time. Other than that the Lumia 930 smartphone also boasts of built-in wireless charging. It measures 137x71x9.8 mm and weighs 167 grams.

Featuring an aluminium frame with metallic accents, and a curved polycarbonate back, the smartphone comes in Bright Orange, Bright Green, Black and White colours. The Nokia Lumia 930 comes with OneDrive, MS Office, Nokia Camera, MixRadio and HERE Maps, as well as specific imaging apps, such as Nokia Camera, Nokia Storyteller, Nokia Creative Studio and Nokia Refocus, pre-installed.

NVIDIA GTX 750 Ti Review A budget contender

currently the best graphic card in low price.

OUR REVIEW

This card performs well for a card that comes with no power connectors. While AAA games won't play at maximum configuration, a small sacrifice on the configuration can help with that. The cards are priced Rs.9900 for the GTX 750 and Rs.11,990 for the GTX 750 Ti. We see that this card could end up being popular in the Indian market owing to the performance that it delivers at this price point. 

The latest GPU architecture from NVIDIA came out today and they are calling it Maxwell. This doesn’t mean that they are going to launch the 800 series immediately. We are yet to see the GTX 790 and what we hear could be an improvement over the GTX TITAN . You can read more about it here. So Maxwell is coming into the picture with the launch of the GTX 750 and the GTX 750 Ti. The details of these two cards are mentioned below.

	GeForce GTX 650 Ti	GeForce GTX 750 Ti	GeForce GTX 750
GPU	GK106	GM107	GM107
Manufacturing process	28nm	28nm	28nm
CUDA cores	768	640	512
TMUs	64	40	32
ROPs	16	16	16
GPU Clock	928 MHz	1020 / 1085 MHz	1020 / 1085 MHz
Memory Clock	1350 MHz	1350 MHz	1250 MHz
Video Memory	1GB GDDR5	2GB GDDR5	1GB GDDR5
Memory Bus	128-bit	128-bit	128-bit
TDP	110W	60W	55W

So the new card is and entry level GPU meant to replace the GTX 650 Ti but with a little difference that seems to be highlighted everywhere in the press release that NVIDIA came out with – that the performance/watt has gone up to a much higher level. For the previous generation most manufacturers only had the GTX 640 which could run off the motherboard’s power-supply. Anything greater would require a 6-pin PCIE power connector. There do exist GTX 650 SKUs by board partners that don’t require a power connector but the clock speed on those units have been scaled down to make do with the reduced power input.

The GTX 750 and the GTX 750 Ti are supposed to replace the GTX 650 Ti which occupied the mid-segment in the current line up till today.

Samsung Galaxy Mega 2 Tipped with 5.9-Inch HD Display, 64-Bit Processor Snapdragon 410

There are lots of rumors surrounding Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Mega phablet, but most of the details we got are probably referring to some of the prototypes that are now being tested in the wild.

The latest info on the alleged Samsung Galaxy Mega 2 comes via Dutch website Techtastic, which spotted the smartphone onGFXBench database where most of its specs are revealed.

According to the benchmarking website, the Galaxy Mega 2 should boast a huge 5.9-inch HD (720p) capacitive touchscreen display, but this is not the only major feature that will be part of the phablet.

It appears that the Galaxy Mega 2 will be equipped with a Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 410 chipset, which features a 64-bit capable quad-core processor clocked at 1.4GHz, and an Adreno 306 graphics processing unit.

The smartphone is also listed with 2GB of RAM and 8GB of internal memory. The Galaxy Mega 2 is also supposed to pack an impressive 13-megapixel rear-facing camera with full HD video recording, as well as a no less impressive 5-megapixel front-facing photo snapper for that perfect selfie.

Samsung Galaxy Mega 2 is powered by Android 4.4.3 KitKat operating system out of the box, but it might get released with a newer version. What do you think about Samsung’s new phablet in the Galaxy Mega family?