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Mozilla company develops mobile operating system Firefox OS. This week, it announced the release of smartphones designed for software developers for the new platform.

Product specifications look more perilous than amid plenty, advertised recently.
The device on the CPU Snapdragon S1, running at 1 GHz, was HVGA touchscreen display measuring 3.5 inches diagonally. The configuration includes 512 MB of RAM, 4 GB of flash memory, a slot microSD. The device supports Wi-Fi 802.11n, 2G and 3G, has a resolution of 3 megapixel camera, light and proximity sensors, an accelerometer, a receiver GPS, port USB. Powered smartphone Mozilla, designed for software developers, provides a battery capacity of 1580 mA ∙ h
Along with the above model called Keon (orange device in the picture) will be released more productive model Peak (white). She will get qHD screen size of 4.3 inches and two cameras – a resolution of 2 and 8 megapixels. This smartphone uses a dual-core Snapdragon S4, clocked at 1.2 GHz. In addition, the capacity of the battery it is increased up to 1800 mA ∙ h The rest of the specifications are the same.
On the conditions of distribution of new products source not reported, but it is known that delivery will begin in February.

According to the information portal SamMobile, GT-N5100 will have an 8-inch display with a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels and a TFT-matrix, 2 GB of RAM, 16 or 32GB of internal memory, Bluetooth 4.0, 5-megapixel primary and 1.3 megapixel front camera connector USB 2.0, microSD card slot and battery capacity of 4600 mAh.
A distinctive feature of the GT-N5100 should be to support the stylus S-PEN, which is familiar to all owners of the Galaxy Note II and Galaxy Note 10.1. The new tablet will run on Android 4.2 Jelly Bean and the device will be the fourth in the line of Note from Samsung. Exhibition Mobile World Congress 2013 held in Barcelona from February 25 to 28.

SSDs are now for the most part quite monotonous. In recent years, the market decided to try their luck, many if not most of the known companies that manufacture SSD close to the profile: mainly those who had previously produced the RAM modules. But the participation of most end SSD manufacturers in the preparation of the product was to install the controller and NAND-memory on the printed circuit board. Particularly unpretentious in this regard controllers SandForce – they are used by all and sundry, and the products differ only by case design and PCB.
With all the Marvell chip is more difficult, since a lot depends on the firmware. With a successful firmware can achieve outstanding results, but it has required additional capital investment and a serious team. The most successful examples of “dopilivaniya” chip Marvell, which we have tested – is Plextor M3 (M3 Pro) and OCZ Vertex 4.

Devices based on SandForce or Marvell constitute the vast majority of modern SSD. Especially interesting encounter with a completely new platform. Despite the fact that LAMD (Link A Media Devices) – a completely unknown brand to the end user, in fact, the company is not the first year in this business. Just prior to products intended for enterprise-storage devices. LAMD also produced controllers for hard disk drives (eg, Toshiba). This summer, it had swallowed a fish bigger – SK Hynix. The possible consequences of this transaction, we will discuss below.

Google and its partners, no doubt, are working to develop Nexus-the next generation of devices. Thanks to the Chinese PC Online resource web rumors about the possible characteristics of the device Nexus next generation. It is reported that by the end of the year can be held devices running Nexus 5 and Nexus 7.7.

According to rumors, LG may be the producer and the next smartphone Nexus, and ASUS – Nexus tablet manufacturer remain middle class. Phone named Nexus 5 can get a touch screen with a diagonal of 5 inches, and the tablet with the name Nexus 7.7 will display the corresponding diagonal.
The source reports that the two devices will be presented at the conference Google I / O, but there are still examples of running smartphone at the event was not, so it’s doubtful. Not to mention the fact that she rejected LG plans to launch Nexus 5 in the conference. However, the possibility of entering the unit at other times remains.

Rumors about the characteristics of Nexus 5 include a screen with a resolution of Full HD, powerful chip NVIDIA Tegra 4, as much as 2 GB of RAM, 13-megapixel rear camera and padded front and, of course, Google Android new generation. These features Nexus 7.7 is almost the same – the screen Full HD, Tegra chip 4, 2 GB of RAM and the same new version of Android. Despite the rather advanced features, both devices will be offered, allegedly, at a low price at a level 4 and a Nexus Nexus 7. Sounds good, but as long as all of this – just rumors.

Italian designer Federico Chikkareze (Federico Ciccarese) upset by the fact that Apple is not very indulge fans of the brand design diversity iPhone. So he proposed his own concept of the cult mobile phone and the design of its appearance, he borrowed a modest player in the style of iPod nano.

Author of the project said that in his version of iPhone 6 running platform iOSX, which combines the features of iOS and OS X. It has left its mark on the user interface of the phone, as well as its appearance, iPhone lost the call button on the home menu of the front panel, might have functional duplicated one of the buttons on the side of the chassis or a gesture command.

It must be noted, this concept iPhone 6 recalls not only iPod nano, and smartphones Nokia. At the bottom are speaker grilles, 3.5 mm jack for headphones, and a new interface Lightning. For this style of Apple could have recourse, really wished to release a low-cost version of its branded cell phone, similar to the iPod nano in this case is appropriate.

Peter Misek (Peter Misek), an analyst at Jeffries, published the results of a study that the production of the new smartphone from Apple will start very soon – in March this year. In selling the updated smartphone should arrive in June or July. While Peter Misek believes that Apple will not be much to update your device, and, staying true to the practice of recent years, will release a better version of the iPhone 5 with an index of S.

Thus, all of the major innovations, as before, we can only wait for the next generation, which is to get a number six in the title. The report also states that the company is likely already testing a new device, and Apple has produced two prototypes of the new iPhone.

January 30 simultaneously in six cities the company will introduce its new RIM BlackBerry OS 10 along with two smartphones, touchscreen monoblock Z10 and X10 hybrid solution with the usual hardware keyboard. European resources Telekom-Presse to be the first browser to unofficial preliminary version of the new mobile operating system and the test sample BlackBerry Z10.

The hardware part includes a 4.2 “screen with a resolution of 1280 x 768, the processor OMAP 4470 dual-core Cortex-A9 @ 1,5 GHz, two energy-efficient Cortex-M3 @ 266 MHz and a graphics accelerator PowerVR SGX544, 2 GB of RAM and 16 GB constant, of which under OS allocated about 600 MB. Disk space can be expanded with cards microSD.

The outline of a smartphone like the iPhone, though its performance is very different. Weight – 125 grams, measures 129 x 65 x 8 mm. Installed removable battery charge 2100 mAh. The screen is protected by scratch-resistant glass, the setting for several sides, the rear plastic cover – corrugated and placed it in the center of the graphic part of the logo BlackBerry. On the back of the upper left corner is a camera with LED-flash.

CES 2013 at the stands were many products to support the increasingly popular standard 4K, but Sony was able to release a similar product made ​​by the same technology OLED. The Japanese showed the world’s first 56 “OLED-TV with a resolution 3840h2160 pixels. Other specs are not yet announced, but one thing is certain: even if in the near future and this TV will go on sale, it will certainly be worth it, as a good business sedan class.

During the exhibition CES 2013 Nikon introduced two new mirrorless cameras. The family joined the Nikon 1 models J3 and S1. New products are an evolution of the model range, and do not offer anything new. At the heart of Nikon 1 J3 is the sensor with a resolution of 14.2 megapixels, while S1 is equipped with a 10.1-megapixel matrix. Both cameras can record video in Full HD-quality at 60 frames per second. Sales of cameras will begin next month.

It seems that this year should not expect a lot of announcements of smartphones equipped with screens with a diagonal of at least 5 inches. But the larger devices are emerging – such as China’s Huawei introduced the tablet smartphone Ascend Mate, equipped with a screen diagonal of 6.1 inches! In this case, the display resolution – only 1280×720 pixels, the other characteristics are as follows: 4-core processor Hi-Silicon with a clock speed of 1.5 GHz, the battery capacity of 4050 mAh, wireless modules Bluetooth 4.0, Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n, GPS, 2 GB of RAM and 8 GB of flash memory. Running the device running Android 4.1.