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Thought Thunderbolt was the only superfast interconnect in town? Well, it is and will be for a little while yet, but the PCI Special Interest Group has just held its annual meeting and developer conference in California, where plans for a 32Gbps PCIe cable were revealed. Details are still fluid on precisely what such a connector would look like and do, but the expectation is that it’ll be built out of copper wire, will be flatter and thinner than Thunderbolt’s rotund construction, and will be able to channel power as well as data through to devices up to 10 feet (3m) away. Targeting consumer applications, and extra skinny tablets and laptops in particular, this cabled variety of PCI Express will start off based on the 3.0 spec in 2013, but will then move on from there to PCI Express 4.0 and, potentially, optical data conveyance. Oh yes, PCIe 4.0 also got announced by the PCI SIG, though that’s at least four years away at this point — no need to sweat about having it in your next motherboard, not yet anyway.

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Some might argue that ASUS already has an ARM-powered Android laptop in its inventory thanks to the Eee Pad Transformer, however the company’s now been identified as planning a more spacious 13-inch notebook device, whose power and pricing could well be even more attractive than the Transformer’s. We should naturally be wary of the source here, DigiTimes having a record that’s as patchy as the grass at Wimbledon after the first week’s play, but the Taiwanese rumormonger says ASUS has already made launch plans for this 13-incher and will be using “NVIDIA’s processor” inside. What’s intriguing here is that in the paragraph immediately preceding that revelation, DigiTimes mentions quad-core ARM SOCs — of which the one nearest to release is NVIDIA’s Kal-El. Given the non-specificity of which NVIDIA processor we can expect, Kal-El’s projected August release date, and the fact that the chip has already figured in an ultraslim Windows 8 prototype laptop, we’d say there’s plenty of circumstantial evidence to stimulate dreams of quad-core Android laptop action. Additionally, DigiTimes points out that multiple vendors are gunning to offer ARM-powered notebooks with sub-$299 price points, aiming to gobble up market share with rock bottom pricing. Bring ’em on, we say.

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The next major upgrade to Opera Mini, code-named “Dimension,” is on the verge to being released to testers. Daniel from Opera Watch says that you have to be invited to be part of the Beta program and that you can be put on the list by providing your name and email address here.

He wasn’t able to say anything about what to expect in the new version of Opera Mini, but he did hint at a new way of navigating websites. Just to taunt us he had this to say about it:

I’ve been testing it for some time already, and have been truly impressed. Seeing what the tiny browser can do on my phone has blown me away.

In the Opera forum there is currently 16–pages of things people have been wanting to see in Opera Mini. I’ve been trying to think about what could be added to make navigating sites easier on phones. The first thing that popped into my head was voice navigation so that you can just say the name of a link to click on it. Then you could also command the browser to do things like opening a bookmark or scrolling down on the page. The Opera Desktop browser already has similar voice commands built-in, and something like this could make using the Opera Mini browser a lot easier.

That’s just my speculation, and I’m not sure how easy it would be to implement such a system on a mobile device. Most mobile devices have the microphone built-in, but the size of the application would probably be quite large if it included some sort of voice navigation.

So after you get done signing up for the Beta, feel free to leave a comment with your best guess as to what the new Opera Mini will have in store for us.

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Want something like the Samsung Series 9, but which costs a lot less money? We take a first peek at the small, light Series 3.

Yesterday, the Sony NEX-C3 was the world’s smallest interchangeable lens digital camera. It’s not anymore. That title now belongs to the Pentax Q. To achieve the camera’s incredibly small body size, Pentax had to shrink the sensor as well, making the Q not only the world’s smallest interchangeable lens camera (ILC), but also the cam with the world’s smallest sensor in an ILC. The Q uses a 12.4 megapixel, 1/2.3-inch backlit CMOS image sensor, manufactured by Sony — significantly smaller than the 4/3 and APS-C sensors used in Micro Four Thirds and Sony NEX-series cameras, respectively. As image quality is dependent on sensor size, the Q won’t be able to compete directly with any other ILC — instead, its images are most comparable to those you’d capture with a traditional digital compact (which, ahem, don’t cost $800).

The Q will ship in late September or early October with a 47mm f/1.9 kit lens for about $800, and will be available in black or white — abandoning the incredibly diverse color palette offered with other Pentax DSLRs. It will also be compatible with a 27.5-83mm zoom ($300), a 160-degree fisheye ($130), and 35mm and 100mm “toy camera” lenses ($80 each). The ILC will shoot 1080p/30 video with h.264 compression, 5 fps stills, and includes an HVGA-resolution 3-inch LCD and unique pop-up flash. A dedicated bokeh filter makes up for the camera’s natural inability to capture images with a shallow depth of field. During our brief hands-on, images captured at up to the Q’s highest available sensitivity of ISO 6400 appeared to be usable, at least based on a magnified LCD view (we weren’t permitted to capture images to our own SD card). The cam offers traditional DSLR capture modes, in addition a a variety of creative modes and Smart Effect Options, including an HDR capture mode. The version Pentax had on hand wasn’t fully baked, but jump past the break for our video walkthrough with a product manager.

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