Intel’s curious decision to shun the US and release Medfield-powered smartphones in India, China, Russia and the UK might be because of those countries’ underdeveloped levels of LTE. Marketing chief Sumeet Syal told TechCrunch that its current-generation x86 system-on-chip won’t support the standard, but a modem solution will arrive at the end of the year — with production ramping up in 2013. He also let slip to the site that a replacement dual-core platform will arrive shortly, claiming they’ll benefit from Intel’s hyper threading know-how. Syal said that Santa Clara is “comfortable” with its progress just months after entering the smartphone space but declined to discuss numbers — for which we’ll have to wait for the Q3 earnings call in October to find out how well (or not) Intel’s mobile ambitions are going.
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If you’ve surfed the internet long enough, you might have heard of the Slender Man, a (hopefully) not real creature that can also be found in the free video game, Slender: The Eight Pages. For those unfamiliar, it’s a horror-based video game in which players have to roam through a forest with only a torchlight where they will have to locate 8 pages. They will occasionally be stalked by the Slender Man where looking at him for long periods of time will drive the player insane (through the game, not in real life).
One of the downside to some of Nintendo’s games is that they are usually released for the Japanese market first before making its way into English-speaking countries. Granted some gamers don’t mind waiting, but for fans of the franchise this can be particularly frustrating. Now if you thought that by importing those games you might be able to work around the wait, even if means the game has not been translated, you’d be out of luck as apparently the upcoming Nintendo Wii U will be region-locked. This is not too surprising given that the Wii and the 3DS are both region-locked, so this is probably disappointing news to those who are hoping that will not be the case for the Wii U.
While rotary dial phones might have been popular back in the day, stepping into homes and offices these days you will be hard pressed to find these classic-looking phones. You might find them in restaurants but they’re usually there for decorative purposes. Well if you’d like to spice up your home decoration with something a little more vintage, then this rotary dial iPhone dock might be worth taking a look at. These aren’t mass produced and are instead put together by Bryan Sharp over at 
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