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HTC Sense 3.5 beta screenshots leak, bring tears of joy to weather widget lovers originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If you’re a sucker for juicy handset rumors, then this one’s for you. A few months ago, a supposed Samsung roadmap leaked, revealing a slew of new Android, Bada and WP7 handsets on the horizon. Today, a picture purporting to be one of those phones, the GT-19220 (W43) surfaced, complete with some specs to further grease the rumor mill. Word on the web says that the Sammy will have a 1280 x 720 Super AMOLED Plus display that measures in at 5.29 inches diagonally — even bigger than the 5-inch Dell Streak tablet. If our observational geometry is right, we’d say that screen size is probably pretty accurate. Rather than taking tablet status like the Dell, however, it seems bound to be the Galaxy S II’s big brother, as sources claim it’s running Gingerbread with a 1.4GHz dual-core processor and packs an 8 megapixel camera. Of course, these specs can’t be officially confirmed until the phone is launched, but it’s safe to say it’s likely a part of the Android army taking on the iPhone 5 this fall.

Update: Alas, as many of you have pointed out in comments, there’s not a lot of truth to this story. First, both devices you’re seeing above appear to actually be PMPs, not phones — the Galaxy S players we’ve seen before. Secondly, we’re hearing the actual name of this supposed smartphone is GT-i9220, not 19220.

Samsung’s GT-19220 shows up in leaked photos, preps for battle with iPhone 5? (update: nope!) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’re still trying to wrap our heads around yesterday’s sounding of what will most likely be the death knell for webOS. The fine folks over at The Next Web have offered some insight, and it seems that hardware was the problem. It’s no secret that the TouchPad was released with a single-core chip in an age of dual-core tablets and super phones. As we noted in our review, the device simply couldn’t keep up with the competition. According to TNW’s sources, developers actually managed to port webOS over to the iPad 2 for testing purposes, and it ran “over twice as fast.” It’s not terribly surprising that Apple’s dual-core A5 chip was able to outpace the single 1.2GHz core found inside the TouchPad, but It may seem strange that the 1.2GHz chip inside the TouchPad was so easily outclassed by the slower clocked A5, but Apple’s chip is sporting faster Cortex-A9 architecture, while HP relied on Qualcomm’s slower A8-based Snapdragon. It seems that the hardware constraints were ultimately what did in the Linux-based mobile OS.

Update: This article incorrectly stated that the TouchPad shipped with a single-core processor. It was in fact a dual-core Snapdragon APQ8060.

Was webOS tested on an iPad, HP done in by its slower hardware? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Aug 2011 08:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’ve seen a few leaks from HTC lately, and now we’ve got the scoop on two more. And get this: one is being developed just for aspiring hip-hop moguls! Okay, not really… but a couple of new names were filed with the USPTO last week, as it keeps spittin’ game in the mobile marketplace. Four total trademark applications were filed for the HTC Enamor and HTC Rhyme — covering smartphones and tablets along with their hardware and software cohorts. No specs have been revealed (or much else) as of yet, but if you’d like to scope out the particulars for yourself, hit the source links below.

HTC files trademarks for Enamor and Rhyme, keeps on hustlin’ originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:08:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on June 09, 2008 by CyberNet.

Supercomputers have always been interesting to me because of the sheer power that they harness, and someday I would like to see one first-hand. According to Wikipedia though a “quad-core Xeon workstation running at 2.66 GHz will outperform a multimillion dollar Cray C90 supercomputer used in the early 1990s.” So having you’re own personal supercomputer isn’t out of the question, but don’t expect to break any records like the newly unveiled IBM Roadrunner does.

The $133 million IBM Roadrunner supercomputer takes the crown with its smashing 1.026 quadrillion calculations it’s capable of performing every second. It’s twice as fast as the IBM BlueGene/L located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Calfornia, which was the previous record holder. The IBM Roadrunner’s home is in New Mexico at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. It will primarily be used for military purposes, such as making sure their nuclear weapons will continue to work properly as they age, and also simulating the first fraction of a second during a nuclear explosion.

The IBM Roadrunner is composed of 6,480 dual-core Opterons with a whopping 51.8TB of RAM. To give you a sense it’s power the administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration said that if all 6 billion people on earth used hand calculators 24/7 it would take 46 years to accomplish what this supercomputer can do in one day.

What they don’t want you to know about is the “classified” LAN party they have there every night for playing Crysis. Nah, just kidding. It’s running Red Hat Enterprise Linux so there won’t be too much gaming going on there.

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