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This week the folks at Acer have brought on a new H6 series of monitors, made to be the company’s newest and best in both hardware quality and media delivery. These monitors come in two sizes: 21.5-inch and 23-inch, with Full 1080p HP IPS panels delivering viewing angles up to 178 degrees – hot stuff! These two new SKUs will be available immediately if not soon at retailer near you as well as online across the country – have a peek!

With the 21.5-inch (H226HQL) and the 23-inch (H236HL) panels you’ll be working with the ability to tilt in a pretty great way – negative 5 degrees all the way back to 15 degrees – that ain’t half bad for a standard solution! Both display models come with built-in speakers and connectivity via HDMI, DVI, and VGA as well. Expect this to be your everyday connect-everything sort of setup without a doubt.

Borders around these monitors are .08-inch, prompting Acer to call this construction “zero frame.” This next-generation design allows you to see virtually “seamless” picture while you’re rocking and rolling with what Acer calls a “stylish brushed hairline finish” as well. As a bit of a bonus, the stand for these monitors are magnetic too – made perfect for your paperclips (if you still use paper, that is.)

Each of these new monitors comes with a standard three-year warranty as well as a price tag under two bills. The 21.5-inch Acer H226HQL display will be (or already is) available for $149.99 USD MSRP while the 23-inch Acer H236HL display is coming at you for a cool $179.99 USD MSRP. You’ll be grabbing these displays with the full-on Acer eColor Management tool built-in and you’re encouraged to buy a bunch of them, lining them all up in a massive grid on your wall – feel free!

Acer H6 monitors now available: “zero frame” in full effect is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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While everyone is going a bit nutty speculating about Apple’s potential iOS smartwatch, Japanese watchmakers are pumping out their own interesting watches. This one includes a sound sensor making it work like the bar graphs on a digital VU meter.

Based on a design concept by Sam Jerichow, the Tokyoflash Kisai OTO Watch allows you to read the time vertically across two centrally-located lines. The four digits on the left represent hours stacked on top of minutes, while the two digits on the right display the seconds.

Above and below the numeric displays, you’ll find the bars, which actually move based on ambient sounds. The bar graphs can be switched off if it’s too distracting, or you can also just switch off the time and just show the VU meter.

The watch comes in blue, green, red or amber LCD versions, with matching color LED  illumination. Each one is then set into a sleek black anodized aluminum case. Power is provided by a built-in USB-rechargeable battery.

The Kisai OTO watch is available for an introductory price of $99(USD) through Thursday 2/14 at 4pm Japan time, after which time, the price will increase.

Dell’s UltraSharp displays still have a certain cachet among sticklers for quality, most of all at the high end — so today’s release of three advanced models might as well be a bonanza. The 24-inch U2413, 27-inch U2713H and 30-inch U3014 (above) once more center on PremierColor and the visual accuracy to match. Even the two smaller displays have a 12-bit processor that helps their LCDs reach 99 percent of the Adobe RGB color space and all of the sRGB space, or enough of the spectrum to eliminate most rude surprises with photo work. What else is new? Dell hasn’t divulged full details of the screens themselves, but there’s now a single-display arm and a dual-display stand to get just the right placement. Like what you see — or rather, what you will see? The U2413 and U2713H should be available now for $599 and $999 alongside the $149 arm and $169 stand, while the range-topping U3014 is due “soon” for $1,499.

Update: We reached out to Dell for more details, and the updates are substantial — all three displays bump up to a 2-million-to-1 dynamic contrast ratio, an increase in Adobe RGB color gamut coverage (up from 96 percent), a more adjustable height and support for DisplayPort daisy chaining. The two larger screens also add Mini DisplayPort.

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In less than a month we’ll be seeing a brand new collection of devices prepared for the masses at Mobile World Congress 2013, and today’s tip suggests that a Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 (8-inch tablet) will be amongst them. With two sizes of Samsung Galaxy Note out on the market besides the first 10.1-inch tablet Note, it’s not too much of a stretch to think Samsung wouldn’t also bring on an 8-inch version of this S-Pen-toting lineup. This machine has today been connected to previous leaks of device codename GT-N5100, spoken about in the past as a 7 or 7.7-inch beast that’s never seen the light of day.

This next Galaxy Note’s suggested specifications are right in-line with what we’d expect from a mid-sized Galaxy Note update to the Galaxy Tab collection. First you’ll find a 1280 x 800 pixel resolution Super Clear LCD display up front with a 1.3 megapixel camera facing forward and a 5 megapixel camera on the back. Inside there’ll be 2 GB of ram working with a yet-unknown SoC, but given the trend here in the Spring of 2013, it could either be a quad-core Exynos 4 not unlike the Galaxy Note 10.1 or one of those fancy new Exynos 5 Octa processors that are being suggested for the Samsung Galaxy S IV.

The GT-N5100 machine is being tipped this week by a source speaking with SamMobile as being the 3G version of this machine while code GT-N5110 will be tacked up for wi-fi only. This machine’s basic size will be 211.3 x 136.3 x 7.95 mm and it’ll be weighing in at 330 grams, while the shape of the hardware is yet unknown. It’s likely that Samsung’s “Nature” theme will continue with smooth corners and leaf-like aesthetics all around, with the same or a slightly updated S-Pen ready to roll with this tablet as it’s revealed this early Q1 season.

Two different sizes are being tipped as being revealed with the initial announcement, 16GB and 32GB (internal storage), while every model will have a giant 4,600 mAh battery. Inside you’ll find A-GPS, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, USB 2.0 (through its proprietary plug OR microUSB, we shall see), and Bluetooth 4.0. We’ll see what we can see at Mobile World Congress through our fabulous MWC 2013 portal soon and very soon!

[via Android Authority]

Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 tablet tipped for MWC 2013 is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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At CES last week Samsung set a new benchmark in size with its 85-inch S9 that edged past the Ultra HD competition by one inch, and now it’s setting a new high mark for price as well, at least in Korea. While we still don’t have any US pricing or release details, the first 77 models encased in that “Timeless Gallery” frame are going up for pre-order, priced at 40,000,000 won ($37,877 US). Other than the obligatory 214cm of 4K goodness, it has built-in 2.2 channels speakers, quad-core CPU and Precision Black Pro LCD panel. We’ve heard that sales of Sony and LG’s models have been surprisingly brisk despite their high prices so you may want to run, not walk to your local Korean high-end electronics retailer to get one first. Of course, if you wait, you can always snag the 95- or 110-inch model that are promised to ship later this year, albeit at similar prices. While you’re deciding, check out our hands-on pictures and video to get an idea of what awaits.

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Source: Samsung Tomorrow (Flickr), Korean Newswire