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There’s a million things this could be: a fake, a prototype, the spawn of some renegade lathe, we just don’t know. What we can say is that the photo above was posted to the Chinese-language Digi-wo forum by someone who reckons it could be a component for a 6.44-inch, 1080p Sony phablet. The bezels on the side look slightly skinnier than those on the similarly sized 6.1-inch Huawei Ascend Mate — although we might be imagining that, and in any case the Ascend Mate has the advantage of definitely being real.

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Via: GizChina

Source: Digi-wo (Chinese)

Lenovo might not be ready to officially reveal the full 2013 ThinkPad range, but it’s succeeded in sparking some early interest in the unannounced T431s and X230s by putting their manuals on its Chinese webpage. The documents don’t tell us anything about what hardware will be found inside either machine, but as Laptop Reviews note, included diagrams do hint at what they might look like. Akin to the unreleased ThinkPad Helix and Edge notebooks, the traditional dedicated TrackPoint buttons below the keyboard have been done away with, in favor of integrating them into a larger trackpad. Something we also saw on the Helix that’ll be carried through to the T431s and X230s is a slight alteration to the function keys — they’ll be the secondary use of hotkeys for brightness, volume and such, rather than the other way around.

If the diagrams are accurate, another difference from the T430 and X230 2012 models will be the hinges, which’ll sink part of the top panel behind the body, much like the X1 Carbon and Helix / Edge ThinkPads due later this year. Screen sizes, however, will remain unchanged: the X230s will have a 12.5-inch panel (1,366 x 768 res) and the T431s a 14-incher (1,600 x 900). While we’re missing key hardware specs at the moment, at least potential buyers can start pondering whether they’ll be down for the design revisions or not. We’ve linked the PDF manuals below, but if you’re looking for more than illustrations, you’ll either need to know Chinese or be prepared to get busy with a translator.

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Source: Lenovo T431s manual (PDF), Lenovo X230s manual (PDF), Laptop Reviews

Last week, the rumored HTC M7 made another splash by showing up in a leaked render. Sadly, it seems the phone made a splash for all the wrong reasons, as the render didn’t look very good and set off many fan complaints. Today we’ve got a new leaked render to show you, this one looking a lot more like the phones we’re used to seeing from HTC.

Originally published by Pocketnow, it’s important to remember that this apparently isn’t an official HTC render, although it does look like an image the company would want to use in its promotional materials. However, Pocketnow has spoken to a few folks who are allegedly close to the M7 project, and they’ve confirmed that the front is quite similar to the device that’s in development. If that’s true, then expect the home button to be on the far right instead of in the middle – something we imagine will cause a lot of headaches for many longtime Android users.

If these sources are to be believed, then we can expect the front of the HTC M7 to look mostly the same as it does in the render, while the back could look completely different since the one in the image is just the artist’s interpretation. We’re still waiting for HTC to unveil the M7, an announcement some of us were expecting at CES 2013. Alas, such a reveal never happened during the show, so now we’re hoping that HTC shows up to MWC 2013 next month with the M7 in tow.

Supposedly, the M7 comes equipped with a 4.7-inch 1080p display, a 13MP snapper, a quad-core processor clocked at 1.7GHz, and 2GB of RAM. Should those rumored specs turn out to be accurate, then HTC will be looking to continue the high-end success of the DROID DNA with this new device. It’s definitely an exciting time to be an HTC fan, so keep your fingers crossed and hope for a timely reveal!

[via Android Community]

HTC M7 smiles for the camera in leaked render is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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As we ramp up to the 30th of January and the official launch of RIM’s own BlackBerry 10, we’re seeing multiple leaks and test videos like the one we’ve been shown today, complete with a demonstration of the software’s Voice Control system. This system is built in to BlackBerry 10 and looks rather familiar if you’re used to Siri from iOS or S-Voice from Samsung’s Galaxy series. In this case you’ll be pressing the Start button (aka power button) on your device a 2-count and the Voice Control system will activate.

At the moment we’re able to see several functionalities included in this build, starting with the ability to send an SMS message courtesy of the folks at Telekom Presse. Though the voice recognition here is nothing like we’re seeing with advanced diction-decoding voice systems like Siri, pre-set commands appear to work perfectly well. You’ll also see the system make a phone call and start up a bit of music as it exists on the device itself – perhaps streaming apps in the future, too!

This video also shows off a couple other items that we’ve seen in the past, including the next-level keyboard with its fully functional predictive text engine. The maps application you may have seen in the past is also being shown here in brief. While we’re not sure this is the final version of the software that will be revealed at the end of this month, what we’re seeing thus far does seem to be relatively solid – as a demo, anyway.

The machine you’re seeing these demos on is the BlackBerry Z10. This is a touch-centric device working with the newest iteration of BlackBerry 10 and will be acting as one of RIM’s 2 or more hero devices at the launch of this new operating system. Have a peek in our BlackBerry 10 tag portal for more and hit the timeline below for the most recent action in the RIM universe!

[via CrackBerry]

BlackBerry 10 voice controls hit leaked video demo is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Acer is expected to reveal a new Chromebox to follow on from its low-cost C7 Chromebook laptop, putting Google’s Chrome OS in a compact desktop form-factor. The cloud-centric slab (only a mockup shown here, since no official images have leaked yet) contains Inte’s 2.7GHz Pentium G630 processor and 2GB of memory, François Beaufort reports, along with a 500GB hard-drive for local storage of files, and has been developed by Acer and the Google Chrome OS team under the “Kiev” codename.

Other specifications of the Chromebox are unclear, though we’d guess at something along the lines of Acer’s C7 Chromebook; that has VGA, HDMI, several USB 2.0 ports, and integrated WiFi, though we’d expect Acer to throw wired ethernet into the Chromebox too.

Acer isn’t the only company flirting with the desktop form-factor. Samsung also recently refreshed its Chromebox, slapping an Intel Core i5 processor inside along with 4GB of RAM; it only has 16GB of local storage, though uses flash memory rather than what’s presumably a traditional spinning-platter drive in the Acer version. Samsung’s Chromebox has USB 2.0, ethernet, DVI, DisplayPort, Bluetooth and WiFi, but not VGA or HDMI.

Pricing and availability for the Chromebox are unknown, though there’s speculation that Acer and Google will aim for a highly-competitive $99 price point. That seems possible, given the C7 is $199, and since the components Acer is believed to have used for the desktop should be relatively inexpensive. Where the x86 chip in the C7 meant battery life proved lacking in comparison to Samsung’s Series 3 Chromebook, power consumption is less of an issue for a desk-bound computer.

[via Chrome Story]

Acer “Kiev” Chromebox tipped: Can Google hit the $99 price point? is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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