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Samsung’s $1,500, 17-inch Series 7 Chronos arrives, UPS employees check their spine insurance
May 10th
Samsung’s outed its massive 17-inch Series 7 Chronos desktop-killing laptop. The portable behemoth arrives packing a 2.6GHz Core i7 Ivy Bridge CPU, 8GB of RAM and NVIDIA’s GeForce GT650M with a further 2GB of memory to itself. You’ll be able to relax in front of that 17.3-inch, 300 nit, 1920 x 1080 display and listen to 2.1 surround thanks to some JBL speakers and a subwoofer. The seven-pound device is rated for up to eight hours of battery life and will comfortably hold 1TB of storage, depending on the size of your spreadsheet. It’s available from today from all good retailers (and most of the bad ones too) for ,500.
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HTC CEO Peter Chou to be Olympic tourchbearer
May 10th
Carrying the Olympic torch is an honor few get to experience, but HTC CEO Peter Chou will soon add his name to the list. Chou will take part in the torch relay on July 6th, three weeks prior to the opening ceremonies of the 2012 Summer Olympics. The irony of Chou’s involvement is not lost. Rival mobile manufacturer Samsung has invested heavily in sponsoring the games and will likely plaster the Olympic Village and stadiums with advertising for their Galaxy S III and other handsets. But if dozens of countries with conflicting cultures and world views can come together for some friendly sporting events, there’s no reason the two companies can’t play nice in the name of world unity.
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Fujitsu outs new Lifebook laptops and an Ivy Bridge-packing Ultrabook
May 10th
Fujitsu started announcing its new summer lineup yesterday, unveiling two new Lifebook LH series laptops with Ivy Bridge under the hood. The company is back today with more Intel third-gen goodness and a new super-light notebook, all of which will start shipping in Japan on May 17th. Up first is the Lifebook UH75H, which we glimpsed at CeBIT back in March, and Fujitsu has wasted no time in giving it the “world’s thinnest Ultrabook” distinction. The UH75H has a 14-inch display, measures a super-thin 15.6mm at its thickest point and weighs 3.2 pounds (1.44 kg). Its little brother, the UH55H, packs a smaller 13.3-inch screen, and both will be available in red or silver.
There’s also a new ultraportable, the Lifebook SH76H, which weighs just 1.34 kg (2.95 pounds) and is 16.6mm at its thinnest, though that sleek profile doesn’t prevent it from offering an integrated optical drive. Fujitsu says this Lifebook will last almost 14 hours on a charge, about an hour longer than previous models. Like all SH machines, the SH76H has a 128GB SSD.
Next on the announcement agenda are three new media-centric all-in-ones from the ESPRIMO FH family: the FH56, FH77HD and FH98M. All include a new “Quick TV” feature for launching the built-in TV viewer with the press of a button. Finally, there’s the new 15.6-inch Lifebook AH78HA, the first notebook to include “nanoe” air purification for minimizing “fungi, smells, mold and allergens.” That’s making some pretty big assumptions about the cleanliness of your living space, but can’t hurt, right?
To accompany those new systems, Fujitsu is offering a new “My Cloud” feature that works with the company’s FlashAir SD cards to wirelessly transfer media from a camera to a PC. My Cloud will also incorporate voice recognition to organize albums in My Photo Museum. Get all that? Good, Check out the presser below the break for the full lowdown.
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Nokia loses UK appeal against IPCom’s pointless patent posturing
May 10th
Nokia has had its appeal dismissed in the UK High Court in its Europe-wide patent battle against IPCom. The court found that the handset maker had infringed the German firm’s 3G patent but only on the Nokia N96 — a phone the company no longer sells. IPCom can now request a ban on all British sales of the 2008 handset, a move that will probably affect tens of people. We’ve got an official response from the company’s Mark Durrant after the break.
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Nokia loses UK appeal against IPCom’s pointless patent posturing
May 10th
Nokia has had its appeal dismissed in the UK High Court in its Europe-wide patent battle against IPCom. The court found that the handset maker had infringed the German firm’s 3G patent but only on the Nokia N96 — a phone the company no longer sells. IPCom can now request a ban on all British sales of the 2008 handset, a move that will probably affect tens of people. We’ve got an official response from the company’s Mark Durrant after the break.
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AT&T HTC One X gets rooted with one simple click
May 10th
While HTC claims restrictions prevent them from unlocking the bootloader of the AT&T HTC One X, that has not stopped the development community from banding together to unlock root access on the phone. A new post by kennethpenn on XDA-Developers delivers a one-click rooting option for the HTC One X which takes advantage of an exploit identified by the community.
Gaining root access on the HTC One X allows users to make backups of their applications, remove AT&T’s bloatware or even make clock speed modifications to the phone’s CPU. Unfortunately, flashing unofficial ROMs to the HTC One X is still not possible, but we have a feeling it won’t be too long before the development community finds an exploit to solve that issue as well.
Will any of you be using kennethpenn’s method to gain root access on your AT&T HTC One X?
