A look at the Acer Aspire S7-191

 

There is no doubt that the MacBook Air is the 11-inch notebook more successful, but the competition is here and is called Acer Aspire S7-191. This is an ultraportable model priced at $ 1200 U.S. dollars. Why that price? It's probably his great 11-inch touch screen with full HD resolution, also for just half an inch thick and its weight is less than 1 kg, and of course, for its great specifications.
The Aspire S7-191 is a pretty powerful machine because it uses an Intel Core i5-3317U to 1.7GHz and runs with Windows 8 operating system. Storage is in charge of a 128GB SSD is also accompanied by a total of 4GB of DDR3 RAM. Your graphics card is an Intel HD Graphics 4000, which we are quite used to seeing.
If you wonder why the connectivity has both WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0. Its ports are two USB, mini HDMI and a headphone jack. It also has a microSD card reader.
How about the Acer Aspire S7-191? Do you think it really is worth the money or should be cheaper?

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Galaxy Note 7.7-inch is coming

 

The rumors that Samsung is preparing a device for 7.7 inch Galaxy Note are increasing. According to the website GLBenchmark, a brand gadget codenamed Samsung GT-N5100 in your records. Apparently it is a device that uses a processor Exynos 4412 at 1.6GHz and has a screen resolution of 1280 × 800 pixels.
This new device will surely be a tablet, running Android 4.1.2, although it is likely that when released and comes with the new Android 4.2. The size of the device is 7.7 inches as the title, that is similar to the Galaxy Tab 7.7
Surely Tab 7.7 recall that was one of the first 7-inch tablet market, but quickly lost to the rest of the competition and mainly against devices like the Amazon Kindle Fire, the Nexus 7 of Google and the iPad Mini Apple .
Note line of Samsung has very good reviews, so it is quite likely that a tablet Note proves to be a successful device.

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FlipSide, new iPhone case that acts as a control game

There are all sorts of controls for smartphones and tablets, but what's a little weird to see is a cover that fulfills the function of a control for games and that is also solar powered. One such case is the flipside, and it's exclusive iPhone. This new case has been designed and created by the efforts of firms Justice Frangipane and iDevices.
That FlipSide use solar energy to operate means that we will not have to worry about replacing batteries and almost always have energy to function, unless it is night obviously.
Besides this, it seems that the creators are already working on a version for Android smartphones, but given the large number of phones that are different with that operating system is likely to be released only to a few.

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Java and Adobe are the main targets of hackers and malware in 2013

The next year, according to research conducted by Panda Security, vulnerabilities of software will be the main target for cybercriminals. In particular, Java and Adobe will become the main targets of hackers.
The guys said Panda, in 2012, Java was compromised multiple times and used to infect a wide variety of users, and the software is installed on millions of devices of all kinds. Other software has also been very committed is Adobe Acrobat Reader ie, Flash, etc. and there are also several security flaws at. Adobe applications are also abused by hackers to infect all types of devices.
At the level of web sites that could suffer more attacks are Facebook and Twitter, given its growing popularity and the large amount of users they have, not to mention all the information flowing through them. Panda also suggests more careful with Skype.
In addition, warnings to stay safe are also Mac users who rely heavily on their platform but perhaps keep a few surprises next year.

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The Oppo Find 5 will have a 32GB model

Oppo Digital, the company behind the phenomenal smartphone Oppo Find 5, has a surprise for his fans around the globe. Yesterday morning, perhaps on the occasion of Christmas and trying to give a "gift" to his fans, decided to launch a small teaser via Facebook where you can see a variant of counting Find 5 32GB of internal memory, is say twice what was thought to be the only option available.
When the Oppo Find 5 was officially unveiled earlier this month only knew the existence of the 16GB model, but as we now know that there is an extra model. The 32GB model is priced at $ 570 dollars.
Oppo has also released the countries that will be released on May Find and Spain at the moment is the only Spanish-language which will be present. In addition, the launch is scheduled for the first quarter of 2013, so in the coming months we'll see for sale.

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First photos of a physical QWERTY BB10

Recently leaked a couple of pictures that belong to a new device that uses the new RIM BlackBerry platform 10. It is a smartphone with a touch screen is almost square in which we find a QWERTY keyboard, which is a known element of the BlackBerry line. The new mobile belongs to the new BlackBerry N series, to be released after the L series is released, which is fully touch smartphones.
The main reason behind the series L is able to compete with the rest of the market touch smartphones such as the iPhone and mobile apps, while the number N is more targeted audiences that already own a BlackBerry terminal and wants to modernize a bit buying a model with better technology.

 

 Remember that the launch of BlackBerry 10 is scheduled for late January 2013, ie in less than five weeks and we can have a look.

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Apple Maps: the most used iPhone app in 2012

IPhone users Apple may not have loved the Maps application for the company, but the app was used more than any other in the smartphone from Apple in 2012 according to Nielsen data.
It is estimated that Maps was used by about 32.4 million iPhone users monthly, surpassing even Facebook which reached 28.6 million.
We all know that Maps was a major disaster for Apple, even the company's CEO, Tim Cook, apologized about it. Earlier this month Google Maps for iOS was released in June and became extremely popular in a few hours.
Notably, the Nielsen study used data only from January to October, so the app from Google did not enter the list.
The full top 10 is as follows:
1 - Apple Maps
2 - Facebook
3 - YouTube
4 - Stocks
5 - Weather
6 - Facebook Messenger
7 - The Weather Channel
8 - Twitter
9 - Pandora Radio
10 - Instagram

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Scientists develop solar cells that can stick and unstick

A group of scientists at Stanford University have made ​​a great advance in the field of solar cells. They have created the first flexible solar cells that can be stuck to almost any surface of any kind of material, either glass, plastic or even paper. To remove the adhesive enough to take a little water.
While similar cells have been created previously, always ended deforming them, but in this case it is not. These new cells can be bent and adapted to curved surfaces and even serve to recharge all types of devices and electronic gadgets
It is worth mentioning also that the manufacturing process of these cells also reduces costs and avoids the complications of some conventional processes.

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