Tag Archives: Rumor Mill

Quick Update On Those Android 4.2 Rumors, They Were False

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It’s unfortunate whenever any rumor that has us excited turns out to be wrong, and that’s exactly what has happened with the recent Androidandme Android 4.2 rumor story. As it turns out, the intel wasn’t double and triple checked leading…


AllThingsD: New Kindle Fire will feature 1,280 x 800 resolution, ship in Q3 2012

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Rumors and scuttlebutt are already afoot: Amazon is ramping up to release a Kindle Fire successor later this year. It certainly seems reasonable enough; come November the original $200 slate will be a year old, outpaced by the young Nexus 7. Accordin…


Samsung official claims Apple’s releasing a 7.85-inch iPad

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Just six days have elapsed since the unveiling of Apple’s third-generation iPad, and the rumor mill is already wildly speculating about what’s in store for the next one. Korea Times has quoted an unnamed (yeah) Samsung official who has said that we c…


Rumor mill: Will the new iPad have a tactile display?

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Remember Senseg’s tactile touchscreen displays? Well, last December the company showed off a screen that used an electrostatic field to simulate friction and textures on the glass. Such technology was a couple of years away from being commercially vi…


MSI GT780 GX rumored specs appear online

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There’s no official word about this laptop, and if any of you are caught or killed, the secretary will disavow any knowledge. Still, you can’t stop a good rumor, which is why details have emerged about a supercharged edition of MSI’s GT780DX that dia…


Nokia Lumia 800′s CDMA cousin coming to China Telecom in March?

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An employee of the Qingzhou branch of China Telecom went a bit camera-happy over the weekend, but we’d do the same if we were handed a CDMA Nokia Lumia 800. The since-pulled images and text confirmed our feeling that it’s arriving in early Spring (i….


NVIDIA’s 2012 Kepler lineup revealed (possibly)

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As usual, it seems like whenever a big chip company wants to keep those key details under wraps, someone leaves a spreadsheet lying in a bar. Of course, the following information could be the product of a vengeful former employee mashing at a keyboar…


Rumor Mill: 7mm-thick Galaxy S III coming in May?

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Korea’s ETNews is betting its reputation upon this raft of rumored details concerning Samsung’s Galaxy S III. Since the only thing we know for certain is that it’ll be announced “After MWC,” lets take all of these tidbits with a strong pot of “We’ll b…


Eric Schmidt: ‘Google tablet coming within six months’

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Google’s Executive Chairman is good value for a headline-grabbing quote. Sitting down with Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera at the opening of the company’s new offices on the former NABISCO bakery, he said “in the next six months we plan to mar…


Rumor mill: next gen Xboxes + Kinect 2 to read lips, track fingers, make unicorns real

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Pinches of salt at the ready, folks. According to the latest speculation, Microsoft’s sequel to the Xbox 360 will actually be two models, a pared down set-top box for casual gamers and a heftier model for the hardcore. Either way, Xbox 720 / Xbox …