ZTE Grand S snap leaked

Two weeks before CES

 

A snap of the ZTE Grand S smartphone has appeared online, two weeks before it will be launched at CES

The handset will be wading into a tough market for 5-inch, full HD 1080p displays when it officially arrives in Las Vegas in the second week of January. ZTE has been teasing us by posting sketches on its Sina Weibo account, but it looks like  Engadget has now picked up an official-looking shot from an anonymous tipster

Still it is not much of a give away. We don’t know the specs for the phone, beyond the display, but a note on the CES website refers to the Grand S as "the world's thinnest for 5 inch FHD smartphones." The likes of Sony, HTC, Sharp, Lenovo and Huawei are all thought to be preparing big-screen 1080p phones so it looks like CES will be packed with them

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Top Kabini 28nm APU is Kabini X4 5110

HD 8310G graphics inside

 

Kabini is AMD’s next generation entry level APU set to replace Brazos and Brazos 2.0 in the essential desktop market. Kabini 28nm will come in two flavours, X Series and E Series

The top notch processor is called X4 5110 and it rocks a TDP of 25W. There will be some 18W parts as well. They all use Jaguar cores, have DirectX 11.1 graphics and use the FT3 BGA infrastructure. The Kabini APU branded as X4 5110 supports DDR3 1866 as well as Turbo Core

You will need a board with Yangtze FCH chipset to get it going. Our sources tell us that the graphics that will get this chip going is branded as HD 8310G. Currently we know that the launch is scheduled for June but some additional information that we gathered so far might indicate that the X4 5110 might come out even before the end of Q1 2013.

Sources close to AMD indicate that production ready silicon should be ready in March 2013, or very late Q1 2013, but full volume production with hundreds of thousand, or millions of chips is more likely to happen in June

Unfortunately we don’t have exact clock speeds just yet, and this part of the spec will probably be revealed as the launch date draws closer

Mozilla backtracks on 64-bit Windows

It will do after all

 

Last month Mozilla miffed users when it said it could not be bothered making a 64-bit version of its browser for Windows

Given that most of the world is moving to 64-bit, the news from Mozilla Engineering Manager Benjamin Smedberg was due to “significant negative feedback.” Now he has decided that while Firefox 64-bit for Windows may still never be released, but nightly builds will live another day

The main reason for the change of plans appears to be that certain users regularly run into the 4GB memory limits of 32-bit builds due to hundreds or even thousands of tabs. Smedberg says Mozilla “does not have the resources to actively support this use case” but he warned that these platforms may or may not work at any time, and often have little test coverage

More than half of Firefox testers use the 64-bit builds, but many aren’t doing it to be part of the testing community. Those who want 64-bit can switch to OS X or Linux, both of which have full versions of Firefox 64-bit. Windows 64-bit users meanwhile can only consider Internet Explorer and Opera, since both Chrome and Safari don’t offer 64-bit