USB 3.0 has been in the making for some time now and yet we still haven’t seen an actual consumer-ready implementation of the technology.

Along comes ASUS and debuts their P6X58 Premium motherboard touting none other than USB 3.0. In addition to the updated USB port, you’ll be getting 3 USB 2.0 orts, Core i7 compatibility, 6 DDR3 RAM slots, 3 PCI-Express 2.0 slots, and everything else you’d normally see on a motherboard.

Unfortunately there are no release dates or price points announced but if previous reports stay true we will see this thing hit the market before the end of the year or early next.

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Tags: ASUS, Core i7, Desktop PCs, Hardware, motherboard, p6x56, premium, USB 3.0

Get ready for this — Microsoft has just announced that beginning in the fall they will be opening retail locations right next to Apple Stores:

And stay tuned, because we’re going to have some retail stores opened up that are opened up right next door to Apple stores this fall. Stay tuned, just stay tuned.

Apple has a wide array of different products that they have developed in house while Microsoft is mainly a software developer. What exactly will these retail stores hold? Perhaps mobile phones, laptops and desktop PCs from different manufacturers?

Let the war begin!

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Tags: Apple, Apple, Cell Phones, Hardware, microsoft, microsoft, Mobile News, Mobile Software, retail locations, software

The rumormill has one again begun, this time hinting at a release date and price point for Apples much rumored “iTablet” . News comes to us from the China Times that says the Tablet will be shipping ot the public for $800 this October.

Additionally, they have told us that Foxconn, Wintek and Dynapack will be the device’s primary manufacturers. Make note that back in May, Wintek was the company whom supplied Apple with a bunch of 9.7″ touchscreen displays, see a connection?

Let’s just hope that we get an official announcement from Apple soon so we can lay these rumors to rest once and for all.

via Gizmodo

Tags: Apple, dynapack, Foxconn, Hardware, iTablet, Laptops, price point, rumor, tablet, touch screen, Wintek

HP is proud to unveil their latest addition to the already saturated netbook market, the Mini 5101. As you can see from the above shot this is definitely one of the finer looking laptops. But who cares about looks, it’s all about specs, right?

Under the hood of the Mini 5101 you will find one of Intel’s Atom processors, a 7200 RPM hard drive or 80/128GB SSD, a 2MP webcam, Bluetooth 2.0 and a 10.1″ 1024 x 600 or 1366 x 768 LED display. Battery wise you’re looking at a 4 or 6 celled battery with the 6 cell being touted as lasting for 8 hours. All of this packed into a modest 2.6 pound package is sure to make netbook buyers turn their heads.

The Mini 5101 starts at $449 and will go on sale next month.

Tags: Atom, bluetooth 2.0, Hardware, HP, Intel, Laptops, led display, mini 5101, Mobile News, netbook, Processor, web cam

The phone hasn’t even hit store shelves worldwide yet and already the guys over at Rapid Repair have managed to pick one up an iPhone 3G S at a Paris, France midnight release and torn the phone apart for your viewing pleasure.

If you’re looking to find out how to do your own iPhone 3G S tear down or just want to watch Apple’s latest and greatest handset offering head here. Unfortunately the phone’s innards have yet to be analyzed but we’ll keep you posted.

And if you haven’t been paying attention the iPhone 3G S will hit store shelves in the US later today, June 19th.

Tags: Apple, break down, Cell Phones, Hardware, iPhone, iPhone 3G S, Mobile News, tear down

Despite Apple keeping the iPhone 3G S‘ hardware pretty effectively under wraps, it seems that T-Mobile Netherlands didn’t get the memo and posted up the above picture.

As you can see, the iPhone 3G S’ processor has been bumped up from 412MHz (found in the 3G) to 600MHz. As for the RAM, it’s been increased from the 3G’s 128MB to 256MB. Everything else, we already knew, 3MP camera with autofocus, video camera, 32GB capacity etc.

So, it looks like Apple’s claims of everything being at least 2x faster hold true at least judging from the hardware. We’ll have to wait until we get our hands on the phone to pass judgement.

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Tags: Apple, Cell Phones, Hardware, iPhone, iPhone 3GS, leak, memory, Mobile News, Processor, RAM, T-Mobile, tmobile netherlands

SSDs are fast, yeah, and they aren’t too big either however, InnoDisk evidentally saw room for improvement and went ahead and unveiled the above 128GB nanoSSD at Computex 2009.

To show off the new hardware’s resistance to vibration, InnoDisk set up a booth where they had it attached to a motherboard that was being vigorously vibrated (video above). Given this things size, who is to say we won’t be seeing these appear in high end cellphones at some point in the future?

Maybe a future iPhone? Apple, are you listening?

Tags: Apple, Cell Phones, computex 2009, Crazy Mobile, Hardware, innodisk, iPhone, Mobile News, nanossd

We first learned about the Asus N10 back in September and at that point, we had only known about 2 models.

Well, a recent FCC listing is pointing towards 4 models with some none too shabby specs, a 1.6GHZ Intel N270, 2GB of RAM and varying harddrive capacities.

The real treat, however, is the fact that select models (unspecified) of the netbook will feature a Nvidia 9400M GPU, along with an HDMI port, as opposed to the lesser 9300GS.

Sounds like the N10 is shaping up to be a media center in a very small package.

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Tags: ASUS, Hardware, Laptops, n10, netbook

Are we ready for those new Motorola handsets? We know that Motorola and Verizon have planned quite a few phones for 2009 and some of them look great in pictures. The phone here is the Motorola Inferno or Torch. We’re not convinced they’re holding to either name since some people refer to it as the Blaze 2 or Krave 2. Whatever their going to call it, it’s still the sequel of the Krave ZN4.

Hardware trials are going to start next week and we hopefully by then we’re going to get some feature details and prices for the Torch.

via BGR

Tags: Hardware, Inferno, Mobile News, Motorola, Motorola, Torch, trial, Verizon, Verizon