New Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom Camera Price in Pakistan

Samsung’s Galaxy camera came out almost a year ago, and it roughly mimicked the specs of an international SGS3 but included a unique camera system and body. Although the device couldn’t make phone calls, it included cellular connectivity and was arguably the best in the first of a limited number of connected cameras competing with it. After many whispers, Samsung has announced the Galaxy S4 Zoom, an updated version of its connected camera line with a display and front face emulating the SGS4 but topped with another 16 MP camera system.
Camera Emphasized Smartphone Comparison
Samsung Galaxy Camera (EK-GC100)     Nikon Coolpix S800c     Nokia PureView 808     Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom
CMOS Resolution     16.3 MP     16.0 MP     41 MP     16.3 MP
CMOS Format     1/2.3″, 1.34µm pixels     1/2.3″, 1.34µm pixels     1/1.2″, 1.4µm pixels     1/2.3″, 1.34µm pixels
CMOS Size     6.17mm x 4.55mm     6.17mm x 4.55mm     10.67mm x 8.00mm     6.17mm x 4.55mm
Lens Details     4.1 – 86mm
(22 – 447 35mm equiv)
F/2.8-5.9
21x zoom + OIS     4.5 – 45.0mm (25-250 35mm equiv)
F/3.2-5.8     8.02mm
(28mm 35mm equiv)
F/2.4     4.3 – 43mm
(24-240 mm 35mm equiv)
F/3.1-F/6.3
10x zoom + OIS
Display     1280 x 720 (4.8″)     854 x 480 (3.5″)     640 x 360 (4.0″)     960 x 540 (4.3″)
SoC     Exynos 4412 (Cortex-A9MP4 at 1.4 GHz with Mali-400 MP4)     ARM Cortex A5(?)     1.3 GHz ARM11     1.5 GHz Exynos 4212
Storage     8 GB + microSDXC     1.7 GB + microSDHC     16 GB + microSDHC     8 GB + microSDHC
Video Recording     1080p30, 480p120     1080p30     1080p30     1080p30
OS     Android 4.1     Android 2.3.6     Symbian Belle     Android 4.2
Connectivity     WCDMA 21.1 850/900/1900/2100, 4G, 802.11a/b/g/n with 40 MHz channels, BT 4.0, GNSS     No cellular, WiFi 802.11b/g/n(?), GPS     WCDMA 14.4 850/900/1700/1900/2100, 802.11b/g/n, BT 3.0, GPS     WCDMA 21.1 850/900/1900/2100, 4G LTE SKUs, 802.11a/b/g/n with 40 MHz channels, BT 4.0, GNSS

New ASUS’ 8-Series Motherboards Overclocking Haswell Price in Pakistan

After giving us a tour of ASUS’ 8-series Haswell motherboards and its updated UEFI interface, JJ took us through overclocking a Core i7-4770K using ASUS’ new software and UEFI tools. We get a good look at how auto-overclocking works, as well as what settings to pay attention to when manually overclocking Haswell.

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New N-trig DuoSense Pen2 Price in Pakistan

With the dawn of capacitive touch displays and the iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, etc., some might think the day of the stylus is past. N-trig has been around since 1999 working on stylus hardware, and they disagree. Just what can you do with a stylus that you can’t do with capacitive touch? We met with N-trig at CES 2013 to see what they were up to, but they weren’t quite ready for us to post anything at the time. Fast forward five months and not only can we talk about their new pen, but we actually have a test platform in the HTC Flyer to play with. We’ll get to the new DuoSense Pen2 in a moment, but let’s start with some quick background information on N-trig first.

N-trig has been doing pen inputs for laptops/tablets/PCs since 1999, originally starting with desktops but now moving into the premium tablet space. Examples of current high profile devices with N-trig hardware include the Sony VAIO Duo 11/13, ASUS Taichi, Fujitsu Q702, and we would expect to see additional options in the near future. Some of the key applications they ship with include OneNote, Sketchbook Express, and a variety of other applications (depending on the notebook/tablet OEM). Recently, N-trig has rolled out their new line of pens and controllers, the DuoSense Pen2 and the Gen 4 (G4) sensor/controller. We didn’t get a chance to fully test a solution with a G4 controller, unfortunately, but the Pen2 is backwards compatible with existing N-trig platforms so if you’re in need of a new stylus you can look into upgrading.

2013 Synology DS1812+ 8-bay SMB SOHO NAS Price in Pakistan

A number of Intel Atom D27xx-based NAS systems have been evaluated in our labs, even though we formally reviewed only one earlier this year, the LaCie 5big NAS Pro. The Thecus N4800 has made its appearance in a some benchmarks presented in our SMB / SOHO NAS testbed article. Synology is one of the well respected vendors in the SMB / SOHO NAS space, and we have reviewed a number of units from them in the previous years. They recently refreshed their 8-bay SMB / SOHO NAS lineup with the DS1813+. Based on the same platform as the DS1812+ (Atom D2700), it added two extra network ports. However, due to the similarity in the underlying platform, the performance can be expected to be similar to last year’s version (except when all four links are teamed together when compared to dual teaming), the DS1812+. The Synology DS1812+, a 8-bay desktop tower form factor offering, has been under stress in our labs since the beginning of this year.

AMD FX-9590 and FX-9370 CPUs Price in Pakistan

Today at E3 AMD announced their latest CPUs, the FX-9590 and FX-9370. Similar to what we’re seeing with Richland vs. Trinity, AMD is incrementing the series number to 9000 while sticking with the existing Piledriver Vishera architecture. These chips are the result of tuning and binning on GlobalFoundries’ 32nm SOI process, though the latest jump from the existing FX-8350 is nonetheless quite impressive.

The FX-8350 had a base clock of 4.0GHz with a maximum Turbo Core clock of 4.2GHz; the FX-9590 in contrast has a maximum Turbo clock of 5GHz and the FX-9370 tops out at 4.7GHz. We’ve asked AMD for details on the base clocks for the new parts, but so far have not yet received a response; we’re also missing details on TDP, cache size, etc. but those will likely be the same as the FX-8350/8320 (at least for everything but TDP).

2013 CPUID’s CPU-Z Arrives Price in Pakistan

About three years ago, I remember one of the biggest problems I had while sorting out phones was figuring out what SoCs were inside them. Manufacturers weren’t yet open to disclosing what silicon was inside, and there wasn’t any SoC messaging or branding from any of the numerous silicon vendors. There was a pervasive sense of contentedness everywhere you turned with the current model where what was inside a handset was largely a black box. I remember wishing for a tool like CPU-Z for Android so many times, and I remember trying to explain to someone else just how dire the need was for something like it.

Today vendors and operators are considerably less opaque about what’s inside their devices (proving yet again that the ‘specs are dead’ line is just false hyperbole), but unless you know where to look or who to ask it’s still sometimes a mystery. For end users and enthusiasts, there remained the need for something beyond lots of searching, pouring through kernel sources, or kernel messages (dmesg) on devices.

2013 BenQ XL2720T Gaming Monitor Price in Pakistan

On the very first monitor review I did for AnandTech, I skipped over the input lag tests. I didn’t have a CRT I could use for a reference, and as someone that isn’t a hard-core gamer themselves, I wasn’t certain how much overlooking them would really be missed. Well, I was wrong, and I heard about it as soon as it was published. Since that initial mistake I’ve added two CRT monitors to the testing stable and tried to find the ideal way to test lag, which I’m still in search of.

To serve the large, and vocal, community of hard core gamers, there are plenty of monitors out there that directly target them. One such display is the BenQ XL2720T, a 120 Hz LCD that’s also used in many sponsored gaming tournaments. Beyond its gaming pedigree, I was interested to see if it also performed well as a general purpose display, or if it really is just designed for a small subset of the market.

Probably the key feature on the XL2720T is its 120 Hz refresh rate, which as usual means that it is a TN-panel. The other key feature on it is a quick select switch that it includes to let you switch between monitor presets with a single button press. For their gaming target, BenQ sees you utilizing this to have different presets for different games, and they even provide some specific profiles for popular games that you can load and use for these. Another use would be to use one for daytime settings, one for nighttime, and one for gaming. The quick access to switch modes makes it easy to do so, and providing “optimized” settings for games might be a very beneficial use.

Haswell and the GTX 780M MSI GT70 Dragon Edition Notebook Price in Pakistan

You’ll forgive me if deja vu is striking. This is the third time we’ve had a chance to test this chassis from MSI (the first being the iBuyPower Valkyrie CZ-17 and the second being the CyberPower FangBook). Each time there’s been an incremental hardware update, but this is also the first time we’ve seen this notebook directly from MSI and more than that, this flagship edition brings a tremendous amount of hardware to bear. The GT70 Dragon Edition may have the same basic chassis, but MSI has secret sauce hiding under the hood.

ASUS Building a mini-ITX Haswell System Price in Pakistan

For our final installment, JJ put together a bunch of components for a mini-ITX Haswell build and took us through his build process. The motherboard itself is a Z87-I Deluxe, an upcoming mini-ITX Z87 board from ASUS. Also in the video you’ll see JJ install ASUS’ mini-ITX optimized GeForce GTX 670 DC Mini card. Finally, the chassis is pretty cool – it’s the Lian Li PC-Q30.

Galaxy Motherboards, PSUs, SSDs

Galaxy is known more for their graphics cards, and in particular the HOF/SOC series of high end NVIDIA cards – some models of which have featured a white PCB.  So you can imagine my surprise to see a motherboard sitting in the line of ‘new products’.

The Galaxy Z87-HOF has one feature which sets it apart from all other Z87 motherboards – it claims to have full PCIe 3.0 x16/x16/x16/x16 support using only one PLX chip.  Normally on motherboards we encounter the PLX 8747 which takes 16 CPU lanes and multiplexes/buffers them into 32.  The Galaxy Z87-HOF uses an upgraded version of the PLX with the number 8780, providing 64 lanes of output for the 16 lanes input.  The 8747 version costs around $40 to the manufacturers, whereas this other model is nearer $100, so we can imagine the Z87 HOF might be a little expensive, although we get full bandwidth and latency of only a single PLX chip, despite the x16 uplink limitation.  The Z87-HOF uses the high-end IR3550 ICs from International Rectifier (the same ones we see on Gigabyte UP motherboards) – these are around $4 each and this motherboard has 16.