First Sony Honami Xperia Z1 teaser image shows up

Sony is getting ready to officially unveil a new flagship smartphone - currently conedamed Honami, and possibly called Xperia Z1 when it hits the market. The handset will be announced on September 4, the same day when Samsung will present its Galaxy Note III and Galaxy Gear. Unlike Samsung, Sony is already posting teaser images of the Honami / Z1. There's one that appeared on Twitter today – see here. Unfortunately, it doesn't reveal much, just a power button alongside this description: "It's the smartphone everyone's been talking about...

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Lexus IS to get Deviant at SEMA

It's time to start gathering intel on SEMA, and it starts with this drawing of a modified 2014 Lexus IS. Lexus ran a competition on DeviantART, an online community for artists, to find a suitably modified IS that it could build and display at the temple of all things aftermarket in Las Vegas. The winner, as judged by a four-person panel from among more than 600 entries, is the IS rendered above by Rob Evans.

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Mercedes-Benz SLC shows some skin at the 'Ring

As of late, every six years or so, Mercedes-Benz introduces a new sportscar starting with the letters SL. Each one has had some manner of V8 engine, and each successive model tends to be downmarket from the one that came before. There was the SLR McLaren that went into production in 2003 with a 5.4-liter supercharged V8 and a half-million-dollar price tag. Six years later, Mercedes unveiled the SLS AMG with a 6.2-liter naturally-aspirated V8 and an MSRP of around $200k.

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BMW Concept X5 eDrive plug-in hybrid headed to Frankfurt

With six confirmed public debuts scheduled for the upcoming Frankfurt Motor Show, BMW is definitely going to have its hands full. While we've already driven models like the 4 Series and the i3, one of the more interesting introductions is a "concept" plug-in hybrid version of the new F15 BMW X5 called the BMW Concept X5 eDrive. As the second concept to wear the eDrive name, this X5 combines a 95-horsepower electric motor with a turbocharged four-cylinder engine to balance performance and efficiency.

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Ubuntu Edge will not be - ambitious smartphone project misses funding goal on IndieGoGo

The last time we checked up on Canonical's Ubuntu Edge smartphone project, we were a little worried. At that point, there were only a couple of weeks left and the project had only reached about $8 million. As impressive as that was, that was still a long way to go from the initial funding goal of $32 million. Two weeks later, and things turned out just as we feared — the Ubuntu Edge failed to meet its funding goal on IndieGogo.
The project only attracted about $12 million at the end of it all, and while those are still record-breaking numbers for crowd-funded projects, it doesn't really mean anything if it wasn't fulfilled.


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HTC Zara with 4.5' display and Sense 5.5 leaks

An alleged press photo of the HTC Zara has leaked courtesy of evleaks, complete with a set of specifications that reveal the phone's mid-range nature. According to the leak, the HTC Zara will be powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8930 chipset with two Krait CPU cores running at 1.2GHz, 1GB of RAM and an Adreno 305 GPU. Internal memory is just 8GB, but is expandable via the onboard microSD card slot.
At the back, there's an 8MP camera with LED flash. While its video recording capabilities aren't mentioned, it should support 1080p video recording.

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More Samsung Galaxy Gear smart watch specs, hardware and software details leak

As we get closer and closer to Samsung's September 4th event, more details regarding the Samsung Galaxy Gear — the company's rumored smart watch — have surfaced. GigaOM has the goods for us this time, with their sources chiming in to give us more details about the watch's specs and other hardware features. For starters, the watch is said to have a 2.5-inch 320 x 320 OLED display, one capable of showing a full range of colors. The device will also have a dual-core processor, specifically from the Exynos 4 family.

 

Earlier rumors suggested the processor would be Samsung's dual-core Exynos 4212 processor clocked at 1.5GHz.


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