We initially thought that Taiwanese company is teasing the Google Nexus Tablet, as it was reported that the Android 5.0 Jelly Bean slate will be manufactured by ASUS, rumored to come with quad-core Tegra 3 chipset and 7-inch display.

Yesterday, ASUS returned with two more teasers and the mystery became more… well, mysterious. We know now that the Google Nexus tablet is not the next transformation, but we’ve seen a video that is centered on the idea of two sides, like the panel with “Tai” and “Chi” written on its opposite sides.

Anyway, the Tai Chi video seems to have no sense until you watch the second one that presents an interesting idea: water drops converging into one, with Windows 8 and Android logos making a cameo at the end of the teaser.

This can mean that we will see a new Transformer tablet at Computex 2012, a device capable of dual boot between Windows 8 and Android 5.0. Or maybe between Windows 8 and Android 4.1 as the latest rumors are saying that Google’s Jelly Bean will be 4.1 instead of 5.0. ASUS will make the big announcement on June 4th, in Taipei, where a lot more Windows 8 tablets will be demoed.

On the other hand I don’t think that the dual-boot tablet will switch between Windows 8 and Android Jelly Bean as Google’s new OS wasn’t officially unveiled, as it’s expected to debut at Google I/O event  scheduled for late June. Therefore the most plausible solution for the dual-boot ASUS tablet is Windows 8 and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

As I mentioned above, the teaser videos only made us ask more questions, thus it’s wiser to wait until the ASUS unveils the device at Computex Taipei 2012. We will return with more details on Monday. We are also curious to see what chipset solution ASUS chose for their dual-boot tablet.

After the South Korean company announced that over 9 million Samsung Galaxy S III units have been pre-ordered, today the officials come to unveil the sales figures for the emblematic smartphones in their portfolion. Therefore, the Samsung Galaxy S and Galaxy S II sales have overpassed the 50 million units threshold. 24 million units of the first generation Galaxy where shipped, while the Samsung Galaxy S2 ended up in the hands of 28 million lucky owners.

Samsung Galaxy Note is another important smartphone for the South Koreans, and the terminal was sold in over 7 million copies world wide, an impressive figure, considering that it’s a niche smartphone, a tablet – smartphone hybrid that sports a huge display.

Five months after Galaxy Note was officially released on the market Samsung announced that 5 million units were sold, and now two months later, the company reveals that 7 million phablets have been shipped. That’s an average of 1 million Samsung Galaxy Note units per month an impressive number for a niche device.

Samsung Galaxy Note leaves the factory gates with Android 2.3 Gingerbread, but the South Korean company rolled out the official Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich firmware update for the 5.3-inch smartphone. The Premium Suite ICS pack for Galaxy Note comes with a suite of applications that were optimized for S-Pen.

The Samsung phablet sports a 5.3-inch Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 800 x 1280 pixels, 1 GB of RAM and 16/32 GB of internal flash storage. Galaxy Note is underpinned by an Exynos chipset based on two ARM Cortex-A9 cores clocked at 1.4 GHz. It also comes with a front-facing 2 megapixel camera, while the 8 megapixel unit mounted on the back of the case has autofocus, LED flash and full HD 1080p video recording capabilities.

The two final-year MIT PhD students have launched the project on Kickstarter, with the goal of raising $25,000 in funding. While Kickstarted is a very popular website for launching new concept ideas, along with the fact that their is really unique and out of the box, they managed to raised already $360,895 and they still have 11 days remaining. Until now over 7,500 people pledged their concept.

If you are a geek curious to know how this thing works, then you should probably head over to their page where they explain accordingly. But, in short, they use a printed circuit board with an ATMega32u4 microcontroller running Arduino Leonardo bootloader and it uses a HID to communicate with your PC.

If you like the idea and want to help them, you could head over to their Kickstarter page and help them with a pledge. This way you can be one of the first to receive the MaKey MaKey.

To make an idea about how this thing works take a look at the video below to see how they turned some bananas into touchpads. I guarantee you will be really amazed. Though even it looks stunning and it’s really interesting, we couldn’t find an actual use for it, but maybe it’s just us.

In the video below you can see the new iPhone 5 front panel overlapped over an iPhone 4S, allowing us to figure out how big the display of the next iOS smartphone will be. Basically, only the height of the terminal will be changed, as the with will remain the same.

Therefore, we can estimate that the iPhone 5 will be about 10 mm taller than the iPhone 4S and the components confirm the rumors that surfaced on the web a month ago. It seems that the device will have a 4-inch display compared with the 3.5-inch panel of the current Apple smartphone model.

Modern smartphones are featuring bigger displays nowadays, but all the iPhone models so far came with 3.5-inch panels. This change will probably be welcomed by most of the Apple fans, as an increase in size will come with an improved browsing experience and more work space.

The rumor mill also speculates about the future technical speculations of the new iPhone 5. It seems that besides a bigger display the next gen iPhone will come with a more powerful processor, as well. My guess is that iPhone 5 will sport the dual-core 1 GHz A5X chipset that underpins the new iPad. It’s in Apple’s habit to equip their smartphones with the chipset of the iPad that is launched before it. Therefore iPhone 4 came with iPad’s A4 chipset, iPhone 4S packed the dual-core A5 CPU of the iPad 2, and, most likely the iPhone 5 will feature the 1 GHz A5X processor of the new iPad.

Apple will probably increase the RAM to 1GB and it was reported that the new iPhone will come with wireless charging, but the latter feature seems pretty unlikely. I am pretty sure that the new iPhone 5 will come with 4G LTE connectivity, supported by the A5X chipset.

As about the iPhone 5 release date, rumor has it that Apple will unveil the device at an event scheduled for October.

However, the Samsung Galaxy S3 is available only in one of the two colors, the Marble White version. In case you want to by the Pebble Blue version, you have to wait a few more days. Both versions have 16GB of internal storage. The 32GB version will be available probably at the end of the month.

The prices of the monthly plans start at $47 and rise depending on what additional options you choose. The Samsung Galaxy S3 has a pretty big display of 4.8 inches, but the device is still easy to carry and use. The internal memory of the GS3 can be 62GB, but you can choose to add another 62GB by inserting a microsSD card. What I like about this smartphone is its battery. It sports a 2100mAh battery which allows you to use it for many hours comparing to other phones. Not to mention the new features it includes, features which stunned even the most pretentious critics.

People can purchase the Samsung Galaxy S3 in 28 countries. Samsung is hopping that their new flagship smartphone will keep the company ahead of Apple. Strategy or not, releasing the Samsung Galaxy S3 before the iPhone 5 is a good move because if customers buy a new smartphone they won’t buy another a few months later when the iPhone 5 will be launched. Of course, there are people who are still faithful to Apple and they will probably wait until October to buy the iPhone 5. I you ask me, I don’t see what Apple can possibly come with in order to beat the Samsung Galaxy S3. The company will probably make the display a little bigger and say that it’s a big breakthrough, but hey, it’s just my opinion.

To conclude, I must say that Samsung Galaxy S3 will be available in over 300 networks and retail stores in July. In Australia there are other three major carriers (besides Virgin Mobile) that offer the device meaning Telstra, Vodafone and Optus.

Windows 8 Release Preview integrates the Internet Explorer 10 web browser, comes with Adobe Flash support and brings a suite of new Windows Applications, which, among others, will allow the user to connect with Hotmail, SkyDrive and Messenger.

Since the last build was launched, Windows 8 Consumers Preview, in September 2012, millions of users are already using the latest Microsoft operating system version, and the Release Preview is the result of millions of testing hours, say the Microsoft officials, on the company’s official blog.

Rumor has it that the final version of Windows 8 will be launched, most likely, in October.

Until now, Windows was developed exclusively for x86 and x64 devices, but now Windows 8 will become available for three different platforms.

The first one, called Windows RT, was designed for the tablets and devices underpinned by chispets manufactured on ARM architecture, while Windows 8 and Windows Pro will be compatible with other device models.

Windows Pro will benefit from the Windows Media Center add-on. The add-on can be downloaded from Microsoft’s website, along with other tools for encryption and PC management.

We’ve recently told you that after the new Microsoft operating system is officially released, 40 PCs and 5 tablets pre-loaded with Windows 8 will debut on the market.

The new Windows 8 will be able to boot in only 8 seconds, and the system installation will only take 52 minutes, while an upgrade to Windows 7 usually required an average of 513 minutes. According to an article on the official Building Windows 8 blog, the system will be installed with only 11 clicks.

The new Windows 8 operating system will come with an online application store, where the developers with publish applications, in a way similar to Apple Store or Android Market.

More details about Windows 8 Release Preview and the final version of Windows 8 are available on Microsoft’s official blog.

The case with a slim but solid construction has glossy surfaces, which remind us of carbon fiber. The same type of material, but a bit rougher, was used for the restpad. The chiclet keyboard seems to be a little bit crowded, when compared to the large restpad, but, fortunately, the keys groups are very well organized and they shouldn’t create you problems while typing.

Looking at the case, Gigabyte X11 seems to have some similarities with the Apple MacBook Air line-up, but with a color range that is darker, less ostentatious.

Gigabyte X11 was officially unveiled by the officials of the Chinese company along with its technical specifications. Therefore Gigabyte X11 sports a dual-core Intel Core Ivy Bridge ULV processor, Intel HD 4000 integrated graphic card, 4 GB of RAM DDR 3 dual-channel and SSD storage of 128 GB.

Gigabyte X11 also packs a 4,370 mAh battery that offers a battery life of 4-5 hours, USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 connectors, video mini-DisplayPort out, WiFi N network adapter, Bluetooth 3.0, and microSDHC card slot. Gigabyte X11 measures 97 x 192 x 3~16.5 mm and weighs in only 973 grams.

Depending on the components you choose for your Gigabyte X11, you would be able to acquire the ultrabook between $999 and $1299 starting this summer.

Well Samsung Galaxy S3 was made available for purchase in UK where the Birts formed lines in front of the retailers and, guess what, the smartphone is already out of stock.

The new Samsung flagship equipped with a 4.8-inch HD Super AMOLED display and quad-core Exynos CPU have cause queues like the one you can see in the picture above in all the British stores it arrived in, no matter they were retailers or carriers.

It seems that there are some problems with the Pebble Blue model, and the shipping time for this version was delayed 2-3 weeks. The British carriers and retailers have also increased the shipping time, O2 announcing 5 days of waiting, the Vodafone customers will have to wait 4 days, while T-Mobile announced that the shippments will begin tomorrow.

Clove, the online retailer will start shipping the Samsung Galaxy S3 as of June 1st and the people were instructed to contact the store’s customer service  before paying it a visit, in order not to waist their time at queues just to find out that the smartphone is out of stock.

Samsung officially announced that the Pebble Blue Samsung Galaxy S3 model will be delayed due to a manufacturing fault. Sources indicated that the colors of the Pebble Blue back lid and the front panel were not matching, thus Samsung had to destroy over 600,000 back cases. Hopefully, the South Korean phone marker announced that things will return to normal in less than three weeks.

Samsung Galaxy S3 was introduced on May 3rd at Samsung Unpacked event in London and the flagship device is set to become the official phone of the 2012 Olympic Games.

The new Samsung smartphone packs a quad-core 1.4 Exynos 4 Quad CPU, faster than any other processor you’ve ever seen before, 1 GB of RAM, 16/32/64 GB of internal storage and a free two year subscription to Dropbox which brings 50 GB of storage in the cloud.

The 4.8-inch HD Super AMOLED display has a resolution of 720 x 1280 pixels and is protected by Gorilla Glass 2 coating while the primary 8 megapixel camera comes with autofocus, LED flash, 1080p video recording support and simultaneous HD video and image recording.

Galaxy S3 sports HSDPA 21 Mbps, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, DLNA, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi hotspot, Bluetooth 4.0, microUSB 2.0, 3.5 mm jack and NFC chip.

The new Samsung flagship comes with Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich out of the box, decorated by the South Koreans’ own user interface, TouchWiz 4.0. The device has interesting features like Smart Stay (the display won’t dim as long as you are looking at it), S-Voice (Samsung’s rival for the more famous Siri), Pop up Play (allows the user to play a windowed video on any of the homescreens) or Best Photo (the camera takes 20 pictures in burst mode, choosing the best one for you) and many other such treats.

Until 2-3 years ago the queues for a new generation of smartphone were strictly associated with Apple iPhone, but here we are, in 2012, with people waiting in line to get their hands on Nokia Lumia 900 LTE in US and Galaxy S3 in Great Britain. It seems that the world is changing…

It looks like Microsoft continues to work on their SkyDrive storage in the cloud service for Windows and Mac, as now only one month after the service debuted on Microsoft’s and Apple’s platforms, the Redmond-based company launches new updates for the users.

The official Windows Blog writes that after Microsoft upgraded the SkyDrive application, the desktop user interface for the storage in the cloud service, the image sharing feature was introduced and the number of files that can be stored in the cloud was increased.

Anticipating the launch of the new Windows 8 Release Preview version, Microsoft have added a photo sharing feature to SkyDrive, which allows the users to view photo albums from any device attached to the SkyDrive account, using the image viewing application integrated in the operating system.

The SkyDrive users can now store up to 10 million files on the cloud servers, after the limit was increased from 150,000 files. Another important feature is the photo sharing function we mentioned above, that will now help the users to view their photos on any device connected to the account.

In a response to the critics coming from the Apple Mac OS X users, Microsoft has disabled the SkyDrive icon in dock, when the service is active.

The SkyDrive upgrade also comes with improvements in speed and bug fixes, and the automatic SkyDrive update should be applied to all the users in about a week.

The upgrade packages for the new SkyDrive version are available for automatic download and install on the compatible devices as of today.

Thus, if you are one of the lucky SkyDive users that received Microsoft’s update, please let us know whether the new changes have been applied to your cloud drive in the comments section below.

Some smart guys have “stolen” the Flipboard.apk file from the Samsung’s flagship and made it available for download, thus any owner of an Android smartphone was able to install the news app on their device. But the guys at Flipboard went eve further and launched a not so official update, that made their application compatible with more smarphones running on Google’s mobile operating system.

We don’t know whether Samsung signed a partnership deal with Fliboard, with terms specifying that the South Korean company has exclusivity for the app on the Android platform, for a determined time frame. If that’s the case, we would have to wait longer until we see the official Flipboard application in Google Play Store.

But this kind of things can’t stop the developers to launch a test version, compatible with most of the Android smartphones. The beta version of Flipboard for Android devices debuted yesterday, when the 1.8.4-63 version was officially made available for pre-order. Unlike the other versions “stolen” from Samsung Galaxy S III, the Flipboard beta for Android seems to be pretty stable.

But there are a few things that bugged us inside the Fliboard beta version which have let us waiting for too long in some situations. But, as a whole, Fliboard offers a very pleasant experience, comparable with the one the iOS user can enjoy for a long time.

So, do you want to try Flipboard beta? You can either download the application here or you can subscribe here using this link that will redirect you to the Flipboard for Android official web page.