Nokia And T-Mobile To Announce Windows Phone Devices December 14th

It looks like Nokia’s new Windows Phone smartphones are headed to US mobile carrier T-Mobile, as the company has sent out invites to a press event on the 14th of December, which is next Wednesday.

Although the invite doesn’t actually mention Windows Phone devices, it is pretty obvious from the invitations design that Nokia and T-Mobile will be announcing Windows Phone smartphones.

We don’t as yet have any details on what devices will be announced, whether it could be the Nokia Lumia 800 and Nokia Lumia 710 which were announced a while back or some new Nokia Windows smartphones for the US.

As soon as we get some more information on what Nokia and T-Mobile will be unveiling on the 14th of December we will let you guys know.

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Amazon Kindle Fire Gets Android Ice Cream Sandwich Port (Video)

Given that the Amazon Kindle fire is one of the cheapest Android tablets on the market, retailing for just $199, the device is going to be popular amongst developers and modders.

One developer has managed to port the latest version of Google’s mobile OS, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to the Kindle Fire, and you can see it in action in the video below.

It looks like the ICS port for the Kindle Fire is still a work in progress, but it certainly does look promising from the video.

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Transformers Bumblebee Xbox 360 Slim Casemod (Video)

Transformers and gaming fans will love this new Xbox 360 case mod, inspired by Bumblebee from the Transformers movies, this latest Xbox mod was created by Mark Bongo from Major League Mods.

Mark decided to install an Xbox 360 Slim inside a remote control Camaro, and in the video below you will see that the DVD tray comes out of the front of the car, and the rear window is an 8 inch LCD display.

 

You can find out more information about this fun Bumblebee Xbox 360 mod over at Major Leage Mods.

 

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Intel & Micron Introduce 128Gb, 20nm NAND Flash

This week Intel and Micron have unveiled the worlds first 128Gbit (16GB) multilevel-cell NAND flash memory chip. Which has been manufactured using a 20nm process, incorporating high-K metal gate transistors.

The 20nm process manufacturing process has been key to the development of the new NAND chips say Intel and Micron. Who also this week announced that their 20nm 64Gb NAND device is now moving to production later this month.

The latest Intel,Micron 20nm 64Gbit (8GB) chip measures just 118mm2 and enables a 30% to 40% reduction in board space compared to their existing 25nm 64Gbit (8GB) NAND device. The new 128GB NAND device is expected to arrive sometime in 2012.

Glen Hawk, vice president of Micron’s NAND Solutions Group comments:

“As portable devices get smaller and sleeker, and server demands increase, our customers look to Micron for innovative new storage technologies and system solutions that meet these challenges,” – “Our collaboration with Intel continues to deliver leading NAND technologies and expertise that are critical to building those systems.”

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Microsoft’s Windows Store Coming February 2012

As well as announcing that the Windows 8 public beta will be available in February, Microsoft has also announced that the Windows Store will launch in February of 2012, and Microsoft has shared some more details about the Windows Store.

It looks like the deals with application developers for the Windows Store will be similar to what Apple offers, Microsoft will pay developers 70 percent of the revenue and keep 30 percent themselves, although the deal does look better as when a particular app reaches $25,000 in revenue, Microsoft will pay developers 80 percent of the revenue.

Applications in the Windows Store will be available in all languages and apps will be available in a total of 231 markets around the world, and when the Windows Store launches in February it will be a beta store, all applications will be free initially.

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