The Galaxy Ring is powered by a 1.4GHz processor and has 4GB of internal storage, 1GB of RAM, a 5MP rear-facing camera, a 1.3MP front facing shooter, and a 1,750mAh battery. The device utilizes Virgin Mobile’s 3G network, and has Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity.

While the Galaxy Ring doesn’t have the most impressive specs, it is an affordable and functional option for Virgin Mobile customers. The device is available for purchase on Virgin Mobile’s website.

[Via: Virgin Mobile]

The Huawei Ascend P6 comes with a 1.5GHz quad-core processor, a 4.7-inch HD display, a 5MP front-facing camera, an 8MP rear-facing shooter and a  2000 mAh battery. The device also boasts “Magic Touch” technology, which improves screen responsiveness while wearing gloves.

The Ascend P6 will be available in black, white and pink colors, alongside matching color cases. The Ascend P6 will start shipping in China in June, followed by Western Europe in July.

Press release follows below.

Elegant and edgy, the new HUAWEI Ascend P6 is the world’s slimmest smartphone

[London, United Kingdom, June 18, 2013]: Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, today unveiled the HUAWEI Ascend P6, the world’s slimmest smartphone measuring 6.18mm. The smartphone features a 1.5GHz quad-core processor and a sleek metallic body. With its 4.7-inch high definition in-cell display, industry-leading 5MP front-facing camera, and outstanding software, the HUAWEI Ascend P6 is the embodiment of elegance with an edge.

“The HUAWEI Ascend P6 is a star among smartphones with its industry-leading design, high-quality camera, and intuitive user interface, Huawei’s proprietary Emotion UI,” said Richard Yu, Chief Executive Officer, Huawei Consumer Business Group. “Building on the success of our Ascend P series of fashion smartphones, the HUAWEI Ascend P6 provides unsurpassed technology and a design that is simply stunning.”

HUAWEI Ascend P6 is ultra slim at 6.18mm and weighs just about 120g. While it is small enough to slip into the tiniest of pockets or clutch bags, the stylish HUAWEI Ascend P6 is designed to be seen and coveted! It features a 1.5GHz quad-core processor, Android 4.2.2 operating system, 2000mAh battery, 4.7-inch HD in-cell LCD screen technology, and ‘MagicTouch’ for enhanced screen responsiveness even when wearing gloves.

As the flagship smartphone of the Huawei Ascend P series, the HUAWEI Ascend P6 embodies a cutting edge design for the fashion conscious. The smartphone’s brushed metallic look with a naturally curved base is both elegant and intuitive. Impossibly beautiful, the Ascend P6 balances fashionable features and user-friendly functions.

Perfect for ‘selfies’, the HUAWEI Ascend P6’s industry-leading 5MP front-facing camera and auto facial-enhancing capabilities create model-gorgeous shots you’ll want to share. Its 8MP rear-facing BSI camera with F2.0 aperture and 4cm macro view also enables 1080P full HD video recording and playback. With Huawei’s proprietary IMAGESmart software, the HUAWEI Ascend P6 turns even the most novice photographer into a professional, with contrast and color enhancement, auto scene recognition, object tracing focus, and instant facial beauty support.

The HUAWEI Ascend P6 is even more intuitive and able to be customized with Huawei’s Emotion UI. Inspired by people, for device users worldwide, Huawei has gathered input from over 5 million consumers to help us optimize the latest version of Emotion UI. The proprietary user interface includes updates to Uni-Home including enhanced security, Huawei’s Me Widget, MagicTouch, and SmartReading. New to Huawei’s Emotion UI are the panoramic shoot and facial recognition photography functions.

Huawei’s unique Automated Discontinuous Reception (ADRX) and Quick Power Control (QPC) battery optimization and power saving technology improves performance by more than 30%, compared with smartphone batteries of equal size. With its multi-screen AirSharing capability, you can connect to a range of devices to boost your productivity at work or play by easily sharing documents or enhance your gaming experience with minimal lag time.

The HUAWEI Ascend P6 is available in black, white and pink with matching color cases. It will begin shipping to China from June and to Western Europe from July through Vodafone, Telefonica, Orange, H3G, O2, Carphone Warehouse, TalkTalk, Media Markt & Saturn, TIM and online via Amazon and CDiscount with other markets to follow.

[Via: Huawei]

The Desire 200 comes packing a Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 running at 1GHz, 512MB of RAM, a 5MP rear facing camera and 4GB of internal storage, which is expandable via a microSD card. The device will be running on an unknown version of Android with HTC Sense, a 3.5-inch HVGA display and Beats Audio support.

Pricing and availability have yet to be officially announced, and we will more than likely see the device rollout at a very affordable price point. Previous rumors have tipped the Desire 200 to launch later this year in some Asian markets.

[Via: HTC]

“With the recent console announcements and the advent of stronger mobile technology, we’re watching the video game industry keenly. In our estimation, Oculus is one of the only companies in the space with something completely new and disruptive. They have the right team, capital and vision to take virtual reality beyond console gaming and into everyday computing.” – Santo Politi, General Partner at Spark Capital

The Oculus Rift, a head-mounted virtual reality display, has been showcased at a few trade shows, most recently at E3 fully immerses its wearers into a 3D world. The Oculus Rift currently works with a handful of games, with Half Life 2 currently functioning on the hardware.

Oculus started out last year with a Kickstarter campaign, which quickly raised a cool $2.5 Million. Initially, only backers of the project were given dev kits, but Oculus has since started selling its dev kit on its own.

Full PR text follows below.

Oculus VR Closes $16M Series A to Bring Consumer Virtual Reality Platform to Market

Spark Capital and Matrix Partners Lead Round to Fuel Oculus VR’s Next Phase of Growth

IRVINE, CALIFORNIA (June 19, 2013) – Oculus VR, Inc., developer of the highly anticipated Oculus Rift, today announced that it has closed $16 million in Series A funding. The round was co-led by Spark Capital and Matrix Partners. Santo Politi, founder and general partner at Spark, and Antonio Rodriguez, serial entrepreneur and general partner at Matrix, have joined the company’s board of directors. Founders Fund as well as Formation 8 also participated in the round. The funds will be used to accelerate the development of virtual reality hardware, software and services, ultimately creating a full virtual reality platform for consumers.

“Oculus began with a single mission: to put players inside the game,” said Palmer Luckey, founder of Oculus VR and inventor of the Oculus Rift. “This investment allows us to deliver immersive and affordable virtual reality to players everywhere.”

The Oculus Rift is a virtual reality headset that provides an immersive, stereoscopic 3D experience with a huge field of view-110 degrees diagonally-and that overcomes latency challenges. A prototype of the Oculus Rift first appeared at E3 2012, immediately earning praise from the industry. Just one year later, Oculus has manufactured and successfully shipped the Rift development kits purchased in its Kickstarter campaign, allowing game developers across the globe to create Oculus-ready applications and interactive content.

“With the recent console announcements and the advent of stronger mobile technology, we’re watching the video game industry keenly,” said Mr. Politi. “In our estimation, Oculus is one of the only companies in the space with something completely new and disruptive. They have the right team, capital and vision to take virtual reality beyond console gaming and into everyday computing.”

“In this business, there are only a few rare companies that can so perfectly embody the future you read about in science fiction novels,” said Mr. Rodriguez. “What Palmer, Brendan and the team are building at Oculus so closely matches the Metaverse, we had to be part of it. Working with them to get this platform to market at scale will be enormously exciting.”

Founded in 2005, Spark Capital’s track record of backing extraordinary, forward-thinking ventures, including Twitter and Tumblr, has served as a barometer for innovation in the tech industry. Matrix Partners’ achievements span decades and include early investments in some of the world’s most successful technology companies, such as Apple, SanDisk and many others.

“What better way to mark our first anniversary than to announce our next phase of growth,” said Brendan Iribe, CEO of Oculus VR. “There are still many challenging problems to solve, but with the support of these great investment partners, and our passionate community, we will continue to hire the brightest minds and stay laser focused on delivering the very best virtual reality platform possible.”

Oculus VR previously raised over $2.4 million through its Kickstarter campaign – almost 10 times its fundraising goal – and developers are actively supporting the headset. No release date has been set for commercial release. To stay updated on Oculus’ progress, please visit www.oculusvr.com.

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About Matrix Partners

Matrix Partners is a premier venture capital firm that has generated outstanding returns for more than three decades. By focusing on early-stage investments and emphasizing long-term relationships with entrepreneurs, the firm has delivered several of the industry’s top performing funds of all time. Matrix Partners has offices in Cambridge and Waltham, MA; Palo Alto, CA; Mumbai, India; and Beijing and Shanghai, China. Matrix Partners has invested in several game-changing, industry-leading businesses such as Apple Computer, Aruba, HubSpot, JBoss, Netezza, Phone.com, Polyvore, Starent Networks, Tivoli Systems, Veritas, Zendesk, and Zong. www.matrixpartners.com

About Spark Capital

Founded in 2005, Spark Capital is a tight-knit group of partners managing approximately $1.5 billion across four funds. Spark invests across a number of key market segments including: advertising & monetization, commerce & services, cloud & infrastructure, social, mobile and content. Spark’s portfolio includes companies such as Twitter, Tumblr, Foursquare, AdMeld, OMGPOP, ThePlatform and 5Min. The Spark team has previously backed notable companies such as Akamai Technologies, Qtera, Aether Systems and Novatel Wireless. www.sparkcapital.com

About Oculus VR, Inc.

Oculus VR, Inc. is revolutionizing the way people experience video games. The company’s first product, the highly anticipated Oculus Rift, is a virtual reality headset that allows players to step inside the game. It provides an immersive, stereoscopic 3D experience with an ultra-wide field of view and super low latency head tracking. For more information, visit: www.oculusvr.com

[Via: Engadget] [Image: Techno Buffalo]

Rumored specs for the next iPad point to an Apple A7X processor to be running the show, an 8 MP camera and is expected to come in 16GB, 32GB 64GB and 128GB versions. The device should also support smart gestures and wireless charging, with a $500 price tag for the 16GB version.

We should see details of the next iPad coming in the next few months, as Apple has made it clear that no new devices will be announced until later this year.

[Via: Tablet News] [Image: istoday]

• Android 4.2.2
• 1.7GHz dual-core MSM8960 Pro processor
• 720p HD display
• 2GB RAM
• 16GB internal storage
• 10.0-megapixel rear camera
• 2.0-megapixel front-facing camera

Motorola had previously announced the existence of the Moto X during AllThingsD’s D11 conference, in which Motorola CEO Dennis Woodside revealed that the device would launch before October.

With Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie expected to launch in the coming months, we may just see the Moto X running on the new version of Android’s mobile OS.

Motorola moto x: 1.7GHz dual-core MSM8960 Pro, 720p, 2GB/16GB, 10MP/2MP, Android 4.2.2

— @evleaks (@evleaks) June 15, 2013

[Via: Android Spin , @evleaks]

While the device doesn’t have the most impressive specs, it will more than likely come at an affordable price aimed at Asian markets at the moment. The device is rumored to come with a 3.5-inch screen with a resolution of 320x480p, a 5MP rear facing camera, a single-core processor running at 1GHz, 512MB of RAM, 1400mAh battery and 4GB of storage which is expandable via a microSD card. The device will also have Beats Audio support and the HTC Sense overlay.

While HTC has yet to confirm specs or pricing of the device, expect to see the HTC Desire 200 launching sometime this year.

[Via: thegioididong]

The Bluetooth SIG product detail pictures a very Nexus 7 looking device which touts a model number of K009. This model number is shared with an FCC filing, which reveals the brand name “Nexus” and a Qualcomm CPU with the model number APQ-8064, which is the Snapdragon S4 Pro, not the Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 which is named in the Bluetooth SIG pictures. Many previous rumors have pegged the second gen Nexus 7 to come with a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro, not the Snapdragon 600, which raises some questions.

Since we do not have any concrete details on the second generation Nexus 7, it is entirely possible that Asus could be utilizing the Snapdragon 600 in lieu of the rumored Snapdragon S4 Pro. If the rumors are true, we should be hearing directly from Google about the updated tablet in a few short weeks.

[Via: Android Police]

The Entertainment Software Association, the company who runs the E3 Expo didn’t like this move, and rented out spaces around the Ouya booth, which they promptly filled with big-rig trailers to block the Ouya team. Ouya responded by flying Ouya banners in front of the trailers, and increasing their street team presence.

According to a report from IGN, Julie Uhrman, founder of the Ouya console believes that the ESA rented out spaces to block the Ouya team, since they chose a different route to displaying their product at E3. Uhrman has reached out to the ESA to try and end this debacle, and so far the ESA has been silent.

No matter how much the ESA tries to block the renegade Ouya presence at E3, the plucky Ouya team is not giving up easily. Uhrman stated, “If ten more trucks show up, we’ll come up with another idea. I have a few up my sleeve.”

The Android based Ouya console is expected to launch in retail stores on June 25th.

[Via: IGN]

The M.O.J.O. will be compatible with a host of Mad Catz peripheral devices, such as GameSmart controllers, mice, keyboards and headsets. The console will ship with the Mad Catz C.T.R.L. Wireless Gamepad.

Launch dates and pricing have yet to be announced.

Press release and gallery follow below.

MAD CATZ® ANNOUNCES THE M.O.J.O.™ ANDROID™ MICRO CONSOLE

GameSmart™ Console Brings Open Platform to Mobile Gaming

San Diego – June 11, 2013 – Mad Catz Interactive, Inc. (“Mad Catz”) (NYSE MKT: MCZ) announced today the Mad Catz M.O.J.O., an Android™ Micro Console configured to harness the maximum gaming horsepower from an Android device expected to ship Holiday 2013.
“M.O.J.O. is basically a supercharged smart phone with no screen that plugs into your flat screen TV to bring the living room experience to mobile gaming. M.O.J.O. is designed to interact seamlessly with our GameSmart controllers, mice, keyboards and headsets, in fact, the entire eco-system of gaming peripherals.” said Darren Richardson, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Mad Catz Interactive, Inc. “We also want M.O.J.O. to be a truly open platform. People are already comfortable buying games from Google Play™, Amazon®, TegraZone™ or any other retailer of their choice. They play those games on their phones and tablets already, and with M.O.J.O., they will be able to play them in the living room at no additional cost. The same approach applies to movies, music and any other digital media. Our focus is on providing the best hardware configured for performance, not forcing people to buy content from us.”
M.O.J.O. is expected to include the Mad Catz C.T.R.L.R Wireless GamePad. A true, console quality controller, the C.T.R.L.R features both Bluetooth® classic and Bluetooth Smart (4.0) technology which provides ultra-low latency, interference free gaming and exceptional battery life. In addition, the C.T.R.L.R features a ‘Mouse-Mode’ which allows gamers to enjoy many software titles originally designed for a touch interface in the comfort of their living room.

[Via: Mad Catz]

The Iconia W3 runs on Windows 8 and has an 8.1-inch 1280 x 800 display, a dual-core Atom processor running at 1.5GHz, 2GB of RAM, a 2MP front-facing camera and a rear-facing camera of 2MP as well. The unit comes with micro USB, micro HDMI and microSD, has a battery life of around eight hours. The Iconia W3 comes with some Microsoft software, with Office Home and Student 2013 pre-installed.

Retailers offering the Iconia W3 for pre-order are Amazon, Staples and Office Depot. Pricing vries a bit, with Amaon and Staples offering the 32GB model for $379.99, and Office Depot charging $349.99 for the device. The 64GB version of the Iconia W3 is being offered by Amazon for $429.99. Shipping dates vary by retailer, with Office Depot promising a June 16th shipping date, Staples shipping between June 11th and 19th and Amazon shipping the units in three to five weeks.

[Via: TabTimes]