Athlon. Phenom. Sempron. All of these are previous naming schemes for AMD processors. But these names and future, unique names could be a thing of the past if a reported document by Xbit Labs turns out to be correct. Replacing the traditional AMD names we’ve come to know will be more basic titles based off the companies Vision trademark — Vision FX, Vision A Series, and Vision E Series. Vision FX: Zembezi processors in 2, 4, or 8 core configurations. ...

We’ve highlighted the Emblaze First Else smartphone several times over the last year here at GS. The hardware wasn’t anything to write home about but the software was truly some amazing stuff. The First Else featured a UI like none other before it, while managing to pull off easy navigation to boot! Nailing both aspects so well (especially for a first timer) is pretty rare. Countless delays have however put doubt in may consumers’ minds. Today, that...

The GPS industry has already had a handful in recent months with Google’s completely free and generally completely awesome mobile navigation/turn-by-turn mobile app that debuted on the Android platform. But the Goog’s has plenty more to dish out as they are planning on releasing Google Navigation for iPhone “and plenty of other mobile platforms“, they announced today at a London Tech conference. Yowsa! Can we say woot (or hellz ya if that’s...

Being a BlackBerry user is both rewarding and painful. One one hand, you have one of the best platforms for messaging — whatever type it is — and rock solid stability. However, on the other hand you have a platform that let’s face it, in the consumer age is falling behind faster and faster with each passing day. Just look at the BlackBerry browser — it’s a joke. RIM might as well not even include it for consumer oriented BlackBerries...

Well, that was a short lived “fix”. The new explicit App Store category that was displayed yesterday has been effectively killed, for now. To many who were part of the 5,000 victims of the boobie ban of 2010, such a category seemed like a warm welcome. It seems that at this point however, Apple is fresh out of “warm loving feelings” for the “others” in the App world. To fall back on, there is that comment Gizmodo garnered from Apple in...