Logitech gaming mouse ditches the G300 thumb buttons for Lefty in

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When it comes to games, the better, the better player. Logitech today announced its next generation series (g) gaming mouse, G300, and if this thing doesn't give you a competitive edge, you need to spend more time practicing. With nine customizable controls, you don't have to use the keyboard at all, means that the control that you would like to be beautiful lies beneath the Palm of your hand.

Because it's ambidextrous, this is the first mouse Logitech without thumb controls. Rightys and leftys can play with the same level of control. G300 mouse allows you to configure up to three different player profiles, too. So let's say you're playing bad company 2 and modern warfare 2 interchangeably. You can set the color to red for one control, and green for another, so that you do not start using controls of modern warfare, when you are playing Bad Company. There are seven different color options.

G300 touts 2500 DPI optical sensor that tracks of slow and fast movements, and the mouse works well on many surfaces. I have to play around with the G300 and believes that it is indeed very comfortably in either hand. Additionally it comes with Optional drag-and-drop software, which not only allows you to customize the mouse G300, but allows you to connect to the other products by Logitech as G-series keyboards and headsets. From there you can configure macros be distributed on all devices.

In terms of price and availability of G300 will go for an MSRP of $ 39.99 and will be available throughout Europe and the United States in September.

Logitech designs and manufactures consumer electronics and computer peripherals such as mice, keyboards, speakers and remote control.

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Qualcomm Snapdragon overhauls brand ditches misleading names chipset

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If you have a Smartphone, made over the last year or so that are not made by Apple or Samsung, likely preeeetty, well that is powered by a Snapdragon chipset Qualcomm's. Now, the chances that you actually could call what chipset Snapdragon he has ... Yes, pretty much zilch.

Problem: outside of the main brand "Snapdragon", Qualcomm has not done the best job in the differentiation of what chipset is which. MSM8260? MSM855T? MSM8930? OMGWTFBBQ? I am doing this for my work, and I still won't be able to tell you that one who cheat sheets.

This morning, Qualcomm announced a major overhaul with snapdragon brand. It should make things a little less confusing.

In short, they are almost impossible to remember the numbers of models and multilevel. They will have four tiers (or "system" as they call them) to begin with: S1, S2, S3 and S4. The higher the number the better specification.

S1, for example, is for the "Mass Market" phones — things on the lower end of what powers Qualcomm (anything 1 GHz and below). Things like the HTC Droid incredible or status. S2 is the good universities Guide for high-performance smart phones & tablets (1.4 GHz) as HTC Thunder, while S3 is intended for current high end stuff (1.5 GHz) as EVO 3D.

S4 encapsulates everything between 1.6 GHz and 2.5 Ghz — which, as you know, does not include actually anything just yet. The first devices in this range does not start, hitting shelves until next year as soon as possible.

Interestingly, Qualcomm said that the device will always be treated as device S2 S2-S2 is S1, S3 is S2, etc as I understand it, it sounds like Qualcomm plans to simply add new levels of system as time goes on. Man S10 is going to be funny.

Qualcomm will almost certainly have a big ol' ugly model numbers in one way or another for mega geeks among us to distinguish between similar tables — they just do not expect anyone to actually remember them.

Here's a look at what's changed:

Old and Busted:

New Hotness:

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