February 18, 2013 Smartphone, Tablet, Technology
Dipesh Patel, a head of ARM, stated that the price is still a factor that curbs smartphones and tablets popularity growth. He believes that vendors should concentrate more on affordable devices. Just 5 of 7 billion world’s population have mobile phones and just one billion users have smartphones. Patel thinks that smartphones and tablets for [...]
May 23, 2012 Android, Featured, Tablet, Technology
NVIDIA has just introduced its new platform that is can be a basis for quad-core Android tablets which price will not exceed $200. NVIDIA Kai will be released in next few weeks and first devices based on this system-on-chip are expected to become available till the end of summer 2012. Earlier Rob Csonger, a vice-president [...]
April 27, 2012 Android, Featured, Tablet
According to comSource analytics agency Amazon with its Kindle Fire has just reach 54.4% US Android tablets market share. It is notable that took Amazon just two months – in December 2011 the share of Amazon Kindle Fire was just 29.4%. The second place belongs to Samsung Galaxy Tab series tablets – 15.4%, Motorola Xoom [...]
February 6, 2012 Tablet, Technology
This year AMD is going to start shipping of processors for tablet computers. In 2012 AMD will release Hondo chip. It is built on the 40nm node and has two Bobcat cores, built-in Radeon HD 6000 graphics accelerator with DirectX 11 support. This processor will feature extremely low power consumption – TDP will not exceed [...]
November 29, 2011 Android, Smartphone, Tablet
Lenovo introduced its new device that is a hybrid of smartphone and tablet. Lenovo LePad S2005 features 5-inch LTPS touchscreen with 800x480px resolution and runs on Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread operating system. The device is based on 1.2GHz dual-core Qualcomm processor and has 1GB RAM, 5MP camera supporting HD video recording, front-facing 1.3MP camera for video [...]
November 9, 2011 Featured, Tablet, Technology
Today NVIDIA officially introduced its new system-on-chip platform. NVIDIA Tegra 3 features four 1.3GHz cores and one additional 500MHz core used for not resource-intensive tasks. Moreover to optimize power consumption the system can switch of one, two or three main CPU cores if they are not needed. New generation Tegra platform has 12 GeForce graphic [...]
October 19, 2011 Android, Featured, Smartphone, Tablet
Yesterday Google announced new version of Android and the world’s first smartphone running on it –Samsung Galaxy Nexus. But not only coming devices will be powered by this OS. Google officially confirmed that most of smartphones running on Android 2.3 Gingerbread can get an update to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Matias Duarte, a chief [...]
October 5, 2011 Android, Smartphone, Tablet
Google has just published a report showing different Android versions usage statistics. According to it at present moment 38.7% of Android device run on Gingerbread 2.3 version. That is 7.4% more than in August. Android 2.2 Froyo still has a biggest market share – 45.3%. Android Éclair has 17.7% while the Donut has 1.4%. The [...]
August 1, 2011 Android, Tablet
A year ago Singaporean Fusion Garage released its first tablet – JooJoo. The device was actively promoted and said to be a perfect combination of an affordable price and great functionality. It was based on NVIDIA ION platform and was equipped with 12.1-inch touchscreen with 1366x768px resolution, 4GB internal storage, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 3.5mm headphones jack. [...]
This device was announced in the begging of the year and was scheduled to be released in May. But later Acer re-assigned the released date. Acer Iconia Tab A100 will become available in Europe in September and will cost EUR350. This tablet computer is passed on NVIDIA Tegra 2 platform and runs on Google Android [...]
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