NVIDIA is looking to double the number of smartphone models running on its Tegra ARM-based chipset from 15 models launched in 2011 with Tegra 2 to 30 models launching this year with the quad-core Tegra 3 CPU. At its investor meeting, the company says that the phones will also be less expensive at launch than [...]
Nvidia-powered tablets and clamshell devices are now approved to run on AT&T’s 4G LTE network. Nvidia announced today that it’s Icera 410 LTE modem chipset is now validated on AT&T’s network. That means manufacturers can use the modem in their devices, letting those devices connect to AT&T’s 4G LTE network (as well as the carrier’s 2G, [...]
NVIDIA has created the Kai reference platform to help tablet manufacturers bring down the price of their tablets to $199 starting this summer, which is the same price that Amazon is selling its show-stealing Amazon Kindle Fire. According to NVIDIA, this will help to drive the price of quad-core tablets down to the price of [...]
In February, ASUS announced two new Transformer Pad tablets. The Transformer Pad 300 which launched last month and the Transformer Pad Infinity which has yet to launch in the U.S. However, it now looks like the Transformer Pad Infinity has finally moved closer to release as the device has passed through the FCC with flying [...]
Nvidia is using its new Kepler GPUs to make cloud gaming faster than it was before. Today, Nvidia announced its new GeForce Grid, a system of powerful, inexpensive servers that can make cloud gaming better. Nvidia won’t start its own cloud gaming service, but it will sell the GeForce Grid system for other companies to [...]
NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 + LTE chipset won’t be arriving until 2013, unfortunately in the latest report from the company. The current Tegra 3, which is described by its maker as a 4 + 1 architecture, is based on ARM’s reference design and combines a powerful processor with NVIDIA’s GeForce graphics engine. Unfortunately, due to the [...]
A new video shows us how the U.S. version of the HTC One X compares to the international version of the phone. The video of the two phones comes from YouTube user Josh Krek who tested the Rogers version of the HTC One X which uses a dual-core Snapdragon S4 CPU and the international version [...]
While Tegra 3 chipset barely debuted on smartphones at Mobile World Congress in late February, NVIDIA is looking to release a slightly upgraded model of its quad-core ‘4+1‘ architecture ARM-based applications processor by the end of this year in the form of the Tegra 3+. Unfortunately, though, for those looking for a high-end phone with [...]
With buzz surrounding the HTC One X and its Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE variant along with much speculation behind the rumored quad-core Samsung Galaxy S III flagship, it seems that many people have forgotten about LG’s own flagship in the form of the quad-core Tegra 3-powered Optimus 4X HD. To keep the buxx going, [...]
Toshiba’s first foray into the Android tablet market was met with some criticism despite packing a lot of ports and power that made the Toshiba Thrive tablet a standout among competitors. The device was bulky and users wanted thin and light. Toshiba has listened and is now unveiling three new Android tablets under the new [...]
The HTC One X and HTC EVO 4G LTE will both launch in the coming weeks and are both destined to be among the summer’s hottest new phones. However, as I see more and more reviews of the International version, I’m starting to feel more and more miffed that the American market doesn’t get the [...]
We have only just begun to see the first devices rocking NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 quad-core processor start to roll out and already we have word about the release of the company’s next-generation Tegra 4 processor. According to a leaked road map courtesy of Chinese site VR-Zone, by way of Engadget, we have learned that the [...]
Right now, NVIDIA’s flagship quad-core Tegra 3 ARM-based processor with GeForce graphics does not offer support for the next-generation 4G LTE mobile broadband technology, which is why AT&T and other LTE carriers are opting to use Qualcomm’s dual-core Snapdragon S4 CPU instead of Tegra 3 in a number of high profile devices like the HTC [...]
In an interview with the New York Times, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang may have hinted and confirmed the $150-$250 rumored Google-branded Nexus Tablet that’s speculated to be made by Asus. Huang played up NVIDIA’s strengths about the cost-effectiveness of Tegra 3 stating that Android tablets launching this summer could dip into the $200 range. “We [...]
At Mobile World Congress, fans of the HTC One X found themselves to be disappointed by the AT&T variant that’s coming to the U.S. as the HTC One XL–based no the same design and specs–will eschew the international version’s quad-core processor in favor of a dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor for better compatibility with the U.S. [...]
As expected, Apple has introduced the new iPad at its event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and sure enough, the device is packing a new processor inside. We had heard rumblings about a new, powerful processor and Apple has delivered. The new iPad is going to feature a dual-core A5X processor with [...]
While all of the talk this week is about the upcoming iPad 3, or iPad HD, from Apple, another interesting tablet emerged at the Toshiba 2012 conference in the United Kingdom. The company, while promoting its announcements at this year’s Mobile World Congress, teased a 13.3-inch tablet concept that apparently, if it makes it to [...]
Despite an unmemorable, though not final, product name as the Ultra High Spec Smartphone, Japanese phone-maker Fujitsu brings a lot of punch to its quad-core Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone to Mobile World Congress this year. The device is one of a number of phones and tablets to debut at the Barcelona-based trade show to [...]
At Mobile World Congress, Chinese smartphone-maker ZTE took the opportunity to introduce a new premium high-end flagship phone in the form of the Era, a quad-core device that will, unlike Huawei’s offering, utilize NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 processor. The Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich-powered Era will also support 4G LTE networks, and ZTE commits to bringing [...]
AT&T confirmed that its 4G LTE version of the HTC flagship One X smartphone announced at Mobile World Congress will come with a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 chipset rather than the quad-core Tegra 3 ‘4+1‘ CPU found on the international version. The decision to go with the dual-core Snapdragon rather than the quad-core Tegra 3 [...]
At Mobile World Congress, not only did rising Chinese smartphone-manufacturer Huawei announce the company’s first smartphone in the form of the Ascend D Quad and Ascend D Quad XL smartphones–akin to Motorola’s Droid RAZR and Droid RAZR Maxx where the latter XL moniker denotes a device with a more capacious battery, but the company also [...]
Yesterday, LG announced that it would be debuting one of the most anticipated smartphones of this year’s Mobile World Congress 2012. That device of course is the LG Optimus 4X HD, a device that was originally known under the name LG X3, and one that will be the successor to the the company’s previous release, [...]
We’re still a couple of days out from the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and while we already know what LG will be showing off there, the company has yet to give us an in-depth glimpse at its devices. Cue Italian site Telefonio who has managed to snag video of LG’s elusive MWC lineup which [...]
While Tegra 3 is formally referred to as a quad-core ARM architecture system, NVIDIA wants to clarify that there are technically five cores in its chipsets that will be powering the next-generation smartphones expected to launch at Mobile World Congress. The chip-maker has trademarked the term ’4-PLUS-1 quad-core architecture.’ So what’s the fifth core? NVIDIA [...]
Although companies have yet to make any of them official, we know that phones with quad-core processors are going to be announced at this year’s Mobile World Congress. How do we know this? NVIDIA, the maker of the Tegra 3 quad-core chip, confirmed that phones using their product will be on hand at MWC. In [...]
We’ve heard a lot about what HTC may have planned for the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and one of the devices that figures to be at the forefront of those plans is a device called the HTC Edge/HTC Endeavor/HTC One X that will very likely be the Taiwanese company’s first smartphone with a [...]
NVIDIA has already told us that there will be Tegra 3 quad-core smartphones on display at the Mobile World Congress which is scheduled to take place in Barcelona later on this month. Thing is, we didn’t know when we’d see the device or devices launch. With new technology of this sort, announcements can sometimes precede [...]
We’re fairly certain that LG will be announcing at least one of four rumored devices at this year’s Mobile World Congress and one of those phones figures to be the quad-core powered LG X3, a device that has leaked out before but did so in great detail today. MoDoCo was able to dig up some [...]
Yesterday, we told you about the HTC Ville, one of the smartphones that HTC might be announcing at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) later on this month in Barcelona. Today, we’re going to touch on another, a phone that was once called the HTC Edge but now is apparently called the HTC Endeavor. And while [...]
NVIDIA has just sent out media invitations to the company’s press event centered at Mobile World Congress later this month in Barcelona, Spain, which promises some quad-core firsts. As the company had worked with partner Asus recently to launch the world’s first quad-core ARM-based tablet in the form of the Transformer Prime, that leaves room [...]
Acer is expected to make its second quad-core tablet, the Iconia Tab A510, in Europe starting in April for the price of €500. The tablet will follow Acer’s more premium Iconia Tab A700. Though both devices feature a quad-core Tegra 3 processor and a 10.1-inch display, the Iconia Tab A700 ups the resolution to a 1080p [...]
HTC’s rumored quad-core Tegra 3-powered HTC Edge may get a codename change and be known internally as the HTC Endeavor. Interestingly, the phone may be released as the HTC Supreme. It looks like HTC is going grand with names for its smartphones if its Android flagship will be called the Supreme and the Windows Phone [...]
During NVIDIA’s press conference today at CES 2012, the company announced Asus’ 7-inch Eee Pad Memo which will be arriving with a Tegra 3 quad-core chip along with a very affordable $249 price point. That puts it right on par, at least price-wise, with Barnes and Noble’s Nook Tablet and Amazon’s Kindle Fire. The 7-inch [...]
If you were hoping to see quad-core phones from HTC unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas it appears that your dreams may have been dashed as Commercial Times is reporting that HTC won’t be unveiling any quad-core smartphones until the Mobile World Congress which is set to take place in February. [...]
It looks like Toshiba is working on a quad-core Android tablet with Tegra 3 on-board. A tablet made by Toshiba was spotted being benchmarked on benchmarking site AnTuTu with the model number ‘toshiba06.’ The tablet’s performance results were on par with other Tegra 3-powered tablets, such as the recently released Asus Transformer Prime. The clock speed [...]
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Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE Review: A Worthy Successor to the Original (Video)
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