Acer had recently published a profile of the Acer Iconia Tab A700 and A701 variant on its website, detailing some basic specifications for its next-generation Android tablets. It’s unclear at this time if the Iconia Tab duos were leaked on purpose or if it was published by accident, but the specs reveal some interesting tidbits. [...]
While smartphones have already begun to replace stand-alone digital cameras for many people, the idea of carrying around a 7- to 10-inch tablet as your personal shooter is still an idea that would result you in odd glances. That, however, isn’t stopping Asus, maker of the Eee Pad Transformer and its successor the Transformer Prime, [...]
Look at Transformer Prime, Lenovo’s catching up in your rear view mirror with its own Android 4.0 quad-core tablet that’s speculated to be launched at the end of this year. While there’s quite a bit of specs leaked for the device, at this point it’s still unclear if the device will be coming to the [...]
Following NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 announcement with a quad-core ARM-based CPU and the company’s own GeForce-based 12-core graphics engine, ARM has released specs for its updated Mali graphics unit. The ARM Mali graphics engine, model T400, is the graphics used in Samsung’s Exynos processor and is deployed on the South Korean smartphone-maker’s Galaxy S II smartphone, [...]
Once known by its code name as Kal-el, NVIDIA has finally formally announced its quad-core mobile processor as the Tegra 3 chipset, following the single-core ARM-based Tegra CPU and the dual-core ARM Tegra 2. Tegra 3 is the first quad-core ARM A9 CPU in the world and will also be coupled with a 12-core GeForce [...]
Along with the FCC filing with Asus’ forthcoming Eee Pad Transformer Prime, teardown photos reveal that the next-generation Transformer Android tablet will ship with a quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3 chipset, which is also known by its codename as Kal-el. According to Wireless Goodness, the FCC teardown photos, which reveal the internal components of the tablet, [...]
It looks like Qualcomm may be losing its monopoly on supplying chips to Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform if a leaked NVIDIA slide is to be believed. According to the NVIDIA roadmap, the company’s Tegra processor will make it onto Windows Phone by 2013, and that chip design will be codenamed Grey. Grey, which will combine [...]
Though NVIDIA had boldly promised in the past that we’ll begin to see tablets with quad-core processors–the Kal-el variety that’s been demoed before–this fall, the company says that there has been delays and devices won’t hit shelves until around Christmas. CEO Jen-Hsun Huang cites that manufacturers of the Android tablets are taking as much time as [...]
Despite Microsoft’s insistence in the past that the Windows Phone operating system, as its name implies, is reserved strictly for phones and that tablets are computers that requires Windows, NVIDIA’s outspoken CEO Jen-Hsun Huang spilled a major secret that the next-generation Windows 8 for tablets will be able to run apps made for Windows Phone [...]
According to the latest FCC filing, the Samsung Galaxy S II, which is Samsung’s most popular smartphone to date and still not yet available in the U.S., may be getting a brain swap. Rather than launching with the company’s own Exynos processor, the Galaxy S II, model GT-i9103, which comes with AT&T-compatible 3G/4G bands, was [...]
There is now speculation that Google is dumping NVIDIA, whose dual-core chipset helped to shape Android 3.0 Honeycomb, in favor of Texas Instruments for its Ice Cream Sandwich platform, which will begin the process of merging the tablet and smartphone editions of Android into one platform. The company’s OMAP 4 chip will be the reference [...]
NVIDIA has its eyes set on mobile as the Tegra 2-chip-maker is hoping to integrate more features into its smartphone CPU through the recent announcement of the Icera acquisition. Icera, a UK-based company, develops 3G and 4G baseband processors for use in phones and modems, and is said to be more efficient than those coming [...]
It can be tough to find the right apps in the Android Market and especially difficult finding games that take advantage of all the mobile horsepower stuffed in the latest Android phones and tablets. NVIDIA’s trying to ease the pain a bit by launching the Tegra Zone app for Android devices today. Tegra Zone is [...]
If you think the Tegra 2 is strong and powerful, you better wait for NVIDIA’s Tegra successor, codenamed Kal-El, which promises a qhopping quad-core processor coupled with a 12-core NVIDIA GPU to support display resolutions of 2,560 X 1,600 pixels. According to the chip-maker Kal-El delivers up to 5 times the performance of Tegra 2. [...]
In an interview with NVIDIA’s Tegra general manager Mike Rayfield with Hexus, the launch date for the next-generation Tegra 3 chipset was revealed. Though Rayfield didn’t mention an exact date, he did say “It will be in production around the same time as my competitors’ first dual-cores will.” In the past, NVIDIA has stated that [...]
An LG France spokesperson claims that the G-Slate, which would be coming to T-Mobile USA, would not only have a 3D glasses-free display, but could also record and encode 3D video as well according to Unwired View. Though not a lot of information is known about the Tegra 2-powered 8.9-inch tablet that’s made by LG, [...]
Acer today announced at CES that its ICONIA Tab A500 will be a 4G LTE tablet that will debut on Verizon Wireless’s nascent 4G network. The gaming and mobile-centric 10.1-inch slate will run Android OS and have a user interface layer on top called Acer UI 4.5. It will support HD playback and comes with [...]
Word out of NVIDIA is their processors will be powering infotainment and navigation systems in certain car models from BMW and electric car specialist Tesla Motors. Also revealed is the location at CES 2011 where you are most likely to find Xavier waffling on whether to stick with Mercedes for his next car.
NVIDIA, the maker of the dual-core Tegra 2 chips that are beginning to gain momentum in the high-end smartphone and tablet market, is saying that dual-core chips for mobile will become the standard in 2011 and that quad-core solutions will be available in the near future. The company had announced aggressive plans for its Tegra [...]
Scaleform is showing off some interesting technology at the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference. The company develops tools for game developers and it was showing off a demo of a Flash 3D gaming UI, running on NVIDIA’s mobile Tegra platform. 3D on mobile devices is something I’d like to see, but I’m not about to wear [...]
Our friends from Netbooknews.com just published a video of a prototype slate Android device. It’s apparently an NVIDIA reference design that utilizes second generation Tegra graphics. As you can guess, this 8.9″ slate falls into the content consumption device category. NVIDIA is showing off the device playing Backbreaker, a football game, at Google I/O.
I’m going to caveat this post by saying it is April Fools Day. That said, I don’t think this info qualifies as a prank, but I would qualify it as a rumor. According to SlashGear, there is word that NVidia is having some difficulty with its Tegra chipsets and this is going to force a [...]
This is an interesting read on the potential fortune of Tablets from Fortune. Beginning with a quote from NVida that says “we’ve found our most personal computer” that is a morph of of a line often uttered in the days where only Microsoft was in the Tablet PC space, it is full of promise of [...]
I’m telling you Notion Ink’s Adam Tablet keeps looking more and more interesting. SlashGear has some new video of the dual screen/dual display Tablet and this shows off the rotating webcam. Yep, it rotates. And Gizmodo is running what is said to be the final specs. This Tegra based dual screen design is something I’m [...]
MSI has announced that its Tegra based Tablet will be available in the second half of this year and be priced at $500. I’m guessing we’ll be seeing a few of these Tablet announcements over the next few months and they will all have some things in common. They will all have a release date [...]
Engadget has video of a tablet prototype reportedly of the same variety spotted earlier with NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang. It’s a monster of a tablet with a 15″ diagonal, but it’s just under an inch thick and packs enough video punch to run 720p video courtesy of its Tegra graphics system. Confirmed is the fact [...]
I was taking a closer look at the upcoming Vega tablet from ICD and could not help but notice the resemblance to the prototype media pad tablet spotted earlier this week with the CEO of NVIDIA. Indicator lights are updated with icons and what looks like a USB port is on the opposite end, but [...]
Well, no major surprise or revelation here: the unknown tablet device spotted with NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang as been identified as a prototype for what has been called their Tegra media pad. According to Engadget, the device has a resistive touchscreen and runs Windows CE, but “both Android and capacitive upgrades are in the cards, [...]
With a brief mention of a “media pad” in an interview (and a mention by the interviewer of Apple’s mythic tablet), Mike Rayfield, general manager of NVIDIA’s mobile business unit, set the blogosphere abuzz with chatter that Tegra would be powering the Apple Tablet. Today, The New York Times’ Bits Blog shares more from Mr. [...]
For those interested in Smartbooks (as opposed to Netbooks as opposed to Notebooks) this video look at the Tegra powered Mobinnova Elan Smartbook will certainly be of interest. The video from Netbooknews shows off the device but also explains a bit about NVidia’s Tegra platform. A second video showing off the software is promised soon. [...]
The news just keeps pouring out of Computex, this time coming from NVIDA who has just announced that 12 of their partners are shipping MIDs / Tablet and Netbooks with NVIDIA’s Tegra technology: NVIDIA Corporation and industry partners today unveiled 12 new high-definition mobile Internet devices (MIDs) all powered by the NVIDIA(R) Tegra(TM) processor, the [...]
NVidia really wants to get into the great Netbook race and it looks like they are out to turn some heads. At CTIA they are showing off a HP Mini 1000 that they’ve replaced the Intel guts with the NVidia Tegra system. It is running Windows CE and from the video on Engadget, it looks [...]
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