HP recently introduced a new business netbook with an Atom N2600 Cedar Trail processors. Now it looks like the company is getting ready to upgrade its consumer netbooks with Cedar Trail chips as well. French retailer Géant's latest product catalog shows listings for new HP Mini 110 and Mini 210 netbooks with Intel's latest low-power Atom processors. They both look a...
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As far as we can tell, Microsoft predicts a future where influential businessmen and scenesters ultrabloggers (like us) flounder passionately in front of our netbooks while on jam-packed public transportation. True, the Kinect's range of sensors and cameras is being experimented on a variety of prototype Windows 8 netbooks. Although details appear scant, the iPad-based journal states that it has witnessed a pair of models that "seems like Asus netbooks running Windows 8," is Asus trying to cash in on Microsoft's efforts? The company is set to release actual laptops that sport a built in Microsoft's motion-sensing technology.
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Samsung may not be announcing the Galaxy S III within the next few months. However, the company is rumored to announced the new Galaxy Tab that's powered by a dual-core 2 GHz Exynos 5250 processor as well as Google's Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS.
The rumor is based on a prototype seen at the CES 2012. That prototype was apparently running that 2GHz Exynos processor along with Ice Cream Sandwich. So, if that prototype was at CES, it's probably ready to make its debut and MWC seems like the place where Samsung would make such an announcement.
The rest of the possible specs is still a mystery although it appears that it might feature a display bigger than 10 inches with WXQGA (2560×1600) resolution. If this are correct, this will be the biggest tablet that Samsung has offered to date.
As of now, the company currently offers tablets with displays that measure in at 10.1, 8.2 and 7.7 inches. It's unclear how much bigger the display on the new device will be.
While everything here should be taken with a grain of salt, the fact that Samsung already has all of the pieces working together, it's not entirely out of the question.
In addition, Samsung needs to make some sort of a splash at MWC now that the Galaxy S III won't be arriving, a new tablet with the company's new processor is a good alternative.
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Samsung seems to be gearing itself up for a new tablet PC during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February 2012. This new slate, however, will not be the rumored Samsung Galaxy S III, whose launch at the trade fair is allegedly cancelled.
In lieu of the rumored smartphone, however, Samsung expects to debut some new tablets. For instance, there might be a new Samsung Galaxy Tab which runs on the Samsung Exynos 5250 processor. This new chip, which was announced last year, is the company's first Cortex-ARM 15 SoC. The Exynos 5250 has a 32 nm process and a clock speed of 2 GHz. Said specifications are expected to ensure at least two times faster computing experience, about 24 hours of battery life, five times horsepower graphics-wise, and more memory bandwidth at 12.8GB.
The next-generation Samsung Galaxy Tab will likely have a display that measures more than 10 inches and have a WXQGA screen with a 2560 x 1600 pixel display resolution, made possible, of course, also with the Exynos 5250 processor. It is also expected that it will run on the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS.
Until the rumored launch, however, Samsung is limiting the information it releases on the new slate, and was only quoted to having said that it will have some "interesting stuff" at the trade show.
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It is now being reported that Microsoft is working to develop a Kinect system that can be used in laptops. There are already netbook prototypes with built-in Kinect sensors.
Instead of relying on hardware that is plugged into the computer, the prototypes, Asus netbooks, hasve a strip of sensors above the screen that is normally the place for the webcams.
The idea is that users can be able to buy a laptop with Kinect features included to not only use in game but also to interact with various apps that has gesture-based controls.
Intel already showcased a similar feature in the CES, see the video below.
It is not clear whether the demo was run under a system with Microsoft Kinect integration or an entirely different thing, but it does look like Intel agrees with Microsoft could benefit from such technology.
Microsoft is now looking to license the Kinect technology to laptop makers, meaning, you won't probably see an Xbox 360-branded Kinect laptop anytime soon. You may see PC manufacturers offer portable computers with Kinect motion-sensing tech built-in.
Source: Liliputing
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The HP TouchPad tablet hit the streets last summer for $499 and up, but after HP discontinued the tablet in August it slashed the price by as much as 80 percent, selling the 16GB model for $99 and the 32GB version for $149. While the TouchPad had suffered from poor sales up until that point, they sold out almost instantly....
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Rumor has it that Dell is rolling out gaming laptop lineup this year with M14X R2, M17X R4 and M18X R2. The M14X R2 is an unusual gaming notebook because the graphics processor of 1G/2GB dedicated memory is part of the motherboard and it won't be a discrete laptop video card. The M14X R2 comes in red or black chassis.
The video card options of the M17X R4 will have the AMD Radeon 7970M, Nvidia GeForce GTX 660M and GeForce GTX 675M.
Details on the M18X T2 is nor yet known expect for the color options being red or black.
Details of the Alien M11X, the gaming netbook, has not yet surfaced. It should be the 4th revision of this model.
The previous generations of the mentioned models has displays of 14″ (M14X), 17.3″ (M17X) and 18.4″ (M18X). Intel Sandy Bridge dual and quad-core processors would power this babies as well as GPUs from AMD or Nvidia. Hopefully, these gaming line would see the light of day on the 2nd Quarter of 2012.
Source: Laptoping
Dell Developing Alienware M14X R2, M17X R4, and M18X R2? is a post from: Eee PC
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Around 10.5 million Android tablets were shipped last year, Motorola shipped about a million of them. Motorola says it was able to ship 1 million tablets in 2011 and 200 thousand of those was during the last quarter of the year.
Motorola was the first ever company to have a Android 3.0 tablet in the market with its Motorola XOOM was launched February last year. Motorola also introduced the Droid XYBOARD 8.2 and XYBOARD 10.1 tablets recently. They didn't go on sale until 2012. It is possible that Motorola shipment covers only the XOOM WiFi and XOOM 3G/4G tablets.
Several companies have thrown themselves in the Android tablet market. Dell is one of those who exited the fray but promises to come back with a vengeance.
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ZTE Optik was accidentally announced by Sprint. The 7-incher will soon be available for only $100 this coming 5th of February online, stores will have this on March 11th.
An optional smart cover is also revealed and it costs almost half of the Optik's subsidized price. If you don't want to be stuck in a two year contract, the device is available for a super expensive price tag of $350.
Specs are as follow:
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Qualcomm may be known first and foremost for making the processors that power millions of phones and tablets. But the company also has a display division... and it's about to get a little bigger. EE Times reports Qualcomm has acquired display company Pixtronix for about $175 million. Pixtronix is a startup working on MEMS display technology which can offer high...
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Apple announced recently that it shipped a whopping 15.4 million iPads in the most recent quarter, with iPads outselling Mac computers by a margin of nearly 3 to 1. But how does the iPad fare against the onslaught of tablets running Android, Windows, or other operating systems? Pretty well, actually. According to a new report from Strategy Analytics, about 26.8...
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In an interview, Ryan Bidan, Samsung's product marketing manager, discussed about adding stylus support to other products of Samsung,
Yes, I think so. I think a pen interface continues to make a lot of sense across a number of screen sizes, like the larger is more obvious of those. That's about as specific as I can be without announcing a product.
There are lots of interactive whiteboard products shown at CES 2012 and Samsung has one of them. People may prefer typing as opposed to writing as their primary input but writing still is needed in a lot of situations. Physical writing, be it diagrams or notes encourage creativity and gives more effective way in learning for some people. Positive reception of the Galaxy Note shows it all.
It is possible to write and sketch on capacitive screens with no palm rejection, however, it is not that ideal. Wacom active digitizer technology with a stylus like the S-Pen provides more pen-and-paper, comfortable, analog feel. It is nice to have a device as small as a notebook to have a S-pen functionality, but larger Galaxy Tabs could benefit much from it. It would be great for productivity, be it business or studies. This makes tablets more than an entertainment slab and could be used in lots of things important to individual endeavors.
Source: Netbooknews
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Android isn't Google's only operating system. The company also offers Chrome OS -- a simple operating system based on the Chrome web browser that's designed to run on low-power laptops or desktops which Google calls Chrombooks or Chromeboxes. But you don't hear much about Chrome OS these days, because Chromebooks haven't had much commercial success. But Google says the Chrome...
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Digital books offer a number of advantages over paper books. You can carry around hundreds of books in your pocket. eReaders tend to be thinner and lighter than a hardcover book. And you can search for text, share passages, or jump to any page in an eBook. But there are still a few things that I find tough to do...
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HP announced recently that it would release its webOS mobile operating system as open source software. Now the company is providing a roadmap. The goal is to release the first open souce version of webOS by September, 2012. Along the way the company will start using a standard Linux kernel instead of a custom kernel, update the development tools for...
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Samsung has no plans to update the original 7 inch Galaxy Tab to run Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. But while Samsung says no, a team of independent developers say yes. For the last few months a few members of the xda-developers forum have been busy porting CyanogenMod 9 to run on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7 inch tablet....
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Sony is about to bring Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to its tablet portfolio this spring. The company representative said at an event in London that ICS would be arriving on both the Sony Tablet S and Tablet P at the same time during spring. Sony also said that both tablets would be having a new update which would bring Microsoft Office functionality. However, the company didn't actually dwell on what this update would entail.
Sony also showed off its PlayStation Certified gaming platform on the Tablet S and announced that it is now compatible with a PlayStation controller. This means that gamers won't have to use the on-screen controls for the games on PlayStation Store. This is something that OnLive has also been trying and by all accounts using a physical controller with the tablet makes gaming experience a whole lot better.
At the event, Sony was upbeat on its recent entry on the tablet market. It thought that it had the biggest selling Android tablet over this period but was it didn't gave out any figures regarding on its sales.
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The HP Slate 500 is a Windows 7 tablet with an 8.9 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display and a 1.86 GHz Intel Atom Z540 processor. When the tablet hit the streets in 2010, HP sold it for $799 and up. But now you can grab one from B&H for under $500. HP doesn't actually offer this model anymore. Instead...
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Looks like Intel will be adding a series of embedded processors on its Ivy Bridge CPU lineup, the i3-3217UE and i3-3120ME. The specs of two such models were recently unveiled and published online, with two computing cores and Hyper-Threading support.
The Core i3-3217UE is an ultra-low voltage CPU initially clocked at 1.6GHz, it has 3MB Level 3 cache memory, but no Turbo Boost support. The chip has an integrated HD 4000 graphics engine clocked at 350MHz, which can go as high as 900MHz when the need arises. The new Intel part is reported to replace the current Core i3-2340UE that's based on the Sandy Bridge architecture, so it sports the same 17W TDP like that of the latter chip.
The second Ivy Bridge embedded CPU, the Core i3-3120ME, is initially clocked at 2.4GHz and an identical 35W TDP as that of the i3-2310E it will replace. It incorporates an HD 4000 graphics core clocked at 650MHz, and has an L3 cache size of 3MB.
The two processors support DDR3-1600 ECC memory, Intel's VPro technology and will come in the BGA package, while their PCI Express support will be reverting back to 2.0. The two embedded CPUs should be arriving any time in the second or third quarter of 2012.
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LG has done turning 3D technology more readily available in its latest A540 notebook. The A540 is one of those computers that has everything needed to make people reconsider their view that a laptop should be as thin and light as possible.
Measuring 15.6 inches, the A540 has a Full HD (1920×1080) glasses-free 3D display, with an IPS panel to boot. This means that viewing angles on this machine aren't half bad (178 degrees horizontal/vertical, or thereabouts).
Inside this notebook greets an Intel Core i5 or Core i7 central processing unit, which can be paired by up to 8GB of DDR3 RAM. More importantly, this mobile PC features a discrete NVIDIA GeForce GTX 555 GPU.
Additional specs include a 1TB HDD, Bluetooth 3.0, 4.1-channel audio, USB 2.0 and 3.0, Gigabit Ethernet and 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi. All are in total of 2.6 kilograms (5.73 pounds) and relies on a head-tracking camera, which is placed just above the screen.
While the CPU's built-in GMA HD is enough to work for web browsing and other basic things, it can't pull its weight very well in high-resolution 3D video as well as to games. Provided, the LG A540 is sure to impress gamers when it finally starts shipping in the second quarter of 2012. Unfortunately, no price tag has been attached to it as of now.
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The Indian Cellular Association or ICA has criticized the Aakash tablet for having alleged substandard specifications. The Aakash tablet is a low-cost slate manufactured in India that was supposed to serve as an educational tool for students in the region. Meanwhile, ICA is an organization of mobile service providers in India that sets the standards for cellular operators and has not been consulted in the Aakash tablet's development.
Touted as the world's cheapest slate at $35 per unit, the Aakash tablet has a 7-inch resistive screen with a resolution of 800 x 600. At its core is a 366 MHz processor, 256 MB of RAM, and internal storage that has a limit of 32 GB. The version intended for students has Wi-Fi connectivity, but the retail version, which sells for $70 dollars, is capable of 3G. It has a battery life of about 90 minutes.
The Aakash tablet is manufactured by the company Datawind. Datawind's CEO, Suneet Singh Tuli, explained the simple reason behind these specifications. They had to make compromises with the hardware to arrive at a low, budget-friendly price.
Yet analysts are not satisfied with this explanation and argue that such specifications are dooming the Aakash tablet to failure.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook says that one day tablets will outsell PCs. He has good reason to think so, because iPads are out-selling Mac computers by 3 to 1. And it appears an awful lot of people got new tablets during the 2011 holidays. Juniper Research predicts that by 2016, PC makers could ship as many as 178 million ultrabooks...
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The JXD S7100 is an Android tablet designed for video games. It has a 7 inch touchscreen display, but what sets it apart from other tablets are the game controllers on the left and right side of the screen. The tablet also has a custom user interface designed to help you download and sort through a variety of games. Netbook...
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This is kind of a no-brainer, but it looks like the next version of the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet will have a speedier processor than the current model. The folks at BGR got a look a Research in Motion's 2012 roadmap, and it looks like the new PlayBook will have a 1.5 GHz processor. Right now RIM is selling a PlayBook...
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For about as long as computers have had graphical user interfaces, apps have had menus. You know those things at the top of the window that say things like File, Edit, and Preferences. Now the folks behind Ubuntu Linux want to get rid of menus... or at least supplement them with something that may be easier to use and take...
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