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Thursday, February 2, 2012

AMD outlines notebook, tablet chip plans through 2013

AMD roadmap 2012 and 2013 AMD has painted a basic picture of its plans for the next two years and it probably shouldn't surprise anyone that a big part of that picture focuses on low power processors. The chip maker plans to update its E-series and C-series notebook chips later this year, as well as its Z-series low power chip for tablets. The next-generation laptop...

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The $199 BlackBerry PlayBook is back

Research in Motion is again offering the BlackBerry PlayBook 7 inch tablet for as little as $199. Last month the company ran a baffling promotion with the 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB versions of the tablet all priced at $299. But until February 11th you can pick up the 16GB model for $199. RIM is also selling a 32GB tablet for $249...

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Asus TF300T tablet breaks cover in China

Asus TF300T Asus may be working on a new tablet with the model number TF300T. It was spotted by the folks at nccc.cool3c.com in China. For reference, the original Asus Eee Pad Transformer tablet is the TF101, and the recently launched Eee Pad Transformer Prime is the TF201. There's reason to think that the only other model that's been announced to date...

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Aseigo Tablet Is Truly Open with Linux OS

Aaron J. Seigo has published an idea of a pretty original tablet to be called Aseigo. For only 200 euros, this here is the first tablet that operates with Plasma Active. The device's name is actually Spark and this slate uses an open Linux stack as well as unlocked hardware, along with open content and app services.

Aseigo runs on 1GHz AMLogic ARM processor and supported by512 MB RAM. The slate comes with 4GB of internal memory, which is expandable via an SD card slot. It also sports a 7-inch multitouch display powered by a Mali 400 GPU as well as WiFi support.

The content store for this device will offer free books from Project Gutenberg as well as from other educational media. Linux tools will also be provided for free and Aarron J. Seigo mentions the involvement of the entire Plasma Active community in this project.

Orders can now be made online any time soon. However, buyers would have to wait a bit longer before it becomes available.

via tabletnews

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Qualcomm Introduces Kobee Jin Yong E-Reader with Mirasol Display

Qualcomm has announced another e-reader during the recent Taipei International Book Fair. The device is based on Mirasol display technology, the Kobee Jin Yong. This device is named after a popular Chinese author. It comes with a 5.7 inch 1024 x 768 pixel display and powered by a 1GHz Snapdragon S2 processor, plus Android 2.3 Gingerbread in a customized experience.

Mirasol Technology uses some of the advantages of the E-Ink, like better power consumption when pixels change as well as some LCD capabilities, including color and refresh rate. Mirasol is used on higher end eBook readers, but it doesn't replace LCDs just yet, as it's not that cost effective right now. This tech was used on small screens as well as on prototypes years ago. Now, it's evolving into a full fledged technology alternative.

The screens used the interferometric modulator display technology to create different colors through the interference of reflected light. That gives the device they're on a power consumption of a tenth or less compared to a LCD one.

The pricing is not yet clear for the Kobee Jin Yong, it's expected to be pretty high. Qualcomm's Mirasol technology is believed to be the solution to prolong Android device battery span by days.

via tabletnews and gottabemobile

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Acer to Launch a $699 Ultrabook This Year?

Ultrabooks are thin, and light, and powerful mobile computers designed to offer portability and performance. Many ultrabooks with 13.3 inch displays weigh about as much as a 10 inch netbook, but offer full-sized keyboards and displays and far more processing power. Toshiba offers its ultrabook for around $849, while Acer says that it could be selling these little laptops for $499 by 2013 .

As for this year, Acer have released its ultrabook lineup due second quarter. Then in the third quarter, the company will also introduce more ultrabook models that will sell for between $699 and $799. At this price bracket, Acer ultrabooks should measure less than an inch thick, weigh 4 pounds or less, and have Intel Core i-series processors with either solid state disk or a hard drive for storage.

While $699 isn't exactly pocket change for some buyers, this still proves to be a much more affordable price than the $1000 or more offered by other companies on their ultrabooks today.

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Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Android apps coming to BlackBerry tablets this month

Android app packager for BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 Research in Motion plans to release BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 later this month. When the company showed off an early build of the new operating system for PlayBook tablets at CES in January, RIM highlighted the new calendar, contact, and email apps -- but made no mention of the fact that the tablets would be able to run Android applications....

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Two HP Mini Cedar Trail Netbooks Start Selling at 279EUR ($367)

Intel's Cedar Trail platform may not have the APUs like that of AMD E-series , but this hasn't stopped HP from using it in order to refresh their Mini 110 and Mini 210 best netbook computers. Intel's Cedar Tail platform is made up of the Cedarview processors and the NM10 chipset, with the latter alsobeing used by for the Pine Trail netbook and nettop platform.

The CPU on Cedar Trail are built using the 32nm fabrication process and features a unified architecture that packs the processing cores, memory controller (apparently connected to the CPU via an FSB bus) as well as the GPU on the same die. The latter is actually based on a PowerVR design and features hardware decoding capabilities for a wide number of HD formats, such as MPEG2, VC1, AVC, H.264 and Blu-ray 2.0.

In the Mini 110 and 210, customers can choose between the 1.6GHz Atom N2600 and 1.86GHz N2800 processors which can be supported by either 1GB or 2GB of RAM. Netbooks can pack hard drives reaching up to 500GB, while the rest of the specs list includes 802.11 b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth and 100Mbps LAN connectivity, VGA webcam, a built-in media card reader and a 6-cell battery.

The keyboard is spill-resistant and comes with a 10.1-inch LED backlit screen that uses a 1024×600 resolution in the Mini 110 and 1368×768 in the 210.

The two systems will start at 279 and 309 EUR, which translates into about $367 to $407 US.

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Firefox 10 is the first "extended support" web browser from Mozilla

Since Mozilla switched to a "rapid release" schedule for the popular Firefox web browser, we've gotten a new version of Firefox every 6 weeks like clockwork. These often aren't huge, game-changing releases, but there are bug fixes and new features in every browser update. This week Mozilla is pushing out Firefox 10. It has a few little updates such as...

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Acer could launch a $699 ultrabook later this year

Acer S5 ultrabook Ultrabooks are thin, and light, and powerful laptop computers designed to offer portability and performance. Many ultrabooks with 13.3 inch displays weigh about as much as a 10 inch netbook, but offer full-sized keyboards and displays and far more processing power. But while you can pick up a netbook for under $300, most ultrabooks cost closer to $1000. High prices probably represent...

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