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Samsung Galaxy S3 – review

Paul Merak — Thu, 10 May 2012 10:46:56 +0000

Enough tittle-tattle, it’s time for some cold hard, silicon and Gorilla Glass to put all those Samsung Galaxy S3 rumours to bed. The first thing that will strike consumers about the Samsung Galaxy S3 is its fantastically vibrant 4.8-inch HD Super AMOLED display. And delving a bit deeper, we’ll notice how wonderfully smoothy everything runs [...]

Android Phone Switches To Desktop PC OS

Paul Merak — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 17:37:21 +0000

Now that modern smartphones are sufficiently powerful to do duty as full-featured desktop computers. Canonical is helping with the transition of mobile tech to the desktop sphere by porting the Ubuntu Linux OS to Android handsets. And that’s as a dual-boot system, giving a choice of two operating systems on a single smartphone. The system [...]

TF300T – new Asus Prime?

Paul Merak — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:40:41 +0000

Walks like Prime talk like Prime, this new TF300T notebook by Asus may be the new follow up to the Transformer Prime. TF300T as seen above has plastic chassis, which could mean a cheaper offering by Asus. Model TF700 of Asus Transformer Prime was just upgraded with a higher resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels. [...]

Smartphones on CES 2012

Paul Merak — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:43:23 +0000

Smartphones are a rapidly-evolving category at the CES 2012 and in the wider world in general as the boundaries between small tablets (we’re thinking 5-inchers FROM) and outsized Android handset displays (Galaxy Note, HTC Titan) begin to overlap, all the more so since Ice Cream Sandwich arrived, since the format-independent platform means there is effectively [...]

Intel new processors and upcoming tablets tobe revealed at Computex in Taipei

Paul Merak — Wed, 18 May 2011 18:00:50 +0000

Intel plans to hit it big this year. At Computex in Taipei, (May 31 to June 4) Intel plans to introduce 10 new tablets. Industry is dominated by ARM chip tablets, but Intel wants to change that. Navin Shenoy, general manager of Intel (Asia-Pacific) wants to see more than 35 Intel based tablets this year [...]

Gartner’s predictions on mobile computing

Paul Merak — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 07:48:54 +0000

iPad Site reported on Gartner’s Roberta Cozza and Carolina Milanesi prediction that Apple will keep majority of the market by the end of 2014 until a shift happens in 2015 where decline will ensue. Gartner is making predictions on mobile computing four next for years: Here are OS sales worldwide (unit = 1000) Symbian is [...]

New Qualcomm Dual Core 1.5GHz is REALLY Fast

Paul Merak — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 11:26:51 +0000

The new Qualcomm Snapdragon MSMS8660 is not yet ready for a full release but some got their hands on a sample phone containing the processor and this APU was stunningly fast. The test was on a smart phone but it will definitely be carried over to tablets as well as other mobile tools. It is [...]

Motorola Webtop laptop dock

Paul Merak — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 19:22:48 +0000

In the smart phone realm, the Motorola Atrix 4G has got to be the most intriguing of all. For one thing, this smart phone uses a very fast NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor and it also connects via 4G. Of course, the most intriguing reason is that Motorola has revealed some laptop docking stations that can [...]

Nvidia banking on Android

Jane — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:23:18 +0000

Android is the fastest growing (Mobile) OS in the world today and CEO of ARM has high hopes on the mobile OS. In an interview with Cnet, the Jen Hsun Huang, Nvidia’s CEO confirmed that the company has a long processor strategy, but wants to stay with ARM. He commented that Nvidia Tegra 2 chips come in two flavors - one geared towards smartphones and another towards tablets.

O2 catches the HD2, sells it FREE

Brooke — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:20:37 +0000

O2 UK gets ready to offer the dazzling smartphone, the HTC HD2. Available only in stores and through phone right now, the O2 is speculated to offer the multi-touch device for free on monthly payment of £45 (18 month agreement). Locate the retail store here to get the O2 version.Steve Alder, General Manager Devices for O2 in the UK says -“We are proud to be the home of smartphones and the HTC HD2 adds a new dimension to the range of devices we offer to our customers.”Read full press release here and view the video below to get more details.

HTC to enter netbook market

Twinkle — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:58:47 +0000

HTC has received pretty good recognition and is now considered one of the most reputed smartphone manufactures. Now, according to the latest news bits, there are chances that it might try it hands in the (over-saturated) netbook market.According to HTC CEO Peter Chou, they are very much interested in this category and they are looking forward to enter the netbook market.I am pretty sure that we will see something very unique and exiting, if, in case, HTC does enter the netbook market. We have seen some really great MID-like smartphones from them. To name a few, HTC TOUCH PRO 2 and the latest one featuring a capacitive display like iPhone, the HTC TOUCH HD 2Note that HTC did enter the UMPC market and they were not able to sell a lot of these UMPCs. HTC's UMPC known as the HTC Shift was a disaster; costing more than $1000; ran Vista on a 800MHz processor!Look out for our extensive HTC TOUCH HD 2 coverage at WindowsPhoneMix.com, our sister site about Windows Phones

Broadcom to develop an ARM-cortex A9 CPU

Kamal DS — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:20:29 +0000

Broadcom, popular maker of computer chips has announced recently that they are working to make their own ARM cortex A9 processor. Right now, they have not said where this chip will be used, but we expect it to be used in Smartbooks: netbooks based on non-x86 platform.A single core Cortex A9 is capable of delivering twice the performance of current crop of smartphones. When talked into the context of smartbooks, it can have upto 4 cores(!), making multitasking smooth and enjoyable experience

ARM to overtake Intel in Netbooks and Smartbooks? – We DISAGREE!

Paul Merak — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:24:19 +0000

Currently, there is no doubt that Intel is the uncrowned king in the netbook market, but according to the market analysts, ARM will surpass Intel by the year 2012. According to this analyst, Intel-powered netbooks have started to become very expensive and cost more than $200 and offer just 3.5 hours of battery life. On the other hand, ARM-powered netbooks will cost less than $200 and will also last much longer: 8 hours.Our take on this:The comparison is baseless. People want Windows OS on their netbooks. They want to use their desktop apps on their netbooks for which they require Windows OS. Unfortunately, since Microsoft has already confirmed that it has no plans on bringing their desktop OS to the ARM-architecture, you are left with nothing but Linux or Google's Chrome OS.We believe that smartbooks can never surpass netbooks in terms of sales even if they are offered for less than $100. Clearly, they offer little advantage over the current slew of smartphones which do much more than emailing and web-browsing alone. Also, in their comparison, they said netbooks have 3.5 hours of battery life. Wrong as most of the netbooks these days come with 6-cell batteries which offer more than 5-6 hours of run-time with active Wifi usage. Looks like these analysts have been taking in account the netbooks that were released last year.

Intel and Nokia shake hands to create the next era of mobile computing

Paul Merak — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:40:05 +0000

Today, Intel and Nokia announced a long term partnership that will “shape the next era of mobile computing”. Their new collaboration involves several open source Linux software projects.both companies are expanding their longstanding relationship to define a new mobile platform beyond today’s smartphones, notebooks and netbooks, enabling the development of a variety of innovative hardware, software and mobile Internet services.It will be interesting to see what kind of innovations are made in the field of mobile computing. Nokia-book anyone?

No Blackberry netbook in horizon

Paul Merak — Mon, 18 May 2009 17:46:44 +0000

RIM's CEO has confirmed that they won't be releasing a blackberry netbook anytime soon. This is not surprising as just few days back, he literally thrashed the netbooks by saying that since the Smartphones are more portable than netbooks, they will always rule over netbooks.Instead, he says that wirelessly connected hardware like keyboards and secondary screens is something they will work upon. Stupid logic.

Palm Foleo project is not dead, Palm WebOS netbook coming – Foleo II

Paul Merak — Tue, 05 May 2009 07:14:43 +0000

Trip Chowdhry from Global Equities Research says Palm is working on a netbook that will run WebOS. Yes, it is the same webOS that is being used by the Palm Pre too. In the year 2007, Palm had announced a linux-based netbook called Foleo that was designed to work as an extension of their smartphones. Sadly, it never was able to hit the shelves.This new webOS device known as Foleo II is being designed by the three developers from Apple iPod Team. The rumored Foleo II will come with a highly capable web browser and email client; will have great battery life and will cost around $350-$400.

ARM netbook coming to AT&T

Paul Merak — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:13:30 +0000

AT&T is soon going to offer ARM based netbooks running Linux OS. Glen Lurie, President of emerging devices for AT&T says,

“There are a lot of people who will dive in and build netbooks, including folks like cellular or wireless OEMs who never built a computer before. There will be a lot of innovation around what a netbook looks like and what the use cases are, and we will see this evolve very quickly,”

He thinks that the ARM based netbooks would do just fine as people are doing their work via Cloud-based applications and thus do not need a lot of horsepower in their netbooks. He also showed keen interest in the MIDs, which he refers to as "smartphones on steroids."AT&T is already selling four subsidized netbooks: Acer Aspire One, Dell Mini 9, Dell Mini 12 and LG X110.PS: Lurie also manages AT&T's relationship with Apple to sell the iPhone in the U.S.