Samsung Electronics has extended its Galaxy Tab 3 line-up with 8-inch and 10.1-inch models. The latter uses a dual-core processor from Intel and both have extensive support for LTE networks. The two new products will be offered alongside ...
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ARM is targeting mid-range smartphones and tablets priced between US$200 and $350 with a new low-power Cortex-A12 processor the company announced Monday at the Computex trade show in Taiwan. The company's processors are used in most of ...
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Asustek Computer has fired another shot in the Android tablet price war, putting the starting price for the Asus Memo Pad FHD7 at $129. The MemoPad weighs 302 grams and has a 7-inch display with a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels, a ...
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The seesaw mobile processor battle between ARM and Intel continued at Computex, with ARM claiming it offered better performance per watt for mobile devices than Intel's upcoming chips. ARM's processors go into most smartphones and ...
Looking at historical trends and performance benchmarks, a team of researchers in Spain have concluded that smartphone chips could one day replace the more expensive and power-hungry x86 processors used in most of the world's top ...
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The processor can be used in mobile and tablets as well as single board computers. ARM has launched a new power-optimised dual-core hard macro implementation of the ARM Cortex-A15 processor for smartphones and mobile devices. The ...
Taiwan's MediaTek has launched a new quad-core ARM processor for tablets that is slated to be used in an upcoming IdeaTab device from Lenovo. The MT8125 chip features a quad-core processor built with ARM's Cortex A7 CPU and can run at up ...
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NanoTech Entertainment is announcing price and availability for its 4K media player, the Nuvola NP-1, and 4K streaming video service, NanoFlix UHD – both industry firsts. The new NP-1 player will cost $299, the lowest-price 4K player ...
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Samsung will soon release its first Android tablet based on an Intel Atom processor, according to a source familiar with the plan, in what would be a vote of confidence for Intel chips in mobile devices. The tablet, a Galaxy Tab 3, will ...
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VMware today announced that its dual persona mobile device software is now available on some Android OS-based mobile devices sold by Verizon. Dual persona technology creates two OS instances, one for business use and the other for ...
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Hewlett-Packard has given the "Android treatment" to its latest laptop-tablet hybrid, which is called SlateBook X2 and has a detachable 10-inch screen that can independently function as a tablet. The X2 is HP's second device with Android. ...
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Samsung has built several different Galaxy S4 smartphones, including a U.S. version running a Snapdragon processor that requires an extra image processor to enable heavily promoted user functions such as eye-movement recognition. IHS ...
The first mobile devices to use Nvidia's Tegra 4 chips will be announced this quarter, meaning smartphones and tablets based on the new processor should be available soon. Nvidia unwrapped Tegra 4 at the International CES trade show in ...
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US based Texas Instruments (TI) has collaborated with the automotive parts supplier, Continental for mass production of the microcontrollers with Flash technology. Both the companies will jointly manufacture the 65nm ARM Cortex safety ...
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Semiconductor company MediaTek wants to improve the performance of low-cost Android-based smartphones with its latest system-on-a-chip (SoC), the MT6572. MT6572 is the world's first dual-core SoC with integrated Wi-Fi, FM-radio, GPS and ...
Tags: MediaTek, Android, Smartphone