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MeeGo tablets to hit shelves in Q2 of 2011
Posted on January 31st, 2011 No comments
Tablets running the MeeGo operating system will launch in the second quarter of 2011, according to sources close to Intel .
The company have made no noises regarding which products will be running the OS, only hinting that MeeGo tablets will appear in Q2.
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Acer to release 3D monitor
Posted on January 31st, 2011 1 comment
Acer have announced that they will be launching a 3D monitor – the Acer GN245HQ – in early February.
The device will have a resolution of 1920 x 1080 on a 24 inch backlit LED screen, it will support NVIDIA’s 3D vision whilst also featuring an infrared emitter compatible with 3D active shutter glasses. Read the rest of this entry »
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Apple iPad 2 specs: No retina display resolution
Posted on January 31st, 2011 1 comment
A report by Concord Securities analyst, Ming-Chi Kuo has revealed specifications for the upcoming iPad 2 – one of which is that the device will not feature the rumoured retina display resolution.
According to Kuo, the iPad 2 will be powered by a 1.2GHzCortex-A9 dual core processor, as well as a GPU using Imaginations SGX543 dual core technology and 512MB of RAM.
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AMD to make their low-power chip even less greedy
Posted on January 31st, 2011 3 comments
AMD have announced plans to further increase the battery life of devices powered by their chips by releasing an even lower power processor.AMD’s Fusion initiative has already been lauded for its restraint in the power-guzzling stakes. Now it seems that the 9W Ontario Fusion chip has been streamlined even further by AMD’s engineering teams, who have managed to squeeze the modified chip into a 5W power capacity.
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Google’s Android makes massive gains in the tablet market
Posted on January 31st, 2011 No comments
Research by Strategy Analytics has shown that 22% of the estimated 10 million tablet devices on the market now run Google’s Android OS.
These figures from quarter 4 of 2010 represent an astonishing jump from a 2.3% market share in the previous quarter, slashing Apple’s share of the market from 96% to 75%.
Neil Mawston, director of Strategy Analytics spoke of the effect that the release of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab had in getting the ball rolling for Google.
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Profit boost for ARM thanks to Apple’s iPad
Posted on January 31st, 2011 2 comments
Processor manufacturers, ARM are expected to post pre-tax profits of £160m for 2010 – a 70% increase from 2009.
This explosion in profits has been attributed to the success of Apple’s iPhone and iPad devices, which use the Cambridge based company’s processor chips.
The full year figures – due to be announced on Tuesday – are also expected to show that sales of ARM processors hit £400m in 2010; £100 million higher than in 2009.
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Huawei release new Android tablet
Posted on January 28th, 2011 1 comment
Telecoms company, Huawei have released their new tablet, the Android based S7.
The S7 boasts an attractive design at an affordable price; it is also fitted with a handy little stand for desk use.
The device is on the smaller end of the tablet scale, measuring 209 x 108 x 15.5mm. Its 7 inch screen has an 800 x 400 pixel resolution, making the device a scaled-up version of a high-end Android smartphone.
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Experts back Android in the battle for tablet supremacy
Posted on January 28th, 2011 No comments
Experts have predicted that 2011 could be the year of the Android tablet, as the market braces itself for a deluge of incoming devices.
Asus, Toshiba, LG, Samsung and Motorola are all developing Android based tablets in a concerted effort to smash the iPad’s dominance in the field.
Apple COO, Tim Cook adopted a “points-on-the-board” stance when countering these predictions;
“[Current Android tablets] are “scaled-up smartphones” – that’s a bizarre product in our view.” He said. “In terms of next generation; there’s nothing shipping yet, so I don’t know. Today they’re vapour; however we are not sitting still. We have a huge first mover advantage.”
Apple’s “first mover advantage” cannot be underestimated; 7.33 million iPad devices were sold in the final quarter of 2010 alone. But this does not dent the speculation that something big may be brewing elsewhere in the market.
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HP announce three pronged Web OS assault
Posted on January 28th, 2011 1 comment
The latest rumblings from the HP camp suggest that new devices supporting their Web OS platform – including a netbook – may be just around the corner.
Following on from the Palm Pre Web OS smartphone – and HP’s purchase of Palm, the company that developed Web OS last decade – HP announced via an introductory video that it would be launching Web OS on a “phone and a slate and a netbook”.
Well we know that a slate device is in the pipeline in the form of the HP Topaz, but as yet no netbooks have been rumoured featuring Web OS.
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Motorola’s CEO treats us to some insider info
Posted on January 27th, 2011 No comments
A 7-inch tablet and a 3G version of the Xoom were on the agenda when Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha spoke to the media recently.
The talkative executive said that he sees “good reason” in expanding Motorola’s range of tablet sizes and prices. He continued to say that the company would begin by producing a 7-inch tablet, although he gave no timescale for this release.
Instead, Jha said a release of Motorola’s current tablet – the WiFi only Xoom – in 3G will be the next move made by the company.
