HTC is pushing overall user experience with its MWC 2012 smartphone range, but it’s hard not to talk about the HTC One X without spec hyperbole slipping in. The flagship of the new One Series, it’s a 4.7-inch 720p HD “All-In Device” HTC insists, and – with a few blips – it’s hard not to agree. After a long history of Qualcomm-powered devices, the One X brings NVIDIA’s quadcore Tegra 3 into the HTC range. Read on for our hands-on first impressions.
As we march closer and closer to the biggest all-mobile show of the year all the way over Barcelona, Spain, we’ve started to see the wave of tips, leaks, and previews roll in – and while our MWC 2012 Smartphone pre-show rundown may have more devices than we know what to do with already, tablets certainly wont be left out in the cold. What we’ve got for you here is a full rundown of everything we’ve heard that’s worth mentioning on the tablet front – worth mentioning, of course, since there’s nothing like a cheapo tablet to ruin your otherwise awesome trip to Spain!
This week we’re getting one major influx of tips, previews, and leaks of information on the smartphone wave that’s about to be crashing down upon us at Mobile World Congress 2012, and it’s time you got a round-up! Everyone from Fujitsu to HTC and back to Nokia will be bringing some powerful combinations to the show, and with more cores, better resolution displays, and perhaps most exciting of all: much higher class cameras as well. This Spain adventure looks to be the best one yet – let’s have at it!
Acer dropped a gigantic teaser in an Android tablet which works as its next generation Acer Iconia Tab, it having massive high definition display, quad-core chip, and a whole new form factor. The high definition display sits at 1920 x 1200 pixels, it runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, and it runs an NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor. We got a bit of a hands-on look at the device at the Acer event right here at the start of CES 2012 – have a peek!
What you’re about to witness is a set of three hands-on videos of a few games that were included on the ASUS Transformer Prime Android tablet when it came to your humble narrator’s doorstep last week for review. While none of these three games will be on your tablet when you first pull it out of the box later this month, you’ll be able to purchase them eventually, be it the moment you hit the Android Market or sometime early next year when the game is finished. First we’ve got a platform demo by Chidori in a fighting game, then the already classic Glowball real-time generated 3D environment game, and Bladeslinger – 3rd person battle in the old west with monsters galore.
The newest Android tablet by the name of ASUS Transformer Prime is also the first place on earth you’ll be able to work with the NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core mobile processor, and today we’re going to have a peek at it’s power for the very first time. We’ve got both the tablet itself and the keyboard dock that when connected allows this lovely slate a second life as a laptop, and what we’re going to do here is give you our first impressions and a full hands-on treatment with the hardware. We’ll also have a full review up for you within the next few days, so stay tuned for that too – meanwhile, enjoy!
This week we’ve gotten the opportunity to take a peek at a game that’ll be released on the Android Market and through the Tegra Zone – Zen Pinball THD, exclusively for Tegra 2 dual-core processor-toting mobile devices. This is a game that allows you to take your love of pinball and apply it to a handful of utterly fabulous tables, both branded by the developers behind the game and developed inside other universes such as Marvel Comics with the Fantastic Four and Spiderman. Have a peek at a couple of tables in a very early build of this game here!
The next generation of mobile processors has arrived in the form of the NIVIDA Tegra 3, formerly known as Project Kal-El, a quad-core chipset with aspirations to dominate the Android landscape in 2012 as the Tegra 2 dual-core processor dominated the majority of 2011. Though many of the details have already been revealed by NVIDIA before today on how Tegra 3 functions and is able to bring you the consumer more power, less battery consumption, and more effective workload distribution, this marks both the official naming of the chip as well as the official distribution of easy to process videos on how Tegra 3 will affect the average mobile device user.
Today both NVIDIA and ASUS have revealed two new products, both of them coming together here in one product: the Eee Pad Transformer Prime, a 10.1-inch display toting Android tablet with NVIDIA’s newest prized processor: the quad-core Tegra 3. The ASUS Eee Pad Transformer is the second Android tablet to have been released by the manufacturer, the first being the break-out hit original Transformer, and here in the Prime we’ve got a tablet that’s twice as powerful, in more ways than one. This tablet will be the first Android device on earth with a quad-core processor and has already been seen to be crushing benchmark tests before its official unveiling today – this is already clearly the most powerful Android device on Earth.
In one fell swoop, it appears the the folks at Madfinger and NVIDIA have crushed the rest of Android with a game that takes the platform to a whole new level of gaming intensity. We got to check this game out earlier this month in its pre-release state, and today’s the day the full version is released on the Android Market and through the official NVIDIA Tegra Zone. Is your Android rough and tough enough to bust a cap in a bunch of mutants, robots, and mutant robot hybrids? It all depends on if your processor is a Tegra! Ours is, right here on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, and we’re going hands-on again now with the final build.
This week Target will be evolving their mobile selection in several places, most notably in the tablet department, where Android tablets will be much closer to the smartphone selection than the iPad 2. For those of you that follow my analytics of the Target department store chain (whose home is right here in sunny Minnesota), you know that I’ve had more than one conniption fit over both the placement of Android tablets and the arrangement of their entire mobile section in general. Just this morning while picking up some random oddities, I noticed that big red may well have heard my siren call: the Android tablets are now less than 10 feet away from the smartphones.
The folks at NVIDIA are coming out with a quad core processor for mobile devices this year, and they’re making no jokes about it happening sooner than later. We’ve just seen a Windows 8 tablet said to be running on the SoC already, and we’re pretty much betting the farm on there being an Android tablet and/or smartphone with the new CPU before the end of 2011. Today NVIDIA takes us on a short tour through vSMP or Variable Symmetric Multiprocessing, the technology which makes Kal-El work as well as it does. With the details of this tech comes a bombshell: Project Kal-El will have a fifth CPU core, called the “Companion” core, which will handle low frequency tasks in the background.
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