Asus’ Transformer (and Transformer Prime) seems to have resonated well with consumers, and now Microsoft may be looking to create a similar concept in the future. A new patent reveals Microsoft nurturing an idea that could see a tablet turning into a full fledged laptop or desktop PC, complete with not one but two separate processors.
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SHADOWGUN: Deadzone Multiplayer for Android hands-on
Here at the NVIDIA Tegra 3 booth at Mobile World Congress Madfinger Games and NVIDIA are showing off their latest game for Tegra devices. SHADOWGUN: Deadzone will be their Tegra 3 multi-player third person shooter and is coming this March. Check out the hands-on video of this impressive game below.
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ASUS tease color combinations for tablets at MWC 2012
There's another brand new teaser video in town this week, coming from ASUS with three colors in mind: Red, White, and Blue, painted right over the tablet landscape. Here's what we're figuring, given the information we have so far: this teaser is for the PadFone. Thus far we've gotten one teaser called "Divided We Stand" complete with some Russian nesting dolls, then we got a "Twice the Pixels, Twice the Fun" teaser which showed how if you put a bunch of rubber balls in a bin, they look better if there's more of them, now we get this. This teaser has three colors on a pallet, a painter smooshing one of them and stamping out a masterpiece on canvas.
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ASUS Transformer 2 with double pixel resolution teased for MWC
A video has just been released this week by ASUS for the Mobile World Congress 2012 release of a brand new tablet with "twice the detail, twice the fun." We must assume, of course, that this is not the same tablet we saw at CES 2012 in the Transformer Prime 700 series, instead we're banking on the idea that it's an upgrade for the original Transformer - this being less expensive and slightly less powerful than the Prime for more reasons than one. This would play into ASUS' plan for a two-tiered system of tablets where one is a premium model and the other is for the slightly more average consumer.
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Transformer Prime bootloader unlock now available!
This week the folks at ASUS have granted the world with a simple unlock tool for their most excellent tablet yet, the Transformer Prime. Since this first in its class for many reasons device was released, developers and so-called hackers have ben working on plans for what they're going to do with the Transformer Prime once its bootloader was unlocked, and now the fun can commence. As is true with any bootloader unlock on an Android device specifically, going forward with the process will void your contract and will make your device no longer the device it once was.
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ASUS Padfone release teased in MWC invite UPDATED with video!
It's less than a week now before we head to Barcelona to check out the biggest event of the year surrounding nothing but mobile and ASUS is bringing the heat with the Padfone! We've gotten a couple glimpses of this device in different iterations leading up to this event, and indeed across the ocean in the opposite direction they've had an older version of the device out for hands-on experience, but this is the upgrade. What we can expect is nothing less than a whole new set of hardware and perhaps an upgraded processor on the inside as well!
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Transformer Prime gets Ubuntu with bootloader unlock release
ASUS has released the bootloader unlock tool for the Eee Pad Transformer Prime this morning, and developers have wasted no time in opening up the Tegra 3 tablet to Ubuntu. Prime owner littlesteve had a Ubuntu build prepped and waiting for just this day, though there are still some hardware issues to iron out: no touchscreen support, for instance, so that a Bluetooth mouse is necessary for navigation.
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ASUS Transformer 2 tablet benchmarks leak with Tegra 3
This week we're seeing once more the next generation of ASUS Transformer tablet complete with Android and an NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor inside. This device today has showed up in some benchmark results as its code-name Transformer TF300T. This coincides with the code for the upgrade to the Transformer Prime, that being the Transformer TF700T which we got a glimpse of earlier this year at CES 2012 - now we're looking at a MWC 2012 release for this mystery!
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Chrome Beta for Android 4.0 ICS Review
Google has presented its first iteration of the web-centric brand name it uses for both a web browser and an operating system, Chrome, here on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. This beta version of the app which now appears mostly to be a web browser is able to work with each other iteration of Chrome you’ve got open on all devices. It does this with a simple “Devices” interface which shows tabs each browser has open – the rest of the experience is centered around tabs as well, all with the aim of bringing you a speedy and simple internet browsing experience.
ASUS Eee Pad Transformer 2 images leaked
A group certifying who-knows-what on devices all the way over the ocean by the name of Quietek have revealed a brand new tablet from ASUS. This tablet features many of the same qualities that the last couple of ASUS Eee Pad Transformer models have had in tact, but takes a wholly new form on the back panel. As you can see from the photos this device is prepared to deliver a 10.1-inch display experience with a lovely maroon plastic back for optimal signal transmission and a tried-and-true display size for your eyes.
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Asus Transformer Prime Ice Cream Sandwich problems will be fixed next month
Despite its delicious name, Ice Cream Sandwich has left some users feeling sour. The latest example is Asus's ambitious Transformer Prime tablet, which recently upgraded to the latest and greatest version of Android. The only problem is handfuls of users started complaining that after the update, the device started locking up and requiring a manual reset.
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Grand Theft Auto III released for Transformer Prime
While it may have seemed as though you were playing Grand Theft Auto III on your Transformer Prime before, it's only today that the update made specifically optimized for the Transformer Prime and the Tegra 3 chipset officially breaks. In this update you'll find yourself in a whole new world of smooth crashing into walls and cars and shooting of your opponents and friends alike in the most classic go-anywhere and do-anything game ever made. This update is made to work on whatever display you so choose to play it on complete with video display settings which you can set to whatever you wish them to be.
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