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Rydeen gPad GCOM701 7-inch Android slate due November

, Aug 31st 2010 Discuss [2]

Another day, another Android tablet.  Today's is the Rydeen gPad GCOM701, a 7-inch slate based around Marvell's 800MHz ARMADA 166 chipset and promising between 6 and 8 hours of battery life.  Connectivity includes WiFi b/g, Bluetooth, a microSD card slot and USB, while there's also GPS with Navteq software for using the gPad as a PND. Read The Full Story

Marvell and Harman Bringing Integrated Mobile Hotspot Options to Automobiles

, Aug 9th 2010 Discuss [0]

When it comes to the automotive industry, there's plenty of big names to play around with, as you think about what kind of features you want to have installed. It gets better when two huge companies, linked to the automotive industry, team up to bring you the coolest in new features, already tucked away inside. So what happens when you get one of the biggest names in-vehicle infotainment (Harman), and one of the largest names in integrated silicon solutions (Marvell)? You get integrated WiFi, of course. Read The Full Story

BlackBerry tablet rumors resurface: video calling & late 2010 launch tipped

, Jul 12th 2010 Discuss [0]

RIM's rumored BlackBerry tablet - aka the "BlackTab" or "BlackPad" - is once again doing the rounds, with Rodman & Renshaw analyst Ashok Kumar pushing out a new report regarding the so-called companion slate.  Details are in short supply and most are recycled from Kumar's early May report; he's expecting a 7-inch screen, Marvell processor and 3G baseband, with "a marginal point of differentiation being the front- and back-facing cameras for videoconferencing." Read The Full Story

Russian RoverPad tablets raid the Tegra, Android & WinCE OEM closet

, Jul 6th 2010 Discuss [0]

Russian company Rover Computers has just outed a five model tablet/MID range, and judging by some of the designs we're guessing there's a whole lot of rebadging being done.  The various RoverPad models span 5- to 7-inches in screen size and run either Android or Windows CE; processors include basic Samsung, Marvell and RockChip ARM CPUs, together with NVIDIA's Tegra on the RoverPad TegA W70. Read The Full Story

4Home and Marvell unveil SheevaPlug based energy management system for the home

, Jun 8th 2010 Discuss [0]

Way back in February of 2009 we first talked about the cool little SheevaPlug Linux PC (pictured). The tiny computer uses a 1.2GHz Sheeva embedded processor, 512MB of RAM, and 512MB of flash memory inside, it also offers USB 2.0 and gigabit Ethernet connectivity for about $99 when it launched. Read The Full Story

ZTE V7 Maemo MID gets video hands-on

, Jun 4th 2010 Discuss [0]

ZTE's Maemo-running V7 MID showed up last month in render form at the Shanghai World Expo, but the company had a working prototype this week at Computex.  ARMDevices grabbed a hands-on with the compact, 4-inch WVGA handheld - which is based on an 806MHz Marvell PXA310 chipset and has a dinky little thumb-keyboard under the touchscreen - and to our surprise it looks pretty good. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

OLPC Becomes the OTPC? Story still not credible

, Jun 2nd 2010 Discuss [2]

I’ve written in the past about the tragedy of the OLPC. Last week, there was news that the OLPC folks were moving forward with a new device, the XO-3, a new tablet initiative designed to bring a tablet to market. Forget about the fact that the XO-2 never emerged from vapor, now it’s all about the XO-3. It’s also not about laptops anymore it seems. The new XO-3 is a tablet because keyboards aren’t a good idea (perhaps the organization needs to be called the OTPC now?). Promising the best of devices such as the Kindle and high-end tablet features combined in one, the new device will be seen at CES 2011 for $75.

Call me skeptical. Very skeptical.

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OLPC adopt Marvell Moby tablet platform for XO-3

, May 27th 2010 Discuss [0]

OLPC have polarised opinion with their approach to computer systems for developing nations, and now the organisation has partnered with Marvell to try to deliver on their latest XO-3 tablet.  The new slates will be based on Marvell's Moby platform - as demonstrated back in March - and are unlikely to look like OLPC's ambitious, eye-catching renders. Read The Full Story

2011 BlackPad tablet using BlackBerry OS after RIM junk Android intentions?

, May 6th 2010 Discuss [0]

After yesterday's whisperings of a RIM tablet for launch sometime in 2011, The Street is claiming that the touchscreen device is in fact the Canadian company's second approach to an iPad rival.  They quote Rodman Renshaw analyst Ashok Kumar, who believes RIM first planned to launch an Android based tablet later in 2010 but scrapped the device after "taking a second look at that product roadmap ... it has to compare favorably to the iPad." Read The Full Story

Marvell Moby MED multi-display medical tablet outlined [Updated]

, Apr 22nd 2010 Discuss [0]

Marvell have already shown us one new Android tablet reference design, the Marvell Moby, but the company have a second concept, the Moby MED which sounds a whole lot more interesting.  Targeted at "telehealth" use, Marvell envisage the Moby MED as having "multiple simultaneous" LCD or e-paper displays, together with 1080p Full HD encode and decode, WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity, and an integrated camera for web conferencing and remote diagnosis. Updated with official Marvell Moby MED image. Read The Full Story

Marvell Shows Off Android Tablet, Could Ship Later This Year

, Mar 16th 2010 Discuss [2]

Tablets are back in style, no thanks to a little thing called the iPad, and there's nothing wrong with that. Sure, there's going to be all sorts of failures out there, but at least we can hope that the majority of these slate-style mini-computers will be worth our time. Take, for example, this 10-inch tablet that Marvell was showing off at the Future of Publishing Summit on Tuesday. It's running the Android mobile Operating System, which isn't that big of a surprise, and it's got a few features that make it seem worthwhile. Read The Full Story

Next-gen Chipsets: next-gen convergence

, Feb 27th 2010 Discuss [1]

Even before you leave an event like Mobile World Congress 2010 you get used to people asking you what the most interesting or exciting thing you’ve seen at the show has been. This year, while there was no shortage of impressive hardware imminent to the market, the real promise for me was in next-gen chipsets. Texas Instruments, NVIDIA, Freescale, Marvell, Qualcomm and others had all brought their wares along to demo, and the promises – not to mention the step up from existing platforms – were flowing thick and fast. So, what sort of devices can we expect using these new chipsets?

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