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Target Android tablet selection lifted above Apple’s iPad 2

Chris Burns, Oct 6th 2011 Discuss [23]

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.

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Shadowgun for Android Review [Video]

Chris Burns, Oct 5th 2011 Discuss [11]

As you might well know, it’s not often that we review a single app for a mobile device here on SlashGear – not unless its so massive, so awesome, so significant that it cannot be ignored. That’s what we’ve got right here, folks, a third-person shooter by the name of Shadowgun, made by Madfinger games for iOS and Android – today the news being the optimized version for the Android-based NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core processor. We’ve checked the game out on the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and it’s time to show you the next plateau for immersive mobile gaming.

UPDATE: the final release version of this game is out now, check out our follow-up post and hands-on video once you get down reading about it here, then pick the game up in the market!

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ZTE T98 tablet packs in Tegra 3 and Android

Shane McGlaun, Sep 27th 2011 Discuss [9]

An interesting little tablet has turned up in China and it has some very nice specifications under the hood. In fact, this little tablet is the first one we have spied that packs Tegra 3 under the hood. As you can see in the photos the screen is glossy and prone to glare and gathering fingerprints. Other than the Tegra 3 chipset inside, the tablet also has a portable design. Read The Full Story

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NVIDIA details Variable SMP, the brain of quad core mobile computing

Chris Burns, Sep 20th 2011 Discuss [7]

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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NVIDIA expands on Project Kal-El, adds a fifth core

Chris Burns, Sep 20th 2011 Discuss [6]

Those interested in the processing power of mobile devices running any and all operating systems should be aware of NVIDIA’s Project Kal-El, a quad core CPU the group is prepping for a late 2011 released. We first learned about this project (and future projects with similar code-names) back at Mobile World Congress 2011 where we also got our first eyes-on look at the processing power it presented via a game called Great Battles: Medieval. It was here that we got our first glance at a quad core processor working on a mobile platform, and as it was said back then, multi-core processing is, and will continue to be, massively important to mobile computing. What NVIDIA provides us today is a stripped-down and simple look at why the next generation, quad core, is much better than dual core in basically every way.

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Google’s Next Nexus Phone Details Roundup [Mid-Sept 2011, pre-release]

Chris Burns, Sep 19th 2011 Discuss [13]

Each time Google creates a new version of Android, they work with a manufacturer of smartphones or tablets as well as a processor manufacturer to create a hero device to host a completely vanilla (otherwise known as totally nude, clean) version of their software. The most recent examples of this come in the Nexus S, out for sale now on three carriers across the USA working with Google’s latest smartphone OS, Android 2.3 Gingerbread. For tablets, there’s the Motorola XOOM, available as both a Wi-fi only device and a Verizon-carried device featuring Google’s latest tablet-based mobile OS, Android 3.0 Honeycomb. Though the XOOM isn’t technically following the naming scheme, each Google Android hero phone is part of the “Nexus” line, the next of these set to feature the Android system to tie handsets and tablets together in one: Ice Cream Sandwich. While we still do not know the Android number (2.4 or 4.0), we have a collection of details on this device that’s sure to get you salivating.

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Why the Windows 8 Tablet Market will dodge the iPad

Chris Burns, Sep 17th 2011 Discuss [93]

Just this past week we learned for the first time, or rather confirmed for the first time, that Windows 8 would be made to work not only on devices so large as servers carrying massive amounts of data, but devices so small as a tablet PC. We got the chance to take a look at an early iteration of a Windows 8 tablet as provided by Samsung and we got a taste of what it would mean to be working in a fully optimized Windows-based tablet environment. What I’m seeing here is not simply another contender in the already well-dominated by Apple tablet market. I’m seeing a whole new door being opened up for operating systems to thrive in the keyboard-less touch-display world.

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NVIDIA Kal-El tablet support promised for Windows 8 developer program

Chris Burns, Sep 13th 2011 Discuss [0]

Soon after the big reveal for Windows 8 at Microsoft's BUILD conference, system on chip manufacturers NVIDIA stepped up to present their Windows 8 Developer Program, made to help those creating future applications for the Windows 8 platform. Noting that this program will include both tools and resources for "hundreds of millions of ARM and x86-based devices" that will soon be using Windows 8, NVIDIA added that all four of their processor brands will support Windows 8 in full. This includes, you guessed it, NVIDIA's upcoming quad-core Tegra processor codenamed Project Kal-El. Kal-El, for those of you that do not know, is an ARM-based system on what NVIDIA reminds us is "on a chip that will power lightweight, energy-efficient tablets and notebooks." Deliverance! Read The Full Story

NVIDIA Tegra to support Windows Phone in 2013?

Shane McGlaun, Sep 12th 2011 Discuss [2]

NVIDIA is looking ahead to 2013 even though 2012 isn’t here yet and a leaked roadmap shows what the company has planned for the future with its Tegra chipsets. The leaked roadmap slide shows that NVIDIA is looking at putting its chips inside Windows Phone smartphones. It's interesting that 2013 is the year that NVIDIA pegs for supporting that platform. Read The Full Story

Samsung Windows 8 Tablet Tipped for Microsoft Conference next week

Chris Burns, Sep 8th 2011 Discuss [2]

There's a whole big bunch of information just gushing out today on what may be a release of Samsung's next big tablet, running Windows 8 and carrying a 10-inch display aimed directly at, you guessed it, competing with the iPad. This device has been confirmed by Korea Economic Daily as being, again, a Samsung / Windows 8 device and that it is the first time Microsoft has collaborated with Samsung on such a piece of hardware. An announcement date inside next week would fall directly on the time Microsoft’s BUILD developers’ conference will be taking place, so it's certainly not outside the realm of speculation to see it become a reality. Read The Full Story

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LG Optimus Note Revealed as group’s 4th dual-core Android [Video]

Chris Burns, Sep 8th 2011 Discuss [1]

As a manufacturer, LG is no stranger to dual-core Android goodness, having been the first (or certainly one of the first) groups to bring more than one core to a smartphone with the LG G2x (also called the Optimus 2X internationally), then the LG G-Slate (a dual-core tablet), finally the Optimus 3D (aka the Thrill 4G) to the Android world. Now they appear very much to be coming back with a slide-out keyboard on a device called the LG Optimus Note and their 2-1 and possibly 3-1 favorite for dual-core processors, the NVIDIA Tegra 2 running inside.

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NVIDIA CEO expects growth in mobile chip business for Q3, sees strong fiscal 2013 overall

Shane McGlaun, Sep 7th 2011 Discuss [0]

NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang was on hand at an investors conference this week and he said that revenue for the company for fiscal 2013 would beat Wall Street expectations. Analysts had predicted $4.45 billion for NVIDIA and the company is expected to post figures in the $4.7 billion to $5 billion range. Huang also expects the gross margin at NVIDIA to remain flat at 51% to 53% with growth across the entire range of NVIDIA graphics and mobile processor lines. Read The Full Story