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Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 Review

Chris Burns, May 13th 2012 Discuss [0]

This week we’ve gotten the next Galaxy Player family member in the house with the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1. What’s that, you say? The Galaxy Tab 2 is a tablet and not a Galaxy Player? I beg to differ, ladies and gentlemen, as the Samsung world has done a big split in recent months, with no less than the Galaxy Tab 2 line heading in the direction of the media player while the Galaxy Note line (including the 10.1, for example) moves in the direction the Galaxy Tab 10.1 original started in back at Google I/O in 2011. Have a peek at what the Tab 2 line continues here in the 2 10.1 for the media world.

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Motorola ditching TI in favor of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon

Cory Gunther, Apr 16th 2012 Discuss [0]

Motorola has enjoyed a long and happy relationship with Texas Instruments, and occasionally NVIDIA for their smartphones and tablets as of late but some new leaks could be showing a big change moving forward. If some recently leaked benchmark results from Blog of Mobile are accurate, Motorola could be switching to Qualcomm and their popular new S4 Snapdragon processor in the future. Read The Full Story

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 Review

Chris Burns, Apr 11th 2012 Discuss [0]

There’s a brand new Samsung Galaxy Tab tablet in town, and this one is what Samsung hopes will be a whole new experience driver for the whole hardware family. Where what we’ve seen before from Samsung has been a set of tablets that tried to be everything at once, this and the 10.1-inch version of the Galaxy Tab 2 are both aiming more at the services they can provide with other devices rather than concentrating on that plus content creation plus gaming plus a partridge in a pear tree. What we’ve got here instead is Samsung’s suite of connected services encapsulated in one machine – and it feels nice to use, too!

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ARCHOS 80 and 101 G9 tablets with Android 4.0 ICS shipping now

Chris Burns, Mar 19th 2012 Discuss [0]

There are a couple of low-cost relatively high-quality dual-core tablets out there made by ARCHOS and ready to be scooped up by you, both of them ready to be upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich right out of the box. Both the ARCHOS 80 G9 and the ARCHOS 101 G9 are available today straight from the ARCHOS online store and both certainly a hearty value proposition for less than $400 for either model. Have a peek at what's up on the docket! Read The Full Story

iRobot and TI team up to work on our inevitable downfall

Ben Kersey, Mar 12th 2012 Discuss [0]

We’re not quite at the point where Cylons are going to murder us all in our sleep, but we’re moving in that direction rather quickly. iRobot and Texas Instruments have announced a partnership that will see OMAP chips working their way into future iRobot products. Read The Full Story

MWC Live

Mobile World Congress 2012 Wrap-up

Chris Burns, Mar 1st 2012 Discuss [0]

At what must be one of the most beautiful venues on earth to have a conference such as this, we’ve got Mobile World Congress 2012, a yearly event which takes the whole world’s mobile device market and gathers it up into one big week-long masterpiece. Of course it’s not as perfectly simple as that, and if you’ve never been to the event or have never tried to follow along with the news that spills forth from it before, you may very well have a hard time fitting all the pieces together. That’s why we’ve got this easy to read, easy to decipher guide for you to work your way through all of the devices and services announced, displayed, and teased during the events – have a look!

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Texas Instruments teams with Harman and iRobot for OMAP 5

Chris Burns, Feb 27th 2012 Discuss [0]

This week Texas Instruments has announced the first big collaboration with OMAP 5, their next-level processor. Both iRobot and Harman have decided to use the newest architecture available on the market, Texas Instruments OMAP 5, in their newest technologies for a multi-core experience that brings their products to the forefront not just for the excellence of their products themselves, but because the Texas Instruments OMAP 5 platform has proven itself capable of handling their robots and in-vehicle systems the best, quite simply. Read The Full Story

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OMAP 5 detailed in-depth

Chris Burns, Feb 27th 2012 Discuss [0]

At Mobile World Congress 2012 Texas Instruments have detailed their next mobile processor OMAP 5. SlashGear got a chance to catch up with Texas Instruments to speak in-depth on each of the elements that make the OMAP 5 the most well-balanced multi-core processor on the planet. With two A15 CPU cores, two M4 CPU cores, and unique architecture tuned to so many specific graphics processes it'll make your head spin, this is the OMAP 5 as it will exist in the mobile market soon. Read The Full Story

TI OMAP 5 blows past quadcore Tegra 3

Rue Liu, Feb 23rd 2012 Discuss [0]

Texas Instruments recently released a new demo video showing off the performance of its upcoming OMAP 5 processor, pitting it against a quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor that's presumably a hit at the Tegra 3. Quipping that "sometimes less really is more," TI proceeded to show how its dual ARM Cortex-A15 smoked the quadcore rival. Read The Full Story

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MWC 2012 Smartphone Pre-Show Rundown

Chris Burns, Feb 22nd 2012 Discuss [0]

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!

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LG Optimus 3D Cube revealed and detailed

Chris Burns, Feb 21st 2012 Discuss [0]

The next generation of 3D smartphones has begun to drop here just one year after we first saw similar devices drop at Mobile World Congress 2011. It appears that LG will be the first big manufacturer to come back swinging with a new Optimus 3D, this time called the LG Optimus 3D Cube complete with 3D video editing. At the moment it appears that this device is only set to be released in Korea, but afterwards we can expect this handset to hit at least one carrier here in the United States - bet on it! Read The Full Story

Notion Ink Adam II detailed: TI chipset and Ice Cream Sandwich

Chris Davies, Jan 21st 2012 Discuss [36]

Notion Ink has announced the first details of its second-generation Adam II Android tablet, revealing a partnership with Texas Instruments and plans for using a customized version of Ice Cream Sandwich. The new tablet – seemingly called Adam II, though as far back as mid-2010 Notion Ink was talking about an “Eve” successor to its Adam first-attempt – will use a chip from TI’s OMAP44xx range, jumping ship from NVIDIA and the Tegra series in the original tablet.