Dell is releasing fresh PC updates that uses Intel’s 4th Generation Core processors codenamed “Haswell” and one of the most interesting new product is a 27″ all-in-one (AIO) called Dell XPS27. As the title indicates, it has a very nice […]
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Intel has shown off its new chips for tablets, smartphones, and LTE-enabled devices, with Silvermont, Bay Trail-T, and Merrifield all revealed at Computex 2013 today. Merrifield, due to show up in Intel-powered smartphones from early 2014, is the company’s next-gen smartphone platform, a 22nm Atom SoC that was, for today’s show, wrapped up in a new touchscreen reference design.
Intel was coy on specific details about the phone, and indeed about Merrifield, though did let slip a couple of elements the new Atom chip will bring. Unsurprisingly there’s talk of both more performance and more battery life; however, there’s also apparently an “integrated sensor hub” that will be used for “personalized services.”
Intel hasn’t said exactly what those services might be – nor, indeed, what types of sensors will be included – but it does remind us of Motorola’s comments last week about the incoming Moto X, and how the company was looking to contextual understanding for its new range of phones. Merrifield will also include “capabilities for data, device, and privacy protection,” Intel says.
As for tablets, first up will be Bay Trail-T, the 22nm quadcore Atom SoC that’s expected to crop up in slates for the holiday season. Bay Trail-T is good for more than twice the processor power of current Atom for tablet chips, Intel claims, as well as a boost in processor performance; 8hrs or more of battery life is supposedly possible, based on a 10.1-inch Full HD slate with a 30Wh power pack. “Weeks of standby” and support for Android and Windows 8.1 are also promised.
However, down the line there’s Silvermont, Intel’s 22nm “low power, high performance” architecture for phones and slates. Still no word on when, exactly, that will be ready for prime-time, however.
Finally, Intel has at last rolled together its own 4G LTE modem, a multimode system to pair with next-gen 22nm quadcore Bay Trail-T Atom SoCs for tablets. Intel is promising global LTE roaming – no small feat, given the array of different networks in operation around the world – from the XMM 7160, despite the chip also apparently being one of the world’s smallest.
Intel details Merrifield new phone chip; Homegrown LTE for Bay Trail tablets is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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In addition to the Tegra 4-based Android tablets Toshiba announced today, the company also unveiled several new entertainment PCs and refreshed Satellite laptops, which run on “Haswell” fourth-generation Intel Core processors. The Satellite laptops will be available from Toshiba online June 9, while the entertainment systems have a more vague date of “mid-June”.
First up are what Toshiba is calling its latest two “entertainment hubs,” the Qosmio X75 laptop and the all-in-one PX35t desktop PC. The Qosmio X75 features a 4th-generation Intel Core i7 alongside Turbo Boost Technology, with the ability to install up to 32GB of RAM. Graphics come by way of an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770M, as well as NVIDIA CUDA. There’s room for dual-drives up to 1.25TB. The display is a big 17.3-inch Full HD TruBrite, and there’s a 4K UltraHD HDMI output for those with a 4K TV in their entertainment room.
If a desktop is more in line with your needs and you don’t mind an all-in-one system, there’s the PX35t, which offers a 23-inch Full HD 1080p touchscreen. Users can get it with a 4th-generation Intel Core i3, Core i5, or Core i7, depending on preference. Storage comes by way of a 1TB 7200rpm HDD, and there’s 16GB of RAM.
The Qosmio X75 laptop starts at $1,399, while the PX35t starts at $1,029.
Toshiba Qosmio X75 and PX35t desktop PC:
In addition to the new entertainment machines, Toshiba has also unveiled new Satellite laptops: the P Series, and the S Series. The machines are boasted as being trimmed down by up to 25-percent over previous offerings, offering better battery life and other features.
The Satellite P Series is available in a variety of 4th-generation Intel Core processors, depending on preference, with up to 1TB of HDD storage, a max of 32GB of RAM, and up to an NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M for graphics. The displays, which have edge-to-edge glass, are available in both 15.6-inch and 17.3-inch sizes – both options are Full HD TruBrite panels. The smaller of the two models is also available with a touchscreen display. Both machines have 4K Ultra HD HDMI output.
The S Series is similar, but substitutes a tad in terms of features by making it up in style. As with the P Series, these machines are available with 4th-generation Intel Core processors and up to an NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M GPU. There’s an extra screen option over the other series at 14-inches, with all three sizes being available in touchscreen options. The larger two sizes – 15.6 and 17.3-inches – can be confured in up to Full HD resolution.
The trackpads don’t have buttons and support multi-touch. There’s up to 1TB of storage available, 16GB of RAM, USB 3.0, and regular HDMI output, rather than the P Series’ 4K HDMI output. The keyboard is LED backlit, and there’s a Blu-ray player. The Satellite P Series starts at $754.99, while the Satellite S Series will start at $699.00.
Toshiba Satellite P75A7200 and S75t-A7217:
Toshiba rolls out entertainment PCs and redesigned Haswell-based Satellite laptops is written by Brittany Hillen & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Toshiba has announced a variety of new products, among them being three new Excite tablets offering Tegra 3 and 4 processors and high-resolution displays. The slates are all set to be available online the end of this month, and will hit major retailer shelves in July. We’ve got a gallery, as well as the specs, after the jump.
The three new tablets are comprised of the Excite Pure, Excite Pro, and Excite Write. All three of them are adorned with 10.1-inch displays, two of which (Excite Pro and Excite Write) are Toshiba’s PixelPure 2560 x 1600 Retina-competitors. Likewise, all of them run Android Jelly Bean 4.2, and feature respectively a touchscreen digitizer (Excite Write), Harman Kardon speaker, and, best of all, NVIDIA Tegra 4 processors (Pro and Write). The Excite Pure features a Tegra 3.
Speaking of the Excite Write specifically, the addition of a touchscreen digitizer aims it at digital artists and others who require a more precise touch than the average tablet offers. Toshiba says the Write offers a “pen and paper experience,” which makes doing things like drawing and handwriting notes more natural and detailed. This tablet in particular comes with the TruNote app for note taking and organization, as well as the ThinkFree Office Mobile for Android app.
Said Toshiba’s VP of Marketing: “With more and more consumers adopting tablets as their go-to devices for entertainment and travel, we wanted to push the boundaries even further and equip our new Excite tablets with the technology and features needed to maximize the potential of these devices. By focusing on boosting the capabilities of the screen – from increasing the resolution to adding a digitizer option – we’re also evolving the way consumers can use these devices from consumption to creation.”
The Excite Pure is the cheapest of the bunch, starting at $299.99, featuring specifically 16GB of memory, 1GB of RAM, and a 3-megapixel camera. The Excite Pro is next at $499.99, offering twice the storage and RAM with an 8-megapixel camera. And the Excite Write rounds the three out at $599.99, with the same features as the Excite Pro, with the addition of the touchscreen digitizer.
They’ll hit ToshibaDirect.com on June 25, and elsewhere sometime early in July.
Toshiba unveils Tegra 4-based Excite Android tablets is written by Brittany Hillen & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Qualcomm and Microsoft have just announced the continuation of their partnership to make sure that Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 800 chip can power Windows RT 8.1 tablets and computers efficiently. Windows RT is a version of Windows that has been compiled to […]
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Computex 2013 is a place where a fair number of companies has chosen to roll out the different kinds of products that they have in store for the market in the coming year, and since there is quite a fair number of hardware manufacturers that hail from Taiwan itself, it is no surprise to see them make full use of this “home ground” advantage, and Asus being one of the more celebrated companies has decided to roll out the Asus Transformer Book Trio. As you can see in the image above, it does seem to resemble a regular Ultrabook, but in reality, the Asus Transformer Book Trio comes in the form of an innovative combination of notebook, tablet and desktop PC with the aim of delivering unparalleled flexibility in work, play, and social activity.
Just what kind of hardware does the new Asus Transformer Book Trio pack underneath the hood? Well, one thing is for sure – you will not find it lacking in any way where graphical prowess is concerned, especially when this is deemed to be the first NVIDIA Tegra 4 tablet in the market to come with a stunning 2560 x 1600 resolution display. Apple would certainly have cause to be concerned with this new class of hybrid devices as their hegemony on the tablet market is challenged.
The Asus Transformer Book Trio, as its name suggests, is a three-in-one mobile device that happens to be a world’s first as well. Boasting an 11.6” detachable display and dual operating systems, the Transformer Book Trio would transform mobile flexibility by switching effortlessly between a Windows 8 notebook, Android tablet and Windows 8 desktop PC. Different operating systems would mean access to more than 700,000 apps in the Google Play Store and over 50,000 apps in the Windows Store.
The PC Station dock itself sports its own 4th generation Intel Core i7 processor, keyboard and 750GB hard drive, and when the tablet display is detached, it can still work by hooking it up to an external display so that it functions as a desktop PC. Not only that, the PC Station also doubles up as a charger for the tablet for extended battery life. The tablet itself boasts of a 2.0 GHz Intel Atom processor and a 16:9 aspect ratio IPS display with Full HD 1920 x 1080 resolution and up to 64GB storage. Seems as though interesting times are ahead of us, no?
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At Computex earlier today, Mozilla and Foxconn have announced a partnership that will see Mozilla’s new Firefox OS be used on several devices that will be manufactured by Foxconn, including a tablet that has already been shown off. It’ll be manufactured for an OEM, but neither Mozilla or Foxconn have revealed who the lucky company is.
Foxconn says that they’re already working on at least five new devices that will run the Firefox OS, but they noted that these devices wouldn’t be limited to just smartphones and tablets, so we could be seeing some desktop or laptop computers running Firefox OS, or even a handful of Smart TVs that will come equipped with Mozilla’s offering.
Details on the mystery tablet were left unsaid, as Foxconn and Mozilla wanted it to be the responsibility of the OEM to reveal specs and details on the new tablet in the future, and all branding on the tablet was covered up, leaving only a blank black slate running Firefox OS, which obviously isn’t much to look at.
Of course, we knew this day was coming about a week ago, although it seems they didn’t unveil a smartphone as the rumor suggested. Still, we get the knowledge that Foxconn is joining the Firefox OS alliance, and since the manufacturer builds devices from a whole host of different companies, we should see many OEMs come forward with their own Firefox OS treats.
We got our hands on with Firefox OS at Mobile World Congress back in February, and a handful of smartphone manufacturers have announced plans to release Firefox OS devices, including ZTE and Alcatel. However, the bigger companies aren’t into the idea so much, including Samsung, which has no plans to launch a Firefox OS device.
SOURCE: Mozilla Blog
Mozilla and Foxconn team up to offer Firefox OS devices is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Acer has joined the Windows RT naysayers, with the company’s chairman, J.T. Wang, criticizing the Windows-on-ARM platform for lacking influence in the market. The Taiwanese company hasn’t been slow to jump on board the Windows 8 bandwagon – being the first company to launch an 8-inch Windows 8 tablet, in fact, earlier today at Computex – but Wang told the WSJ that his confidence didn’t extend to the sibling OS.
According to the chairman, Windows RT is unlikely to be “so influential anymore” and that has left Acer uncertain whether it will launch an ARM-based RT model. “We would like to be realistic,” Wang explained. “We have not decided if we want to launch that, to start mass production.”
Windows RT was Microsoft’s attempt to broaden Windows’ appeal among tablet users, taking on iOS on the iPad and the cavalcade of Android slates with a version intended to use low-power ARM-based chips rather than x86 processors from Intel and AMD. Loaded onto the original Microsoft Surface, Windows RT looks ostensibly like the regular version of Windows 8, with the same Metro-style interface.
However, under the hood architectural changes mean most existing Windows apps won’t run on Windows RT, and only new Metro apps are supported. RT has a traditional desktop view, but that’s only for the special version of Office Home & Student 2013 RT; other apps can’t be installed.
Microsoft is yet to announce sales figures for Surface, but the general response has been cold. It’s also seen third-party OEMs step back from their own Windows RT plans. Samsung dropped its RT tablet, while Dell said that it had been underwhelmed by the “pretty negative” response to its RT slate, which it cut the price of last month. HTC was believed to be working on a 12-inch RT model, since dropped amid middling consumer interest, though is believed to still have a roughly 7-inch version in the pipeline for later this year.
It’s not the first time Acer has been publicly pessimistic about Windows RT. Back in May, Acer president Jimmy Wong told reporters that “there’s no value doing the current version of RT,” with plans for a model to be released sometime this current quarter apparently put on hold.
Acer dismisses Windows RT as not “influential” is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Chalk up a win or two for Intel, with Computex 2013 Day Zero opening to a number of products with Atom chips where usually we’d expect to see ARM silicon. As expected, Intel’s processors found their way into at least one tablet from Samsung, the Galaxy Tab 3 10.1-inch, but the Atom push also got the CPU into a number of ASUS models too. Question is, has Intel managed to squeeze into the Android tablet market too late?
ASUS’ Transformer Book Trio – which is designed to run both Windows 8 and Android on a hybrid slate that can be docked in ultrabook and desktop hubs – paired an Intel mobile chip with a gruntier Core i7, while the MeMo Pad FHD 10 also spurned ARM for Atom.
Chatter of Clover Trail+ spreading had been bubbling for some weeks, but broke in earnest last Friday when multiple sources claimed Samsung was the big-name push behind broadening its chip suppliers. Intel has long been attempt to coerce manufacturers to consider its processors – even going to far as to take the lead on porting Android to x86 – but uncompetitive power consumption, among other things, kept it pretty much out of the game.
That’s all changing with the new Atom architecture, it seems. “In order to meet the demand from our vendor/carrier partners and provide a consistent high-quality experience for customers,” Samsung told us today, “Samsung has sourced components, including chipsets, from trusted partners.” The company confirmed that one such “trusted partner” and component was the processor at the heart of the Galaxy Tab 3 10.1-inch.
“Neither Samsung nor ASUS has leapt to Atom wholeheartedly”
Still, it’s worth noting that neither Samsung nor ASUS has leapt to Cover Trail+ wholeheartedly. The Intel-powered machines share press release space with ARM-based tablets; Samsung’s spec sheet, in fact, doesn’t even mention the underlying architecture or chip supplier, only the speed and the number of cores.
It’s a sign, quite possibly, that the tablet processor market is catching up to where the PC processor market reached a few years back. Most modern chips are “good enough” and so the branding advantage of calling out whether your slate runs on Qualcomm silicon, or NVIDIA silicon, or Intel silicon, simply isn’t so pressing as it perhaps once was.
Meanwhile, the days of premium Android tablets are seemingly behind us, for the most part at least. Apple’s iPad mini and Google’s Nexus 7 forced even more drastic cost-cutting so that Acer, ASUS, MSI, Samsung, and others could continue to compete; the MeMo Pad HD 7 (which runs an ARM chip, not an Intel one) for instance comes in at just $129 brand new. It’s questionable whether the slate segment is the same high-appeal category for Intel now that its margins have been eroded away.
Intel scores in tablet chips but success may come too late is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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