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Your smartphone and / or tablet is just begging for an update. From time to time, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and so many of them are floating around that it’s easy for a sizable chunk to get lost in the mix. To make sure they don’t escape without notice, we’ve gathered every possible update, hack, and other miscellaneous tomfoolery we could find during the last week and crammed them into one convenient roundup. If you find something available for your device, please give us a shout at tips at engadget dawt com and let us know. Enjoy!

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At the end of last week, we talked about the possibility of an NVIDIA Tegra Tab 7 being spotted in the wild, and this time around, there is the very real possibility of an NVIDIA Tegra Tab 7 benchmark which has been seen, where it could also be known as the NVIDIA TegraNote Premium for all intents and purposes, after someone decided to run the AnTuTu benchmark and capture a screenshot of it for all and sundry to drool over. It so happens that the Tegra Tab’s AnTuTu benchmark result showed it hitting the 27,643 points mark, and that at 1,280×800 resolution, but that is because the resolution is not that high as the latest Nexus 7 whose AnTuTu benchmark is lower, as that tablet sports a pixel count of 1,920×1,200, which is surely more GPU intensive.

Other alleged hardware specifications of the NVIDIA Tegra Tab should include an NVIDIA Tegra 4 chipset that has been clocked at 1.8GHz, a 5-megapixel shooter, a microHDMI port, a microUSB port, a 3.5 mm headset jack, and the possibility of either a microSD memory card slot or a SIM card tray. We could also be looking at the inclusion of a stylus, which would be rather strange since 7” tablets do not really need such an accessory. Ah well, more should be revealed when the final device finally debuts, no?

Alleged NVIDIA Tegra Tab 7 Benchmark Spotted original content from Ubergizmo.

This week the folks at NVIDIA appear to either have had a leak in press photos or have a big enough fan out there that they’ve made their own Tegra-themed tablet. What we’re seeing here is an NVIDIA Tegra Tab, a 7-inch tablet that very well may be the tablet version of what we’ve been […]

The first-generation of Microsoft Surface Windows tablets most definitely made waves when they were first introduced, although their real-world usage did not manage to live up to the hype set about at its launch. This resulted in Microsoft admitting that they built more Surface RT tablets than they should have, leading to a price cut and the possible write-down of $900 million in Surface RT inventory. That being said, has this discouraged Microsoft from releasing a successor?

Perhaps not, at least that’s what NVIDIA’s CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang, said after speaking to the folks at CNET. (more…)

Microsoft Surface 2 Tablet Being Worked On By NVIDIA original content from Ubergizmo.

With NVIDIA SHIELD we’ve begun diving in to a collection of use-cases for the system that spin beyond its original two: Android gaming and PC game streaming. While we’ve given NVIDIA SHIELD a full review already, we’ve only just begun to explore the many use-cases for this device, considering especially its physical controls connected directly […]