Hasta La Gadget!

It’s time for a brand new tablet to show its massive face with the company that shares its name: Wikipad. This device was shown briefly earlier this year in a 7-inch iteration that didn’t look especially unique without its utterly strange add-on controller – now it’s being re-revealed with a 10-inch display, NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor, and Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.

There are several versions of the processor that NVIDIA has noted will be appearing in this tablet. While the Nexus 7 uses the Tegra 3 T30L, the Wikipad will use the T30, and the OUYA will use the T33. That list of processor builds starts at 1.2Ghz, goes up to 1.4GHz where we are with the Wikipad, and ends up with 1.6GHz – that is to say 1600MHz DDR3 RAM. This Wikipad tablet is made to be more powerful than the Nexus 7, which it should be since that tablet was made to be less expensive and has lower clock speed to show it, while this new tablet isn’t quite the most powerful beast on the planet when compared to devices coming out right after it.

In other words, it’s just like every other device, coming out with the latest hardware its creators could get their hands on. Inside this beast you’ll find at least 16GB of internal storage, and it could very well be more by the time the device is finally released. Fraser Townley, President of Sales at Wikipad spoke with VentureBeat about the situation, saying “we will not go down, we will only go up.” It is also from that interview that we’ve gotten the rest of the details we’re sharing here, mind you.

This tablet will be released with the rather rare newest version of Android, that being the 4.1 version Jelly Bean. We can expect that this device will instantly be working with the controller which you see above, wrapping around the bottom and sides of the device for fabulous off-screen action. You’ll find that the controls may remind you of some past designs with its double joysticks, directional pad, and diamond-shaped collection of buttons, but the designers assure that they’re perfectly legitimately original.

There’s an 8 megapixel camera on the back of this device, a 2 megapixel camera on the front, and the whole thing will be released (and finally revealed) later this year. Soon, we hope!

Wikipad 10-inch Jelly Bean tablet shows gaming promise is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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This week NVIDIA and their Tegra mobile chipset line have joined up with Miracast for their wireless standard for HD movies and photos. This standard will allow users to stream high definition content from their quad-core tablet or phone (with Tegra 3 processors, of course) to their HDTV without the aid of an HDMI cable or a wireless network. Miracast is a standard in wireless high definition content pushing over small distances, essentially, and NVIDIA is ready to bring the Tegra line into the light!

With NVIDIA already being a part of the Wi-Fi Alliance, they’re more than ready to bring Tegra up to spec with a wide array of Miracast-certified devices. With Miracast, wireless streaming is as easy as pie and the quality with which its streamed is just as high definition as any other competing technology on the market today! You’ll not only be able to stream HD video and photos, you’ll be able to wirelessly play games like Riptide THD and Shadowgun as well!

Above you’ll see a video which outlines everything NVIDIA is doing with Miracast to bring you the next generation of wireless goodness. NVIDIA is working with their OEM partners right this minute to bring the technology you see before you to the market as soon as possible, and with programs such as the TegraZone and a collection of fabulous HD content ready to roll, you’ll be blasting forth in no time!

NVIDIA Tegra adopts Miracast wireless standard for HD streaming is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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The NVIDIA TegraZone has brought on many next-level shooters, racing games, and graphic-heavy beasts that show the power of Tegra processors plainly – with Auralux, it’s not quite so simple to see. What you’ve got here developed by Wardrum Studios is not a shooting game with rippling puddles of blood, nor is it a water shooting game where you put out realistic looking fires – instead its the most minimalistic vision of what Warcraft addicts fell in love with back in the 1990s with strategy and troop controls, but this time it’s in space. And it’s fought with bubbles.

This game is an instant buy for anyone who loves the game Osmos in that it requires you to look at your physics-heavy blob-controlling situation from a bird’s eye view – though you’re in space, so it’s more of a gods-eye-view. Everything is flat, but you’ve got hovering bodies living around planets which produce these bodies. These bodies – or bubbles – are your troops. The object of the game is to reduce your enemies to nothingness.

To defeat your enemies, you’ve got to control your troops by selecting them with your finger – this done by creating a circle around them – then commanding them to attack. But you don’t tell them to attack as you would a normal war-like game, you tell them to advance. You can tell your troops to move to a certain area on the screen, or you can tell them to make their way into one of the planets.

The planets are either controlled by you or one of your enemies, or they can be neutral. Depending on the setup of each level, you and your enemies will have different positions amongst different amounts of planets which can be taken over by your troops. To take over a planet, you’ve got to sacrifice an amount of troops to it.

Once you’ve activated a planet with enough troops, the planet will begin producing troops. The smallest planet size produces troops the slowest, the largest produces the quickest. Each dormant/gray planet has a limit to how large it can get, with the most challenging environments having only a collection of the smallest planets. The larger you make a planet, the harder it is for an enemy to take it, as well.

This game is played at a relatively slow pace, but you can purchase a Speed Mode from the Google Play store that allows you to rock and roll at what I just hate to call “blazing” speeds. There are also levels galore you can buy with an NVIDIA Tegra exclusive pack hiding near the end of the list – it’s the best!

This game is a home run for mobile devices, and on a Tegra-toting device it’s a powerful punch for tablet and smartphone gamers alike. Auralux sits somewhere between a rather involved game and a casual game, making it really great for lots of different types of people looking to make great use of their touchscreen interfaces on all manner of devices. This game has rather quickly become a first-install for all of the devices I’ll be reviewing in the near future – count on it.

You can download Auralux from the Google Play Store or catch it on the NVIDIA TegraZone starting this week as well. What are you waiting for?!

SlashGear Android App of the Week: Auralux with Tegra-exclusive expansion is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
© 2005 – 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.

Earlier this month, Kontron has unveiled a Mini-ITX PC motherboard (KTT30/mITX) that is equipped with NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 processor.  If you are not familiar with mini-ITX, it is a 17x17mm motherboard format that has been used in small PC for years. This means that this motherboard would be compatible with a huge number of PC cases for companies which want to build a low-power Windows 8 RT or Android machine. (more…)

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Google Nexus 7 Tablet Will Be Powered by Tegra 3, NVIDIA expected to release 30 Tegra-3 devices by the end of 2012,

Believe it or not, there’s a potentially cheaper (and more customizable) way to get NVIDIA’s quad-core Tegra 3 into your life than to spring for a Nexus 7. Kontron is readying a rare Mini-ITX motherboard, the KTT30, that combines the ARM-based chip with expandable RAM and a trio of mini PCI Express slots for expansion like a micro SATA drive or a 3G modem. The external ports are more the kind you’d find on a do-it-yourself x86 PC, too: full-size HDMI, USB and even Ethernet make a show at the back. The only hurdles are an unusually throttled back 900MHz processor speed and, quite simply, the lack of release details. Kontron hasn’t promised more than a release “coming soon” — with much more complete Tegra 3 devices now hitting the $199 mark, though, we can’t see the KTT30 putting much strain on any budding hobbyist’s wallet.

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