This week the folks at Mad Catz have made it clear that they’ll be joining the Android In The Living Room fad with a gaming console known as Project MOJO. This device will take on a form not unlike the gaming console known as OUYA and will also be going into competition with the BlueStacks
So, what with E3 just over the horizon, we’re expecting a bunch of gaming news. But a new contestant in the Android gaming market? From an established gaming hardware maker? Well, apparently so, according to Mad Catz CEO Darren Richardson who announced “Project M.O.J.O” in a recent earnings call. Calling it an Android “micro console,” Richardson claims it’s like a supercharged smartphone, without a display, that you plug into a flatscreen TV. Richardson was also keen to stress that it’s all about hardware performance, and will be open platform (rather than selling content). There are no details about specification at this stage, but M.O.J.O is likely to be the fruit of a recent NVIDIA partnership, and will be the centerpiece of Mad Catz’s own GameSmart products, which ensures a slew of peripherals and controller options. This partnership also likely means Tegra Zone compatibility, and therefore games from launch. For now we’ll have to sit and wait, but it looks like Android gaming is about to step up a gear.
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While the NVIDIA SHIELD device isn’t quite on the market yet, NVIDIA hasn’t made any secret about making sure it’s Tegra 4 processor (coming inside the device) is good and ready to be a big part of the presentation. Today the folks at MadFingerGames – in association with NVIDIA – have shown a video previewing
Earlier today an NVIDIA demonstration at Computex revealed a bit about their upcoming tablet processor Tegra 4, doing so on a tablet that looked – if we had to guess – like something HTC would deliver to the masses. Instead of this 7-inch tablet being the HTC One slate we’ve always dreamed of, NVIDIA has
While the stylus-centric abilities NVIDIA is showing off this week at Computex were, up until now, only really available with devices like the Samsung Galaxy Note, here the Tegra 4 aims to make line width a GPU thought process. With the Samsung Galaxy Note, Samsung’s specialized S-Pen made – and makes – it possible to
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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This week at Computex, ASUS has revealed the MeMo Pad HD 7, a direct competitor for the Google Nexus 7, both of them working with a 7-inch display and both of them made by the same company. Though it may seem strange at first for ASUS to create a tablet that’s so extremely similar to the machine they’ve got in their deal with Google, the different bits and pieces offered with this new machine may make all the difference. And it all starts with color choices.
With the ASUS MeMo Pad HD 7, users will get the choice of several different color back panels – yellow, pink, gray, and white are included in this initial release. The Nexus 7 comes in black – or white, if you’ve got the limited edition Google I/O 2012 iteration. If you put color aside, this machine looks so similar to the Nexus 7 that it is, at first, difficult to tell the two apart.
Both devices have the same display size and resolution, 7-inches and 1280 x 800 pixels strong, that being 221 PPI. Both machines work with Android, but the MeMo Pad HD 7 works with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich out of the box with ASUS’ own custom user interface on top.
It’s important to note here that the Nexus 7 benefits from being part of Google’s Nexus program, meaning that it works with Google’s most basic non-skinned version of Android and receives regular updates whenever Google brings new versions of Android to the market. The MeMo Pad HD 7, on the other hand, still works with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and has no such promise of updates on any schedule.
The new ASUS tablet works with an unnamed ARM Cortex-A7 quadcore processor while the Nexus 7 employs the NVIDIA Tegra 3 quadcore processor we know to have support from its manufacturer. While for most common users the brand of the processor has little effect on their end experience, here we know the Tegra 4 to be reliable in its ability to conserve battery life (with 4-PLUS-1 technology, that is), and it has a whole dedicated gaming environment to boast in the NVIDIA TegraZone, as well.
One thing the ASUS MeMo Pad HD 7 has that the Nexus 7 doesn’t is a back-facing camera. While the Nexus 7 famously had its camera axed because ASUS said it wasn’t necessary, the MeMo Pad HD 7 works with a 5 megapixel camera on its back and a 1.2 megapixel camera on its front. The Nexus 7 works with just the front-facing camera on its front for selfies and video chat.
The original release of the Nexus 7 was bafflingly cheap when it was launched, but here in 2013 it appears that the price point is ready to drop once again. While you’ll pay $199 USD for the smallest version of the Nexus 7 (small in 16GB of internal storage, that is), the MeMo Pad HD 7 starts at $129 for an 8GB model. There’s also a $149 model incoming with 16GB internal storage, though there’s still a question of availability.
ASUS hasn’t been clear quite yet on where the MeMo Pad HD 7 will be available, while the ASUS-made Google Nexus 7 is available, and has been available for some time, in both the USA and in international markets. Because of this, the question of which machine is better for your living room is academic: you’ve only got one choice (for now).
ASUS MeMo Pad HD 7 vs Nexus 7: what you gain and what you lose is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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ASUS‘ docking Android tablets have fast become a mainstay of its range, and so it comes as little surprise to see the Transformer Pad Infinity get a refresh at Computex 2013 this year. The new version is the first of ASUS’ line-up to use NVIDIA’s new Tegra 4 1.9GHz quadcore, paired here with a 10.1-inch 2,560 x 1,600 IPS display.
The Tegra 4 has four ARM Cortex-A15 CPUs, and a 72-core GeForce GPU, to drive all those touchscreen pixels, with ASUS claiming 178-degree viewing angles from the IPS screen. It’ll also handle 10-point multitouch, while audio is courtesy of an ASUS SonicMaster speaker system.
As well as the internal changes, there’s been some polishing on the keyboard dock, too. That now has a multitouch touchpad, along with new connectivity in the shape of USB 3.0 and an SDXC memory card reader.
However, the most interesting part might be when you hook the Transformer Pad Infinity up to an external display – assuming you have one of sufficiently high resolution to do it justice. The new hybrid can output up to Ultra HD resolution from its HDMI port, though you’ll probably not fit much actual 4K content on the mere 32GB of internal storage.
ASUS also says the docking section is good for extended runtimes, presumably with a bigger battery and a little extra frugality squeezed out of the system itself. Full details of that, along with pricing and availability, will follow on in due course.
ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity gets Tegra 4 upgrade for Ultra HD output is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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