Ahead of the official start to CES 2012, Lenovo has come out with several interesting product announcements. They’ve so far announced an Ice Cream Sandwich tablet, the IdeaPad S2 10″, and their 2nd-generation, S2 smartphone running Android 2.3. Now they have announced the Lenovo K91…
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Lenovo IdeaTab S2 10″ Ice Cream Sandwich Tablet Announced for CES 2012
Ahead of the official start to CES 2012, Lenovo has come out with several interesting product announcements. First up, the Lenovo IdeaTab S2 10″, an Android Ice Cream Sandwich tablet that’s only 1/3-inch thin and weighs in at 1.1 pounds, one of the thinnest and…
Lenovo Smartphone S2 Announced for CES 2012
Ahead of the official start to CES 2012, Lenovo has come out with several interesting product announcements. All of their products announced for CES 2012 are connected via Lenovo Cloud, their own cloud-based storage and syncing service. The S2 smartphone is Lenovo’s 2nd-generation flagship Android…
Kyobo eReader with Mirasol Display Gets Reviewed
We got our hands on the Kyobo Reader a few weeks ago and though it was glitchy, we were under the impression that it was still not streat ready. The Digital Reader came out with the first review of the Kyobo eReader and it seems…
How is Qualcomm’s Smartphone Reference Design Doing in China?
Qualcomm’s Reference Design program (QRD) enters the ecosystem with a unique position to grab a large piece of the entry level smartphone market. Based on Qualcomm’s new S4 chipsets and the QRD will enable 3G smartphones that will retail for less than US$150.
According to…
Kyobo 5.7″ eReader with Mirasol Display Walk Through with Video Playback
Kyobo Book Centre and Qualcomm have revealed the world’s first ereader to use a mirasol color e-paper display, the Android-based Kyobo eReader. Mirasol’s Mems technology has had us all drooling for a three weeks of battery life with daily use since their screen has no…
Qualcomm’s Reference Design Takes on MediaTek with a Twist
Qualcomm’s Reference Design program (QRD) enters the ecosystem with a unique position to grab a large piece of the entry level smartphone market. Based on Qualcomm’s new S4 chipsets and the QRD will enable 3G smartphones that will retail for less than US$150.
China and…
Qualcomm Enters Smartphone Reference Design Business, Tablets on the Way
UpLinq China 2011 has officially kicked off with news that Qualcomm has launched two new Snapdragon S4 processors compatible with the the new Qualcomm Reference Design (QRD). By 2015 half of the smartphone market will go to smartphone handsets that cost under $150 USD and…
Kyobo eReader with a Mirasol Display & Gingerbread Available in South Korea
Kyobo Book Centre, the largest book retailer in South Korea, has announced the availability of the Kyobo eReader, the world’s first e-reader device using the low-power, color mirasol display by Qualcomm.
The Kyobo eReader will have a 5.7″ touchscreen display with a resolution of 1024…
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Tablet Hands On [Video]
Qualcomm announced a few new processors to the Snapdragon line up today and showed off a reference design tablet on the S4 platform. The new Snapdragon S4 processors are aimed at lowering design, engineering, and inventory costs. They are also optimized for use with a…
New Snapdragon S4 & S1 Processors for Tablets & Smartphones
Qualcomm is expanding its Snapdragon S4 mobile processors line up and adding in the Snapdragon S1 series for entry-level smartphones.
To help simplify things: Qualcomm Snapdragon processors are classified by the S1, S2, S3, and S4 generations of products. The S1 class is meant for…
HTC Zeta: 2.5 GHz, Quad-Core Powerhouse with Ice Cream Sandwich On-Board
Put on your skeptics’ caps. Engadget received a rendering of the HTC Zeta, a smartphone rumored to have a quad-core, 2.5 GHz processor and Ice Cream Sandwich.
Last week there was already a rumor about an upcoming quad-core smartphone from HTC called the Edge. But…
How Snapdragon S4 Differs From Tegra 3 [Update]
With Nvidia’s Kal-El or Tegra 3 being released along side Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S4 the question is how are they different?
The new Snapdragon processors will have a dedicated voltage plane and clock frequency for each core which is called Asynchronous Symmetrical Multi-Processing (aSMP). As the…
Qualcomm Announces 30 Snapdragon Tablets for 2012
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon ARM processors are found in a variety of smartphones, but in the tablet area but they are rather rare with Nvidia’s Tegra 2 being the dominant processor. All that is mean to change next year with a significant number of tablets with the…
How Many Praying Mantis Does it Take to Power a Smartphone?
In a very clever attempt to demonstrate just how low power their new processors are, Qualcomm has come out with a Bug Circus video that actually calculates energy usage in terms of PMU: “Praying Mantis Units.”
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors take up less energy and therefore…
