Intel is pushing the Ultrabook concept, thinner, lighter, lower power x86 laptops, yet the performance might stay as high as their maximum. I interview an Intel representative about the performance and power consumption of the Ultrabook platform.
Category: Exclusive videos
OLPC XO-3 unveiled at CES 2012
Posted by – January 9, 2012
The One Laptop Per Child foundation presents the final design for the OLPC sub-$100 Tablet with a 8″ 1024×768 capacitive LCD touch screen, a touch screen optimized version of Sugar Linux. The thin screen protector doubles as a solar charger. Once countries order millions of these, the price can definitely be below $100.
Related articles
- OLPC XO-3 tablet revealed (slashgear.com)
- OLPC outs XO 3.0 tablet at last, will make its debut at CES (engadget.com)
- One Laptop Per Child XO 3.0 tablet to be showcased at CES 2012 (ubergizmo.com)
- OLPC XO-3 Tablet to Debut in CES 2012 (devicemag.com)
- OLPC XO 3.0 tablet to show at CES with Android, Sugar (electronista.com)
- OLPC’s XO-3 Tablet Lands at CES (hothardware.com)
Acer Iconia Tab A700, 1920×1200 10.1″ ICS Tegra3 Tablet
Posted by – January 9, 2012
Acer shows this prototype of the Tegra3 Powered Ice Cream Sandwich tablet with an insane 1920×1200 10.1″ capacitive screen, wow resolutions are increasing fast and the new high-end ARM Processors like Tegra3 can run ICS on it smoothly.
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- Acer Iconia Tab A700/A701 Full HD Tegra 3 tablet revealed (slashgear.com)
- Quad-core Acer Iconia Tab A700 Android tablet shows up in photos, should debut at CES 2012 (unwiredview.com)
- Acer Iconia Tab A700 leaks boasting a 1920×1200 resolution display (mobigyaan.com)
- Acer Iconia Tab A700 with Ice Cream Sandwich slated for launch at CES 2012 (intomobile.com)
Marvell Armada 1500, ARM Powered Google TV
Posted by – January 9, 2012
This is the new ARM Powered Google TV solution ready to ship in full production early Q2 2012 in set-top-boxes and built-in into HDTVs by all manufacturers wanting to build and sell cheap ARM Powered Google TV solutions. The performance is faster than Intel’s discontinued Google TV solution, this one lowers the cost, lowers the power consumption, makes it more compact all the while including all the HDMI input/output and IR blaster features of a full Google TV.
ST Ericsson U8500 runs Ice Cream Sandwich
Posted by – January 9, 2012
ST Ericsson is showing this development platform for their U8500 ARM Cortex-A9 processor running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
ST Ericsson U8500 in Smartphones shipping in China
Posted by – January 9, 2012
ST Ericsson U8500 1Ghz Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 is shipping in a version of the HTC Sensation selling in China with an integrated CDMA modem. Now also Via Mobile is shipping the U8500 in a 4.3″ capacitive HSPA+ smartphone. The price may be quite a lot lower than other high-end dual-core smartphones, to be confirmed.
Lenovo Hybrid X1 combines ARM and x86 in a $1599 ThinkPad Laptop
The battery life is doubled when instantly switched into the ARM mode that provides basic functionalities in a customized version of Android. With the extended battery it lasts 20 hours in ARM Powered laptop mode.
Acer S5 Ultrabook, thinnest 13.3″ laptop using Intel for $1000 or more
Posted by – January 9, 2012
Here’s Acer’s latest thin Intel Laptop. The price might start below $1000 when they start selling in the first half of the year, to be confirmed.
Related articles
- Acer announces ‘world’s thinnest’ 13.3-inch Aspire S5 Ultrabook at CES 2012 (update: pictures) (engadget.com)
- Acer Aspire S5 ultrabook: 15mm thick plus Thunderbolt (slashgear.com)
- Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra: Doubling down on Ultrabooks (ces.cnet.com)
Best CES 2012 videos to be posted during the next 7 days here on ARMdevices.net
Posted by – January 8, 2012
Check back here on http://ARMdevices.net and on my Google+ page during the next 7 days for up to 100 videos that I will post of the best ARM Powered devices to be shown at the trade show. I will also amazingly try to live stream during the whole event using a camera on my head and using the headmounted Motorola Kopin Golden-i computer to see an IRC chat room where you can participate and tell me where to go, what to film and what to ask people in each interview. I look forward to your real-time professional expert suggestions for what I should include in my videos, I call it augmented video-blogging. Follow http://ARMdevices.net, subscribe to my RSS feed for the info on where and how to see my live CES video show and participate in the live chat. Please post here in the comments if you have any requests for companies and devices that you think that I should cover. You can email me tips for CES at charbax@gmail.com and call me at my new US phone number: +1 (702) 6376318
Loic Lemeur at the end of LeWeb 2011
Posted by – December 16, 2011
Category: Exclusive videos, LeWeb
Loic Lemeur and his wife Geraldine Lemeur are the organizers of LeWeb.
twanx.com at LeWeb 2011
Posted by – December 16, 2011
http://twanx.com tries to aggregate gratitude on the social web.
beintoo.com, winner of the startup competition at LeWeb 2011
Posted by – December 16, 2011
http://beintoo.com is a platform for mobile developers to integrate game mechanics inside of their existing applications, which can be sponsored by advertisers. You can see their presentation at http://youtube.com/watch?v=SkX4Et1vOQY
MediaHeroes.com at LeWeb 2011
Posted by – December 16, 2011
http://mediaheroes.com helps you write an article in less than 10 minutes.
Babelverse.com, third place startup winner at LeWeb 2011
Posted by – December 16, 2011
Application for real-time voice translation, known as interpretation, available today for conferences, and in the future for anybody who need interpreteur in the market. They use a community of people that can be anywhere in the world remotely. You can see their presentation at the LeWeb 2011 Startup Competition where they won third place: http://youtube.com/watch?v=nhNhNqN5e7o
Guiavulevu.com at LeWeb 2011
Posted by – December 16, 2011
Online community for women in South America, with city guides in Buenos Aires Argentina, Santiago Chile, Lima Peru, Bogota and Medellin Colombia.
uCoz.com at LeWeb 2011
Posted by – December 16, 2011
They provide a free website builder. Based in Ukraine and Russia.
Augmented-Magic.com by Moulla at LeWeb 2011
Posted by – December 16, 2011
He was showing some pretty awesome magic tricks at LeWeb, using the Kinect, 3D graphics from 3Dvia and real elements, you can find more videos featuring his magic on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2fyUj1NKyw
digitalarti.com at LeWeb 2011
Posted by – December 16, 2011
They bring digital art to events, companies, find out more at http://digitalarti.com
i-think-it.com at LeWeb 2011
Posted by – December 14, 2011
One of their projects is a delivery system for fast food restaurants online.
Talkoclock.com at LeWeb 2011
Posted by – December 14, 2011
http://talkoclock.com is a way to make new friends from all over the world, just one phone call away.
