MWC 2011 - Its started!
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They may well be doing that but they'll have to announce and be ready to go to market before the competition so it could still be in March or the end of the month. I'm surprised that they haven't used the international showcase if they have something special.
Looks like the TI OMAP 4430 is the current the dual core king... but for how long?
(+ check out the SGX540 running new v1.6 drivers, a potential 10-30% increase? nice! Wonder if Samsung update the NS/SGS with them?)
I think a lot of that improvement is down to the upgrade in RAM speed from DDR to DDR2.
Probably but I'm sure they'll give a nice boost + fixing rendering issues (like the planets benchmark in quadrant) should be good enough for all manufactures to add them to the next update.
It's a shame you can't download them like you would for a PC GPU
It's a shame you can't download them like you would for a PC GPU
im not rating the spec, size or os ....
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Yeah, I was gonna start a thread on the HTC tablet too, it really does look fantastic! A few months ago I saw an article about a company that managed to make resistive touchscreens with 5-point multitouch and much faster response times (as good as any capacitative), and I thought "ah, this'll finally make styluses come back again!", but it seems capacitative stylii have beaten them to it!
I've never thought typing on a touchscreen is comfortable no matter how big or how good the keyboard, so I thought most people would stick to using tablets only for light web browsing, reading or watching videos, and that they'd never replace laptops for serious work, but this could actually get them through the door for "professional" uses, combined with a good handwriting recognition software.
I remember reading a comment from a Microsoft exec soon after the iPad was released saying that the first "serious" tablets would be the ones with a stylus. I knew at the time he was right, but it's really ironic that the first one to include one would be an Android tablet! Guess it serves Microsoft right for hating HTC for adopting Android over WinMo (really unfair considering how much that company has done for WinMo!), but we're the ones that lose out in the end cause I don't think Android's a great OS for serious work, there just aren't enough decent office apps. Plus the handwriting recognition in WinMo 5.5 was AMAZING (although for some mysterious reason they completely overhauled it in WinMo 6.x and made it much less powerful - it stopped recognising whole words, you could only write a single letter at a time, never got why they changed it).
I've never thought typing on a touchscreen is comfortable no matter how big or how good the keyboard, so I thought most people would stick to using tablets only for light web browsing, reading or watching videos, and that they'd never replace laptops for serious work, but this could actually get them through the door for "professional" uses, combined with a good handwriting recognition software.
I remember reading a comment from a Microsoft exec soon after the iPad was released saying that the first "serious" tablets would be the ones with a stylus. I knew at the time he was right, but it's really ironic that the first one to include one would be an Android tablet! Guess it serves Microsoft right for hating HTC for adopting Android over WinMo (really unfair considering how much that company has done for WinMo!), but we're the ones that lose out in the end cause I don't think Android's a great OS for serious work, there just aren't enough decent office apps. Plus the handwriting recognition in WinMo 5.5 was AMAZING (although for some mysterious reason they completely overhauled it in WinMo 6.x and made it much less powerful - it stopped recognising whole words, you could only write a single letter at a time, never got why they changed it).
Pretty shocked at HTC's line-up this year, especially their first tablet running 2.4 with a Sense UI overlaid (though I'm currently debating whether this is good or not, what with all the Honeycomb tablets coming out with very similar specs).
I think the SGSII is going to be my phone of choice come April time when I'm due a new phone. The only things that bother me though is the button layout, the plasticy case and the lack of LED for notification (though resolved with an app).
On another note, did anybody see the quadrant scores for the LG Optimus 3D?
http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/02/14/lg-optimus-3d-is-a-beast-scores-almost-3000-in-quadrant-higher-than-any-other-stock-android-smartphone/
I think the SGSII is going to be my phone of choice come April time when I'm due a new phone. The only things that bother me though is the button layout, the plasticy case and the lack of LED for notification (though resolved with an app).
On another note, did anybody see the quadrant scores for the LG Optimus 3D?
http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/02/14/lg-optimus-3d-is-a-beast-scores-almost-3000-in-quadrant-higher-than-any-other-stock-android-smartphone/
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Well, that's a problem with companies like HTC that are only OEMs rather than first-tier manufacturers. Companies like Samsung can innovate in tech because they develop it, but HTC has to differentiate in software. The latest ace up their sleeve seems to be Facebook integration, which people like us aren't really interested but it could be a hit with teenagers and such I suppose. They'll come up with something new to raise our eyebrows too eventually (I hope).
Tegra 3 to match (low end?) core 2 duo. Could be in tablets by august?
http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/15/nvidia-announces-quad-core-kal-el-soc-promises-it-in-tablets-by/
http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/15/nvidia-announces-quad-core-kal-el-soc-promises-it-in-tablets-by/
Spec? Nothing majorly wrong there. No dual core but a very fast single core. Size, more portable than a 10" and the OS? True, Android isn't the best (;0)...
Nah, the thing that gets me is the stupid white panels on the back, makes it look terrible.
Yeah, I was gonna start a thread on the HTC tablet too, it really does look fantastic! A few months ago I saw an article about a company that managed to make resistive touchscreens with 5-point multitouch and much faster response times (as good as any capacitative), and I thought "ah, this'll finally make styluses come back again!", but it seems capacitative stylii have beaten them to it!
I've never thought typing on a touchscreen is comfortable no matter how big or how good the keyboard, so I thought most people would stick to using tablets only for light web browsing, reading or watching videos, and that they'd never replace laptops for serious work, but this could actually get them through the door for "professional" uses, combined with a good handwriting recognition software.
I remember reading a comment from a Microsoft exec soon after the iPad was released saying that the first "serious" tablets would be the ones with a stylus. I knew at the time he was right, but it's really ironic that the first one to include one would be an Android tablet! Guess it serves Microsoft right for hating HTC for adopting Android over WinMo (really unfair considering how much that company has done for WinMo!), but we're the ones that lose out in the end cause I don't think Android's a great OS for serious work, there just aren't enough decent office apps. Plus the handwriting recognition in WinMo 5.5 was AMAZING (although for some mysterious reason they completely overhauled it in WinMo 6.x and made it much less powerful - it stopped recognising whole words, you could only write a single letter at a time, never got why they changed it).
Actually, if we confine it to the most recent slate type devices then Hanvon released a Win 7 tablet with pen last summer and Asus displayed a Win 7 tablet with pen at CES, so Android definately didn't beat them.
Astop calling it a stylus!
It's not. One is an inert object that replaces a finger (for far more accuracy), the other is a high precision electronic pen (same thing Wacom use on their drawing tablets, in fact the Asus one is a Wacom).all of htc's stuff has been short sighted, if your gonna spend serious money on a tablet and we know they are all gonna be pricey, you would at least want
honeycomb - made for tablets
duel core - its the latests and is what others are shipping with
size - well its personal choice, i would prefer 10" (no doubt the mrs would too)
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You know it would have been a much better design for the Motorola laptop dock for the Atrix if they had made a slot in the side of the laptop base part. Then all you would need to do is slot your phone into the base of the laptop and it would power on then you wouldn't have this phone dangling out the back of the laptop. It would be protected from knocks etc and then all you do is push the phone and it pops out, much like you do with sim cards or the old wifi cards for laptops.
But hopefully some other manufacturer will come up with this idea.
But hopefully some other manufacturer will come up with this idea.
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