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Monthly Archives: February 2012
MWC 2012 day 1 news [Feb 27, 2012]: Samsung and Nokia
Samsung had a number of enhanced GALAXY products (see them in the “Details for Samsung” section below). The really strong message from innovation point of view from them has, however, been (considered by them as “hidden gems”): Samsung Mobile … Continue reading
Posted in "smart" feature phones, Cloud client SW platforms, consumer devices, smartphones, tablets
Tagged 3.9G, 41MP, 41MP Camera, Android, Asha, Asha phones, China, cloud client, DC-HSPA, e-reading, GALAXY Beam, GALAXY Note 10.1, Galaxy S III, GALAXY S WiFi 4.2, GALAXY Tab 2, Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1), Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0), Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus, HSPA+, India, Indonesia, Lumia 610, Lumia 900, Microsoft, Microsoft Exchange, MWC, MWC 2012, Nigeria, Nokia, Nokia 808, Nokia 808 PureView, Nokia Asha, Nokia Browser for Series 40, Nokia Drive, Nokia Drive 2.0, Nokia Drive 3.0, Nokia Life, Nokia Maps, Nokia Public Transport, Nokia Reading, Nokia Transport, photography, PureView, S30, S50, SaaS, Samsung, Series 30, Series 50, smartphones, Symbian, Tablets, Windows Phone, Windows Phone 7
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China-based second-tier and white-boxed handset makers targeting the emerging markets
Update: China-based white-box vendors expected to ship 200 million smartphones [DIGITIMES, April 17, 2012] China-based white-box vendors, mainly due to the availability of inexpensive new chip solutions, have been increasing the production of smartphones, with the total shipment volume expected to reach … Continue reading
Posted in Geopolitics, smartphones
Tagged 2G, Asian Telecom, China, emerging markets, feature phones, GFive, GLX, KingTech Telecom, Lava, Maxx, Micromax, Nokia, Samsung, second-tier handset makers, smartphones, Spice, Victor Infotech, Videocon, white-box vendors, white-boxed handset makers, Zerone group
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AMD 2012-13: a new Windows 8 strategy expanded with ultra low-power APUs for the tablets and fanless clients
AMD Strategy Transformation Brings Agile Delivery of Industry-Leading IP to the Market [AMD press release, Feb 2, 2012] At its annual Financial Analyst Day, AMD (NYSE: AMD) detailed a new “ambidextrous” strategythat builds on the company’s long history of x86 … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing strategy, consumer devices, SoC, tablets
Tagged accelerated applications, Accelerated Processing Unit, all-in-one computers, all-in-ones, AMD, AMD Bobcat, AMD Client Roadmap, AMD Fusion, AMD Fusion Developer Summit, AMD HSA, AMD roadmap, APU, APU strategy, ARM, ARM (architecture), ARM Holdings, “ambidextrous” strategy, Bobcat, Brazos, Brazos 2.0, Bulldozer, C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism, C++ AMP, cloud client, Computers and Internet, convertible devices, desktops, Excavator, fanless clients, fanless designs, fanless form factors, Financial Analyst Day, FSA, Fusion, Fusion System Architecture, heterogeneous compute ecosystem, heterogeneous computing, Heterogeneous System Architecture, Hondo, HSA, hybrid devices, industry standards, inflection point, Intel, Jaguar, Kabini, Kaveri, Lisa Su, Llano, low-power, Mark Papermaster, MDC workload, Microsoft, Microsoft C++ AMP, Multi-DataCenter workload, notebooks, OpenCL, Piledriver, Rory Read, small desktops, SoC, Steamroller, Tablets, Temash, third party IP, Trinity, ultra-low power, ultrathin notebooks, ultrathins, very thin designs, Windows 8, Windows 8 tablets
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Marvell’s SMILE Plug for the “Classroom 3.0” initiative
SMILE = Stanford Mobile Inquiry-based Learning Environment and this is currently a smartphone based solution aimed at the digital classroom. In this sense it is a kind of a newer (only 1+ year old) approach than the 6 years old … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud client SW platforms, consumer devices, smartphones, SoC, tablets, Uncategorized
Tagged Android, Arch Linux, Arch Linux for ARM, ARMADA, Classroom 3.0, cloud client, Digital Classroom, education, Inquiry-Based Learning, Jack Kang, Marvell, MedRIC, Node.js, OLPC, Plug Computers, smartphones, SMILE, SMILE Plug, SoC, Stanford Mobile Inquiry-based Learning Environment, Stanford University, Stanford University School of Education, student-created questions, Tablets, XO 3.0
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Marvell SoCs to win both Microsoft and Nokia for Windows Phone and Windows 8 platforms (after the Kinect success)
Update: – Marvell licenses VeriSilicon DSP cores [Feb 13, 2012] SAN FRANCISCO—Marvell Technology Group Ltd. has signed a licensing agreement for VeriSilicon Holdings Co. Ltd.’s ZSP G3 intellectual property cores, including the dual-MAC ZSP800M and ZSP880M synthesizable DSP cores, VeriSilicon … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud client SW platforms, Geopolitics, smartphones, SoC, tablets
Tagged 28nm, ARMADA, China, cloud client, Jack Kang, Kinect, Lumia, Marvell, Microsoft, Nokia, Nokia Lumia, notebooks, smartphones, SoC, Tablets, TD-SCDMA, TSMC, Windows 8, Windows Phone 7, Xbox
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