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Tag Archives: Android 4.0
MT6577-based JiaYu G3 with IPS Gorilla glass 2 sreen of 4.5” etc. for $154 (factory direct) in China and $183 internationally (via LightTake)
This is the most competitive offering from the wave of Boosting the MediaTek MT6575 success story with the MT6577 announcement – UPDATED with MT6588/83 coming early 2013 [June 27, July 27, Sept 11, 2012] and now is the key manifestation … Continue reading
Posted in Geopolitics, smartphones
Tagged Android, Android 4.0, Android ICS, China, Gorilla glass 2, IPS, JiaYu, JiaYu G3, MediaTek, MT6577
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Boosting the MediaTek MT6575 success story with the MT6577 announcement — UPDATED with MT6588/83 coming in Q4 2012 and 8-core MT6599 in 2013
Follow-up: MediaTek MT6589 quad-core Cortex-A7 SoC with HSPA+ and TD-SCDMA is available for Android smartphones and tablets of Q1 delivery [Dec 12, 2012] The MT6588 was recently renamed MT6589. Update: Sold 70 million in the first three quarters, MediaTek smart chip dominates China … Continue reading
Posted in consumer computing, consumer devices, Geopolitics, smartphones, SoC
Tagged Apple, China Mobile, China Unicom, Qualcomm, China, HSPA+, Nokia, Samsung, MediaTek, HTC, Huawei, ZTE, ST-Ericsson, Lenovo, Motorola, white-box vendors, MStar, 40nm, smartphones, Ice Cream Sandwich, Cortex A9, Coolpad, Android 4.0, ICS, PowerVR, PowerVR Series5, 2012 smartphone war, MT6575, dual SIM, MT6577, ZOPO, iHTC, retail channels, Oppo, Shanda, MT6588, Cortex-A7, SGX544, MT6583, TD-SCDMA. WCDMA, MT6599, MT6589, MTK6589
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Tech investment banking expertise to strengthen the unique value focus of growing the HTC brand and to achieve high growth again
Updates #2: - HTC sees revenues down sharply on-year in July [DIGITIMES, Aug 7, 2012] HTC saw its revenues dip 16.7% on month and 44.5% on year to a five-month low of NT$25 billion (US$834.45 million) in July. For the … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing strategy, Geopolitics, Reflectivity/Sunlight readability, smartphones
Tagged 2012 smartphone war, Android 4.0, audio technology, Beats, Beats By Dr. Dre, Beats By Dre, brand, CFO, China, China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Cortex-A5, Dual card, dual standby, Goldman Sachs, HTC, HTC Desire, HTC One, HTC Rezound, HTC Sense 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, investment banking, MSM7227A, MSM7627A, smartphones, ST-Ericsson, Super AMOLED, Super LCD
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MWC 2012: Fuzhou Rockchip Electronics
Follow-up: Core post: China’s HW engineering lead: The Rockchip RK292 series (RK2928 and RK2926) example [Oct 27, 2012] Exclusive : ST Ericsson, Rockchip To Join Windows 8 For ARM Club In 2013 [Feb 29, 2012] Rockchip RK30xx ARM Cortex-A9 announced at Mobile World Congress … Continue reading
Posted in consumer devices, smartphones, SoC
Tagged 40nm, 55nm, 65nm, Android 4.0, ARM, ARM Holdings, Chartered, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, Fuzhou Rockchip Electronics, Global Foundries, Hisilicon, RK28xx, RK2918, RK29xx, RK30xx, Rockchip, SoC, Spreadtrum, TSMC, Vivante, Wabook, WebM, Windows 8
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Google adding a style guide (design guidelines) to Android (4 years late)
While it is still quite distant from Microsoft’s achievements in design, and taken together with Nokia even more so, it is better to be late than never come to that discipline at all. And Google is definitely here by any accounts … Continue reading
Posted in design, smartphones
Tagged Android, Android 4.0, Android design, Apple, design, design guidelines, Google, Ice Cream Sandwich, ICS, iOS, Microsoft, Pure Android, smartphones, style guide, style guidelines, Tablets, UI, UI Guidelines, UX, Windows Phone 7, WP7
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Kindle Fire with its $200 price pushing everybody up, down or out of the Android tablet market
Suggested preliminary reading: $199 Kindle Fire: Android 2.3 with specific UI layer and cloud services [Sept 29 – Nov 13, 2011] Update (when neither up or down the market is an option for the company): Acer Likely to Withdraw From … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud client SW platforms, tablets
Tagged Acer, Amazon, AMD, AMOLED, Android, Android 4.0, Apple, ARM (architecture), Asus, Asustek, cloud client, Dell, Flexible AMOLED, flexible display, Hewlett-Packard, HP, Ice Cream Sandwich, ICS, Intel, iPad, Kindle Fire, Lenovo, MacBook Air, media tablets, Microsoft, NVIDIA, NVIDIA Tegra, Quanta, Samsung, Samsung Mobile Display, tablet market, tablet PC, Tablets, Tegra, Tegra 2, Tegra 3, white-box vendors, Windows 8, Wistron, x86
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