Microsoft and Barnes & Noble announced a strategic partnership on Monday. Microsoft is investing $300 million in an e-reading subsidiary that Barnes & Noble will form from its digital and college businesses. Continue Reading
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About Richard Shim
Richard is a Senior Analyst for DisplaySearch with expertise in the PC markets, including notebooks and tablet PCs.
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Clarifying Display Issues on the New iPad
Apple announced on Wednesday the next generation of its iPad tablet. The new iPad will start at $499 for the 16GB version and $629 with high speed cellular connectivity starting March 16. The new iPad has several new noteworthy features including an A5X processor, iSight 5 megapixel camera (similar to the one used in the iPhone 4S), voice dictation capability, 4G LTE cellular connectivity and, as expected, a high resolution display. The new iPad is slightly thicker and heavier than the iPad 2 (9.4 vs. 8.8 mm and 1.4 vs. 1.33 pounds, respectively). Continue Reading
ASUS Preps Two New Tablets
ASUS CEO Jerry Shen primed the pump for the company’s next generation tablet while also announcing the availability of its EeePad Transformer Prime on Monday at CES. During the Nvidia press conference, Shen said that ASUS had a $249 tablet in the works. The unnamed tablet was also going to have the latest elements, such as a Tegra 3 processor and Android 4.x OS, but would come with a 7” screen with a 1280 × 800 resolution.
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Nvidia Reveals New Features in Tegra 3
Nvidia shared some new features of its latest smart phone and tablet processor, Tegra 3, on Monday at CES. While the Tegra 3 is called a quad core processor, the part actually has a fifth core that the company is calling a SMP (symmetric multi-processing) processor. The fifth core essentially improves on the experience of the devices using it. The new features that Nvidia highlighted were around touch and battery life.
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Amazon Wants to Learn How Buyers Use Their Kindle Fires
The tablet PC market has been largely a one horse race, with Apple in the lead mainly because the company has done of a good job of providing customers with what they want. The other players have had a hard time figuring out what customers want, let alone being able to provide it. Well, one future entrant is aiming to fix that by going straight into the horse’s mouth.
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