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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Category Archives: Mobile PCs
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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Will Panel Prices Increase in Q1’12?
After falling every month since June, panel prices have finally stabilized. Notebook PC panel prices have been flat since October, TV panel prices have been flat since November, and monitor panel prices have stopped falling this month.
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Amazon Kindle Fire Launch: What Amazon Learned From Apple
Apple continues to reign supreme with the iPad, while competing tablet makers’ have failed in their attempts to topple the company. With the Amazon Kindle Fire launch, many are wondering just how the newest tablet entry will impact the popular tablet segment. The Kindle Fire is showing signs of great promise: affordable price points, strong pre-orders, and the company’s efforts to understand new consumer behavior. Amazon is in a position make significant strides where other non-Apple tablet OEMs have failed, because the online retail giant is taking two important pages from Apple’s playbook: don’t be a first-mover, and aim for the ecosystem—hardware + content + easy delivery—not just the device.
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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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