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Jan

11

2012

Motorola Announces It Will Sell Fewer Devices For 2012, We Breathe A Sigh Of Relief

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by Roy Alugbue
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Motorola is using CES to provide a clearer picture of its strategy for 2012. In a roundtable discussion, CEO Sanjay Jha highlights the company intends to release fewer devices this year— not an onslaught such as what we saw particularly in the 2nd half of 2011. Jha himself summed it up best: “A lot of [...]

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Jan

10

2012

Multi-Year Deal, Strategic Mobile Partnership Struck by Intel and Motorola Mobility

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by Jack Holt
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Well it appears that Intel is quite serious about jumping on the smartphone and tablet markets as both they and Motorola Mobility announced that they struck a “strategic mobile partnership” with each other. This multi-year agreement will span over multiple devices and Motorola will begin shipping smartphones (pending carrier approval) with Intel® Atom™ processors on the [...]

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Jan

10

2012

Smartphone Reference Design Released By Intel, Shows Off Major Potential

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by Jack Holt
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Image Courtesy of Forbes Intel took some time to show off their smartphone reference design based on its Medfield SoC and while the device itself may be ugly, the specs aren’t. The biggest aspect of the device is the 1.6 GHz Atom Z2460 Processor with HyperThreading. Intel promises that the device will have good battery life so those [...]

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Dec

30

2011

LG Set To Bring Intel-Based Phone To CES 2012

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by Roy Alugbue
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LG has announced it will debut an Intel-based Android smartphone at CES 2012. The phone will feature Intel’s new flagship mobile chip, the Medfield SoC (System on a Chip). While no one knows what will be the exact specs of the Intel-based phone just yet, the processor is expected to be a screamer. Impressive benchmarks [...]

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Dec

21

2011

Intel Shows Off Their Medfield Powered Android Devices

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by Joe Sirianni
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In recent news, Intel is looking to get a foot in the door when it comes to manufacturing smartphones and tablets.  It appears as though they want the world to know that they can do more than just produce chips with the U.K. company’s ARM architecture.  Intel upped their game last week when MIT’s Technology [...]

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Oct

15

2011

Acer Founder Stan Shih Confident Android Will Overcome Apple

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by Justin Routhier
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In a recent interview with Taiwan’s Chinese-language United Daily News, Acer Inc. founder Stan Shih states that the Android operating system is destined to overcome Apple’s iOS through its combined efforts of Wintel (Windows+Intel) and Google innovations. Shih goes on to say that the alliance between Intel and Google is a match that proves to [...]

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Sep

13

2011

Android will support Intel technology starting next year, Andy Rubin shows off Medfield-based Gingerbread handset [Video]

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by Robert Nazarian
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Google Senior Vice President of Mobile, Andy Rubin, showed up at the Intel Developer Forum for a big announcement. Moving forward Intel and Google will work together by enabling and optimizing Android for Intel’s family of low power Atom processors. “By optimizing the Android platform for Intel architecture, we bring a powerful new capability to [...]

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Sep

12

2011

Intel processors to get Gingerbread by 2012? (Video)

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by Stacy Bruce
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With the ever growing popularity of the Android operating system, processor developers have been chomping at the bit to develop a chip that would be widely accepted by cellphone and tablet manufacturers. Intel, creator of The Atom processor used in notebooks and set top boxes, has had a hard time producing a processor that would [...]

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Jul

20

2011

Google Down to the Last Few: Samsung, HTC, and one “Big Surprise” all Possibilities for the New Nexus Prime

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by Ryan Brooks
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Ever since Google told use that they were planning another Nexus device to pilot Ice Cream Sandwich, we’ve waited patiently (think: spamming F5 on Google’s blog every 5 minutes) to see what’s in store for us next. Rumor has it that Google has narrowed it down to just a few big players, including one “big surprise”. [...]

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May

30

2011

ViewSonic ViewPad 10Pro has Android and Windows 7 – not a dual boot though

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by Jesse Bauer
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Back in February, we were informed of several new devices ViewSonic had up its’ sleeves for tablet devices in 2011. One of which we heard of was the ViewPad 10Pro, which upon early specs, looked to be a dual-booting Android and Windows 7 Pro tablet device. Cool right? Well, not as cool as we had [...]

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