Tag Archives : Intel Atom

  Intel’s inability to enter the mobile market has been a growing problem in the company’s history, a wound more painful than the chip giant has left out the biggest launch in product category after the laptop. Yes, some tablets have Intel Inside, but none stood out and everyone had huge consumption of battery. So how Intel will reach [...]

ViewSonic announced in late August a line of tablets with Android operational system and/or Windows 7, but until then the details of the devices remained unknown. Now, with the official release and a date for the sale, the new tablets surprising ways good and bad. Both types come with Android, but only the 10 inch model will have the option to dual-boot [...]

A premier mobile handset manufacturing company, Aava Mobile has now announced the launch of an all new Google Android based handset called, Virta Android. This smart phone has been designed and developed specifically for Android developers and contains a hardware-enhanced software developer kit (h-SDK). The Virta is powered by the highly anticipated [...]

The launch of the Apple iPad may have taken the world by storm and in some ways revolutionized the mobile computing realm. However, with some of the biggest names in the computer hardware market it would be quite naïve to say that, the iPad will become the King. Building up on the same point, Sony Corporation, which is one of the leading names in consumer [...]

As part of the coverage of the launch of the new Ubuntu 10.04 Phoronix measured the energy consumption of two identical notebooks equipped with the operating system, comparing it with Windows 7 running on the same machines. And the results are astonishing, with Ubuntu is showing noticeably more “rude” in battery consumption, different from [...]

Intel introduced a new version of its Atom chip, promising lower power consumption, lower price and smaller size, trying to get a slice of the smartphone market. Intel plans to gain a foothold in the mobile market, as did the netbook segment, which it now dominates almost completely. Analysts, however, point to an uphill battle against Nvidia, Qualcomm [...]

The development team of the Moblin project, a Linux distribution optimized for netbooks originally created by Intel and now under the control of the Linux Foundation, announced Wednesday the launch of the first beta version of Moblin 2.1. Despite the small difference in the numbering, this version brings important changes in the question that matters [...]