Google may get its second-generation small tablet into consumers’ hands before Apple does. Market researcher IHS told CNET that Japan Display Inc. and AUO are expected to make the display for the next-gen Nexus 7, while Quanta will make the tablet itself. “As far as I know, JDI and AUO didn’t start to supply this …

The Android laptop is coming. Does that mean more market-share pain for Windows PCs? Hewlett-Packard’s upcoming notebook offerings speak for themselves. For $480, there’s the SlateBook x2 Android “notebook”. At $800, we have the Windows 8-based Split x2. For me, the choice gets easier every time I pick up the Nexus 10 tablet that I’ve been using for the last …

Samsung is putting an Intel chip in an Android Galaxy Tab. That’s unusual. As CNET reported back on May 20, Samsung is slated to disclose — either privately or publicly — the next Intel-based Galaxy tablet at Computex, which starts June 4. It will run Android 4.2.2 and sport a 1,280 x 800 display. Related stories Samsung Galaxy Tablet may …

Samsung may do something it has never done: Put an Intel chip in a Galaxy Tab. The Samsung Galaxy 10.1 Android tablet is expected to sport a dual-core 1.6GHz Intel Atom CloverTrail+ chip, industry sources familiar with the product told CNET. The plus sign means the CloverTrial chip packs a high-performance PowerVR SGX544 MP2 graphic processing unit from Imagination Technologies. …

Hewlett-Packard has a newfound affinity for Android. After announcing the Slate 7 in February, HP announced Tuesday that it is adding a second Android tablet, the SlateBook x2. The SlateBook takes its well-received Envy x2 design and loads Android 4.2.2 and Nvidia’s brand-new Tegra 4 chip inside a sleek 10.1-inch tablet that can double as a laptop. Related stories HP’s …

Nvidia is banking on new computing devices to replace “cheap” PCs and Android to drive that disruption, according to comments from the chipmaker’s chief executive on Thursday. “A great tablet is clearly better than a cheap PC,” said Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang during the company’s fiscal first quarter conference call. “New computing devices are becoming increasingly like your personal computer, …

Android dominated the global smart mobile device market in the first quarter, according to a new report from Canalys. That market — which combines smartphones, tablets, and notebooks — hit 308.7 million units in the first quarter, representing year-on-year growth of 37.4 percent, according to Canalys, which released the report on Thursday. By operating system market share, Android was on …

Amazon is expected to bring out a bigger version of the Kindle Fire, as it gradually grows the size of its tablets. Amazon arguably started the small tablet fad when it launched the 7-inch Kindle Fire in November of 2011. And it followed that with 8.9-inch model, announced in September 2012. Now it’s moving up to the 10-inch class, Richard …

Think Apple’s A6 chip packs a punch? It appears to have some stiff competition from Samsung’s Exynos 5 Octa, slated for commercial production in the second quarter, the company announced today. Featured in Samsung’s Galaxy S4, Octa means it integrates a whopping eight CPU cores. Apple’s A6 has two, by comparison. While a raw core count comparison may be too …

If the Samsung Galaxy S4 follows in the same path as the S3, we should see two variants of the Android phone with different internals. Like the S3, the international version of the S4 will likely carry Samsung silicon, while an LTE version in the U.S. opts for a Qualcomm processor. While we won’t know until Thursday what’s inside precisely …