Microsoft Surface Pro Brooke Crothers While a smaller version of the Surface tablet may be the main attraction at an upcoming Microsoft event, other changes to the line are also expected. In addition to the “Surface Mini” product based on a Qualcomm chip, a new Intel-based Surface product is also expected at the May 20 …
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Nokia is a pure mobile play. No PC legacy here. Nokia Is the PC dead yet? No, but Microsoft-owned Nokia makes no bones about its increasing irrelevance. “The vast majority of people do not have, nor will they ever have a personal computer,” Stephen Elop, former Nokia CEO and now executive vice president of the Devices Group at Microsoft, said …
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A ‘Surface Mini’ smart cover as advertised on a Vostrostone Amazon page. The rumored tablet would be smaller than the 10.6-inch Surface that Microsoft sells now. Vostrostone Microsoft’s smaller version of the Surface tablet has been rumored since at least last fall, but an Amazon-affiliated site seems to be offering some hard proof. Electronics retailer Vostrostone has posted photos of …
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Nexus 5: Could a future version of the Nexus run on a 64-bit Qualcomm processor? Google Phone and tablet makers are rushing to embrace 64-bit designs, surprising even those executives behind the chip platform. Tom Lantzsch, ARM’s executive vice president of corporate strategy, spoke with CNET after the company reported first-quarter earnings on Wednesday. ARM supplies virtually all of the …
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Samsung’s game plan for 64-bit Samsung With Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. dropping a big hint this week that it has either started or is getting ready to start production of 64-bit mobile processors, let’s take a quick look at what the major players have said and done so far. “If you observe the mobile device industry, in the past six …
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The iPad Air (left) and the Surface Pro 2 Brooke Crothers/CNET Microsoft and Apple have very different ideas about what a high-end tablet is. After extensive use of both, I have some thoughts about the their strengths and weaknesses. But first, some context. Though the year-over-year growth rate for tablets in 2013 was 51.6 percent, this year may be a …
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Apple’s 64-bit A7 processor: TSMC’s co-CEO said that Apple is driving the industry to 64-bit. Apple Apple has moved the mobile device industry to 64-bit, an executive from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. said at an earnings conference. “If you observe the mobile device industry, in the past six months we do see the…conversion to 64-bit [in processors] after the Apple …
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The Android-based Dell Venue 7 starts at $149.99 with an Intel Atom processor. Intel needs to win over lots of tablet makers in 2014 to hit its target of 40 million Dell Advanced Micro Devices wondered out loud on Thursday about rebates that its longtime rival Intel offers to tablet makers to incentivize them to use its chips. “We have …
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The Dell Venue 8 Pro has been well received but Windows tablet numbers overall are small. Dell When Intel announced its tablet numbers for the first quarter on Tuesday, it was clear that Android buried Windows. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich said during the company’s first-quarter earnings conference call that out of the 5 million tablet processors shipped “80 to 90 …
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An Apple ‘phablet’ could be one of the better Apple products to come along in a while. Screen capture/Brooke Crothers Of all the rumored Apple products due later this year, the large 5.5-inch device is the one that’s got my full attention. Earlier this week, a research note from Ming Chi-Kuo, a reputable analyst from KGI Securities, indicated that a …
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