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In what appears to be a mistake or a jump of the gun by ASUS, they have seemingly published a list of specifications for one of its key notebooks that all but allude to the next generation of AMD's mobile processors. While we saw AMD toy with a new nomenclature for their Phoenix silicon (Ryzen 7040 series), it seems as though AMD is once again changing things around where their naming scheme for processors is concerned. The ASUS listing, which has now since been deleted, but as of writing is still available through Google's cache, highlights a model that is already in existence, the VivoBook S 16 OLED (M5606), but is listed with an unknown AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 170 processor. Which, based on...
webOS Goes Open Source
HP has finally decided what it's going to do with webOS: the software will be made available under an open source license. This likely signals the ultimate end of...
19 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/9/2011
Xbox 360 Companion for Windows Phone, Xbox Live for iOS Apps Released
The Xbox team has been rather busy lately. On Tuesday, the team delivered the most sweeping facelift of the Xbox 360 dashboard since NXE, and today released an Xbox...
7 by Brian Klug on 12/7/2011
Sony Ericsson and Motorola Detail Android 4.0 Upgrade Path
We've talked in the past about how OEMs take the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) and use it to build software tailored for devices in the context of x86...
22 by Brian Klug on 12/7/2011
Verizon and AT&T: State of the LTE Spectrum Union
In two deals announced late last week, Verizon Wireless has expanded its spectrum holdings through deals that will give it control over various frequencies, almost all in the AWS...
39 by Jason Inofuentes on 12/7/2011
Dell Kills 7-inch Streak Tablet
Dell has discontinued its 7" Streak tablet in the United States, the bigger brother of the 5" Streak that it discontinued earlier this year - the official product page...
18 by Andrew Cunningham on 12/5/2011
CyanogenMod 9 Should Support Most CM7-Compatible Devices
In an update on the CyanogenMod blog today, Cyanogen gave us our first details on device support for the forthcoming Ice Cream Sandwich-based CyanogenMod 9: the first SoCs supported...
11 by Andrew Cunningham on 12/2/2011
Archos G9 Turbos On Sale Next Week, OMAP 4460-based G9 At CES (Updated)
The saga of the Archos G9 tablets, once dubbed the world's fastest, has been a little drawn out. Archos originally intended to have 1.5 GHz variants out by this...
9 by Jason Inofuentes on 12/2/2011
An Update on Transformer Prime Battery Life & WiFi Issues
In our review of ASUS' Eee Pad Transformer Prime I mentioned that I couldn't sustain speeds greater than 2Mbps over WiFi on my review unit. In practice, most web...
53 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/2/2011
ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime Availability: Week of December 19th
If you're waiting to get your hands on an Eee Pad Transformer Prime, you're going to have to wait a little bit longer. ASUS is expecting the first etail...
12 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/1/2011
ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime & NVIDIA Tegra 3 Review
Going from making good motherboards to going head to head with Samsung for Google's affection is a pretty big step for ASUS, but it's one that the company has...
205 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/1/2011
Verizon 4G LTE Galaxy Nexus Photos Emerge
While we're still waiting patiently for our Galaxy Nexus to arrive so we can begin digging into Android 4.0 goodness, Verizon customers in the US are also patiently for...
15 by Brian Klug on 11/30/2011
Amazon Kindle Fire Review
I'll be honest here (I always am?): I don't understand the iPad comparison. The Kindle Fire and iPad 2 couldn't be more different. They are vastly different sizes, shapes...
70 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Vivek Gowri on 11/29/2011
Apple Seeds iOS 5.1 Beta to Developers
Apple seems to have had a Cyber Monday surprise of its own lined up, releasing iOS 5.1 Beta (build 9B5117b) to developers this evening. We've updated an iPhone 4S...
13 by Brian Klug on 11/28/2011
NVIDIA Demos Ice Cream Sandwich Running on ASUS Transformer Prime
Two days after the public release of Android 4.0.1 (Ice Cream Sandwich), NVIDIA had it up and running on ASUS' announced but not-yet-released Eee Pad Transformer Prime. NVIDIA sent...
8 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/22/2011
Amazon's Silk Browser Acceleration Tested: Less Bandwidth Consumed, But Slower Performance
We've been working on our Kindle Fire review over the weekend but I thought I'd break out a particularly interesting section of the review for release a bit early...
49 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/21/2011
Understanding Wireless Storage: Kingston Wi-Drive and Seagate GoFlex Satellite
Let me pose a hypothetical situation: say you bought an iPhone or iPad, but cheaped out and got a 16GB model. You’ve got around 10GB worth of music, a...
32 by Vivek Gowri on 11/21/2011
Galaxy Nexus & Ice Cream Sandwich: Initial Performance Analysis
The road to Google's Galaxy Nexus and Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) is finally nearing its destination. As of yesterday, the Samsung made Galaxy Nexus went on sale in...
70 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/18/2011
Motorola Mobility Shareholders Vote to Approve Google Merger
Motorola Mobility shareholders have overwhelmingly approved of a potential merger with Google, the next step in the deal that was first announced in August. Ninety-nine percent of all voting...
3 by Andrew Cunningham on 11/18/2011
Qualcomm Announces a Bunch of Krait Based Snapdragon S4 SoCs
In February at MWC, Qualcomm unveiled three SoCs based on its brand new Krait microarchitecture: the single/dual-core MSM8930, dual-core MSM8960 and the quad-core APQ8064. More recently, we dove into...
5 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/16/2011
Amazon Kindle Fire Teardown
Thanks iFixit for the image! As we work on our Kindle Fire review, iFixit dissected Amazon's first entry into the tablet space. The internals aren't surprising - there's an OMAP...
7 by Kristian Vättö on 11/16/2011
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