Monday, February 14, 2011

Mobile World Congress 2011: Nokia: Windows Mobile billion by using Microsoft

Among other things, with Elop said in his talk that Nokia received from Microsoft a billion support to develop smart phones with the operating system "Windows Phone". At the same time defended the rejection of the top manager of Google ("Android" operating system) as a partner. Had chosen Nokia as the world's largest mobile phone manufacturers for the Android platform, the result would be a "duopoly" was from Apple and Google in the mobile market, he said.

Qualcomm Unveils SoC quad-core 2.5 GHz

The high-end smartphones are now adopting mass dual-core processors clocked at over one gigahertz. The evolution will not stop there: Qualcomm has unveiled at MWC a Snapdragon quad-core 2.5 GHz. Krait, this is the code name for the new Snapdragon heart who will lead the next generation of processors Qualcomm.

Details of the enhancements in this new architecture are not yet known, but we hope to learn more by visiting the Qualcomm booth at MWC. It was designed for etching at 28 nm. With each heart that can reach 2.5 GHz Krait, while offering a limited consumption. Qualcomm decline in the number of SoC architecture: a single-core MSM8930, MSM8960 dual-core and a spearhead, the APQ8064 quad-core.

OCZ ZX Series: new range of high-power performance

OCZ has launched the new series of power supplies ZX Series, which it hopes to answer the demand for energy-efficient solutions and consumption. The ZX has been designed to meet the most demanding needs for performance and efficiency. Also features a modular design for a 100% accurate customization that meets the requirements of any high performance system.

"The new OCZ ZX series provides exceptional performance and efficiency at all levels, as well as design 100% modular cable that allows the user to fully customize their system using only the cables you need." Charlie said McMenomey, PSU Product Manager for OCZ Technology. "The fully modular design makes installation as simple as possible, and also helps improve air flow in boxes of high-performance components.

TDJ: Zotac GTX 570 AMP!, ZBOX AD03 More

Our fellow Cowcotland just released a test ZBOX Blu-ray AD03 More Zotac, mini PC based on AMD's Fusion platform. There is therefore an APU E-350, M1 chipset with SB800 southbridge one, a Radeon HD 6310 integrated processor, 2 GB DDR3-1333, a 250 GB hard drive, DVI and HDMI outputs and 7.1 audio controller, USB 3.0 and Gigabit Ethernet.

Verdict? For its part, our fellow Revioo recently launched a test of the Zotac GeForce GTX 570 AMP!, A GeForce GTX 570 receiving light factory overclocking. The graphics chipset is indeed clocked at 780 MHz (1560 MHz for the shaders), while the memory runs at 1000 MHz. For comparison, a GTX 570 features a conventional GPU at 732 MHz (1464 MHz for the shaders) and GDDR5 memory at 950 MHz ...

PA, Telecom Italy Consip the race for mobile services

Telecom Italy has won the tender launched by Consip for the activation of an agreement on custody of mobile services for government, getting the best score to be technically and economically. The convention, which will last 24 months, possibly extended by a further 12 months, has a total estimated value of approximately EUR 230 million and is targeted to approximately 19 000 beneficiaries entities, including central and local.

Samsung unveils new Galaxy Tab 10.1

Samsung presented at its conference at the Mobile World Congress, the new Galaxy Tab 10.1, a tablet-based Android 3.0 10.1-inch screen and 16:9 widescreen resolution of 1280x800 pixels. Featuring dual-core processor Tegra 1GHz and rear camera 8Mpixel, you can record video in 1080p Full HD video support and ensure through the front camera to 2Mpixel.

The new tablet is made with a well-established style with black bezel, rounded corners and an aluminum frame. The thickness is quite pronounced (almost 11mm), as shown by the guys at Mobile. net in their video-preview that you can find below, on the contrary the weight of 600 grams is more content, for example, that the iPad.

ARM - who does what: IT / OMAP4 (7)

After OMAP3, go to OMAP4. This new generation of SoC also comes from Texas Instrument and is beginning to be integrated into devices such as RIM's playbook. The OMAP4 is an evolution of the OMAP3 with a new core for the CPU, a new GPU, a new video decoder and the same DSP as in OMAP3. So we have a Cortex A9, and a PowerVR SGX540 IVA3.

The password OMAP4 Cortex Cortex A8 to A9, with two cores, but a similar frequency: between 720 MHz and 1 GHz. The Cortex A9 is based on the ARMv7 instruction set and provides a short pipeline (8 stages) and management instructions OoO (Out of Order), which makes it more powerful than the Cortex A8 used in OMAP3.