MobileTopSoft news and reviews tagged with ARM

If what is being reported is true, Microsoft is in for a hell of a fight this year to compete with its Windows 8 tablet offerings. We are hearing that future Windows 8 tablets with Intel inside pricing will be more expensive than the iPad and Android tablets, the pricing is expected to start from $599 to $899. This is in part due to Microsoft and Intel unwillingness to adjust cost for suppliers, this could open the door wide open for ARM to gain footing.

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Intel is making a huge entrance into the world of smartphones with its Medfield chipsets for Android and other devices. One of the first Medfield powered Android smartphone is the Lenovo Racer-A, and this badboy is blazingly fast.

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We’ve been longing to see what Intel can offer the smartphone market in terms of x86 dual core chipsets, now, it appears our prayers will soon be answered. The Korea Times is reporting today that the first Intel Medfield based Android smartphone will be unveiled by LG at CES 2012 in January, with a launch date set for March of the same year.

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Here’s something interesting that you might want to look into if you’re an Android gamer. The price is only a meager $140 for this tablet so you wouldn’t be losing much unless you fear buying suspicious products from unknown manufactures from Asia.

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It is largely known that Intel is struggling to keep up with the competition where handheld mobile devices are concerned. The biggest problem facing the chip company is the fact that it is unable to come up with a suitable CPU that is power efficient enough to run on smartphones without killing the battery as soon as the phone is turned on.

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Here is something many of you and myself will enjoy. According to Jen Hsung Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, Windows 8 tablets will be able to run Windows Phone 7 applications no problem. If this has any truth to it, then it could considerably bolster Microsoft efforts in competing with Google and Apple in the tablet department.

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The year 2012 should be the year Windows Phone 7 finally bring the heat to Android and iOS if this piece of information turns out to be solid. Apparently, Nokia plans to release 12 Windows Phone 7 based devices in 2012, a few of those could feature dual core processors.

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