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by Joe Levi | April 11, 2013 1:59 PMRead OnAt the core of every smartphone, phablet, tablet, computer, or piece of electronic equipment is a processor. Processors aren't as simple as a single chip anymore. The processor inside mobile devices today is what's called a "System on a chip", or SoC for short. This SoC includes a lot of "processors". Some handle video, some handle traditional "CPU" tasks. Others take care of your cellular, WiFi, and Bluetooth radios. Still more process audio, and others monitor and handle the vast array of sensors that are tucked away snugly inside modern phones and tablets. Each SoC has its advantages ...
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by Stephen Schenck | March 8, 2013 3:50 PMRead OnLenovo continues to try making a name for itself as a smartphone manufacturer; earlier this year we learned about the K900 with its 2GHz Intel chip, as well as a whole slew of lower-powered Androids. Today we have a couple new ones to add to the bunch, upon some pictures surfacing of the Lenovo S920 and S820. The S920 (above) is solidly into phablet territory with its 5.3-inch display. It's powered by a quad-core MediaTek MT6589 SoC, one of the company’s new A7-based designs for increased operating efficiency. Additional details are sparse, but look for dual-SIM support, Jelly Bean, and ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | January 29, 2013 3:57 AMRead OnA report, citing Lenovo's CFO, claimed last week that the company might consider the acquisition/merger or a strategic alliance with Research in Motion, in order to strengthen its mobile line-up. According to a company statement, the quote is out of context and pure speculation: "we are aware that Lenovo’s CFO [Wong] Waiming was speaking broadly about M&A strategy in a recent interview. RIM was raised as a potential target by the journalist and Mr. Wong repeatedly answered in a manner consistent with all of our previous statements on M&A strategy: Lenovo is very focused on ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | January 26, 2013 9:28 AMRead OnResearch in Motion is preparing to launch its brand new BlackBerry 10 devices in less than a week but according to a Bloomberg report Lenovo might have some merger plans that include the Canadian company. The Chinese multinational computer maker is trying to boost its mobile business and executives are dropping hints about the options. Lenovo's Chief Financial Officer Wong Wai Ming said that the company is "looking at all opportunities, RIM and many others. [...] We’ll have no hesitation if the right opportunity comes along that could benefit us and shareholders". Lenovo already bought ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | January 12, 2013 2:55 AMRead OnLenovo announced the IdeaPhone K900 for China this week and if you somehow missed this phone, among all the other CES news, it's time for you to catch up on it. We're looking at one of the first phones to pack a 2GHz dual-core Intel Atom processor; it has a 5.5-inch Full HD 1080p screen, 13-megapixel camera and will ship with Android 4.2. That dual-core Intel Atom processor at 2GHz seems to be dominating the landscape benchmark-wise (if the results above are real, excluding PhotoShop hocus-pocus, other trickery, or benchmark application anomalies). Above 27,000 points in AnTuTu means ...
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by Stephen Schenck | January 9, 2013 10:54 AMRead OnOvernight, we shared news with you of Lenovo's 2GHz K900 Android, but as it turns out, that's just the tip of the Lenovo Android iceberg. In addition to the K900, the company has five other new Androids making their debut at the CES this year. First up, in the S-series, a designation promising media and entertainment superiority, Lenovo is introducing the S890 and S720. The former has a 5-inch qHD display, while the S720 goes with a 4.5-inch component in the same resolution; both feature eight-megapixel main cameras. Lenovo doesn't mention the S890's SoC, but spells-out that the S720 runs ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | January 9, 2013 2:10 AMRead OnIntel is slowly increasing its presence in the mobile industry and the just announced IdeaPhone K900 from Lenovo is such a device packing the chip-giant's processor. While at it, the device is also among the first ones to pack a 2GHz dual-core Atom processor. The screen is 5.5 inches in diagonal with Full HD 1080p resolution calling for a pixel density rating of 400 PPI. The camera appears to be similar to the one found on the newly announced Sony Xperia Z, meaning 13-megapixels as well as a Sony Exmor R backside illuminated sensor. It will ship with Android 4.2 and a UI on top of it when ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | January 8, 2013 3:45 AMRead OnThe new Lexington platform for mobile devices in emerging markets is not the only thing that came out of Intel's labs at this year's CES. The chip-maker also announced its new line-up of low-power Ivy Bridge processors meant to drive ultrabooks and tablets. Offering five times the performance of the now quite stale NVIDIA Tegra 3, the new processors draw much less power then the current low-power processors, specifically 7 watts instead of 17. The upcoming Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 11S, shown off at CES, is not the only device that will pack these new processors. Apparently, Microsoft's ...
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by Michael Fisher | November 7, 2012 1:20 PM
Read OnYou know the drill: another week, another overload of tech news for three geeky guys to talk about. On this exiciting episode of the Pocketnow Weekly, though, things are a little different: in addition to the usual news from the three big mobile platforms, Michael, Anton, and Joe discuss issues of major import for the industry in our broadcast's new preshow segment. Today's "Thought Thread" covers the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and its impact on smartphones and tablets, as well as a little invention called CommBadge that has the potential to bring voice interface back into the ...
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by Stephen Schenck | November 6, 2012 5:05 PMRead OnHow large a battery do you look for in a smartphone? Being able to get though a full day of heavy usage can be tricky for plenty of handsets, but luckily we live in a time when there are more options than ever when it comes to battery capacities. It might have been the arrival of the Droid RAZR Maxx earlier this year that really got us thinking about things in earnest, as it marked a major manufacturer giving its users a clear choice between thin phones and those with jumbo-sized batteries, all other things being equal. While the RAZR Maxx (and now, RAZR Maxx HD) topped-out at 3300mAh, ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | September 19, 2012 3:58 AMRead OnOne of the pleasant surprises at this year's IFA was the cornucopia of Windows 8-powered tablets and each and every one of the x86 flavors was running on an Intel architecture, regardless of the OEM that built the slate. Now it seems that Intel is preparing a rather large Windows 8 event for September 27 in San Francisco, as invites start to pop up. With so many Windows 8 tablets in Berlin it was safe to assume that every manufacturer who wanted to announce and showcase their products did just that. However, Intel promises that there will be speakers from manufacturers like Acer, Asus, ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | August 17, 2012 3:54 AMRead OnThe latest rumors regarding the pricing for Microsoft's Surface tablet talks about models as cheap as $199, competing directly with Google's Nexus 7, a budget tablet aimed at power users and fans of the Nexus brand. According to David Schmoock, head of Lenovo’s North America operations, devices running Windows RT will cost $200 to $300 less than those powered by Windows 8. Windows RT will be compatible with ARM processors while Windows 8 will have Intel and AMD chips at its core. Tablets running Windows 8 will cost $600 to $700, said Schmoock, and Windows RT-based slates ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | August 10, 2012 2:54 AMRead OnLenovo announced the ThinkPad Tablet 2, its first slate specifically designed for Windows 8. Since it is powered by an Intel Atom processor, we're looking at a tablet which is running Windows 8 Pro, after the initial ThinkPad was powered by Google's Android mobile platform. It sports a 10.1-inch screen with 1,366 x 768, pen precision input, Intel Atom processor, two cameras (eight-megapixel at the back, two-megapixel on the front), 3G and 4G capability, NFC, fingerprint reader, and measures 9.8 mm in thickness and less than 600 grams (1.3 pounds) weight. There will also be an ...
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by Stephen Schenck | July 4, 2012 7:44 PMRead OnWhen Microsoft announced its Windows Phone 8 hardware partners last month, it named Nokia, Huawei, Samsung, and HTC, all producing phones running Qualcomm chips. Earlier in the year, though, we heard rumors that some additional companies were looking to produce models for the WP8 launch, including both ASUS and Lenovo, and Lenovo has recently confirmed that work is underway on a WP8 model. Now a new rumor says that Lenovo has been in talks with Microsoft about the idea of making this model a bit of a departure from the standard WP8 Metro UI. Supposedly, a Lenovo team traveled to meet with ...
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by Stephen Schenck | June 28, 2012 1:25 PMRead OnLenovo may be experimenting with Intel chips in Androids with its K800, but the company's latest handset to cross our path goes with Samsung chips, instead, running the same Exynos 4 Quad as used in the international Galaxy S III. Lenovo's LePhone K860 will apparently be a five-inch model, pushing the upper limits of handset sizes in the same way as the Galaxy Note. Unlike that model, though, with its 1280 x 800 display, the K860 may go with a 1280 x 720 component. The smaller screen combined with the different display geometry means that the K860 should be nearly a centimeter less wide ...
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