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Video Gaming

HP Takes on Nexus 7 with $169 Tablet

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Calling this a fashionably late entrance into the tablet market would be a massive understatement, but HP managed to turn heads at Mobile World Congress yesterday with its very own 7-inch system, the HP Slate7. It seems a little perplexing for such a delayed entry, but the price alone — an impressively cheap $169 — could make it a formidable foe for the Nexus 7.

When it comes to specs, the Slate7 runs on a 1.6GHz dual-core ARM but unfortunately sports the first version of Android Jelly Bean (4.1). HP has already said that they will be upgrading the OS as soon as possible, but it won’t be ready for release. All other known features seem to be standard 7-inch tablet fare, except that the audio is supercharged, thanks to HP‘s longstanding partnership with Beats audio. Each system sports special audio tweaking capabilities that are designed to get the most out of Beats headphones, especially catering to the tiny differences between the company’s over-ear and in-ear headphones. Still, even for the average user, there is a promise of plenty of bass within the tiny tablet.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Video Games

Computers

Samsung upgrades its Galaxy tablets to Android Jelly Bean

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Samsung is now updating its Galaxy Note 10.1 and Galaxy Tab 2 tablets with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and new stylus functions through Samsung Premium Suite.

The update is for the Wi-Fi versions of the devices and finally brings Samsung’s tablets current with Jelly Bean, after the company slowly rolled out Android 4.1 to its phones in the fall. Android 4.2 has already begun appearing on some Nexus tablets.

The more intriguing features, however, come from the Samsung Premium Suite, with special attention to the capabilities of the stylus.

The Galaxy Note 10.1 was the first in the company’s line to support a multiwindows feature so you can run two apps side by side on screen. The feature later trickled through to the Note smartphones and Galaxy S III phone. Now, Samsung has updated this feature for the Note 10.1 with a cascade view, which lets you freely resize, move, and pin selected apps in multiple views, running simultaneously.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at PCWorld

Computers

Samsung Galaxy S II will get Jelly Bean update

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Samsung will begin pushing Android Jelly Bean to its Galaxy S II model in February, according to a notice posted to the company’s Korean website.

The notice has since been removed, but not before a Korean Android enthusiast site, Hong Goon, captured it with a screen grab, CNET reported.

The Jelly Bean upgrade will start in Singapore then gradually rolled out to the rest of the world, according to CNET. Updates will be performed through Samsung’s sync service, Kies. Over-the-air updates won’t be supported.

The new Android version includes a number of new features including Smart Stay, which will keep the handset’s display on as long as the phone detects that you’re looking at the screen.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at PCWorld

Computers

Viewsonic puts Nvidia inside

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LAS VEGAS—PC displays are rarely sexy, but Viewsonic showed off several decidedly cool displays on the CES show floor Tuesday.

One of the more intriguing monitors is their new VSD240 smart display. Whether it’s a “smart display” or an Android Jelly  Bean-powered All-in-One PC is arguable, since the Tegra 3 processor offers pretty robust CPU and graphics performance in its own right. You can just run the VSD240 as an Android-based computer or connect it to a Windows based PC. This isn’t Viewsonic’s first smart display, but it’s the first to use Tegra 3. Earlier models used TI’s OMAP 4 processor.

You can just run the VSD240 as an Android-based computer or connect it to a Windows based PC.

The VSD240 is also a capable 1080p monitor when connected to a PC. As you’d expect from a computer, the monitor includes USB ports, SD card slots, an Ethernet jack and support for 802.11n Wi-fi. If you connect the display to a Windows 8 system, you have limited touch capability—mostly basic swipes and UI gestures since the VSD240 only supports 2-point touch, rather than the 10-point touch required to be fully Windows 8 certified.

The VSD240 will be shipping in April, with a suggested retail price of $499.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at PCWorld