Nvidia Announces Lofty Plans For 30 Tegra 3 Devices

by Kyle in Mobile, Tech
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Nvidia just held their annual investor meeting. They unveiled a lot of plans for the remainder of 2012 and for the beginning of 2013.

Nvidia General Manager Mike Rayfield said that we will see 30 devices utilizing the Nvidia Tegra 3 chip set and it’s 4+1 core architecture. That’s compared to the 15 devices with Tegra 2 chip sets that were released in 2011.

One of the biggest issues with the Nvidia chip is it’s ability to play nice with 4G/LTE radios. Their Icera 410 LTE modem was just certified for use on AT&T’s 4G/LTE network. They will eventually replace the Icera 410 with the Icera 500 soon.

What’s even better news for Nvidia is that they will release a bundled chip with the Icera 500 and the Tegra series processor. The bundled chipset will be known as “Grey”. The first Grey devices will be released in 2013, most likely at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January or Mobile World Congress in February.

source: PhoneArena

Hands On With The LG Optimus 4X HD VIDEO

by Kyle in Android, Mobile
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At CTIA 2012 last week in New Orleans we got some face time with LG’s new flagship phone the LG Optimus 4X HD. As you can see they have a great naming scheme going on.

The LG Optimus 4X HD has a great feature set. You’re looking at a 4.7″ 720 HD IPS display and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. LG has done just a tiny bit of tweaking to the UI so you won’t have too hard of a time getting used to it.

There’s an 8mp camera on the back. The camera also features a BSI sensor for better low light shots and of course an LED flash.

What people are really anxious about is the Nvidia Tegra 3 processor which operates with 4+ 1 cores for maximum performance. LG has also included a 2150mah battery to keep the LG 4X HD charged up for when you need it most.

The downside though, is that there’s been no formal date announced for the LG Optimus 4X HD in the United States. It seems that none of the currently available quad-core processors can play nice with American 4G/LTE. This is starting to be a huge drawback for American Android and mobile enthusiasts who’ve been waiting to get their hands on some quad-core technology.

LG will probably rebrand this phone for the United States. Hopefully they will hold the key on how to get a quad-core phone to work over here.

Just to make sure though, we asked the guy in the video who said there was no pricing or availability information available for the United States.

Check out the video: