Friday, July 13
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I'm still looking at buying myself a Samsung Galaxy Note, but I want to see first if it's shipping here with Ice Cream Sandwich instead of Gingerbread.*
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I'm still looking at buying myself a Samsung Galaxy Note, but I want to see first if it's shipping here with Ice Cream Sandwich instead of Gingerbread.*
And I'm probably going to buy an iPad without a nameTM pretty soon; I wasn't that impressed by the earlier models but the new screen is very, very nice.
But I've started out cheap and simple, with a Nexus 7.
Oh, and an OUYA, which is basically a Nexus 7 without the screen, but with HDMI and a gamepad instead.
At $99, even if it never gets many games ported to it, it's still a tiny shiny quad-core Linux box with 1GB of RAM.
* Hmm. Rumours have a new Jelly-Beaned four-cylinder Note due next month. But then I have to wait for it to reach Australia again, which took several months last time.
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As soon as those sub-$100 android boxes-on-a-stick get a little better (eg a couple gigs of ram and dual or quad-core cpus, and yes I know that will up the price) I'm going to pick up a couple. (You know, the ones the size of a flash drive, come with a uSD slot, a USB port or two, and HDMI out.)
Posted by: RickC at Saturday, July 14 2012 09:42 AM (WQ6Vb)
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The Pandaboard ES ($169) and ODROID-X ($129) are getting there. Give it 6-12 months for specs to go up and prices to come down, depending on just how much CPU and RAM you need.
The next-gen ARM Cortex A-15 looks like it will be a second breakthrough part. The current A-9 has given us really zippy smartphones and tablets, and the A-15 is expected to deliver twice the speed per core and optionally twice as many cores. At that point it will be good enough for low-end desktops and small servers.
The next-gen ARM Cortex A-15 looks like it will be a second breakthrough part. The current A-9 has given us really zippy smartphones and tablets, and the A-15 is expected to deliver twice the speed per core and optionally twice as many cores. At that point it will be good enough for low-end desktops and small servers.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, July 14 2012 04:04 PM (PiXy!)
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