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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 08, 2012
That NVIDIA is bringing quad-core smartphones to Mobile World Congress should surprise exactly no one. We saw the first quad-core tablet prototype a year ago, and in August NVIDIA told us we'd s...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 20, 2012
A new leaked render from Pocket Now shows what they say is the upcoming quad-core LG X3. Couple things to note here: One is that, yes, it's said to be running the new NVIDIA Tegra 3 chipset. Tha...
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by Anndrew Vacca
Jan 11, 2012
Lurking inside the Nvidia booth here at CES are some high-profile devices not getting much fanfare, one such being the Acer Iconia Tab A510. Its purpose at the booth is to show off just how powerful...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 10, 2012
During the NVIDIA presentation this evening at CES, Manuel Wille, developer of the popular iOS application Snapseed showed it off running on the ASUS Transformer Prime. Powerful chips like the...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 09, 2012
We're back for another liveblog, this time from everybody's favorite system-on-a-chip-maker, NVIDIA. The company certainly has scored big in the last year, first with the dual-core Tegra 2 s...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 04, 2012
Google has updated the Google Earth app, fixing a pesky-as-hell bug that caused the app to crash during startup on Tegra 2 devices. NVIDIA uses special instructions for the Tegra chip, and whi...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 30, 2011
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SEGA today announced that Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode 2 will be coming to the Android Market and NVIDIA's Tegra Zone app sometime in 2012. No word on exactly w...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 22, 2011
The good news: NVIDIA's shouting from the rooftops that the game Shadowgun (read our review) has been updated and optimized for Tegra 3 devices. And, the bad news: There's only one Tegra 3 d...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 21, 2011
The ASUS Transformer Prime is the first of the next generation Android tablets, packing the brand new quad-core Tegra 3 chip and offering a boatload of performance while managing the battery life.&n...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 01, 2011
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Here it is, folks: The Android tablet you've been waiting to lead you out of the dual-core doldrums of 2011 and into ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 01, 2011
Despite a number of recent unsourced stories to the contrary, we unfortunately still don't have a firm sales date for the ASUS Transformer Prime. We do, however have a ballpark window -- ASUS ha...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 09, 2011
Nvidia has done it again -- they have lifted the curtain and we now know everything there is to know about the Tegra 3 quad-core chip. We first heard about project Kal-El (Nvidia's code na...
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by Richard Devine
Oct 19, 2011
So the world has been eagerly awaiting the arrival of NVIDIA's latest mobile offering, the quad-core Tegra 3 (Kal-El). While the actual goods are still not out in the wild, a short teaser video ...
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NVIDIA releases project Kal-El whitepapers, unveils fifth companion CPU core for low-power use cases
by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 20, 2011
NVIDIA has let loose some more technical talk about the upcoming project Kal-El chip, and are showing off a new patented process they call vSMP (variable Symmetric Multiprocessing). As part of...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 18, 2011
It sure was a big week for contests! We gave away a bounty of great Tegra 2 powered Android devices of all shapes and sizes, and now it's time to announce the winners. Thanks everyone for ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 17, 2011
It's been a week packed full of great prizes in the Tegra Madness giveaway, and we're closing it out with a bang -- a grand prize pack made up of a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, a Jambox Bluetooth speaker,...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 16, 2011
The Motorola Atrix 4G is one of the first Android "superphones" to use the Tegra 2 chip, as well as the first dual-core device to hit AT&T here in the states. To go with the perfor...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 15, 2011
The T-Mobile G2X is one of the original dual-core monsters. The specs are great -- a Tegra 2 power plant, 4-inch IPS display, HDMI out, and easy to hack the daylights out of. Now that Ging...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 14, 2011
The Lenovo IdeaPad K1 is one of the latest Android tablets to be introduced, and I'm thinking it may have been worth the wait. It's a Tegra 2 packing Honeycomb tablet, from a name everyone knows, and ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 13, 2011
Everyone love the Asus Transformer. It's rocking the Tegra 2 chip so it plays games and does media like Honeycomb was designed to do, has all sorts of ports for connectivity, and there's a cool ...
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by Alex Dobie
Sep 13, 2011
Sony has officially unveiled the Walkman Z-series, a new line of personal media players running Android, powered by NVIDIA Tegra 2 chips. The 4.3-inch device was on show at IFA 2011 last wee...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 12, 2011
The Acer Iconia A100 is the first 7-inch Honeycomb tablet, and it's filled with the same Tegra goodness as it's big brother. And you can win one in our Tegra Madness giveaway right in the Androi...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 12, 2011
In the slide you see above from Nvidia's presentation at the 2011 Citi Technology Conference, we get a look at Nvidia's SoC (System on Chip) roadmap for 2012 and 2013. What piques our interest t...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 11, 2011
Are you ready for another great contest from Nvidia and Android Central? One that gives you a chance to win a Tegra 2 device each day for a full six days? We hope so, because we're about t...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 25, 2011
NVIDIA has launched the TegraZone.com website, complete with it's own online community for Android fans with Tegra-powered devices. In addition, the Tegra Zone companion application for Android...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 25, 2011
Youtube link for mobile viewing Another iPhone favorite has made its way to Android. Sprinkle, from ironically named developer Mediocre, is a cute little physics-based game. You're among the .. people...
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by Chris Parsons
Aug 17, 2011
The original ASUS EeePad TransformerWe always like a little speculation and rumor when it comes to next-gen devices, so the news that ASUS' next-gen version of the ASUS EeePad Transformer w...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 10, 2011
Youtube link for mobile viewingNvidia and Samsung have announced the Samsung Galaxy R, now available in Sweden but coming soon to more of Europe and Asia. It's a bit of a departure from what we'...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 02, 2011
It's been about six months since we got our first look at NVIDIA's quad-core test platform -- codenamed "Kal-El" -- and it pretty much floored us. The initial window for seeing any sort of ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 24, 2011
Zinio for Android just got a huge performance boost if you're using a Tegra 2 powered Honeycomb tablet. The app harnesses the GPU and uses full OpenGL ES acceleration for page turning animations...
