CES 2012: Intel Sets New Standards in Smartphones and Tablets

Intel has announced a series of progresses on its entire activity in the smartphones industry, including the signing of a partnership for several years on many devices with Motorola Mobility and provided information on a Lenovo smartphone based on the new platform of the Intel Atom processor. More Intel Atom-based smartphones are to hit the market in 2012.

Paul Otellini, President and CEO of Intel, made the announcements during this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Also, Intel CEO has offered information on the way Ultrabook is seen by users and has described the way the company develops products and technologies in order to provide high performance to a wide range of computing devices.

Intel Computing Technologies Integrated into Smartphones and Tablets

Intel CEO also talked about the Intel Atom Z2460 processor, formerly codenamed "Medfield", which has been created specifically for smartphones and tablets, which is now offering high performance and greater energy efficiency.

Sanjay Jha, Chairman and CEO of Motorola Mobility, joined Otellini on stage and they together detailed the strategic relationship between the two companies. The partnership includes the smartphones that Motorola will start to deliver in the second half of this year, terminal that will integrate Intel Atom processors and will run the Android platform. Collaboration, which also covers tablets, combines Intel's leadership in terms of technology based on silicon and innovations in the computer industry with Motorola's experience in terms of design for mobile equipments.

Liu Jun, Lenovo's Senior Vice President and President of Mobile Internet and Digital Home, also went along with Otellini on stage and presented the smartphone Lenovo K800, based on Intel technology and which uses the Android OS. Liu Jun said that the K800 will be available in China starting from the second quarter and will work on the 21 Mbps network of China Unicom. Lenovo K800 uses the Z2640 Intel Atom processor with Intel Hyper-Threading technology, supports HSPA and features Intel's XMM 6260 platform. As interface, the model uses Lenovo LeOS.

Otellini said the development of the best mobile experiences is a priority for Intel. Michael Bell, General Manager of Mobile and Communications Group at Intel, has also joined Otellini on stage and he has presented the Intel Smartphone Reference Design technology, which wants to reduce production time and cost for mobile developers and operators. The two Intel officials presented a smartphone with multiple functions, slim and which has a 4.03" touchscreen as well as two 8-megapixel cameras with advanced capabilities, including the "burst" mode, which allows users to take 15 photos in less than a second.

By presenting the Angry Birds app on the phone, Bell showed that the smartphone equipped with Intel technology can run lots of applications for Android, but also for other operating systems.

Otellini said that Intel will set new standards in the Tablet PC segment through the compatibility with millions of applications and devices already on the market. On stage at CES 2012 has been presented for the first time the 32nm Intel Atom processor for Tablet PCs and other hybrid devices running on Windows 8, codenamed "Clover Trail."

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Comparing Android Tablets With The iPad

Which are best: iPad or Android tablets? What's the difference between them, and which should you choose? We shall first discuss the Android and Apple software platforms in general, and then discuss them in terms of tablet computers, specifically the iPad 2 and the Android Honeycomb operating system used in the Motorola Xoom tablet.

The fundamental difference between the Apple and Android operating systems for tablet computers is that the Apple system is a closed system, specific only to apple devices, while Android is open source. What this means is that developers can use Android free of charge, boih to deign apps and to create hardware to use with the OS.

Android now belongs to Google, who purchased it form the developers Android Inc. in 2005. Google offered it free to the market as open source software under the OHA (open Source Alliance) - although Google is currently taking action against at least one Asian firm for the way they are using it. It can be used under the Apache free software license.. Canalys listed Android as the worldwide best-selling software in 2010 for smartphones.

A Common Platform

That's the background for Android, which is now being used in tablets in competition to Apple's iPad. Because the iPad uses a proprietary software platform, it is by nature more restrictive than Android devices, and therefore does not have the same breadth of communication between devices as Android tablets would theoretically have. However, because Android tablets are in their infancy, this degree of platform commonality has yet to be used to any advantage.

In fact, it is highly likely that individual Android users will be protective of their own devices, and that the full benefits of a common platform are unlikely to be developed. Nevertheless, because of this common platform, it is highly likely in the future that apps and other forms of software will tend to focus on Android rather than Apple. For now, however, there is still a larger choice of apps available for Apple devices than for Android tablets - but this is expected to be only a temporary situation because development of Android apps is now continuous.

iPad 2 Vs Android Tablets

So how does all this translate into the hardware using each of the two operating systems? It is fundamentally now a comparison of the iPad 2 with the top Android tablets. There are several tablets that fail to match iPad let alone iPad 2, but there have been several good tablets developed using Android by top firms such as Acer, Samsung and Motorola, and is the latter that we shall consider here.

The Motorola Zoom Tablet uses the Android Honeycomb OS, and is thicker and heavier than the iPad 2 (0.34 v 0.5 inches). Each has dual-core 1GHz processors, although while the iPad2 is believed to have only 512MN RAM, the Xoom has 1GB.

One excellent feature of the Xoom is that you can plug it into your PC and access your files. You can download from one device to the other or transfer files between them. With the iPad 2 this is a ponderous process that has to be done through iTunes. No need you use iTunes to download music: rather than using the clunky iTunes with all the memory it takes up to download your music, you can do so by dragging and dropping to the Xoom tablet.

Multitasking Comparison

Another advantage of the Android tablet is that it is true multitasking which the iPad is not. The iPad is more a matter of changing between tasks, with a small amount of processing in the background, but not true multitasking. There are many other benefits that the Android tablets can offer over the iPad 2, including more flexibility in file handling, and icon presentation. Because the operating system is open source, you can communicate with any device using it, and are not restricted to Apple's own software format.

However, the iPad does have some advantages in addition to being thinner and lighter, and one of these is the number of available apps as suggested earlier. This is likely because most tablet apps are based on the iPad, and are generally developments of the apps developed for the iPhone. Because there are now more apps being developed for Android because it is being used by multiple manufacturers, rather than just the one of iPad, there will shortly be more Android apps available on the market than those for iPad in any of its versions.

Apple Fan or Android Fan

Ultimately, the choice between the iPad and an Android tablet, exemplified here by the Motorola Xoom, will possibly come down to whether or not you are an Apple fan. Apple fans will likely stick to the Apple product, while there currently appears to be no compelling reason why PC fans should go with the iPad rather than the Xoom - though there are more excellent Android tablets on the market.

Android devices have been steadily coming onto the market, and taking an increasingly larger bite of Apple - this will increase as more firms appreciate the advantages of using shared Open Source software. Before long, the tablet market will be very similar to the current situation in the laptop market where we have those that go with the Apple way of doing things and those that prefer Windows. Only, it is now Apple versus Android. Who will win - you will decide that.

You will find more information on how to choose an iPad or Android Tablet, and also a wide range of different tablets and laptops, on Larry's website http://buyandroidtabletonline.com/  along with many more aspects of tablet and computer techology.

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Comparing Android Tablets With The iPad

Which are best: iPad or Android tablets? What's the difference between them, and which should you choose? We shall first discuss the Android and Apple software platforms in general, and then discuss them in terms of tablet computers, specifically the iPad 2 and the Android Honeycomb operating system used in the Motorola Xoom tablet.

The fundamental difference between the Apple and Android operating systems for tablet computers is that the Apple system is a closed system, specific only to apple devices, while Android is open source. What this means is that developers can use Android free of charge, boih to deign apps and to create hardware to use with the OS.

Android now belongs to Google, who purchased it form the developers Android Inc. in 2005. Google offered it free to the market as open source software under the OHA (open Source Alliance) - although Google is currently taking action against at least one Asian firm for the way they are using it. It can be used under the Apache free software license.. Canalys listed Android as the worldwide best-selling software in 2010 for smartphones.

A Common Platform

That's the background for Android, which is now being used in tablets in competition to Apple's iPad. Because the iPad uses a proprietary software platform, it is by nature more restrictive than Android devices, and therefore does not have the same breadth of communication between devices as Android tablets would theoretically have. However, because Android tablets are in their infancy, this degree of platform commonality has yet to be used to any advantage.

In fact, it is highly likely that individual Android users will be protective of their own devices, and that the full benefits of a common platform are unlikely to be developed. Nevertheless, because of this common platform, it is highly likely in the future that apps and other forms of software will tend to focus on Android rather than Apple. For now, however, there is still a larger choice of apps available for Apple devices than for Android tablets - but this is expected to be only a temporary situation because development of Android apps is now continuous.

iPad 2 Vs Android Tablets

So how does all this translate into the hardware using each of the two operating systems? It is fundamentally now a comparison of the iPad 2 with the top Android tablets. There are several tablets that fail to match iPad let alone iPad 2, but there have been several good tablets developed using Android by top firms such as Acer, Samsung and Motorola, and is the latter that we shall consider here.

The Motorola Zoom Tablet uses the Android Honeycomb OS, and is thicker and heavier than the iPad 2 (0.34 v 0.5 inches). Each has dual-core 1GHz processors, although while the iPad2 is believed to have only 512MN RAM, the Xoom has 1GB.

One excellent feature of the Xoom is that you can plug it into your PC and access your files. You can download from one device to the other or transfer files between them. With the iPad 2 this is a ponderous process that has to be done through iTunes. No need you use iTunes to download music: rather than using the clunky iTunes with all the memory it takes up to download your music, you can do so by dragging and dropping to the Xoom tablet.

Multitasking Comparison

Another advantage of the Android tablet is that it is true multitasking which the iPad is not. The iPad is more a matter of changing between tasks, with a small amount of processing in the background, but not true multitasking. There are many other benefits that the Android tablets can offer over the iPad 2, including more flexibility in file handling, and icon presentation. Because the operating system is open source, you can communicate with any device using it, and are not restricted to Apple's own software format.

However, the iPad does have some advantages in addition to being thinner and lighter, and one of these is the number of available apps as suggested earlier. This is likely because most tablet apps are based on the iPad, and are generally developments of the apps developed for the iPhone. Because there are now more apps being developed for Android because it is being used by multiple manufacturers, rather than just the one of iPad, there will shortly be more Android apps available on the market than those for iPad in any of its versions.

Apple Fan or Android Fan

Ultimately, the choice between the iPad and an Android tablet, exemplified here by the Motorola Xoom, will possibly come down to whether or not you are an Apple fan. Apple fans will likely stick to the Apple product, while there currently appears to be no compelling reason why PC fans should go with the iPad rather than the Xoom - though there are more excellent Android tablets on the market.

Android devices have been steadily coming onto the market, and taking an increasingly larger bite of Apple - this will increase as more firms appreciate the advantages of using shared Open Source software. Before long, the tablet market will be very similar to the current situation in the laptop market where we have those that go with the Apple way of doing things and those that prefer Windows. Only, it is now Apple versus Android. Who will win - you will decide that.

You will find more information on how to choose an iPad or Android Tablet, and also a wide range of different tablets and laptops, on Larry's website http://buyandroidtabletonline.com/  along with many more aspects of tablet and computer techology.

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