Intel powered prototypes running on Android went on display at the Consumer Electronics Show and got great reviews for its processing power and more importantly for its lesser battery consumption. The Androids are making waves all over the world now, but still the battery consumption of the devices is still a problem. The Intel powered handsets may offer the best Android experience with even less battery consumption that the ones running on the ARM processors. The first with ‘Intel Inside’ surprisingly did not come from any major manufacturer. It was …

The recently launched Asus Transformer Prime stacks up impressive features and perhaps provides the best hope for Android to take up a slice of the tablet market share from Apple’s iPad. The likes of Motorola Xoom and Samsung Galaxy Tabs (lost count of the Galaxy Tabs already) were below par the iPads and rightfully so didn’t take the market by storm. The Asus Transformer Prime is however an impressive device capable of taking on the might of iPad and is without doubt the best tablet running on Android.
The Transformer Prime …

There was a time when no one cared about the processor inside a mobile phone.And then the smartphones packed with powerful single cores running at over 1 GHz speed arrived at the scene. Many thought that might be it and then came the dual core processors on the smart phone.Dual cores on a phone? Who would have thought it a few years ago when we used to get out amazing performances on our desktop and laptops with dual cores. Looks like dual cores is also not enough, which is proved …

The CES is not just a platform to showcase the upcoming gadgets but also a chance to see the latest hardware that could pave their way into these gadgets. PC chip makers Intel has finally made its foray into processors for mobiles.The Intel booth at the CES 2012 demonstrated Android prototypes running on the 32mm Intel Atom processor. The Intel processor promises to be much faster than the current handsets running on Nvidia Tegra and others.
Intel suggests that the gaming experience on these Intel powered handsets will be more fluid …

The Motorola XOOM went on to win many accolades in various tech shows, but the customers seemed to have rejected the XOOM as the iPad sales went up even higher. The first tablet running on Google’s Android 2.0 (Honeycomb) could well be thought of as a disaster for both Google and Motorola, even though it promised a lot. One of several reasons was the price of the XOOM and its weight. Now Motorola has rolled out the successor to the XOOM, not one but two different variants differing in the …