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Nvidia Tegra K1 better than competition
According to preliminary tests conducted by the website Tom's Hardware newest Nvidia Tegra SoC chip K1 is better than the competition from Qualcomm and Apple. In the graphical tests, Nvidia Tegra K1 achieved 48 fps, compared to Apple's A7 chip which in the same tests made 38 fps, while Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 was left behind with 24 fps.
Over a billion Android devices in 2014
Consulting firm Gartner released its forecasts for the 2014, related to the sale of mobile devices. According to their data, during this year in the world to will be sold about 1.1 billion of various devices (smartphones, tablets, watches and other) that will have Android operating system. The greatest growth of this OS will be recorded in the Chinese market, analysts said.
LG to show off 3 new Windows 8.1 devices at CES
LG will at this year's CES introduce three new products with Windows 8.1. The manufacturer states that all three computers are upgraded compared to earlier versions, so they will be faster and lighter.
Mobile data traffic doubled since last year in the US
According to the New York Times and an analyst Chetan Sharma amount of mobile data traffic in the US market almost doubled compared to last year. Americans in 2013 spent an average of about 1.2 GB of traffic per month on their mobile devices. During the 2012 an average of 690 MB of data traffic was spent per month via mobile devices.
Sharp has a new tablet coming called the Mebius Pad
Sharp tablet named Mebius Pad, comes with a quad core Intel Atom Z3370 processor clocked at 1.46 GHz, 4 GB of RAM and a 10.1 inch IGZO screen with a resolution of 2560x1600 pixels.
Plants versus Zombies arrive into TPS world
Fans of plants vs zombies franchise will be delighted to see a new spin-off from this series called Garden Warfare, in which players will get a chance to take the role of "soldiers" from one of the factions and shoot enemies in purebred TPS in virtual gardens.
Tegra based Note 7 tablet from Gigabyte is to be delayed
Tegra Note 7 comes with Nvidia Tegra 4 processor running at the clock speed of 1.8 GHz, 72 core GeForce graphics, 1GB of RAM and a 7 inch IPS HD screen with a resolution of 1280x800 pixels.
Samsung to implement AMOLED screens in their tablets
According to the Korean newspaper, Samsung plans to use AMOLED screens in their tablets. Sources say that they should be implemented in 8 and 10 inch models.
Amazon mocks Apple's tablets
Company Amazon launched its version of an advertising campaign that attacks the competition. In fact in a commercial for their tablet Kindle Fire HDX, Amazon pokes competition from Apple, which recently launched new models of the iPad family to the market.
WhatsApp turns out to be the most popular messaging app in mobile
According to the latest study conducted on nearly 4,000 mobile phone users from large markets such as the US, China and Brazil, WhatsApp has come out as a winner in the category of mobile applications for instant messaging. It is located on the first place in the preferences of the users, of which 44% said they used it at least once a week. Facebook Messenger is regularly used by 35% of surveyed users.