Of the HP LaserJet will avoid the combustion...

An update corrects the vulnerability that is not really one, but it should still be...

Fault or not, HP has released new firmware for its line of LaserJet printers. They seem to correct said fault safety for "nasty villains" to enter on networks through the printer, or even to take fire it remotely by heating one of its internal components...

The manufacturer indicates that there is in fact not fault, or that it is not easily accessible, as must be that the attacker already within the company to push the corrupted firmware into the target printer and that no clients around the world complained incendiary printer. Still happy, we are tempted to add. HP promotes however disable the automatic update of firmware - would therefore - and it is wiser to put it behind a firewall...

Whether the problem is corrected is even a good thing, but we obviously know the end word of history on effective vulnerability. To accomplish this update, you can you make on the link below and then indicate the model of the printer that you have to get the micro-logiciel.

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4 G and TNT: important to predict disturbances...

The findings of a test on the interference of waves TNT by the 4 G network are not good...

We are already several times back on the risk of interference to DTT by the future 4 G mobile network is not without concern, and the digital terrestrial TV broadcasters and mobile operators that will be directly involved financially to address the problems identified. As such, we today take knowledge of new developments, with the conclusions of the experiment conducted in the city of Laval. And the results are not good, as Les Echos noted. Indeed, identified disturbances are "more important than expected", almost all of the channels TNT is concerned, the report provides difficulties "on the national territory".

If concerns persist when GPS signals disruption disturbances are indeed found on waves of the TNT, the frequencies of the 800 MHz is apparently too close to avoid all interference. "Despite the means implemented and the work of three teams equipped with 50 filters and réjecteurs, he has never been possible at the same time on all issuers LTE in concert, and still less to overcome interference generated" explained the report which States that for the moment, the only real solution envisaged for problem is an intervention in the case by case for individuals. This nevertheless involves costly technical interventions and whose effectiveness is not 100% guaranteed!

Finally, as our colleagues from Tom's Hardware, the end of the report contains a surprising passage. Reads: "Each of the LTE blocks disrupts at a comparable level of DTT reception". This means therefore that Bouygues Telecom, who obtained the nearest frequency block of frequencies of the TNT for a much lower price than offered by its competitors Orange and SFR, would have a good case. Its competitors a little less... Bouygues Telecom position to recall, there is little that there was risk of interference between TNT and 4 G on approximately 20% of the territory, a figure which - according to the Government - was largely overvalued. Today, the authorities are burdened with problems the conclusions of this report that fall, as if by magic, a few days after the end of the procedure for allocating frequencies 4 G by Arcep. Finally, Free Mobile will may really be no regret having seen its offer registered by the telecoms regulator.

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New info on the 55 "LG OLED TV

LG has unveiled its TV 55 inch OLED screen, currently the largest in the world...

Scheduled for mid-2012 marketing, the 55-inch LG Electronics giant OLED screen is to date the largest model TV using this display technology.

Visible on the stand of the constructor to the next of these Las Vegas early January, this screen will make sense. Definition of high image (LG Announces "ultra definition" can be Quad HD), extreme finesse (5 mm thick), contrast promised 100000: 1 with blacks, very wide angles of vision and with a pest design with quasi-invisibles edges with any electronics deported in the foot, this model is dreaming.

However it will be the second half of the year 2012 hope to afford it to a tariff has not however been unveiled but should, in view of the technology employed, be inversely proportional to the fineness of its slab... Strongly the democratization of the OLED scheduled for 2014 to be able to install this kind of TV.

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The Samsung Galaxy S III presented in February?

The Galaxy S III of Samsung, the more powerful successor to the Android smartphone of the time, could be unveiled in late February.

It is at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, which will open its doors on February 27 next, that Samsung would rise the veil on its next flagship, the Galaxy S III androphone.

This racing beast would be equipped with a quad processor core (an Exynos 4412 engraved in 32 nm), a touch screen of 4.6 "Super AMOLED more (definition 1280 x 720 pixels), 2 GB RAM and a dorsal AFN 12 megapixel camera allowing video capture in 1080p.

The smartphone will run under Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and will be compatible with the 4 G networks. Samsung would also prepare a version 3D of the Galaxy S III capable of display and capture videos and photos in 3D terrain like the Optimus LG 3D model. More info at the MWC in two month.

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BlackBerry OS 10: RIM lied?

RIM is in the red in the stock market, delaying the release of its next update and could even be bought...

Research In Motion, maker of the BlackBerry, had promised a new version of its operating system, initially called the BBX (then become BlackBerry OS 10 on court proceedings) to the end of 2011. But as we learn it recently, the manufacturer indicates that delays on the porting of its BBM services on this new version require him to repel the outputs of the first smartphones of the mark under OS 10. Now, the grand launch of the new BlackBerry is more expected before the end of the year 2012...

The co-CEO of RIM, Mike Lazaridis, attributed the fault of the delay, not step in software development, but the delivery of the LTE chip which should equipped with the next BlackBerry, because tests of the software to these new chips can not be made in time. But according to BGR, who cites an anonymous source, it is the development that takes late, particularly because of the development of version 2 of the tablet of the constructor (PlayBook) and the evolution of software of the first version that does not have access, for the time being, mark courier services.

Of course, RIM refutes all the statements made by BGR that the firm described as inaccurate. Another rumor, given that the price action of the Canadian society is low, some go far as to imagine that these developments have been voluntarily slowed pending a possible buyout by Nokia, Amazon, or Microsoft, which would be under negotiation for several months. A partnership exists between Microsoft and RIM because the BlackBerry operating the search engine (Bing) of default Redmond giant. BlackBerry Windows Phone? After all, nothing is impossible...

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The portable console Android $ 140

The laptop ideal for fans of retro-gaming?

JXD S7100 is a portable console has the particularity to be based on Android 2.2. Integrating a SoC Cortex-A9 dual-core with a GPU Mali 400, and 512 MB of RAM, it has a fact sheet of smartphone or tablet. In addition, there a façade 3 megapixel sensor, and a 2 megapixel back. JXD S7100 is equipped with an internal memory of 16 GB (there where the PS Vita of Sony required the purchase of memory cards) and proposes, in addition to his "7 800 x 480 pixels screen, HDMI output.

Big advantage of this portable from the behemoths of the market, its price: $ 140. Remains that its potential is limited to true portable consoles. But for the retro-gamers fanatical of emulators that may more have to bear the touch controls on their smartphones and tablets, the JXD S7100 proposes in interesting alternative with its buttons and its analog stick are not unlike the aesthetics of the portable PlayStation...

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The wafers of 450 mm mass by 2015 in TSMC?

TSMC is indeed preparing the transition to 450 mm wafers to...

End of 2010, we talking already the possibility of a passage to wafers of 450 mm (18 ") by some skiers (including Intel) and we detail that compatible foundries did not open their doors before 2018 in the best of cases. Finally, we learn that TSMC would be able to put as soon as 2015.

Information confirmed by the Taiwanese fondeur which, starting next year, will begin to assess compatible tools that provide its partners. As early as 2013, first production tests should be conducted in the TSMC Fab 12 on a process of etching 20 nm. The Fab 14 it also host these new tools in 2014 and Fab 15 currently in construction on tools for the 300 mm wafers will see some of its lines be converted for 450 mm wafer.

It is in this Fab 15 that TSMC expects to launch in 2015, the engraving of 14 nm processors. And if all goes well, in 2015/2016, TSMC will establish a new plant, entirely dedicated to 450 mm.

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In the heart of the PS Vita...

Small point technique on the components of the PS Vita, structured as a smartphone...

Available to the Japan, the Vita of Sony PS - alternate of the PSP - activities in Europe on February 22. Necessarily, it took only a few days to the sites for the reverse, as UBM Techinsights. They are especially focused on the processor of the console. A SoC that integrates a large chip in which there are four hearts ARM Cortex-A9 and a graphical circuit also quad-core type PowerVR SGX543 MP4 designed by Imagination Technologies.

Badgé Sony CXD5315GG, this processor is the fruit of the collaboration of three key players, Sony of course, but also IBM and Toshiba. Samsung, for its part, merely provide the memory of the console, either two 256 MB of DDR2 modules - S4 which are also incorporated into the die of the SoC of the PS Vita. Finally, the flash memory integrated (dedicated to the system, the storage is performing on removable memory cards) is brand Toshiba while Qualcomm provides the modem from the 3 G version, reference MDM6200.

The SoC of the PS Vita...

In other words, the heart of the Vita PS is not so far removed from those of the latest smartphones and tablets of the market. What is somewhere logical when we know that Sony has the intention, with the PS Vita, to expand its influence and offer both the traditional video game, but also of small games distributed expensive steps via the PlayStation Store. A strategy confirmed by the will of Sony life of developers easier by simplifying the programming on PS Vita.

Executives of the company having to the tribune in recent months to certify that the development of games on PS Vita will be also accessible to small independent developers, and that the latter can choose controls of their choice (buttons physical, tactile, both, etc...). At a time where the App Store and others, and their touch games from 99 cents, steal valuable market share in traditional portable consoles, Sony response to profile for some already as a last chance.

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The films most pirated 2011 are...

Downloads of films are declining, via BitTorrent...

TorrentFreak has published, as every year, its balance sheet, the most pirated films in Peer-to-Peer via BitTorrent. Rights-holders will be probably delighted to learn that the global volumes are down, with the Top 10 films that spawned 74.6 million downloads in 2011 against 92 million in 2010. But from there to imagine that repression implemented by some countries, as in France with the Hadopi, is at the origin of this decline, there is a chasm that we will not take.

Indeed, we know that more and Internet users have turned to other solutions (more convenient, faster and less controlled) to download illegal files. Is of course the direct-download on platforms of accommodation such as MegaUpload or Rapid Share. And this then the statistics are also undermined by the streaming, and including legal progress with very interesting offerings such as Netflix.

History to continue to go against conventional wisdom, it would also demonstrate that downloading does not people to go to the cinema, because as remind our colleagues from ZDNet, the most pirated films are also those with the most obscure in 2011 rooms filled.

Classification of the downloaded films via BitTorrent in 2011:

1: Fast & Furious 5-9.2 millions2: Very Bad Trip 2-8.8 million3: Thor-8,3 millions4: Source Code - 7.9 millions5: number four: 7.6 millions6: Sucker Punch: 7.2 millions7: 127 hours: 6.9 millions8: Rango: 6.4 millions9: the speeches of a King: 6.2 millions10: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, part 2: 6 million

Classification of the downloaded films via BitTorrent in 2010:

1: Avatar-16,58 million 2: Kick-Ass-11,40 million 3: Inception-9,72 million 4: Shutter Island-9,49 million 5: Iron Man 2-8,81 6 million: Clash of the Titans-8,04 million 7: Green Zone-7,73 million 8: Sherlock Holmes - 7,16 million 9: deminers-6,85 million 10: Salt-6,70 million

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3D: Canal + abandoned!

Finally, Canal + waives the 3D for the moment. The market is not ready according to the group...

Canal + 3D was launched in June 2010 and Bertrand Méheut Group had gradually climb in power in the broadcast of films and events in relief (including sports). However, the planet ASC site, specializing in offers of Canal +, said that the Group 3D chain will be closed on January 24. According to this site, it is in compatible programs offer that is deemed insufficient by Canal +, which also notes that too few homes are equipped with such a string that has meaning.

Except the release of a few games of the 2010 World Cup in 3D, sporting event which was to propel the market of TV highlight, the grid compatible programs remained for the paltry less on this 3D chain that was reserved for the CanalSat customers equipped with compatible decoders customers and Orange and SFR optical fibre. A withdrawal signs the surrender of Canal + on the 3D? According to planet ASC, not, the group plans return to 3D when the market will be more mature. That is, when a larger number of households will be equipped with and when programs will be more likely to be available in relief.

If the adoption of 3D is slow, there is today the majority of top-of-range televisions of the market are compatible, and even if they are not necessarily sold with a pair of glasses. This should gradually force installation of the 3D in the home. Now remains to be seen if, even equipped with compatible televisions, viewers Don massively their pairs of eyeglasses to take advantage of some programs in 3D? Nothing is less sure.

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Shortage of hard drives: between 5 and 6 billion in win

All the PC industry is affected by the shortage of hard drives and the beginning of the year 2012, as the end of the year 2011, should be difficult for the manufacturers...

The analysis firm Trefis is interested in the impact of the shortage of hard drives following the announcement of the latest results from Intel and the revision of its results for the year end. It must be said that 40 to 45% of world production in hard disks is concerned by the consequences of the floods in Thailand. Result, the stocks come to miss and prices soared among retailers. Trefis findings are clear enough.

According to the firm, the processor price represents on average 20% of that of a computer, and if Intel refers to profits of $1 billion, major manufacturers of finished computers could be five times greater, up to 5 billion. Taking into account the consequences of this shortage on the activity of AMD and Nvidia, Trefis spoke of 6 billion.

In this situation, it is the HP and Dell Americans who would be the most severely affected given the importance of their PC divisions. HP, n ° 1 world of the microcomputer, could only lose $ 1.1 billion of the suites of this shortage on the fourth quarter of 2011. But it's Dell, more dependent of its PC activity, could be the most result. And no flag is really optimistic for the beginning of the year 2012, as according to iSuppli, the lack of hard disks to meet world demand should reduce the shipments of computers for the first quarter of next year to 3.8 million units.

The shortfall is therefore not only huge for Western Digital, manufacturer of hard drives most affected by the flooding, and its competitors, but also for the entire PC industry...

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Eee PC 1225B: the Brazos E-450 of Asus netbook

Asus is poised to launch a new netbook powered by the E-450 of AMD, with Radeon HD 6320 Brazos.

Next month, Asus should add a new element to its Eee PC family. This is the Eee PC 1225B runs under Windows 7 Home Premium and is equipped with a screen of 11.6 "(1366 x 768 pixels) back-lit led, embarking the APU Brazos E-450 of AMD, quick to 1.65 GHz. This netbook will weigh a priori 1.4 Kg and will be equipped with 2 or 4 GB of DDR3, and a disk hard 750 GB and a consistent graphical circuit DirectX 11 (Radeon HD 6320).

Can be found in a webcam 0.3 megapixels, an Ethernet port, WiFi n, Bluetooth 3.0 optional, stereo speakers, a reader of SD and MMC, VGA and HDMI outputs, maps and a battery 6 cells pushing the autonomy of this portable to 7 hours depending on the constructor.

Available in 5 colours (grey, red, silver, black and white) to a supposed of 349 launch price €, this Eee PC 1225B has all the cards in hand for as one of the best choices on the side of netbooks at that price. Note that a less expensive version, is contantant of the APU C-60 to 1 GHz AMD (and its Radeon HD 6290) will be also proposed by Asus.

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4 G frequencies "or": Free regrets nothing

Free Mobile received no 4 G frequency on the 800 MHz band, say "in gold", but has no regrets...

As we reported a few days ago, Free was not accepted by ARCEP (the telecoms regulator) for the allocation of frequencies"gold" on the band of the 800 MHz, which would have enabled him to extend its 4 G network on the less dense areas of French territory.

But apparently this no worries nor this Maxime Lombardini, CEO of Iliad, the mother House of Free, which has responded to the AFP in these words: "It is not regrets." "If it was thought that it was vital for us, it would have been more aggressive, and today is considered that it has everything what need us in terms of frequencies".

Remember that the money has been the lifeblood for the allocation of these frequencies that wear well their names because three historical operators of mobile telephony are Orange, SFR and Bouygues Telecom have respectively made offers to 891 million, 1.065 billion and 683 million euros to get their lots.

Free Mobile still has frequencies in the band 2.6 GHz, corresponding to the dense and urban areas, and a roaming agreement will allow it to reach the rural areas. Free 4 G network is therefore in no way called into question.

Remains to know the offers and the date of loads because the missile of Xavier Niel is always on its take-off ramp!

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Mr transistor is dead

Norman Krim died on 14 December at the age of 98. The industry called him "Mr. transistor"...

This is a visionary electronics who played a pivotal role in the industry who has left us. This undisputed figure of the transistor - even if he does not invented it - found potential. It was he who pushed the production mass of transistors by his employer Raytheon, first for the design of sonotones.

Invented by Bell Labs in 1947, the transistors will be used by Norman Krim as early as 1953 for small equipment requiring little energy. These transistors were manufactured in Germanium, rare metal, which has been replaced by Silicon a little after.

The first transistors produced by Raytheon, the CK722 series, were too powerful for the project of Norman, but he soon realized that these components could be used in other devices than his own. He then contacted two major magazines of the time, Popular Science and Radio Electronics, to inspire engineers and push them to use these transistors. Therefore, born modern radio stations transistor, of guitar amplifiers, oscilloscopes, Geiger counters, or metal detectors.

Before transistors, in 1938 he had also worked on the miniaturization of the boosters lamps for use in portable radios powered by batteries. After leaving Raytheon in 1961 where he was Vice President of the semiconductor, he bought two electronic shops in Boston named RadioShack. He stayed until 1997, a Marketing consultant for Raytheon and other companies in the sector.

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The media-center passive ideal?

A rather interesting totally silent show package...

The Japanese company ASKTech now presents an all new chassis-oriented HTPC that will not produce a single noise in the living room with a look of the old satellite STB. Rated measurements, it is 29.5 x 27 x 7.6 cm for 3.2 Kg on the scales, not bad! Its name? NT-TX3000, less sexy, but it is covered with aluminum for a simple reason, it is the chassis itself, which will play the role of sink with large fins on the sides to cash up to 65W TDP. The manufacturer indicates that this is not its system which is limiting, but the power of 100 Watts which is outsourced.

 

Inside, there are a motherboard format mini-ITX with limitations that one knows, but for a media-center, this should not be a problem. There are still two USB 2.0 ports at the rear in addition to those offered by the map and an infrared receiver on the front, with optional remote control which is only recognized under Windows. The Japanese on his sheet indicates the possibility to add a PCI Express card in low - profile, but the cooling by heat pipes system covers the slot, making it unusable. See if it passes above the map, which is difficult to predict...

       

No price announced for the moment, but his brother the TX2000 NT negotiates about €322. It remains that wait wisely to find by us, if an importer has the good idea to focus.

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Performance and consumption: Medfield end ready to launch Intel on smartphones and tablets?

Numbers fall for the next generation of Intel Mobile processors for tablets and smartphones. The competition has the concern to be?

 

A few days ago we had some information - sum any enough light and without tangible evidence - concerning the future rise in power of Intel in the world of mobility. First, remember that Intel made its small domestic household to create four departments, to cover all the needs of the mobile devices of today and tomorrow. The four departments are therefore named like this: Mobile & Communications, Mobile Wireless, Netbook & Tablet PC and Ultra-mobility.

The first Department is currently coached by Mike Bell and Hermann Eul and all the early work of this branch materialize by the property named Medfield, mobile processor with the 32 nm. As mentioned, this all-in-one chip is designed to compete with the big names in the ARM as Nvidia chip and its Tegra and Qualcomm and its Snapdragon, to quote them in front.

Figures fell on the canvas and we report that a Medfield processor for Tablet would already be and would show very good performance. Running at 1.6 GHz coupled with 1 GB of LP-DDR2 and responsible natively WiFi, Bluetooth and FM Radio, it has been tested in a model of Tablet 10.1 inches of a definition of 1280 x 800, but turn the details, here are the figures...

The tests were performed on Android 3.2 Honeycomb and with Caffeinemark 3. Intel processor worthily displayed a score of 10,500. For comparison, Nvidia with its Tegra 2 monte to 7.500 and Qualcomm with its Snapdragon MSM8260 arrives at 8,000. The current leader with 8,500 points, Samsung with its Exynos is overwrite. We of course look Tegra 3 results to compare to those of the chip Intel's Medfield.

If the performance is therefore under good auspices, what the consumer? Because it is one of the points which makes it particularly interesting ARM chips. The prototype in question would display a consumption of 2.6 Watts in idle with 2 Watts target term. Read movie in 720 p with the Adobe Flash player, it would consume 3.6 Watts with a target to 2.6 Watts, what appears to be a good start. A reminder, the Tegra 2 would consume 3 Watts under the same conditions. Now, there is still some work for Intel to finalize this chip and convince the major manufacturers of mobile devices.

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Acer guard confidence in smartphones and tablets

The Taiwanese manufacturer Acer has not had the success expected with its touch tablets and smartphones but it will not abandon to this market.

Rumours that Acer would leave the market of touch mobile terminals such as tablets and smartphones, the constructor reacts and denies any block.

Wrong point on the PC sector and having no flagship on the segment of smartphones and tablets, Acer is not abandon these lucrative markets.

Stan Shih, founder of Acer, said that his firm should find good adjustments and reorganize to improve its offer by reducing its range of products to offer in 2012 tactile quality and competitive mobile terminals. He has also recently announce RM A200, the Iconia Tab 1200, which will try his luck on a range of more affordable prices.

But the Taiwanese company will also have to monitor without fault of its products if it wants to retain its customers because, currently, none of its smartphones out Android in 2011 (Liquid, beTouch) is eligible for an update to Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich. There is still the way to go hope to compete with Apple and Samsung…

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When Epson starts the PC for gamers, it gives it...

Epson does not restricted only to printers and other devices dedicated to the image, to the Japan the mark also designed liftstations PC configs.

The last creation of Epson, Endeavor Pro 750 is a PC based on Intel Sandy Bridge-E platform which is aimed at gamers. The package aluminum perforated on the front has two handles on the top, much like the Mac Pro, and bays of 3.5 drives and 2.5 "are directly accessible from the front with a trap, facilitating hot-swapping.

The front panel provides two USB 3.0 ports as well as the traditional taken helmet and micro, nothing of transcend but most interesting is located inside the housing. The Endeavor Pro 750 is powered by an Intel Core i7-3930K processor, or a 3960X i7 Extreme Edition depending on the configuration chosen, all cooled by a house ventilation system.

              

Map parent owner is labeled Epson and can accommodate following the configuration of 4 to 32 GB of DDR3 - 1600 Mhz, a graphics card AMD Radeon HD 6450 or NVidia GeForce GTX 580 and level storage goes the hard disk, or non-traditional (Intel 510 series) SSD in RAID configuration.

For optical drives the choice is made between a basic DVD-ROM drive, a combo burner DVD + Blu - Ray or a burner Blu - Ray player with possibility of adding a second device. Windows 7 Premium 64-bit is the standard OS, but the Ultimate version is also part. Prices of course vary configuration chosen, and his reserved to the wealthy.

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Centerton: a real SoC Atom at Intel

Some info about an Atom SoC in 32 nm unveil...

Our colleagues from VR-Zone broadcast since a few days of slides with a new representative in the range of processors Intel Atom. code name: Centerton. It would be an Atom with the 32 nm which would happen in the second quarter of 2012, and that would have the peculiarity to be a real SoC (System on Chip) integrating a CPU dual-core 1.6 GHz (512 KB of cache by heart) and a single-channel memory controller managing the classic DDR3 and low-voltage up to 1333 MHz as well as the ECC.

A processor capable of handling 8 lines PCI Express 2.0, but not directly managing the SATA, USB and Ethernet, requiring the integration of dedicated controllers connected via the PCIe lines. This SoC should display a ranging from 5.7 to 8.1 Watts TDP. With its support for virtualization (VT - x), this Centerton could find multiple applications. Including can expect integrate storage network solutions.

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Android 4: shelves Sony ok, LG smartphones also, but not the Tab 7 "Galaxy and Galaxy S

Small update on the updates expected to Ice Cream Sandwich. The Sony tablets there will be entitled, as LG smartphones, but not the Tab 7 "Galaxy and Galaxy S of Samsung...

Good news for holders of Sony Tablet P and S (the model tested by writing), they will receive well updated SEV under Android 4.0 said "Ice Cream Sandwich". It is the staff of Sony to the United Kingdom that dropped information, without however advance specific date. A reminder, these tablets had been launched during the months of October and November under Android 3.2.

Conversely, owners of a Samsung Galaxy Tab 7 "learn with regret that their tablet will not be entitled to its frozen dessert. This is also the case of the smartphone Galaxy S from the Korean manufacturer. Officially, it is the lack of RAM and ROM of the terminals is invoked, does not allow to run Android 4.0 and the wrapper TouchWiz. Of course, the Galaxy Tab 8.9 "and 10.1" (such as tested by our care) will pass them to Ice Cream Sandwich.

Finally, note that the smartphones of LG (X 2 Optimus, Optimus 3D and Optimus Black) will have them well entitled to Android 4 ICS, but not immediately. Indeed, if the forcing most manufacturers are to be able to propose their updates in the first quarter of 2012, LG Announces that its own will not be deployed before the second quarter.

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