Microsoft’s new operating system Windows 8 might be released to manufacturers in April next year and Windows 8 RC (Release Candidate) is also rumored to be waiting to be released along with it. The plan was to RTM Windows 8 for x86, Windows 8 for ARM/SoC (system on a chip) and Windows 8 Server all at the same time………..
Magazine-reader app Zinio for Android gets a nice little kick in the performance department with some page flip-happy hardware-acceleration, Zinio and NVIDIA have worked together to bring a new version of the popular Zinio for Android app exclusively to Android 3.0 and Android 3.1 Honeycomb tablets powered by Tegra. Taking advantage of the Nvidia Tegra chip in your Mototola Xoom or Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 to smooth out page transitions and pinch-to-zoom. Nvidia posted a side-by-side comparison video demonstrating the improvements on a pair of Xooms and you an try it out for yourself by downloading Zinio version 1.10.3641 from the Android Market………..
HP’s 9.7″ TouchPad has yet to hit the stores, noow it looks like the company has a successor planned too. Taiwanese original design manufacturer Inventec has received orders for tablet PCs from HP, reports the Cens citing a subcontractor.
Windows 8 will face the same thing as what the current Windows 7 than accustomed, but there would be some interesting innovations, such as the new start area and those who now want something like the Windows machine, you should familiarize yourself with its Omnimo the latest version of 4. To use Omnimo you must first Rainmeter from version 2.0 and then you can download Omnimo down, extract all files from the ZIP package………..
There’s been another leaked build of Windows 8, this time build 7989 and was first reported as being available in the private forums of a beta website with new virtual keyboard, references to SMS support, per-feature licensing, geo-location. New screenshots of Windows 8 build 7989 shows a new background and boot screen along with the return of the Microsoft betta fish and the betta fish was used back in Windows 7 beta as a wallpaper and soon turned into a mascot for Microsoft’s beta stages of Windows 7. The formal announcements about Windows 8 from Microsoft are expected to be made this autumn and Microsoft will unveil all the new features of the OS and also detail the timescale for closed and public beta programmes. The final release of the OS is expected around October 2012…………
ASUS will be using an x86 processor from Intel or AMD’s ranges for the Windows 8 tablet or using Windows on ARM and picking something like a next-gen Tegra chip such as Kal-El and Android version of the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer 2 will be cheaper than its Windows 8 counterpart, but the grown up Microsoft OS will allow for more complex document creation and editing. While the Android version would cost the same as the existing one, the Windows model will carry a premium due partly to the cost of the operating system and it appears that both the Android and Windows 8 models are on track for a release at some point in 2012………….
U.S. Cellular just announced it would come out with two tablets and eight smartphones before the end of the year, including an Android-based LTE smartphone and its first Windows Phone 7 device.
A prototype that’s lounging around within Dell’s top secret labs, a 7-inch slate that’s adorned with a slide-out keyboard. Said keyboard, however, is hardly typical it’s rocking a split-key design that’s not at all dissimilar to the virtual layouts recently showcased within iOS 5 and Windows 8.