Today, Android is the most popular free mobile operating system, showing the rapid development and growth of the market share occupied. However, Google has long been followed by many analysts concluded that the barrier acts as a platform to promote fragmentation that resulted from the former strategy to withdraw products. Therefore, the company is making efforts to overcome this negative factor.

In particular, this last step was the release of Android 4.0, which will be a uniform system for smartphones and tablets. However, the Ice Cream Sandwich is designed for smartphones and mid-level market is Android-entry-level devices, where Google has a strong position, is unlikely to be interested in this OS and will continue to rely on older versions of Android, which will perpetuate the fragmentation of the platform.

A new report research firm In-Stat shows that in 2015 the market will be supplied 340 million budget Android-smartphone. The category of low-cost, in this case assigned unit price $ 150 or less.

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For several decades many companies are developing processors for PCs and / or servers. In these factories employed hundreds or even thousands of engineers, but now only two companies create a competitive chips for PCs, five companies are developing processors for servers and a number – chips for mobile devices, embedded applications and other products.

Apple has never tried to develop its own processors, and used other people’s chips. To do this, there were many reasons, chief among which are the advanced technologies needed to create a competitive processor, a lot of experience in this area, a portfolio of patents and so on. But Apple has begun to develop their own system on a chip for mobile devices like the iPhone or iPad.

With the launch of its own energy-saving processors A4 and A5, Apple gets a lot of money, now she does not need to give for systems on chips from third-party companies like NVIDIA and Qualcomm.

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Richard Shim (Richard Shim) from DisplaySearch has published analytical prediction, which predicts that next year’s Windows-tablets running on chips x86 (mainly, Intel), with the release of Windows will be able to win from eight ARM only 1.8% of the market, is selling these devices make up 1.8 million from the general supply of 100 million units.

Most of the x86-tablet will be based on family processors Intel Atom. Although the reference tablet, presented at the conference Microsoft BUILD, was based on the CPU Core i5.

World’s supply of tablets on the processor architecture (million units)

This disappointing figure, according to analysts, improve somewhat in 2013, when the market will be delivered already 3.1 million tablets of Windows 8, based on chip x86. This will amount to 2.1% share of the market – all for 2013, Mr. Shim expects growth in supply of tablets to 148 million units.

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Senior Vice President, BlackBerry PlayBook in RIM’s David Smith (David Smith) quickly confirmed rumors that point to a significant delay in updating PlayBook 2.0 tablet of the company. Version promised to be released shortly after the conference DevCon, now does not appear until February. RIM wants to be sure that the update is fully meet expectations, both developers and end users.

In order to maximally sharpen update, a number of corporate clients who are in the program Early Adopter Program, will have access to the closed beta test, which will help them assess how well the promised features, including built-in native email client.

Also they will be able to test the new features of corporate application installation and the overall level of security updates. The tests will begin soon and will be held until the end of this year. Learn more about custom software development company.

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Sony has announced the acquisition of 50% of the authorized capital of joint venture Sony Ericsson in the Swedish partner Ericsson for 1.05 billion euros. Rumors of talks between Sony and Ericsson in the transition of the joint venture in the sole ownership of the Japanese technology giant appeared at the beginning of this month.

Even then, experts have estimated that the cost of 50% Sony Ericsson may be from 1 billion to 1.25 billion euros.

In a joint press release stated that the acquisition of mobile business will allow Sony to quickly integrate into existing smart phones have an extensive list of Internet access to consumer electronic devices, including tablets, televisions and personal computers.

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Finally, Nokia introduced its long-awaited devices based on mobile operating system, Windows Phone. After the event Nokia World 2011 journalists to familiarize themselves with these decisions. Are they just another WP-devices or Nokia was able to bring something unique to the platform?

To begin with staff familiar with Engadget’s flagship smartphone Lumia 800, which can offer users a 3.7-inch screen ClearBlack AMOLED, made of polycarbonate. Well, the feelings of journalists, the apparatus generally felt in the hands of both N9, which is not surprising.

Nokia calls the device “the first true Windows Phone» – with this statement is unlikely to agree to other manufacturers – but it is certainly one of the best WP-smartphones. As in the case of N9, polycarbonate housing fits the hand and, more importantly, not so much show scratches, as the case of painted metal or plastic. If the blue color of the case, it is that the entire depth of the material.

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Big-budget first-person shooter Battlefield 3 compares favorably with many other games in that its main platform is PC. Experts from the studio of EA Digital Illusions CE has already managed to get high ratings of the product from the leading gaming publications. And it is the PC version has a maximum score.

Today we will try to find out which graphics adapter is required for the user more comfortable playing with different quality setting. Once again, it will be exactly on the video card in the system, rather than on the performance of its individual components.

Since Battlefield 3 is the sequel to the game «Battlefield 2″ (2005), it will offer its readers two screen shots that demonstrate a quantum leap in the chart.

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