Tag archive: dual core processor

Every year, the iPhone rumor mill cranks up to full-steam, churning out tidbits of unconfirmed reports about Apple’s next-generation smartphone. This year, however, the lack of a typical June release has driven speculation to an obscene level, creating a dizzying mishmash of information — so much that it’s become difficult to keep track of what we might see once Apple decides to let the cat out of the bag. But with an estimated 35 percent… Read More

Motorola's Droid really kicked off the mass adoption of Android. Well, it's been two years since then and Motorola's keyboarded phone is about to get its first actual overhaul. AndroidCentral got its hands on the full spec sheet for the Droid 3 and it looks, well, impressive. According to the chart, which we've included below, the next Droid will run Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), have a 1GHz dual-core processor, and have a… Read More

Rumors have been floating around for some time, but today Motorola made it official: the Droid X2 is real, it's dual-core, and it's coming to Verizon online stores on May 19 for $199.99 with a two-year contract. The device will be available at retail stores on May 26. The X2 is the sequel to the year-old Droid X, one of the first smartphones with a 4.3-inch screen. The new phone doubles the 1Ghz processing power of the original with… Read More

Also check out our full Motorola Atrix 4G review. CES has been full of tablet PCs and 3D devices, but few of them really stand out or solve a problem. Will TV shows like The Office truly get more exciting with a foot of depth added to them? I'm not so sure. With the Atrix, however, Motorola has gone and invented a new product entirely, one that is both exciting and potentially useful. The Atrix is really two devices: It's a high-end… Read More

The simple days of knowing how fast your smartphone is by its processor speed are already over. Today, LG unveiled the Optimus 2X, which it claims is the first smartphone with a dual-core processor. The phone runs on Android and uses Nvidia's new 1 GHz dual-core Tegra2 processor, allowing 1080p video recording and playback. LG claims the phone has almost no screen lag. Other features include a 4-inch screen, 8 GB of internal memory, an 8… Read More

Budget PC maker eMachines—along with Gateway, now a subsidiary of Acer—has rolled out three new consumer-oriented mini-tower PCs with “luminous” white cases and a matching flatscreen display, hoping to appeal to both home and business PC users on a budget as well as the burgeoning back-to-school crowd…or even high-end users just looking for a straight-up affordable PC to plop in kitchen or spare room.… Read More

It’s a digital world, but most of us are still holding on to a lot of analog media. There are the vinyl records we couldn’t bear to part with; the home movies shot with an analog camcorder; the lovingly-created mixtapes on cassette; and, of course, the photographic prints and 35mm slides from holidays, vacations and family gatherings of yesteryear. Service bureaus are getting rich charging exorbitant fees to bring these analog memories… Read More

Riding on the momentum of its popular Wind netbook, MSI on Wednesday revealed the VR220 YA Edition, a more capable compact. The 12.1-inch notebook runs an Intel Dual-Core processor rather than the more modest Atom chips used in netbooks, and also includes an array of other upgrades, with a price barely out of netbook territory. Besides the 12.1-inch screen (which boasts 1280 x 800 resolution), the VR220 gets a full 250GB standard hard… Read More

Are you looking for a memory card for your new camera? Don't have a clue about what to buy or how not to get ripped off? We've got some simple tips to educate you and save you a lot of trouble and money. Here are the important points to consider: 1) Compatibility -  There is no universal memory card to fit all digital cameras – not yet, anyway. Based on internal politics, design considerations and financial reasons,… Read More

A new survey from market research firm Harris Interactive finds that nearly one in four U.S. adults (39 percent) have home networks, and 37 percent of those users would like to use their computers to control their home entertainment systems. In addition, 35 percent would like to control household functions like heating, lighting, security, and ventilation from their PCs, and 31 percent of home network owners would like to use teir PCs to… Read More

The low-power technology, dubbed Foxton, is initially targeted for Intel's dual-core, 64-bit Itanium processor line, but it will be eventually incorporated within its 32- and 64-bit Xeon chips. Foxton is a hardware-based technology that claims to dynamically and automatically adjust the voltage and frequency settings for a microprocessor