[Phoronix] Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ARMv7 Linux Performance Gains

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• 7 May 2012 à 07:05
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• DevBoard, Samsung Exynos

Earlier in the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS “Precise Pangolin” development cycle I noted some performance improvements happening on the ARM side, particularly for Texas Instruments OMAP4. Namely, Ubuntu 12.04 was ARMing up for better performance with ARM hard-float support and the performance becoming more compelling for the PandaBoard ES hardware with proper cpufreq support. In this article is a comparison of the Ubuntu 11.10 and Ubuntu 12.04 ARM performance.

India’s $35 Aakash tablet: It’s remarkable it ever got made – Liliputing

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• 7 May 2012 à 07:05
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Recently the company responsible for designing India’s $35 Aakash tablet announced plans to launch a second generation device. It will have a faster processor, and longer battery life, but it will still be designed to meet the primary goal: getting low cost computing devices into the hands of Indian students.

Samsung Galaxy S3 may be the first smartphone with full ARM TrustZone support for enabling 100% security in everything online – ARMdevices.net

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• 7 May 2012 à 07:05
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• Samsung Exynos, Smartphone

The newly announced Samsung Galaxy S3 may not only have an amazing new 32nm Quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor with a new accelerated higher frequency Quad-core Mali-400 GPU offering perhaps the fastest ARM SoC in the world at the moment. Samsung may also have done the right choice to fully enable and activate ARM TrustZone through the MobiCore integrated security platform directly onto the Exynos 4412 SoC.

The Samsung Galaxy S III: The First Smartphone Designed Entirely By Lawyers

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• 7 May 2012 à 07:05
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• Android 3, Samsung Exynos, Smartphone

The Galaxy S III is… well… its ugly. Theres really no other way to put it. But why? Why is it ugly? I dont mean aesthetically, why is it ugly, I mean, “How did something like this ever make it out of Samsungs design studio?” Ill tell you how, it was never in the design studio. This phone design was born down the hall, in a room where the door sign reads “Samsung Legal.”

Quasar: a window manager for iPad

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• 1 May 2012 à 11:05
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• Tablet

I’ve been developing a new tweak for iPads called Quasar. Quasar is a tweak that allows you to run your apps in windows in your iPad. Just like in a window-based operating system, you can resize, move, close or full-screen windows. Quasar is available in Cydia Store for US$9.99.

Highlights from my 2 weeks of video-blogging at 4 conferences in Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Guangzhou China – ARMdevices.net

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• 27 April 2012 à 07:04
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• Android 3, Chipsets, Device Type, Linux, Smartbook, Smartphone, Tablet

During these past 2 weeks, I posted 122 videos from my trip in China. Thanks for watching! I have now returned back in Europe. Here are the numbers of videos that I posted from each conference:

The first Intel smartphone: comfortably mid-range, eminently credible, and quietly revolutionary

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• 26 April 2012 à 06:04
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• Other Technologies, Smartphone

Intel has wanted to be a part of the smartphone market since 2005. Its Atom line of processors and systems-on-chip was developed for this market, and each iteration has got smaller and more tightly integrated. With Medfield, announced earlier this year, the company finally has the chip it needs to take on ARM head-to-head. Intel has partnered with Indian manufacturer Lava International to bring its chipset to market, and the result is a new Android phone: the Xolo X900.

$140 5.2″ MT6575 Android phone by Daza Electronics at the HKTDC Electronics Fair – ARMdevices.net

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• 22 April 2012 à 14:04
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This is the new 5.2″ MT6575 Android smartphone design, it can soon support Android 4.0. It costs $140 when bought in bulk.

ASUS Transformer Pad TF300 Review – SlashGear

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• 22 April 2012 à 14:04
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Here we have the slightly less expensive version of the most well-rounded and powerful Android tablet on the planet. The qualities that allow this model to cost significantly less than its bigger brother are not bothersome to me, and I see no reason, save for one, why a person wouldn’t just go with this TF300 model over the Transformer Prime.

7″ 1024×600 $80 and $57 800×480 Boxchip A10 tablets by Bmorn technology Co Ltd – ARMdevices.net

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• 20 April 2012 à 12:04
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• All-Winner, Tablet