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FXI Cotton Candy Release Date Update and New Images- Shipping this Month


FXI Cotton Candy had been dubbed the worlds smallest computer in a thumb drive; development units went on preorder in February of 2012 and was expected to ship in March of 2012.



[Phoronix] Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ARMv7 Linux Performance Gains

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.



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

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


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.”



Samsung announces 1.4GHz Exynos 4 Quad as basis for Galaxy S3 — Engadget

Looking for something a bit more solid than a third-party benchmark? We can do that. “Already in production the Exynos 4 Quad is scheduled to be adopted first into Samsung’s next Galaxy smartphone that will officially be announced in May,” the horse’s mouth reveals. Samsung boasts that the new 32nm 1.4GHz quad-core processor flaunts twice the processing power over its predecessor, thanks to its High-K Metal Gate (HKMG) low-power technology.



Le nouvel ARM Exynos 5250 Cortex-A15 de Samsung se dévoile blogeee.net


Avec un double coeur cadencé à 2GHz, cette puce ARM de prochaine génération Cortex A-15 embarquerait le dernier circuit graphique Mali-T604.  Cet ensemble prometteur, on en a vu un exemple avec la vidéo de Texas Instrument mettant en parallèle double et quadruple coeur. L’ensemble des puces Cortex A-15 ainsi équipées devraient obtenir des performances de cet ordre. Samsung assure à cet ensemble une bande passante de mémoire impressionnante de 12.8GBps soit le double de l’actuel Mali-T400.



Meizu MX unveiled, shipment starts on January 1

These days there’s been quite a bit buzz about Meizu’s long-expected MX Android phone. we’ve heard that Meizu’s dealers in China have begun to accept pre-orders for this phone a few days ago, and the phone’s rear shells were leaked in transport to Zhuhai City yesterday, but Meizu just kept silent. Now the company finally said something. Today on its official website the company fully unveiled Meizu MX.



USB stick packs ARM Cortex-A9 CPU, runs Android or Ubuntu

FXI Technologies announced a USB stick-sized computer that can run Android or Ubuntu on a 1.2GHz ARM Cortex-A9 processor. The “Cotton Candy” will include 1GB of RAM, a microSD slot, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and an HDMI port, the company says.

Let’s hope that this device will not infrige the last NVIDIA patent.



[Test CNET France] Samsung Galaxy Nexus

J’aurais aimé avoir un smartbook avec les mêmes caractéristiques.

Il ne fait aucun doute que le Galaxy Nexus a tous les attributs pour être un formidable smartphone. Il ne fait non plus pas de doute que son meilleur atout face à la concurrence sous Android est la présence d’Ice Cream Sandwich. En tant que flagship Google pour promouvoir Ice Cream Sandwich, le Galaxy Nexus devient unique et spécial, ce qui devrait convaincre les personnes qui recherche un Google phone haut de gamme. La fonction Android Beam qui permet de partager à la volée une page web ou une application d’un glissement de doigt entre deux terminaux Android compatible NFC est par exemple bluffante ! Le grand écran très haute résolution du Galaxy Nexus devrait aussi convaincre les indécis…



Exynos 4212, un nouveau double coeur 1.5GHz chez Samsung

On ne parle pas beaucoup des processeurs Exynos de Samsung, et pour cause, leur propre papa ne les emploie guère dans ses tablettes. Mais cela pourrait changer dans le futur avec l’arrivée du 4212, une évolution de la précédente puce en double coeur cadencé à 1.5 GHz.