KNO student tablet in CES

Hey students! Want to have a very nice gadget that suits your lifestyle? Well, here's what you are waiting for. KNO, a nice looking tablet with some unexceptional features. Basically its a device made for school and college going students.

This tablet will help you to read books, write text, highlight important passage, supports web browsing and much more. The screen size of this super amazing tablet is 14” inch (diagonally) and you can access popular web services like Google, Twitter, Wikipedia and much more. You can even store your classroom notes and other documents references. KNO developers have created a math page that shows it is actually cheaper than the text book (in terms of 4 years education).

It has virtual keyboard and note taking pen for writing. Long battery with built-in WiFi, anti-glare screen, video playback, microphone jack with noise reduction technology, supports adobe flash files and supports PDF files too. It has Ubuntu OS and fitted with Dual-core ARM© Cortex™-A9 MPCore™.
Let’s talk about the prices. It is available in two variants one is single and other is double screen(just like an open notebook) with 16 GB or 32 GB memory storage space. Single screen 16GB KNO tablet with stylus is priced at $599 whereas 32 GB is $699. Similarly double sided 16 GB is priced at $899 and 32 GB is $999 (that’s almost $1000).

It comes with one year limited warranty and 30 days money back return policy(in case if you don’t like the product). They have placed a large amount of good books based on different subjects like Mathematics, Business, Computers, Reference and much more. All books are from renowned Authors and Publishers.

That’s not all, it has good collection of accessories too like screen clip, AC charging adapter, stylus and more. It has in-bulit apps for reading, writing and browsing. More apps are still on the way.

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AMD will bring new chip at quad-core laptops

Advanced Micro Devices will bring quad-core processing and powerful graphics silicon to mainstream laptops.Introduced on Tuesday, the HP Pavilion dv4 is one of 11 new laptop models that use the 'Llano' AMD chips.

On Tuesday, AMD is announcing the Fusion A-Series chips for mainstream consumer notebooks as well as desktops. AMD's Fusion technology puts all of a PC's computational power on one piece of silicon--what AMD calls an APU or accelerated processing unit. Chips will be offered with both two and four processor cores.

For quad-core systems, the trick is to reduce the power consumption of traditional desktop-class processing to levels that are usable for laptops. "What used to be accomplished in 85 watts or so [of power consumption]. That same class of performance--quad-core combined with discrete-level graphics--will now be accomplished in about half the power that it used to take in a traditional system," said Raymond Dumbeck, a marketing executive handling AMD's mobile computing, in an interview.

Discrete graphics refers to high-performance standalone chips that typically come on a separate card. AMD claims that it can achieve that kind of performance without a separate card.

They are putting equal emphasis on graphics and standard "x86" (Intel-compatible) processing, according to Dumbeck. Traditionally, PCs tended to emphasize x86 processing over graphics. "We've allocated about a third [of the chip] to x86 and a third to graphics," he said. AMD, which acquired graphics chip giant ATI in 2006, is doing this to take advantage of programming trends at Apple and Microsoft, who are increasingly writing software to take advantage of the graphics chip. Microsoft calls its tech Direct X, Apple uses OpenCL.

Intel is following a similar path. It is grafting increasingly higher-performance graphics silicon onto its main processors. This trend began in earnest with Intel's Sandy Bridge processors and will continue with its next generation of Ivy Bridge chips.

Dumbeck also described how a quad-core processor can dynamically adjust to different processing scenarios. "Software either takes advantage of frequency (speed) or cores. If the software is frequency dependent, you'll slow down the back two cores and boost the front two cores, increasing frequency. Or if the software is core dependent, you'll normalize across all four cores, having more cores available for core-dependent software," he said.

The problem is that more cores don't always translate to better performance, as review site Anandtech points out in its analysis of the new processors. "Even in heavily-threaded benchmarks where quad-core CPUs can shine, dual-core [Intel] i5 processors are still typically 30% faster than the A8-3500M. Instead of selling you more CPU cores for less money, what AMD is now selling is substantially better graphics for less money,"

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HP plans to launch NFC-enabled tablets this year

HP is now ready to produce phones and tablets with built-in near-field communication (NFC) technology for mobile payments, Bloomberg reported on June 13, 2011. Like Google Wallet, which will soon launch for the Nexus S and eventually other Android devices, HP hopes its customers will be able to use the company’s products to make mobile purchases available in retail outlets. HP plans to create an entire ecosystem where users will be able to to receive coupons or other benefits, such as loyalty points, from NFC-enabled advertisements. This will be a great news to all the HP consumers. While sources told Bloomberg the products could launch by year-end, HP hasn’t been known to deliver new mobile devices to the market very quickly in the past. It’s also still unclear who the company’s mobile payment partners will be.

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