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To: Cogito who wrote (11319)	10/20/2011 12:47:52 PM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 32692

ASUS: Ice Cream Sandwich On Existing Tablets Before Year's End, Transformer Prime Info, Padfone in Q1 2012 androidpolice.com Posted by David Ruddock Transformer Prime ICS On Existing Tablets Padfone Comments (11) ASUS has been hard at work on the successor to the company's first foray into the Android tablet market, the ASUS Transformer. Transformer Prime The Transformer's yet-to-be-officially-named sequel (Update: The name turned out to be... Transformer Prime) was shown off today by ASUS chairman Johnny Shih - and boy, is this thing thin. ASUS's next Android tablet will be a mere 8.3mm in profile and stick with the 10.1-inch screen form factor. Of course, it will have the detachable plug-in keyboard that made the Transformer a unique product in the marketplace. It will also have a next-generation NVIDIA quad-core "Kal-El" Tegra 3 processor, as had been expected. ICS On Existing Tablets Shih also spoke about the company's existing products, and said that consumers could possibly expect Ice Cream Sandwich on the company's existing Honeycomb tablets by the end of the year, though that statement was definitely a qualified one - not a concrete promise. Padfone Finally, the Shih revealed that the Padfone, ASUS's combination phone-tablet-dock-thing is scheduled for a first quarter release next year, pending approval by carriers and US wireless certification from the FCC. Check out the transcript of Walt Mossberg's interview over at AllThingsD.

To: Cogito who wrote (11319)	10/20/2011 1:43:03 PM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 32692

Low-end Android smartphones to swoop on market To the tune of 339 million by 2015 20 Oct 2011 14:21 \| by a staff writer \| Filed in Mobile There will be as many as 339 million budget Android smartphones shipped across the world by 2015, according to analysts at In-Stat. We're talking the sub-$150 range, the kind of device companies like Huawei and ZTE have been churning out in both developed and emerging economies. Basically, Android holds a desirable position as the operating system of choice for the low-cost smartphone. Analysts at In-Stat believe that the market segment could really heat up when other vendors clock on to the market opportunity. Generally speaking, at the very low end the smartphones will have a single-core EDGE chip which goes for under $10 a pop. With the easy availability of Android - Google wants some variant of its OS everywhere it can get it - even smaller phone manufacturers have a chance to turn a buck, but they're likely to be outshone by the big guns at Huawei, Motorola, Samsung and ZTE. Still, the smaller competitors are tipped by In-Stat to turn to the grey market - where manufacturers don't have to worry about licence fees and royalties. The concern will be in emerging markets. For example, while Nokia frets about its Western customers there are millions and millions of people buying low-cost feature-phones. They're durable, have a long charge which is essential for more rural areas, and you can still get online. A low-cost smartphone, as it stands today, isn't yet ideally suited emerging economies, but with longer lasting power and as the bill of materials decreases we could see a change there. Read more: news.techeye.net