Intel Announced Oak Trail But Will It Lead To El Dorado!

The El Dorado of the mobile phone and tablets that is! Intel missed the boat in this marketplace. The mobile space seems to be growing all the time. The smartphone and the tablets are growing the way no other device has grown before. Everything seems to be going to the various variants of the ARM architecture.This Oak Trail announcement, about a month or so back, announced this family of devices. However the boat may be too far gone.

Intel Officially Announces Oak Trail Computer Processors

Windows 8 on ARM SoC, Phone 7 updates, tablets

With the Windows 8 MS is going to give you a version for the ARM based processors. That creates an ARM based PC making opportunity. Similarly does it create an opportunity for the MS behemoth to move into the mobile space that they entirely missed! Can elephants dance! may be not but they can run at 40 KMPH when needed, is this an occasion, we would see MS hitting the ground running! I have nagging feeling that it is too little, too late!



CES 2011: Windows 8 on ARM SoC, Phone 7 updates, tablets

Nvidia to develop PC processors

With the announcement that Microsoft is going to break out from the Wintel and support ARM, big changes in the make up of the PC as we know it would change. Since the time in eighties the PC was released, it has been the x86 processors and the Windows operating systems. Only players in the processor space were the AMD and to some extent the VIA technologies. With MS support for another very well established architecture like the ARM, there is bound to be changes in the space. Similar moves are happening to get additional players into the mobile space where the ARM architecture is  strong. The competition in both space could only do good for consumers!! Let's watch and see.
Nvidia to develop PC processors

Kindle, Mobile phone or what!!

Battle for the electronic reader has been going on for a while. The holy grail seems to be a book sized device that offers the same ease of page turning as book. Though Amazon's Kindle has been in the market for some time and there's a second version of it now out, nobody knows for sure if this is waht the readers at large need. Kindle offers additional advantage over a book in the sense that you can download a book anytime you want. It's like acrrying a library with you and picking one to read at any time. That's an advantage over a book. but not everybody is comfortable reading the electronic display however close to printed paper look like. Will electronic paper take over here! The verdict is not in yet. The yonger generation who grew up with electronic displays may look at it differenjtly. they may me far more willing to read a book in the electronic form.

Now with the Google service of making books available on mobiles, iPhone & Andropid phones for the time being, will that compete with Kindle like devices! Mush smaller displays here adds another disadvantage to the book reading on the mobile paradigm. But the comfort is unbeatable. It is available with you all the time. qwe are used to doing a lot of things with these little things. So would we like to read books on them too! Who knows!!