PowerVR G6630 Announced by ImaginationTechnologies – To Be the Most Powerful GPU to Date

Imagination Technologies are behind the PowerVR series of GPU’s available in most Android and Apple devices. Direct competitors are ARM and their Mali series of GPU’s, NVIDIA and their Tegra devices and Qualcomm’s Adreno GPU’s. PowerVR has been the hardware of choice for Apple to integrate in their devices, with a new one available for every new iPad device.

The Apple tablets offer extreme performance when it comes to GPU capabilities. We should think so, especially given the large number of pixels the component has to push, because of Apple’s Retina displays. The PowerVR series has been available on the market for a long time, since integrating GPU’s into mobile devices was considered a thing of the future.

Imagination Technologies announced their newest addition to the PowerVR series of GPU’s. The PowerVR G6630 features a new manufacturing technology, including one core and six clusters and is the fifth member of the Series6 ‘Rogue’ graphics IP family. The rethought manufacturing process makes it capable of offering over 60 times the performance of the current series 5 components, while this is made possible with only one GPU. The six clusters inside the core can be used depending on the complexity of the task, to preserve energy. The new series will also be compatible with the latest Microsoft DirectX 11.1, available only in Windows 8.

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Gemini Devices Prepare to Unveil New tablets: JoyTab Solo 7, Gem7008 Slate, JoyTab Duo 7 and More

Gemini Devices make some interesting tablets from the JoyTab series and they’ve just unveiled a bunch of new models: two new 7 inch tablets and two new 9.7 inch tablets, one packing a keyboard, plus a few mode units. The new models are as follows: JoyTab Solo 7, Gem7008, JoyTab Duo 7, Gem7030, JoyTab Duo 9.7, Gem10313s, JoyTab Duo 9.7 Pro and Gem10313.

The JoyTab Solo 7 tablet is an entry level 7 inch model with a 69.99 quid price tag, so it will be a very cheap Xmas gift. Then there’s the Gem7008, with an ARM Cortex A8 1.2 GHz processor, 512 MB of DDR3 memory and 8 GB of storage. It goes for 79.99 quid and runs Android 4.0, plus it supports a 800 x 480 pixel resolution. JoyTab Duo 7 is a powerful super slim dual core 7 inch tablet with Android Jelly Bean on board. No price for this one…

Gem7030 has a dual core ARM Cortex A9, 1 GB of DDR3 memory, 8 GB of storage, a 7 inch TFT LCD screen with 1024 x 600 pixel resolution and Jelly Bean as the OS. We don’t have a price for this model either, sadly. The JoyTab Duo 9.7 is a dual core 9.7 inch budget friendly slate with Jelly Bean. Finally, the Gem10313 is a dual core Cortex A9 device, with 1 GB of RAM, 16 GB of storage, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and a TFT LCD 1024 x 768 display.

There’s also a Pro version of the JoyTab Duo 9.7, that offers an extra keyboard case.

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Android Director Talks Nexus Development, Details Prices of Devices

The folks of NY Times recently sat down with John Lagerling, the director of business development for Android and asked him a few questions. From the series of questions we found out stuff like the reasons of the Nexus device pricing, Nexus development and more.

Lagerling claims that his favourite feature of the new Nexus devices is the 360 degree panoramic photo, called Photo Sphere. There’s also the ability to do inductive charging, so you don’t have to bother with a plug. He also describes the Nexus 10 as very thin and light and the resolution is very good, at 2.5K, so the pics are very crisp and so is the text. The most interesting question was how Google managed to keep prices of the new Nexus devices so low.

John Lagerling said that they didn’t want to charge people $600 for a phone belonging to the latest generation. He felt the current prices are unreasonable and mentioned the Nexus 7 as positive example for pricing. The choice of price, $299 for Nexus 4 and $399 for Nexus 10 is the best Google could achieve for these models. The official said that he felt the 10 inch tablets were underpowered and overpriced and this is where Samsung jumped in and saved the day. More insight into the Nexus devices can be found in the source link!

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