NVIDIA Tegra 3, equipped with 1.5GHz quad-core madness, teased by a familiar slide

engadget ^ | Jan 24th 2011 7:06AM | Vlad Savov

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How aggressive can NVIDIA get? That's the question puzzling our brainboxes right now as we gaze upon the complete version of the slide that let us know about a potential Tegra 2 3D chip over the weekend. It's not every day you hear of a 1.5GHz quad-core mobile SOC,

[1raider1]

I have lost our language. It has passed my ability to comprehend.

[ClearCase_guy]

“One on’t cross beams gone owt askew on treddle.”

[SJSAMPLE]

LOL.
I’m reading some Joseph Conrad on my Kindle and some of that language is damn near incomprehensible.

[cicero2k]

I have lost our language. It has passed my ability to comprehend.

Let me try.

This is an enabling technology that has the potential to marginalize cable TV, satellite TV, and FCC controlled AM/FM/TV the way the internet has already mariginalized print media, US Post Office, and long distance phone calls.

[1raider1]

In that case, woo hoo!

[GreatJoeMcCarthy]

Dreaming and achieving great technology never seems to be a problem. The problem comes when lawyers get involved. Lawyers love to muck up a good standard. In the end we get a must less realized product thanks in great part to too much regulation and legislation.

Shouldn’t we already have large flat screen tv’s that wirelessly and automatically recognize and connect to our cable boxes, phones, laptops, gaming devices, and the like so that the experience is seamless and painless? Shouldn’t our cell phones and house phones use one and the same phone number? I can easily block any and all email addresses, why cant I block caller ID’s or phone numbers just as easily? Why are there USB, COAX, HDMI, DVI, ComponentV, RCA, Cat5, RJ11, RJ14, RJ21, RJ48, and on and on ad infinitum.

By the way, two of the most irritating and worst inventions of all time - screw on coaxial cable connections and bi-pin fluorescent bulb connections.

[NVDave]

Well.... maybe.

It is more accurate to say that it will put a LOT more processing power into low-power mobile applications than previously dreamt of.

What then happens to marginalize cable TV, et al will be in part dependent upon carriers and how much they charge to deliver all that information to the mobile devices.

[cicero2k]

What then happens to marginalize cable TV, et al will be in part dependent upon carriers and how much they charge to deliver all that information to the mobile devices.

Here's what I'm thinking. The handheld device becomes your primary internet interaction device. So for business you plug it into the back of a laptop that does nothing more than serve as a keyboard and display.

For radio, there are apps for that now, world wide. For TV, most everything comes off the net and there's much over the air digitally. For movies, stream from Netflix.

That leaves sports and breaking news, some of which is over the air.

So the little hand held becomes the remote control, DVR and conduit for your large screen in home TV.

Good bye $100 per month cable bills.

[NVDave]

The cost to build out the wireless carriers’ networks to accommodate the level of data consumption we’re talking about here will be considerable.

I’m not saying that it won’t happen - I’m just saying that you’re not going to stream the amount of bandwidth you use to watch TV over your phone for $30/month, which is what I’m paying for “unlimited” data on my Verizon Droid X right now.

If I want to tether this phone to a laptop, for example (and Verizon wouldn’t care if the laptop were, in reality, my iMac which is the size of a TV set), that would be an additional $30/month. So we’re now talking about getting rid of the DirecTV subscription (which is $77/mo) and doing just as you’re saying - streaming data over our terrestrial ‘net connection (which is $60/mo).

When it is all said and done, I don’t think the consumer will be saving gobs of money, only taking the IP connection with him/her on the go, that’s all.

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Have you seen the Motorola Atrix smartphone and docking station?

Youtube with British accent:

CES 2011: Motorola's fast new Atrix smartphone

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Another article:

Motorola Atrix: another look (video)

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Another article:

The Motorola Atrix 4G: This is Huge

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By Jared Newman  |  Posted at 12:45 pm on Sunday, January 9, 2011

Not to get all gushy or anything, but I think one of Harry’s best opinion columns here was the one from March 2009 about how smartphones are destined to replace the PC, and how the comforts of full-sized computing — keyboard, mouse, monitor — will become dumb shells for our powerful handsets.

Motorola’s Atrix 4G is an indication that he’s right. The phone itself marks a technological leap, as one of several new Android handsets with dual-core processors, but the real revolution is an optional dock that acts like a laptop when the phone is plugged in. There’s also a separate HD dock for televisions and external monitors, with USB ports for full-sized keyboards and mouses. Ladies and gentlemen: your dumb shells.

When the smartphone is docked, it launches desktop software on the 11.6-inch laptop screen, with a full version of Mozilla’s Firefox browser and Adobe Flash 10.1. If you believe Google’s claim that we spend 90 percent of our computing time in the web browser, the Atrix dock is pretty close to being a complete laptop, and it can use Citrix’s virtualization services to access PC apps through the Internet. The dock software can also access the Android OS, so you can run apps in full screen.

The HD dock feeds 720p video to TVs or external monitors, and while it can access the laptop dock’s software and Web browser, it also has its own multimedia interface for quickly launching movies, music and photos.

Motorola’s Atrix is a potentially harmful development for wireless carriers, because while they’re trying to push more data plans on their users for laptops and tablets, the Atrix is the start of consolidation back to a single device. Why get a 3G netbook if your smartphone’s dumb shell performs almost all the same tasks?

And yet, AT&T will carry the Atrix when it launches this quarter. If AT&T doesn’t muck up the data pricing or charge a fortune for the docks, we might just get a little taste of the future in the next few months.

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Motorola mkting entry:

ATRIX Accessories

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Another article:

Motorola Atrix: Smartphone or laptop? You decide.

[cicero2k]

Have you seen the Motorola Atrix smartphone and docking station?

I have the advantage of working for a client in Las Vegas and was able to attend the CES earlier this month.

So I did test drive this device. It was like working with a micro micro computer that's also phone. Therefore the docking concept makes perfect sense.

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Do you know what processor is in the phone...maybe TI's OMP?

Another article:

Motorola Atrix may arrive in March