Remember back at Mobile World Congress in February when LG announced their big flagship phone for the year, the LG Optimus 4X HD? Since then LG has remained mum on any news regarding the launch dates of the phone but the silence was broken yesterday when LG announced eleven different European countries that would be receiving the phone shortly. Today… Read more
NVIDIA had a contest voting for the best TegraZone games, in exchange for a chance to win a prize pack. I’m not surprised that people voted, the prize pack is amazing. It includes an ASUS Transformer Pad 300 powered by a Tegra 3 quad core, a keyboard dock, a special edition NVIDIA Jambox, and a Logitech wireless controller. Keep reading to see who… Read more
Before we start, I’d like to state one thing: NVIDIA hardware is not superior. The Mali-400 GPU in the Galaxy SIII destroys the Tegra 3 GPU. Fortunately, that doesn’t matter. NVIDIA has the smarts and the power to make deals and make it easy to optimize games for their hardware. They don’t have the best hardware, but their games have the absolute best… Read more
ShadowGun THD set the standard of mobile gaming graphics, created by developer Madfinger Games. Now they’re back again, and have just announced their newest title, Dead Trigger. Dead Trigger follows in the graphical superiority of ShadowGun, but changes the theme to the classic zombie apocalypse. The battle takes place in 2012, a world where a deadly… Read more
NVIDIA launched the first mobile quad-core processor, the Tegra 3, late last year, effectively beginning a new era of mobile processors. Months later, Tegra 3 still cannot be found on an official carrier supported phone in the US. NVIDIA’s GM Mike Rayfield claims that this won’t be for long, as they plan for 30 more Tegra 3-powered devices to be launched… Read more
NVIDIA has officially announced that their Icera 410 LTE multimode data modem has been tested and approved by AT&T to be used on their LTE networks. This is only the second multimode modem to be approved by AT&T, so this is seen as a pretty big occasion for NVIDIA. This of course means that AT&T devices with Tegra 3 will from now on support LTE! That… Read more
Given the success of Amazon’s Kindle Fire, the $199 price tag seems to be a magical number for Android tablets and now NVIDIA wants to push that point home. NVIDIA has just unveiled the Kai tablet platform, thanks to Vice President Rob Csonger who revealed the idea. Csonger explained that Kai isn’t just hardware, but a plan to make it easy to bring… Read more
In a move sure to surprise many, NVIDIA demonstrated their upcoming cloud gaming service, a la OnLive. It’ll be called GeForce Grid, and is made possible by a partnership with Gaikai, who already has a game streaming service of its own. While OnLive is definitely a good service, it seems that GeForce Grid will be a lot better. Since the service will… Read more
Though NVIDIA’s growth is slightly smaller than in Q4 of last year, it’s doing great. It had a total of $924.9 million in revenue and $60.4 million in profits. This is due to both the Tegra line of mobile chips and its wildly popular desktop and laptop GPUs. Jen-Hsun Huang, NVIDIA’s CEO, said their product launches had been better than ever and that he… Read more
NVIDIA’s General Manager of Mobile Business Mike Rayfield was on hand at HTC’s Frequencies conference in Seattle and talked about the immediate future of the company’s Tegra 3 product. First, Rayfield says LTE-enabled Tegra phones will start rolling out in the third quarter of this year as NVIDIA has samples already in testing. However,… Read more
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