By Robert Thompson — With approximately 500 million smart phones, 60 million tablets and 25 million eReaders shipping in 2011, the mobile revolution swept into full force. So what’s next? Well, there’s still a long way to go, as Eric Schmidt suggested in his keynote at Mobile World Congress, only one billion of the world’s [...]
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Posted in Freescale, Smart Mobile Devices, The Embedded Beat
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Also tagged 4G, Android OS, ARM, Chrome, Facebook, Google Play, HTML5, LTE, quadcore, smartphone
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October 17, 2011 – 8:10 am
By Robert Thompson — It’s been a controversial year for tablets, first set to dominate all consumer electronics, but more recently many have questioned any company’s ability to compete with the iPad. In this video, produced in collaboration with the Savannah College of Art & Design, we explore what a tablet might think of it [...]
September 22, 2011 – 8:33 am
By Robert Thompson — “Critical mass” is a well worn technology term that is already being applied to the mobile OS market. Smart phone and tablet shipments are outpacing all other smart mobile device categories. Their operating systems are no longer tightly coupled to the underlying hardware, which leaves plenty of room for multiple OSes [...]
September 2, 2011 – 11:07 am
By Stephane Gervais-Ducouret – I’m heading to Semicon Taiwan next week, where I’ll lead a session called “MEMS: Beyond Performance.” It’s incredible to look at the past year of advancements in the MEMS industry, including high performance MEMS for noise and sensitivity, very low-power (at a few microamperes), small size (down to 2 by 2 [...]
August 15, 2011 – 8:32 am
By Robert Thompson – At the start of 2011, more than 100 companies showed tablets at CES. Although many of these products were concepts and not necessarily destined to be brought to market, most of the discussion was around product size. Would a 7- or 10-inch tablet be the dominant size that would win out? This [...]
By Michael Stanley — When a colleague of mine recently asked me “What is sensor fusion?” I had to stop and think. Like Justice Potter Stewart once said, “I know it when I see it.” But as an engineer dealing with this topic every day, I should be able to do better. Eventually I came [...]
By Robert Thompson – While most tablets on the market today are aimed at consumers for consuming information and one of the fastest growing tablet segments is gaming, another growing tablet use centers around workplace productivity. Several companies are either piloting tablets or looking at how tablets can be deployed versus traditional notebooks. Freescale is working [...]
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