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"Horn" review - Best graphics for your tegra 3!

Now we tested the game "Horn" ,which is developed by Phosphor Games Studio and published by Zynga, which you might know from their poker games.
In this game you play a young guy named, you might already know,....Horn! He woke up in a tower one day and then he found out that all living things are big stone creatures now. This is caused by the so-called "Pygon-Curse". The stone creatures are also called pygons. On his way he found his aunt Bell, which was a pygon, too until he had a fight with the pygon. Then his aunt was there and the pygon exploded. His aunt couldn't remember anything about her time as a pygon. The goal of the game is to find the pygon source and to kill it so all the people and animals are as before again. This exciting game has a lot of hours of fun for its price. We think the best mobile game in 2012!
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Xperia Tablet Z. Thinnest Tablet in the world?

The Xperia Tablet Z has been announced at DoCoMo's event. It is 6.9mm thick , thinner than the iPad mini with a 10.1 inch resolution of 1920 by 1200. The tablet is also said to weight 495g the same as the iPad. The tablet is also waterproof and dust proof. The battery is sort of bare bones. Its only 6000mAh. The inside specs are an s4 pro chip , 2 GB of Ram. 32gb storage and 8 megapixel camera. There is support for micro sdx cards up to 64gb.

Sources: xperiablog via Sony mobile

Motorola X-Phone release in mai?

There already had been rumors about a new superphone that Google develops with Motorola. Now it got more concrete: The so-called "X-Phone" has a 5" display, a quad-core CPU and Android 5.0. It is going to be announced Art Google I/O in Mai. We will test as soon as it is out.

Sony Announces Xperia Z and ZL!

The Japanese electronic giant introduced the Z and ZL also known as Yuga and Odin. They are said to have 1.5 GHz S4 Pro , 2 Gigs of Ram and a Full HD 5 inch phone. The differences between the two are almost the same. The Z is made out of glass and is waterproof and dust proof while the Xperia ZL has none of that but has an IR Blaster. Its dimension is also smaller than that of the Galaxy SIII. ZL is said to have a Poly carbonate shell. The ZL also has a Notification LED like the one found on the Xperia J and Miro and its front facing camera is located on the bottom right  , much like the Nokia N9

Tegra 4 announced

At CES in Las Vegas Nvidia showed us their new processor for mobiles, the Tegra 4.
It is based on ARM's cortex A15, it has the well-known 4+1 cores.
Apart from that it has 72 GPU cores, which makes it six times faster than the Tegra 3.

Ubuntu for Android - The Great Divide is Closing

At 18:00 GMT on the 2nd January 2013, Ubuntu are announcing something very interesting which could have a huge impact on the world of mobile computing. Allow me to explain with a personal flashback...

Four and a half years ago after losing my beloved PDA to a concrete catastrophe, I remember scouring the market for the best handsets available as a replacement. There was one device from HTC that stuck out, the Touch Diamond Pro. Marveling at it’s rich Touch FLO interface that has evolved into today's HTC Sense, it’s beefy hardware and beautiful screen (remember this was back when the phone of choice for many was a Nokia with Snakes) there was one feature hidden away that few were talking about but made my insides quiver with excitement, TV out. The possibility to have a mobile phone that was potentially powerful enough to render a full desktop web page to an external display seemed the start of a truly mobile age freeing us from large laptop bags and huge desktop boxes.

Fast forward to today and that ideological revolution has gathered pace and taken huge leaps into reality. The latest HTC, Nokia, Apple and Samsung handsets all have processors running at speeds that sound remarkably similar to those found on laptops and netbooks. True 1080p HD displays that rival specifications of many living room televisions. And ecosystems that have become so established that you’ll probably find a mobile option for any desktop task you can think of. All the latest devices have some form of screen mirroring / video out capability, either dedicated HDMI or micro USB ports, or wireless mechanisms that incorporate DLNA and the WiFi Direct standards such as Miracast or AirPlay. Adding to that, external mouse and keyboard support has been directly built into the core of all the major operating systems over the last few incremental releases, and you have the foundations of a an incredibly versatile system.

So, are we at the point of true portability and mobile computing? In a word, no. The “simplified” touch interfaces developed over the years for our thumbs and fingers scaled up on a 42” living room TV or 22” desktop monitor are fine for basic browsing and showing your mates a clip from YouTube. But when we think of productivity, we still think of the established desktop standards, multiple windows, a bountiful user interface, the ability to run powerful applications, and multitasking. The hardware is capable, but the software just hasn’t caught up.

The recent releases by Microsoft, including Windows Phone 8 and Windows RT, are possibly the beginnings of the very mobile utopia I’ve been waiting for. The fact that they all run the same core hints at that very convergence, but the layers above that core are still limited by their separation - you cannot run full Windows on an ARM processor - Apple is starting to piece together all the elements for mobile computing, but is apparently still behind Microsoft in the development of such a system.

Step forward Linux, and more specifically Ubuntu for Android. The idea here being that the two user environments can coexist on the same device with a level of integration that is so discreet, the user wouldn’t even notice it. It’s effectively what many had hoped for in the early days of the Windows 8 rumours before we discovered that Windows RT won't support legacy applications. Because of the similarities and shared resources between Android and Ubuntu, you will be able to take your mobile handset, plug it in to any external display, and the switch to a full Ubuntu desktop mode starts, simple. But will it be? Take a look at the videos below to find out more...

There have been various attempts at this kind of amalgamation before, Archos allowing their devices to dual-boot Android and Linux straight out of the box, and various ways of running Ubuntu inside of Android on a number of devices, but nothing so seamless that provided the functionality of Ubuntu for Android. The information you already have and use on your phone will be silently carried over and ready to use in the Ubuntu environment, and this integration is key to the success of the project. Whilst the majority of people are familiar with either Windows or iOS, there are less that would feel comfortable hopping onto Linux machine in the same way. If our emails and personal information are already there, it makes the transition and learning curve for new users much, much easier to tackle.

Android for Ubuntu was originally scheduled for release in 2014, but the recent teasers on the Ubuntu home page hint at the beginnings of its’ future. In terms of truly mobile computing, Ubuntu for Android could well take the lead ahead of Microsoft and Apple. I for one am excited at the possibilities, roll on 18:00 GMT! Oh, and did someone say Google and Motorola are working on an “X” phone for 2013, hmm? In the meantime let us know what you all think about it below in the comments.

Best android tablets 2012

Here we present you the tablets that are our top 5 of the year 2012. We tested cost-performance, usability, battery performance and general hardware performance.
Rank 5 goes to Asus's Transformer pad TF 300, because it is quite fast(tegra 3 quad-core) and it also was the first tablet with Nvidia's tegra 3.
On the fourth place we have Samsung's Galaxy note 10.1. Its performance is quote good, but not as good as quad-core tablets. We didn't like the quality, because it feels like cheap plastic.
Rank 3 is the Nexus 10,which is manufactured by Samsung, too but it is a Nexus device, this means you will get the fastest firmware updates and you have a stock android UI. Its display also has the highest resolution you can find on the market, even higher than the iPad 4's Retina display.
Rank 2 is the Asus TF700 Infinity, because it has the fastest clocked tegra 3 chip set, this means it is one of the fastest tablets on the market. The resolution is very high, too. It has a resolution of 1900*1200, which is HD resolution.
And rank 1 goes to Google's Nexus 7, which is also manufactured by Asus. Its pricing is really cheap. It only costs 199$ with 16gb storage. For this price you get a 7" tablet with HD resolution, a tegra 3 quad-core cpu , GPS,NFC, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. It also gets the fastest android updates you can get, because software support is done by Google itself. The quality is very good as well. This makes it our favorite tablet of the year 2012.
Let's hope we see many cool tablets and phones this year, too. Happy new year everybody!