First look at Nvidia's Project Shield

Another CES has come and gone. Project Shield in one of the favorite product from the show CES 2013.

Project Shield is a proposed handheld game console by Nvidia Corporation which was first announced at CES 2013 on 7 January 2013. Project Shield was one of the hot topics of CES. The company seemingly came out of left field with the device's announcement during its Monday press conference.
Calling it "100 per cent Android", the 4K controller plus 5-inch multitouch screen also houses the company's new Tegra 4 processor. It really is pure Android – Project Shield runs Jelly Bean 4.2

"Project Shield was created by Nvidia engineers who love to game and imagined a new way to play," said Jen-Hsun Huang

"We imagined a device that would do for games what the iPod and Kindle have done for music and books, letting us play in a cool new way. We hope other gamers love Shield as much as we do."

Its 20-plus hours of playing time and 720p plus 294 dpi retinal screen make it a handy device to play. Of course, it's limited to streaming games in the home, a tether Nvidia is sure to be working on cutting.

With launch games like Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 and Need for Speed: Most Wanted, plus access to users' PC, Steam, TegraZone and Google Play titles, Project Shield literally has access to the biggest launch lineup for any handheld gaming system ever.

That alone is worth a look for most gamers, and because its designs likely extend far beyond Project Shield, we can't wait to see where Nvidia plans to take gaming.

Features of Project Shield :-
1) THE WORLD'S FASTEST MOBILE PROCESSOR
Custom 72-core NVIDIA GeForce® GPU
Quad-core A15 CPU

2) HOW GAMES WERE MEANT TO BE PLAYED
Ultimate control and precision with a full-size console-grade game controller

3) YOUR GAMES HAVE NEVER LOOKED SO GOOD
5-inch 720p retinal multi-touch display for high fidelity visuals

4) TURN UP YOUR GAME
Custom, bass-reflex, tuned port audio system delivers fidelity and custom range never before experienced on a portable device

5) NO LAG MEANS NO EXCUSES
802.11n 2x2 MIMO game-speed Wi-Fi provides high-bandwidth, ultra-fast wireless for seamless game streaming

6) PURE ANDROID, SO NOTHING GETS IN YOUR WAY
Project SHIELD is stocked with the latest Android Jelly Bean operating system from Google, providing access to all your favorite Android applications and games

Asus's MeMO Android tablet for 149$

The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas may be over, but it does not mean news and product announcements come to an end. Asus waited until today, perhaps to avoid the avalanche of other announcements, to unveil its new MeMO Pad — a seven inch Android 4.1 tablet that will be released soon.

The MeMO Pad will run Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, has a 1 MP front facing camera, 1 GB of RAM and comes with either 8 or 16 GB of storage. The company claims 7 hours of battery life. In addition, it claims to feature “a 10-point multi-touch LED-backlit display with 1024 x 600 resolution, 140-degree wide viewing angles, and its 350-nit brightness means images remain clear, even outdoors”.

The tablet “will be available starting this January in selected markets”. Prices begin at $149 — presumably for the 8 GB version. The MeMO Pad will come in three colors – Sugar White, Titanium Gray and Cherry Pink and will be in the U.S. market in April.

Run Android Applications on other phones

Mobile technology company Myriad has announced new software called Alien Dalvik which will allow Android applications to run on non-Android phones. The software will be demonstrated live for the first time next week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Although Myriad may not be a household name, the company is also the maker of virtual machine software called Dalvik Turbo, which was introduced last year as way to speed up the performance of Android applications by up to three times, while also improving battery life on Android phones. This latest release builds on top of that technology and will be available for the MeeGo platform later this year, with other platforms to follow.

If you purchase a new smartphone there are a couple of choices you need to make beforehand. The first is what make and model of phone you desire, the second is the operating system you would prefer to use. Unfortunately, picking the phone inherently means you don’t have a choice in the OS it uses as they come pre-loaded.

Myriad is set to change that if you want access to Android on a smartphone that doesn’t offer it as an OS. The solution is the Myriad Alien Dalvik virtual machine, which allows Android apps to be run on alternative operating systems seamlessly.

This is actually more straightforward than it first seems. While Android is a full-blown operating system, Android apps run in a virtual machine due to the security that offers. So if you can recreate that emulation environment on another OS, the apps should run as normal and without any kind of performance hit to the app’s operation.

Myriad will be demonstrating Alien Dalvik at the Mobile World Congress next week, but the video above gives you a preview of it running on MeeGo using Nokia N900 hardware.

While users may find this useful if they have Android apps they like, but a non-Android phone, Myriad is actually aiming this at developers rather than consumers. Instead of developing an app for multiple platforms, Alien Dalvik allows an Android app to be developed and deployed everywhere. The user will not know an Android app is running on their other OS, as the virtual machine being used is completely transparent and the app just runs as if it is native.

For the moment Alien Dalvik is slated to get a commercial release for MeeGo later this year. Other operating systems are going to be supported and Myraid say they will be announced in the next few months and hopefully in time for the initial launch.


read more:-  myriadgroup.com

Android will beat iPhone

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has praised Google’s smartphone operating system Android and has predicted that it will soon surpass the iPhone operating system in both quantity and quality.The comments by the man who invented the first Mac computer came as Android-powered phones are fast catching up with Apple’s iPhones in market share.

“The Apple phone has very few weaknesses,” Wozniak told Netherlands newspaper De Telegraaf in an interview posted on Thursday.

“When it comes to quality, the iPhone is leading.” But he conceded that “Android phones have more features” and deliver more buying options for those who don’t want to be limited to a single device.In addition, Mr. Wozniak told the publication that eventually the quality of Android will match Apple’s operating system and much like Windows in the desktop space, Google’s mobile platform will become the “dominant” option in the mobile market.