HP Android tablet comes with Tegra 4

HP has the last two years regularly made the news, unfortunately this was not always positive. A few years ago, the company bought Palm mostly for its WebOS, but a first tablet was already after 7 weeks of the market. The stocks were dumped and bought by fans who flock to the WebOS operating system replacement for Android. Now the rumors started that a HP tablet on the market will be running on Android.

HP does not have a lot of fun for the purchase of Palm for $ 1.2 billion. The HP Touchpad was shortly after its launch in the market. The promise that the Touchpad is the best in the world was going to be was not fulfilled by HP.

There have always been rumors that HP to launch with Android at all was experimenting. Some people even had a new Touchpad receive what Android operating system already turned on.

HP is currently the market leader in terms of tablet PCs if you do not count, otherwise the big competitor Lenovo upside down. Logical that HP has yet again in the market for mobile products will collapse because they are different for the future major problems foreseen.

NVIDIA Tegra 4-tablet
HP will the next time with more Android Tablets on the market and according to ReadWrite, the first tablet from HP with the new fast NVIDIA Tegra 4 chipset on the market.

The successor of NVIDIA's Tegra 3 chipset (Cortex-A9) is the Tegra 4 and this chipset, NVIDIA announced at CES. This is a quad-core chipset based on the Cortex-A15 specifications. There are few manufacturers that have indicated this new chipset to get started. NVIDIA will own a handheld gaming console with the name Shield on the market on this chipset running.

This first and equal top tablet would according to various sources, several months in development. We do not do big announcement expected in Barcelona, only a select number of parties will be behind closed doors have been given a preview.

Google wins
It is a victory for Google that there will be a major player in the market to make devices that run on Android. Not so long ago they found no android system suitable for a tablet, but with the growth of this market, the new versions of Android and the opportunities that the budget tablets companies can offer that has changed. Recently released HP already a Chromebook that runs on Google's Chrome OS.

HP Android Phone
the rumors that HP is also an Android phone will be release time being contradicted by CEO Meg Whitman. She explains that this year certainly no HP Android Phone on the market will come. But as we all know, there is nothing as changeable as the industry.

Useful Android apps on Windows 8

All Android apps since yesterday also be used on Windows 8, for example, on the Microsoft Surface tablet.

BlueStacks has since yesterday there for a Windows 8 version of its App Player available. The software is free to download at GetYourAppsBack.com, which is also necessary to put the apps on the computer. After installation of the App Player Android apps to install and work on the full screen width and with full touch capabilities.

BlueStacks delivered earlier an App Player for Windows 7 and Mac OS X. According BlueStacks are already 5 million downloads started BlueStacks.com. In addition, the company works with OEM partners such as Lenovo, the software immediately flour springs with new hardware.

The company exists since 2009 and received $ 15 million in funding from Andreessen-Horowitz, Radar Partners, Redpoint, Ignition Partners and Qualcomm.

Nexus devices to Android 4.2.2

there are reports of users who can install Android 4.2.2 on their smartphone. Only the Nexus 4 remains behind.

Slowly drip the reports of users of Nexus devices that an update to Android 4.2.2 dished. Users of tablets Nexus 7 and 10 and the Galaxy Nexus smartphone have so far been reported.

Improvements
Google reports that the new Android Jelly Bean offers improvements in performance and stability. Furthermore, there is actually very little known about the update. It is therefore not a major update, but according to users with Android 4.2.2 in any cases a problem with the Bluetooth streaming audio. It is a bug of the Nexus 7 in this case, which faltered streams via Bluetooth. It seems likely that the bug is included in this Android version, since Google last month reported that the problem was solved and the solution in the next Android version would be.

Nexus 4
The Galaxy Nexus seems the only smartphone that has received the update. The Nexus 4 seems according Tweakers not yet been included in the rollout of Android 4.2.2. Of that update is known that new baseband firmware for 2g and 3g will be pushed. It could be that the firmware is also more efficient battery consumption shall be of Nexus 4 devices. Users of smartphones Nexus 4 report that the battery is empty lapped by the device when the device is not on wifi, but with 2g or 3g is connected to the Internet. We were here in December already set to work.