Google TV is on final approval processing now

LG detailed today its Google TV is going to roll out in March in USA only.

What happens behind major tablet?

Unlikely most people's eyes are focusing on iPad, Galaxy Tab, Xoom and etc at the front line of battle field, there is happening another fierce battle behind our sights. That is named as 'White Box tablet market'. 'White Box tablet could be refer to the unbranded or last mover's tablets manufactured and sold by uncountable Chinese manufacturers. Most 7 inch White-Box tablets based on Android O/S stand at the price range between $75~$150. Even its performance looks quite poor than regular tablet, a White-Box tablet, Superpad 10.2 was marked at 6th place in Amazon.

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A screenshot from China Electronics wholesale

The top 15 best selling tablet in Amazon.com

It looks quite interesting for us to review what kinds of application processors, which are not from Apple, Nvidia, Samsung and qualcomm, are competing in this fierce battle field.

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LG's 8.9 inch Optimus Pad LTE

Jan. 18th, LG detailed its 8.9 inch Android Pad named as 'Optimus Pad LTE (model code: LG-LU8300)' is rolled out through LG U+ who is one of major carrier in Korea. This Optimus Pad LTE embeds Android 3.2 honeycomb O/S and 1.5Ghz dual processor, Snapdragon S3 with 8.9 inch True-HD IPS LCD panel (1280x768).

Features

• Dimension : 245 x 151.4 x 9.34 mm
• Weight : 497g
• Camera : Rear 800M(BSI), Front 200M
• Memory : 32GB
• SD Slot : support 32GB micro SD
• Battery : 6800mAh (Estimated operation time : 10hr)
• Connectivity : 4G(LTE), WiFi
• HDMI, DLNA, WiFi Direct, DMB
• OSP (On Screen Phone with LG smartphone)
• Retail price : approx. $765

Rumors of Galaxy S3 in MWC 2012

Samsung gives up Microsoft's Mango Phone in Korea

Reportedly, finally Samsung  abandoned its plan for rolling out Mango phone which embeds Windows mobile 7.5 O/S, in Korean market. In October last year, even Samsung shipped out Windows 7.5 phones to Europe, Russia and South East Asian market with brand name of 'OMNIA W', Samsung recalls nightmare experience with prior Windows phone in Korea in 2009. Samsung had in trouble of class action lawsuit caused by Windows O/S phone in Korea. Nokia's brand new Mango phone, Lumia 710, which rolled out in Korea from Dec. 26th through KT, does not appeal impressively to customers. That's additional reason why Samsung makes a decision to give up Mango phone in Korea. Also as we know Samsung reinforces to merge its proprietary BADA O/S with TIZEN alliance which was escalated by Intel and also next upcoming Windows 8 O/S was unveiled in CES 2012. These around facts look to make Samsung to hesitate driving its sales force in Mango phone.

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