Once again it’s time to catch up with the best in tech news breaking waves on the other side of the world. Just when you thought LTE was destined to take the market, HSPA subscribers sky rocket. Is Android fragmentation really a thing of the past? This an a whole lot more in what we like to call the US Update.
4G LTE is the talk of the town, but new forecasts from independent telecom analyst Ovum suggest that HSPA will dominate the market for at least the next five years, with HSPA+ upgrade paths leading the charge. The latest Android distribution reports are in and we now have 83 percent of Android devices running Android 2.1 or higher. All signs point to an end to Android fragmentation.
HP has laid out their plans for webOS printers. The plan to move from Android to webOS is already taking form and we can expect to see the first set of printers ship in early 2012. Motorola and HTC have very different plans when it comes to Android tablets. Motorola has confirmed two tablets – a seven and a ten inch. Meanwhile HTC is sitting back and still evaluation the market. Is this the right move?
Last in this morning is the NVIDIA white-paper which revealed that Tegra 3 and Tegra 4 processors will soon be making their way to Android handsets. The manufacturer has confirmed that we’ll see a new Tegra chip each year from here on out.
That wraps up things this fine morning from the states. Thanks for spending your morning with us as we break the headlines fresh off the press from our side of the world. Until tomorrow, this is Nick saying over and out.
