Huawei MediaPad 10 FHD announced, quad-core beast

Huawei just went official with their latest 10-inch MediaPad, after last night's foreplay.

We saw the beast on display yesterday at Huawei's press event but only now we got to learn the full specs. The MediaPad 10 FHD runs on Huawei's proprietary quad-core K3V2 processor, clocked at 1.5 GHz. The amount of RAM is the impressive 2 GB but there are only 8 gigs of on-board storage. Fret not though, as it has a microSD card slot to expand that.

The IPS display is a real treat - a FullHD-worthy 1920 x 1200 resolution resulting into a pixel density of around 226 pixels per inch, which is more than what any ultrabook, tablet or netbook out there can match.

Connectivity options are duly covered with HSPA+ speeds plus LTE (we're guessing in separate versions). An 8 MP camera on the back is in charge of imaging.

The MediaPad 10 FHD offers an aluminum unibody construction, it weighs 598 g and is just 8.8 mm thick.

The MediaPad 10 FHD will become available worldwide in Q2 of 2012.

For live pictures of the MediaPad 10 FHD you can check out our hands-on.

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Samsung shows quad-core Exynos chipset

Samsung officially showed off a new Exynos chipset with four Cortex-A9 cores and a new GPU at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference. The new chip boasts both performance and battery improvements.

It's built using a 32nm process rather than the 45nm process used for current Exynos chipsets. Each CPU core can be switched off and even half of the 1MB L2 cache can be disabled to preserve power.

According to Samsung, this results in 26% performance boost compared to their current Exynos chipsets. Energy saving for CPU-bound tasks goes up to 45%, while rendering 3D takes up to 48% less energy.

The new chipset uses the latest GPU (presumably from the Mali series), with one geometry engine and four pixel processors.

The chipset will be available with clock speeds for the processor ranging from 200MHz to 1.5GHz. There's support for both LPDDR2 and the newly announced LPDDR3, and a dual-core version of the chipset is planned, too.

Samsung will be showing off their new Exynos at the MWC and we might even get to see a product with it, but we'll have to wait a couple days more to find out.

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Speedy LG Quad-core Optimus 4X HD to be revealed at MWC

LG’s new flagship phone, dubbed the Optimus 4X HD, is set to be announced at next week’s Mobile World Congress.  As manufacturers try to one up each other before the big event in Barcelona, leaks of bigger and faster phones are starting to come out of the woodwork.  This one will be tough to beat.

This latest beast is said to be powered by a quad-core Tegra 3 CPU.  If that’s not enough to whet your appetite, other features include 4.7 inch 720p display, 8MP camera, 21Mbps HSPA data support all running off of Ice Cream Sandwich.  The Korean based electronics manufacturer has just fired a shot directly off of it’s countyman’s (Samsung) bow.  Will Samsung  counter with any major announcements at this year’s MWC?  Sadly, it doesn’t seem to be the case.

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