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News about NVIDIA’s latest chipset, the NVIDIA Tegra 2, was received with much zest as it promises a great deal of enhancements on the graphics front. It is supposed to deliver 4 times faster performance when compared to the earlier NVIDIA chipset with power consumption and heat generation still remaining within the same brackets. High definition 1080p video streaming and displaying will also be much quicker. Moreover, it is said to consume lesser power than its Intel and Qualcomm contemporaries. Reasonably good battery life is also promised.
Mobinnova Beam is one of the first ultraportables to sport this new NVIDIA platform. A light and slim mini-netbook, the Mobinnove Beam, has an 8.9″ screen. The ARM Cortex A9 1GHz processor is employed in it. The NVIDIA GeForce GPU handles graphics. The Windows CE OS had been running on a test unit checked by Engadget. However, the Android OS is supposed to be used when the device enters production. The RAM presents a capacity of 256MB. There’s also 512MB of flash memory. SD card memory expansion is said to be supported too.
The rear joint of the lid and the keyboard forms a roll-like structure, which snaps down, to reveal all the connectors. The device can as well be rested on this for a slight prop-up.
The tests conducted by Engadget revealed that the overall performance of the device was fast; Firefox is said to have opened in 7 seconds; 1080p videos played smoothly; playback was smooth when connected to an HD TV too.
Mobinnova Beam netbook will be available in the US, with the AT&T network. Pricing has not yet been revealed. Neither has a UK release been mentioned.
Via Engadget
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