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I just read these rumors today. If this is true that Motorola might be the first to adopt the Tegra 3 quad core processor chip onto a tablet for a early Q3 fall release, I might hold off in buying my motorola xoom. The Tegra 3 chip is suppose to be released in August to manufacturers to put on tablets and smartphones and contains 3x faster graphics than the Tegra 2 with a 1.5 GHz max frequency. Check out the first link for the Nvidia roadmap for this year.
What do you guys think? Would you hold off in buying your xoom if this was true?
check out these 2 links about this story.
http://tablets-planet.com/2011/03/2...-tegra-3-tablet-coming-late-summer-this-year/
http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/22237-motorola-xoom-quad-core-for-back-to-school
i would definitely wait on the tegra3 tablet.
I'm hoping they do, I'll sell my Xoom for one, love Moto hardware.
I am kinda torn on these new rumors. Part of me wants to get the xoom now and be done with it so I can start customizing it and playing with it. The other part of me thinks it might be smart just to wait a few more months especially if they say they will try to aim for a sept release of a quad core xoom. I would love to have the Tegra 3 processor since it has 3x graphics, supports higher resolution with blu-ray support, and 1.5Ghz max frequency.
I guess I'll stick to my plan of test driving the wifi xoom until june (90 days return policy at costo) and then re-evaluate the other tablets and make a decision by end of june.
Hopefully by june, there will be more news if these rumors are real or not.
So even if they release the chips to tablet manufactures in August, how long until we see a tablet using one? December? January? March? Later?
I'll enjoy my Xoom now, and when we finally see a Tegra 3...then I'll upgrade.
These tablets aren't nearly expensive enough to justify waiting around imo.
Besides, once the "Quad-Core Tegra 3" comes out, you know there will be rumors of a hex-core Tegra 4...how long will you wait?
Now if you don't need a tablet now, or are hard up for cash...by all means...
ericdabbs said:
I am kinda torn on these new rumors. Part of me wants to get the xoom now and be done with it so I can start customizing it and playing with it. The other part of me thinks it might be smart just to wait a few more months especially if they say they will try to aim for a sept release of a quad core xoom. I would love to have the Tegra 3 processor since it has 3x graphics, supports higher resolution with blu-ray support, and 1.5Ghz max frequency.
I guess I'll stick to my plan of test driving the wifi xoom until june (90 days return policy at costo) and then re-evaluate the other tablets and make a decision by end of june.
Hopefully by june, there will be more news if these rumors are real or not.
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If you wait for the latest and greatest you will never own anything. 1 month after tegra 3 there will be tegra 5 already getting ready for production.
codeman05 said:
So even if they release the chips to tablet manufactures in August, how long until we see a tablet using one? December? January? March? Later?
I'll enjoy my Xoom now, and when we finally see a Tegra 3...then I'll upgrade.
These tablets aren't nearly expensive enough to justify waiting around imo.
Besides, once the "Quad-Core Tegra 3" comes out, you know there will be rumors of a hex-core Tegra 4...how long will you wait?
Now if you don't need a tablet now, or are hard up for cash...by all means...
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If you see the second story, the rumor is that motorola will try to be the first manufacturer to produce a tablet that uses the tegra 3 processor and the ship date around september which isn't too far away.
If the rumor said that tablets will not use the tegra 3 processor until next april, then there is no point in waiting.
Well I hope Verizon will let me upgrade to the Xoom 2.Every time I look at my account for the Xoom it clearly states "upgrade now".So we shall see.
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Same old
Remember these same type of sources were predicting The Bionic would be out in Jan/Feb in the fall last year. Just have to figure out if you want a tablet now or not.
i love my Brandi aka Xoom to much to swich. But if they do release it. We looking a Feb or March of next year. I'm good for now. Moving on to the next question.
Yep I figure that it would come out next year if it does.
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ericdabbs said:
I just read these rumors today. If this is true that Motorola might be the first to adopt the Tegra 3 quad core processor chip onto a tablet for a early Q3 fall release, I might hold off in buying my motorola xoom. The Tegra 3 chip is suppose to be released in August to manufacturers to put on tablets and smartphones and contains 3x faster graphics than the Tegra 2 with a 1.5 GHz max frequency. Check out the first link for the Nvidia roadmap for this year.
What do you guys think? Would you hold off in buying your xoom if this was true?
check out these 2 links about this story.
http://tablets-planet.com/2011/03/2...-tegra-3-tablet-coming-late-summer-this-year/
http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/22237-motorola-xoom-quad-core-for-back-to-school
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No absolutely not, because I have a XOOM now and I will be able to enjoy it until the new product is available. Then I will sell my XOOM to someone who doesn't always want the newest latest bleeding edge thing to subsidize the cost of my newest latest bleeding edge thing.
Thank you!
codeman05 said:
So even if they release the chips to tablet manufactures in August, how long until we see a tablet using one? December? January? March? Later?
I'll enjoy my Xoom now, and when we finally see a Tegra 3...then I'll upgrade.
These tablets aren't nearly expensive enough to justify waiting around imo.
Besides, once the "Quad-Core Tegra 3" comes out, you know there will be rumors of a hex-core Tegra 4...how long will you wait?
Now if you don't need a tablet now, or are hard up for cash...by all means...
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I agree on this 100%.. That's just how it is on the technology biz.. Once the new technology has been released, a better technology will be in line to get introduced not long after by the competitors.. And the good thing about us early adopters is that when upgrading time is up, we can sell our old device to get the new one, and those who wait ends up buying our old device from us.. Now the question is, which of the two would you wanna be?
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It's my opinion that these rumors are being propagated by Moto/Android/Tablet competitors. Maybe Apple, but even more likely, places a little closer to home...like direct Moto Xoom competitors like Samsung and LG.
Think about it: how many games have come out that TRULY take advantage of dual core? How many games or apps have been released that truly take advantage of Honeycomb?
So many that we are all clamoring for quad core??? I think not. Not by a long shot.
Is Motorola working on a quad core device for release someday??? I'm sure they are, just like all manufacturers are. BUT dual core is where we are at and these rumors do NOTHING but stunt Xoom sales.
Now, who would do something like that? Google? Nope. Moto?? Nope.
I'll tell you who...the manufacturers who are all late to the game like Samsung who had to pull their 10.1 tablet and come up with a whole new one to even try and compete. LG maybe? Apple??
I cannot say, but something smells rotten. This bull**** rumor comes out to coincide with the Xoom WiFi launch is just too cute by half. Think about it for just a second: WiFi Xoom launches on 27th...on the 28th rumors of a Moto quad core come out???? That is no coincidence.
Somebody doesn't want us buying Xooms. And these same people will love selling us dual core devices in a few months when the rumors(they started) of Moto quad core have died out.
The shame of it is, if you delay your purchase waiting for the next great thing, you'll never buy, because as soon as it's released the next great thing vX.0 will be announced. Look at PC's over the years and how they've evolved, and continue to do so. Just too bad the tabs don't have socketed CPUs to upgrade.
Love the responses by everyone. Just wanted to know what your guys thoughts were. Most likely, I'll buy my wifi xoom to keep in june.
I bought the wifi xoom at costco to test drive it for 90 days to see if I like it. Then I plan to return it and test out the other tablets that are coming out in june. If I like the xoom still, I'll just buy it from amazon to use my gift card balance and no tax.
blackte4 said:
i love my Brandi aka Xoom to much to swich. But if they do release it. We looking a Feb or March of next year. I'm good for now. Moving on to the next question.
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Well put, I'm not buyin that it would drop this year. Wouldn't be a good move for Motorola.
Imagine what this will be like in 4 - 5 years.
Man, I heard someone was coming out with a Tegra 3000 Deluxe edition. Can't wait! I'm just going to use my Moto RAZR until then, winning!
It won't be hardware that gets people to jump. A 4-core only runs faster, but a new Android rev will have more features. If Goog sticks to the 6-month cycle, then I-whazit would be a nice addition to that quad, hopefully in yuletide wrappings. We'll see if the early adopters have the stamina to keep up.
Haven't seen this link posted yet:
nVidia Kal-El
I am pretty sure we will have those chips in shipping products for Christmas shopping season. I think nVidia can execute well and it should have an easier time getting some design wins since the Tegra2 got Google's blessing.
One thing to remember is that Tegra2 is pretty old at this point, it was announced more then a year ago and did not really have any design wins until Google decided to use the SOC for Honeycomb. Now it would be foolish to think that Google chose this SOC without looking at roadmaps. It would also be foolish to think that Honeycomb cannot benefit from quad cores as the heavy lifting for multi threading is already done.
My personal point of view is the following, either be an early adopter and jump on the XOOM as soon as you can or wait for the holiday season. No matter how good the Samsung's look, it wouldn't touch them. I see them as 1.5 generation devices that will be released to close to Google I/O and most likely IceCream.
If you wait for holiday season, you should have a much more polished OS, hardware as well as a much more competitive landscape with better prices. My hunch is that we will see a Google Nexus Tab with quad core Kal-el somewhere in time for back to school/holidays. This would be very similar to the Droid with Android 2.0 to Nexus One with 2.1.
I was going for the XOOM wifi, but with lack of Honeycomb AOSP and a lack of real need for this device, I will wait...I could be wrong and we'll only know in six months or so!
TL;DR: By Xoom now or wait for holidays.
Found this from ZDnet
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/asus-developing-tegra-3-quad-core-tablet-for-summer-launch/48199
Asus developing Tegra 3 quad-core tablet for summer launch?
Not likely. What I've read is that nVidia won't have the chip ready to distribute until later this year.
The chips have to be made before tablets can be made using them. Not quite a chicken or egg kinda thing, you gotta have the chip (and adequate stock of it) to build a product using it.
I don't expect anything until possibly late Q3 if not Q4.
Yep, Asus have said that it'll be an Autumn launch. Either way, I can't afford the Transformer right now so I'll probably get its big brother when it launches.
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there are two new tablets coming in the summer but they'll be tegra 2. Tegra 3 launches late summer with tablets coming q3 or q4
The person that wrote the ZDnet story unfortunately didn't read the Digitimes story correctly.
Digitimes said the ASUS Slider and Memo (Tegra 2) tablets will be released this summer. AND that ASUS is working on a Tegra 3 tablet, but gave no time frame for the Tegra 3 tablet.
I doubt we'll see any Tegra 3 devices ship this year.
Maybe spring/summer 2012 lol.
Seriously stop believing the pro Apple press! First the UK June delay was reported as if it was a US delay, then they did the same thing with July ( I even saw a few reports of August lol), then Engadget says there's no gps (pulls the story minutes later), and now this. If you read the original source, Tegra 3 tablets have absolutely nothing to do with the upcoming EP102 (Tegra 2 based) and EP71 (Qualcomm based) in that article. I personally feel stories like this, from ZDNet (and many others), are an attempt to confuse consumers who aren't sure which tablet to buy and more importantly a smear tactic to limit Asus sales. There are other examples besides the ones I posted above as well. Needless to say, these stories aren't working.
Ravynmagi said:
The person that wrote the ZDnet story unfortunately didn't read the Digitimes story correctly.
Digitimes said the ASUS Slider and Memo (Tegra 2) tablets will be released this summer. AND that ASUS is working on a Tegra 3 tablet, but gave no time frame for the Tegra 3 tablet.
I doubt we'll see any Tegra 3 devices ship this year.
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^This, however i feel it was done intentionally.
If I rember right Nvidia was talking about having tablets with this chip, Kal-El
out in the fall. I do not know if this means testers or real tablets. Just hope that
Asus does bring one out.
Motorola wanted to have Xoom with Kal-El this year.
I mean where are all the games? galaxy on fire 3 looks cool but got pushed back from april to may and well may is 2/3rds the way over... Man I didn't expect games to be pumping out but this is sloooooooooooow... Galaxy on fire 2 needs to be released..
Anyone feel let down so far? And whats up with monster madness being released last month, but pulled from tegrazone and now due in june..lol is this a joke?
Last thing I'm worried about on my phone are games. That's what my Xbox 360 is for. haha
Games? Im still trying to get a handset that doesnt freeze and reboot.
RevenG said:
Last thing I'm worried about on my phone are games. That's what my Xbox 360 is for. haha
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Good for you buddy... I just took a ****..
smashpunks said:
Good for you buddy... I just took a ****..
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Lol, but yeah I was expecting some games like gameloft site... I'm not paying for backbreaker hd or any of those other wack games.
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Feels more like an advertisement for games which support tegra 2...
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smashpunks said:
Good for you buddy... I just took a ****..
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lol. now that there was funny.. Kinda like the other guy commenting about using his xbox. It's like... no relevance whatsoever to your post. Just something to say "look at me! I have a comment! look at me!" lol
I've actually purchased a few of the tegra games that are out now (including backbreaker). I had backbreaker for free when they gave it away on the amazon market a while ago.. so it made sense that when I updated to the g2x.. i'd just buy the tegra version. I am a football fan after all. It all comes down to preference people. Opinions aren't law... they're opinions.
Like the OP i'm waiting anxiously for more tegra supported games.. and ESPECIALLY for GoF2. Let's be objective though.. let's remember that tegra devices and honeycomb were announced in JANUARY.. it really hasn't been that long. I think we're all used to the ultra-high pace of the mobile industry and probably expect devs to move just as fast, but they need to wait on adoption. Bear in mind there are only 2 tegra based PHONES on the market.. and the only tegra tablet on the market was the xoom.. which came out 2 months ago... we've seen lots of announcments.. but no product in dev hands.. but now that I/O has happened (chuckle) give it another few months.. we're at the tip of the spear here guys.
They seem overly expensive. Which is why they wont sell much. If they were cheaper I think people would be all over them!
schmit said:
lol. now that there was funny.. Kinda like the other guy commenting about using his xbox. It's like... no relevance whatsoever to your post. Just something to say "look at me! I have a comment! look at me!" lol
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Exactly, you totally understood where I was going with that...
hazard99 said:
They seem overly expensive. Which is why they wont sell much. If they were cheaper I think people would be all over them!
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agreed.. some of them are a few bucks more than they're standard variety versions... it's a premium vs regular thing I guess.
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Like i said.. there aren't may tegra devices and the reason the regular versions are so low is because theres a bigger market so they sell way more. maybe we'll see the prices come down as more people get tegra tablets and phones eh?
I like the pinball.
I definitely agree with the OP. I travel a lot for business and mostly international, so having something to kill time on layovers etc is priceless. So far the tegra zone games are decent at best, and when compared to iOS their pretty weak. Even gameloft games play significantly better on iOS, maybe because the game was just a crappy port. But still with our phones able to pump out 2x the fps, there's no excuse imo.
Like i said.i don't expect tons, but when galaxy on fire 2 has been it on ios for 2 years now and its being pushed back for android on a gaming cpu is crap, especially since developers are supposed to be developing for it...
So, lets hope when the dx and a few other tegra devices are released then maybe things will get rolling more... I mean 1 game came out in the month I've owned this device and one got pulled, and another got pushed back...
When we have a gaming device I expect more.the tegra should have done killer games. Honestly though nothing out in the zone at this moment is any better than gameloft... At least release galaxy on fire 2 on time ya know.. I just figured there would be a few more..
Edit: noticed my first train set was 10+ a few days ago now its 5 bucks...lol thats good.
Tegra games smedra games! ...I don't really care for the "Made for" such and such device type of games as long I get great titles that run fine on my device. Which I have yet to have an issue with the MANY pirated games I have I am not at a loss at all.
Enjoy what you have and the phone has only been out for a month.... learn to wait. Also OP....why so mad bra?
Riptide hd just came out and its pretty fun
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Riptide is sick and I like being able to open tegra zone and find all the nvidia specific apps.
So far I have took the refund on every single game I have downloaded from tegra zone. Really the only game that looks like a real winner is Galaxy on Fire as someone mentioned before.
smashpunks said:
Exactly, you totally understood where I was going with that...
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Whats funnier is that he explained the sarcasm
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Riptide GP is now the best game for the Android platform. Check it out. Download didn't take too long so you can refund if you need, unlike that damn bang bang game.
I might be getting an android tablet for my birthday in 6 days.
After researching the currently available ones, I decided a 32gb GT 10.1 would be best for me. My only question is should I wait for tegra 3 before asking for one? I know there's always something better coming out soon, but I've heard that tegra 3 tablets may be released by the end of this month!
If they were coming out this holiday, I could get a GT now because by the holidays I could sell it to a friend and purchase a tegra 3 one. I just don't want to get this and then have tegra 3 come out in a few weeks.
Thanks
Any news on these games. I know the Desert Wind was pretty hyped for our phone but there has not been any news in almost 6 months on any of those games. Out of all those Desert Winds was looking to be my favorite, it was even being co-developed I think by the makers of the SnapDragon GPU.......
Isnt Desert Winds only a tech demo to show the power of adreno GPUs?
Desert winds is out next year, and its an xperia play exclusive. Never heard of the other two lol
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Icebreaker was out since July.
Icebreaker was in the 10p sale last week...
For some reason Desert Winds was supposed to be 4th Quarter 2011... But obviously they have changed the date.
They will come when Vita is out and the Suite is up and running. Maximise sales.
MasonMk said:
Icebreaker was in the 10p sale last week...
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Yeah, I bought Icebreaker. It's no FIFA 2012, but it's OK.