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Nvidia, the company behind the chip Tegra 2, make a pretty bold prediction. Honeycomb Android-based tablets are expected to exceed iPad in three years.

It was said Jen-Hsu Huang, CEO of Nvidia, the Reuters Technology Summit in New York. "Android phone only took two and a half years to reach its momentum. I'm sure the same thing will happen in tablet Honeycomb," said Huang was quoted as saying by Reuters on Tuesday (17/05/2011).

Huang said that growth tablets Android will be more rapidly with the increasing number of applications and games for these tablets.

Nvidia will certainly be happy when the tablet-based Honeycomb skyrocketed. We have quite a lot of tablets that use 2 of Nvidia's Tegra processor, call it Transformer Pad Asus Eee, Acer and Samsung A500 Iconia Galaxy Tab 10.1.

Furthermore, Nvidia is planning a more powerful processor again. For example, Kal-El-coded processor with quad-core capabilities, aka 'four brain'.

Huang said there are already some device makers are ready to use Kal-El. "There are at least 10. The five companies and five mobile PC manufacturers," he said.

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As the growing popularity of Android, the number of applications  developed  for this operating  system  more and more. Even predicted soon, applications on the Android  Market  will be  higher  in number  than the  Apple  App Store.

Research from Research2guidance company in Germany said that though initially slow, the growth of Android Market began to exceed the Apple Store. In April 2011, as many as 28 thousand new application added to Android Market, compared to 11 thousand in the App Store.

Until May 2011, the Android Market had 294,738 applications. This amount is approaching the App Store that had 381,062 applications at the same time.

By analyzing several factors such as higher growth than the App Store, Android applications, Research2guidance predict the number of applications will exceed the Android Market App Store around August 2011.

Research2guidance also revealed several other points. For example only 36% paid Android applications, compared with 60% application in the App Store. Apple's revenue edges will still be higher than Google.

Quoted from PCWorld, Saturday (05/07/2011), although the growth of Android Market so soon, but the number of fixed income more dredged App Store. Projected, Apple will reach about three-quarters of total revenue of all stores and existing applications in 2011.

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