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Thursday, May 26, 2011
AMEOLED Display IPad 3
The reporters from the Korea Herald have sated that Apple may adopt the AMEOLED display for their upcoming new generation of IPads. The Samsung Galaxy uses this, only because they make it.
New Apple Patent
Apple has patented a new type of battery, one that doesn't explode. It has specific weak spot designed into it to relieve the build up of gas in an emergency.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
64GB Micro SD Card
Kingmax has made the first 64GB Micro SD card. This card has a class 6 rating which means it can transfer 6mb/s and no pricing has been announced for this product yet.
Monday, May 23, 2011
Iphone 5/4S rumor
According to Digitimes the new Iphone 5 will reportedly have a curved screen and the phone might be called the Iphone 4S.
Saturday, May 21, 2011
A PC that runs ChromeOS
The Chromium PC announced last year has been scheduled to be released July 4th. It is the first desktop to be ready to run ChromeOS and other operating systems if you want it to. It holds 3 boards, also called modules, that are interchangeable this is what allows it to run other operating systems. The Xi3 has been designed to work with the cloud. It has an out-of-the-box set-up that will make it faster for you to get online.
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Xbox now accepts Paypal
Today's scheduled update for xbox 360 now lets you pay with Paypal and reduces the power consumption when idle for more then an hour or more.
AT&T new 4G
AT&T will be testing their new 4G network in their foundry in Plano, Texas. It offers 28.87 Mbps downstream and 10.4 Mbps upstream. They tested it on the 700MHz spectrum and they plan to cover 95% of the country.
Verizon and Windows 7 Phone
Windows has struck a deal with Verizon to sell its Windows 7 Phone. It is scheduled to release June 2nd and Pre-orders start May 26.
Apple's New Patent for the "cloud" service
Apples newly released patent shows us that the new cloud service makes you download a small piece of your intended music inorder to bypass the buffering that would begin at the beginning of that song. This will help with current 3G powered phones and it also includes a system that prevents people from stealing your music.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
AT&T lets Android users Sideload
AT&T has finally let android users to install apps from unofficial sources. It will send out an outdate in the next few weeks for their users. But Atrix 4G users will have to wait for a maintenance release from Motorola.
Android Honeycomb 3.1
This is an update for Android powered tablets. It introduces fixes for certain things as well as new things.
It improves the Flash on the tablets by taking advantage of the hardware acceleration on the Xoom. 720p and 360p videos off of YouTube have been improved by this but 720p still lags a bit. There is also better multitasking on it by this i mean you can scroll up and down open apps all you have to do is hit the home button and flick. It also released a movie store offering $3 standard and $4 movies HD rentals. Now you can resize home screen widgets. It also introduces USB hosts this means it will accept keyboards, thumb drives and cameras. It also has an updated Quick Controls UI lets you view open tabs quickly and access settings. It also supports HTML5 video and enables hardware acceleration as well as other new features for the calendar app and the email widget .
It improves the Flash on the tablets by taking advantage of the hardware acceleration on the Xoom. 720p and 360p videos off of YouTube have been improved by this but 720p still lags a bit. There is also better multitasking on it by this i mean you can scroll up and down open apps all you have to do is hit the home button and flick. It also released a movie store offering $3 standard and $4 movies HD rentals. Now you can resize home screen widgets. It also introduces USB hosts this means it will accept keyboards, thumb drives and cameras. It also has an updated Quick Controls UI lets you view open tabs quickly and access settings. It also supports HTML5 video and enables hardware acceleration as well as other new features for the calendar app and the email widget .
New Apple Data Center?!?!
Apple has recently struck a deal with a SoCal server data center. This one is just as big as the on in NC but one difference is that they didn't make this one. This is being leased to them by a third party. Could this be part of the rumored music streaming service or a back up to the data center in NC.
Scooba 230
This a new addition to the iRobot family. It is only about the size of a CD and a few inches tall. It costs $300.
PROS: All you have to do is place it on the ground and press the CLEAN button. It has a collision detection system and is able to navigate into small disgusting places.
CONS: It cannot replace a mop, by this i mean it can't clean serious grim or dirt. It doesn't dry well even though it has a vacuum function. I drags hair and dust behind it like it has a tail.
Netflix: top internet Trafficker
Netflix has earned the top internet trafficker spot in north america. It has 30% piece of the downstream traffic. While Websites have only 18% now netflix only has it because of the amount of data it sends like HD movies that take several GBs. It grows even more everyday soon it will be bigger than 30%.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Samsung LED light Bulbs
Samsung, one of the top electronics company, is joining the LED light game. They have now begun to produce their own LED light bulbs. That is because of the up coming band on incandescent lights in 2012.
Infinity Blade Multiplayer update
This thursday, may 19th infinity blade will release a multiplayer mode, survival mode and a bunch of other new content.
Droid X2
Verizon has announced that the Droid X2 will be released May 26th. Both websites are beginning to show mention to the new phone.
T-mobile with offers free wifi calling to android users
Today T-mobile announced that customers with an Android handset will be able to place wifi calls. All you need is the Smart Wi-Fi app and an even more or even more plus calling plan and they will be able to add this to their account today.
Monday, May 16, 2011
New LED backlit monitor revealed by HP
Today HP has revealed a new computer monitor. It is 23in.x 9.8mm this will give you a lot of extra space on you already crowded desk. It offers a resolution of 1980x1080 and a dynamic contrast ratio of 8,000,000:1 as well as a 3ms response time. It will be called the X2301 and it will cost $279.99.
Lenovo ThinkPad X1
This is a new breed of computers, it is a crossover. This laptop is made for the business life style but it doesn't seem like it is. It is thin, gorilla glass screen, spill-proof keyboard, and only weighs 3.7lbs. In 30min it can charge to 80% and comes with the option of an intel core i3, i5 or i7 processor. It costs $1400 and it also comes with Dolby Home Theater sound.
Earth like planet spotter
ExoPlanetSat's new nanosatellite, which is 30cm long, will embark on a new mission to spot earth like planets orbiting nearby stars. It will measure the incoming photons from the star but during this it has to hit the exact same pixels over and over and any sort of movement will ruin the data. It only costs $600,000 compared to the millions of dollars that older and bigger satellites costs.
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Netflix
This week netflix has released an android version of netflix. This means netflix has extended its reach on its convenient streaming service.
Reading list
Mac OSX Lion introduces a new feature called reading list. It means web pages saved with this tool are able to be read offline and can be synced with an IOS devices. This allows you to read web pages on your IOS device even when theres no wifi or 3G available. This makes the app instapaper obsolete and it will be an interesting feature in Lion.
Saturday, May 14, 2011
New imac
Earlier this mount apple released their new line of imacs. It features a LED-backlit display, with a 3x faster graphics card, has a quad-core intel processor and the thunderbolt plug in. It also gives you the choice of getting a track pad or magic mouse at no extra cost to you.
Iphone 5?
Alibaba.com has leaked a supposed picture of the future iphone. It show it to be a edge to edge screen which means it will possibly have a larger screen and the flash has been moved to the top right corner of the iphone. There also seems to be a difference in the home button but since this a iphone 5 case picture it could be just a sticker or a misprint.
1080p in 4.8in screen!!
A rival to iphone's 4 wondrous retina display is being made by Ortus technology. They made a 4.8in screen that plays back a 1080p image. Due to it's size it is a bit big to be a phone but too small to be a tablet so theres still work to be done here. As soon as they get it down to a smaller size it will be a wonderful product that apple may pick up for their iphone series.
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