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NVIDIA Challenges Apple's iPad Benchmarks
"At the iPad unveiling last week, Apple flashed up a slide claiming
that the iPad 2 was 2x as fast as Nvidia's Tegra 3, while the new iPad
would be 4x more powerful than Team Green's best tablet. NVIDIA's
response boils down to: 'it's flattering to be compared to you, but how
about a little data on which tests you ran and how you crunched the
numbers?' NVIDIA is right to call Apple out on the meaningless nature of such a comparison,
and the company is likely feeling a bit dogpiled given that TI was
waving unverified webpage benchmarks around less than two weeks ago.
That said, the Imagination Technologies (PowerVR) GPUs built into the
iPad 2 and the new iPad both utilize tile-based rendering. In some ways,
2012 is a repeat of 2001 — memory bandwidth is at an absolute premium
because adding more bandwidth has a direct impact on power consumption.
The GPU inside NVIDIA's Tegra 2 and Tegra 3 is a traditional chip, which
means it's subject to significant overdraw, especially at higher
resolutions. Apple's comparisons may be bogus, but Tegra 3's bandwidth
issue they indirectly point to aren't. It will be interesting to see
NVIDIA's next move and what their rumored Tegra 3+ chip might bring." -
Apple is working with Toshiba to develop an advanced display technology for the next iPhone, says Jefferies analyst Peter Misek in a report.
The new screen technology is said to be more responsive, and will allow Apple to make a thinner phone.
Here's what Misek wrote:
We believe Apple is partnering with Toshiba Mobile Display on inCell technology for potential inclusion in the iPhone 5
or beyond. Our view of inCell remains skeptical, but if they do achieve
commercial yields we see this as almost as powerful a change as a move
to OLED would be. It would remove the need for touch assemblies, allow
them to reduce the thickness of iPhones considerably, and would enable
unbelievably smooth and sensitive touch experiences for Apple devices. -
LG Capacitive In-Cell Multi-Touch LCD panel first to get thumbs up from Microsoft
LG Display’s CTO and executive vice president, Dr. In-Jae Chung
noted, “LG Display has successfully applied the Capacitive In-Cell
Multi-Touch technology to large sized LCDs for notebook PCs. Until now,
the technology had limited use in smaller devices like mobile phones. We
believe Microsoft certification is a testament to the product’s
excellence. We will continue to apply superior touch functions to larger
IT products like notebooks and monitors to lead consumer and market
trends.”LG Display
unveiled the world’s largest 13.3-inch Capacitive In-Cell Multi-Touch
screen panel at FPD (Flat Panel Display) International Japan 2009 and
plans to launch mass production of the panel in the second half of 2010. -
Samsung Supplies Apple With Screens
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-03-13/samsung-supplies-apple-with-touch-screen-for-new-ipad
lol.
I guess they can't find anybody who can supply large OLED. I hope Samsung made Apple signs a painful contract.
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He also complained that,
"the new iPad does get noticeably warm in the lower left corner after
prolonged use. It’s never hot, just warm." He thinks it has something to
do with the 4G wireless connection or the new battery. He hadn't experienced it with other iPads.
http://www.businessinsider.com/what-everyone-dislikes-about-the-new-ipad-2012-3
Apple's notoriously crappy engineering. one explosion/recall like their (everything really. laptop, ipod) and the whole thing need to be recalled.
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Apple 'iPad Mini' is planned, Samsung official tells Korea Times
On Wednesday, it seems the tech world stepped in another wad of iPad Mini rumors after the Korea Times reported that an unnamed Samsung official told the newspaper that Apple was "planning to release a smaller iPad, probably with a 7.85-inch screen," later this year.
The report also said that Samsung is supplying
the 9.7-inch touchscreens found in the third-generation iPad, as well
as a solid state drive supplier for Apple's MacBook Air laptops.With
all that going on, Apple will be paying Samsung about $9.7 billion to
$11 billion in supply costs, depending on consumer demand for iPads and
MacBooks, the Korea Times said. -
Haha - that's a friend of mine and voicing over in the UK Siri parody. Pretty much true though
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If they can't do japanese, a language with far fewer consonant, highly standardized vocalization and fairly regular grammar, they are not going to be able to do english... far more diverse sound variation, accents and quirky structure.
I don't think apple has the computing power to deliver all those speech recognition demand. They don't even have their own map service (or anything else on the cloud except iTune), how can they deliver direction based on speech recognition? They certainly don't have "search" service if anybody inputing voice for internet search.
Apple is stylish consumer electronic outfit, selling "cool stuff" not really a technology company. They don't hold any super high tech patent stuff. (they don't even own basic stuff like radio, GPU, or screen technology) HTC or Asus are more "tech" company than Apple ever be. Let alone IBM or Samsung. Their closest competition is really chinese OEM, design and assembly. If they can deliver "cooler stuff" apple is over. It's all marketing. It happened before taiwan OEM in the 90's (in fact Acer/Asus/Compal, etc are from that era)
Too bad Google is completely directionless and unimaginative when it comes to consumer service. (They probably are still dreaming about google+/accumulating all personal information/no privacy, when everybody is pissed off about privacy lost and just want service delivered with extreme minimalist personal information input.)
They could have owned the entire planet and more, but they are chasing few penny ads.
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Second problem was the fact that according to our sources close to heart
of the matter, NVIDIA did not want to deal with GlobalFoundries while
AMD was the shareholder "for competitive purposes". NVIDIA’s executives
obviously didn’t have the memo in which AMD-GF relationship was strained
(Llano is a good example).
Thus, what could NVIDIA do? The company
talked with the Common Platform for quite some time, and the choice was
obvious. When 28nm and 20nm processes started to reach early phase,
NVIDIA talked to Samsung about a trial run of Tegra chips. The
engineering work required for this task took a lot of effort from NVIDIA
and Samsung, but we received word that very recently, NVIDIA received
chips from Samsung.
Once 20nm process matures AMD, NVIDIA, and
Qualcomm and just about everybody else will be able to switch foundries
from TSMC to Common Platform and back, which are what all companies need
to battle Intel’s "transistor excellence".
Qualcomm already uses
Common Platform through GlobalFoundries and it looks NVIDIA is joining
the Common Platform through the small doors with Samsung. With AMD
expanding from GlobalFoundries to TSMC, it looks like the foundry battle
will seriously heat up at 20nm.
Now, bear in mind just one thing
- Samsung’s Fab in Austin, Texas is a multi-billion dollar investment
which currently manufactures Apple A5 and A5X, as well as Samsung’s own
Exynos processors. If Apple goes with TSMC due to legal issues "poisoning the well,"
Samsung will gladly open its doors to NVIDIA. According to our source -
judging by the Austin-made Tegra silicon now in NVIDIA’s Santa Clara
headquarters, it looks like Samsung already opened up their kimono.
http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2012/3/14/exclusive-nvidia-tapes-out-tegra-at-samsung-fab2c-ibm2c-globalfoundries-next.aspx
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Archos to bring new 7-inch Elements tablet to market this year
Sick of hearing about the BlackBerry PlayBook? What about the Sony Tablet P?
Well, if for some reason you are, Archos has come to your rescue.
Today, the French tablet maker held a press conference detailing its new
line of Elements tablets. One of the tablets in the family measures in
at our favorite size: 7-inches.Other than the price point of €200-€400 for the line, we don't know
much about these new devices. Archos has typically been able to bring
decent devices to store shelves for competitive prices, so that's
exactly what I'm expecting here.--------------------
Archos is second biggest tablet seller after Apple. (not sure if Amazon is second in the world already or not)
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Worldwide media tablet shipments into sales channels rose by 56.1% on a sequential basis in the fourth quarter of 2011 to 28.2 million units, according to IDC. Shipments represented an increase of 155% from the fourth quarter of 2010. The market experienced stronger-than-expected growth across many regions and at many price points, leading to a full-year 2011 total of 68.7 million units. Based upon the markets' strong 2011 finish, and the clear demand expected in 2012, IDC has increased its 2012 forecast to 106.1 million units, up from its previous forecast of 87.7 million units.
Despite an impressive debut by Amazon, which shipped 4.7 million Kindle Fires into the market, Apple continued to see strong growth in the quarter, shipping 15.4 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011, up from 11.1 million units in the third quarter. That represents a 54.7% worldwide market share (down from 61.5% in the previous quarter).
Amazon's shipment total put the company in second place with 16.8% of the worldwide market. Third-place Samsung grew its share from 5.5% in the third quarter to 5.8% in the fourth quarter. Despite shipping more units, including its new Nook Tablet, Barnes & Noble saw its worldwide market share slip to 3.5% (down from 4.5%). Pandigital rounded out the top five, grabbing 2.5% of the market, down from 2.9% the previous quarter.
"Amazon's widely-reported entry into the media tablet market with a US$199, 7-inch product seemed to raise consumers' awareness of the category worldwide despite the fact that the Kindle Fire shipped almost exclusively in the US in the fourth quarter," said Tom Mainelli, research director, Mobile Connected Devices at IDC. As a result, products across the pricing spectrum sold well, including everything from Apple's premium-priced iPads (which start at US$499) to Pandigital's line of Android-based, entry-level tablets (which start at US$120).
The success of market leader Apple was particularly noteworthy, as the company's shipment total for the quarter represents an increase of 110.5% from a year earlier."As predicted, Android made some strong gains in the fourth quarter, thanks in large part to the Amazon Kindle Fire's success (the Fire runs a custom version of Google's Android OS). Android grew its market share from 32.3% in the third quarter of 2011 to 44.6% in the fourth quarter. As a result, iOS slipped from 61.6% market share to 54.7%; BlackBerry slipped from 1.1% to 0.7%. WebOS, which owned 5% of the worldwide market in the third quarter, dropped to zero in the fourth quarter.
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20120315PR200.html
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The new iPad
goes on sale on March 16th… but it’s already March 16th in Australia.
So the folks at iFixit picked up an Australian iPad today and promptly started to dissect it to see what the insides look like — and how difficult it would be to repair a broken iPad.
The iFixit team has a long history of ripping apart consumer
electronics and photographing the results. Along the way, they also do a
pretty good job of pointing out interesting tidbits about the internal
components.Since Apple generally only provides details about some of the hardware used in its iOS devices, it takes this type of teardown to get specifics.
Here are a few of the things we’ve learned:
- As usual, the front panel is a pain in the rear to remove — it’s almost like Apple doesn’t want you dissecting the iPad.
- The new 9.7 inch, 2048 x 1536 display appears to be manufactured by Samsung.
- Unsurprisingly, the battery takes up more space than anything else under the hood.
- The battery, btw, is a 43Whr, 11560mAh 3.7V battery pack.
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Nvidia, Asus Question Apple's iPad and Tegra 3 Comparison
Nvidia will undoubtedly provide a different, more detailed set of
results. Even more, there's speculation that Apple was trying to divert
attention away from the fact that its A5X chip is only dual-core,
whereas the Tegra 3 is "4-Plus-1." So like Nvidia, we want to see how
Apple came up with the 4x performance claim."It's nice to hear Apple compare themselves to Tegra 3," Nvidia told
Tom's in a statement. "It truly underscores the importance of graphics,
which is what we've been saying all along."In the meantime, Asus has come out to bat for the Tegra 3, jumping on Twitter and stating, "New Apple #ipadhd to have a quad-core GPU. Darn! The ASUS Transformer's GPU is only 12-cores..."
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Nvidia-Tegra-3-Apple-A5X-iPad-3-Asus,14950.html
Well, people are not going to notice the difference until somebody starts running popular gigantic emulator like Wii-emu and such... which really apple is never really known for.
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The entire 90's-00's era arcade game are the golden era of large arcade!...I want them all on smartphone.
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Fit's woman's palm..I thought they would be too smal.
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Very well designed. Definitely worthy of Prada's fame.
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ahahahaaa...this is awesome. 600kbp/s total?
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World’s First Smartphone Integrated Rice Cooker Revealed by Panasonic
If there are two pieces of technology that Japan loves more than anything, they’re smartphones and rice cookers.
Even still, we’re not quite sure it was necessary to go this far: Japanese
consumer electronics maker Panasonic announced on March 15 that it has
developed the world’s first smartphone integrated rice cooker.Is that not just the most Japanese invention you’ve ever heard of?
Due out this June, the Panasonic SR-SX2
Series IH Jar Rice Cooker boasts a number of fancy features typical of
high-end rice cookers, such as “200℃ Steaming,” “Great Thermal Dancing
Boil” and “Diamond Furnace” (don’t ask us what they mean, we only know
they make your rice taste amazing).However, it is with a Felica-supported Android phone that the true
power of the SR-SX2 is unleashed. By downloading a special application,
owners can control the various settings of their SR-SX2 such as rice
type and timer just by touching their phone to the blue icon on the top
of the cooker.Interestingly enough, reaction by Japanese net users to the
announcement has been overwhelmingly negative, met with comments like
“Japanese consumer electronics makers have lost it” and “no wonder
Panasonic has a $10.2 billion deficit…”Indeed, this is Galapagos Syndrome
at its best, and we can’t imagine there even being much of a domestic
market for a smart-rice cooker. Certainly there are better avenues for
smartphone integration technology? We know we’d be down for a
smart-toilet…I love kranky japanese customers ... lol
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Direction of the effort is wrong
No stupid?
The effort will be sharpening Dari or wash the rice
If you do not it somehow
How do I get a product like the person who left the prestigious university why?
I do not know me.
I want to see the planning of this proposal
Do you think I sell it? No way I
The update AndroidOS
Trap after one year has become unusable
Yeah Yan is giving up 100 steps WiFi-enabled ·
Fuck it really
http://ggsoku.com/2012/03/android-sr-sx2/
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Apple responds to reports of new iPad heat issues, says it operates 'within our thermal specifications'
thermal specification? Can't wait until some little kid get hurt. ..oh yeah.. There goes The biggest stock bubble known to man gonna pop. Btw, that LCD screen is not going to last under that kind of thermal stress. Goodluck handling massive class action suit few months from now when people start noticing discoloration due to big heat stress. (ie. it's huge friggin design flaw.)
After antenna-gate, battery blowing up, cable burning... screen discoloration.
Who is going to believe Apple can design quadcore 4..6...8 GPU ? The heat problem will grow even bigger.
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33,6 degree on the palm of your hand... ... I want to know who created the 'thermal' specification. If some kid holding this thing for prolonged period of time playing graphic heavy games,... not a happy parent.
This is not "fried your ball" laptop case where one doesn't have to hold the hot spot with hand. This is closer to scalding hot cup of coffe.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/19/new-ipad-10-degrees-hotter/
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Typical of the complaints (via the Apple Discussion Boards):
Just
got my new iPad. I'm loving the screen and speed but there's something
weird about it. It gets rather warm/hot after 30minutes of usage. It has
never happened on my iPad 2. Do you think it's harmless or .... ?My
64gb, wifi/LTE new ipad is 96.8 degrees currently (and must have crafty
artificial intelligence because it's as if it KNEW I'd brought out my
laser temperature scanner and cooled down for reading). It has been very
hot to hold, lower left side, since first use. I'll continue to monitor
with scanner...Mine is a 64 with WIFi and
LTE - LTE not hooked up yet - got hot enogh that I measured with infared
thermometer and it was 117 degree after 10 minutes - my little boy says
its too hot to hold - (Great !) but seriously its not comfortable and I
will be returning to the storehttp://www.cnbc.com/id/46786775
forget it man, at that temperature, it's defective product. way beyond safety limit. They really want it cycling through 40 degree+ on enclosed aluminum case, lithium battery, LCD screen...talking about Microsoft 3 ring of death, Xbox case.
this is class action period. or at least complete product recall. Hey apple better cancel that buy back program, cause ya gonna need all the cash.
Steve job solution: Hold your new iPad with Kitchen mitten! bahahahaa.....
Samsung should have created a special circuit inside that iPad so it will blow up spectacularly like pop-corn. Just one internet image and it's over.. win the litigation without going to court. bankrupting apple. The problem will gets worst as summer approach.
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BeersYourFriend
Re: New iPad overheating?
Mar 18, 2012 5:47 PM (in response to Sebastian Slania)
Try playing Real Racing 2, and tell me if yours gets hot or not... I just got done playing about 10 minutes of Real Racing 2, and it is scorching Hot!!! Thank god I have a case, but when I slide my had into the case to feel the back, it its Hot Hot Hot! Not temperature errors yet, and am surprised its able to function at such high temps... What's going on here?
https://discussions.apple.com/message/17892192#17892192
somewhere inside nvidia design cave, an engineered is laughing, Well, should have put more ventilation and less GPU.
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In an interview with Wired,
Linus Torvalds said that around 2000, Steve Jobs offered him a place at
Apple working on its Unix-based kernel. "Unix for the biggest user
base: that was the pitch," Torvalds says. However, he was no fan of Mac
OS’s Mach kernel, and Jobs insisted that he drop working on Linux,
something Torvalds refused to do. Instead, he continued his work with
the open-source platform and now helps manage it on behalf of the Linux
Foundation.Torvald's business ventures haven't netted him the kind of wealth or
fame that Jobs received, but he says he's glad he concentrated on the
technical aspects of Linux. "I’m very happy with feeling that I’ve done
the right thing." Linux has likely been better off for it: everything
from the Android smartphone system to Red Hat's enterprise OS has been
built from the platform. There's plenty more about Torvalds, including
obsessive coffee-machine troubleshooting and open-source diving software
development, in the interview and profile below.http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/22/2893581/linus-torvalds-linux-founder-turned-down-steve-jobs-offer
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Amazon will launch at least two tablet PCs in 2012, with a possibility that the number may increase to four, according to industry sources. Shipments of a 10.1-inch model are expected to begin in July.
For the 10.1-inch model, Amazon has added HannsTouch as a new supplier of touch sensors in addition to Wintek and TPK Holding, while excluding J Touch from the supplier list, revealed the sources, adding that the 10.1-inch model is likely to be priced at US$249-299.
However, a much speculated 8.9-inch model has not been confirmed by Amazon due to the vendor's concerns on pricing, said the sources.
In addition to a 7-inch model that will be priced at about US$199 with shipments to start at the end of the second quarter, Amazon is also soliciting quotes for another 7-inch model to be priced at US$169 for the entry-level segment, indicated the sources, but adding that makers in the supply chain are reluctant to offer quotes for low-margin hardware products.
With its expanding Kindle Fire lineup, Amazon may see its tablet PC shipments reach 20 million units in 2012, a sharp increase from 5-6 million units shipped in 2011, the sources estimated.
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20120328PD224.html
China-based white-box handset players are suffering as larger local players ZTE, Lenovo and Huawei are aggressively entering the CNY1,000 (US$159) smartphone segment, while first-tier smartphone brands such as Samsung Electronics and Nokia are also reducing their prices. White-box players are expected to see a 30% drop in their overall sales in 2012 with several hundred expected to go bankrupt, reshuffling China's handset industry, according to sources from smartphone players.
As consumers in China have increasing demand for Internet connectivity, while their recognition of brand names is also rising, the white-box handset market in China, which is mainly focused on low price and design flexibility, is shrinking rapidly.
Since China-based telecom carriers are aggressively providing subsidies to ZTE, Huawei and Lenovo to allow these players to lower their smartphone prices, while white-box players are losing their advantages in price as they are unable to acquire cheap components due to their shipment scale, it has helped larger smartphone players to narrow the price gap with white-box handsets.
With more brand vendors pushing into the mid-range and entry-level smartphone market, the average price of entry-level smartphones is expected to reach CNY700 (US$100), a level almost the same as cost. In addition, white-box players' advantages in design flexibility is also no longer attracting consumers as the size of the touch screen has already become the major criteria for consumers.
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20120328PD218.html -
Foxconn Parent Invests US$806 Million in Japan Sharp, Buys LCD Plant Share
Foxconn Counts on Apple’s Future Through Sharp Investment
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After continuous game play, the iPad 2 was the coolest among them,
with temps of 94 degrees (plugged in) and 98 degrees (unplugged). The
Asus tablet was a close second, with readings of 95 degrees (plugged in)
and 91 degrees (unplugged).The Galaxy tab had readings of 98
degrees (plugged in) and 98 degrees (unplugged). The third-generation
iPad came in at 100 degrees (plugged in) and 97 degrees (unplugged). -
Samsung Electronics will use its single-chip solutions
for its next smartphone, the Galaxy S III, to lower dependence on U.S.
chipmaker Qualcomm.
The move comes as Samsung, the world’s top memory chipmaker,
aggressively shifting focus to more profitable and less-volatile
non-memory chips.
Memory chips like DRAMs and NAND flashes are used to read and write data with these chips being commoditized. Thus they are
cheap, compared with non-memory chips. Non-memories are to control an
entire computing system and require advanced chip-making technology.
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2012/03/129_107204.html
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Latest Linux kernel release adds Android code
One of the biggest features that this addition brings is the ability to
boot an Android userspace directly from the standard Linux kernel,
rather than using one of Google’s customized AOSP versions. If you need
to grab the latest 3.3 kernel, head over to the Kernel.org website to download it.http://androidcommunity.com/latest-linux-kernel-release-adds-android-code-20120319/
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The screen quality is unbelievable ...
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Apple is over in asia. probably few chinese peasants will buy them, but they are out of the top line/exclusive model.
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Rumor: Texas Instruments making chips for Apple's next iPhone ahead of Sept. launch
A pair of
unconfirmed rumors claim that Texas Instruments has started production
of the power management chip for the next iPhone, and that the
sixth-generation handset will allegedly debut in September. -
Rumor: Apple working on 5-inch Retina display device for 2013
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/03/28/rumor_apple_working_on_5_inch_retina_display_device_for_2013.html
I guess that samsung note is getting on Apple's skin
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Samsung shipped over five million Galaxy Notes
Samsung announced that they have shipped over five million Galaxy Note phones. In the beginning of March it was reported that Samsung sold two million units. So either that earlier report wasn't correct, or else the US launch was very successful. Samsung hopes to sell 10 million galaxy notes in 2012, and they also announced today that Japan's NTT DoCoMo will soon offer the LTE version.
Samsung's Galaxy Note is a large Android v2.3 phone (or mini-tablet?) with a 5.3" Super AMOLED
display with an HD resolution: 1280x800. Other specs include a
dual-core 1.4Ghz processor, 8mp camera, touch display with pen input (it
has a stylus). The phone is 9.65mm thick and weights 178 grams. -
Come on HTC, you've been working on phone since who knows when. And all you come up with is anodized aluminum? It's cool if you are making hammer or screwdriver for hardware store. It's cool in taiwan maybe. Single color, specially single color black anodized metal looks like junk you get from Sears. You make pots, pants and garage hardware ...
It's apple's single piece micro iPod. You innovate nothing so stop talking like it's new. Get a real metallurgist and work on something exciting.
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This is how HTC "premium" coating innovation looks like to me...
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You suppose to have metal surface quality like this.
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