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Google Is Gearing Up To Finally Introduce Play Store Gift Cards And A Wishlist [APK Teardown]
Play Store Gift Cards
What I found inarguably points to Google gearing up to finally release redeemable Play Store gift cards -
something we've been anxiously waiting for since the Android Market
started supporting paid apps. Earlier this year, Google renewed our
hopes by adding the ability to have a Play Store balance for those who
purchase a Nexus 7. This put us one step closer to gift cards, but there
was still nothing concrete. What I have here today is more than
concrete - it's solid evidence.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/ybh6y/first_pictures_of_google_play_gift_cards/
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Rumored US$199 price for Windows RT Surface expected to squeeze PC vendors out of the market
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20120815PD209.html
As Microsoft is reportedly considering selling its Windows RT-based Surface tablet PC at US$199, sources from notebook players are concerned that if the rumor is true, notebook brand vendors will be out of the game unless Microsoft only sells the Surface in the US.
Currently, most brand vendors are turning their focuses to Windows 8 and Intel-based tablet PC models, targeting the enterprise market with a price level above US$699.
The sources pointed out that Microsoft is fully aware that its actions have greatly offended its notebook clients, and therefore is trying to achieve success and acquire at least 30% share in the tablet PC market. A price of US$199 is expected to allow the company to achieve its needed goal.
However, if the rumored price is true, Microsoft's Windows RT partners such as Asustek Computer, Lenovo, Samsung Electronics and Dell may all halt their development, leaving Microsoft to play in the Windows RT market by itself, the sources noted.
The sources also pointed out that Google's Nexus 7 is seriously hurting sales of all other 7-inch tablet PCs and is also affecting demand for 10-inch models, but since Nexus 7 has not yet expanded into other important markets such as China, notebook players are still able to have room to survive. If Surface only sells in the US, it would minimize the device's impact on other vendors' machines, allowing others to launch their Windows RT products.
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Xiaomi Mi2 . The first quad core A15. 6.2mm. This phone is the fastest and thinnest phone on the planet right now.
- 1.7 GHz Quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor
- Adreno 320 GPU
- 2GB of RAM
- 16GB internal storage
- 4.3-inch capacitive touchscreen at 1280×720 pixel resolution
- 8 megapixel rear camera (with upgraded F/2.0 lens)
- 2 megapixel front camera
- HDMI-compatible USB port
- HSPA+ connectivity up to 42 Mbps
http://www.androidauthority.com/xiaomi-mi2-1s-launch-108316/
The phone, of course, looks like being a real iPhone contender, as it
has its own Siri-like voice recognition software, (powered by iFlytek ) developed by Keda Xunfei. It will also have its cloud services where you can save your images, videos etc in the cloud – that’s the MiDrive app.
Priced at ¥1,999 (about $$314), the MI2 will be available in five
colors, including white, silver, blue, pink, and yellow. The phone will
be available sometime in October this year.http://www.techsnapr.com/2012/08/16/apple-stylish-xiaomi-mi2-jelly-bean-phone-revealed/
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro (APQ8064) MDP benchmarks blow away the competition (update: video)
http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/24/qualcomm-snapdragon-s4-pro-apq8064-benchmark/
bad phone vid of Mi2
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ARM Cortex-A15 MPCore
The ARM Cortex-A15 MPCore is a multicore ARM architecture processor providing an out-of-order superscalar pipeline ARM v7 instruction set running at up to 2.5 GHz.[6] ARM has confirmed that the Cortex A15 core is 40 percent faster than the Cortex-A9 core, all things being equal.[7] The first A15 designs taped out in the fall of 2011, but products based on the chip did not reach the market until 2012.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Cortex-A15_MPCore
List of Cortex-A15 SoC
Nvidia Tegra 4 T40
Samsung Exynos 5 5250
ST-Ericsson Nova A9600
Texas Instruments OMAP5430
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32/28nm Technology
Samsung Foundry's 32/28nm Low-Power (LP) Gate First
High-k Metal Gate (HKMG) process offers considerable power and
performance advantages to a growing spectrum of mobile and IT
infrastructure computing applications. Virtually all mobile applications
relying on batteries and extremely tight power budgets demand 32/28nm
LP solutions. But, low-power solutions are no longer limited to mobile
applications. Reducing power is now a concern across a wide set of
applications such as communications, networking, servers, and data
centers.
Samsung Foundry has qualified 32nm Low Power, High-K Metal Gate in
Jun, 2010 which was the first HKMG product in foundry industry.
Combining HK/MG with Gate first technology realized both extreme high
performances and high area efficiency even without drastic changes in
Poly-Si based conventional design methodology. 32nm HKMG process boasts
up 30% higher speed, 30% less power, 30% scaling with twice of SRAM
density over 45nm technology, making it ideal for high performance
mobile applications. 32nm process is developed with abundant design
ecosystem suitable for high performance mobile applications.
Samsung's 28nm low power High-K Metal Gate Process is built on two
years of development and successful high-volume production of the 32nm
LP HKMG process and is designed for a remarkably simple migration path.
The 28nm process is a gate-first High-K Metal Gate process which enables
it to deliver significant performance while maintaining low power,
making it ideal for mobile applications. A variant of the process, 28nm
LPH HKMG, offers even greater power savings or performance boost beyond
2GHz. 28LP process is ideal for mobile applications where the low
standby power is crucial, the high performance 28LPH process is a
solution for more performance oriented applications that require
extremely high performance incorporated with high energy efficiency. It
boasts more than 20% speed over 28LP at the same standby power.http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/foundry/process-technology/32-28nm
So Samsung should start production of 28nm between now and next year.
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The iPad Mini will destroy any hope of Android tablet success
ono...Android is dooooomm... again.
Samsung should let apple try to copy this amoled ultra thin device and watch apple falls flat on their face. Then issue a press release. Apple is too dumb to even copy. oh and samsung then should update the 7.7 with Jelly bean and Exynos 5 dual. just for lol. (no android user is going to buy this machine tho', too insanely expensive. It's $600+ device)Nexus 7 vs Galaxy Tab 7.7
(the closest thing to comparing nexus 7 to apple's fanboy fantasy 8" mini iPad. the iShortBus-Unicorn tablet of course will be heavier, thicker and wider than 7.7.)
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Microsoft is just mimicking everybody now...see what sticks.
http://wmpoweruser.com/is-this-nokias-windows-phone-8-range/
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In 1988, Apple sued Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard
on the grounds that they infringed Apple's copyrighted GUI, citing
(among other things) the use of rectangular, overlapping, and resizable
windows. After four years, the case was decided against Apple, as were
later appeals. Apple's actions were criticized by some in the software community, including the Free Software Foundation
(FSF), who felt Apple was trying to monopolize on GUIs in general, and
boycotted GNU software for the Macintosh platform for seven years
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh
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Susan Kare returns to the stand: Samsung's designs were a choice, 'not a requirement'
http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/17/3249546/susan-kare-returns-apple-samsung-trial
The problem with using that line of argument. It means those "essential / oh so important design" apple is trying to argue is also just a choice for apple. nothing to do with essential functioning of the phone. Which menas, pure decoration.... and apple can't act like the shit they create worth a billion dollar, and insist a phone won't work with it. at most it only worth Steve Jobs vanity. Since he is dead now, those things are as as essential as him in a smartphone functioning.
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HP creates Mobility division to focus on consumer tablets, hires Nokia's ex-MeeGo boss Alberto Torres
We've just been tipped to a memo circulated internally by HP's Todd
Bradley — who runs the company's recently-merged Printing and Personal
Systems Group — announcing the creating of a new Mobility business unit
underneath him that will be responsible for "consumer tablets" and
"additional segments and categories where we believe we can offer
differentiated value to our customers." The news comes almost exactly
one year since HP killed the TouchPad, effectively ending Palm's run as a hardware company and throwing webOS itself into an uncertain future as an open source platform.Running the new Mobility unit will be Alberto Torres, who departed
Nokia after running its MeeGo operations — operations that were doomed
once it became clear that CEO Stephen Elop would be taking the company
down the Windows Phone path. He'll be reporting directly to Bradley and
starting in early September. Interestingly, HP's "soon-to-be launched commercial tablet" will remain in the charge of James Mouton, who runs the PC group.http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/17/3249425/hp-mobility-gbu-consumer-tablets-alberto-torres
This ought to be interesting. So HP is not on the boat with Microsoft Surface and want to create their own tablet? (... again?) I got the feeling more key people will finally migrate to Google Android...(...again)
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iOS and Android are hurting Sony and Nintendo's portable gaming business
Considering that high-end tablets such as Apple's iPad, ASUS'
Transformer range, or Samsung's Galaxy range, are more powerful than
most of Sony or Nintendo's portable gaming systems, I don't see the
complaint. Stay stagnant, and this is what happens. Fortune reports
from the latest research of Flurry Analytics, which shows that Android
and iOS-based devices accounting for 58% of all mobile gaming revenue in
the US.This left Sony's PlayStation
Vita and Nintendo's 3DS for just 36% of the mobile gaming revenue in
the US. If we rewind the clock back to 2009, Nintendo were enjoying 70%
of that, all to themselves. How times have changed. Are you surprised?
I'm not. This is why I've been so heavy-hearted on the next-gen consoles.
Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo have to hit the ball out of the park,
hardware-wise, to stay current and on top of things against the
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Why is Apple scared to compete with Samsung?
When did Apple get so frightened of Android that it decided to try to
sue the competition into the ground instead of competing with them in
the marketplace?Apple's goal, as Pamela Jones of Groklaw, has looked at Apple's legal claims and she's found an explanation. Apple wants nothing less than “all of Samsung's profits from any product found to look too much like Apple's.
100%, without even subtracting for all the other features and
technology that Samsung worked hard to invent, and paid R & D to
think up, and put together. On top of that, Apple goes on to say, it
wants damages for lost profits, in this case $500 million just for that,
with interest and costs. And then it wants 'similar remedies' for
trade dress infringement and dilution as for patent infringement.
Ka-ching.”http://www.zdnet.com/why-is-apple-scared-to-compete-with-samsung-7000002823/
Samsung doesn't need apple. Apple needs Samsung. Without Samsung, there is no iCrap of any sort. Key components such as CPU, memory, screen, (radio) are all supplied by Samsung. This include all apple's oh so innovative "retina" display. To Samsung apple is 9% profit, not existential necessity.
The problem is already manifested in few area. Apple is stuck in dual core A9 era. They don't seem to have next generation CPU. Every oother brand has quad or A15 somewhere. Screen. obviously the new screen factory isn't producing as high as they hope. (where is apple TV?) The only major phone maker with no LTE handset, etc...
As CPU advanced deeper and deeper into 28, 20, 14 nm. Apple will be in even bigger trouble since nobody but Samsung and TSMC can supply them. Same with screen, Apple has no access to next generation screen. zip. absolutely locked out. They will still use LCD two year from now.
Next generation low power memory? (nobody produce those in quantity except Samsung.) All this before Apple even pick a fight with more competitive giant like Huawei or ZTE. (apple will learn what not having a production floor in china means if they decide to fuck around.)
All in all, apple is screwed nine ways before end of next year. They are in the same boat as DEC, Palm Inc, Kodak... etc. no access to next generation tech, stuck with current standard for too long. High cost structure, slow update, litigation happy. They can only produce overpriced clunker. Basically a rehash of Macintosh vs. Wintel. Apple engineering is second rate. Zero manufacturing skill. Almost no cutting edge R&D output.
Just watch their new screen factory... big lol. we'll soon be back in exploding laptop era. (Apple was the last major computer company without laptop, and they had no technology to make one. explosion galore.)
And then there is Google... omg. apple should just close their door and put all their money in oil future and gold. They have zero chance coming out alive by the end of the decade.
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“There is no doubt that TSMC will use the massive funding to sharpen
its technology in the 28nm and 20nm processes, and even beyond,” Chang
said. “On expectations of rising demand for mobile devices, TSMC is
gearing up to expand.”“It is expected that TSMC will unveil chips
on the 20nm process next year in a bid to profit by riding the wave of
rising demand for high-end chips,” he said.In addition to
maintaining its lead over Samsung, Chang said, TSMC will also have to
play catch-up to narrow its gap with US-based Intel Corp, which commands
a lead over the Taiwanese firm by nine months to 12 months in the 20nm
process.http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2012/08/16/2003540385
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Sony already showing off a few games due out on Playstation Mobile
PSP has better gaming company. better quality art. but as gaming platform android is so much better than PSP. hardware, screen, larger audience, etc. Should be far ahead soon... Once game maker is over with simple quake/FPS redo craze.
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Florian Mueller listed as the only blogger on the payroll of either Oracle or Google in patent litigation case
This issue came into prominence in Oracle’s appeal to the negative
ruling against the company’s patent litigation lawsuit against Google.
The judge ordered both companies to disclose if they have paid any bloggers or journalists
to cover the proceedings or write in their favor. The deadline had been
set at noontime of August 17. So far, only Oracle has admitted to
having paid bloggers, although they say it was only in the interest of
seeking advice on the said competition issues.Oracle
has retained Florian Mueller, author of the blog FOSS
Patents, www.fosspatents.com, as a consultant on competition-related
matters, especially relating to standards-essential patents. Oracle
notes that Mr. Mueller fully disclosed his relationship with Oracle in a
blog posting dated April 18, 2012; that Oracle retained him after he
had begun writing about this case; and that he was not retained to write
about the case. Mr. Mueller is a frequent critic of Oracle and was a
leading advocate against Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Inc.,
which led to Oracle’s ownership of Sun’s Java IP portfolio.In
the same breath, however, Oracle notes that Mueller had been a vocal
critic of the company in the past, even during his stint as a paid
consultant. Mueller, himself, had admitted to being in Oracle’s payroll
last April, as well as doing paid consultancy work for Microsoft,
another company involved in patent litigation.http://www.androidauthority.com/florian-mueller-oracle-paid-blogger-108754/
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120817151150419#comments
oh wow...that fossblog? lol...fools me for sure.
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Apple vs PC. around the time Apple lost the graphic game war and PC prevail.
Official versions of Doom
Doom is one of the most widely ported video games in the first-person shooter genre: starting with the original MS-DOS version (released as shareware on December 10, 1993), it has been released officially for a number of computer operating systems, video game consoles, handheld game consoles, and other devices.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_versions_of_Doom
Warcraft: Orcs & Humans is a real-time strategy game (RTS), developed by Blizzard Entertainment and published by Blizzard and Interplay Entertainment. The MS-DOS version was released in 23 November 1994 and the Macintosh version in late 1996. Sales were fairly high, reviewers were mostly impressed, and the game won three awards and was a finalist for three others.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warcraft:_Orcs_&_Humans
for comparison..todays top android fps game.
This is the first quad A15 class game. Apple starts to lag considerably..
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Apple, Samsung report no progress in patent dispute after talks
Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics
Co. said they weren´t able to narrow the scope of claims at issue in
the lawsuit in out-of-court talks. The judge overseeing the case in
federal court in San Jose, California, asked the parties to try to
simplify the dispute, while also ordering the chief executives of the
two companies to talk one more time before a jury begins deliberating. -
Apple's attempt to block Samsung from introducing evidence
of a tablet prototype developed in 1994 has been denied by U.S.
District Judge Lucy Koh. Part of the reason Apple got a sales ban on
Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 earlier this year was that an Appeals Court
said Apple's tablet design was significantly different from earlier
designs. Now, Judge Koh has decided that the issue needs to be decided
by a jury.
"Samsung has argued the design was an obvious variation of tablets
existing as early as 1994, including one made by Hewlett-Packard Co. The
Korean company supported that argument at the trial with videotaped
testimony by Roger Fidler, who heads the digital publishing program at
the University of Missouri. Fidler said he started working on a tablet
design in 1981. Apple sought to exclude the testimony based on the
appeals court ruling. In a written declaration, Fidler said 'Apple
personnel were exposed to my tablet ideas and prototypes' in the mid-
1990s when the company collaborated with Knight-Ridder Inc.’s
information design laboratory in Colorado."
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/08/19/0052208/apple-loses-bid-to-exclude-evidence-in-samsung-patent-trial
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China's second-largest carrier may end contract sales of Apple's iPhone
But high overhead costs for the devices themselves, coupled with a need
for continued investment in infrastructure to support surging growth and
data consumption by iPhone users, has China Unicom mulling a move to end contract bundles of the phone come next month.
A report by China-based tech.sina.com states that China Unicom 'has not
substantially profited from sales of iPhone 4' and therefore may not
re-sign its agreement with Apple to continue sales of the iPhone 4S or a
new version of the phone widely expected to make its debut in
September.
Though no further details were reported, it appears that the carrier
would continue to carry the iPhone but only market it to customers who
are willing to pay full retail price for the device.
http://forums.appleinsider.com/t/151976/chinas-second-largest-carrier-may-end-contract-sales-of-apples-iphone
Apple is running out of rich sucker to push their overpriced wares.
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Motorola’s New Patent Lawsuit Against Apple: The Details
On Friday, Google’s Motorola Mobility filed a new lawsuit against Apple with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) in Washington,
seeking to ban the imports of virtually every Apple product into the
U.S. At the time, the details of the filing weren’t public yet, but the
ITC has now posted the full complaint online and we can finally get a
better idea of the patents Apple allegedly violated. According to the
complaint (embedded below), Motorola argues that Apple infringed upon
seven Motorola patents: 5,883,580, 5,922,047, 6,425,002, 6,983,370, 6,493,673, 7,007,064 and 7,383,983.http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/20/motorolas-new-patent-lawsuit-against-apple-the-details/
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Guest Post: Is Apple Really Worth More Than The Sum Of Microsoft, Dell, Google, Facebook And HP?
At least they don't use the money to speculate on corn and soy. who cares about appl bubble becoming the size of Jupiter.
incidentally, if apple worth one gajillion, Samsung would worth 10 gajillion, since they make all apple's key component and already several generation ahead of apple. (screen, cpu, memory)
Also
BLAST FROM THE PAST
March 2, 2000, Palm Stock Hits $803
The shares traded as high as $165, more than four times the offering price of $38, before retreating to slightly more than $95.
At
that price, the market is valuing Palm at $53.3 billion, far more than
the value of its parent, the 3Com Corporation, which still owns most of
Palm. Palm's market value is higher than that of many far larger
companies, including General Motors, Chevron and McDonald's.2 years later, palm inc vaporized. When Ben bernank QE bubble pop. it gonna bring down a lot of people. just like Greenspan's dot.com and sub prime bubble.
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Samsung claims 'minuscule' Galaxy Nexus sales numbers didn't harm Apple
Samsung attorney John Quinn told the court that in the first two
quarters it was in the market, the Galaxy Nexus sold $250 million worth
of the device, arguing that "this is a product that, at most, captured
0.5 percent of the market." In this particular instance, of course, it's
in Samsung's best interest to minimize the successof the device,
because the key issue before the court is whether availability of the
Galaxy Nexus causes "irreparable harm" to Apple. Apple, for its part,
says that the Galaxy Nexus "was the top of the line, Cadillac phone they
trotted out to compete with the iPhone."http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/20/3256590/samsung-galaxy-nexus-minuscule-sales-apple
I guess there is a virtue for having tons of shitty devices and variation. Apple can't argue with straight face a single device will bring them down.
Wait until the idiot at Apple finds out that only HARD CORE android fans actually bought first generation nexus! (ie. nobody confused early nexus with iCrap phone)
Anyway, why do people even bother with Apple anymore. They are over. just like Palm Inc, Nokia, RIM, etc.. they passed their peak. Nokia was invincible too 4 yrs ago. Palm inc was galactic proportion in 2000.
Time to move on to next generation super advanced phone! so advance people will laugh at iPhonie.
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Supply volume of 7.85-inch iPad to reach 4 million units starting in September
Max Wang, Taipei; Joseph Tsai, DIGITIMES [Tuesday 21 August 2012]
Supply volume of Apple's 7.85-inch iPad is estimated to reach four million units per month starting in September in order to prepare for demand from year-end holidays, according to sources from the upstream supply chain.
Rumors are circulating in the IT market that Apple will launch its 7.85-inch iPad in October with a thinner screen frame to allow the device to feature a bigger display area than other competing products and will also feature a resolution similar to that of iPad 2.
The sources pointed out that the supply chain already started supplying a small volume of 7.85-inch iPad in June with a monthly volume at around several hundreds of thousand.
As for the device's price, comparing to Amazon and Google's US$199 7-inch tablet PC, the sources pointed out that even if Apple prices its 7.85-inch iPad at US$299, it is still expected to create a strong impact on the two devices.
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20120820PD229.html
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Samsung Investing $4 Billion in Austin, Texas to Boost Smartphone Processor Production
Apple Investing $300 Million in Austin, Texas to Add 3,600 More Workers
Apple simply does not invest. It's amazing how a tech company like apple can get away with such low R&D investment.
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Rumour: The next Nexus phone could possibly only be a minor upgrade on the Galaxy Nexus
Ahh, I love this time of year. The rumour mill for the next Nexus phone
from Google is starting to ramp up and here we go, SamMobile.com is
advising that the next Nexus phone we see will be from Samsung and be
only a minor iterative upgrade from the Galaxy Nexus(GT-i9250) and more
along the lines of a Googleified version of the Galaxy S III.The new Nexus will be model # GT-i9260 and will have the same sized
screen but will get a CPU speed bump from 1.2GHz to 1.5GHz although it
will remain as a Dual-Core and not go to Quad-Core. The much maligned
Galaxy Nexus Camera will be upgraded from 5MP to 8MP as well as a minor
upgrade to the front facing camera going from 1.3MP to 1.9MP and my
favourite of the rumours, as well as 16GB of memory on-board, there will
be an expansion card slot to expand memory.
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The Apple-Samsung dependency
According
to the IC Insights report, 168 million smartphones were shipped in the
second quarter of 2012. Samsung is also responsible for 54 million
handsets, meaning roughly a third of all smartphones shipped during Q2
were manufactuered by the South Korean giant. Apple has managed to sell
26 million iPhones in the same time period. Basically, one out of every
two smartphones in the world is either an iPhone or a Samsung smartphone.
Add the fact that Samsung makes the processors, the flash memory and
the DRAM used by Apple in its iPhones and iPads, and Samsung really
makes a whole lotta chips (here’s hoping that Led Zeppelin won’t sue me
for any copyright issues :) ).But what’s probably the main
advantage of Samsung’s IC foundry business is the fact that it isn’t
dealing with too many customers. In fact, besides the semiconductor that
Samsung uses in its own devices, IC Insights reports that Apple buys
85% of the silicon made by Samsung’s foundries. Given that it is almost
impossible for Apple to stop its partnership with Samsung at this very
moment, Samsung should be in the safe zone for at least a year or so,
but what could the South Korean giant do in order to prevent sale
numbers dropping?http://www.androidauthority.com/apple-samsung-relationship-status-quo-109308/
The fact that Samsung hasn't pulled the plug on apple amazes me. Apple is nothing without Samsung, they won't be able to produce a single iCrap thing.
All Apple has is rounded corner and bouncy scroll.
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Sony to Debut 'Stacked' CMOS Image Sensor
Sony expects that the new CMOS sensor will be used for mobile devices
such as smartphones and tablet computers and employed for smartphones to
be launched at the end of 2012. In the image sensor market, in which
about 1.5 billion units were shipped in fiscal 2011, the company aims to
ship 100 million units of the new sensor per year, said Yasuhiro Ueda,
senior general manager, Image Sensor Business Division, Semiconductor
Business Group, Professional, Device & Solutions Group, SVP,
Corporate Executive, Sony.
The Exmor RS back-illuminated CMOS sensor has a structure in which the
sensor (image pickup device) part and the logic circuit part, which is
for signal processing, are separated and three-dimensionally stacked.
For the 3D stacking, a technique similar to TSV (through silicon via) is
used, Ueda said.http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20120822/234951/
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iPad demand expected to contribute to HP's largest-ever quarterly loss
Facing declining PC sales in the wake of Apple's iPad,
Hewlett-Packard this week is expected to report a record quarterly loss
of nearly $9 billion.
HP will deliver its results after the market closes on Wednesday, but
expectations are already low, as the company warned investors earlier
this month that it will write down the cost of its $13 billion
acquisition of Electronic Data Systems in 2008. Investors expect that HP
lost between $4.39 and $4.49 per share during the three-month span that
ended in July, according to the Associated Press, which would be a loss of between $8.5 billion and $8.9 billion, the company's worst quarterly performance in its history.
HP has seen its PC sales drop sharply in the face of Apple's iPad. In
the second quarter of 2012, HP was the top PC vendor in the U.S., but
its unit sales were down 12.7 percent, according to data from Gartner.
With the iPad included in PC sales, Apple is the No. 1 worldwide PC
vendor, having accounted for 19.4 percent of all shipments, according to
the latest data
from Canalys. The iPad helped Apple achieve year-over-year sales growth
of 59.6 percent, while HP's PC sales fell 11.3 percent worldwide,
putting the company in second place with 12.5 percent of all PC
shipments.
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/08/20/ipad_demand_expected_to_contribute_to_hps_largest_ever_quarterly_loss.html
I told you HP and Dell are going to be in a lot of pain...more to come.
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Google's mobile OS holds 64 percent of the Japanese smartphone market,
leaving Apple in second place with a 32 percent share, ComScore.Looking at Japanese smartphone ownership in the three months ending June, ComScore found that
Android
took home the lion's share with a 64 percent share, up almost two
points from the prior three months. Apple's iOS grabbed a 32 percent
share.That left Microsoft's Windows Phone in third place with 3 percent of
the Japanese market. RIM's BlackBerry OS and Nokia's Symbian combined
eked out less than half a percentage point.More than 25 million Japanese consumers owned smartphones during the
June quarter, around 23.5 percent of all mobile users. Smartphone
ownership in Japan has jumped 43 percent so far this year, ComScore
noted.Among mobile phone makers, Sharp scored the top spot in Japan with
22.6 percent of the market. In second place was Panasonic with 13.6
percent, followed by Fujitsu with 11.8 percent, NEC with 8.9 percent,
and Sony with 7.9 percent.For the June quarter, 102.7 million Japanese 13 and older used mobile
phones (smartphones and feature phones). To compile its results,
ComScore surveyed more than 4,000 mobile subscribers in Japan.
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Facebook Quietly Rolled Out A New Feature That Could Revive Zynga And Other Facebook Games
facebook games are DEAD. Do people actually still play them? Android games has won. If there is one giant win for android, free games with ads is one of them. It kills facebook games. (ie. people increasingly check their facebook via smartphones/tablet, and while on the tablet why play a shitty facebook games instead of launching real games?
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Sony releases open source DASH sensor framework
Sony today announced that they are releasing their Dynamic Android
Sensor HAL (DASH) sensor framework as an open source GitHub project.
Essentially this means that custom ROM developers and other mobile
players can contribute to the project and improve things for all
involved.According to Sony, the CyanogenMod team has already been helping the cause, adding to the framework.
…used to enable and disable multiple sets of sensors for
each device, including the accelerometer, proximity sensor, ambient
light sensor, magnetometer, gyroscope, and pressure sensor. We plan to
keep adding more sensor code as we release new phones…If you or your development team is interesting in making code input for future Xperia models, you’re advised to head to Sony’s blog post for additional details.
http://www.androidguys.com/2012/08/22/sony-releases-open-source-dash-sensor-framework/
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Gameloft provides first gameplay footage of Wild Blood
http://www.androidguys.com/2012/08/22/gameloft-provides-first-gameplay-footage-of-wild-blood/
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But pricing aside, I'm just not a fan of the Galaxy Note 10.1. We're
entering the era of touch and voice-based computing, but Samsung's Note
series seems to want to bring us back to the late 90s with stylus
inputs. That just feels wrong to me. I was hoping for more.
http://www.businessinsider.com/samsung-galaxy-note-10-review-2012-8?op=1
Apple insider idiots hit the web again.
1. note 10.1 does everything ipad 3, then some. The basic cores are done faster and with more modern apps. (don't use the extra if those bother you so much. use it exactly like a primitive ipad. 20 icons on a screen. simple right? Multi windows and pen input are new bleeding edge features..the kind that apple will steal and claim invented them after it all works.)
2. Pen is very hard to do. Everybody fails. (Apple famously gave up after newton) Pen is the second most natural input for taking note after keyboard . It is the only method to input various types of equations, diagram, ideogram and short hands. (but hey, Apple insists user only need to poke icon and consume iTune media). In the 90's stylus was used as navigation on resistive screen, because resistive is not sensitive enough for finger. Capacitive hasn't been invented yet. (what do apple know about this? They weren't there when people struggled to develop effective touch screen. ) Handwriting input is the reason Apple will lose non roman alphabet market. After android 6 or 7, apple presence in japan and china (high growth area) will be 0.5% or less. iPhone marketshare in korea is already sub 3%, cause language input sucks.
3. try developing proper multitasking, multi window for tablet..(bahaha, yes apple will scream bloody murder after that feature works on large 11,12,13" tablet)
Rest assure, just like voice command, Apple probably will try to steal and patent ideas once they work. Apple inv3nted handwriting and voice command..!
PS. Steve Jobs is still dead. And he still can't get pen input to work. just like voice search. Can't exploit cheap chinese labor to make those work. actual R&D are needed, and they are not pure engineering problem either. (....apple R&D ...lol rounded corner, stealing bouncy scroll ... buying more components from Samsung...bahahaha...fuck apple)
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I wonder who owns front panel speaker placement.
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Raspberry Pi mini PC crammed into a keyboard
Ever since Apple introduce the first iMac, computer makers have
been hiding PCs in monitors, giving the illusion that you’re just
plugging a keyboard and mouse into a display. But one hobbyist has taken
a different approach, by hiding a computer in a keyboard. Just plug in a mouse and monitor and you’ve got a fully functional PC.
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Panasonic’s Android remote for a smart home
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TSMC 28nm process yields break 80%, says report
Installed capacity at TSMC's Fab 15 thus far in the third quarter has expanded by about 300% sequentially, the report indicated. Fab 15 is identified as the major wafer fab where TSMC's foundry capacity for 28nm processes will be located.
TSMC will be able to satisfy all demand from its major clients including Qualcomm, Nvidia and AMD by the fourth quarter of 2012 as it manages to boost output of wafers processed using 28nm technology, the report believes.
According to TSMC's presentation materials for the most recent quarter, the firm's total managed capacity is set to increase about 14% to 15.08 million 8-inch equivalent wafers in 2012, with 12-inch wafer capacity expected to climb 20.6% on year. The foundry estimated that installed capacity at Fab 15 would reach 69,000 12-inch equivalent wafers in the third quarter from 18,000 units in the second, and then expand further to 135,000 in the fourth quarter.
TSMC earlier in the year predicted that sales of 28nm would contribute about 20% to its overall sales by the end of 2012. The process accounted for 7% of TSMC's consolidated revenues in the second quarter, up from 5% in the first.
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New iPhone shipments to fall below 15 million units in 3Q12, say sources
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20120822PD203.html
Projected shipments of a new iPhone in the third quarter of 2012 are likely to fall below 15 million units compared to 20 million units forecast previously due to low yield rates in the production of in-cell touch panels as well as a connector at the bottom of the phone, according to sources in the supply chain.
Issues related to the poor yields of in-cell panels have been cited previously as possibly disrupting Apple's shipping schedule for new iPhones. The latest rumors indicate that Apple has recently redesigned a connector at the bottom of the new iPhone and that yield rates of the new connectors at Foxconn International Holdings (FIH) have been low due in part to insufficient supply of some key materials.
A reduction in the first batch of shipments of new iPhones may result in a short supply, which in turn may trigger a buying spree for the new models in the fourth quarter as well as in the first half of 2013, commented market watchers.
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Big boys game now. Production yield and supply chain dead line. No rounded corner and bouncy scroll here. No amount of lawyering will improve yield without massive engineering research.
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The minute people comparing iphone 5 against android top line, it's dead. Xperia sx, Samsung S3
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