Apple exaggerates iPad demand, underrates its customers
May 28, 2010
AdMob one of the largest mobile Net advertising companies has compiled a report on ad requests by iPhone OS and Android as of April, 2010. All in all it is very interesting to see how these two mobile giants stack up as well as to forecast dynamics considering recently announced Android 2.2. You can find the report on AdMob official web site to see all the details for yourself. Some simple calculations helped me to work out that more than 25% of April’s iPad ad requests have been done from outside the U. S. And that is when we are only one day away from iPad universal launch.[Source] Mike
Happy iPad worldly availability day!
May 28, 2010
Yes, Apple iPad does so much noise these days that we have to write about it several times in a row. that instance it’s considering today it has gone on sale in countries of Europe and Asia. Not in all of them though non U. S. iPad availability pertains to United Kingdom, France, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Japan and Australia. In early July Apple plans to add Ireland, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxemburg to the list.[Source] Mike
Acer Aspire One AO533 leaks with latest Intel Atoms and Bluetooth 3.0 under the hood
May 28, 2010
Looks like Intel Atom N455 and N475 processors quietly manufacture their way to OEMs. Just like we said, June is the month when updated Pine Trail lineup becomes available. I’m certain there will be a lot more Intel Atom N455 and N475 machines at the date, mind you we are looking forward to them considering they are DDR3 compatible, but for now we only have a new Acer Aspire One 533 with the choice of both of these processors. Naturally, AO533 features DDR3 system memory and thanks to its lower capability consumption, battery life is prolonged to 10 hours compared to AO522 which looks much of a donor for AO533. No goodies such as USB 3.0 or DirectX 11 support therefore. However, you can have it with Bluetooth 3.0.[Source] Mike
Android 2.2 quadruples Flash performance
May 26, 2010
Google I/O 2010 event takes its place today in San Francisco and one of the headlines of the agenda, nearly certainly, is going to be presentation of their smartphone operating system Android version 2.2 aka Froyo. The big thing about Android 2.2 is native Flash support. Compared with previous versions it runs Flash 10.1 plug-in four and a half times faster hence smoother. Now that, of course, comes into collision with Apple’s way of delivering web experience.[Source] Mike
Seagate Momentus XT hybrid drive - best from both worlds
May 26, 2010
Today Seagate unveiled what I think will change hard drive market in the nearest future. Momentus XT hybrid drive is what we are talking about here. Momentus XT shipping now to OEMs is a combination of a small style factor HDD coupled with a small SSD module. All together they allow users to have large capacities with much faster performance, comparable with standalone SSDs even, for the quarter of the price as Seagate presenter says in official comparison video. HDD and SSD interoperability is managed by Adaptive Memory Technology. It monitors OS’, programs’ and user’s file calls and moves frequently used ones to a built-in SSD. Momentus XT is shipped as an upgrade option for ASUS gaming notebooks with various hard drive capacities but all of them have the same 4GB solid state supplement. Follow the link for Seagate Momentus XT specifications.[Source] Mike
Sony Web TV is now official
May 26, 2010
Sony World Wide Web TV has become official today. Google TV platform based on in-house Android operating system is largely the technical part of the entertainment solution coupled with Sony industry experience. All together under Sony Web TV name these two efforts will become available for U. S. citizens in Autumn, 2010. At the moment it is pretty hard to sum up what Sony World Wide Web TV devices will cost, but at least two of them were plus announced today. Very few facts are known though: one piece will be a standard TV model and the other will feature an in-built Blu-ray Disc drive.[Source] Mike
ASRock Vision 3D HTPC will be out in July
May 26, 2010
ASRock has come up with a 3D video playback kit, which looks pretty solid. It is based on Intel Core mobile processor and graphics powered by NVIDIA GPU for 3D Vision graphics support.[Source] Mike