Despite being the leader of display panels, Samsung has actually been rather quite about glass-free 3D TVs, compared to other manufacturers. But now, the Korean giant has finally showed off its first prototype, at the FPD China trade show.
According to Tech-On!, the 55-inch display is able to house nine different viewpoints for glasses-free 3D viewing, and it can be interchanged into a 2D mode at any time, which works by changing the optical refraction index of an LCD panel that sits on top of the main LCD that’s actually used to display images. The current prototype is still relying on a direct-lit CCFL backlight, although Samsung notes that would likely be replaced with an LED backlight before it actually hits the market, in 3 years’ time.
At the moment, you’ll still have to wear those silly glasses.
SOURCE via Nikkei BP
Nine months ago Google released Froyo, its Android 2.2 update to its mobile platform OS. Back then we see very little devices running Froyo, but fast forward to 2011 and this version has been distributed quite widely by now.
61.3 percent of all active Android devices (handsets and tablets) worldwide are now running version 2.2, making it the most predominant iteration of the Android software version at the moment. Even more encouraging news is that, when taken together with Android 2.1, that group swells to account for more than 90 percent of active Google devices.
However, the result is still not pleasing, as 9 months have passed and the 29-percent devices that are still running Éclair are not getting Froyo updates, which is a clear fragmentation in the works. What’s more, there’s little hope that the 7-percent of Android devices running Android 1.5 and 1.6 will ever move along, though I believe that manufacturers have given up on updating them due to their hardware not able to transition smoothly to higher version Androids.
Hopefully manufacturers will continue to eliminate the existence of Éclair in this chart in the upcoming months by fully transiting all Éclair devices to Froyo. Even the transition to Gingerbread (Android 2.3) is rather slow, which is quite disappointing.
SOURCE via Android Developer
Funny isn’t it. They’ve already tested it for so long, and they still found some tiny bugs. Yet, Mozilla is hard headed and still going ahead with its March 22 release date of the new browser without that update integrated into the official release.
According to a developer post, Firefox RC1 is now officially Firefox 4 final. A Java bug that was initially listed as a blocking bug was removed from the list and will now be fixed with Firefox 4.0.1. So, wait for the official release, install it, and update it.
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Because Google’s Android is starting to eat up their apps market, and there’s the new contender WebOS that’s about to try and gobble some tiny bits of Apple’s smartphone and tablet market, and let’s not forget Microsoft, Apple’s biggest rival that started way back in those old days. Therefore, Apple is gearing up some ads to brainwash you and tell you what you’re missing out when you don’t have an iPhone. Basically, they’re just saying to you, that because you’re missing out lots of other iCraps because you don’t own a magical iCrap. Watch the advertisement after the break.
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Intel has officially announced that the current crisis in Japan will not disrupt processor production in Intel factories located in Japan, as their operations are spread out enough geographically that the ongoing situation will not cause any lump to their operations.
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