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Previously it’s their Windows Phone 7 handsets that had update issues no thanks to Microsoft, but this time Google is also fiddling with Samsung’s update on their Android handset. The Galaxy S smartphone is said to receive Gingerbread update this week, and even UK has theirs over the weekend. But now, the Gingerbread build that made its way out to European Galaxy S handsets over the weekend has now been halted, on account of an unspecified issue that has been identified after release. Vodafone reports that it’s Google who’s actually responsible for temporarily suspending the Android 2.3 delivery over Kies, although the problem is apparently not universal as Vodafone’s Galaxy S devices are said to be unaffected, which is why the carrier’s working hard to get things rolling again as soon as possible.
SOURCE via Vodafone
The ‘Apple sues Samsung over iPhone patent’ news sure is a shocker. I mean, why do it only now? But that’s not the most important thing over here. The important thing is, Apple is Samsung’s second biggest client after Sony, and Samsung supply a huge amount of parts to Apple. Who would ever sue their own parts supplier, especially one that supplies so many critical parts to you?
Statistics show that Apple spends $5.7 billion on Samsung, which is around Samsung’s 4-percent revenue last year. Samsung supplies many things to Apple, from NAND chips to processors and mobile RAMs, and possibly will supply Apple with iPad 2 display panels soon.
What’s fascinating here — and illustrative of the psychopathic nature of corporations — is that in spite of this massive interdependency, Apple’s lodged a broadly worded patent assault on a major prong of Samsung’s business (smartphones and tablets) and now Samsung’s been quoted as saying it has “no choice but [to] respond strongly.” A company official has apparently expressed the belief that Apple may be infringing on some of Samsung’s wireless patents, which means we can probably look forward to another fat batch of papers being submitted to the Northern District of California court.
Woot, this is really a big dog fight we’re seeing here.
SOURCE via Yahoo!News
Previous it’s Malaysia, now it’s Taiwan. Looks like nobody cares about Intel’s NDA. LOL! Intel’s Z68 Express chipset with its SATA 6Gb/s connections, CPU and memory overclocking, and SSD caching capability weren’t supposed to hit store shelves until the eighth of May, but now Taiwanese retailers have probably not received the memo (or ignored) and the new boards with the Z68 chipset is already available in Taiwan’s IT market. This new Z68 Express motherboard from Gigabyte can already be had for the sum of NT $11,900 (about $409). That might sound quite pricey for a Sandy Bridge motherboard, so hopefully the performance is there.
SOURCE via xfastest
High-end cards and flagship cards cannot feed a graphic card company, although that’s where the glory stands. Now that AMD has unleashed their flagship cards, the HD 6990, they are now focusing back to the lower-end cards. To cater this market, AMD has just unleashed a trio of sub-$100 cards, the Radeon HD 6670, 6570, and 6450.
For such a cheap card, usually performance is not the main factor. Reaction from reviewers has been one of mild indifference. Depending on manufacturer, fan noise does appear to be an issue, possibly precluding the cards from being a viable HTPC choice. Otherwise, even the lowly, $55 6450 is a worthy upgrade over an integrated graphics chip or a two-year-old discrete card, but it can’t match the performance of NVIDIA’s GT 430, which can be had for only a few dollars more. Doesn’t sound like good news for AMD.
Due to these new cards, older 5000 series cards are getting price slash. Now purchasers can get more bang for their GPU buck by sticking with last generation cards (like the Radeon HD 5750) if they’re looking for pure gaming prowess.
Read the full reviews here:
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We know that the PlayBook will not have an integrated email app and calendar yet when going on sale, but what about the rest? Today we look at the actual organs of the PlayBook courtesy of iFixit.com, whom sprints into action when the PlayBook is available from BestBuy.
Apparently thanks to the crew at iFixit, we now know that the PlayBook does have a gyroscope, which wasn’t mentioned on earlier press release. Replacing the front glass would be a bit of a pain to do, but then that’s the case with most portable devices. The motherboard also got a thorough examination, with all the power management, wireless connectivity, and memory chips getting identified and recorded for posterity.
They did their usual study of what it’ll take to repair your own PlayBook should the need ever arise, and gave it a repairability score of 7 out of 10.
SOURCE via iFixit
Finally, after much anticipation and much talk of this and that, RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook has gone officially available. This dual-core tablet with the new BlackBerry Tablet OS by QNX is now available across the US and Canada. Yes, basic productivity apps like native email and calendar aren’t yet available, Android app compatibility hasn’t yet been rolled out, and the PlayBook has an unfavorable dependency on having a BlackBerry smartphone nearby in order to be the best tablet it can be. But will that stop people from getting one? The PlayBook is now yours for $500 for the 16GB model, $600 for the 32GB version, or $700 for the 64GB-equipped top option.
Woot, shortly after Apple launched a new iOS update to 4.3.2, the teams at iPhone-Dev has already proven that it’s still vulnerable, and here it is ladies and gentlemen, untethered 4.3.2 by redsn0w. It seemed that the exploit is the same hacking method used by redsn0w for 4.3.1, so Dev-Team’s @i0n1c simply had to port his code over to the new kernel to keep the jailbreak alive.
Surprisingly the iPad 2 is still invulnerable to their exploit. At the moment the tool isn’t very stable yet, as there have been reports of the build causing issues for iPhone owners, so our advice is to bear with it and give the crew some time to fix the problems.
SOURCE via Dev-Team
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