Looks like ol’ Zuck is up to his old tricks again unveiling yet another twist in the Facebook layout shenanigans. At the f8 keynote last Friday, Zuckerberg unveiled a revamped new Facebook profile page which he’s calling Timeline.
What it allows you to do is go back way into the past to see what you were up to as your foolish, younger self. Timeline is navigated by a bar on your right arranged chronologically by year. The Timeline View also allows you to filter content by photos, where you’ve been and much more. The layout is almost like a portfolio of you, in blogging style, which is pretty neat actually. I’m all for all things visual, but dredging up the past, this can only end in tears. Can you imagine the level of stalking that could potentially happen to partners/co-workers/random public figures?
The Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray is somewhat a replacement for the aging Xperia X10 Mini, as they share similar size, and it’s now available at retailers nationwide with an RRP of just RM 1,199.
Specification wise, the Xperia Ray is very modest for its price range. The 3.3-inch Android 2.3 smartphone has a unique screen which Sony Ericsson calls it the Reality Display. The phone is powered by a 1GHz MSM8255 Scorpion CPU, with 512MB of internal memory. Internal storage is rather measly though, at only 300MB of usable storage, though you can actually expand that with microSD up to 32GB.
The Xperia Ray comes with an 8-Megapixel camera that’s capable of recording videos at 720P. The lens used here is a rather decent sensor, which is Sony’s Exmor R mobile CMOS sensor, with an aperture of up to f/2.4.
Connectivity wise, the phone comes with GSM and HSDPA of up to 7.2Mbps, but HSPA+ is not included, which is to be expected from a phone in this price range. Still, we predict that this will be a good seller in our market.
First the leak of the next Xoom, now it looks like images and specs for the next-generation Motorola Atrix are making their way around the net in true fashion. The Atrix 2 will feature a 4.3-inch qHD display, with an 8-MegaPixel camera with LED flash, and comes with 1GB RAM, 8GB on board storage with of course an expansion slot. No mention of what CPU is running on it though, but I’m pretty sure it’s a quad core, possibly powered by Nvidia’s Kal-El, if you look at the timeline of the ARM processor.
Some automakers’ logos are fairly straightforward, while some have a bit of a story to them. But few are as legendary as the Prancing Horse that has become synonymous with Ferrari.
So where did the logo come from? Ferrari’s set out to put the record straight with this brief journey through the history of the company’s icon, from the Italian WWI flying ace that had it on the side of his biplane through its adaptation as the logo of Scuderia Ferrari and the automaker that grew out of it.
The part Ferrari doesn’t tell you, of course, is how the company and arch-rival Porsche came to adopt such similar logos. Legend has it that the aforementioned Italian pilot adopted the logo from a vanquished German foe, who displayed the Prancing Horse logo of his home town of Stuttgart – the same city where Porsche is based.
Said to be inspired by skateboards, ZTE has recently added a brand new device called Skate into their growing catalog of Android smartphones. Expected to be available in on our shores sometime around October or November, the new ZTE Skate is equipped with 4.3-inch touch display and is powered by an 800MHz Qualcomm processor that is paired together with 512MB of RAM. Running on Android 2.3, it also comes together with a 5-megapixels auto-focus camera with LED flash.
At this age and time where newer Android smartphones usually come together with a 1.0GHz processor, ZTE Skate with its 800MHz processor might sounds a little bit underpowered. Well, let’s not forget that your iPhone 4 is also running on an underclocked 800MHz A4 CPU. Then again, with a price tag that is expected to be under RM 1,000 as per ZTE’s previous Android offerings, it seems that ZTE Skate is designed to meet the demand of the low to mid end segment of the market.
Engadget reports that Microsoft has patented a modular Windows Phone that features a swappable gamepad with four buttons and an analog stick, an extra battery, a full-blown QWERTY keyboard and a secondary touchscreen for scrolling through assigned apps. These will supposedly snap into the phone’s slide-out bay but may also work outside the chassis via a Bluetooth connection. Called Mobile Communication Device Having Multiple, Interchangeable Second Devices, the patent was filed on March 17, 2010 and is described as follows:
A mobile communication device comprises a first device with a first display and multiple second devices. The second devices are releasably attachable to the first device and are interchangeable with each other. The mobile device can operate as a mobile cell phone with one or more second devices operable as a mobile phone hand set. The second devices can comprise one or more game controllers, batteries, physical keyboards and/or mobile phone handsets with a display. In a detached configuration, the first device is separated from the second devices and can wirelessly communicate with one or more of the detached second devices. In a three device configuration, the first device can send commands, control signals or content to one or more external devices in addition to the second devices.
The design is interesting to say the least, but we question about pricing and the device’s overall weight. Will all the components come packed with the smartphone, or will just one (like the keyboard) be included in the package and the others available as separate purchases? Is Microsoft looking to take on Sony Ericsson’s Xperia PLAY?
If anything, the patent leads to a lot of speculation, but I’m sure we won’t be seeing it being implemented into their products that soon.
Trinity will replace Llano in the performance, mainstream and entry-level CPU segments with updates new A8, A6, A4 and E2-series processors. The roadmap only relates to mobile processors and offers very few details, but it appears that the upgrade to the Piledriver CPU core and London graphics core won’t change the positioning of the processors in the market.
The Bobcat core will be moved upmarket and extended to the Wichita APU for entry-level and mainstream notebooks later in 2012. The Bobcat-Krishna APU will replace the Ontario APU for compact notebooks in AMD’s Deccan platform. Trinity, Wichita and Krishna will use variations of the London graphics core.
Not surprisingly, AMD is also driving down the power consumption of its ultra-low power Desna APU, which is at 5.9 watts today, but will be hitting 4.5 watts in the Hondo APU (also with Bobcat cores) next year.
Trinity should become part of the Comal platform next year, which seems to be coexisting with the Sabine platform throughout 2012 in the performance and mainstream segments. Deccan will replace Brazos in the entry-level and compact notebook range, while AMD will survive 2012 in the ultra-low-power segment as Brazos T.
2013 will bring the Samara APU with Jaguar CPU cores on the very low end. It is unclear how much this roadmap has actually changed over the past few weeks, especially since the firing of CEO Dirk Meyer, who was accused of not getting AMD into attractive mobile markets, which would suggest a potential focus on tablets. We were told that AMD would have tablet processors ready in 2012, and Samara looks a lot like the processor we were told about earlier this year.
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