Friday, December 23, 2011

Jingxing S7100: Android tablet dedicated to games

A company called Jingxing Venus has unveiled the S7100, a touch pad running Android and embedding a battery of buttons designed to orient the side of video games. If the principle is interesting, this tablet shows Chinese still some limitations that may be possible to get around, especially considering its price.
The Venus S7100 could it be the tablet that the Xperia Play is for smartphones, including Android terminal dedicated to the game? If the concept can leave dreamer, he is not certain that the Chinese firm Jingxing book shelf here really at the forefront, particularly in its OS.

Free Mobile does not get a 4G license

4G frequencies gold: a faster allocationThe outcome of this second round has been rapid, considering their importance. Unlike the first 4G licenses on the 2.6 GHz band, which ARCEP had delivered its verdict after several months, it only took a few days a week to be precise, to the Authority to assign frequencies so-called "gold "on the 800 MHz band. It must be said that time is short, the mobile network begins to saturate with the democratization of smartphones, using a large bandwidth for Internet browsing.

Sharp decline in the popularity of Apple's iPhone in Europe

After years of supremacy in the world, Apple is beginning to feel the ill effects of economic and concurrency. The facts suggest that the popularity of the firm at the apple begins to descend steeply. Although it is hard to believe, this is not a mere hypothesis. It also shows that the reports published by the firm "Kantar Wordpanel" about iPhone sales during the last quarter. The largest decline was recorded in September with 3.3 million iPhone unsold, and that, compared to the previous quarter.

Galaxy Y Duos and Pro Duos : two dual-SIM Android smartphone from Samsung

Samsung ended the year with the unveiling of the Galaxy Y and Galaxy Duos , two Android devices each can accommodate two SIM cards, a relatively rare opportunity today in the market for smartphones.
The Galaxy Y and Galaxy Duos can therefore couple two SIM cards in one smartphone to improve efficiency, but also limit the number of aircraft take-away as part of a movement, whether professional or not . Overall, the two forms of terminal repeat units of the Galaxy and offer

iPad: Sketch the application now available

Skitch, this photo editing software acquired by Evernote last August, is now available for iPad Touch Pad, wishing well the first version compatible with IOS.
A version for iPhone is also expected to emerge soon. The version of Skitch for Android is itself available since August and a huge success in the light of three million downloads from since.

Match iTunes: Apple communicates

Opening iTunes Match abroad had not until now been an official communication from Apple is now done through a document from the support site , which specifies the 17 countries where the service is available (including France, Canada, Mexico, Britain and Australia).

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Motorola patent litigation against Microsoft, mobile phone manufacturers against patent infringing

Microsoft feiert vor Gericht einen kleinen Erfolg gegen Motorola. Der Handy-Hersteller verstieß gegen ein Patent der Redmonder.
In the technology sector, it is customary to tug against each other for patent infringement in court. This time, Microsoft celebrates a point against Motorola success, while the mobile phone manufacturers but was acquitted of six other points.
Not only Apple and Samsung arguing in court, Microsoft is also in dispute with Motorola. The U.S. trade commission ITC considers it proven that Motorola infringes a patent by Microsoft. This is number 6,370,566 and deals with a technique to schedule meetings via smartphones. More specifically, according to Microsoft, the Calendar app. From this it would be possible by using contacts to arrange meetings and times. In a comprehensive document describing Microsoft, Motorola exactly why I just violate this patent.

LG Dusseldorf: 10.1N Galaxy Tab is OK

The Landgericht Düsseldorf rejected Apple's application for interim injunction against the Galaxy Tab 10.1N. Apple wants to get it banned in Europe, such as N-TV reported. The changes made by Samsung at the device changes were sufficient preliminary assessment, said Judge Joan Brueckner-Hofmann. It differs significantly enough from Apple's design.

An LCD 27 "3D e-IPS panel from LG

The manufacturer LG has just introduced its 3D Cinema DM92, an LCD 27 inch diagonal enjoying a passive 3D technology.
With an e-IPS panel, the LCD screen has extremely fine edges (1 mm). The resolution reaches 2560 x 1440 pixels, while viewing angles peak at 178 °. LG also indicates that the 3D Cinema DM92 is 25% more energy efficient than competing models. Unfortunately, the manufacturer does not give exact figures ... the price and availability date are not yet known, it will have to wait until CES 2012 to learn more.

Windows Phone: a mobile OS too late?

While some are willing to gamble on the success of Windows Phone, largely thanks to Nokia smartphones that are and will be equipped, others argue instead that the Microsoft Mobile OS arrives too late to hope to find a place market dominated by Android and iOS. At least if experts from Exane BNP Paribas analysts and Bernstein.

The iPhone, casualty of the economic crisis

The economic crisis in Europe spared not the iPhone, back against a fleet of cheaper alternatives, led by the Google Android OS.Combined with the emergence of platforms cheaper alternatives in fact, the effects of the economic crisis in Europe have a significant impact on the iPhone, now far down the face of Android devices.The Old Continent as a whole is idling for two years, as the result of one of the darkest periods it has been financial.

Sony Vaio VPCEC3X5E

A Sony Vaio built for multimedia: it is powerful, adaptable to their needs, well finished and affordable.
E-series Vaio is quite complex, it is advisable to go through Sony's online store to set as we hear the machine, choose the colors ...
It is in any case of consumer notebooks at prices that Sony we had not used.

MacBook Air

The new MacBook Air has arrived, and it is much more successful than the Beaujolais. There are the qualities of the brand: impeccable finish, successful design. And many of the shortcomings of the first version of the Air have been fixed: the machine is more powerful, with a low power Core 2 Duo and DDR3 memory, and most importantly, the price is not astronomical. The machine is very portable, excellent autonomy.
We regret all the same connectivity too light, especially with the lack of ethernet port problem. You have to buy many expensive adapters to correct these defects.

LDLC B1

LDLC offers a range of 15-inch notebook PC, designed and assembled by them. We greatly appreciate their B1, which is really well thought out, and for a record price.It has a very good processor (Core i3 350), an excellent graphics card for movies, correct for the game, 250 GB hard drive. Small regret, only 2 GB of DDR3, but it is easily correctable and inexpensively.He also cited as an asset compatible USB 3, Optimus technology (which enables longer battery life), Wi-Fi N. ..Be careful, there is no OS installed!

Dell XPS 17

The new larger sizes of Dell 17-inch 1600x900 screen. Still a very good price-performance ratio, with the latest generation Intel (Core i-5), a nice graphics card (GeForce 435M), 4GB of Ram and hard drives in 7200 tr / min
Dell has added a few extras: USB3, HDMI 1.4, but wireless HDMI.

ASUS K72F

Asus laptop large: 17 inches, 1600x900.
A robust machine, cut to the desktop, Internet and multimedia use simple (no game). The machine is solid, comfortable to use. It features a good processor, Pentium T6100 to Core I3, 4 GB of RAM. But a modest graphics chipset.

MSI GX640-279

A very robust configuration for the game, even if we regret the hard disk of 500 GB only 5400 revs / minute. But still, to 789 euros, it has an Intel Core i5-450M, 4GB of DDR3 RAM at 1066 MHz and an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850. What all run, but the relatively slow hard drive could hinder shipments.

MSI FX603-033

Much like the HP Pavilion DV6, this laptop costs 30 euros more for overall performance very similar. We find an Intel Core i5 460M 2.53 GHz, 4 GB RAM DDR3 1333 MHz, a 640 GB hard drive, but at 5400 rev / min and an Nvidia GeForce GT425M. A configuration strong enough, damage the hard drive is quite slow.

MSI FX600-030

At 660 euros, this configuration allows you to play very well and at low cost. We find an Intel Core i3-350M at 2.26 GHz, 4 GB RAM DDR3 1066 MHz, a 320 GB SATA hard drive at 5400 rev / min and an Nvidia GeForce GT325M. Very good components for the price, but the downside is the hard drive, with a low and slow.

HP Pavilion DV6-3165SF

If the size of your laptop is not a real test of choice for 699 instead of the Alienware M11X, for example, orient yourself to this versatile notebook. We find an Intel Core i5-460M (2.53 GHz), 4GB of DDR3 RAM and an ATI Radeon HD 5650 1024 MB From the very solid, especially as the 500 GB hard drive runs at 7200 rev / min.