2010年12月29日星期三

Facebook, Groupon and Twitter show significant value growth in 2010

This year, social networking web sites across the board have obtained rising consideration from each companies and shoppers. Consequently, leading social networking web sites have seen sizeable rise in value this 12 months, according to a current report from Nyppex.

Twitter's
value greater than doubled, reaching a bit over $3.7 billion, though Facebook saw 56 % growth to achieve $41.two billion. Also, Groupon, which boldly rejected Google's $6 billion acquisition present previously this month, quadrupled in worth this yr and is now well worth $4.8 billion. According towards the report, Groupon is now seeking private funding.

The
consideration from investors comes as the result of diverse social media use. Analysis firms IDC and Forrester the two listed social media among their major technologies for 2011. As social media use continues to become a lot more varied, interest from investors will expand accordingly.

"You have an
raising quantity of amazing businesses that have already established they've plenty of value," stated
Eric Jackson, co-founder of
on line personal investment service agency CapLinked. "People naturally want a opportunity to spend money on a corporation like that."
Speedy social networking development is expected to proceed. Executives from Facebook and Twitter, which respectively surpassed 550 million and 200 million people this yr, equally declared their business can at some point reach 1 billion people.

2010年12月15日星期三

Second Generation of Apple TV Available in 4 Weeks

What started as a "hobby" for Apple four years ago has now been streamlined to create the second generation Apple Television. The answer to requests from many Apple consumers, this updated device is one-fourth the size of its predecessor and, according to Steve Jobs, promises to be a "phenomenal way to watch Hollywood movies and Tv shows inside your living room whenever you want."
The new hardware comes with Apple's powerful new A4 CPU but lacks a tough drive so all content require to be streamed over the Internet or from a local PC or Mac. The new Apple Tv includes HDMI, optical audio out, Ethernet and USB ports. Apple has dropped component video and analog audio support that was previously obtainable on older Apple TVs.
The 2nd generation Apple Tv incorporates a variety of new software features. With only rental written content for HD motion pictures and Tv exhibits obtainable, end users no longer have the alternative to purchase, finally eliminating the require for storage and storage management. Content streaming from several sources lets buyers click to rent and demands absolutely no syncing.
Users will now have access to 1st run motion pictures the day they turn out to be obtainable on DVD for $4.99 with their Apple Television. They'll also be in a position to stream HD Television shows for $.99 with the added bonus of no commercials. Currently, ABC and Fox are the only two networks providing Tv articles but Apple is optimistic the rest will speedily "see the light" and "get on board."
If you're a Netflix subscriber, you'll be in a position to stream a huge quantity of content material to your Apple Television directly from the Netflix library. Furthermore to HD movie and Tv material, users will have access to a wealth of Net content material from YouTube, Podcasts, Flickr, MobileMe (videos and photos) and Radio.
Articles streaming will offer end users access to content material on their Macs and PCs. Watch movies from your own library, listen to music from your iTunes collection or appreciate slide exhibits utilizing photos from iPhoto.
With vast amounts of written content readily offered from a number of sources, users are only seconds away from higher top quality, extra inexpensive entertainment whenever they want it. The second generation Apple Tv is out there for pre-order starting nowadays and will show up in stores in approximately four weeks. The $99 price tag is Apple's answer to customer requests for a much far more incredibly cost-effective cost, so begin saving for the holiday shopping season now.

2010年11月26日星期五

Google Chrome OS For Consumers To Come In 2011

One very important nugget of information that surfaced at Acer's press conference a couple of days ago was the fact that Google won't be launching Chrome OS this year.

Jim Wong, Acer Vice President, did say that the client version with the OS has been reported to subsequent year with Acer most likely to release goods utilizing the OS.

But Google may do some thing of its personal later this year and this has been confirmed by Engadget whose sources have pointed towards the chance that Google might be planning Chrome OS netbooks for its staff and developers to be utilized "dog-food".

It was clearly not Google's intention to announce the item for the autumn 2010 but ship it in 2011 rather. 1 can suspect that some problems have cropped up in the meantime, regardless of whether strategic or technical.

It's ironic that Gingerbread or Android OS 2.3, will probably be released in December and might nicely be widely adopted by tablet and netbook producers leaving Google having a actual conundrum.

Don't be shocked if Eric Schmidt announces that Google Chrome OS would be to merge with Android OS prior to telling you that he by no means stated that this would not occur.

2010年11月18日星期四

Keep an eye on what’s draining your battery with Nokia Battery Monitor

A mobile phone displaying two or three bars of battery doesn't genuinely let you know considerably other than your battery is roughly half full. It doesn't let you know if you are going to wipe out your battery on the morning commute in case you crank up the volume and power by means of some playlists.

Which, if your morning journeys are anything like mine, you are going to wish to do, to drown out the loud conversations of passengers who repeatedly decide on to ignore the 'Quiet Zone' signs plastered all around the train carriage...

Thankfully if you've got a Nokia mobile phone running Symbian S60v5 or Symbian 3 you'll be able to now download the Nokia Battery Monitor to keep an eye on issues.

This genuinely useful app tells you how considerably juice you've left in additional relevant terms, i.e. how a lot of hours of talk time, internet browsing and music playback you've got left.

It also enables you to check which of your phone's functions you have been utilizing probably the most, issues like the camera, music player, gallery, Gps etc. So you are going to be capable of get a far better thought of what consumes probably the most power and be capable of regulate your mobile phone use accordingly.

You'll be able to decide on to view info in a fullscreen app or set it as a widget on your Symbian phone's homescreen. Nokia Battery Monitor is free to download from the Ovi Store now.

2010年11月13日星期六

Automotive lithium battery control set to grow in complexity

The big format lithium battery market will grow to be worth $100billion a year, based on recent surveys. Whilst some of these batteries will likely be used in applications including back up and remote power storage, automotive will represent a big quantity of the revenue.

Monitoring automotive batteries will turn into more and more important, but also increasingly complex, based on Erik Soule, general manager of Linear Technology's signal conditioning business unit. "A lot of poor things can happen in the event you don't manage these batteries properly."

Linear has begun to address the issues with the LTC6802, launched a couple of many years ago. "But the electronics have proved to be tougher than individuals thought for a number of reasons," he told New Electronics.

"For instance, you can find high voltages as well as the process requirements extreme precision, too as noise immunity. It's a issue when inverters switch at 20kHz due to the fact they radiate emi with a large variety of harmonics, so you also must filter all that out." Other requirements of these battery controllers consist of reliability, fault tolerance and diagnostics. "All these demands are being driven by the ISO26262 automotive security standard," he noted.

Along with answering such questions as 'is the cell charged?', 'how much vitality is left?' and 'are the cells balanced?', battery controllers may have to work with 1mV precision. "And the electronics in hybrid vehicles will probably be on 24/7 for 15 years perhaps," Soule added.

Linear is now working on new generations of its battery controllers. "We will almost certainly will need to build these on a process with 100V analogue capability, but with fine cmos," he said. "The devices could have greater noise immunity and will probably be greater at becoming able to meet safety necessities by way of the provision of built in self test features."

2010年11月8日星期一

Bluetooth + GPS 7.0 Inch Digital Display Car DVD

Technical Specifications

Bluetooth
 + GPS 7.0 Inch Digital Display Car DVD


7.0 inch digital car DVD player (800*480) subwoofer output, connect the original car subwoofer
High speed camera alert function Or connect reversing radar function
Steering wheel control (CAN BUS + air conditioner agreement)
Bluetooth: BT-music, phonebook, call
CDC: compatible for original 6 CDC or 10 CDC
E-book function--E-book: read, browse pics and games
Music: MP3, MP4, IPOD
SD card: store NAV software or multi-media document: support new type SDHC card, biggest 32GB
Offer USB-HOST1.1 Jack, can read U disc, card reader
Tire Pressure Monitoring System: compatible for those which with tire pressure monitoring function cars
The language of OSD have 17 kinds: English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Hungarian, Czech, Danish, Norwegian,Swedish,Portuguese,Italian,Finland,Roumania,Greek,Russian,Poland
Radio Area: China, USA, Latin America, Europe, Russia, Japan
Built-in FM/AM Radio, RDS, movie, Time, calendar
Compatible with DVD, VCD, CD, MP3, MPEG4, CD-R, WMA and JPEG playbacks
Navigation Software equest: WinCE.net 5.0 CORE
Built in GPS--17 languages can be choose: English, German ,French, Spanish, ,Dutch, Hungarian, Czech, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish,Portuguese,Italian,Finland,Roumania,Greek,Russian,Poland
GPS dual zone function
Navigation PCB: COM2, Baud Rate: 9600bps,The path of storage SD Cards
Support map: Igo 8, Route66, Gate5, Papago

http://www.batterylaptops.co.uk/Bluetooth-%252b-GPS-7.0-Inch-Digital-Display-Car-DVD-p-700.html

2010年11月5日星期五

Apple confirms flaws in Macbook Air

FRUIT THEMED VENDOR Apple has confirmed there are many present issues in its Macbook Air notebooks.

When you've paid way over the odds for a shiny toy with most of the cost going towards the logo you ought to expect that your techno fetish piece will at least work. But there have been several on-line reports that Apple's latest stupidly costly ultra-thin laptops have a couple of flaws that seemingly won't go away.

Now Apple has been discovered firing off inside investigation memos concerning the 13-inch late 2010 Macbook Oxygen and also the 11-inch late 2010 Macbook Air. According to bgr.com, Apple is taking the complaints seriously. One of its sources sent the web site an Apple inside memo with a huge red "confidential information" banner splattered across the top.

The reported symptoms bugging the newest Macbook Air models consist of the inner exhibit fading to dark immediately after waking from sleep mode. That issue has affected each 13-inch and 11-inch late 2010 Macbook Air laptops. Apple is also looking into a horizontal flickering when the 13-inch Macbook Air wakes from sleep or after hot-plugging a present.

Apple's resolution for each problems is to force the screen to power cycle by closing the lid, waiting for ten seconds and then re-opening the lid to wake the Macbook Air. Hey presto, the Macbook Air's exhibit should return to normal.

Apple follows up having a generic PR statement that says the show issues will be resolved by a software update. We don't know when or where, along with the firm undoubtedly hasn't and won't address the all-important why

2010年10月20日星期三

Why batteries lose their ability to hold a charge as they age

Scientists have discovered that batteries lose their potential to hold a command as they age due to the fact the finely structured nanomaterials present from the battery get coarsened in size.

Researchers at the Ohio State University had been trying to study why batteries lose their ability to hold a command as they age-specifically lithium-ion batteries, which have generated a lot of buzz for their potential to power the electrical cars in the future.

Yann Guezennec and Giorgio Rizzoni of OSU developed new experimental facilities and procedures to demand and discharge commercially-available Li-ion batteries thousands of times over several months in a number of conditions designed to mimic how these batteries are in fact utilised by hybrid and all-electric vehicles.

To understand the results of this testing, Bharat Bhushan, Suresh Babu, and Lei Raymond Cao studied the materials inside of your batteries to support determine how this aging manifests itself from the structure of the electrode materials.

When the batteries died, the scientists dissected them and employed a method known as infrared thermal imaging to search for problem regions in every electrode, a 1.5-meter-long strip of metal tape coated with oxide and rolled up like a jelly roll.

They then took a closer take a look at these difficulty areas making use of various methods with diverse length scale resolutions and discovered that the finely-structured nanomaterials on these electrodes that enable the battery rapidly charge and discharge had coarsened in size.

Additional studies from the aged batteries, employing neutron depth profiling, revealed that a fraction with the lithium that's responsible, in ion form, for shuttling electrical command between electrodes throughout charging and discharging, was no longer available for cost transfer, but was irreversibly lost from the cathode to the anode.

"We can clearly see that an aged sample versus and unaged sample has a lot lower lithium concentration inside the cathode," said Rizzoni in the Center for Automotive Research at OSU.he researchers suspect that the coarsening of the cathode may perhaps be behind this loss of lithium.

2010年10月9日星期六

How Do You Test a Battery?

I’ll say one thing for the Fandroid army: when they don’t like something, they let you know.

This week, I tried out Flash on an Android cellphone. I noted that I didn’t actually run battery checks, but that Adobe says you may expect three or three.5 hours of battery living if all you do is watch Flash movies.

Android fans didn’t care much for that. “I’m really disappointed how sloppy this article is,” wrote one particular. “You say that battery living could be an problem, but you are too lazy to analyze it.”

An additional: “You totally made a side situation of the most crucial aspect to mobile users: battery lifestyle.”

And: “Thanks for not doing the battery analyze. That could have been the only interesting part of this piece.”

Then: “You didn’t conduct battery exams?!!! That’s only One From the BIGGEST ARGUMENTS AGAINST FLASH ON A MOBILE OS. Jeez, get a NYT intern to check the battery.”

And of course: “How could you then blithely just skip a battery consumption take a look at?”

Hmm. It nearly appears like you guys think I ought to have run some battery tests.

To you, my failure to examination Flash’s battery hit is “lazy.”

To me, it’s just a little more complicated. My problem was, “How do you fairly test the battery?”

1 way to do the take a look at: spend a entire day visiting Flash Web web-sites and playing Flash movies. On a second day, go to exclusively non-Flash websites. Evaluate the battery lifestyle.

But come on: how several men and women really use their phones that way? Who would use the cellphone for nothing but watching Flash videos, all day long? Isn’t it a lot more likely that the typical person will, in the course of a standard day, make some cell phone calls, do some e-mail, play a game or two, surf a bunch of non-Flash websites, and maybe visit a few Flash websites? In that real-world situation, how measurable would Flash’s hit on your battery living be?

Furthermore, practically nobody uses the battery continuously, draining it until it’s dead. Most people today use their phones sporadically for the duration of the day—a pattern which will offer totally diverse battery-life results. How do factor that in?

Some of you suggested making use of web sites like YouTube, where films are available in both Flash and HTML5 (the kind that the iPhone can view)!!! Take a look at the battery by playing Flash movies on an Android cellphone, and compare with watching the same video clips in HTML5 format on an iPhone.

Well, surely you see the dilemma with that protocol. You are not testing the impact of Flash. You’re testing two fully distinct phones. They have various processors, storage, batteries and other components. It’s not a meaningful analyze at all.

So here’s my challenge to you: Design a testing protocol for Flash’s impact on an Android phone’s battery living, and I’ll do it.

2010年10月7日星期四

Ford pulls ahead of its rivals

FORTUNE -- General Motors and Chrysler are beginning to produce some headway following acquiring a financial and operational overhaul compliments of your U.S. bankruptcy court. But Frd, operating totally free of interference by the court or the federal government is moving even faster and is starting to place real distance involving itself and its two domestic rivals.

Ford's U.S. sales in September rose 40% over a year in the past, and it has gained retail market place share in 23 of the last 24 months. By comparison, GM's sales rose 11% last month.

Meanwhile, Ford (F, Fortune 500) stock, which dipped below $3 per share two years back, has risen to close to $13. Earlier this week, Morgan Stanley initiated Frd coverage with a target value of $20.

Wrote analyst Adam Jones: "Our forecasts give Frd credit for a transformational turnaround yielding performance far exceeding its own historical averages and places the corporation among a select group of worldwide automotive firms. "

The momentum is likely to continue. Soon after a slow start, Ford is start to take the wraps off a program to electrify its automobile fleet. By 2015, it expects that 2% to 5% of its worldwide car fleet will likely be standard gas-electric hybrids, plug-in hybrids, and all-electric battery-powered autos. In the 12 months 2020, Frd expects the share to jump to between 10% and 25%.

Ford outlined its alternative fuel method nearly two many years back and is now in a position to show some tangible outcomes. It brought many its battery vehicles to New York for check drives this week.

Initial to the marketplace, it can be launching a small battery driven van, the Transit Connect in 2010. Such cars are considered an ideal battery application since they tend to operate in fleets, simplifying demands for charging infrastructure, and they follow predetermined routes, reducing the incidence of vary anxiety.

Next 12 months comes the auto that probably will be the centerpiece of Ford's EV efforts, at least in the short term: the battery-powered Focus. Frd is promising a variety of 100 miles per charge, which will make it directly competitive with the Nissan Leaf. Ford plans to sell 15,000 to 20,000 Focuses a yr.

A test mule provided for journalists neither contained the elaborate instruments that battery cars seem to demand, nor tested the promised range. But it started efficiently, ran quietly, accelerated smoothly and successfully dodged as a result of New York City visitors in a lap around Ford's West Side dealership.

The Concentrate exemplifies Ford's common-sense, spread-the-overhead approach to battery-powered vehicles. Rather than go via the expense of developing dedicated electric automobile models like the Leaf, it's adding electric powertrains to its conventional models to be able to maximize economies of scale. That risks dampening consumer appeal, nonetheless it really should pay off in sharply lower costs.

Frd is also discovering surprising efficiencies on the technology. Its plug-in hybrid due in 2011 will get 30 miles to a charge. That implies quite a few owners will probably be able to travel back and forth to work on electrical power alone and still have the secure back up of an efficient gasoline engine.

For its next-generation hybrids, Frd is making a risky move. The hybrid Lincoln MKZ coming in 2011 might be sold at the same cost because the typical gasoline-powered 1. Since hybrids usually command a $3,000 premium that suggests that Ford has 1) made a breakthrough on cost, or 2) is willing to eat the additional expense in return for much more industry share.

Ford's determination to do the intelligent factor rather than the well-liked issue, an ethos driven by CEO Alan Mulally, is starting to permeate the entire organization. A Morgan Stanley report shows a business that has been stripped down and speeded up:

As recently as 2006, Ford was producing 97 diverse nameplates on 27 separate platforms. Immediately after Mercury is put to sleep, it will have just 32 nameplates riding on 15 platforms.

That kind of simplicity pays off in efficiency. Morgan Stanley estimates that the carmaker will generate $682,000 in revenue from each worker, vs. $542,000 in 2006. Writes analyst Adam Jones: "The Ford of 2010 is hardly recognizable vs. the Ford of just a couple of decades ago."

Great issue, since America's automobiles may be hardly recognizable in a handful of years, either. Final week, the Obama administration proposed increasing fuel efficiency requirements by 3% to 6% annually from 2017 to 2025.

That signifies that in 15 a long time, the government will insist that automobiles get amongst 47 miles per gallon to 62 miles per gallon. The traditional American V-8 engine will be dead as a dodo by then, and also the V-6 may perhaps be too.

Ford has read the tea leaves and is attempting to get ready. Its technique of leveraging its international platforms by electrifying existing model lines looks intelligent as the use of gasoline-powered automobiles declines.

Battery-powered autos the size of your compact Concentrate may perhaps turn out to be the new regular -- and Frd will have the production volume to generate them affordable

2010年10月5日星期二

How to Decide Which Android Smartphone to BuyHow to Decide Which Android Smartphone to Buy

Which Android phones do your network provide? Which one particular has the biggest screen as well as the longest battery life? Google will tell you.

You know you like Android, but you have no idea what phones are out there. You've got friends with Nexus Ones, HTC Legends, and Motorola DROIDs and they every insist you couldn't go wrong in case you just picked up the same phone as they have. But you require something to suit your needs, not theirs. So how do you determine? You log onto Google's handy-dandy comparison database, that's how.

Google has simplified Android shopping with the addition of a database that features a comprehensive list of all of the Android devices readily available today. It is possible to sort by country, operator, or manufacturer and compare up to three devices at a time.

Those inside the marketplace for a new phone will no doubt come across this valuable, however, it will also be useful for those looking to see how their mobile phone matches up with newer models on the marketplace. Smartphone specifications are constantly changing, and although a 1GHz CPU may possibly be the norm these days, that could change entirely within the space of a couple of months. If you are brave sufficient to see how your mobile phone measures as much as the new kid on the block, check it out by visiting www.google.com/phone.

Also, for individuals interested, Google.com/phone utilised to be Google's on-line phone store, which it used to sell the Nexus A single and a selection of accessories for the cell phone. The search giant's choice to replace the shop with this 'Google Phone Gallery' could represent a permanent step away from selling phones.

2010年9月30日星期四

Firefox Not Coming To iPhone

Mozilla have confirmed that the full version of Firefox will not be coming to the Apple iPhone.

In a post on their official blog they stated that "there are technical and logistical restrictions that make it hard, if not impossible, to build the full Firefox browser for the iPhone.”

This may well be poor news to Firefox fans with an iPhone, who'll just need to settle for the equally brilliant Opera Mini or use Firefox House, which is offered on the iPhone.

Firefox Home nonetheless is a helpful application which permits you to synchronize your iPhone with your desktop browsing expertise. It still provides a excellent encounter and enables you to open tabs that are in use on your PC, browse your bookmarks and search your history.

Apple's policy of not allowing applications that compete with its own and its lack of support for Flash is meaning a lot of popular applications aren't being released on the iPhone, which is often a shame !

You'll be able to download Firefox Household from iTunes right now.

2010年9月25日星期六

Battery technology in spotlight as clean energy debate continues

BOSTON - A recurring theme this week for the EmTech@MIT convention right here in the Massachusetts Institute of Technologies was the role that storage technological innovation and battery packs will play inside the future of energy. There is extensive consensus, of course, that thoroughly clean sources such as wind and photo voltaic — which are also extremely intermittent — basically aren’t viable in the absence of very good grid-scale battery options.

One particular from the modern start-ups featured on the convention, Seeo, is doing work on technological innovation to create battery packs safer and longer-lasting. The concentrate from the analysis, borne out of cofounder Hany Eitouni’s venture at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, is replacing the electrolyte applied in standard lithium-ion power packs with a solid polymer which has two primary positive aspects: initial, it can be less flammable than active battery power, and second, it holds the charge to get a more time time. Seeo is eying grid purposes for its product, which is due out in 2011. Mostly, the power packs would assist with balancing grid deliver and need.

Eitouni states his company’s know-how could aid convey storage space technologies down to around $300 per kilowatt-hour, since a lot of the charges related to battery advancement at this time are associated with the products they consist of.

You will find a quantity of organizations employed on battery packs for this goal (more on a single inside a minute), but initially I desire to share some perspective on battery technology from an electricity panel throughout the EmTech event. That panel was composed of two researchers from your hydorcarbon electricity world (Shell and Exxon) as properly an MIT scientist.

Jose Bravo, chief scientist for Shell World Alternatives, says the management of electrical energy supply by means of batteries gives compelling ways to assist increase the efficiency of our existing system. But John Reilly, associate director for investigation using the joint system around the science and policy of international change at MIT, finds the thought that there will be grid-scale electric batteries “hard to assume.” Like Bravo, he sees batteries enjoying a function in peak shaving and for balancing deliver.

For an notion about how this might give good results, take into account a challenge spearheaded by World Battery, which can be creating large-format lithium-ion rechargeable battery power, and Princeton Energy Techniques, which can make a large-scale sun technology process. Underneath the deal, the 2 businesses are putting in a $1.five million photovoltaic generation system in the Princeton Strength headquarters that will contain an strength storage space technique from Global Battery capable of storing up to one megawatt of capacity. The system is meant to appear on line inside the fourth quarter.

The demonstration project is going to be utilized to power the Princeton Energy headquarters, offsetting a portion of its electric power consumption and also generating Photo voltaic Renewable Power Certifications (RECs)..! The improvement got some funded from your New Jersey Thoroughly clean Energy Manufacturers Fund.

Darren Hammell, CEO of Princeton Energy, states the storage space technological innovation from Global Battery might be instrumental in supporting with peak shaving apps. A person cause the two are getting collectively for this check is because these are refining integrated thoroughly clean strength solutions according to their complementary technologies. The combined technologies might help with “solar smoothing,” in accordance to Princeton Energy executives.

The major pitch for World Battery’s offerings is that they're huge structure and support lower the quantity of individual cells utilized for storage, according on the company’s CEO Ake Almgren. Battery storage space is far more effective than diesel mills as a back-up alternative simply because diesel generators really don't carry out as properly once they operate at fluctuating or variable speeds, according to Almgren.

2010年9月18日星期六

iPhone 4 Battery Life Problems: The Mophie Answer and Tips

There has been a lot of speak on forums recently about how users are suffering battery living difficulties with their iPhone 4′s. Comments have been made that whilst with other devices users have been happy with a charge lifestyle of around four days, their iPhone 4′s have required charging after just one.

Another mentioned how the standby time is supposedly 300 hrs, but on downloading the Battery Physician app, their device was only showing 200 a long time. Added to this, reports of a 45 minute call reducing the battery level to 90%. Apple itself stated that there was a 20% enhance in battery performance over the previous 3G device.

In an attempt to try and cure the supposed battery life problem, some have given suggestions on how to extend the battery’s living. Iphonedownloadblog listed eleven useful hints on things it is possible to do, such as turning off push notifications, removing unused apps which are constantly running for no reason and switching of your 3G when its not needed.

Technologizer nonetheless have come up with probably the perfect answer within the form of the Mophie battery case. Designing external battery circumstances for iPhone and iPod, Mophie have built up a reputation for extending the devices battery everyday living. Even though in the past the instances were said to be rather bulky, the most recent design for iPhone 4 comes out looking like a usual challenging case.

Even though the battery extender has a slim design, it up’s the 1200mAh standard battery to a 1500mAh. A claim by Mophie says that it will give the user double the regular battery everyday living, that’s roughly 6 extra a long time talk time, 36 a lot more several hours of audio or 9 added hrs video playback. Priced at $79.95 and available through Apple Store, surely this is the solution to anyone’s battery concerns.

Whilst Apples newest gen iPhone is undoubtedly well-liked it has suffered far more than its fair share of complications since its release. If you have experienced battery difficulties or found any other solutions let us know.

2010年9月16日星期四

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2010年9月14日星期二

Li-ion batteries to feature in over 60% hybrid electric vehicles by 2020

As the automotive market transitions to electrical autos, businesses developing lithium-ion battery technologies will make strides. Li-ion technologies is speedily replacing nickel-metal hydride batteries in hybrid electrical vehicles, plus the highly developed battery market place for emerging plug-in hybrid automobiles will be worth billions of dollars within a decade, based on a report by marketplace study firm GBI Study. But even though Japanese producers presently control a majority of your world wide superior battery current market, South Korean and specifically Chinese firms are drawing closer. Nickel-metal hydride batteries account for 97% of your hybrid electrical car market by revenue. But the nickel-metal hydride technological innovation has reached its maturity, Li-ion technological innovation is advancing a lot more easily and offers far better overall performance characteristics, such as longer life, high energy density, and is much more light weight. The report estimates that hybrid electrical autos will make up 10% of new gross sales by 2020 and that Li-ion batteries will likely be in in excess of 60% of those automobiles and trucks. But plug-in hybrid electric powered cars could be an even bigger opportunity for innovative battery makers. The authors believe the automotive business will evolve from hybrid electric to plug-in hybrid electrical vehicles “in the near future” and that the pace of the transition is going to be much faster than expected. This shift will provide a “huge product sales growth” chance for advanced batteries, Li-ion batteries in specific. The report estimates that international plug-in automobiles income will reach 1% from the light-duty automobile market by 2015 and 5.3% by 2020. That could translate into a global plug-in vehicle battery market place of US$17.3 bln by 2020. Highly developed battery manufacturing currently is dominated by China, Japan and South Korea, together accounting for 98% of the industry in 2009. While Japan’s share of your market place will remain significant in the close to term, GBI researchers say that the country’s dominance is “fading away.” Japanese manufactures controlled 55% of world wide sophisticated battery manufacturing in 2009, down from 78% in 2002. Meanwhile, China’s share rose to 25% in 2009 from 11% in 2002, and South Korea’s reached 18% in 2009 from just 6% in 2002 (See chart below)!!!

China gives benefits of attractive government incentives and cheap labor, which has allowed manufacturers there to replace a conventionally capital-intensive enterprise utilizing automated manufacturing lines with a labor-intensive one that relies on people-power in its production lines. Aware of these benefits, Japanese and Western corporations are fast entering into partnerships with Chinese battery manufactures. Warren Buffet has invested US$230 mln into BYD Company, a Shenzhen-based battery and electric car maker gearing up to sell electrical automobiles inside US starting in 2011. According to previous reports, hybrid cars will likely be truly mass-market in China by 2011 or 2012, and also the country’s fleet will start a minimum 10-year transition to plug-in hybrids and battery-electric vehicles as early as this year.

As per Wikipedia, the Toyota hybrids combined with Lexus reached one million hybrids marketed inside the US by February 2009, and worldwide income of hybrids by both brands totaled over 2 million vehicles by August 2009. As the top selling hybrid in each US and Japan, the Toyota Prius reached cumulative product sales of 1.8 mln worldwide as of July 2010. Globally, Toyota Motor Corporation is the leader with over 2.68 mln hybrids bought by July 2010, adopted by Honda Motor Co., Ltd. with over 300,000 hybrids offered by January 2009 and Ford Motor Corporation with a lot more than 100,000 hybrids marketed by December 2009. Over 3 million hybrid electrical vehicles have been offered globally by July 2010, led by the United States with virtually one.8 million units, followed by Japan with more than one million units and Europe with greater than 200,000.

Inside the US, California has been the state leading hybrid sales in USA, followed by New York and Florida. Hybrid gross sales in Japan nearly triple in 2009 from 2008 as a result of government incentives that included a scrappage program, tax breaks on hybrid automobiles and other low emission automobiles and trucks, and a higher levy on gasoline that pushed up prices.

2010年9月7日星期二

How to increase your laptop battery life

How you can improve your laptop battery living

1 Comment By Ashish Gourav It can be irritating to look for a strength outlet to cost your laptop computer battery when you happen to be on the move. Mobile computing has transformed in recent years with better materials, amazingly smaller chips and faster processors, although there isn’t much development inside pursuit of increasing laptop battery living. You should have had those unpleasant experiences of working on a project on your laptop computer, and your battery dies. Here are 15 some straightforward yet efficient tips that may support you extract the maximum out of your laptop battery.

1. Often keep your computer in “stand by mode” when it really is left idle for quite long time. To set the standby mode go to “control panel” , pick “power option” and pick out the “power scheme”, from there decide on the time you wish to wait until going for stand by.

2. Maintain your network card disabled as laptop uses lots of energy to search networks.

3. Constantly close all of the unnecessary packages as these also consume electrical power.

4. Learn to control the programs that run from commence up. You might not have any clue about these packages running within the background. Comply with the begin menu, click on “run” and sort “msconfig” press “enter”. Now click the “start up tab” here pick the program you wish to close and hold running.

5. Condition the batteries by entirely draining it’s charge and then recharging it fully. Partially charging the battery reduces battery everyday living.

6. Frequently deferment to arrange information, this results lesser time in fetching information from tough disk. You need to know the quicker difficult disk moves it consumes lesser ability

7. If you aren’t heading to make use of your battery for a while then charge them to 40% and maintain them in a cool place. Lithium battery‘s average age is 2-3 years and with some care its everyday living could be increased. A

8. Attempt to use updated softwares and new drivers as they tend to eat lesser battery.

9. Continually use original adaptor with exact specification. Any mismatch could lead to over load and damaging battery.

10. Heat and temperature could trigger battery damage slowly but surely, so by no means leave the laptop under direct sun , or in a closed car.

11. Pause the scheduled tasks once you aren’t sure about energy supply. It may possibly be a defrag or a virus scan, but usually schedule them for a time when that you are near a electrical power outlet.

12. USB units eat out a major chunk of battery energy. Remove all the unused exterior units like external mouse, Wi-Fi, exterior speakers, PC cards, Bluetooth and iPod.

13. In no way leave CD/DVD within the drives, spinning drives drains strength incredibly fast.

14. Practice to desist DVD or any other exterior devices when battery is on; try to shift content to virtual drives like pismo file mount or virtual CDROM control panel or hard drive.

15. Well LCD screen is another big power drainer so set the brightness level to the lowest degree feasible for you to work on. This may perhaps not be required but I recommend you do this.

I hope you follow if not all but most of the tricks above and enjoy the battery existence which you deserve.

2010年9月6日星期一

What Should I Consider When Buying a Notebook Battery?

Having a good notebook battery is certainly one of the most necessary parts of owning a mobile computer, especially when you intend to take advantage of your laptop's portability; without a fantastic battery, your laptop will must be plugged into the wall much more frequently, limiting your capacity to take it with you. Modern laptop computer batteries tend to last three to five hours, depending about the electrical power needs in the laptop plus the programs the user runs. Couple of things are as frustrating as when your laptop computer battery suddenly won't demand entirely or stops holding its cost for as long; when this occurs, you'll almost certainly want to buy a replacement battery.

There are many laptop battery manufacturers, and even a lot more retailers to purchase your laptop battery from. Nevertheless, your biggest concern in purchasing a mobile computer battery will be to pick the battery that fits your personal computer. For this you will should know the make and model quantity of your mobile computer; in the event you don't know this offhand or don't have the required paperwork, check the inside of your respective laptop's battery compartment even though the laptop or computer is off and unplugged. There you must discover the model range, along with some other information. You may well also find the part variety of your laptop computer battery, located about the casing in the battery itself.

When purchasing a mobile computer battery, you will most likely only have one or two choices that fit your pc. Opt for the battery with the longest life obtainable on your personal computer. You will discover a number of diverse kinds of mobile computer batteries; simply because the technologies of each are very different, a notebook computer should be designed specifically for the form of battery it uses. Most laptops are only developed to use one variety of battery technology.

The nickel cadmium battery, known as NiCad (pronounced "Nigh-Kad"), utilized to be essentially the most common type of laptop computer battery. Nickel cadmium batteries couldn't hold incredibly much electrical power by today's standards, and could only be charged a limited quantity of instances. NiCad batteries could quickly be ruined by being left about the charger after they had reached full charge, or by being recharged before they were totally dead. The latter problem, called the "memory effect," meant that in the event you recharged your notebook battery just before it had run absolutely down, it would remember the point at which you put it back about the charger, and only discharge that far the next time you utilized it.

The nickel metal hydride (NiMH) mobile computer battery was the next step up from NiCad. NiMH batteries could maintain considerably additional energy than NiCad, but they still had some thing of a memory impact -- despite the fact that it wasn't as pronounced. Lithium ion (Li-Ion) is the latest technologies for mobile computer batteries; despite the fact that Li-Ion batteries hold about the same amount of power as NiMH, they're considerably lighter and far superior. The Li-Ion notebook computer battery doesn't have a memory effect and lasts considerably longer than its predecessors. If your laptop supports multiple types of batteries, and also the Li-Ion is one of them, then you really should opt for the Li-Ion as the very best sort of battery offered in your laptop computer.

Regardless of which variety you've, it is necessary to properly care to your notebook battery, to be able to get as much life out of it as achievable. "Conditioning," which signifies fully discharging and then absolutely charging the battery, really should be carried out at least each and every few weeks, as it maintains the complete capacity of the laptop computer battery. Some authorities claim that this just isn't necessary with Li-Ion batteries, although others maintain that it's a great idea to condition all mobile computer batteries frequently, rather than simply leaving them plugged into the wall at all occasions. Your laptop battery need to by no means be stored in an region that drops below 50ºF (10ºC) or rises above 95ºF (35ºC); this indicates that your laptop computer ought to not be left inside the automobile or in a storage region which is not climate controlled. Also, for extended storage of six months or far more, the notebook computer battery should be discharged to 50% capacity and removed from the computer; a battery stored for an extended period of time at complete capacity may well lose the potential to charge absolutely, while a battery saved in a fully discharged state might by no means be able to demand again at all.

2010年9月2日星期四

Sony laptop with "3D" button coming 2011: report

After getting somewhat late towards the game with its 1st line of stereoscopic 3d TVs, Sony is gunning to become proactive within the 3d laptop current market, planning a pc with full 3d capabilities for release next year.

Cnet includes a report of a prototype for the device getting shown off at this week's IFA conference

in Berlin, one on the biggest technology events in Europe.

The laptop, to become sold under Sony's Vaio brand, includes a 3d button that would assumedly be able to transform a 2D picture into three dimensional. It will come packed with a pair of active shutter glasses, but it is not known if these is going to be different than the ones that Sony Bravia TVs use. Current 3d personal computers require special proprietary glasses from the maker in the computer graphics chip.

Company CEO Sir Howard Stringer confirmed in a press conference that three dimensional Vaio PCs would be accessible in retail following spring.

The market place for 3d TVs is just barely getting off the ground, so the very vast majority of consumers can't even care about three dimensional personal computers at this point. Nevertheless, unfettered Internet access is already promising to make three dimensional content additional accessible on personal computers than on TVs, where viewers are beholden to their particular Tv manufacturer and service provider.

Sony is also reportedly showing off the WV-90, a 3d video projector. That's for those customers who just aren't happy sufficient with the 60 inch 3d Tv sets offered on the marketplace. The projector will use the same active shutter glasses as all of Sony's 3d Bravia TVs.

Sony would like you to believe of its name whenever you believe of three dimensional. From the PS3 to TVs to Blu-ray players to computers, it's the only organization that promises to bring 3d to each a single of your visual entertainment technologies. It is even thinking of launching its own 3d Television channel.

2010年8月31日星期二

Apple iPad supply catching up to demand

SAN FRANCISCO — Apple on Monday promised that US orders for its iPad tablet computers would ship within 24 hours, in a sign that supply in the hot-selling devices was catching up to demand.

The on the internet Apple Store indicated that any from the six iPad models would be shipped, free of charge of charge, within 24 hours of an order being placed.

People have snapped up millions of iPads since the gadgets launched from the United States and wait times for the devices at times stretched into weeks.

The shortened wait has prompted debate over whether Apple's beefed-up production was paying off or if demand for iPads was waning.

Apple could provide some perspective on iPad sales during a special event to take place in San Francisco on Wednesday, but the California company's iPod line is expected to be the primary focus with the gathering.

The iPad went on sale in the United States on April 3 and Apple sold a lot more than three million in 80 days.

The iPad enables users to watch video, listen to music, play games, surf the Web or read electronic books. The cheapest iPad costs 499 dollars (US) although the top model is priced at 829 dollars.

Apple has released the iPad in much more than a dozen countries, and China Unicom is expected to start promoting Apple's iPad within the world's largest Net marketplace in mid to late-September.

2010年8月27日星期五

Preserving Your Apple Product Battery

Buying and depending on an electronic device signifies depending on its battery. For Apple items, that battery is most likely a Lithium Ion Battery or Li-Ion.

Why the Li-Ion? It's said additional strength is packed into these nickel-based batteries than most. This means much more power without sacrificing size and weight.

The living of the battery will depend on how you use it. If you are watching DVD’s in your notebook, the battery is going to be sucked a lot more rapidly than if you might be basically making use of a word processing program. This is obvious. But you will find a few other tricks to preserving battery life within your Apple solutions as effectively. They consist of:

Notebook – With your notebook, one particular in the primary things you'll be able to do to preserve your battery lifestyle would be to maintain it in a moderate temperature zone. This means not leaving it locked in your hot vehicle inside the summer or cold auto within the winter. Your notebook and it’s battery must work very best within temperatures of 50 degrees to 95 degrees. When you first purchase your notebook, be certain to give it a full charge proper away. With lithium-based batteries, it truly is also critical to keep the electrons in it moving, this means not leaving your laptop plugged in all from the time. The perfect use of your Apple notebook is usually to combine use of it on the battery and plugged in, throughout the day. Apple also recommends charging and discharging its battery at the very least once per month. If you are not using your notebook for additional than six months, Apple recommends that you store the notebook using the battery at a 50% charge. Fully discharging a battery prior to storing it could make it incapable of holding any charge. Storing it complete could produce loss of battery capacity as perfectly. Last, make certain your notebook’s settings are in an optimal place. For instance, change on your energy saving alternative, dim your screen to the lowest feasible comfort level, turn off AirPort Wireless in case you aren’t employing it as well as Bluetooth, and disconnect peripherals and quit applications when not in use.

iPod – Caring for your iPod battery is similar to taking care of your respective laptop battery – maintaining your gadget out on the sun and within temperatures between 32 degrees and 95 is ideal. Apple suggests you really should generally update your latest software as engineers may come across new approaches to optimize battery performance. Use your iPod often to keep the electrons moving inside the battery. A person requirements to be sure and go through at the very least one charge cycle per month. Once you aren’t making use of your iPod, set the Hold switch. This will prevent your iPod controls from waking up and applying unnecessary electrical power. It is possible to also optimize your settings in your iPod. In case you don’t use characteristics just like Wi-Fi, Backlight, and Equalizer -your battery will last longer. Reduce the use of third-party applications, fetch information less frequently, and turn off push notifications. Limiting your fast-forwarding saves power as nicely as the iPod won’t need to fill its cache, which means it has to access your difficult drive a lot more often and use a lot more power. Creating playlists is more preferable. Applying compressed songs helps as well.

iPhone – Again, like the above devices, maintaining your iPhone out on the car where it is exposed to really high or low temperatures will assist preserve its battery. Optimize your phone’s settings and watch how much you use the characteristics of one's phone. Each time you retrieve email, for instance, it affects your battery life. It is possible to also change off push notifications, fetch information much less regularly, turn away push mail, lessen use of third party applications, turn off Wi-Fi, change off Bluetooth, use Airplane mode, adjust brightness to dimmest setting, and turn off 3G. You will also need to lock your iPhone making use of Auto-Lock when not making use of it, this will turn it away far more easily after a period of inactivity. As with the other devices, you also would like to use the phone routinely and go through at least a person charge cycle per month.

By practicing these uncomplicated rules, you can make your Apple electronic device last longer with its Lithium Ion Battery.

2010年8月13日星期五

TUAW Tips: 25 ways to check the hardware on your iPhone 4

I received my second replacement iPhone 4 yesterday. Given the problems had both my first iPhone 4 units, I wanted to make absolutely sure, in as little time as possible that have this replacement nothing wrong with it. Before I even took it up from the shop, I began compiling a list of things I needed to test and how I would do it.

What I came out, is a series of hardware checks that any legal after taking an iPhone 4 out of the box and sync it to perform for the first time. This is by no means the only way to test an iPhone 4's hardware failure and there are probably more comprehensive methods, but the following procedure is basic enough for most users to follow. Plus, it should not catch any glaring hardware defects in a 4 iPhone immediately. Click "More" to read the checklist.

What do you check before you synchronize with iTunes for the first time:

Jacket: Check for cracks in the glass, visible gaps, and loose connections. The phone should be strong, without "to" anywhere - a properly constructed iPhone 4 is pretty much a solid glass / steel plate. In particular, the front and rear glass to the stainless steel-band antenna flush. All gaps are not only allow dust into the iPhone, but also act as a pivot point, reducing the structural integrity of the glass and to break it more like an accidental drop. Such gaps are both incredibly rare (I'm probably the only guy "Lucky" enough to be hit with this problem twice) and very difficult to recognize. Hold the iPhone in landscape mode with a strong light source in the background. As long as you do not see anything like this, you're good to go:

Small hole, big problem

Home / Sleep keys: Another article you can test before syncing the iPhone, you should perform their intended function of these keys immediately and should not be excessively loose or too sticky. A tiny wobble or a little "clickiness" in the two keys is nothing to fear but if your sleep is key to clatter into the housing needs Herculean task or pressure so that it works, it is a problem.

Vibration alarm switch / motor: Flick the switch to the iPhone brought into vibration. The button should glide smoothly, and you should immediately feel the phone vibrate motor kick in, the successful activation.

Leave during the first sync with iTunes to check:

Dock connector: If there is something wrong with the dock connector, you will know immediately, either your iPhone will not sync with the computer, or it will not charge.

Flash memory: It's not very often, but when the iPhone damaged in the flash memory chips, this could show up as errors sync in iTunes. Poor synchronization is not enough to the problem on the iPhone itself - iTunes PIN is a tricky beast at the best of times - but if you do not get to sync to the iPhone successfully, despite numerous attempts and some basic iTunes troubleshooting are, can bad flash his memory in the iPhone the culprit. The easiest way, the memory test is to use it, fill your iPhone with as much media as you can during the first synchronization. If you have an iPhone 32 GB 4, now have a good time to go do something else for an hour or two, because a lot of data sync, that takes a while.

What one review after syncing with iTunes:

Volume keys: it is immediately obvious if this will not work. Note that a little play from side to side "in these keys is normal and not fret about.

Headphone Jack: Plug the headphones came with the iPhone. It should not wobble in the bush at all. You should hear both sound headphone while playing media, and if you do not plug in another set of headphones to make sure it is not a problem rather than a headphone jack problem. Test the headphone control also, play / pause, track forward / back, VoiceOver, and volume up / down, all function normally. VoiceOver should be able to pick up your voice from the headset microphone.

Camera: Verify that the shutter opens and closes on the front and rear-facing cameras, by still photos with the two. Test the iPhone's "Tap to focus" function with the objective of the camera on a scene with significant differences in the distance / brightness - a bright window in the background of a dark room, for example - and make sure the camera will focus / brightness according to where you tap the screen. Check the photos for obvious problems such as discoloration, pixellation, banding, etc. - do not you go to a museum-quality images from the iPhone 4 of the 5-megapixel sensor to get, but the photos must be free of glaring, obvious flaws. Test that the LED flash when taking photos by the upper-left corner of the screen that reads to the flash-mode "on." Now test both cameras again by video with them. Video from both cameras should be free from stuttering, and of course you should be able to hear sound when you play the video.

Accelerometer, you can test the function of the accelerometers in the same time as the camera, on-screen controls should change position as you tilt the iPhone from portrait to landscape. Next you open any application, text input, enter a few characters accepted, and then shake the iPhone, a pop-up dialog should immediately asked if you Undo command to cancel or.

Antennas:

3G: If you are in an area with 3G service, it should pick up a signal the iPhone without requiring you to do something. Test your data with some basic browsing in Safari, speeds, depending on how good your signal / network is different, but if you have a 3G connection, you should not to several minutes to load even complex pages, wait. Try to test the temptation to avoid the "Death Grip" phenomenon, not only these vary from network to network, cell-cell site to site, I found it varies from phone to phone. My first iPhone 4, purchased just over two weeks, definitely exhibited signal loss in "Death Grip" mode, but my new iPhone does not drop signal to all four, no matter how I hold it.

EDGE / GPRS: Even if you have a 3G signal, it is an easy way to test whether you can also pick up signals at a slower EDGE / GPRS connection when necessary. Go to Settings> General> Network and set Enable 3G to Off. Your iPhone must fall back to EDGE / GPRS in seconds. Test your data again by example in Safari, but be aware that the connection speed is almost unbearable in EDGE and GPRS, but useless.

GPS: Open the map app and tap the arrow icon in the lower left corner. Unless you are within a structure with thick walls or ceilings, should be a blue dot appears, or relatively close to your current position almost immediately. The iPhone 4 GPS antenna is also accurate and efficient than the iPhone in earlier - my iPhone 3G was rarely able to find me at all when I was outside - so you should show your position in Maps is quite fast in most cases. If not try again, outside with a clear view of the sky when you get your iPhone's GPS is still not, an update on your site, it may be defective.

Bluetooth: I do not have a Bluetooth headset, as I was tested by pairing Bluetooth with my Mac for internet tethering. It took me many tries to get my iPhone 4 successfully pair with my Mac, but I was finally able to him to do this procedure:

1st On the iPhone, select Internet Tethering by> Settings> General> Network> Internet Tethering On. You will be asked if you want to enable Bluetooth; do. (You can also Bluetooth by going to Settings> General> Bluetooth>, but there's not much you can with a Mac-iPhone Bluetooth pairing other than Internet Tethering, you might as well save yourself the extra step to . do)

2nd Open System Preferences on your Mac and open the System Preferences Bluetooth. Turn your Mac's Bluetooth on, and click the check box next to "recognizable" as your iPhone, you can find your Mac. Click + to be a new Bluetooth device and Bluetooth Wizard opens.

3rd Once Bluetooth Wizard opens, you should show your iPhone in the list of devices immediately. If it does not work this is your first indication there might be something wrong with your iPhone Bluetooth. If the iPhone does not appear, click it and wait, Bluetooth wizard to generate a password.

4th Here is the part where I got tripped is. Once Bluetooth wizard generates a password for your iPhone, not only do you have that pass code to accept on the iPhone, after accepting the pass code, click the pairing must immediately click on "Next" in the Bluetooth Setup Assistant on your Mac otherwise it will fail. There is nothing in the Bluetooth Setup Assistant, you do what is very irritating - I spent about 15 minutes cursing at my Mac, until I told the out.

5th Fortunately, once your iPhone successfully pairs with your Mac over Bluetooth, you should not always have to do it again. Click here for the use of the iPhone's Internet Tethering via Bluetooth, the Bluetooth icon on your Mac's menu bar, select your iPhone, then select "Connect to the network."

Wi-Fi: Fortunately, testing the iPhone's Wi-Fi a lot easier than Bluetooth. activated In fact, with the iPhone, the default options, you will be prompted to connect to a nearby wireless networks are. If the iPhone discovered a nearby network of its own, this is a good sign when a connection to a network is successful, after you say it, the wireless antenna is working properly.

Touch screen: There are two quick ways to ensure that there are no dead pixels on your iPhone the touch screen. First, open any program, the text (Notepad, Safari, etc.) and type accepted "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" on the iPhone keyboard with your iPhone typing in all three orientations: Portrait, Landscape with the Home button on the left side, and the landscape with the Home button on the right. This is a good test, to ensure the touch screen registers taps along most of its surface. To test swiping, open the photo app, select any photo, zoom it, and run your finger over the whole screen, the photo should be to seamlessly with the movement of the fingers.

LCD: Considering how close is the pixel-4's iPhone retinal display, it is questionable whether a visible or two dead pixels at all would. You can test for dead pixels anyway with the free flashlight app that allows you many different solid and patterned colors are displayed on the screen. What do the LED-backlit, it is obvious when it does not work at all, but you can further test by going into Settings> Brightness and drag the slider from one end of the scale to another.

Ambient Light Sensor: The easiest way to check this is by sitting in a darkened room and turn it up and down> in the settings of brightness. In a dark room and to the default brightness settings, the display should auto-brightness light off, then darken slightly with auto-brightness.

CPU / GPU: Playing any graphically intensive 3D game will be the iPhone 4 CPU and GPU a decent workout, especially if the app for the retina display optimized. The iPhone 4 processor and graphics hardware are surprisingly robust for a device of its size, so you should not see much graphical economic downturn in any game App Store fire. Garbled or distorted image points to a bug in the GPU, while mean excessive heating or general low performance could a faulty CPU. Playing a H.264 hi-res movie in the iPod app is a good check, too - videos should play smoothly without stuttering or obvious artifacts such as blocks, lines, pixellation or distortion.

Magnetometer: Open the Compass app and tap the button in the lower right corner. iPhone should be able to switch seamlessly between true north and magnetic north. If your iPhone is not able to do a signal even after numerous "figure 8" movement in order to obtain clear interference, the magnetometer can be faulty.

Tops: The iPhone is not by any standard 4-Apps that come the benefits of the roundabout. Fortunately, there is a free app called gyroscope in App Store iPhone 4 that the capacity, its orientation in 3D space demonstrates seen. Once you download and open, this would app, it immediately obvious if your iPhone's four gyroscope is incorrect because one or more of the values for pitch, roll, yaw or will not change when you move the device.

What to test during a call:

Microphone: Test the microphone in normal and hands-free mode. The person on the other phone should be able to hear you clearly, with minimal distortion, if at all. There are a few reports of failed four microphones in the iPhone have been listening to people do not talk of the caller, iPhone with a 4; whether this fault or a microphone for an overzealous Noise-canceling microphone, is unclear.

Speakers: Both the speaker and listener base of the speaker to be heard, and free of static or distortion. Listen for noise from the noise-canceling microphone or an unscreened / screened poorly headphone speakers - my first two iPhone units 4 a very annoying "beatbox" sound when making calls.

Proximity Sensor: The touch screen should be switched off if the iPhone held to your ear, then quickly back on when pulled. There have been reports of the iPhone with 4 sensors accidentally activated during the phone calls and what people hang up on unwanted calls with their cheeks (How's that for FaceTime), but this is probably a problem with the IOS software as a hardware problem. If the proximity sensor to work at all, this is a hardware failure.

All of the above-mentioned studies carried out, together takes about 15-20 minutes, not counting the time that you want to synchronize data on the iPhone for the first time putting the iPhone through its paces with the four tests described above glaring deficiencies iPhone 4 be found immediately. The final piece of the iPhone 4 hardware requires that the test takes much longer to test:

Battery: I have done no specific testing of the iPhone 4 battery, but the life I have has come from him over the last 24 hours consistent with Apple's estimates. There are any number of battery tests you can perform to test your battery's capacity, but one of the most popular is a video on repeat and let it play until the battery is empty. According to Apple tests you should get around 10 hours of video playback from a single battery charge, but there is some leeway in these results. I want a little less than 7 or so hours of video playback on a fully charged, brand new iPhone 4, which may fail in brightness, which has done nothing to play as a video during this time to say to a battery failure.

These tests are necessarily simplistic, and they can not catch all the hardware failures that might find an Apple Store Genius with special equipment. That's the beauty part, though: these tests are only about everyone can do, and if you make it all right after I your iPhone 4 you are relatively sure that your iPhone 4 no out-of-the-box dud. After passing through this list myself, I could not find anything with my second replacement iPhone 4, at least for now, it seems the third time is indeed the charm.

2010年8月12日星期四

How to: Tether Your iPhone 4 Using MyWi

Just a while ago was finally jailbroken iPhone 4 and offered a further option, the iPhone line next four go through the official, legit and expensive way with AT & T. The solution for you to save $ 20/month just to your iPhone 4 tether is a jailbreak app called MyWi.
The cool thing about MyWi is that this link is not just an app on the iPhone, it offers a lot more by making it possible to use the iPhone as a wireless hotspot. This is amazing! Your iPhone does not even have to be connected to your computer. Unfortunately, there is one disadvantage you know about this app should: It drains your battery like crazy.
Next I will show you how to tether your iPhone 4 MyWi with step by step:
Step 1: Make sure your iPhone jailbroken 4
Step 2: Launch Cydia and search for "MyWi 4.0".
Step 3: Download and install the free trial version MyWi then restart your iPhone.
Step 4: Launch MyWi and optimize the settings to suit your needs:
* Change the name Hotspot * Change the channel * Enable WEP security * Enable USB / Bluetooth connection
Well, that's it! Now you can tether your iPhone with MyWi. Apps like MyWi are not completely legal, but as long as you do not get caught, you can enjoy it! The application is free for a 10-day trial, but if you hold, it will cost about $ 20 more like. It's pretty expensive, but still it is one of the best jailbreak apps out there.

2010年8月11日星期三

Apple Settles iPod Battery Life Lawsuits in Canada

Hardware manufacturer Apple Inc., has agreed to settle two class action lawsuits in Canada, by online store credits to buyers of some early-generation iPod devices that suffered from dwindling battery life.
The two leading plaintiffs, Ines Lenze and Bradley Waddell claimed that Apple had in the early iPods than eight misrepresented to hours of continuous battery life of ten. In reality, the device's potential battery life dwindled considerably after he repeatedly charged.
Once these settlements are completed, the first and second generation iPod owners whose battery life is decreased to less than five hours, and the third generation of owners whose battery life to less than four hours will be eligible for $ 44 , 75 credit card at the online store of Apple. The settlement offers are available to customers in Canada, their iPods purchased before 24th June 2004.
Courts in Ontario and Quebec are to approve the settlement next month, and Apple is probably in the hope the problem get out of the way before the start of his long-awaited iPhone device later this year.
iPod Apple settled a similar suit in the United States in 2005, the award of a credit of $ 50 or $ 25 in cash down to the owners, whose battery life was below a certain level.

2010年8月10日星期二

Apple Iphone 4 vs Samsung Galaxy S

Many people said that the new Samsung S Galaxy is better than Iphone 4.I wonder whether true.We to find out if the new Samsung S Galaxy is better than Iphone 4.It want seems incredible that things in only 365 days change. A year ago I would have a mobile phone with Android as an open operating system for multitasking and for a little more, but that would be to significantly reduce my productivity bind with a cell phone and elected me to the HTC phones like Magic, light years away from a iPhone 3G. But for some time that Android is no longer the ugly duckling introduced in version 1.6, the Google Nexus One, Motorola has achieved the same with the Version 2.1 Milestone Eclair and finally Droid X came in June last year and the Samsung S Galaxy, it is undeniable that impressive progress has been achieved.
Apple did this year and not through the introduction of the very wide top and could not afford an iPhone with less features of the hardware, very good and nice to your operating system, which had been encountered in previous models. The fact is that he is right is presented in their duties and WWDC a cellphone, a huge leap over its predecessors made, with a brilliant display, grown a processor with the situation and benefit from all advantages of the new IOS 4 The most important this multitasking.
So to compare at this point, I have a little over a month with the Samsung as my primary phone S Galaxy, and only a week with the iPhone in April, with four small IOS more. Before you file separately a review about any phone that you will read boring, I found much more interesting to the two in the bullring Gizmovil rather than face to face and let you win and share best Steady Place your bets to start the show !
Do you remember the N95? It belongs to the time when "smartphone" was synonymous with ugly brick, but in our case, both phones are a very sleek design and elegant lines, although the level of the software within a litter were enough to place them on a table in the public so that the object of all eyes, two real beauties.
In the case of Samsung-intentioned one note the similarity with the other two previous models of the iPhone 3G and 3G, with a rounded edge and central fat metal button, but why should that be wrong? Apple has also fully compatible with the iPhone lines 4 and thus the similarities disappear renovated.
With regard to your Apple, aside from the facelift that both phones have saved, seems perhaps the first to observe what if you get 4 or even an iPhone iPod Touch is the lack of curves, is a phone with more edges used the curved floor and rounded on the other models, I personally like it better than the previous one. Remember that good design is nothing if not complemented with a good finish and who does not give a good feeling on the skin, it's just where I focus on the next section."Consistency or ease?
In the design I prefer the iPhone, but the consistency in the weight and feel that every transfer, when you hold in your hand and begin to be very different and in one case in another.
The Samsung S Galaxy is very easy to see how big it is, well, surprised the first time that you are 118 grams to catch me, I know a lot less. The benefits are numerous, the most important thing is that despite enormous size not implemented in the pocket annoying at all difficult not disturbing, is perfect in this sense. The disadvantage is that this ease by the materials, plastic finite in the case from behind, the consistency of the Samsung's S Galaxy, no bathroom, poorer.
4 The iPhone is just the opposite is heavier, has 136 grams (which does not mean "is" serious eye), but the quality of materials is evident, a strength and an exquisite finish, a pleasure to have him in the hand. The adjective that best describes hold in the hand is "comfortable", it is nice if you keep more, everything is put together with precision and care to detail. The most important is they stick to the glass of the back, or you put that one pillow case or have it full of scratches after two days.The screen, two telephones, catch the eye
Here I have to give it a much more robust. After the introduction of the iPhone in April, and how well Steve Jobs sold the retina display Samsung lacked time to say that their new SuperAMOLED a resolution, and performances that were better had. Fair coincided with the time I started with the phone try, and I was a bit pissed off, because if it was not better than the vaunted Retinal Display as bad.
I was wrong, the iPhone's 4 screen is amazing, the best thing that can happen to a gadget. Wonderful, Mágica, sensational, spectacular, to Amazing, Cool, like on his ass covered pickles Flip ... You can drop a half-hour adjectives and phrases that have not to be tired. Not only you are a thousand times around the Galaxy S but I think that's what I am about the new iPhone as the mobile phones also come from the eyes, I remember when you turn it on and saw the white apple on black background be a picture with so much contrast, is the sensation of seeing a sticker much more enhanced if the unlock screen loaded and it reached the first "Wow ..."
Be careful, that I have the texts in praise of the retinal display left, but that does not much less bad than SuperAMOLED are quite the opposite. When in the sun, another point, Samsung, said the visibility of both the maximum brightness is set very similar, but I lean back a little more for your iPhone. The performance of the light sensor and the consequent adjustment of screen brightness in the case of S Galaxy leaves much to be desired, it is too rough, it may be the only negative point is that I found on a screen, retinal display apart, it is also wonderfully .
Who will replace a fabulous camera in her cell phone traditional camera that I have it back and arguments are not many things about mega pixels and sensors, to shoot. To release the Samsung S Galaxy, 4, and the iPhone every smartphone because they are not sure.
The camera on a phone I see it as an instrument to "capture the day to day": One moment, one morning, something to place our attention, a telephone number on a poster ... But access is not a substitute for a camera or a compact. I'm gonna difference between photos and video recordings, in the case of photographs, both cameras are very close, as I reflected the colors are generally the Samsung Galaxy S.
Images, taken by the latter usually covered more general in January contrast and saturation a little more than the mobile phone from Apple, but it behaves worse in low-light situations. The iPhone 4 also makes great photos, a better performance in low light conditions and also has the LED flash, although not the eighth wonder fulfills its mission perfectly and has a much greater power than we accept him for something so small
On the subject of your video as you record both 720p know, but if the Galaxy wins S photos, loses won here. The assumption that records video in high definition, like Manu, said in this post is not as good they look and the format in which recorded. Flv will not help much, in my opinion.
On the recording on the iPhone 4 more little complaint I have is wonderful, although it is a little trouble with the lights, backlights, sunsets and sometimes a little wobble wobble, the image because the sensor to capture not fast enough. Unlike the Galaxy S once the final result you can see outside your phone's display, absolutely amazing, true high-definition video to 720p.Battery life is not bad, but not perfect
The battery problem has always a tendency at all, were all, smart phones, particularly the Achilles tendon. Mobile phones are a very large display, multiple functions, which often operate on 3G, if at a higher frequency (1800 MHz, compared to 900MHz) with the extra effort, and this leads to the fact that a battery will require game.
In both cases, the battery life, but as I said in the headline is not perfect enough for me and I have not given much battle the iPhone in April, but the first tests I've done lead me to Galaxy holds one of the S draw a little more, more a matter of two hours have (you tried to do two days, more or less the same in both phones, in order to compare them with the utmost fidelity? I think I need a doctor to leave.) use what for real time, not at rest, in my particular iPhone 4 record is 14 hours, and nearly 15 Galaxy S, as you can see are very close, but I said I feel that Samsung better is. As standard they would both share the two days of normal use / moderate, without having to go through to reach the plug.
I do not know if you noticed, but the technical aspects of a phone, numbers, left me rather cold, as I focus on what can I do with these numbers and press the hardware and software to provide you a application. In both cases, the two phones mounted a 1GHz processor, the new A4 in the case of the iPhone, and 512 MB RAM but the user experience varies greatly from one to another.
Here is his merit was Samsung's hard not to, the following, because if there is something in Cupertino value and appreciate the ease of use, but in the S Galaxy, there are things that I got a little desperate. If you have many applications in a short time, or have something heavy to open in the background, the phone is very slow, clumsy, not to mention, that if you turn it on and at first does a scan of media (photos, videos ...) in the external card and the memory of the phone, which is completely useless as 2-3 minutes, something similar to what is used in many Windows. How can a cell phone is a good idea with such certificates to install a process manager to go to kill the background applications that we left?
The blame lies with the multitasking, has moved jobs three years to implement, but it must be made by telephone in the conditions with a much Ghz, that there are times when the S Galaxy can not so easy that after to be aware , a manager and close sporadically applications for maximum performance is something that bothers me very much. This is what I do with the numbers 1 GHz and 512 MB RAM does not mean "dramatic performance", not necessarily.IOs vs. Android, breeding grounds for Flame Wars
This does not work correctly, the two phones are so that I focus on the practical aspect and set aside to allow the systems. Personally, I am still twice as productive and agile with a phone when using IOS, we add that the Android Market is as much a disaster and a nest of very poor and very ugly applications. It may sound overly critical, but applications are increasing today, 99% of what I do with a smartphone, though not at the level we have a serious problem.
The Galaxy S camera is a little better, okay, but applications that I have to squeeze a photo was taken with the iPhone are so many, so varied and of such quality that I think about it not even two seconds to say that I do prefer the iPhone, road. With the theme, more of the same video, record a few videos, some pictures, ride around with iMovie on a couple of minutes and send it to my family is an experience, not much change hardware, I'm on a mobile phone with Android.
TouchWhiz interface, the Galaxy has launched the Samsung S is not so bad, except that a copy of the IOS, and I like, but alphabetically in managing desktops and applications list (much better than conventional ordered Android made, so that reorganization ) lose enough points you need slimmer, faster.All very nice, but who wins? Conclusions
We reached the end of the fight, as you have seen the race may already is more than close. For me, the Galaxy S is the best phone with Android is time, so naturally, a real monster brown in power and performance, but when you get here the Droid X must rewrite the claim. And for me the iPhone is in April, the best phone in the world, unique.
Where is the decisive factor in my opinion? If the screen we saw that all technical draw after the other was, battery, camera, design, weight / consistency, processor and RAM ... is the decisive factor in the operating system. I like Android, a lot, and as I said at the beginning of the post, if you with this progress, and I've probably been in their ranks soon gone, but as I said Eduardo Arcos ALT1040 in this post basically what happened is still 'there is not, "lacking far above Froy and gingerbread probably beyond.
I think of fireworks, the lack of a good sync for my songs on Android for the time he makes up for Double Twist, but no more than a patch, just for my pictures and videos are what I take thousands of photos and videos, is if it is boring after? I do not think that either iTunes makes no big deal, but his job I only ask, synchronization, fast, automatic, plug, plug and go.
The purpose of this site is for everyone, the purchase of one of the two terminals and is thought not know very well decide which of them faced while advising the two most advanced cell phones and banners each time IOS and Android. I would be inclined, without hesitation, on the iPhone in April, but we must also take into account that is a bit more money and time for shopping and how hard they are held. About antennagate if anyone asks, I'm not even express my opinion, much as I strive to see what I did, I no more than a few lines of reporting and never remove them completely if you can doubt, 1:00 to 1:00 this is for the above, but on this issue or concerns.

2010年8月8日星期日

Electric buses move a step closer

Buses that run on batteries may soon be commonplace after Ener1 has agreed with Hyundai Heavy Industries to supply lithium-ion batteries for cars.
The contract is expected immediately and that the package will be on the bus on the road this year.
This is not the only agreement the company reached - it was also announced that Toro will provide a complete solution turnkey, which will create mower batteries using solid carbon oxide, mixed, 17.5Ah cell that is designed to think .
With so many businesses in place, Ener1 will be divided into three product Vertical - transport, including cars and trucks, military and industrial, small cells and consumers, and energy storage system, which is expected to gain increased attention.
In addition, Ener1 has publicly announced two programs on the market in the light duty vehicle with thoughts and Volvo; and a light duty fleet market with Japan Post and three heavy programs, including Hyundai and AC Transit. Net sales amounted to $ 16.1million in the second quarter, an increase of 113 percent compared to net sales in the second quarter of 2009.

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