Written by admin on 09 November 2011
, Baltimore, Washington, DC, and Athens, GA Boston: AT & T moves right next to the 4G LTE rollout, that migrated from four other cities Sunday. This brings the total number of stores to nine nationwide, far from 165 markets from Verizon, but a good start anyway.
In addition to the new LTE 4G markets, celebrated the nation's second largest mobile operator in the day by the introduction of two new LTE Phones: HTC Vivid and the Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket. Like the HTC Vivid, the Galaxy II Skyrocket a feature-packed 4G LTE smartphone with a 1.5 GHz dual-core CPU, 4.5-inch Super AMOLED Plus display, 8-megapixel camera with 1080p video recording, and Android 2.3 with TouchWiz 4.0. It tips the scales at $ 249.99 with a two-year contract, the $ 50 more than the similarly spec'd is Vivid.
I have worked with the Skyrocket since Thursday, and overall I'm quite satisfied. My results:
Skyrocket packs a 1.5 GHz dual-core Snapdragon processor – the same as the T-Mobile Galaxy S II, although it is of a different processor families. Given the noticeable difference in speed between the Exynos and Snapdragon processors on the first wave of U.S. Galaxy S II devices, I was worried that we have the same issue here. So far, the Skyrocket has developed well, and while I have not noticed a small difference compared to the Exynos chip (especially when surfing the Web), it seems an improvement over T-Mobile Snapdragon-toting Galaxy S II be.
The 4.5-inch Super AMOLED Plus display on the large side, but the extra screen real estate is an advantage when surfing the web or watching videos. As with other super-Samsung AMOLED Plus devices is the Skryocket display rich and famous. It's a bit wider and thicker than the display on the Vivid (which is also 4.5-inch), making it a different feel in the hand.
As I have already said, Samsung's TouchWiz UI is 4.0 (which runs on top of Android 2.3.5) found a huge improvement over the version on the Infuse 4G. It flows more naturally, look better animations, widgets are customizable, and it performs on par with other established UIs like HTC Sense and Motorola UI.
You get the usual 8-megapixel camera with 1080p HD video recording capabilities. Still picture quality seems to be decent, but I'm impressed, especially with video quality. Video looks fresh and audio quality was also very good, with excellent noise reduction.
Skyrocket brings a fairly large 1850 mAh battery on the table, and it shows. If you are a road warrior or someone who is away from the wall socket is for an extended period, this may be the device for you. With moderate use, including some calling, text messaging, web browsing, downloading and running applications by Quadrant standardized tests, I could make it through the day and into the evening, before a recharge was needed. On a related note, I've scolded Samsung phones in the past for too long to load, and that seems to have been improved.
I'm pretty impressed with call quality so far. I took the Skyrocket to a known AT & T dead spot in town this weekend, and although calls were incredibly choppy, kept the Skyrocket the connection. The headset is nice and loud, and callers had no trouble hearing me.
The Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket and HTC Vivid are great first devices in AT & T 4G LTE smartphone lineup, and like everything else, they will respond to two different types of people. If HTC Sense 3.0, metal accents and small displays are your thing, you go on like Vivid, and if you build TouchWiz 4.0, plastic construction, and easily prefer the Galaxy S II Skyrocket in order for the device you are . Personally I find the build quality of the HTC Vivid to be better, but enjoy the extra processor speed and larger battery to skyrocket.
Check out the unboxing video, and shoots as always, stay tuned for more information about the height!
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Written by admin on 08 November 2011
Let us real here: the Samsung Galaxy player, the first real competition for the iPod Touch, since its establishment, and even though smartphones have far surpassed the specifications of both devices, they are here to fight with each other, nothing else. What you have here is a device on the Samsung site that is not quite as big as the Galaxy reference, a device that is still a data connection, and not nearly as small as the iPod Touch, the size only in one – which is a 3.5-inch display. So what are we comparing? The sound quality? Pixel density? How about the ability to plug the device in your pocket?
What you have is two devices aim to do the same for you, the consumer. Both devices can be seen, what was once a popular his term, before smartphones arrived, PDA or staff would digital assistant, I argue that the Galaxy players, at least in the version 5.0, much closer to that description than either the 4.0 or the iPod Touch. In this you can successfully tap away on the digital keyboard on the Galaxy Player 5.0 without worrying about how big your fingertips, no matter how close your fingers are probably the sausage, the 5.0 gets the first point.
Both devices are marketed in media player. That is, they meant, and music videos and games to play. In the iPod Touch and the Galaxy Player 4.0 are both small enough to fit in any bag, while the 5.0 is too large to fit in any bag without regard to emptying all the contents including your wallet, the smaller units the upper hand. A music player, MP3 player, even better than today, should always be able to fit easily in your pocket.
For video and games, on the other side, here in TFT-LCD on the 5.0 player really shines the brightest. Not literally, mind you, as the pixels more densely packed on the iPod Touch with 640 x 960 pixels on a 3.5-inch display, but also at 480 x 800 pixels on a 5-inch display, there is much to say about the additional space. The space of course is handy when you actually see the detail in your Transformers movie rather than a want highly-packed jumble of colorful tiny, tiny pieces. It also comes in rather handy when you want to use on-screen controls for games – on the iPod Touch 4.0 and the Galaxy players, you're being blocked quite a bit with your thumb.
Of course then there's the different markets that you can access. The iTunes App Store and iTunes Store are much more diverse than media with high-quality applications, movies, TV shows and music packaged in a place as the Android Marketplace. Google is offering is growing every day, of course, and perhaps a contender one day, when a reliable component purchasing music can be exaggerated, but at the moment there is no better one stop for everything than iTunes. Note, however, that even if the iTunes market has everything you need not necessarily everything, especially depending on what you plan on using the device for. If you already have all the music you need and other import music from CDs, both devices are pretty good for that, if the iTunes app on your desktop computer to find the best for that again.
If you deposited with the device for its ability information for you and / or display of pictures that you usually carry in a wallet or a small portfolio would want the Galaxy Player 5.0 is the right choice. The size is currently unique to 5-inches and the color and detail is certainly more than good enough to take them both and see the notes and any photos you have and / or visual works that you want to show colleagues – especially when the video-based.
The speaker and headphone jack on both units are essentially identical, so far as my ears hear. The only difference is immediately seen (and heard) on the Galaxy Player 5.0 is the two speakers on the rear, one for each speaker grille. Not many intelligent devices these days have two speakers, let alone a good one and although the iPod Touch has a decent speaker in there, it's still only one, and it has yet to play through either of metal or glass to get out under the housing.
The camera on the Galaxy Player 5.0 is much nicer than those on the iPod Touch, both in practice and in numbers: 0.7 megapixels versus 3.2 megapixels, while its front-facing cameras are just as terrible if it something goes beyond basic video chat.
If I was allowed only one device to carry around for the rest of my life, I would choose? The Galaxy Player 5.0, simply because I am a bigger display for more than just controlling my music, watching the small, short videos that show the iPod Touch into a position on the tiny little screen, is used, and the speakers are the best. That is, it is one of the reasons that made me think of the iPod nano (4th generation) is the better choice: the fact that with the Apple HDMI converter cable that allows you to things like Netflix using an HDMI cable allows play to your television set works. I've already done that with my iPad 2, and I can now say it's pretty boss.
Visit our series reviewing the rest of the Galaxy Player 5.0, we got going here on SlashGear within the Galaxy Players Directory!
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Written by admin on 07 November 2011
Instead of plastic, they have their FiSDK500 iPod speakers made from wood, and they made it sound good enough to please music lovers. It is normally $ 200, but it is on sale until 7 November for only $ 100. (Just be sure the coupon code "FISDK500" add at check-out.)
I usually judge iPod speakers on a different scale than regular speakers. I have a number of ways, including the $ 600-models never really Delver hi-fi sound quality is hampered, and the one-piece models have almost no stereo separation. Bass is lumpy or not present, the most glorified iPod speaker only table radios.
The FiSDK500 has an MDF cabinet and a high-gloss black paint, so it feels more expensive than their competition is noble. It is also larger than average and measures 20.4 x 5.8 x 7.1 inches and weighs 13.4 pounds. Sleek, it is not, but remember when it comes to sound quality speakers, size still on.
The FiSDK500 has assembled .6-inch soft dome tweeters in the center of its 5-inch fiberglass woofer. A stereo amplifier delivers 10 watts per channel to get up and go for the speakers. Connectivity options beyond the multipin iPod dock includes stereo RCA inputs, plus composite and S-video outputs. Few speakers for iPods, you can direct the sound balance in any way, but the remote control port FiSDK500 bass and treble controls that operate in ten, 2-dB steps from -10 to +10. I experimented a bit with the settings and put the bass and treble to +4 to -2. Another feature of note: The FiSDK500 comes wired with a power cord! That's cool, I love that the speaker does not have a wall-wart power supply. Fluance recommends that 10 hours of "break-in" period before the assessment on the speaker sound quality, so that's what I did.
The FiSDK500 is the direct sale by Fluance for $ 200, but it is now for sale for $ 100 until midnight (Eastern Time) on 7 Of November. The speaker is a two-year warranty on parts and labor, twice what you get with most iPod speakers, even the $ 600 ones.
Like most iPod speaker sounds best FiSDK500 of 3-6 meters away. Hear from far beyond, and you will start to become aware of its small size and you will not get much stereo effect (the speakers are only slightly more than 12 inches apart, center to center). Hear firsthand the stereo image is surprisingly good. It's a nice feeling of depth and sharpness is quite good.
Harry Connick, the New Orleans jazz CDs sounded great, and his high-energy rhythm section had a lot of the dynamics of "slam" on the I of the majority of iPod speakers. Bass is very good, but it is not strong enough to take you into thinking it is a subwoofer to deceive in the room. This is fine with me, avoids the FiSDK500 the bass rumble of the bloated you get many iPod speakers.
The clarity that I get from Steve Earle "Townes" album was honored to hear, not only for an iPod speaker, the sound FiSDK500 on par with a decent set of $ 200 speakers. Rocking with Keith Richards brilliant "Talk Is Cheap" has to show the speakers limitations. The FiSDK500 can play pretty loud without distorting open, but with the music turned the FiSDK500 sounded like an iPod speaker trying too hard. I can not be too hard on him, it lacks the muscle of most iPod speaker sound at high volumes. If volume capacity is what you after checking out of the Beats by Dr. Dre Beatbox ($ 449). That thing can crank too stupid loud levels, but the FiSDK500 sounds better than the BeatBox, when played at moderate volume.
Produced with the FiSDK500 Fluance has the promise of other upscale iPod speaker manufacturers always, but too rarely deliver: audiophile sound quality. The fact that they did and still managed to hold the line on price only makes their victory sweeter.
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Written by admin on 06 November 2011
Apple Inc. on Thursday (3 / 11), the report will be releasing a software update for the operating system IOS 5 belongs to them. That's the way they respond to customer complaints related to the latest iPhone 4S battery performance.
"A small number of customers have reported several cases of battery ngedrop on some devices 5-IOS operating system," said Apple spokeswoman told Reuters.
"We found some bug (virus) that affects battery life and we will release a software update to address the issue in the coming weeks," he continued.
Apple did not elaborate on the complaint of the relevant information ngedrop battery, but battery problems 4S iPhone has become a heated discussion in online forums.
On Tuesday (1 / 11), The Guardian reported, the technicians began contacting users of smart phones Apple iPhone 4s complained smart cell phone battery.
During the launch of the iPhone 4s earlier this month, Apple said the iPhone 4s battery standby time is 200 hours or eight days. This contrasts with a standby time of 4 iPhones and iPhone 3Gs that a length of 300 hours.
One of iPhone users reported consuming 4s battery smart phone's standby mode up to 10% and eventually drain the battery in the afternoon.
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Written by admin on 05 November 2011
Problems popularity of mobile phones (cell phones) smart, Apple's iPhone wins. But if the "many-most" smart phones on the market, Samsung has won. According to research firm Strategy Analytics reported that Samsung made it through Apple as the largest smart phone manufacturer in the world in the third quarter of this year.
As reported by the Los Angeles Times, Samsung smart phones more to send compared to Apple's retail stores in July-September, but it is unclear whether the benefits exceed the sales of Apple's smart phone Samsung.
Apple does not disclose profit figures for iPhone sales and only reported to have sold 17 million iPhones this quarter.
Rakasasa technology company based in Cupertino, California, United States (U.S.), says that iPhone sales up 21% over the comparable quarter last year kurtal.
According to Strategy Analytics, Samsung's smart phone shipments reached 28 million units with 24% market share.
Apple's market share in the last quarter by 15%, this makes Apple is in second place. While Nokia was ranked third with 14% market share.
Without sales figures, it is difficult to determine who is king of the global smart phone. One advantage of the Samsung is producing a larger device than the Apple iPhone.
There are at least 18 samsung smart phones that run Google's Android operating system and sold in the U.S. and does not include smart phones that will come (and not yet sent) Galaxy Nexus smart phones, smart phones developed by Google. In addition, Samsung also produce smart phones based on Windows Phone Micocrosoft operating system.
Meanwhile, Apple's iPhone is only produced three types of iPhone 3G, iPhone 4, and the iPhone 4S.
Apple and Samsung enemy's main rival in the smart phone business and now both companies are in court pelangggara patent related legal disputes in Europe, Asia, Australia, and the United States.
While the two technology companies suing each other for each other and compete for millions of dollars from the pockets of consumers, the two companies are business partners. Samsung provides components for Apple's iPhone and iPad products.
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Written by admin on 04 November 2011
For most companies are warehouses full of stuff some kind of security blanket. But Dell has replaced inventory with information, and that has helped turn him into one of the fastest, hyper-efficient organizations on the planet. Here is how Dell uses speed as the ultimate weapon in the competition, and why rivals may never be able to catch up.
It would have the unforeseen disaster that has shaken the world Dell. Instead, it proved to be the time, Dell especially competitive weapon – an unrelenting sense of urgency and speed – after all, has proven itself.
Two years ago abandoned a 10-day labor lockout 10 000 union longshoremen, shutting down 29 West Coast ports, which are from Los Angeles to Seattle, and blocked hundreds of cargo ships from unloading of raw materials and finished goods that fuel U.S. commerce. The port closings paralyzed global supply chains, retailers and manufacturers bloody, and ultimately cost U.S. consumers and businesses billions.
Analysts expect Dell to its just-in-time production model would be particularly hard hit when parts can not be reached to his two U.S. factories. Without warehouses filled with motherboards and hard drives, they thought, the world's largest PC maker would simply find themselves with nothing to sell within a few days. And Dell knew only too well that his ultralean, high-speed business model is vulnerable to such an intolerable prospect left. "If a work problem or an earthquake or a SARS epidemic breaks out, we need to respond faster than anyone else," says Dick Hunter, the supply chain czar for America. "There is no other choice, we know, these things have happened. We must act quickly to resolve them, we simply can not tolerate any kind of delay .."
Fortunately, the same ethos of speed and flexibility that seems to put at the mercy of disturbances Dell also helps it to deal with them. Dell has been in continuous, around-the-clock communication with its parts makers in Taiwan, China and Malaysia, and its U.S. Shipping Partners, which passes it to the possibility of blocking about six months, alerted before they occurred. Hunter sent a "tiger team" of 10 logistics specialists to Long Beach, California, and other ports, they worked hand in hand with Dell carrying and forwarding networks to assemble an emergency plan.
As confirmed by the tiger team that the closure was virtually certain, Dell moved at full speed. It 18 747 chartered by UPS, Northwest Airlines, China Airlines and other airlines. A 747 holds the equivalent of 10 tractor-trailers – enough parts to manufacture 10,000 PCs. The tender for the aircraft grew wild, running as high as $ 1.1 million for a one-way flight from Asia to the West Coast. But because Dell was beginning, it kept its cost to about $ 500,000 per aircraft. In addition, Dell worked with its Asia-based providers to ensure that its parts were always landing on the Shanghai and Taipei airports in time for his return charter flights refuel, reload, and take off. The company has been consistently held in a position their aircraft in the United States and returned within 33 hours, reduce their costs and move the supply chain.
Meanwhile, Dell had the local people in every major port. In Asia, these freight specialists saw that Dell parts of the last to be loaded on each cargo vessel, it would be discharged for the first time the ship hit the West Coast were. The biggest test came when the ports reopened and companies climbed through the chaos of thousands to sort of secure containers. Hunter's tiger team had anticipated this logistical nightmare. Even if Dell had PC components in hundreds of containers on 50 ships, knew it at the precise moment when each was traveling through the port, and it was among the first to unload its parts, and they speed their factories in Austin and Nashville. In the end, Dell has the impossible: He survived a 10-day supply chain blackout with roughly 72 hours after the inventory, and it is never delayed a customer order.
The aftershocks of the port closures reverberated weeks. Many companies started the wisdom of the current rise so slender in an uncertain world issue, and the demand for warehouse space, as they heaped buffer inventory to insure against labor unrest, natural disasters and terrorist attacks. But for Dell, the result only reinforced the value of life on the razor's edge.
"It's like draining a swamp"
For most corporate history inventory has a form of security. A warehouse packed full of components or finished products with a distribution center, meant that even if a customer is forecast went wrong wild, there would still meet enough supply on hand to meet the demand. But beginning in the 1980s when General Motors acceptance Toyota groundbreaking techniques in lean manufacturing, fast companies have delayered, revised, and scrubbed the waste from their assembly lines and supply chains by reduction of lead time and stripping inventory and spare capacity of its operations.
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Written by admin on 03 November 2011
Dell plans to give consumers and small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) worldwide smartphone market by working with several major airlines, Dell officials told analysts Tuesday, including without divulging many details, timing.
"What operators want from us is a [smartphone] solution to the support of their technology … and their value-added services," said Ron Garriques, president of Dell's consumer division. His comments are part of a record of the analysts' meeting on the Dell website.
Garriques not speak with any carrier name Dell is mentioned, but mentioned three technologies the company will be asked to support: LTE, WiMAX and TD-SCDMA, which is used in China. "I do not think any operator regardless of how we do," he said. "They want us to be an integrator" of hardware, software and design.
Stephen Felice, president of Dell SMB unit said it "definitely demand" for smartphones by business users, adding that airlines do not care whether Dell actually manufactures the product itself. "I see a chance for us to expand our capabilities in this area."
Garriques said the opportunities for Dell devices to expand larger than smartphones, but noted it is up to various carriers in order to drive product development. Dell plans to "target the top three fifty-seven [Carrier] and see what their needs are. We take it operator by operator [to find their needs] than to say, in contrast," We will target the MID [mobile Internet "
Dell already controls about 10% of the PC market.
Garriques also said that Dell will discover many workers in the position to what they want airlines, has underlined that "there are massive needs not met by traditional players" for smartphones and other devices. "The door is very important for us around the world," he said. "I'm very bullish we can meet those needs."
To be expected with Wimax just beginning to roll out in the U.S., and many U.S. cities with LTE in 2012 to reach, could be a Dell smartphone in the U.S. years are realized. But the advent of a Dell smartphone based on Android could come much earlier in China, when an analyst is on target.
While speculation is not about Dell's commitment in the smartphone space again, wrote analyst Ashok Kumar at Collins Stewart, says a report recently that he believes Dell would soon have a phone number in China, which runs on the Android operating system. Kumar was of the opinion contained in a report in the Financial Times.
Many analysts have said, it's just a matter of time before Dell enters the smartphone arena, one of the reasons for this assumption is that Garriques will be used to head the phone division at Motorola, Inc. and had signed a non-compete when he regained consciousness Dell came to head the consumer division. The alleged non-competition clause expired earlier this year.
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Written by admin on 02 November 2011
Dell on Thursday lifted the curtain on the Latitude Tablet ST Business with Microsoft Windows 7 Professional and powered by an Intel Atom processor. The 10.1-inch tablet starts at $ 759 and will be made available first November in 53 countries.
Describe the tablet as the right device for "an exciting time, as do mobile computing to significant evolutionary steps, continues:" Kirk Schell, Executive Director and General Manager, Dell Business Product Group, gave himself great pains to emphasize that " The Latitude ST tablet is a business, not a consumer device. "
Therefore, it is not running Windows and Android, Schell presented in a blog entry announcing Latitude ST (see video ad for Dell's new tablet below).
"The Latitude ST offers Windows 7 Professional productivity in a convenient, easy to know tablet with all the great attributes of IT departments and trust in our brand Latitude, including security, manageability, service and support have," said Schell.
"Latitude ST can be tailored to specific businesses or the needs of users with certified applications and professional services. It is ideal for any organization where employees have a core set of applications in secure computing environments to run."
There are a lot of Intel in the new tablet. The Latitude sports Intel's Mobile ST-SM35 chipset and GMA600 graphics accelerator. The 10.1-inch capacitive touchscreen with a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels has Corning Gorilla Glass and is designed for pen input and multi-touch built.
The standard rig is Wi-Fi-only is equipped with Bluetooth, but probably a more expensive version of the Latitude ST equipped with Dell Wireless 5550 HSPA + single-mode mini-map with A-GPS. Unlike Apple's iPad, and most other consumer tablet running Google's Android OS has the Latitude ST an optical drive.
With a weight of 1.8 pounds without the Mobile Broadband Card in the tablet has 720p HD front-facing video camera and a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera. It has a USB 2.0 port, a memory card reader, HDMI port, a combo headphone and microphone jacks, a digital pen slot, Dell calls a "garage", and a docking port for an optional docking station, a mouse can accommodate, keyboard, projector and more.
Dell's Latitude ST SyncUP Nero, Cyberlink Power DVD, audio driven Waves Maxx 3, Skype Video Conferencing, Dell Webcam Central and Adobe Acrobat loaded, while the TPM 1.2 security features and includes security lock slot.
So it will be upgradeable to Windows 8 optimized, which is specifically for tablets? Here is Schell's pretty frank answer to this question he actually asked in his blog post:
"We are very pleased aligned with Microsoft about Windows 8 and you can expect to hear more about Windows 8 of us and see a wide range of products released."
Dell focuses on industries such as insurance, healthcare and education with the Latitude ST, according to Schell.
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