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Can’t get enough of hearing about implementations of ARM’s Cortex-A9 MPCore processors? Good. ST-Ericsson’s powerhouse U8500 system-on-chip has come a major step closer to appearing in mainstream devices with today’s newly announced support for the Android operating system. Having optimized the OS to take advantage of Symmetric Multi Processing — a method for extending battery life by sharing the load between the two processing cores and underclocking when necessary — the partner company is now ready to start dropping these 1.2GHz dual-core beasts inside the next generation of smartphones. The claim is that you’ll get all that additional power while sacrificing nothing, as devices based on the U8500 would maintain “the cost and power consumption characteristics of a traditional feature phone.” We’re promised built-in HDMI-out support, 1080p video recording, and 120 hours of audio playback or 12 hours of Full HD video off a 1,000mAh battery — pledges we’d very much like to see fulfilled.

ST-Ericsson’s U8500 brings dual-core 1.2GHz ARM Cortex-A9 to the Android world originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on July 12, 2007 by CyberNet.

I must admit, when I got my hands on an iPhone last weekend at the Apple store at Jordan Creek Mall in Des Moines, Iowa… it was cool. It’s so much smaller than I ever imagined it to be, and it’s slick. I spent a good 20–25 minutes playing around, and of course, I had to pull up CyberNet to see how it looked. It looks lovely, and my quick experience with the iPhone was great. But, besides the fact that I hardly use my phone as it is, which means chances are that I’d hardly use an iPhone, here are my thirteen reasons why I’m not buying an iPhone (for now, at least).

1. Synchronization Problems: Have you seen all the problems Paul Thurrott is having trying to synchronize his iPhone with Outlook? He’s got a three part series dedicated to his iPhone syncing woes!
2. No 3G network: Big mistake Apple. While reports were coming in that the EDGE Internet was in fact speeding up, I’ve heard nothing but complaints about how slow it is.
3. Safari Crashing: It happened to me at the Apple Store and I’ve been reading all over the web about it crashing for others. As I’ve seen some bloggers say, at least it crashes “gracefully.” You almost don’t notice when it does crash since the application just closes, but it happens a little too frequently.
4. Cost: This is an obvious reason for many people. Not only the up-front costs of purchasing the phone for $500 or $600 dollars, but the cost of the service over the two years that’s required. Then of course there’s the cost of the battery which is reason #5.
5. Battery: There’s no way to simply pop out the battery and put in a new one as most of us are used to with our cell phones.  Instead you’ll be required to pay $79 for the battery along with an additional $6.95 for shipping. And for an additional $29 you can get a loaner phone while yours is in the shop for repairs.
6. AT&T: For five whole years, AT&T will have Apple all to themselves. While most service providers these days all have lists of faults, so I’m not saying that it’s AT&T in general that’s the problem. However, it would be nice if those who wanted an iPhone right now didn’t have to worry about paying fees for breaking a contract. Even members of a congressional panel are slamming Apple for only offering the phone through one provider.
7. Where’s the GPS? Not on your iPhone, that’s for sure.
8. IM or Lack Thereof: What’s that you say? You don’t like text messaging? Me neither. But that’s your only option for quick messaging because there’s no instant message capabilities built-in.
9. No Modem: Want to plug your iPhone into your computer to use as a modem like you can with the BlackBerry? Sorry, Apple won’t let you do this.
10. Applications: Wouldn’t it be nice to install the applications that you want to install on your phone? Everything has to be done through Safari, so that means very limited selection, not to mention limited functionality.
11. No on-the-go syncing: No one will come out and say it, but there’s gotta be a reason why you can’t download songs or podcasts using Wi-Fi or the Edge network. Instead you have to hook-up to your computer, and then download all your media through your iTunes account. Could it be that AT&T doesn’t want the extra strain on their network with people downloading podcasts? 
12. Camera Limitations: While the iPhone has a 2 MP camera, it does not have a flash or zoom which essentially makes it another useless camera on a phone.
13. Keyboard: I can’t complain a whole lot about the keyboard because it actually wasn’t that bad. But, the nice horizontal keyboard which makes your typing a lot more accurate is only available in Safari. Why?

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As if the Cortex-A9 isn’t stirring up enough emotion all by itself, ARM revealed the roadmap for an even faster iteration of its Cortex-A series of chips during its earnings call a few days ago. Codenamed Eagle, the new processor is slated for a production run of 3 billion units annually, but alas this slide shares no more information on it beyond the intended market of smartphones, mobile computing, and digital TV products. (We’ve definitely heard that it’ll be a 28nm multi-core part destined to ship around 2012, however.) There’s also word of a pair of embedded chips, dubbed Heron and Merlin, which will find roles to perform in automotive and audio processing environments. Unsurprising that ARM isn’t standing still, but we could’ve done with a little less mystery and a few more specs.

[Thanks, Kamal]

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This article was written on May 31, 2006 by CyberNet.

Is a 20″ laptop actually portable enough to be considered a laptop? Well, the 20.1″ Liebermann Olympus is pushing the limits with a specification list that is out of this world. This is a real gamers PC with dual 1GB graphics cards and both Blue-Ray and HD-DVD drives! Here is the list of specs:

• 20.1″ widescreen – 1920×1200 resolution OLED
• Single or Dual Core desktop processor up to 4.50GHz
• PCI-Express architecture
• 4GB DDR SDRAM
• Built-in 3 megapixel camera
• 1066 MHz BUS
• Dual SLI Nvidia graphics (upgradable)
• 7-1 card reader
• Instant-On technology
• PuRAM Solid State system drive
• Dual internal SATA hard drives
• Dual Blue-Ray and HD-DVD optical drives
• 5 enhanced speakers plus subwoofer
• PAL/NTSC HDTV internal tuner
• Digital audio
• Dual 64 bit PCI-Express CardBus
• Firewire 800
• USB2
• Gigabit LAN
• 108g turbo wireless
• Bluetooth
• High speed infrared
• Quad DVI output
• S-Video out

I bet it has great battery life, too .

News Source: Notebook Review

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This article was written on May 09, 2008 by CyberNet.

Can you imagine having 20 billion dollars plus in cash, just lying around? Microsoft for many years has been one company in the tech industry that always had at least that on hand. In fact, four years ago they had a whopping $64 billion dollars sitting around. The San Francisco Chronicle recently posted a really interesting article about Microsoft’s cash balance of $26.3 billion dollars, and how that gives them the title of biggest cash pile in the tech industry. They may have some company soon though, because another tech company is creeping up on them. Any guesses of who this might be?

If you guessed Apple, you guessed correctly. Apple’s cash balance has been mounting and recently they hit the $19.4 billion dollar amount. To help put into perspective the growth Apple has seen, it was just four years ago that they had about $5.5 billion dollars in cash at their disposal. A good chunk of that money that they now have is due to the success of the iPod and of course then the iPhone. That got us thinking about where Apple would be if they hadn’t developed and had so much success with the iPod.

You’ve probably heard the “Halo Effect” mentioned in regards to iPods over the last several years. It is used to describe the notion that people who buy iPods may eventually buy a Mac computer and so the sales of Macs are dependent on the success of the iPod. The sales results we’ve seen from Apple tend to show that there is at least some type of Halo Effect going on, and at least some of the millions of iPod owners choose to buy a Mac because of their satisfaction with the music player.

I guess what we’re getting at is that Apple is awfully lucky that the iPod was successful for them because if it turned out to be a flop, there’s absolutely no way that they would be creeping up on Microsoft in the amount of cash they have available. This puts Apple in a really great position because now they’ve got the money to fund and consider acquisitions to help boost their business even further. While they’ve got the money to spend, some have speculated that Apple won’t be doing much with it soon. Andy Hargreaves who covers Apple at Pacific Crest Securities in Portland says, “I don’t really expect them to do anything with it in the near term. I think that Steve Jobs’ experience with this company and the cycles that it’s been through has taught him to be very, very conservative, and save for the rainy day.”

For now there is no rainy day in site, and the piles of cash continue to mount in the tech industry…

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