With less than a week to go before Android 2.2 is unveiled, the list of new features continues to grow. The latest bit of information to arrive tells us that Froyo will have Wi-Fi mobile hots pots and USB-tethering built right into the platform. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://www.cnet.com/8301-19736_1-20004920-251.html” class=”origPostedBlog”Android Atlas/a/p
At E3, Microsoft is turning to the TV network and the hit performance company to help launch its innovative motion-control system. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-20004921-52.html” class=”origPostedBlog”Geek Gestalt/a/p
In a blog post Wednesday, teardown specialist iFixit said it had confirmed that the new, unreleased Apple iPhone includes the iPad’s A4 processor.
The discovery comes from pictures posted by teardown pictures from Taoviet, which obtained the new iPhone and published video and pictures to the Web on Wednesday. iFixit, in conjunction with Chipworks, examined the photos and concluded that the iPhone uses the iPad’s A4 chip.
“The two numbers that are different are likely manufacturing numbers
(each lot of chips is stamped with a unique number to track them through
the supply chain),” the site reported. “The important numbers are:
“Our engineers are not surprised by this finding,” iFixit said. “We were very
impressed by the extraordinarily low power consumption of the iPad, and
remarked at the time that its power consumption and board design was
much more in line with handheld devices than laptop computers.”
What is not known is whether Apple downclocked the chip below the 1-GHz used in the iPad to save power, or whether it truly has the performance of the iPad. In any case, it appears clear that the iPad and iPhone share more than just a common operating system.
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While you’re stocking up on socks, body wash and gigantic boxes of cereal at Walmart, you might soon be able to grab an iPad from the electronics aisle.
The Arkansas-based company expects to carry the iPad sometime this year, according to Gary Severson, senior vice president of entertainment for Walmart.
“We anticipate being able to have the iPad later this year,” Severson told Bloomberg. He said the company was not prepared to provide specifics on timing and pricing.
Both Walmart and Best Buy have carried Apple’s iPhone since late 2008. Best Buy already began selling iPads when the device launched April 3, and it’s reasonable to expect that Walmart will soon receive the tablet as well.
We shouldn’t expect Walmart to give any heavy discounts on iPads, however. The iPhone 3GS being sold through Walmart starts at $197, which is $2 less than Apple’s retail pricing.
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Jeff and Natali attended a special event last night to kick off the June 4 launch of the HTC Evo 4G and were also given a sneak peak of Hollywood’s latest video game movie adaptation, “Prince of Persia: Sands of Time.” Without dropping any spoilers, suffice …
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E-readers as a whole best be watching their backs (or planning a wave of new functions, one), but it’s safe to say that having color displays would give ’em a leg-up on the retina-killing, battery-draining LCD-based alternatives. Plastic Logic is still working to get its first e-reader (the decidedly not color QUE, for those curious) into the paws of consumers, but already the outfit is planning for the next big thing. Achim Neu, Director SCM, recently spoke at the International Electronics Forum, reportedly stating that his company is aiming to “have a manufacturable color display by the end of 2011 and move it into volume production in 2012.” Details beyond that were scarce, but still, 2012 seems a long ways out — if Qualcomm can get its color Mirasol panel into shipping products, there’s a better than average chance that none of this will matter.
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