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- Mossberg, Pogue and Baig pass judgment on the iPhone 3G
- The top trio of Apple fanboys (Mossberg, Pogue and Baig) pass judgment on the iPhone 3G. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Battery, Apple Inc., Pogue, Baig, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- What's next for the MacBook Air?
- What's next for the MacBook Air?Interchangable batteries go against the Air's designAdding an interchangable battery to the MacBook Air would add enough bulk and weight for it to no longer be a MacBook Air. Before the MacBook Air gets interchangable batteries, the other MacBooks will get more Air-like: thinner &...
- Tags: Engineering, Notebooks, Digital music, Digital media, battery, MacBook Air, Apple MacBook, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
- What's next for the MacBook Air?
- Brook Crothers at CNet's nanotech blog has posted an interesting piece about what upgrade options might be coming for the MacBook Air. Drives Apple dropped the price of the 64GB Solid State Disk SSD option by US$400 on Thursday but Crothers points to higher capacity, 128GB...
- Tags: Processor, Disk, MBA, Apple MacBook, Battery, Apple Inc., Solid State Disk, Intel Corp., MLC, Engineering, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Notebook SSDs REDUCE battery life at 50x the cost
- Notebook SSDs REDUCE battery life at 50x the costYou make sense... I don't usually like your blogs, but you've stumbled into a real gem here.I personally use a laptop with a traditional drive, and store my user data on a 16G SD card. Best of both worlds apparently: my data...
- Tags: Engineering, Notebooks, battery, RPM, Wattage, notebook
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- Notebook SSDs REDUCE battery life at 50x the cost
- Tom's Hardware is reporting test results that show that costly notebook flash drives actually use MORE power than hard drives - shrinking battery life by up to an hour. How could this be? The test Testing 4 SSDs against a 7200 RPM 2.5" drive on a...
- Tags: Disk, Battery, USB Flash Drive, Tom, Notebooks, Engineering, Flash Memory, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Mobile phone battery dead? Try dancing
- Mobile phone battery dead? Try dancingCan't waitI can't wait for it to come out in the US, I'd definitely buy one.Lets see......who can I dupe into running along next to my electric car.How fast would it charge......if I took it down to the local paint store and had them give...
- Tags: Engineering, Mobile phone battery, battery, cell phone, mobile
- Discussion threads 2008-06-25
- Mobile phone battery dead? Try dancing
- What if you're stuck in the middle of nowhere and your mobile phone's battery is about to run out? Thanks to a new gizmo, you now just need to face the music and dance. LONDON--What do you do if you are stuck in a field at a pop festival...
- Tags: Orange PCS, Phone, Mobile, Cell Phone, Music, Engineering, Telecom & Utilities, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Reuters, mobile phone, battery, energy, recharger
- News items 2008-06-24
- Can a cell phone replace your digital camera?
- Can a cell phone replace your digital camera?Not in near futureconsidering features, we may find almost all the we need in a cell phone camera.Its tough to imagine a phone used as camera. If you have a family you cannot give ur cameraphone to ur wife/kids. One things there, frnds...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, camera, phone, cell phone, digital camera, battery
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- EdgeWay PocketPC Utils (zip)
- Shut down or reboot your Windows Mobile Pocket PC XP style, power down your screen saving battery power while allowing applications to continue running. Battery button calculates how much battery time you have left based on current power consumption, for example one can see how much time is left with...
- Tags: Battery, Pocket PC, EdgeWay Software, Engineering
- Software downloads 2008-06-20
- So what about mobile labs?
- So what about mobile labs?Doesn't scaleIf you've got one or two carts in a smallish school, it can work pretty well, in part because using them is a special event. If you've got, say four or five carts in a school, it is pretty much a full time job...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, mobile lab, mobile
- Discussion threads 2008-06-19
- iPhone 3G could flop in Japan
- Apple's insistance on a built-in battery for the iPhone could mean that the device ends up being a flop in Japan. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Battery, 3G, Cell Phone, Engineering, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
- Nyko Charge Base 360
- Nyko recently released a dual controller charging solution for the PlayStation 3, the Charge Base 2. But unlike the internal and nonremoveable batteries of the PS3's DualShock 3 and Sixaxis controllers, Xbox 360 pads have detachable batteries. So the company's design for a similar 360 product required it to rethink...
- Tags: Engineering, Game players, Nyko Charge Base 360, battery, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Xbox 360
- Product reviews 2008-06-18
- A 30-picowatt processor for sensors
- University of Michigan (U-M) researchers have developed an ultra low power microchip which 'uses 30,000 times less power in sleep mode and 10 times less in active mode than comparable chips now on the market.' It only consumes 30 picowatts in sleep mode, which means that a simple watch battery...
- Tags: Phoenix Technologies, Battery, Sensor, Mode, Chip, Phoenix Processor, Engineering, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-06-15
- One week with the HTC Touch Diamond; panoramic photos, VGA, and more experiences
- I let you all know that HTC sent me an HTC Touch Diamond last Saturday and posted some ">unboxing and first thoughts on it later that day. I also showed you the Teeter game and sensor/vibration technolgy, followed by more thoughts, photos, and video on the FM radio, YouTube, and...
- Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., Phone, Device, Mobile, Battery, Photograph, HTC Touch, REDFLY, TouchFLO 3D, TouchFLO 3D Implementation, Keyboards, Engineering, Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Peripherals, Marketing, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-06-14
- Tekkeon TekCharge MP1800
- Tekkeon's products run the full gamut of cell phone accessories, from Bluetooth headsets to iPhone cases to emergency chargers. Its latest product in the latter category is the Tekkeon TekCharger MP1800. Like the Tekkeon myPower Go MP1500, it efficiently provides emergency power when your phone is about to die, and...
- Tags: Engineering, Tekkeon TekCharge MP1800, battery
- Product reviews 2008-06-13
- More on iPhone G3, GPS and power management
- One of the big concerns about the iPhone G3 before the announcement was how it might handle the power drain from the global positioning chip and the software that might use it. But Apple is taking a less is more battery life approach. by David Morgenstern
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Power Management, Network, Battery, Unit, Apple Inc., Wi-Fi, GPS, Ask, Battery Life, Battery Test, Engineering, 3G, Wireless LANs, Wireless, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
- Backup Battery for iPhone/iPod
- In the surprisingly broad world of emergency cell phone chargers, we've learned that the products with the simplest designs work best. Though solar-powered and hand-powered chargers may sound cool, the reality is they don't always work. Instead we prefer products that run off batteries or old-fashioned electricity.The Smart Backup Battery...
- Tags: Engineering, Backups, backup battery, Apple iPod, battery, Backup battery, backup, Apple iPhone, charger
- Product reviews 2008-06-05
- Is the new Flip Mino camcorder worth $30 more than the bestselling Flip Ultra?
- [Updated: June 4, 2008 @ 5:01 pm] The super-popular Flip Ultra's incredible success has inspired plenty of competition trying to ride the cheapo-camcorder tsunami that the Flip set off. So less than a year after the Flip Ultra's September 2007 release comes Pure Digital's latest Flip, the Flip Mino....
- Tags: Battery, Camcorder, MySpace, Engineering, Janice Chen
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- Leaked Flip Mino camcorder official, touch sensitive
- The leaked Mino camcorder from Flip is now official, and from the looks of it, it's still got the stripped-down appeal of its sibling Video. New features on the Mino include touch sensitive buttons as opposed to click and an increased video bit rate of 4.0 Mbps (doubled from...
- Tags: Hour, Battery, Camcorder, Mino, Dimensions, Engineering, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- AMD officially unveils next-generation "Puma" notebook platform
- AMD officially unveils next-generation "Puma" notebook platformend of WINdows-inTEL monopoly"AMD PUMA - Another reason to say goodbye to XP."...a beginning of VISTa-AMd monopoly or an intel only monopoly or maybe end of all monopolies? time for Intel to get paranoid...Also a boost for Vista at the expenxe of Apple...I'd love...
- Tags: Engineering, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Notebooks, graphics improvement, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Puma, battery, Intel Corp., notebook
- Discussion threads 2008-06-04
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