The RIM needs to show us not a stopgap but that BlackBerry future

The BlackBerry is dying. Yes, RIM is selling a lot of BlackBerry phones, especially abroad. But look at the sad truth here in the U.S.: there hasn't been a major BlackBerry launch since last August's Torch, which has appeared only on AT&T.

It's time for something new, something radical, and something powerful, and just sticking a bunch of touchscreens on the existing BlackBerry interface isn't it.

Boy Genius Report has given a pretty good perspective on the type of phones that might be introduced at BlackBerry Acer as07b41 battery Acer as07b51 battery World this year, which starts on Monday. According to Boy Genius—and remember, none of this is official, and some of it may be wrong—we could see a "Bold Touch" with a 1.2GHz processor and a 640x480 touchscreen, some sort of evolved Storm with a 1.2GHz processor and 3.7-inch, 800x480 screen, a new Torch, and a new Curve.

It's obvious that RIM understands some of its problems here. Their phones are being driven relentlessly down market, turning into cheap texting devices as they trail behind Apple, Android and Windows phones in terms of specs, apps and easy-to-use interfaces.

So, faster BlackBerries Acer aspire 5520 battery with high-res touchscreens are a must. But they don't address the core problem, which is BlackBerry OS 6.
What's Needed: An All-New OS

We're in the middle of a transition right now from 1999-era mobile operating systems to 2010-era OSes. It's good and healthy to update your core software every ten years or so. HP/Palm did it, moving from Palm OS to WebOS. Microsoft did it. Nokia is doing it, in a way.

RIM has showed it has the pieces in place to make the transition: the QNX core, the Torch Mobile Web browser, and the TAT interface elements all made their debut on the buggy but encouraging PlayBook tablet last month. RIM's new platform obviously isn't totally ready, but it looks like the company will have a much more finished product by this summer.

Last night RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie, on a conference call, said the next version of the BlackBerry phone OS would be called "BlackBerry 7" and include a better browser and better graphics. But if it's still using the old BlackBerry core, it's just putting patches on a sinking ship, trying to prevent RIM's customer base from completely draining away over the next six months.(Also, RIM used that "better browser" line before, with BlackBerry 6; the browser there is unimpressive in 2011.)

Face it: RIM has lost the battle for mobile developers, and for smartphone Acer aspire 6935g battery Dell d830 battery consumers, with its current OS. When I meet developers, I often find people who develop enthusiastically for iOS, grudgingly for Android and not at all for BlackBerry. Yes, there are thousands of apps in App World, but the number is very disproportionate to the platform's huge installed base. Developers just don't find it appealing.

RIM needs to give us something to believe in, and that must be QNX on phones. Tell a story. Show some screen shots. Heck, show some concept screen shots. Give a clear timeline for filling in the gaps in the PlayBook (email, please) and tell us how and when you're overhauling the phone OS.

While they're at it, RIM also needs to show off that QNX native development environment we've been hearing about. Adobe Air, Java and Android Dell gw240 battery apps add "tonnage," as Balsillie said, but the best QNX apps will be developed with this mysterious native kit. How easy is it to use? And will apps developed for the PlayBook run equally well on QNX phones? (Please.)

Can Lazaridis Show Us The Light?

It would also help if co-CEO Mike Lazaridis doesn't put his foot in his mouth during his two-hour speech Tuesday morning. I've been baffled by some of the gaffes Lazaridis has made recently. I've known him for six years, and he's a smart, enthusiastic engineer who really understands the technologies he works with. It's like he's so confused by being the underdog, he doesn't know how to respond.

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We all know RIM is going to go through a tough six months. That's OK. Even if they didn't sell a single phone in the next six months, they won't go out of business—too much of their revenue is in things like server installations and support contracts. And they will sell phones, especially in emerging markets like India.

But we need to see the light at the end of this tunnel. Lazaridis hinted at it back in January when he covered half of a PlayBook and said to imagine that as a phone. Now, at BlackBerry World, on his company's biggest stage of the year, he needs to show us, not a stopgap, but that future.

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Top 7 Things We Know For Sure about Windows 8

Pre-release versions of Windows 8 have leaked to the web. Here’s what they tell us about the upcoming OS
Recently leaked builds show that Windows 8 will be a very different OS from its forebears, from the kernel to the cloud. ARM processor support, mobile-device optimization, and system-wide menu tweaks abound. There are still a lot of things we don't know about the next OS from Microsoft, but the number of things we can say for sure is growing. Read on for our list of 7 things we know about Windows 8!

ARM-ament

It’s no secret that Microsoft wants Windows on tablets. To get there, Windows 8 will include support for ARM processors, as Steve Ballmer demonstrated at CES in January. That means it could compete with Android and iOS Dell inspiron 6400 battery Dell vostro 1310 battery on slim, low-power devices—if Microsoft keeps bloat under control.

Touch Optimization

The suckage of Windows touch-screen interfaces has been, well, a touchstone of tech reality for more than a decade. But design elements from the login screen, task manager, and browser all point to tight integration of touch controls throughout the operating system. A touch-friendly login screen buried in the leaked code lets you unlock the device using a pattern rather than a password, in the same way Android does. Some short-lived YouTube videos (DMCA’d by Microsoft’s legal team) also demonstrated gesture support.

Ribbons Galore

If you were among the throngs who hoped Office’s ribbon menus would prove a passing phase, you’ll be sorry to note that they’re now pervasive in Windows Explorer. The good news is that it looks like you’ll be able to revert these menus to a layout more similar to that of Windows 7.

Windows 8 Dell vostro 1700 battery Dell inspiron 1300 battery  Explorer menus will apparently feature the same ribbon interface as Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010, though we may have the option of reverting to old-school menu bars.

Revamped Task Manager

Managing running applications—and being able to quickly kill resource-hogging tasks—is even more critical on mobile devices than it is on gaming rigs. The reconfigured tool, renamed Modern Windows Task Manager, will give you a single window from which to spot and kill the processes that are slowing down your system by combining the Resource Monitor and the Task Manager together. It also includes tap-friendly kill buttons for tablet users.

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Immersive Browser

Some leaked screenshots from the Windows 8 alpha show a simple, full-screen browser that looks identical to the Metro browser included in Windows Phone 7, complete with a mosaic of little blocks for favorites and such. Once again, strong evidence that Microsoft is betting big on tablets as the future home of Windows.

Cloud Integration

At long last, it looks like Windows will get integrated cloud storage synching with Win8. In addition to Windows Live SkyDrive, which you’d expect the next Windows to support by default, it appears you’ll be able to add third-party cloud storage services as mapped drives.

Portable Workspaces

The demise of U3 in 2009 left a void in the portable apps Acer aspire 5520 battery market that Microsoft helped to fill by cofounding StartKey in partnership with SanDisk. It now appears that Microsoft is integrating this technology directly into Windows 8 with a feature called Portable Workspace. Leaked screenshots show that USB drives of 16GB or larger will be formatted with a portable image of the user’s Windows 8 system.
The new Portable Workspace will turn any USB drive with more than 16GB of space into a pocketable clone of your PC.

Of course, predicting final release features based on Windows alphas is always dicey. We need only recall all the cool features Longhorn was supposed to bring us, and then look at the reality of Vista, for a cautionary tale in the hazards of banking on Microsoft’s leaked alpha builds. But if Microsoft has the sack to release all the features we’re seeing in these early builds, Windows 8 could prove as significant a platform change as Win95.

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new Android contender - Honeycomb Tablet Has 4G and 3-D But Is No iPad

For the many companies designing tablets based on Google's Android operating system to compete with Apple's dominant iPad, there are twin challenges. The obvious one is to convince consumers to buy something other than the iPad 2. The less obvious one is to differentiate their products from all the other slates based on Android.

Last week, a new Android Compaq nc6400 battery Acer as07b41 battery contender arrived in the U.S. market that aims to be different in three major ways. It's the G-Slate, built by Korean electronics giant LG and sold by T-Mobile.

The G-Slate uses Google's standard Honeycomb software—the version of Android especially created for tablets—and is the first Honeycomb tablet in the U.S. to offer 4G cellular data speeds and 3-D video creation and viewing. It sports a screen size—8.9 inches—that falls between the 10-inch dimension of the iPad and the Motorola Xoom, and the 7-inch dimension used by the Samsung Galaxy Tab and the Research in Motion PlayBook.

I've been testing the G-Slate, and in my view, it performs pretty well overall—about as well as the first Honeycomb tablet dell vostro 1500 battery Dell inspiron b120 battery , the Xoom. But it isn't nearly as good a choice as the iPad 2.

Of its three big differentiators, the only clear winner is the 4G cellular capability, which is much speedier than cellular data on the iPad, or on any other Honeycomb tablet I know of. The 3-D feature, which requires the use of 1950s-style colored glasses, seems like a parlor trick to me. And the in-between size, while potentially attractive for one-handed use, is undercut by the fact that, somehow, despite being smaller, the G-Slate is actually a bit heavier than the iPad 2, and a third thicker.

Then there is the price. One reason for the iPad juggernaut is that the base, Wi-Fi-only, 16-gigabyte model costs just $499.

If you buy the G-Slate without a phone contract, it costs $750. The comparable iPad 2, with the same 32 gigabytes of memory offered by the G-Slate, both Wi-Fi and cellular connectivity, plus its bigger screen, is $729.

The least you can pay for the G-Slate is $530. But that price requires a two-year cellular data contract at a minimum of $30 a month, which boosts the total cost to $1,250. And that's after a $100 mail-in rebate. The iPad 2 isn't sold with a contract and doesn't require a mail-in rebate.

Another drawback to the G-Slate, and to all other Honeycomb tablets so far, is a paucity of tablet-optimized third-party apps. There are so few that a Google spokeswoman declined to even quote me a figure. Apple claims 65,000 tablet Dell studio 1555 battery Acer aspire 5920 battery apps.

This isn't to say the G-Slate has no pluses. I continue to believe that Honeycomb removes many of the rough edges and extra steps that characterize the phone versions of Android. The Honeycomb browser, unlike the iPad's, has tabs, like a PC browser.

Also, unlike the iPad, the G-Slate can handle Flash video, though not in every case I tried. It comes with a free hot-spot feature, which allows it to create a Wi-Fi signal that can power other devices, like laptops.
Its front and rear cameras are much better for still photos than the iPad's. It has stereo speakers, which the iPad 2 lacks, and another feature missing on Apple's tablet—a built-in port, called HDMI, for connection to high-definition TVs.

And then there is that 4G speed. In my tests, with Wi-Fi turned off, the G-Slate averaged 5.79 megabits per second for downloads and 1.28 mbps for uploads. By comparison, an iPad 2 with Verizon 3G built in managed only about a fourth, or less, of those speeds over its cellular network.

The G-Slate generally performed smoothly and speedily in my tests, and handled well every app I tested. Video was smooth and vivid, though audio seemed a bit tinny and soft, despite the stereo speakers.

However, this tablet did crash on me once in five days, requiring me to use the hidden reset button. Another time, the audio control got stuck at 7% while playing a video and no sound was audible.

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I like the idea of the 8.9-inch screen, which made one-handed operation easier than on a 10-inch tablet. But the G-Slate was clumsy to use in portrait mode because it is long and skinny. It's about 20% narrower than the iPad 2, but is actually a tiny bit longer, making for an odd shape.

T-Mobile and LG listed different, and inaccurate, weight specifications for the device on their websites and press materials. But when I pointed this out, T-Mobile responded with what it said was the accurate weight: 1.37 pounds. The heaviest iPad 2 is 1.35 pounds.

In my tablet battery test, where I play videos continuously with the wireless features turned on and the screen brightness at about 75%, the G-Slate lasted 7 hours and 39 minutes. That's much less than the 10 hours and 9 minutes the iPad 2 delivered in the same test. T-Mobile claims 9 hours of continuous "mixed use" of various functions. I couldn't replicate this vague type of test, but found that in light, intermittent, mixed use, the G-Slate lasted a couple of days between charges, though its screen was off much of that time.

And what about the 3-D Dell d620 battery Hp 510 battery feature, which is enabled by twin cameras on the back?

Well, it worked for me. But I had to use an included pair of glasses with one red and one blue lens to see these videos, and they made me a bit queasy.

Emailing the videos to a standard computer didn't preserve the 3-D effect, even with the glasses on. T-Mobile says a 3-D TV can display the 3-D videos, but I wasn't able to test this. Because of the glasses and the sharing limitations, I feel that this 3-D feature is mostly a marketing tool.

Bottom line: The G-Slate isn't as good a tablet as the iPad 2. I'd only recommend it for people who want the higher cellular speeds, or who prefer Android.

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Do you mind Apple, Google Tracking Your Phone?

Just days after researchers demonstrated that some Apple iPhone and iPad owners have had their locations tracked by their devices, another security researcher revealed that Android phones, which use Google's mobile operating system, store users' geographic information in a very similar manner.

Citing security analyst Samy Kamkar, the Wall Street Journal today reported today that Google has been collecting location data from its Android smartphones.

When the phone recognizes a wireless network Hp pavilion dv6 battery Apple a1185 battery (regardless of whether or not it's encrypted), it sends information, including GPS coordinates, "up to the mothership," Kamkar wrote on his website.

In a statement, Google said, "All location sharing on Android is opt-in by the user. We provide users with notice and control over the collection, sharing and use of location in order to provide a better mobile experience on Android devices. Any location data that is sent back to Google location servers is anonymized and is not tied or traceable to a specific user."

On Wednesday, researchers Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden revealed that, since Apple released its latest iOS4 mobile operating system, the iPhone and iPad 3G have been storing unencrypted and unprotected logs of users' geographic coordinates in a hidden file.

In a post about their finding, Allan and Warden wrote, "We're not sure why Apple is gathering this data, but it's clearly intentional, as the database is being restored across backups, and even device migrations."
Apple has not responded to requests for comment from ABCNews.com.

Apple Letter Shows Company's Location Data Policies, Practices

Their research sparked criticism from digital rights activists and questions from lawmakers (not to mention a minor media frenzy).

But though the "discovery" was eye-opening for many Apple Compaq nc6000 battery Asus a32-f3 battery customers, it seems that the company had previously disclosed its location data practices in a letter to congressmen a year ago.

In response to a June 2010 letter from Congressmen Edward J. Markey, D-Mass., and Joe Barton, R-Texas, inquiring about Apple's privacy policy and location-based services, the company's general counsel Bruce Sewall wrote a letter explaining how and why the company gathers location data. The letter, dated July 2010, was unearthed and posted online by Wired magazine.

After emphasizing Apple's commitment to users' privacy, Sewall's letter said that to provide location-based services, Apple, its partners and licensees, may collect, use and share customers' precise location data, including GPS information, nearby cell towers and neighboring Wi-Fi networks.

But he added that the information is collected anonymously and the devices give users controls for disabling the location features. In addition to giving Apple customers the ability to turn off all location features with one "on/off" toggle switch, Apple requires applications to get explicit customer when it asks for location information for the first time.

Apple also stores the location information in a database only accessibly to Apple, the letter says.
But though Apple says that its location data practices support the services its customers want, analysts and activists say the practice still raises serious questions.

Aaron Higbee, chief technology officer and co-founder of mobile security firm Intrepidus Group, said that by collecting and storing information about users' locations, instead of just letting their phones rely on GPS technology, Apple Asus a32-f5 battery Mitac minote 8060 battery and Google are able to speed up navigation applications and other popular location-based services.

"The theory is that by using this data, the phone can roughly figure out where it is quicker and enhance the experience for the user," he said.

Analyst: Who Else Could Access Your Location Data?

For Apple, other possible motivators could be targeted ads based on location or geographically-informed market analysis, Higbee said.

"But the bigger question is who else will find creative uses for this data in the future?" Higbee asked, adding that even though Apple may be using the information in a responsible manner now, there's no guarantee that things won't change in the future.

While Apple and Google may say the data is safe as long as users don't install malicious applications, it's still possible that crooks could create malware intended to access and exploit that location information.
And research shows that smartphone users are worried about sharing their location through their phones.
On the heels of this week's Apple news, research firm Nielsen released data suggesting that the majority of smartphone app users, especially women, are concerned about giving up their location via their mobile phones. In a blog post Thursday, the company said that 59 percent of women and 52 percent of men expressed privacy concerns when asked about location-sharing.

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Peter Eckersley, a senior staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, earlier told ABCNews.com that as people realize how many different parties can access their location information, they "will be horrified."
"Location data is very sensitive," he said. It can reveal where you live and work, where you frequent for movies and dinner and even if you've spent the night at someone else's house.

Once people realize where their location data is going, he said, we will need to redesign our phones so that we can benefit from location-based services "without phoning home to 10 different mother ships showing where we are."

"The phone is such an intimate window into our lives," he said. "It needs to be treated with an appropriate level of caution."

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Why BlackBerry's PlayBook is a Winner - Top 10 Reasons

The reviews of the new BlackBerry PlayBook are in and they are terrible. David Pogue in the New York Times dismissed it with, “It must be skating season in hell.” In the Wall Street Journal, Walt Mossberg was a tiny bit more charitable but he, too, ultimately shrugged it off as a non-event. Laptop Magazine just sneered at it: “Somewhere along the way, BlackBerry lost its cool.”

But nonetheless there are reasons -- possibly compelling -- reasons why enterprise CIOs need to take a long look at the PlayBook Dell vostro 1700 battery Hp 6735b battery . Why? It just may be the way to satisfy rising employee demand for tablets without jeopardizing the organization’s security infrastructure.

Here are 10 reasons to put PlayBook on the review list:

1. “PlayBook is targeted at mobile professionals,” said John Jackson, an analyst with CCS Insight. And that is key. It is not designed as a consumer product like iPad is. RIM instead created its tablet to serve the business user.

2. PlayBook, with a 7” screen, is ultra-portable and it's also zippy with a 1GHz dual core processor and 1GB of RAM. For employees who have been demanding a tablet because it is the latest new thing, PlayBook should scratch that itch.

3. You probably already support PlayBook because it piggybacks on BlackBerry’s enterprise products. CIO’s “already have the infrastructure to handle the devices. Most of our enterprise customers have had RIM devices and Blackberry Enterprise Server for a long time. There is a lot of work that goes into getting the same level of command and control for other platforms,” said Charles Edge, director of Technology at IT consulting firm 318. Getting PlayBook up and running in many enterprises will not be much more complicated than charging the Dell latitude e6500 battery Hp dv2000 battery.

4. Secure email and calendar -- as delivered via PlayBook -- are big enterprise advantages. Right now, accessing native email and calendar on PlayBook involves “bridging” it to a BlackBerry; essentially putting the mobile device’s mail and calendar on the PlayBook via BlueTooth. That has prompted some reviewers to pan the tablet as a glorified BlackBerry accessory. The upside? Those tools on the mobile phone are secure and so they will be on PlayBook.

5. PlayBook already runs Flash. This means that whole segment of the Web that is unavailable to iPad users is easily accessed by PlayBook. Overall the PlayBook Web browsing experience is hands down faster and better than going online with pokey Safari on an iPad.

6. The PlayBook touch screen provides the best multi-tasking tools of any tablet. iPad still struggles with multi-tasking, but PlayBook, using RIM’s proprietary QNX operating system, offers easy multi-tasking -- just what mobile professionals need.

7. Secure access to Android apps Dell latitude e6400 battery . RIM stared the comparative lack of BlackBerry apps in the face (there are around 3000 compared to hundreds of thousands that run on iPad) and it’s come up with a clever solution. PlayBook will run at least some Android apps (there are over 100,00) but to get on PlayBook they have to be downloaded via the BlackBerry App World, where they have been vetted by RIM staff in a system closer to Apple’s Apps store than the wild west of the Android Marketplace.
8. Plug in an HDMI cable and the PlayBook can be used to deliver PowerPoint shows to a projector. iPad cannot do this.

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9. No cellular connection, which, if you think about it, is a kind of plus because it produces cost savings. Right now, PlayBook is Wi-Fi only; no cellular carrier support except it has a built-in tethering tool that lets it power up using a BlackBerry phone’s 3G network for no added cost.

10. Cost: $499 buys the 16GB model. The 32GB model is $599. The 64 GB is $699. Those price points exactly match iPad 2’s.

A last reality: numbers matter. There’s no counting BlackBerry Dell inspiron 1440 battery out, despite the faltering launch of PlayBook, because, at day’s end, it still has a huge installed base: BlackBerry remains the phone of choice in many enterprises.

Said Bzur Haun, CEO of mobile phone consulting firm Visage Mobile: “77 percent of Visage Mobile’s 150,000+ enterprise customers still rely on Blackberry as their smart phone of choice with only eight percent of our smart phone inventory made up of iPhone users. Will the same be said for the Playbook over the iPad? We have yet to see, but RIM products are attractive to businesses because they offer more security and a business-friendly platform.”

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IPhone Stored Location - Apple Inc.'s iPhone can collecting and storing location information

Apple Inc.'s iPhone is collecting and storing location information even when location services are turned off, according to a test conducted by The Wall Street Journal.

The location data appear to be collected using cellphone towers and Wi-Fi access points near a user's phone and don't appear to be transmitted back to Apple Hp pavilion dv9700 battery dell d630 battery . Apple didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

Still, the fact that the iPhone is collecting and storing location data—even when location services are turned off—is likely to renew questions about how well users are informed about the data being gathered by their cellphones. The fact that the iPhone stores months' worth of location data was disclosed by two researchers last week.

The discovery of an unencrypted location file on the iPhone created an uproar among people concerned that their phones could be searched and their location data used against them. On Saturday, Rep. Edward Markey (D., Mass.) called for a congressional investigation into the iPhone Acer as07b41 battery hp nc8430 battery  location storage, saying that unprotected location information on the phone could put children at risk from predators who hack their phones.

The discovery of the iPhone location file comes amid growing concern about cellphone tracking overall.
Last week, the Journal reported that Apple's iPhone and cellphones powered by Google Inc.'s Android software transmitted their locations back to Google and Apple, respectively.

And last year, a Journal investigation showed that many of the most popular cellphone "apps" go even further, sharing location data and other personal information with third-party companies without a user's knowledge or consent.

Apple and Google have both previously said that the data they receive is anonymous and that users can turn it off by disabling location services.



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However, it appears that turning off location services doesn't disable the storage of location data on iPhones. The Journal tested the collection of data on an iPhone 4 that had been restored to factory settings and was running the latest version of Apple's iOS operating system.

The Journal disabled location services (which are on by default) and immediately recorded the data that had initially been gathered by the phone. The Journal then carried the phone to new locations and observed the data. Over the span of several hours as the phone was moved, it continued to collect location data from new places.
These data included coordinates and time stamps; however, the coordinates were not from the exact locations that the phone traveled, and some of them were several miles away. The phone also didn't indicate how much time was spent in a given location. Other technology watchers on blogs and message boards online have recorded similar findings.

Independent security researcher Ashkan Soltani verified the Journal's findings.

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Reviews - New browser war, same old dirty tricks?

Have you heard? There’s a new browser war, with a suddenly re-energized Microsoft out to maintain its dominant share and impede the progress of upstarts like Google Chrome. Every major browser maker has kicked its development cycle into overdrive to one-up the competition.

So, if we’re all going to do the Time Warp and go back to 1996, it’s only fitting that we toss some fear, uncertainly, and doubt (FUD) into the fight.

That appears to be Microsoft’s Acer as07b41 battery Acer aspire 5520 battery strategy with its new cloud-based Office 365 service, which I am currently beta-testing. Like many current Microsoft products, this service works with a broad range of browsers and operating systems. And indeed, I have been merrily testing Office 365 in all sorts of different modern browsers, and it seems to work well in all of them.

So why do I see this text every time I start up the service using the current shipping version of Chrome? “You are currently viewing Microsoft Office 365 with a web browser that may cause some pages to display incorrectly and some features to function in an unexpected way. You will have a better experience … if you use one of these supported browsers.”
The list does not include Chrome. Which is very strange, because according to the official software requirements page for Office 365, supported browsers and operating systems include:

• Windows-based: Internet Explorer 8, Mozilla Firefox 3 or 4, Google Chrome 6, 7, 8, or 9 (OWA Light only); Internet Explorer 7 is supported with Windows Vista with Service Pack 2, and Internet Explorer 9 is supported with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008. [emphasis added]
• Mac-based: Safari 4 or 5
• Linux-based: Firefox 3 or 4

That’s a fairly complete list. Commendable, even, and Dell d630 battery Dell wr050 battery completely at odds with that warning. And what about that nagging disclaimer that only the light version of the Outlook Web App (“OWA Light”) is supported on Chrome? That also seems very odd, especially if you go to Microsoft’s official information page for Outlook Web App in Exchange 2010, which says, with no strings attached: “Works with all major browsers.”

On a separate support page (“Outlook Web App Supported Browsers”) for Exchange 2010, you’ll find this text:

To use the complete set of features available in Outlook Web App and the Web management interface, you can use the following browsers on a computer running Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista, or Windows 7:

• Internet Explorer 7 and later versions.
• Firefox 3.0.1 and later versions.
• Chrome 3.0.195.27 and later versions.

Given that Exchange 2010 powers Dell studio 1555 battery Office 365 mail, that seems to suggest that Chrome should be able to use all OWA features, doesn’t it?

This helpful blog page from a member of the Exchange team lays out the differences between the full and light versions of OWA in Exchange 2010. Based on this list and my testing, there’s no question that the Outlook Web App in Google Chrome has all features and is not a light version.

So why does that scary warning come up when you use Chrome to visit Office 365? I asked Microsoft, and got this noncommittal response from a spokesperson:

Office 365 is designed to work with the majority of browsers on the market, including Internet Explorer, Safari, Chrome, and Firefox.  During this beta period, we have tested the performance of these browsers within the Office 365 experience, which has been very strong in the vast majority of cases.  We are aware of some functional issues associated with certain browsers in specific cases.  In these cases we display an error message to make sure our users are aware of potential problems before they proceed.

“We are aware of some Dell inspiron 1501 battery Dell latitude e6400 battery  functional issues…” Normally, when a beta product has some known issues, those are disclosed in a readme file or release notes so that testers don’t waste time on a broken feature (or file bug reports against it).

But not here, strangely. When I asked if Microsoft had any more details to share about these “functional issues,” I was told, “Not at this time.”

It’s convenient that this message occurs only on Chrome, which is probably the biggest threat to Microsoft going forward. (Sorry, Firefox.) In fact, in the absence of details, the sole purpose of this message seems to be to spread fear, uncertainly, and doubt about the wisdom of using a particular competitor’s software.

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Why Intel Smartphone had no success so far in the smartphone space ?

Nokia's move to the Windows Phone OS took the "wind" out of possible volume sales of Intel smartphone chips this year, but the chip maker has moved on, Intel CEO Paul Otellini said this week.

Intel is now redirecting resources to recruit other wireless carriers and phone makers to adopt its upcoming low-power Atom smartphone chip code-named Medfield, Otellini said on a conference call Tuesday.

Intel was hoping to see smartphones with its chips starting in the second half this year. Otellini said he would be disappointed if Intel-based phones Dell latitude d830 battery Hp 2230s battery  were not available in 12 months. He did not comment on the smartphone companies Intel was pursuing, but analysts on Wednesday said that the chip maker could be pursuing smaller regional phone makers, and perhaps larger phone makers such as LG.

Intel has had no success so far in the smartphone space. The company currently offers a low-power Atom smartphone chip code-named Moorestown, which has found no adopters. Intel and Nokia last year partnered on the development of the Meego OS for mobile devices, but Nokia in February abandoned the OS to establish a future smartphone strategy around Microsoft's Windows Phone OS. Windows Phone OS does not work on Intel's chips, and Otellini said the crumbling of the partnership has forced Intel to pursue other companies to adopt Medfield.

Intel committed a lot of resources to Nokia around the Meego OS, but now has to restart efforts to get new customers to adopt Medfield, analysts said. That could delay the launch of Intel Inside smartphones, but devices will eventually come. However, the success of such devices in a market dominated by ARM processors remains a question mark, analysts said.

Intel could chase smaller vendors in developing markets where smartphone shipments are exploding, said Jack Gold, principal analyst at J. Gold Associates. Smartphone shipments are growing in countries like China, where companies such as ZTE and Lenovo are establishing a larger mobile presence.

"It's one thing to partner with Nokia, it's another thing to partner with [smaller vendors]," Gold said. Major vendors such as Nokia bring volume shipments worldwide, while the smaller vendors may provide a slower entry for Intel into the smartphone market.

LG is a major vendor that has shown interest in the Meego OS and could adopt Intel's Medfield chip, Gold said. Intel has virtually no presence in the smartphone market  Dell inspiron 6400 battery Hp pavilion dv5 battery , and can only go up, Gold said.

When the Medfield processor is delivered, Intel will compete with ARM, whose low-power processors go into most of the world's smartphones today. ARM processors are considered more power efficient than Intel's Atom, which have been derived from PC chips.

There is no doubt that an Intel-based smartphone will be available, but the question is whether it will be successful, said Dean McCarron , principal analyst at Mercury Research. With Medfield as an early-generation chip, it may not be easy for Intel to make an impact in the smartphone market, McCarron said.

"It's not an easy market to get into and it's not a market Intel has been in," McCarron said.

ARM rules the smartphone market and Intel has to evolve its smartphone processor faster to make an impact, McCarron said. Most of the software is written for the ARM architecture, which has been written from the ground up for smartphones . Intel is scaling down the geometry of its potent PC chips to fit into smartphones, but its only a matter of time before Atom matches ARM on power consumption, McCarron said.

Medfield will be made using the 32-nanometer manufacturing process, and the company in the future will make smartphone chips using the 22-nm process. Reducing the geometry will make chips faster and more power efficient, analysts said.

But beyond a continued cycle of scaling down the size of chips, Intel's Otellini argued that Intel's advantage over ARM will be a robust computer architecture that can scale and a wider array of communication capabilities. Intel earlier this year acquired Infineon's wireless division, and has said it will implement technology acquired through the acquisition, such as 3G and 4G radios, inside future Atom chips.

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"In terms of X86 versus ARM, it's not just about the core as much as we would like it to be, and I guess as much as ARM guys would like it to be. It's about the core, the overall capability of the system on chip, the things you put around it -- the graphics, the [communication] subsystems, the media processing subsystems and the overall power envelope relative to the performance that you can deliver of the SOC," Otellini said.

Otellini said Intel will also have a strong position in the smartphone market because of support for multiple operating systems such as Meego, Google's Android, and Microsoft's upcoming Windows OS. The operating systems going ahead will have much better cross-platform support, and it will be easier to move from ARM to Intel or ARM to ARM, especially with Windows.

"I'd also point out that all of the major operating systems in smartphones are written at a high level such that they are cross platform and portable," Otellini said.

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BlackBerry PlayBook Following Lukewarm Reviews

Research In Motion's PlayBook finally reaches store shelves today, priced to compete with Apple's iPad 2 and seeking to overcome some bad reviews.

Research In Motion’s BlackBerry PlayBook tablet hits store shelves April 19. Can the device overcome a spate of mediocre and negative reviews?



That remains a key question for RIM, which is depending on the PlayBook to help reinvigorate its brand at a time when Apple, Google and other competitors are making great strides in the mobility space. Although RIM’s storied BlackBerry franchise retains a significant presence within businesses, analysts and pundits seem concerned that the company’s products are failing to capture the hearts and minds of consumers.

According to an April 18 report in the Wall Street Journal, “Many analysts expect the company to ship somewhere [between] 2 million to 4 million tablets during the 2011 calendar year.” For its part, RIM will likely stay tight-lipped on sales until its next quarterly earnings call, if not beyond.

The 7-inch PlayBook Hp pavilion dv5 battery Hp elitebook 8530w battery includes several features designed to differentiate it from the tide of Android tablets flooding the market. Those include the proprietary QNX-based operating system, which emphasizes multitasking, along with a touch-sensitive casing for navigating on-screen menus. With the BlackBerry Bridge tethering feature, the PlayBook can display a nearby BlackBerry’s emails, calendar and other vital information—all of which disappear once the smartphone is taken out of range.

Although the Bridge may appeal to BlackBerry owners, it risks alienating those with other types of smartphones. The PlayBook features no native email app, although RIM has promised one in a future software update.
RIM has priced the PlayBook at $499 for the 16GB model, $599 for the 32GB model and $699 for the 64GB version. That places the device roughly in the middle range of tablet pricing, and toe-to-toe with the iPad 2, whose 16GB version retails for $499, 32GB for $599 and 64GB for $699.

Longer-term, some analysts have RIM pegged as a notable—but not dominant—player in the tablet market.
According to an April 11 report from research firm Gartner, Apple’s iOS will continue to dominate the media-tablet market through 2015, with a 47.1 percent share. Android will nip at its heels with 38.6 percent, followed by RIM with 10 percent, HP’s webOS with 3 percent and MeeGo with 1 percent. “Other operating systems” will bring up the rear with a paltry 0.2 percent.

The report also suggests that RIM will claim some 5.6 percent of the tablet market in 2011, beating webOS but lagging Android and iOS.

Gartner defines a “media tablet” as any touch-screen Hp pavilion dv6 battery Hp pavilion dv2200 battery device measuring between 5 and 15 inches on the diagonal and running a lightweight operating system such as iOS, Android or RIM’s QNX-based OS for the PlayBook.
In the meantime, RIM faces some challenges with the PlayBook. Many of the early reviews have focused on the lack of apps, with an applications storefront (App World) that feels positively sparse in comparison to those offered by Google and Apple. (In its own review, eWEEK found the QNX operating system a little buggy, although those issues will presumably be fixed by future software updates.)


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“It will take time and significant effort for RIM to attract developers and deliver a compelling ecosystem of applications and services around QNX to position it as a viable alternative to Apple or Android,” Carolina Milanesi, research vice president at Gartner, wrote in a statement.

The key market for the PlayBook’s growth, she added, is “organizations that will be interested in RIM’s tablets because they either already have RIM’s infrastructure deployed or have stringent security requirements.”
But consumers will ultimately make or break RIM’s chances in the broader market—and the company’s chances of revitalizing its brand.

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Samsung copied Apple technologies ? Apple sued Samsung copied iPad

Apple has sued Samsung for allegedly copying the iPad, iPod and iPhone with its Galaxy Tab and Galaxy handsets.

Samsung copied Apple technologies, designs and even packaging with its Google Android-based products, according to a complaint filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Apple Dell xps m140 battery  is seeking a jury trial in the case.

"Instead of pursuing independent product development, Samsung has chosen to slavishly copy Apple's innovative technology, distinctive user interfaces, and elegant and distinctive product and packaging design, in violation of Apple's valuable intellectual property rights," Apple says in the complaint.

Late last year, Samsung became the first major consumer electronics maker to roll out a tablet to compete with the iPad. It is also one of the world's largest makers of mobile phones, especially handsets that use Android.
The complaint includes 10 charges of patent infringement, two of trademark violation and two of trade dress violations, plus unjust enrichment and unfair business practices. Apple named Samsung Electronics, Samsung America and Samsung Dell studio 1535 battery Dell vostro 1520 battery  Telecommunications America as defendants. The case was filed at the district court in San Francisco but is being transferred to Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler at the court's Oakland, California, location.
A spokesman for Samsung in the U.S. said the company had no comment on the lawsuit. Apple officials could not immediately be reached for comment.

The allegations span a broad range of Samsung's mobile devices, including the Epic 4G, Captivate, Indulge, Nexus S and Galaxy S 4G smartphones as well as the Galaxy Tab. Apple singled out the Galaxy product line for criticism.

"The copying is so pervasive, that the Samsung Galaxy products appear to be actual Apple products -- with the same rectangular shape with rounded corners, silver edging, a flat surface face with substantial top and bottom black borders, gently curving edges on the back, and a display of colorful square icons with rounded corners," the complaint says.

Apple wants an injunction to stop Samsung's Dell inspiron 1520 battery  dell inspiron 6400 battery alleged intellectual property violations, along with actual and punitive damages, Samsung's "wrongfully obtained profits" and funds for corrective advertising about the allegedly confusing products.

Apple said Samsung continued the alleged violations despite repeated objections, leaving the company no choice but to sue.

In the complaint, Apple laid out several detailed design elements of the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad that it said Samsung copied. They include the rectangular case with rounded corners, the metallic edge and the thick, black bands that appear at the top and bottom of the iPhone and iPod Touch and all around the iPad. In addition to copying these, Samsung designed application icons for its devices that closely emulated Apple's icons for the phone, music player, notepad, contacts and settings functions, among others. Apple said those icons violate its trademarks.

Even the boxes for Samsung's products copied Apple Sony vgp-bps13 battery Gateway squ-412 battery , according to the complaint. For example, for the Galaxy S smartphone, Samsung uses a cleanly designed box dominated by an image of the phone, with the device cradled in the box so it appears as soon as the lid is removed, Apple said. Those packaging elements extend to the Galaxy Tab.

In addition to claiming protection for its "trade dress," Apple cited patents on several elements of its hardware and software design that it said Samsung violates. For example, the suit alleges Samsung infringed a patent on Apple's design for the slim buttons on the sides of its devices. It also says Samsung copied patented interface technologies, such as its method of making text messages between two people appear in bubbles on opposite sides of the screen.

Samsung's alleged copying has profited that company and hurt Apple by making consumers confuse its products with Apple's, according to the complaint.

"Samsung's Toshiba pa3533u-1brs battery marketing has played up the similarities between its Galaxy family and the Apple iPhone. ... Samsung's mobile phones were marketed as the phone that is closest to the iPhone," the complaint says.
The suit says Samsung engaged in "fraudulent and unlawful business practices" and unfair competition under California law. It also charges the company with "unjust enrichment" under federal law. "Apple seeks a worldwide accounting and disgorgement of all ill gotten gains and profits resulting from Samsung's inequitable activities," the complaint says.

The original iPhone was introduced in 2007, and the first iPad was announced in January 2010. Samsung introduced the Galaxy S in mid-2010 and the first Galaxy Tab late last year.

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Windows Phone 7 and RIM: Evolving

It seems to be a new law of technology: modern mobile operating systems take about a year to find their feet. Apple, of course, set the precedent. In 2007, iOS on the first iPhone wasn't even a smartphone OS; you couldn't write an app for it. A year later, it blossomed into the powerful platform we see today. Android 1.0, released in September 2008, was missing several pieces, but a year later the platform really took off with Android 2.0 and the Motorola Droid in October 2009.

Windows Phone and RIM: Evolving

With Windows Phone 7, we're seeing a platform in the middle of its year's worth of evolution. There are some Windows Phones on the market, and they're pretty good, but they're not dominating. That's okay. The first year, it seems, is a time to work out bugs, attract developers, and convince hardware makers to join up.

At the MIX11 conference yesterday, Microsoft VP Joe Belfiore charted out how the company will fill the gaps in Windows Phone with its Mango update, around a year after its release. Lots of new APIs, a multitasking model similar to the iPhone's, the ability for Chinese and Indian programmers to write apps, and, hopefully, Nokia hardware could make Windows Phone 2012 look very different than 2011.

RIM has only now started its journey, which is why I'm not writing it off. Yes, the BlackBerry Tablet OS is very incomplete. It's incomplete like the app-free iOS 1.0  dell latitude d620 battery Dell latitude e6400 battery was incomplete. But it's only fair to give the company the same year that everyone else has gotten. By 2012—if RIM executes well—it'll have native PIM (personal information manager) on its tablet, super-phones running the new OS, and a much more finished-looking ecosystem.

The exception to this rule is Palm, but that's understandable. Palm actually delivered a finished-looking platform with WebOS 1.0, but the company made too many mistakes—lousy advertising, weak marketing, and just being too small—to capitalize on its great software.

But How Shall We Get These Updates?
There's one thing that none of the mobile platform providers other than Apple have mastered, though, and that's figuring out how to send out timely updates.

This is a big deal, because without updates, you're reliant on new hardware Dell vostro 1510 battery Dell vostro 1700 battery  to push out new versions of your OS. Google has managed this by having a huge number of aggressive hardware partners, but RIM, especially, doesn't release enough new models per year to fall back on this crutch.

Microsoft's Belfiore identified the central problem, although he tried to weasel his way around it: Wireless carriers don't approve software updates on any regular schedule. They look at them like new phones, and anyone following the perpetually floating release dates of, say, Verizon's LTE phones knows that carriers will hold onto phones for months until they've satisfied every test they can think of. But consumers who see one phone get an update, but not a similar phone, get much angrier than consumers who just don't see an unannounced new phone come to market. We're envious of what our neighbors have, not of what everyone doesn't have.



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Slow updates go against the carriers' interests, too, which is part of why this situation is so frustrating. Every time a person buys a new phone, it's an opportunity to switch carriers. So the carriers should be interested in keeping existing customers on their current phones with fresh software, so they don't think about their options. Carriers also want to have a lot of OS providers to play off of each other. A situation where everyone ends up beholden to Apple, as the only compelling platform provider (because it's the only one with updates), shouldn't appeal to carriers either.

Microsoft needs to pour resources into wheedling, helping, and heck, even paying carriers to make sure that prompt updates get to consumers. I'm encouraged by Mango, and even by what RIM is showing with the PlayBook. If they follow Apple's and Google's learning curve, they'll have great offerings by early next year. Now they need to focus on making sure consumers get them.

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Top 15 Wacky And Useful Add-On Gadgets For The iPad (AAPL) And iPhone

Apple's iPhone App Store has been a runaway success -- probably more than Apple ever imagined it would be.
But getting other companies to make hardware add-ons for the iPhone hasn't gone as well.

While Apple Acer as07b71 battery Acer aspire 5520 battery made tools available for companies a couple years ago to make gadgets that hook into the iPhone, there just haven't been that many.

And those that do exist haven't really taken off yet. Have you ever seen someone using their iPhone as a TV remote or as a blood pressure monitor?

There is one promising lead, though: Using the iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad as a payment terminal, via add-ons like the Square credit card reader. Apple itself is even using the iPod touch as a point-of-sale device in its retail stores. This is a situation where the Apple hardware is actually cheaper than making custom electronics, so it might work.
Other hardware projects, such as making game pad accessories, seem more far-fetched. But maybe someone will come up with something awesome and it will take off.

iHealth blood pressure monitor

For $100, you get the cuff and an iPad/iPhone dock. The app is free.

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Square

Square and other mobile payments products allow you to perform credit card transactions on your iPhone or iPad.

Square uses the headphone jack, while rival services from other companies use the iPhone dock connector.

Cade gaming device



The iCade gaming cabinet for your iPad apparently isn't a joke after all.

We'll have to see how this hooks into games, though. Would a device like this ever become popular enough that game developers support it by default?

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Bonus Blu-ray features on your iPad - Hands-on with Second Screen

While my iPad has become a second screen in many ways--as an e-reader, social-networking pane, video viewer, and more--a new series of apps from Disney is ready to take that into a whole new direction. Disney's Second Screen is a series of apps that take over your iPad and offer up a second screen of information during movie viewings, acting as a disembodied set of bonus features.

Second Screen Hp pavilion dv9700 battery dell d630 battery  is a feature that's currently offered on Disney's "Tron" and "Bambi" Blu-ray discs. Each movie has its own app in Apple's App Store. These apps are free, and hefty, too--the "Tron: Legacy" app clocked in at over 800MB, the "Bambi" app comes in at 498MB. However, you can't do anything with the app without activating a "Magic Code" found inside the Blu-ray disc's box. I made the mistake of downloading the app and leaving the Blu-ray box in the office, taking home the disc in a plastic sleeve. Unfortunately, the disc itself can't unlock the app, so I had to wait till the next day to Second Screen my home "Tron: Legacy"-viewing experience. Bottom line: don't lose that code.

The cleverest part of the whole Second Screen idea isn't its content: it's the app's ability to synchronize with the movie and play its related content alongside a time code of sorts that counts down in the upper part of the screen. An inaudible signal is what triggers the syncing, a technology Disney seems quite proud of. Indeed, it's pretty cool--when your Blu-ray player and iPad are on the same Wi-Fi network, the timecode keeps sync even when you're fast-forwarding or skipping chapters. When the devices aren't sharing a network, the app relies on the audio cue to sync, and requires resyncing after a chapter skip. A tutorial at the beginning advises keeping the volume levels high enough for the iPad to register the signal. Second Screen also works via computer Web browser, though I didn't test that feature.

The app's timeline of gallery photos, brief video clips, fact bursts, and 360-degree renderings is fine for production dell xps m1330 battery  shot fetishists, but I found myself getting bored with the offerings. You can skip ahead and browse back through the galleries while the movie's playing--the timeline glowed red when I was off the timecode, and a press of the number-count brought me back to the synced flow again. None of it felt worth my attention, but the more I stared at the iPad's screen, the less I paid attention to what was happening on my TV. The experience certainly didn't feel like it deserved nearly a gig of my iPad's flash storage.

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There are similar program-syncing apps for Disney/ABC TV shows in the App Store, including one for "Grey's Anatomy." I haven't tried those TV apps, but they already have an edge on the Second Screen Blu-ray app I tested: the "Grey's Anatomy" app clocks in at under 4 MB.

One nice aspect of Second Screen is that the entire app is browsable from the iPad at any time, making it a free interactive book. The code from the Blu-ray is still required to activate, but I think I appreciate this app the most as a standalone companion, not as a simultaneously streaming source of information. If Second Screen featured commentaries, more substantial historical details or reading materials, or something other than endless close-ups of Tron character helmets, I might be more inclined to like the concept. I have little enough attention to spare as it is.

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The latest high-end handset - HTC's Sensation 4G vs. Samsung's Galaxy S II

Blink your eyes for a second these days, and you just might miss the launch of another wildly impressive Android smartphone.

The latest high-end handset to enter the mix is HTC's Sensation 4G, a dual-core device announced on Tuesday and coming to T-Mobile dell vostro 1500 battery Dell inspiron b120 battery this summer. The Sensation 4G boasts a 1.2GHz dual-core processor with 768MB of RAM. It has a 4.3-inch qHD display, front- and rear-facing cameras, and HD video-recording capability. The Sensation also ships with Androd 2.3, aka Gingerbread -- the latest and greatest smartphone-based edition of the Android OS.

So how does the HTC Sensation 4G stack up next to other 4G Android phones already on the horizon? I compared the Sensation with Samsung's Galaxy S II, another hotly anticipated device, to get an idea of just how competitive the handset will be.

HTC Sensation 4G: The Galaxy S II Comparison

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This comparison chart shows a side-by-side glimpse of the two phones' specs. Looking at the breakdown, one thing's for sure: The HTC Sensation 4G is a tough competitor -- but the Galaxy S II is ready to put up a fight.

In terms of pure computing power, the two phones are pretty darn close. The Sensation 4G has the upper hand on processing speed; its 1.2GHz dual-core chip is a hair ahead of the Galaxy S II's 1GHz dual-core component. The Galaxy S II edges out the Sensation in the RAM department, though: It packs a full gig of memory, while the Sensation has just 768MB (still no small amount).

How 'bout displays? Both phones sport 4.3-inch screens. The HTC Sensation uses LCD technology, while the Galaxy uses Super AMOLED Plus Acer aspire 5610 battery dell latitude d620 battery . Each material offers its own set of advantages and drawbacks, and it's tough to label either as objectively superior. The HTC Sensation does have the higher resolution, however, at 540-by-960 pixels next to the Galaxy's 480-by-800.

The Sensation is slightly larger than the Galaxy S II and about an ounce heavier, too. It also has less on-board storage: The Sensation ships with 1GB of internal space, while the Galaxy S II will come with the option of either 16 or 32GB. And of the two phones, only the Galaxy S II will feature NFC support -- something that doesn't mean much now but may prove useful in the future.

One final point worth mentioning: Though the HTC Sensation and Samsung Galaxy S II both run on Gingerbread, the phones provide noticeably different software experiences. The Sensation comes with HTC's Sense user interface, whereas the Galaxy S II utilizes Samsung's TouchWiz UI. Which is better is purely a matter of personal preference; the best thing Dell vostro 1310 battery you can do is spend some time playing around with each setup to see how you feel. If you're like me and prefer an unmodified stock Android experience -- a "pure Google experience," as it's called -- you may want to look at a skin-free device like the upcoming T-Mobile G2X instead.

The HTC Sensation 4G is set to launch sometime this summer on T-Mobile. No U.S. launch plans have been announced for the Galaxy S II thus far, but the phone is expected to arrive in the U.K. in early May -- so odds are, we'll be hearing something soon.

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Microsoft's Report - Windows 8 Could Allow Customization

Microsoft's Windows 8 could allow a greater degree of desktop customization, according to the latest in a series of leaked screenshots of a purported early build.

Microsoft’s next Windows version could let users customize their desktops in new ways.

Bloggers Rafael Rivera and Paul Thurrott, in a series of April postings on Rivera’s Within Windows blog, have dissected various features of Compaq nc6400 battery  hp 2230s battery what they call an early build of Windows 8. Many of these features, should they appear in the operating system’s final version, will add new layers of functionality: a built-in PDF reader, an “immersive” user interface with Windows Phone 7-style tiles (ideal for touch screens) and an Office-style ribbon integrated into Windows Explorer—complete with tools for viewing libraries, manipulating images and managing drive assets.



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But other parts of the early build suggest Microsoft is thinking of ways to make Windows 8 a more personalized experience. According to Rivera and Thurrott, the new Personalization interface offers “the ability to automatically configure the color of Aero elements, like the Start Menu, Windows Explorer windows, and the taskbar based on the desktop wallpaper.” That means if your desktop wallpaper is predominantly brown, for example, the frames of any open windows will tint brown, as well.

If current rumors prove accurate, Microsoft could release the next version of Windows—often termed “Windows 8” by media and pundits—sometime in 2012. The company has made it clear that the upcoming operating system will support SoC (system-on-a-chip) architecture, in particular ARM-based systems from partners such as Qualcomm, Nvidia and Texas Instruments. In turn, that would give Microsoft increased leverage for porting Windows onto tablets and other mobile form factors, currently the prime market for ARM offerings.

Steven Sinofsky, president of the Windows and Windows Live Division, suggested during January’s 2011 Consumer Electronics Show that “under the hood there are a ton of differences that need to be worked through” with regard to SoC-supposed Windows Acer as07b41 battery dell xps m1330 battery . Nonetheless, he added, “Windows has proven remarkably flexible at this under-the-hood sort of stuff.”

A Windows 8 lock screen uncovered by Rivera and Thurrott, featuring an icon for portable-device power management, suggests that Microsoft is designing an operating system capable of running on a multiplicity of devices, from small tablets all the way up to desktops. There is also the possibility, however remote, that a version of Windows 8 could find its way onto the company’s smartphones, replacing Windows Phone 7.

In the absence of any official comment from Microsoft, though, all that remains pure conjecture. Certainly Redmond faces rivals intent on porting their own operating systems onto a variety of hardware: not only Apple’s iOS, currently available on the company’s smartphones and tablets, but also Hewlett-Packard’s webOS, which will appear on both mobile devices and PCs.

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