Monday, October 17, 2011

drag2share: Rumor: Galaxy Nexus Coming to Verizon November 10th for an Ouchie $300 [Android]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5850411/rumor-galaxy-nexus-coming-to-verizon-november-10th-for-an-ouchie-300

Rumor: Galaxy Nexus Coming to Verizon November 10th for an Ouchie $300You ready with your grains of salt? Good, because a supposedly leaked document from Verizon has pegged the much-anticipated Galaxy Nexus to launch on November 10th. That's the good news. The bad news is that it'll run you 300 bones.

The Galaxy Nexus has been the most eagerly await phone next to the iPhone 4S. Rumored to have a ginormo 4.6 inch screen with 1280 x 720 pixels, a 1.2GHz dual-core (hopefully Exynos) processor, and of course, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, this is something we really want to get our hands on. The $300 price tag stings, but if it's as good as we hope it will be, I'm sure it'll do just fine. We've already seen some video leak (though it's likely that that's an early build), and we know that the official announcement is coming from Google/Samsung via a streamed event in South Korea tomorrow at 10pm.

Bundled into this like is the HTC Rezound (which we've previously heard called the HTC Vigor). The story here is that it's got a 4.3 inch screen at 1280x720 pixels, which gives it a higher pixel density than the iPhone 4S's retina display (341ppi vs 326ppi). It's also rumored to have a 1.5GHz dual-core processor and audio from Beats by Dre. This thing has Android 2.3.5 (Gingerbread) with HTC Sense 3.5, though, which next to the new hotness of Ice Cream Sandwich, just isn't that exciting. Couple that with the same $300 sticker price, and they're going to have trouble selling this thing next to the Nexus. [Engadget]

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drag2share: Opera with Turbo Will Be a Faster, Smarter Android Browser [Genius]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5850506/opera-with-turbo-will-be-a-faster-smarter-android-browser

Opera with Turbo Will Be a Faster, Smarter Android BrowserLike Amazon, Opera wants to build a more efficient web browser for Android than what is offered by Google. According to Cnet, they're calling it Opera with Turbo. Inelegant as the name may sound, the idea behind it is anything but.

Referred to as a hybrid browser, It is the marriage of Opera's Mobile and Mini browsers. When you're on wi-fi, or when your mobile connection is blazing, it will render pages directly on the device. But when the connection is crap, Turbo mode will automatically kick in and will render pages on its own servers and spit out a more static page free of HTML, CSS and Javascript, which Cnet says vastly cuts down on file sizes.

Here's a comparison I ran using the new data-tallying feature of Opera Mobile and Opera Mini. The BBC's home page is 1.7MB, a size you can check using Opera running its default state with Turbo turned off. Turning Turbo on shrinks the page size to 519KB. With Opera Mini, the page size shrinks even more, to just 304KB.

Not only does this allow for quicker page load times, but will also cut down on battery consumption since your cellular radio won't be frying itself trying to load a massive page through a weak signal. Amazon's Silk browser also revolves a similar concept, rendering parts of webpages and caching them on its own server, in an effort to improve speed, user experience and ostensibly, battery life.

Opera hasn't said exactly when the Opera with Turbo browser will become available for Android devices except that it will be here in "early 2012." [Cnet]

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Posted by Augustine at 4:39 PM

drag2share: Chipworks throws an iPhone 4S under its infrared microscope, finds Sony-sourced image sensor

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/16/chipworks-throws-an-iphone-4s-under-its-infrared-microscope-fin/

Look closely. Can you spot it? That gray abyss is actually an infrared image by Chipworks revealing an iPhone 4S' Sony-branded, 8 megapixel CMOS sensor. Looks like Howard Stringer wasn't bluffing to Walt Mossberg back in April, after all. At the time, it was reported that Apple's usual sensor supplier, OmniVision, was experiencing production delays, prompting speculation that Sony would eventually usurp the position. While the iPhone 4S that Chipworks looked into seems to confirm this, it's pointed out that Apple does have a habit of "dual sourcing" components (with its contacts saying this should be no different), so Sony may not be the sole supplier this time around. What ever the case, there's no denying that the iPhone 4S takes some stellar shots. You'll find more information -- including X-rays of the 4S -- at the source link below.

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Chipworks throws an iPhone 4S under its infrared microscope, finds Sony-sourced image sensor originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Posted by Augustine at 4:23 PM

drag2share: HTC Titan review

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/17/htc-titan-review/

We knew as soon as we first clapped eyes on this hulk of a phone that it'd make a brave purchase. It's not just the 4.7-inch screen that requires a leap of faith, but also the Windows Phone operating system, which is presented here in all its Mangofied glory but is still very much an early adopter's ecosystem. After all, if you love the Titan's hardware but prefer a more established OS, you can always wait for the Sensation XL, which is essentially the same phone running good ol' Android and which should have a similar £480 ($750 converted) SIM-free price tag. The question is, do you have the guts to make that jump to something more exotic? Yes? Maybe? Then read on before you begin your run-up.

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HTC Titan review originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Posted by Augustine at 4:06 PM

drag2share: Motorola Droid RAZR gets an early introduction ahead of tomorrow's launch

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/17/motorola-droid-razr-gets-an-early-introduction-ahead-of-tomorrow/


One thing we love about teasers: they oftentimes backfire, allowing the general public to see more of the product than the company intended. This is the story of the Motorola Spyder (aka Droid RAZR), its first teaser attempt spoiled when the phone's name was included on the image file. The second sneak peek is cleverly designed as an incomplete puzzle with the missing pieces added one-by-one as we get closer to the device's launch, but Motorola left a full image of the phone hiding in plain view. So what we see above is an uber-thin Verizon LTE device with kevlar backing and a Droid X-style hump on the top, a rear camera (presumably 8MP) with 1080p HD video capture, a front-facing cam, a standard set of four capacitive touch buttons and a redesigned Droid eye. We're still hoping to get a glimpse of the Xoom 2 before the big event, but at least you can consider us sufficiently teased for now.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

Motorola Droid RAZR gets an early introduction ahead of tomorrow's launch originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:47:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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