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It looks like Amazon may be farther along in the process of putting out a smartphone than we thought.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Amazon and its Asian suppliers are already testing smartphones with displays of four to five inches.
According to the Journal, the Amazon smartphone could go into mass production as soon as the end of this year or early 2013.
This isn't the first time we've heard rumors about an Amazon smartphone. Earlier this month, Bloomberg also reported that Amazon had partnered with Foxconn to develop a competitor to the iPhone and Android phones. Mark Mahaney, an analyst at Citigroup, also previously wrote that Amazon was working on a smartphone.
The Journal story provides the clearest timeline yet for when the smartphone might hit the market.
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The rumored iPad mini would very probably definitely share the same 4:3 aspect ratio of the current iPad, which (among other reasons) would call for a 7.85-inch screen as opposed to the flat 7-inch screen of the Kindle Fire and Nexus 7. So though in name the iPad Mini might be a "7-inch tablet", the rumored dimensions of it have it as nearly 40% larger than 7-inch tablets and two-thirds the size of the original iPad. That means the iPad mini is still a pretty decent amount bigger than the 7-inch tablets Google and Amazon have been clamoring to make. Is that small enough or would that still be too big? Only Apple knows for now. [TrojanKitten Yfrog via Daring Fireball]
Source: http://gizmodo.com/5924718/samsung-series-9-2012-lightning-review-who-said-samsung-cant-do-cool
One of the top MacBook Air competitors, and a reminder that beautiful, well-built machines aren't exclusive to Apple.
Windows users who care about design as much as performance.
A slim profile, brushed aluminum body, and extremely strong build quality make it look and feel like a 15-inch, black MacBook Air. Which would be totally fine, actually. But it's also got functional little flourishes, like a really thin bezel and a matte screen. Why don't all of Samsung's products look like this? (Minus the awful chrome ring around the trackpad.)
The trackpad. Scrolling, clicking, zooming—it smoothly does what it's supposed to do. That's rare on a Windows machine, and especially on an ultrabook.
The keyboard. The keys don't feel as cheap as last year's, but they also don't have a very deep throw and travel—a strength of last year's model—which makes keystrokes feel unsure. Typing on it feels like using last year's Zenbook or a Vaio Z—and that's not a good thing.
For whatever reason, the brushed metal finish is waaaaay more smudgable than a MacBook's, or even Lenovo's or Dell's.
Yes. The Series 9 is $1400, which places it right in the middle of MacBook Air and other premium ultrabook pricing, and performance and design are solid enough to make it a strong alternative to the MBA.
And that was a serious question about why all your stuff doesn't look like this, Samsung. This machine is beautiful. It does nearly everything right, and improves on some of Apple's features. All things equal, the MBA and probably the new Asus Zenbook still edge ahead, but for Windows users, this is a damn good fallback.
• Processor: 1.7GHz Intel Core i5 17w Dual Core Ivy Bridge
• RAM: 8GB
• Storage: 128GB Solid State Drive
• Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000
• Display: 15-inch 1600x900
• Ports: Micro HDMI, 2 USB 3.0, 1 USB 2.0, Mini VGA, SD card
• Dimensions: 14.0" x 9.3" x .58"
• Weight: 3.63 pounds
• Gizrank: 4
Photos by Nick Stango
Source: http://gizmodo.com/5924807/the-leds-of-the-future-are-paper+thin
Researchers from Linköping University, Sweden, have just published work in Rapid Research Letters that reveals they're capable of growing white LEDs directly onto the surface of paper in very thin layers. That means that in the future, LED lighting could appear built into wallpaper, or even sewn directly into fabrics.
The trick is made possible using nanorods of zinc oxide, which are deposited onto a thin layer of polydiethylflourene, a conducting polymer. Magnus Willander, one of the researchers, explains:
"This is the first time anyone has been able to build electronic and photonic inorganic semiconducting components directly on paper using chemical methods."
Patents are currently pending on the research, but it's pretty exciting to imagine low-power lighting coming in a thin, flexible form that could be easily secreted about your home. What would you do with it? [Rapid Research Letters via Science Daily]
Image by Mike Deal aka ZoneDancer under Creative Commons license
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