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2012年9月26日星期三

Highly anticipated phone - Apple iPhone5

As history the most frivolous iPhone products, the latest release apple iPhone 5 not only light 20% than in the past, and in function of ascension, the thickness of the fuselage is only 7.6 mm. At the same time, this machine also adopted the 4 inches retinal touch screen, resolution 1136 x 640 pixel and support 16:9 display mode, the screen saturation increased by 44%, and the son pixel density is reached 326 ppi.

Apple iPhone 5 also adopted a new generation of A6 processor, not only the performance of the A5 ascension than in the past 2 times, and at system startup page, save photos, loading music etc also have multiple ascension. As for the built-in camera although lasted for 8 million pixel level, but joined the sapphire glass mirror and panoramic photos, and other functions, and in the white balance and noise reduction function are also improved.

This machine also carry the iOS6 system, including new map application in scale operation can be very smooth, and built-in free speech navigation function, the new map 3 d building model. At the same time also to strengthen the social function of the network, such as a photograph flow become social sharing application and began to support sharing and comment function. At present, the apple iPhone 5 has been in Hong Kong, including nine countries and regions put on sale.

2012年9月24日星期一

Apple iPhone5 A6 chip production is still in the hands of Samsung

Despite quite a lot of rivalry between Samsung and Apple, the two had litigate patent issues. But, according to VentureBeat reported, Apple iPhone5 the A6 chip turned out to be manufactured by Samsung. UBM TechInsights engineers carefully disassemble the iPhone5, and come to the above conclusion. Unlike other ordinary disassemble team, see the circuit boards and chips, they did not stop at this, but to pry out the iPhone5 A6 chip, peel the surface layers of carefully scraped off, and detected with an electron microscope .
Yogasingam said 32nm process "refers to the average size of the parts, for example, the transistor chip. Semiconductor manufacturers to improve chip speed and performance of a method is developed equipment, in order to manufacture smaller parts, it followed by Moore's Law - the integrated circuit chip can accommodate the number of transistors is approximately doubled every two years some, the performance will be doubling, and this trend will continue.

Yogasingam at the same time provide the picture below, this is a team from the A6 chip.

He also added more technical details:

A6 chip, a cross-sectional view shows that the use of metal and the insulating layer with the previously used in the Apple TV A5 processor almost exactly the same, and the latter may also be manufactured by Samsung; process node constant at 32nm; for stack gate the tests also show that it uses a the HKMG technology of Gatefirst process; the PMOS part contains a silicon germanium layer.

In the news, in the courts, even in the ad, Samsung and Apple Commander opposed to competitive. However, on the supply of spare parts, but they have a close cooperation. To "Samsung" never as simple like go to Google of replacement parts manufacturer to take into account the technical and production capacity. At this level, Apple still can not get rid of dependence on Samsung. So when Samsung ad criticizing iPhone5, we do not forget: iPhone5 with a Samsung core.

2012年9月19日星期三

U.S. iPhone users in the maintenance costs more than 6 billion dollars

SquareTrade (a well-known third-party warranty service provider) has commenced before investigation on corrupted the iPhone. According to the survey results show that, in the past five years, the iPhone users in the United States spent on the repair corrupted iPhone estimates has more than $ 6.0 billion. This figure includes iPhone repairs, iPhone warranty period deductibles, the iPhone can not be repaired and thus the cost of the new iPhone purchase again.

SquareTrade survey also know that most of the iPhone users to damage their iPhone careless iPhone fall on the ground (68%). The second is not careful the iPhone fell into the toilet, sink, bathtub filled with water (26%).

11% of the users participated in the survey and do not care about their iPhone has some small problems, and some even just simply processing (eg, broken screen) tied with tape, put it forward to using their corrupted iPhone. In addition, about 47% of the users reflect said once accidentally fall on the ground of their iPhone, but because the protective cover of the reasons for their iPhone is not damaged.

2012年9月7日星期五

Amazon new Tablet reverse help apple inhibition opponents

Although the 8.9 and 7-inch Kindle Fire HD ambitious, but Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu believes that Amazon actually help Apple a Kindle Fire HD not only does not impact on Apple, but Apple suppressionother competitors.
Autumn is bound to be a bumper season, yesterday, Amazon also following the big vendors such as Samsung, Nokia released the new tablet the Kindle Fire HD competition in the tablet market is beginning to show the white-hot trend with the advent of an affordable Tablet PCApple because Amazon's new tablet nervous about it? Not, Wall Street says, but rather Google and Microsoft will have to worry about.

The Topeka Capital Markets analyst Brian White wrote: Apple still dominates the tablet computer market. After the release of the much anticipated 7.85-inch iPad mini, the throne of Apple in the tablet market will be more secure. The iPad mini sales may even exceed the current conventional size iPad sales.

Although the 8.9 and 7-inch Kindle Fire HD ambitious, but Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu believes that Amazon actually help Apple a Kindle Fire HD not only does not impact on Apple, but Apple suppression other competitors, such as Samsung and RIM. As for Apple's main threat - Google Nexus 7 and Microsoft Surface, the arrival of the Amazon tablet allows the interest of space, more intense competition in the tablet market shrinking.

Although $ 199 from the sale of Google Nexus 7 sales have been strong since its June release, but with the release of 7 inches Kindle Fire HD, Nexus 7 or cooling. Nexus 7 and the Kindle Fire HD (7-inch version) are priced at $ 199, but, Kindle Fire HD 16GB internal storage space, like the larger storage space, users may prefer the Kindle Fire HD.

As for Microsoft, release of Kindoe Fire HD is likely to force Microsoft to reduce the price of the Surface, after all, no one wants to do the losers at the mall.

2012年8月14日星期二

Apple will release a new iPhone with Red Bumper

Bumper, Apple issued an accessory, the main role is to enhance the signal for the iPhone, also known as "signal circle. It is reported that Apple will be issued a red Bumper, the product in Apple's system library was named as "red".
We all know that on the 12th of next month, next-generation iPhone will be released, so this red Bumper will apply to the brand new iPhone. Bumper the birth in order to solve the signal problem was the iPhone4, do the next-generation iPhone will be a signal problem?