Joke about the new iOS 7

400 GHz graphene-based processors are possible

                     A group of scientists from the University of California discovered a new method of projectiong the electronic circuits from graphene, this thing allowing them to build a much higher frequency processors.
                     The tranzistors from the electronic chips will reach the limit of the technologies based on silicon after 10 or 15 years. By then, we should be armed with another new technologies, if we want to prevent a stagnation. The idea of a tranzistor made of graphene it's not new, and there are functional tries that are real, but these are not prepared for an industrial implementation.
                     The quickest tranzistor made of graphene reached the frequency of 427 GHz, overtaking this way the maximum frequency made by silicon based chips (8,5GHz). But, the problem is the overheating of this chip, this chip needs a lot of energy and it dissipates a lot of heat.

                 The scientists are still working on this project, and work hard to find some solutions. Who knows ? Maybe in 20 years we are going to use smartphones powered by graphene-based chips!

An ecological invention, ready to rule the world.

                It's about a socket, an revolutionary invention created by the designers Kyuho Song and Boa Oh, who created a new device to capture the solar energy. These two guys, created a portable socket that captures the solar energy and it uses this energy to charge your smartphone.
             This socked will be able to be stuck on windows, and it captures the solar energy. After this capture, this device will stock the energy into a battery, the users being able to use this socket for any device, or keep its energy for a further use.
             For now, this is just a project, but it's going to be an awesome and nature friendly device.

GoClever Orion 101, an Android tablet with detachable keyboard and low price

              About the tablet market, the low-priced tablets are a difficult choice for the producers because, there are many tablets offering the almost same performances created in China, and the reputation of the big companies is reduced. But GoClever, an active polish producer is trying, with his product, the Orion 101 tablet to offer good performances with low prices.
              This tablet has a 10'' screen, a detachable keyboard and it's built from glass and mate plastic, for a good adherence. Fortunately, this tablet is equipped with MicroSD slot, an Micro USB connector, and the output of a Mini HDMI, hidden by a protector lid.
             Another interesting thing about this tablet is the keyboard. This keyboard uses the bluetooth connection, making the tablet really easy to be detached, but the design is not so exciting.
             The screen has a resolution of 1280x800 pixels, with a density of 150 ppi. This tablet has the most powerful chip from Allwinner Technologies, the Allwinner A31. The processor is created by ARM, the model is Cortex-A7 with a frequency of  1 GHz (quad core) and a graphics processor called PowerVR SGX544MP2. The RAM memory is 2 GB, it has a 4K video decoder, and a battery of 6200mAh.

Ubuntu Edge project failed, the smartphone industry is interested about the software platform

                  I'm very very very sorry to tell you, guys, but this heavenly awesome project failed, because of the low funding. This project needed about 32 million $ to get real, but the crowdfunding was weak, and Ubuntu Edge project got only 12 million $. In the other hand, the smartphone industry declared they're interested of Ubuntu Mobile OS, and it seems they want to create some smartphones/tablets running this OS. We'll see when, where and how.
                  However, Mark Shuttleworth said that Ubuntu Edge project will wait until 2014, for further details, check this website: http:\\www.ubuntu.com

New enemy for Galaxy S4 and Iphone 5!

                  Yes, that's right! It's called Oppo Find 7, that owns an FullHD display,  Snapdragon 800 chipset, and an impressive battery.
                  We know that Oppo Find it's not the first smartphone from Oppo's colletion, we also heard about the Oppo Find 5, which was the first smartphone with a quad-core chip, if I'm not wrong.. However, this new Oppo Find beauty, the Oppo Find 7 will have serious improvements in the terms of processor, a quad-core one (Krait 400) with the frequency of 2,3GHz and a graphics processor, called Adreno 330. The size of the screen remains the same (five inches), also the RAM memory (2GB) and the internal storage (32GB).
                    The video camera will use the same sensor of 13 Mp, but the front camera will be changed instead of an 8 Mp one. But the most interesting update comes in the terms of battery: Oppo Find 5 has an 2500mAh battery, but this one will have not less than 4000 mAh. Because of its battery, the thickness of the phone will be increased to 9,9 milimeters.
                     This smartphone will be available in the last semester of this year, and the preorder price is 700 $.

Hi. guys!

            This post is a sad one: I will be gone in vacantion, so I won't be able to post on the blog anymore for a week. I'm very sorry, but this is unchangeable. See ya in a week! ☺

Nokia is planning to create a tablet running.... Windows RT

                 Instead of the angry investors who are judging with Microsoft in courts, Nokia is preparing something very optimist: a tablet, running Windows RT. Named "Vanquish", the new tablet could be powered by the Snapdragon 800 chipset from Qualcomm, and a quad-core processor clocked on 2.15 GHz and 2 GB of RAM. From the unofficial sources, this tablet will have the same design as the Lumia smartphones, but it has an Full HD screen of 10.1 inches, 3 hubs of USB 3.0 and a micro HDMI. The list of the accessories could include a detachable keyboard with it's separate battery.
                 The OS and the apps are hosted by an 32 GB SSD. This tablet could connect to internet via Wireless N technology, and 4G support for mobile internet. This tablet will be soon in U.S. stores, in the offer from AT&T.

  

Sony Xperia i1 "Honami" - the first smartphone in the world with 4K recording camera?

                   It seems that Sony wants to make better things when it comes about the smartphones, by deciding to improve the quality of the recording video camera. Personally, I think this is awesome, and this smartphone with 4K capabilities will be a serious enemy in the battle with Lumia 1020 and Nokia PureView 808. If the slides from the Weibo's page about this project are authentic, well, that means Sony is going to be the first company that will show off with it's smartphone with such capabilities. That performance could be reached with the contribution of the Snapdragon 800 chipset, well known as the first processor SoC capable to record and play 4K videos with 30 fps (frames per second), and that means a resolution of 3840x2160 pixels, and 2K with 60 fps, (2560x2048 pixels). In a surprising way, the resolution announced for the video recording function by the Sony Xperia i1 it'a a little out of range, in a very good way: about 4000x2000 pixels.
                  The time of video compression and the sampling ratio it's another topic that needs to be decided. We know that the 4K videos are 4 times more detailed than the ones recorded in Full HD (1080x1920), the real problem will be the occupied space of that video. However, Sony has more experience than any other companies with the 4K dimentions, because of it's 4K television. They will find out a solution for the internal storage of the smartphone. A 20 mins of 4K footage takes about 20-25 GB of storage.
                  Let's hope this project will be finished soon!
 This is a 4K dimension photo:

4K ford mustang gt 500

New Iphone ideas: How people want Iphone 6 to look like

                   There are many videos on YouTube about ideas of the new version of Iphone, but this video shows something new: The "projector mode". I was quite surprised of the idea, but my thought was: "If this becomes real, then Iphone would have a very short battery life."

                     What to say about that keyboard... Pretty impressive. It really exists such a keyboard, and it's called "Magic cube". This keyboard can be used with any device that has a bluetooth connection possibility (smartphones, tablets, even some PCs).

                     The idea of the Iphone screen transparency is... well wicked. But I've never seen such a technology. There is something close, but it's called "on window display" and it's used in some cars like Mercedes, very close to a hologram. In the other hand.. I don't find the screen transparency an useful thing.
                     However, I find this concept very very very cool. Maybe it will become a reality in about... 20 years? ☺ Let's hope sooner.

Tutorial #2: How to set up VRAM memory, how to install the C++ library and Code Blocks IDE on Ubuntu - VirtualBox machine

                         Hey, Guys! This is my second tutorial on how to install C++ library and Code Blocks IDE on Ubuntu 13.04.
                         Also, the VRAM setup.

iOS vs Android: "Bang per watt"

              "Mobile computing is not about being ennough overall, it's about being good enough per watt of power consumption."
              Cheney, an occasional contributor to TechCrunch, also evaluates Apple's prospects in mobile commerce -- i.e. paying for stuff with a smartphone or smartwatch -- and concludes that Android's increasingly fragmented ecosystem may trail Apple by 12 to 24 months, at least int high-end markets.

             We’ve entered the age of iOS and Android penetrating beyond mobile, and there’s a lot happening with respect to how the entire ecosystem is developing. Mobile advancements / investments are now driving the progression of all converged hardware / software. Hardware innovation is also accelerating because of this tailwind. Here are some thoughts on what’s next for the dominant platforms as they stratify in mobile and non-mobile platforms.

1. This recent IDC report shows Android pulling away in mobile share worldwide, but in the USAsymco shows it’s a different story, with Android potentially having peaked and in decline. What will happen when the low cost iPhone 5C comes out? It could really shake things up globally.
2. There’s more to the platform wars than mobile – Android is starting to take off in non-mobile markets in a massive way – Internet of Things, Television (Chromecast), etc. To date Linux has been the dominant OS but Android is now taking some embedded designs which would have run Linux1. The effective decoupling of Android from carriers for non-mobile markets + the richness of tools and the existing developer ecosystem will likely cement Android as the definitive open source OS of the next decade. This will have pluses for Google but also unintended consequences.
3. For non-mobile (plugged in) devices Android + ARM is “good enough” and will win much of the market globally in terms of embedded OS’s (outside of closed / proprietary). Intel will not be able to penetrate unless the device needs a lot of horsepower (e.g. gaming platforms or STB). Why? The entire BOM of Chromecast is $20 and Intel simply can’t price low enough to compete while preserving margin. Meanwhile, Apple will continue to print profits with vertically integrated non-mobile devices (e.g. iTV, iWatch)
4. For mobile devices (battery-operated) it’s a totally different story – mobile computing is not about being good enough overall, it’s about being good enough per watt of power consumption. Integrated HW/SW from Apple will likely retain a performance edge—they will be constantly optimizing multi-core chips for performance per watt and tweaking software like they have on iOS72. Who knows if Apple will be 6 months ahead or 18 months ahead at any given time, but it’s a good bet they will be in this range. Low power needs will drive convergence in design.
5. Samsung is rumored to be switching to an architectural ARM license because their SoC chips need to compete with Apple’s A6/A7 and Qualcomm Krait (both custom designed cores). Outside of Apple and Samsung (who could be 100% vertically integrated soon), Qualcomm will use custom cores to keep pushing performance per watt up so that it wins the remainder of high end OEM sockets. Mediatek will own the mid and low end. This leaves limited room for Broadcom and nVidia. And none for Intel.
6. Fragmentation continues to crop up on Android in weird ways for devs but now is going to the next level—affecting the ecosystem. Tomorrow Apple is no longer just about integrated hardware / software, it’s about an entire integrated ecosystem. The software is built in advance while hardware is designed and spec’ed, developers have your APIs and it all just works together in tandem. To some extent Google can do this with products it controls and distributes like Glass and Chromecast (via OTA updates), but fragmentation will start to hurt Android more and more in smartphone web services which it doesn’t develop.
7. New APIs exposed in iOS7 (iBeacon, AirDrop) for local networking will be huge—these are US-centric use cases in the beginning (some Europe and Japan) and will cement Apple at the high end of the market in the US. When iOS7 launches all APIs are backwards compatible 2 years (iPhone 4S and up). This means basically 95% of Apple users will be able to share files with each other (AirDrop) and make payments using Bluetooth / iBeacon, whereas Android will reach round 2 of its fragmentation battle—at the service layer. Only 30% of people upgrade (or are able to upgrade) to the latest Android flavor 1 year later. Devs won’t build networking / payment services in Android apps for BTE and local WiFi sharing because only a minority of Android phones will support for the next 18 months. There are some aftermarket apps in Google Play but compatibility is a nightmare. Again, just to reiterate—yes Android 4.3 adds low power Bluetooth support, but since only about 30% of devices will be running this in a year it effectively slows adoption by 12-24 months behind iOS.
8. NFC is dead—that’s not the interesting part though, it’s how Apple was able to replicate NFC functionality with Bluetooth 4.0 and WiFi (they’re also using GPS like Bump did for authentication) and how they standardized all of this into iBeacon in iOS7. While supporting it all backward compatibly to iPhone 4S. A two year old phone upgraded with iOS7 will just work…  Bluetooth has arrived – it’s been around forever, but up to now it’s been crappy. Bluetooth LE (also called Bluetooth Smart) changes everything. Connections, pairing, device management etc will finally work 100% of the time, and Bluetooth will be a completely bulletproof, consumer ready, industry leading technology. There will truly be a radio in everything  around us and it’s going to enable incredible experiences in mobile. Apple’s iWatch will work so well with your iPhone out of the gate when it’s launched you will be blown away.
9. It’s not even funny how bad fragmentation will hurt Android and Google in location based sharing and payments apps, short range sharing, and the type of things developers build on top of iBeacon (e.g. payments). Fragmentation doesn’t matter as much when you are the only one person affected, people deal with it. But when your Android phone won’t communicate with others or at POS terminals (tablets / iPads) it will be tough to rationalize. Bluetooth LE in Android is happening now, but fragmentation is a deal killer for devs, and this ensures that state of the art apps around local discovery / wireless will rarely support Android3. It’s already happening—Tile has raised about $3M from 50K backers and there will be no Android support (these are tagging devices running Bluetooth LE that help you find lost keys etc).
10. The next couple years will be one of the more exciting times for local commerce. Sharing and networking services + native bulletproof APIs will finally enable an ecosystem and new use cases and commerce at the point of sale—e.g. Bluetooth powered folios that you pay with using your phone at the table, or loyalty coupons sent to your iPhone (via iBeacon) when you walk into a store. Square pioneered some of these use-cases with its Square Wallet product and now iOS7 standardizes the entire ecosystem. This will really help drive online to offline commerce and attribution tracking. Android will lag here 12-24 months. This means local commerce on Android vs iOS will mirror e-commerce (Android tablet / phone buyers don’t buy as much as iOS). If this plays out at the high end, smartphone sales will remain Apple’s in the US. Worldwide it will be tougher to tell how these use cases develop.

                    Overall it’s clear there is a stratification happening at the low and high ends of the market, as well as in different geographies. And because embedded platforms are now influenced almost solely by mobile technologies, everything is changing. This is more evidence that mobile platforms will not likely follow the patterns of computing platforms past.

 

1. Everything from all of your home wireless routers to the Nest thermostat to the Makerbot 3D printer run embedded Linux. In the future these designs are up for grabs for Android. ↩
2. There are a bunch of new power saving features in iOS7 which required converged hardware/software/service layer development – e.g. in multitasking, new background fetch which shuts down apps and only wakes them during an active networking thread. ↩
3. For some reason fragmentation always elicits the “too many screen sizes” example—but issues such as those can be overcome with responsive design. The real trouble comes in different ways – e.g. a friend I know has been seeing a lifecycle bug crash the keyboards on ALL Samsung phones. It’s not an Android version issue, it crashes the app across revs; it’s something non-standard Samsung is doing to Android itself. These are the types of problems that slow down developers and cause them to reevaluate Android support next time. ↩
   

                          
   
   
   

Smartphone battle: Apple patent win: Samsung banned from selling some phones in U.S.

The Latest battle in the Apple vs Samsung patent war came to a close Friday, with a trade agency ruling Apple the victory.

               Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500) alleged that several Samsung products infringe on its patents. Apple originally filed this lawsuit against Samsung in 2011, and it's just one of dozens of ongoing patent lawsuits currently being waged between the tech titans across the globe.

               In the latest case, the International Trade Comission ruled in favor of Apple. The comission said Samsung products infringed on two Apple patents, one for touchscreen multitouch and another related to headset plug detection. The court ruled Samsung did not infringe on four other patents listed in Apple

s claim.

               The ITC banned Samsung for importing or selling some devices that infringe on the Apple patents. While the devices Apple mentioned in the case are older Samsung products -- like the Galaxy Tab 7 tablet and the Continuum smartphone -- the same technology.

               But Samsung has the chance to release the software updates to work around the infrigement -- for example, customers would still use multitouch the same wau the always did, but Samsung would change how that worked fromt a technical perspective. 

               Tech companies like to bring their cases before the ITC because it's generally easier get that court to ban the sale of patent-violating products, when compared with the traditional patent court system.

               U.S import bans are obviously serious concerns from foreign companies like South Korea-based Samsung. But they're just as problematic for those headquartered in America because most tech products -- including Apple's -- are assembled overseas and must be imported.

               Even if Samsung weren't able to figure out a workaround, there's a chance the ITC's import ban won't stick. Earlier this summer the ITC ruled on Samsung;s own 2011 filing against Apple -- and it ended with the agency issuing an import ban on Apple products. But the ITC is required by law to send such "exclusion orders" to the president for a 60-day review. In an extremely rare move, President Obama vetoed that ITC order just befoer the review period was up.

               This case is one of four Apple-Samsung patent battles currently playing out in U.S. courts, and dozens more are being tried abroad. Billions of dollars are on the line, and the companies are warring to take each other's products off the shelve.

               The good news for consumers is that the trial proceedings in such disputes typically take so long that the products in question are often long obsolete by the time a judge rules.

How to install Ubuntu into a virtual machine (for beginners):

Top internet web browsers. What's the best Web Browser?

                   There are many web browsers that you maybe not even heard of: Avant browser, Deepnet explorer, SeaMonkey, RockMelt, Maxthon, Safari, Opera, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.

                   But the question is: what's the best from these?

                   Well, we're going to answer on that question later. But first, let me tell you how are we going to evaluate these softwares:

1. Launching speed
2. Navigation speed
3. Password manager
4. Autofill
5. Automatic updates
6. Syncronize
7. Spell check
8. Mouse gestures
9. Voice interation
10. Pop-up blocker
11. Private mode
12. Compatibility.

              This is our list, and now we're going to check every browser's capability/score for each task.

No.	Google Chrome	Mozilla Firefox	Internet Explorer	Opera	Safari	Maxthon	Rocketmelt	SeaMonkey	Deepnet Explorer	Avant Browser
Launching speed	4	6.3	4.3	5.1	4.2	8	9.5	5.7	4.1	6.6
Navigation Speed	4.4	5.7	4.5	4.5	3.8	3.2	11.1	3.8	6.3	6.4
Password Manager	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔			✔
Autofill	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔		✔	✔
Automatic Updates	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔		✔	✔
Syncronize	✔	✔	✔	✔		✔
Spell check	✔	✔		✔	✔			✔
Mouse gestures		✔		✔	✔	✔			✔	✔
Voice interaction				✔
Pop-up blocker	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Private mode	✔	✔	✔		✔					✔
Compatibility	Linux,windows 7, windows 8 mac	Linux,windows 7, windows 8, mac	windows 7,windows 8,	Linux,windows 7, windows 8, mac	windows 7, windows 8, mac	windows 7, windows 8	windows 7, windows 8	Linux,windows 7, windows 8, mac	Linux,windows 7	windows 7, windows 8

            As you can see, Google Chrome is the best out there... It's the quickest and the most compatible from all of others. In 2012, Google team lauched a contest to see who can hack this web browser for a prize of 1 million dollars, for who finds the most bugs and who makes this browser crash completely. This is how they get this performance. From my experience, from the very first day I started using Google Chrome, I never switched to other browser.