Tuesday, July 5, 2011
HP Pavilion dv6z Quad laptop with AMD Llano innards goes on sale starting at $650
Canon restores camera production in Japan, hints at mirrorless model in 2012
There's no question that Canon and Nikon still dominate the interchangeable lens camera (ILC) market, but with Olympus, Panasonic, Sony, and now Pentax all launching compact, inexpensive, mirrorless models in recent years, the legacy manufacturers have some catching up to do. In an interview confirming the restoration of pre-quake production levels in Japan, Canon camera division head Masaya Maeda told Reuters that the company is "considering the technical aspects" of creating a mirrorless camera, following up by saying "we will launch an interesting product next year." The comment doesn't exactly make a mirrorless Canon a sure thing, but it's as solid a commitment as we can expect for now.
One possible concern for Canon is that entry into the new ILC category would cannibalize the company's higher-end point-and-shoot offerings, which likely offer higher margins. But if mirrorless models gain market share over traditional DSLRs and Canon doesn't have its own cam to match, the company could find itself racing to catch up, rather than dominating the ILC category as it has done in the past. Competition from Canon isn't likely to start a price war, since there isn't much elasticity at this point, but it could put pressure on other manufacturers to push the limits with image quality, accessory selection, and perhaps even lead to a future lens standard -- though we're probably more likely to see a Pentax Q that can actually capture DSLR-quality images far before manufacturers decide to adopt a universal lens mount.
Sprint updates Samsung Galaxy Tab to Gingerbread, gets over post-holiday blues
Samsung Galaxy Tab owners in the US have been anxiously waiting for their prized possession to get an update to Honeycomb and its tablet-optimized wonders, only to be warmly greeted by crickets for months. Fortunately, as we reported last week, Sprint's taken the first step in the right direction by bumping its Tab up to Gingerbread and throwing in a few standard maintenance fixes at the same time. The new build, also known as "GINGERBREAD.EF17," will be sent out OTA in stages; the deed should be done for every Tab on the Now Network over the next four days. To see if your tablet is ready to get its refresh on, go into settings, choose "About My Galaxy Tab," and select "system updates." Be sure to set aside five minutes for Gingerbread to download and install on your device, and you'll be good to go. It's no Android 3.1, of course, but at least Sprint's one step ahead of the pack.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Sony PSP Portable Gaming Device Price 2011
Sony PSP is hit the market in this year 2011 in the name of Sony PSP 3004 and the price in India of old PSP in 2011 is dropped. So this Sony PSP is now available at affordable Prices.
* Photos: Carry your favorite pictures with you wherever you go.
* Music: Enjoy your favorite music whenever, wherever you like! It’s easy to save and play your favorite MP3s.
* Network: With Wi-Fi functionality you can go online with your PSP® or communicate directly with other PSP® systems. Play games online, browse the web
* Games: Dazzling widescreen LCD brings gaming to life! Over 135 game titles available including GANGS OF LONDON™, SYPHON FILTER, FIRED UP. LEMMINGS, SUDOKU and more!
* Movies & Video: Watch full-length, feature movies and TV shows – over 430 UMD™ movies and TV shows available including Napoleon Dynamite, The Family Guy, Benchwarmers and the Dave Chappelle show. Or watch videos saved to your Memory Stick Duo™.
* Multiplayer: Choose whom to play, where to play and when to play – two multiplayer modes let you take on the world or just your buddies.
Nokia has officially unveiled its first smartphone running MeeGo - Nokia N9
The CommunicAsia 2011 expo which is currently held in Singapore Nokia has finally officially unveiled its first smartphone running MeeGo (OS version at the time of the premiere was 1.2). Rumors about the preparation of this Nokia gadget appeared more than a year ago.However, there is no point looking into the past when Nokia N9 is finally revealed. And this device really is interesting. The smartphone includes a fully touch-sensitive controls; it does not provide any mechanical buttons except the service keys like the volume control. For this reason, almost the entire front panel of the product has a large 3.9" touch screen with 854 x 480 resolution. It is also an AMOLED display also, so bright and juicy colors are guaranteed.
New Nokia device features a single-chip TI OMAP 3630 processor which is running at 1 GHz. The amount of RAM is 1 GB but the built-in flash memory can be either 16 or 64 GB. Smartphone's main camera provides 8 megapixels pictures and is equipped with an LED flash, autofocus system and Carl Zeiss optics. The camera can record 720p video.
In addition to all of the above it is equipped with new GPS, NFC module, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n, HSDPA and Bluetooth 2.1 adaptors, USB port, standard headphone jack (supports Dolby Headphone technology, and Dolby Digital Plus) and 1450 mAh battery.
Dimensions of Nokia N9 are 116.45 x 61.2 x 12.1 mm and weight is 135 grams. However there is no information on prices, markets and start of sales will be reported later this year. It is likely that by the time this gadget comes out it will be powered by a different version of MeeGo.
E FUN opens a new line of tablet: Nextbook Premium 7
E FUN company which began selling in May Next6 tablet for $ 280, has released the first model of a new series of tablets.
Tablet Nextbook Premium 7 features a 7" screen with resolution of 800x480 pixels, which is combined with a capacitive touch panel. The new gadget is powered by single-chip processor Cortex-A8, running at 1 GHz running Android 2.3 OS. In the future it will be possible to update OS over the wireless network. Nextbook Premium 7 includes a Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n adaptor, 512 MB of RAM and 4 GB of flash memory, SD slot, USB 2.0, built-in speakers and an accelerometer.
Dimensions of Nextbook Premium 7 are 19 x 13 x 1.2 cm. According to the company one battery charge will be enough for four hours of video playback. Browsing will give you about five hours of work without recharging it. And finally if you only listen to the music it will extend the battery life up to six hours of work. E FUN Nextbook Premium 7 will cost customers about $ 300. Sales have already begun.
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Tablet Nextbook Premium 7 features a 7" screen with resolution of 800x480 pixels, which is combined with a capacitive touch panel. The new gadget is powered by single-chip processor Cortex-A8, running at 1 GHz running Android 2.3 OS. In the future it will be possible to update OS over the wireless network. Nextbook Premium 7 includes a Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n adaptor, 512 MB of RAM and 4 GB of flash memory, SD slot, USB 2.0, built-in speakers and an accelerometer.
Dimensions of Nextbook Premium 7 are 19 x 13 x 1.2 cm. According to the company one battery charge will be enough for four hours of video playback. Browsing will give you about five hours of work without recharging it. And finally if you only listen to the music it will extend the battery life up to six hours of work. E FUN Nextbook Premium 7 will cost customers about $ 300. Sales have already begun.
Browser battle: Google Chrome vs Opera, Firefox and IE tests
The ongoing internet browser war welcomes its new contestant: famous internet giant Google just released beta version of its upcoming internet browser, which is called Chrome. In the year 2006, person from Google said that they have no plans for releasing their own browser. Recent events show that this was not true. As said in 33-paged presentation, made like a comic book, Google Chrome is very different from any popular browser. It use WebKit engine (same as Safari's), and it was written from scratch to work flawlessly with complex content like JavaScript and modern web applications. Features that make Chrome distinguish itself from monsters like Mozilla Firefox or Opera are simple but truly amazing. First, every tab is an independed process. This makes memory management a lot easier, eliminates the reasons for memory leakage. Each tab is on its own - if one tab crashes there will be no impact on other tabs. This is very useful feature, because if you are working with many tabs at once, you may lose important information if entire browser goes down. Second, it has revolutionary JavaScript engine, which is made to work even faster than in the fastest browsers. Multithreaded page loading is another key to success, because it is very disturbing to wait with a blank screen for some JavaScripts to load: now all elements are loaded simultaneously, not one after another. In the built-in task manager you can see what tab eats more memory or CPU time than others, and effectively manage your tabs to reduce unneeded memory or CPU usage.
However, let's make an experiment and see, if this new browser from Google is faster than its famous competitors - Opera, Firefox and IE. We installed all of these browsers, and made them through some simple tests to see, which one will be faster. All browsers are freshly installed, without plugins or other add-ons which can influence on their work. The configuration of our test machine is: AMD Athlon x2 64, 2GB RAM, Windows Vista x86.
Launch time
Launch time is not very important parameter, but it influences the overall pleasure of usage. We were very impressed by Chrome launch time, it easily overdone almost every browser except IE, which launch time was almost completely the same. Let's see whole result table:
| IE | 1 sec |
| Firefox | 2 sec |
| Opera | 3 sec |
| Chrome | 1 sec |
JavaScript speed
There already exist some JavaScript browser speed tests, so we tried this one to see, what speed will have new JavaScript engine from Google. The results were interesting and amazing: while Opera handled this test in about 600 milliseconds, Chrome did it in 350! According to the sheet published on that page, Opera results was fastest that any other browser, and Chrome overdone them easily. However, we believe that there are no ultimate tests, and each and every test may have its own winners. We tried to make our own JS test, to be sure that this test is not optimized for special browser. The task was a simple JavaScript below:
var t = new Date().getTime();
for(i = 0; i<10000000; i++){};
var t1 = new Date();.getTime();
document.write(«Time for executing: „+(t1-t)/1000 + sec.);
We launched it from our local server to eliminate the risk of internet connection influencing the results. So, the testing time begins.
Results for 1 page:
Unfortunately, Internet Explorer was out of the competition, because it didn't want to handle our simple script, asking every time to disable page scenarios. Firefox, Chrome and Opera handled it correctly, but in different time. So, the results are:
| Firefox | 3.6 sec |
| Opera | 5.7 sec |
| Chrome | 0.3 sec(!) |
It is amazing how fast Chrome is compared to leading browsers! But let's try to make this task more complex and open 5 instances of this test page to see, how browsers will handle multithreading.
Results for 5 simultaneously started pages:
| Firefox | 18 sec (when JS was executed in one tab, all interface buttons were blocked, so we opened pages one after another) |
| Opera | 27 sec |
| Chrome | 0.3 sec(!!!) |
Almost unbelievable results, which show that Chrome's JavaScript engine is truly advanced and powerful. It made through this simple test many times faster than its competitors, Firefox and Opera. However, tests will never show a real situation, so we wanted to make a simple usage test and see, how efficient will be Chrome's memory management. We opened 5 tabs simultaneously, five heavy loaded pages in each browser. All browsers was tested on one set of pages, so they are all in one conditions.
Memory usage on 5 tabs right from the start:
| IE | 60 MB |
| Firefox | 64.4 MB |
| Opera | 52.2 MB |
| Chrome | 75.4 MB |
At the first glance, Chrome is eating more memory that its rivals, but let's look on this results after 10 minutes of intensive usage:
Memory usage on 5 tabs after 10 min of intensive surfing:
| IE | 96 MB |
| Firefox | 109.8 MB |
| Opera | 96.6 MB |
| Chrome | 84.1 MB |
Results are not such amazing as speed, but they show that Chrome's multithreaded tab handling, while eating more from the start, wins after some intensive usage.
All these test clearly show us, that new browser from Google is truly revolutionary and very interesting. It is now only on Beta stage, so the result may even improve after time. Of course, it lacks some advanced features that Opera or Firefox have, but let's hope that all of them will be implemented in the final release. Google made a wise choice for keeping its browser open-source, so all the improvements done in the Chrome can be used by other developers in their browsers. It is early to tell, will it have bigger popularity that nowadays leaders, but it is clear that this browser will not pass out unnoticed. Developers say that final version will be released for all operating systems, including Linux and MacOS, and even on the final stage it will remain fully open-source.
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