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New iPod touch faster than iPhone 3G
Tom Krazit | Nov 25, 2008
The second-generation iPod touch uses a slightly faster processor than the iPhone 3G.
(Credit: Apple)
Touch Arcade reports that the applications processor inside the second-generation iPod touch unveiled in September is actually running faster than the processor inside the iPhone 3G, which runs at the same speed that the original iPhone and iPod touch used. The new iPod touch's ARM-based processor is running at 532MHz, while the iPhone 3G's processor runs at 412MHz.
A game developer interviewed by Touch Arcade noticed a huge difference in 3D-rendering speed as a result of the speed bump. As we remember fondly from our "megahertz madness" days of the Intel-AMD competition in the PC, processor speed is not the only measure of performance, but it is an important one.
With the arrival of the App Store, Apple has been marketing the latest iPod touch as a gaming device in its latest round of commercials, almost completely ignoring the fact that it's a music and video player as well.
It seems that Apple has room to boost the clock speed of the processor to 620MHz, according to ARM's specifications, but that requires striking a balance between performance and battery life.
Via Apple at CNET News
Palm losing out as iPhone gains corporate fans
Tom Krazit | Nov 21, 2008
On Thursday, ChangeWave released the results of an otherwise dismal survey predicting a tough time ahead for anyone who relies on corporate IT spending for their livelihood. But the news was good for those in the smart phone business not named Palm; smart phone shipments to U.S. corporations are expected to grow even as overall IT spending falls.
And Apple's iPhone is seeing the bulk of the growth, according to ChangeWave. Companies still love Research in Motion's BlackBerry, as we covered earlier this month, but the iPhone is picking up ground. Seventy-eight percent of respondents said they planned to buy BlackBerrys for their employees in the next quarter, compared with 22 percent who plan on buying iPhones and just 5 percent planning on buying a Palm product. That compares August results that had RIM at 79 percent, Apple at 17 percent, and Palm at 6 percent. The results indicate that some companies are buying smart phones from more than one vendor, as last week's report on the iPhone in business noted as a growing trend.
The survey fails to break out results by operating system, which shafts Windows Mobile to some degree. Microsoft has been losing share to the iPhone overall, but smart phones that use Windows Mobile are still the second-most widely used phones inside corporations, according to J.Gold Associates. However, since that operating system is spread across so many different handset makers, no one handset maker is outpacing the three mentioned in the survey.
Palm has been trying to make a comeback with products like the Centro and Treo Pro, but Centro is a consumer-oriented product and the Treo Pro doesn't seem to have set the world afire.
In February 2007, Palm was on the shopping lists of 22 percent of companies surveyed by ChangeWave. Times have changed.
Via CNET News
The triple-flip iCEphone
John Chan | Nov 20, 2008
(Credit: The Medical Phone)
We are filing this under concept for now, but it's an interesting one nonetheless. Thought up by UK-based firm The Medical Phone, the iCEphone is a Windows Mobile handset that flips out--twice. Instead of the common two-panel design, this device has three. The first is the WQVGA touchscreen, the second a QWERTY keypad, and the third featuring even more buttons. The company Web site touts this to be a fully specced-out "micro-notebook" and also a game machine with multiple input methods.
From the name of the company, you would probably have guessed that there's a medical slant to it. This device has software that instructs the user in emergency cases and also gives access to a 24/7 emergency international helpline. According to the product Web site, the iCEphone will be available in Q2 2009. We'll wait and see if that really comes to fruition.
Hands-on with the Motorola AURA
Damian Koh | Nov 20, 2008
(Credit: CNET Asia)
One blog site called it "the phone that thinks it's a watch". We don't care. This is the Motorola we all know that gave the world the iconic StarTac and RAZR. We snucked the AURA into our Labs recently to lust over up close, though we got more fingerprint smudges than we bargained for on the US$2,000 luxury handset. More luscious pictures after the break.
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Mobile messaging grows globally
Marguerite Reardon | Nov 19, 2008
The company reported Tuesday that VeriSign enabled more than 58.3 billion messages per day during the third quarter of 2008. This was up from about 52 billion messages sent during the second quarter of 2008.
On average, this means that VeriSign facilitated the delivery of about 634 million messages per day during the third quarter, compared to 572 million messages a day in the second quarter. In the third quarter of 2007, the company helped move 280 million messages per day across its systems. VeriSign said it expects to enable nearly 200 billion messages during 2008.
The company attributed a lot of this growth in mobile messaging to new uses of the technology, which include messaging for social and political change and marketing. One of the most notable examples of this is how U.S. President-elect Barack Obama used SMS text messaging to send messages to supporters during the campaign, even using the medium to distribute some of the campaign's biggest news like the selection of his vice presidential runningmate Joe Biden.
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