The rush to have 4G for its own sake has cost Android phone designers in the actual happiness their devices, JD Power found in its first phone satisfaction study of 2012. Those who had LTE devices, almost all of them Android, gave noticeably lower scores to battery life, at 6.1 out of 10 on average versus 6.7 for those on 3G. The added speed ended up itself compounding the problem, since they used their devices more often and cut the battery life short that much sooner... Read more...
JD Power: poor LTE battery hurting Android rating vs. iPhone
The rush to have 4G for its own sake has cost Android phone designers in the actual happiness their devices, JD Power found in its first phone satisfaction study of 2012. Those who had LTE devices, almost all of them Android, gave noticeably lower scores to battery life, at 6.1 out of 10 on average versus 6.7 for those on 3G. Read more...
JD Power: poor LTE battery hurting Android rating vs. iPhone
The rush to have 4G for its own sake has cost Android phone designers in the actual happiness their devices, JD Power found in its first phone satisfaction study of 2012. Those who had LTE devices, almost all of them Android, gave noticeably lower scores to battery life, at 6.1 out of 10 on average versus 6.7 for those on 3G. The added speed ended up itself compounding the problem, since they used their devices more often and cut the battery life short that much sooner... Read more...
Samsung may be single display supplier for new iPad
Samsung is currently the only display supplier for the third-generation iPad, claims Vinita Jakhanwal, a senior manager with research firm IHS iSuppli. Read more...
OnLive Desktop Plus impressions: A Windows 7 desktop on your iPad, now with a browser (Digital Trends)
Digital Trends - In January, video game streaming company OnLive decided to enter the remote desktop space with “OnLive Desktop.� The service allows anyone with an iPad (and soon Android or any other computing platform) to access a Windows 7 desktop in the cloud and use it much like any computer. It comes with 2GB of cloud storage and access to Microsoft Office applications like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. All for free Read more...
Office for iPad reportedly leaked, near ready
Microsoft's long-rumored Office for iPad got a much more tangible piece of evidence after a leak Tuesday purported to show the suite itself. As shown by The Daily, Office would be an all-encompassing single app with Excel, PowerPoint, and Word. The interface would recall OneNote but bring in more of the Metro interface language from Windows Phone and Windows 8... Read more...
VLC 2.0 goes live with new Mac UI, Blu-ray, pro video
VideoLAN on Saturday posted one of its largest updates yet in the finished version of VLC 2.0. The new media player sees the most interface changes on the Mac, where it now has a single-window interface as well as tighter visual and technical integration with Lion. Read more...
Mountain Lion may drop support for older Intel Macs
Appleís surprise announcement that its next update to OS X dubbed Mountain Lion will come as soon as this summer, has also yielded an additional surprise. As with the shift from Leopard to Snow Leopard, Apple will cut off users of older Intel Macs from its next-generation OS -- for Leopard, IBM PowerPC-based Macs missed out Read more...
Canon intros six PowerShot A cameras with smart IS, more
Canon picked Tuesday to bring out no less than six new PowerShot A-series cameras to boost its entry level. At the top, the A4000 IS and A3400 IS each have firsts: the A4000 IS has a long 8X zoom, while the similar-resolution A3400 has a 5X zoom but is the first A-series with a touchscreen that can be used to focus or take the shot Read more...
Canon unveils much slimmer PowerShot D20 rugged camera
Canon's turn at launches for the CP+ camera show were headlined by a major rethink of its rugged camera. Read more...