Apple Planning To Make Fuel Cell Powered MacBooks (REPORT)

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iPad 3 Release Date Set For Steve Jobs’ Birthday On February 24 (REPORT)

This new rumor says it all; Apple will release the iPad 3 on February 24, 2012 in honor of Steve Jobs’ birthday. According to Focus Taiwan, Apple’s iPad 3 release date is on Steve Jobs’ birthday anniversary.

The newspaper gets its sources close to Taiwanese makers in Apple’s supply chain:

After the iPhone 4S successfully took the tech market by storm, the iPad3 is widely expected to be Apple’s first hit product to be released next year. Industry sources said the first shipment of the iPad3 could exceed 4 million units. Because it is a new gadget, it is taking time for makers in the supply chain to raise their yield rates. The sources said all OEM and ODM makers have exercised great caution in ensuring the smooth operations of their production lines.

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The Facebook Phone Is Here, Named “Buffy” And Will Run Google’s Android OS (REPORT)

Well, it’s here! AllThingsD reports that the much rumored Facebook Phone is going to be real. The technology website reports that the social-networking company, Facebook, is currently working with a cell phone manufacturer to build its own phone.


The phone will be called Buffy and it’s expected to be launched in the next 12-18 months. According to the report, the phone is “planned to run on a modified version of Android that Facebook has tweaked heavily to deeply integrate its services, as well as to support HTML5 as a platform for applications, according to sources familiar with the project.”
AllThingsD:

After years of considering how to best get into the phone business, Facebook has tapped Taiwanese cellphone maker HTC to build a smartphone that has the social network integrated at the core of its being.

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iPad 3 Displays Shipments Ramping Up For Assembly In January 2012 (REPORT)

DigiTimes reporting that display panel suppliers, Samsung, LG, and Sharp, shipping a total of 3 millions units by the end of this month to Apple for the next-generation iPad which is rumored to be on track for March 2012 launch.

Display panel suppliers mentioned above have reportedly shipped 1 million display units to Apple and will send another 2 millions units by the end of November. The high-resolution display units seem to be dedicated for Apple’s 2012 iPad 3.

TPK Holding and Wintek are getting ready to ship near a million touch modules for the iPad 3 per month starting from some time between now and December, most probably November 2011.

The Korea Times also reported that LG is in talks with Apple to produce a smaller iPad, 7.35-inch, next year. Today’s DigiTimes report confirms this by saying Apple is “reportedly developing a new panel in 7.85-inch size”.

Yesterday, iLounge reported that the iPhone 5 will have aluminum body with 4-inch display, iPad 3 will be slightly thicker than the iPad 2 and the 2012's MacBook Pro will be thinner. Read the full report here.

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Hidden Code In iOS 5 Contains Interesting iPad 3 References (REPORT)

Some interesting information hidden deep within the code of iOS 5 has been uncovered by the folks over at 9to5mac. By code-digging over the last few months – including Siri, several secret features in the new software have been exposed by the site.

The recent find concerns on an unreleased Apple product, codenamed J2. The site considers that this could be the next version of the iPad. Apart from that, the folks also think that this could be the eagerly awaited Retina display-equipped tablet that everyone has been talking about.

The J2 codename matches up with a report from Digitimes which also named a J2 device as Apple’s next tablet. The report mentioned that Apple is currently giving two tablet PC projects to its upstream partners for development codenamed J1 and J2. The major differences according to the sources between the new tablet PCs compared to the previous models will be their size, specifications and technologies.

According to 9to5Mac, J1 and J2 are similar tablets, with J2 being the 3G model. Apple might also be testing the device as referenced in iOS 5 in early betas.

Rumors have been heard that Apple was working on an iPad with a Retina-like screen before, but such evidence have been seen for the first time. But still it seems like Apple and its supply partners are facing problems in producing high resolution displays.

Due to manufacturing limitations, Apple may have to decide between a thinner tablet with a lower screen resolution or an iPad with a Retina display which is slightly thicker.

Which one would be a better choice? Share your thoughts below.

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Galaxy Nexus Outshines iPhone 4S In Most Benchmark Tests (REPORT)

Samsung Galaxy Nexus – the first device to feature Andrioid 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) – can already be found in the UK market despite having not being launched Stateside. The comparisons between it and others on the market have already started.

AnandTech has started off with a few benchmark tests, which scrutinize devices in key areas, scoring points depending on its capabilities, and then compared with competitors on the market. With that being said , Apple’s treasured iPhone 4S and iOS 5 do lack in some areas despite great early sales figures.

Galaxy Nexus has taken the #1 spot after quite a few tests that is highly attributable to Ice Cream Sandwich as opposed to the device itself, which is nothing astronomical despite being competitive in processor speed/GPU.

You can see from the graph the tested browsing speeds of Samsung’s latest offering. Even though the difference might be minor, such everyday tasks must be fluent and easily executed as possible. And from what you see, it out passes the Galaxy S II by a double, which is not certainly a slow device.

However, Galaxy Nexus doesn’t have everything its own way despite dominating on most fronts. iPhone 4S, with its dual-core A5 chip, outshines the Samsung rival in the GPU loading stakes which is very important for smooth game play.

Although the Galaxy Nexus dominates on most fronts, it doesn’t have everything its own way. The iPhone 4S, with its dual-core A5 chip, outdoes its Samsung rival in the GPU loading stakes – pretty important to ensure smooth game play.

But surely, the speed of emails and aforementioned browsing and other essentials should be held highly in regard than potential for gaming. Despite this claim, with smartphones becoming the new hand held console, gaming potential in a smartphone must be just as important as anything else very soon.

The American following would be more eager to get their hands on the device after hearing this news which is running the latest mobile OS from the Big G. Let’s hope the wait isn’t much longer.

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iPad 3 To Sport New Backlight Design For Retina Display (REPORT)

According to DigiTimes, Apple will be modifying its backlight solution for the iPad 3 as the single LED bar isn’t sufficient for the iPad’s retina display. The report says that Apple is considering two alternative backlight solutions for the iPad 3's Retina Display.

First solution is incorporating a single-bar form factor with two LED chips and the other solution uses dual-LED light bars, one on the left and the other on the right side of the display.

From DigiTimes:

LED back-light unit (BLU) vendors have reportedly offered two alternative backlight solutions for Apple to choose from for its next-generation iPad, according to sources at Taiwan-based BLU makers.

With the next-generation iPads expected to adopt LCD panels with resolutions higher than 2048 by 1536, the current single LED light bar designed for the iPad 2 has to be modify in order to maintain or strengthen the brightness of the panels, the sources explained.

Apple will most likely take on the dual LED backlight solution for iPad 3 since the vendors have solved heat dissipation and battery consumption issues.

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Apple Confirms iOS 5.0.1 Have NOT Fixed Battery Issues (REPORT)

After release of iOS 5.0.1 yesterday, many users are still reporting battery issues on their iOS devices after the first update of the iOS 5.0 mobile operating system have been designed particularly to counter the complaints of battery life issues.

AllThingsD has been provided a statement by Apple that it is still investigating the complaints regarding the battery life to find out the root cause of the issue. This was the statement issued by Apple.

The recent iOS software update addressed many of the battery issues that some customers experienced on their iOS 5 devices,” the company said in a statement. “We continue to investigate a few remaining issues.”

Already working on a follow-up update for any problems yet to discover and incorporating fixes for it, Apple is still to commit on any near term iOS update to resolve any unknown additional issues.

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The Leaked iPhone 5 Prototype Was Real After All (REPORT)

iPhone 4S was launched instead of an iPhone 5 back in October. iPhone 5 – was real and was scrapped off only months before iPhone 4S was announced. This source comes from an industry that has been making accurate predictions on Apple Products in the past. One source said that Apple engineers had a plan of announcing the release of iPhone 5 as Apple’s next big announcement prior to 3 months of the release of iPhone 4S.

The leaked prototype had a bigger screen then the current iPhone. Like the Samsung phone, it was 4” diagonal. The new phones were expected to have aluminum backs just like the iPad 2. Just like the ‘liquid metal’ technology used for the iPod shuffles, sources say Apple wanted to use the same technology to make multi colored iPhones. The source played with a prototype which had a messed up screen and color which made the source believe that the new iPhone would have a better screen and a nicer color. The press button was not a physical one and was only used to reboot the device.
The battery life of the prototype sucked and its actual power was disguised by removing its limiter. Engeeniers reported that the new iPhone was expected to have a 10 MP camera. The source also said the iPhone had Siri but it was called ‘Assistant’
Rumor has it that the new iPhone didn’t happen because Steve Jobs was unhappy with the bigger screen because it ‘fragmented’ iPhones. Even though we didn’t get a totally new iPhone, we got the iPhone 4S.
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