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Quote: Originally Posted by Prof. Peabody Personally, I would expect a new chip from Apple sooner rather than later. The A4 is only a slightly optimised version of the stock item. Given the IP they purchased from PASemi, and the amount of t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum I don't think so! These are battery driven. The solar panels are recharging the batteries. The solar panels are much more efficient in the moon's thin atmosphere! They also have to keep the rover h…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum 1) that Shaw Wu doesn't know about these uses of QNX? 2) that, even if he did know about them, it would have changed his research and conclusions? The whole Wall Street doesn't know anything about …
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism I understand that words can have more than one meaning, but I don?t think it?s possible that you misunderstood the usage of ?mobile? in this context as to suggest the Space Shuttle as a your example of a mobi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum According to Wu, these battery problems have arisen partly because "QNX wasn't originally designed for mobile environments Just what specifc information can you cite that refutes this and supports the…
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Neptec, long time QNX user who did the shuttle visioning system, has just been selected to build the next gen Moon rover. Yea, somehow operating in 200 below and using a small solar power panel --- and QNX knows nothing about power management. h…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum Of the 3, which do you think provides the most objective analysis of QNX/Playbook. My vote goes with Wu! Shaw Wu --- may be the most objective --- but still be wrong if he never understood the subj…
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Quote: Originally Posted by tonton The point is that you never know when or why they're doing it. There is no data security whatsoever once you give permission. And there's no app screening process, so there's no way to know which apps might have…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum Got a link that shows battery performance on a handheld QNX device? Why don't you file a freedom of information act request to DoD and see if they will give you the required information?
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleSauce007 Embedded is not necessarily the same as mobile. Power optimization for a mobile OS goes much much deeper than turning off un-needed resources. It goes all the way down the actual processor instruction…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum Again, you seem to think that QNX has proven capabilities in the area of "mobile power management" -- please share some [current and relevant] links with us so we can validate your assertions. Design …
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That's what I am thinking as well. They haven't done it yet and that's what RIM is saying. Everything has power management --- hell, even server farms likes to pay less electricity. I believe that there are 2 general power management scenario…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism 1) You linked to a “prestigious award” from almost 7 years ago. 2) I don’t care how power friendly QNX is (which has yet to be seen since you won’t list any current handheld devices using QNX), if you have…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Bwinski Hummm... I thought Canadians were actually smarter than average, generally, but it seems like they actually need the same lessons in PLAYBACK of digital recordings or of ANYTHING that gets posted on computers i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Wovel ^^ Deserves some sort of award. Actually, QNX did win an award for power management. http://www.qnx.com/news/pr_832_1.html Since all the drivers are outside the kernel, they can kill them whenever they w…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism I?ll bite. What are these handheld devices that are using QNX so we can make a comparison? I have listed a few on this thread.
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Quote: Originally Posted by jca666us I dismiss qnx's broad background because it's negated by the ball and chain known of as adobe flash. Rim made a huge mistake relying on 3rd party software - adobe air - for their tablets API as it leaves th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nht Ah...except that Apple had cocoa to build on for a native UI SDK. Blackberry has not a whole lot to use on top of QNX other than Air which it doesn't even own. If Nokia didn't own Trolltech/Qt that would have b…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Alfiejr RIM will have to say something about its plans at CES. then we'll know .... Even if it's delayed --- it's delayed for a million other reasons (like how the Playbook was never shown in portrait mode). Shaw W…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anonymouse samab, I think it's great the way you can reason without the constraints of logic. There are plenty of logic behind it. A decade ago, people had been comparing BeOS vs. QNX. Palm bought BeOS that runs o…