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Quote: Originally Posted by DocNo42 The only company that was even reasonably close at positioning themselves to compete with Apple was HP with their acquisition of Palm and WebOS. But it's becoming more apparent that Mark Hurd was the driving f…
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Motorola was pretty much forced to launch a bunch of half-finished products --- because they were splitting the company into 2 in the stock market. The split would have never taken place if those launches weren't announced.
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Tegra 2 has always an iffy processor from the beginning --- because it doesn't have NEON and the GPU was always questionable. The Snapdragons have their own version of NEON (with double the bitrate than the NEON), but their GPU has always been …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Futuristic This is the thing with Apple lately: they're more concerned with usability and performance than the rest of the industry's "mine is bigger than yours" approach to spec comparisons. The fact that Apple can ma…
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Quote: Originally Posted by irnchriz Your argument is completely pointless. Who cares how they do it, they give you 10 hours of battery life in a device waaaay thinner than the competition. If it's just a bigger battery then why can't the compet…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sennen samab's too focussed upon saying how "average" Apple is to address the facts. What facts are those? It is a combination of an under-reported battery size, task-switching instead of real multi-tasking, no fla…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Jonamac Firstly, why does it matter? It really doesn't matter. There is nothing wrong being average.
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But it may not be a "better than average" battery --- Apple just may have just given you a bigger average battery.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Jonamac Why would anyone sue someone for giving them more than they advertised? Your mentality is baffling. There is nothing baffling. Apple found a LEGAL yet misleading way to advertise their supposed battery life…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TBell I suspect Apple does this for competitive reasons. Apple isn't going to brag about how it manages to get the battery life it gets. That is one of Apple's competitive advantages. Further, consumers aren't meant to…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Jonamac The batteries in a device like the iPad are an order of magnitude larger. Comparing them to an AA battery in a remote is like comparing a lawnmower to a Humvee. Apple use a power rating that is perfectly unders…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Logisticaldron If only there was a way to determine mAh from Watts and Voltage. Hopefully one day we'll possess the math to figure it out. Oh, and let's not forget that Apple is the company that lists realistic batt…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Jonamac 1) That is a page pertaining to notebooks, not the iPad. 2) It says the battery uses advanced battery chemistry; it does not state that they use any proprietary Apple chemistry. 3) Apple hasn't reported t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Logisticaldron It?s there power management that they designed more efficiency, not the battery cell composition themselves. No, Apple advertises their advanced battery chemistry. http://www.apple.com/batteries/no…
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Quote: Originally Posted by tipoo A whole 0.2 wH? iFixit also states this might just be rounding up. In any case, not really article worthy...Or worthy of me writing this. Touché Or the news worthy thing may be that the famed secret Apple …
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Quote: Originally Posted by A Y Amp-hours is important because batteries are, in theory, constant voltage sources, so they need to supply the current necessary to maintain their output voltage. The Amp-hour rating gives you a way to compare that…
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Quote: Originally Posted by kotatsu I'm curious to find out if the CPU is Cortex-A9 based, or is just an old dual core Cortex-A8. There is NO such thing as a dual core Cortex A8. ARM never designed a multi-core version of Cortex A8. Quote:…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Hiro OK. [i LOVE doing this!!!] I know you don't want to do that math, but everyone else can see the pattern pretty easily. No the BS is claiming Apple may charge for iOS 5. But now I will call BS on your personal…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil 1. It's not done. 2. Developers have had zero time to make apps for it. Seriously, think about things before you say them. I did think about it --- that's why I originally said that it looks like Ap…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Hiro Yes, to the best of my observation it appears they all were shut down during the photo-snapping, not just a simple extra reporting app being started. I cannot believe you think an OS plus those 6 GUI based apps w…