2014年2月9日星期日

BlackBerry 10 now has a native torrent client app

BlackBerry 10 now has a native torrent client app, BitTorque available for $2.99

BlackBerry recently launched the BlackBerry 10 OS and it may have had more apps than any other OS at launch, but it’s still has some big names missing from its catalog.

The good news for all the folks with BB10 is that the OS now has one of those covered, as the first native torrent client called BitTorque has hit the BlackBerry World.

BitTorque for BlackBerry comes with a list of great features and is built to support the latest trends. The app offer several network modes including Wi-Fi only and has the ability to download torrents simultaneously.

The application also allows you to set your own upload and download speed limits and supports tracker-less torrents. BitTorque offers you to share torrents and comes along with a web browser and file manger integrated.

BitTorque for BlackBerry can be downloaded from the official BlackBerry World for $2.99.

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ASUS Transformer Prime takes on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10

ASUS Transformer Prime takes on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and iPad 2 [TABLE]

ASUS today officially unveiled the eagerly awaited Transformer Prime. The first ever tablet to come with a quad-core Tegra 3 chip pushes the boundaries of what could be achieved in performance land and will definitely be the King of the tablet Hill for couple of months.

And with Ice Cream Sandwich promised to come until the end of the year, it gets more and more appealing by the minute. However, is its raw computing power and clever laptop dock enough to win your heart?

As usual, we put the newcomer against its rivals. This time it’s up against the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the all-time bestseller – Apple’s iPad 2. Check out our extensive specs-comparing table to find the answer.

 

ASUS Eee Pad

Transformer Prime

Samsung

Galaxy Tab 10.1
Apple

iPad 2
OS

Android Honeycomb 3.2

(Ice Cream Sandwich in December)

Android Honeycomb 3.1
iOS 4.3
Display
10.1-inch

Super IPS+ LCD
10.1-inch

PLS LCD
9.7-inch

LED-backlit IPS LCD
Resolution
1280 x 800
1280 x 800
1024 x 768
Height
263 mm
256.7 mm
241.2 mm
Width
179 mm
175.3 mm
185.7mm
Thickness
8.3 mm
8.6 mm
8.8 mm
Weight
586 grams
560 grams
601 grams
Processor
1.3GHz quad-core processor

Tegra 3 chipset
1Ghz dual-core

Cortex-A9 processor
1Ghz dual-core

Cortex-A9 processor
Storage
16GB / 32GB
16GB / 32GB / 64GB
16GB / 32GB / 64GB
microSD
Yes
No
No
Front camera
1.2MP
2.0MP
0.3MP VGA
Rear camera
8.0MP Auto-Focus with

LED Flash (1080p)
3.15 MP Auto-Focus with

LED Flash (720p)
0.7MP Fixed-Focus
720p video
Wi-Fi
802.11 a/b/g/n
802.11 a/b/g/n
802.11 a/b/g/n
USB
USB 2.0, Host with adapter
USB 2.0, Host with adapter
USB 2.0 (host with Adapter)
HDMI
HDMI (via adapter)
HDMI (via adapter)
HDMI (via adapter)
Bluetooth
2.1 + A2DP
2.1 + A2DP
2.1 + EDR
Battery
22Wh
25Wh
25Wh
Price

(Wi-Fi only)
$499 (16GB)

$599 (32GB)
$499 (16GB)

$599 (32GB)
$499 (16GB)

$599 (32GB)

$699 (64GB)
Availability
Coming December
Currently available,
Currently available
Sensors
Gyroscope, Accelerometer, Digital Compass, Ambient Light Sensor
Gyroscope, Accelerometer, Digital Compass, Ambient Light Sensor
Gyroscope, Accelerometer, Digital Compass, Ambient Light Sensor
Video codecs
MP4 / DivX / Xvid / H.264 / H.263 / MKV / WMV 9 / MPEG2
MP4 / DivX / Xvid / H.264 / H.263 / MKV / WMV 9 / MPEG2
H.264

As you can see, the Transformer Prime has its weak points, compared to the others, but manages to overcome them with finesse. For starters, it has a smaller battery than its rivals and misses a 64GB storage option. However, it compensates this with the laptop dock, which can provide up to 6 additional hours of battery life and the presence of a microSD card slot.

Another possible setback is it’s later availability scheduled for some time in December. But if you think about it – it will definitely be upgraded to run Ice Cream Sandwich. Is it worth the wait? Shout it off in the comments.

Apple to be the first trillion-dollar company by 2014

Apple to be the first trillion-dollar company by 2014, expects analyst

Apple is on its way to becoming the world’s first company to be worth over a trillion dollars, expects analyst Gene Munster from Piper Jaffray. The firm sees Apple shares reaching the $1,000 mark in the quite near future – by 2014 to be specific.

Munster believes the huge success will be driven by the strong iPhone sales. According to him, at least 70% of all people who owned an iPhone for two years will choose to renew their iPhone ownership.

That suggests 33% of iPhones in a given quarter through 2015 are ‘in the bag’. We believe this is conservative given it expects an average iPhone life of 24 months. We believe demand remains strong for the iPhone 4S based on global store checks and momentum from the 3rd-gen iPad launch.

The analyst expects Apple to sell 33 million iPhones in this quarter, 10% more than his previous prediction, which should be an indication that Apple is heading in the right direction.

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2014年1月6日星期一

A load of Nokia N9 camera and video samples surface

A load of Nokia N9 camera and video samples surface, show potential

Camera and video samples taken with the Nokia N9 MeeGo smartphone are still scarce so understandably we got pretty excited when we stumbled upon a whole bunch of them today.

The first product of the N9 camera surfaced last week, a pretty nice-looking 720p video so we are getting optimistic that Nokia can produce another great cameraphone in the N9.

The bad news is that the new shots are hardly answering many of the questions we had. They are all taken in pretty poor lighting conditions so the handset wasn’t able to show its real potential. Also it’s quite hard to compare low-light performance across different phones, when you don’t know how dark exactly it was.

Still we got the following two shots, which compare the N9 performance to the N8 Nokia cameraphone flagship and we are glad to see that the MeeGo champion does pretty well. The N9 lacks the the large sensor of its sibling, but it seems that the ultra-fast f/2.2 lens is making up for it at least partially.


Nokia N9 ? Nokia N8

The Nokia N9 is not doing too bad compared to its Symbian competitor in terms of video recording as you can see from the following two samples.


Nokia N9 720 camera sample


Nokia N8 720 camera sample

And here go the rest of the Nokia N9 still samples from the Allnokia.ru preview for you to feast your eyes on.


Nokia N9 camera samples

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AT&T to get 1

AT&T to get 1.5GHz HP TouchPad with the wrong kind of 4G soon

HP and AT&T just announced that the US carrier will be getting a pimped up version of the TouchPad in time for the back-to-school season. The AT&T-edition of the webOS slate will have its dual-core CPU clocked at 1.5GHz, rather than the 1.2GHz of the regular one.

The AT&T-bound TouchPad will also be packing 4G connectivity, which will make it the first version of the slate with network data connectivity. Unfortunately, this won’t be an LTE radio, but a 3G one with 21 Mbps HSPA capabilities, but that’s still cool.

We are hoping that the CPU boost will take care of the lagging issues that were widely discussed in the first batch of TouchPad reviews that surfaced. The webOS-slate implements some pretty cool UI design ideas and we’d really want to see it succeed. Not to mention that more competition always leads to better products.

AT&T didn’t comment on the TouchPad pricing, but they promised to announce them before the slate hits the shelves.

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