Apple is known to be considering the technology of hydrogen fuel cells as a power supply for one of their portable device. With the evergy supply from this hydrogen, the Apple gadget will last for a week on a single battery recharge.
The two Apple patents that are claimed to be found by AppleInsider, gave the information that this hydrogen cell will power the more slim MacBook. The patents are called Fuel Cell System to Power Portable Computing Device and Fuel Cell System Coupled to a Portable Computing Device, was known to have been registered on October 2010. The hydrogen power cell have several advantages, one of them is to enable operation of electronic devices for days and even a week with a single recharge. In the patent description, Apple also explains the public demand for technology companies to explore the renewable source and leave the dependance on power source that are not eco-friendly.
Intel is preparing to introduce their Android smartphone and tablet PC. Those gadgets will be using their mobile processor that called Medfield. In the field of mobile gadgets, Intel have to admit that they are still loosing from ARM which have their chips used in most mobile gadgets today.
That is why Intel is developing the Medfield chip that are Intel Atom-based. Intel has also intensively tested their chips to compete ARM. They claim the Medfield is capable to make browsing access and graphic performance faster with lower power consumption. This smartphone from Intel is using Android 2.3 Gingerbread with the shape that are similar to iPhone. As for the tablet that they are developing is using Android Honeycomb OS. Given the high popularity of tablet PC, its not surprising that Intel want to compete, but they have to fight hard against ARM, the British chips company. The ARM-based processor is found in the majority if Apple and Android devices. These Intel Medfield based smartphone and tablet PC is planned to be introduced in the first quarter of 2012. These gadgets have the real purpose of attracting big vendors to use Intel chips.
The camera quality improvement of the Apple iPhone is being documented by the Camera+ application creator. Herein we can see the comparison of pictures taken with the iPhone camera from generation to generation, the iPhone 2G, 3G, 3Gs, 4, and 4s.
It is Lisa Bettany, the creator of Camera+ application that uses 5 iPhone models to take the picture of the same object. Here we can see the distinctive different levels of clarity and focus. The first generation iPhone is known to have only 2 MP resolution camera, the picture taken is not too focus. This is rather disappointing, since focus is one of the most important factor of a camera. Lucky, Apple increase the camera quality to 3 MP, and then 5 MP, now the latest iPhone 4s is already equipped with 8 MP camera, and with better lens technology. Bettany said that the iPhone 4s camera can defeat even a high-end compact camera, it is clearer and sharper then other previous iPhone models. Although its quality is not equal to dSLR camera yet, but it can be compared with the lines of compact cameras and even beat them at certain point.
Hewlett-Packard (HP) confirms that they will discontinue the manufacture of PCs, tablets and phones, and will focus on producing software. To support their business, the US company also said they have agreed to buy British software company, Autonomy with the value of US$ 10.3.
HP also considers to sell the personal system group, that includes the biggest PC production business in the world and to stop WebOS, the WebOS are used in tablets and smartphones. The announcement is the company’s major step, who in last March expressed their strategy to integrate WebOS into hardware that they will produce. HP have launched Pre smartphone as the competitor for iPhone, and based on Google’s Android OS, however the WebOS doesn’t manage to attract the interest of analysts, operators and retailers. HP decided to discontinue the manufacture of Pre, TouchPad tablets, although in the past year, the company has issued a budget of $1.2 billion to buy the technology. A number of issues said that the head-executive, Leo Apotheker, wants to bring the company focus back to their traditional business producing software that are more profitable. The transition plan reflects on IBM that have discontinued their hardware producing for the last decade.
