Amazon Kindle Fire No True iPad Rival Tweet

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos introduced the long-awaited, heavily anticipated Kindle Fire Sept. 28 in New York. The slate, which uses a custom version of Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system, costs $199.99 and is expected to ship Nov. 15.

This may not surprise many people following the red-hot tablet market Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) created, but Piper Jaffray and other analysts don't believe the Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) Kindle Fire will compete head-to-head with the iPad.

No one was really expecting Amazon to produce a premium consumer electronics device. The e-commerce giant's legacy of low-cost Kindle e-readers put wood behind that theory.

Sure, $199 is an aggressive enough price point to dupe pundits into thinking Amazon deigns to claw at the stout underbelly of Apple, which sells its 16GB iPad 2 for $499, but the product specs show otherwise.

There are major differences between the forthcoming Kindle Fire and Apple's freshest tablet, the iPad 2, that put the Kindle Fire at one end of the market and the iPad 2 at the top.

Apple's iPad 2 has a 9.7-inch screen. The Kindle Fire possesses a 7-inch display. The iPad 2 has front- and rear-facing cameras to enable photo and video shoots, as well as video chats.

The Kindle Fire has no cameras. iPad 2 has a microphone. The Kindle Fire doesn't. iPad 2 may be purchased in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB models. The Kindle Fire comes with 8GB of internal storage, but offers all of the cloud storage a consumer can eat.

Where Apple reigns atop the high end of the tablet market, Amazon has targeted the low-hanging fruit grabbers, and plans to rely on its toy chest of Web-based music, movies, books and storage to woo consumers.

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster noted, "With the Kindle Fire, we believe Amazon is attempting a unique tablet strategy by leveraging a superior cloud-based content delivery system tied with Prime to make money off of a device we believe will sell at a loss."

Of course, his caveat is that because Amazon is relying on a superior cloud-based content system to counter Apple's premium hardware and software choices, the Kindle Fire remains a step or two behind the iPad for the time being. This thinking puts the spotlight back on the rumor that Amazon will soon launch an improved Kindle Fire with a 10-inch screen.

Daring Fireball's John Gruber put it best:

"The iPad takes it on from the high end. It's the best possible device in that price range from the world's best maker of devices. The Kindle Fire takes it on from the low end. The iPad is a credible laptop replacement for many people-and with iCloud and another year or two of hardware improvements, that's going to be true for more and more people. The Kindle Fire is a laptop replacement for almost no one. It's a peripheral, not a second computer-and it's priced accordingly."

Munster remains comfortable with his previous estimate that Amazon will sell 2.5 million Kindle Fires this quarter to close out the year.

Interestingly, Munster noted that his conservative sales estimate is based on Amazon's history with Kindle e-reader shortages that he believes will extend to the Kindle Fire. "If supply were not an issue, we believe Amazon could sell closer to 4 million Kindle Fires in the holiday quarter," he said.

Munster expects the Fire to lead the pack of Android tablets that will take share from the iPad in 2012. He expects the iPad to go from its current 90 percent market share to 60 percent in 2012 as the Kindle Fire and other popular Android slates emerge to entice consumers.

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Apparently, iPhone Smartphone is frail Tweet

California - Corporate SquareTrade has a license to sell spare parts iPhone declare 26 percent of Apple smart phones are released only last for two years.

"The percentage was better than the previous year," said Vince Tseng, Vice President of Marketing SquareTrade. According to the survey company, throughout 2008, more than 25 thousand users who use the iPhone 3G warranty repair devices.

Years ago, the SquareTrade also said 31 percent of all iPhone suffered damage after two years of use.

Damage that normally occurs usually due to carelessness on the iPhone users, such as falling or exposed to water and operating the device in it that did not work, such as a touch screen that "ngadat".

According to Tseng, a smart phone version of Apple's iPhone is the most robust 3GS because very few complaints or damage were reported. Then how about the iPhone 4 which will be sent starting today?

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Apple sold three million iPad in 80 days Tweet

The company Of apple declared about sale three million iPad according to the data for past Monday, only in 80 days after the beginning of sales in the USA. In the following month of sale they will begin in 9 more countries.

Developers created already more than 11000 new applications specially for iPad, it also supports practically all 225 000 applications, accessible in the store Of app Of store, including those that they were acquired earlier for iPhone or iPod of touch.

iPad makes it possible to examine Web sites, to write electronic letters, to [prolistyvat] photograph and to look films in the high resolution, to listen to music, to play, to read the electronic books and much other. All this - on the large screen with the support Of multi-Touch. The thickness of iPad - 1,27 cm, and it weighs 680 grams, while the storage battery of iPad it is capable of working to 10 hours without the recharging.

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iPhone 4 yet is not sold, but it they already dismantled on the spare part Tweet

The representatives of the resource of iFixit reported the fact that they already dismantled the new model of the telephone of the company Of apple and were ready to tell to peace about that which is hidden inside. Apparatus was completely dismantled and examined to the object of available components. The most interesting “discoveries” they are the presence of that doubled in the comparison from iPad by working storage into 512 mb., and also presence of Fm- radio receiver and glass Of gorilla Of glass.

The protective glass with the great probability guarantees not only the absence of scratches in the daily use, but also that the fact that it will not break with the random drop from, for example, the pocket. However, if this nevertheless occurs, then will suffer not only glass-, but also most widely proclaimed Apple the screen Of retina, since it is firmly stuck on the glass together with the sensory panel. And all three components they will require replacements, which naturally increases the cost of repair. However, major portion of the internal space occupies comparatively enormous Li -Ion the storage battery with a capacity of 1420 [mAch]. But, in spite of the imposing dimensions of the element of nourishment, for engineers Apple it was possible to place small, although very effective (if we judge by the quality of the reproducible sound) acoustic module.

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iPhone 4 Unboxing Tweet

I got the iPhone 4 in the mail 2 days early! Here's an unboxing video of it. Follow me on Twitter @gizmosachin!

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Taiwan market: Carriers manage inventory ahead of iPhone 4 launch Tweet

Taiwan-based telecom carriers have been controlling inventory for previous-generation iPhones in anticipation for diminishing demand as consumers delay purchase and await the introduction of the iPhone 4, according to industry sources.

Current iPhone sales in Taiwan are estimated to have decreased 30-50% since the unveiling of the iPhone 4 in early June, said the sources.

Sources from the carriers pointed out that there is still no finalized schedule thus far for the iPhone 4 in Taiwan. Telecom service providers have not received confirmation from Apple regarding launch time-frames, said the sources, adding that all they know is that Apple plans to launch the new device in 18 countries initially in June-July, another 24 in August and 88 more in September.

Despite the decline in sales, carriers in Taiwan said that they have no plans to reduce prices for the iPhone 3GS since inventory levels remain healthy.

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iPhone 4 unboxing videos Tweet

iPhone 4 unboxing videos

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Frost & Of sullivan: iPad lays road to plane-table computers Tweet

The [konsaltingovaya] company Of frost & Of sullivan notes that the output of iPad for the market prepares soil for the appearance of new type of devices - the plane-table computers, which combine in themselves the mobile properties of [smartfonov] and the service lives of laptop computers. These devices, which possess all applications and possibilities of [smartfonov], with the support of wireless networks, can not only enlarge possibilities in the entertainments, but also contribute to the appearance of the new ideas of the application of a device in different branches, including publishing business and tourism.

As far as the model used to the plane-table computers is concerned, is the company Of apple again of [pribegla] to the model of on-line- store Of app Of store, from which to the device it is possible to draw off all possible applications. The circuit of separation of incomes 70/30, used with respect to applications for iPad, is used also in [smatrfonakh]. The competitors of the company Of apple also using this model.

Furthermore, plane-table computers can contribute to the appearance of the new ideas of the use of [gadzheta] in other branches. Appearance on the market for iPad accompanied development by the leading European newspapers of the huge amount of applications for iPad. Its application for the users of the devices of iPad developed French Le Figaro. The Italian newspaper La Of repubblica proposed application by the name “R+”. However, the application of the newspaper Of the Of guardian “Eyewitness” for the first hours after appearance in the network was loaded 90 thousand times. Taking into account the optimistic commentaries of editors, in the [konsaltinogovoy] company that, judging by everything, plane-table computers - these are those devices, which make possible the mobile interactive propagation of newspapers, unconfined by the size of display. Disputes relative to the price model at the same time, however, continue to boil: free advertising or paid model.

European tourist state organizations also plan to use plane-table computers, for example, in the museums, the places of archaelogical excavations and cultural measures. Because of possibilities 3d and dimensions of the display of plane-table computers it will be possible to take possession of the imagination of tourists, and to simultaneously help them to be moved on the ancient cities and the art galleries. Other ideas appear in the hotel business: the devices of iPad will help personnel of hotels to give its guests such services as satellite maps, types of streets and video clips with the image of local sights.

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Flash Player 10.1 Now Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux Tweet

Today I'm thrilled to announce that Adobe Flash Player 10.1 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems. You can get it now. Flash Player 10.1 for Android will be coming later this month - the beta release is currently available in the Android market.

In this post, I'd like to share some of the top new PC-specific features, many of which have mobile implications as well, as I discussed in an earlier blog post about the engineering efforts behind Flash Player 10.1. In this post, I'll cover the work we did to improve performance, power management and video, and discuss the new multi-touch and private browsing capabilities, as well as our work to provide a better Flash Player experience for Mac users.

Performance and Power Management
With Flash Player 10.1 we aligned our development efforts to create a single runtime that works across desktops and devices. Performance and power efficiency was a huge focus since different devices have varying sized processors and memory, and we needed to ensure Flash Player 10.1 would work across all of them. So we made a number of changes to Flash Player that directly translate to faster execution and reduced resource consumption. We achieved some large gains in reducing the amount of memory used at runtime, particularly for bitmap-intensive apps. The ActionScript virtual machine received some targeted optimizations, which directly benefit typed AS3 code. And, our release wouldn't be complete if we didn't improve the garbage collector - where we tuned its behavior to run more efficiently and better amortize its processing over the application's lifetime.

As noted above, the team invested a lot of time in memory optimization. Tabbed browsing is common for PC users, who often have many pages open in their browser at the same time. This is a great timesaver but also uses up lots of RAM. With Flash Player 10.1, we added new functionality that detects when memory is running low. Now, content that runs in Flash Player will automatically shut down when the available memory is running low.

The Flash Player team made a number of improvements to conserve resources, reduce power usage and extend battery life. For example, Flash Player can now automatically reduce the power consumption for content running in the background on a non-visible browser tab to improve performance when users are multitasking. In cases where audio is playing in the background, playback fidelity is maintained.

Some significant changes were made to Flash Player 10.1 to re-architect the system for managing timers and events. Without going into the details here (Tinic Uro will share a post next week that covers this topic more comprehensively), the end result is that apps for Flash Player and Adobe AIR will use significantly less CPU when the content is idle and consume less power in the process. These improvements are most pronounced on Macs.

Video improvements
From hardware decoding to better buffering, p2p video, multicast and http streaming -- there are many improvements in Flash Player 10.1 with regards to web video delivery and playback. For desktops, Flash Player 10.1 introduces hardware-based H.264 video decoding to deliver smooth, high quality video with minimal overhead across supported operating systems. Using available hardware to decode video offloads tasks from the CPU, improving video playback performance, offering smoother frame rates, and reducing system resource utilization.

The addition of HTTP Dynamic Streaming expands the delivery options for high quality live and on-demand media with full adaptive bitrate functionality. This new option enables media publishers to leverage standard HTTP networking infrastructure to help increase capacity, reach, and quality of service for video delivery using standards-based MP4 fragments. Using the Open Source Media Framework, Flash developers can easily leverage this new technology to deploy your video much more quickly. You can download the free tools for HTTP Dynamic Streaming here.

Peer-assisted networking and Multicast is available for Flash Player 10.1 by leveraging Real Time Media Flow Protocol (RTMFP), which enables peers on a network to assist in real time communication and content delivery over the web. Flash Player now supports peer-assisted networking groups, which allows an application to segment its users and send messages and data between members of the group. Application level multicast allows for one (or a few)-to-many streaming of continuous live video streams as well as real-time audio/video chat applications.

Enhanced RTMP streaming and buffering features will also greatly improve the video viewing experience for Flash Player users. Stream reconnect lets Flash Player 10.1 allow an RTMP stream to continue to play through the buffer even if the connection is disrupted, thereby making media experiences more tolerant of short term network failures and enabling uninterrupted video playback. When a connection is re-established, the stream resumes playback. Developers can add stream re-connection logic in ActionScript to re-establish server connection and resume streaming with limited disruption in the video.

New to Flash Player 10.1, Smart seek can easily make using Flash Player a DVR-like experience. Smart seek allows the video viewer to seek within a new "back" buffer so viewers can easily rewind or fast forward video without Flash Player calling back to the server, thus reducing the start time after a seek. Smart seek can speed up seeking performance of streamed videos and enable the creation of slow motion, double time, or "instant replay" experiences for streaming video. With buffered stream catch-up, developers can set a target latency threshold that triggers slightly accelerated video playback to help ensure that live video streaming stays in sync with real time over extended playback periods. Finally, Fast Switch benefits Dynamic Streaming with RTMP to improve switching times between bitrates, reducing the time to receive the best viewing experience for available bandwidth and processing speed. Users no longer need to wait for the buffer to play through, which can result in a faster bitrate transition time and an uninterrupted video playback experience, regardless of bandwidth fluctuations or client computing power.

Multi-touch
Many companies are beginning to rollout touch enabled devices, and not just smartphones, but tablets as well as PCs like the HP Touchsmart. With Flash Player 10.1, you can take advantage of the latest hardware and operating system user interaction capabilities using a new set of ActionScript 3 APIs for multi-touch and native gesture events, creating the ability to interact with multiple objects simultaneously or work with native gestures, such as pinch, scroll, rotate, scale, and two-finger tap. Multi-touch may be one of the most important features for developers and designers creating new content with the Flash Platform, knowing your implementations may be easily extended to devices with touch capabilities. To get started using multi-touch with Flash Player 10.1, check out this ADC resource.

Browser Privacy mode
Flash Player 10.1 abides by the host browser's private browsing mode (where local data and browsing activity are not cached on the local system) providing a consistent private browsing mechanism between SWF and HTML content. Private local shared objects (LSOs) behave like their traditional variants as long as Flash Player is in memory, and LSOs created during private browsing are removed when the user returns to conventional browsing mode. Existing shared objects are preserved but inaccessible until private browsing is turned off.

Mac-specific improvements
Our Mac engineers, with some help from the Safari team, made significant changes to Flash Player for Macs. Here's a partial list of the work we completed for Argo. First and foremost, Flash Player 10.1 is a full-fledged Cocoa app (though legacy Carbon support remains for some browsers that require it). We now leverage Cocoa events, use Cocoa UI for our dialogs, leverage Core Audio for sound, Core Graphics for printing support, and use Core Foundation for bundle-style text.

Mac performance was also an explicit focus for us. One improvement we made is the use of a double-buffered OpenGL context for improved full screen playback efficiency. We also investigated a number of compile-time optimizations using Xcode to improve our overall execution speed of Flash Player on Macs. Rendering performance was improved by our use of Core Animation. For Macs running OS X 10.6 or greater, we leverage the hardware acceleration in Core Animation to dramatically improve the efficiency of displaying web pages which combine both SWF and HTML content. The details and performance implications of the Core Animation work are outlined in Tinic's blog post . The overall performance improvements of Flash Player for Mac users will result in faster video playback, more efficient CPU utilization, and greater battery life.

As you can see, don't let the version number fool you! Flash Player 10.1 is more than a "dot upgrade." It was a monumental undertaking including some significant architectural improvements and a long list of enhancements that will help the more than 3 million Flash designers and developers continue to move web innovation forward. We can't wait to see what you develop. Be sure to check out the new Flash Player 10.1 product pages and ADC content to learn more.

Additionally, today we announced the immediate availability of the Adobe AIR 2 runtime. Starting today, you can download and install the new version at get.adobe.com/air/. Developers can now deploy applications built for AIR 2 on Mac OS, Windows and Linux. Read more about AIR 2 on the AIR Team blog.

Paul Betlem
Flash Player Engineering

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Apple sells 3 million iPads Tweet

CUPERTINO, Calif. – Apple says it has sold 3 million iPads less than three months after the new device went on sale.

The touch-screen tablet computer launched on April 3 in the U.S. and began selling last month in Asia and Europe. Apple Inc. plans to roll out the device in nine more countries in July.

The company has not broken out sales by region.

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Apple Sells Three Million iPads in 80 Days Tweet

CUPERTINO, California—Apple® announced that it sold its three millionth iPad™ yesterday, just 80 days after its introduction in the US. iPad is a revolutionary and magical product that allows users to connect with their apps, content and the Internet in a more intimate, intuitive and fun way than ever before.

“People are loving iPad as it becomes a part of their daily lives,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We’re working hard to get this magical product into the hands of even more people around the world, including those in nine more countries next month.”

Developers have created over 11,000 exciting new apps for iPad that take advantage of its Multi-Touch™ user interface, large screen and high-quality graphics. iPad will run almost all of the more than 225,000 apps on the App Store, including apps already purchased for your iPhone® or iPod touch®.

Users can browse the web, read and send email, enjoy and share photos, watch HD videos, listen to music, play games, read ebooks and much more, all using iPad’s revolutionary Multi-Touch user interface. iPad is 0.5 inches thin and weighs just 1.5 pounds—thinner and lighter than any laptop or netbook—and delivers up to 10 hours of battery life.*

*Battery life depends on device settings, usage and other factors. Actual results vary.

Apple ignited the personal computer revolution with the Apple II, then reinvented the personal computer with the Macintosh. Apple continues to lead the industry with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system, and iLife, iWork and professional applications. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store, has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced its magical iPad which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.

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iBooks for iPhone 3GS Tweet

Chad shows us iBooks for iPhone 3GS

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Apple Biting Nokia Turns Table on Values: Chart of the Day Tweet

While Apple Inc.’s iPhones are flying off shelves, the equity market shows investors are not taking Nokia Oyj’s calls.

The CHART OF THE DAY shows how Apple and Nokia market values have switched places in 10 years. Apple’s $247 billion market value today is about where Nokia’s was in 2000. That’s when Apple’s main product was the Macintosh computer.

The switchover came in 2007, when Apple’s introduction of the iPhone cemented a move into consumer electronics that began with the iPod music player in 2001. The Finnish company went from being 14 times the size of Apple in 2000 to an eighth of it today. Also this week, it became smaller than Waterloo, Ontario- based Research In Motion Ltd., maker of the BlackBerry.

“They have lost the war on the smartphone and the brand image of the group is weak,” said Sebastien Sztabowicz, a Paris-based analyst at Kepler Capital Markets, on Nokia. “Investors are focusing on Apple and the BlackBerry.” He rates Nokia as “reduce.”

Nokia this week cut its outlook for 2010 earnings for a second time this year. While Espoo, Finland-based Nokia, the world’s largest maker of mobile phones, is telling customers to wait for the N8, its new flagship smartphone, demand for the iPhone and Google Inc.’s Android devices is surging.

Nokia, which held on to its smartphone market share of 41 percent in the first quarter thanks to cheaper models and lower prices, has said it plans to ship the new N8 model in the third quarter. The customer base for Cupertino, California-based Apple’s iPhone may top 100 million users next year, helped by the release next week of iPhone 4, says Morgan Stanley.

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iBooks for iPhone Tweet

iBooks for iPhone was released today shortly after iPhone iOS 4 was released to the public. iBooks was previously on the iPad, but was never on the iPhone/iPod Touch before today.

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[Videoobzor] from Mobile-review.com: iOS 4 Tweet

We propose to your attention to video the survey of the new operating system of iOS 4 for the cell phones of iPhone, where the user now became accessible [mnogozadachnost], iBooks, mail, folder, wall-papers. About other changes and additions of the renovated operating system read in the article on the site Mobile-review.com, which will leave on June 23.

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iOS 4 in 10 minutes - TiPb video quick-start guide Tweet

Everything you need to know about the new iOS 4 features in 10 minutes. If you're eager to get iOS 4 up and running.

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iTunes 9.2 and iOS 4 Tweet

Mashable's Christina Warren walks you through iOS 4 and how it interacts with iTunes 9.2

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iPhone 4 pre-orders begin shipping Tweet

EVERYBODY PANIC! Wait. No. What’s that other thing we use to open posts sometimes?

Good news, everyone! Yeah. That’s the one. Good news, everyone! According to roughly 67 billion tips in our inbox, Pre-ordered iPhone 4s have just started hitting delivery trucks around the country!

If you pre-ordered, go ahead — go check if your status has changed. Don’t worry, we’ll wait. Actually, we won’t wait, because this is text and that is impossible.

Before you get too excited: just because your device shipped today and you live eighteen feet from a FedEx depot doesn’t mean that you’re getting your iPhone 4 early. Apple tends to have tricks up their sleeves to keep these things locked down until the big day (sort of like Santa, wherein Santa is Steve Jobs. Sorry, kids, Steve Jobs isn’t real.) With that said, some do slip through the cracks from time to time, so don’t be too ashamed if you’ve got an urge to camp out on your stoop. We’ll be right there with you (except on our own stoop, not yours. You’re cool and all, we just really like our stoop.)

First person to get their pre-order early gets.. uhh.. gets their iPhone 4 before everyone else! Hurray!

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Video taken with iPhone 4 Tweet

Exclusive video taken with Apple iPhone 4.

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[iPad-Game] Bruce Lee Dragon Warrior HD Tweet

Indiagames and Digital Legends present the winner of the People's Choice Award of the 2010 International Mobile Games Awards (IMGA). A masterpiece of the 3D martial arts genre, the game is developed using motion-capture technology and features players fighting in historical locations around the world in an attempt to become the Master of Martial Arts and honor Bruce Lee's legacy.

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