Isn’t it amazing how flash memory has grown over the years? Not too dissimilar from your ego, right? Just two years ago SanDisk was only offering 16GB modules in the high end of its iNAND embedded flash range, and today the same company presented a new MLC NAND chip with four times the capacity. The trick in this 64GB 32nm silicon gem is the same-old X3 flash technology (along with undisclosed, but evidently significant, “innovations in flash management”), which allows each cell to store three bits. Go on, OEMs — just shove one of these chips into our next phone and we’ll promise to leave you alone until next February. Wait, did we say “promise?” Try… we meant try.
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SanDisk’s 64GB iNAND embedded flash adds memory girth to handhelds originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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A Labour MP apologises after appearing to describe the Conservatives as “scum-sucking pigs” but insists his comments were tampered with.
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Windows
Mobile 6.5 |
Windows
Mobile 6.5.3
|
Windows Phone
7 Series |
| Windows CE kernel |
5.2 |
5.2 |
6.0 |
| Minimum resolution |
None |
None |
WVGA |
| Skinnable |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Finger friendly |
No |
Barely |
Yes |
| Multitouch |
No |
Basic |
Yes |
| Capacitive touchscreen |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Stylus |
Required |
Optional |
None |
| Touchscreen keyboard |
Unfriendly |
Finger-friendly |
Finger-friendly |
| Required buttons |
Start |
Start |
Start, Back, Search |
| Operating metaphor |
Apps |
Apps |
Task hubs |
| Pane switching |
Tabs |
Swipe |
“Pivot” |
| Browser |
IE Mobile 6 |
IE Mobile 6 |
New, still IE-based |
| Zune integration |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Xbox integration |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Courting enterprise |
Yes |
Yes |
Not yet |
| Social networking |
Apps / Skins |
Apps / Skins |
Built-in |
This is a comparison of core OS functionality and differences, handset skins and carrier tweaks aren’t factored in.
If you couldn’t tell from the chart above, the “differences” between Windows Phone 7 Series and Windows Mobile of yore (last week) are rather hard to quantify: it’s like comparing a bed with an oven. Two very different things, for two very different purposes. Windows Mobile has had a justifiable position in the realm of business, and will probably continue to maintain a legacy install base for some time to come, but it’s pretty safe to say that the days of Windows Mobile as a consumer-facing OS are rapidly coming to an end. Bring on the new!
Windows Phone 7 Series faces off against its Windows Mobile past originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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It’s hard to believe this homegrown home screen actually runs as quickly as the video demo (posted up after the break) shows, but even if it’s just 89.877 percent as fast, we have a good idea we’d be interested. TAT Home is a gesture-powered 3D home screen for Android, and it relies heavily on cascading windows and finger flicks in order to improve your navigational efficiency. Clueless as to what we’re referring to? Jump past the break and mash play, and then surf on over to the source link to sign up for the preview program.
[Thanks, Jesper]
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Well, it looks like anyone hoping that books on Apple’s
iBookstore would be as DRM-free as music is on iTunes may be in for a bit of disappointment, as the
Los Angeles Times is now reporting that Apple will be making its own FairPlay digital rights management available to any book publishers that wish to use it. Of course, that shouldn’t come as a huge surprise considering that Apple still uses FairPlay for movies and TV shows sold on iTunes — not to mention apps — and it even still technically supports it for music as well, although it’s pretty safe to assume Apple won’t be going back down that road anytime soon. For its part, Apple is unsurprisingly staying mum on the matter, but March is fast approaching, so we should know for sure soon enough.
Apple said to be using FairPlay DRM for iBookstore originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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