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Samsung make a dual screen Android clamshell phone, but only sell it in China and they want a ridiculous amount of money for it - around $1,000.
I have no idea.
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Sony make a small device the size of a pack of chewing gum. It is a Bluetooth transmitter receiver that can be clipped to a shirt - it has a 3.5 mm socket. It can also be popped in the ear like a traditional BT earpiece. It has a built in FM radio and media player, physical call / media controls and a monochrome display.
It would seem to be a good companion to an overly big phone.
2Nick was quite specific about use cases where the screen is off - I.e standby and during phone calls (where the proximity sensor turns the screen off. The bigger screen of the 8 Plus necessitates a bigger battery for screen-on use cases. So if you don't use the screen much, the bigger battery will equate to longer standby and call time.
As someone who likes sketching, I'd love a stylus tablet with the iPad Mini's size and screen ratio. It'd just fit in my jacket pocket so.
Jony Ive's old mate Marc Newson (now an Apple employee) would do a lot of his preliminary sketches in postcard-sized paper notebooks - the size of the iPad Pro is over kill for some use cases (preliminary sketches on small device before CAD refinement on a mouse machine... though I've mates who drive their 3D modelling with a graphics tablet to avoid RSI)
Jet *engine* parts were not mentioned in the article - only a private jet. Private jets often have customised (suited for one-off or low volume production of parts) interiors. Whilst it is desirable for a bespoke drinks cabinet on a jet to be lightweight, no one dies if the hinge fails.
The fuselage and engines come from the established manufacturers.
Actually, the media transcoding abilities of Intel integrated GPUs has been power efficient. Anandtech consider the latest Intel iGPUs to be good and feature-rich, considering the modest target performance, but suggest the challenge is to see if they can be scaled into more powerful (ie equivalent to mid and high end gaming GPUs). They also note that it is only really Apple that has used Intel's most powerful integrated GPUs.
I've heard much criticism of oversaturated colours on Samsung OLED phones over the years, but this is the first time I've heard of it on iPhones which all bar one are IPS.
But yeah, I'd heard Google had deliberately tuned the Pixel screen towards more natural colours than Samsung traditionally does.
You misread the article. It doesn't rely upon a smartphone. However, a smartphone can be used in addition to the included remote control.
If you have ever tried to enter a search term using a television's remote control (left left left down enter up right right enter down left enter ...) , you appreciate the ease of using a smartphone to enter text instead ( W E S T W O...)
Projected against a sheet strung between a couple of trees, I don't think that full HD is necessarily worthwhile. Also, higher resolution comes at the expense of battery life.
As regards your second point, the article stressed the ease of use and ease of set-up of this specific device, comparing the adjustment of the image shape favourably against pricier models.
Good point, a lot of the target market will already have battery speakers. To regain the convenience of a 'one lump' device, self-adhesive Velcro tape is your friend.
We're beginning to see portable Li-ion battery packs that have the capacity and the oomph to power laptops and similarly hungry devices over USB-C
It's not the only product to sell itself using pictures of attractive people in beautiful surroundings at the 'magic hour'!
Even Birdseye fish fingers have swapped out some bearded salty sea dog for some stubbled young chap who appears to escaped from the cover of a pulp romance paperback.
Sometimes I enjoy the tranquility of camping, watching the mists rise from a small lake at dawn as the birds sing and warmth slowly returns to the land.
Sometimes I go camping and find myself dancing with a dozen women from the neighbouring campfire one of whom has MiniRigs* strapped around her, some under the influence of a substance first synthesized in 1970s California.
C'est la vie.
Either way, no one can deny that the white LED, the product of some high tech gallium alchemy is a far Eastern land, has made camping much easier. Less high tech but still appreciated is the Aeropress coffee device.
* Brand name of a battery-shaped modular speaker system that seems to be popular on the festival circuit.
Most of the appeal of GoT is the scheming and intrigue, lifted from European history. Until the most recent series, the fantasy elements have sat on the periphery, just as our maps once had areas marked 'here be dragons'.
It seems odds to cancel House of Cards on Spacey's account, when his character was fading and Claire Underwood had just risen to the top - though in this age of 45's carnival the show had lost some of its relevance.
Looking forward to another series of Wolf Hall with Mark Rylance, even if we know the ending!
I haven't read it, but I like devil's advocate aspect of it. It was a point that first came to my young awareness in an Isaac Asimov (himself a historian as well as a Sci-fi author and biochemist) short story about using a time machine to learn more about Carthage.
All we know about Carthage is through their enemies the Romans. The Romans razed the city to the ground. According to the Romans, people in Carthage ate babies.
There's an unofficial (and never published in English) *alternative* telling of the events of LOTR. The premise is that history is written by the victors and thus LOTR is propaganda written to justify the actions of the racist and technologically backward men and elves. It's told from the perspective of the enlightened (but ultimately defeated) Easterners.
The Tolkein estate has nixed any English publication (the original is in Russian) but an English translation approved by the author is available online.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Ringbearer
OLED burn-in isn't permanent like CRT burn in of yore.. it can usually be scrubbed eventually.
It's also worth noting that the Reddit user with the dodgy phone hadn't been refused a replacement by Apple - because he hadn't yet tried. Some of the other Reddit users had some slight issues in specific circumstances (off angle, displaying 10% grey) but none as bad as the original poster. Most of them were wondering why he didn't just take it back for a replacement.
The advantages of OLED stem from pixels being lit individually, so the blacks are perfect black, and displaying a small amount of text on a black screen uses very little battery.
LG OLED televisions have mostly solved issues with burn-in by tweaking the control circuitry. The OLED TVs are just beautiful, but cost about 4x as much as an equivalent 4K television set. Their phones, which use a polymer rather than glass substrate, evidently haven't.
The other advantage of OLED is that it allows for flexible displays. Samsung are promising to release a couple of such phones next year.
I'm guessing it's the substrate; LG use a polymer substrate and have screen issues, Samsung phones use a glass substrate. Samsung make the OLED panels for Apple. Whilst I can't immediately find which substrate Apple use, my assumption is that they've gone for the lighter, thinner polymer.
Actually, he came across very well when he appeared on Dragon's Den a few years ago. He'd done his research, and spoke confidently. One of the Dragons said "I love the idea, and I'm very impressed with you" or words to that effect.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/yourbusiness/brightideas/6957082/Dragons-Den-truffle-grower-hopes-to-unearth-profit-after-five-years-cultivation.html
If the badge denotes that the website is accessible to all users it should be in Braille, or at the very least embossed.
I saw a documentary once called Brass Eye about how web scum can feel children through a monitor, so obviously this underused haptic technology does exist. It's just Nonce Sense.
> I assume that most (non-Apple) tablets are Android but this doesn't seem to be called out in the figures.
The article states that the figures include full Windows / Intel machines such as the Surface Pro, though one assumes that far fewer of these have shipped than cheap n cheerful Android tablets (£50 to keep the kids happy with CBeebies). Still, it's a curious decision group such very different machines together in the first place.
You might be over-simplifying Jobs' role - though of course whatever he did do then did work! He didn't wake up with a vision of the iPhone. He had staff suggesting Apple make a phone. He had two teams working in competition, one being an iPod that made phone calls, the other team picking up old Apple touchscreen GUI R&D that was languishing down an old corridor. Jobs really had to be shown that a scroll-wheel driven interface for phones was bad before throwing all the resources at what would become the iPhone.
There's stuff called Silicone Conform Spray, and is used for potting PCBs as an alternative to epoxy resin. According to one 3D printing website I stumbled across (I was looking for a food safe material for making jelly molds) some people also use Conform Spray on personalised 3D printed dildos.