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Batterygate? Apple’s iPad “Fibbing” battery charger

March 23rd, 2012 · Comments Off

Dr. Raymond Soneira, president of DisplayMate, the world’s leading display and display tuning company, is best known for his graphics expertise, but he also knows his way around electrical engineering and physics. During his extensive testing of the iPad 3’s display Soneira also found “that the batteries do not actually reach full charge when 100% [...]

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Apple’s new iPad display is better than most HDTVs

March 19th, 2012 · Comments Off

Some people think that Apple’s new iPad Retina Display is a game-changer. Others say that, yes it is better but its “isn’t quite like the jaw-dropping jump,” they’d been led to expect. So, which is it? h Dr, Raymond Soneira, president of DisplayMate, the world’s leading display and display tuning company, has put the next-generation [...]

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The new iPad’s great but what’s wrong with a good, inexpensive Android tablet?

March 7th, 2012 · Comments Off

Don’t get me wrong. I think the new iPad sounds wonderful. The retina screen, which Ray Soneria predicted, looks great. Even if its A5X processor isn’t as fast as Apple claims, it’s still amazing fast. And, while I really doubt that the iPad’s battery will really last as long as they claim it will, even [...]

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What will Apple’s iPad 3 ‘retina display’ mean for you?

February 20th, 2012 · Comments Off

The rumors appear to be true. The next model Apple iPad 3 will have a ‘retina display’ display. MacRumors has their hands on what appears to be the iPad 3’s display component With four-times the pixels of the earlier iPad displays, the reputed iPad 3, screen with its 2048×1536 resolution, will have twice the resolution [...]

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Apple’s Android nightmare: Google’s Motorola purchase gets EU OK

February 13th, 2012 · Comments Off

There are two major kinds of patent lawsuits. On the one side, there are the patent trolls, like Eolas making fundamental Web technology claims . Here, the idea is to use flimsy patents to collect hundreds of millions from the businesses that actually use ideas to make a product or service. Then, there’s what Apple [...]

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