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RIM Close to the Edge Again: BB10 Delayed, More Jobs Cut!
Google Search Versus Apple’s Siri; Google Wins! (Video)
Lenovo LePhone K860 Features Quad Core Samsung Exynos CPU

RIM Close to the Edge Again: BB10 Delayed, More Jobs Cut!

Posted: 29 Jun 2012 09:45 AM PDT

I guess that the end of June 2012 is the moment when everyone realized that Research in Motion is actually a dying patient, not someone in need of a transplant. The company just announced that they’ll let an extra 5,000 employees ago, added to the 2,000 cuts already announced. And worst of all, the product they took so much pride in over the past month, BB 10 OS will be delayed…

The platform is now scheduled to arrive in 2013, which is a real bummer, since that means that we might go through the entire year of 2012 without a single new RIM phone. This disaster could end with RIM getting bought for pennies, as its value keeps dropping. Samsung, Microsoft and Facebook have all been mentioned as buyers over the past year, but still they won’t sell. Firing 7,000 people in 2 months, changing the management a couple of times lately and not offering even 100k in your app store is a huge problem nowadays.

BB10 OS was the last hope for the Canadian company and now we’ll learn their move during the company’s conference call for earnings, that should happen soon. There are two options here: RIM starts working in other fields, focuses solely on software or they just sell the whole business.

Google Search Versus Apple’s Siri; Google Wins! (Video)

Posted: 29 Jun 2012 01:47 AM PDT

Google I/O 2012 wasn’t all about the new Nexus Tablet, or Nexus Q or even Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. It had some extra novelty that people neglected, like the cool Google Glasses, the arrival of Chrome in a finalized version or the new Google Search with voice input and the features of a real voice assistant. So, is it better than Siri? Let’s find out from a comparison done by Techno Buffalo.

For one thing, the Google Search by voice offers results faster, so it wins the speed duel. Also, its voice output is more human sounding than the robotic Siri, so yet another point scored by Google’s solution. Siri has the advantage of more polished graphics when delivering results such as a basketball player’s height or scores for a recent game. While Google’s assistant may not look fancy, it’s certainly efficient, intuitive, responsive and very fast.

Among the tasks involved in this comparison there was a request to show the weather, the scores for a recent game, a sportsman’s height, the setup of a countdown and a remind to “review the Nexus 7″. In each of these tasks Google Search was faster. So, is Siri dead yet or do you still like it? One thing’s for sure: both these solutions are better than Samsung’s S Voice.

Lenovo LePhone K860 Features Quad Core Samsung Exynos CPU

Posted: 29 Jun 2012 12:34 AM PDT

It appears that Samsung will be lending its quad core Exynos processor not only to the Meizu MX 4 core device, but also to a new Lenovo handset. I’m talking about the Lenovo LePhone K860, that’s pictured below and has the format of a phablet, rather than a phone.

This device was spotted in China and it comes with Android 4.0 ICS, a quad core Exynos CPU at 1.4 GHz and a 5 inch HD display. There’s an 8 megapixel camera at the back with LED flash, a 2 megapixel front cam and 1GB of RAM. There’s also 4GB of ROM on board and this device weighs 185 grams and measures 9.6 mm in thickness. Taking all these dimensions into account, I have to say that this device is slightly smaller than the Samsung Galaxy Note, at 5.3 inches.

Lenovo hopes to sell 18 million smartphones this year and the K860 and their Intel CPU-based effort should help reach that figure. Lenovo LePhone K860 should launch in China in August and I suspect that the price will be better than the one of the Galaxy Note.

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30 June 2012

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