Elevation Dock, a unique-looking dock for the iPhone which was released just ahead of iPhone 5, became incompatible with the new Lightning connector shortly after release. However, the world of 3D printing was quick to come to its rescue.
With its boatload of apps for iOS devices, Google has clearly made encroachments into Apple’s ecosystem. The question is, how will this battle between the two play out?
The mini tablet market has suddenly sprang to life as mainstream tablet vendors are starting to get into it. After Amazon, Google and Apple, Microsoft is reportedly readying a 7-inch Xbox Surface tablet to compete in this niche tablet space.
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If you are curious on how this operating system from Google looks like and how it works, but you don’t have $250 to spend in order to buy Samsung Chromebook which will be only used to test Chrome OS, this tutorial will teach you how to run it on any computer, laptop or operating system using VirtualBox.
Apple has been known to have fairly large profit margins on its devices. This seems also true in the case of iPad mini. According to a recent iPad mini teardown by IHS, the cost of building the 16GB version of the tablet is $188, whereas Apple sells it for $329.
An Engadget associate editor argues that the low priced Nexus and Kindle devices will hurt the consumers in the long run, and thus it’s a bad strategy to follow. But, consumers, as well as industry figure like Linus Torvalds, seem to feel otherwise.
Power amplifier is a component in smartphones which consumes huge amounts of power, and usually wastes most of it. MIT engineering professors now claim that they have come up with a new power amplifier technology that can cut this power wastage to half.
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Microsoft have decided to merge the process of verifying the compatibility directly in the setup of Windows 8, and with that we need to buy Windows 8 in order to find out if its compatible with our computer. However if you follow this tutorial I will show you how to test your computer and see if its compatible with Windows 8 without buying Windows 8 first.