The Pixtronix display – called PerfectLight – is based on a MEMS-based digital micro shutter that modulates light from an RGB LED backlight. A high switching speed makes it suitable for applications ranging from full-speed video to e-reader operation and Pixtronix claimed that the display offered greater than 170 degree viewing angles, more than 3,000:1 contrast ratio and 24-bit color depth at one quarter of the power consumption of equivalent size and resolution liquid crystal displays.
Full color, video capable, affordable tablets that last four times as long. Sounds good.
It seems to me that Siri is slowly entering this area of ‘nice to show but not actually useful’. I know a quite few people with an iPhone 4S and I asked around a bit and they all almost regretfully acknowledge that they, in fact, don’t really use it anymore, once you get beyond the newness of it all.
I don’t think Boris and his friends are a representative sample.
Agreed.
Android, in fact, has seen quite a jump over the past year, with total shipments reaching 10.5 million units during the last quarter, up from just 3.1 million last year (Apple, by comparison, shipped 15.4 million iPads during Q4, versus the 7.3 million it shipped last year).
Here we go again. Shipments versus sales. Apple sells, the rest of the industry ships, into the channel, into that big black hole called channel inventory. I wouldn’t be surprised if 20% of that 10.5 million units are sitting around collecting dust. Market research companies should start making the distinction, but I don’t see it happening since getting channel inventory numbers or point of sale numbers on a global basis is next to impossible.
The new data shows that the iPad alone would be the largest PC vendor and Apple with iPad and Mac combined is selling 5 million more units (or 30%) than the top PC vendor.
And Apple is getting close to announcing the next iPad.
AT&T sold 9.4 million smartphones in the fourth quarter of 2011, but 7.6 million of which were iPhones, the company reported today. According to those numbers, the iPhone made up a whopping 80 percent of AT&T’s smartphone sales for the quarter, and 66 percent of all postpaid phones sold through AT&T.
When I looked at the data, particularly in the U.S., after Amazon launched the Kindle Fire, there wasn’t an obvious effect, plus or minus.
We don’t take pictures with our cameras. We take them with our hearts and we take them with our minds, and the camera is nothing more than a tool.
Jobs apparently wanted to improve the camera in a way that would change users’ expectations of photography, and he believed Lytro’s light field capture could do just that. At Jobs’ behest, Ng flew out to Palo Alto to meet with Jobs and discuss cameras. Ng then agreed to send Jobs an e-mail detailing multiple ways Lytro could work with Apple on future products.
Mmm, sounds good. Capture (iTunes affiliate link) is a video camera that starts capturing video the moment it’s launched. It’s very helpful when you want to capture that moment you know won’t last too long. What I would like in a Lytro-enabled iPhone is something like Capture: Once launched immediately begin capturing 1080p video at 60fps. And when I’m done I go through the ‘video’ and pick out the photos I want to save, photos I can selectively focus. Of course, the video itself would be selectively focusable too.
Update: PCWorld’s Tim Moynihan asks about licensing to Lytro executive chairman Charles Chi:
If we were to apply the technology in smartphones, that ecosystem is, of course, very complex, with some very large players there. It’s an industry that’s very different and driven based on operational excellence. For us to compete in there, we’d have to be a very different kind of company. So if we were to enter that space, it would definitely be through a partnership and a codevelopment of the technology, and ultimately some kind of licensing with the appropriate partner.
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