Sony Xperia Play

I simply don't like it, but to watch few videos, here are the review videos from Engadget:

Tegra 2/3D & Tegra 3/4

Lately, a little bit pronounced has been about the Nvidia's Tegra ARM family, where the most representative product for the first generation was the Microsoft Zune HD, also I had talked about the second generation with the LG Optimus X2, with the leading flag of being the first smartphone with a dual core processor (Tegra 2).

Of course, Nvidia will not sit down waiting for the profits of this chipset, as consequence this are theirs plans for the following generations of Tegra processors:

Do You Want To Create A Game??

If you already have decided, but you don't know where is a good point to start, well here I am going to suggest few links that could help to choose the path for iOS Game Development:

Cocos2D: Games are complex, even the easy ones, that's where Cocos2D is here for help. This is a development framework for 2D games.

Ray Wenderlich Blog: In order to start, first we must know how to use it, that's why in this blog you could find many tutorials. Check the one for Box2D, which is a physics engine.

iOS 4.3 with multitouch gestures

Apple continues with the development of iOS, as well as the improving of the User Interface with interactions that changes the way of managing all the resources inside the device. iOS 4.3 can come up with many innovations, especially given the features that were released a few days ago, specifically something is calling enough attention, that is multitouch gestures.

Of course, this 4.3 has not been public released, nonetheless developers can take hands on with private releases so that Apple can have feedback about the intention to publish those new features. The multitouch gestures are activated using four or five fingers down to return to the main screen, left or right to switch between applications and a move up to show open applications. These gestures have been in the beta of 4.3 for iPad iOS, so the question was whether the iPhone would have this capability.

Here is a video of those running on the iPad:

FastPost: Tech Facts

Exciting Facts of Technology

More than a billion transistors are manufactured... every second.

ENIAC, the first electronic computer, appeared 50 years ago. The original ENIAC was about 80 feet long, weighed 30 tons, had 17,000 tubes. By comparison, a desktop computer today can store a million times more information than an ENIAC, and 50,000 times faster.

From the smallest microprocessor to the biggest mainframe, the average American depends on over 264 computers per day.

Motorola goes for everything

CES 2011 was such a great event to show up what Motorola is preparing for launching along this year.

Between those start products are:

Xoom (Tablet)

• 10.1” HD Screen(1280×800)
• Tegra 2 Dual core Processor (1 GHz)
• HDMI output with 1080P HD video reproduction
• 3G/4G LTE Cellular Networks (Verizon's 4G for 2nd Semester)
• Giroscope, Barometer, Digital Compass, Acelerometer, Light Sensors
• WiFi
• 5MP Behind camera with 720p video record capabilities
• 2MP front-facing camera
• Android 3.0 Honeycomb

Android 3.0 Honeycomb

Sooner than later, Google with its Android will reach the 3.0 version of this mobile operative system, mainly designed for Tablets, which of course, will be on watch along all this year.

• Optimized tablet support with a new user interface
• Three dimensional desktop with redesigned widgets purportedly taken from BumpTop, the 3D desktop acquired by Google in 2010
• Refined multi-tasking
• Google Maps 5 with 3D interactions and offline reliability
• Access to over 3 million Google eBooks
• Browser enhancements including tabbed web pages, form auto-fill, bookmark syncing, and private browsing
• Support for video chat using Google Talk

A video explains everything much better:

Media Universe

Nielsen is an expert consultancy firm for market research, positioning and impact studies in the consumer sector and business. This company occasionally takes very interesting studies in market trends about technology. Few days ago they released a study in graphic form, related to U.S. consumption for various technological media. In particular, addresses the media universe of TV and mobile phones. It is really interesting to analyze this data, which you can see more detail clicking on the image.

Mobile App Store data of 2010

As the end of the 2010, Distimo delivered to us a new report about the news and noteworthy of theirs findings about all mayor mobile app stores on the market.

If you are interested on looking for more information, here is the direct link of the pdf report. Ok let's continue with the contents of the document:

Long Term Evolution or LTE

Experts say: 2011 will be 4G year.

The sentence above would be true just for industrialized countries, with EUA ahead. Of course, in order to support these new features, on the market must be devices that include the necessary hardware of communication, like HTC EVO or Samsung Epic.

Mac App Store: Positive and Negative

One million downloads in just one day. This is the key sentence for the projected success of this new store launched by Apple. To give a view as objective as possible, I found few points to summarize what are the positive and negative aspects of this store: