Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 & 10

Through the CTIA Wireless in Orlando Samsung used that time to officially show the world the new tablets with Android Honeycomb: Galaxy Tab 8.9 and 10.1, names that refer to the size of their screens.

A very well design work and now, not only pure Honeycomb interface, but it brings an adapted version of his famous TouchWiz interface adapted to Tablet screen size and user interaction, but this is not interesting, what is are the specs:

ASLR

Mobile devices, as computers, time by time concern more about security. Due to unstoppable increase in processing power, classical encryption methods and security procedures are pushed until their protection limits until cracked, of course many other ways to improve known weaknesses are worked out, that's what I would like to talk you about.

ASLR, in other words, Address Space Layout Randomization, which is a security method to rearrange memory addresses at runtime for key data spaces: executables, library pointers, heap, stack, between the most importants pieces of code.

A5 Graphic Horsepower

Thanks to Anandtech, we can read some new features embebed with the new A5 ARM chip shipped with every iPad 2.

The GPU, which Apple is promising up to a 9x increase in performance, is an Imagination Technologies' PowerVR SGX 543MP2 with the following description from wikipedia:

PowerVR SGXMP chips are multi-core variants of the SGX series with some updates. It will be included in the Sony NGP (working title) portable gaming device with the MP4+ Model of the PowerVR SGX543, the only intended difference is the cores, where MP4+ denotes 4 cores with additional functionalities.

Havok goes for Android

Google and all the Open Headset Alliance are cooking everything they have on the frige to improve Android Experience. Now Videogames are going to expect a benefit with the use of this Physics engine. But, what's is the big deal with it??, a Physics Engine is:

Computer software that provides an approximate simulation of certain simple physical systems, such as rigid body dynamics (including collision detection), soft body dynamics, and fluid dynamics, of use in the domains of computer graphics, video games and film.

Android: Growing Stronger

Nielsen published a report about the sales US wide, this is a reported speech of it:

The battle for the hearts and minds of consumer smartphone owners continues to be a heated one according to data just released by The Nielsen Company. When it comes to consumer marketshare by operating system, Android (29%) appears to be pulling ahead of RIM Blackberry (27%) and Apple iOS (27%). But an analysis by manufacturer shows RIM and Apple to be the winners compared to other device makers since they are the only ones creating and selling smartphones with their respective operating systems. HTC follows with 12 percent of consumer smartphone owners having an HTC Android device and 7 percent owning an HTC device running a Microsoft OS. Ten percent of consumer smartphone owners had a Motorola Android device and one percent owned a Motorola device running a Microsoft OS.

iPad 2

Today was "The Day". New iPad 2, it is here. So that's how we can call Apple's redesigned tablet, for many waiting more than a year (me included). Not so good news for those who bought the first version because the iPad 2 leaves it as something historical. By the software side, no great improvements on the operating system is something that will cripple this release.

The Apple's iPad 2 retains the essence of the first model and adds features that were already needed in the last year tablet, including a new design, that makes it thinner and more manageable in hand, cameras (rear and front), also a new dual-core processor to fight against Android's tablets recently shown in the MWC 2011.

Well, let's make our table for the characteristics:

Macbook Pro Early 2011

The last few years, Apple has had an impressive advance as a whole, from Computers, Laptops, Cellphones, Tablets, an even accessories. Now they show the last iteration to the "Pro" series of their laptop branch, the MacBook Pro.

This is not a brand new product, or a renovated design, it is just a hardware update to complain with the lastest Intel Processors (Sandy Bridge) where many technical advances has been implemented into those 32nm chips: Up to 3.8 GHz (software overclock), Up to 8 MB shared L3, Intel Graphics sub-system, HyperThreading, etc.

Natural User Interface

Since I opened my Operative System horizons (first Linux then MacOS) I started to hate Windows and Micro$oft. Linux with its openness and MacOS with its beautifulness made me change all my opinions about what Windows had to offer to me as an user, later as programmer.

On the other hand, one product from Redmond have impressed me a little, the Kinect, due to its motion recognition, image processing and user interface interaction, but do not believe me, watch it yourself:

Android 3.0 SDK and Activations Since Begining

Android is such a promising Mobile Operative System, back guarded by the Open Handset Alliance (T-Mobile, Google, Motorola, Sony, between others) where the SDK of 3.0 Honeycomb will allow developers to create applications using the new API level and publish them in the Android Market.

As you developer can have of this release wil be:

• UI Builder ADT plugin improvements (improvements in zoom, design support, selection of sensitive action bars to manipulate properties of light, among others).

FastPost: From MagnaBox to Motion sensors

The only thing that I would like to add to this infograph is the tear down of touch screens, due to its introduction to the video games market: PSP 2 (NGP), Nintendo DS, iPod touch. Anyways, it is quite interesting to know the origins of the game controllers:

iPad as a Printing Money Machine

Or PMM for the friends. Cases like this had been seen with the Nintendo DS or de Wii, where the ideas behind those devices placed their companies ahead economically speaking (along few other aspects).

Everyone knows that Apple is doing so well lately, between Mac, OSX, iPhone, iPods and the last add on to the list, the iPad. However is difficult to believe in words, much better let's read an infograph with the summary of the PMM statement:

Qualcomm 1, 2 & 4 cores

After reading the news of Tegra 2 and TI Omap, now I will show you what is Qualcomm preparing for this and the next year. So the bet is multifaceted, with new models up to 2.5 Ghz per core and packaging four elements per chip. That would be the king of the jungle, the SnapDragon APQ8064.