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- Uniquely Android: Widgetsoid2.x
- Lenovo, ZTE pip Apple in China smartphone share
- [Update: Complete device-by-device breakdown, jury instructions added] Samsung planning various arguments for its appeal
- The LG Optimus G will have an all new True HD IPS+ display, new battery
- Reason to root that Nexus 7 – how about overclocking to 2.0 GHz?
| Uniquely Android: Widgetsoid2.x Posted: 26 Aug 2012 11:34 AM PDT Uniquely Android is a series we started last month to shine the spotlight on those apps that take advantage of the unique capabilities of the platform and provide an experience that you wouldn't find in most other phones. So far, we have featured Plug In Launcher, AirDroid, Shush, Llama, Swiftkey 3 and SwipePad. As some of you might know, I recently upgraded to an HTC One X. And I absolutely love the phone. One major beef I had with it, though, was the lack of settings toggles in the notification bar. I use them a lot, especially the screen brightness, auto-rotate and GPS ones. Fortunately, though, there’s an app for that*. Widgetsoid allows you to set up a toggle for almost any setting, and takes it a few steps further by permitting you to set up shortcuts to contacts, apps and even Tasker tasks. Another neat option is to set up quick music control options in the notification. Heck, the customizability makes me wish every manufacturer skips putting toggles on their own, and preloads Widgetsoid. Gerard Krupa, thank you for suggesting the app in last week’s post.
*I’ve been pretty annoyed at Apple post the Samsung trial verdict, and wanted to use their own trademarked line which is factually incorrect. Unless you happen to use an Android device, though.
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| Lenovo, ZTE pip Apple in China smartphone share Posted: 26 Aug 2012 10:19 AM PDT
It’s always good to see Apple beaten at an actual game: marketshare. And this time around they’ve been handed a defeat by Lenovo and ZTE. Lenovo came all the way from #7 to #2 in the Chinese smartphone marketshare rankings, while ZTE moved up from #4 to #3. Samsung’s got the top-spot with a 19% share of a market that saw 87 million units shipped, which made it the first time more smartphones have been shipped than feature phones in the country. All statistics were provided by IDC.
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| Posted: 26 Aug 2012 09:08 AM PDT
Samsung clearly has no intention of taking the verdict in the Apple lawsuit lying down. With some victories around the world in similar cases, Samsung’s lawyers are adamant they can overturn the charges and are looking at various avenues to point out that the damages awarded are unfair. They also released the following statement:
The first bit obviously stands for a multitude of reasons: not everyone who bought a Samsung device was actually open to an iPhone. While I don’t have numbers any numbers, I believe its reasonable to argue that a significant few bought a Galaxy phone because they wanted Android, not iOS. And the second bit of that statement, regarding Apple’s exclusivity deal with AT&T, seems particularly strong. Until January 8th, 2011, the only network you could get an iPhone on in the US was AT&T. Keeping this in mind, it’s difficult for Apple to claim that the devices Samsung sold to users on other networks hurt their own sales, since the role of the network and it’s coverage plays an important while deciding which device to purchase. Apple was awarded $57 million for the Samsung Prevail (Boost Mobile) and a little over $53 million for the Samsung Mesmerize (US Cellular), with the iPhone still not available on either network. Additionally, the Samsung Transform cost Samsung about a million, though it was made available on Sprint almost a year before the network’s customers could use an iPhone without switching carriers. Apple was also awarded $3.5 million for the Replenish, which was available on Boost and on Sprint for 4-5 months before the iPhone. In total, we’re talking about $115 million in damages with these devices. I’ll try to update this list once I get my hands on with a complete breakdown of damages per device.
Update: The following device-by-device breakdown of damages was provided on Groklaw. I have cancelled out those devices I believe did not compete with iPhone by being available at a network that did not sell the iPhone ever or was released before the iPhone was announced for the network, thereby not competing with it at the time of sales. I kept the entire Samsung Galaxy Tab damages since a breakdown based on networks was not provided. The total provided by Groklaw is also different since he and a few of his readers believe that the courts have it wrong by a few ten thousands (on the lower side).
Total, removing the damages for the above devices……………..$251,873,686. That is $797,549,854 less than the initial damages.
Update 2: The following excerpt is from the jury instructions that can be found here.
[via Talk Android, Damages from Groklaw, Jury Instructions]
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| The LG Optimus G will have an all new True HD IPS+ display, new battery Posted: 26 Aug 2012 07:58 AM PDT
Looks like the all new quad-core Snapdragon S4 won’t the only component to make it’s debut in the LG Optimus G, images of which were leaked yesterday. LG has put out a news release stating that their upcoming flagship (not naming it, but do mention the first quad-core S4 device) will contain some of the latest innovation from the other LG subsidiaries, including a new display and new battery technology. The new “True HD IPS+” display can apparently display a white background at 470 nits brighter than an AMOLED, while still conserving 70% power. LG’s screens are already some of the best in the world (probably the best due to the pentile arrangement of the 720p Super AMOLED screens) so this is something I’m really looking forward to seeing how much better it is. Additionally, using a new “Touch Hybrid Display”, they have eliminated the gap between the glass and the LCD display which would allow them to shave some fat. Not to say phones are fat these days, but you kinda get the point. Something that would definitely interest a lot of people is the new battery, which they would have us believe is 60% more efficient than other similar-sized ones and has a life-span of 800 recharge cycles, more than the 500 for other modern cells. All in all, this phone sounds like a beast. It should be released in September in Korea and in other countries over the next couple of months.
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| Reason to root that Nexus 7 – how about overclocking to 2.0 GHz? Posted: 25 Aug 2012 07:35 PM PDT
We have seen the Nexus tablet being overclocked to 1.64 GHz (tablet is factory clocked to 1.3 GHz) and that quad-core processor was flying, thanks to Trinity Kernel. The Nexus 7′s limit can be pushed farther, though. Clemsyn’s Elite Kernel allows you to overclock your Nexus tabby up to a shrieking 1.8 GHz. If that wasn’t enough, the guys from Android Community have asked the developer for a pre-release version of their upcoming kernel, which allows the tablet’s processor to go up to 2 GHz. Benchmarks are moving up to over 8,000 on quadrant. Now that doesn’t mean much for real-life performance, but you can be sure the device will run faster and games should perform (even) better. Overclocking to 2.0 is causing some issues, so the developer is not making the kernel available just yet. But if you want an extra punch, you can go ahead and get the current kernel straight from the XDA thread. This will allow you to overclock up to 1.8 GHz, which is still nothing to scoff at. Now remember, rooting, ROMing, overclocking and other such actions are considered tampering with your device. Your warranty could be voided and/or harmed, so do not do this unless you know what you are doing, or have done your research. If anything shall happen to your device, you will take full responsibility. With that out of the way, who is down to overclock that Nexus 7? [Via: Android Community]
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