Scheduled for a July 7 release, Amazon has already started taking pre-orders on the new Kindle DX.
Priced at $379, it is significantly lower than Apple’s iPad ($499. What you give up for $120 is the versatility of the iPad. If you’re not a big fan of consolidating devices though and actually read books for long periods of time like me, the Kindle is still a good option for you.
With the Kindle priced at $189 though, it’s hard for me to justify the almost $200 difference ($190) between the DX and the Kindle just for the benefit of a bigger screen, auto-rotation and the ability to carry 2,000 additional books (The Kindle allows 1,500 while the DX allows 3,500).
Still, reading a newspaper on a 9.7″ screen and a 6″ screen….
zepol
July 3rd, 2010 | Tags: amazon, apple, iPad, kindle | Category: News, Products
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Today, Apple on it’s website posted the real reason for the signal issues a lot of users have been moaning about.
In the letter:
We have discovered the cause of this dramatic drop in bars, and it is both simple and surprising.
Upon investigation, we were stunned to find that the formula we use to calculate how many bars of signal strength to display is totally wrong. Our formula, in many instances, mistakenly displays 2 more bars than it should for a given signal strength. For example, we sometimes display 4 bars when we should be displaying as few as 2 bars. Users observing a drop of several bars when they grip their iPhone in a certain way are most likely in an area with very weak signal strength, but they don’t know it because we are erroneously displaying 4 or 5 bars. Their big drop in bars is because their high bars were never real in the first place.
Unsurprisingly, it’s another issue long-time users have been griping about – AT&T’s weak coverage. I guess we can all look forward to when the IPhone becomes available with Verizon in 2011.
July 2nd, 2010 | Tags: antenna, AT&T, Iphone, issue, signal | Category: News, Products, Technology
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While class action suits have started coming up, an interesting fix to the antenna attenuation issue of the latest IPhone has popped up.
While Apple is selling $29 cases to combat the issue, a cheaper $1 alternative exists with the LiveStrong bracelets.
Update: Apple is issuing a software patch to fix the issue which is really a software problem. Check it out.
July 1st, 2010 | Tags: antenna, fix, Iphone, issue, livestrong | Category: News, Technology
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