Posts Tagged ‘pudding’

Samsung Captivate gets GPS fix, other Galaxy S versions wait patiently

Sammy just hit us up with a brief statement that should make Captivate owners jump clean out of their seats and do a spit take if they're enjoying a cup of joe: "An update to improve the Samsung Captivate's GPS performance is now available. Captivate customers will receive a notification on their device that an update is available and will simply need to download the file to update their phone

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Flash 10.1 might just not be a battery hog on Android

Looking to fight an apparent outbreak of FUD, Adobe's Flash evangelist Mark Doherty has posted some hard numbers (and accompanying video) on the effect Flash 10.1 has on the Nexus One -- and put simply, it really doesn't appear to have much effect at all. To back up his cause, Doherty plays a 17-minute embedded video in the full YouTube site then pops over to Android's built-in battery use utility, which indicates that only 6 percent of the juice has gone to power the browser (of course, leaving the screen on to watch the video is another story altogether). He says that the company's tests suggest they can get about three hours of H.264 playback over WiFi, which is theoretically enough to watch a movie or two; obviously the proof is in the pudding here, but this is a promising sign that these guys have taken battery optimization very, very seriously for this mobile push.

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nourishing obscurity: [ecommerce] face to face in the high street …

Of course, you could ask how I could guarantee that an item would work, just by seeing it in a store and you'd be right but still - if they were physically in the High Street I could more easily get consumer rights fulfilled than if the vendor were ... if I knew the ropes and there was a good consumer watchdog.

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