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To: pyslent who wrote (11941)	10/31/2011 5:32:53 PM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 32692

Korea’s Pantech to Use Kinect-Like Gesture Recognition in Android Phones October 31, 2011 at 9:58 am PT allthingsd.com Korean phone maker Pantech, best known in the U.S. for low-end Android and messaging phones, hopes to make a name for itself by adding gesture recognition a la Microsoft’s Kinect. The technology, which comes from Israel’s eyeSight Mobile Technologies, will be part of a new Vega LTE line of phones due to hit the market in November. Gestures are useful, eyeSight says, at times when touch input is impractical, such as when driving or wearing gloves. Among the functions able to be done via gesture will be answering calls and playing music. A YouTube video shows the technology in action, with a woman — hands covered in batter — using a wave of the hand to answer the phone. VIDEO: youtube.com Microsoft developed its Kinect technology using a mixture of in-house development as well as technology from at least two other Israeli startups — PrimeSense and 3DV Systems.

To: pyslent who wrote (11941)	10/31/2011 5:37:49 PM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 32692

Thanks for posting that so I can order mine early. Clearly Nvidia hasn't got penta-core Kal-El at full production so there will be a limited supply of Kal-El in Nov-Dec.

To: pyslent who wrote (11941)	10/31/2011 8:41:18 PM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 32692

Apple's iPhone 4S runs out of power too soon, users say By Troy Wolverton Posted: 10/31/2011 03:52:31 PM PDT Updated: 10/31/2011 04:40:32 PM PDT mercurynews.com Some owners of Apple's ( AAPL) shiny new iPhone have run into a problem: not enough juice. Hundreds of owners of the iPhone 4S are reporting on Twitter and other social networks that the device is running out of power far sooner than expected and much quicker than Apple promises. Some are saying that even with minimal use, the device can't make it through a workday without needing to be recharged. Various tech blogs have offered suggestions on how to extend the battery life of the phone, including barring particular applications from accessing the phone's location' and shutting off push mail. But some users say those solutions haven't helped. Consumers have posted more than 2,500 comments on an Apple discussion board concerning the battery problem. Tim Billington, an information technology consultant in Reading, England, said he's experienced the battery drain since he got his iPhone on Oct. 17. He's tried various solutions, including rebooting his phone, turning off certain location services and even shutting down Siri, the iPhone 4S hallmark voice command service. But to no avail. "I'm very much frustrated," said Billington. "It's a great phone. You want to be using it, don't you?" The extent of the issue is unknown. Apple has not commented publicly on the problem and company representatives did not respond to requests for comment. But Apple engineers have quietly contacted some users who have complained about the problem, "The Guardian," a U.K. newspaper, reported on Friday. Some users reported online that they were able to address the problem by turning off a feature where the iPhone uses location-based services to figure out what time zone it is in. But others said that hadn't helped. Billington said he tested charging up the phone completely, turning off most services and notifications and closing down all of his apps. He then left the phone untouched overnight. By morning, the phone showed hours of usage and its battery was about 40 percent drained. "The strange thing there is the usage. That's too high when nothing should really be going on," he said. The trouble with the new iPhone -- and Apple's lack of public acknowledgement of it -- is reminiscent of how the company responded to the antenna problem with last year's new model, the iPhone 4. The company at first declined to comment on numerous reports that the iPhone 4 was dropping calls and that its antenna strength could be diminished by simply holding it. Apple officials later acknowledged the problem and provided a free rubber bumper to owners to help solve it.

To: pyslent who wrote (11941)	10/31/2011 8:43:53 PM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 32692

CrApple is dying..... hell, even RIM passed that overpriced over rated POS.... guardian.co.uk

To: pyslent who wrote (11941)	10/31/2011 10:14:55 PM
From: zax	Respond to of 32692

New iPhone Faces Battery Complaints By NICK WINGFIELD October 31, 2011, 6:59 pm bits.blogs.nytimes.com The introduction of a new iPhone wouldn’t be complete without at least one baffling technical problem ticking off customers. The iPhone 4S hasn’t disappointed in that regard. The discussions forums on Apple’s Web site are ablaze with comments from iPhone 4S customers about the poor battery life of the new Apple phone. Many of the people complaining say the battery on the iPhone 4S seems to drain quickly even when they’re not using the device much and even after they have shut down some of the power-hungry features that can affect battery performance. “My iPhone 4s battery life is terrible,” one person on the forums posted. “I’m always experiencing a 10-15% drop per hour. I unplugged my phone this morning at 8:20 and it’s now 12:15 and my battery is on 53%. I have almost everything turned off that you possibly can.” For now, Apple isn’t saying anything about the issue – a spokeswoman didn’t respond to multiple requests for comment – in what has become a typical pattern of silence for the company after customers begin complaining about a technical problem with a new iPhone. Often Apple waits to speak out on issues like this after several days of investigating the matter. In the meantime, iPhone customers are left troubleshooting the problem themselves, coming up with workarounds that may or may not alleviate the problem. The Guardian reported that some iPhone customers had seen improved battery life by shutting off a feature called “Setting Time Zone” buried within the location services menu of iPhone settings. That feature automatically adjusts the time zone settings of an iPhone when a user travels. Turning it off means the clock on users’ phones won’t adjust unless they manually change it. Some people on Apple’s discussion forums still report poor battery life even after making the change. Battery complaints about new iPhones aren’t new, but they have generally failed to grow into controversies as big as the mother of all iPhone blow-ups, known as Antennagate. In that case, the iPhone 4 introduction last year was met with a wave of bad publicity and customer complaints about dropped phone calls and weak wireless signals. Apple eventually conceded that the problems were caused by the design of the iPhone 4’s antenna and offered customers free protective cases to remedy the problem. Apple also said at the time that the antenna problems had been overblown and that only a small portion of its customers complained about them. The company appeared to be vindicated after the gangbuster iPhone 4 sales that followed.