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The Official Technology Thread

hockeyfan1 said:
Here is an (exclusive?) leaked photo of the new BlackBerry 10 smartphone code-named "London":


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http://www.bgr.com/2012/01/31/blackberry-london-shows-up-again-with-fresher-design/
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That phone looks pretty cool.
 
moon111 said:
I wonder if Windows/Nokia will make any noise in the cellphone world?  Wonder if a RIM/Nokia partnership would work???
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Add Dell into the mix.  A Wall Street insider suggested that Dell buy RIM if it wants to stay afloat..before IBM, HP, and Microsoft may make their moves.

Here is the article:
http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/dell-buy-rim-die-103000685.html
 
I think RIM is making yet another mistake by not have a key pad on their new phone.  Many of their customers who stayed with them through these troubling times have did so for the keyboard. 
 
Bates said:
I think RIM is making yet another mistake by not have a key pad on their new phone.  Many of their customers who stayed with them through these troubling times have did so for the keyboard.
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No offense, but RIM needs to do something. Clearly what they're doing now isn't enough. Can you really justify doing nothing while on a sinking ship? At the very least the company will get in line with what's popular. The physical keyboard is going the way of the Dodo. It's like companies that try to hang on to home phone.
 
The keyboard is the main thing that has kept BB in the hands of grown up business people.  They still have 75 million subscribers to their phone system and it is a very dangerous risk to piss off your current customers for a chance at tech savvy folks who have thus far shown no interest in your device.  They should roll out new "cool" device for the tech folks while also putting the new O/S in a keyboard device to keep their present customers happy.
 
Bates said:
The keyboard is the main thing that has kept BB in the hands of grown up business people.  They still have 75 million subscribers to their phone system and it is a very dangerous risk to piss off your current customers for a chance at tech savvy folks who have thus far shown no interest in your device.  They should roll out new "cool" device for the tech folks while also putting the new O/S in a keyboard device to keep their present customers happy.
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Ah I see. I thought you meant they should stick to keyboards in all their product lines. They don't even have one offering upcoming with a keyboard? Well that's kind of silly. You only need maybe two models to satisfy people, low end and high end. The rest can be the crazy redesigns.
 
Bates said:
The keyboard is the main thing that has kept BB in the hands of grown up business people.  They still have 75 million subscribers to their phone system and it is a very dangerous risk to piss off your current customers for a chance at tech savvy folks who have thus far shown no interest in your device.  They should roll out new "cool" device for the tech folks while also putting the new O/S in a keyboard device to keep their present customers happy.
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I read an article today that said they will be releasing a model with a keyboard.
 
Then that will be OK but I read that the new model will arrive around Feb/Mar of next year with the new keyboard model to follow later in summer/fall.
 
Bates said:
Then that will be OK but I read that the new model will arrive around Feb/Mar of next year with the new keyboard model to follow later in summer/fall.
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The article I read (from about 2 weeks ago) said they're both expected at the same time, with the ambiguous release date of next year.
 
bustaheims said:
Bates said:
Then that will be OK but I read that the new model will arrive around Feb/Mar of next year with the new keyboard model to follow later in summer/fall.
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The article I read (from about 2 weeks ago) said they're both expected at the same time, with the ambiguous release date of next year.
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I've heard and read the same thing in several places.  The keyboard is their bread and butter and launching without a version with one would be insanity. 
 
I hope you are right as I love my BB but it is getting a little long in the tooth.  I don't need anything from my device except email and text with an occasional website.  I also don't want to use a touch screen for everything so want a keyboard.  I would hate to trade mine in and then watch a better version arrive a couple months later.
 
I didn't like touchpad typing, but find having a 4.7″ screen makes it allot easier.  With bigger phones, the keypad isn't as needed as they once were.
 
Thought controlled drone via off the shelf EEG headset...

But a team of researchers at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, has gone a long step further. Using an off-the-shelf Emotiv EEG headset, they?ve devised a brain-machine interface that lets users control an AR.Drone with their thoughts alone.

As you will see in the video below, the interface isn?t exactly seamless mind-control. Its range of motions is also somewhat limited. The user thinks ?right? to fly forward, ?push? to increase altitude, and ?left? to turn clockwise. ?Hard left? initiates takeoff, while clenching teeth causes the drone to descend. The drone?s onboard camera is controlled via blinking--four times rapidly to snap an image of whatever the video feed from the drone is displaying.
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Uranium harvested from seawater gets a boost...

Lingering doubts over the future of US energy security are breathing new life into a technology that has lain dormant for more than a decade.

Researchers at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have more than doubled the amount of uranium that can be extracted from seawater using Japanese technology developed in the late 1990s.

The world's oceans contain around 4.5 billion tons of uranium, enough fuel to power every nuclear plant on the planet for 6,500 years. The results were presented on 21 August at a meeting of the American Chemical Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvannia.

"Our original goal was to double what the Japanese have achieved with absorption capacity," says PNNL chemical oceanographer Gary Gill. "We have surpassed that."

The technology Japanese researchers pioneered uses long mats of braided plastic fibres, embedded with uranium-absorbent amidoxime, to capture trace amounts of uranium in the ocean. The mats are placed 200 metres underwater to soak up uranium before being brought to the surface. They are then washed in an acidic solution that captures the radioactive metal for future refinement.
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WhatIfGodWasALeaf said:
Canada's broadband access a disgrace.

http://gigaom.com/video/netflix-canada-caps-human-rights-violation/
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I had to cancel my Netflix subscription after a month or two because it kept putting me over my month cap.
 
Do you guys have unlimited cell phone data?

It'd be worth using your device as a hotspot in that case.

I'm pretty sure you don't because those as sharp as the users here would have thought of that.
 
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