iPad 2 officially announced
The iPad 2 is now officially taking on the challenge of fighting this year's flurry of Android-based tablets and to do that properly it features a new design and quite a few updates over its predecessor. First thing to know is that the iPad 2 will be available in two colors (black and white) right from the get-go, unlike the iPhone 4. Next, it's only 8.8mm thick (as opposed to the 13.4mm iPad), it weights 1.3 pounds (0.2 pounds less than its predecessor) or 590 grams, has front (VGA) and rear (720p) video cameras, a built-in gyroscope (like the iPhone and iPod touch), and is equipped with the new A5 chip. According to Apple, the A5 has dual-cores, the same power consumption as the single-core A4, and delivers 2 times the performance of the A4 and 9 times more graphics power. The tablet's battery life remains at 10 hours, and the touchscreen is still a 9.7-inch (1024 x 768) LED-backlit LCD.
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Microsoft against Internet Explorer 6
Microsoft took the uncharacteristic step of goading users to drop one of its products on Friday. The Windows developer's countdown page (http://ie6countdown.com/) encourages users to stop using Internet Explorer 6 and tracks the progress towards ending its use. It admitted that its attitude towards the web was different in 2001 and that its at times infamous IE6 rendering engine was now a liability. The company is drawing on the most recent Net Applications data and showed that it still a long time to go. While the Americas, Africa, Europe, Russia and the south Pacific were mostly clear, southeast Asia still had many clinging on. China's tendency to cling to aging PCs meant 34.5 percent of Internet Explorer users were still using IE6, but even the Internet-centric and more affluent South Korea still had 24.8 percent.
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Unigine Heaven 2.5 now available
Unigine's Heaven Benchmark, the first test suite to feature DirectX 11 capabilities, has now received a new update that piles up more graphical bling to stress today's top GPUs more than before. With this latest release, version 2.5, Unigine has also introduced a Professional edition of the app. Version 2.5 brings, among the other things, improved support of various GPUs, support of indirect occlusion (SSDO) to simulate real-time global illumination and improved quality of ambient occlusion.
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Samsung admits Galaxy Tab 10.1 is not iPad 2 killer
Samsung has recently admitted that the iPad 2 has made its upcoming Galaxy Tab 10.1 Honeycomb tablet inadequate , and that the company will have to improve some aspects before release. VP of Mobile Lee Don-Joo says the iPad 2's super thin design and pricing model have forced the company to go back and improve the parts that are inadequate on the 10.1. The tablet is a successor to the original Galaxy Tab, and includes a dual-core processor, a 10.1-inch screen and run on the tablet-optimized Android 3.0 Honeycomb.
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ViewSonic 10s First Impressions: A Serious Slate
We received an unpolished version of Viewsonic’s ViewPad 10s a week ago or so. This isn’t the first ViewSonic tablet that we’ve had the chance to encounter, but no less interesting for that. The device is based on NVIDIA’s 1 GHz Tegra 2 chip, which makes this tablet much more powerful than many PCs that we keep in our homes. This is no longer a typical tablet - a small handy device that can play a YouTube video or surf the internet - this ViewPad plays serious films and runs serious games. Our sample had 4 GB of internal memory, which may be increased to 16 GB in the final revision. If that proves to be insufficient, you can always extend the capacity with a microSD card, with a capacity of up to 32 GB, forming a serious storage device.
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