Charbax › Comments

"Android sells more of the expensive and cheap phones. 3 Android phones are sold worldwide for each iPhone sold. The HDTV market is unprofitable cause 95% of consumers are satisfied with the 42" 1080p $299 HDTV available at Costco." - Charbax

"Mp3 market died in 2007. Android dominates in smartphones. Android tablet daily activations has overtaken the ipad. The hdtv market has been unprofitable for half a decade." - Charbax

"Mac is dead. 99% of the activities all those Macbook fanboys do on their super overpriced Macs is to be in the Web browser and do a few very basic word processing, basic photo/video editing (iPhoto and iMovie stuff), such features which can perfectly well run on an ARM Macbook. You are totally completely wrong on power consumption. An ARM Macbook can run 20 hours on a slimmer/lighter battery today. With a Pixel Qi LCD, it can run upwards 50 hours on a battery. Something Intel can never equal because Intel is bloatware. The ARM SoC to be used in the ARM Macbook (similar to iPad3) costs below $50 to build. The motherboard with processor in a current Intel Macbook Air costs over $500 to build. It's a fact ARM Laptop can easily run on 10x less power than Intel Laptop when the Pixel Qi LCD is used. What Apple is going to do is promote an official Keyboard Dock for the iPad3, and optimize a few apps such as Safari, Office stuff, iPhoto, iMovie and few other to work smoothly in Laptop mode..." - Charbax

"I've been playing 720p video for nearly 4 years on my Archos devices which I always have a 7" tablet in my jacket pocket. My MTK6516 Android phone is perfect to use as a Dual-SIM phone, for VOIP, SIP, Skype, basic few apps, alarms, calendar stuff, buying bus tickets, checking movie showtimes, authenticator etc." - Charbax

"US people can buy a $69 Android phone without contract in every Fry's, Best Buy, Staples, WalMart, it's simply not true Americans are forced to signup for a $3000 contract!!!! Compare the price of the phone and never consider the contract phones without the full 2 year contract price!" - Charbax

"Galaxy Nexus is not $300, it's $700!! How can you link the Galaxy Nexus as a $300 phone? I got my Mediatek MTK6516 Android phone for $87 unlocked 9 months ago, no contract, I only need a $8/month pre-paid SIM card for VOIP/SIP/Skype/IM and 1GB data/month. I use it as my main phone for the past 9 months and it works great! http://armdevices.net/2011/04/..." - Charbax

"OMAP4460 1.5Ghz is the newest and best technology. It's faster than Tegra3 for 99% of apps in the Google Marketplace. It's similar on video, games (those things are done on video and graphics co-processors anyway), it's about as fast for web browsing in 99% of normal web page loading. There are very few cases of extreme multi-tasking where a quad-core may perform better. That's it. It's simply not true to say Archos doesn't use the best and latest technology. Archos has always provided the best and latest technology that can be available also for a reasonable price. The Archos 101 G9 Turbo 1.5Ghz definitely has similar if not faster performance than the Asus Transformer Prime, yet Archos sells it nearly at half the price. And arguably the Archos has plenty better features such as the integrated 3G stick compartment, full sized and Micro-USB Host connectors, Kick-stand which is a lot more practical than having to buy a $150 keyboard dock, any $5 USB or Bluetooth keyboard works fine." - Charbax

"Maybe they've got a 1.8Ghz OMAP4470 dual-core version with a larger Super AMOLED HD screen at 4.65" or 5.3". Depends what Samsung can provide them." - Charbax

"Tegra3 is a 1.3Ghz (probably slightly overclocked/overbenchmarked 1.2Ghz) quad-core processor. It's impossible to manufacture Quad-core at the same frequency as dual-core. That is why TI, Qualcomm, even Samsung have chosen to use Dual-core at higher frequencies instead of going with a lower frequency quad-core. Quad-core does have its advantages, one being it can in theory run some of the same stuff using a bit less power. But performance is not the advantage, not for 95% of the activities people do on a tablet and smartphone. Archos has always been the first to use the newest and fastest Texas Instruments processors and Archos has always provided those at the best price for value. TI has always been and always is on the bleeding edge of ARM technology. Tegra3 is an excellent processor, but the marketing speak about it being twice as fast as dual-core is just plain wrong. You can always engineer benchmarks that may show it. But if you put the device in the hands of 99% of consumers..." - Charbax

"It has a higher clock speed 1.5Ghz vs 1.3Ghz and it may have a faster memory bandwidth. Most Android apps and most normal Android activities can't get much if any more performance out of having more cores to use." - Charbax

"Don't believe Asus pricing before it actually ships at the promised price. Asus announced netbooks for $199 in 2007 and still today their cheapest netbooks are $299. Asus announced a $499 Transformer Prime and the one that has been mostly in stock is only the $599 one and with the keyboard dock it's upwards $800 with taxes." - Charbax

"Archos 70b Internet Tablet with ICS is $199 MSRP. Arnova 7b G2 with ICS is $149 MSRP." - Charbax

"The Help is OK Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is pretty bad, I hate hearing them speak English with Sweedish accents, go watch the original Sweedish film, it's better.Thor, I skipped watching half way, but maybe I'll retry" - Charbax

"Christoph Waltz is in the Three Musketeers.." - Charbax

"Critics generally love Drive, except for the Oscars, it's gotten 32 awards and 51 nominations thus far.." - Charbax

"You're putting Woody Allen and Lars Von Trier in the same category?" - Charbax

"Only morons don't like Drive" - Charbax

"Drive's the best film of the year I think he meant.." - Charbax

"Yeah Microsoft will build the Dalvik Virtual Machine themselves for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, like RIM did. They'd be ridiculous not to do it." - Charbax

"Cross-platform sounds great! I expect Windows 8 support Android apps, Android support Metro apps, all platforms support each other, the apps have to be re-thought for touch, cloud, set-top-box, e-readers, smartphone sizes etc anyway." - Charbax

"Wow awesome! Congratulations!" - Charbax

"There'll be native video editors too. This thread isn't under the Premiere/Ulead video suggestion" - Charbax

"Very well, that is exactly what Microsoft needs to do. Re-think the desktop, ban bloatware for ever, demand fully optimized apps that hook into the deepest hardware acceleration, GPU used to the max. That is exactly what they need." - Charbax

"The best video editing will be cloud assisted. You upload the raw files to web editor and you just get thumbnails streamed down to your laptop. Rendering and encoding is near-instant done by thousands of grid servers, publishing is instant and worldwide in HD. Also it's the only way to enable collaborative (and "user generated") cloud based video editing which I think is going to be one of the biggest innovations in video editing. Basically the future of video editing is http://youtube.com/editor and with a bit more HTML5 offline caching and a few more of the advanced features all the professionals need." - Charbax

"Are you trying to tell me that there won't be an FTP client, there won't be third party photo editors similar to GIMP (or simpler) on Windows 8 for ARM? Are you trying to tell me there won't be any third party open office like alternative to MS Office? I don't care if this or that open source projects wants to whine about it. It's normal that VLC does not work on ARM devices, VLC on x86 uses the CPU while video playback on ARM usually is not done on the CPU. I don't care if the FTP software is named Filezilla or some other project, as long as there is an app that does FTP function. And I don't care if my net meter is based on the old Net Meter source code or some other way to monitor bandwidth usage. And I don't actually care much if the open Office alternative to MS Office looks like the slow OpenOffice or like the snappier AbiWord of some type, most consumers tend to prefer web based Office alternatives by now like Google Docs." - Charbax

"Is it a surprise to anyone that it isn't easy to port from Windows x86 to ARM? No it's not. It doesn't change from the fact Windows ARM is going to have most of the Desktop apps, first party and third party that most consumers need. Most of the rest can still function just fine over remote desktopping." - Charbax

"There'll be third party desktop apps in Windows store. That is the core of it. If it requires more or less work for the few app developers like Google, Adobe, Filezilla, NetMeter, Open-source app developers etc, that is not the issue. I am quite sure this text by Microsoft on Windows 8 on ARM does not say Google can't provide a full Desktop version of Chrome for WOA, that Adobe cannot provide some full Desktop versions of Photoshop/Illustrator/Premiere on WOA, that small apps like Filezilla, Net Meter etc can't be made to work as Desktop apps on WOA, that most of the most popular open source free Windows software can't be ported for WOA in Desktop mode. I am sure we will see it. And yes, everything will have to be installed through the Windows App Store. That only makes sense, that has always been the promise, that is what any analyst and Microsoft has been saying since the beginning. If it's harder to recompile x86 apps to ARM on Windows than it is on Ubuntu, that is because of the..." - Charbax

"anandtech is quite the Intel x86 fanboy website. Don't believe everything they write." - Charbax

"ZDnet is the site that spread the false rumor that Windows 8 on ARM would not have any desktop mode at all, those people don't know what they are talking about. The paragraph is clearly about Metro being the format that works on all Windows 8 devices, it's not a paragraph about third party Windows 8 Desktop apps availability or not." - Charbax

"Don't leave out stuff from the quote that doesn't suit your interpretation of what is said: "Code that uses only system or OS services from WinRT can be used within an app and distributed through the Windows Store for both WOA and x86/64." That sentence confirms Metro apps are distributed in Windows store and work on both ARM and x86. That does in no way talk about Desktop apps availability." - Charbax