Although there’s no confirmed amount of RAM despite previous reports and rumors, Samsung is reportedly providing the CPU for Sony’s PlayStation Vita.
Andriasang reports that Samsung will provide the CPU for Sony’s upcoming handheld gaming platform, the PlayStation Vita. The news first appeared in the electronics industry newspaper The Semiconductor Industry News and reports that the CPU will be manufactured using the 45-nm process.
Previous reports indicated that Sony decided to cut the RAM in half, from 512 MB to 256 MB, in order to reduce the device’s overall price tag. But an unnamed source at Sony Japan claims that isn’t true, that there has been no reduction in the system’s memory. That said, there’s no official word on what the final capacity will be, whether it’s 512 MB or 256 MB. After all, Sony hasn’t officially made the amount known.
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If you’re ever out walking around the streets of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, or Boston and your smartphone is running low on juice, you may want to check out a bus shelter or two.
Ad agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky, has put together a bus shelter advertisement that pushes Vitamin Water. They key difference between this ad and other ones that you may ignore is that this one has a 5V USB port that will allow those nearby to plug in their chargers to power up their iPhones, Androids and other mobile devices.
Of course, the shelter just provides the USB port, so it’s up to the person on-foot to bring his or her own USB cable. Mind you, users should always be careful about putting their plugs into unknown ports — though the bus stop seems to be a fairly safe place to do it.
Nintendo this week announced that it was cutting the price of its newest portable, the 3DS, by a whopping $80. While that certainly addresses the crowd who thinks Nintendo was crazy to charge $250 for the device in the first place, Bloomberg Japan reports that Nintendo will now be taking a loss on each 3DS are sells.
The price of the 3DS is set to drop on August 12 and, according to Bloomberg Japan, that’s the day when Nintendo will start seeing a loss on each unit. Japanese blogger Andriasang reports that, at a press conference in Osaka yesterday, Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata justified the move by saying such moves were necessary in order to improve fiscal performance.
Nintendo has yet to confirm the European price drop for the 3DS, which is scheduled for the same August 12 date as the U.S., but told CVG that it would be slashing the price by about a third. On top of the price cut, Nintendo is offering early adopters who paid full price will be given access to 20 free Famicom (NES) and Game Boy Advance Virtual Console games.
SOURCE via Andriasang
It’s been a long, long time since we first clapped eyes on Acer’s Iconia Tab A100 tablet. The company unveiled the slate last fall, at a special event in NYC, and showed it off again at CES. It was scheduled for launch in May but delayed due to compatibility issues with Honeycomb. Since then, Acer hasn’t exactly been itching to tell us when the 7-inch A100 is going to hit stores.
Today, things changed. Engadget cites an anonymous tipster in reporting that an email sent out to Acer retail partners says the tablet will launch in August (which, in case you hadn’t noticed, starts on Monday). The A100 boasts Nvidia’s Tegra 2 chipset, a 7-inch 1024×600 display, 512MB RAM, 8GB of internal storage and Google’s Android 3.0 (aka Honeycomb) OS.
The A100 joins the A500, Acer’s 10-inch offering that launched in April of this year. Word on the street is that the A100 will retail for $300. The A500 currently retails for $400 on Newegg.
SOURCE via Engadget
It seems a little blunder has seen customers buying Apple’s latest OS X update charged more than once for their purchase. Unfortunately for users stuck on the receiving end of this mistake, neither Apple nor PayPal appears to own up to the mistake.
MacRumors reports that John Christman purchased OS X Lion on July 23, and paid $31.79 after sales tax. His PayPal account was then charged an additional 121 times, for a grand total of $3,878.40. However, when he contacted both Apple and PayPal, each pointed the finger of blame at the other. He’s not alone, either. MacRumors points to a discussion thread on Apple’s support pages that is filled with people that experienced something similar. Read more…
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