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Comment The race to idle (Score 1) 336

by Dienyddio on Friday April 08, 2011 @10:59AM (#35757632) Attached to: Quad-Core Mobile Chips Wasted On Mobiles?

Quad core processors will primarily provide better battery life. Most designs will feature cores of mixed processing power allowing most of the chip to be fully powered down when idle or just doing baseband event handling.

When there is real work required firing up the rest of the chip will allow for tasks to be completed very quickly. Once complete the processor can again be ramped back down to a low power state.

Comment Re:I guess I'm stupid, too. (Score 1) 1268

by Dienyddio on Friday August 13, 2010 @09:48AM (#33238504) Attached to: US Students Struggle With Understanding of the 'Equal' Sign

solve x in:

4+3+2 = x+2

Use of braces to signify a missing number is alien to me too.

Submission + - Nokia and Intel will merge Maemo and Moblin. (meego.com)

Submitted by

AVee

on Monday February 15, 2010 @09:21AM

AVee writes: "Intel and Nokia just announced a new project called MeeGo. MeeGo is supossed to be the result of merging Maemo and Moblin, bringing together the best pieces of those (already quit similar platforms). Interestingly this means that Intel will be sponsoring a mobile Linux disto which will run on ARM."

Submission + - Nokia to Make GPS Navigation Free on Smartphones (nokia.com)

Submitted by mliu on Thursday January 21, 2010 @10:15AM

mliu writes: In what is sure to be a blow to the already beleaguered stand alone GPS market, Nokia, the global leader in smartphone market share, has released a fully offline-enabled free GPS navigation and mapping application for its Symbian smartphones. Furthermore, the application also includes Lonely Planet and Michelin guides. Unfortunately, the N900, which is beloved by geeks for its Maemo Linux-based operating system, has not seen any of the navigation love so far. With Google's release of Google Navigation for Android smartphones, and now Nokia doing one better and releasing an offline-enabled navigation application, hopefully this is the start of a trend where this becomes an expected component of any smartphone.

Submission + - Nokia sues Apple for patent infringment in iPhone (engadget.com)

Submitted by

AVee

on Thursday October 22, 2009 @11:36AM

AVee writes: "Engadget (amonst many others) report that Nokia is sueing Apple because the iPhone infringes on 10 Nokia patents related to GSM, UTMS and WiFi. The press release doesn't contain much detail, it does state that Apple didn't agree "appropriate terms for Nokia's intellectual property", which sounds like there have been negotiations about those patents."

Submission + - Qt becomes LGPL!

Submitted by Aequo on Wednesday January 14, 2009 @05:43AM

Aequo writes: Qt, the highly polished, well documented, modern GUI toolkit owned by Nokia will be available under the LGPL starting with version 4.5! It was previously only mainly available under the GPL and a commercial license. Selling licenses was an important part of Qt under Trolltech as it was the company's main source of income, but Trolltech is a fruit-fly compared to Nokia, who want to encourage and stimulate the use of Qt Everywhere [PDF]. This is fantastic news for all commercial developers looking to create cross-platform applications without the need to buy a $4950 multi-platform license per developer.

Submission + - Nokia Takes Third Swing at Internet Tablet

Submitted by __aajbyc7391 on Wednesday October 17, 2007 @06:15PM

__aajbyc7391 writes: It looks like Nokia is intent on knocking the ball out of the park with its Linux-powered Internet tablets. Today, the company unveiled the N810, its third attempt at hitting a home run with the concept. The new model adds a slide-out hardware keyboard, and also a built-in GPS receiver and FM transmitter (for in-car listening), among a number of other enhancements (such as a faster CPU and more memory). At this point, the device is positioned as an email and browsing tool, a social networking aid, a GPS, a VoIP phone, and a multimedia player (and streamer, thanks to built-in WiFi). But are the fans jumping out of their seats at this latest swing from mobile phone heavy-hitter Nokia?

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