Samsung Galaxy S3 vs iPhone 4S Drop Test

If you have about $1700 to throw away and do not know how to waste them in a less constructive as possible, you can always choose to buy an iPhone 4s and a Galaxy S3 and try to see which of the two is destroyed first falling to the ground in various ways. 

The "fashion" of the Drop Test is certainly a bizarre practice, which has no real purpose seen that the result is highly predictable. For the strong of stomach, however, here is how to destroy the two best smartphones of the moment (or at least among the best at the moment).

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Apple continues to evaluate stylus integration on the iPhone and the iPad

The Cupertino company continues to explore the possibility of integrating the capacitive pen in his iDevice as evidenced by two recent patents covering specific technologies of interaction between the stylus and touch screen interface with . We underscore this timely to avoid confusion, exchanging idea really "innovative" (if it was not that it could not be patented) with an idea, that of the capacitive pen, extensively tested and integrated into products already on the market (Galaxy Note). 

USTPO today has granted  two patents to Apple in the U.S.  : one concerns the optical stylus, the other one with haptic support feedback.

The optical version (see picture at the opening), as the name suggests, has a room located at the tip that "reads" the touch screen by detecting pixels with a particular format or other types of markers are invisible to the naked eye.

The second type of stylus patented is equipped with an actuator which generates the vibration and a receiver that receives the commands related to the vibration from the transmitter located in the frame of iPad:

Applications for recognition of the just mentioned patent dates back to 2010, while the publication of the documentation that confirms the assignment of patents occurred in the day today.

Obviously the fact that Apple wants to protect some projects related to the use of the stylus does not confirm that will soon be marketed with the iPhone and iPad accessories described.It is true that the use of the stylus, after a long militancy with old PDA with resistive touch screens, recently returned to the spotlight thanks to convincing revisiting the accessory made by Samsung with the Galaxy Note before and HTC Flyer. Understandable that Apple can control the integration of an accessory in some usage scenarios it may prove very useful.

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INRIX Traffic: The new app for iPhone and iPad that pulls you out of traffic

INRIX, a leading international provider of traffic information and services for motorists, INRIX Traffic announced a new application for iPhone and iPad that helps drivers to better manage their travel and avoid traffic . The application allows, in fact, to reduce the costs caused by traffic jams thanks to the innovative features that allow a considerable saving of time. Among the main functions:

•  The faster ways of work and home: drivers can easily decide which path is the best choice to avoid the daily traffic. INRIX is only able to analyze the impact of accidents, sporting events, concerts and other events have on local traffic, providing the fastest routes and ensuring minimal delay.
• Suggested starting point and time involved: the service of INRIX Traffic Forecast Slider shows drivers with the best options to avoid annoying delays.
• Sharing times of arrival: allows you to send the scheduled arrival time to their contacts in just a few gestures.
• Personalized traffic alerts: Drivers can adjust your application to ensure they are alerted only on certain categories of accidents or events that affect the path of interest.

"With this new application enclose, in the palm of one hand, more than 100 million sources of traffic," said Kevin Foreman, INRIX vice president of Consumer Applications. "With this latest release drivers will never be late."

For the provision of information, INRIX Traffic takes advantage of the same company used by major car manufacturers including Audi, Ford and Toyota. Compared to any other provision of the traffic service, INRIX is able to monitor a larger number of roads and providing the user with more accurate insights useful for saving time and fuel on over one million kilometers of roads, motorways, ring roads and streets towns throughout Europe. INRIX combines Finally, in a unique point of view of the world's largest automotive community with over 100 million drivers a day and hundreds of other sources, succeeds in providing accurate within 3 miles per hour in all driving conditions, 24 24 hours, 7 days on 7 ² .

INRIX Traffic The new application is available now for  iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch on  Apple App Store. To learn more about INRIX Traffic, visit www.inrixtraffic.com.

iPhone with a 4 "display also confirmed by Reuters

Continues to take shape on the rumor to integration of a 4 "display in the new iPhone model . The rumor on the display with a diagonal larger than the current model is not new, but recently the authoritative sources that have reported the rumor multiplied. After the Wall Street Journal is the news agency Reuters back to confirm the integration of a larger screen in the next iPhone.

Reuters refers unequivocally to the 4 " diagonal , while the WSJ had hinted that the diagonal could be more than 4 ". Reuters and the WSJ are then agree on the suppliers of the display which, as mentioned yesterday, will be Korea's LG and Sharp, Japan and the Japanese display. The news agency did not notice missing then renew the prediction on the date of marketing for the device that could coincide with the autumn.

While the presence of a diagonal display 4 "seems to be increasingly questioned, also remains to establish the exact date of presentation and marketing terminal. Reuters sources confirm that the start of production could take place in June, and then gain momentum in August. The market could then take place in September or October. Apple riconfermerebbe the launch of new iPhone model every year (4S iPhone was introduced in October 2011).

Still remain to be evaluated, finally, the aspects of the impact of the longest diagonal ergonomics which represents one of the strengths of the current iPhone especially during the use with one hand. Safe to assume that the house of Cupertino will not be less practical use of the device, making the necessary arrangements in the construction of the shell.

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Facebook for iOS with retinal support and many improvements

Today is an update to the official Facebook app on Apple App Store appeared, bringing along with some bug fixes, new features and support for high-resolution retinal display of the new iPad.

The version 4.1.1 is now bringing the following features and enhancements:

- You can go offline in chat

- The right profile picture appears for everyone
- Your list of friends always includes all your friends
- In sets of photos, your name is displayed correctly
- Photos of people who like Facebook Pages load correctly
- Your friend-request notification only lights up if you have a request
- You can change your language to Czech, Danish, Greek, Indonesian, Malaysian, Norwegian (Bokmal), Portuguese (Portugal) or Thai
- If you've got a new Retina iPad, you'll see a crisp, high resolution interface

The app can now be downloaded from the App Store and is free as always.