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Please Fix the iPhone Site Bugs Jobs About Your Biggest iPhone Complaints

Have problems with the iPhone? Who doesn’t? Sure, it’s an amazing piece of gadgetry, but countless bugs and glitches have plagued the Apple product from the beginning. Now networking company Fullsix has launched a site dedicated to gripers called “Please Fix the iPhone.” The site gets owners to vote on the most pressing issues plaguing their iPhones, in an attempt to get Jobs and friends to work on them faster. There’s even a version of the site specifically made for the mobile’s browser, so that you can complain about your iPhone on your iPhone.

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Google open-sources Android

Making good on a promise it made at the very beginning, Google has today announced that the source code underpinning its Android platform for mobile devices is available for free to anyone who wants a crack at it. The code is being provided through the newly-announced Android Open Source Project, which will give the public at large the opportunity to make contributions to the platform’s all-important core — a first for a mobile operating system with true mass-market appeal. Theoretically, the move should position Android to benefit from a fairly democratic, speedy evolution, and it’ll also give anyone with a few spare chips lying around the chance to build a smartphone of their own without shelling out a dime in licensing fees. We’re really looking forward to seeing Android pop up on a whole bunch of devices for which it was never intended — but we have to admit, in a sick, totally deranged sort of way, we’re looking forward to some truly deranged individual porting Windows Mobile to the G1, too.

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Apple special Event 14 Oct 2008

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New Macbook Pro Announced! Two NVIDIA GPUs, large glass touchpad

There you go, now it’s official. The new Macbook has been announced and many of the rumors have turned out to be true. It features an LED backlit display, an NVIDIA chipset with an integrated GPU, a Mini-Display graphics connector that can drive a 30-inch display (2560×1600).

The Macbook Pro also has a discrete GPU (9600GT) and you can choose the Integrated GeForce 9400 to save power (5 hours) or the 9600GT to get the maximum performance (4 hours battery). If software allows, both GPUs could also work simultaneously (physics + graphics). This might be a future update. The Macbook pro is shipping today starting from $2000.

New construction technique (unibody enclosure)
0.95″ thick – Starting from an aluminum “Brick” that weighs 2.5 lbs, only 0.5 lbs is left when all the carving and punching is done. It has a stronger, more rigid, internal frame (derived from the Macbook Air design).

NVIDIA Chipset
A single chip that controls the motherboard and integrates a GeForce Series 9 graphics processor (GPU). The GPU has 16 cores and is about 5x faster than its Intel Integrated counterpart. (a high-end GPU has 256 cores). MultiTouch Glass Trackpad 39% larger tracking area. It also has programmable software buttons only, which means that you can have as many buttons as software developers (or Apple) want. It will also accept 4-finger gestures .
Ports

* FW800
* Two USB
* Gb Ethernet
* Magsafe (power)
* Audio I/O (Digital + Analog)

Apple MacBook aluminum

the White Macbook price goes down to $999 and a next-generation has just been announced. It is very close to the Macbook Pro (details here), but doesn’t feature the discrete GPU.
Highlights

* Starts at $1300
* Available today!
* 13.3″, 2.0Ghz Core Duo, 2GB RAM, 160GB HDD.
* 5 hrs of battery life
* Same glass trackpad than the Macbook Pro

Macbook family
White: $999
Aluminum: $1300 and $1600