Xoom’s successor: 2 and Xoom Media Edition available from February 2012

In February there is the Xoom’s successor in Germany. Motorola brings even two tablets – the 2 and the Xoom Xoom 2 Media Edition.

Xoom’s successor in the double
Germany confirmed the launch of the Motorola Xoom 2 for February 2012 and announced a “Media Edition” of the Tablets at. Contrary to earlier rumors Motorola uses the non-3-Tegra chip from Nvidia. Instead, in both tablets tinkers a dual-core processor with 1.2 GHz clock speed. That is 20 percent more power than the Motorola Xoom . The internal memory is 16 or 32 gigabytes (only Xoom 2), the memory is a gigabyte in size. WLAN, UMTS and two cameras (five and 1.3 megapixels) are available. The operating system Android 3.2 (‘s Honeycomb ).

Xoom 2: Business Alignment
The two Xoom offers a 10.1 inch wide display with HD resolution. Corning Gorilla glass to protect it from scratches. Motorola has adapted the edges of the case, according to the manufacturer it is now more comfortable in your hands. The Xoom 2 comes with the “Business Ready” package, the VPN and data encryption.

Xoom 2 Media Edition: entertainment on the go
The Media Edition is equipped with a 8.2-inch screen. Handy: 216x140x8, 9 millimeters correspond roughly to the surface of a sheet of paper in A5 format. Motorola has a weight of 388 grams. The stereo speakers including subwoofer promise good acoustics. Up to ten hours of video playback accomplished by the built-in battery, so Motorola.

Apple develops battery that lasts much longer

Two patents filed by Apple would turn out that the company has serious plans for batteries that run on hydrogen to use in mobile devices like iPhones, iPads and laptops.

The technique, which also is being used for car motors cleaner to get, according to the company “the need for a relatively large and heavy battery” to eliminate, as is stated in the submitted documents. Battery technology has long been seen as the limiting factor in mobile devices. Manufacturers of microprocessor therefore focus on creating highly energy-efficient processors, which often limit the speed is.

The new technology can be “much higher energy densities can be achieved, allowing mobile devices potentially days or even weeks to work without having to recharge.” Electronics manufacturers are already interested in replacing the batteries on toxic substances works with hydrogen batteries because they longer and because the only byproduct is water. How future mobile devices will be Apple’s product placement is not known, but with an iPhone or a MacBook Air with tank exhaust steam clouds from which escape does not seem an option.

In the United States may be banned HTC smartphones

The U.S. ITC (International Trade Commission) took the side of Apple in patent dispute. This is a complaint that Apple filed for HTC, alleging patent infringement. According to the blog FOSS Patents, the ITC have come to believe that the Taiwanese company actually uses the technology owned by Apple.

To be precise, a system and method of working with the structure in the data, computer-generated. Patent registered company in 1999. This technology is used smartphones to recognize phone numbers and addresses in SMS and emails. At the same time pressing the number initiates the call, and when you click on the address – open map. In the spring of next year in the United States takes effect a ban on imports into the country of smartphones HTC. The ban applies only to devices that use the feature recognition based on a patent Apple.

International Trade Commission banned imports of deliberately suspended – now HTC is able to make the necessary improvements in the device. As the resource The Verge, representatives from Taiwan-based fully expect remove functions that require the use of foreign technology. Recall that Apple filed a lawsuit in Delaware court and the ITC in the spring of last year. The company claims a violation of 20 patents, but a positive decision was made ​​only in relation to one.