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The iPhone 4S Costs 49c More To Build Than The iPhone 4

1:59AM October 21, 2011 | Sam Biddle

The fellows at iSuppli have done what they do best, breaking down the material nitty gritty of the 4S to find how much its guts are worth. The answer? Slightly, slightly more than its predecessor, at $US188. More »


Science

IBM’s New Processors Will Think Like Brains

9:10AM August 19, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

It’s been just over 30 years since IBM released its first PC and shook the whole world up. Hoping to do some more world-shaking, they’ve now built two chips that function more similarly to our brains than normal chips do. More »


Mobile

What If Samsung Stopped Supplying Parts For The iPhone 4?

12:50PM August 11, 2011 | Kelly Hodgkins

This is all hypothetical, but what would happen to the iPhone 4 if Apple’s vigorous legal campaign against Samsung caused an irreparable rift between the two companies? More »


Computing

Sony Adds White Pixel To ‘White Magic’ Phone Screens

11:20PM August 10, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

So Sony’s got a brand new TFT LCD. Big whoop. But here’s something to write home to your grandmother about: the 3-inch screen has a switch for “outdoor mode” and “low-power mode”, letting you save battery life for when it’s needed. More »


Science

Shape-Shifting Phone Changes Centre Of Gravity For Different Uses

8:55PM July 19, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

Imagine looking at Google Maps on your tablet, and feeling one corner grow heavier where your destination is located. Or reading an ebook on your phone, and being aware of the fatter side of the book. More »


Computing

HP’s Building Flexible Displays For Soldiers’ Wrists And Ever-Changing Price Tags

1:37AM June 23, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

Some mad flexi-OLED prototypes have been shown off by other companies before, but HP’s getting in on the act with screens that could be used for a multitude of purposes, and hopefully as soon as 2013. More »


Computing

2nm Quantum Transistors Are The World’s Smallest

8:20AM June 1, 2011 | Adrian Covert

A team of scientists at Chungbuk National University in South Korea have created a transistor that’s only 2nm in size, which happens to be the smallest in the world. By comparison, the current generation of Intel processors use 32nm transistors. More »


Mobile

Toshiba’s Got A 4-inch LCD To Rival Apple’s Retina Display

5:35PM May 17, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

Sure enough, there have been several displays edging out Apple’s potent Retina Display. Toshiba’s 4-incher is the latest, with the mobile phone LCD having 367 pixels per inch (as opposed to the iPhone’s 326.) More »


Computing

Apple’s Japanese Suppliers Don’t Skip A Beat

7:45AM April 21, 2011 | Brian Barrett

When asked the inevitable questions about the impact of Japan’s recent earthquake and tsunami tragedy on Apple’s business, acting COO Tim Cook made clear that what matters, more than anything else, is the human impact. That being said: as it turns out, Apple’s supply chain has remarkably remained largely intact. More »


Mobile

Rumour: Samsung Will Have A 2GHz Dual-Core Phone Next Year

12:10AM April 19, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

A Samsung rep has been caught claiming that they are “planning to release a 2GHz dual-core CPU-equipped smartphone by next year”, adding that “this product will have the data processing capacities of a regular PC”. Not only does Samsung plan on using these chips in their own smartphones, they’re also hoping to sell the components to other manufacturers as well. More »