Archive for January, 2012

IPhone 3 comes in March and supports 4G

Posted by admin on January 17, 2012
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January 18 news,according to Bloomberg, the financial iPad 3 in March on the market. The new tablet will support LTE 4G standard.

Also gets the successor to the iPad 2 a screen with higher resolution, according to the latest rumors on 2048 1536 pixels , and a faster processor with four cores and better graphics performance, probably the A6.

Production is inflated
that Bloomberg has heard from three people who are aware of Apple’s tablet plans. One of them knows that the production of the HD screen of the iPhone 3 is currently being boosted up to next month to be rendered so in March sales can start.

Another source claims that Apple’s iPad chooses as its first LTE product with support from the larger battery compared to the iPhone. Several U.S. operators are currently rolling out LTE, but with us it is still not that bad .

U.S. video games retail sales fell 21% in last December

Posted by admin on January 13, 2012
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January 13 news, the U.S. market research firm NPD report released on Thursday, as the old game players reduce software purchases, resulting in the United States in December last year, video game hardware, software and accessories retail sales only $ 3.99 billion, down 21%.

NPD analyst Anita Frazier said: “Given the current game will be eliminated, this result is not entirely surprising.” However, this data is clearly the market is quite disappointing. Fraser said that considering the “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3″ and “Just Dance 3″ and other games of hot, weak performance last December that there are some unexpected.

In November, Microsoft Xbox 360 will be available in a full seven years, and its predecessor, the product life cycle is only 4 years. Sony PlayStation 3 in November this year will be listed at least six years, the previous generation PlayStation 2 is in the market after six years out. Nintendo Wii also has been listed for six years, but the previous generation GameCube was released five years out.

Sony and Microsoft has not announced development plans for the next generation of consoles, Nintendo is expected to be released later this year with a touch screen handles the Wii U.

Not only some of the old game, the game’s release means is also changing. Consumers want more content via the Internet, which led to last December’s U.S. retail sales of video game software is only $ 2.04 billion, down 14%.

NPD data shows that in December last year, retail sales of U.S. video game hardware fell 28%, only $ 1,320,000,000; accessories fell 27%, to 6.29 billion U.S. dollars.

Specific to the last year, retail sales of U.S. video game industry as a whole fell 8% to $ 17.02 billion. Among them, the hardware retail sales fell 11 percent to $ 5.58 billion; software retail sales of 88.3 billion, down 6%; accessory retail sales of 26.1 billion U.S. dollars, down 11%.

Game Controllers and more with Samsung’s Smart TV

Posted by admin on January 05, 2012
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Samsung gives new software later this week, free to the Smart TV platform to expand. It is possible to include game controllers and keyboards with smart TVs to connect the brand.

Friday developers gain access to the software kit (SDK) Smart TV 3.0, the latest version of the smart TV platform from Samsung. Such SDK is intended for developers of the apps can be installed on televisions. The possibilities of the new SDK is good news because now appbouwers such games can make to operate through a game controller.

USB
The software is also designed for keyboards and mice via USB connection. Also appbouwers advertising in their apps to process and accept payments. For example, a developer such as a racing game pack with optional new cars can verpatsen.

The announcement comes on the eve of the Consumer Electronics Show, which as of January 9 in Las Vegas takes place. It is expected that Samsung makes it more announcements about its Smart TV platform. At the same time predicted that the Korean brand will also television show based on Google TV. It is conjecture whether and how Smart TV goes live with Google TV.