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iPhone 4S name and design leaked by iTunes
A leak in iTunes may have settled the rumors and debates about the design and name of the next iPhone. iTunes 10.5 beta 9 includes image files for the new iPhone - and they look exactly like the CDMA iPhone 4. Additionally, the files reference the new handset as 'iPhone 4S'. Both of these findings are exactly what TiPb has been hearing all along.
Also notable is that the files reference only two new iPhone 4S models: black and white, whereas the iPhone 4 references 4 models: black/GSM, black/CDMA, white/GSM, and white/CDMA. This is a strong indicator that the iPhone 4S will be a dual-mode, GSM+CDMA handset.
We are now only 3 days away from putting all the rumors to rest, because on Tuesday, Apple will reveal the truth.
Continue speculating in the meantime!
Source: 9TO5 Mac, AppleInsider
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iPhone 4S name and design leaked by iTunes
First! Ha! Androids suck. Take that.
That sucks, cause we have been waiting 16 months for an incremental spec bump.
What if Apple held the event to tell us why we should wait for iPhone in 2012?!
so we should be expecting a iphone 4s in stead of the iphone 5?
Or both.
why not both?
Yeah if this is true then it will truly be a huge disappointment!
junk ...im going to nexus prime...
I will be there to wipe the tears from your eyes when you come back...
Android is far more powerful than iOS. Good choice. Had an iPhone 4 for a few months. Had to go back to Android. Way too many features missing. The Nexus Prime is the phone I am waiting to use my upgrade for.
I love apple and all but if they release a iPhone 4s I really hope the crowd boo's them 16 months for just a spec bump I hope there one more thing is big one that leaves us and the tech world in wow
There's only going to be so much "wow" They've done pretty well so far!
More proof: apple released its iOS 5 video overview on its website. They use a device that looks a lot like the iPhone 4 (or maybe 4s). If the iPhone 5 was bing released on Tuesday, they would have produced their iOS 5 promo video with the latest and greatest (iPhone 5), and not posted it to their website until the day the iPhone 5 launched. Otherwise, they would have a new hot iPhone 5, and the old outdated iPhone 4 in their iOS 5 promo video.
Sorry kids, but this is proof iPhone 5 is not coming in 2011. what a huge letdown.
Why would they show iOS 5 on anything other than the latest official device (in this case the iPhone 4)?
That demo video proves nothing and NO one but Apple knows what's coming...until Tuesday.
I disagree. If Apple is planning on releasing a newly designed iPhone 5 within a week, they wouldnt have recently produced an iOS 5 promo video with the 2010 model iPhone in it. Apple doesnt roll like that. Apple doesn't have IOS4 videos with the 3GS in it.
They would have produced this newly released ios 5 video with the brand newiPhone 5, and released it on or after oct 4th.
This is subtle, but just think about it. And yes, only Apple knows what it is releasing, I'm only speculating based on the evidence I see. Based on the recent release of this video, my money is on the dissapointing iPhone 4S only.
But iOS 4 was released along with iPhone 4
No it wasn't. iOS 4 came long before iPhone 4
if Apple knows it's going to launch a phone on tuesday and takes all this time to hide the design why would they ever spoil that launch by posting a video with said new phone in it 3 days before the launch? That makes no sense. If they were going to post a video intentionally with a new design in it they'd wait till after any public reveal.
This was intentionally posted on apples sight so we can rest assured there is likely no new phone on the video. If there was an unreleased phone in it i'd bet it wouldn't be publically on their site yet.
That is my EXACT point! If there were and iPhone 5 coming next week, Apple would have produced this ios 5 video with the upcoming iphone 5, and NOT RELEASED the video until the October 4th announcement!
Why would they waste time and resources to release a video with a phone that will be obsoleted in 3 days? They wouldn't...thus, the next iPhone looks exactly like and iPhone 4, and by releasing the video early they are spoiling nothing...because there is nothing to spoil. Get it?
@Dr. Brad
That is NOT your point. Your point is the existence of a video proves no iphone 5. my point is the public release of a ios 5 video shows only what they already talked about at an ios event earlier this year.
you say "If there were and iPhone 5 coming next week, Apple would have produced this ios 5 video with the upcoming iphone 5, " But that's illogical. They already announced ios 5 months ago and released it to the public. This is an "IOS 5" video. It's not about iphone. It's a logical leap to claim the only way they'd release an ios 5 video is on an iphone 5, especially when they've shown it off already on an iphone 4, released a beta that works on iphone 4.
video is not obsolete in three days. every one of those features is still in the phone and new. Not only that there's no requirement that they post all features in that video.
I'm quite sure you'll have the "assistant" feature in the ios. But it's not mentioned at all. Where is it? do you think it doesn't exists? by you're rational they released a video, the video shows all and thus all including the assistant should be in there. that just makes no sense.
and still, if you spend all this time on secrecy why would you release a video with spoilers? You wouldn't. Apple didn't. They released a video showing only what they've already showed you.
@ Dr. Brad. One last thing i've found out. The ios 5 video has been posted since June of 2011 and was posted after the announcement at wwdc.
If im not mistaken iOS 4 was presented on the 3GS first than the iPhone.
also nearly everything in that video was shown already earlier this year at an ios event.
I just watched the iOS 5 video. An impressive update, for sure. Tabbed browsing, I mean wow. Congratulations to Apple for yet another amazing invention.
wasnt that video released when iOS 5 was mentioned at WWDC?
but by you're rational they'd release a video showing the iphone 5 in it. They wouldn't do that. If they are gonna release a video before launch it wouldn't have the actual iphone that they are gonna preview in in.
Plus if its' true that there is a new features of voice commands and assistant, that's not even mentioned. i think it is cause i've always thought siri would get added in some way. And it's been long enough. So that makes me think that the video holds back. other wise they'd have posted it after not before. It's a video with no spoilers for my money. If it revealed all why would they have a press conference and what would they talk about?
I hope this will be the low price point phone, not the latest & greatest IPhone 5.
I totally agree, I would definitely buy an iPhone 4S @ $400 versus an iPhone 5 @ $749 or whatever crazy price they always sell it for...
Its gonna sell like hot cakes either way so..........
tragically no wonder they give you idiots baby step upgrades
i hope they don't... so apple will learn a lesson in small product bumps
I don't understand the big disappointment about the chance there won't be an iPhone 5, Apple haven't ever said there would definitely be one.
And just because it might be called the 4S or whatever, it doesn't literally mean it will just be a minor spec increase.
Also, I hope it isn't a cheap iPhone, as that would ruin their reputation.
And the last thing, why is everyone expecting a big change to the iPhone as the iPhone 4 has nothing wrong with it. So they are most likely doing a few minor tweaks to the shape and boosting the specs and giving it a bigger screen. Because what else do you actually need?
We were expecting a big change because a spec bump had no reason to be pushed back 4 months from the traditional launch. I think this woulda been less dissappointing had they released it in June. I'm really hoping there's something worth this wait. Cause honestly "Assistant" isn't enough. Neiter is iCloud.
Thanks apple for saving me money!!!!
The case mate website lists products for both iPhone 4s and 5 models.
TiPb, you guys reblog/report on nearly all of the rumors concerning the new iPhone, right? I mean, you all have posted on the possibility of radical redesign while gently reminding your readers the likelihood of just a moderate spec-bump, and everything in-between.
So my question is, what haven't you "heard"? It's really lame that with every new rumor or post comes a self-promoting tagline of "...yep, we were right this whole time"
4S expected. One more thing will be iPhone 5. 4S will be the 'cheap' model, set at lower price than 4 was. 5 will be the high end redesign at the normal iPhone price
lets hope you are right otherwise this is a huge letdown
I guess "useless" means "well-adopted by the public" - I have a 3GS and couldn't be happier, and I have several friends who like me stuck with it even when the 4 came out.
With the above said, 4S or 5 - either way in the case of 3GS owners, there's something to look forward to.
I absolutely love my 3GS (Factory Unlocked). My only concern is will I get all of the feature IOS 5 has to offer?
And when will we get BiteSMS of non-jailbroken iPhones?
Twice the Ram
Twice the Processor
In all... Twice the HP so it can carry twice the weight (iOS5).
I don't care about the design as I think the iPhone 4 looks great. But I sure hope they have fixed the Death Grip and the Proximity sensor they refused to fix and change.
That alone is worth a new iPhone.
What I really expected and if this is an iPhone 4s, is a bigger screen. I expected a bigger screen. I am tired of the small screen the iphone has.
Before the iPHone I had a motorola A1200. I always wondered why no one made a bigger screen, until the iPhone came out. The iPhone had a USABLE screen. Now I really want a bigger screen.
I don't think i'll buy something else other than an iPhone, but I somehow feel cheated that Apple delayed the iPhone just to pull a 3GS card.
I really liked the power increase of the 3GS and I am sure I will like the power increase of the 4S, but.... A bigger screen was what I expected out of the delay in release.
twice the ram and twice the processor might be nice on a computer with 4 gigs of ram and a qc i7 processor... but on a mobile phone.. meh... my text message, and ssf volt apps open fast enough already lol
Wait people still think death grip was widespread? Why did almost everyone who reported be from the US and on AT&T? Why has no one i know ever had the problem? Why have i never been able to replicate it over here, on several networks (on several devices)? Why did the 4 sell more and get sent back far less than the 3GS (percentage wise) for problems? Death grip = Fud. Fud. Fud. Fud.
In the U.S. I always see iPhone 4's hidden in cases, and this has becone the norm. However, recently I've visited Europe and Austalia and I see iPhone 4's everywhere without a case. It makes you realize how pervasive this phone really is and how Americans really bought into the Antenna Gate.
I swear, if I don't see an iPhone at the event, I won't be a happy camper.
Apple likes to keep things hidden (at all costs). I, for one, think this is a plant. Just sayin...
Better to improve the insides than to cosmetically improve the enclosure. Only us fanboys (and the occasional troll) will actually care if there isn't an all-new physical design. The average consumer will just keep on buying them (and it will keep up the resale value of the old-school "4".)
The thing we'll all remember about Apple's 2011 announcements is iOS's "PC Free" feature. Years from now, we'll look back and wonder how Apple managed to sell 100+ million iPhones before they were truly set free by iCloud. And we'll agree that PC Free + iCloud together are what really launched the post-PC era.
To me post-PC is rubbish. PCs will be around for a very, very long time. I prefer PC-complementary, or perhaps something less silly sounding.
iPhone 4. LOLwot. Oh Apple you.
you honestly think this is all they have? I'm "surprised" that something other then this would be a surprise.
even now they basically have two models a 4 and a 3gs. What i expect is a 5 and a 4s. even the article above says this is "exactly what TiPb has been hearing all along. " So i don't see why people would be shocked to hear this. or why they'd think that this is all there is.
I actually think there'll be three
1) An 8GB version of the current iP4
2) an iPhone 4S
3) brand new iPhone 5
8GB iPhone 4
iPhone 4s
iPod touch 5
You could be right but I predict the iPhone 4S with the following features & as Apple's "cheaper" prepaid option;
- same physical design & screen size as iPhone 4
- 16GB of storage & 1GB of RAM
- A5 processor
- dual GSM & CDMA support but with no "3G" speeds
- 5 Mpixel camera
And I predict the iPhone 5 with the following;
- totally new design
- 4" screen
- 16GB & 32GB storage options & 1GB of RAM
- A5 processor
- 8 Mpixel camera
- dual GSM & CDMA with "3G" capability
That way there's a low-end, mid-end, & high-end phone covering all the price points without sacrificing the quality or the experience of the iPhone. There's a lot of people in 3rd world countries that Apple sells in, that want but cannot afford an iPhone. This helps Apple sell to that market.
But again I'm just postulating. I don't know if I'm right. I just hope I am.
hardly useless. it's cheap and very popular and a great seller.
I think you nailed it dantzig. The 4S will be the low end 8gb CDMA+GSM iPhone4 and the 5 will be announced next week.
If there is no iPhone 5 I think I will get the samsung galaxy S 2 instead. I'll still have an iPad and the 3GS so I'll have access to the apple ecosystem until apple comes out with a 4" screen, plus with all due honesty I would like to give android a try, please apple to let me down with a 4S.
here's one thing. Everyone doesn't have an iphone either. I don't. I'm on sprint. a huge number of verizon users by many polls decided in march to wait for an expected new iphone to be launced in june but when it was late just continued to wait. So there are likely many on verizon as well w/o iphones that would buy it if it was all that was available. I've noticed on tipb and especially on the podcast people often talk assuming every person has an iphone and just sits waiting for every launch and won't buy a spec bump. i don't want a spec bump mind you but i'm on an absolute crap palm pre and i'd take a spec bump if that's all i got over this paper weight any day. still think there will be two phones.
my guess is the 4s will be virtually the same as the current 4 and the 5 will have much more ram, more memory, 4 inch screen, a 8 megapixel came, 1080p, image stabilization, that voice command feature etc.
evne the 4s may have more ram for that assistant feature but hey who knows.
If you look close at the photo the screen is a bit larger
Not to mention the whole "changing CEOs" thing that happened. It's like people fail to realize that there are other things going on in companies than scheduling release dates, or notice trends like you pointed out.
I agree, people just expect a whole new amazing phone to come out in 16 months, while all the work going into Lion, iOS5, iCloud and the CEO change is going on.
I don't even understand why there would be a need for a big change.
Considering what has transpired since the last Iphone change. Tim Cook needs a new Iphone5. Otherwise this could be a gigantic flop for him and the company. As has been mentioned Apple is like the Russians to quote The Hunt for Red October. They don't do anything without a plan. That is what this was, part of the plan. Everybody hold your powder dry until we know more on the 4th.
I'm going to be pissed if I waited all this time and the same phone form factor comes out. Apple had plenty of time to remake this phone with at least a better back than the silly glass one. Why wait so long to release something with an updated processor and better camera. And I don't want to hear how good the 4 is still selling. I say BS.
plain and simple IF YOU DONT LIKE IT DONT BUY STOP YOUR COMPLAINING
its a blog man, discussing complaining or not is part of it.
It stands for iPhone 4S for speed. That is how the 3GS was explained by Apple
ill believe it when they announce it this Tuesday.
there is so many conflicting pieces of evidence that its ridiculous. We have never had this many case "leaks" ever for a redesigned iPhone, but at the same time we have inventories saying there is an iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S while others say it has only an iPhone 4S or iPhone 5, but not both. this has been one heck of a crazy rumor mill and boy am i excited. :)
Galaxy S2 for me...
Verizon has approximately 90 million customers. Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think they've sold 10 million iPhones so far. That leaves a ton of people on Verizon that still don't have iPhones.
How is Apple a software company? The make the iPhone and iOS. They make Macs and OS X. Hardware and Software.
I think OS X is amazing. I think iOS is dumb. It's basically a glorified app launcher.
And they do it really well! Is the IPAD an app? If so it did extremely well!
more like, they cause foxconn in taiwan to make the hardware.
Sorry if it's been mentioned before but has anyone noticed the
positions of the black dividers on the metal frame? Four in total. Two either side. None on the top. Interesting.
This probably won't happen but if there is an iPhone 4S I hope the "S" stands for slide. I have been holding off on getting an iPhone for years because I need a phone with a keyboard and if they released it with a keyboard that would be amazing. One can only hope.
It's okay. I'm on Bell Mobile in Canada & I can't reproduce it either so no worries.
From the looks of it I'm pretty sure there will be two versions, mainly because since we don't have CDMA in the UK (and most of the world) so a just 4S looks pretty rubbish and pretty much non news to have a dual mode antenna
Has no one realised that the pictures show the silver attena edge with the black parts in different places??????
Has anyone noticed that the diagram shows a CDMA antenna on top and a gsm antenna below Tipb's speculation may be spot in regards to the 4s being dual mode
I still think there will be an iPhone 5. You guys really think they would leak a picture of it on an iTunes beta? I truly think Apple is smarter than that. They'll release a new beta once the iPhone 5 is announced or released.
Why does everyone here assume that because of the iPhone 4S , there won't be a new iPhone 5 ?!
They will release both ;)
Of all the pics and rumors and speculations , I think the recent video from Giga and their prototype is the closest to the real iPhone 5 that will be shown on Tuesday.
The photo suggests that the antenna that is located at the top of the iPhone 4 by the headphone jack has moved to above the lock button and the other side as well.... Maybe they changed the internal workings to improve reception issues?
I waited 15 months for THIS? Great. Wonderful. Bye, Apple. My two year contract is up and it'll be an Android for me. sigh Funny how I would have accepted a 4S in JULY.
So long as Apple doesn't sue them out of it, Samsung has shown they will support their Galaxies insofar as much as they are copying Apple to do it. ;) So at least we'll get upgrades when they come - which was the only reason to STAY with an Iphone for 2 years.
Well, it won't be some cheap Android knock-off, so any new iPhone will be exciting to see.
"What we've been hearing all along"... every possibility under the sun has been rumored and posted here. Seems kind of silly to be tooting your own horn on this one. They could have released a star-shaped phone with 3 GB RAM and it probably would have jived with some rumor.
Excuse me... "exactly what TiPb has been hearing all along."
Do I need to reference all of the other rumors on different phone variations you guys have posted?
Sweet. Galaxy S II, here I come!
I can only speak for myself, but I wanted something revolutionary. iOS 5 is not and slight hardware bump is not revolutionary.
What's a more reliable source? If it wasn't for this site, some of us wouldn't hear anything.
4gs no thanks im still on my 3gs. the only way i get a new phone is if sprint comes out with it and its duel mode so i can take it to any provider i want. sprint is 15 bucks a month cheaper for me then att due to discounts. there is nothing i need personally that the 3gs doesnt do. it texts it gets on the net and it calls (sometimes again im on att) as long as there is no real 4g then i dont need to switch . lte is 4g not whats out there now from sprint tmobile or att. they just like to play with names. honestly thinking of getting the bold 9900 and an ipad the iphone has lost its luster to me
I dont get what all the fuss is about to be honest, my iphone 4 works as good as any other phone ive tried, does all the stuff i need a phone to do and looks great doing it. I dont need or want anything different for me the 4 is the perfect device.
well if this is it and there is not an iphone with a redesign i will stick to my ip4 with ios5...16month of wait and if only a spec bump is a joke...prove me wrong apple please
The biggest problem is that your average, normal person doesn't need 99.9% of the features found in Android and not found in iOS but does need the reliability and ease of use that comes with iOS and tends to be lacking in Android (especially the special, carrier or manufacturer-branded versions). Too many screens, too many phones. Power users do not make the market for smart phones anymore and it seems a little ostrich like for the internet to keep pretending they do.
...not to mention the poor battery life of the Android's.
Very cool analysis, iPhones I anything are easy, techno geeks like myself, want to check them all out LOL
thats why android devices are outselling iphones. because people don't want them. like your phone if you want, but get your head out of your.... sandbox.
Typical Apple move to suck money out on a slightly updated device, waited this long for what? Same crappy design? Maybe because Apple is so sue happy against Samsung they didn't want to lend any more hardware to Apple and they are recycling parts and overclocked the CPU and market it as a "revolutionary new device"
Or here's a crazy thought, they release an iPhone 4S and call it the iPhone 5 because you really shouldn't try and guess product releases on the criteria of "the name sounds dumb." Bottom line, we could just be looking at an iPhone 4 with bumped up specs called the iPhone 5. Really, that's not a terrible thing. The form factor doesn't have to change all the time. The only part of the form people want changed is the screen and I think Apple is (rightly) terrified to do that. Anyone who's tried to find apps for Android and especially anyone who's developed for Android will tell you that the screen thing is a huge pain.
I agree, Rene is a douche.
My dream situation for Tuesday:
1. Steve Jobs comes out to do a "farewell" of sorts to all Apple customers and talks up the great things he's been involved with and seen. He hypes up Tim Cook as a very suitable replacement which ushers in confidence for us that Tim is the new go-to guy for Apple's future
2. Out comes Tim with the first announcement iPod Touch 3G. Click-wheels iPods are a thing of the past, on to the future with iPod Touch 3G capable of utilizing iMessage and (hold for applause) FaceTime over 3G! (this will also happen to the upcoming iPhone 4S) THIS IS THE BUDGET "IPHONE" capable of having pay-as-you go contracts on a number of carriers worldwide
3. iOS 5 is heavily touted as the best mobile OS around and it gets even better on the new iPhone 4S w/it's dual core processor and 8 megapixel camera...yada yada yada... FaceTime over 3G capabilities so the iPod touch people don't feel like they're only getting iMessage love. Lastly, Nuance voice controls are INSANE and shown off like crazy (Voice controls are ONLY possible on the new iPod Touch 3G and iPhone 4S because of the A5 chip which is where the iPhone "newbies" will turn out in droves to get their hands on as their intro device(s) to the Apple mobile galaxy, just in time for the holidays; us who know better however will wait out for the iPhone 5)
4. ONE MORE THING... coming in first quarter of 2012, iPhone 5. Crazy excitement, everything the iPhone 4S has as far as software is concerned, many new hardware enhancements and now available on another carrier, Sprint.
5. End of show!
Any chance the conference will be streamed live?
iPhone 4 will get a spec bump and there will be a LTE iPhone 5 also...
the existence of one doe not make it any "more likely" that there is no other phone. The existence of one is only proof of it's existence. Every other conclusion is just speculation.
And there are plenty of leaks pointing to an iphone 5 from cases, to entries in computers, to popping up on websites then being pulled. but evidence of an 4s doesn't make it more likely there is nothing else. It's just evidence of a 4s.
And most people on verizon are not up for an upgrade in march or april. By june they were waiting. when it didn't come buy july. verizon people decided to wait till september and here we are. And you're comment still didn't address all the people on sprint that would buy an iphone 4s if that's all they got. But again i've seen analysis of iphone penetration and polls of verizon users and many say verizon users are waiting for a new version. http://www.tipb.com/2011/06/21/verizon-users-waiting-iphone-5-ditch-andr...
"74% of Verizon iPhone buyers are waiting for Apple's next model"http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/08/01/74ofverizoniphonebuyersarewaitingforapplesnextmodel.html
Am I the only one who noticed that the proximity sensor for the white iPhone 4S as displayed is the same design as the white iPhone 4 before they redesigned if for final release? Maybe its a recycled icon acting as a place holder?
I totally disagree with that whole statement. I have been listening since day 1 and still enjoying the podcast and the content from Tipb. I love Rene's humor and he is very intelligent.
LMAO at Apple Android Droid Google wars and everyone who takes it so seriously, JUST get what you want and that's that
Very cool analysis. We have phones, and when we need another? Who knows.
Did you see where a girl wanted someone as her maid of honor someone was holding up an IPAD with her on it at the wedding, no kidding!
almost upgraded from 3gs today...glad i saw this !!!!!! I'll wait thanks !!!
Does anyone think Apple puts these images and leaks into their betas on purpose to spark all of these rumors?
its not the same design guys, please take a minute to find the additional 2 antenna bands at upper left AND right sides. probably to avoid the "youre-holdin-it-wrong" issue again!
i.e. just above the silent mode rocker.
ALSO , the rocker has been lowered down a little.
you have to agree!
I use an Android handset for work and would much rather use my personal iPone any day. None of the Androids I have tested for my employer have been able to hold a candle to the iPhones we ave deployed. Battery life sucks on all o tem except the Samsung Infuse, it's not terrible. My complaint to Apple is they need to open iOS a little more and give me real multitasking.
Time to switch over to WP7... Stability, speed, choices on phones.
Android users have much better forums. And development, and choices, and price points, and....and....and....and....
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The world's biggest smartphone makers were all trying to out-shine their competitors at this year's Mobile World Congress, with most new devices boasting the same, large, flat screen with a button or two. Differentiation was in the details. To be among top dogs like Samsung and the increasingly-popular ZTE, phones needed a quad-core processor, shiny AMOLED screen and to be slim and light.
Apple was the elephant in the room. It refused to exhibit, even though its iPhone and iPad were top-selling devices. But both Apple and its competitors may be under pressure to leap to the next level of hardware in 2012, and not just by being more slim or more shiny.
Samsung is using its plastic-backed AMOLED devices to make phones that are lighter, thinner and include "foldable screens," according to Richard Windsor, a senior technology analyst at Nomura Group.
Nomura's analysts in Asia have said they expect to see Samsung "apply plastic substrate-based, bendable or curved displays for smartphones from [the second quarter of] 2012," and cite equipment manufacturers in Korea as their sources.
The analysts added in a recent note that the first example of this technology would not be in a smartphone screen that folded in half (though that may come later in 2013 in a clam-shell like device), but in a screen that folded over the edges of a phone, replacing the usual screen border or "bezel" so that the display continued onto the sides (see image above). The display would be "unbreakable and increases the exceptionally slim form-factor," they said.
"We expect Samsung to mass produce such panels for smartphones in 2012, which we believe would be more popular that the current OLED display equipped in SEC's Galaxy S II," Nomura's analysts said, adding that the use of film-coating technology and tempered plastic would reduce the weight of Samsung's tablet computers by 30%.
"Plastic displays will change the perception of handsets and tablet PCs in terms of design, thickness, and weight, and this would clearly differentiate Samsung's products from others, in our view," said the analysts. "This is why we like Samsung."
This isn't the first talk of foldable screens from Samsung. Last year rumors swirled that Samsung was working on a bendable phone called the Galaxy Skin, to be released in the second quarter of 2012. Samsung has denied the product exists; the images of the branded prototype came from a design student's conceptual project.
However Samsung has said publicly that it is working on "next-generation technologies such as foldable, flexible and transparent displays." And already a year ago at the Consumer Electronics Show 2011, it showed off bendable AMOLED screens that were 0.3mm thick and 4.5 inches across. Later in May, it was reported that researchers from the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology had built a prototype display that folded in the middle without a crease.
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Friday, August 30, 2013
Editor's note: According to information provided Wednesday by the Summerville Police Department, the following suspects were still at large. All photos provided by reporting agency.
Name: Danziel Akeem Chapman
Age: 23
Description: Black male, 5'2", 120 pounds
Last known address: 618 Evergreen Ln., Walterboro
Wanted for: Bank fraud
Wanted by: Summerville Police Department
Wanted since: June 20, 2013
Investigators allege: Chapman presented a fraudulent check for deposit, drawn on a closed account, in the amount of $6,925, to South Carolina Federal Credit Union. Chapman proceeded to make point of sale purchases and then withdrew $4,300. The victim was defrauded in the amount of $4,615. The defendant was positively identified via video surveillance.
Name: Laticia M. Dennis
Age: 39
Description: Black female, 5'6", 135 pounds
Last known address: 108 Waddington Terrace, Goose Creek
Wanted for: Bank fraud
Wanted by: Summerville Police Department
Wanted since: October 2012
Investigators allege: Dennis presented for deposit a starter check drawn on a closed account for $470 and another check drawn on a different closed account in the amount of $800. She then made multiple points of sale purchases and withdrawals. Total loss to victim – Wells Fargo on North Main Street in Summerville – was $1,366.04. The defendant was positively identified by bank personnel.
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NEW YORK CITY, NY -- Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel was named one of three finalists for the Heisman Trophy on Monday, which is given annually to college football's most outstanding player.
Named the Southeastern Conference's Offensive Player and Freshman of the Year by the Associated Press on Monday, Manziel will be joined in New York City by fellow finalists Collin Klein of Kansas State and Manti Te'o of Notre Dame.
"I'm overwhelmed by this tremendous honor of representing Texas A&M, the 12th Man and all my teammates in New York," Manziel said. "This is a dream come true for me, and I know it's a credit to all my coaches and teammates. I definitely wouldn't be a Heisman finalist without my teammates and coaches."
Manziel, from Kerrville, Texas, will be seeking to become Texas A&M's second Heisman Trophy winner, and its first since John David Crow took college football's top honor in 1957. Manziel is projected to win the award by the Heisman Pundit/CBSSports.com Heisman Straw poll, the USA Today and the Scripps Howard Heisman poll.
With Manziel being named a finalist, Texas A&M is guaranteed of having its highest Heisman Trophy finisher since Crow. Four Aggies have previously finished in the top 10 of the Heisman balloting: John Kimbrough was fifth in 1939 and second in 1940, Crow in 1957, Darren Lewis tied for eighth in 1990 and Bucky Richardson was 10th in 1991.
A redshirt freshman, Manziel took the college football world by storm with a record-setting first season of action. He broke the SEC record for total offense in a game originally set by Archie Manning of Ole Miss in 1969 with 557 yards against Arkansas and then re-broke his own record with 576 total yards against Louisiana Tech. He went on to break 2010 Heisman Trophy winner Cam Newton's SEC's season total offense record with 4,600 yards through Texas A&M's first 12 games.
For the season, Manziel passed for 3,419 yards and rushed for 1,181 yards, becoming just the fifth NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision player and first freshman to throw for 3,000 yards and rush for 1,000 yards in the same season. He had three games with 300 passing yards and 100 rushing yards in 2012, which had never been done by a FBS player in a career, let alone a single season. He also had six games with two-plus rushing touchdowns and two-plus passing touchdowns, which hadn't been done since Tim Tebow's Heisman season in 2007.
Manziel earned SEC Offensive Player of the Week three times and was named Freshman of the Week a record nine times. He also was a three-time AT&T All-America Player of the Week and a two-time Walter Camp National Player of the Week honoree. A unanimous pick as the Associated Press All-SEC quarterback, Manziel is Texas A&M's first first-team all-conference selection at quarterback since Richardson in 1991.
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My goal has always been to help people help themselves.
Your body is your most priceless possession; you've got to take care of it!
Jack LaLanne
My goal has always been to help people help themselves.
Your body is your most priceless possession; you've got to take care of it!
Jack LaLanne
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Jack, you lied.
You said if you died it would ruin your image, but now that you're gone, nothing has changed.
You were THE fitness icon yesterday; you're THE fitness icon today. Without you, it's impossible to say if there would even be a fitness industry. You started it, you grew it—your influence never waned, and you are still its leader. I think it's safe to say your image is, and always will be, intact.
Jack LaLanne is my hero. I suppose that if pressed, I have others, but he's the first and only one I recognize. And even though his aforementioned famous saying, "I can't die, it would ruin my image," is challenged by his passing, this has little bearing on the validity of his life.
Because Jack's MO had nothing to do with dying. It had to do with living; getting the most out of the days you're given. He wasn't above a bit of hyperbole if it drove his cause, but he was never more straightforward than when he said, "Billy Graham preaches about the hereafter. I preach the here and now."
"My name's Jack," he told my friend Denis, who'd referred to him as Mr. LaLanne, with a look that clearly stated "save the 'mister' for old people, buddy." He was 95. I only met Jack once, but I felt like I knew him well. He was an open book when it came to what drove his existence. To all of us whose lives are a passionate pursuit of fitness, he was simply The Man.
Jack wasn't always this way. Just the last 80 or so years. A sickly childhood motivated his transformation. His mother took him to a presentation on nutrition when he was 15 that changed him. By 21, he'd opened his own health club—back when it not only wasn't trendy, it was practically unheard of.
"People thought I was a charlatan or a nut," said Jack. "The doctors were against me—they said that working out with weights would give people heart attacks and they would lose their sex drive."
Much of the younger generation only knows Jack as "that juicer guy" from a series of infomercials he did late in life. When I tell the under-30 set about Jack's fitness achievements, I generally encounter bewilderment or simple disbelief. But Jack practically invented modern weight training. He invented the Universal Gym, an industry standard for 50 years. He invented and popularized both supplements and specific diet plans for exercise, and he was almost single-handedly responsible for the movement that had athletes train with weight for sports. Without Jack, there would be no P90X®, no INSANITY®, no Beachbody®.
One of my favorite anecdotes is about how Jack got a coach to allow him to train a university football team. The coach was skeptical, thinking that weight training would make the players "muscle-bound." Jack met the team at some sand dunes, hoisted the largest player over his shoulder (Jack was 5'6"), and sprinted up the highest dune. He got the job and never looked back.
Jack parlayed his passion into a career in television, where The Jack LaLanne Show was a daytime staple for 3 decades. His target audience of stay-at-home moms may have hurt his credibility as a serious fitness enthusiast with scientific types, but those who paid attention knew differently. Though the routines he provided were simple, he found ways to sneak in moves that no housewife—or any person except him, in many cases—could emulate, like fully extended one-arm (arm stretched above his head) fingertip dynamic push-ups.
Then, of course, there were his challenges. He explained them to Donald Katz, in a highly entertaining article in Outside magazine in 1995, this way: "I started the feats because everyone said I was just a muscle-bound charlatan. I had to show them I was an athlete."
"Maybe you don't believe in Jesus," he continued. "But was Jesus a showman? Why did he go around making the blind see and the lame walk and those kinds of things? He did it to call attention to his philosophy."
You won't see Jack's obituary in the sports pages, but that's only because he had no rival. His sports—or feats—were so far ahead of what others were doing, no one else could play. These displays of strength and fitness were so far ahead of the curve they couldn't be measured. Not one of Jack's challenges has been repeated—not one. I submit that he's the best physical specimen—the best athlete—who ever lived.
"'Come to the beach and do some chin-ups with me, Arnold,'" said Arnold Schwarzenegger, quoting Jack at the legend's 95th birthday party. "He didn't tell me that we were going to do chin-ups for 1 hour straight without stopping."
The audience all laughed, but Arnold was likely recounting an actual experience. Jack once did 1,000 chin-ups and 1,000 star jumps in 1 hour and 22 minutes. When a friend of mine was breaking the Guinness World Records® record for number of chin-ups in an hour a few years back, he began with 600 and worked his way to 719—about 25 percent less than what Jack was doing half a century earlier, before we even consider the star jumps. Jack once started doing push-ups during an hour-long TV show and kept going until it ended.
Jack's feats, often done on his birthday, were not about ego or bravado. They were simply a way to justify his training system—or philosophy. After all, it's hard to dismiss a guy as merely "muscle-bound" when you shackle his hands and feet, throw him in the water, and attach him to 70 boats (with a person in each), and then watch him tow them all more than a mile—especially when the guy in question is 70 years old.
As a spokesman, Jack pulled few punches. He had a shtick that he'd champion at any opportunity, from his "if man makes it, don't eat it" stance on nutrition to the evils of sugar and junk food, about which he said, "It destroys the B vitamins. It destroys your mind, affects your memory, your concentration. Why do you think so many of these kids today are screwed up? It's what they're eating. You know how much sugar Americans consume today in white flour, cakes, pies, candy, and ice cream? Would you get your dog up in the morning and give him a cigarette, cup of coffee, and a doughnut? How many millions of Americans got up this morning with a breakfast like that? And you wonder why people are sick and obese."
On fad fitness equipment, Jack once marveled to Outside, "Have you seen some of the crap they're selling as exercise equipment now? How about that Suzanne Somers? She should have been thrown in jail for selling the piece-of-crap ThighMaster. It just develops a little muscle on the inner thigh. What good is that? And have you seen Tony Little, the guy who screams on TV? He's like an imbecile. He says you need this little thing to hold you while you do a sit-up. Why does the government let him get away with it?"
Of course a guy who's pulling boats around at 70 has some strong opinions on age: "Don't talk age! It has nothing to do with it. One of my guys who started out at my gym is 87 now, and he still does 10 bench-press reps with a 100-pound dumbbell in each hand. He's training to set a leg-pressing record. I put things in the guy's brain way back when, and now he'll never get away from it."
And on living in general, Jack says something I've tried to follow my entire life—my mantra, if you will: "I train like I'm training for the Olympics or for a Mr. America contest, the way I've always trained my whole life. You see, life is a battlefield. Life is survival of the fittest. How many healthy people do you know? How many happy people do you know? Think about it. People work at dying, they don't work at living. My workout is my obligation to life. It's my tranquilizer. It's part of the way I tell the truth—and telling the truth is what's kept me going all these years."
Jack was so good at telling the truth, he did it even when he was lying. His time on Earth may have passed, but his image will loom large for eternity.
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Feeling a post-holiday letdown? Tired of shorter days and early nights? Wondering how you can get through the dark months as you pine for summer sunshine? Fear not. You can walk—or jog, run, or lift—your way to a brighter mood with exercise.
When you're feeling low, moving may be the last thing you feel like doing. As Sir Isaac Newton pointed out, an object at rest tends to stay at rest. But increasingly, science is proving that if you can peel yourself off the couch and put one foot in front of the other, you'll feel better, both about yourself and the world.
So how do you make this happen?
Working out "cheers up" your body chemistry.
When you're physically active, your body releases natural chemicals that actually make you feel good. Neurotransmitters like endorphins, serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine help you feel relaxed and happy.
Exercise also reduces your body's production of hormones like cortisol, which are released at high levels during chronic stress and depress the immune system.
Working out has a calming effect on the body. When all else is equal, the harder to exercise the calmer you'll be.
You can help support these positive results with the right supplements, like ActiVit® Multivitamins or Shakeology®.
Move your body, change your mind.
Exercise has been proven to:
Show you can do something positive: By choosing to get up and move, you're taking care of yourself, and coping in a healthy way. And when you observe that, you'll believe you can take other steps forward.
How much exercise makes a difference?
As little as 10 to 15 minutes of activity can improve your mood, especially if you're doing something dynamic, like running or cycling. Harvard psychiatrist John J. Ratey, M.D., writes that a single workout can jump-start the feel-good chemical changes. So the most important thing is getting started. To get the greatest benefits, work your way up to at least 30 minutes a day, 3 to 5 days a week.
What kind of workout is best?
One you enjoy. Seriously. If it's not something you like, you're less likely to make the effort. For instance, I don't happen to be a fan of plyometrics, despite its many benefits. When I work out, I opt for cycling, yoga, or low-impact programs instead. They still get me sweating my way into a great mood. Identify the activities you enjoy, and get going.
How do you get started?
Choose something accessible. The power of exercise doesn't come from fancy equipment, but from the effort you put in. If you pick something you can get to and that fits your timetable, you've lowered the barriers to beginning. For example, you can:
So start today. Boost your activity level and help put a smile on your face. Because you don't have to wait for the sunshine to feel good.
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A movie perception test by Daniel Levin & Daniel Simons.
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From National Geographic's Brain Games:
Interactive experiments, illusions, and mind tricks reveal the inner workings of the ultimate supercomputer—the human brain.
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From Pacific Standard (a brief excerpt from a long, worthwhile article about the work of Jeremy Bailenson):
A few years ago, a research psychologist at Stanford University named Jeremy Bailenson effectively proved the soundness of Anderson's recruitment methods (pdf). A week before the 2004 presidential election, Bailenson asked a bunch of prospective voters to look at photographs of George W. Bush and John Kerry and then give their opinions of the candidates. What the voters didn't know was that the photographs had been doctored: each voter's own visage had been subtly morphed together with that of one of the candidates.
In this and two follow-up experiments, Bailenson found what Rudy Rucker, the novelist who wrote Software, would have predicted: voters were significantly more likely to support the candidate who had been made to look like them. What's more, not a single voter detected that it was, in part, his or her own face staring back.
In another experiment (pdf), Bailenson outfitted college students with head-mounted virtual-reality displays and then sat them across a digital table from an artificial-intelligence agent—a computer program with a human face. The students then listened as the "agent" delivered a short persuasive speech. When the agent was programmed to mimic a student's facial movements on a four-second delay—a tilt of the chin, a look to the left, a downward glance—the students found it more likeable and compelling. And like the prospective voters, the students showed no sign that they knew they were being mimicked. Nothing, it seems, is more persuasive than a mirror.
Read entire article here.
From Google Talks (Bailenson discusses his work and book with Jim Blasovich, Infinite Reality):
Summary from Google Talks:
The coming explosion of immersive digital technology, combined with recent progress in unlocking how the mind works, will soon revolutionize our lives in ways only science fiction has imagined. In Infinite Reality, Jeremy Bailenson (Stanford University) and Jim Blascovich (University of California, Santa Barbara)—two of virtual reality's pioneering authorities whose pathbreaking research has mapped how our brain behaves in digital worlds—take us on a mind-bending journey through the virtual universe.
Infinite Reality explores what emerging computer technologies and their radical applications will mean for the future of human life and society. Along the way, Bailenson and Blascovich examine the timeless philosophical questions of the self and "reality" that arise through the digital experience; explain how virtual reality's latest and future forms—including immersive video games and social-networking sites—will soon be seamlessly integrated into our lives; show the many surprising practical applications of virtual reality, from education and medicine to sex and warfare; and probe further-off possibilities like "total personality downloads" that would allow your great-great-grandchildren to have a conversation with "you" a century or more after your death.
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From TEDTalks:
Information designer Tom Wujec talks through three areas of the brain that help us understand words, images, feelings, connections. In this short talk from TEDU, he asks: How can we best engage our brains to help us better understand big ideas?
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An excerpt from a recent, terrific New York Times piece by Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton:
The notion that money can't buy happiness has been around a long time — even before yoga came into vogue. But it turns out there is a measurable connection between income and happiness; not surprisingly, people with a comfortable living standard are happier than people living in poverty.
The catch is that additional income doesn't buy us any additional happiness on a typical day once we reach that comfortable standard. The magic number that defines this "comfortable standard" varies across individuals and countries, but in the United States, it seems to fall somewhere around $75,000. Using Gallup data collected from almost half a million Americans, researchers at Princeton found that higher household incomes were associated with better moods on a daily basis — but the beneficial effects of money tapered off entirely after the $75,000 mark.
Why, then, do so many of us bother to work so hard long after we have reached an income level sufficient to make most of us happy? One reason is that our ideas about the relationship between money and happiness are misguided. In research we conducted with a national sample of Americans, people thought that their life satisfaction would double if they made $55,000 instead of $25,000: more than twice as much money, twice as much happiness. But our data showed that people who earned $55,000 were just 9 percent more satisfied than those making $25,000. Nine percent beats zero percent, but it's still kind of a letdown when you were expecting a 100 percent return.
Interestingly, and usefully, it turns out that what we do with our money plays a far more important role than how much money we make. Imagine three people each win $1 million in the lottery. Suppose one person attempts to buy every single thing he has ever wanted; one puts it all in the bank and uses the money only sparingly, for special occasions; and one gives it all to charity. At the end of the year, they all would report an additional $1 million of income. Many of us would follow the first person's strategy, but the latter two winners are likely to get the bigger happiness bang for their buck.
We usually think of having more money as allowing us to buy more and more of the stuff we like for ourselves, from bigger houses to fancier cars to better wine to more finely pixilated televisions. But these typical spending tendencies — buying more, and buying for ourselves — are ineffective at turning money into happiness. A decade of research has demonstrated that if you insist on spending money on yourself, you should shift from buying stuff (TVs and cars) to experiences (trips and special evenings out). Our own recent research shows that in addition to buying more experiences, you're better served in many cases by simply buying less — and buying for others.
Read the entire article, including their discussion of value of "underindulgence."
Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending (Simon & Schuster), co-authored by Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton, is due out in the spring of 2013!
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Imagine you couldn't recognize people's faces, and even your own family looked unfamiliar. Lesley Stahl reports on face blindness, a puzzling neurological disorder.
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This week on "60 Minutes" Lesley Stahl reports on people who are "face blind." It's a mysterious and sad condition that keeps sufferers from recognizing or identifying faces — even the faces of close family members, children, or spouses. Many "face blind" people don't even know they have it.
If you suspect you might be "face blind," in the above video, you'll find a test that may provide an answer. We show you a series of pictures of famous people and ask you to figure out who they are.
If you have trouble identifying the faces in our test, we suggest that you check out www.faceblind.org/facetests/ where you can learn about face blindness and take other tests created by Professor Brad Duchaine and his colleagues at Dartmouth College.
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From The Leaning Tower illusion: a new illusion of perspective Frederick A. A. Kingdom, Ali Yoonessi, Elena Gheorghiu Perception. 2007. 36(3):475-477:
Consider the photograph in [above image] of the Petronas twin towers in Kuala Lumpur. Both towers are physically vertical, but in the two-dimensional projection their corresponding outlines are not parallel but converge as the towers recede into the distance. Our knowledge of perspective however compensates for this and leads us to perceive the inclinations of the two towers veridically.
From The Leaning Tower illusion (cont'd):
Our knowledge of perspective however compensates for this and leads us to perceive the inclinations of the two towers veridically. It follows that if the corresponding outlines of a pair of physically identical, receding objects are parallel in the two-dimensional projection, the objects cannot be physically parallel but, instead, must be diverging as they recede from view. This is clearly what we perceive in [above image], where the right-hand tower has been replaced with a copy of the one on the left. Now the corresponding outlines are parallel, and the two towers appear to diverge . . . .
From The Leaning Tower illusion (cont'd)
The illusion is not restricted to towers photographed from below, but works well with other scenes, such as the tram lines in above image. What the illusion reveals is not a failure of perspective per se, but the tendency of the visual system to treat two side-by-side images as if part of the same scene. However hard we try, we seem unable to see the two photographs of the Leaning Tower in figure 1 as separate, albeit identical, images of the same object. Instead, our visual system regards the images as the `Twin Towers of Pisa', whose two-dimensional projection leads to the `correct' interpretation that one tower is leaning more than the other.
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Experimental psychologist Professor Bruce Hood illustrating how human vision works (from the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 2011).
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When I was a law clerk working on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit several years back, a case came up involving the competency of blind jurors. I wasn't assigned to the case — and, as a result, don't remember any of the details — but the general question of when someone's disability ought to be grounds for excluding him or her as a judicial decision-maker continues to intrigue me.
Overall, I remain skeptical of attempts to disallow participation. Part of my skepticism stems from psychological evidence suggesting that we naively believe that we see the world as it actually is and that those who do not, must necessarily have some dispositional flaw. Dan Kahan, David Hoffman, and Donald Braman's 2009 Harvard Law Review article on the impact of cultural cognition in interpreting the facts of a police chase video provides an excellent example of the dangers of when judges determine that there is only one reasonable view of a case (and that those who see things differently cannot participate in the judicial assessment process). It turns out that we're not always very good at judging others' disqualifying biases (for a situationist critique of Kahan, Hoffman, and Braman's article click here).
The second reason that I'm wary is that there is good evidence that having complete use of one's facilities doesn't necessarily improve perception of key information. Research on lie detection suggests that people are often mislead by focusing on visual cues (like whether someone is averting his or her gaze). Perhaps the best demonstration of how our eyes can lead us astray is the McGurk Effect (demonstrated in the brief video below). What I love about the McGurk Effect is that even though I am fully aware of what is going on (i.e., that my eyes are leading me astray) and desperately try to control for it, I can't.
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This lively RSAnimate, adapted from Dan Pink's talk at the RSA, examines some the ways that money doesn't always buy motivation.
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iMore show 346: State of the camera art
Alex Dobie of Android Central joins Rene to talk about mobile camera, from the dumb phone days to the latest iPhone, Android, Windows Phone, and BlackBerry glass, plus a look at micro 4/3, high end DSLR, and a RED. Yeah, pretty much pure camera porn!
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iMore show 346: State of the camera art
I would like you to ask you photographer what he likes/dislikes from current mobile phones, where he thinks the next area of mobile phone evolution should be? Lastly, what his ideal device camera (current/not yet available) would be? Sorry, one more. Why does he use the 4k camera? Advantages/disadvantages, better images even if you scale down?...
Great show!
Interesting podcast. The audio was pretty bad to listen, but I just had to bare through it!
Interesting that neither Nokia 808 Pureview nor N8 wre mentioned even thoug they still are the best mobile cameras ever made, which, owing to the N8's age tells quite a bit of the sorry state of affairs on Apple and Android camera tech. Curiosly, Lumia 720, a cheap low end phone, now takes better low light photos than an Iphone 5. But hey, lets boast about iP5 and HTC One...
It is also interesting what Nokia are doing with augmented reality on the camera. But since neither apple nor android do anything like that, lets dismiss all genuineny new development taking place with cameras... And talk superficial matters. Oh well.
That's covered in the Nokiamore podcast.
Interesting podcast, but was a little surprised that there wasn't more made of the HTC One's wide-angle lens - 28mm (35mm full-frame equivalent) is significantly wider than any other phone out there AFAIK; that, coupled with great low-light performance, makes it of great interest to me, and could easily be the killer feature that tears me away from my iPhone.
Word to the wise: Put the microphone in the SAME ROOM as the speakers, and preferably CLOSE to the speakers. And do something about the clicking in the audio. I've about had enough with the shoddy recording of iMore podcasts and will no longer listen if this continues, it's just not worth it. I can understand the occasional glitches that mar or almost destroy a podcast recording, but when you don't even try to make it sound acceptable or professional, then I don't have time for it.


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- How do treebank annotation schemes influence parsing results? : or how not to compare apples and oranges (2005)
- In the last decade, the Penn treebank has become the standard data set for evaluating parsers. The fact that most parsers are solely evaluated on this specific data set leaves the question unanswered how much these results depend on the annotation scheme of the treebank. In this paper, we will investigate the influence which different decisions in the annotation schemes of treebanks have on parsing. The investigation uses the comparison of similar treebanks of German, NEGRA and TüBa-D/Z, which are subsequently modified to allow a comparison of the differences. The results show that deleted unary nodes and a flat phrase structure have a negative influence on parsing quality while a flat clause structure has a positive influence.
- A hybrid architecture for robust parsing of german (2002)
- This paper provides an overview of current research on a hybrid and robust parsing architecture for the morphological, syntactic and semantic annotation of German text corpora. The novel contribution of this research lies not in the individual parsing modules, each of which relies on state-of-the-art algorithms and techniques. Rather what is new about the present approach is the combination of these modules into a single architecture. This combination provides a means to significantly optimize the performance of each component, resulting in an increased accuracy of annotation.
- TüSBL : a similarity-based chunk parser for robust syntactic processing (2001)
- Chunk parsing has focused on the recognition of partial constituent structures at the level of individual chunks. Little attention has been paid to the question of how such partial analyses can be combined into larger structures for complete utterances. The TüSBL parser extends current chunk parsing techniques by a tree-construction component that extends partial chunk parses to complete tree structures including recursive phrase structure as well as function-argument structure. TüSBLs tree construction algorithm relies on techniques from memory-based learning that allow similarity-based classification of a given input structure relative to a pre-stored set of tree instances from a fully annotated treebank. A quantitative evaluation of TüSBL has been conducted using a semi-automatically constructed treebank of German that consists of appr. 67,000 fully annotated sentences. The basic PARSEVAL measures were used although they were developed for parsers that have as their main goal a complete analysis that spans the entire input.This runs counter to the basic philosophy underlying TüSBL, which has as its main goal robustness of partially analyzed structures.
- A unified representation for morphological, syntactic, semantic, and referential annotations (2004)
- This paper reports on the SYN-RA (SYNtax-based Reference Annotation) project, an on-going project of annotating German newspaper texts with referential relations. The project has developed an inventory of anaphoric and coreference relations for German in the context of a unified, XML-based annotation scheme for combining morphological, syntactic, semantic, and anaphoric information. The paper discusses how this unified annotation scheme relates to other formats currently discussed in the literature, in particular the annotation graph model of Bird and Liberman (2001) and the pie-in-thesky scheme for semantic annotation.
- Annotation compatibility working group report (2006)
- This report explores the question of compatibility between annotation projects including translating annotation formalisms to each other or to common forms. Compatibility issues are crucial for systems that use the results of multiple annotation projects. We hope that this report will begin a concerted effort in the field to track the compatibility of annotation schemes for part of speech tagging, time annotation, treebanking, role labeling and other phenomena.
- Braucht Nominalphrasenerkennung linguistisches Wissen? (2001)
- Maschinelles Lernen wird häufig zur effzienten Annotation großer Datenmengen eingesetzt. Die Forschung zu maschinellen Lernverfahren beschränkt sich i.a. darauf unterschiedliche Lernverfahren zu vergelichen oder die optimale größe der Trainingsdaten zu bestimmen. Bisher wurde jedoch nicht untersucht, in wie weit sich linguistisches Wissen bei der Aufgabendefinition positiv auswirken kann. Dies soll hier anhand des Lernens von Base-Nominalphrasen mit drei unterschiedlichen Definitionen untersucht werden. Die Definitionen unterscheiden sich im Grad der linguistisch motivierten Erweiterungen, die zu einer eher praktisch motivierten ersten Definition hinzu kamen. Die Untersuchungen ergaben, dass sich die Anzahl der falsch klasssifizierten Wörter um ein Drittel reduzieren lässt.
- Combining dependency parsing with PP attachment (2007)
- Prepositional phrase (PP) attachment is one of the major sources for errors in traditional statistical parsers. The reason for that lies in the type of information necessary for resolving structural ambiguities. For parsing, it is assumed that distributional information of parts-of-speech and phrases is sufficient for disambiguation. For PP attachment, in contrast, lexical information is needed. The problem of PP attachment has sparked much interest ever since Hindle and Rooth (1993) formulated the problem in a way that can be easily handled by machine learning approaches: In their approach, PP attachment is reduced to the decision between noun and verb attachment; and the relevant information is reduced to the two possible attachment sites (the noun and the verb) and the preposition of the PP. Brill and Resnik (1994) extended the feature set to the now standard 4-tupel also containing the noun inside the PP. Among many publications on the problem of PP attachment, Volk (2001; 2002) describes the only system for German. He uses a combination of supervised and unsupervised methods. The supervised method is based on the back-off model by Collins and Brooks (1995), the unsupervised part consists of heuristics such as "If there is a support verb construction present, choose verb attachment". Volk trains his back-off model on the Negra treebank (Skut et al., 1998) and extracts frequencies for the heuristics from the "Computerzeitung". The latter also serves as test data set. Consequently, it is difficult to compare Volk's results to other results for German, including the results presented here, since not only he uses a combination of supervised and unsupervised learning, but he also performs domain adaptation. Most of the researchers working on PP attachment seem to be satisfied with a PP attachment system; we have found hardly any work on integrating the results of such approaches into actual parsers. The only exceptions are Mehl et al. (1998) and Foth and Menzel (2006), both working with German data. Mehl et al. report a slight improvement of PP attachment from 475 correct PPs out of 681 PPs for the original parser to 481 PPs. Foth and Menzel report an improvement of overall accuracy from 90.7% to 92.2%. Both integrate statistical attachment preferences into a parser. First, we will investigate whether dependency parsing, which generally uses lexical information, shows the same performance on PP attachment as an independent PP attachment classifier does. Then we will investigate an approach that allows the integration of PP attachment information into the output of a parser without having to modify the parser: The results of an independent PP attachment classifier are integrated into the parse of a dependency parser for German in a postprocessing step.
- Evaluating POS tagging under sub-optimal conditions : or: does meticulousness pay? (2000)
- In this paper, we investigate the role of sub-optimality in training data for part-of-speech tagging. In particular, we examine to what extent the size of the training corpus and certain types of errors in it affect the performance of the tagger. We distinguish four types of errors: If a word is assigned a wrong tag, this tag can belong to the ambiguity class of the word (i.e. to the set of possible tags for that word) or not; furthermore, the major syntactic category (e.g. "N" or "V") can be correctly assigned (e.g. if a finite verb is classified as an infinitive) or not (e.g. if a verb is classified as a noun). We empirically explore the decrease of performance that each of these error types causes for different sizes of the training set. Our results show that those types of errors that are easier to eliminate have a particularly negative effect on the performance. Thus, it is worthwhile concentrating on the elimination of these types of errors, especially if the training corpus is large.
- From chunks to function-argument structure : a similarity-based approach (2001)
- Chunk parsing has focused on the recognition of partial constituent structures at the level of individual chunks. Little attention has been paid to the question of how such partial analyses can be combined into larger structures for complete utterances. Such larger structures are not only desirable for a deeper syntactic analysis. They also constitute a necessary prerequisite for assigning function-argument structure. The present paper offers a similaritybased algorithm for assigning functional labels such as subject, object, head, complement, etc. to complete syntactic structures on the basis of prechunked input. The evaluation of the algorithm has concentrated on measuring the quality of functional labels. It was performed on a German and an English treebank using two different annotation schemes at the level of function argument structure. The results of 89.73% correct functional labels for German and 90.40%for English validate the general approach.
- From phrase structure to dependencies, and back (2004)
- Transforming constituent-based annotation into dependency-based annotation has been shown to work for different treebanks and annotation schemes (e.g. Lin (1995) has transformed the Penn treebank, and Kübler and Telljohann (2002) the Tübinger Baumbank des Deutschen (TüBa-D/Z)). These ventures are usually triggered by the conflict between theory-neutral annotation, that targets most needs of a wider audience, and theory-specific annotation, that provides more fine-grained information for a smaller audience. As a compromise, it has been pointed out that treebanks can be designed to support more than one theory from the start (Nivre, 2003). We argue that information can also be added to an existing annotation scheme so that it supports additional theory-specific annotations. We also argue that such a transformation is useful for improving and extending the original annotation scheme with respect to both ambiguous annotation and annotation errors. We show this by analysing problems that arise when generating dependency information from the constituent-based TüBa-D/Z.


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What started as a response to a possible shoplifting in progress ended up in three drug-related arrests over the weekend.
Scott Michael Smith, 28, of Belvedere, Jerrold Swearingen, 48, of Aiken, and Billie Huckaby, 27, of Belvedere, were each charged with possession of methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia on Sunday, according to a police report. Smith was also charged with driving under suspension.
Aiken Department of Public Safety officers responded to a call on Sunday from a loss prevention employee of Walmart on Whiskey Road regarding possible shoplifting suspects.
Police caught up with the suspect vehicle, which was pulled over at an old gas station parking lot on Howlandville and Pine Log roads.
Loss prevention believed the suspects took a cordless drill and converter box, the report read. The responding officer told the driver, who was identified as Smith, why they were stopped, and he responded that they didn't take anything but allowed police to search the vehicle.
At that time, when searching to assure there were no weapons on them, police found what Swearingen confirmed to be methamphetamine in his pocket, the report read. A short blue straw with residue of the drug was also found on him, according to the report.
As the vehicle was searched, more blue straws containing the same substance were inside a cigarette pack found in between the front passenger seat and arm rest. It was the same kind of cigarettes that Huckaby identified as hers that were sitting with her purse on the front seat, according to the report. Another straw was located in the front passenger side door where Huckaby was sitting, according to the report. A small bag of the substance was also found stuffed inside the cigarette pack.
A box was also found under the driver's seat that read "Scott's Box. Do not touch! Open will blow up," the report read. Inside the box were more blue straws containing residue of the drug. The box also held another bag of the substance which was identified as methamphetamine, the report read.
Officers found a small dog in the vehicle, which was placed in the care of ADPS animal control, the report read.
Later, police received a call from Walmart's loss prevention employee, who stated the boxes of the missing items were recovered which included the drill, the converter box and a knife set. The employee said they witnessed the suspects cutting open the box. The employee confronted the suspects and they put the items down, but it was unknown if they later concealed the merchandise and walked out.
None of those items were found in the vehicle when it was searched, so no shoplifting charges will be filed at this time, according to the report.
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CHARLESTON — A federal judge has dismissed a former South Carolina prison officer's lawsuit accusing cellphone companies of opting not to block inmates' outgoing phone calls – including the call organizing a hit on his life.
U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie dismissed the lawsuit by Robert Johnson, who was a captain at the Lee Correctional Institution in Bishopville, The Post and Courier of Charleston reported on Monday.
Johnson, 59, was shot six times and wounded at his home in Sumter in 2010 in an attack that prosecutors say was orchestrated by inmates using illegal cellphones in prison. Johnson, a 15-year veteran of the Corrections Department, had overseen efforts to keep contraband out of Lee.
Authorities have said Johnson was the first U.S. corrections officer harmed by a hit ordered from an inmate's cellphone. South Carolina has been seeking federal permission to jam cellular signals at state prisons, but the request has stalled before the Federal Communications Commission, which has said a 1934 law allows only federal agencies to jam public airwaves.
Cellphone companies had argued that the jamming methods suggested by South Carolina and other states could interfere with emergency communications and other legal cellphone use.
The Johnsons had sued 20 cellphone companies and cellular tower owners. The Johnsons will ask the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reinstate the lawsuit, according to the couple's attorney, Robert Parker.
Cellphone providers could jam cellphone use by inmates without interfering with other communications systems, Parker said.
One man, Sean Echols, is awaiting trial on charges of using a gun during a violent crime and conspiring to murder a prison guard. U.S. Attorney Bill Nettles says Echols took on the task in exchange for $6,000. The inmate authorities say conspired with Echols has not been named.
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Chatter around the NBA playoff series has been dominated by Golden State Warriors star and league MVP Stephen Curry. The NBA recently noted that Curry and LeBron James are the only unanimous selections to the All-NBA first team by a panel of writers and broadcasters based in the United States and Canada. Tuesday evening, though, Curry was finally overshadowed—by his own 2-year-old daughter. At a p
By Barry Eitel on May 24, 2015
Major League Baseball's World Series, commonly known as the Fall Classic, will be played a little closer to the onset of winter this year. The 2015 season began Sunday in Chicago with a 3-0 victory by the St. Louis Cardinals over the Chicago Cubs. The final game of the regular season is scheduled for Oct. 4. The relatively late April 5 opener, coupled with having Thursday off during the All-Star B
By Darren Richardson on Apr 10, 2015
For a moment – no, make that for a whole lot of moments – the Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team had its back against the wall against the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame Saturday night in Cleveland. But in the end, it was Kentucky's size, depth and the court-tested poise of twin sophomore guards Andrew and Aaron Harrison that helped the Cats stay undefeated with a 68-66 win and emerge from the
By Darren Richardson on Mar 29, 2015
In stadiums and arenas across the country, players take the court or field and dazzle the crowds with their physical feats. However, another player is grabbing a bigger and bigger share of the spotlight at these venues: technology. Modern-day venues, both new construction and redesigns, are being tricked out with impressive Wi-Fi, video systems and more. These venues represent how technology is tr
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Football fans are used to hearing about how some NFL team wants to move to Los Angeles. Now get ready to hear about how three NFL teams want to move to Los Angeles. After last month's announcement that the St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke planned to build a Rams stadium in Los Angeles and move the team, the Oakland Raiders and San Diego Chargers proposed a shared stadium in Carson, California. Th
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The Kentucky Wildcats (24-0) kept their perfect season alive with a 71-69 win over the Louisiana State University Tigers Tuesday in Baton Rouge, holding on for the victory thanks to a missed 3-pointer by LSU guard Keith Hornsby. The Wildcats will try to make it 25-0 when they host the South Carolina Gamecocks Saturday afternoon. The only NCAA Division I men's basketball team to attain perfection s
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