Friday 1 February 2013
Google maps out the Grand Canyon with over 9500 pictures
Google Maps has gotten down and dirty in Arizona by mapping
out over 75 miles of trails and roads in one of nature’s most impressive
wonders.
The initiative is part of Google’s new Trekker program, which puts the famous 360-degree, 15-lens street view cameras in on a wearable backpack, allowing Google maps to give you up close and personal views of areas accessible only on foot.
You can access the wide array of beautiful Grand Canyon imagery right here.
With on-foot mapping now added to their repertoire, perhaps we’ll see some more extreme locations added to Google’s World Wonders Project. Everest, anyone?
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The initiative is part of Google’s new Trekker program, which puts the famous 360-degree, 15-lens street view cameras in on a wearable backpack, allowing Google maps to give you up close and personal views of areas accessible only on foot.
You can access the wide array of beautiful Grand Canyon imagery right here.
With on-foot mapping now added to their repertoire, perhaps we’ll see some more extreme locations added to Google’s World Wonders Project. Everest, anyone?
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Xolo X500 and its Intel Atom Z2420 CPU get benchmarked, get pretty good scores
Xolo X500, which was launched a week ago
in India, has just been benchmarked. The smartphone is designed for
emerging markets with low cost at higher priority than stellar
performance, but it did surprisingly well.
Perhaps a part of the explanation is that the Intel chip also uses its hyper threading technology, which has better multi-tasking ability. The smartphone is powered by a 1.2 GHz Intel Atom Lexington Z2420 processor along with Power VR SGX540 GPU.
The Atom-powered Xolo X500 is right behind the Xolo X900, which is powered by the Medfield chipset in the Quadrant benchmark tests.
However the X500 managed to beat its more expensive sibling at the AnTuTu benchmark. The smartphone aggregates 12859 points in the AnTuTu 3.0 benchmark, which is not bad at all.
Xolo X500 is on top of Vellamo 1.0 browser benchmark tests too and scores a hefty 1168 and 421 points in the HTML5 web browser tests and CPU subsystem performance respectively.
The X500 also managed to max out the NenaMark 2 benchmark. At the onscreen GLBenchmark test it only managed 18fps, but it should still do pretty well with all but the heaviest games.
Thanks Rapan Singh, for sending this in!
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Perhaps a part of the explanation is that the Intel chip also uses its hyper threading technology, which has better multi-tasking ability. The smartphone is powered by a 1.2 GHz Intel Atom Lexington Z2420 processor along with Power VR SGX540 GPU.
The Atom-powered Xolo X500 is right behind the Xolo X900, which is powered by the Medfield chipset in the Quadrant benchmark tests.
However the X500 managed to beat its more expensive sibling at the AnTuTu benchmark. The smartphone aggregates 12859 points in the AnTuTu 3.0 benchmark, which is not bad at all.
Xolo X500 is on top of Vellamo 1.0 browser benchmark tests too and scores a hefty 1168 and 421 points in the HTML5 web browser tests and CPU subsystem performance respectively.
The X500 also managed to max out the NenaMark 2 benchmark. At the onscreen GLBenchmark test it only managed 18fps, but it should still do pretty well with all but the heaviest games.
Thanks Rapan Singh, for sending this in!
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Google and Motorola are in search for a product manager for the X Phone
Motorola has posted a job listing in search for a senior
director of product management to focus and work directly on the X Phone
project that the WSJ reported on back in December.
Interestingly, that’s exactly how Motorola has referred to the project about its upcoming high-end smartphone set to rival the iPhone and the top dogs from the Galaxy S line-up.
While nothing more than the codename of the smartphone has been unveiled, we can only speculate on specifications and features. It can be safely assumed that the development of the device is still in its early stages.
As per earlier reports, Motorola is said to experiment with some exotic materials for the X Phone like ceramics and equip it with a “killer camera”, as per Lior Ron (who, judging from the job listing is now the project’s former leader).
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Interestingly, that’s exactly how Motorola has referred to the project about its upcoming high-end smartphone set to rival the iPhone and the top dogs from the Galaxy S line-up.
While nothing more than the codename of the smartphone has been unveiled, we can only speculate on specifications and features. It can be safely assumed that the development of the device is still in its early stages.
As per earlier reports, Motorola is said to experiment with some exotic materials for the X Phone like ceramics and equip it with a “killer camera”, as per Lior Ron (who, judging from the job listing is now the project’s former leader).
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Sony holding a PlayStation event on February 20 to announce the PS4
Sony has released a teaser video for the PlayStation event that they
will be holding later this month on Wednesday, February 20.
It won’t be much of a teaser if it revealed everything, so as you can imagine the video does not show much other than the four PlayStation button icons swirling around on the screen with the big date being displayed towards the end that doesn’t allude to anything. But according to The Wall Street Journal, the event is definitely about the PlayStation 4, or whatever Sony decides to call it.
The Journal also says that although the console will be unveiled on February 20, it won’t go on sale until later this year, probably around the holiday season. The new console will still have an optical disc drive and probably be based on AMD processors, which could mean no backwards compatibility with current PS3 games.
It won’t be much of a teaser if it revealed everything, so as you can imagine the video does not show much other than the four PlayStation button icons swirling around on the screen with the big date being displayed towards the end that doesn’t allude to anything. But according to The Wall Street Journal, the event is definitely about the PlayStation 4, or whatever Sony decides to call it.
The Journal also says that although the console will be unveiled on February 20, it won’t go on sale until later this year, probably around the holiday season. The new console will still have an optical disc drive and probably be based on AMD processors, which could mean no backwards compatibility with current PS3 games.
Acer and Intel announce the Atom-powered Liquid C1
At an event in Thailand, Intel and Acer presented a new Android smartphone. The Acer Liquid C1
makes use of the latest mobile Intel Atom Z2420 chipset, which was only
recently announced - back at CES earlier this month actually.
The Acer Liquid C1 is not a high-end model but it's still decently equipped. At the front there's a 4.3-inch IPS screen of qHD resolution (960x540 pixels). On the back there is an 8MP auto focus camera.
The Intel Atom Z2420m chipset (codenamed Lexington) has a main x86 processor, running at 1.2GHz. It's a single-core CPU with support for Hyper-Threading. It's meant to deliver reasonable performance at a tempting price point - great for emerging smartphone markets.
The chipset supports hardware-accelerated 1080p encoding and decoding plus it enables the Liquid C1 camera to snap 5 still images in a second.
The Intel-powered Acer Liquid C1
Unfortunately, the smartphone comes with only Android ICS preinstalled. There is no word on plans for future updates to more recent versions of Android, but we haven't seen a proper press release from Acer either, so there's still hope.
The Acer Liquid C1 should launch this February - initially in Thailand, and later on in other South Asian countries. It will be priced around 9,990 baht, which makes for around USD$335.
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The Acer Liquid C1 is not a high-end model but it's still decently equipped. At the front there's a 4.3-inch IPS screen of qHD resolution (960x540 pixels). On the back there is an 8MP auto focus camera.
The Intel Atom Z2420m chipset (codenamed Lexington) has a main x86 processor, running at 1.2GHz. It's a single-core CPU with support for Hyper-Threading. It's meant to deliver reasonable performance at a tempting price point - great for emerging smartphone markets.
The chipset supports hardware-accelerated 1080p encoding and decoding plus it enables the Liquid C1 camera to snap 5 still images in a second.
The Intel-powered Acer Liquid C1
Unfortunately, the smartphone comes with only Android ICS preinstalled. There is no word on plans for future updates to more recent versions of Android, but we haven't seen a proper press release from Acer either, so there's still hope.
The Acer Liquid C1 should launch this February - initially in Thailand, and later on in other South Asian countries. It will be priced around 9,990 baht, which makes for around USD$335.
Source | Via
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