iPhone Cruncher

Not to be outdone by all the buzz for the newly released Blackberry Playbook or iPad 2, it seems Amazon is also joining the color tablet PC fray.

Quanta Computer, the Taiwanese tablet PC manufacturer of the Playbook and Sony S1 S2, along with E Ink Holdings, have received orders from Amazon to develop a color LCD touchscreen device featuring “Fringe Field Switching technology“. Apparently, FFS LCD screens offer a wider viewing angle, more realistic colors and better outdoor viewing than regular LCD displays. Though no prices have been released yet, this contract is expected to bring in “$3.5 billion” for Quanta by the end of 2011, with “monthly orders during the peak season … expected to reach about 700,000-800,000 units and Quanta is expected to start shipping as soon as the second half of 2011,” according to DigiTimes-just in time for the holiday shopping season.

So what will be the fate of the Kindle, Amazon’s flagship e-book reader? Sources at DigiTimes suggest the Kindle’s days may be numbered due to its inability to appeal to consumers beyond North America and Europe, which only further legitimizes that an Amazon-brand iPad competitor is really on its way:

“[While] Amazon’s Kindle still has strong sales, but the e-book reader is currently still unable to successfully cut into the markets outside of North America and Europe; therefore, Amazon internally plans to reduce Kindle’s market price to attract consumer demand from the education and consumer market, while will push tablet PC using its advantage in software and content resources to challenge iPad2.”

Is this why Target is selling the Kindle for a mere $114 this week? Does Amazon have a chance against Apple?

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By now most of you may have read about the exploding iPhones being reported around the globe. And while the iPhone is one of the preferred mobile handsets that people want to get their hands on today, it is obvious that people are now thinking twice of getting one for this “Exploding” iPhone bit.

And as always, Apple is making a statement denying that they are at fault. There is no flaw in the production process of iPhones and the real cause has been traced to the force applied on the LCD screens of the iPhones.

“The iPhones with broken glass that we have analyzed to date show that in all cases, the glass cracked due to an external force that was applied to the iPhone,” Apple said in a statement cited by the BBC.

(Source) Cnet