Linked List: March 26, 2012

Monday, 26 March 2012

Android Phone or Condom? 

Des Traynor:

Here’s a simple rule: if your product isn’t a condom then don’t name it like one. What am I talking about? Let’s take a look…

Hilarious.

AnandTech Tests New iPad Battery Life 

Anand Lal Shimpi:

Now for the killer. If you have an iPad on Verizon’s LTE network and use it as a personal hotspot (not currently possible on the AT&T version), it will last you roughly 25.3 hours on a single charge. Obviously that’s with the display turned off, but with a 42.5Wh battery driving Qualcomm’s MDM9600 you get tons of life out of the new iPad as a personal hotspot.

PCWorld Testing Shows iPad Heat Levels Comparable to Android Tablets 

Melissa J. Perenson, reporting for PCWorld:

Though the new iPad did run hotter than the iPad 2, the difference wasn’t great. And in repeated lab tests of the new iPad, we could not replicate the disturbingly high temperatures that some sources have reported. More important, the new iPad was not dramatically warmer than either the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime or the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 LTE, even though its battery has a substantially higher milliampere-per-hour (mAh) rating than theirs do (11666mAh for the new iPad, versus 7000mAh for the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and 6930mAh for the Transformer Prime).

Remember when Consumer Reports reported on the temperatures of the Transformer Prime and Galaxy Tab? Yeah, me neither.

AT&T to Sell Nokia Lumia 900 for $100 on April 8 

It’s a shame they’re not selling the Lumia 800 instead, but the carriers seem hell-bent on pushing LTE, no matter how big the phones have to be to support it. It’ll be interesting to see whether Nokia can get any traction here in the U.S.

Dick Head Calls iPad a ‘Penis Iron’ 

Rob Enderle:

Last week was an interesting week. Apple announced what appears to be a penis iron in the new iPad, and folks are burning through their monthly 4G data plans in a few hours. Tim’s having his first Antennagate moment, and Steve Jobs he isn’t.

It’s getting harder and harder for Enderle to stay in character as the “Apple is in trouble and I’m the only guy smart enough to see it” guy.

‘Kind of a Letdown’ 

Joe Brown, Reviewing the New iPad for Gizmodo:

And there are many things the iPad New is not. But we’re going to skip right to the end of that list and hit you with the main point:

It is not worthy of a press conference.

“… that we didn’t get invited to.”

LG P925 Driver Updates 

As Craig Hockenberry quips, the easiest way to improve an 11-step software update process is to just pretend it’s only 4 steps.