the CrunchPad Crumble Under High Costs
The Insider’s sources, referred to as “a few people on a recent trip to California,”Dell INSPIRON 2600 Battery, seem a bit fragile, but they say Arrington’s suppliers came back with higher price quotes than anticipated, and so the project has been shelved, perhaps indefinitely.
Arrington didn’t comment on the story, and in fact his silence over the past few months may be the biggest clue that something’s up. Speaking to the New York Times in July, he said the CrunchPad would be unveiled at an event that month or the next.Dell INSPIRON 2600 Battery,Dell Latitude X300 Battery,Dell Inspiron 2000 Battery The event never happened, and Arrington hasn’t provided an update.
The CrunchPad, in Arrington’s words, was supposed to be a “dead simple” tablet whose main reason for existence was browsing the Web. Photos of a 12.8- by 7.8- by 0.7-inch device surfaced in late July, with netbook specs — Intel Atom processor, 1 GB of RAM, built-in Wi-Fi and possibly 3G — and an estimated price of $400.
That’s twice what Arrington was shooting for when he announced his dream device in July 2008, and last January, Arrington wrote that “$299 is more realistic.” When the Straits Times in Singapore profiled the company developing the CrunchPad in July, citing an unconfirmed price of $400, the writing was on the wall.
The Insider’s Dan Frommer offered a wild theory that the CrunchPad could just be waiting to launch with Google’s Chrome OS, but I think it would be a mistake for a major technology blogger to actually get into business with a major technology company, so that theory seems unlikely.
Besides, there are still the hardware costs to deal with. If the CrunchPad can’t be sold on the cheap, it runs smack into the rumored Apple tablet and a slew of netbooks with more functionality.
If the CrunchPad is dead, I do applaud Arrington for trying. He’ll have proven at least one thing: Running a tech blog doesn’t mean you can cut it as a gadget maker
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The company said in a statement that it had reached a preliminary with dassault cooperation agreement. Board member Heinz Haller, said: “This strategic cooperation and Dassault shows the company to accelerate Dow Kodam vehicle battery systems for the determination of supply and market expansion.”
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Recommendations of the industry - standards of mobile battery should be internally and externally for
Some media reports on this standard will be referred to as “mobile standard battery, but what Gui Li said that the current waiting for the approval of the exchange is mainly based on cell phone batteries, mobile phone in order to set the appearance of size standards, technical requirements are primarily for battery service interoperability. “But the same size battery, battery capacity may have some large, some small capacity, this battery is that it uses what is the basis of technical content. In addition, this standard has also put environmental protection and conservation of resources, expectations, hoping to reduce the use of standard costs and reduce e-waste purposes.
However, a standard form of the battery if it can meet these expectations? Some users of mobile phones, the battery is good uniform appearance can be made for the purpose of cell phone does not replace the battery. However, compared to the quality of mobile as an important accessory battery is more “fragile”, it is often not a bad cell phone to pass in 2034, while the batteries are replaced some of the good . However, if normal, replace the battery more often for mobile radio frequencies. Dell Inspiron 2000 Battery At the same time, users have the same size or even cell phone batteries, use sensory quality is not stable. Furthermore, compared with mobile phones are machine warranty conditions for the battery warranty is only for half a year, is not it also reflects the production technology of cell phone batteries itself must be improved?
In response to these problems, an industry source said that-lithium-ion is currently the most widely used mobile phone batteries, but much of the performance of battery discharge is not compliance, it may lead to time a mobile phone before,Dell INSPIRON 2600 Battery,Dell Latitude X300 Battery,Dell Inspiron 2000 Battery call quality is affected, there will be a swap line. Therefore, “the standard battery of mobile phones is not only the standard models, but more importantly, the quality threshold.”
In addition, the reduction of electronic waste, conserve resources and not achieve the complete elimination of harmful substances polluting the environment and human health. Note that at present China has developed “Electronic Information Products Pollution Control Regulations”, is equivalent to the European Union issued the relevant standards, technical, and March 1 this year officially implemented .