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Samsung Galaxy Tab II will be renamed ... as they'll release multiple new sizes. My love of the GT continues. Now, I'll be psyched to buy the 2nd version... which is named Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.

The point of interest for the upcoming Samsung Galaxy TAB 7 is the CPU, upgraded from the 1GHz single core ARM A8 to a modern 1.2 GHz dual core model helped by 1 GB RAM (double the previous amount). I can't wait to have a dual core CPU supported by double the ram. Now that's adding some guts. Interesting comment found on the same site.

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  MollieThomas
  June 17, 2011 at 5:35 pm

   

  I have both the Galaxy Tab 7 and the Ipad2 and for everyday performance and usage I keep reverting to the Galaxy Tab 7. I also have an HTC Desire and I find Android is just so superior. Also I dropped the Ipad from a 3inch height from my hands onto my desk (3 inches) the corner of the Ipad hit the desk and the glass of the Ipad cracked and now it has this spider web crack in the left hand upper corner radiating our across the face of the Ipad. This is what happens when you shave 25% off the glass to make it lighter. Oh, by the way Apple does not cover this in its warranty, read the fine print. It was 3 days old and I have to wear it.
  I am looking forward to the upgrade but honeycomb would have been nice.

Seems to me that whether you’re a REPUBLICAN or DEMOCRAT … the concept that there’s unlimited OIL is obviously false.

So … if we could re-do ‘giving Kuwait’ back to its monarchy… it would have been good to have KEPT it! IMO the USA will be going to war for oil (as official policy) in the next 15 years. “Kuwait has a geographically small, but wealthy, relatively open economy with self-reported crude oil reserves of about 104 billion barrels – about 9% of world reserves.” CIA FACTBOOK – ECONOMY section

Anyway … while petroleum is a crappy option … it’s pathetic that we’re not focusing on solutions to use less energy – or gather other sustainable energy.

Some of my ideas (and by the way the former owner of a residential and commercial roofing contractor in California):
My favorite = Tidal power or here
Also cool (more futuristic) = Solar Farming

WE COULD EASILY do for all future commercial roofs (both new construction and re-roofing):

Cool Roofs

Cool roofs feature a highly reflective outer surface that reduces the amount of heat conducted through the roof. On a sunny day, ENERGY STAR–labeled cool roof products typically lower the roof surface temperature by 50° to 70° Fahrenheit (F), thereby decreasing the amount of heat transferred into a building (see sidebar).

CASE STUDY: Texas Cool Roof Yields Big Savings at Target
Installing a reflective roof membrane on a 100,000-square-foot Target retail store in Austin, Texas, reduced the average summer daily maximum roof-surface temperature from 168° to 126° Fahrenheit. This temperature reduction cut the building’s total air-conditioning energy use by 11 percent and peak air-conditioning demand by 14 percent. Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory estimate that this cool roof installation will save about $65,000 over the course of its useful life. According to the building manager, the difference in labor and materials costs for installing a white thermoplastic roof instead of a black rubber roof was negligible, so that the payback for this system was immediate.

I’m not one to bitch about cell phones – unless there’s a big problem. HOWEVER, by charging the most for a phone (in their cell phone line), the LEAST they could do is to do a decent job of checking the cell phone’s software BEFORE it’s released!

One thing that I LOOK for in a phone is the ability to encrypt the contents of the memory stick – it’s nice to know that if one’s phone is stolen (or forgotten, like the Apple employee with the prototype iPhone 4G who forgot it in a bar bathroom) then the contents of the phone are not retrievable (without serious effort).

So, I stumbled across the settings for ENCRYPT (home/control panel/phone/encryption) – and decided I’d encrypt my memory stick.

I put in a password the first time.
Then, when I started to put the password in a second time, I decided I wanted to use a different password. So, I purposefully put in a different password in the CONFIRMATION FIELD.
SHOCKINGLY, the password was accepted! by the phone.
It proceeded to encrypt the memory stick.

After the encryption, my SMS messages were locked, and I was unable to create any new messages (I had purposefully chosen to save SMS files to the memory stick).

So, I decided to DECRYPT the memory stick.

It didn’t ask me for a password -oooops! minor security flaw.

It decrypted the memory stick, but in doing so, it corrupted all the files. Not fun.

So, when considering the Nokia e72, my review of it would be, take a pass until they can come up with better OS applications; namely, when the phone’s glitches aren’t so bad that you can feel safe using it.

PAF