Technical Devices

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Form The Galaxy Tab has two faces really, on the screen side you’ve got a stylish shiny black bezel which is evenly spaced round the whole display for a very clean look.

Turn the device over and you’re presented with a much more raw looking surface of brushed silver-coloured aluminium.

Either way you flip it there’s not a lot of noise or disruption going on, Samsung has kept visual clutter to a minimum and the shape is appealing to the eye as its corners are neither too soft nor too angular.

The Galaxy Note immediately looks good thanks to a super thin bezel along two of its edges – a design feature which in our view makes for instant visual flair when applied to any gadget with a screen.

The back panel is particularly nice thanks to a slight curvature and a textured surface, apart from this just like the rest of Samsung’s designs it is quite minimalist, which is a look that works well here.

We think both devices look equally good.

Winner – Draw

Display Both devices feature Samsung’s own Super AMOLED technology for their displays, although it should be noted the Galaxy Tab 7.7 uses the upgraded Super AMOLED Plus version while the Galaxy Note is on the brand new Super AMOLED HD variant.

The Galaxy Tab 7.7 has a cunning clue in its name regarding the size of its capacitive touchscreen, with a 7.7-inch display and an 800×1280 pixel resolution, the Galaxy Tab sports a pixel density of 196 pixels-per-inch (ppi).

It’s loaded with Samsung’s TouchWiz UX user interface (UI), supports multi-touch and is fitted with an accelerometer and gyro sensor for screen rotation.

Samsung’s rather large smartphone, the Galaxy Note, has a slightly smaller capacitive touchscreen at 5.3-inches, made from Gorilla Glass and with multi-touch support.

A modified TouchWiz 4.0 UI is pre-installed and allows for things like split screen menus and app screens, as well as supporting the innovative S Pen stylus included with the device.

It also has accelerometer and gyro sensors built in.

Screen resolution is the same as the larger Galaxy Tab 7.7, but the smaller size means a higher pixel density of 285ppi.

The Galaxy Note’s display is our first choice here thanks to the unique S Pen stylus support and interface tweaks which really make the best use of the vast screen space.

Not only that, but it also has a much higher pixel density and the added bonus of superior Super AMOLED HD.

Winner – Samsung Galaxy Note

Storage Samsung’s 7.7-inch tablet has three internal storage options for 16GB, 32GB and 64GB of space, each with 1GB of RAM and microSD support up to 32GB.

The Galaxy Note is similar, the only difference is it doesn’t have that top-end 64GB onboard storage option.

The Galaxy Tab 7.7 wins this round by having more storage to play with.

Winner – Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7

Booga booga booga! It’s the Halloween weekend and while sometimes  app game prices are pretty scary, but not this week. No this week, in honor of the witching season game makers across the board are slashing prices, chopping the heads off their numbers, gutting their profits and otherwise making things very easy for you. So without any further ado, here’s some prices that’ll have you screaming.

Resident Evil 

CAPCOM has taken one of their best franchise games and cut their prices across the board. R

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Anybody who’s recently downloaded iOS 5 or stared glumly at a Windows Phone 7 app screen and wished that some of the native applications weren’t displayed so prominently should take a glance at the new Android operation system, Ice Cream Sandwich. Rather than force you to have apps, such as Google Books, on display at all times, you can now remove them from sight. Completely.

ICS (Android 4.0), you see, allows you to disable built-in apps that you don’t use, thereby removing their icons from your home screen or app list.

The new feature won’t remove the app entire however, simply hide it from view, as Dave Burke, an engineer at Google, told us.

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I’ve just spent some time watching, and re-watching, and re-re-watching solar and business experts Bill O’Reilly, Steve Doocy, Megyn Kelly, Lou Dobbs, and Michelle Malkin pillory SunPower, which received a $1.2 billion Department of Energy Loan guarantee.

Fox is analyzing, in their unique style, the $1.237 billion loan guarantee from the DOE to support the 250-megawatt California Valley Solar Ranch Project in San Luis Obispo County, CA sponsored by SunPower and just acquired by NRG Energy (NYSE: NRG).

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