Controversy Repairing cost for Macbook Air

Dec. 15th, The post about repairing cost quote of Macbook Air 13" makes huge noise in internet communities in Korea. This quote was produced by a authorized repairing service company of Apple Korea. The client's Macbook Air was damaged by accidental spilled coke on keybaord. Eventually, the total cost is KR$3,264,750 (roughly bloody US$3,100).
Why keyboard worriers do leave this feed alone? All people say forget it and get new one.

Here is fantastic repairing quotation.

I try to seek get a new quote from a repairing company in US. They are http://www.powerbookmedic.com

And here is US quote.

The total cost is US$1549.6 without labor cost. Of course, the above Korean cost includes labor charge.

Part	Korea KRW(US$)	USA
Trackpad	80,520 (70)	74.95
Fans	24,200 (21)	24.95
Magsafe board	88,440 (76)	79.95
60GB 1.8” SSD	1,371,260 (1,192)	169.95
Keyboard Top Case Assembly	266,640 (232)	54.95
K/B Flex Bracket	9,240 (8)	4.95
Battery	171,600 (149)	139.95
Logic Board (2.13GHz, 4GB RAM)	1,297,560 (1,128)	999.95

Why this mess on SSD price between Korea and USA???????

Who are you?

Who are you who chop other's heart with your few inches tongue? 

Who are you who have knowledge just like a shallow copy paper, 

and who have enough courage to lift sword of guillotine at behind shade?

KT's spider phone updates

KT detailed its spider phone's strategy that they will reinforce the market share with this spider phone in Korea and in addition they will grow up and activate the ecosystem for spider devices. The spider phone employs Android Gingerbread, 4.5 inch WXGA(1280x800) display, 1.5Ghz dual core processor and 1710mAh battery. KT expects that the spider phone overcomes the limitation of screen size and resolution under complete N-screen concept.

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http://savememory.blogspot.com/2012/01/335ppi-hd-smartphone-tkae-hd-km-300-by.html

http://savememory.blogspot.com/2011/12/kts-spider-phone.html

Public Alert system over LTE network :: 3GPP stanardarized

Dec. 15th., TTA(Korea Telecommunications Technology Association. http://www.tta.or.kr/English/index.jsp) detailed TTA standard "Korean Public Alert System over LTE network, TTAK-KO-06.0263" was registered as international standard in 3GPP. The Public Alert system becomes a significant public service to minimize damage from natural disasters.

Download [TTA Standard document, TTAK-KO-06.0263]

Made in Texas: Apple's A5 iPhone chip

The A5 processor - the brain in the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 - is now made in a sprawling 1.6 million square feet factory in Austin owned by Korean electronics giant Samsung Electronics, according to people familiar with the operation.


[Original copy] http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/16/us-apple-samsung-idUSTRE7BF0D420111216

Poor market for Mac, but remarkable growth

PC market share in Korea (3Q/2010)

Maker	Sold Amount (3Q/2010)	Share
Samsung	500K	41.8%
LG	210K	17.2%
HP	110K	9.3%
TG Sambo	90K	7.2%
Dell	50K	4.1%
Apple	25,911

Apple's Mac sold amount in Korea

	3rd Q/2009	4th Q/2009	1st Q/2010	2nd Q/2010
Sold Amount	10,450	11,743	19,033	21,710

Source : IDC Korea

Samsung Galaxy Note for AT&T 4G LTE

AT&T is going to roll out the Samsung Galaxy Note early 2012 with model name of SGH-I717. This SH-I717 will embed Qualcomm's snapdragon MSM8660. Here, there are some comments on this details from followers.

Why Samsung does not employ its own processor, Exynos? The secret comes from 3G capability even in LTE(4G) era. Even user wants to engage in the most advanced LTE(4G), the problem is the reality of poor coverage of LTE(4G) and also the voice calling is not working perfectly yet in LTE(4G) network, that means every LTE smartphones must have extra 3G baseband chipset in it. However unfortunately, there is no single chip modem to be capable this wide generation coverage from 3G to LTE(4G) except for Qualcomm's MDM9600. Without this MDM9600, the LTE capable smartphone must embed 3 chips of AP, 3G Baseband and LTE modem. Then you can ask how about this fantastic combination of Exynos+DMD9600? But foxy Qaulcomm let MDM9600 which has whole coverage from 2G, 3G and 4G(LTE) support 3G voice with only its Snapdragon AP... The game was over....
There looks no way to escape from Qualcomm's web until Qualcomm's next modem, MDM9615 in next year.

TeleNav opened free HTML5 based Navigating solution

TeleNav offers free brand new HTML5 based voice-guided GPS navigating API to selected developers for use in mobile application and web service.

- HTML5 web based
- Voice guided
- turn-to-turn GPS navigating on mobile device
- Just add one line of code in your application for full navigating.

TeleNav opened developer website today, Dec. 14th (Room is limited) : www.telenav.com/developer/HTML5

On satge in 2012 :: Windows Slate or Tablet

Really nostalgia of Windows could stop our step to tablet?

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2012 Samsung's Keyword :: Superlattice Strategy

Samsung will confirm its business goal for next year through global strategy conference in Suwon for two days, Dec. 15th and 16th.

- Total Cellphone sales goal : 450M units (120M units more than this year)
- Smartphone sales goal : 180M units ( 40% of total cellphone. 125% to this year)
- Smart Pad : 25M units (125% to this year)

- Total TV sales goal : Minimum 50M units (10% growing up)
- Premium Smart TV : 10M units (OLED TV, Google TV, 3D TV, LED TV)

Korean e-Book market is getting warm

This Wednesday Samsung announced upgraded reader hub in Galaxy tab 8.9 LTE. This newly upgraded reader hub includes "Delight books", which is Samsung's e-book store. That means Samsung jumped into e-book market. Samsung has plan to embed newly upgraded readers hub to other tablet line, Galaxy 8.9 WiFi and Galaxy Tab 10.1.

Related to this news, NHN who is mother company of Naver (www.naver.com) and KT(www.kt.com) launched mobile e-book business and are competing to existing Korean massive online book stores, Kyobo (www.kyobo.co.kr) and Yes24(www.yes24.co.kr). 

Especially Korean government will start digital text book program from next year, 2012 to 2015 with US$2 billion fund. This program makes and offer to students that digital educational text books that includes reference book, dictionary, notebook and multimedia educational materials.

Windows 7 Slate, OCS9 pre-order

Even online store is available in Korean language(image), it seems worthy to take a look.

http://www.ocos-shop.co.kr/

- The 3rd pre-ordering is available from today (Dec. 13th) until Dec. 16th
- Price : KR$669,000 (approx. US$640) with 32G. Reg. price (32G) is KR$840,000 (approx. US$800)

Perhaps this OCS9 would be the first mass product of Windows tablet using Intel's Oak Trail processor since Computex 2011 in Taiwan. I am very curious about this processor's possibility for tablets in stead of ARM processor. Thumb up or thumb down?

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http://savememory.blogspot.com/2011/12/window-7-tablet-at-610-ocs9.html

Best Selling LTE phone :: LG Optimus LTE

Super high definition display smartphone, LG Optimus LTE, have been sold 300K units since its first launching in Oct. 5th in Korea. This sales record stands on top rank as single model of LTE smartphones and is based on 'Sell-Out' which is activated smartphone by user. Meanwhile Samsung's sales record spread over Galaxy S2 LTE, Galaxy S2 HD and Galaxy Note. Those Galaxy LTE smartphones were sold around 400K units so far.

My next researching will be about :: The Stark cultural difference between

The stark cultural difference between USA and Korea is drawing completely distinct business ecosystem. How many population attend in internet in everyday in Korea? But Korean doesn't realize how much their passion and time go to garbage.

My researching made news article.

My researching, "Comparison of Apps usage behavior :: Korean vs Norwegian" made an news article of ETNEWS (www.etnews.com) in Korea. This report was generated on my offering my blog page and researching background. Here is original link. http://www.etnews.com/news/detail.html?id=201112130160

Samsung Cloud service at 2012 CES in Las Vegas

Reportedly Samsung is going to unveil its cloud service, Samsung Cloud (tentatively) by Media Solution Center(MSC) of Samsung Electronics, at 2012 CES in Las Vegas. Samsung cloud do not include only personal information management and storage, but also is able to do contents shopping, store and playback. This service looks like to Apple iTunes Match, but it is not limited to music but also diverse multimedia contents.
Samsung Cloud supports every operating system from Android, BADA, Window mobile to smart TV which is embedded in Samsung smart products. For example this allows any smart device is able to playback a content that was purchased from Samsung smart TV. Meanwhile this cloud service is different from Samsung SDS's S-cloud which is constructing and pilot servicing under collaboration with Amazon.

Best buy began iPad2 promo

Last weekend I met a guy who was shaking $100 off promotion flyer of iPad in front of Best Buy mobile store.
The store was in Westfield Oakridge mall.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.252877,-121.862969&num=1&vpsrc=0&t=m&z=15
But I can not find this promo at Best Buy online store.

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http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/15/still-need-an-ipad-2-head-to-best-buy-on-sunday-sunday-sunday/

Endless Arguing on Samsung Slate 7 :: CPU performance variation of throttling

Even though it's CPU throttling looks best choice of Intel to adopt its CPU into handheld mobile PC, obviously the maximum CPU clock, in other words CPU performance, is deeply depends on temperature of CPU. Intel and Samsung explain this as advanced CTDP (Controllable Thermal Design Power) technology which is optimal CPU controlling against thermal problem.

Here is a video of extreme experiment of this throttling influence on CPU CTDP using liquid nitrogen.

- Initially CPU clock shows 800Mhz at idle.

- Starting test with "Prime95" on Slate 7 in room temperature

- CPU clock : 800Mhz at 100% CPU usage. CPU temperature goes to 60 Celsius degree.

- Drop Liquid Nitrogen (-193.2 Celsius degree) on Slate 7.

- After 1 minute, CPU clock speed up to 1.6Ghz and getting down temperature

- The maximum CPU clock (1.6Ghz) is achieved at around 55 Celsius degree.

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