News for Sunday, 14 December 2008

An important manufacturer of WLAN (wifi) integrated chipset proposes on his site of the official drivers for Mac OS X. Where the thing becomes interesting is that these chipsets are used in netbook such as MSI Wind or Medion Akoya, increasingly used by the users of hackintosh. Ralink does not seem to be in hiding and even say that they are proud this community. The advantage is that if Steve wishes to complain, all he has to do is to jump on his Segway since Ralink is located only some blocks away from Infinity Loop…


(thank you Rico542)

Patrick tells us that the iPhone is now being sold for 0 € in Luxembourg by both operator officially offering the telephone; Vox and Luxgsm. Of course, it will be necessary to subscribe to the highest fixed price to be able to benefit from this purchase price for the 8 GB iPhone, but this has to be noted so that (we hope) it may give ideas to the other European operators…n.b. Vox is a subsidiary of Orange.

Wow, if you look at Flickr's "most popular cameras" page, you can see that the iPhone is the fifth most popular camera OF ALL (that is, the 5th most used cameras for pictures uploaded to flickr.com).
This is quite amazing, since it comes after really popular DSLR like the Canon Digital Rebels and Nikon's D80.

But if you look at the "cameraphone" category, it is even more impressive: the iPhone simply trounces the competition:

And that is even if the iPhone has a sub-par camera. I guess what makes the difference is the ease of uploading pictures from the iPhone, coupled with the "always connected" EDGE or 3G network access.