HTC has issued a rather stoic summary of its finances for the last three months of 2011, revealing that its net profits were 25 per cent lower in Q4 compared to the same quarter in 2010. The phone maker made TND $11,017 million (£235 million) in Q4 2011 compared to $14,797 million (£315 million) in Q4 2010. The drop in profit doesn’t come as much surprise given that the company already reported a 30 per cent drop in sales in November 2011 and revised its profit forecasts for the quarter down by 20 per cent in the same month. Mo money mo problems But while the company said it didn’t expect to see any growth in Q4 compared to 2010, it made no mention of expecting to see such a big drop
HPR-Solutions Longtime Exposure Calculator Longtime Exposure Calculator Price: Free/ Available for iPhone, iPod touch, iPad Long-exposure photography fanatics will know that an ND filter can be essential when it comes to extending exposure time for those all-important open shutter shots. Longtime Exposure Calculator by HPR-Solutions is a free iPhone , iPad and iPod touch app that enables you to dial in a projected shutter speed to one column and then ‘add’ an ND filter as graded in both f/stops and filter names (eg 3 stop or ND8) in the other column. The app then calculates the adjusted exposure. While it is, in part, possible to TTL meter with an ND filter attached to the front of a camera’s lens, the results won’t always be accurate, and there’s a point where things get so dark that it’s not possible – especially with in-vogue super-dense filters
CES 2012: Home Entertainment The world’s greatest tech show – CES 2012 – kicks off on Monday (if you’re a show obsessive, note that’s a week later than usual). Running until Thursday, the show will see the entire tech world descend on Las Vegas. We’ll be hearing from the biggest names in tech to talk about their plans for 2012
RIM has confirmed that it will finally unleash a long-promised software update for the suffering BlackBerry PlayBook next week at CES 2012. The BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 will likely bring the elusive Android app player which will allow some Android applications to run on the device. Also expected is a native email client and a host of other improvements aimed at making the device, which is currently available for as little as £169 , more user-friendly.
Battle Squadron ONE 2-player ($2.99) by Cope-Com is the iPad version of the iOS version of the classic Sega Genesis game, Battle Squadron. Play split screen arcade action with friends in this fast paced shoot ‘em up game. Ah, the classics. Who doesn’t love a pixelated auto-shooting adventure?