Showing posts with label devices. Show all posts
Showing posts with label devices. Show all posts
Saturday, March 15, 2014
4G wireless devices to call customer service for help
J.D. Power reported that Owners of 4G wireless devices are more likely to call customer service for help.
It’s not clear whether these 4G problems are a long-term phenomena or growing pains. In any case, J.D. Power found that 60 percent of 4G subscribers called their wireless provider in the last six months. Customers with 3G phones called their carrier 47 percent of the time. Feature phone owners only called for support 35 percent of the time.
The big problems: 4G devices see more network problems and customers don’t understand that service coverage is limited.
Given Verizon’s lead in 4G most of those calls were aimed at the carrier. Nevertheless, Verizon Wireless had to top overall customer service score.
It’s not clear whether these 4G problems are a long-term phenomena or growing pains. In any case, J.D. Power found that 60 percent of 4G subscribers called their wireless provider in the last six months. Customers with 3G phones called their carrier 47 percent of the time. Feature phone owners only called for support 35 percent of the time.
The big problems: 4G devices see more network problems and customers don’t understand that service coverage is limited.
Given Verizon’s lead in 4G most of those calls were aimed at the carrier. Nevertheless, Verizon Wireless had to top overall customer service score.
Friday, March 14, 2014
1 Billion Devices Under Gorilla Glasss Protection
Corning announced that now 1 billion devices are being protected by Gorilla Glass ,in its quarterly earnings report.
Gorilla Glass is used by every company imaginable including the big dogs like Apple, Samsung, Nokia, HTC, LG, Sony and ASUS. The material helped the Specialty Materials division of corning to bring in $363 million in sales, which is a 21 percent increase over the same quarter of last year.
The company’s overall sales result in $2.04 billion, 7 percent on the last quarter and down 2 percent YoY.
Corning is also planning its next big product launch – an ultra-slim flexible glass dubbed Willow Glass. According to Corning, the Willow Glass will be the key to new smartphone and gadget designs allowing curved glass surfaces at an affordable production cost.
Gorilla Glass is used by every company imaginable including the big dogs like Apple, Samsung, Nokia, HTC, LG, Sony and ASUS. The material helped the Specialty Materials division of corning to bring in $363 million in sales, which is a 21 percent increase over the same quarter of last year.
The company’s overall sales result in $2.04 billion, 7 percent on the last quarter and down 2 percent YoY.
Corning is also planning its next big product launch – an ultra-slim flexible glass dubbed Willow Glass. According to Corning, the Willow Glass will be the key to new smartphone and gadget designs allowing curved glass surfaces at an affordable production cost.
Friday, March 7, 2014
INPUT OUTPUT DEVICES
INPUT/OUTPUT DEVICES.
Input/Output devices can be defined as "Input and output devices enable computer to interact with the external world". we can enter data and instructions into the computer with the help of input devices and as a result computer after processing sends the results to the output devices. There are a number of different types of input/output devices are available.
INPUT DEVICES.
The devices used to enter data into the computer are called input devices. The most commonly used input devices are given below.
Ø keyboard
Ø Mouse
Ø Microphone
The diagrame shown below tells us the different categories of input devices.
KEYBOARD.
A keyboard is standard input device used to send instructional data into computer. They keyboard is just like the typewriter machine. The modern keyboard contains some extra command keys and functions keys.
The keys on computer keyboards are classified as follows
ALPHANUMERIC KEYS
These keys are used to enter alphabets, numbers and other special characters into computer. Alphabet keys consists of A to Z keys containing upper & lower case letters. Numeric keys consists of number keys. These keys starts from 0 to 9.
NUMERIC KEYS
Numeric Keys are used to input numbers into the computer. It also contains keys for mathematical operations i.e. addition, multiply, divide etc.
FUNCTION KEYS
These keys are used to perform different functions depending upon the application. These keys provide shortcuts for doing routine tasks on a computer. these keys are marked from F1 to F12. Usually these functions keys are used with CTRL key, ALT key and SHIFT Key. The combination of these keys results in large number of keyboard shortcuts.
CURSOR CONTROL KEYS
Cursor is used to present the position for the keyboards input command.These are four keys which are used to move cursor left, right, up and down position. Movement of these keys dont fact any character on the screen.
Enter Key:
This key is used to enter commands or to move cursor to the starting point of the next line of a paragraph.
Esc Key:
(Esc mean Escape)... This key is used to close some windows applications.
Delete Key:
This key deletes the character at the current cursor position. It can be used also to delete selected area or object.
Caps Lock Key:
This key changes all alphabetic characters to be uppercase.
End keys:
This key moves the cursor to the end of the line, page or file depending where the cursor is located on the page and on which programe is running.
Ctrl Key
(Ctrl for Control) This key is used in combination with other keys to produce special characters.
Alt Key
(Alt for Alternate). This key is used in combination with other key to produce special characters.
Tab Key..
This key enables the cursor to jump a number of spaces to the right on the screen.
Backspace key:
This key is used to delete the character present at the left of the cursor.
Page up & Page Down.
Often this is abbreviated as “pgup and pgdn”. This is usually used to move the cursor up or down certain fixed number of lines.
Home
This key Moves the cursor to the left starting corner of the line or the beginning of page or file depending where the cursor is and on which programe is running.
Space bar.
Every time when you press space, it moves the cursor one space to the right.
MOUSE.
A mouse is an input device that rolls around on a flat surface and controls the pointer on a display screen. The pointer is an on-screen object. Usually an arrow, that is used to select text, access menus, and interact with programes. A typical mouse has tow buttons. Some mouse also contains a scroll wheel which are useful for scrolling through long documents. New mouse is called optical mouse. this type of mouse is getting popular now a days instead of roller ball. To control the movement of pointer on screen it uses light reflection. .
JOYSTICK
Joystick is an input device used for games. It is like a lever that moves in all directions and controls the movement of a pointer. To stop the pointer we must have to return the joystick to its neutral position.
SCANNER.
Scanner is also a input device. We can save any image in picture format in our computer. Optical character Recognition software is necessary to read this image and convert it to actual text data and this software varies widely in its ability to do so.
MICROPHONE.
Microphone is an input device. It is used to record audio data. It can be plugged into a computer or recorder.
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