Quanta

Quanta Computer has recently gained back manufacturing orders for Apple’s MacBook, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report citing component makers.

Quanta is expected to become the sole manufacturer of the MacBook in the second half of 2009 and is estimated to ship a total of around 10 million units to Apple for the year.

Inventec Multimedia & Telecom, a member of the Inventec group, has started shipping camera modules for notebooks to Toshiba and the company expects its products to also receive verification from Dell and Hewlett-Packard (HP) later in 2009, according to Tom Cho, chairman of the company.

The company entered the camera module business in 2008 and shipped around 28 million units. However, most of the modules were for handset-use, Cho noted. 2009 shipments will be higher than last year’s.

Inventec Multimedia’s current major client is still Inventec, it accounts for 30% of Inventec’s total notebook shipments, however the company is also looking to land orders from other notebook makers.

The guessing game is over: Apple’s iPhone 3G S has arrived. Don’t let appearances fool you. On the outside nothing looks much different with the 3G S. The real difference is what’s inside. So how will Apple’s iPhone 3G s compare to the Palm Pre? I

The main difference is quite obvious — for the same price as a 16GB iPhone3G S you only get a 8GB Palm Pre. In comparison, the current generation 8GB iPhone 3G dropped in price to $99, going after Pre’s lower capacity storage.

For just $100 more than the Palm Pre (that is if you get your $100 mail-in rebate) you can get a top-notch iPhone 3G S with a whopping 32GB of storage (four times more than the Pre).

However, the Palm Pre offers a better deal against the iPhone 3G S when it comes to the data plan. AT&T did not reduce its iPhone tariffs, so the Pre on Sprint still offers more for the buck when it comes to data, voice and text plans. (continuare…)