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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snake eyes" data-source="post: 11756179" data-attributes="member: 250758">2011 වසරේ විශාලතම තාක්ශනික වැරදි2011 වසරේ විශාලතම තාක්ශනික වැරදි කියල හදුනගෙන තියන තම gadget මේබලලා ක්ම්මෙන්ට් රෙප් + දෙන්න<img src="http://db3.stb.s-msn.com/i/D0/D0592A108F6B1FFBCDD16CC424166.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Despite its many woes, RIM is still known for getting it right when it  comes to email. So what did the company do when it launched the  BlackBerry PlayBook? It decided not to deliver it with native email  straight out of the box. A paucity of apps made the tablet even more  unappealing and dragged RIM's figures further into the doldrums as it  took a hit to the tune of $485m on unsold PlayBooks. Despite a recent  price cut, RIM sold just 150,000 slates in the third quarter of 2011.  Meanwhile, Apple comfortably shifted 11 million iPads in the same  period. <img src="http://db3.stb.s-msn.com/i/CE/C1A2FC680519383F2EFFB9B9BEB.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />HP had a similarly traumatic tablet experience with the HP TouchPad,  which was on shelves for just two months before HP decided to pull the  plug. Only then, once its death had been announced, did it start flying  off the shelves - and mainly due to its drastic price drop price to just  £89 in a fire sale. While the small band of TouchPad owners and diehard  fans of webOS can take heart in the news that HP is open sourcing the  software, the failure of the tablet contributed to a painful $2.1bn  restructuring at the beleaguered firm. <img src="http://db3.stb.s-msn.com/i/B7/C4C6A03BD7D99AE80285BF0FB23EA.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The Motorola Atrix promised a lot when it hit the market, with a  powerful dual core processor inside and a series of docks to boost its  smarts. The trouble was its camera was pretty shonky and the laptop dock  that made it so desirable came in at a whopping £299. The docks didn't  fire up the public's imagination and with Motorola now under Google's  wing and the Droid RZR being sold on its thinness, the Atrix is looking  more and more like a wrong turn that's best forgotten. <img src="http://db3.stb.s-msn.com/i/1E/4330848D45BFB8231E923F742A469F.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The PlayStation Network hack back in April cost Sony both in terms of  cash and reputation after 12.3 million customers' credit card details  were potentially exposed to fraudsters. After taking more than seven  days to warn users that their information had been compromised and 23  days to restore the service, the company has been dogged by lawsuits and  bad press. The revelation that Sony stored user information in  unencrypted form made things even worse. It estimates the total cost of  fixing the damage will be upwards of $171m. <img src="http://db3.stb.s-msn.com/i/25/D582C6C17326317F7B155F6FB8AEF.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />For a while, Flip was on its way to being for pocket video cameras what  Hoover once was for vacuum cleaners. But Cisco bought the firm and  things started to go wrong. Facing off against smartphones with ever  improving cameras, the Flip started to look like a flop. Two years after  spending $590m to acquire Flip, Cisco shut the division down. It had  dilly dallied over releasing a wi-fi enabled model and continued to pump  out increasing dated looking models. The Flip cam didn't have to die,  Cisco just let it. <img src="http://db3.stb.s-msn.com/i/A7/363427AB94F37C92DF77292820C4.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The victim of a bad start rather than an all-out fail, the Nintendo 3DS  emerged with a lacklustre set of launch titles and priced at £229.99,  far too much for shoppers not totally sold on the idea of 3D gaming.  Sales picked up after a £100 price cut in August but the move was costly  for Nintendo, which reported a loss of £579m in October. That was  partly down to the strong yen but sales of just 3 million Nintendo 3DS  handhelds didn't help. The gaming giant will be hoping that Christmas  sales turn things around. <img src="http://db3.stb.s-msn.com/i/4A/B91F416E4827ACADF761ECED759A2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />It was hardly surprising that a game which took 14 years to come out,  becoming industry short hand for a title that would never ship, was  utterly underwhelming. While Duke did manage to blast his way to the top  of the gaming charts briefly, reviews were dire and sales predictions  were swiftly slashed from an optimistic three million copies to a rather  less fanfare-inducing 1.5m. Despite the sense that Duke was a bit of a  damp squib, publisher Take-Two is promising a sequel.<img src="http://db3.stb.s-msn.com/i/40/3E3CC76D7AF992DCA186240E0ECB8.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Google Plus rocketed to 40 million members in no time at all after it  officially opened its doors to the world in September. The trouble is,  not too many of them seem to be doing much there. By mid-October,  traffic levels had dropped by as much as 60%. For all the initial hype  that Google Plus might be Facebook killer, right now it's barely even  irritating the giant.<img src="http://db3.stb.s-msn.com/i/36/B844117070D1ECC87585531EE1D74D.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Facebook launched Facebook Deals, its attempt at a GroupOn-style daily  deal service, in April and binned it just four months later. Facebook  characterised it as a test and the feature never lived up to the media  hype that suggested it would be a serious threat to initiatives by  GroupOn, Google and Foursquare. Curiously enough, Facebook just gobbled  up Foursquare rival Gowalla instead. We suspect Facebook's dabbling in  deals isn't quite dead yet. <img src="http://db3.stb.s-msn.com/i/10/1CA5FAE3DC8C9EC1EAC1021FB37A9.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Brilliant phone, embarrassing bug. One of the main things you expect  from a phone is that it can make phone calls. For all its fantastic  features, the awesome Android Icecream Sandwich phone arrived briefly  hobbled by an incredibly irritating error: the phone's volume would  mysteriously drop in the middle of calls. The issue earned the device  some devastating early reviews and while Google was fast with a fix, it  couldn't erase the embarrassment.<img src="http://db3.stb.s-msn.com/i/37/7C8308E5FF2AB29D939604F29DB9C.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />One of the most speculated gadgets of all time, the PSP Phone finally  dropped into our hands as the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play and it  was...disappointing. After a delayed release, its specs were  underwhelming (1GHz single-core processor and 800x480 resolution) and  the promise of being able to play PS1 games on your mobile just wasn't  much of a draw for most people. Fingers crossed the next generation will  be the PSP Phone we all dreamed of. thnx rep+ welcome</blockquote>

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