Apple this week pulled out what it hopes will be a trump card in its courtroom battle with Samsung over allegations that the rival device maker copied the look and feel of its iPhone and iPad devices. The supposed trump card is a 132-page internal Samsung document from 2010 in which the company directly compares the Galaxy S1's shortcomings to the iPhone in a variety of areas, with recommendations on how to improve them.

Failed hardware is just a part of life, simple as that. You can nudge the odds in your favor by ensuring adequate cooling and keeping that foot long energy drink away from the edge of your desk so that if it spills it won't ooze into your mid-tower chassis, but there's no foolproof way to guarantee your hardware won't give up the ghost. When that happens, your next line of defense is a warranty, and graphics card maker Galaxy just announced it's offering an "extended warranty" period on its videocards. Cards purchased on or after August 1, 2011 are now backed by a 3-year warranty.

Take this one with a bucket of salt and whatever else goes well with unconfirmed reports, but according to the online rumor mill, Samsung's upcoming i9200 Galaxy S2 -- the successor to the Galaxy S -- will sport some serious hardware when it supposedly shows up in early 2011.

According to leaked reports, the Galaxy S2 will come outfitted with a 2GHz processor paired with 1GB of RAM (and 4GB ROM). Like the original Galaxy S, the S2 is expected to strut into the mobile scene with a Super AMOLED 2 display capable of a 1280x720 resolution, only this one will measure 4.3 inches.

Other rumored hardware consists of 32GB of built-in flash memory, a microSD card slot, 8MP camera with Full HD recording, GPS, Bluetooth 3.0, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, 3.5mm audio jack, accelerometer, gyroscope, and proximity and ambient light sensors. All this will come wrapped around Google's Android 3.0 OS.