Among all the Android tablets, Nexus 7 came out as the winner and most popular device, mainly because of the low price but good hardware and also due to better Hardware – Software integration. Now Google is looking to replicate this exact success formula to their Nexus smartphone strategy, read on for knowing more about it.
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Samsung launched the Galaxy Note 2, successor of the Galaxy Note in India last week, and we managed to get hold of the device to run some benchmarks. These benchmarks test the performance of the 1.6 GHz quad-core 4412 Exynos processor with Mali 400 GPU. The Samsung Galaxy Note 2 topped in most of the benchmarks when compared to the other quad-core devices such as Samsung Galaxy S3, HTC One X and the LG Optimus 4X HD. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Benchmarks – quad-core Exynos CPU and Mali-400 GPU”
The Samsung Galaxy Note 2 is hitting stores soon in India and here we have an exclusive unboxing of this quad-core phone from Samsung from the Middle East thanks to our very own Sandeep who is on a vacation.The retail packaging for the Note 2 is pretty much the same across the globe. Watch the unboxing video below.The Note 2 is a pretty big phone but surprisingly it is easier to grip than the first Galaxy Note thanks some design changes.
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Microsoft has announced the Surface RT and Windows Phone 8 launch events in San Francisco scheduled for the end of this month. The Microsoft Surface RT event is set for October 25th, and the Windows Phone 8 event is set for October 29th. Microsoft announced the Surface Tablet back in June and the Surface RT would come with a 10-inch (1366×768 pixels) touch screen display and would be powered by an ARM processor. It would have a micro SD card slot, USB 2.0, Micro HD Video, 2×2 MIMO antennae for better WiFi connectivity. Continue reading “Microsoft Surface RT and Windows Phone 8 to be officially launched this month”
Jolla Mobile, the Finnish mobile startup, has announced that it will be showing off its MeeGo based smartphone operating system at the Slush startup conference in Helsinki. The conference is slated to take place from 21-22 November. The operating system has been codenamed Sailfish and details regarding the SDK for the OS will be rolled out around the same time.
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Have you ever wanted to take a photograph of yourself in front of a picturesque background or a group shot with your friends but had nobody to hold up the camera ?
Capdase, the popular accessory manufacturer, has a very versatile tripod available which claims to do a great holding up your phone in any position you might want to get that shot. Read on to find out if the accessory actually lives up to its promise.
We all know that Google has its own face recognition technology which was unveild to us with Ice Cream sandwich and the face unlock. But looks like Google is looking for more and has decided to acquire face recognition company Viewdle for around $45 million.
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AT&T has announced they would sell both the Nokia Lumia 920 and Nokia Lumia 820, Nokia’s latest Windows Phone 8 devices. Both these devices were announced last month at an Event in New York, and the price of these phones were revealed for some European countries last week. The Lumia 920 has a 4.5-inch PureMotion HD+ display, while the 820 comes with a 4.3 inch-inch (800 x 480 pixels) OLED ClearBlack display. Both these phones are powered by a 1.5 GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor and has a 8 megapixel rear-facing camera with 1080p HD video recording. Both these devices would run on AT&T’s 4G LTE network. Continue reading “Nokia Lumia 920 and 820 coming to AT&T in November”
TomTom is one of the best dedicated navigation application out there other than Google Maps. TomTom’s services were previously available on the iPhone and also HTC had exclusively used their service for their premium devices. Now, TomTom has launched their official application to the Google Play store competing directly with Google maps.
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Nexus 7 is the most popular Android tablet but it comes with many bugs and other issues. Many Nexus 7 users have been sending their devices back because of these issues and some people just got fed up and got a refund. These new updated driver binaries released by Google for the JRO03R build is said to solve some major software bugs.
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Airtel has launched Airtel India Grand Prix 2012, new mobile application for Android, iPhone and iPad users. This app would enable the users follow the global Formula One Grand Prix on the go. It offers race results, standings, schedule and latest F1 news. You can also take quizzes and bag prizes, read up trivia and check out the latest buzz from Airtel on its host of Formula One related initiatives. Continue reading “Airtel India Grand Prix 2012 app launched for Android, iPhone and iPad”
Micromax has launched the Funbook Talk (P350), their new 7-inch tablet in the Funbook series. This tablet has a ear piece for voice calling and has 2G (GPRS) connectivity. Other features are similar to the Funbook Alpha that was launched last month including a 7-inch (800 x 480 pixels) capacitive touch screen display, 1 GHz processor with Dual Mali 400– the 2D/3D Graphics Processor and Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) OS. Continue reading “Micromax Funbook Talk with Voice calling launched for Rs. 7249”
Walt Mossberg reported on the Wall Street Journal that Google will soon rolling out Street View to users of the iOS Google Maps web app. With iOS 6, Apple replaced the integrated Google Maps based solution with their homegrown offering which pales in comparison.
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Spice Stellar Horizon (Mi-500) is finally available in India from online retailer Saholic. Spice unveiled the Stellar Horizon along with the other Android Smartphones, Stellar and Stellar Craze, but it was delayed. It has a 5-inch (800 x 480 pixels) capacitive touch screen display and runs on Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). It was supposed to come with a 1GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor, but MediaTek announced that the phone would be powered by their new 1 GHz dual-core MT6577 processor. Continue reading “Spice Stellar Horizon finally goes on sale in India for Rs. 12499”
Nokia has been toying around with a browser that compresses pages on the server side to save data consumption for its S40 range of devices for quite a while now. The Nokia browser, as it was called when it launched, had similar functionality to the Opera Mini web browser, it saved data and made browsing much faster by compressing images and using some server side algorithms for data compression. Now, the same technology is coming to all of Nokia’s Windows Phone devices, the Lumia device range, and it is called Nokia Xpress, but alas, it carries the beta tag, for now.
