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Saturday, May 11, 2013

The metal-backed HTC One is a thing of beauty, and even out-classes the Sony Xperia Z's glass chassis

The metal-backed HTC One is a thing of beauty, and even out-classes the Sony Xperia Z's glass chassis
We were also seriously impressed with the screen. It's a 4.7in model with a Full HD 1,920x1,080 resolution, leading to a huge pixel density figure of 468ppi. When compared side-by-side with the Xperia Z's display, we preferred the HTC One's screen, thanks to its superb contrast. It has incredibly deep blacks (for an LCD at least), and our test photos showed rich, vibrant colours and plenty of shadow detail.
The Xperia Z had the advantage when it came to looking at web pages, however; its slightly larger 5in display meant text was ever-so-slightly larger and easier to read when web pages were fully zoomed out, helped by brilliant white backgrounds, compared to the very slight grey tinge on the HTC One.
HTC One
Last year it was 720p, now Full HD 1080p screens are becoming the norm on top-end smartphones
The HTC One wins out when it comes to web browsing performance. It has a quad-core 1.7GHz processor, and completed our Sunspider JavaScript benchmark in a super-fast 1,123ms. This is far faster than the 1,890ms we saw from the Xperia Z, but we think much of this is down to the speed of the Xperia Z's browser. For comparison, we ran the same test using the fast Dolphin browser, and the HTC One remained ahead of the Xperia Z with a score of 1,120ms compared to 1,357ms.
This difference was borne out in our subjective web browsing tests. Both phones rendered graphics heavy web pages at a similar speed, but when zoomed in and panning around a web page, the Xperia Z would stutter when coming across a large image – a problem we didn’t have with the HTC One.
Luckily, HTC has provided a huge 2,300mAh battery to power the fast processor and bright screen. The handset managed 8h 32m in our continuous video playback test, which is a strong result and bodes well for all-day battery life.

SENSE 5.0

An Android smartphone can be beautifully designed and have an amazing screen and top-notch chipset, but none of this will make any difference if the software is rubbish. HTC sails closer to the wind than most on this front, as it heavily customises Android with its latest Sense interface.
Sense has always divided opinion, but this time HTC has really pushed the boat out. Running on top of Android 4.1.2 is Sense 5.0, and with it comes the end of the traditional Android homescreen, with its mix of widgets and icons.

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Samsung Galaxy S4 hand on review


Samsung Galaxy S4: Features

The S3 was packed with features, some more useful than others, and the Samsung Galaxy S4 is no different. As rumours suggested, the Smart Stay function has been updated to include a Smart Pause feature.
The S4 will know when you're looking at the phone and will pause a playing video if you look away and continue to play when you look back. It worked well with our brief time with the handset and seemed much more responsive than the previous iteration.

Along with Smart Pause, there's also Smart Scroll, that allows you to tilt the phone to scroll up and down webpages and left-to-right in a gallery.

Taking a few cues from the Galaxy Notes, Air View has been added to the S4 but without the need of a stylus. Hover your finger around 2cm from the screen and you'll get a preview of an email or video.
Another gesture-based feature is Air Gesture. This somewhat pointless function allows you to wave your hand up and down to scroll content or answer a call hands-free.  It work very well during our play with the device, but we question its usefulness.

Group Play is another feature that's been loaded into the phone. It allows you to connect up to eight other S4 devices to play a game or listen to a track. We didn't get a chance to demo this, but it'll be interesting to see how it works with a game.

Samsung Galaxy S4: Screen

As with the Samsung Galaxy S3, the gigantic 5-inch screen is probably the phone's most striking feature. It trumps the HTC One (4.7 inches), iPhone 5 (4 inches) and Nokia Lumia 920 (4.5 inches).
Along with the size, the quality of the screen has been upped too. It now boasts a 440 PPI. Specs never seen before on a phone, and we have to say, it's impressive. Menus, webpages and pictures are dazzlingly bright and pin-sharp.

Samsung Galaxy S4: Camera

The camera on the S4 is what Samsung is hoping will be its trump card. The rear-facing camera has a 13-megapixel sensor with auto-focus and the capability to record 1080p video and there's also a secondary front-facing camera at 2-megapixels. It's not just the specs that are impressive, there's also some natty new features.

First-up is dual shot, which allows you to use both the front-facing and back-facing cameras simultaneously and creates a picture-in-picture image. There are various options that allow you to be creative on how the picture- in-picture appears from a postage stamp to a split screen. It also works as a video.

Other new features are Drama Shot, that stiches multiple burst shots together into one image, Cine-shot that creates a picture that's a mixture of still shots and video and finally Racer-shot that allows you to delete a moving person from a picture. Handy for those pesky photo-bombers.

Samsung Galaxy S4: Performance

Under the chassis you'll find a Exynos OCTO processor clocking in at 1.6Ghz, which makes for a pretty zippy experience when navigating the UI and switching between apps. You'll also get 2GB of RAM plus a choice of 16, 32 or 64GB onboard storage with the option of micro SD up to 64GB.

Samsung Galaxy S4: Battery

When it comes to battery, we're taking the stats Samsung quote as given as we only had a short time with the device; it's claimed that the S4 will last longer than the S3 and the specs agree with a 2,600mAH battery on board, a step-up from it's predecessor.

Samsung Galaxy S4: Verdict

There's no doubt that the Samsung Galaxy S4 is a significant step-up from the S3. It's impressive that Samsung has managed to slim-down the device even though it's added a bigger screen and a host of new goodies.
As with the S3, there are some innovative new features in there, some more useful than others but there's no doubt that stalwart Galaxy and Android fans will be impressed (not to mention the odd potential iOS defector).
The Samsung Galaxy S4 was the most hotly anticipated Android phone of 2013 and based on what we've seen, it's certainly living up to the hype so far. We'll bring you a full review as soon as we can...
Samsung Galaxy S4 release date: 26 April 2013

Thursday, April 18, 2013

Want to Own a new smartphone then go,try for Sony unbelievable Xperia-Z(The best of Sony in an android smartphone)


 






This is such a gorgeous gadget to use with 5" Full HD 1080p Reality display with a smart snapdragon s4 pro quad-core processor,the Mobile Bravia engine 2.Xperia Z features Exmor RS for mobile,this is the world's first image sensor with HDR video for smartphones by which you can take absolutely beautiful pictures and movies even in strong light.It is embedded with Amazing 13 megapixel fast capture and next generation Exmor RS lens which gives high quality images.It has a great sensing feature which enables the HDR and noise reduction automatically when ever it is needed.It also has the 2.2MP front camera that gives the best video calling option with 1080p@30fps.


It is such a resistive gadget that it was submerged about 30 mins in water but it has no jerks in its function,looks like the new owned piece.As this is a precision engineered smart phone it should be tougher so its frame was designed by glass fiber poly-amide which is used as metal substitute in automobile parts.It is so resistible with water,it also take over with dust,Its a dust resistance phone which is tested in dust-test chamber and certified.It is designed with omnibalance which makes symmetry in all directions.The screen of this phone is so impressive that when you see pictures you feel you're there. Coming to audio its a Sony product and Xperia-Z is best of Sony.It has a smart battery stamina mode which can improve the standby mode 4 or more times which turns off all the battery draining apps when your screen is off and starts when your scree is on.

It has the coolest Android OS, v4.1.2(jelly bean) and upgradable to v4.2(jelly bean) which handles the aewsome android application with one touch downloads.It uses the best HTML5 browser
Android OS, v4.1.2 (Jelly Bean), planned upgrade to v4.2 (Jelly Bean)

THE TOTAL PHONE SPECIFICATIONS ARE HERE:
GENERAL2G NetworkGSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 - C6602, C6603
3G NetworkHSDPA 850 / 900 / 2100 - C6603
HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1700 / 1900 / 2100 - C6602
4G NetworkLTE 800 / 850 / 900 / 1800 / 2100 / 2600 - C6603
SIMMicro-SIM


BODyDimensions139 x 71 x 7.9 mm (5.47 x 2.80 x 0.31 in)
Weight146 g (5.15 oz)
- IP57 certified - dust and water resistant
- Water resistant up to 1 meter and 30 minutes
DISPLAYTypeTFT capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size1080 x 1920 pixels, 5.0 inches (~441 ppi pixel density)
MultitouchYes, up to 10 fingers
ProtectionShatter proof and scratch-resistant glass
- Sony Mobile BRAVIA Engine 2
SOUNDAlert typesVibration; MP3 ringtones
LoudspeakerYes
3.5mm jackYes
MEMORYCard slotmicroSD, up to 64 GB
Internal16 GB, 2 GB RAM
DATAGPRSUp to 107 kbps
EDGEUp to 296 kbps
SpeedHSDPA, 42 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.8 Mbps; LTE, Cat3, 50 Mbps UL, 100 Mbps DL
WLANWi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot
BluetoothYes, v4.0 with A2DP
NFCYes
USBYes, microUSB v2.0 (MHL)
CAMERAPrimary13.1 MP, 4128x3096 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
FeaturesGeo-tagging, touch focus, face detection, image stabilization, HDR, sweep panorama
VideoYes, 1080p@30fps, video stabilization, HDR
SecondaryYes, 2.2 MP, 1080p@30fps
FEATURESOSAndroid OS, v4.1.2 (Jelly Bean), planned upgrade to v4.2 (Jelly Bean)
ChipsetQualcomm MDM9215M / APQ8064
CPUQuad-core 1.5 GHz Krait
GPUAdreno 320
SensorsAccelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass
MessagingSMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, IM, Push Email
BrowserHTML5
RadioStereo FM radio with RDS
GPSYes, with A-GPS support and GLONASS
JavaYes, via Java MIDP emulator
ColorsBlack, White, Purple
- SNS integration
- TV-out (via MHL A/V link)
- Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
- MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV player
- MP3/eAAC+/WMA/WAV/Flac player
- Document viewer
- Photo viewer/editor
- Voice memo/dial
- Predictive text input
BATTERYNon-removable Li-Ion 2330 mAh battery
Stand-byUp to 550 h (2G) / Up to 530 h (3G)
Talk timeUp to 11 h (2G) / Up to 14 h (3G)
Music playUp to 40 h

The Cost of this mobile is about INR 37,990/-

This is coolest phone to hang out with.


Friday, March 8, 2013

Gadgets for 2013

Gadgets, eh. What will they think of next? In my mid thirties I do my best to keep up – but this is more for necessity than to look hip. But then again ‘hip’ is no longer a groovy word is it? And neither is groovy! I think I’ll stop trying…
I speak as someone who grew up in the eighties, using a BBC computer with an amazing 32k memory! It was loaded with software by a cassette or floppy disk; the only mouse to be seen was perhaps scuttling around my feet under the desk inside my ancient Hogwarts-style school…far from palm-sized handy smartphones, tablets that we have today.
Fast-forward 30 years, and what has technology brought us? Here are a few gadgets from The Consumer Electronics Show 2013 that have caught my attention:
Pentax MX-5

MX-1 retro point-and-shoot from Pentax

I remember the days of dial phones and good old fashioned film cameras. Now I want our old cameras back! Good news: The MX-1 is just that – but without film. It has a fast f/1.8-f/2.5 lens for low-light shooting and a 12 megapixel CMOS sensor. What’s more, it has a retro, 1980s-style body. It’s a hit with me – I’m sold!

The Trakdot from Globaltrac

The Trakdot from Globaltrac

Losing your luggage is always a very annoying experience. That’s why Globaltrac has developed its diminutive GSM-powered device, Trakdot, which can be placed in your baggage. The device tracks where luggage is in the world if, for example, you fly to New York and your baggage travels to Sydney. It’s handy knowing where your luggage is – yet there’s still the hassle of getting it back. All we need now is to invent intelligent luggage that can book itself on the next flight back home.

Vuzix - M100 glasses

Vuzix – M100 glasses

Smart glasses? Hang-on. I’ve only just gotten used to my smartphone! In a bid to beat Google’s Project Glass, Vuzix’s M100 smartglasses are actually wearable computers. The headset, powered by Android, sits just under the eye and is controlled by a Bluetooth from a smartphone app. Unsure what the aim is here. X-ray vision or ice-melting sight perhaps? Sounds really fun though!

FitBit's Flex Wireless Activity Sleep Wristband

FitBit’s Flex Wireless Activity Sleep Wristband

My memory of having my fitness monitored when I was young was having the PE teacher bark at me like a drill instructor. Today it appears manufacturers are hell-bent on appealing to our own conscience to keep ourselves fit. The Flex Wireless Activity Sleep Wristband does the lot: it tracks the steps you’ve taken; distance covered; calories burned and even your sleep quality – all from the comfort of an iPhone or Android.

Flexible e-paper tablets

Flexible e-paper tablets

I grew up and graduated on PC monitors at least a foot cubed. Nowadays, ‘the slimmer the better’ is on the lips of many. Researchers at Canada’s Queen’s University have created a 10.7-inch flexible e-ink display, known as the PaperTab. On paper (I couldn’t resist the pun) and in reality the device is about as thin as can be. Bend and earmark the page to navigate, as opposed to swiping like most devices.

Thinkpad Helix

ThinkPad Helix from Lenovo

When is a laptop not a laptop? Answer: When it has a detachable screen?  Tablets and laptops continue to join forces in interesting ways. The ThinkPad Helix from Lenovo, a Windows 8 notebook, allows you to snap off the screen to use as a tablet.
So, what do you think? This is what they did think of next. Whether you consider them gainful gadgets or useful articles, one way to spread the cost could by using a credit card (17.9% APR variable, subject to change).
As far as age and technology are concerned, I’m still waiting for someone to invent a time machine so I can go back in time and play games consoles without my kids beating me…. Anyone have a DeLorean?
This guest post was written by Andy Moore on behalf of Money Matters, the Sainsbury’s Bank blog. Though it may include tips and information, it does not constitute advice and should not be used as a basis for any financial decisions. Sainsbury’s Bank accepts no responsibility for the opinions and views of external contributors and the content of external websites included within this post. All information in this post was correct at date of publication.

Monday, February 18, 2013

BlackBerry Z10 review and price

BlackBerry Z10: Size and build

Hold it in your hand and you’ll be forgiven for being less than overwhelmed with BlackBerry’s new smartphone. The understated design is available in either all-black or a slightly more eye-catching white on black.

A large glass front is then sandwiched by two plastic ends with a slightly rubberised back covering the rear. With the functional 'substance over style. stealth-like aesthetics, the Z10 is something that we would imagine to be as comfortable in the hand of a bat-obsessed crusader as a businessman.

Measuring in at 130mm x 65.6mm x 9mm it might be considered ‘chunky’, however thanks to the build quality it instantly moves into the realms of ‘durable’ rather than ‘heavyweight’. It feels like a phone that was made for a marathon of suit trousers, coffee spills and desk-level drops.

BlackBerry Z10: Screen

With a 4.2-inch 1280x768 display, the Z10 boasts a pixel density that exceeds the iPhone 5. While it may not be able to combat the sun as well as Apple’s handset, it makes up for it in sharpness.

BlackBerry Z10: BlackBerry 10

The Z10 boasts a fairly sizable bezel, something other smartphone makers are hastily trying to remove. The reasoning for this is actually the software itself - BlackBerry 10. Many of the main gestures in BlackBerry’s new OS are done by swiping from off the screen onto the display. with a swipe up from the bottom acting as both the ‘Home’ action and also as a way to unlock the phone.

A swipe upwards from the bottom of the screen acts as both the ‘Home’ action and also as a way to unlock the phone.

Once unlocked you’re greeted with what looks to be BlackBerry business as usual - a series of app icons split up over windows with an unlimited number allowed.
BlackBerry Z10 vs iPhone 5 video:

Apps can be minimised by swiping up, turning each one into an ‘Active Frame’ which then remains in a window next to the apps. Essentially minimised apps, the Active Frames can also function as live widgets showing realtime updates on news stories, giving you essential calendar information or even showing you the weather at your location. You can have up to 8 running at any one time.

You can see that BlackBerry has created these as an alternative to Android’s widgets however it’s more a halfway house at the moment with some apps like the Guardian showing a brilliant slideshow of news images while some others show an infuriatingly tiny version of the app screen.

BlackBerry Z10: BlackBerry Hub

Central to BlackBerry 10 is the Hub - a stream of notifications encompassing all your accounts including Gmail, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, showing you everything from messages to birthdays. It’s certainly an impressive feature and something we can really see business users and heavy social network addicts appreciating.

BlackBerry Z10: BlackBerry Balance

To help appease the business users, BlackBerry Balance has been created, essentially splitting your Z10 into two halves. It lets you switch between work and personal with the two being completely cut off from the other, avoiding any potentially disastrous situations involving your holiday snaps and a business presentation

SaneBox app quick and easy to send email

Looking for an easy way to organize the e-mails in your overflowing inbox?
SaneBox uses an algorithm to determine which messages are important and which ones can be saved for later.
The crucial messages continue to go into your inbox, while the less-important ones are automatically moved into a SaneLater folder. SaneBox also sends you a digest of the e-mails it’s placed into the SaneLater folder, from which you can specify which messages should go into your inbox. The digest arrives once a day, but you can set it to arrive as often as every hour if you’re afraid of missing something.
You can train SaneBox to understand which e-mails it should place where simply by moving them to different folders. You can also connect SaneBox to your social networks to help it calculate which contacts would send you important e-mails. If there’s a sender you never want to hear from again, you can drag one of their messages into the SaneBlackHole folder, and all future communications from that contact will go into the trash.
If there are messages you’d like to defer responding to, you can drag them into the SaneTomorrow or SaneNextWeek folders, and they’ll reappear in your inbox the next day and the following Monday morning, respectively. You can also set up folders that will defer messages until a future time or date of your choosing.
SaneBox costs $4.95 per month. The company also offers an enterprise service for

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Apps of 2013

 Cut the Rope

This physics-based puzzler adds Windows Phone 8 to its long list of supported platforms which means you can now get the candy that dangles from a rope into the mouth of Om Nom, the sweet loving monster who lives in a box. Once again there's spikes, walls, and hair dryer-style air blowers try to halt your progress in Chillingo's mobile smash.
Price: £0.79 | Download Cut the Rope Windows Phone app



2. Robotek

Think Robot Wars but without the dreadlocked Craig Charles, battle your bots in campaign and multiplayer mode with optional upgrades like lasers and microwaves to increase your chances of success. The turn-based action also supports in-app purchases to acquire new battle suits plus a DUEL mode to unlock so you can wage robotic warfare against fellow Windows Phone-owning friends.
Price: Free | Download Robotek Windows Phone app

3. Contre Jour Think Cut the Rope but with stellar looks, Contre Jour (translated to against daylight) plunges you into a dark world where you have to control a slinky creature called Petit. You can manipulate elements of the environment to achieve your goal all which is set against one of the most gorgeous soundtracks to turn up on a mobile game.
Price: £2.29 | Download Contre Jour Windows Phone app

4. Fling The Miniclp puzzler that jumped onto Xbox LIVE last year brings the furball-slinging action to Windows Phone 8 smartphones with the simple aim to flick the fluffy balls across the screen until there is one left. With 10,000 levels to get through, there’s Freeplay, Arcade and Challenge modes, plus Frenzy which is essentially where it is all about survival of the fittest (and the furriest).
Price: £2.29 | Download Fling Windows Phone app


5. Mars Runner The 3D space racer set in the year 2323 where humans must begin the process of colonizing other planets uses your phone’s accelerometer as the controls to swerve and tilt around the lush interplanetary environment. There’s special missions to complete with the prestigious reward of becoming the next president of Mars waiting for you on completion of your mission.

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

HP Pavilion 14 Chromebook.

Now here is a new notebook for all of you out there in the educational circles, as well as folks who are looking for a basically dummy proof notebook to use without compromising on its form and function. Have you heard of the Chromebook from Google before? Well, this time around, Google has enlisted the assistance of the good people over at HP to get started on the HP Pavilion 14 Chromebook.
Basically, you can more or less say that the HP Pavilion 14 Chromebook would make for the ideal home companion which will be able to offer the kind of built-in security, speed and simplicity which you would expect from a Chromebook, where it will also be accompanied by a brilliant 14” screen. This means you are now able to enjoy your favorite videos, and photos among others in greater detail than ever before, sporting versatile HDMI and USB ports that would certainly make the HP Chromebook a whole lot easier to customize with peripherals. In fact, the HP Pavilion 14 Chromebook will measure under an inch thick, and it runs on an Intel Celeron processor.
Since this is a Chromebook, you would know for sure that it will be able to play nice with popular products such as Gmail, Google+ Hangouts, YouTube and Maps that already come built in, delivering what had always been the best of Google at the very tip of your fingertips, always. Not only that, the new HP Pavilion 14 Chromebook would also allow you to take full advantage of 100GB of free storage on Google Drive, which makes it a snap to backup your essential and crucial files in the cloud that would make them accessible from just about anywhere and from other devices.
The asking price ain’t that high either, as it is available for $329.99 a pop in the US at HPDirect.com and at other retailers in due time.




source:http://www.latest-gadgets.info/

Saturday, February 2, 2013

BlackBerry 10 Aristo Review

Processor :Quaicomm MDM9X15 And APQ 8064 Krait Quad Core 1.5 Ghz.
Dimension:136 x 68 x 8.85mm.
Display : OTCA Glass OLED 4.65”” 1280 x 720 24 bit color 16:9
Radio: 2FD-LTE/HSPA/GSM varients US and  Eu/ApAC
NA :        GSM            QB
WCDMA        1,2,5/6
LTE            4,17,2,5
EU/APAC:    GSM            QB
WCDMA        1,2,5/6,8
LTE            3,7,20,8
Navigations: Capacitive All Touch.
Camera: 8MPAF with flash – 1080p recording at 30fps 2MPfront facing camera at 720p.
Memory: 2GB RAM 16GB flash – hot swappable MicroSD slot
16GB microSD card.
Wi-Fi:  802.11 a/b/g/n – 2.4GHz – 4G mobile hotspot.
GPS: autonomous -A-GPS.
Software: BB10.x
Connectivity: NFC – Micro USB Micro HDMI Out – DLNA  – Bluetooth 4.0.
Audio: Stereo speaker – 4 Microphones for noise Reduction Wideband AMR.
Battery: 2800 mAh sealed battery with non removable door
Footprint 104×57.1×3.4mm(20H use for multimedia user).
Sensors: Ambidient Light Sensor – Accelerometer – magnetometer –
Gyroscope
Face detect for phone calls – altimeter

Positives :

  • New Design Of BlackBerry
  • Truly Business Phone

Drawbacks :

  • Very Expensive



source: http://www.pricetagindia.com

Thursday, January 31, 2013

KU is just one of several large hints that have been pointing at Apple launching a new iPad including code found within iTunes

A leaked SKU has shown what appears to four new iPad configurations including a new 128GB iPad 4 with Retina Display, marking a huge increase in storage space for the Apple tablet.
Found by 9to5mac the SKU is just one of several large hints that have been pointing at Apple launching a new iPad including code found within iTunes 11 which hints at an iPad with much more memory.
The site goes on to point out that this information should be taken with a pinch of salt as Apple has in the past listed configurations that have never actually ended up being released.
The code lists four new models marked as 'PREMIUM' which suggests the 128GB model will not replace the 64GB but instead be added to the range.
With Apple rumoured to be launching the iPad Mini 2 with a Retina Display sometime in the first half of this year it's not yet clear whether Apple will launch a 128GB iPad Mini to go alongside its larger brother.
The idea that Apple would increase its product range is not altogether unfeasible after analysts have predicted that Apple would also be expanding the iPhone range with a new budget iPhone alongside the hotly-anticipated iPhone 6.