Samsung Galaxy S III MINI

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Samsung Vs IPhone. Samsung Electronics South Korea Co. has unveiled a smaller and cheaper version of the Galaxy S III Smartphone with the similar screen size as the iPhone 5. The compact version of Galaxy S III shares the best-selling Galaxy S III Smartphone design at significantly lower price.

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In comparison, the recently-launched iPhone 5 has a similarly-sized 4.0 inch screen but, the display has a lower resolution of 800 x 480 pixels compared to 1,280 x 720 pixels of iPhone5. And its 5 megapixel auto focus camera with LED Flash it’s not impressive as of iPhone 5. But it also has a front facing VGA camera for video call.

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The Galaxy S III mini is powered by a dual-core 1GHz processor and runs on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) OS also comes with 4.0-inch Super AMOLED display. The phone has 8 Gigabytes and 16 Gigabytes of internal storage options which can be expandable up to 32 Gigabytes through microSD card. According to Samsung, content sharing is even much more easy and fast on the GALAXY S III mini, Its connectivity options include WiFi( but do not support faster fourth-generation wireless networks), NFC, Bluetooth 4.0 and S Beam feature ( where you can share 10MB of file in two seconds by simply tapping). It is also powered by standard Li-Ion 1,500 mAh removable battery. 

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The Smart phone Galaxy S III mini can also understand your gesture, can track your eyes and keeps the screen lit as long as you are looking at it, and even can reading a text message. Its advanced natural language recognition system lets users to organize schedule, unlocking phone with simple customized commands or to play music and a lot more. 

The announcement of the mini arrives from Samsung but company gave no details on pricing or an eventual sales date.

A New Smart Phone:- HTC Desire X

HTC recently released a new android phone in the market call HTC Desire X. HTC Desire X now online available in India at Rs 19799 on FlipKart and Snapdeal. Snapdeal is also offering a FREE Bluetooth worth of 3499. HTC also announce to officially launch HTC Desire X in the country by next week. 

Almost there are more than 20 Android mobile models available below Rs. 20,000. HTC Desire X runs on Android 4.0 Ice Cream sandwich Operating system and powered by a 1GHz Snapdragon S4 (dual-core) processor and has 768 MB of RAM. Other specifications of the device include 800 X 480 pixels screen resolution of 4.0-inch Super LCD screen with capacitive touch screen, 5MP (2592х1944 pixels) auto focus camera with LED flash, built-in Beats Audio sound enhancement, 4 GigaBytes internal storage and expandable up to 32GB through microSD cards. 

In the hand the look and feel of the HTC Desire X is quite decent and fits properly also in small hands. They also provide a unique central power/lock button with HTC's traditional Sense UI v4.0 overlay on top. The camera is the most striking part of the HTC Desire X its 5-megapixel camera has an ability to capture still images while recording video along with a burst mode feature that will take 2.5 photos every second. But it can't record HD video. 

The HTC Desire X does hold one advantage over the One X and One XL series phones: The device comes with a Li-Ion 1,650 mAh battery but this time it has a removable battery. For connectivity, the HTC Desire X supports 3G, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, DLNA, Bluetooth 4.0 with A2DP and A-GPS. The rest of phone don’t offers relatively more to talk about also HTC hasn't stated whether Desire X can be upgraded to the latest 4.1 Android version or not. But HTC Desire X is significantly cheaper and smaller from the One X range with satisfactionaly good features. 

GENERAl	2G Network	GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
	3G Network	HSDPA 900 / 2100
		HSDPA 850 / 2100
	Status	Available. Released 2012, October

DISPLAY	Type	Super LCD capacitive touch screen
	Size	480 x 800 pixels, 4.0 inches
	Multi touch	Yes
		- HTC Sense UI v4.0

SOUND	Alert types	Vibration, MP3, WAV ringtones
	Loudspeaker	Yes
	3.5mm jack	Yes
		- Beats Audio sound enhancement

MEMORY	Card slot	32 GB microSD
	Internal	4 GB, 768 MB RAM

DATA	GPRS	Yes
	EDGE	Yes
	Speed	HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps
	WLAN	Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot
	Bluetooth	Yes, v4.0 with A2DP
	USB	Yes, microUSB v2.0

CAMERA	Primary	5 MP, 2592х1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
	Video	Yes, 480p@30fps
	Secondary	No

FEATURES	OS	Android OS, v4.0.4
	Chipset	Qualcomm MSM8225 Snapdragon
	CPU	Dual-core 1 GHz
	Sensors	Accelerometer, proximity, compass
	Messaging	SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email
	Browser	HTML5
	Radio	TBD
	GPS	Yes, with A-GPS support
	Java	Yes, via Java MIDP emulator

BATTERY

Standard battery, Li-Ion 1650 mAh

Credit :- gsmarena  and HTC.com

IPod 5 Touch Review

Music can do anything, it can change the world, it can change people coz when it hits you, you feel no pain and iPod completely changed the way people approach music. But this time Apple introduces a complete new astonishing IPod 5 Touch.

With its brilliant new design and aluminium body you can barely feels in your hand or in pockets. It is the thinnest and lightest IPod touch ever. Its quarter-inch thick (0.24 inch, 6.1millimetres) and barely more than 3 ounces (3.10 ounces, 88 grams), it feels almost inconsequential. The first thing you’ll notice about IPod touch is its incredibly rich and vibrant body colour  highly striking matte finish body with elegant beveled edges. 

In back IPod 5 touch has a new surprise. Press a silver button at the bottom-left, and it pops out just a bit. The design is so sleek; you won’t even notice the button until you need it. Then you can attach a rubber wrist strap called the “iPod touch loop” – Just like we have in our WII remote. So you don’t have to worry about a slip, fumble or drop. 

Another big upgrade in IPod 5 is a better camera. You can shoot 1080p video, with image stabilization and face detection feature, and you can take 5-megapixel stills Photographs with it. And the cool Panorama feature (just like we have in our IPhone 5 and IPhone 4S) is easy to use and produces impressive results almost instantly. Also we have upgraded front camera, too with tap to focus, an LED flash- by which you can take 720p video at 30 frames per second. It also takes 1.2 megapixel stills photographs that look a lot better than the VGA cameras in old IPod touches.

Just like IPhone 5, the new Retina display got taller but not wider. Measuring 4 inches diagonally, the screen is 640 pixels wide but now 1136 pixels high, leaving room for an extra row of icons on the home screen. That means everything you do on IPod 5 touch can remain a one-handed operation, and your thumb gets more room to roam. Another new exciting feature of IPod touch is stylish new EarIN headphones. They’re not just redesigned for the perfect fit.

They’re also designed for the perfect sound. So you don't have to turn up the volume to hear your music when external noise is present. 

Now IPod 5 Touch has the most powerful IPod "touch experience" ever. That’s because the dual-core A5 processor provides up to twice the processing power and by consuming less battery power at the same time. Its gives you 40 hours of music or 8 hours of video battery backup on a single charge and up to seven times faster graphics than the previous generation IPods. 

Both in design and its hardware capabilities are extremely good, But I have a question- is it worthy to upgrade previous iPod touch models if you already have a IPhone 5.

Credit:- Apple.com

Sony Xperia Tipo Released in India

Sony Sony Sony, another toy to play with. Sony Mobile India just announced it’s very first a new economic Smartphone called Sony Xperia Tipo in India. It’s also comes in dual SIM version. This Phone is against the entire budget smart phone available in the market these days like Samsung Galaxy Ace and HTC Desire C with dozens of big and small change.

Sony Xperia Tipo comes with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, with a 3.2 inch scratch-resistant display, an 800MHz single-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 3.2 megapixel camera at the back, 2GB of internal memory with a microSD card slot, all powered by a 1500 mAh battery. 

Sony hopes to garner increased consumer interest by its slim, slick and stylish design integrated Social networking applications, Sony’s xLOUD audio technology to gives you ultimate music experience and with its reasonable price of 10000rs in the Indian market.

Network

2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900

3G Network HSDPA 900 / 2100 - ST21i and HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100 - ST21a

Body

Dimensions 103 x 57 x 13 mm

Weight 99.4 g

DISPLAY

Type TFT capacitive touchscreen, 256K colors

Size 320 x 480 pixels, 3.2 inches (~180 ppi pixel density)

Protection Scratch-resistant glass

SOUND

Alert types Vibration MP3 ringtones

Loudspeaker Yes

3.5mm jack Yes

MEMORY

Internal 2.9 GB storage (2.5 GB user available), 512 MB RAM

Card slot microSD, up to 32 GB

DATA

GPRS Up to 86 kbps

EDGE Up to 237 kbps

WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi hotspot

Bluetooth Yes, v2.1 with A2DP

USB Yes, microUSB v2.0

CAMERA

Primary 3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels

Secondary No

FEATURES

OS Android OS, v4.0.3 (Ice Cream Sandwich)

Chipset Qualcomm MSM7225AA

CPU 800 MHz Cortex-A5

GPU Adreno 200

Sensors Accelerometer, proximity, compass

Radio Stereo FM radio with RDS

GPS Yes, with A-GPS support

BATTERY

Standard battery, Li-Ion 1500 mAh

Stand-by Up to 470 h (2G) / Up to 545 h (3G)

Google Introduce Its first underwater panoramas Street Views

IS Google God? Just like God, Google is everywhere. And by everywhere we mean “Everywhere”. Google recently add a very new and unique feature of underwater panoramic images to Google Maps. In additional to this exciting new feature, they are also planning to create a most pioneering, comprehensive and accurate usable underwater map of the World. You can also learn how to swim, hot places to visit, where you can explore more than 500 species of sea and experience the most incredible living coral reefs in the oceans around the world. 

Google Introduce Its first underwater panoramas Street Views

To do this they are partnering with The Catlin Seaview Survey ( a major scientific study unit of the world’s 

reefs) and used their specially designed underwater camera, the SVII , to capture these panoramas photos by marine biologists. So if you want to explore more around the world you can visit http://maps.google.com/streetview or http://maps.google.com/ocean .

Tabeo : New Entry in Tablet Wars

Now Toys R is just not a toy shop. They have recently launched a new android tablet for kids called “Tabeo”. Tablets are increasingly popular these days amongst the children’s. SO they want to grab the attention and wallets of the youngest tech consumers who are quickly adopting Smartphone’s and other gadgets. Toys R Us also sells other electronic devices like Apple I-pad, but this is its first store-brand tablet. 

Since children have a habit of dropping things, particularly when they are expensive, the Tabeo comes with a removable multi colour bumpers that will help protect it from damages. Additional to bumpers other accessories will also be on sale. 

Tabeo runs on a 1GHz ARM Cortex A8 processor, with 1 Gigabytes’ RAM and 4 Gigabytes’ flash memory, which can be expanded with microSDHC cards. The 7-inch TFT LCD display has a resolution of 800x480 and the battery life is an estimated 10 hours of normal use. Tabeo is also equipped with WiFi, a HDMI port and with front facing camera. It runs on Android 4.0 version and comes with 50 pre installed application selected for children, including games such as Angry Birds and Cut The Rope, and a book app called istorybooks to help children learn as well as play. 

They also open a Curator app store to give kids access to 7000+ number of programs with Parental controls to ensure safety and security. It will be launched on Oct. 21 and retail for $149.99. 

It appears that children are expected to drive tablet sales in coming holidays. Many families will buy new tablets and hand down older models to their kids. According to Gartner consumers are expected to buy around 180 million tablets in 2013. 

FEATURES

• Google Android™ 4.0 Operating System
• TFT LCD color touch-screen 7-inches
• Full Internet browsing capability
• Experience YouTube at your fingertips
• Easy access to emails
• Download and play games
• Included digital music, video player, video camera and digital picture viewer
• Digital picture frame
• e-Book reader
• Download and install custom Google Android™ Applications

SPECIFICATIONS

• CPU: 1GHz ARM Cortex A8 processor
• Memory : 1 Gigabytes’ RAM
• Memory : Flash: Built-in Flash / expanded with microSDHC cards
• Display : 7-inch TFT LCD
• Display: Resolution 800 X 480 Pixels
• WIFI: 802.11b/g
• Input/Output :  Touch Panel: capacitive touch panel
• Input/Output :  Speaker: Built-in loud speakers
• Input/Output :  USB 2.0
• Battery: Built-in Li-Polymer battery

(Reference: news.yahoo.com, vr-zone.com, washingtonpost.com )

New Sony Xperia Tablet S

Android market is getting hotter day by day and decidedly crowded. Sony just announced a new Android tablet but still isn't cheap; it also brings a load of TV-ready features and a revamped Android 4.0 skin. This year’s it is called the Sony Xperia Tablet S. As you can see they’ve stuck with the folded-over design but this time it’s much slimmer and sleeker as a result, the Sony Xperia Tablet S feels lighter and still has that magazine feel when you hold it in your hands. 

Sony also offers dozens of big and small change to the tablet. Xperia Tablet S comes in an aluminum shell with LCD screen size of (9.4-inches) also have anti-glare coating on its display and a splash-resistant (but not waterproof) coating all over, which means you can use the screen even your fingers are wet but resolution (1280 x 800) remains the same just like its previous version. This time Sony uses the NVIDIA Tegra 3 (quad core processor) single-core operations clocked at 1.3/1.4GHz with 16 to 64 Gigabytes of memory storage. 

Sony Xperia Tablet S also comes with 802.11 a/b/g/n Wi-Fi supports, Bluetooth 3.0, a gyroscope, an accelerometer sensor, full-size SD card slot and an HDMI input. You'll also find a volume rocker, headphone jack, and the power/sleep button. This time Sony Xperia Tablet S comes with 8-megapixel rear camera with 1.3 megapixel camera in front. 

But this time Sony hopes to garner increased consumer interest by incorporating remote control and macro functionality with their new tablet. The most interesting feature of this tablet is that it comes with remote control feature. This remote control feature in time Sony Xperia Tablet S is pre-installed which can act as a universal remote to control TVs, home stereos system, DVD and Blu-ray players and (Set Top Box)cable boxes, even whether they carry a Sony brand or not. 

Another interesting software feature of Sony Xperia Tablet S touts is of multiple users’ modes. Where you have different customized windows for every user starting from wallpapers to home screen layouts etc. Because of which your friends and kids can enjoy a single tablet without snooping around your email and personal stuff. There is also “Small Apps” function that allows you to use one application in a small screen while continuing to use another main application. This Small Apps functionality includes a calculator, voice recorder, web browser, timer, and the IR remote. 

 

Overall all these ergonomic wedge design and an integrated IR universal remote control make it unique and give you above and beyond the typical Android tablet experience, but it was bit pricey.

Sony Xperia Tablet S Specifications
Operating System	Android 4.0
Processor	NVIDIA Tegra 3 Quad-Core Cortex-A9 CPU 1.4GHz (Maximum 1.4 GHz 1-Core Operation, 1.3GHz Multi-Core Operation)
Storage	16GB/32GB/64GB
RAM	1GB
Display	9.4" (23.8 cm) 1280x800
I/O	SD memory card Headphone Multi Port IR remote control w/ macro functionality
Networking	Bluetooth 3.0 802.11a/b/g/n
Camera	8Mp Rear 1.3Mp Front
Battery	~12 hours video playback ~10 hours Wi-Fi web browsing
Dimensions	9.45"x6.87"x0.35"~0.47" (WxLxH) 240mmx174.5mmx8.9-11.9mm
Weight	1.26 lbs (573g)

(Source: cnet.com | wired.com)