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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Latest Anti-Fingerprint Technology for iPhone 5
The current coatings for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch are not effective and lasts for a month but this new patent filed by Apple is apparently more effective in protecting the touch screen devices from smears.
The Physical Vapor Desposition technology will reportedly protect your iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch from fingerprints and avoid the need to constantly wipe out your device. This new technology coats the screens of your touch device with an oil resistant ‘oleophobic’ coating.
This technique applies thin films of vaporized materials onto i-device’s surface. This special coating comes in liquid form inside a pressurized bottle and is purged by an inert gas to avoid its contact with air, heat or humidity during the manufacturing process, before it is applies to the device’s surface.
Report - iPhone 5 to be a dual-mode world phone
Apple's upcoming iPhone 5 will support access to both CDMA and GSM networks, allowing it to operate in most countries around the world, a source tells TechCrunch.
An unidentified app developer reportedly pulled information from registration logs that show two distinct mobile network codes (MNC) / mobile country codes (MCC). These codes, which are believed to have been entered by testers of a single device using Apple's upcoming mobile operating system iOS 5, are unique mobile network identifiers belonging to Verizon and AT&T, TechCrunch said.
Apple now caters to both companies, but the devices are not designed to operate on each other's networks; Verizon's works on the CDMA standard, while AT&T's iPhone 4 operates on a GSM network, the dominant global wireless technology and the standard in Europe.
While the iPhone 5 has been long rumored to be a CDMA/GSM world phone, Verizon's iPhone has always had this capability, although it's not activated. Teardowns of the device showed that it sports the Qualcomm MDM6600 chip, the same chip that's used in the Droid Pro world phone.
TechCrunch concluded that a dual-mode phone would suggest that the iPhone 5 would not support LTE. However, Apple's latest developer builds for iOS 5 contain a snippet of code that mentions LTE, according to enthusiast site MacRumors, prompting speculation that the company may be testing 4G internally.
The hotly anticipated next edition of Apple's smartphone is expected to be released in October
iPhone 5 - Apple to Capture Consumers Again
Online shopping site PriceGrabber found that Apple still has what it takes to win consumers over with its smartphone offering. The company recently surveyed consumers about the upcoming release of the iPhone 5and found, specifically, that 35 percent of the respondents plan to buy the new device upon its release.
James Brown, the Senior Director of Merchant Accounts with PriceGrabber, told us that the survey also revealed that 51 percent of consumers planned to purchase it within the first year, 14 percent within the first month, and 7 percent within the first week.
Consumers may expect more user friendly apps interface, Longer version of battery usage and yes not the least, Lower price for sure.
Although the exact date of the iPhone 5 release has not been made public, it is expected to be available sometime this fall.
Are you planning to buy the iPhone 5?
According to a report issued today by the Wall Street Journal, Sprint will join AT&T and Verizon in offering iPhone handsets starting this fall with the launch of Apple’s next-generation iPhone 5 handset.
Sprint is currently the third-largest wireless carrier in the country, behind Verizon and AT&T respectively. With more than fifty million customers, Sprint represents a huge new market for Apple and its wildly-selling iPhone. After launching the first iPhone handset exclusively with AT&T, Apple has continually moved to add new carrier partners to continue its push to become the number-one smartphone manufacturer in the world.
Interestingly, the United States was the first country to receive Apple’s iPhone in 2007, but the last to drop carrier exclusivity which only happened in January of this year with the launch of the CDMA iPhone 4 handset on Verizon. The rumor mill has been speculating that Sprint and T-Mobile were possible new carriers that would be on board following the launch of the iPhone 5; this new report from a source as reputable as the Wall Street Journal seemingly confirms it. As T-Mobile is currently in merger negotiations with AT&T, it’s likely that subscribers will have access to the iPhone in the future anyway.
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Facebook Deals Being Shut Down, 4 Months After Launch
Facebook has announced
it is shutting down Facebook
Deals, 4 months after launching
the feature in select U.S. cities. The announcement comes just 3
days after we reported that Facebook Places,
which was closely linked to Deals, is being
shut down.
“After testing Deals for four months, we’ve decided to end our Deals
product in the coming weeks,” a company spokesperson told Reuters. “We think there is a lot of power in a
social approach to driving people into local businesses. We’ve learned a
lot from our test and we’ll continue to evaluate how to best serve
local businesses.”
Facebook initially planned to keep the feature going, with available
deals appearing in your News Feed once you tagged your location in a
status update. It seems that Facebook Deals never really took off in the
same way as other daily deals services such as Groupon and LivingSocial. However,
this could be simply a bump in the road for Facebook when it comes to
daily deals — the social network could have taken some important lessons
away from this experiment and may move back into the daily deals space
at a later date. Who knows, but right now it is closing the doors.
This is the latest in several big announcements that Facebook has
made this week. On Tuesday, the company rolled out new
tools and features to help you gain more control over how you share
content. Earlier Friday, Facebook revealed changes that are being
rolled out to its photo-sharing feature.
Discovery App Ness Recommends Local Restaurants Based On Personal Taste, Friends
It’s never easy to pick the perfect restaurant. After sorting through
the listings on Yelp or Foursquare and maybe
browsing through pictures on Foodspotting, I
usually just end up relying on a recommendation from my friends anyway.
This is perhaps why Ness’ new app is so useful.
The app is a personalized search engine catered specifically towards
discovering new restaurants. Instead of similar services that focus
primarily on reviews from every user or location-based restaurant apps
that offer up results only based on proximity, Ness tailors the results
to your specific tastes and your friends’ recommendations. You can view
restaurants nearby or restaurants from anywhere.
Ness is driven by the company’s Likeness Engine, which
pulls recommendations based on a wealth of different sources including
your taste profile, your similarity to other users, the restaurant’s
popularity, and friends’ recommendations from synced social networks.
The service then gives a “Likeness Score” between 0 percent and 100
percent that predicts how much you’ll like the restaurant. With similar
services, 10 users from the same area who look for a Mexican restaurant
will all be recommended the same restaurants. With Ness, each user
receives results that are completely unique to them: if you prefer
authentic Mexican to a chain with Mexican options, your results will
reflect that. You can select to filter out all big chains or hide the
places you’ve previously rated to garner only new results.
Ness has a couple of great features that allow for the experience to
be completely personalized. You can sync up Facebook and Foursquare
to see your friends’ check-ins and recommendations directly on Ness’
search results page. Ness also has a Newsfeed where you can keep up with
your friends’ latest food finds, and if you have a whole lot of
contacts on your social networks, you can pick which friends you
specifically want to hear from.
Ness also has location-based capabilities so you can filter
restaurants based on where you are located. The service remembers your
favorite types of food, so even if you visit a new city, all you have to
do is turn on the distance filter to find something nearby that you’ll
love. In addition, the discovery app makes it easy to find hidden gems
by searching restaurants marked as a “local favorite.”
Ness might be focused on restaurants for the time being, but they’re
planning to expand their service to include options like music,
shopping, nightlife, and entertainment.
To give the service a try, download the app from the App Store. Unfortunately, the app is not available
on Android or BlackBerry devices at
the time of this writing and only available to users in the U.S.
Google+ Adds ‘Block’ And ‘Ignore’ Features
Ever wondered how to get rid of those annoying people you didn’t want
to add on Google+
but felt obliged to? The social network has added 2 new features that
let you weed out people from your circles, notifications bar and
incoming stream without them knowing about it. This means you’re finally
free of that annoying co-worker who overshares on social networks and
your old college roommate, who for some reason, types in all caps.
“Ignore,” one of the new options, blocks all of a contact’s posts and
notifications about their activities. Plus, you won’t see them in your
circles. They’ll still be able to see and comment on your updates but
you won’t be able to see their updates and Google+ does not alert users
you’ve ignored, so you can do it guilt free.
To ignore someone, all you have to do is hit the “ignore” button next
to their name in the notifications drop-down menu on the Google+ bar at
the top of the screen. You can also ignore someone on your incoming
stream by hitting the “ignore” button next to their post. If you want to
ignore more than one person at once, simply highlight all the users on
your circles page and hit “ignore.”
The “block” option is a little more severe than “ignore” — a person
will not be able to comment on any of your posts. You will be completely
invisible to them, and they will be completely invisible to you. You
can block someone directly on their profile or in any of the places the
“ignore” button is available.
If you have a change of heart, blocking and ignoring a user are not
permanent actions. You can unignore and unblock people on your circles
page under the “more actions” option. You can also unblock someone
directly from their profile and you can unignore someone by adding them
back into your circles.
Google+ recently added some other updates in addition to the “ignore”
and “block” features. On Thursday, they
gave users the ability to view all of the friends they’ve been
tagged in photos with on one page. On Wednesday, they added a feature
that allows users to share
Web pages directly to specific Google+ circles by using the +1 button.
Facebook Makes Photos Bigger And Faster, Changes Lightbox
With 250 million
photos being added each day, the photo-sharing feature is one of the
most popular on Facebook.
With that in mind, the company has just announced it will display
higher-resolution photos as part of an update it is rolling out to its
photo-sharing feature.
You can now share photos that are up to 960 pixels wide (up from 720
pixels) and photos will load twice as fast. Photos that you have already
uploaded to Facebook will be displayed at the higher resolution too.
In addition, Facebook has made some changes to its photo viewer. It
has now been streamlined with a cleaner interface as the lightbox has
been changed to a white background that places more emphasis on the
photo.
These changes have been made in the same week that Facebook rolled
out more
photo tagging controls, along with several other tools and new
features. Meanwhile, photo
filters may soon be added to Facebook photos.
This update to the photo-sharing feature will be rolled out to all
users over the next few days.
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Friday, August 26, 2011
Google+ Updates Android App, Allows You To Reshare Posts [Video]
Google+ has rolled
out an updated version of its Android
app, which now allows you to reshare posts from others with your
circles. This was the most requested feature for Google+ on mobile
devices.
To reshare a post, all you have to do is tap the post in your stream
and tap the button with three dots (next to the +1 button). Once you
have tapped “Share this post,” you can choose which circles or contacts
you want to share the post with. You can also add a comment before
resharing a post.
Here’s a video which shows how the feature works:
The Android Google+ app is also now available in 38 languages and has
made notifications more reliable. There are now clearer Instant Upload
options in the initial setup dialog, along with several bug fixes,
performance fixes and user interface tweaks.
You can check out the latest version of the Google+ app by downloading it on your Android device now. The resharing feature will be
added to the iPhone and
mobile Web apps in the near future.
UberMedia’s Twitter App ‘Twidroyd’ Is Now ‘UberSocial For Android’
UberMedia has
announced that their Twitter
application Twidroyd
will become UberSocial
for Android starting
on Thursday. The newly named application will feature all of Twidroyd’s
normal functions plus new features that are specific to UberSocial
applications.
UberSocial has previously been released for BlackBerry and iPhone devices, and
according to UberMedia, the demand for a similar Android application
lead to the launch of this new product. The change will also allow
UberMedia to release updates more quickly as all applications now have
closely related features.
Because Twidroyd is a widely used application, UberMedia has decided
to let users keep the Twidroyd interface after the switch. If you’re a
fan of the way Twidroyd looks and you don’t want to switch to
UberSocial’s interface, a Twidroyd theme can be added to the
application.
In the past UberSocial has had a rocky relationship with Twitter.
UberMedia was forced
to change the app’s name from UberTwitter to its current
incarnation because it infringed
on trademarks and broke API rules. Both UberSocial and Twidroyd
were suspended for breaking API rules until the
problem was remedied.
INFOGRAPHIC: How Sharing On Social Networks Is Expected To Grow
We share a lot on social
networks. On Facebook
alone we share 4 billion different items a day including status
updates, links and photos. The number of photos shared on Facebook is projected
to reach 100 billion by the end of summer. According to Mark Zuckerberg,
sharing grows exponentially and 2 times as many people share today as
they did a year ago. If that’s the case, how will we keep up?
This infographic by Summify, a service that creates a summary of news
from your social networks’ feeds, outlined just how much we’re expected
to share in the future and the numbers are overwhelming. By 2013, it’s
projected that we’ll share 32 billion items per day and that’s just on
Facebook. Sharing is expected to increase across the entire expanse of
the Internet.
Right now the average user follows between 0 to 49 feeds including
feeds from Twitter, Facebook and RSS feeds. The median number of
Facebook friends for users is 401, the median number of accounts
followed on Twitter by
a user is 235 and the median number of followers a single user has is
187. On Twitter, a user will receive 8 times more links than on Facebook
— but that number could increase if Zuckerberg’s prediction is right.
How will you handle an increase in sharing?
Check out the infographic below and click on the image to view the
full size.
Dwolla Launches ‘Proxi’ Feature, Lets You Make Location-based Transactions
Social payments service Dwolla
has introduced a new way for you to make payments. The new Proxi
feature will allow you to send and receive money with any Dwolla user
who is close to your location.
The feature essentially allows you to become a mobile Spot where you
can send and receive payments without having to use special hardware on
your mobile device, such as near field communication (NFC) or a dongle. The idea behind
Proxi is that Dwolla believes you should be able to send and receive
payments with anyone for any reason, based on your proximity to them.
When you launch the feature, you will be able to view all the other
Dwolla users and merchants who are nearby, so that you can transact with
any user or merchant in your immediate proximity, whether they are
stationary or on the move.
Here is a video that explains Proxi in a little more detail:
Dwolla, which revealed last month that it was processing
over $1 million in daily transactions, initially added
location-based transactions through the Dwolla
Spots feature back in March. Proxi opens up the payments platform a
little more to make it even easier for you to send and receive payments
with others.
Proxi is in private beta at the time of this writing, but you can
request an invite to use the feature in the iOS app from Dwolla’s
website.
Pixable Now Lets You Browse Photos And Videos Shared On Twitter
Pixable has announced
that you can now browse through photos and videos that people you are
following have shared on Twitter.
The service, which previously only indexed photos uploaded and videos
being shared by your Facebook
friends, now pulls media that are being shared on Twitter using
Twitter’s own
photo-sharing feature as well as TwitPic, yFrog, Instagram, YouTube and others.
After connecting your Twitter account to Pixable, you can explore the
photos and videos that are being shared by those you are following.
While you can browse through photos shared by an individual Twitter user
through the social network’s new
user galleries, Pixable brings together the media being shared by
all of the users you are following into a single hub.
Pixable, which raised
$3.6 million in funding in April, helps you to find the most
relevant media being shared by your friends and people you are
following.
It should be noted that the Twitter integration is only available on
Pixable’s Web app at
the time of this writing. However, it will be added to its iPhone
and iPad
apps in the near future.
You Can Now Share Web Pages Directly To Google+ Using The +1 Button
Google‘s +1 button is now available
on more than 1 million websites, with the button being viewed more than 4
billion times per day. While these stats show that button is proving to
be popular since it was enabled
for websites in June, Google believes that more can be done with
it. With that in mind, Google is adding 2 new features to the button
that will help you share interesting content on Google+.
First of all, Google is making it easier for you to share Web pages
with your circles on Google+. Any time that you click the +1 button on a
website, you will now be given the option to “Share on Google+.” If you
would like to share that content with your friends, you can do so
simply by selecting which circles you would like to share that page
with. You can also add a comment about the page before
sharing it.
When you share content using the +1 button — which was made
3 times faster last month — you will see that Google automatically
includes a link, an image from the Web page and a description of the
content in the sharebox. These details are called +snippets and Google
is now allowing website publishers to customize the content that appears
in +snippets to help kickstart a conversation around their content on
Google+. Information on how to edit this information can be found on Google’s Webmaster blog.
These features are being rolled out gradually over the next week, but
you can try them out by joining the Google+ Platform Preview. Once you have signed up,
you can visit any website that contains the +1 button (hey, Scribbal
uses the +1 button!) and +1 the page to see how it works for yourself.
Via Scribbal
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Samsung i9100 Amzing Cell phone Photos
Form factor: Touchscreen bar phone- 4.3″ 16M-color WVGA (480*800 pixels)
- Super AMOLED Plus capacitive touchscreen, gorilla glass
- Android OS, v2.3 (Gingerbread)
- Android market, android browser, RSS Reader
- Dual-core 1.2 Ghz ARM Cortex-A9 processor, Orion chipset
- TouchWiz 4.0 UI
- Divx/XviD codec support/MP4/WMV/H.264/H.263 player
- Built-in accelerometer, proximity sensor, gyroscope sensor, Swype text input
- GPS with A-GPS support
- SNS integration
- Digital compass
- Organizer
- Image/video editor
- Adobe Flash 10.1 support
- Document editor(Word, Powerpoint, Excel, Google Search, Gmail, Maps)
Samsung I9100 Galaxy S II Camera:
- 8 megapixel camera with 3264*2448 pixels, LED flash, autofocus
- Geo-tagging, face and smile detection, image stabilization
- 2 megapixel secondary camera
- Video recording 1080p@30fps
Connectivity:
- Wi-Fi a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi hotspot
- Bluetooth 3.0
- standard microUSB Port
- GPS receiver with A-GPS
- 3.5mm audio jack
- FM radio
- TV-Out
- USB-on-the-go
Network:
- 2G: GSM 850/900/1800/1900
- 3G: HSDPA 850/900/1900/2100
Memory:
- Unlimited Phonebook entries
- Practically Unlimited Call records
- 1GB RAM, 16GM/32GB storage
Battery:
- Standard battery, Li-Ion 1630 mAh
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Samsung i9100 hot pic
Samsung i9100 black edition
Samsung I7500 Photos
A second video demo of the Samsung I7500 Android smartphone has emerged, this time the handiwork of Tech65. As we saw in the first video, it’s the AMOLED touchscreen that really makes the I7500 stand out at 3.2-inches and 320 x 480 resolution it’s the same size and pixel count as on the HTC Magic and T-Mobile G1, but we’re hoping for better overall runtime along with the brighter colors.There’s also quadband GSM, triband 7.2Mbps HSDPA (900/1700/2100), WiFi b/g and GPS, as well as Bluetooth and a 5-megapixel camera. Internal memory tops out at 8GB, with a microSD card slot for adding up to an extra 32GB. We’re also pleased to see a standard 3.5mm headphone socket, something HTC could well look at copying with their own Android phones.
New Samsung i7500 on Sale in Germany: Recently, the Samsung i7500 cell phone officially put on sale in Germany, and with the O2 of the contract price of 69.99 euros, i7500 is Samsung’s first Android phone, it built a number of Google applications.Samsung Cell Phones – New Samsung i7500 Cell Phone Pictures
Samsung i7500 is equipped with a 3.2 inches HVGA (320 × 480 pixels) AMOLED screen, built-in 5 megapixels camera and 8GB memory, support for HSDPA high-speed data transmission.
The Samsung i7500 Galaxy Android phone is now on sale in the UK exclusively on the O2 network. It’s expected that O2 will have this exclusivity for four weeks and then it should be available to other resellers. The phone is already on sale from O2 stores and online costing £45 plus an 18 month contract.The android phone comes with 3.2 inch AMOLED display, WiFi, GPS, 5 megapixel camera with auto-focus, HSDPA/EDGE/GPRS, Bluetooth 2.0, MicroUSB, 8GB storage and microSD expansion and 3.5mm jack.We’re still unclear about release dates for the Samsung I7500, but the device in this video is looking pretty complete. The Android platform desperately needs more choice in handsets, so we’re eagerly waiting the I7500’s launch.
It started as a rumor and it got confirmed faster than we could have imagined. The Samsung I7500 we have shown you yesterday is the first Samsung Android phone. And we have some hands-on photos to delight our imagination with. We can get a general idea about size and shape and all we need now is clear launch dates. At this point the first question that comes to mind is what would you choose? HTC Magic or Samsung I7500?Samsung s8003 Jet Photos Gallary
As we all know, cell phones or mobile phones is one of the most important thing to buy nowadays. While buying a mobile phone we mainly check the Operating system (like iOS, Andriod, Symbian), User Interface and other features like camera, bluetooth, wifi, etc. But buying the most expensive one is not everyone’s interest. So let’s just take a look at these most expensive cell phone in the world and buy a usual cell phone instead. Not all people, especially people that own most expensive cell phone in the world, use cell phones for communication purpose only.Here’s the list of top 10 most expensive cell phones in the world:PS: Some sources tell me that Samsung will release a App Store on Samsung Jet for users to install application. Until then, we will classify Samsung Jet as a non-smart phone.Samsung did a pretty good job with the proprietary Operating System. It is fast and responsive. Interface is simple and works great when paired with TouchWiz 2.0. There are 3 panels for you to put TouchWiz Widgets which is good since you only have to 3.1 inch real estate. The Dolfin is pretty good too. It can play flash if you want to. But playing flash on phone is still not very stable at this moment and Samsung Jet is no exception.
The slogan for the Samsung Jet is “Smarter than Smartphone”. Initially, I thought that the Samsung is a smartphone. But in actual fact, it isn’t. You can’t install additional applications on the Samsung Jet. But it does has a lot of features that makes it feel like its a smartphone. For a start, the Samsung Jet comes with Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync. Some smartphone don’t have Exchange support! But strangely, the Jet doesn’t have any applications that support opening of MS Office files. Weird omission I would say.
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