Samsung Galaxy S3 vs Samsung Galaxy S2 Contract Deals Who will sparkle more?

South Korean company is going to launch its much-hyped device Samsung Galaxy S3 pretty soon. The rumors floating in the air suggest that this gadget can break its cover in April or 22nd May. In this article, we will come to know, what improvements and innovative specs have been incorporated by company while designing the Galaxy S3. As, company has still not revealed the exact specs of this upcoming device, the difference is analyzed only on the basis of speculated specs.

Dimension: Considering the fashion of larger phone, Samsung Galaxy S3 Deals is expected to measure up the size of 131.3 x 63.7 x 8 mm in comparison to 125.3 x 66.1 x 8.5 mm of its old sib. With 126 gram weight, it's heavier than the 116 gram S2.

Further, in contrast to metal chassis of S2, the new gizmo is speculated to come with ceramic casing.

Camera: In comparison to 8 MP camera of S2 with 3264x2448 pixels, S3 is supposed to flaunt 12 MP 4000x3000 pixels camera. Both will be able to take 1080p video clips. Further, both will feature 2 MP video chat camera.

Display: Samsung Galaxy S3 may be featuring a larger 4.6" screen with 280 x 720 pixels and 319 ppi pixel density. Its predecessor was flaunting 4.3" screen with 800 x 480 pixels resolution and 217 ppi pixel density.

User Interface: Galaxy S3 will be coming with TouchWiz UI 5.0 version in contrast to TouchWiz 4.0 of S2 and will pack 3D lenticular image technology and built-in bottle opener.

Operating System and Processor: S2 was released on Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread, which is now upgradable to 4.0 Ice cream sandwich.

But, S3 will be coming along with this latest Android 4.0. Galaxy S3 will be empowered by quad-core 1.8GHz/2GHz CPU in comparison to dual-core 1.2GHz of S2.

Memory: Galaxy S2 packs 16/32GB memory along with 1GB of RAM and 32GB external microSD card. Galaxy S3 is expected to come in 16/32/64GB storage along with 2GB of RAM and 64GB microSD card.

Battery: Galaxy S3 is fitted with more powerful 2250 mAh battery in contrast to 1650 mAh of S2. It will also be coming with wireless charging technology.

In this way. Galaxy S3 is expected to pack ultra-smart specs in comparison to its predecessor, which has been the flagship device for this South Korean company.

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Angry Birds Shuns Windows Phone Users

The latest in the Angry Birds franchise by Ravio has been released and has made a surprising step- not to release the game in the Windows Phone platform. The official word is that not all platforms can be supported- but we all know why. Ravio has been keeping the Angry Birds concept appealing for a long time now.

The Release

Angry Birds in Space game is priced at £1.99 in iOS, £2.99 in Mac, £4.97 for PCs and free in Android gadgets- the Android version of the game is full of ads. The game uses an advanced physics engine to provide different bodies to exert gravitational force in different directions. Ravio has brought on the Angry Birds franchise for the 52nd time on mobile platforms and continues to promote the concept with at least four versions planned this year.

No Windows Phone

According to the news, not releasing the Angry Birds in Space in the Windows Phone platform is one thing, but it does not explain why Angry Bird Seasons and those extra levels are missing the platform. Undoubtedly, Ravio is not getting many sales in the Windows Phone platform. Consequently, Angry Birds in Space will not be ported to Microsoft’s OS.

Read more: http://www.newgadget.org/software/android-games/angry-birds-shuns-windows-phone-users/#ixzz1qBQLNRqN

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Nokia Chairman Jorma Ollila to step down next year, complete exodus of old guard

Anssi Vanjoki, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, Symbian, and Qt are all either already departed or on their way out of Nokia. It’s of little surprise, therefore, to hear that the company’s Chairman, Jorma Ollila, will soon be following in their footsteps and clocking out of the Espoo office for the final time. Ollila has been a member of Nokia’s Board of Directors since 1995 and in his present position since 1999, however the recent change in direction and leadership at the company has clearly made it unfeasible for him to continue as Chairman. He’s expected to step down at some point next year, with Nokia now commencing the search for his replacement.

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Motorola Droid X is not recommended if you are a power user

Online sources are indicating that Motorola has designed their Droid X smartphone in such a way that if you play around with the OS by modding it, the phone would practically self destruct!

The company has loaded it with an eFuse security system which is designed to instantly brick the device if it notices any form of modding.


Google Android is an open platform. It encourages development by third party developers. Third party Android mods are very popular online. They become crucial in fact for users who own devices which are no longer being updated by their manufacturers.

This is a bad decision taken by Motorola. It is not going to do any good to their already battered reputation in the US market.

We can only hope that customers are made aware of this hardware based restriction.

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Cisco Cius Tablet PC announced for business users!

Cisco has announced a Tablet PC model of their own aimed at the business customers.

It is based on the Google Android mobile platform and features a eight hours of battery backup.

The company said that they would begin testing this new device with some of their customers later this year.

It is expected to go on sale sometime early next year.

Cisco Cius features a seven inch touchscreen display. It also feature two cameras one of which is capable of recording at HD quality.

Cisco spoke about this product: “This platform can transform how healthcare professionals advance patient care, how retailers deliver service experiences to consumers, or how universities deliver world-class education to their students.”

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Motorola Droid X Specs And Release Date Revealed

After months of Droid fans anxiously awaiting the release of the second iteration, we yesterday announced that the Motorola Droid 2 would be officially announced on June 23. Today we bring you some even more exciting news.

Yes, the phone is being teased on Verizon’s website. Officially named “Droid X”, the phone is getting very close to its release date, which will likely be June 23rd, when the phone is “officially” announced by Verizon.

We don’t know for sure yet whether the phone will be released on the 23rd, though it seems very likely given that they’re already teasing it. In any case, Verizon’s website gives some very limited specs on the phone, and they are as follows:

• 4.3″ Display
• HDMI Output
• Captures 720p (HD Video Recording!)

This should be an excellent improvement on the features of the original Droid, and we can wait to see it hit stores!

What other features do you think the Droid X will have?

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HTC confirms Droid Incredible browser issue, plans fix

HTC just let us know that their team has been able to replicate the browser privacy issue we posted about a couple of days ago. Here’s the official statement:

HTC has identified the root cause of the DROID Incredible not deleting web page thumbnails after a factory reset, and is creating an update which will eliminate this issue. This will be distributed through a software maintenance release that will be pushed to devices in the near future. Until this time, consumers who wish to manually delete these thumbnails can do so by following these steps:

1) Go to the “Settings” menu
2) Select “SD Card and Phone Storage”
3) Select “Format Phone Storage”

*NOTE* This will delete all files in internal storage, including music and image files. So these files should be backed up before taking these steps.

Other Android devices with HTC Sense, like the DROID Eris, save these thumbnails to the SD card, instead of internal memory, so users can easily keep this information from being shared simply by removing the SD card from their device before trading in the device, sending in for repair, etc.

Since the Incredible memory is built in, it makes sense that this would happen, but it should be all good in no time.

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O2 UK to initially sell the iPhone 4 to current customers only

O2 UK announced today that it will only offer the iPhone 4 to current customers when the handset launches on June 24th. The wireless carrier cites extremely limited stock as the basis for this potentially controversial decision. Folks looking to score an iPhone by signing up now with O2 are out of luck as the iPhone will only be offered to wireless, home broadband, and home phone customers who have been with O2 since May 24th, 2010. Current customers will have to travel to a brick and mortar store to snag an iPhone as the incredibly hot handset will not be available online from O2 until the end of July. Once the supply of iPhones is no longer limited, O2 will finally make the handset available to new customers.

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Police to investigate Google data

New Zealand police are investigating whether Google committed a criminal offence when it gathered personal wireless Internet data during filming for its Street View feature in New Zealand.

Last month, Google acknowledged it had mistakenly collected data from public WiFi networks in more than 30 countries, including New Zealand.

The admission has sparked fears that Google intercepted personal e-mails, passwords, personal banking details and even web browsing histories at home addresses.

New Zealand's Crimes Act makes it an offence to intercept data. Assistant Privacy Commissioner Katrine Evans said earlier the commission had formally referred the issue to police. "They can consider whether Google has committed a criminal offence by collecting payload data from WiFi networks during its Street View filming," she said in a statement following a meeting with police officials.

Police spokesman John Neilson said the police national cyber crime center was investigating the complaint to determine "whether any criminality has been committed." Law firm Taylor Shaw privacy specialist Kathryn Dalziel said it would be a breach of the Crimes Act if Google was found to have intercepted any communication. "This will create an interesting issue in terms of international law, since the company is based outside of New Zealand," she said.

Penalties of fines and imprisonment can be imposed for breaches of the Crimes Act. Google New Zealand spokeswoman Annie Baxter said in an email the company was "profoundly sorry" for the mistake and that the data collection would have been limited by the fact that the Google cars "were on the move."

Internet users would have needed to be using their network as a car passed their house.

"Our in-car WiFi equipment automatically changes channels five times a second. That said, it's possible that the fragments of data we collected could contain entire e-mails or other content if a user broadcast personal information over an open network at that moment," she said.

"We will work with all the relevant authorities to answer any questions they might have," she said.

Baxter, Google's publicity manager based in Australia, said the equipment used was bought from a third party and though the software would have recognised encrypted transmissions, that particular data would have been discarded immediately. Encrypted data includes banking and other commercial transaction details.

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Hydrogen car to be tested on roads

A hydrogen fuel-cell powered car is to be tested on British roads by the public for the first time, it has been announced.

Thirty of the cars, which have a top speed of 50mph and can go 200 miles on one tank of hydrogen, will be leased to motorists in Leicester from spring 2012.

The two-seater car has been developed by Riversimple, a small British manufacturer based in Ludlow, Shropshire. The prototype was built at Silverstone, Northamptonshire.

If the trials are successful, the company will consider building a factory in Leicester which would employ 250 people and manufacture 5,000 of the cars each year.

The cars would not be sold but instead leased out to drivers for about £200 a month plus mileage.

So far the company has spent around £3 million developing the technology and the car, which goes from 0-30mph in 5.5 seconds and does the petrol-equivalent of 300 miles per gallon.

It has now signed a deal with Leicester City Council for a 12-month pilot which will see 30 of the cars rented out to private customers, businesses, car-share schemes and local government officials in the city.

Part of the project involves identifying suitable places for hydrogen pumps where drivers can refuel.

Hugo Spowers, the founder of Riversimple, said: "The age of fossil-fuelled cars may not be over yet but it is surely dying.

"Contrary to what we usually hear, sustainable, near pollution-free transport is possible, here and now, using existing technology."

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Intel: Initial Larrabee graphics chip canceled

Intel said Friday that its Larrabee graphics processor will initially appear as a software development platform only.

This is a blow to the world's largest chipmaker, which was looking to launch its first discrete (standalone) graphics chip in more than a decade.

"Larrabee silicon and software development are behind where we hoped to be at this point in the project," Intel spokesman Nick Knupffer said Friday. "As a result, our first Larrabee product will not be launched as a standalone discrete graphics product," he said.

"Rather, it will be used as a software development platform for internal and external use," he added. Intel is not discussing what other versions may appear after the initial software development platform product, or "kit," is launched next year.

Graphics chip analyst Jon Peddie, president of Jon Peddie Research, said Intel is not hitting performance targets and this became apparent at the SC09 supercomputing conference last month.

"Justin Rattner (Intel Senior Fellow) demonstrated Larrabee hitting one teraflop, which is great but you could walk across the street and buy an ATI graphics board for a few hundred dollars that would do five teraflops." A teraflop is 1 trillion floating point operations per second, a key indicator of graphics chip performance.

Larrabee, a chronically delayed chip, was originally expected to appear in 2008. It was slated to compete with discrete graphics chips from Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices' ATI graphics unit.

Intel would not give a projected date for the Larrabee software development platform and is only saying "next year."

Intel says its plans are unchanged to deliver this month the first chip with graphics integrated onto the CPU. This new Atom processor is referred to as "Pineview" (the platform is called "Pine Trail") and will be targeted at Netbooks.

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Most Popular Cars of 2009

The year 2009 will go down in history as a watershed moment for the automotive industry. American icons General Motors and Chrysler filed for bankruptcy protection, seizing as much taxpayer money as possible in their efforts to fend off impending doom. Both survived, but under much different circumstances than anticipated decades earlier.

Going or almost gone from the GM’s portfolio were Hummer, Saturn, Pontiac and Saab along with a myriad of employees. Chrysler, sold to Italian automaker Fiat SpA, was now under the control of Canadian-born chief executive Sergio Marchionne and harboured an immediate need for new product. A summer launch of the Cash for Clunkers program would help both, but for how long?

2010 Chevrolet Camaro

Ford was in amazingly good shape, declining offers for government aid in an effort to keep its counterparts from going under. Ford realized, without a healthy GM and Chrysler, it too would be out of business, not large enough on its own to keep afloat the supply network necessary to run an entire industry. New products were streaming full speed into the market, with Taurus, Fusion and Flex leading the way.

Not surprisingly, Yahoo! Autos most searched for car brands in 2009 represent the strengths and sometimes failures experienced in the auto industry this past year. Toyota and Honda placed first and second on our list. Both companies shared the spotlight with successes in new products, the 2010 Toyota Prius, and continuing sales of mainstays such as the Honda Civic and Accord. Not all was roses, however, Toyota suffered from unexpected recalls while both companies encountered downward trends and the need to exit racing, specifically Formula 1, to conserve cash and develop new products faster.

Ford ranked third, with Nissan fourth and BMW fifth. Nissan did feel the pinch of a tighter economy, but under the strong leadership of CEO Carlos Ghosn, it seemed well positioned to tread carefully while others succumbed to economic pressures. BMW continued their A-plan of designing new and exciting vehicles such as the 535i Gran Turismo, and for the most part, consumers responded. With additional product set to launch, both Nissan and BMW appear poised for additional success in 2010.

When it came to ranking the most searched for individual models, it turns out that the enduring popularity of the iconic American muscle car, such as the Chevy Camaro and Ford Mustang, is still tough to beat. In fact, five of the top 10 most searched cars are American made. However, smaller, fuel-efficient models are still top of mind with consumers as evidenced by the continued popularity of the Honda Civic, Mini Cooper and Smart ForTwo.

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LG / Cyon SU630 caught in the wilds of South Korea

Were you shocked and surprised when LG put out a Christmas Edition of its Korea-only LG-SU630? Neither were we — but we are mighty amused that a certain reader named James Roberson was cool enough to take us up on our (joking) plea for pictures of the handset when he came across one at the electronics market in Seoul recently. This isn’t the Christmas edition, but it’s all LG-SU630 — as indicated by the Cyon logo and 8 megapixel camera ’round back. Get a closer look in the gallery below. And for our next request, do you think you could send us a Sciphone Dream G2? We hear they’re pretty amazing.

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Google-powered netbooks to debut in 2010

Washington - Google on Thursday provided a peek beneath the hood of its new Chrome operating system, making the software public and promising it will run netbooks by the end of next year.

Google-crafted Chrome OS will be tailored exclusively for applications hosted as services in the Internet "cloud" and debut on low-cost, bare-bones netbooks that have been a booming segment of the laptop computer market.

"We believe there is a better model of computing we can give users," vice president of Chrome OS Sundar Pichai said while demonstrating the in-progress software at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California.

"That is what Chrome OS is. Speed, simplicity and security. We want Google Chrome OS to be so blazingly fast... We think it should be like a TV, you turn it on and you are in the application."

Google is working with computer makers to build Chrome OS into netbooks to be available in stores in time for holiday season shopping at the end of 2010.

Chrome OS will only be available pre-loaded on netbooks that are compatible with the software, according to Pichai.

"We are really focused on making a netbook that is lean and mean and runs the Internet really well," said Chrome OS engineering director Matt Papakipos.

Chrome OS will eventually expand to other computing devices, but the priority is to have it in netbooks within a year, according to Pichai.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin brushed off questions about whether Chrome OS will challenge the long-time dominance of Microsoft Windows operating systems in the global computer market.

"Call us dumb businessmen, but we really focus on user needs rather than on strategies related to other businesses," Brin said.

"There is a real need to use computers easily. We believe the web platform is a much simpler way; where web machines are more stateless and more cache-like."

Google made the Chrome OS code available on Thursday to outside developers so they could start crafting software or applications to work with the system.

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