Samsung Prepare A 16 MP Sensor For Phones

Samsung Prepare A 16 MP Sensor For Phones - Samsung claims to have set up a special camera sensor for mobile phones and tablet with a resolution of around 16 MP. This product will be mass produced beginning early 2012.

The image quality of the shots are not always determined by the size of the lens, but still, it is always needed in the world of photography.

Based on that, Samsung plans to mass produce an image sensor of 16 MP CMOS designed for cell phones or tablets. It is expected to further bridge the two gadgets is the photo quality with a pocket camera.

Quoted from tomshardware, Friday (09/30/2011), the sensor glow S5K2P1 it also offers good video quality. Samsung claims can record up to 8.3 MP resolution with an average of 60 frames per second (FPS), and 16 MP at 30 FPS without any lag.

In addition to cell phones and tablet Samsung also claims the chip is suitable for a pocket camera. Therefore, the results of the drawing process for both the low light in the room.

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VooMote One, Change iPhone To Remote TV

VooMote One, Change iPhone To Remote TV - Manufacturers based in Germany called Zero1.tv gush VooMote application called The One that can 'transform' your iPhone into a multi function controller. Not only could make an iPhone as a remote TV, applications can also arrange other electronic devices.

The VooMote One but can work in almost all models of television, he also can run on a DVD player and stereo so users need not move to exert control on those goods. Just by touching a finger to the buttons on the phone, users can run a full control.

Reported from dailymail Thursday (28/07/2011), he worked with the help of wireless technology and capturing more than 30,000 cord infra red and hundreds of electronic devices. If total, it is compatible with 574 TV brands, 995 brand Top Box / DVR, 151 brand and CD audio.

Another convenience that can be obtained by users Zero1.tv is that he has the features of 'Control Room' which allows users to categorize the tools that he wanted to control based on location, for example living room or kitchen. Then with the "One Touch", the user can store frequently used commands and set a number of command with just a click away.

Adding an add-on in your iPhone device will not interfere with the function of smartphones like the camera, the on / off or incoming calls. Unfortunately, the devices can also work on the iPod touch (2G-4G) is only available in the United States at a price of USD 99.

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Google: Microsoft & Apple conspiring undermine Android

Google: Microsoft & Apple conspiring undermine Android - Various lawsuits hit Android, such as Apple, Oracle and Microsoft. Google Android as the maker also accused his rival and allied deliberately exploit the patent issues to hinder the progress of Android.

Chief Legal Officer of Google, David Drummond, accusing them take advantage of patents is still questionable. In a blog post titled "When patents attack Android", David declared successful Android trigger rivals unite and make an organized campaign against it.

The rivals are strengthening themselves by buying more patents to stop Google. This is related to the failure of Google buying the patent belongs to Novell and Nortel, which is partly related to the smart phone technology.

The patent is finally falling into the hands of a consortium, which includes Microsoft, Apple and Research In Motion (RIM). Google felt that the patent will be used to attack them.

"Patents are meant to encourage innovation, but later even used as a weapon to stop innovation," writes David, quoted from the BBC on Friday (08/05/2011).

"A smartphone may involve about 250 thousand patent claims that most of the questionable, we want to attract competitors 'tax' of dubious patents to make Android devices more expensive. They want to sell Android device complicates manufacture," he added. "Microsoft and Apple usually attack each other, when they were together, you wonder what happened,"

Google allegations received a response from Microsoft lawyer, Brad Smith. They expressed true that Microsoft is taking Google joins consortium to buy the patent Nortell. But Google refused.

On the other hand, patent experts, Florian Mueller stated that the blog posts expressing frustration Google. In fact, Google was just a little to control patents on mobile technology sector so that they are rather vulnerable position.

Android was recently invaded by a variety of lawsuits, there's even a manufacturer has to pay patent licensing. As HTC are admitted to paying about $ 10 on Microsoft's per Android phones sold.

HTC also is facing a lawsuit from Apple. On the other hand, Oracle is currently suing Google Android related to allegations of copyright infringement in the Java programming language.

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PS Vita Not Ready At Christmas

PS Vita Not Ready At Christmas - The latest generation of portable gaming console that Sony PlayStation (PS) Vita, will not be sold in the United States (U.S.) or Europe at Christmas time. Though many users who want to have it as a Christmas present.

The demand on these devices increased in nearly all the world. They'll buy it when year-end shopping season which is adjacent to at Christmas. Previous Sony promises that the launch will be phased PS Vita globally starting later this year.

Sony Corp. Executive Vice President Kazuo Hirai has stated that the PS Vita will go on sale in Japan later this year and early next year in the U.S. and Europe.

Hirai did not give an idea about the time delay, but he said that Sony wanted to prepare a solid game software offerings when it launched its hardware.

Hirai did not confirm a specific date for the launch of PS Vita. That means it is unclear whether a portable console with motion sensitive touch interface and will be ready to launch the Sony in the near future. Even in Japan alone can not clear whether PS Vita Christmas time already could be sold.

Hirai also explicitly denied that it would give a price cut for the PS Vita, Looking at the decision of its closest rival is Nintendo, which last week cut prices 3DS, less than half a year after its launch in order to improve penjulan.

"We package the device is properly and make it very affordable," Hirai said, as quoted by the Straits Times on Friday (08/05/2011).

"There is no need to lower the price just because someone else who happened to be in the video game business decided that they would lower their prices," he concluded.

PS Vita will sell for USD249 in the U.S., and USD312 in Japan for the version of Wi-Fi. As for the version that has a cell phone service will be priced in the U.S. and USD299 and USD374 in Japan.

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RIM launches two new BlackBerry Torch phones

RIM launches two new BlackBerry Torch phones - Research In Motion went on the offensive on Wednesday, recently unveiled two new powerful versions of its touchscreen BlackBerry Bold, including an all-touch model, as it wants to win back lost ground to Apple and Google.

The new phones, was demonstrated along with an upgrade to its Bold model, are part of what iPhone is the Canadian company by the name of the largest global launch in its history, how they want to recover the North American market share from Apple and a number of devices based on Google's Android software.

The updated lineup is designed to buy RIM time, it leads to a radically new software package for its smartphones next year.

Investors reacted positively, pushing RIM's share price deflated by 5 percent by midday.

"RIM's new BlackBerry smart phones could also be the most important devices in the Canadian smart device to be vendor-story, following a recent slowdown in unit shipments, staff cuts and doubts about the company's strategy and leadership," Ovum analyst Tony Cripps said .

RIM has cut 2,000 jobs from the global workforce to lower costs and optimize processes for the publication of a fall in profits and a gloomy earnings outlook in its latest quarterly report.

The three touch screen phones, based on the new BlackBerry OS 7, boasting improved screen displays and pack a 1.2 GHz processor from Qualcomm, the most powerful ever for a BlackBerry phone. They also have a dedicated graphics processor to video and gaming, and should react more sharply.

The browser is 40 percent faster start than the original Torch, RIM last great phone the shelves almost a year ago.

All three devices of network operators around the world will be started until the end of August, RIM said. The slider Torch is exclusively by AT & T in the United States, said the sources.

The all-touch Torch RIM is not the first attempt to arouse popular style in the last two versions of its storm-model.

"It's definitely a confirmation that there are people that want full-touch device," RIM promoted Global Head of Sales, Patrick Spence, said in a telephone interview.

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The timing could boost RIM's profit for the quarter ending in late August, as it sells the phones to carriers, but evidence for the inclusion of the users will be available until the following quarter.

As Co-Chief Executive Mike Lazaridis has been "super phones," promised in the next year with the QNX-based operating system, which is RIM's Playbook tablet computer run, analysts are looking at this launch.

"This is a necessary product refresh before the big bang that we hope and expect will happen with QNX-based phones," said John Jackson, vice-president of research at CCS Insight.

13200000 RIM phones shipped in the three months to the end of May its first fall in shipments from one quarter since at least mid-2007, as it pushed back to this start until August.

RIM's aging hardware and software have appeared increasingly out of date, as manufacturers such as Motorola, Samsung and HTC push out slim, touchscreen devices with Android, and its wide range of applications.

The Torch slider looks identical to the original Touch device with a slideout QWERTY keyboard, but it packs more interior pages.

The Bold upgrade includes a near field communication (NFC) chip, to transform the phone into a mobile wallet. It was first shown at RIM's BlackBerry World Conference in May

RIM's market share in North America has fallen in recent years as increase high-end Android device and U.S. carrier Verizon included Apple's iPhone to its lineup. Worldwide fall was less severe, but compiled from a smaller base, according to data from market research firm CCS Insight, Gartner.

U.S. sales accounted for less than 27 percent of RIM's revenue in the last quarter, compared to 50 percent a year earlier, as the international market took some of the slack.

"What would constitute success for these guys basically hold the position," CCS said Jackson. "A stop-loss result would be a success for these products in developed markets."

Shares of Waterloo, Ontario-based RIM has 65 percent from their peak in February fell as the company missed earnings expectations and outlook and the playbook not dent the dominance of the iPad tablet market.

The stock was more than a dollar at $ 25.37 on the Nasdaq and to C $ 24.47 on the Toronto Stock Exchange at midday Wednesday. She closed on Tuesday to its lowest level in five years, giving the company a market capitalization of $ 12,700,000,000

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Defeated Nokia, Apple Biggest 'Smartphone' Producers

Defeated Nokia, Apple Biggest 'Smartphone' Producers - Product sales of smart phones (smartphones) made by Apple Inc. and Nokia Oyj Samsung surpassed for the first time. According to Strategy Analytics, Apple is now the largest smartphone manufacturer to control 18.5 percent of global smartphone sales in the second quarter.

While Nokia, must go down two levels to the third position of the first rank. The position of the Finnish manufacturer of smartphones just under the Samsung, after its market share shrank from 38.1 percent to 15.2 percent. Samsung in second place with 17.5 percent market share.

"Shifting the smartphone market has been going on since the introduction of the iPhone. Until now, Nokia has not been able to find the answer," Leon said Cappaert, Fund Manager of KBC Asset Management in Brussels.

Global handset sales to grow 13 percent or 361 million units in the last quarter. While the smartphone sales grow to 76 percent. Total sales of mobile phones with computer like capabilities in running the application and play the media has reached 110 million units.

Although its market share fell to its lowest since 1999, Nokia remains the world's largest mobile phone manufacturer. Overall, Nokia is still good at 24.2 percent market share. Samsung's 19.2 percent, while Apple just 5.6 percent.

Although still the ruler of the mobile phone market, Nokia's market share fell in the quarter, from 34.7 percent last quarter. Nokia's share price was slightly offset about 4.06 euros in Helsinki trading.

Meanwhile, iPhone sales rose to 20.3 million units last quarter. The increase is much driven by growth in overseas markets, especially China. Company based in Cupertino, California, this is getting most of the revenue sources of the iPhone.

Citing Bloomberg data, these products accounted for 46.6 percent of Apple's revenue. To maintain its market share, according to anonymous sources, Apple intends to issue a new series of iPhone sooner or September, this new iPhone will have a more advanced camera features.

By contrast, Nokia's first decline in quarterly reports since 2009, after sales slumped following the consensus cell phone to switch to use Microsoft Corp. software. Nokia Chief Executive Officer Stephen Elop, too, were preparing a new mobile phone models based on Windows Phone.

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Applications Made in Indonesia dominate Asia

Applications Made in Indonesia dominate Asia - It was surprising because among the applications that already support the social platform fuel 6, part of Indonesia. This suggests that locally-made applications are not inferior to an application made in another country.

In fact, in a release on Thursday (07/28/2011), Research In Motion (RIM) states that of the five artificial application developers in Asia are already integrating features of "Fuel connected", everything is made in Indonesia. Applications are Koprol, Bouncity, Menoo, Gamemachi, and MiMoMachi.

Logo is a location-based social networking. With the fuel connected, antarpengguna Blackberry can now chat directly somersault.

"It's very easy for our developer team to integrate fuel somersault with 6 because the API (user application programming interface) Fuel 6 complete and flexible," said Satya Witoelar, who is currently the founder somersault Product Manager in Yahoo since Koprol internet giant acquired last year .

Bouncity location-based games use the feature to allow users to fuel 6 share experiences. For example when users get badges, can inform fellow users who use Blackberry via profile.

"It makes our Bouncity applications become more social and power sharing became more wide-reaching," said Wenas Agusetiawan, CEO of PT Phase Solusindo who developed Bouncity.

Three other applications are games Menoo, Gamemachi, and MiMoMachi Elasitas developed. "Integrating our applications with the platform 6 fuel oil is very easy and right on target, plus the full social value and benefits that allow users connected to fuel his contact socially and easy, which is the core of a social application," said Calvin Kizana, CEO of PT Elasitas Multi Creative.

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Apple & Samsung Beat Nokia at Smartphone Market

Apple & Samsung Beat Nokia at Smartphone Market - Already about 15 years Nokia debuted as a producer of the largest smart phone or smartphone universal. But now, they must be willing to abdicate overtaken by Apple and Samsung.

Notes from Strategy Analytics says Nokia now occupies third position in the smartphone segment in the second quarter of 2011. In the first place was Apple, followed by Samsung.

Nokia dominates the smartphone market since 1996. But intense pressure from rivals making the Finnish mobile phone vendor is finally toppled.

According to Strategy Analytic, Apple sold 20.3 million iPhones in quarter 2 2011. While Samsung sold 19 million smartphones, Nokia is followed by the number of sales of 16.7 million units.

Quoted by Reuters on Saturday (30/07/2011), Strategy Analytics recorded total sales of handsets in the quarter reached 361 million. The growth of the smartphone market reached 76% than the previous year.

Overall, Nokia is still the world's number one mobile phone vendor. In the smartphone market they may keteteran, but still quite strong in the feature phone market.

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Nintendo Cuts 3DS Price

Nintendo Cuts 3DS Price  - Nintendo decided to slash the price of 3DS. The move is a response to the Japanese companies on the financial statements and the reported disappointing sales 3DS.

No half-hearted, the price of a handheld gaming device capable of three-dimensional (3D) was trimmed to 40 percent. This pruning will apply from August 12, 2011.

Quoted from GameSpot Asia on Friday (07/29/2011), as compensation policy, consumers who have purchased the handheld with an expensive price - before trimming, the 20 available games that can be downloaded for free.

Half of the games being released are part of the program 'Nintendo 3DS Ambassador' which will soon be available on Nintendo's eShop in the near future.

Nintendo 3DS is on sale in March last priced at USD 250 (about USD 2 million). Interestingly, according to observers, the production cost handheld console is just a cost of $ 101 (about USD 880 thousand) each.

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Review: ViewPad 10 features Windows and Android

Review: ViewPad 10 features Windows and Android
Viewsonic new tablet has a unique solution for consumers who are still on Microsoft Windows, as well as the Google operating system Android gains traction: it offers both.
The ViewPad 10 is a dual-boot unit. It can run either Windows 7 or Android launch, as the computer.
Out of the box are the impressive specifications. The ViewPad has a 10.1-inch display that is larger than the iPad is 9.7 inches. It weighs less than two pounds, has built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and is filled with a relatively fast Intel 1.66 GHz processor. It costs $ 599 for the 16-gigabyte version and $ 679 for double the memory.
The ViewPad has a built-in camera. The resolution is only 1.3 megapixels, well short of what to offer the iPhone and other smartphones. So, do not expect great pictures.
The device also features a mini-VGA port, a standard audio jack, two USB ports and a MicroSD card slot. It’s quite fully functional for a tablet.
The computer is installed with Windows 7 Home Premium, and I updated the unit test with version 2.2 of Android, also known as Froyo.
I spent some time first with Android, as I already knew, the environment as the owner of an Android phone from HTC. The ViewPad not present, how rich an experience as the phone, mostly because the graphical interface, the links, widgets, and navigation presented on the tablet is not as advanced as on smartphones. HTC’s smooth, “Sense” environment for mobile phones, for example, is one of the best-of-breed for the presentation of the Android Tools and Applications.
In addition, the apps shortcut on the tablet is not the full range of apps on Google’s Android Market. Instead, he took me into a much smaller selection of so-called “AndAppStore.” A direct link to the complete slate of these apps would have been better market, but the device seems to be paralyzed.
Google is not the Android Market on Android, 2.2 tablets with screens larger than seven inches preinstalled. And ViewSonic has no current plans to upgrade beyond ViewPad version of the operating system. Want, so there is an impasse, the ViewPad leaves.
You could try to install a newer version of Android, as Honeycomb, on your own. But it requires advanced technological capabilities and there is no guarantee from the manufacturer or Google that ViewPad will do well.
Once applications are started, they work as expected. You have to start fast and easy to use. But most apps for Android are for a smaller display, not something as big as the ViewPad designed. The 10.1-inch screen size, in most cases for me, was wasted on the Android side of this dual-boot machine.
The better half of the ViewPad is Windows 7
It ran quickly and was fairly intuitive to touch on the response to the correct icons, scroll bars, and objects on the screen that I’m trying. It was a new experience for me, the Web in Firefox to navigate by swiping across the screen. It fared well – better than surfing for the content of the Android site.
When it came to more complicated programs that interact with the tablet was a challenge.
You could try to edit photos with Adobe Photoshop for Windows, but you would making the task much more difficult than it be in a conventional mouse and cursor environment. Trust me, I tried.
Each incorrect tap water drove me into the wrong window or menu, which had to be backed out and started over. The first thing that came to mind was an action with “Ctrl + Z” to undo, but the keyboard was not there when I pulled onto the screen from his perch in a small, hidden corner of the screen.
I let Photoshop, and a few other detail-oriented tasks for which conventional computers with real keyboards. Tablets, are better at this stage for the content consumption as content creation.
(See film, reading Gawker, Flickr photo browsing, and Facebook time-emetics), despite my success with a variety of Windows experience the tablet experience asking for apps. Better apps. Finger-friendly apps.
Browser to work to deliver this content, but work full-featured applications specially brewed for the human figures better. They are touchable regions with larger and fewer (if any) tiny leaves designed controller.
It is swollen by Microsoft to make Windows 7 touch-friendly, but the company needs to compete head-specific fashion, a tablet version of its operating system Android and IOS.
Is dual boot for the tablet worth it? Not really at this point. Android is the best phone on the left. But with a few improvements, or perhaps a separate Tablet operating system, Windows is pretty fit into this growing computer segment.

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