NOKIA LUMIA 2520 - The First ever windows tablet

Recent news about NOKIA says that they are expanding LUMIA series by announcing LUMIA 1520 and LUMIA 2520 - the first ever windows tablet. Both devices are about to launch in this month ( 22nd nov. ) to hit US market. The much anticipated LUMIA 2520 tablet is much more handy and very similar to laptop or pc running windows os.

This tablet comes with windowa 8.1 RT OS., 1080p display. It will be powered by a 2.15-GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 chip and contain USB 3.0 port. The Nokia tablet will have come with a detachable keyboard similar to the Touch and Type covers for the Microsoft Surface. There’s also a battery in this keyboard stand for extra power And a Clear Black IPS LCD, Multipoint-Touch, a 6.7 MP camera with Zeiss Optics. It comes with 2GB of RAM and the sensors in the device include Accelerometer, gyro, proximity sensor and compass.

Read full specification on official website of nokia

Nokia Lumia 2520 comes in four colors: cyan, red, black and white. The device comes with active noise cancellation and dedicated microphone. It also comes with Bing Search, Maps and SkyDrive.

The expected price of the device is around $499 and the Nokia Power keyboard accessory is expected to be around $150.

A2DP Bluetooth (Advanced Audio Distribution Profile)

Now a days, you must have read that smartphones are coming with A2DP Bluetooth so here I tried to give idea what Is A2DP Bluetooth, Hope you like. Bluetooth has more than 36 profiles one of which is A2DP. Others are like HFP (Hands-free calling through the stereo) , AVRCP (Control over music playback directly from the stereo)  OPP (Uploading of contact info to the stereo) and many more. To read more about Bluetooth profiles on Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth_profile )

This profile defines how high quality audio (stereo or mono) can be streamed from one device to another over a Bluetooth connection.  For example, music streamed from a mobile phone to a wireless headset. Now a days, consumer demand for wireless everything has meant high quality wireless audio has to be provided, and because you can’t change the reliable, low quality handset profile in Bluetooth, the A2DP profile has been created to compliment it by providing the bandwidth to send high quality audio. All other Bluetooth communication happens through the much wider data layer. A2DP sets aside a section of the data layer and sends high quality audio through it.

Many Bluetooth 1.1 and 1.2 mobile phones and portable media players do not natively support A2DP, while some newer Bluetooth 2.0 headphones do support it. Bluetooth headphones, especially the more advanced models, often come with a microphone and support for the Headset (HSP), Hands-Free (HFP) and Audio/Video Remote Control (AVRCP) profiles. 

Essentially, A2DP creates a "Source/Sink" relationship between your phone and your stereo, in which your phone, the source, sends signal to your stereo, the sink. A2DP is also used in products such as wireless headphones and wireless speaker systems.

Read more here:

http://www.mobileburn.com/definition.jsp?term=A2DP
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth_profile 

Google Nexus 5 with Android 4.4 KitKat

Yesterday 1^st nov. on the time of Halloween as well as Diwali Google took the curtains off the nexus 5 smartphone developed with partnership of LG with a totally new android version of operating system android 4.4 KitKat. Google said that this smartphone is open for international market in play store and it’ll be available in india soon. It is surprising that nexus 5 is not more costly as it’s previous version though it has many good features than previous versions.

The Nexus 5 has 4.95-inch full-HD IPS display and is powered by a 2.26GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor alongside 2GB of RAM.  It has good and high resolution camera then privies version it is as follows: 8.0-megapixel rear camera with optical image stabilization and a 1.3-megapixel front camera. Two different mode storages wise are 16GB (Rs. 28,999 /  $ 349) and 32GB (Rs. 32,999 / $ 399)  with Black and White colours each

According to the news Google and LG both companies are happy to partnership again to develop a fastest nexus phone ever made. One of the big features in KitKat, HDR+. It's a pretty standard HDR feature — silently using a burst mode to take a bunch of photos and composite them together

Overall, the Nexus 5 looks like a wildly capable Android phone. It's fast and big with a beautiful screen and all the accoutrements you'd expect on a flagship phone.

reference (Read more):

Experience nexus 5:

http://www.google.com/nexus/5/

news about nexus 5 on ndtv:

http://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/news/google-nexus-5-with-android-44-kitkat-launched-coming-soon-to-india-at-rs-28999-440203?pfrom=gadgetstop

Read full features:

http://www.gsmarena.com/lg_nexus_5-5705.php

SSD Vs. HDD

Today, in this fast world people cannot afford compromise with speed. Now a days there are two technologies in the market conventional HDD (hard drive) and SSD (solid state drive) for storage of data. User has to evaluate his requirements as well as Budget (of course!!) before selecting a storage device. This leads to question how? And which is best in different scenarios?

Introduction to HDD and SSD: Conventional HDD drives contain multiple disks called platters, which are covered in a magnetic coating and then rotated at high speed. Drive heads then move across the platters, changing the magnetisation of the material beneath to record data, for reading stored data in it does the same job. It stores data though power is off in technical term it is non-volatile memory. Here rotation is required in order to read or write data, takes considerable time as well as power which has major impact on performance of pc. And of course power consumption is one of major factor affecting device running on battery like laptop, tablet.

An SSD performs the same function (saving your data while the system is off, booting your system, etc.) as an HDD, but instead of platters, the data is stored on interconnected flash memory chips. This eliminates the problems of platters, moving heads and problems caused by generation of electromagnetic field due to rotation of head. The flash memory chips can either be permanently installed on the system's motherboard (like on some small laptops and netbooks). This technology is essentially being used in mp3 player, memory cards, cameras and in many more devices.

SSD drive can give excellent performance at the cost of price in other words if you want high performance that you need to pay more. Conventional HDD works like fan, which takes time to reach to the full speed after turning it on while in SSD there is no problem of speed it gives maximum rate of data transfer at any time i.e. it is ready anytime. SSD is also more reliable than conventional HDD. It is advisable for users to use SSD who can’t afford the compromise in speed.

Recently Samsung unveiled the first 3D  NAND memory. 

Read more on wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssd

LG G Flex

LG officially launched G Flex smartphone with curved display in Korea.The main feature of this smartphone is its 6” 720p OLED unit curved display it's claimed to be the world's largest Plastic OLED display. which is ultra-light, ultra-thin and flexible.  It's curved display in landscape mode is more suitable and entertaining when watching videos and playing video games. Another feature of it's display is that it is built on plastic substrates instead of glass, it increases durability of phone. Another feature of the device is self-healing film on its back which can overcome minor scratches in a matter of minutes.

The LG G Flex is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 SoC (system on chip) with 2.26GHz quad-core CPU. it has 2GB of RAM, 32GB of built-in memory, and 13MP camera.The G Flex will offer LTE-A, LTE, HSPA+, Bluetooth 4.0, USB 3.0, Wi-Fi and NFC (near field communication) connectivity.. It will have Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean os.

This smart phone has many other user interfaces like quick youtube access, gmail access, face detection any many others which facilitates the use of this smartphone in a more easy way, It is perfectly true that LG G flex will give a good competition to samsung galaxy round. Curvature of both dvices are different like samsung galaxy round has horizontal curvature while this devie has vertical curvature. It will be more interesting to which will succeed


Read more (reference):

News about LG G-flex:

http://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/news/lg-g-flex-officially-unveiled-with-6-inch-720p-curved-display-438176

http://www.gsmarena.com/lg_g_flex_with_curved_oled_display_goes_official_in_korea-news-7066.php

Powershell

         

                 Recent news about Logitech is they are working on  game controller supported for iphone and it will be named as 'powershell'. Though it is not officially declared by logitech. At the time of detailed discussion of ios7 in sanfransico, apple gave brief introduction about support for gaming controllers.

              As you can clearly see in above picture, This game controller contains slot in which you can fit iphone. This game controller is connected in such a way that it can communicate with the processor to control applications running in iphone. The controller includes shoulder buttons, a d-pad direction controller on the left and action buttons and a pause key on the right. The back has an opening to allow users to take pictures with the iPhone's camera, and a stylised 'G' branding. And this device will be very much liked by game lovers, it reminds the the TV games.

                 It is integrated game control device and battery pack(1800 mAh) for use with computers and digital electronic devices.



Read more here:

http://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/news/logitechs-powershell-iphone-game-controller-leaked-in-trademark-filing-438320

Tegra

         


     Tegra is a system on a chip series developed by Nvidia for mobile devices. The Tegra is an integration of an ARM CPU, graphics processing unit (GPU) and memory controller. The Tegra series is famous for low power consumption and high performance. 

           The first version of Tegra was Tegra APX 2500 which was announced on February 12, 2008. which had ARM11 600 MHz CPU. The second version was Tegra 600 which had ARM11 700 MHz CPU and third version. and third version was Tegra 650 which had ARM11 800 MHz CPU and low power DDR memory. The third and fourth were Tegra 2 and Tegra 3  which had a dual-core and Quad core ARM Cortex-A9 CPU with ARMv7 inst. set  respectively.

            The recent versions of tegra are Tegra 4 ( 6 January 2013 ) which had ARM Cortex-A15 and Tegra 4i (19 February 2013)  had ARM Cortex-A9 r4. And increased clock rate of 4i over 4 here is a screenshot of tegra 4 and tegra 4i specifications.

Photo Courtesy: www.nvidia.com
CLICK TO ZOOM

Read more here:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/tegra.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tegra

ISO

                         

                       Today we all are using products related to food, computers, healthcare, agriculture and many others. One or the other way we are related to ISO. So here is some brief about what ISO is.

                     ISO (International Organization for Standardization) was  founded in 1947. Today 164 countries and 3368 technical bodies are members of ISO. ISO has published more than 19,500 International Standards (not possible to mention all) which covers almost all aspects of technology and business. From food safety to computers, and agriculture to healthcare. ISO ensure that products and services are safe, reliable and of good quality. For business, The product with ISO mark ensures that device will reduce costs by minimizing waste and errors and increasing productivity.An ISO standard is developed by a team of experts, and then launched after the approval of current active ISO members. 

                 ISO is publishing magazine named ISOfocus, which provides all of the latest news of standards and features. ISO is providing  it at no cost(only soft copy). 

If you want to know about which standarad is for which product then please refer the link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_International_Organization_for_Standardization_standards

Reference:

www.iso.org

MHL 

            

             MHL (Mobile High-Definition Link) is a standard for a mobile audio/video interface that allows consumers to connect mobile phones, tablets and other portable consumer electronics devices to TV and audio receivers. TV should be high definition supported. In other words MHL supported device can connect instantly to larger high-definition TVs to display streaming video, pictures and games all with immersive surround sound. Today many devices of Nokia, Samsung, Htc, Huawai, Lg, zte, panetch, meizu, acer, oppo,sharp, asus,panasonic, Silicon Image, Sony and Toshiba including smartphone and tablets are coming in the market with MHL support. The main companies to develop MHL technology were Nokia, Samsung, Silicon Image, Sony and Toshiba. MHL current version supports upto 4K resolution (3840X2160 P) .

                     MHL has good advantages: it charges your phone while it’s connected to the TV, thus you don't have battery problems. And you can use the TV's remote to control the content coming from your phone on the tv screen.

 MHL smartphone to any HDMI TV                                     MHL smartphone to your MHL TV

Read more here:

http://www.meetmhl.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_High-Definition_Link

BlackBerry Z30 

        BlackBerry Z30 has been launched by the BlackBerry  in Indian market with BlackBerry 10 OS at Rs. 39,990. The BlackBerry Z30 is the biggest smartphone BlackBerry ever launched.

             This smartphone has 5-inch Super AMOLED display with 720x1280 pixel resolution. It contains 1.7GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor with Adreno 320 GPU, And  2GB of RAM onboard, 16GB of inbuilt storage (expandable upto 64 GB) and features of wi-fi and bluetooth. 

             About camera Z0 has 8 MP rear camera with Auto-Focus, Back Side Illumination, 5 element F2.2 lens, Flash, continuous & touch to focus, image stabilization, Proprietary Enhanced Super, Resolution Digital Zoom (5x), 1080p HD video recordingand and2MP Fixed-Focus, Image & video stabilization, 3x digital zoom, 720p HD video recording.

          The BlackBerry Z30  also features four stereo speakers to provide 'BlackBerry Natural Sound' and also comes with BlackBerry Paratek Antennae that is claimed to deliver faster data transfers. BlackBerry Z30 has many better features compared to Z10 model. It's weight is about 170 gms. It is GPS assisted. It also consist of sensors: Accelerometer, Magnetometer, Proximity, Gyroscope, Ambient Light Sensor. It contains USB 2.0

Reference:

http://us.blackberry.com/smartphones/blackberry-z30/specifications.html

BlackBerry Messenger  BBM

         

               BlackBerry's most popular instant messaging app, BBM is landed for non-BlackBerry OS platforms, Android and iOS, yesterday. BBM version 1.0.0.72  is available as a free download for Android smartphones running Android 4 and above and for iPhones running iOS 6 and iOS 7. At launch, the BBM Video calling and BBM Voice calling features are not available on BBM's Android and iPhone apps. It'll be available in a future version. almost one million people install the Android version of BBM, another million downloaded iPhones version of bbm. Android user can download BBM from google play. You just need to enter your e-mail address for registration and then you will get unique pin no. called BBM pin. Then you can invite friends, you can do this via e-mail, sms, pin or by barcode.

iPad Air

              In san fransisco tuesday 22 oct. Apple inc. launched Ipad Air. Apple claimed that It is the thinnest and less weighted device in the series of tablets launched in the world till today. IPad air's size is 9.7 inch and it's thickness is 0.3 inch and it's weight is 0.45 kg.(1 pound approx.) iPad Air consist of the A7 chip and the M7 motion co-processor that was introduced with the iPhone 5S.

            ipad air will be available from November 1. Space It will be in Grey and Silver colours and prices will be $499, $599, $699 and $799 for the 16GB, 32GB, 64GB and 128GB Wi-Fi models respectively. The Wi-Fi and 4G models will cost another $130 over and above that in case of each model.

          iPad will contain 5MP rear camera, and a 1.2MP front-facing HD camera with improved backside illumination sensors features larger pixels for better low-light performance. Operating system will be ios7, a latest version of ios.

Read more
http://www.apple.com/ipad-air/

Read full features:
http://www.gsmarena.com/apple_ipad_air-5797.php

HDMI

            HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) is a compact audio/video interface for transferring video and audio data from a HDMI-compliant device  to a computer monitor,video projector, digital television, or a device which is supported (contains HDMI port). HDMI is a digital interface, it provides the best quality of the video (observable while working with 1080p or higher then that resolution ) since there are no lossy analog to digital conversions as are required for all analog connections 

                                  In 2011, the HDMI Founders: Hitachi, Panasonic Corporation, Philips, Sony, Technicolor, Toshiba, and Silicon Image, created the HDMI Forum to guide future iterations of the technology. Approximately 60 of the largest consumer electronics, PC and semiconductor companies are now working together under HDMI Specification.

HDMI has major versions which are as mentioned below:

• HDMI 1.1
• Support for DVD Audio.
• HDMI 1.2
•  Support for One Bit Audio format
• HDMI 1.2a
• Creation of version 1.2a of the HDMI Compliance Test Specification (CTS), which includes a CEC (Consumer Electronic Control) Supplement.
• HDMI 1.3
• increased bandwidth (10.2 Gbps) to support the demands of future HD display devices
• it supports 10-bit, 12-bit and 16-bit (RGB or YCbCr) color depths
• HDMI 1.3 adds support for “x.v.Color™” 

all HDMI versions are fully backward compatible with all previous versions. 

reference:

1.  www.hdmi.org/learningcenter/faq.aspx

2. wikipedia.org

DLNA

The Digital Living Network Alliance is a trade-association, which was established by Sony in 2003. Latest survey shows that As of 2011, over 250 companies are part of this organization and As of February 2013, over 18,000 different device models have obtained "DLNA Certified"  it confirms their interoperability with other devices. The basic idea behind the DLNA association is to develop standards and technologies that make it possible that several devices at home interact. An example might be a television, that can be used to play a film on a computer, or to show photos stored on a mobile phone.

DLNA uses Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) for media management, discovery and control.  UPnP defines the type of device that DLNA supports and the mechanisms for accessing media over a network.

Different Home network devices, Mobile handset devices, Home infrastructure devices have DLNA certificates. DLNA Certified devices have been tested to ensure that they'll play nicely with other DLNA devices. set-top box is an example of DLNAPV(Digital Living Network Alliance Premium Video) device, and it could then stream copy-protected content such as movies or TV programmes to your other non-DLNAPV devices


reference: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Living_Network_Alliance

http://www.dlna.org/

Wonobo  Street-view

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              Wonobo is a service launched on 15th October by Genesys International. It's kind of walk -through inside the cities. They have captured several images of streets across various cities in India, combining them together to create 360-degree views of the streets very much same as Google sitemap for other countries.  Many companies including google tried to do this but they were unable to get permission for indian authorities. 

               This service will cover 54 cities. Initially 12 cities will be in the launch, and will be spread out to 20 more in a few weeks. In This 10 million points of interest were tagged, across cities and They also created homepages for them,  4.5 million are commercial places were tagged so that business address of company can easily be finned out by user. street view includes following features too. This technology will help tourist to find places and thus the growth of indian tourism will significantly increase. for street view of any particular area or city you just have to enter the name of city or area name on the website: http://www.wonobo.com/

• Inside Maps
• Direction and Routing
• Walking Tours
• Guides
• Stories

reference : www.zdnet.com

SONY XPERIA Z1

          sony xperia z1 was officially launched on 18th September 2013 in india. It's smartphone developed by SONY. The best feature of sony Xperia Z1 is a large 1/2.3” 20.7MP Exmor RS™ for mobile image sensor. It's offering a quad-core processor, 1080p display, 13 megapixel camera, 2GB of RAM, and water and dust. resistance.Sony's designers have ensured that the Z1's plastic sides extend by a fraction of a millimetre over the phone's glassy rear. This acts as a shock absorber and means the glass should be protected from casual tosses onto hard surfaces.

• Social live: developed in cooperation with Bambuser, allows users to broadcast their video live via Facebook and gets comments from their friends in real time.
• Info-eye: instantly gives informations about the objects captured by Xperia Z1's camera.
• Timeshift-burst: captures 61 frames within 2 seconds, starting before the shutter button is pressed, allowing users to select the best picture. But shooting in 1080p resolution.
• AR Effect: switches camera to AR Effect mode and adds some fun animations to pictures.

Some other important featurs:

Rear camera

20.7-megapixel

Operating System

Android 4.2

GPS	Yes
Bluetooth	Yes, v 4.00
NFC	Yes

Proximity sensor	Yes
Accelerometer	Yes

Processor

2.2GHz

Resolution

1080x1920 pixels

Screen size (inches)

5.00

Reference : www.wikipdia.org