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
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Read more here:

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

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