Huawei Ascend D Quad XL | World's Fastest Smartphone

Ever heard of Huawei (pronounced "wa-wei")? In the telecom industry, Huawei is the second largest supplier of mobile telecommunications infrastructure in the world after Ericcson. In 2010 Huawei began shipping its first smartphones and this 2012, Huawei wants your next phone to be made by Huawei!

What does Huawei have to offer? Well, Huwaei holds the distinction for having the "world's slimmest smartphone" --the Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich-powered Huawei Ascend P1 S with a depth of 0.26 inches (the previous slimmest smartphone was the Motorola Droid Razr at 0.28 inches).

In their Ascend series of smartphones, Huawei is taking the smartphones war to a whole new level with the Huawei Ascend D Quad XL Smartphone. Huawei claims it's the "world's fastest smartphone" with a whooping 1.5GHZ quad-core processor!

Like the Huawei Ascend P1 S introduced at CES, the Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich-powered Huawei Ascend D Quad XL has a smooth, slightly rubberized back, and a slight bump for a grip toward the bottom back of the phone.

The Huawei Ascend D Quad XL has a 1280-by-720-pixel touchscreen with 1GB of RAM, and 8GB of ROM memory. The integrated Dolby Mobile 3.0 Plus produced pulsating audio. The front-facing camera is 1.3 megapixels, while the rear camera is 8 megapixels and capable of 720p video. Huawei also integrates Audience's earSmart dual-microphone noise reduction technology and the micro-USB port doubles as an MHL-HDMI connector.

The Ascend D Quad XL support five UMTS bands and four GSM bands, but no LTE yet which come later this year, in the third quarter or beyond according to Huawei.

The phones will first come out in China, then in Europe and North America.

BitTorrent Share Means Unlimited File Sharing

BitTorrent, more known for it's peer-to-preer file sharing protocol has created a service that competes with Dropbox, SkyDrive and Box.net. The new service, which BitTorrent calls Share, offers what not other file sharing service can give: UNLIMITED SHARING!

BitTorrent's Share allows subscribers to share unlimited files at unlimited file sizes with an unlimited number of personal contacts at no cost.

BitTorrent will be relying on Amazon’s EC2 and S3 services to allow for this unique file sharing experience. Files are cached on the cloud so users don’t have to be online at the same time to complete transfers. Once a file is successfully received by all recipients, it will be removed from the cloud. Share is currently available in an alpha stage of development and only for Windows users. Mac users will be able to test the service in an alpha release of µTorrent.

Korean News Site Leaks Samsung Galaxy S3 Display Specs

If what Korean news site ET News has leaked about the next Samsung Galaxy S is true then Apple has got its work cut out for the iPhone 5.

According to them, the Samsung Galaxy S3 is set to "go 3D" this February at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The upcoming Samsung Galaxy S would have 2GB of RAM and could display 3D films and games on its 720p Super AMOLED screen, plug into 3D TV's to render 3D content such as photos.

According to Boy Genius Report, "Samsung’s Galaxy lineup has been one of the most sought after smartphone lines worldwide. The Galaxy S II became the company’s fastest selling smartphone ever, selling 3 million units in just 55 days. Moreover, Samsung sold more than 30 million Galaxy S and Galaxy S II smartphones worldwide as of October. There is no question that consumers are interested in the Galaxy."

Ooooh, Apple fanboys gonna hate! :P

Samsung Galaxy S3 Specs:

General:
2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100
4G Network LTE 700

Body:
Dimensions -
Weight -
- Touch-sensitive controls

Display:
Type Super AMOLED Plus capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 720 x 1280 pixels, 4.6 inches (~319 ppi pixel density)
Multitouch
Corning Gorilla Glass
- TouchWiz UI v4.0

Memory:
Card slot microSD, up to 32GB, buy memory
Internal 16GB/32GB storage, 2 GB RAM
Data:
GPRS,EDGE, HSDPA, HSUPA, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, DLNA, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi hotspot, Bluetooth v3.0+HS, USB v2.0 microUSB (MHL), USB On-the-go

Camera:
12 MP, 4000x3000 pixels, autofocus, LED flash with 2 MP at front
Geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection, image stabilization
1080p@30fps Video

Features:
Android OS
Chipset: Exynos 4212
CPU: Dual-core 1.8 GHz
Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass
SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM, RSS
HTML, Adobe Flash
Stereo FM radio with RDS
A-GPS support
Java via MIDP emulator
 Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
TV-out (via MHL A/V link)
 SNS integration
MP4/DivX/XviD/WMV/H.264/H.263 player
MP3/WAV/eAAC+/AC3/FLAC player
Organizer
Image/video editor
Document editor (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF)
Google Search, Maps, Gmail,
YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa integration
Voice memo/dial/commands
Predictive text input (Swype)
Battery Standard battery, Li-Ion
courtesy: gsmarena.com

The TV Of The Future By LG

This is how TV's will be in the near future. This is LG's OLED TV technology that features razor-thin screens, sharper colors and faster-moving screens than any TV seen before.

The 55-inch OLED TV unveiled by LG and set to be launched this coming Consumer Electronics Show is only just 4mm thick and weighs just 7.5kg and has four colors of pixel rather than the usual three providing images with high-contrast, sharp and realistic colors.

I Love Working In IT

There's a saying with IT that goes like this, "The problem exists between the computer and the chair." Does this picture prove this saying? ^_^

Do you receive requests like as this? Share them with us! We all need a really good laugh sometimes!

The New Google Android Honeycomb Tablet

Google gave a sneak peek of its long-awaited tablet which will run a special new version of Android nicknamed Honeycomb.

The Google Honeycomb tablet, which was briefly unveiled at an event in San Francisco by Google Anroid expert Andy Rubin, will be built by Motorola and is due to be released next year.

No specifications were given out by the Mr. Rubin but may believe it will be an upgraded version of Stingray, Motorola's contribution to the tablet wars, which will also be released next year.

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Intel, Toshiba, and Samsung To Co-Develop Next-Gen Chips

Powerhouse chipmakers Intel Corp, Toshiba Corp and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd are teaming up to co-develop next-gen technologies that could more than halve semiconductor line widths to nearly 10 nanometers by 2016

The world's top makers of  NAND-type, Samsung Electronics and Toshiba, together with world's largest chipmaker Intel, intend to form a consortium that will include 10 more firms operating in semiconductor materials and related fields.

Intel general manager William Holt said chip making was getting increasingly more complicated the smaller the manufacturing process is becoming, hence the need for this latest co-operation in the industry.

Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry will sponsor 50% of the initial funds roughly estimated at 100 billion yen. while rest will be covered by the members of the consortium.

Toshiba and Samsung plan to use the next-gen technologies to make 10 nanometer-class NAND flash memory and other chips, while Intel will likely use it to develop faster microprocessors.

A nanometer is a millionth of a millimeter, or a hair's width divided by 100,000.

[Source: Nikkei.com]

Bid Goodbye To Passwords. Hello Mobile Face Recognition Software

Lengthy, complicated, and forgettable passwords and PIN numbers to log onto Internet sites from mobile phones will soon be a thing of the past as scientists from The University of Manchester have developed a face tracking software for mobile phones that can track your facial features in real-time. As the mobile face tracking software contiues to be developed, eventually it will be able to tell who the user is, where they are looking and even how they are feeling.

Face tracking software is already used in laptops, webcams and the Xbox 360 Kinect but this is the first time the technology is being used with such sophistication in mobile devices such as smartphones.

"Existing mobile face trackers give only an approximate position and scale of the face, our model runs in real-time and accurately tracks a number of landmarks on and around the face such as the eyes, nose, mouth and jaw line."

"A mobile phone with a camera on the front captures a video of your face and tracks twenty-two facial features. This can make face recognition more accurate, and has great potential for novel ways of interacting with your phone.'' said Dr Phil Tresadern, lead researcher on the mobile face tracker project.

Originally intended as part of a face and voice-verification system for access to mobile internet applications such as email, social networking and online banking, alternative uses for the device could include fun applications that, for instance, attach virtual objects to the user's face as they move around.

The face tracking software, built on 20 years of research at the University, has been demonstrated on a Nokia N900 for the EU-funded "Mobile Biometrics" (MoBio) project.



For further information about the mobile face tracker project visit: http://www.mobioproject.org

WiFi Direct: Bluetooth Killer

A new technology known as WiFi Direct is currently being developed to make Bluetooth a thing of the past and more.

WiFi Direct uses standard WiFi technology but does not need an existing WiFi network or router and instead utilizes peer-to-peer connections. Also, WiFi Direct is being designed to be as simple as setting up a Bluetooth connection without all the hoopla of connecting devices using current tethering or ad hoc networking for laptops and smartphones.

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SixthSense: Making The World Your Computer

I was browsing my Facebook feeds on Skype 5.0 when I encountered this video that really catered to my tech curiosity.

The video was about SixthSense technology being demoed by its inventor, Pranav Mistry.

Using a camera and a mini projector mounted pieced together into a pendant-like wearable technology called SixthSense, Primav Mistry made Microsoft's Surface Table, Apple's iNventions, Google's Earth and whatnots like expensive grade-school class projects.

'SixthSense' sees what you see and visually augments any surfaces or objects we are interacting with. It projects information onto surfaces, walls, and physical objects around us, and lets us interact with the projected information through natural hand gestures, arm movements, or our interaction with the object itself. 'SixthSense' attempts to free information from its confines by seamlessly integrating it with reality, and thus making the entire world your computer.

Were you like "Whaa?!" or "Huh?!" Think Tom Cruise's Minority Report or better yet, check out the video



SixthSense is currently a work in progress but as soon as Primav Mistry has it perfected, everything is going to be open sourced.

You can check more of Primav Mistry and his projects at his website PranavMistry.com

PC's, Laptops, Netbooks, and Tablets To Boot Up In Seconds

A new technology called the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) is going to replace the BIOS soon.

What is a UEFI? UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) is a specification detailing an interface that helps hand off control of the system for the pre-boot environment (i.e.: after the system is powered on, but before the operating system starts) to an operating system, such as Windows or Linux. UEFI will provide a clean interface between operating systems and platform firmware at boot time, and will support an architecture-independent mechanism for initializing add-in cards.

Right. Lets just put it this way: The UEFI is going to boot up a PC, Laptop, Netbook, or tablet in mere seconds. No more wait time, just like switching on the TV.

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New Apple Patent For Accessory Transceiver Enables Phone Calls On iPod Touch

A few weeks back, modified casings like the Apple Peel 520 and tPhone were released to allow phone calls from the Apple iPod Touch.

Scrap that! PatenlyApple discovered a new patent for an Accessory Transceiver which would allow iPod Touch owners to make phone calls.

The Apple iPod Touch could use the transceiver to connect directly or wirelessly using the Accessory Transceiver to enable phone calling.

Apple filed for the Accessory Transceiver patent in the first quarter of 2010 but has not been granted yet.

Of course large corporations like Apple have thousands of patents for accessories and devices but never really come to fruition.

Sony Launches Playstation Motion Controller. Move Over Wii And Kinect

It certainly took a long time for Sony and Microsoft to catch up to the motional controller of Nintendo, but they're finally here.

A few months back, Microsoft unveiled Kinect for Xbox, today Sony formally took on the Nintendo Wii (and Xbox Kinect) in its launching of it's Move motion controller for the Playstation.

The Move is an extremely accurate motion-sensing device that analyses gamers' movement and translates it directly onto the screen and works by focusing the Playstation's Eye camera on a glowing, colour-changing rubber ball at the end of a motion controller.

According to early reviews, Move lets gamers interact with a new generation of games by picking up every movement made by the player like the Nintendo’s Wii, but unlike the Wii controller, Move is not just a motion detector but actively tracks movement through a camera that is placed on top of the television set which makes the Move far more accurate and sensitive.

Priced at £49.99, Move will be sold in a starter pack that includes a PlayStation Move motion controller, PlayStation Eye camera and a Starter disc, .

Move individual controllers will cost around £34.99 each while the two first games, Sports Champions and Start the Party are priced at £29.99 each.

Software patches will soon be rolled out for games to accomodate the new Move controller.

An Apple iPod So Tiny It Can Be Worn Like A Watch

The iPod "Watch" has just been released on the market and with with a measurement of just 1.48" X 1.61" X 0.35" and at a weight of  21.1 grams, it is being though as the smallest music player to date.

'It’s very tiny and instantly wear­able,' said Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. 'It even has a clock - one of our board of directors says he’s going to wear it as a watch.'

Dubbed the 'iWatch', the latest addition to the iPod family boasts a "mutli-touch screen" and a clock face which appears at the touch of the power button but still allows users to view pictures and track your movements. Because of its tiny size and the clock feature, manufacturers, or maybe even Applem may design detachable watch straps for the "iWatch."

Cool! Wish list anyone?

The Race To Topple King iPad

The iPad's success with millions already sold and many stores running out of stock in just a few mere months has had major PC manufacturers looking like wannabes.

With the initial success of Apple's iPad and the standard set so high, it's going to be a long climb before anyone can challenge the king of the hill.

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Imagine A Smartphone With A 1Ghz Dual-Core ARM Processor

Samsung is sure making some headlines this September. What with the release of the Samsung Galaxy Tab, now they announce a 1GHz dual-core processor dubbed as Orion. With "5 times the 3D graphics performance over the previous processor generation from Samsung," 1080p video encoding and decoding at 30fps, embedded GPS, a native triple display controller, and on-chip HDMI 1.3a interface, this will drive Samsung up to top.

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Apple i Pad Versus Samsung Galaxy Tab

With the introduction of Samsung's Galaxy Tab, a 7-inch Android-powered tablet, comes a true and valid iPad contender. For some time reports of so-called iPad contenders or iPad killer tablets from HP and LG among others are still unavailable at this point but so is the Samsung Galaxy Tab. What sets Samsung apart is that they have at least announced and showed an actualy working device.

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Toshiba Recall For Toshiba T Series Laptops

Do you own or know somebody who owns Toshiba laptops with models Satellite T135, Satellite T135D and Satellite ProT130?

Toshiba is recalling these laptops due to overheating at the notebook's plug-in to the AC adapter which poses a burn hazard.

So far there have been 129 reports of the Toshiba T Series laptops overheating and deforming the plastic casing aroun the AC adapter plug including reports of minor burn injuries and minor laptop damage.

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Autodesk To Bring AutoCAD to Mac, iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch

It seems everyone wants an iPhone4, an iPod or Apple's latest money cow, the iPad and no one seems to bother with the Mac anymore.

For starters, the Mac has been seen as just an (expensive) accessory or a multimedia editor or a laptop with a great cam, great graphics and almost nothing else.

But with the announcement of Autodesk brining back the AutoCAD design and engineering software to Apple also marks the return of the Mac. This is big news for the Mac community, specifically architects, engineers, designers and the like who want AutoCAD on their MAC but will have to install 3rd-party softwares just to make it work.

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Spy Video Of Upcoming Samsung Galaxy Tab

At least the telco employee held on to his Samsung Galaxy Tab prototype. LOL! Someone got lucky and quick-minded enough to interview and secretly film the telco employee playing with what is presumably a Samsung Galaxy Tab.

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