Samsung Galaxy Note II

Samsung Galaxy Note II at Rs 39,990

Samsung Electronics launched its latest Galaxy device as part of efforts to better compete with Apple's newly released iPhone 5. Priced at Rs Rs 39,990 in India, the new version of the Note features a thinner and slightly bigger 5.5-inch screen, quad-core processor, the latest version of the Android operating system called Jellybean, and improved stylus function.

    The Galaxy Note II is available in Marble White and Titanium Gray color options.

           It has 16GB internal storage with support for 64 GB expendable memory and a 3,100 mAh battery. Additional features include Air View, Quick Command and single hand operations

The new device has got 8-megapixel rear camera and 1.9-megapixel front facing camera with HD (high definition) video recording

  It has 2GB of internal RAM; and comes with 16 GB of onboard file storage and supports up to 64GB of additional memory.

The Galaxy Note II has a 5.5-inch HD Super AMOLED touchscreen with 16:9 aspect ratio and it it allows users to split the screen in half to view two programmes at once .    

    The device also comes with a much larger battery but weighs slightly less than the original Galaxy Note.

    The S Pen has been redesigned to provide a more precise and natural writing and drawing experience. The new S Pen can sense 1,024 levels of pressure sensitivity, four times more than the original S Pen.

   The device is equipped with a new 1.6 GHz quad-core processor that helps run multiple applications faster than the dual-core processor of the previous version.

The Galaxy Note II is powered by the latest version of Android operating system, 4.1 Jelly Bean.

    Priced at Rs Rs 39,990 in India, the new version of the Note features a thinner and slightly bigger 5.5-inch screen, quad-core processor, the latest version of the Android operating system called Jellybean, and improved stylus function.

Ø  Priced at Rs Rs 39,990 in India, the new version of the Note features a thinner and slightly bigger 5.5-inch screen, quad-core processor, the latest version of the Android operating system called Jellybean, and improved stylus function.

Ø  The Galaxy Note II is powered by the latest version of Android operating system, 4.1 Jelly Bean.

Ø  The device is equipped with a new 1.6 GHz quad-core processor that helps run multiple applications faster than the dual-core processor of the previous version.

Ø  It has 2GB of internal RAM; and comes with 16 GB of onboard file storage and supports up to 64GB of additional memory.

Ø  The Galaxy Note II has a 5.5-inch HD Super AMOLED touchscreen with 16:9 aspect ratio and it it allows users to split the screen in half to view two programmes at once.

Ø  The device also comes with a much larger battery but weighs slightly less than the original Galaxy Note.

Ø  The S Pen has been redesigned to provide a more precise and natural writing and drawing experience. The new S Pen can sense 1,024 levels of pressure sensitivity, four times more than the original S Pen.

Ø  The new device has got 8-megapixel rear camera and 1.9-megapixel front facing camera with HD (high definition) video recording.

Ø  The Galaxy Note II is available in Marble White and Titanium Gray color options.

Ø         It has 16GB internal storage with support for 64 GB expendable memory and a 3,100 mAh battery. Additional features include Air View, Quick Command and single hand operations

Android

Google Play hits 25 billion downloads

Whether you’re looking for directions, checking email or sharing a picture with friends, apps are now an indispensable part of life. And if you’re using Android, it all starts with Google Play, home to 675,000 apps and games. That’s a lot of choice. We’ve now crossed 25 billion downloads from Google Play, and to celebrate we’re offering some great discounts for the next five days.

Every day you’ll be able to choose from a collection of apps from some of the world’s top developers including Gameloft, Electronic Arts, Rovio, runtastic, Full Fat and more. And all for just 25 cents. We’ll also be offering some special collections like 25 movies you must own, 25 banned books, 25 albums that changed the world and our 25 top selling magazines, all at special prices. Visit Google Play a little later today to check them out.

Twenty-five billion is more than twice the distance, in miles, that the Voyager 1 spacecraft has travelled since its launch 35 years ago. It’s the amount of time, in minutes, that have passed since some of our earliest ancestors began to set foot in Europe. And now, thanks to all of you, it’s a Google Play milestone. We look forward to the next 25 billion.

·  Turning the page with a new Google Play Books app for Android

Google Play Books enables you to read more than 4 million books on the go, and it's available in the U.S., Canada, Australia, Germany, Spain, Italy, France, Korea and Japan. Today we’re bringing new features to the Books app to help you better explore your books and understand what you’re reading.

Places and dictionary 
School’s now in full swing and students are picking up the classics. Whether you're diving into Moby Dick or trying your hand at some Tolstoy, we want to make your reading experience as enjoyable and rewarding as possible. Starting today, when you come across an unfamiliar geographic location—a faraway city or distant mountain range—you can tap on the location to learn more about it. You’ll see an info card with a Google Map and the option to get more information by searching on Google or Wikipedia

Explore locations using info cards in Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time

Similarly when you come across an unfamiliar word (say, abligurition or jentacular), just tap it for a quick definition.

Translation
For those adventurous readers making their way through books in non-native languages, you can now easily translate words or phrases to and from a number of languages. Just select the text or word and use the button on the top action bar to indicate which language you’d like translate into.

Highlighting and notes
If you happen to page through any of the books on my shelf, you’ll likely find highlighted passages and illegibly scrawled notes in the margins. Starting today, our app lets you highlight text and easily take notes. And because all your books live in the cloud, highlights and notes sync on your tablet, phone and the web.

You will also notice a new sepia reading theme (in addition to the current day and night themes), 2D sliding page turn animation, and lots of stability improvements. Finally, you can now read Japanese books in a vertical, right-to-left layout—and flip pages from right to left.

We hope these features make reading more enjoyable—and productive.

  

·  The Benefits & Importance of Compatibility

We built Android to be an open source mobile platform freely available to anyone wishing to use it. In 2008, Android was released under the Apache open source license and we continue to develop and innovate the platform under the same open source license -- it is available to everyone at: http://source.android.com. This openness allows device manufacturers to customize Android and enable new user experiences, driving innovation and consumer choice.

As the lead developer and shepherd of the open platform, we realize that we have a responsibility to app developers -- those who invested in the platform by adopting it and building applications specifically for Android. These developers each contribute to making the platform better -- because when developers support a platform with their applications, the platform becomes better and more attractive to consumers. As more developers build great apps for Android, more consumers are likely to buy Android devices because of the availability of great software content

(app titles like Fruit Ninja or Google Maps). As more delighted consumers adopt Android phones and tablets, it creates a larger audience for app developers to sell more apps. The result is a strategy that is good for developers (they sell more apps), good for device manufacturers (they sell more devices) and good for consumers (they get more features and innovation).

In biological terms, this is sometimes referred to as an ecosystem. In economic terms, this is known as a virtuous cycle -- a set of events that reinforces itself through a feedback loop. Each iteration of the cycle positively reinforces the previous one. These cycles will continue in the direction of their momentum until an external factor intervenes and breaks the cycle.

When we first contemplated Android and formed the Open Handset Alliance, we wanted to create an open virtuous cycle where all members of the ecosystem would benefit. We thought hard about what types of external factors could intervene to weaken the ecosystem as a whole. One important external factor we knew could do this was incompatibilities between implementations of Android. Let me explain:

Imagine a hypothetical situation where the platform on each phone sold was just a little bit different. Different enough where Google Maps would run normally on one phone but run terribly slow on another. Let's say, for sake of example, that Android implemented an API that put the phone to sleep for a fraction of a second to conserve battery life when nothing was moving on the screen. The API prototype for such a function might look like SystemClock.sleep(millis) where the parameter "millis" is the number of milliseconds to put the device to sleep for.

If one phone manufacturer implemented SystemClock.sleep() incorrectly, and interpreted the parameter as Seconds instead of Milliseconds, the phone would be put to sleep a thousand times longer than intended! This manufacturer’s phone would have a terrible time running Google Maps. If apps don’t run well across devices due to incompatibilities, consumers would leave the ecosystem, followed by developers. The end of the virtuous cycle.

We have never believed in a “one size fits all” strategy, so we found a way to enable differentiation for device manufactures while protecting developers and consumers from incompatibilities by offering a free "compatibility test suite" (CTS). CTS is a set of software tools that tests and exercises the platform to make sure that (for example) SystemClock.sleep(millis) actually puts the device to sleep for only milliseconds. Like Android, the test suite is freely available to everyone under the Apache open source license: http://source.android.com/compatibility/cts-intro.html 

While Android remains free for anyone to use as they would like, only Android compatible devices benefit from the full Android ecosystem. By joining the Open Handset Alliance, each member contributes to and builds one Android platform -- not a bunch of incompatible versions. We’re grateful to the over 85 Open Handset Alliance members who have helped us build the Android ecosystem and continue to drive innovation at an incredible pace. Thanks to their support the Android ecosystem now has over 500 million Android-compatible devices and counting!

Samsung unveils world's first Windows 8 phone

The announcement at a Berlin electronics show comes amid expectations that smartphone makers may turn increasingly to Windows devices after a US jury decided many of Samsung's Google Android-based phones infringed Apple Inc patents.

Samsung Electronics became the first handset maker to announce a smartphone using Microsoft's latest mobile software, making its surprise, hurried announcement just days before the highly anticipated launch of Nokia's version. Samsung said the ATIV phone would hit stores in the October-November period but did not give an exact start date.

   The brief announcement at a Berlin electronics show comes amid expectations that smartphone makers may turn increasingly to Windows devices after a US jury decided many of Samsung's Google Android-based phones infringed Apple Inc patents.

Samsung's ATIV S Windows phone sports a high-end 4.8-inch display, Corning "Gorilla" glass, and an 8-megapixel rear camera and 1.9-megapixel front-facing camera.

The ATIV S features a dual-core 1.5GHz processor, a 4.8-inch high-definition Super AMOLED display, 1GB of RAM, microSDHC support, an 8-megapixel camera, and a 2,300 mAh battery.

  Samsung's Windows-based smartphone, introduced on Wednesday, marks the first in a 'big lineup of new hardware' from the South Korean company based on Microsoft's software, Microsoft executive Ben Rudolph said.

    Samsung hopes the new device will take the focus away from its loss of the court case. Apple is now seeking speedy bans on the sale of eight Samsung phones, moving swiftly to turn legal victory into tangible business gain.

    Nokia, the ailing Finnish mobile firm, once the world's leading producer of phones but now struggling to reverse losses, is due to unveil its new Lumia line of smartphones using Windows Phone 8 in New York on September 5.

Analysts say the introduction of Samsung's Windows phone may be designed to assuage concerns that Microsoft will favor Nokia, whose Chief Executive Stephen Elop -- himself a former senior Microsoft executive -- has staked its future on the Windows platform

Samsung unveils new super-size Galaxy Note

Samsung took the wraps off a sequel to its popular Galaxy Note smartphone. The Galaxy Note 10.1, which went on sale in Germany and the United Arab Emirates, will soon be launched in other markets. The new Galaxy Note smartphone comes with a host of new features and is twice as wide as its predecessor and nearly the size of a tablet.

Armed with a 1.4GHz quad-core processor and 2GB RAM for enhanced performance, Galaxy Note 10.1 is designed to simplify idea capture, information access, and multi-tasking, making each easier and faster.

Like Galaxy Note, it comes with a stylus called the 'S pen' to write notes or draw on the screen. The new version allows users to split the screen in half to view two programs at once.

The Galaxy Note 10.1 is equipped with a quad-core processor that allows users to run multiple applications faster than the previous version, which had a dual-core processor.

The Galaxy Note 10.1 comes in three connectivity options: a WiFi-only version, a WiFi-and-3G HSPA-Plus connectivity version at launch, and a WiFi-and-LTE version later this year.

The Galaxy Note 10.1 comes equipped with the S Note, which is a unique tool that gives users the ability to combine notes and sketches with other digital content in ready-to-use templates.

Featuring its advanced 6.5mm 'S' Pen, Galaxy Note 10.1 is optimized for the creation of personalized and expressive content. The S Pen’s feel and functionality are specifically designed for an optimal experience on the 10.1-inch screen.

Several other features have been added to Galaxy Note 10.1 including Smart Stay, which tracks the user’s eyes to ensure that the screen is always on while being looked at, and Pop Up Play, which allows the user to watch a video anywhere on their screen while simultaneously running other tasks.

The AllShare Play feature enables users to share content with a large group in real-time by connecting GALAXY Note 10.1 to Samsung HD TVs, mobile tablets, laptops, and other consumer electronic devices on the same 

The device also includes a 5-megapixel main camera and a 1.9-megapixel front-facing camera.

Cell Phone Safety Presentations

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Information Technology

Cell Phone Safety Presentations

Prepared by:

nikhil patel

Communication connection between two mobile

1.When the caller starts the call the electromagnetic signal transmitted from his mobile antenna is received by the closest base station “BS”.

2.Then the signal is transmitted from the BS to the switching center “SC” in order to authenticate the caller and receiver IDs.

3.The the SC will transmit the signal to the BS nearest to the receiver side

4.Next the BS transmits electromagnetic signals which will be received by the receiver’s mobile antenna.

5.Finally after the receiver opens the line the two-way communication connection is established between the two persons.

How is radiation produced by a cell phone?

ØCell phone radiation is transmitted by the cell phone antenna in all directions

ØMost of the energy is lost in space

ØPart of the energy is received by base stations

ØPart of the energy is incident on human head 

Maximum Power Transmit

ØThe Federal Communications Commission sets specific absorption rate “SAR” standards for acceptable power radiation for cell phones; it must not exceed 1.6 W/KG

ØThe lower the SAR the better the phone, from a potential health hazard point of view 

There are three ways to find SAR values

             1.From the user manual of your mobile phone.

             2.Visit mobile manufacturers’ forum or website and select your mobile phone model            http://www.mmfai.info/public/sar.cfm

 3.Enter Federal Communications Commission website and write your mobile FCC ID Number in the     FCC ID http://www.fcc.gov/oet/ea/fccid/

                    

Thermal Effect of Cell Phones 

Thermal Effects 

Heat generated on the face by 15 minutes of cell phone use due to electromagnetic radiation

Radiation Penetration in the head of an adult, ten-year and five-year old

When radiation hits the head, it penetrates the skull. The pictures above are the result of an experiment show how radiation penetrates the skull of an adult (25%), 10 year old (50%) and a 5 year old (75%). The younger the child the deeper the penetration due to the fact their skulls are thinner and their brains contain more fluid than adults’. Radio frequencies travel through children’s brains much more easily and therefore increase the risk of cancer.

Consider the following when using your mobile phone

It is not only the choice of phone, but how you use it that is important when you want to control the amount of radiation you are exposed to. Here you will find a few simple tips that can considerably reduce radiation and therefore also health risks.

Use a hands-free set

The further away from your body the phone is, the less radiation you are exposed to. Using a hands-free set is the easiest way to radically reduce the amount of radiation you are exposed to if you use a mobile phone.

Hold it at the bottom

By covering large areas of the phone with your hand, you reduce its ability to send and receive signals. The phone then increases its power and transmits stronger radiation to compensate this. So hold the phone as far down as possible, so it can operate at low power. 

Get in the best position

You can see the signal reception strength in the display. When reception is good, the phone reduces power and radiation. If reception is poor, the phone uses maximum power and radiation.

Don’t talk too long and use regular phone as much as possible

The radiation you are exposed to is directly related to the time you spend talking on your phone. For linger calls it is safer and cheaper to call from a regular phone.

Hazardous areas of use

ØDon’t use a mobile phone while driving a car. Stop at a safe place and talk.

ØDon’t use your mobile phone in places where there is a lot of electrical equipment, such as hospitals and aircraft.

ØDon’t bathe with your mobile phone.

ØDon’t let small children talk on your mobile phone for long periods. They are more susceptible than adults.

Thank You

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HTC Desire S vs HTC Incredible S – Head to Head Comparison

With the names like Desire and Incredible, it sounds like these two phones were made for super heroes, and with their features they probably would probably make a good sidekick for most super heroes on the block. So let’s see how they come out in a head to head dual. You can also go through our Samsung Galaxy S vs HTC Desire – Comparison.

For the first round we’ll take a look at the key board. The HTC Desire S has a bit of secret weapon in the form of its slide out QWERTY keyboard, making it popular amongst those super heroes who have lots of emails and text messages to type. Where as the HTC Incredible S has a capacitive touchscreen with buttons at the bottom that rotate with the screen. So it really depends whether real or virtual buttons are your preference for this one. We’ll declare a draw for round one.

 

Round 2 is down to size, the Incredible is slightly larger and marginally heavier – 120x64x11.7mm and 135.5g compared with 115×59.8×11.6mm and 130g from the Desire S – this is pretty marginal, but we’ll have to give Round 2 to the Desire S for its more toned appearance.

Round 3 – the screen. With smart phones it’s usually a case of the bigger the better when it comes to screen size. So taking advantage of its slightly larger size the Incredible S weighs in with the larger screen size at 4 inches compared to 3.7 inches on the HTC Desire S. Although both have the same resolution of 480 x 800 so there isn’t really much in it, but for this round we’ll have to hand it to the Incredible S.

Round 4 is down to the processor and it’s a dead heat as both phones feature the same 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM 8255. It means they both consume even the most demanding of apps with ease and make multi tasking a piece of cake.

Round 5 is memory and it looks like neither phone is managing to take a lead yet, as both the Desire S and Incredible S have the same 1.1GB of ROM and 768MB of Ram and support Micro SD cards, so there is nothing in it.

In Round 6 their operating systems are coming to blows and it looks like the Desire S can claim a small victory with its more recent Android 2.3 Gingerbread compared with the Incredible S that’s still running on Android 2.2 Froyo, although both will soon be upgradable to Android 2.4 Ice Cream.

Round 7 is played out by the camera and we really need one of the phones to start to take a decisive lead. The HTC Incredible S streaks out ahead with its 8 megapixel camera that captures at 3264×2448 and has such features as image stabilisation, autofocus and an LED flash. Compared with the Desire S with its 5 megapixel camera. The Incredible S also has the stronger front-facing camera at 1.3 megapixels.

Well it’s a difficult contest between these two strong contenders and it will have to come down to points and there isn’t really anything in it with 2 points apiece. If a camera is the thing that’s important to you then give the Incredible S an extra point, but if it’s smaller size and the most up to date operating system then give the Desire S an extra point and you’ll have your winner.

Guest Writer : Clove Technology specialize in mobile technology and smartphones and are one of the leading UK distributors of android mobile phones, Blackberry, HTC, HP IPAQ, Motorola, Samsung, Nokia and PDAs.