Samsung Galaxy Note X Forecast: 6.3-inch Display Screen

The Galaxy Note 2 has been just announced and it's yet to hit stores anywhere in the world, so it's definitely too early to think about next year’s Samsung tablet, a future Galaxy Note 3 that the Android maker will surely unveil at some point in the future.

But Concept Phones has an interesting Galaxy Note X mockup – an even bigger phablet, when it comes to screen size – which may as well be a rumor starting point for future Galaxy Note versions.

Created by Erica Yusim, the Galaxy Note X does share several design elements with the current Galaxy Note 2, but sports a much bigger edge-to-edge 6.3-inch display. In addition to images, we also have a list of potential specs and features for such a device – although, again, it’s way too early in the game to dream about the Galaxy Note X.

Here's what Yusim proposes when designing the Galaxy Note 2:

• 6.3-inch Super AMOLED Plus display with 1080 x 1920 Full HD resolution

• Size: 161.9 x 84.9 x 8.9

• Weight: 220g

• 2.0GHz quad core Cortex-A15 processor

• 3GB of RAM

• 32/64/128GB memory

• 16-meagpixel camera with Auto Focus, LED Flash and BSI

• 3-megapixel front-facing camera with BSI, Best Photo, Best Faces, Low light shot

• Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n (2.4GHz and 5GHz), Wi-Fhi Direct

• Bluetooth 5.0

• USB 3.0 Host

• mHL

• NFC

• A-GPS, Glonass support

• 4,000mAh battery

• Android 5.0

Sure, everything looks great and all on paper, but one does have to wonder when we'll stop asking for more when it comes to smartphone screen size or internal components. Would such a device get made in the following year, especially considering that at 6.3 inches the Galaxy Note X would compete directly with 7-inch budget tablets? Considering those internal components, the Galaxy Note X would hardly qualify as a budget device.

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More than iPhone 5: iPod Nano 7 & iPod Touch 5

Apple holds a big deal in Yerba Buena Theater: the official release of new generation iPhone 5, along with the new iPod Nano 7 as well as iPod Touch 5 music players.

 

The latest iPod Nano seems a little bit longer than the previous edition, with 2.5-inch screen, 5.4mm in thickness, 38% thinner than Nano 6. Multi-touch feature is supported, home button is included, 7 colors for options, and supports Bluetooth technology.

The newest iPod Touch 5 is with 6.1mm thickness, 88g weight, which is said to be the lightest and thinnest Touch product. New iPod Touch 5 adopts A5 dual-core processor, and the CPU performance is 2X faster than the previous generation. It is equipped with 5-million-pixel camera supporting auto focus and facial recognition function. HD Facetime and Bluetooth 4.0 technology are covered. Battery endurance ability is boosted as well: up to 40-hour music playing and 8-hour video playing. Siri is supported by the brand-new iPod Touch. There are 5 colors for users' preference: white, black, blue, yellow and red.

The price of these new products will be as follows: $49 for iPod Shuffle, $149 for iPod Nano, $199 for iPod Touch 5 16GB, and $299 for iPod Touch 5 32GB.

Apple claims that up to 350 million iPod music players have been sold so far, and up to 26 million music files are included in iTunes. The new version iTunes will be available in October.

 

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T-Mobile Introduces Samsung Galaxy Relay 4G on September 19

More details emerged today about T-Mobile's Samsung Galaxy Relay 4G Android 4.0 slider phone, specifically that the Relay will be available on September 19 for $149.99 after a $50 mail-in-rebate card, and with a new two-year service agreement.

The successor to the Galaxy S Blaze 4G will feature Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, a 4-inch super AMOLED display, a 5-megapixel camera, and a 1.3-megapixel front-camera. It runs off a 1.5-GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 processor, and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. It has 8GB of onboard storage, and takes up to 32GB in external memory.

HTC WP8 Smartphones: HTC 8X, HTC 8S, HTC 8V

Without doubt, 2012 is the year for Windows Phone 8. Right after a series of new WP8 smartphones released by Samsung and Nokia, as one of the WP8 terminal manufacturers, HTC has to take actions now. According to relevant news, three new phone models running on WP8 system will be launched by HTC on September 19, 2012. The three handsets HTC is going to release are the long-rumored Zenith, Accord and Rio. Based on the naming rule of HTC One series, they will be named as HTC 8X, HTC 8S and HTC 8V.

 

Zenith, Accord and Rio are positioned as high, medium and low level respectively. HTC Zenith is equipped with 1.5GHz Qualcomm S4 dual-core processor, 4.7-inch 720p touch screen (Super LCD2), 8-million-pixel camera and HSPA+ with up to 42Mbps downstream speed support. HTC Accord adopts 1.5GHz Qualcomm S4 dual-core processor, 4.3-inch 720p screen, 8-million-pixel camera and supports NFC function. When being compared with the other two phone models, HTC Rio focuses on low-end market, employing 4-inch WVGA touch screen, providing 5-million-pixel camera and is with 512MB RAM.

 

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VEVO New iPad App Includes Personalized Playlists, Social Sharing & Continuous Playback

Earlier this year, VEVO unveiled a huge new redesign, adding continusous playback and social features designed to get more people engaged when watching its music videos. And while it made that experience available on its website and on its Xbox Live app, there was one device clearly missing — the iPad. Well, it just released an updated version of its iPad app, making a lot of the same features available, as well as a few more that have not yet made it to other platforms.

The first thing that you’ll notice when you open the app is a rotating carousel of featured artists that, when clicked, brings you directly to videos by those artists.

The iPad app, like other apps from VEVO, is focused on increasing viewership time. As a result, it defaults to a continuous playlist of videos. Once one is finished, users will automatically start watching another. After an initial pre-roll ad, the app inserts additional ads after every three or four music videos, according to Cerda.

The iPad app also pulls in a lot of social features that came online with the spring relaunch of the website. That includes Facebook Connect and Open Graph integration — letting users import their “likes” and get personalized playlists based on those artists. They’ll also be able to see what music videos their friends on the social network are watching, and share out what they’re watching with others. Users can also import their iTunes libraries to get playlists based on the music that they already own.

But a lot of what makes the new iPad app cool is stuff that wasn’t in the homepage redesign. One area of improvement was adding the ability to add and customize playlists, which was a bit constrained in the initial release. VEVO has also done a good job of building out artist profiles, which show biographical information on the musicians that viewers want to watch, while also providing a list of videos, tweets, and tour dates. The app also collapses a lot of the menu options that appear on the website into a more manageable navigation flow. The biggest feature, though, might be AirPlay integration, which allows users to instantly stream continuous playlists of music videos to their TVs through Apple TV.

A lot of the new iPad-specific features — like the condensed menu, artist profiles, and better playlist management — will eventually make their way back to other VEVO products, like the homepage or mobile web site.

VEVO product is mostly be divided into front-end and back-end teams, with one in charge of user experience and the other making sure the plumbing works. But product work is still split between developers in New York, and those who recently joined or agreed to ship themselves out to the West Coast. In fact, the teams have a dedicated video hangout setup so that its developers can ask or answer questions of each other from across the country.

While the iPad app is one recent innovation for VEVO, it’s not the only one. The company is looking for new ways to reach consumers wherever they are — whether that means making embedding videos available in users’ Twitter streams (which is available now) or streaming directly within Facebook wall posts (which could be coming soon). Look for more updates as time goes on!

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Nokia WP8 Smartphones: Lumia 820 and Lumia 920 Coming Out

Nokia has officially unveiled its new flagship smartphones, Lumia 920 and Lumia 820. The new Windows Phone devices are beautifully crafted and offer something unique in the saturated smartphone market. The Finnish company announced two Windows Phone 8 handsets, the Lumia 920 and the Lumia 820, targeted at the high and mid end smartphone audience respectively.

As Steve Ballmer noted on stage today, this year is shaping up to be something historic for all of Microsoft. Windows Phone 8 is part of a reimagined Windows, with a unified experience spanning phones, tablets and PCs. Whether you’re looking at Windows 8 or Windows Phone 8, you’ll experience our unique look and feel with Live Tiles and will have the same built-in access to Microsoft cloud services like SkyDrive and Xbox Music.

 

The Lumia 820 features a 4.3-inch display, along with 1.5GHz dual-core S4 processor and a microSD slot. Other features include a 5-megapixel camera, NFC capabilities, 8GB of storage, Nokia Music access, City Lens and a variety of covers. But it doesn’t include PureView technology featured in the Lumia 900, Nokia’s new flagship device.

 

The Lumia 820 feels much more like a normal smartphone than the 920, with rounded edges that don't feel quite as severe in your hand. The 4.3-inch display is every bit as attractive as its larger cousin's, but since the phone is a bit smaller it's more usable in one hand. The 800 x 480 screen is also a big letdown after the gorgeous display on the 920 — that seems to be the biggest tradeoff with the lower-end device. The build otherwise looks very much like the 920, from the ceramic buttons to the unibody-like chassis. It feels a bit more plasticky, but the tradeoff is that the 820 has swappable backs and a bunch of additional color options (the backs can also add NFC capabilities).

 

The Lumia 920 comes with a 4.5 inch 1280 x 768 pixels display, a 1.5GHz dual core processor, a 2000mAh battery, an 8.7 MP camera sensor, wireless charging and NFC capabilities. Its design is very similar to its predecessor, the Lumia 900, with a polycarbonate body available in bright colors. The 8.7MP camera sensor incorporates some great optical image stabilisation and light capturing mechanisms, which the company collectively calls the "PureView" camera. This is contrary to earlier expectations of Nokia bundling a 41MP sensor in Windows Phone devices and adding image downsampling techniques to enhance quality, as it did on the original Symbian based PureView phone.

 

Nonetheless, Nokia's PureView technology in the Lumia 920 is really impressive. Optical Image stabilisation is done with the help of springs attached to the camera lens unit, which in itself is quite an amazing feat. A comparison of Nokia's stabilisation tech with (presumably) a Galaxy S3, as shown off in its press event, absolutely blew away Samsung's flagship Android device, the Galaxy S3. Even Apple has some image stabilisation tech built into recent iOS devices, but it utilises the gyroscope and other motion sensors rather than directly stabilising the lens.

 

Serve for Android and iOS, BES 10 Will be Released along with BlackBerry 10

RIM announced recently that BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 will be launched with new BlackBerry 10 device in the first quarter next year, which will bring high security to all enterprise intelligent equipments.

There is no doubt that the core competitive power of RIM lies in the enterprise. In spite of the fact that its market share declines results from the influence of Android and iOS, it still plays quite an important role in business filed.

BES 10 will provide simpler safety protection measures to ensure the MDM operation safety.

New BES 10 works with the following devices:

1. BlackBerry 7 OS or previous version smartphone.

2. BlackBerry 10 devices.

3. BlackBerry PlayBook tablet.

4. iOS and Android smartphone and tablet PC.