Time Warner Willing to Cede Control of User Interface in Potential Deals for Apple TV Products

Two weeks ago, Bloomberg reported on Apple's struggles to reach television content deals that would enable the company to broaden its living room reach by providing set-top boxes to blend live and recorded material. The report noted that cable companies have generally been reluctant to work with Apple as they seek to retain control over the software and other aspects of their businesses, with Time Warner Cable said to be the major cable company most receptive to Apple's proposals.

The Hollywood Reporter now notes (via TechCrunch) that Time Warner Cable Chief Operating Officer Rob Marcus acknowledged at an investor conference today that his company would be willing to cede control over the user interface in scenarios such as those being rumored for Apple's proposals, as long as it can retain the existing customer relationship. The comments by Marcus appear to specifically address integration of the cable company's guide information with Apple's mobile devices, but could obviously extend to other products such as set-top boxes. Time Warner Cable is "hard at work at a cloud-based [TV] guide experience" and is open to giving up control of the user interface as it looks to make its service accessible via new devices, including Apple's iPhones and iPads, president and COO Rob Marcus told an investor conference in New York on Wednesday.

But he emphasized that this does not mean that the cable giant is willing "to give up the customer relationship" as the company is committed to ensuring that people know its TV services are provided by TW Cable and not any device maker or other third party.

Apple is rumored to have been working on a television product for quite some time as it continues to toy with the current Apple TV set-top box, which the company has repeatedly referred to as a "hobby" that it will continue to pursue as it assesses whether there is a larger opportunity in the market.

Rumors of an Apple television set have largely given way to talk of a new set-top box in recent months, a device that would bring Apple's hardware and software expertise to the consumer cable industry in an effort to meld live television with recorded and on-demand content while integrating into Apple's existing ecosystem. But with both cable companies and content providers being reluctant to strike deals with Apple, progress has been slower than many had hoped for.

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LG Launching Optimus G Smartphone in Canada in November

LG Electronics is bringing its newest premium LTE-enabled smartphone, the LG Optimus G, to Canada in November 2012.

The high-end smartphone is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S4 Pro Quad Core Processor and will deliver longer battery life to more efficiently run presentations, view videos or help cross-task.

Geoffrey McMurdo, Vice President Mobile Communications, LG Canada adds: “The cutting edge design and power of the LG Optimus G will set a new bar for smartphones in Canada. This device brings the best design and functionality into one device – a device that, for many, will be more powerful than their home computer.”

Korea will be the first stop on the global roll out, which begins next week, with Canada as the next stop. Several carrier and retail partners will participate in the launch including Bell Canada, Rogers, TELUS, Best Buy, Future Shop, Tbooth wireless, The Source, WIRELESSWAVE, and WIRELESS etc.

Users will no doubt enjoy the Dual Screen, Dual Play feature, which allows it to display different content on each screen wirelessly. Also, Live Zooming will enhances the video watching experience as users can zoom up to five times while the video is being streamed.

While initially operating on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, LG says an upgrade to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean is expected in early Q2 of 2013.

Source : digitalhome

ZTE to launch for Firefox OS smartphone in Q1 2013

Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE has confirmed plans to release a smartphone powered by Firefox OS, Mozilla’s entirely open source mobile operating system built with HTML5 and CSS web standards, in the first quarter of 2013. The company’s executive vice president He Shiyou confirmed the news to the Wall Street Journal, making this the third platform they are supporting along with Android and Windows Phone.

Beyond their commitment to Firefox OS, ZTE also confirmed it would be releasing a Windows Phone 8-powered handset later on in the year, although exact details about its release date were not disclosed.

Mozilla announced the partnership back in July. At the time, the company said the first Firefox OS-powered devices will run a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and are expected to launch in Brazil through Telefonica’s Vivo brand of entry level handsets. TCL was also named as a manufacturing partner, while operators Deutsche Telekom, Etisalat, Smart, Sprint, Telecom Italia, and Telenor all committed to offering Firefox OS devices.

Mozilla is hoping to change how developers today must re-write their apps to run on the various closed mobile-phone platforms available. Firefox OS apps are based on HTML 5 but will reportedly still look and feel like a native app with access to underlying phone capabilities like calling, messaging and games.

Curiously, Facebook CEO was recently quoted as saying the social network wasted two years betting on HTML5 for its mobile apps, and has since moved to building native versions for Android and iOS that are able to offer the level of speed and quality they are after. Time will tell if Mozilla’s bet on an open platform based on HTML5 pays off, but in the meantime, with two very established players and a handful others battling it out to nab the third spot, it looks like its going to be a long and uphill battle for Firefox OS.

For whatever it’s worth, Mozilla isn’t going after the iPhone or high-end Android devices from day one, rather they say their goal is opening up cheap, functional phones to the web in emerging markets.

Source : techspot

How a smartphone could become an endangered cicada detector

A new smartphone app hopes to find the New Forest cicada, which are native to Britain, but have not been spotted or heard from in more than a decade. Photograph: Berndt Fischer/Getty Images
A new smartphone app that listens for the distinctive call of a highly endangered insect will soon help conservationists find out whether it has become extinct or not. The unusual blend of crowdsourcing and conservation is part of an experiment to see if visiting tourists using the app can help in the scientific hunt for the New Forest cicada.

Cicadetta montana are native to Britain, but have not been spotted or heard from in more than a decade, says Alex Rogers, a researcher at the Electronics and Computer Science group at the University of Southampton. One possible reason for this is their high-pitched love song is on the very upper limit of an adult human's hearing range, between 13-14 kHz. "It's so very high pitched you're never quite sure you're hearing it," he says.

The average smartphone, on the other hand, is quite capable of picking up such frequencies. So Rogers and colleagues are developing software that will turn one of these devices into a portable cicada detector. Visitors to the New Forest – situated mostly in Hampshire – will be able to download the app and then scour the area holding their phones aloft in search of the elusive creatures. Or when the novelty wears off the app should still work in the background from someone's pocket or bag, says Rogers.

The app will also be able to detect a number of other insect species, such as Roesel's bush crickets, wood crickets and the common grasshopper, but the real prize will be the cicada. With 13 million people visiting the New Forest each year, the hope is that enough of them will take part to carry out a comprehensive survey, with thousands of amateurs covering far more ground that a handful of professionals could ever hope for.

And if they do detect a song? "The app would give them immediate feedback that it thinks that a cicada has been detected," says Rogers. It will then ask for their permission to upload the recording to a server so it can be analysed in more detail. "Rediscovering the New Forest cicada would be quite a big deal so we'd then contact them off-line and investigate the sighting, revisiting to the site to get more recordings," says Rogers.

"The decline in numbers of New Forest cicadas are unclear," says Jim Mitchell of New Forest Parks Authority, but possible reasons are the reduction in woodland coppicing and other forestry practices. Still, despite such a long absence there is still good reason to keep looking. One is that they can remain dormant underground for years at a time. They lay their eggs in the stems of trees and shrubs and when the larvae emerge they fall to the ground and live underground feeding on root sap for years at a time, said Mitchell. Indeed between 1941 and 1961 there were no sightings at all, so there is still hope.

Having first tested the software on the utterances of an electronic cicada, Rogers and colleagues took to the field, testing it on live cicadas in Slovenia earlier this year.

Source : guardian

Dell Unveils Windows 8 Enterprise Tablet, Ultrabook

Wednesday's headlines might have been dominated by iOS 6 and the legions queueing up for the iPhone 5, but Dell made sure the approaching Windows 8 barrage wasn't forgotten. With the introduction of the business-oriented Latitude 10 tablet and Latitude 6430u Ultrabook, the Texas-based company sent a reminder that the enterprise market, already complicated by BYOD, will soon decide if Microsoft's new OS lives up to the hype. Dell also looks for the products to help it rebound from a rough Q2 in which PC sales, once the company's backbone, declined.

A tablet fueled by a next-gen Intel Atom system-on-a-chip (SoC), the Latitude 10 will ship with Windows 8 Professional pre-installed. The device sports a 10.1-inch, Gorilla Glass-protected, 1366 x 768-pixel touchscreen and features a swappable battery--an appealing tablet rarity, though the device's 18-hour battery life might make the perk redundant for many users.

The Latitude 10 also is equipped with an assortment of ports and slots: one full-size USB connection, a micro-USB charging socket, a mini-HDMI port, a headphone/microphone jack, an SD card reader, and micro-SIM for WWAN. These options can be expanded via a standalone desktop dock. Other specs include an 8-MP camera on the rear, a front-facing HD camera for video chats, 2 GB of RAM, and up to 128 GB of eMMC NAND storage. As an enterprise-grade device, the Latitude 10 also features security options such as Dell Data Protection encryption and smartcard and fingerprint readers.

[ Microsoft's upcoming OS comes in two flavors. See Windows 8 Vs. Windows RT: 8 Key Differences. ]

The Dell Latitude 6430u, meanwhile, is the first Ultrabook in the Latitude line--though with a width of 0.82 inches and a weight of 3.7 pounds, it's relatively large for its class. The extra heft, though, contributes to a tough exterior designed to withstand workplace abuse. Forrester analyst Sarah Rotman Epps told InformationWeek in August that build quality is one area in which consumer-oriented devices don't always live up to enterprise standards--a concern the 6430u should address. With an aluminum laminate lid, magnesium-alloy frame, and steel hinges assembled to meet the U.S. military's MIL-STD-810G standards, the device should handle bumps, drops, and exposure to relatively extreme temperatures.

Power users will appreciate the swappable batteries--not standard fare on all Ultrabooks. The 6430u's 13.3-inch screen, meanwhile, supports 1366 x 768-pixel resolution, and the computer's interior can house up to 8 GB of RAM, an SSD of up to 256 MB, and an Ivy Bridge i3, i5, or i7 processor. The features are rounded out by the same security options boasted by its tablet sibling--Dell Data Protection and fingerprint and smartcard readers--plus Intel's vPro. Like the Latitude 10, the 6430u will run Windows 8 Professional.

In an email, Gartner analyst Michael Gartenberg wrote that "the Dell offerings look compelling" for "legacy Windows customers looking for Windows 8-optimized PCs." He cautioned, however, that it's hard to judge the devices "without spending time with the final hardware and software."

Gartenberg also reiterated that the business market will be tough to crack, no matter how successfully Dell's new products execute. "x86-based tablet PCs have been around for a long time and [have] failed to attract customers or mainstream business users," he wrote. He cited the iPad's role as a primary motivator of BYOD policies, stating that "more businesses are supporting iPad for their users" and that as consumer forces influence business decisions, "appealing only to the IT department is a mistake." He said there are "certainly enough solutions for iPad" that make it viable for enterprise management and security needs.

Dell has not yet disclosed pricing details for the new products. Nevertheless, both should be available when Windows 8 ships at the end of October, so it will be clear soon enough whether Dell's enterprise-centric approach will help it to gain workplace market share.

Source : informationweek

Hands-On Video with 'iPad Mini' Physical Mockup

Hands-On Video with 'iPad Mini' Physical Mockup - Mac Rumors window.fbAsyncInit = function() { FB.init({ appId : '263507923666566', status : true, // check login status cookie : true, // enable cookies to allow the server to access the session xfbml : true // parse XFBML }); }; (function() { var e = document.createElement('script'); e.src = document.location.protocol + '//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js'; e.async = true; document.getElementById('fb-root').appendChild(e); }()); Front Page Mac Blog iOS BlogRoundups Buyer's Guide ForumsGot a tip for us? Share it...Twitter • Facebook • RSSa. Send us an emailb. Anonymous formclose (x)Hands-On Video with 'iPad Mini' Physical MockupWednesday September 19, 2012 7:00 am PDT by Eric SlivkaPhysical mockups of Apple's rumored "iPad mini", presumably based on leaked design specs from case manufacturers, have appeared with increasing frequency in recent weeks, and Gizchina.com has now obtained one of the dummy units to share new photos and a video giving an impression of how the device might look and feel. The dummy units are widely available through Chinese online marketplace Taobao for roughly $15.


Similar mockups in both white and black have appeared over the past several weeks showing the rumored thin side bezel design that would make the device more comfortable to hold in one hand than a uniform bezel such as that seen on the full-size iPad. The video also offers a good overview of the external features of the device.


Apple is expected to introduce the iPad mini at an October media event once the publicity from the iPhone 5 launch begins to subside.

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MultiMediaWill21 hours ago at 07:04 amAnyone else planning to buy the iPad Mini even though they have an iPad?Rating: 11 Positiveslars66621 hours ago at 07:06 amMy imaginary girlfriend will like this imaginary iPad mini very much!!Rating: 10 Positiveslokiju21 hours ago at 07:05 amPlease happen, please happen, please happen!

Would be kind of a perfect size for a in car navigation/entertainment system as well.Rating: 8 Positivesjkichline21 hours ago at 07:19 amCheaper than this will be AND harnesses the POWER of ANDROID with GOOGLE maps

Ha ha ha! Oh you were serious. Sorry.Rating: 6 PositivesTheRainKing21 hours ago at 07:02 amSize is quite good. I think that might end up being my first iPad.Rating: 6 PositivesSTiNG Operation21 hours ago at 07:05 amIt's about time!!!!:D:D:D:D:D

GIFSoupRating: 5 Positivesjman24021 hours ago at 07:04 amThat bezel doesn't seem very Apple like.Rating: 4 PositivesEduardo197121 hours ago at 07:05 amI still can't wrap my head over buying a mini version of the iPad.

I need the screen size of the current one for reading.

My first iPad will be next year's version.:)Rating: 2 Positivesoclor21 hours ago at 07:06 amMy Prediction:
-16gb
-LTE Standard (no wifi only model)
-$399

That puts it $100 over the iPod touch, $230 less than regular iPad equivalent (with LTE). My reason for this prediction is that apple will view this as an ultra portable devide, way more portable than the iPad, thus they will bundle LTE with every model. People will eat this up, even though it's hundreds more than android 7-inchers.Rating: 2 PositivesCausticPuppy21 hours ago at 07:19 amMy Prediction:
-16gb
-LTE Standard (no wifi only model)
-$399

That puts it $100 over the iPod touch, $230 less than regular iPad equivalent (with LTE). My reason for this prediction is that apple will view this as an ultra portable devide, way more portable than the iPad, thus they will bundle LTE with every model. People will eat this up, even though it's hundreds more than android 7-inchers.

I predict 8GB standard, at $249. That's cheaper than the new iPod Touch, but also has much less memory (base iPod Touch has 32GB). WiFi only, but LTE will be available.

Now, I think there's a reasonable chance it may have the A6 chip. It will have a significant performance advantage over other 7" tablets. If they DON'T use the A6, then that means it's basically just a product designed to catch up with competitors.

But why would Apple make a Mini with twice the CPU performance of the bigger iPad3?

The iPad3 is halfway through the product cycle. So don't think of the Mini as an afterthought to the current iPad line, think of it as a "warm up" act for the next iPad4.

In the short term, Apple may cannibalize sales of the larger iPad, but on the other hand, I think the iPad4 will be an absolute monster. Think quad-core A6, and another doubling of the GPU capabilities. And a 12-hour battery life (assuming the newer low-power retina display is used).Rating: 2 Positives
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Nokia Windows Phone 8 must sell the apps dream to developers

The key statement from Nokia's Windows Phone 8 launch in New York didn't come from the company's chief executive Stephen Elop, but from his guest, Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer.

He described Windows as "the largest single opportunity available for software developers today", touting the prospect of 400m devices running Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 by this time next year.

But here's the statement: "The next app developer to hit it really, really big will be a developer on Windows."

In a nutshell, this is the dream that Microsoft and Nokia must successfully pitch to developers. It's not the only factor determining the prospects of both companies' smartphone ambitions, but it's one of the key pillars that will – to borrow the metaphor from Elop's famous memo – set their platform alight. In a positive or negative sense.

The smartphone market is a war of hardware-software-apps ecosystems. A keynote cliche, nowadays, but no less true because of it. The mantra needs qualification though.

It's not enough to just have lots of apps. There need to be lots of apps making good money for their developers. And that doesn't just mean money being paid by the platform owner to persuade those developers to support their devices.

Platform owners are selling the dream of being "the next app developer to hit it really really big", which is why Apple knows exactly what it's doing with its regular announcements of developer payout milestones – $5bn by June 2012.

A few iOS developers are striking it really, really rich, and there's a growing middle-class who are building sustainable businesses. But most iOS developers are losing money and/or generating miserable levels of downloads (the and/or qualifier is due to hobbyist developers making apps in their spare time).

Apple does such a good job selling the dream, that many people don't talk about the whole losing-money thing – or at least push it to the back of their minds. And so lots of good apps still launch on iOS alone, even if they have porting ambitions in mind for other platforms.

Google doesn't really sell the business dream for Android – its keynotes tend to focus on the cool tech, although it has made big steps forward in improving its Google Play store and rolling out in-app purchases.

That, plus the sheer scale of Android's 1m daily device activations, at least makes it easier for developers to sell the Android dream to themselves, and bring their apps to the platform.

With an estimated 640m active iOS and Android devices around the world, any other platform coming through has to do a spectacular job of selling the dream to developers.

Witness Amazon's recent announcement trumpeting the success of in-app purchases in games distributed through its Android Appstore, complete with a quote from developer Frenzoo saying it helped "our apps monetize 50% better than they do on other platforms we're on".

Witness also RIM's dream-selling – or nightmare-dispelling, if we're being harder on the company – promise to developers that if they make apps for its BlackBerry 10 platform that generate more than $1,000 but less than $10,000 in sales, it will pay the difference to top their payout up to the latter figure.

Which brings us back to Windows Phone, Microsoft and Nokia. Windows Phone 7 already has a good number of slick, well-designed apps that make good use of the OS' key features.

What's far more thin on the ground, though, are case studies of developers making good money from those apps. When I talked to five in June 2012, four of them declined to even provide download figures, let alone revenues.

Case studies of developers making money sell the dream best of all, and Ballmer's words at the Lumia event only underscored the fact that – in the mobile world at least – the last several dozen developers who "hit it really, really big" were making iOS apps.

That's the big challenge for Microsoft and Nokia. Ballmer's 400m-devices-in-the-next-year figure is one clarion call for developers, but it may fall on deaf ears for mobile developers who aren't looking to extend onto PCs, which will make up the largest portion of the 400m devices.

Nokia's launch sold the dream, a bit. The two new Lumia phones – the flagship 920 in particular – look very good. But we don't know their exact launch date and rollout plans, their prices or the level of support from mobile operators.

The latter is a really important point, because the Windows Phone 8 ecosystem will struggle to be lucrative for app developers until it's Windows Phones that are being recommended rather than Android handsets when people wander into a shop or ring their operator for an upgrade that isn't an iPhone.

Much remains mysterious about Windows Phone 8, too, although Microsoft is promising a proper reveal of its new features in the next few weeks. Developers will be all ears, but many will hold off until then on committing significant resources to Windows Phone 8 in 2013 and beyond.

These aren't necessarily criticisms of the Lumia launch event, but a matter-of-fact explanation of why it won't have moved the needle for many developers further than Nokia's efforts already have.

Elop said during the event that having passed 100,000 apps, Windows Phone is "growing three times faster than before Nokia joined" on that score, and the company has a growing stable of well-known brands and entertainment companies making apps for its devices.

Here's the thing: most app developers I meet aren't fanboys, supporting platforms based on their love or hate of Google, Apple, Microsoft or RIM. They're pragmatists who want to do good work, and make money from it.

From what we've seen so far, they can certainly do good work on Windows Phone. The next few months will be crucial for Microsoft and Nokia to come up with the goods to provide proof – or at least a convincing dream – of the money-making.

If they deliver on their promises, maybe we'll see that really, really big hit app on a Windows Phone in 2013.

Source : guardian

Nokia blasts HTC's Windows Phone 8 devices

HTC unveiled two devices yesterday, the flagship 8X and the mid-range 8S which both emphasise high quality camera and audio fuctions.

The handsets will be released in early November and should be out before Nokia's new Lumia devices.
Nokia's device has been previously described by Microsoft as the best example of Windows 8 phones.
Windows 8 will be available from October 26 and Windows Phone will form a crucial part of Microsoft's push to regain the initiative in both smartphones and tablets.

Mobile manufacturers such as HTC and Nokia are forbidden from showing the details of the Windows Phone operating system until the official launch.


he company's head of marketing Chris Weber has responded strongly to HTC's move. According to The Verge he said: "While others may choose to tactically re-brand their products, Nokia is driving an industry-leading smartphone franchise – that we call Lumia -- exclusively around Windows Phone.

"With Lumia, we are creating truly differentiated experiences like PureView imaging, location and navigation, wireless charging and Nokia Music. And we’re just getting started!"


HTC has used new colours to mirror the colours of Windows Phone 8's live tiles, with devices available in “California Blue”, “Graphite Black”, “Flame Red” and “Limelight Yellow”

Speaking about the announcement, Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft said: "Pairing these beautiful new HTC phones with our Windows Phone brand is a big milestone for both of our companies and our partnership.

“Together we are offering customers a simple choice and a truly unique experience.”

Nokia's new Lumia handsets were released earlier this month and executives billed it as the flagship Windows phone.
Microsoft's relationship with Nokia is a tight one but experts have pointed out that the software maker’s main goal is to establish the Windows Phone 8 platform as a key player against Google and Apple.

Source : telegraph

Nokia Lumia 920 more popular than iPhone 5, Samsung Galaxy SIII, Note II

We knew that Nokia fans would love the Nokia Lumia 920 and the innovation that it’s bringing to the smartphone world but it seems everyone is warming to this Windows Phone 8 device – do we have a classic in the making? Find out why the Nokia Lumia 920 is more popular than the iPhone 5, Galaxy SIII and even the Samsung Note II.

The Nokia Lumia 920 is a 4.5-inch smartphone running the Windows Phone 8 operating system, it’s also the flagship device of the Lumia range packing in such innovation as wireless charging, NFC, PureView camera technology and an amazing new screen technology called PureMotion that not only delivers a great screen experience but can also be used by any finger, pen tip or gloved hand!

The Nokia Lumia 920 seems to have really caught the imagination of most smartphone users. We first noticed this recently when Mashable held a poll asking whether you’d buy a Windows Phone and whether it would be the Nokia Lumia 920. The response was overwhelming with over 60 per cent of those taking part claiming their next phone has to be the Nokia Lumia 920.....

Source : noknok

Which is your next Windows Phone device - Nokia Lumia 920, HTC 8X or Samsung ATIV S?

With HTC's Windows Phone announcement last night, we have three of the most awaited Windows Phone devices in front of us - Nokia Lumia 920, Samsung ATIV S and HTC 8X.
There is no pricing or exact availability dates for any of these, but these three are going to be the main contenders for the next smartphone purchase of any Windows Phone lover. Let's take a look at these devices and what they have to offer.

Starting with HTC 8X, which is the latest of them. This uni-body Windows Phone from HTC, is packed with industry-leading specifications. 8X comes with 4.3-inch 720p Super LCD 2 display; it is the same display that we last saw in HTC One X, just a little smaller.

Company also seems to have included the same camera tech used in One X, but it does not use ImageSense branding here. The device sports an 8MP CMOS sensor with backside-illumination (BSI) for improved low-light performance, along with an f/2.0 aperture, 28mm lens and a dedicated imaging chip.

The front camera also seems great on-paper; it is a 2.1MPwith f/2.0 aperture and 88 degree ultra-wide angle lens. 8X is also the first Windows Phone with Beats Audio technology and an audio amplifier.

HTC also seems to have realised the importance of colours with the new Windows Phone devices. Windows Phone 8X will come in a variety of colours including California Blue, Graphite Black, Flame Red and Limelight Yellow.

On the downside, there is no expandable storage on 8X and you will only get 16GB of on-board storage, part of which will be used by the operating system itself.

Coming to the Nokia Lumia 920, it is the first Windows Phone device to feature PureView camera technology, but no 40MP sensors here. Nokia includes a 8.7MP sensor with advanced optical imaging stabilization. The company has reportedly put a lot of effort in display technology, and Lumia 920 features 4.5 inch Nokia PureMotion HD+ WXGA IPS LCD with super sensitive touch and sunlight readability enhancements.

Nokia has always produced some top notch hardware and we expect the same from Lumia 920. Another interesting feature in the 920 is wireless charging. The smartphone support Qi wireless charging standard. As expected, Nokia Lumia 920 will come in a variety of colours including yellow, red, grey, white and black.

There is no microSD card slot in Lumia 920, but Nokia is providing 32GB of storage, which should be enough for most smartphone users.

Talking about Samsung's ATIV S, it provides the best of the three specifications on paper. Featuring an aluminium body, ATIV S comes with 4.8-inch Super AMOLED HD display, similar to what we have seen in Galaxy S III.

There is also an 8MP camera on the back along with 1.9MP front camera. Company also provides a microSD card slot along with 16/32GB of internal storage. Overall the smartphone looks quite decent.

As there are only odd differences between the three devices, it will all come down to the pricing and how soon they can reach the market.

Source : gadgets

First iPhone 5 Unboxing Videos Posted as Reports of Premature Deliveries Begin

First iPhone 5 Unboxing Videos Posted as Reports of Premature Deliveries Begin - Mac Rumors window.fbAsyncInit = function() { FB.init({ appId : '263507923666566', status : true, // check login status cookie : true, // enable cookies to allow the server to access the session xfbml : true // parse XFBML }); }; (function() { var e = document.createElement('script'); e.src = document.location.protocol + '//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js'; e.async = true; document.getElementById('fb-root').appendChild(e); }()); Front Page Mac Blog iOS BlogRoundups Buyer's Guide ForumsGot a tip for us? Share it...Twitter • Facebook • RSSa. Send us an emailb. Anonymous formclose (x)First iPhone 5 Unboxing Videos Posted as Reports of Premature Deliveries BeginWednesday September 19, 2012 9:19 am PDT by Eric SlivkaFollowing yesterday's publication of the first unboxing photos of the iPhone 5, several unboxing videos have now begun appearing. Among the first is one from UK gadget site T3, which received an official review unit from Apple and published its review as the embargo lifted late yesterday.


T3 has also posted a number of other videos showing off features of the iPhone 5.

A second video has been posted to the official YouTube account of Vodafone Germany. iFun.de noted that the video was pulled soon after it was noticed, but it has reappeared on the official Vodafone account.


Finally, a third awkward unboxing video has been posted by a YouTube user who tells us that he pre-ordered his iPhone 5 through Apple and that it was delivered by UPS earlier today. Apple's standard practice involves coordination with delivery companies to hold shipments until the official launch date, but it is not unheard of for a few deliveries to slip through these holds. [ 118 comments ] Tweet Top Rated Comments(View all)

chriscrk19 hours ago at 09:23 amHah, the iPhone porn videos.
Even the music fits for this one....Rating: 14 PositivesPatriot2419 hours ago at 09:29 amPremature activation.Rating: 12 PositivesHarryKeogh19 hours ago at 09:27 amI'm not watching this...I want to experience opening it for the first time myself! :cool:

For eff's sake, dude, it's not the next Avengers movie. They're taking a phone out of a box.Rating: 9 PositivesSTiNG Operation19 hours ago at 09:26 amHah, the iPhone porn videos.
Even the music fits for this one....

I think this is the guy from the first vid!!!!:p:p

GIFSoupRating: 6 Positivesfredoviola19 hours ago at 09:25 amit IS like a porn video, but infinitely more absurd. How ridiculous this video is!!Rating: 6 Positivesjohndoejohndoes19 hours ago at 09:21 amI'm not watching this...I want to experience opening it for the first time myself! :cool:Rating: 5 Positivesdeannnnn18 hours ago at 09:34 amI always laugh when I see UK electrical plugs. Those things are huge!Rating: 5 PositivesBoatboy2417 hours ago at 10:35 amWow, the iPhone 5 comes preinstalled with 3rd party apps?

Awesome.

Yes! And 23 e-mails in your in box to make you feel important! :DRating: 3 PositivesBvizioN19 hours ago at 09:22 amSoon i will be unboxing my very own :apple: iPhone 5Rating: 3 PositivesAsmodan19 hours ago at 09:30 amI still have not even received my tracking number. I placed my order at 3:07 a.m. EST on 9/14. My order status says, "Preparing for Shipment." :mad:

Go to UPS.com and track by reference. Put in your phone number with area code and it should show you your shipping info.Rating: 2 Positives
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Galaxy Tab ban stays, says US judge

San Jose - A federal judge has refused to rescind a court order banning Samsung Electronics from selling its Galaxy Tab 10.1 computer in the US.

The denial issued this week in San Jose federal court is part of a bitter battle pitting Samsung Electronics against Apple in a dispute over the mobile devices made by the two companies.

A jury last month awarded Apple $1.05 billion after concluding several Samsung smartphones infringed on Apple's iPhone patents.

But the jury rejected Apple's allegations that the Galaxy Tab 10.1 illegally copied the iPad.

That prompted Samsung to ask US District Judge Lucy Koh to dissolve the ban imposed on the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in June. In a Monday ruling, Koh refused because a Samsung appeal of her original order is still pending.

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