Motorola Wins Patent Case Against Microsoft

The regional court in Mannhein ruled that Motorola did not infringe on Microsoft's patented technology that allows applications to work across different handsets without requiring developers to write separate code.






This marks a notable victory for Motorola, considering the (now Google-owned) company has lost three previous cases against Microsoft in Germany.
Germany has garnered a reputation as a battleground for global patent wars, due largely to its cheap and quick court process compared to other countries

Why Is NFC Not Getting Popular

It has been quite a time since NFC(Near Field Communication) took off.The first phone to get NFC is

(I think most probably) is the Nokia 6131.

Nokia also had NFC in its Symbian phones like the Nokia C7,Nokia 700,Nokia 701 & the 808 Pureview. NFC is cool and sometimes kinda fun too. I have played Angry Birds on the Nokia C7 with my cousin on NFC & it was quite fun.

Sony Xperia Ad Showing how NFC is used

However,you will agree with me that NFC is still not popular enough and most phones don't come with it.Why?

Well you see there are various difficulties with NFC.First of all,the Antenna.It has to be placed on the back(i.e. just under the battery cover or even part of the battery).However,today's smartphones are getting thinner and thinner and more and more difficult to handle.Just a Galaxy nexus or S III & you will understand what I am talking about.

Now imagine this you touch your expensive smartphone with someone else's expensive smartphone and suddenly,the smartphone falls down.!!!!!!!!!!!Gone!!Your smartphone is gone.How will you feel?

Thats what I am talking about.

Google Enables Street View On Google Maps Site For iOS

iOS Maps has still not been update  by the Apple and after the problems with iOS maps were found,the established map makers jumped unto the competition to show iOS users their own maps

Now,Google has enabled its street view in the mobile Google Maps site for iOS.

It’s a stopgap feature as a dedicated Google Maps app is still some way out, but it works well enough. You just search for an address where Street view is available (or drop a pin manually) and hit the peg man icon that’s synonymous with Street View .

You get the familiar 360-degree view that you can pan around with your finger, but there are a few features missing. For one, the awesome compass mode is not available (even though Safari for iOS supports both accelerometer and magnetometer access for JavaScript).

Also, you can’t zoom in to get a closer view of buildings. There are also no transition effects as you navigate the streets.However,landscape mode is available.

Carphone Inventory Reveals Galaxy Nexus 2

The following shot from the inventory system of the British retailer shows what might be an accessory for a Galaxy Nexus 2 and a 32GB version of the Nexus 7.

iPod touch 5th Generation

Apple iPod 5th cycle overhaul to 80GB, dark

At Fruit's September 12 media occasion, Steve Livelihoods bounced right into introducing a upgraded fifth-cycle iPod. Not a huge amaze here, as we accepted the sixth-cycle "poignant motion picture iPod" could not be affirmed until later in the year or even promptly in 2007. Underneath the natural and still-scratch-inclined polycarbonate and metal skin of the redesigned iPod (a.k.a. the 5.5 crop, or 5.5G) falsehoods a more develop iPod, a large number of steps wiser and additional capable beyond its one-year-old forerunner. The iPod increases a considerable number of incremental upgrades, incorporating a brighter screen and preferred motion picture electric storage device essence, but undoubtedly the most unbelievably engaging perspective is the tantalizing value purposes of $249 for the 30GB form and $349 for the colossal 80GB form (ready in both white and dark). While it could at present not completely location the necessities of a brand new inhabitant total of iTunes motion picture watchers, the overhauled iPod is the most fit one to date.

A large portion of this assessment of the 5.5G iPod will blanket unique offers and appearance numbers. For a closer take a gander at the essential outline and base offers of the iPod, peruse this assessment.

Same look and feel

The iPod's physical specs are practically the same as these of the initial fifth cycle. It's still one of the sleekest elevated-limit players around at 4.1 by 2.4 by 0.43 crawls and 4.8 ounces for the 30GB and 4.1 by 2.4 by 0.55 crawls and 5.5 ounces for the 80GB model, which has precisely the same extents and weight as the now-old 60GB form. For me actually, the 80GB form (the one we in reality explored) feels nicer in the hand than the razor-slim 30GB. The 80GB is alluring for film addicts both for the limit (iTunes films are about 1.5GB) and the preferred electric cell essence (appraised for up to 6.5 hours); furthermore, its a fantastic esteem at $349. However the $249 retail sticker for the 30GB form is remarkable, phenomenal Windows Media players for example Innovative's 30GB Zen Vision:M and Toshiba's 30GB Gigabeat S cost practically the same in the city.

The 80GB iPod in dark following to the 30GB Toshiba Gigabeat S.

The iPod is still somewhat simple to scratch, both on the non-abrasive and sparkling plastic face and the prototypal metallic rear. Fingerprints adore the iPod above and beyond they do most players. You'll doubtlessly prefer to move the iPod in a case, or at slightest secure the screen with glue picture, following now you'll be viewing $9.99 iTunes motion pictures. I think the dark form looks nicer, but scratches appear on it effortlessly. A late Nano-like scratch-and print-confirmation aluminum case could have taken the iPod unbelievable.

The unique iPod additionally has a brighter screen--by up to 60 percent. Not that the iPod had a faint screen in any case, but brighter is unfailingly preferred, specifically when it doesn't take a swing at the expense of electric storage device essence. In a side-by-side correlation of the old and late screens (at default shine), the newfangled iPod is discernibly brighter. Yet following upgrading the old iPod to firmware 1.2, which around different things includes brilliance control, the old iPod screen at the brightest setting matches just the revamped one's default setting. Electric cell existence will take a hit at the higher setting, so turn it like a pro just when your'e viewing movie or review photographs. You would be able to even alter spendor while looking at a motion picture by clicking the Select catch twice around the same time as playback. Conversely, you might as well turn the brilliance down when listening to sound; as consistently, the iPod might be seen with the backdrop illumination turned off.

You would be able to modify brilliance both within the Settings menu and while you're viewing a film.

I still have an issue with viewing movie for above and beyond 30 moments on that humble 2.5-crawl screen. All the more a kickstand could accommodate for without hands survey, however a larger-screened unit similar to the Cowon A2 or Archos 604 could have made the convenient iTunes film encounter all the more fulfilling. There are some versatile extras for example the Memorex iFlip that dock with the iPod and build its review size to up to 8.4 creeps. However the restrictive dock connector isn't almost as advantageous as a standard USB port, the iPod profits from its many dock connector-based third-gathering extras.

With a fresh spin, Fruit does an exceptional work of minimizing bundling and bunched frill, which incorporate a recently composed set of white earbuds, an exclusive USB link, a delicate case, and a dock connector. Unfortunately, for example countless MP3 players in present times, you'll need to make good auxiliary to get a capacity connector ($29). You moreover don't get an iTunes programming Disc, which leaves nonconnected people in the dust. But also while the advanced headphones sound OK, they didn't stay solidly in my ears (no froth earbud blankets in this form).

The 80GB iPod with its packed adornments: observe the absence of a capacity connector.

A wiser iPod

The iPod's upgraded programming likely improves it. For one, you would be able to quest tunes utilizing a letters in order-style moment quest. The final choice in the Music menu, Pursuit places a several-line virtual console at the lowest part of the screen; the first letter you select carries up all virtuoso, collection, and melody titles that start with that letter, with collections and virtuosos demonstrated by symbols. Comes about pop up rapidly as you drop in revamped letters. In the event that you sort in ca, you'll get consequences posted by every last trace of the titles that begin with ca, then keep on with any notice of the letters ca in any title. It's a small additional advanced beyond the hunt offers found in the Inventive Zen Vision:M (and different players that in fact designed venture-by-letters), but on the grounds that you need to select Done to skim your effects, its a tad more dull to utilize.

Apple iPod touch 4th Generation

As a result of the consideration on the 4th cycle iPod touch of a hefty portion of the newfangled emphasizes presented with the iPhone 4, the unique touch welcomes illustration with the iPhone. In some methods its not a complimenting illustration-the iPhone's picture clickers are preferable, for example – but the decision for most individuals as likely as not isn’t between the iPod touch and the iPhone, but between the iPod touch and an additional media player or versatile diversion gadget.

When saw that way, the 4th cycle iPod touch is, such as its ancestors, a winner.

Enhanced Visuals

As with the iPhone 4, the most evident and most impressive updates to the unique touch are in its visuals.

It wears Fruit's multitouch, heightened-determination Retina Showcase screen, which makes message and visualizations greatly fresh. There's no different gadget in the touch's classification (are there any viable units in that classification?) that offers message this engaging and simple to peruse; you won’t see any pixels or unpleasant curves/corners. 

Love the iPhone 4, the touch has a few picture clickers, one on the back, the different challenging the user. However this is the same situated up as the iPhone, the aforementioned are not the same cameras. The iPhone 4's best equipped camera takes 5-megapixel pictures, while the touch's most fit picture clicker times in at under 1 megapixel. The flatter-value picture clickers are the effect of the touch's little nook (a svelte 0.28 crawls thick) – to take higher-value representations, the gadget could need to be thicker.

The touch's cameras absence zoom and glimmer, but, on the in addition to side, both can record film. The back picture clicker records 720p HD movie at 30 frames/second.

In this way, while its delightful to have the capacity to snap photographs with the touch, it doubtlessly won't influence you to discard your computerized zoom lens.

With the a few picture clickers, touch users can utilize Fruit's FaceTime motion picture conferencing innovation. As additional gadgets increase uphold for FaceTime (anticipate to see it show up on the second-cycle iPad; Fruit has swore to make it ready to different groups, too), it will come to be more helpful.

The updates to the touch's screen proficiencies are welcome. In spite of the fact that the cameras are restrained, they include emphasizes that you’ll be hard pressed to spot on different movable media/game players.

More Vigorous Guts

The upgrades to the 4th crop touch don’t stop at the surface level. They stretch out to the guts of the gadget, as well.

The touch runs on Fruit's A4 processor, the same expedient chip found in the iPhone 4 and iPad. Thus, it performs and the iPhone, taking into account testing the pace of both gadgets stacking online elements and starting applications.

I moreover started a couple applications on both apparatuses, recognizing that Safari and the iPod application started at the same rate, while the iPhone opened Seesmic, a Twitter/Facebook customer, concerning a second quicker.

Thus, notwithstanding some shift, both award equivalent speed.

They moreover pack regarding the same electric cell essence: around 35 hours of consistent utilize. That is a mess of excitement the iPod touch can furnish before requiring an additional charge.

• A Win and Some Misfortunes
• As we’ve viewed, the 4th crop touch is in numerous routes comparative to the iPhone 4-and that it packs offers and capacity different conveyable media players don’t award.
• In one zone – limit – the touch surpasses the iPhone. The touch offers up to 64GB of space for archiving music, films, and applications, while the iPhone tops out at 32GB.

In different portion zones, however, the touch gets short shrift. Case in point, the touch doesn’t incorporate the AC connector that accompanies the iPhone (you’ll need to pay additional for that) and joins mediocre headphones that moreover absence the fabricated-in remote control. While these aren’t major issues, it could be superb if the touch, with its premium value, likewise incorporated premium livens.

The Primary concern

The iPod touch has stood apart from everyone else for numerous years. However there have been different MP3 players or conveyable recreation apparatuses, no different gadget has offered the touch's mix of robust media offers, choice Web encounter, and incomprehensible library of applications. With the 4th cycle mode, the touch has broadened its advance over the rivalry. In the event that you’ve presently got a cellular telephone, or don’t prefer to pay the iPhone's monthly expenses, there's no preferred choice for pocket-measured versatile stimulation than the 4th cycle iPod touch.

Xpress Browser Launched By Nokia For Lumia Phones

The Beta version of Xpress browser has been launched by Nokia for its Lumia WP phones.

Since Opera is still not available on WP phones,this browser may be a great hit because it works n the same principle as that o f Opera;it compresses data.

Some of the other important features of this browser include:

• Detailed report on the amount of data that you consumed on the browser. Can be saved as a live tile for quick view.
• Save sites with RSS feeds in the browser and then view the articles in a magazine style layout.
• Save pages for offline viewing
• Save a video on SkyDrive and watch it later
• Tap on a word on a page and do a quick search on Wikipedia, Bing and YouTube
• Translate a page to one of the 10 language options available

The browser can be downloaded only from Nokia Beta Labs.