Opera Mobile 12.1 For Android

Opera mobile 12.1 gets released for Android just after Opera Desktop Browser 12.1 Beta.Just like its PC counterpart, Opera Mobile 12.1 brings support for SPDY along with several extras.

SPDY is a networking protocol  similar to HTTP but faster  and is already on Android’s native browser, Chrome and Firefox for Android, so you can expect to see increasing support on the server side.

Opera Mobile 12.1 for Android also aims to make browsing more secure by checking web sites and warning you if they’ve been involved in suspicious activities.

Support for web standards has been improved with new HTML5 features (drag&drop, clipboard API), CSS features (animations and flexbox) and WebSockets (which improves two-way communication between a web page and a server).

Opera Mobile 12.1 supports Turbo mode, which is the server-side compression technology that Opera pioneered (and is now used by Amazon’s Silk browser for their Kindle tablets and Nokia’s Xpress Browser for S40 and Windows Phone).

To get Opera Mobile 12.1 , just go to the Play Store. It supports ARM v6, v7, MIPS and x86 so chances are your droid phone is supported, no matter what it is.

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Alcatel One Touch View with WP 7.8 Leaks

Alcatel will soon be releasing a WP 7.8 powered smartphone known as the Alcatel One Touch View.Rumours suggest that it has  Snapdragon MSM7227A chipset with a single 1GHz Scorpion core, 512MB of RAM and Adreno 200 GPU under its hood.
                    Connectivity features include 3G, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. The phone has only 4GB of built-in storage (of which 2.9GB will be available to the user) and since this is WP7.8 it's not expandable.

The Alcatel One Touch View is expected to launch by the end of the year with a price set at 8000 rubles or less ($260, €200). The Nokia Lumia 510 is rumored to have a $150 price tag, so the View might find it hard to compete if the pricing rumors pan out.

Creating Panorma Photos on iPhone 5 (iOS 6 Guide)

 Panorama camera is mode is a new featured in iOS 6 that can be found on your Apple iPhone 5 device. We have been playing around with it lately and comparing it to a Panorama App for Nokia phones and the results were quite interesting. While we found it that the advanced Nokia sensors create a higher quality picture, the iOS 6 built-in panorama mode is far more efficient in making the most out of its hardware. So how does one create panorama photos on iPhone 5? Let us help you out with that!

Note: The panorama camera mode will only work with the iPhone 5, iPhone 4S, and the fifth generation iPod touch.

Using Panorama Camera Mode on iPhone 5   

• Step 1: Prepare a location where you will try out your new panorama mode.
• Step 2: Start the Camera App on your iPhone 5
• Step 3: Go the App menu and select the Panorama option
• Step 4: A new style of the application window will open along with the Camera App which allows you to line up your shot. Tap the box in the center to begin the first part of the panorama.
• Step 5: Going from left to right you should keep the arrow centered on the horizontal line. As you move, you’ll notice the panorama box moving along its track. Continue turning your device until the photo is complete.

Note:

• The iPhone 5 will stabilize any erratic motion and as long as you taking a panorama shot of a landscape that doesn't have any sudden objects passing by (like vehicles or a lot of people) you will be able to create an amazing shot!
• Your panorama can stretch as far as 240 degrees.
• You can also make the panorama from right to left

  Here is an example panorama photo with the iPhone 5 (click to enlarge):

How Embedded Memory Is Better Than Removable Memory

The normal norm in today's techno world is that phones with micro SD card slots are better than those with embedded memory.While its true that such phones can carry more data (Nokia 808 Pureview over 80 GB)than their counterparts(Iphone 56 max at 64 GB),still the better word may not be always applicable.

Such devices are assumed to be better,simply because they’re more versatile. Much like swapping a SIM card into a new phone to move one’s mobile account to a new device, swapping a memory card allows a user to move his or her entire content library, including music, photos, and any other kind of storable data. Card transfers can also be faster and more secure than passing information over the network, and carrying many memory cards increases your amount of mobile storage without a corresponding increase in bulk.




However there’s a bright side to nonremovable storage as well, which is why it’s appearing in more and more high-end devices. Here’s three reasons it’s not the worst thing ever.

1. Versatility May Not Always Be The Better Choice

         The swapping of micro SD cards from one phone to another is a common practice.Maybe you prefer to use on phone when you are at home while you prefer to use another phone while you are out of town(maybe due to battery life).I constantly swap between my Nokia E63 and samsung S3310 and there a few problems to that.
                            The main problem is that all my playlists get jumbled up and I have to constantly update  them.Its quite a nuisance.The same problem is with Android devices too.

here’s also the small matter of Android’s tendency to automatically generate new folders when taking photos if it detects a new memory card … even if that memory card isn't really “new” at all. In my case, that’s led to the irritating side effect of having three separate camera albums, two screenshot repositories, and a folder confusingly labeled “sdcard.”

2.Cloud Is Always At Your Service

     Nowadays you really don't need to worry about storage space cause cloud is always there for you .If you\ have almost unlimited data access and a good net speed then you can easily store most of your data in the cloud services. 

                                The general idea is that almost nothing is stored locally on your device, at least not for very long. The types of media which traditionally consume the most memory, such as songs and videos, are streamed live on-demand from services like Spotify and Netflix. Photos taken on the device are uploaded on a regular basis to a server-based solution like SkyDrive or Google Drive, after which they can freely be deleted from the phone because browsing them also happens via a remote connection. 

3.Jumbling Up Everything And Making a Mess

    Very often this has happened.I was using my Nokia E63 for quite some time and I had more than 50 apps installed,all on my SD card.Now I decided to use another phone for a week.At that time I must have deleted something and all my apps were gone.It was a mess and a real mess of time.

The Ill-Fated Nokia 808 Pureview & Why It couldn't Be Successful

In a pointed editorial over the PureView Club, Marc writes of his experiences with stores and friends, amazed that Nokia has this breakthrough piece of hardware on its hands, yet seems to be actually trying to avoid selling it. Inevitably, jaws drop when people see what the Nokia 808 PureView can do, yet Nokia isn't promoting it at all, isn't pushing it out to any network stores and few of the general public even know it exists beyond some vague recollection of a 41MP-sensored super camera phone...

Marc writes:

...Then I showed them the Nokia 808 PureView, demonstrated it, gave a short lecture about the difference between full resolution and PureView technology, showed what pixel oversampling can do, made some amazing macro shots and a macro video (below, zooming in at very close range in 360p), and also showed them some of what I collected on Flickr and Youtube.

It completely blew them away.


One of them tested the device himself, and after he found it quite easy to use he dropped the big question: “why on earth didn't I know about this? Is Nokia even trying to sell this thing?”

That was my reality check: here in the PureViewClub and in the Forum, we´re surrounded by people who know very well what PureView is all about.

Some of us have strong opinions to the kind of PureView the Lumia 920 will offer – and although I think people will love better lighting and OIS, I guess we all feel that the Nokia 808 PureView will be the best device for serious photography until Nokia comes with the next version combining both kinds. We can share those thoughts with each other and think it’s common knowledge.

I really haven't seen many commercials bragging about the 808 Pureview 41 MP Camera. Infact,in a Nokia Store near my house,the 808 banner was only there for about a week which was soon replaced by Nokia Lumia 710 and 800 banners,Sad, isn't it?

Maybe trophies like that at last week's Mobile Choice Consumer Awards will help promote the 808 to the public?

How to Set-up a Pascode on the iPhone 5 (Guide)

 Our mobile phones store a lot of personal and financial information about us these days and setting up a passcode security system on your iPhone 5 device (or any previous model) is a good choice. We use so many banking applications, mobile payment processors, cloud storage account and social media apps that it would be crazy to risk having all that data compromised and have it fall in the wrong hands. This is essentially why one should set up a Passcode on their iOS device but how does one do that? Well, it is certainly quite a simple thing to do.

 Setting up a Passcode for the iPhone 5:

1. Step 1: Tap on Settings and then head over to General.
2. Step 2: Scroll down, you should find the Turn Passcode On option.
3. Step 3: Select this options, a new windows will now appear.
4. Step 4: Navigate the window keyboard to set up a 4 digit password.
5. Step 5: Set up the Required Passcode Timer and choose something reasonable
• Ideally, your phone should lock itself after 5 minuets of not being used.
• This means that if you set the required passcode timer to 5 minuets, the phone will automatically lock itself after those 5 minuets have passed and nobody has used the phone for anything.

 Choose a Good Passcode

 You might be tempted to put something like "0000" thinking that it's genius and that nobody will ever think of putting that in if they got your phone, but trust us, this is the last passcode you want to have. The same goes for any numerical combination which follows a strict formula. For example, a strictly increasing array such as 0123, 1234 or 1357 (or decreasing for that matter) is also a big no when choosing your passcode.

 The passcode that you setup for you iPhone 5 should be a bit more personal and much more random and of course, difficult to crack for someone who might know you or a lot about you. Birthday days and anniversaries are a possibility, but you should always add something really random into the whole combination. 

 You can refer to this post - How Secure is Your Password from GHack.net for more information.

The Famous(Long & Maybe Boring)Samsung Galaxy Brand

The Famous galaxy Brand!I hope everyone is familiar with the name Galaxy.Everyone should be cause Samsung has made it so popular.Samsung has been using the celestial surname to denote its Android smartphone and tablet products for years. But as the South Korean OEM continues to flood the market with more and more products, the name is losing its edge, slowly diluting into nothingness amid a sea of similarly overused brand names. And that’s not just sad; it’s harmful to the company’s image.

he first Samsung smartphone of any importance to bear the Galaxy sub-brand was the initial Galaxy S,launched in 2010.It was one heck of a smartphone at its time,its 9.9mm thickness was ultra-thin for the time, and other standout features like its S-AMOLED display and powerful hardware helped it make a name for itself. By January of the following year, Samsung had sold 10 million of the devices globally.

After such success,Samsung ,as expected,continued this sequel of galaxy smartphones.Soon came the inevitable Galaxy S II, predecessor to today’s “next big thing,” the Galaxy S III superphone. Within that line, Samsung has retained the “S” as a relatively consistent indicator of these devices’ premium status, but that’s the only area of the company’s brand strategy where it’s shown any kind of restraint. In the two years since the original Galaxy S launched, we've seen Samsung go from assigning the stellar sub-brand only to high-end devices, to slapping the Galaxy label on nearly every Android product it launches.




To be fair to Samsung, you can kind of see what the company is going for here. I’m obviously no marketing or advertising professional, but the nature of sub-brands is pretty straightforward. “Hey look, it’s a (Major Company Brand) product! And it’s part of their (Product Line A) family, which I know I like, versus their (Product B) device lineup, which doesn't suit my needs.” We see this brand division gradually making itself apparent between Samsung’s “Galaxy”-centric Android line and its “Ativ” Windows 8 offerings.

If that’s Samsung’s strategy going forward, more power to it– but it needs to be consistent. Right now, the Galaxy brand situation is akin to the “Droid” problem we sometimes run into with Verizon’s lineup. There, consumers get no clear indication of what constitutes a “Droid” as opposed to just a plain Android phone; sometimes, smartphones get demoted from Droid status for no good reason, as happened with the Samsung Droid Charge (kind of).

The same thing is happening to the Galaxy brand. It hasn't blanketed the entirety of Samsung’s Android lineup, but it’s certainly not confined to the high end anymore. There’s even confusion at the samsung.com/galaxy homepage, whose 163 listed phones are a mix of devices both Galaxy-branded and not. And that’s not even taking into account the tablet situation. Oh, and there’s now a media player thrown into the mix, as well as a camera. A camera. It’s a mess.


he results of this brand confusion are already being felt, in both positive and negative ways. On the plus side, Samsung has flooded the market with so much Galaxy-based buzz that, as my colleague Joe Levi recently pointed out, people now identify some high-end smartphones by that sub-brand. “Oh, is that the Galaxy?” people routinely ask me when they see me using my Galaxy S III in public. “Samsung” is almost never mentioned, nor is “Android;” to the eyes of the advertising-addled public, the device simply becomes “the Galaxy.”

That’s good news in that it speaks to the popularity of Samsung’s products, but bad news if the company is hoping for any kind of specificity. Yes, the Galaxy S III, one of the best-reviewed and most-popular smartphones of all time, is in the club, but so too are the pitiful Galaxy Ace and the weirdo Galaxy Camera. People frustrated by the sluggish performance of the former and confused about the relevance of the latter aren’t necessarily going to equate the Galaxy brand with a positive feeling. That’s no good.

In a world full of mega-brands, sub-brands, and hybrid brands, confusion is the enemy. In the competition-on-steroids environment of mobile technology, it can be fatal. Obviously it’s not as critical a problem for Samsung as it would be for a smaller company, but it’s still sloppy. And for a company so bent on defeating a competitor with a much simpler, unified brand, sloppiness isn’t acceptable. Samsung needs to decide exactly what the Galaxy brand is and what it means, before it becomes the “Droid” of the new decade.