iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S: Where they stand in terms of their batteries?

September 5, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Only a few days are left before the most anticipated launch of Apple’s iPhone 5. It is really difficult to wait to see what we are getting this time from iPhone, one of the most selling smart phones in the world. The most important thing that reflects the portability of smart phones these days is the battery. Apple’s iPhone outsmarts other brands in this field with a great battery backup but what iPhone 5 has to offer us in comparison to the previous version iPhone 4S. Here is a quick comparison for you.

In terms of capacity, iPhone 5 has an advantage with a 3.8V/5.45Whr battery in comparison to the 3.7V/5.3Whr battery of iPhone 4S. So, practically iPhone 5’s battery will last more than its predecessor.

In terms of size of the battery, the battery of iPhone 5 is taller by less than half an inch than iPhone 4S. but, the thickness of both of them is the same. Though, the thickness appears to be same, it is worth noting that the battery of iPhone 5 seems 1-2 millimetres thinner.

Also, the position of the battery in iPhone 5 is different from that in iPhone 4S and the charging points are also at different positions. This is why the connecter is also different than that of iPhone 4S.

Now, comes one of the most important aspect of the battery, its weight. Its battery weighs only 0.80 oz compared to 0.96oz of iPhone 4S which indicates that iPhone 5 is going to be one of the lightest smart phones released till date.

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According to an analyst, Galaxy S III clinches the USA crown from iPhone 4S

September 4, 2012 by Leave a Comment

After referring to the “channel checks”, one analyst stated that iPhone 4S has been outsold in USA by Samsung’s latest smart phone Galaxy S III during August. This is the first time that the Apple’s leading product was not the best-selling smart phone in USA since the launch of iPhone 4S in October last year.

A writer from BusinessInsider passed on the note sent by the analyst Michael Walkey which stated that Apple is in trouble if Samsung is beating it in October too. At the same time, it is quite logical that the sales of iPhone 4S have fallen lately as many customers are saving their money for the newer version of iPhone.

Analyst also quoted that Apple will return strongly as number one in the united States with the launch of its latest iPhone as the websites indicated the strong interest of the consumers towards iPhone5. According to the channel checks of the analyst, iPhone even slipped further below at Verizon being placed after Motorola Razr max in the list.

Kantar Worldpanel, a research firm noted the similar situation in the market shares which indicated that smartphones having larger displays such as four inches or more are attracting more market shares. According to a poll conducted by a website, people demanded that the latest iPhones should have larger screen display of about four inches with better displays and thinner models. And at the same time, it shouldn’t be too wide so that it can’t be used only a thumb. Surprisingly, Galaxy S III fulfils all these criteria and has raised concerns for Apple to reinvent their smart phones to gain their market back.

Mnay believe that Samsung’s current reign in the market is transitory until the launch of Phone 5 by next week. What do u think? Will Apple be back in the game with iPhone 5 or Galaxy S III will keep dominating?

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Ready for the Apple iPhone 5? ‘It’s Almost Here’

September 4, 2012 by Leave a Comment

It seems Apple has finally decided to name the next phone in the iPhone legacy as iPhone 5.

Apple has just issued invites for its much awaited media event which promises to reveal more about the next iPhone. The event, to be hosted at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, 12th of September.

The invite is in typical Apple style, and has caused a huge amount of curiosity amongst the people. It has a tagline reading; ‘It’s almost here’ with the number 12 below. While 12 obviously stands for the date of the event (September 12), the shadow below has a shape of the number 5. This prompted us to conclude that the event is in fact to tell us about the new iPhone 5.

It seemed like competition was finally catching up with the iPhone, with some reports that the Galaxy S3 had outsold the Apple iPhone 4S on 3 out of 4 major carriers in the US. This was the first time that the iPhone was outsold since its launch, and Apple would try to regain its place with the iPhone 5.

There are also reports of the iPad mini, a smaller version of the iPad that Apple has lined up in the pipeline, but it doesn’t seem like this media event would have to do anything with that. Apple would like to reserve the iPad mini for another time, and another media event, which we believe will come in the next few months.

The competition is not resting either. Nokia and Microsoft have also recently scheduled a media event where it is believed, they will launch their new smartphones to compete with the iPhone. Amazon is also hosting an event next week to unveil two new versions of  Amazon Kindle Fire.

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Kindle Fire amounts for 22% of Tablet Market Share in US, claims Amazon

September 1, 2012 by Leave a Comment

The press release by Amazon on Thursday has claimed that the Amazon Kindle Fire accounted for a massive 22% of the sales in the United States tablet market. But surprisingly it didn’t delve into figures, abstaining from disclosing the number of units it has sold. The Kindle Fire, launched last November, was Amazon’s latest offering in the hugely popular Kindle series.

The press report claimed that Amazon had accounted for 22% of all tablet sales in the United States over a period of the last nine months. If this is true, then it places the Kindle Fire second in the list of the most popular tablets, right behind the Apple iPad. This is further proof of the Kindle Fire’s popularity, which is the best selling product of the Seattle-based company since its launch.

Goodbye to Kindle Fire?

It is widely reported that Amazon has said goodbye to the current Kindle Fire, Amazon’s first tablet with a colour screen and ability to run third party apps. It would be replaced by a newer version of the Fire. When the Kindle Fire was launched less than a year back, it immediately garnered quite a bit of success. This was due to Amazon’s superb marketing strategy, pricing it only at $199.

It is believed that Amazon would unveil its newest version of the Kindle Fire next Thursday at its event in Barker Hanger, in Santa Monica. Recent speculation is that, rather than going for a model with a larger screen, they would be targeting the 7-inch category yet again, this time with two different models.

Even though the Apple iPad dominates the market today, registering a massive 68% of all tablet sales in the second quarter of 2012, the Kindle Fire had managed to carve its own niche. Initially, it had made great strides, mostly owing to its amazing price tag, but slowly the sales figures fell due to lesser customer satisfaction than the Apple iPad.

The Kindle Fire may find it tough to fare in the market now, especially with Apple rumoured to be introducing its own mini iPad in the coming months. Other competing tablets include the Google Nexus 7 which has the same price as the Kindle Fire, but offers better features.

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Walmart tests Self-Checkout System based on iPhone for its Retail Stores

August 31, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Walmart has now become the second iPhone key retailer besides Apple as it began testing a self checkout system based on iPhones in its stores. Reuters reported that Walmart is testing the new system on its employees first.  This new system that will be provided to the customers will allow to scan and pay directly from the iPhone instead without going toa cashier. The phone itself will take care of the job actually done by a cashier.

Right now, it seems that this test will be limited to Arkansas stores rather than being  available in all the stores, as no formal announcement has been made by Walmart. Though, the company did agree that they will keep trying innovative methods to make shopping experience easier at their stores.

Last year, Apple launched a similar app for its users but it was limited to the purchase of some items in their retail stores. Shoppers can select a product from mac accessories and iOS section and then buy that product using their iPhones. This self checkout system is practiced out very smoothly without any objections created by employees when a customer is leaving the store.  Although, one report has been made of the failure of this EasyPay system provided by Apple.

Such cases might increase in the future when more and more retailers will be allowing this kind of service in their stores by allowing shoppers do the checkout on their devices. We are yet to find whether pros of this system will prevail over its cons. This is the main objective of Walmart behind testing this system.

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Photoshop CS6 with resolution Retina standard and updated Lightroom is on its way

August 31, 2012 by Leave a Comment

As promised earlier, the company Adobe Stakhanov pace is updating the latest version of its super-popular graphic editor – Photoshop CS6, and very soon the updated application will maintain a high standard of image resolution – HiDPI.

In Adobe’s official blog just yesterday it was reported that just two of the best product to work with images – Photoshop and Lightroom – get HiDPI functional and come out one by one during the fall of 2012.

By the way, to honor professionals from Adobe should highlight the fact that when Apple introduced the world to a new MacBook Pro in display technology Retina (this was in June of this year), Adobe has boiled on updating the graphics program to be compatible with HiDPI.

Another good news is forthcoming update Photoshop CS6, scheduled for this fall will be absolutely free, but when it will release an update to Lightroom 4 – is not yet known, but the developers hope to release it shortly after the release of the updated Photoshop.

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Beats planning to launch its own smartphone to end the dominance of Apple

August 30, 2012 by Leave a Comment

With Mozilla, Amazon and Facebook trying to develop their own smartphones, it seems manufacturing phones under their own label is becoming a thing. Beats has also been rumored to be a part of this race.

When HTC and Beats collaborated for the first time, it made all the eyeballs turn towards them. This deal looked as if it will bring lots of laurels and money for both of these ace companies. It turned out to be a disastrous decision as the project never took off in spite of pouring in so much money. This led to Beats acquiring most of the stakes which had been given to HTC. But that is a thing of past, Beats is trying set the ball rolling by itself. If rumors are to be believed then a smartphone on Beats-theme is soon to be launched.

Being business patners, the phone will be developed by HTC only but its logo will be missing from the face of the phone. This rumoured phone will have an interface developed by Beats which is assumed to be based on android. Without wasting any time, Beats is planning to move to the music sector by giving competition to iTunes. They are also looking forward to develop a system which connects TV, laptop, tablets and the new phone so that streaming music among all of them gets possible. It sure is trying to give iPhone a run for its money, though a rumour but you never know.

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FireCore Major Apple TV aTV Flash (black) 2.0 Update In The Works

August 24, 2012 by Leave a Comment

After a few months of silence, the release of version 1.5, aTV Flash developer Firecore, returns to talk about the announcement of a new major release 2.0 are nearing close to completion. The the aTV Flash software requires a jailbreak to be performed and is considered by many to be the way through which you can highlight all the real potential of the Apple set- top-box. The software includes among other features, a multimedia player that can play many video formats, a web browser and an RSS feed reader.

As for the third-generation Apple TV, there is no news about the jailbreak, then continue the developments in the previous model that has nothing to envy from the presvious version which support full HD resolution at 1080p. FirecCore is preparing a aTVFlash version 2.0 beta before the release, for the ones that are inerested, a form can be filled to reserve a spot and it is available for a limited number of interested developers.

The test period will be very short, according to developers, and version 2.0 will include a new library view, integrated search, synchronization with the service trakt.tv and many other interesting features.

For now, if you have not already done so, you can download version 1.5 from the official website at a cost $29.95, the update will then be offered completely free of charge.

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Instacube: A digital photo frame for your Instagram photos

August 22, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Instacube is a new Kickstarter project that takes the form of a digital frame colors of Instagram. It displays photos of  contacts and interact with through a few buttons on the side. [Read more...]

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Skype update adds photo share in the iOS app

August 21, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Skype  just released a major update to the video chat  application to version 4.1. It is now possible for the iOS app to send and receive  photos  from other users, just like in the desktop version. In addition, Skype promises that the speed of the app has gone up. Now there is a less battery consumption when the application is running  in the background, so you spend the whole day receiving messages or calls on Skype and without the battery dying. This is Skype biggest problem on the iPhone has not yet been solved.

Skype still not pushes all messages that users ingest in the application, so it is still easy to miss one another conversations. If you have completed the application there is no push messages. Got the app on in the background, it seems like  a lottery or messages may or may not come through. In our test we regularly get the first message received after we close the app, and then nothing more.
However, the application has other improvements besides more battery saving, faster at startup, etc…. This is because according to Skype contact list is loaded faster. If you have the latest update of Skype, you will get a message o go to the privacy settings of the app update is available and that the details of your contact list from now securely stored on the servers of the service. Besides the app in general, see also chats faster than before.
The other improvements  indicated for Skype version 4.1 are minimal. There is a bug related to calls via Bluetooth, there are some custom graphics and other small, ‘secondary’ error solutions implemented.
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