What Microsoft working on smartphone design?

The Hot on the heels of Microsoft's double launch of Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 this week, comes the news that the software giant may be preparing to enter the smartphone market. An article published in the Wall Street Journal states that Microsoft is working with Asian component suppliers to test its own smartphone design, according to sources .According to reports, Microsoft is working on the design for its own smartphone handset.

A Analysts have speculated for some time now about whether or not Microsoft has been working on a smartphone. Not only could it feasibly be a strong competitor to the iPhone 5, but it could double as Microsoft's entry into the handheld gaming console market - which is currently dominated by Nintendo and Sony. Given that smarthphone gaming has been stealing the march on the DS and PS Vita handhelds for quite a while now, due to the smartphone gaming business model and the devices' multi-purpose applications beyond gaming, a Microsoft smartphone would be a strong first step.

The According to the article, some officials at Microsoft's parts suppliers, who declined to be named, say the company is testing a smartphone design but it's unclear at present if a device is set to go into mass production.

A Launch of SmartGlass functionality last week could also be an indication that Microsoft is looking at putting more devices into the market that have handheld functionality.

TransPhone smartphone tablet hybrid gets official, doesn't quite topple ASUS PadFone

Id gadget : CMIT's TransPhone smartphone-tablet combo has finally made it to stores after its debut in May of last year. A competitor to the ASUS PadFone, the TransPhone fits inside a 7-inch display dubbed the TransPad, and runs Android 2.3.5.

TransPhone has a 3.5-inch screen, a Snapdragon S1 processor, 512MB RAM and ROM, 512MB internal memory plus a 32GB microSD card, a 5-megapixel camera, and more. As for price, a TransPhone plus TransPad combo is $429.99 while individual TransPads are $140 each and a solo TransPhone is $379.

Get a Family Pack for $999 or a Business Pack for $4499. Seeing as the ASUS PadFone adds a keyboard to the mix, and that there's a PadFone 2 coming up soon, the TransPhone won't be much of a threat to ASUS.

iPhone 5 fresh review - id gadget

id gadget : This review come from Japan’s Sharp Corp. said it will start shipping screens destined for a new Apple iPhone that is widely expected to be released in October ahead of "pre Christmas shopping season". (Shipments will start in August) Sharp’s new president, Takashi Okuda, said at a press briefing in Tokyo on Thursday after the company released its latest quarterly earnings. But Apple has kept quiet about the iPhone 5 release date and  new phone’s features, some of the top rumors circulating on the web focus on screen size, display resolution, and a significantly down-sized dock connector.

Rumor alleges that consumers can expect the screen size on the iPhone 5 to be about 30% larger than on previous models.  Accompanying this rumor is the suggestion that the new phone will also be thinner.  And The technology used by Sharp, called in-cell, is reportedly a half a millimeter thinner than the technology utilized in current iPhone models. Sharp technology also utilizes touch sensors, replacing the need for the inclusion of an LCD panel. 

And  anticipation focuses on the improved resolution of the iPhone 5.  Consensus seems to be that the phone will feature a 16:9 aspect ratio, which basically equates to HD quality resolution on the screen as well as in photos and video that the phone captures. Appears likely that the new phone will have a smaller dock connector.  This will make past connector cords pretty much useless, and the necessity of this feature seems to be a point of debate among enthusiasts. Smaller dock will surely drive need for users to buy new accessories, which seems to be the major point of contention.

How to [ Conference Call ] on iPhone

Conference Call  on iPhone.The iPhone allows combining up to five calls at a time, to turn it into a conference call. Make a conference call on the iPhone may be easier than getting the same five people in the room at the same time.
Start by making a call and then put the caller on hold. Tap Add Call to make another call and then Merge Calls to bring everyone together. Repeat this exercise to add another call.

Here are some other ways the conference call :

iPhone is actually a two-line phone, and one of the available paths can be involved in a conference call.

If you want to drop a  from the conference call, press conference and press the red circle with a little picture of a phone in it that appears next to the call. Press End Call to make callers that went bye-bye.

Can talk privately one-on-one, with one of the callers in a conference. Press Conference, then tap Private next to the caller wants to leave quietly. Tap Merge Calls to bring the caller back to the conference so that everyone could hear him.
 

Callers can add a new entry to an existing conference call by pressing the Call Hold Call + Answer followed by Merge.

Upcoming BlackBerry 10 devices leak out [show their screen specs]

For now the Blackberry provides an account of some new applications that will be launched soon, so for those who use a Blackberry, this news is a story that is really good, and not be moved to another heart. Of the 10 first BlackBerry device, to present some additional details about the first two handsets have emerged. Courtesy of the internal slide leaked from RIM, now can be in the know and the alleged resolution display technology implemented in the first two smartphones, the upcoming RIM OS will boot.

L-series BlackBerry handset will be the first to break cover. This will offer a touchscreen smartphone. L-Series smart phones will offer the first OLED display with a resolution of 1280x768 pixels which mengesankan.Pixel is bound to be even more impressive at 356ppi. L-screen smartphone first series is expected to be 55mm wide.

BlackBerry N-series on the other hand will be available by RIM puritan fun, hardware QWERTY keyboard at some point in Q1, 2013. BlackBerry is the first member of the N-series is also an OLED display. Space for the hardware keyboard, the unit has a resolution of 720x720 pixels trimmed to. But the pixel density is almost as impressive as in the L-series at 330ppi, while the width of the unit is in the range 52-53mm.

Meizu flagship renamed to MX 4-core[ available June 30]

Coming from Meizu MX quad-core has received an official presentation of another, this time focusing on the replacement name for Meizu MX 4-core during the event in Hong Kong. The device is presented in cooperation with the operator and PCCW will be sold in stores starting June 30. It will be good news for all who have hearts to weigh Meizu MX.

Meizu MX will look almost the same as the dual-core predecessor with the only difference be deleted China transparent logo on the screen dim and logo on the back. The 8 MP snapper has been preserved and the same goes for the touch screen 4 "capacitive ASV of iPhone-esque 640 x 960 pixels resolution.

Some changes in the front of the Meizu MX software - Flyme [fly I] OS, Android Meizu skinned indigenous launcher, now in the Android version 4.0. Offer extended several applications, such as Message Flyme [iMessage similar to the iPhone], WhatsApp messenger and others.

iCade Mobile [game technology]

This type of button-bashing classic game, in which the difference between the excess Game Over is a little tweak of the action. When playing games on the touch screen, it's too easy for your thumb to wander from the virtual. But unlike the iCade Mobile. Bluetooth Gizmo, good for the iPhone or iPod Touch game console.

With Apple gadget into the iCade and run your favorite game. The second pair via Bluetooth and use the physical buttons on its own iCade to navigate and play. With four-way direction pad, four facing forward buttons and four shoulder buttons, each act and orders are within easy reach.

Mobile iCade place can be rotated through 90 degrees and locked in place. Can be flipped from landscape to portrait view is an absolute doddle. Wiping on the virtual keypad and the screen cover with sausage fingers clumsy.

iCade Mobile Game Technology

Podsta Softgrip Smartphone Holder

Smartphone for the current size is very thin. How can it be, even now the necessary comfort. And good at holding in apaun circumstances.

Of this in the design of a high-tech kit, Softgrip Podsta Smartphone Holder. Podsta has been designed with gamers in mind doubling as a handy stand and handle Ergonomic game at the same time.

oftgrip Podsta Smartphone Holder. Flexible rubber hugs the shape of the cell phone behind. Although held either vertically or horizontally. Only a little time to take it back out. Lightweight material makes it easy to carry about in a bag or pocket and is available in various colors to suit the mood. So ideal for when traveling, or prop up your phone to show off your high score. 

And you can oftgrip Podsta Smartphone Holder , in firebox

 

HTC talks smartphone design from inception to final product

id Gadget Todays-->The frequency at Media Summit in Seattle for two days, HTC said walking through the fine details about how the smartphone developed, ranging from rectangular blocks of ABS plastic with a finer scale model to be presented to the operator and focus groups. The findings, then form the final product. but unfortunately, not allowed to take photos of one mock-X shown at the time, but read on to learn the general process of how an HTC phone go from beginning to end product.

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HTC talks smartphone design  from inception to final product-design

Xolo X900 " Meet Intel's first smartphone "

id Gadget today-- > As desired, the first Smartphone based on the Intel launched this week, Xolo Lava 900. India-based Lava International and Intel, today reported the general availability of the Xolo X900, which is based on the Intel Atom Z2460. Xolo X900 will be available in the Indian market on 23 April at a price of about 22,000 rupees, if the dollar less than $ 420. Lava also reported a partnership with Croma, a chain of national India Megastore, which will sell products of this X900.

In addition to using the 1.6GHz Atom processor with a 400MHz graphics chip clock, the phone is full of features 1080p HD video encoding, 8-megapixel camera and burst mode, HSPA + 3G connectivity, and 4.03-inch LCD screen.

At launch, the X900 will use the Android OS Gingerbread, but over-the-air software upgrade to the Android Ice Cream Sandwich is planned (coming soon) the company said. Intel said the battery life of up to 5 hours of 3G browsing and 8 jamuntuk talk.

Several Smartphone that runs on Intel processors from Lenovo, Orange, Motorola, and ZTE will also follow the next few months. While Lenovo will soon launch of the K800 will probably be Intel-based mobile phone. available in addition to all the others are scheduled for later this summer.

Intel, (the world's largest chip maker), try to focus on chip design and manufacturing efforts on small devices like smartphones and tablets, which the market has almost not been.

Lava Xolo 900.

Fujitsu launches ARROWS ES IS12F smartphone in Japan

Fujitsu has taken a bit of a affection to authoritative ultra-thin smartphones. After the Arrows F-07D was appear aback in November as the thinnest smartphone in the apple at aloof 6.6mm thickness, the Japanese architect is aback with the fresh ARROWS ES IS12F Android smartphone.

Fujitsu launches ARROWS ES IS12F smartphone in Japan

Unlike the F-07D, the ARROWS ES IS12F is not absolutely the thinnest smartphone, accident that appellation by a bald 0.1mm. It does about administer to be baptize aggressive and has a athletic Gorilla Glass on the front.

Fujitsu launches ARROWS ES IS12F smartphone in Japan


As for the specifications, the ARROWS ES IS12F will run Android 2.3 on a distinct amount 1.4GHz CPU, 800 x 480, 4.0-inch AMOLED affectation and a 5.11 megapixel camera that can abduction 'Hi-Vision' videos, which we accept agency aerial analogue in apparent English.

The buzz will be awash in two colors: Ruby Red and Gloss Black and is on auction appropriate now in Japan.

Meizu MX will quad-core realm in May 2012

Meizu MX In our analysis of the Meizu MX from aftermost week, we begin the smartphone to be one of the best able dual-core offerings on the bazaar today. It appears however, that the Chinese aggregation abaft this appropriate smartphone has above affairs for its offspring. It appear its affairs for a quad-core adaptation of the MX, which will be apparent in May abutting year.

Rumor has it, that the quad-core Meizu MX will affection the Samsung fabricated Exynos 4412 CPU - a analytic belief accustomed the accepted CPU of the smartphone. Regardless of the silicon best though, accepting a analytic priced quad-core Android smartphone sounds like a accurate abstraction to us.

Huawei to announce their best smartphone

You apperceive a aggregation is demography an advertisement actively back they beatific the invitations three months in advance. Huawei has aloof beatific out invitations for an accident that will booty abode on February 26 abutting year, which is the day afore the MWC kicks-off.

Traditionally, this day has been acclimated by bazaar behemoths like Samsung, Nokia and Sony Ericsson to accomplish their announcements, above-mentioned to the alpha of the adaptable industry's better event. However, Huawei acutely feels absolutely assured about its accessible smartphone and is activity to try and abduct some of the spotlight.

According to the allurement Huawei will be announcement their "smartest, fastest and best high-performing smartphone yet" at the event. And yeah, we apperceive the bar isn't set too high, but the best recent crop of Huawei accessories isn't bisected bad at all (most conspicuously the Honor and the Vision), so we ability be on for article absolutely exciting.

Nokia to sell Vertu the smartphone business

 Nokia to sell Vertu to fund the smartphone business
Nokia is reportedly because affairs its Vertu annex for comfortable smartphones. According to the Banking Times sources, the Finns are acquisitive to use the money from affairs Vertu to armamentarium their smartphone business, which hasn't been accomplishing so able-bodied lately.

The allurement amount for aggregation is still cryptic as Vertu doesn't broadcast its banking after-effects separately, but appraisal is said to be currently demography place. The Vertu anniversary acquirement is estimated to be about amid €200 actor and €300 million, which seems like a lot because the baby bazaar alcove that Vertu services. Furthermore, the aggregation is said to authoritative a advantageous accumulation anniversary year, admitting there were no specific numbers mentioned.

Nokia has, reportedly, appointed Goldman Sachs to baby-sit the auction of its subsidiary. Vertu is said to accept admiring absolutely a lot of absorption from clandestine disinterestedness groups and affluence appurtenances brands, but talks are still at aboriginal stages.

Nokia has beneath an official animadversion on the story, but added advice should alpha advancing up as negotiations advance.