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Submission + - Nokia to launch flagship Lumia 925 at London event on Tuesday (cosimple.com)

harsh..itt writes: In 2011, Nokia has launched it firs Windows Phone OS powered – Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 during an event in London.

Now, Nokia is preparing its devices for Tuesday event in London, the company has added one more device to its Lumia series, the Nokia Lumia 925. Nokia is set to launch the device as an flagship at T-Mobile in the United States, and will be available in Europe and China starting in June.

The Windows Phone 8 device will come with the same features that the company included in its other devices, like the Lumia 920 and Lumia 928, while Nokia is also bringing some new features in terms of designs and specs.

For the new Lumia device, the company is using the trading polycarbonate in some place on the device for aluminium. The phone is thinner and sleeker as compared to other Lumia devices and it would be a good competitor for Android devices.

Submission + - Google now offers 15GB free storage for Drive, Gmail and Google+ (cosimple.com)

harsh..itt writes: Google said on Monday, it would be increasing its Goole Drive, Gmail and Google+ storage offerings to 15GB of free storage to all its three platforms. Previously Google only offers 5GB of free storage but now increasing it by 3 times more.

“Life gets a bit easier when your Google products work well together—whether that’s inserting a Drive file into an email or sharing a photo from Drive on Google+. As this experience becomes more seamless, separate storage doesn’t make as much sense anymore,” Clay Bavo, Google’s Director of Product Management said in a blog post announcing the change.

With the new storage offering from the company and the new combined storage offer now lets you to store what you want, where you want and whenever you want on Google. Now you can store 15GB of your files in the Gmail, but nothing of the files are stored anywhere else, or said to be 5GB in Gmail, 9GB in Google Drive, and a few photos hanging out in Google+.

Submission + - Samsung reportedly working with Galaxy S4 Zoom (cosimple.com)

harsh..itt writes: As the Samsung‘s flagship Galaxy S4 started rolling out globally, Samsung has also reported to also launch an smaller version of its flagship smartphone. Reports has claimed that Samsung is preparing at least two variants of its rumored Galaxy S4 Mini.

A report from SamMobile, which also has reported many leaks about Samsung, says that Samsung is working with Galaxy S4 Zoom. Reportedly, the phone will feature a 16MP autofocus camera with optical image stabilisation and 10X optical zoom, as the name suggests, the original Galaxy S4 comes with an 13MP camera, the company is looking to give users an ultimate smartphone camera experience by offering the highest resolution in a smartphone in its portfolio. In comparison, other Samsung devices such as Galaxy Note II and Galaxy S III feature 8MP units.

The reports claims that the Galaxy S4 Zoom will come with a 4.3-inch display with 960x540p resolution and 256ppi pixel density. It will come with 8GB of internal storage, and can be further expandable upto 64FB via microSD card. The phone will run full flavoured Android 4.2 Jelly Bean OS with TouchWiz Nature UX. In connectivity, the phone includes Bluetooth 4.0 and Wi-Fi with White and Black color options. While there are no expectations and rumors about the Processor and RAM for the device.

Submission + - Top 10 Android apps of all time (cosimple.com)

harsh..itt writes: As we all know that, Android is the world’s most popular OS that were used in thousands of devices across the world by many smartphone makers. Along with the OS, there are also many apps in the Google Play Store published by developers from all over the world.

We have selected some top 10 Apps from the Google Play Store. The apps below are new and also old, but popular’s. Now take a look at the Top 10 Android apps for all time.

Facebook Home
Google Maps
Google Now
Flipboard
Netflix
Adobe Photoshop Express and many others.

Submission + - Nokia announces Nokia Asha 501 for Rs. 5300 (cosimple.com)

harsh..itt writes: During an event in New Delhi, Nokia‘s CEO Stephen Elop has just announced the new Nokia Asha 501 low-end phone. The CEO has said that the new Asha phone design is inspired by its Lumia series and it is the first step in the next world of Asha.

The new Asha phone boasts an 1 Ghz processor and 512 MB of RAM. The phone features a 3-inch 320 x 240 touchscreen and Nokia launches it in six colors. And the phone will come with a 4GB microSD card. Now come to its battery, the phone comes with an 17 hours of talk time battery life and 48 days standby time, battery is an big issue on selling a phone.

The phone will come with a dual SIM model and the original Asha 501 will be available in two variants 2G and 3G version will available later.

Submission + - Microsoft Windows Blue update coming this holiday season (cosimple.com)

harsh..itt writes: As we all know that, in these days Microsoft presents Windows Blue is much rumored, and it is coming before the end of the year. Windows marketing chief Tami Reller has confirmed that the next update to Windows 8 named “Blue” is coming this holiday season,

Microsoft has officially codenamed the update “Blue”, and the final product for the update will have a different name, in addition there is no expectations and rumors that what it would be. The marketing chief has said that Microsoft has three aims with Blue:

Evolving Windows 8 for touch
Addressing customer feedback
Supporting new form factors, specifically 7- and 8-inch screen sizes
The important and last point is most significant, now all the Windows 8 manufacturers has going to create small screen Windows 8 devices. It clears that it would be a Windows 8 powered tablet as it is rumored Acer Iconia W3 – and there are expectations that it would directly compete with other popular tablets such as the Kindle Fire HD and iPad mini.

Submission + - Acer Iconia W3 to be the first small screen Windows 8 tablet (cosimple.com)

harsh..itt writes: As we all know that Microsoft is rumored to launch two small screen Windows 8 powered tablets at its Build Developer Conference in June fresh in the memory, one of the device has surfaced the web with features and specifications.

One of the small screen Windows 8 tablet is the 8.1-inch Acer Iconia W3, which was first appeared on Amazon.com for a short period of time by mistake. But the customers has holding their eyes towards the device and the news to have time to spot.

Recently, Acer has announced many devices but the Acer Iconia W3-810-1600 is not listed among them.

To note, Windows 8 tablets has been 10.1-inches or larger, but Microsoft has released a new tools that will allow the OS to run on smaller screen tablet and devices and it is fully optimized according to the display. For the first time, Microsoft has released its Windows 8 powered Surface tablet last year, but now smaller screen devices would also come to the market.

Submission + - Samsung announces its new Galaxy Core smartphone (cosimple.com)

harsh..itt writes: Samsung has announced that, it has again expanding its Galaxy series with a new smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy Core, what would you think about it, Samsung has launched the phone in a midrange and with Android OS. It looks like that the new Core would not be able to distract users because everyone has eye on the flagship Galaxy S4.

The new Galaxy Core is not an powerful smartphone, but has some of the S4 features like Smart Stay, where the screen will not turn off while you are watching, Smart Alert, which will let the user to know about missed calls and messages when you pick up the phone, Motion UI gestures, that will let users to use certain features such as refresh by just moving your phone.

See Also: See How Android Rules the Mobile World

The phone features an 4.3-inch screen and 800 x 480 resolution, it is quite lower than the Galaxy S4s Full HD display. Thone phone is powered by an 1.2GHz Dual Core processor, with 1GB of RAM, and it runs full flavoured Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and have not any problem with the screen pixels. Samsung has not included 4G, but also launches the phone with an option for Dual SIM model for 3G network connection.

Submission + - Top 10 Viral videos from Vimeo and YouTube of all time (cosimple.com)

harsh..itt writes: There are 10 top viral videos from the world’d most popular video sharing websites such as Vimeo and YouTube.

The list will help users in knowing about the place of video sharing websites in the world. As for sharing and posting videos on YouTube and Vimeo.

The list of the videos includes the most popular Viral Videos posted on the video sharing websites of all the time.

These Videos includes New Technologies, A Blind man drawing portrait, an invisible bike helmet, how touch screen will change in future, etc.

Submission + - Apple revealed new list for top iPhone and iPad apps (cosimple.com)

harsh..itt writes: Recently, Apple has started an contest to reward for 50 billionth app download in the App Store.

In celebration for the record or milestone, Apple, which has launched its own App Store five years ago, will reward the person who download the 50 billionth app from its App Store with a $10,000 App Store gift card. Along with the competition, Apple has revealed its updated list of all times top iPhone and iPad apps.

Without addition info, here is the new chart listing the most downloaded paid and free both iPhone and iPad apps for all the time, this is for the Apple’s new coming milestone.

Submission + - Apple to reward for its 50 billionth app download (cosimple.com)

harsh..itt writes: Apple has started an countdown again to its next company benchmark and a record for the company.

Now, the tech giant is counting the 50th billion download on the App Store, it’s digital app store that was launched in 2008 and currently has about, 49,309,600, 101 downloads to go.

Similar to its earlier contests, the person who will download the 50 billionth app gets a reward of $10,000 in App Store credit. The company has making a small gift to the other 50 people after 50 billion of $500 who but an app immediately afterwards.

Last March, the tech giant has started an contest for the App Store for 25 billion benchmark. Chunli Fu, a customer from Qingdao, China was winner, and nabbed a $10,000 gift card and a trip to one of Apple’s stores to pick it up. Recently in February, the company has also reward an customer with 10,000 Euro iTunes gift card for the 25th billion song sold on iTunes.

Submission + - See How Android Rules the Mobile World (cosimple.com)

harsh..itt writes: With so many mobile options available in the world one will certainly get confused in which direction to move. All the brands such as Apple, Samsung, Motorola, and Nokia are launching phones based on different operating system but the Androids still wins the race. The toughest competition is no doubt from the iOS but Android is much more than it. Below are mentioned some of the steps, which will make clear why android is still known as the king of the mobile world.

The Operating System can be upgraded

With so much flexibility as well as low cost involved, the OS will continue to capture the market. It is not only used in the mobile phones but in a number of other applications just to take advantage of the mobile OS. The operating system can be easily upgraded whenever a higher version is available in the store.

All types of Vendors are Present

The Reason for the popularity is quite clearly visible because it has numerous vendors in the market ranging from huge to small scaled. Moreover, to keep the android in your shop there is no licensing fees, which mean that the vendors can start from lower most amounts as they are pleas to put into the development.

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