Apple iPhone 6 or iPhone mini launch in Sept?

Speculation about the possible release date for the new iPhone 5S or 6 continues and according to latest reports, Apple could schedule its launch on September 10.
According to AllThingsD, Apple will simultaneously announce not one, but two new models - the iPhone 5S or 6 and a low end iPhone mini called the 5C.

The iPhone 5 was launched on September 12.There were reports earlier, based on an analyst’s estimate that this year Apple could, however, advance the launch date to September 11.As analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities put it: "Apple may announce the iOS 7, the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 5S at a launch event on September 3 and release the devices a week later on Sept 11."

Some other reports also slate the release dates to September 13 and September 27.There have been multiple rumours about the screen size of the new iPhone 6 ranging from anywhere over 4.5inch to a 5 inch screen.

According to MacRumours, Apple could most probably come out with a 4.8inch display. Made by Sharp, the IGZO screen will be much thinner with resolutions better than an otherwise HD display.
Among the other specs that could form a part of the next iPhone are the fingerprint scanner, NFC capability and rumours even point to improved camera specifications and a quad-core A6X processor.

On how the new iPhone would look, NAK studio came out with this interesting design that showcases the new iPhone.

Meanwhile, the iPhone mini rumours have been going on for a while and it is being widely reported that the low end version will come with a plastic back cover or chassis, similar to what was found in the iPhone3G.There have also been reports that Apple is planning to come out with a mini with multiple colours.
Images of the iPhone mini leaked by a Chinese tech blog last month indicated a plastic body and various colour options.
Reports had also indicated that production of the phone was underway although no release date was mentioned then.Apple as usual has not commented anything so far about its plans to build cheaper iPhones.

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BlackBerry launches new smartphone BB 9720

BlackBerry has announced the official launch of BlackBerry 9720, a combination of BB7 and the recent BBQ5.The move is aimed at attracting entry level users with a slightly advanced user experience.
The company has been in the news following its latest announcement that it has appointed a committee to explore strategic alternatives which could include partnerships, joint ventures or even a sale.The new phone has been launched in five different colours – black, blue, pink, purple and white - and will be available across the region in including the UAE within the next few weeks.
Making the announcement in an official release BlackBerry said the new smartphone provides the user with an experience of a starter smartphone while taking them to the next level.The smartphone runs of BB 7.1 and features a full QWERTY keyboard, 2.8-inch touchscreen and trackpad for easy navigation, seven hours of talk time and a 5MP camera. Other features include built-in FM radio, pre-installed apps for social networking and a separate button for BBM messenger among others.

Carlo Chiarello, Executive Vice-President for Products at BlackBerry says: "The BlackBerry 9720 smartphone gives you all the essentials of the BlackBerry smartphone experience to support a communications centric lifestyle.

“It has the best keyboard and functionality for BBM, as well as an updated BlackBerry 7 OS that adds many enhancements. “It's perfect for customers upgrading from a feature phone or entry-level Android or Windows Phone device, as well as existing BlackBerry smartphone customers, that want a richer experience and jump up in style and performance," said Chiarello.

BlackBerry 9720 top features 

BlackBerry 7 OS
The new BlackBerry 9720 smartphone comes with BlackBerry 7 OS version 7.1, which features an updated interface that lets you swipe to unlock the phone or access the camera from the lock screen, as well as additional enhancements 

BBM
The new BlackBerry 9720 smartphone features a dedicated BBM key that makes it quick and convenient to access the globally popular mobile social network, and with its BlackBerry Keyboard, messaging your BBM friends is easy and accurate.
It also includes BBM Voice, which lets you chat over Wi-Fi for free. 

Multicast
The refreshed BlackBerry 7 OS lets you quickly type your message once and post it simultaneously and instantly to your friends on BBM, Twitter and Facebook. You can take a picture and post it to multiple social networks all at the same time, from the camera app.

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iPhone 6 and Galaxy S5 will have liquid cooling feature

The race to decisively nail the title of world’s coolest smartphone just got hotter, with both Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Samsung Electronics (NASDAQ:SSNLF) reportedly evaluating the use of liquid cooling technology for their next generation of smartphones.

The technology is already in use in some laptops, where ultra-thin heat pipes are used to carry heat away from processors and wireless chip. Heat pipes contain a liquid that turns into a vapour when it comes into contact with a hot interface. The vapour then travels along the heat pipe to the cold interface, condensing back into a liquid, and releasing the latent heat.

But let’s leave the technical details for the engineers. What matters to me - and you – is that that niggling heat that we have all felt emanating from our smartphones, sometimes even after just casual use, could be a thing of the past – as soon as the fourth quarter of the year.

If you, like me, find it irritating that metallic phones heat up more, and more often, than their plastic counterparts, then this news should come as a breeze of cool air in stark summers. Most probably, Apple’s iPhone 6 will feature this technology, as will the Galaxy S5, the next iteration of Samsung’s Galaxy line of smartphones.And this news actually comes in the nick of time. Traditionally, smartphones such as the iPhone have used a graphite-plus-foil insulating method to keep the heat within the device, but with apps getting more and more demanding of processors, and processors getting more powerful, this method is no longer efficient enough to keep the heat from filtering out, as we all know very well.

And with 4G fast becoming a common transmission specification for smartphones, the heat problem was only expected to become worse. Now, however, Apple and Samsung seem to be evaluating a cool solution for that.

According to a new report by DigiTimes, “smartphone players such as Apple, Samsung Electronics and High Tech Computer have started showing interest in adopting ultra-thin heat pipes for their smartphones and are expected to release heat pipe-adopted models in the fourth quarter, at the earliest, according to sources from cooling module player.”

DigiTimes says heat pipe cooled smartphone models could be released by the fourth quarter at the earliest.

In fact, even if the iPhone 6 and Galaxy S5 sport this technology, they won’t be the world’s first mass market liquid-cooled smartphones. That title belongs to the NEC Medias X-06E, which will be made available on Japanese carrier, NTT DoCoMo.

“Currently there are already several cooling module players including Japan-based Furukawa Electric, Taiwan-based Chaun-Choung Technology, Auras and TaiSol Electronics, are developing 0.6mm heat pipes; however, because the heat pipes only have a yield rate of 30 per cent, these players are working aggressively over improving their production currently,” says DigiTimes.

Additionally, Apple is said have a few alternatives on the drawing board too. One involves a reinvented “Ionic Wind Generator” cooling system. A second idea was revealed last November by Patently Apple in its report titled “Apple Invents a New Streamlined Cooling System for iPhone.”

Apple’s most recent invention on the matter surfaced in May 2013 which discussed “diamond-like carbon coatings” to help keep battery-powered devices cooler.
Either way, we know that Apple, Samsung, HTC and NEC (and no doubt numerous others) will have coller smartphones for us soon, hopefully by the end of this year.

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Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom and Note III Leaked

The month of June marks a milestone for Samsung as it releases a string of new Galaxy devices. Earlier this month, leaked photos of the S4 Zoom and the Note III was gone Viral. What is new this time? 

 Shortly before the unexpected online appearance, the South Korean mobile manufacturer unveiled another variant of their latest handset, a waterproof version of the company’s flagship smartphone. This may be a smart move for the company considering its shares experienced a minimal drop after numerous negative reports on the Galaxy S4. 

The name says it all – Galaxy S4 Zoom’s main attraction is its camera. The mobile phone’s snapper is rumored to have a 16-megapixel camera at the back with 10x optical zoom. Compared to the flagship’s camera, S4 Zoom promises to offer sharper images leaving the former behind with only 13 megapixels. However, it is still not known if the device will have the same eye-tracking features. According to O2’s Galaxy S4 page, the flagship is capable of blending images to make continuous photos. In addition, it can capture sounds and pictures simultaneously with the Sound and Shot feature. 

The unofficial photo of the S4 Zoom model that surfaced on the Internet was first released by SamMobile. Days later, TechTastic uploaded a couple of shots of the actual device.

Built around the idea of taking pictures, the device will be Samsung’s first camera-focused Android smartphone. The leaked photo revealed a huge lens on the back, an unlikely feature for most Galaxy handsets. It also has a dedicated camera key on the right specifically situated below the lock and volume keys.  

Galaxy S4 Zoom

Donning a 4.3-inch display, it is smaller diagonally compared to the flagship’s 5-inch super AMOLED touch screen finished with a Corning Gorilla Glass 3.

Reported to be already in its finishing touches. The S4 Zoom is equipped with a 1.6 GHz Dual-core processor, a sufficient power to run Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean and Samsung’s signature TouchWiz user interference. 

What’s new with the Note III?

From the success of Note 2, the teased Samsung Galaxy Note III is said to be the hope of the next generation phablets.

In terms of hardware appearance, the leaked prototype doesn’t give much excitement. It boasts of a huge 5.66-inch super AMOLED display with curved corners that go along with the high resolution screen. To distinctly identify it, the prototype’s thin bezel spells the difference between the Note III from the Galaxy Mega 6.3. 

It has a wider touch screen display, which was reported to flaunt the same pixel structure of the display of other devices. However, the Note III will definitely lag behind the S4 Zoom in terms of camera. On a brighter side, the phablet will still deliver crisp and sharp images with its 13-megapixel rear camera. 

Other features include an S-Pen which is present in most Note lineups. If the initial features are true, it will be one of the fastest and most powerful tablet out there running the latest Android operating system. This will operate seamlessly with Exynos Octa-core or the Snapdragon 800. 

The S4 Zoom and the Note III are expected to be officially unveiled by Samsung at IFA (Consumers Electronic Unlimited) on September 6-11, 2013 in Berlin. It is the world’s leading trade event in terms of consumer electronics. If these rumors will come into being, these devices are going to be real monsters once it hits the shelves later this year.

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Samsung announces breakthrough in 5G that can download in a speed of 1GB/sec

Samsung has developed 'ultra-high speed' fifth-generation technology that could allow users to download an entire Movie in a second, the electronics giant has said.The South Korean firm has successfully tested new equipment which it hopes will transmit data several hundred times faster than existing 4G networks.

It claims subscribers could use the technology to download high-quality digital films 'practically without limitation' and watch 3D movies or stream high-definition programmes in real-time.

Samsung believes its new transceiver is the world’s first device capable of providing 'ubiquitous' 5G broadband - and hopes to bring the service to customers by 2020.It announced the development after conducting a test where data was transmitted at speeds of more than one gigabit per second over a distance of up to two kilometres.

Customers using 4G services - currently provided in the UK by EE - access average speeds of between eight and 12 megabits per second (Mbps).

'The new technology sits at the core of 5G mobile communications system and will provide data transmission up to several hundred times faster than current 4G networks,' Samsung said in a blog post.The company believes the equipment could provide a solution to recent surges in wireless internet usage.

It added: 'Samsung’s new technology will allow users to transmit massive data files including high-quality digital movies practically without limitation.

'As a result, subscribers will be able to enjoy a wide range of services such as 3D movies and games, real-time streaming of ultra high-definition (UHD) content, and remote medical services.'

In the blog post, Samsung claims its technology uses high-frequency wavebands which were previously deemed unsuitable for mobile networks.

It said: 'The implementation of a high-speed 5G cellular network requires a broad band of frequencies, much like an increased water flow requires a wider pipe.

'While it was a recognised option, it has been long believed that the millimetre-wave bands had limitations in transmitting data over long distances due to its unfavourable propagation characteristics.

'However, Samsung’s new adaptive array transceiver technology has proved itself as a successful solution.

'It transmits data in the millimetre-wave band at a frequency of 28 GHz at a speed of up to 1.056 Gbps to a distance of up to two kilometers.'

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Samsung Galaxy S4: Samsung ‘leaks’ Galaxy S4: Samsung ‘leaks’ official image

Even as smartphone enthusiasts and their mothers-in-law patiently await the launch of the #NextBigThing from Samsung on Thursday, the South Korean giant has published a teaser image of a smartphone on Twitter, leaving fans and aficionados gasping for more.

“The countdown for #TheNextBigThing has begun. Who’s ready for the Global Unpacked Event on March 14?,” Samsung Mobile US (@SamsungMobileUS), the American unit of the company, asked in its Twitter update, and happily attached the silhouette of the new smartphone waiting to be unveiled on Thursday.

That was more than enough to create a frenzy among Samsung fans – the update has been re-tweeted 1,587 times already, with 350 of Samsung Mobile US’ 4.26 million followers marking the update as their ‘favourite’.

official image of Samsung Galaxy S IV

Even though the picture show the smartphone in a shadow, and only the top half of the handset is discernible, the phone does resemble the unofficially leaked images of the Galaxy S4 that were first published on a Chinese forum.

As we have pointed out earlier, the device looks strikingly similar to the Samsung Galaxy S3α (alpha). The rather convincing images leaked on the Chinese blog showed a 5-inch smartphone, similar in styling to the Galaxy S3α, and a fair deal of details in terms of the oblong button and a glossy reverse cover, presented in a stylised background.

Information published on the forum claimed that the phone has a 1080p display, runs Android 4.2.1, has a 1.8GHz Universal5410 processor and 2GB of RAM.

The good news for eager fans is that the soon-to-be-officially-revealed smartphone has some serious specifications upgrade from the current generation of the Galaxy smartphone, the S3, including eye-tracking software that will help you scroll through the phone with the twitch of your eyes, and a literal “green screen” with energy-saving PHOLED material in its AMOLED display.

In addition, it is rumoured to be available with a wireless charger and floating touch technology (i.e., you do not need to actually touch the touch-screen for it to function).

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Now, send a text message to charge your cellphone

Out of battery? Just send a text!

People living off-grid can now power their phones simply by sending a text message.

A London-based company Buffalo Grid has introduced a solar-powered cellphone charging station that is activated by text message.

A patchy or absent power grid poses a conundrum of problems for rural areas in the developing world, particularly in Africa and Asia, where the use of cellphones is rapidly rising.

The company's basic technology, which was recently trialled in Uganda, should help tackle this issue, 'NewScientist' reported.

The battery extracts power from the solar panel using a technique called maximum power point tracking (MPPT). A 60-watt solar panel charges a battery.

A solar panel's power output is dictated by environmental conditions, such as temperature and the amount of sunlight, as well as the resistance of the circuits connected to it.

MPPT monitors the conditions and changes the resistance to ensure the maximum possible power output at any given time.

The innovation lies in how the stored power is released to charge a phone. A customer sends a text message, which in Uganda costs 110 shillings, to the device. Once it receives the message, an LED above a socket on the battery lights up, indicating that it is ready to charge a phone.

At the Konokoyi coffee cooperative in Uganda, each text message allows a phone to be charged for 1.5 hours. A fully charged Buffalo Grid unit can last for three days, has up to 10 charging points and charges 30 to 50 phones a day.

To bring the cost down further, Buffalo Grid hopes to co-opt the cellphone network operators into subsidising power for charging the phones, or even making it free.

"When you bring power to phones that don't have any, people will use them more," said Buffalo Grid's Daniel Becerra.

"Instead of paying for the charge, people will spend more on airtime," Becerra said.

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Galaxy S4 launch: Is this the new Samsung spearhead smartphone?

Samsung’s Mobile Unpacked event at Radio City Music Hall in New York is scheduled for March 14, 7pm in New York, which will be March 15, 5am in UAE, and March 14, 11pm GMT. 

With no more than 12 hours to go for Samsung’s unveiling of what almost everyone in the industry believes will be the new Galaxy S4 smartphone, a slew of images and a video of the much sought-after phone have appeared on the Internet.

This is perhaps the last of the ‘Galaxy S4 rumours’ to make an appearance online before the real thing is unveiled today at the Mobile Unpacked event. 

“This time tomorrow, we'll meet #TheNextGalaxy live @TimesSquareNYC for Samsung #UNPACKED,” said Samsung Mobile (@SamsungMobile) in its Twitter update at about 6 am in Nepal, a Chinese site Mobile.it168.com, featuring a handset with the Samsung logo – the device in question does bear striking resemblance to other images that leaked earlier this week.

The new set of images, however, also features the text ‘Galaxy SIV,’ lending further credence that the current leaks may indeed be the real thing – or an elaborate hoax. 

Also leaked yesterday was a video of what the Chinese forum 52Samsung.com maintains is the new Galaxy S4. You can watch the video here:

Whether or not this video is real will be found out within a few hours – but eager fans have already seen this YouTube video more than 1.3 million (and counting) times since it was published less than 48 hours earlier.

Samsung offered its own teaser of what the Galaxy S4 will look like in a heavily concealed image of a smartphone in a Twitter update.

The new set of images leaked on Mobile.it168.com also comes with accompanying text (in Chinese, translated through Google Chrome), which suggests that the Galaxy S4 will host an eight-core chip under its bonnet and a 4.99-inch screen on face value. The phone will measure 7.7m in thickness, and will weigh 138 grams.

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Galaxy S4 vs iPhone 5S: Compare specifications, release dates and pricing

The year 2013 has already seen a large number of smartphone launches – more than 25, if you count the various variants and versions, and at least 10 if you stick to the notable launches.
Nevertheless, while there have indeed been a handful of prominent phones launched this year, the biggest launches of the year – Samsung Galaxy S4 and the iPhone 5S (or 6) – are yet to hit us.
And hit they will – sooner than later. The Galaxy S4, as rumours get hotter, is ready to be unleashed, in less than a week from today.

Let’s look at what we know today, based on some credible and some not-so-credible rumours, about the release date, specifications and pricing of the two spearhead stallions in this two-horse race.

Release date

Samsung Galaxy S4: Fans, fanatics and typical enthusiasts have generally come around to agreeing March 14 as the day the new spearhead smartphone from the Samsung stable will be unveiled by the Korean giant. Samsung has sent out invites for its Mobile Unpacked event on the day, at Radio City Music Hall in New York. If indeed the South Korean company unveils the Galaxy S4 at the event, as rumoured, it will mark the first time it would have unveiled its spearhead in the US, in effect making its intentions clear that it will take the smartphone war to Apple’s home ground.

Apple iPhone 5S: Imminently, the next version of the iPhone – the iPhone 5S or the iPhone 6 – will be unveiled by Apple in the next few months as rumours abound that a new smartphone from the Cupertino-based firm is already under production in China, and will be unveiled to the world in July or August. A date is yet to be speculated upon, but rest assured that it will be, soon.

Specifications

Samsung Galaxy S4: With less than one week to go, the buzz about the phone’s potential features is getting boisterous. Numerous updates and a handful of exciting new rumoured specs suggest that the Galaxy S4 will be a master blaster.

Among the exciting new features could be wireless charging and the buzz that its screen will be a literal “green screen” with energy-saving PHOLED material in its AMOLED display. In addition, the Galaxy S4 display is also expected to feature floating touch technology. This, if it is indeed implemented in the new S4, will allow users to operate the phone by directing their fingers just centimetres above the screen. The Samsung Galaxy Note 2 already has a similar feature, Air View, that allows users to operate the pad by hovering the tip of the S-pen stylus over them. But a touch screen smartphone without the trouble of regularly wiping off fingerprint marks from the screen is a cool idea. More than anything else, the proposed eye-controlled features, Eye Scroll and Eye Pause, are something that will definitely raise a few eyebrows (pun intended).

Here are the rumoured specs:

Dimensions: 140.1 x 71.8 x 7.7 mm

Weight: 138 grams

Display: 4.99" full HD ‘green PHOLED’ or AMOLED flexible

OS: Android 4.2.1 Jelly Bean (will be upgraded to 4.2.2 in March itself)

Network / Wireless: 2G – GSM, GPRS, EDGE with 850/900/1800 and 1900 HHz

3G – HSPA & 21Mbps with 850/900/1900 and 2100 MHz
4G – LTE

Memory: 16GB and 32GH, both with MicroSD for expandable memory, and 64GB plus, maybe, 128GB

Colours: Marble white, titanium grey, sapphire black, pebble blue, amber brown, garnet red

Apps and services: KNOX, PlayStation 4, S Health, PayWave

Eye-tracking technology (smart scroll, smart pause, smart rotation)

Connectivity: 4G Wi-Fi, NFC, Bluetooth

Camera: 13MP rear camera, 3D photo-taking through Samsung Orb, AutoFocus, video quality @ 1080p full HD

2MP front camera, video quality @ 720p HD

Battery: 2,600 mAh

Charging: Wireless charging kit

HDTV adapter

Apple iPhone 5S: While rumours about the next iPhone may not be as loud or clear as they are for the Galaxy S4, one reason for that could be that it is still a few months away. Besides, those who claim to be in the know suggest that we might not see be a tremendous upgrade between the 5 and the 5S.

Nevertheless, here’s what we’ve heard so far:

First, analysts suggest that the next iPhone will be strong on security features, and that the S in the 5S will denote ‘security’ more than anything else.

Even as rumours say that a wireless charger will be added to the next iPhone, that can’t be done without a real design overhaul. So that’s unlikely, but definitely not impossible.

What’s more likely, and has been cited by a larger number of sources, is that Apple may introduce a fingerprint reader beneath the home button in the iPhone 5S. While we’ve seen an integrated fingerprint sensor in laptops, one in a smartphone will do away with the need for remembering usernames and passwords on the phone.

These rumours are also based on the fact that Apple acquired Florida-based AuthenTec last July – there has to be something that the Cupertino-based giant will use in its smartphones from that acquisition, and that can, logically, only be a finger-print reader.

In addition, Apple’s new smartphone will have an upgrade in cameras, but one particular rumour has our attention. That’s the photographer’s timer, i.e., according to a patent granted a year ago, on March 8, 2012, the iDevice camera can identify the photographer, and instead of the photographer guessing the time it would take him to join the group and then set the timer accordingly, the iPhone will simply wait until it detects the photographer’s face in the viewfinder before it automatically snaps a photo. Cool.

Apple purchased Polar Rose, a Swedish software firm that specialises in facial recognition, back in September 2010 – and this too should show up sometime; so why not in this upgrade?

Then, there are also strong rumours about Apple introducing 3-D photography in the iPhone 5S. According to Apple’s existing patents, unlike existing 3-D cameras and video recorders that gather three-dimensional information from objects but don’t offer detailed enough results, the next iPhone will deploy a series of systems, tools and methods to capture a 3-D image by using multiple sensors and cameras.

It’ll also see an improved rear camera, if rumours are to be believed. It may be better enough to compete with Sony’s 13MPsensor including f2.0 aperture, plus a flash upgrade – ‘smart LED flash’ for enhanced photo-taking.

In addition, the next iPhone could also see the customary upgrade in processor speed (a new A7 system-on-a-chip). But, uncharacteristic of Apple, the company is planning a release in anodised multi-colour options.

To be sure, more will emerge as the time for the launch comes closer, but for now, this is what the iPhone 5S may pack under its bonnet.

Pricing

Samsung Galaxy S4: Expect a Samsung surprise on the pricing front. Analysts maintain that Samsung will not try to profit from the launch of the Galaxy S4. Instead, it will try to wipe out the competition with a features-loaded smartphone at bargain basement price. There have been suggestions that it could slash the price to as much as $499for its 16GB entry model. If it does that, it’s sure to burn the dance floor with that move.

Apple iPhone 5S: Apple, on the other hand, will keep a tight lid on pricing and is expected to stick to the $649  starting price-point for the 16GB unlocked version, followed by $749 for 32GB and $849 for the 64GB variant.

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