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Samsung’s newest device, the Galaxy Camera, puts the camera first and the phone second. You won’t be able to make traditional calls or send text messages from it, but since it will ship with Android’s Jelly Bean, anything in Google Play store is up for grabs.
In fact, it has all the makings of a smartphone thanks to the 4.8-inch touchscreen, 1.4Ghz quad-core processor, and options for 3G or 4G connectivity, in addition to WiFi. The camera itself is a is rather unremarkable, a 16-megapixel backside-illuminated sensor, but it should put out some terrific photos, whether the subject is shot in dark or light.
The lens, though, can zoom to 21x optical and at its shortest is a wide-angle 23mm equivalent. That is awe inspiring by itself, but even more amazing since it can instantly post photos to any where your heart desires: Instagram, Facebook, etc.
Its release date has not been announced.
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http://www.gadgetreview.com/2012/08/samsung-galaxy-camera.html
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Unofficially labeled a “speed management” tool, the Cobra iRadar fits the bill as the “coolest” gadget here. CNet reviewed the product:
The good: The Cobra iRadar works with or without a connected Android or iOS smartphone. Its car charger has a powered USB port for the paired smartphone. A free app helps you fine-tune the iRadar’s sensitivity and discern between actual alerts and false positives, as well as monitor for traffic cameras and speed traps.
The bad: We still ran into a number of false positives during our testing, requiring quite a bit of interaction with the app for the first few days.
The bottom line: The Cobra iRadar justifies its entry-level price as a good radar/laser detector. And when paired with a smartphone running the iRadar app, it becomes a much more flexible and useful speed management tool.
If your driver’s license is already revoked, you may be interested in other toys not related to hurtling down the interstate at breakneck speeds. CNet.com has a variety of new toys to view that are available for you to purchase.
http://reviews.cnet.com/2300-9150_7-10013247-1.html
Fortunately, Charlie Miller is on the Good Guys side. A skilled hacker, Mr. Miller demonstrated how to hijack a smartphone via short-range radio technology known as Near Field Communication (NFC). He created tools that forced phones to visit websites seeded with attack software. The software on the booby-trapped websites helped Mr. Miller look at and steal data held on a handset.
NFC is becoming increasingly common in smartphones as the gadgets are used as electronic tickets and digital wallets.
Mr. Miller, a research consultant at security firm Accuvant, demonstrated the work at the Black Hat hacker conference in Las Vegas. During his presentation, Mr. Miller showed how to attack three separate phones: the Samsung Nexus S, the Google Galaxy Nexus – which both run Android – and the Nokia N9, which runs on the MeeGo system.
Nokia has said they are aware of Mr. Miller’s work. No word from Google yet.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19010945
The Mobile World Congress, held in Barcelona, Spain for this year featured mobile technology at its best, with ideas, prototypes, and soon-to-be’s of the largest growing technology genre. Including industry heavyweights like HTC, Nokia, and Samsung.
First held in 1987, it is the world’s biggest mobile tech show operated by GSM Associates. Mobile World Congress was held in Cannes until 2006, at the time called “3GSM World”, and then was moved to Fira de Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain and renamed Mobile World Congress. Continuing to be the forefront of mobile communications technology with people and companies from 200 countries, this year’s MWC ran from February 27th to March 1st of this year, and while Q101 strives to one day cover an event this important on the other side of the world, Engadget were the ones to cover and report from the event, and you can read more about their coverage, and the amazing and exciting technology that is featured here.
Friday, February 24th there was a concert at The Congress Theater in Chicago featuring Devil, Kill The Noise, and Korn. The crowd was an amalgam of parents, adults, and children, “new” Korn fans and “old” Korn fans. Different people from different walks of life. Something a lot of the people who were at that show have in common is something great: Q101 fans.
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Q101 was at the Congress in force, spreading the word, talking about music and meeting fans new and old. Q101 hasn’t gone anywhere. Some concert goers said “You don’t exist anymore”. We do exist. it’s 2012, and technology changes, and matures. Q101.com, your iPhone, Android, and Blackberry. We aren’t just a “Chicago” radio station anymore. You can listen to us anywhere in the world. That’s what we came to tell our fans, and that’s what we did, with tons of people excited to see us.
And that’s not all folks, we’ve got fans in Korn as well, by the names of Ray and Wes:
Q101 had a great time at the Congress, and so did all the fans. We thank everyone that came out and enjoyed themselves, and we look forward to seeing you at the next one! And to the rest of you:
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Mobile gaming has become its own defined genre within the last year, with iOS and Android updating constantly, and their respective app stores becoming one of the most popular features for both. A nice stand out mobile game is Zombie Wonderland 2: Outta Time. You control the protagonist, a janitor who moon lights as a zombie slayer that holds his ground against waves of the undead in various places, such as barns, castles, and stores. Keeping the brain-eaters from clawing their way into the building you’re in, there’s also another dynamic to the game play where you have to constantly mop up the gibs and goo that the zombies leave behind (you ARE a janitor, after all).
Developer Xoobis has done an excellent job utilizing the iPhone’s multi-touch capabilities but not without issue, that the developer can’t be faulted for. The touch screen can barely handle all of the interactions of a player tapping a window to board it up, a zombie to shoot it, or a turret to repair it. With so many ways and means of zombie dismemberment and clean up the fun and replay value doesn’t burn out anytime soon. Tell your friends it has style and qualities reminiscent of Call of Duty’s zombie survival maps with a sprinkle of Plants vs. Zombies. You’ll enjoy the madness of keeping the rooms clean where you’re blowing the walking dead to oblivion and curse the limitations of the iPhone’s multi-touch ability, making what feels like a soon to be strong demand for it on the iPad, or portable gaming consoles such as the Nintendo DS, or the Sony PSP or Vita.
Zombie Wonderland 2: Outta Time is available in the App Store on sale for .99 cents for its launch (regular price will be $2.99)
I think I can speak for the majority of men when I say we like big televisions. The Android operating system is also extremely popular. Not just to us cave-dwelling macho men either. Android runs on around 40 percent of the smart phones on the market, and is enjoyed by men, women, children, and some nuns. So why not smash those two things together, and get some attention? That’s what tech company Lenovo is doing. Don’t call it a Google TV, however. It’s running Android 4.0, also known as “Ice Cream Sandwich”, which is the newest version of the Android operating system that is making its way to the public.
This week, at a sneak peek of the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show, Lenovo showed off their 55 inch LE TV, or “IdeaTV”, that’s using Android, with its own wallpaper, or “skin”. Yes, it’s a full HD television that comes with 2 remote controls with a little extra schwing. The remotes come with touch inputs to interact with the icons and applications on the television. 4 remotes can be used together in conjunction to interact. 4 USB ports, a micro SD slot, and HDMI ports make this a formidable television for the market.
Don’t get your hopes up just yet. Its initial release is coming to…. China. Yes, that’s right, China gets the first incarnation of this television in April. Patience is a virtue guys.
Mobile TV is back. And this time, it’s free. In advance of CES 2012, mobile TV venture Dyle, MetroPCS, and RCA announced plans to roll out a phone and tablet that support free, over-the-air mobile TV from NBC, Fox, Telemundo, Univision, and ION Networks.
MetroPCS promised an Android-powered Samsung phone with Dyle’s free TV service “later this year.” The company didn’t give many more details other than to say the phone will support 4G LTE and have a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Plus screen. The phone will also have an extendable antenna, like Verizon Wireless’s old FLO TV phones did. MetroPCS didn’t give a price except to say that it would be a “premium” phone.
Dyle is a partnership between NBC, Fox, ION and nine local station owners, including Cox, Belo and Hearst.
One Phone, For Now For now, the company is only announcing one smartphone with one carrier, though Dyle co-general manager (and NBC exec) Salil Dalvi noted that the MetroPCS deal wasn’t exclusive.
“MetroPCS is first, they’re leading the market, but you can envision if other carriers wanted to launch at some point I think everyone would be excited about that,” he said.
The Dyle-compatible smartphone will be available in parts of MetroPCS’s 14 major markets, although there will be a different numbers of channels in each city. New York and Los Angeles will each have 5-6 channels available, while Tampa may have just two, the service’s other co-general manager (and FOX exec), Erik Moreno, said. The channels will be simulcasts of local TV channels, right down to the ads.
“In LA, for example, you’ll see NBC, Fox, ION, Qubo and Telemundo,” Dalvi said.
To watch shows, you’ll load up a Dyle app and pick your show from an electronic program guide. There won’t be any DVR capabilities at launch.
The programming will be free for now, but it might not always be that way. While Dyle will be free in 2012, Dalvi said, the group may consider charging for programming in the future. He later said the company is open to possibly using some of NBC and Fox’s cable content (such as FX and Bravo) as well—those two ideas may go together.
“That’s not on our roadmap for 2012, but it’s obviously something we’ll think very carefully about in the future,” Dalvi said.
Along with the MetroPCS/Samsung/Dyle phone, CES will see a 7-inch, Android-powered tablet from RCA which will support the Dyle service, according to RCA spokesman Dave Arland.
The RCA tablet won’t be sold as a full-fledged tablet—it’ll be designed primarily to run the Dyle mobile TV app—but it’ll run a version of Android (albeit without the Market) and have Web browsing and alarm clock functions, Arland said. He didn’t give a release date or price for the new tablet.
One thing to remember, though: these are TVs, so they’ll only work where you get broadcast TV signal. That means they’ll work better by a window or outdoors than in an interior room.
“If there are issues indoors, we’ll learn along the way,” Dalvi said.
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Source: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2398309,00.asp
The partnership between these 3 tech giants: Google, Samsung, and Verizon Wireless has produced a much anticipated and high-powered device: The Samsung Galaxy Nexus. A powerhouse mobile device, exclusively on Verizon’s 4G LTE network, which is available in 190 United States markets, and covers 200 million people (claimed).
This phone comes out of the box ready to do almost everything except wash your car and help you travel through time. The operating system, care of Google, is Android 4.0, also known as “Ice Cream Sandwich”, as all of Androids operating systems have quaint food-related nicknames. 4.0 brings the Galaxy Nexus a complete overhaul to the look and feel of Android, touting a new UI (user interface), a better multi-tasking capability, and HTML5 total web experience.
Note – this phone is one of the devices that are part of the brutal patent battle between Samsung and Apple. To see more about the battle you can go here.
The Nexus holds a very impressive spec sheet, one that could give some of the low-end PCs and laptops a run for the money. A 1.2 GHz dual core processor with 1 GB of ram, and 32 GB of internal storage. A 1.3 megapixel front-facing camera for video chat, and rear camera of 5 megapixels, with panoramic shot capabilities, no shutter lag for those quick, off the cuff photos of your cat flying through the air after a laser pointer, or a good prank shot of your buddy taking a dump. A small suite of built-in photo editing effects guarantee you can give grandma a biker beard just in time for holiday photos.
Bluetooth 3.0 for clear sound and talking on wireless headsets, speakers, and PC communication, the ability to become a mobile hotspot, which when signed up for the service through the provider, will allow you to tether up to 10 Wi-Fi devices. (Man, she really can take a lot at once, can’t she?). 9.47 mm thin, with a 4.65 in Super Amoled HD screen, giving you one the biggest screen on the market for typing, taking photos, or viewing and recording videos.
A very interesting, and new feature being discussed with this device, is facial recognition software that utilizes the phone’s camera to lock/unlock your phone. Along with Android Beam, which is what you can use to share videos, apps, contact info, etc. just by literally tapping the two compatible phones together. Google Music and Google Cloud play a big part in the Galaxy Nexus, too, letting you choose the data that’s stored on your phone to sync with your cloud, along with using Google Music to be able to save up to 20,000 songs to the cloud.
Are you excited? Are you Sweaty, or maybe a little tight in the pants? Before you jump in your’ 91 Toyota, or charge your Segway, these are the rules that Verizon will impose on you:
The phone is available for $299.99 with a 2 year contract or upgrade, and you will have to have a voice plan higher than $39.99 a month, along with a minimum of their 2GB data plan. If you think that’s a raw deal, you can always stream your Netflix account, and furry porn on your home Wi-Fi connection.
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