Google Drive is now official, offers 5GB of free cloud storage

After being rumored for the better part of the last year, Google officially just announced its own cloud storage solution – Drive.

Google Drive gives you 5GB of storage the second you sign in to use the service. No questions asked. The interface is based on Google Docs and you can collaborate with other people on documents, spreadsheets and presentations. The sharing and collaboration system is enhanced by comments, which you get notified for if they are new.

If you’ve been using Dropbox, you’ll feel very at home with Google Drive. That’s because Google has borrowed an idea or two from the undisputed cloud storage leader, hoping to get to sit in its cozy throne some day. Drive comes with a desktop client for Windows and Mac OS X and in the form of a mobile app for Android. It seems though, iPhone and iPad users will have to wait a bit to get their Drive apps.

Once in Drive, you get a list of all your documents from Google Docs and your files from the designated folder on your computer. Those files get listed on the service’s mobile app as well.

Naturally, Google has used its immense search know-how in Drive. You can search your files by keyword, file type, owner and more. It can even recognize text in scanned documents using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology. It goes one step further by using image recognition technology on your photos. So if, for example, you’ve made a photo of the Colosseum in Rome and later search for “Colosseum”, your Drive photos of that place will appear as results.

If you find 5GB too limiting, Google gives you plenty of upgrade options for a monthly fee. You can choose between 25GB of cloud storage for $2.49/month, 100GB for $4.99/month or 1TB for $49.99 month. An added bonus is that if you choose an upgrade, your Gmail account storage also increases by 25GB of space. Check out Google’s introductory video to their brand new service.

Google has integrated Drive very tightly with its other services like Google+ and Gmail. The company says you’ll eventually be able to share stuff from your Drive in Google+ or attach it directly in Gmail.

Now it’ll be interesting to see how the competition from Dropbox, SugarSync, SkyDrive, Box.net and others respond to the Google challenge.
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Samsung Galaxy 3 Phone official teaser is out

As expected, Samsung just launched their Next Galaxy teaser video. At the event on May 3 in London, Samsung is expected to unveil its highly anticipated Galaxy S II successor and, reportedly, a quad-core tablet. Enough with the chit-chat, here's the video itself.

We are yet to see if Samsung will succeed in converting more users to the Galaxy cause, but it's certain that the event will be the focus of everyone's attention. We are also interested to see if a certain Samsung competitor, which is currently in fierce legal battle with the Koreans, will provide some kind of response to the last part of the teaser video.
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Samsung Galaxy 3 Photo 'dummy box' prototype surfaces

Samsung GT-I9300 'dummy box' prototype surfaces. We have another picture of what is likely to be the next Galaxy phone. As usual, the phone is camouflaged by being placed within a case but we still get a glimpse of some of the important bits.

For starters, we see the arrangement of the buttons at the bottom of the display. For the first time, we are also seeing a Menu button there, along with the Back, Home and multitasking button. Samsung has changed the order of the keys again and placed it on the left unlike the Galaxy Nexus, which places it on the right. Also, unlike the Galaxy Nexus, the Menu button pushes the other three buttons on the right, so they are no longer in the center.

What's curious, though, is what we see below the display. There is a physical Home button, not unlike the ones we have seen on previous versions of the Galaxy smartphones. However, we did not see this when we first spotted this prototype device. If the phone is going to have on-screen controls then it makes no sense to have a physical Home button. Perhaps this is something that will eventually disappear by the time the phone reaches the production stage.

Another thing to note is the shape of the device. If you look closely, placed within the case, the corners of the base seem to be highly curved. If you remember the media invite image for the Mobile Unpacked 2012 image, you see two curved droplets of white and blue metallic substance.

If we put on our soothsayer hats for a minute, we can see the Galaxy S III being available in white and blue colored versions, with the blue model having a metallic finish, and both having highly curved corners. The curves will help the device fit your palm perfectly, which also goes with Samsung's tagline that says "For technology to be truly smart, shouldn't it fit into your life naturally?" with additional references to Galaxy fitting in your hands in the teaser video.

Anyway, we won't have to wait too long to find out how it really looks like, with the Samsung event being just a week away from today.
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Apple violated one of four Motorola Mobility patent rights

The never-ending patent war in the mobile world wages on. This time it's Apple that may have found themselves in hot water after an ITC judge found the Cupertino-based company guilty of infringing on one of Motorola Mobility's patents.

Motorola is coming fresh from a preliminary win against Microsoft (in a suit about the Xbox), but both that and today's ruling need to be reviewed by a six-member commission before they come into effect.

Anyway, Motorola had slapped Apple with a suit for violating four of its patents, though the ITC judge found that Apple is only violating one of them. It's a patent on 3G that helps reduce noise in signals.

Apple feels that they're in the clear: "A court in Germany has already ruled that Apple did not infringe on this patent, so we believe we will have a very strong case on appeal".

The six-member commission will announce its decision on August 23 and if they decide in favor of Motorola, the company will be able to block imports of Apple gadgets in the US.

Meanwhile, both Apple and Microsoft have filed complaints against Motorola in Europe, claiming that Moto is using some patents, which are essential to the industry, which they are not supposed to do (RAND).
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Apple announces Q2 2012 financial results

Apple has announced its financial results for the fiscal second quarter of 2012 that ended in March 31, 2012. Their total revenue for this quarter was $39.2 billion and the quarterly net profit was $11.6 billion. In comparison, the figures were $24.7 billion and $6.0 billion respectively for the same quarter last year.

As usual, the iPhone did very well this quarter, with Apple selling 35.1 million of those, up by 88 percent compared to year-ago quarter. Sales were down compared to the first quarter, however, where Apple managed to sell 37.04 million iPhones, the reason for this being chalked down to the holiday season that boosted the sales in the previous quarter.

As far as iPads are concerned, Apple sold 11.8 million of them, a 151 percent jump over the year-ago quarter but still down from the 15.43 million sold in the previous quarter. Apple also sold 4 million Macs (7 percent increase) and 7.7 million iPods (15 percent increase).

The current amount of cash in Apple’s bank account now stands at a staggering $110 billion, up by $12.4 billion since the last quarter.

For more information, check out the source link below.
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Samsung Galaxy S Advance I9070 is now available

Samsung I9070 Galaxy S Advance is finally available. The smartphone was announced back in January and it was scheduled for April release. Samsung managed to keep its promise – the phone is now in stock at various retailers across Europe.

Clove UK was the first to report it has the Galaxy S Advance in stock – it costs £323 there.

The Galaxy S Advance comes with a first-generation Super AMOLED WVGA screen, a 1GHz dual-core Cortex-A9 processor, Mali-400 MP graphics and 768MB RAM. There is a 5 megapixel camera with HD video recording and 8 or 16GB internal storage as well as optional NFC connectivity. The phone runs on Android 2.3.6 Gingerbread, but it will probably get ICS later this year.

Amazon DE offers the non-NFC version of the Galaxy S Advance for €365, but we found it for €330 at other online retailers.
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Samsung Galaxy S3 photo leaks

It's time for today's "photo of the Samsung Galaxy S3" leak - these seem to occur more and more often as we come closer to May 3, when Samsung's Unpacked event will finally settle things one and for all.

The leaked photo in question (the one on the left) shows a device with a hardware home button with two capacitive keys on its sides (menu and back). You can see the volume rocker on the left and the power/lock key on the right - basically, the standard Samsung arrangement.

Note: the middle and right photos come from previous leaks.

The newly leaked photo is the one on the left The screen is off, so there's no way to tell if the device uses the on-screen buttons that we've seen in previous leaks. But it does look an awful lot like the sketch in the alleged leaked manual. And the bezel is very thin - as it would need to be with the rumored 4.6-4.8" screen.
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Samsung Q1 2012 results are out, takes top spot from Nokia

Samsung announced its financial results for the first quarter of this year and the South Korean company is cheering. Analysts like Strategy Analytics say that it is now king of the mobile phone hill - ending Nokia's 14-year reign.

Samsung shipped 93.5 million phones in the three month period, while the former champ Nokia managed just 82.7 million. Of the shipped Samsung phones, 44.5 million were smartphones, which beats Apple's achievement of 35.1 million smartphones. This puts Samsung on top both in terms of both total phones shipped and in the number of smartphones.

Consolidated revenue went up 22% year on year to $39.9 billion, while consolidated net profit reached $4.4 billion.

The chip manufacturing business is down, but demand for DRAM chips and application processors (especially the cool new 32nm ones) is expected to bounce back up in Q2.

The Samsung profit drivers were really IT & Mobile communications business and the display business.

The mobile business is seeing strong demand for smart devices of the Galaxy line (like the Galaxy S II and Galaxy Note), with revenue from the mobile division increasing 86% year-on-year.

IT was again the strong demand for high-end TVs (LED and 3D) along with tablet and OLED panels that helped push operating profit of Samsung's Consumer Electronics business up a whopping 550% in the quarter (year-on-year) to $9.4 billion.

You can find out more details on Samsung's performance in Q1 from its press release or this earnings release PDF.
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Samsung Galaxy S3 GT-I9300 service manual revealed

Assuming we are to believe everything we heard so far about the Galaxy S3, and especially the leak in the KIES system, which is as good as official, the model name for Samsung's next flagship will be the I9300.

So today there is this leak, which shows the Samsung GT-I9300 service manual, so it should be nothing else but the S3, right?

Well, yes, assuming the manual is legit in the first place. But since we only got here after so much assuming, we'll let you decide whether that sketch of a phone is the final design.

Regarding the specs, we are not that sure. Nothing there seems that much out of the ordinary, but the screen so far has only been rumored as a 4.6-incher and at 4.8 inches it's would be closer to the Note than to the regular phone lineup. For all we know, the whole leak could be bogus so take it with a pinch of salt. Anyway, we'll know the real specs come next week.

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Amazon Kindle Fire owns more than half of the Android tablet market

Since its release, the Kindle Fire has skyrocketed to the top of the Android tablet market, now holding a whopping 54.4%.

By comparison, the entire Samsung Galaxy Tab family is in the second spot with 15.4%.

U.S. Market Share of Android Tablets by Unique Devices Dec-2011, Jan-2012, Feb-2012 Total U.S. Source: comScore Device Essentials*
	% Share of Android Tablets
	Dec-11	Jan-12	Feb-12
Amazon Kindle Fire	29.4%	41.8%	54.4%
Samsung Galaxy Tab Family	23.8%	19.1%	15.4%
Motorola Xoom	11.8%	9.0%	7.0%
Asus Transformer	6.4%	6.2%	6.3%
Toshiba AT100	7.1%	7.0%	5.7%
Acer Picasso	6.0%	5.2%	4.3%
Acer Iconia	2.8%	2.6%	2.1%
Dell Streak	2.2%	1.7%	1.3%
Lenovo IdeaPad Tablet K1	0.7%	0.9%	1.2%
Sony Tablet S	0.9%	0.8%	0.7%
Other	8.9%	5.6%	1.6%

The latest report indicates that the Amazon product has been a massive success, especially considering it has only been on the market since November. The comScore results also polled the number of page views by different tablet sizes, showing that the larger the tablet, the more intensively it’s being used for web browsing.

Average Browser Page Views per Tablet Feb-2012 Total U.S. Source: comScore Device Essentials*
Tablet Screen Size	Browser Page Views per Tablet
10 inch	125
9 inch	116
7 inch	90
5 inch	79

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Nokia N9 to get PR1.3 update

The PR1.2 update for the MeeGo-running Nokia N9 came out a couple of months ago, but even before that Nokia had been teasing PR1.3, calling it a "small but valuable" update.

Someone from a MeeGo fanblog was eager to find out more details on the next update, so they contacted Nokia - and Nokia answered. Reportedly, a Nokia representative said that the update will be out by the end of May and confirmed that the update is small, but it would contain many surprises.

The Nokia representative couldn't comment on whether the Skype app for the N9 will support video calling, like the Google Talk Video Call app already does (Skype is a third-party app after all).

It goes without saying that this info should be treated as a rumor for now.

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ZTE announces Q1 2012 results

As you may recall, ZTE made some bold statements earlier this week, most notably involving ambitions to start shipping some 100 million smartphones annually by 2015. This goal now seems slightly less realistic, after they fell short of their forecast results for the first quarter of the year.

ZTE's biggest rival, crosstown manufacturer Huawei, reported a 53% decrease in its 2011 profits, despite a sales growth of only 11.7% and ZTE also noted similar trends.

Many analysts attribute these numbers to ongoing price wars between the two giants, as each strives to gain market share in China's competitive mobile economy.

Either way, ZTE is still slated to release a massive amount of devices in the coming years, if their MWC announcement extravaganza is any indication. We'll have to wait and see if they make you reach for your wallet anytime soon.
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BlackBerry 10 developer Alpha device leaked

RIM is holding a BlackBerry Jam conference next month in Orlando where it is supposed to give out development devices running the upcoming BlackBerry 10 to ten of the developers attending the event. We are now seeing what are allegedly pictures of this developer device, courtesy of a CrackBerry forum member.

The phone looks like a shrunken down PlayBook, with the same matte plastic back that goes around the side and surrounds the display. The front has the earpiece and a camera at the top, the display in the middle and what seems like a (blurred out) logo at the bottom.

Of course, how this device looks like is irrelevant because it is only intended as a developer unit and won't make it to production. The final devices are likely to have a bit more flair although to be honest this doesn't look to shabby either.
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Prime Zenbook new laptop with a processor Ivy Bridge and IPS screen

                         Asus is preparing the launch of two new notebooks - Zenbooks Prime. Models will offer screens with 11.6 or 13.3 inches with a resolution of 1080p.
                                                 


                        Engadget Chinese branch of service has gathered information on the latest laptops from Asus, even before their official release. Devices with screen diagonals of 11.6, and 13.3 inches to be named  Zenbook Prime and will be numbered accordingly and UX31A UX21A. The new laptops are to be produced with 22-nanometer technology (most likely low-voltage) Intel processors Ivy Bridge, IPS panels with 1920 x 1080 pixels and SSD to 256 GB capacity.
 

                       Prices of new Zenbooks Prime to start with $ 1,050.

Samsung Bests Nokia as World's Top Phone Maker

Two separate reports released today confirmed that Samsung has now struck Nokia as the world's top cell phone maker.They were at odds, however, about whether Samsung or Apple is the most popular smartphone maker.According to IHS iSuppli, Samsung shipped 92 million handsets in the first quarter while Nokia shipped 83 million. While Samsung has the whole was 13 per cent drop from the fourth quarter of last year, Nokia's total was 27 per cent drop, helping Samsung nab the top spot after 14 years of Nokia rule, according to iSuppli.Rounding out the five, according to iSuppli, it was Apple with 35 million shipments, 5 per cent decline from the previous part, LG with 14 million, and RIM with 11 million.Strategy Analytics reported similar numbers, putting Samsung at 25.4 per cent market for global handset shipments, followed by Nokia at 22.5 percent, and Apple's 9.5 percent."Five years after it captured the number two spot from Motorola, Samsung has finally become the world's largest handset vendor in volume terms," ​​Alex Spektor, associate director at Strategy Analytics, said in a statement.Nokia's drop, according to Strategy Analytics executive director Neil Mawston, can be attributed to a decrease in low-end feature phone shipments, as well as the failure of the new Windows Phone-based Lumia line to compensate for the decline of Nokia's Symbian business.Who is the Winner Smartphone?On the smartphone front, however, iSuppli put Apple in the number one, while Strategy Analytics indicated Samsung.According to iSuppli, Apple has shipped 35 million smartphones in the first quarter to Samsung's 32 million. Strategy Analytics, however, said Samsung is the total was 44.5 million to Apple's 35.1 million. Nokia has landed at number three on both lists with 12 per cent of the market."With mobile phones now accounting for more than 40 per cent of Samsung's overall revenue, it is clear that the company's ongoing investments in smartphone hardware and software R & D pays off," said Wayne Lam, senior analyst for wireless communications at iSuppli. "The company not only Chasing the market shift to smartphones, but also occurring in other cell phone product categories, enabling it to capture the overall market lead."Lam said Samsung performance is all the more impressive for their next smartphone, the Galaxy S III, not yet released. We expect unveiled in May 3 event in London. "This indicates a Samsung is likely to make further progress in the market in 2012," Lam said.

Apple's new iPad goes on sale in India

New Delhi (Reuters) - The new iPad on sale in India on Friday minus the hysteria that had marked the launch of Apple's latest tablet in the United States and nine other countries in March.It was not consumers lining around city streets and no agonizing wait loyal fans waiting to get their hands on a new Apple device."We sell about 12 to 15 of the new iPads today," said Afzal Ahmed, a team leader at Apple Premium Reseller in New Delhi's Connaught Place. "Also, it was almost 40 which was reserved earlier.""It's certainly not the kind of mania we saw with the previous iPads."One reason could be the third generation iPad is more like an improvement, with high-definition "retina" display and better camera than the main innovation.Raman Kumar, a 31-year-old businessman walked into a 7 in the evening in New Delhi's central business district, and bought a white 64GB wi-fi and 4G version - at 50,900 rupees the most expensive iPad on offer.But the Apple fan, who already own the iPhone and the MacBook, said he may not get to use the device frequently."This is basically for my children to play games," he said.A Reuters photographer in a store in Mumbai's Bandra district after saw a teenager and two executives browsing to the new iPad but said there was little evidence will be hot seller.The new iPad on sale in India more than a month after the popular tablet computer was available in 10 countries including the United States.The third iteration of the best selling device is a price between 30,500 rupees and 50,900 rupees in the Indian market according to the variant.The iPad with 16 GB of memory that works only on wi-fi networks is the price of 30,500 rupees, while that can run on both wi-fi as well as fourth generation (4G) mobile networks costs 38,900 rupees.The new iPad, however, is not compatible with the 4G LTE network currently available in India and customers will have to do with the 3G networks.Bharti Airtel has launched India first 4G network in Kolkata this month and is expanding the high-speed network to Bangalore, Pune and Chandigarh in the coming months.But the Indian networks are powered by a different radio spectrum band than those used by the 4G iPad, which is supported only on the networks of a handful of U.S. and Canadian carriers.The iPad is the clear market leader around the world, and the new version with faster chips, fourth-generation wireless and acute exposure expected to cement Apple's lead.Customers will have the option to buy the new iPad in black or white with 16, 32, or 64 GB of memory, and can choose a model that works only on wi-fi or in both wi-fi and 4G.The company continued to sell the iPad 2 in India, but slashed their prices, with the 16 GB wi-fi model is now available for 24,500 for the 3G version will cost 32,900 rupees."The price is a little high, but who cares?" Said Hans Tenth, 26, a real estate consultant who has seen the device in a recent trip to Singapore. "It's iPad. I bought one for sure.

Sony VAIO E 14P - new laptop with functionality Kinect

This spring, the new Sony VAIO  E 14P laptop with 14-inch screen, anyone can show your own style.

                            At home, on campus and in the cafeteria a new series of VAIO E stands out fine, "portfolio" style. Three fresh colors - white, black and pink - are complemented by colorful decorations on the rim, lid, trackpad and keyboard of the new laptop. Further increases the attractiveness of the appearance of aluminum speaker frame.                           The keyboard has a conveniently located, isolated keys, and its lights - activated by the ambient light sensor - enables error-free writing, even late in the evening. The same sensor reduces the screen brightness to reduce energy use in low light.
 

                        The large trackpad gesture support allows you to click on the large surface area and allows for intuitive, "bezprzyciskową" service. So there is no shortage of web pages to view or edit their photos using gestures such as scrolling, pinch, zoom and rotate.                       New to the VAIO is support for gestures, through which you can perform some operations with intuitive hand movements. For example, placing a hand in front of a webcam and moving it left or right, you can flip through web pages or pictures in the gallery. Dragging his hand down the music stops, and the rotation will increase or decrease the volume. Gesture support is now available in Windows Media Player, Internet Explorer 9, PowerPoint, and PowerDVD.

                       Built-in camera with Exmor HD improves image quality during video calls. Friends and relatives will appreciate the better mapped detail, greater contrast and richer colors - even in low light conditions where other cameras produce only grainy and blurred vision.                       Designers Series VAIO E 14P made sure that good looks were complemented by clear audio. Sony's unique technologies and Clear Phase xLOUD increase the sound volume without distortion, which translates into an impressive sound movies and games. You can also enable Dolby Home Theatre V4, which will provide a rich, cinematic sound, both in listening to the built-in speakers and through headphones or external speakers.
                                             
                                Hybrid graphics system uses a dedicated graphics processor for applications with significant complexity, such as games, viewing movies and editing photos. For less demanding tasks the processor is turned off, which increases battery life. To extend the working time also contributes to the effective display VAIO and low-power processors, as well as a built-in optical drive, which is in standby mode at all does not drain.                              With the new Rapid Wake + Eco, the computer instantly ready for action. This energy-saving mode switches your VAIO in deep sleep mode. The machine consumes the least energy, so it can remain in this mode for up to 10 days. But it is enough to open the computer cover, in a few seconds, all files and applications have been restored to its state before sleep.                              The new series of laptops VAIO E 14P will be available in white, black and pink.

JoeyBra: An iPhone Holster in Your Bra

A company has come up with an alternative to carrying your iPhone in your purse for the times when you don't want to carry your purse. It's called JoeyBra and as you might have already guessed it's a bra with a holster at its side where you can slide your iPhone in. If you're looking to put other things in there, it looks like even some credit cards or cash might be able to fit in that small pocket. The project which is featured on Kickstarter currently has 12 backers and is the product of two students from the University of Washington called Kyle and Mariah.

Samsung Galaxy S3 launch date for May 3, 2012

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Samsung Galaxy S3 release date has been announced. It is May 3. Meanwhile its expected Specs and features are being talked about across.We have been hearing rumors from a long time that the Samsung Galaxy iii.

What Samsung Galaxy S3 features can we expect? T3 looks ahead to the imminent announcement of the much anticipated Android smartphone

Android smartphone fans and Samsung Galaxy S2 owners should mark this date in their diaries as the day that a Samsung Galaxy S3 official launch will take place as invites were sent out for the London-based event.

We've already heard what the Samsung Galaxy S3 rumour mill has had to say about the features, specs and release date, with the imminent announcement of the Galaxy S2 successor we've picked six features that we feel would make Samsung the talk of the smartphone world in 2012.Samsung Galaxy S3 may simply be named as the next Galaxy S, and it is expected to be unveiled on May 3 during Samsung Unpacked Event.Samsung Galaxy S3 Features, samsung galaxy s3 specs, samsung galaxy s3 verizon, samsung galaxy s3 release date, iphone 5, galaxy phone s3, samsung galaxy s3.

Samsung Galaxy S3 Image Leaked

There is no doubt that the Samsung Galaxy S 3 is a highly expected smartphone, actually it’s probably the most expected device of 2012. A lot of leaked pics appeared lately, most claimed to be the real thing when actually all of them were obviously fake. This one is different from the others because it truly seems authentic. This time, the Samsung Galaxy S 3 appears to be unveiled on May 3rd, in a press invite.

The photo is not exactly what we wanted as it doesn’t show many details, though most press invites don’t reveal much anyway. The clear fact is that the design is very intriguing with lost of nice curves which give it a futuristic appearance. The image was exposed by the guys at Phandroid which means that there is a good chance that it could a real capture of the Samsung Galaxy S 3.
However, if I take my time in thinking about it, there are some aspects that just don’t fit in the equation. The first thing that makes me doubt the authenticity of the image is the fact that the presumed press invite on which the photo was taken took place so early (these kind of press invites never go out two months early). Another thing, if I look closely at the phone’s design, though I really like it and think it could be the next flagship of Samsung as the company is always trying to separate itself from its competitors and to make it different from the Galaxy S 2, it looks a little out there. If we look back in time, the leaked images with the Galaxy Nexus had the same curved appearance that was really extreme, and I think that this would be the same situation. Also, the gash on the side looks kinda weird which makes me believe that the phone could come with a stylus, which would be very odd and extremely disappointing.


But lets not be so skeptical because the leak is very mind blowing indeed. It’s very confusing as there are two possibilities: either this is in fact the real Samsung galaxy S 3 or someone took a lot of time imagining a smart plausible press invite photo. As for the unveil date, May 22nd was speculates more than once, thus it might be something about it.


Rumor has it that the new Samsung Galaxy s 3 will have a quad-core 1.5 Exynos processor, 1 GB of RAM, a 4.65-inch HD Super AMOLED display with 16:9 ratio,  a NFC chip, a highly advanced 12 MP camera with LED flash and 1080p video recording support and 4G LTE capabilities (where available). As for the out of the box OS, the Samsung Galaxy S 3 will come packed with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

Gmail: disruption for millions of users

While the rumor swells around the launch of Google Drive (next week?), A cloud service from Google has been some disturbance Tuesday.

For nearly an hour around 19h, hosted Gmail users with a 500 error page when trying to connect. A 500 ​​error is a sign of an internal server error.

The outage was felt worldwide and affected individuals and professionals who hold a Google Account.

Particularly with social networks, this problem does not pass unnoticed. Gmail has nearly 350 million users. The first minutes of the incident, Google has raised an impact for less than 2% of them prior to reassess its estimate to less than 10%. A small percentage but still some 35 million users.

Google has apologized for the inconvenience and ensure the reliability of its system remains a top priority. In 2010, Gmail's uptime was 99.984% and 99.99% in 2011. What perspective.

the percentage of users affected was estimated at less than 2% and less than 10%, not the other way as we noted earlier due to incorrect reading of the dashboard of the state of Google apps.

Samsung Galaxy S3 May be resistant to water

P2i is also looking to create a standard to which all manufacturers can adhere for making phones water resistant, which would make networks more likely to range the phones if they were to need fewer repairs.

"There is major interest from carriers in the US to discuss criteria to help against water ingestion for customers," said Eric Cohill, COO for P2i.

"We're working with major carriers to create a standard of performance [for water repellence] which can give OEMs something to work to when creating smartphones.

"There are several hundred pound gorillas in the phone industry, we've got the 'fruity companies' and the big Korean brands, and they're all becoming interested [in our technology] as they don't want to be second best in the market."

The Galaxy S3 will be launched on May 3 in London

After many rumors and false leads of officials from Samsung, the launch date of the Galaxy S III is confirmed for May 3 in London. This morning we received an invitation to discover the next Galaxy. Samsung has confirmed that this was the Galaxy S III. After the success of Galaxy S and S II, S III is a much anticipated new iPhone.

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Download Free Dictionary Apps for Android

Android have a large of numbers dictionary apps although some of them are not useful. So here we listed the Top 5 Best and Free Dictionary Apps for Android Phones you must have download and use it. All this applications will enhance the functionality of your devices and helps to find you accurate definitions of every word what you are searching for. With the help of applications, the function of a gadget like a cell phone extends beyond its main role of making and receiving calls to a gadget of multiple functions. It can help you in your work or studies. It can also offer you ample amount of entertainment. In this regard, the applications for the powerful Android are worth mentioning. Android with its brilliant technology supports a number of applications which can be pretty enthralling.

We selected Top 5 of the best dictionary apps from Google Play Android market :

1.) Dictionary.com - The famous web dictionary in the form of an application is available for Android smartphones. It provides reliable resources from Dictionary.com as well as Thesaurus.com. It provides words and also definitions numbering to 375,000. Also there are 300,000 of synonyms and antonyms. Other added features include spelling suggestions, Word of the Day, origin of words, audio pronunciation, voice search and home screen widget. Download It

2.) Advanced English and Thesaurus - This fascinating application gives access to entries up to 140,000 and words above 1.4 million. These are provided by WordNet database, which was formulated by Princeton University’s Cognitive Science Laboratory. Its uniqueness stands in organizing major parts of speech into cognitive synonyms. Moreover, it displays how words are linked in relation to similar words, synonyms, antonyms and hyponyms. There are also hyperlinks between words that are related. Download It

3.) Merriam-Webster – America’s favorite dictionary comes as a resourceful application in Android. It is a very effective resource for building one’s vocabulary and also very good for reference purposes. Definitions are provided from Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary. It can be widely used for searching synonyms, antonyms and example sentences. Further, its technology enables one to conduct voice search. Download It

4.) Offline Dictionaries - It provides the privilege to use dictionaries with the exclusion of a network connection. It can be helpful while traveling or in places with no access to network connections. One can choose which dictionaries to download and store them in their SD cards. This includes dictionaries over 40 languages. Download It

5.) Free Dictionary Org - It comes up with definitions, pronunciations, spellings and synonyms. It has other useful features like Wikipedia integration, auto-suggestion and offline search. Quiz games can be played through it. Additionally, it includes the feature of displaying a word (that is searched for) on Google Images. Download It

The scholarly dictionary apps for Android provide ease and efficiency while searching for words. These are great tools for learning. There are numerous other fascinating applications from Android which you can use in your daily life for various purposes. Android with its fabulous technology adds fun to work and learning.

Mobile Recharging Battery

Worried about the mobile battery while in travel. Another concept for your needs. Continuance is a set of batteries with a USB interface. These batteries are rechargeable plus is Handy, compact and a totally do-able concept! Kudos to the concept designer. Continuance is an iF concept design entry for 2011.

Designers: Haimo Bao, Hailong Piao, Yuancheng Liu & Xiameng Hu