samsung galaxy NOTE II

Network

    3G: HSPA+21Mbps
    (HSDPA 21Mbps / HSUPA 5.76Mbps)
    4G LTE: 100Mbps / 50Mbps

Processor

    1.6 GHz quad-core processor

OS

    Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean)
S Pen Optimized Features

    S Pen Experience
    - S Note, S Planner, Email with hand-writing
      integration
    - S Pen Keeper
    - Quick Command, Easy Clip, Photo Note,
      Paper Artist
    - Shape Match, Formula Match
 
Display

    140.9 mm (5.5") HD Super AMOLED (1,280 x 720)

Dimension

    80.5 x 151.1 x 9.4 mm, 180g

Battery

    Standard battery, Li-ion 3,100mAh

Memory

    16/32/64GB User memory + 2GB (RAM)
    microSD slot (up to 64GB)


Connectivity / Sharing Features

    Bluetooth® v 4.0 (Apt-X Codec support) LE
    USB 2.0 Host
    WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n (2.4 & 5 GHz), Wi-Fi HT40
    Wi-Fi Direct
    NFC
    S Beam
    Samsung AllShare Play & Control
    Samsung AllShare Cast (WiFi Display)
    - Mirroring & Extention
    Samsung AllShare Framework

Camera

    Main (Rear) : 8 Megapixel Auto Focus Camera with LED Flash, BSI
    Sub (Front) : 1.9 Megapixel VT Camera, BSI
    Best Photo, Best Face, Low light shot

Video

    Codec: MPEG4, H.263, H.264, VC-1, DivX, WMV7, WMV8, WMV9, VP8
    Format: 3GP(MP4), WMV(ASF), AVI, FLV, MKV, WebM
    Full HD(1080p) Playback & Recording

Audio

    Codec: MP3, OGG, WMA, AAC, ACC+, eAAC+, AMR(NB,WB), MIDI, WAV, AC-3, Flac
    Music Player with SoundAlive
    3.5mm Ear Jack

Content / Services
    Samsung Apps
    Samsung Hub
    - Game Hub
    - Media Hub (US only)
    - Learning Hub / Music Hub / Video Hub
    ※ The availability of each Samsung Hubs may
        differ by country

Sensor

    Accelerometer, RGB Light, Digital Compass, Proximity, Gyro, Barometer

GPS

    A-GPS
    Glonass

Enterprise Solutions

    On Device Encryption (H/W)
    Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync
    VPN(F5, Cisco, Juniper)
    MDM(Sybase Afaria, MobileIron, SOTI, Good)
    CCX
    VMware MVP


Other

    Samsung TouchWiz / Samsung L!ve Panel
    Samsung Kies /Samsung Kies Air
    Samsung ChatOn mobile communication service
    Smart Stay, Direct claa, Screen Recorder,
    Quick Glance
    Samsung ChatOn mobile communication service
    Samsung S Suggest

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Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830

General     2G Network     GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network     HSDPA 900 / 2100
      HSDPA 850 / 1900 - Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830L
SIM     Mini-SIM
Announced     2011, January
Status     Available. Released 2011, February
Body     Dimensions     112.4 x 59.9 x 11.5 mm (4.43 x 2.36 x 0.45 in)
Weight     113 g (3.99 oz)
     - Touch-sensitive controls
Display     Type     TFT capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size     320 x 480 pixels, 3.5 inches (~165 ppi pixel density)
Multitouch     Yes
Protection     Corning Gorilla Glass
     - TouchWiz v3.0 UI
Sound     Alert types     Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
Loudspeaker     Yes
3.5mm jack     Yes
     - DNSe sound enhancement
Memory     Card slot     microSD, up to 32GB, 2GB included
Internal     158 MB storage, 278 MB RAM
Data     GPRS     Yes
EDGE     Yes
Speed     HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps
WLAN     Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot
Bluetooth     Yes, v2.1 with A2DP
USB     Yes, microUSB v2.0
Camera     Primary     5 MP, 2592x1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash, check quality
Features     Geo-tagging, face and smile detection
Video     Yes, VGA@24fps

Features     OS     Android OS, v2.3
Chipset     Qualcomm MSM7227
CPU     800 MHz ARM 11
GPU     Adreno 200
Sensors     Accelerometer, proximity, compass
Messaging     SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email
Browser     HTML
Radio     Stereo FM radio with RDS
GPS     Yes, with A-GPS support
Java     Yes, via Java MIDP emulator
Colors     Black, White, Hugo Boss Edition, La Fleur
     - MP4/H.264/H.263 player
- MP3/WAV/eAAC+ player
- Organizer
- Document editor
- Image editor
- Google Search, Maps, Gmail,
YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa integration
- Voice memo/dial
- Predictive text input (Swype)

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Galaxy S III smart phone have officially broken 10 million units.

Samsung Galaxy S IIIMaybe Samsung is right and the next big thing really is here: sales of the company's Galaxy S III smart phone have officially broken 10 million units.

Though he was unable to provide specific numbers, the head of Samsung's information technology and mobile communication division, Shin Jong-Kyun, told the Yonhap News Agency that the company has moved more than 10 million Galaxy S III units since its initial launch in the EU and Middle East at the very end of May.

This outstrips the pace of its predecessor, the Galaxy S II, which took five months to reach 10 million units in sales. And the company's executives are likely satisfied with the news, as Samsung previously stated that, despite fighting component shortages, its goal was to hit the 10 million mark by early July.

To learn more about the Samsung Galaxy S III, have a look here at our review of the US version, or here for our review of the international version.

Source: Engadget

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Nokia 808 PureView

When the Nokia 808 Preview was announced earlier this year its 41MP camera sensor (for a maximum output resolution of 38MP) made headlines all over the tech industry. Not only does it feature the highest-resolution sensor of any mobile phone camera, but at the time of writing, the 808 PureView features the highest-resolution sensor of any current camera outside of highly specialist (and very costly) medium format equipment.

We've been eager to gets our hands on an 808 since the phone was announced, and a loan sample finally arrived in our Seattle office recently. We've been using it ever since. Please note though that this article doesn't touch on the 808 PureView's performance as a phone. That's not what interests us. We want to see what it's like as a camera... 
Key Photographic/Video Specifications

    38MP maximum resolution (in 4:3 aspect ratio - output size: 7728 x 5368 pixels)
    1/1.2" CMOS sensor, pixel size: 1.4um
    ISO 80-1600 (+ auto)
    Five white balance presets (including auto)
    Exposure compensation +/-4EV in 0.3EV steps
    Carl Zeiss F2.4 8.02mm lens (26mm, 16:9 | 28mm, 4:3 equiv)
    Focus range: 15cm – Infinity (throughout the zoom range)
    Construction:
    • 5 elements, 1 group. All lens surfaces are aspherical
    • One high-index, low-dispersion glass mould lens
    • Mechanical shutter with neutral density filter
    1080p HD video (up to 25Mb/s) with 4X 'lossless zoom'
    Stereo recording with Nokia Rich Recording - rated up to 140db

Features

The Nokia 808 PureView's large CMOS sensor has 41MP total, outputting a maximum of 38MP (resolution drops to 36MP in 16:9 aspect ratio). Such a high resolution sensor would be little more than a stunt if the camera specifications aren't up to scratch, but Nokia has designed the 808 to be a serious photographic tool. As well as some pretty impressive hardware, Nokia has also included a raft of enthusiast-friendly photographic features in the 808 including manual control over white balance, ISO and exposure (via exposure compensation and bracketing). Exposure compensation is as good as it gets though, in terms of manual exposure control - the 808 does not offer PASM modes (not unsurprisingly).

While it might sound counterintuitive to shoot a 38MP camera at 3MP, it actually makes a lot of sense in a device of this type. Apart from anything else, if you are one of those people whose first reaction to this product was to scream 'you don't need 41MP in a camera phone! The world has gone mad! The sky is falling in!' in a sense you were right - most people simply don't need to capture such high-resolution images on a phone.

But what you probably do want from a cellphone camera is good image quality, decent speed and responsiveness, and wouldn't it be nice to have a zoom, too? That's what the 808's lower-resolution PureView modes are designed to allow.
PureView (3/5/8MP)

Putting optical zooms into cellphone cameras is hard. Really really hard, which is why manufacturers tend to include digital zooms instead. Effectively just cropping and upsizing, conventional digital zoom kills image quality. Normally, the instinct of any serious digital photographer would be to run away from 'digital zoom' features for precisely this reason. But the 808 is very far from conventional.


In Nokia's words, 'pixel oversampling combines many pixels to create a single (super) pixel'. In theory then, at 28mm (equivalent) - i.e., without any 'zoom', the camera's 3MP PureView output should give the best critical image quality, followed by 5MP, then 8MP, and then 38MP. When fully zoomed in, all four output modes will give the same pixel-level image quality, since at this point there is no oversampling going on  -as incated by '1:1' in the graph above.
PureView 'Zoom'

How much you can 'zoom' using the 808 depends on what output resolution mode you're in. If you're shooting at full resolution you can't zoom at all - you're stuck with the lens' native 28mm (equivalent) focal length. In 3MP PureView mode you get the equivalent of a 3.6X 'zoom' - this drops to roughly 3X in 5MP mode, and about 2X in 8MP mode. The table below shows four images, taken at the 'longest' extent of the 'zoom' in each of the 808's output resolution modes.



source:http://www.dpreview.com/

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HTC Desire X Review: Finally, A Pre-Paid Device Worth Buying

12 months ago, HTC pledged to slim down its product offerings and only focus on hero handsets. Despite that promise, the handset maker seems to be camping on most of the alphabet for its current set of products. One of them is a top-end pre-paid handset: the HTC Desire X. Pre-paid devices used to carry a stigma of being underpowered and under-specked, but this handset is here to set the record straight.

What Is It?

The HTC Desire X is a 4-inch, $299 prepaid handset from Optus. It sports a 1Ghz dual-core processor, 768MB of RAM, 4GB of storage and Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich. It’s running on the Optus 3G network rather than the new 4G offerings.

What’s Good?

Just because you’re buying a pre-paid handset doesn’t mean you have to buy something rubbish. This handset restores quality to the many mediocre pre-paid offerings of late.

The Desire X looks and feels a lot like a 4-inch version of the One S — HTC’s mid-range post-paid handset. It’s running the Sense UI on top of the Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system.

Unlike a lot of Android handsets we have seen before, the Desire X is smooth and fast. The Sense UI doesn’t detract from the overall Android experience like it occasionally does on other handsets and the fact that it comes out of the box with Ice Cream Sandwich installed means that the Desire X is more advanced in software than a lot of post-paid handsets are these days.

It puts in a Geekbench 2 performance worthy of its specs, meaning that the Desire X is pulling all the power it can out of that dual-core 1Ghz processor to score the 660 we got in our tests.

As far as the 1650mAh battery is concerned, you’ll have to charge it once a day, but you won’t be hunting for a charger with an eye on the percentage numbers at 3pm every afternoon.

The other solid performance comes from the screen. Everytime I go eyes on with the HTC One XL, I’m impressed by the screen’s brightness and vivid white quality. The same carries through on the Desire X: it’s a screen that performs beautifully despite its 480 x 800 pixel resolution.

What’s Bad?

Just while we’re on the screen, it’s worth noting that — despite the brightness — glare makes it almost unusable in sunlight.

With every handset, we look at what could have been.

HTC could have bolted 4G, Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean, a bigger camera and larger speaker on the device, but then it wouldn’t have come in at $299. There are concessions that need to be made to hit that price point. Despite these omissions, though, the Desire X is still a great handset.

It’s also worth noting that the all-plastic construction of the Desire X may put some people off.

Should You Buy It?

The Desire name carries weight, especially in Australia. The original HTC Desire was the jumping off point for Android in Australia when it was carried on Telstra way back when. Now that HTC is looking to simplify its offerings, the Desire name has been shifted into the realm of pre-paid handsets. It’s not all bad, though.

The HTC Desire X carries the sexy design of the HTC One S with the specs of a top-end pre-paid device. At $299, it hits the perfect price point for what it is, while standing head-and-shoulders above other mediocre pre-paid offerings on Opts’ network.

If you’re in the market for a pre-paid handset that doesn’t suck, get the HTC Desire X.


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iPad mini

Apple has not yet even acknowledged the existence of the iPad Mini, but pricing and configuration information for the much-rumored tablet is allegedly already appearing in a consumer electronics giant's inventory system.

The iPad Mini will come in 16 different memory and wireless configurations, according to an inventory system screen shot obtained by Mobile Geeks. The screen capture allegedly comes from the internal inventory system of Media Market, Europe's largest electronics retailer

The page -- in German -- lists pricing for various configurations in Eros, presumable with Europe's 19 percent value added tax already factored into the price. Prices will start at 249 Euros ($322.60) for a Wi-Fi-only 8 GB iPad Mini, with other memory configurations of 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB also available. The high-end 64GB cellular version is listed at about $650, presumably with 4G LTE capability.

 iPad Mini rumors have been swirling for months, with various sources reporting that the device will feature a 7.85-inch display and go on sale for a price that's far cheaper than Apple's current, larger tablet.

Apple has reportedly already begun mass production of the new tablet, which is expected to be introduced on October 23. However, one Asia news outlet reports that production issues will delay its debut .

Apple has reportedly ordered 10 million units of the unannounced tablet for the fourth quarter, roughly twice what Amazon reportedly ordered for the Kindle Fire for the same quarter.


Release Date

Right now, the best rumor we have for a release date says the event will be held October 23rd.. Apple typically releases products one or two Fridays after its keynotes.

For what it's worth, the 23rd would manage to steal a good amount of thunder from the October 26th Windows 8 release date, and shipping on November 2nd would put the Mini out just a few days before the presidential election.

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