Google starts selling mobile phones through Google Play

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Galaxy Nexus is the first phone to sell through Google Play (Android Market), in the USA. The company plans to extend it to other markets soon.

Google has started to sell Samsung Galaxy Nexus though its Google Play store (earlier called Android Market) in the USA. It has created a new 'Devices' section in the Google Play web store, though which it will only be selling the unlocked version of Nexus phones initially.

Google started making Nexus phone more than two years ago to give people a pure Google experience. The first Nexus phone called Nexus One was made by HTC, but the later two versions Nexus S and Nexus Prime has been made by Samsung.

Galaxy Nexus by Samsung runs the latest Android software, Ice Cream Sandwich, with Google mobile services, Google Play and new features like Android Beam and Google+ mobile hangouts. It also offers a 4.65 inch HD Super Amoled display.

Initially made available in the USA, Galaxy Nexus costs $399 (Rs 21,000 approximately) and comes unlocked, without a carrier commitment or contract. Buyers can use it on the GSM network of their choice, including T-Mobile and AT&T. It also comes pre-installed with the Google Wallet and a $10 (Rs 500 approximately) credit to get users started with new mobile wallet.

Google has also implemented new customer support services to improve the purchasing experience on Google Play. We've taken all of this into consideration in designing devices on Google Play.

The service will be available in more countries soon, Google has informed through its official blog. We however do not expect the service to come to India anytime soon.

Google is soon expected to launch a low cost tablet, which we believe will also be sold through Google Play store.

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Sony Xperia S is the second officially certified PlayStation device

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Sony Xperia S is the second officially certified PlayStation device after Sony Ericsson Xperia Play. It will carry a price tag of approximately Rs 30,000.

Sony Xperia S, the first smartphone to carry the Sony logo, will be available in India from today, and will carry a price tag of approximately Rs 30,000. Xperia S is the first smartphone that Sony released after it acquired shares of Ericsson.

Sony Mobile had unveiled Xperia S smartphone during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, USA, earlier this year.

Notably, Sony Xperia S is the second officially certified PlayStation device after Sony Ericsson Xperia Play. Hence, Xperia S will have access to the Sony PlayStation store and all the content that is available on it. Sony PlayStation provides games and entertainment resources to mobile devices and allows them to connect seamlessly to Sony PlayStation devices as well.

Xperia S is powered by a 1.5 GHz dual core Snapdragon MSM 8206 processor coupled with 1 GB of RAM for faster performance. Its 4.3 inch HD display comes with 1280 x 720 pixel resolution and is expected to run on Android Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0.

There is also a 12 megapixel camera capable of recoding full HD video which utilises Sony's Exmor sensor technology that helps in taking quality images in low light conditions.

Sony Xperia S, on the connectivity front, features 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth and NFC capability.

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Google Chrome for iPhone, iPad now available

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Google has released the Chrome web browser app optimised for the Apple iOS based devices through Apple App Store.

Google has surprised everyone by making the Chrome web browser available for the iOS based devices through Apple App Store. Now Google Chrome also joins the race of the third party web browser in the Apple App Store and brings new user experience.

The availability of the Google Chrome web browser for iPhone and iPad was announced at the on-going Google I/O conference in San Francisco, US.

Google Chrome web browser now arrives for its rival platform - iOS. Available for the iOS 4.3 or higher running devices, the Google Chrome is not exactly like the one available for the Android platform.

The Chrome for iOS uses Apple's older engine UIWebView for rendering and as JavaScript engine. In plain words, it will be even slower than the Apple's own mobile Safari which uses a Nitro JavaScript engine for rendering.

That reason for using Apple's UIWebView engine is because that is what Apple offers the third party web browser to use - be it Opera, Dolphin or Yahoo Axis.

Chrome for iOS includes its regular set of fancy features such as ability to view open tabs and pages from other devices. That requires signing into Chrome using your Google Account credentials. The famous Cognito Mode is also available for the Chrome for iOS.

Google aimed to deliver a fast, secure and stable version of web browsing experience to the iOS platform users. Though, not as fast as for Android but you can certainly enjoy the similar user interface on the iPhone or iPad.

The new Chrome for iOS is quite userful for the ardent lovers of Chrome browser for the desktops to sync their bookmarks, pages and calender with the iOS devices and access it on the go.

Recently, Mozilla showed the prototype of its upcoming Firefox web browser for the iPad and codenamed it as Junior. No release dates were promised for that mobile web browser.

Google Chrome for iOS can be downloaded from the Apple App store.

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Facebook to launch its own app store in the coming weeks

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Facebook on Wednesday announced it will be launching a new App Center in the coming weeks on the Web, iOS and Android. The company hopes the center will give developers a way to more effectively distribute apps and create new opportunities for more types of apps to be successful. “The App Center is designed to grow mobile apps that use Facebook – whether they’re on iOS, Android or the mobile web,” the company said. “From the mobile App Center, users can browse apps that are compatible with their device, and if a mobile app requires installation, they will be sent to download the app from the App Store or Google Play.” The social networking site is more to more than 900 million users and seems like a natural fit for app developers looking for the maximum amount of exposure.

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Confirmed: New iPhone Will Be Longer and Thinner and Have Smaller Dock Connector

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 iLounge editor Jeremy Horwitz posted details about the new iPhone, due out this Fall. Why should we believe these specs? Before new iPad launch, he claimed to have held the actual device, and went on to report some of the features that wound up in the “New iPad.” Some of the details were ringers, but maybe that’s part of the game. Horwitz’s latest reports that the device have a longer 4-inch screen, Gorilla Glass 2 on the front, metal on the back, and a new, smaller dock connector 

These details match up with and expand upon his earlier reports, so this is seeming pretty credible. Here is an excerpt of his report:Yesterday, iLounge editor Jeremy Horwitz posted details about the new iPhone, due out this Fall. Why should we believe these specs? Before new iPad launch, he claimed to have held the actual device, and went on to report some of the features that wound up in the “New iPad.” Some of the details were ringers, but maybe that’s part of the game. Horwitz’s latest reports that the device have a longer 4-inch screen, Gorilla Glass 2 on the front, metal on the back, and a new, smaller dock connector.

…the new iPhone will indeed be longer and thinner than the iPhone 4 and 4S. Approximate measurements are 125mm by 58.5mm by 7.4mm—a 10mm jump in height, nearly 2mm reduction in thickness, and virtually identical width. According to our source, Apple will make one major change to the rear casing, adding a metal panel to the central back of the new iPhone. This panel will be flat, not curved, and metal, not ceramic. Our artist’s rendition provides a rough idea of what this change will look like; it echoes the current-generation iMac design, to be sure.

Horwitz speculates that Apple is enlarging the display from 3.5-inches to 4-inches diagonally, which “will change the new iPhone’s aspect ratio for the first time since the original iPhone was introduced in 2007, adding additional pixels to the top and bottom of the screen.” It will be interesting to see what kinds of new app functionality will be facilitated by this extra screen real estate and also what complications this creates for developers who will now have the pristine iPhone platform fragmented into an additional spec beyond the retina/non-retina divide.

The new, smaller dock connector will also be rolled out all new iOS devices including the next iPod touch.

9to5Mac also reports that “iLounge often, but not always, fielded correct Apple information and has multiple sources inside the case-making industry due to its CES iLounge affiliations.” We’ll have to wait til the fall to see how good his connections really are.

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Android and iPhone users fuel fervour for Pebble, a wristwatch that runs apps

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Orders from individuals prepared to take a chance allows Silicon Valley startup to begin production of device with e-paper screen

The Pebble wristwatch has an e-paper screen able to show different watchfaces. Photograph: Kickstarter.com

In the old Dick Tracy comics, the detective had a wrist TV-cum-mobile he used to talk to his associates. Now something that looks just like it is days away from production after a Silicon Valley startup raised more than $8m (£5m) from individual pledges to build a watch that will connect to the internet and run apps.

Eric Migicovsky, 25, the founder and lead designer of Pebble, has found serious enthusiasm for the idea. He began with a modest ambition a month ago: raise $100,000 from a few hundred people willing to order a watch and pay upfront.

The $115 watch has an e-paper face (like a small version of the Kindle) able to show different watchfaces, run sports and fitness apps and show notifications from your phone (such as new emails).

He put up a page on Kickstarter.com – a "crowdfunding" site popular with filmmakers, musicians and tech companies – and sat back. Within two hours, the initial target was hit. By Friday more than 56,000 backers had pledged between $99 and $10,000.

"We had a factory in San Jose ready to make about 1,000 Pebbles if we were able to raise the initial funding," Migicovsky told the Guardian. "Right now we've got 56,000 who have pledged money. People have ordered anywhere between two and 100 each. In all, we're going to make more than 67,000."

It has been an astonishing ride. The idea is that the Pebble watch will be able to run specific apps: among the plans are one for runners, another for cyclists, another that would show your email inbox or control your iPhone, all while being waterproof.

The Pebble team have been designing smart watches for three years, and had already built one to work with BlackBerry phones (which sold about 1,500 watches and attracted 80 apps). The surge of interest came when the company decided to build one for Apple's iPhone and phones running Google's Android software.

"It's probably the iPhone part that's driven it," Migicovsky said. "Also, people are excited about apps. It's not just a watch that you buy – your watch will actually get better as you develop apps. We're excited about what people will make with it."

The idea of a watch that connects to the internet is not new; Microsoft's Bill Gates showed off a watch called Spot (for smart personal object technology) in 2004. But it was, like many of Gates's best ideas including the tablet computer, too far ahead of its time: in 2008 Microsoft stopped offering the $800 devices, and in January this year it turned off the data service that ran them.

"It was a nice product, but too early," Migicovsky said. "The early ones had to connect to the internet themselves, because there weren't smartphones around like today."

The huge funding does not mean the team is rolling in money. "We're spending every spare dollar we have," Migicovsky said, explaining that after Kickstarter and Amazon take their respective 5% and 3% fees (for hosting the fundraising and processing the cheques), the margins will still be narrow.

He tried – and failed – to win backing from Silicon Valley's more traditional investors, venture capitalists: "What they told me was that hardware is a risky business and they didn't want to take that risk."

There is, though, one loser from the frenzy: the factory in San Jose. Migicovsky is now looking to China to fulfil the gigantic demand because the economies of scale, and manufacturing, favour going there.

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Samsung Galaxy S3 launch: Samsung unwraps latest Galaxy rival to iPhone - Galaxy S3

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Samsung Electronics unveiled a new top-of-the-range Galaxy smartphone in London on Thursday, updating the most direct rival to Apple's iPhone with a larger touch screen and more powerful processor.

The South Korean technology group, which overtook Finnish company Nokia as the world's biggest cellphone maker earlier this year, said the new Galaxy SIII model would go on sale in some markets in late May and around the world from June.

Last week, Samsung reported a record $5.2 billion quarterly profit, boosted by Galaxy smartphone range whose sales outstripped the iPhone.

Samsung sold around 45 million smartphones in the first quarter and contributed most of its operating profit.

The new Galaxy SIII model will have a 4.8 inch touch screen, 8 megapixel camera and will use the latest version of Google's

Android software. Analysts said the expected massive marketing campaign and features of the handset - billed as the official smartphone of the London 2012 Olympics - were likely enough to generate strong sales, but the launch left many of them unexcited.

"It is not an eye-catching device that will overwhelm consumers," said IDC analyst Francisco Jeronimo.

The blue lights in the launch venue downtown London, echoing the cold rainy day outside, and the background sounds of nature, which Samsung said inspired the design, resulted in a fairly muted atmosphere in the room.

BIGGER BUDGET, BIGGER SALES 

Won-Pyo Hong, head of product strategy at Samsung's mobile business, said it expected sales of the Galaxy SIII to outstrip predecessor SII's more than 20 million units.

"Definitely, we expect so. The level of interest from our partners has been bigger," Hong told Reuters in an interview. He said the marketing budget would also increase, even if brand awareness was already quite high.

"We need to spend more on marketing to address consumer interest and to meet requirements of our partners," 

he said. 

SOURCE "economictimes"

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Cloud Wars: Google Strikes Back With 'Google Drive'

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These days everyone wants a piece of the cloud-computing market. Amazon has entered the cloud-space with various cloud storage options, and both Microsoft and Apple provide cloud storage for customers – Microsoft with its revamped SkyDrive and Apple with its iCloud service.

Numerous other companies are vying for a place in the cloud-computing market, and this space will only become more important as users find themselves connected over a variety of devices doing more and more of their day-to-day tasks online rather than vis-a-vis traditional desktop-based programs.

From Dropbox to, well, just plain Box, the choices consumers have in the cloud are myriad. Which is great, because all that competition will lead not just to cheaper storage rates, but to better and more convenient services.

Now Google has entered the cloud wars with its Google Driveservice – a complete overhaul of what used to be known as Google Docs.

Google Drive gives users five gigabytes of free storage. Documents created within Drive won’t count against that limit, however. Drive gives users a range of upgrade options, from an extra 25 gigs at $2.49 a month, to a whopping 16 terabytes clocking in at $800/month.

Here’s a chart comparing Google Drive’s basic options with some other services on the market (via Gizomodo:)

Drive’s Max File Upload Size is pretty huge compared to just about all of the other services, though SkyDrive’s 2GB is reasonable. Still, for anyone uploading video to the cloud Google’s option might make the most sense.

Google Drive also adds a PC desktop application which makes using the service more convenient than the old Docs interface. I’ve spent a little time with Drive so far, and for someone who uses lots of other Google products it’s a pretty convenient option.

In the end, this may be what determines the fate of many of these cloud services. For diehard Apple users, the iCloud might make the most sense purely from a convenience standpoint. For early adopters of Dropbox, the full-featured program may make the most sense. For people like me who tend to use a lot of Google products and who spend all day in Gmail and already have a bunch of Google Documents stored online, Google Drive is a natural option. Breaking customers away from their comfort zone is the big challenge for all these firms. No simple task.

With its recent purchase of Instagram, one can expect Facebook to make its own push into cloud-space as well which could very easily shake things up even further.

For serious data storage, cloud computing is still an expensive option. Prices should fall significantly over the next couple of years, however, making cloud computing an even more appealing option.

Cloud computing is also changing the gaming industry, with more and more web-based games utilizing the cloud as well.

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Samsung to launch Galaxy S III on May 3 in London

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Samsung to launch Galaxy S III on May 3 in London?

The wait for Samsung's Galaxy S II successor might be coming to an end, as the company has started sending out invites for a press event in London on May 3. The invite comes with the tagline - "come and meet the next Galaxy" and is part of Samsung Mobile Unpacked series, suggesting that Samsung could be just weeks ago from Galaxy S III unveiling.The invite sent to Dutch technology website Tweakers.net, did not reveal any details on the smartphone. As per earlier rumours, Samsung Galaxy S III is expected to come with a quad core processor, 4.7 inch HD display, and Android 4.0.
Earlier, Samsung had decided against launching Galaxy S III at Mobile World Congress and planned to do it at a dedicated event.

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Google's Project Glass And Battlefield 5 Concept Video Tout The Future Of On Your Face Technology

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I’m no Luddite, but when I first heard of the Google Glasses concept I was skeptical. Even watching the video Project Glass put together on the concept didn’t really change my mind:

I guess I can see how those of us already burdened by a pair of spectacles might make use of the added information; for non-glasses-wearing types, maybe a pair of computerized sunglasses would do the trick. Then again, I’m not sure I want all this information right in front of me at all times. Solitaire is bad enough; the rise of mobile tech made time-wasting an artform.

But at least with a smartphone I can put it in my pocket…intermittently. And if I’m on my phone too much someone will yell at me sooner or later. Some scraps of shame culture remain in our hyper-connected mobile world; not so when the tech is all but invisible.

With Google Glasses, I could stream Twitter 24/7 out of the corner of my eye.

Then again, this concept video for a Glasses-based Battlefield 5 is pretty cool:

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The potential to get lost in a vast role-playing-world also exists, as do many other potential real-life great escapes. We’ve already seen mind-controlled robots – how far are we from mind-controlled computer glasses where you can do everything in the above video simply by thinking it?

As with all things future, predictions are tricky – but concept videos are fun.

Or funny, take your pick:

Over at the Project Glass Google+ page, they’ve got some concept 

art up. So far I’m not sure any of it beats this:

When they can put this tech into contact lenses, then I’ll be impressed.

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