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<tr><td width="40%"><span style="background-color: white;">Screen Size</span></td><td width="1%"><span style="background-color: white;">:</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">12.7 cms</span></td></tr>
<tr><td><span style="background-color: white;">Screen Resolution</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">:</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">1280*720(HD)</span></td></tr>
<tr><td><span style="background-color: white;">Screen Type</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">:</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">IPS</span></td></tr>
<tr><td><span style="background-color: white;">Colour Depth</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">:</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">True color(16.7 M)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td width="40%"><span style="background-color: white;">Video Resolution</span></td><td width="1%"><span style="background-color: white;">:</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">1280*720</span></td></tr>
<tr><td><span style="background-color: white;">Audio Formats Supported</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">:</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">MP3,AAC,AAC+, e AAC+, AMR, WB-AMR, MIDI, Ogg, PCM</span></td></tr>
<tr><td><span style="background-color: white;">Video Formats Supported</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">:</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">"H.264 encoder: baseline HVGA @15fps MPEG-4 Simple / H.263 encoder: 720p@ 30fps/12.5Mbps."</span></td></tr>
<tr><td><span style="background-color: white;">Video Frame Rate</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">:</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">30 fps</span></td></tr>
<tr><td><span style="background-color: white;">FM</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">:</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">Yes</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td width="40%"><span style="background-color: white;">Standby Time</span></td><td width="1%"><span style="background-color: white;">:</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">174hrs</span></td></tr>
<tr><td><span style="background-color: white;">Battery Capacity</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">:</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">2000 mAh</span></td></tr>
<tr><td><span style="background-color: white;">Talktime</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">:</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">5hrs</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td width="40%"><span style="background-color: white;">Processor</span></td><td width="1%"><span style="background-color: white;">:</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">1.2Ghz, Quad core</span></td></tr>
<tr><td><span style="background-color: white;">Type</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">:</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">MT6589</span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><br />Camera Resolution</span></td><td width="1%"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /><br /><br /><br />:</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;"><br /><br /><br /><br />8 MP</span></td></tr>
<tr><td><span style="background-color: white;">Front Camera</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">:</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">2 MP</span></td></tr>
<tr><td><span style="background-color: white;">Flash</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">:</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">Yes</span></td></tr>
<tr><td><span style="background-color: white;">Autofocus</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">:</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">Yes</span></td></tr>
<tr><td><span style="background-color: white;">Resolution, Recording & Playback</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">:</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">1280*720,.3gp(HD)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td width="40%"><span style="background-color: white;">Wi-Fi</span></td><td width="1%"><span style="background-color: white;">:</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">Yes</span></td></tr>
<tr><td><span style="background-color: white;">Bluetooth</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">:</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">V4.0</span></td></tr>
<tr><td><span style="background-color: white;">Location : GPS</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">:</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">yes</span></td></tr>
<tr><td><span style="background-color: white;">Connectivity Options</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">:</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">3G , Bluetooth 4.0 , Wi-Fi , USB 2.0</span></td></tr>
<tr><td><span style="background-color: white;">Frequency Band</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">:</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">1.2 Ghz</span></td></tr>
<tr><td><span style="background-color: white;">Frequency Band</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">:</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">GSM/GPRS/EDGE 900/1800 HSPA 2100 MHz</span></td></tr>
<tr><td><span style="background-color: white;">Network</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">:</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">3G</span></td></tr>
<tr><td><span style="background-color: white;">HSPA</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">:</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">HSPA+ (DL-21Mbps, UL-11Mbps) depends upon network</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td width="40%"><span style="background-color: white;">ROM</span></td><td width="1%"><span style="background-color: white;">:</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">4GB Nand</span></td></tr>
<tr><td><span style="background-color: white;">Sensors</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">:</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">Proximity sensor , Motion sensor ,Gravity sensor, Light sensor</span></td></tr>
<tr><td><span style="background-color: white;">RAM</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">:</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">1 GB</span></td></tr>
<tr><td><span style="background-color: white;">Internal Memory</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">:</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">1.77GB</span></td></tr>
<tr><td><span style="background-color: white;">Expandable Memory</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">:</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">32 GB</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td width="40%"><span style="background-color: white;">USB V</span></td><td width="1%"><span style="background-color: white;">:</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">Micro USB (5 pin) , USB 2.0</span></td></tr>
<tr><td><span style="background-color: white;">Dual SIM Support</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">:</span></td><td><span style="background-color: white;">Yes</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><th rowspan="3" scope="row" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-right-style: none; border-width: 0px medium 0px 0px; font-family: Oswald; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: top; width: 55px;"><span style="background-color: white;">SOUND</span></th><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=call-alerts" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">Alert types</span></a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: white;">Vibration, MP3, WAV ringtones</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=loudspeaker" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">Loudspeaker</span></a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: white;">Yes</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-style: none; border-width: 0px 0px medium; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=audio-jack" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">3.5mm jack</span></a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-style: none; border-width: 0px 0px medium; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: white;">Yes</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><th rowspan="2" scope="row" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-right-style: none; border-width: 0px medium 0px 0px; font-family: Oswald; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: top; width: 55px;"><span style="background-color: white;">MEMORY</span></th><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=memory-card-slot" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">Card slot</span></a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: white;">microSD, up to 32 GB</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-style: none; border-width: 0px 0px medium; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=dynamic-memory" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">Internal</span></a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-style: none; border-width: 0px 0px medium; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: white;">4 GB (1.77 GB user available), 1 GB RAM</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><th rowspan="8" scope="row" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-right-style: none; border-width: 0px medium 0px 0px; font-family: Oswald; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: top; width: 55px;"><span style="background-color: white;">DATA</span></th><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=gprs" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">GPRS</span></a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: white;">Yes</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=edge" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">EDGE</span></a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: white;">Yes</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=3g" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">Speed</span></a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: white;">HSDPA, 21 Mbps; HSUPA, 11 Mbps</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=wi-fi" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">WLAN</span></a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: white;">Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi hotspot</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=bluetooth" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">Bluetooth</span></a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: white;">Yes, v4.0 with A2DP</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-style: none; border-width: 0px 0px medium; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=usb" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">USB</span></a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-style: none; border-width: 0px 0px medium; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: white;">Yes, microUSB v2.0, USB On-the-go</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><th rowspan="4" scope="row" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-right-style: none; border-width: 0px medium 0px 0px; font-family: Oswald; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: top; width: 55px;"><span style="background-color: white;">CAMERA</span></th><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=camera" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">Primary</span></a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: white;">8 MP, 3264 x 2448 pixels, autofocus, dual-LED flash</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=camera" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">Features</span></a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: white;">Geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=camera" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">Video</span></a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: white;">Yes, 720p@30fps</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-style: none; border-width: 0px 0px medium; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=video-call" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">Secondary</span></a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-style: none; border-width: 0px 0px medium; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: white;">Yes, 2 MP, VGA video rec.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><th rowspan="14" scope="row" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-right-style: none; border-width: 0px medium 0px 0px; font-family: Oswald; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: top; width: 55px;"><span style="background-color: white;">FEATURES</span></th><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=os" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">OS</span></a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: white;">Android OS, v4.1.2 (Jelly Bean), planned upgrade to v4.2 (Jelly Bean)</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=cpu" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">CPU</span></a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: white;">Quad-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A7</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=sensors" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">Sensors</span></a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: white;">Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=messaging" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">Messaging</span></a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: white;">SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=browser" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">Browser</span></a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: white;">HTML5</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=fm-radio" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">Radio</span></a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: white;">FM radio</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=gps" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">GPS</span></a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: white;">Yes, with A-GPS support</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=java" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">Java</span></a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: white;">Yes, via Java MIDP emulator</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/micromax_a116_canvas_hd-5256.php#" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">Colors</span></a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: white;">Black, White</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-style: none; border-width: 0px 0px medium; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-style: none; border-width: 0px 0px medium; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: white;">- SNS integration<br />- MP3/AAC/WMA/WAV player<br />- MP4/WMV/H.264/H.263 player<br />- Organizer<br />- Document viewer<br />- Google Search, Maps, Gmail, Youtube, Calendar, Google Talk<br />- Voice memo/dial<br />- Predictive text input</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><th rowspan="3" scope="row" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-right-style: none; border-width: 0px medium 0px 0px; font-family: Oswald; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: top; width: 55px;"><span style="background-color: white;">BATTERY</span></th><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: white;">Li-Ion 2000 mAh battery</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=stand-by-time" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">Stand-by</span></a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: white;">Up to 174 h</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-style: none; border-width: 0px 0px medium; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=talk-time" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">Talk time</span></a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-style: none; border-width: 0px 0px medium; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: white;">Up to 5 h</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><th rowspan="2" scope="row" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-right-style: none; border-width: 0px medium 0px 0px; font-family: Oswald; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: top; width: 55px;"><span style="background-color: white;">MISC</span></th><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=sar" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">SAR EU</span></a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: white;">0.47 W/kg (head) 0.41 W/kg (body) </span></td></tr>
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Hardware</h4>
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The Quad Core Mediatek MT6589 chipset seems more refined in the retail version, and the Canvas HD seems a lot more responsive. Other things include 1 GB Ram, 32 GB expandability and a 4 GB of storage out of which 1.7GB has been assigned to the Int-SD card. so you have 1.7 GB available to spend. The front camera on the Micromax A116 Canvas HD is now a 2 MP shooter and a 8 MP main camera continues with HD video, what size is yet unknown.</div>
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The most prominent feature of the Canvas HD is the 720p Display, which is exceptionally bright and viewable outdoors.</div>
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Internet browsing was surprisingly smooth, and the web page was snappily laid out on the poor internet connection that we had. The Micromax A116 Canvas HD is also backed by Mediatek’s promise of a highly efficient battery life and low heat generation. Which should ensure a good overall user experience for Micromax A116 Canvas HD owners. </div>
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The Micromax A116 Canvas HD seems really robust and the final product seems to be made from harder plastics. The buttons seem more tactile than from the previous editions of the Canvas and honestly, the Canvas HD seems a lot more premium than other devices. We put it right next to the Grand to give you guys and idea, so check out the video below.</div>
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Sliding through menus and playing back videos is nice and fast, the Micromax A116 Canvas HD, seems to be quite a surprise to us. Lets see how it holds up in our battery of tests. Watch the Unboxing and stay tuned for more. </div>
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<span style="line-height: 19px;">The highlight of the show is the 5-inch display, which packs in a resolution of 1280×720 pixels and has 294 pixels per inch. Of course at a price of Rs 13,990, one should not expect the best in the business, but it is a very good display nonetheless. It’s definitely very washed out when compared to the Nexus 4 or the iPhone 5, but at the price we believe its pretty good.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19px;">The other star of the Canvas HD is the quad-core processor clocked at 1.2GHz made by MediaTek. Now people hear a buzzword like ‘quad-core’ and get excited, but the reality is that it’s a quad-core based on the ARM Cortex A7 design not the Cortex A9 design. This means it will not be as powerful as than a Cortex A9 based quad-core like on the Galaxy S III. It will be closer to a dual-core ARM Cortex A9 chip and when we ran the Quadrant benchmark our theory was proven as it scored in the vicinity of 3500, a score that is quite similar to the one we have seen on the Galaxy S II that has a dual-core Exynos processor. Now, this performance is better than most ARM Cortex A9 dual-core SoCs but its way below a Cortex A9 based quad-core chip. The one advantage is that the battery life could be better, but we have not tested that, yet.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19px;">General performance seems smooth and the GPU that the device leverages is the PowerVR 5XT. While this is a pretty new GPU some how the user experience feels artificial in the sense that everything feels a nano-second slower. It is consistent, but there is this ethereal lag that just stops short of making the experience wonderful. It’s still very good. But if one compares it to a device like the Galaxy Nexus then one understands the difference better.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19px;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-266618" height="474" original="http://st1.bgr.in/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Canvas-HD-2.jpg" src="http://st1.bgr.in/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Canvas-HD-2.jpg" style="border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; margin: 0px auto 1em;" title="Canvas-HD-2" width="652" />The biggest surprise of the Canvas HD package is its camera. Last evening when we received the unit we decided to take a few shots and they turned out to be surprisingly good. Of course it has a 8-megapixel sensor, but at this price one normally does not expect much of the camera, but the results seem to be promising, we will test the camera in great depth for the full review. Micromax has heavily customized the camera UI which allows users to shoot video and click photos simultaneously, but on the down side it has also buried the flash setting in a nonchalant corner so switching the flash can take some time to begin with.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19px;">Overall, the Canvas HD seems like a very promising smartphone and as Android has reached this level of maturity in fluidness, it can hurt Windows Phone right where it hurts the most. User Experience. Of course the Canvas HD is a culmination of fast processor, good display, a great OS and a decent camera, but its biggest weapon is its price – Rs 13,990. That said, today Lava has announced the Xolo A1000, which also packs in similar features for more or less the same price, so Micromax will have some competition.</span></div>
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<table cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; border-top-color: rgb(227, 227, 227); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 11px; line-height: 11px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 476px;"><tbody style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><th rowspan="3" scope="row" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #f6f6f6; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-right-style: none; border-width: 0px medium 0px 0px; color: #b23f33; font-family: Oswald; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: top; width: 55px;">SOUND</th><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #7d7464; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=call-alerts" style="border: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Alert types</a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;">Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #7d7464; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=loudspeaker" style="border: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Loudspeaker</a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;">Yes</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-style: none; border-width: 0px 0px medium; color: #7d7464; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=audio-jack" style="border: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3.5mm jack</a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-style: none; border-width: 0px 0px medium; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;">Yes</td></tr>
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<table cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; border-top-color: rgb(227, 227, 227); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 11px; line-height: 11px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 476px;"><tbody style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><th rowspan="2" scope="row" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #f6f6f6; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-right-style: none; border-width: 0px medium 0px 0px; color: #b23f33; font-family: Oswald; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: top; width: 55px;">MEMORY</th><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #7d7464; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=memory-card-slot" style="border: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Card slot</a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;">microSD, up to 64 GB</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-style: none; border-width: 0px 0px medium; color: #7d7464; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=dynamic-memory" style="border: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Internal</a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-style: none; border-width: 0px 0px medium; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;">16/32/64 GB storage, 2 GB RAM</td></tr>
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<table cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; border-top-color: rgb(227, 227, 227); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 11px; line-height: 11px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 476px;"><tbody style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><th rowspan="10" scope="row" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #f6f6f6; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-right-style: none; border-width: 0px medium 0px 0px; color: #b23f33; font-family: Oswald; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: top; width: 55px;">DATA</th><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #7d7464; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=gprs" style="border: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">GPRS</a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;">Yes</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #7d7464; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=edge" style="border: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">EDGE</a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;">Yes</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #7d7464; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=3g" style="border: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Speed</a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;">HSDPA, 42.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #7d7464; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=wi-fi" style="border: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">WLAN</a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;">Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, DLNA, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi hotspot</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #7d7464; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=bluetooth" style="border: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bluetooth</a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;">Yes, v4.0 with A2DP, EDR, LE</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #7d7464; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=nfc" style="border: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">NFC</a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;">Yes</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #7d7464; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=irda" style="border: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Infrared port</a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;">Yes</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-style: none; border-width: 0px 0px medium; color: #7d7464; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=usb" style="border: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">USB</a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-style: none; border-width: 0px 0px medium; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;">Yes, microUSB v2.0 (MHL 2), USB On-the-go, USB Host</td></tr>
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<table cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; border-top-color: rgb(227, 227, 227); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 11px; line-height: 11px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 476px;"><tbody style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><th rowspan="4" scope="row" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #f6f6f6; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-right-style: none; border-width: 0px medium 0px 0px; color: #b23f33; font-family: Oswald; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: top; width: 55px;">CAMERA</th><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #7d7464; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=camera" style="border: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Primary</a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;">13 MP, 4128 x 3096 pixels, autofocus, LED flash, <a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/piccmp.php3?idType=1&idPhone1=5125&nSuggest=1" style="border: 0px; color: #b23f33; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">check quality</a></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #7d7464; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=camera" style="border: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Features</a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;">Dual Shot, Simultaneous HD video and image recording, geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection, image stabilization, HDR</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #7d7464; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=camera" style="border: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Video</a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;">Yes, 1080p@30fps, dual-video rec., <a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/vidcmp.php3?idType=1&idPhone1=5125&nSuggest=1" style="border: 0px; color: #b23f33; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">check quality</a></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-style: none; border-width: 0px 0px medium; color: #7d7464; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=video-call" style="border: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Secondary</a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-style: none; border-width: 0px 0px medium; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;">Yes, 2 MP,1080p@30fps, dual video call</td></tr>
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<table cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; border-top-color: rgb(227, 227, 227); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 11px; line-height: 11px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 476px;"><tbody style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><th rowspan="14" scope="row" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #f6f6f6; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-right-style: none; border-width: 0px medium 0px 0px; color: #b23f33; font-family: Oswald; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: top; width: 55px;">FEATURES</th><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #7d7464; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=os" style="border: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">OS</a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;">Android OS, v4.2.2 (Jelly Bean)</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #7d7464; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=chipset" style="border: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chipset</a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;">Exynos 5 Octa 5410</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #7d7464; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=cpu" style="border: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CPU</a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;">Quad-core 1.6 GHz Cortex-A15 & quad-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A7</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #7d7464; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=gpu" style="border: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">GPU</a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;">PowerVR SGX 544MP3</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #7d7464; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=sensors" style="border: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sensors</a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;">Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, barometer, temperature, humidity, gesture</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #7d7464; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=messaging" style="border: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Messaging</a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;">SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM, RSS</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #7d7464; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=browser" style="border: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Browser</a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;">HTML5, Adobe Flash</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #7d7464; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=fm-radio" style="border: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Radio</a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;">No</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #7d7464; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=gps" style="border: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">GPS</a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;">Yes, with A-GPS support and GLONASS</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #7d7464; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=java" style="border: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Java</a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;">Yes, via Java MIDP emulator</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #7d7464; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s_iv-5125.php#" style="border: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Colors</a></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;">White Frost, Black Mist</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-style: none; border-width: 0px 0px medium; color: #7d7464; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-style: none; border-width: 0px 0px medium; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 6px; vertical-align: top;">- Wireless charging (market dependent)<br />
- S-Voice natural language commands and dictation<br />
- Smart stay, Smart pause, Smart scroll<br />
- Air gestures<br />
- Dropbox (50 GB storage)<br />
- Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic<br />
- TV-out (via MHL 2 A/V link)<br />
- SNS integration<br />
- MP4/DivX/XviD/WMV/H.264/H.263 player<br />
- MP3/WAV/eAAC+/AC3/FLAC player<br />
- Organizer<br />
- Image/video editor<br />
- Document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF)<br />
- Google Search, Maps, Gmail,<br />
YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa<br />
- Voice memo/dial/commands<br />
- Predictive text input (Swype)</td></tr>
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The Samsung Galaxy S4 launch saw the Korean brand claiming the phone is built on four foundations: an improved camera, better connections with others, health and wellbeing improvements and simply making life easier.</div>
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While this is all a little hyperbolic, the S4 at least brings an integrated feel to things while improving nearly every spec on offer. The outside is still plastic, but harks back to the mesh design, if not feel of the Galaxy S2.</div>
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Colour wise you've got a choice of 'White Frost' and 'Black Mist', which adorn the large device, which runs in with dimensions of 136.6 x 69.8 x 7.9mm, despite still having to pack in a 5-inch Full HD Super AMOLED screen.</div>
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That means it will have a larger screen, but smaller chassis than the Galaxy S3, which is a superbly impressive feat of engineering, especially when you consider the specs.</div>
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But like its predecessor, the plastic feeling of the Galaxy S3 won't appeal to all. It feels very lightweight (tipping the scales at 130g) in the hand, and while people have been conditioned against this feeling cheap, compare it to the HTC One and you'll see that it's a long way from premium feeling.</div>
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However, it's exactly the same sensation as we found on the Galaxy S3, and given the record numbers of sales that had Samsung is sticking with a winning formula, plus there's more than a market for a phone that you'll barely notice in your pocket most of the time.</div>
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Compared to rest of the Galaxy line, the S4 continues in the same vein as the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 and the S3, (as well as myriad other devices) showing the Koreans are keen on creating a design heritage here.</div>
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The home button is roughly the same size and the same menu and back buttons remain from the prequel.</div>
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Overall, the effect is a much more well put together Galaxy S3 – so this means that when you take it out down the pub people won't notice you've got the latest phone, which is a bit of a shame.</div>
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The Samsung Galaxy S4 feels like much more of an iterative update than new design, and while it will probably sell well there's very little to wow you when it comes to the overall shape. Specs are important, but if there was such as thing as a Samsung Galaxy S3S, this would be it.</div>
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But away from all that negativity! We have a new phone to check over, so let's take a minute and talk about the screen: it's even more beautiful than before.</div>
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We almost feel sad that this isn't the first Full HD screen we've seen on a mobile phone, as it's kind of lost its lustre since the likes of the HTC One and Sony Xperia Z have all managed the same trick – but it improves the sharpness a lot, even though you're not getting that much different from the S3.</div>
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Side by side you can see the difference close up, and the brightness and efficiency have been tweaked to make this a more compelling screen in a phone. Talk all you want about the benefits and colour saturation of LCD – the Samsung Galaxy S4 is leagues ahead when it comes to jaw-dropping screens.</div>
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The 441ppi pixel density doesn't match the HTC One, but is more than good enough for the average user.</div>
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We'll be mightily surprised if the combined popularity of the HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S4 don't prompt Apple into a re-tooling of the screen with the iPhone 5S or iPhone 6, as the sharpness will definitely wow users on the shelves.</div>
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Aside from the initial impression of the design, in the hand the Samsung Galaxy S3 feels just dandy. The design contours well against the palm, and while the screen size may be a little big for some (you'll need a bit of shuffling to reach the upper section of the screen) it's definitely useable in the hand.</div>
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Samsung hasn't really re-tooled the Touchwiz overlay for the Galaxy S4, but has added some clever upgrades that will have some users talking about innovation.</div>
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For instance, the lock screen doesn't have the water rippling any more, but does register your finger from up to two centimetres away, so a little beam of light will follow your digit as you unlock. It's something you'll definitely play with for ages.</div>
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It's clear with the Galaxy S4 that Samsung has worked out there's only so much it can do on the hardware side these days – not to say that we're pretty impressed with the spec list - and as such has tried to bring the unique flavour through the interface instead.</div>
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As before with Touchwiz, there's a definite sense the whole process has been simplified, as the phone has got a much easier feel to it when swiping around. That's not to say there aren't loads of widgets to be played with, but there is less clutter on the larger screen.</div>
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The dock at the bottom of the display pervades, and there are more widgets to play with. Thanks to the Galaxy S4 running Android Jelly Bean 4.2.2 you've now got an addition in the notifications bar of a toggle in the top-right hand corner where you can turn on and off pretty much anything, from NFC to Group Cast to eye-tracking.</div>
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Swiping around the display was easy as pie – it's not exactly taxing on the processor, but we did note that there was a slight pause as we swiped through the menu screen on this pre-production model.</div>
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However, there is a worry that the octa-core (yes, you read that right) 1.6 GHz Exynos 5 CPU, with 2GB of RAM as well, could suck power a little too dramatically – but we've yet to hear the full details of how the CPU will work before we can pass any judgement on that.</div>
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Smart Stay, which tracks your eyes to tell if you're looking at the screen, has stablemates now. Smart Pause will note if your gaze leaves the screen and will pause the video, and Smart Scroll will check when you're reading a web page and scroll up and down as you tilt the device.</div>
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It's a novel idea for replacing things you do already but in practice we didn't find either that useful. Smart Pause takes a second to register your gaze has gone, which means you'll still miss part of the video, and Smart Scroll (again, pre-production model) was far from accurate when we tilted the phone.</div>
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That said, the internet browsing as a whole was sublimely fast (when our conference room Wi-Fi played nicely with the phone) and we were impressed with the clarity of web pages as we zoomed through them.</div>
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If Smart Scrolling was the way we'd always used our phones, and then someone invented scrolling with the finger, that would be amazing. It just seems that this is a way of doing things for the sake of it - we can't see the likes of Apple or HTC ever doing the same thing.</div>
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Smart Voice hasn't been upgraded beyond improving the accuracy of the voice recognition and Driving Mode, which will give you more voice-related feedback when you're in your motor.</div>
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Smart Alert has been upgraded: now it's joined by Air Gestures, which allow you to swipe the phone without touching the screen. So this means you can flip through pictures or music tracks ("good if you have messy fingers" says Samsung) flick to the top of a list by wiping upwards on the screen and Air Call Accept starts the camera… no, we're joking. It accepts a call without touching the screen.</div>
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On top of that there's Hover mode, which is the same as Air View on the Note 2 which used the S Pen and tracked when it was near the screen to give previews of emails, video scrolling without disturbing the action, and seeing who is on speed dial.</div>
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A quick test with this saw the preview being activated a little too easily, but it's definitely a neat feature and something we could get used to.</div>
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Any Android phone fans will be a little perplexed by some areas of the phone, unless of course you've spent some time working with Android 4.2 at any point. The first big change is the fact the notifications bar packs not just the standard icons for turning off Wi-Fi and the like, but a tile to tap that takes you to a whole host of other toggles, from things like AllShare Cast to NFC and more.</div>
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The settings menu has also been changed to split into four sections, making it easier to play around with connections, your device settings, accounts for social networks or syncing accounts and more, for the likes of device information.</div>
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It might confuse those used to the original way of TouchWiz working, but we think Samsung has worked out a decent way to stop things looking so disjointed.</div>
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But overall the good news is the large screen looks great, the improved CPU might not be needed but is welcomed and the little touches like the shining lock screen do actually feel like a real step forward.</div>
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There's some good news for those that loathed the stock keyboard on the Galaxy S3, as it's now been replaced with Android's best keyboard around: Swiftkey.</div>
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We didn't get the chance to test out this new implementation on our pre-production unit, but it will be using Swiftkey 4, which brings Flow for swiping out your words on top of the frankly impossibly good prediction engine - the same algorithm that's been partly used for the all new BlackBerry 10 keyboard in the BB Z10.</div>
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The Samsung Galaxy S4 follows in the footsteps of its predecessors in that it's designed for media – which is what you'd expect from a phone that's the sequel to the phone we dubbed the best out there for media on the go.</div>
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The video player is obviously taking centre stage here on the Galaxy S4, and combined with the improved Full HD Super AMOLED screen is just magnificent for watching movies.</div>
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The video hub now contains both personal and downloaded content in one place, and it looks really, really nice when viewing it on the 5-inch screen.</div>
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It's an understandably excellent experience, with the screen veritably shining with quality contrast ratios and decent colour reproduction.</div>
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The navigation experience is easy as well, and slipping up and down the timeline to move through a video seems very intuitive.</div>
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AllShare Cast is included as well, powering up the ability to stream to and from other devices. In addition to being able to send content from the phone to a TV and receive from a PC in your home network, you can also do this remotely now, as long as the device is turned on obviously.</div>
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Another feature is mirroring, where you can send whatever is on the screen of your Galaxy S4 and have it show on a larger display, either through connecting your phone using a MHL lead or an AllShare Cast dongle / compatible Samsung TV.</div>
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We've seen this on a number of devices, and while it's not going to allow big screen gaming on the go, as we've often noted that there's a lag between input and its realisation on the screen, it could be good for movies if it's less jumpy than found on the S3.</div>
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Samsung has managed to stay ahead of the pack when it comes to internal storage too – it will be available in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB flavours plus up to 64GB through a microSD card as well. That's more storage than most will ever need on it's own, right?</div>
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This will be a killer feature for a lot of smartphone users, as while the internal storage is generally good enough for most things, many love the idea of having the choice to expand if they so wish – so combining this with an expandable battery is a great idea from Samsung once again.</div>
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The Samsung Galaxy S4 camera is a step up from its predecessor, with a 13MP sensor on the back, which now has to bulge slightly from the chassis.</div>
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Samsung promises excellent low-light snaps from the S4 as well, but we doubt it can take on the might of the HTC One when it comes to low light conditions, as the Galaxy S3 was decimated by the might of HTC's Ultrapixels - and that's before we even get onto the Nokia Lumia 920.</div>
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From a blindingly bright flash to a backside illuminated sensor, our quick snaps came out crisply and clearly – and when we say quick, we mean it.</div>
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The UI has changed a bit to mimic that found on the Samsung Galaxy Camera, with a special mode wheel to move between items like the Macro, Beauty shot and smile setting, and while it's a little slow it's definitely an easier to use interface.</div>
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Burst mode is predictably back, but it now comes with a 'Drama' setting, so you can take one shot and see all the pictures merge into one. It works really well as long as you don't have something that's just too close to the camera or too large – in our tests it showed you need a lot of space between each movement.</div>
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Eraser mode and Cinema mode also come straight from the Nokia Lumia phones we've seen recently – the former works extremely well though, noting an unwanted object moving in the background and erasing it by drawing a pink outline around the thing and letting you delete.</div>
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However, you have to have the mode enabled, which takes multiple pics, rather than the standard shot, so you probably won't be able to make good use of it most of the time.</div>
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Cinema mode lets you shoot a short video and choose the part to keep static – this means you can have a background moving while the person stays the same, and is created in a GIF to make things properly early noughties.</div>
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You also get a 2MP camera on the front of the phone for some decent personal snaps – plus you can also get HD video recording too.</div>
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This has been updated to allow you to record video and pictures with the front and back cameras simultaneously, which doesn't really make much sense in the grand scheme of things, but at least you can put some clever frames around your face to make it more relevant.</div>
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Samsung has managed to lower the thickness of the Galaxy S4 compared to the S3 but upgraded the battery from 2,100mAh to 2,600mAh, promising a much larger capacity and therefore longer life.</div>
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However, with all those extra pixels (1080 x 1920) to drive and more cores – we're not sure whether this will actually translate to better battery life or not. Samsung has promised that the power management will be more intelligent than ever before, but we're yet to play a good half hour of HD gaming and then watch a monster movie marathon on the S4 to really test it out.</div>
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It was excellent on the S3 for the most part, so here's hoping that that octa-core will inspire even better battery life.</div>
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There's a whole glut of new features on offer with the Samsung Galaxy S4, with elements like a more refined method of buying media to a dedicated S Health application.</div>
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The former of these two is pretty expansive, and a clear sign that Samsung is looking to take over even more of Google's efforts into monetising Android - Play Store is one of the big ways Google looks to cash in on Android use, and Samsung's ploy to create a unified hub that offers music, books, games and movies is going to get right in the way of that.</div>
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Irrespective of that, it's a much better of way of getting content onto your device, and the line up looks very strong. We haven't had a good root around yet to see the full limits, but here's hoping it's well connected with Samsung's Music Hub and the like to provide a fully-integrated system.</div>
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S Health is an interesting proposition too - it's clearly taking the idea of wearable technology from Nike+ and FitBit and rolling it into its own ecosystem.</div>
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The application is large and wide-ranging though - from a large database of food and drink you can tap into and note what kind of calorie intake you're rocking, to a an app that lets you note how many steps you've taken that day (using the phone's accelerometer / gyroscope as a pedometer) - and it can even tell when you're running and walking separately.</div>
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In reality, it's just Samsung taking some popular ideas around fitness technology and embedding them more deeply within the phone - copyright aside - and presenting it in a way that's easy to digest and schedule.</div>
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It would be brilliant if this could interact with something like Adidas MiCoach to come up with tailored running and exercise plans, but as it stands it's a more fully-formed idea than anything we've seen from Samsung in the past.</div>
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The Samsung Galaxy S4 launch was characterised by many things - confusing Broadway ideas being a main theme - but that doesn't mean that the phone was the only thing worth noting.</div>
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From S Health to the ability to turn your new phone into a gaming console, the Galaxy S4 announcement also showed off some nifty new accessories for you to play with and buy from Samsung (a kind gesture, right?) when you spend all that cash on phone.</div>
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We went behind the scenes at the launch to get the inside scoop on what was happening with these new ideas, and more importantly, whether you should add them to your wishlist when the S4 launches at the end of April.</div>
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There was a lot on offer for the fitness-inclined smartphone buyer with the Galaxy S4 launch, with S Health being the new name that pulls together a number of different ideas for keeping your heart and body in check, such as the Running Mate app which apes a lot of functionality from the likes of Runkeeper, Endomondo, Nike+ and Adidas MiCoach.</div>
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The inbuilt app uses the phone accelerometer and gyroscope to track your movements for the most part, but Samsung has spotted a trick or two when it comes to accessories you can buy to make things that much easier.</div>
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These bathroom scales connect to the phone using Bluetooth and allow you to, you know, see how heavy you (and six others, with multiple profiles supported) are day to day without having to worry about all the palaver of weighing yourself on another set of scales and transferring the numbers across manually.</div>
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Which would also save you heaps of cash, in all likelihood, as we can't see these being that cheap to buy.</div>
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Then again, they look styling and the display is superbly easy to read out - and if you're something of a gadget-fiend, there's no denying it's cool to watch the weight pop up on the smartphone. Just make sure you take off 139g from your end weight if you're holding the Galaxy S4 while weighing yourself.</div>
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Yes, let's be honest here, this S Band is just the Korean firm getting behind the craze for new wearable tech. The band is designed for those moments when you don't want to take your phone out with you on a run, and will sync with the Galaxy S4 via Bluetooth when you come back in.</div>
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While we like the idea muchly - Nike+ isn't really that well bedded-in with Android at the moment - there's no notion over whether this will know when you've run with the phone and the band together, so you could end up with two sets of data for the same run. First world problems, eh?</div>
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This is pretty much exactly as it sounds – it works with the Running Mate app, connects via Bluetooth to record said heart rate and then uses that to let you know how you're getting on intensity-wise during the run, although this won't give you prompts to raise or lower your pace as some other apps do.</div>
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This nifty little device is, well, not really a device, more a flip cover from the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 with a small hole cut in the front so you can see notifications on your phone without having to open the case.</div>
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The idea seems a strange one, as the whole point of the cover is surely to preserve the condition of the screen – it would have been so much cooler if that front display was an e-ink display on the front of the S View cover.</div>
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At least it has some tricks of its own: you can see the time, any messages or what music is playing when the cover is closed and you hit the power button, thanks to the internal magnets that can detect when the cover is closed.</div>
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With a range of colours, we can see this being a popular choice for those that want to make their phone seem more next generation.</div>
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On top of this flip cover, you've also got the non-holey ones, more rugged cases that can stop your phone from instantly smashing the second it lands on a radiator, or a lovely pouch that will probably cost three times as much as one you can buy online. But it's OFFICIAL.</div>
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Samsung has been a good little manufacturer with the Galaxy S4, and made it all wireless compatible using the Qi standard, which is being used by the likes of Nokia and LG in their phones too.</div>
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Obviously this gives Samsung the chance to pop out an official accessory as well, and with that we've got the Wireless Charging Pad.</div>
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While we were impressed with the size of the charging point – there are some out there, such as for the Nokia Lumia 920, that don't really allow the phone to sit on them properly thanks to being too small – we don't know how fast this will be able to charge the phone, which is a key consideration.</div>
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This nifty little controller, which is coming in May just after the Samsung Galaxy S4 itself launches, is a neat idea that features an adjustable port for Samsung games that can be controlled by Bluetooth.</div>
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The pad features all manner of buttons to use, be it directional D-Pad or analogue stick, and all are made of high-quality plastic and easy to hit. The holder, which slides up and down and locks the phone in using a spring, feels a little fragile but certainly gets a tight grip on the Galaxy S4 (or Note 3, it seems…).</div>
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Playing a spot of <em>Sonic the Hedgehog 4</em> on the device was awesome, as not only did the whole thing flow nicely and the graphics stay nice and fluid, but having been sad at the controller interface on a touchscreen before, we were so happy to have a fully-fledged console in our hands that simply worked.</div>
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However, this is the big let down: like all smartphones that try this trick, the Samsung Galaxy S4 lags terribly between receiving the Bluetooth button commands and pushing them onscreen, which means reaction times have to almost enter another dimension to play the game properly.</div>
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Until this is fixed the awesome power of the internal GPU of the S4 isn't going to be realised, and we're a little worried it never might be – which would be a huge shame as this could be a killer feature.</div>
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Samsung says this will launch with eight games on its App Store, but will support around 80 other titles, making it a decent choice for use officially – more if you get togther with an emulator for some old-skool action.</div>
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It wouldn't be a Samsung launch without a myriad other things being offered up to supplement your Galaxy S4 experience, and thankfully you've got that with things like a dedicated Mini HDMI Lead to connect your phone directly to the TV and a separate portable battery charger to keep your S4 juiced up when the main power pack has given up the ghost.</div>
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An Android-powered camera, the S800c comes with a 16-megapixel CMOS sensor, a 10x zoom lens, HD video recording, GPS and access to Android apps.</div>
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The P7700 features a 12.2-megapixel sensor, 7.1x zoom lens, manual controls and 1080p HD capability.</div>
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Weighing only 3.4 ounces, the "ultra-mini" S01 has a touchscreen operating system, 3x wide-angle zoom and and easy auto modes.</div>
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<a href="http://mashable.com/follow/topics/nikon/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Nikon</a> unveiled three new additions to its <a href="http://mashable.com/follow/topics/coolpix/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Coolpix</a> line of <a href="http://mashable.com/follow/topics/point-and-shoot/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">point-and-shoot</a> digital cameras on Sunday.</div>
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The most exciting of these is the Coolpix S800c, which combines Nikon’s imaging technologies with built-in Wi-Fi and the Android OS, confirming <a href="http://mashable.com/2012/08/09/nikon-instagram-android-camera/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">earlier rumors</a> that the company was working on an Android-powered camera. Calling it the “perfect camera for ‘connected’ individuals,” Nikon says the S800c allows for easy sharing of photos through social networks. It comes with a 16-megapixel CMOS sensor, a 10x zoom lens, HD video recording, GPS and access to Android apps.</div>
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Dubbed Nikon’s new flagship Coolpix camera, the P7700 features a 12.2-megapixel sensor, 7.1x zoom lens, manual controls and 1080p HD capability.</div>
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Finally, a more affordable option for casual photographers is the S01, an “ultra-mini” point-and-shoot. Weighing only 3.4 ounces, the camera has a touchscreen operating system, 3x wide-angle zoom and easy auto modes.</div>
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All three cameras will be in stores this September. The S800c will be available in black and white for $349.95, the P7700 only comes in black at a cost of $499.95 and the S01 will be available in silver, white, red and pink for $179.95.</div>
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For NASA’s Curiosity rover, newly arrived on Mars, digging into the menu of minerals available on the Red Planet will take a robotic arm, a sleeve full of soil and a NASA-made tuning fork coupled with X-rays.</div>
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Curiosity, the centerpiece of the Mars Science Laboratory mission, <a href="http://www.space.com/16932-mars-rover-curiosity-landing-success.html" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">touched down</a> in Mars’s <a href="http://www.space.com/12398-mars-curiosity-landing-spot-gale-crater-faq.html" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Gale Crater</a> Aug. 5 PDT. NASA plans to use the rover’s <a href="http://www.space.com/13689-nasa-amazing-mars-rover-curiosity-science.html" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Chemistry and Mineralogy (CheMin)</a> experiment to explore the chemical composition of this area and figure out how it was formed — with an eye out for signs that Mars once had conditions suitable for life.</div>
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“If we know the mineralogy (of an area), as opposed to just the chemistry, you can talk about the environmental conditions,” Ashwin Vasavada, MSL’s deputy project scientist, told <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SPACE.com</i>.</div>
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A typical CheMin analysis takes about 10 hours and will usually take place overnight, when the rover is otherwise at rest.</div>
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Work will start in the coming weeks when the <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="5182ca849f2dfab80ad714c43e33feed980c27f5" grtype="null" id="GRmark_5182ca849f2dfab80ad714c43e33feed980c27f5_rover:0">rover</span> stretches out its five-jointed, seven-foot arm to sample a bit of Martian soil, then swallows it as the arm places the soil inside an inlet.</div>
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Bigger chunks are filtered out through a sieve, leaving a fine powder that falls into a button-size sleeve with a window on one side.</div>
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Curiosity will then shine a focused beam of X-rays through the soil.</div>
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“As (the rays) shine in the different crystals in the minerals, one photon at a time, the rays scatter out,” Vasavada said.</div>
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Curiosity will measure these bent, scattered rays with charge-coupled devices (CCDs). These devices are sensitive to light and are commonly used on Earth in cameras and telescope <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="2c79882332c589932aebefc73c57c225534a3f07" grtype="null" id="GRmark_2c79882332c589932aebefc73c57c225534a3f07_imagers:0">imagers</span>.</div>
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Their use in CheMin is quite different, Vasavada explained. The X-rays will shine on the CCD and produce a particular pattern due to the way the light was bent around the crystals.</div>
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Every type of mineral has a distinctive set of “rings” seen in X-rays, almost like a fingerprint. NASA, like any good lab, has access to a library of these mineral rings. According to Vasavada, the library is a similar concept to that of fingerprint libraries used by crime scene investigators.</div>
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“You search your fingerprint library for what minerals and what combinations of minerals match,” Vasavada said. “It’s the gold-standard way of understanding the mineralogy of a powdered sample.”</div>
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NASA has used similar techniques on Mars before, but this time it has devised a way to greatly improve the accuracy of the analysis.</div>
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Each sample envelope is attached to a metal strut similar to a tuning fork. As the X-rays <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="8401a50d6fa23f320ea032b3f52705db48f6ddae" grtype="null" id="GRmark_8401a50d6fa23f320ea032b3f52705db48f6ddae_shine:0">shine</span> through the envelope, the strut will vibrate at 200 cycles a second to mix up the Martian soil. Shaking the sample increases the number of ways in which the crystals orient toward each other, improving the analysis.</div>
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The vibration also makes a noise: “It sounds like a mosquito when you do it,” Vasavada said.</div>
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Some of the minerals that could show evidence of what NASA calls “<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="0210eb9c804b561fc325b210c1ee42999b1de716" grtype="null" id="GRmark_0210eb9c804b561fc325b210c1ee42999b1de716_biosignatures:0">biosignatures</span>” — telltale signs of life — include silica, <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="0210eb9c804b561fc325b210c1ee42999b1de716" grtype="null" id="GRmark_0210eb9c804b561fc325b210c1ee42999b1de716_sulphates:1">sulphates</span>, carbonates and phosphates.</div>
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With each X-ray fingerprint, researchers can get a little closer to figuring out if Gale Crater once had <a href="http://www.space.com/15533-mars-water-rocks-life.html" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">conditions where life could have thrived</a>.</div>
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20 Things Your Most Annoying Friends Do on Facebook</h1>
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1. TMI Parents</div>
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We love your babies, really we do. We do not, however, relish vivid descriptions of their every wee wee and <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="c02254fe73e0528134069175efcadd8d12fc75dc" grtype="null" id="GRmark_c02254fe73e0528134069175efcadd8d12fc75dc_poopee:0">poopee</span>. And we especially don't look forward to 46 similar posts every single day.</div>
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2. Marketing</div>
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Congratulations, you have a job! So does the majority of the rest of the 900 million people on Facebook.</div>
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We simply ask one favor: If you wish to market, create a <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">marketing page</em>. If you wish to lose all your friends, keep spamming them with P90X ads.</div>
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3. <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="c98c53bad8c5a26cdb8507d9968bda6ba714d4d3" grtype="null" id="GRmark_c98c53bad8c5a26cdb8507d9968bda6ba714d4d3_Vaguebooking:0">Vaguebooking</span></div>
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Urban Dictionary defines "<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="021915ce52de8a58248aba7b8dace6766b1471b1" grtype="null" id="GRmark_021915ce52de8a58248aba7b8dace6766b1471b1_vaguebooking:0">vaguebooking</span>" as the following: "An intentionally vague Facebook status update that prompts friends to ask what's going on, or is possibly a cry for help."</div>
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<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Wondering if it's all worth it..."</li>
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<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Yep, that just happened."</li>
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<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Karma is a bitch."</li>
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4. Unsolicited Check-Ins</div>
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I really don't think anyone cares about our third trip to Dunkin' Donuts this week. For that matter, I'd prefer if my boss didn't learn about our weeknight rendezvous at **FREE-Tuesday-Night-Jager-Shots-With-Purchase-of-PBR-Tall-Can Tavern<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="f5f6e20d86cadbb04ee56065a42499b8c9085d30" grtype="null" id="GRmark_f5f6e20d86cadbb04ee56065a42499b8c9085d30_.:0">.</span>**</div>
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5. The Humblebrag</div>
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"Sometimes I wish I wasn't 5'10" and stunningly gorgeous because then I could just walk in peace."</div>
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6. Vanity</div>
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MySpace may have popularized the "<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="22d3703b8b21280e24dffe77dca6c20b1f1a0a12" grtype="null" id="GRmark_22d3703b8b21280e24dffe77dca6c20b1f1a0a12_selfie:0">selfie</span>," but we're pretty sure Facebook is keeping it alive and well.</div>
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7. Song Lyrics</div>
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We're not total squares. We appreciate a good tune now and again. But somehow, reading your ass-random song lyrics out of context doesn't toot our trumpet, if you know what I mean.</div>
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8. Political Rants</div>
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Does [insert politician here] reward you for being his top ultra liberal/conservative social media mouthpiece? He should.</div>
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9. The Twitter Sync</div>
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HT @mention, @mention FWIW, Twitter is not the same as FB. #kthanksbye.</div>
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10. Third Person</div>
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There's a reason people on Facebook discontinued the third person status update. Because it got old. Ergo, stop doing it.</div>
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11. The Phantom Tag</div>
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I am not in that sunset picture, but you seem to want me to be. Or you just want me to hate you.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Variation</strong>: Any post that ends with "Amirite? [Tagged name] [Tagged name] [Tagged name] [Tagged name] [Tagged name] [Tagged name] [Tagged name] [Tagged name] [Tagged name] [Tagged name]."</div>
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12. Creepers</div>
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It's so refreshing to know that people subscribe to you for your intelligence and wit. Oh right, that and marriage proposals.</div>
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13. Publicizing Private Moments</div>
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A) Full-blown conversations on Facebook between a couple that sees each other every day and may even be sitting next to each other on the couch, for all we know.</div>
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B) Posting publicly about private or sensitive matters pertaining to family, friends, legal matters, religious beliefs, health, violence or even feminine hygiene products (yes, we've seen it).</div>
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KITY (Keep It to Yourself).</div>
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14. Unnecessary Name Changes</div>
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When did it become trendy to go by your middle name instead of your last name? Some of us missed the memo.</div>
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There's no reason you and your partner should maintain separate profiles — you breathe the same air, keep the same secrets and mourn the same crippled identity, right?</div>
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"<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="d3c02ef7b35613e29a4022f274f741da6dc920d0" grtype="null" id="GRmark_d3c02ef7b35613e29a4022f274f741da6dc920d0_Repost:0">Repost</span> this Facebook status to protect your privacy!" <a href="http://mashable.com/2012/06/05/facebook-privacy-notice-fake/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sound familiar?</a></div>
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Fake rumors like these often start as political, marketing or social campaigns, and are designed to spread awareness through fear. But really, it's the people who blindly perpetuate these rumors who should be afraid — very afraid.</div>
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18. <a href="http://www.collegehumor.com/article/6069990/the-sassy-arm-triangle-of-insecurity-a-facebook-epidemic" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">The "Arm Triangle of Insecurity"</a></div>
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The hand-on-hip trick creates a slimming effect, also known as the "skinny arm." It's especially effective when paired with a bent knee and photographed from the side.</div>
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Only problem is it's no longer a secret of the sorority pros. Now everyone knows you're just trying to look skinny.</div>
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19. Mundane Posts + Exercise Bragging</div>
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It's really important that every single one of your 400 Facebook friends knows that you're training for a 5K, that you stubbed your big toe during a recent jog, and that your runner's diet of <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="751c3c0c6bb2004254660bf64c5b708f0d9806ee" grtype="null" id="GRmark_751c3c0c6bb2004254660bf64c5b708f0d9806ee_chia:0">chia</span> seeds is doing wonders for your digestion.</div>
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20. Redundant Links</div>
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Pet peeve: people who don't remove the URL once they've copy/pasted it into a status update. Result: ilooklikebarackobama.com on top of ilooklikebarackobama.com. Hurts my eyes.</div>
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Either we’re getting old and grouchy or <a href="http://mashable.com/category/facebook/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Facebook</a> is becoming a lot less tolerable these days. Once we <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="d9db9bfb793564bea239728c7163f3a741f94589" grtype="null" id="GRmark_d9db9bfb793564bea239728c7163f3a741f94589_filter:0">filter</span> through pictures of baby’s first potty training and epic love poems of the newly engaged, we’re left with political diatribes and spam — and yes, all of it from our “friends.”</div>
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In a long-winded, therapeutic email thread, <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mashable</em> staffers vented about our biggest Facebook pet peeves. Once I removed the NSFW language and <a href="http://mashable.com/2012/08/13/caps-lock-infographic/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CAPS LOCK</a> cyber-rants, I narrowed down the list <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="71152c1b70995cebb6db0778465143b0ed040dba" grtype="null" id="GRmark_71152c1b70995cebb6db0778465143b0ed040dba_to:0">to</span> the 20 most annoying behaviors on Facebook.</div>
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Perhaps your friends are guilty of one or — God forbid — all of these Facebook mortal sins. Maybe even you have erred from time to time (we forgive you, but please stop). Either way, now’s your chance to contribute your own nominations for world’s worst Facebook manners. Vent away in the comments below.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5yP52OAA8TgWTYj-iCFyXWSJz5L3rtiEgoi_LLDAxMlU6IurShg3-nCAff5Zj0kGWRoV37fjQO0kFaxSv3Rk4txAQ_9-7eXqpctBJ44ENRN6HyC0r3sKjbhwpxpnvKLAyQcgcNTMlttji/s1600/Planet-Mars-275x171.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5yP52OAA8TgWTYj-iCFyXWSJz5L3rtiEgoi_LLDAxMlU6IurShg3-nCAff5Zj0kGWRoV37fjQO0kFaxSv3Rk4txAQ_9-7eXqpctBJ44ENRN6HyC0r3sKjbhwpxpnvKLAyQcgcNTMlttji/s1600/Planet-Mars-275x171.jpg" /></a>The simple explanation for the Red Planet’s color is that its <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="c170457c4975cf1d9c5e06566bcc85699cfb3e1e" grtype="null" id="GRmark_c170457c4975cf1d9c5e06566bcc85699cfb3e1e_regolith:0">regolith</span>, or surface material, contains lots of iron oxide — the same compound that gives blood and rust their hue. But why does <a href="http://www.space.com/47-mars-the-red-planet-fourth-planet-from-the-sun.html" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Mars</a> have so much iron, why is that <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="8904de8e501f30c76e5f5ae6b1aed90ae3f387f6" grtype="null" id="GRmark_8904de8e501f30c76e5f5ae6b1aed90ae3f387f6_iron:0">iron</span> “oxidized,” and why does iron oxide look red?</div>
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It all started 4.5 billion years ago. When the solar system formed, many of the planets landed a dose of iron<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="fa7437ec76991ff74f904c3b244919707e725ee4" grtype="null" id="GRmark_fa7437ec76991ff74f904c3b244919707e725ee4_.:0">.</span><a href="http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/864-humans-really-made-stars.html" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Forged in the heart of long-dead stars</a>, the heavy element swirled around in the cloud of gas and dust that <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="fa7437ec76991ff74f904c3b244919707e725ee4" grtype="null" id="GRmark_fa7437ec76991ff74f904c3b244919707e725ee4_gravitationally:1">gravitationally</span> collapsed to form the sun and planets. Whereas the bulk of Earth’s iron sank to its core when the planet was young and molten, NASA scientists think Mars’ smaller size (and weaker gravity) allowed it to remain less differentiated. It does have an iron core, but abundant iron exists in its upper layers, also.</div>
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Plain-old iron looks shiny black. The element only takes on a reddish tinge when it has been exposed to oxygen, and enough oxygen at that for it to become iron<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="4dc58e1d6e97e3fe1431fdbbb21ea76e47114101" grtype="null" id="GRmark_4dc58e1d6e97e3fe1431fdbbb21ea76e47114101_(:0">(</span>III) <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="4dc58e1d6e97e3fe1431fdbbb21ea76e47114101" grtype="null" id="GRmark_4dc58e1d6e97e3fe1431fdbbb21ea76e47114101_oxide:1">oxide</span>, an atomic <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="4dc58e1d6e97e3fe1431fdbbb21ea76e47114101" grtype="null" id="GRmark_4dc58e1d6e97e3fe1431fdbbb21ea76e47114101_fivesome:2">fivesome</span> composed of two iron atoms and three oxygen atoms. So why did so much of the iron on Mars’ <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="99e3ba8a47398191cb06530b5a8ddf554cc0490c" grtype="null" id="GRmark_99e3ba8a47398191cb06530b5a8ddf554cc0490c_surface:0">surface</span> oxidize, or gang up with oxygen?</div>
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In fact, the jury’s still out on that one. For sure, some sort of weathering gradually rusted the iron on Mars. But did the ancient rainstorms that are thought to have occurred on a young, wet Mars rust the iron by pounding the <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="5580a0a81ada13b73284eb2a931a1e7d13321c8b" grtype="null" id="GRmark_5580a0a81ada13b73284eb2a931a1e7d13321c8b_regolith:0">regolith</span> with oxygen atoms freed from <a href="http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/1773-water-strange-physics.html" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">water molecules</a>?</div>
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Or, did the oxidation happen gradually over billions of years, as sunlight broke down carbon dioxide and other molecules in the atmosphere, producing oxidants such as hydrogen peroxide and ozone? Or, as a group of Danish scientists suggested in 2009, have Martian dust storms slowly rusted the iron, by crumbling the quartz crystals that also exist in the <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="18d2071860bbb361837fe2a233cab30f2c69f457" grtype="null" id="GRmark_18d2071860bbb361837fe2a233cab30f2c69f457_regolith:0">regolith</span> and leaving their oxygen-rich surfaces exposed?</div>
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Because no one yet knows the right explanation, the color of Mars is, in a sense, still a mystery. But however its surface <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="ecc19e088e22147151c1b333a621c081dfcbea6d" grtype="null" id="GRmark_ecc19e088e22147151c1b333a621c081dfcbea6d_rusted:0">rusted</span>, the compound iron<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="ecc19e088e22147151c1b333a621c081dfcbea6d" grtype="null" id="GRmark_ecc19e088e22147151c1b333a621c081dfcbea6d_(:1">(</span>III) oxide appears red because it absorbs the blue and green wavelengths of the light spectrum while reflecting the red wavelengths.</div>
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The planet’s bloody tinge — visible even from millions of miles away — got it strapped with the name of the Roman god of war, while other civilizations also named the planet for what was once its main distinguishing feature. The Egyptians called it “Her Desher,” meaning “the red one,” while ancient Chinese astronomers went with “the fire star.”
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There’s a lot of conflicting data out there about <a href="http://mashable.com/follow/topics/google-plus/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Google+</a>. A <a href="http://mashable.com/2012/02/28/google-plus-3-3-minutes/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">few</a> <a href="http://mashable.com/2012/05/15/google-plus-engagement/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">studies</a> over the past few months have portrayed the fledgling social network as relatively moribund, but another <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/1/114259566451209869276/posts" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">recent report</a> from Experian Hitwise says visits to the network are growing substantially, hitting 34.9 million for the week ended Aug. 4 compared to 21.9 million visits for the week ended July 21 — a 59% jump in two weeks.</div>
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Whether the network is thriving or not, this research from <a href="http://www.umpf.co.uk/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Umpf</a>, a UK-based social media firm, shows that activity on G+ is low compared to other social networks.</div>
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To prove the point, Umpf analyzed 100 online news stories across G+, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. The company then determined the average number of users per 100 million likely to share a story. As the <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="86e8232df911480b428614bda8544701c6bbfee9" grtype="null" id="GRmark_86e8232df911480b428614bda8544701c6bbfee9_infographic:0">infographic</span> below shows, the gulf between G+ and Twitter in this regard is stark: Only six G+ users out of 100 million shared, compared to 197.3 out of 100 million for Twitter. The difference wasn’t as large for Facebook and LinkedIn, but G+ was still a distant fourth.</div>
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<span style="color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">London 2012 slalom canoe is the fourteenth London Olympics doodle, carrying on the tradition of a Google doodle every day of the Olympics.</span><br style="color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">The sport of canoe slalom, or whitewater slalom as it was called before November 2008, is a sport where the aim is to navigate your canoe through a series of hanging gates on a river rapid as soon as possible.</span><br style="color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">The doodle itself is in the form of a game true to the basics of the sport - your aim is to make the slalom athlete navigate the rapid as fast as possible. Use the left-right arrow keys to power up and navigate your canoe. Try aiming for a time around the 20 second mark to be champion of your office!</span><br style="color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Last Friday, the Google doodle had celebrated the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics. The doodle 5 athletes playing different Olympic sports. On Saturday, the Google doodle had celebrated the sport of archery, with a female archer getting ready to aim for bull's eye.</span><br style="color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Last Sunday's Google doodle celebrated the Olympic sport of diving. Monday and Tuesday were about fencing and gymnastics men's rings respectively. Wednesday it was the turn of field hockey, the first time the sport found its way into a Google doodle. The sport of table tennis or ping pong was depicted on Thursday.</span><br style="color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">This Friday it was the turn of shot put, while Saturday and Sunday had pole vault and synchronised swimming respectively. Monday saw the week start with a javelin Google doodle, while Tuesday saw the first animated doodle in form of the London 2012 hurdles game. Yesterday, we saw the amazing basketball doodle game.</span><br style="color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Google has a rich history of Olympics related doodles. In 2008, there was a doodle celebrating the opening ceremony of the Bejing Olympics on Aug 8, 2008. This doodle showed the five Beijing Olympics mascots - BeiBei, JingJing, HuanHuan, YingYing and NiNi - carrying the Olympic flag.</span><br style="color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Each day in 2008 saw different Google doodles being released. It is expected that this year too Google will stay true to its tradition and come out with a series of doodles spread across the fifteen days of the Olympics.</span>
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<a href="http://www.mashable.com/tag/facebook" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Facebook</a> took the wraps off Facebook Stories Thursday, a section designed “to celebrate the different stories that are coming out of Facebook,” according to a spokesperson’s description.</div>
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The first issue of Facebook Stories, which resides at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/facebookstories" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">facebook.com/FacebookStories</a>, centers on “remembering.” A video at the top of the page tells the moving story of Mayank Sharm, who used Facebook’s “People You May Know” tool to contact old acquaintances and reconstruct his life history after being diagnosed with meningitis at age 27. A separate page serves up stories <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="e7634023819981847d21bef566409f9f88774910" grtype="null" id="GRmark_e7634023819981847d21bef566409f9f88774910_on:0">on</span> memory from <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The New Yorker</em>‘s archives, courtesy of the magazine’s librarians. Ari Shapiro, NPR’s White House correspondent, shares “one memory he’ll never forget,” and author and journalist Joshua Foer shares a list of books on memory that informed <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Moonwalking-Einstein-Science-Remembering-Everything/dp/159420229X" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">his own</a> on the subject.</div>
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The remaining pieces, written by a mix of freelancers and Facebook employees whose job titles contain the word “editor,” tell of other interesting uses of the social network to save decaying landmarks and inspire art.</div>
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The point of it all? A Facebook spokesperson tells me that an “overwhelming outpouring of people” e-mail the company’s press account to share how they’ve used the site “to leverage connections, deliver social value to their communities and work through adversity in their own lives. We wanted to build a place where they can live and be showcased and celebrated, and also to give them some context.”</div>
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The social network <a href="http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=409743057130" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">launched a similar, less formal project</a> as a Facebook application under the same name in 2010, which asked users to submit their stories to be shared with other users of the app. The application was deleted sometime in early 2011. The new Facebook stories <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="59224d85af7eace1837d391ec5ebc954d797753f" grtype="null" id="GRmark_59224d85af7eace1837d391ec5ebc954d797753f_is:0">is</span> “a separate effort from a different team,” a spokesperson tells me.</div>
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The new Facebook Stories <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="bb8a9902a57f712ce110c82df8e922f7e15893aa" grtype="null" id="GRmark_bb8a9902a57f712ce110c82df8e922f7e15893aa_is:0">is</span> almost identical in nature to <a href="http://mashable.com/2011/11/01/twitter-stories/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Twitter Stories</a> and <a href="http://mashable.com/2012/05/07/tumblr-storyboard/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tumblr’s Storyboard</a>, both of which detail how individuals are using those platforms through short articles, photographs and videos. Of the two, Tumblr’s is the more robust, with one or more new stories per day, whereas Twitter has published just two three-paragraph stories since mid-April.</div>
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New issues will be released each month, accompanied by an <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="085c0b6dad6e58e628fcd2c44d382e9a65d7a064" grtype="null" id="GRmark_085c0b6dad6e58e628fcd2c44d382e9a65d7a064_infographic:0">infographic</span> related to each theme. Each story will focus on people, not brands, but “this is just the first iteration, we could see different evolutions,” Facebook says.<br />
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The physical buttons that lie beside the screen are the Video recording button, Menu, Gallery, Back, Delete all around the central circle that has five options – Self Timer, Macro Mode, Display option and Flash control. The central key is for selecting, i.e. OK button. While the screen is on, and you are ready to capture the picture, hitting the Menu key would open a list of options to have a control on the exposure, color balance, ISO and the other most basic and most changed options in the camera. Held vertically, the WB150F has the following keys on the top right area – Power with the simple on/off function, and the 360-degree circular rotating button, which is the Mode-dial button in the corner having <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="b6893f60ea49d8d70fc9ff0668a119d841fffc39" grtype="null" id="GRmark_b6893f60ea49d8d70fc9ff0668a119d841fffc39_the:0">the</span> modes – Program, SCN, <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="b6893f60ea49d8d70fc9ff0668a119d841fffc39" grtype="null" id="GRmark_b6893f60ea49d8d70fc9ff0668a119d841fffc39_Wi:1">Wi</span>-Fi options, Video recording and the smart settings.<br />
Beside the circular button lies the zoom pull and release button which is to justify what the camera is best for – Zooming to the 18th level.</div>
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One problem with the zoom button is that it is prone to go out of function very soon, because we already are seeing some glitch in the automatic positioning of the key back to its place after we rotate it to zoom in.</div>
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There are loads of options, and the best part of all this – These are easy to find and use. Nothing can be called hidden if you are able to understand the Menu and Mode Dial options and their need based on the surrounding light conditions. Of course a digital camera can’t easily provide what an SLR camera does, but the best setup of options can make it better than the many other similar leveled <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="5c14c8c7b8d8f1f3c7c8d23ef34eeb9f109d8dd3" grtype="null" id="GRmark_5c14c8c7b8d8f1f3c7c8d23ef34eeb9f109d8dd3_digicams:0">digicams</span>. The camera has a 3-inch LCD that provides a neat quality of <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="45d17a4371738bcf3e3f89f04789386df1a82426" grtype="null" id="GRmark_45d17a4371738bcf3e3f89f04789386df1a82426_picture:0">picture</span> before <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="45d17a4371738bcf3e3f89f04789386df1a82426" grtype="null" id="GRmark_45d17a4371738bcf3e3f89f04789386df1a82426_its:1">its</span> clicked, and after the capture, zooming is what would show what actually is clicked. The screen fits well on the back, leaving no space on all the sides except the right side having those functional physical keys.</div>
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Let’s check out the Menu key in detail. While the camera is turned on and you aren’t clicking a picture or capturing a video, hit the Menu key and these are the options you would find:</div>
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The options like Flash, Mode of picture, Self timer are all available through the physical keys too, but the Menu would bring them all at one place. Just like the various options, the interface is pretty easy to use, and the video recording is possible through the dedicated key provided on the top right side.</div>
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All the impression that the Samsung WB150F had held till now with the beautiful design and neat interface, is quite lost when the performance is given a test. Making a user wait for a few seconds before the first click is done after hitting the Power On button, would not be impressed at all. Our test showed an instant click after powering on, at around 3.2 seconds of gap and there is even a shutter lag that we noticed.</div>
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As a note of comparison, there is a Samsung WB750 camera which gives a better performance, with 200% faster speed <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="08df9bd44d91f1e666ec8afaa224978ed60abebd" grtype="null" id="GRmark_08df9bd44d91f1e666ec8afaa224978ed60abebd_in:0">in</span> clicking the picture after starting up, and the shutter lag is almost 1/4th of what the WB150F has, and to make it even harder for the latter to compete, the WB750 has got the same 18x optical zoom and 720p video recording.</div>
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Video recording is of max 720p quality, and although it is not a 1080p HD quality, the 30fps speed at 720p quality captures a neat video in MP4 format. One of the best features while recording the videos is that you can zoom in and out when the recording is in progress, and the camera does the focusing on the object automatically after the zooming is done.</div>
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The battery is <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="a3e96ed42719c1858b50b6d8c0e7191171d85179" grtype="null" id="GRmark_a3e96ed42719c1858b50b6d8c0e7191171d85179_of:0">of</span> 1050 <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="a3e96ed42719c1858b50b6d8c0e7191171d85179" grtype="null" id="GRmark_a3e96ed42719c1858b50b6d8c0e7191171d85179_mAh:1">mAh</span> and you get to click a few low hundred pictures without the flash using the battery <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="a3e96ed42719c1858b50b6d8c0e7191171d85179" grtype="null" id="GRmark_a3e96ed42719c1858b50b6d8c0e7191171d85179_on:2">on</span> full charge. Using the Flash / <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="e330e3162294ca8df6d637d26eb6169d94ca5c87" grtype="null" id="GRmark_e330e3162294ca8df6d637d26eb6169d94ca5c87_Wi:0">Wi</span>-Fi reduces the battery levels pretty fast, and there is no battery charger included as the battery in the camera gets charged when the camera is connected to the power via the Micro-USB connection.</div>
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One of the best features of the WB150F camera – <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="08a6ce7dd2fb49be1b294b22cc5104859ba91fbc" grtype="null" id="GRmark_08a6ce7dd2fb49be1b294b22cc5104859ba91fbc_Wi:0">Wi</span>-Fi connectivity for the social sharing and much more. The <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="8202e107df05cb74a74b0af258e10ad5af15191c" grtype="null" id="GRmark_8202e107df05cb74a74b0af258e10ad5af15191c_Wi:0">Wi</span>-Fi settings are available through the Dial Mode, and there are easy options to set up the connection, select the available hotspot and it connects unless a password is required. Entering the password is possible, and it’s needed just once as the camera stores the entered passwords.</div>
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Remote controlling of the camera is possible through the Android applications, which we tried to work with through the Android 4.0 phone, and it worked pretty fine where we could use the camera functions directly from the phone and a few include <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="cb524832f3305d125bcad2e6ecbff5d7006ec682" grtype="null" id="GRmark_cb524832f3305d125bcad2e6ecbff5d7006ec682_tipping:0">tipping</span> the shutter, zooming in and out but none of the internal settings can be changed through <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="cb524832f3305d125bcad2e6ecbff5d7006ec682" grtype="null" id="GRmark_cb524832f3305d125bcad2e6ecbff5d7006ec682_Wi:1">Wi</span>-Fi. The app named Remote Viewfinder app is available for both Android and <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="e2111d7c363c9d01831d69d6d0e6eaad90a75b72" grtype="null" id="GRmark_e2111d7c363c9d01831d69d6d0e6eaad90a75b72_iOS:0">iOS</span> through their respective app stores, but we haven’t tested the same through an iPhone, also at the same time have seen quite a few <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="e2111d7c363c9d01831d69d6d0e6eaad90a75b72" grtype="null" id="GRmark_e2111d7c363c9d01831d69d6d0e6eaad90a75b72_complains:1">complains</span> about the proper functioning of the app in <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="e2111d7c363c9d01831d69d6d0e6eaad90a75b72" grtype="null" id="GRmark_e2111d7c363c9d01831d69d6d0e6eaad90a75b72_iOS:2">iOS</span>.</div>
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The storage is through the SD card, in a slot just adjacent to the battery socket, both of which are exposed when the bottom panel is opened using the push button.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Lora, georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Consider the Samsung WB150F when you want a step ahead of the mobile phone camera, and want to have the social sharing features just like your smartphone had. The manual controlling, the autofocus with the video recording features with zooming and focusing, the wireless sharing and the options on the screen makes this digital camera a must-purchase one when compared to even the other brands, but one can put the final decision between this one and WB750 which has quite a few similar features but a few advanced ones too. For those who set a certain line of budget, the $230 Samsung digital camera would be a neat choice.</span>
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Continuing the super-sizing of photos that began with the introduction of Timeline last year, <a href="http://mashable.com/category/facebook/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Facebook</a> on Monday enhanced image-viewing on the platform.</div>
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Now, when you click Photos at the top of your Timeline, you’ll be presented with larger pics that fill up the page. Presenting a page full of images will in theory make it easier to share photos. As Facebook’s <a href="https://newsroom.fb.com/News/A-More-Beautiful-View-of-Photos-197.aspx" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">blog</a> <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="baeff2e2aefd4ba01985b286abaf01f695083f18" grtype="null" id="GRmark_baeff2e2aefd4ba01985b286abaf01f695083f18_stated:0">stated</span> on Monday, “With your Facebook photos all in one section, it’s simple to show friends your favorites. Click the star button to make important photos stand out.”</div>
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It’s no mystery why Facebook is putting so much emphasis on photos: <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="5a4b5ea4833da41e32cc9c0dd31d10aa1f805929" grtype="null" id="GRmark_5a4b5ea4833da41e32cc9c0dd31d10aa1f805929_Pinterest’s:0">Pinterest’s</span> popularity has demonstrated a user preference for a more visual experience. Other sites like Quora and Chill.com <a href="http://mashable.com/2012/02/07/pinterest-web-design/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">have mimicked Pinterest’s design</a>. Another major reason is the migration of users to mobile. Since photo-sharing is among the most popular activities on mobile, Facebook spent <a href="http://mashable.com/2012/04/09/facebook-instagram-buy/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">$1 billion</a> to purchase Instagram and has rolled out its own Instagram competitor, Facebook Camera.</div>
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A Facebook rep, however, says the change only affects the Facebook desktop experience; mobile apps won’t be upgraded.</div>
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Users have downloaded more than 3 million copies of the new version of Apple’s PC operating system, Mac OS X 10.8 or Mountain Lion, in its first four days of availability.</div>
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This makes <a href="http://mashable.com/follow/topics/mountain-lion" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mountain Lion</a> the most successful OS X release in Apple’s history.</div>
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“Just a year after the incredibly successful introduction of Lion, customers have downloaded Mountain Lion over three million times in just four days, making it our most successful release ever,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing.</div>
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Mountain Lion brings more than 200 new features, as well as many bug fixes and improvements, and is available through Apple’s Mac App Store for $19.99.</div>
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Read our Apple OS X Mountain Lion Review <a href="http://technoloxter.blogspot.com/2012/07/apple-os-x-mountain-lion-good-awesome.html" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank">here.</a></div>
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Adios <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="2098849a7bd21df28acc2cbf28e7acbbfb42a91c" grtype="null" id="GRmark_2098849a7bd21df28acc2cbf28e7acbbfb42a91c_iChat:0">iChat</span>, Hola Messages! Apple's new all-in-one messaging client combines Google Talk, AIM, Jabber, and Yahoo IM support along with the ability to send <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="1208812bb0bb11d95f17a2cfa3153c170de549d3" grtype="null" id="GRmark_1208812bb0bb11d95f17a2cfa3153c170de549d3_iMessages:0">iMessages</span> to contacts on a Mac or in <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="1208812bb0bb11d95f17a2cfa3153c170de549d3" grtype="null" id="GRmark_1208812bb0bb11d95f17a2cfa3153c170de549d3_iOS:1">iOS</span>.</div>
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See our hands-on of the <a href="http://mashable.com/2012/02/17/messages-os-x-beta/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Messages Beta</a> for more details.</div>
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First introduced in <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="383ec432ed5e36c899ad7f4d69ddf7d0a4796132" grtype="null" id="GRmark_383ec432ed5e36c899ad7f4d69ddf7d0a4796132_iOS:0">iOS</span> 5, Reminders is now on the Mac. This means users can access and modify their reminders on the iPhone, iPad and Mac.</div>
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The interface is a dead ringer for Reminders on the iPad. It syncs instantly via <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="0652b23c4ea46b98d53aab8b5446f1cb20733ad2" grtype="null" id="GRmark_0652b23c4ea46b98d53aab8b5446f1cb20733ad2_iCloud:0">iCloud</span> across devices.</div>
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Another <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="3b23adef6e5b3d6a6be7fdc59ca5821e58dd4530" grtype="null" id="GRmark_3b23adef6e5b3d6a6be7fdc59ca5821e58dd4530_iOS:0">iOS</span> transplant: Game Center. Users can access their <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="bf5532c7ebbf6ec0d836d304ac1fe897860e939c" grtype="null" id="GRmark_bf5532c7ebbf6ec0d836d304ac1fe897860e939c_iOS:0">iOS</span> Game Center scores and stats. Even better, future games will allow users on <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="6ee73fe518a7660dc459e33c247e5b9284cf5e31" grtype="null" id="GRmark_6ee73fe518a7660dc459e33c247e5b9284cf5e31_iOS:0">iOS</span> and the Mac to play head-to-head.</div>
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Apple's note-taking app is now in OS X. The best part: notes sync automatically with <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="7a3ee8c7c1553ad2ed63508d3598be0f5be482c7" grtype="null" id="GRmark_7a3ee8c7c1553ad2ed63508d3598be0f5be482c7_iCloud:0">iCloud</span>, meaning they are instantly accessible on the iPhone or iPad.</div>
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In <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="6f59b58e459e08a82cd9ac3193f356f467868fba" grtype="null" id="GRmark_6f59b58e459e08a82cd9ac3193f356f467868fba_OS X Mountain Lion:0">OS X Mountain Lion</span>, users can add social accounts directly to the OS. This makes it easy to connect and share to Facebook (coming this fall), Twitter, Vimeo and Flickr.</div>
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One of our favorite features of OS X Mountain Lion: Airplay support. This makes it easy to share <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="24eba18509980697fd6395557ad9f5f3610f9b9c" grtype="null" id="GRmark_24eba18509980697fd6395557ad9f5f3610f9b9c_you:0">you</span> screen -- and any video on it -- to a television with an Apple TV. All without wires.</div>
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There is lots of great new stuff in Safari 6, but we really love the tab view that makes it easy to flick across tabs with a <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="85d4445b63104b8a1280780f365a8015254fdd29" grtype="null" id="GRmark_85d4445b63104b8a1280780f365a8015254fdd29_trackpad:0">trackpad</span> or Magic Mouse.</div>
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Safari 6 for OS X Mountain Lion supports cloud tab sync with <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="12547ff281876aa8a5ddf7fbbb99cec14a7ca3cc" grtype="null" id="GRmark_12547ff281876aa8a5ddf7fbbb99cec14a7ca3cc_iOS:0">iOS</span> 6 (currently in beta). This makes it easy for users to access the tabs open on the iPhone and iPad.</div>
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This feature is virtually identical to Chrome's tab sync, but for Safari fans, it's a great treat.</div>
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Just as users can share content from within <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="4cd35012c0bb242bcc13946c34c68101c77d24e2" grtype="null" id="GRmark_4cd35012c0bb242bcc13946c34c68101c77d24e2_iOS:0">iOS</span> 5, they can now share images, files, and more directly from OS X Mountain Lion.</div>
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The share sheets depend on the program you are in, but you can usually send stuff to Facebook (this fall), Twitter, Messages and Mail.</div>
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Sending a tweet with a URL from Safari works the same as it does on <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="c18300ed7b78692445346a132955d5c9f17ad7d2" grtype="null" id="GRmark_c18300ed7b78692445346a132955d5c9f17ad7d2_iOS:0">iOS</span>. It's an easy way to share your favorite web pages.</div>
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Users can tweet photos from compatible apps such as Preview. The image is uploaded to Twitter's official image service.</div>
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Notifications are now an official part of OS X. They can be controlled at an app level. By default, non-pressing actions will appear on screen for a few seconds before disappearing.</div>
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Swiping from the far right on the <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="028cac7a7603a9e7c203a568c5ec04edc4b67ce6" grtype="null" id="GRmark_028cac7a7603a9e7c203a568c5ec04edc4b67ce6_trackpad:0">trackpad</span> brings up the Notifications Center. This displays recent notifications by app in an easy to access way.</div>
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Users can also send tweets directly from the Notifications Center. This makes it easy to send a tweet without having to have an app or website open.</div>
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Mail VIPs</div>
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In Mail, users can now designate certain contacts as VIPs. They get their own starred folders and special notifications every time a message comes in.</div>
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Software Update <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="9c9ffce93a1b7363f96a7f57326a28c6c8152cb1" grtype="null" id="GRmark_9c9ffce93a1b7363f96a7f57326a28c6c8152cb1_in:0">in</span> Mac App Store</div>
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<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="51de0cbaa91f2535f77445c971e667484047ecb5" grtype="null" id="GRmark_51de0cbaa91f2535f77445c971e667484047ecb5_OS X software update:0">OS X software update</span> is now integrated into the Mac App Store. As a bonus, if you have Apple software that wasn't purchased in the Mac App Store (such as <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="2771208c9a6e443ac5d0541d160d91791fbe87d0" grtype="null" id="GRmark_2771208c9a6e443ac5d0541d160d91791fbe87d0_iLife:0">iLife</span> or <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="2771208c9a6e443ac5d0541d160d91791fbe87d0" grtype="null" id="GRmark_2771208c9a6e443ac5d0541d160d91791fbe87d0_iWork:1">iWork</span>), updates to those apps appear in the Mac App Store <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="2771208c9a6e443ac5d0541d160d91791fbe87d0" grtype="null" id="GRmark_2771208c9a6e443ac5d0541d160d91791fbe87d0_updates:2">updates</span> panel too.</div>
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One of the new security features in OS X Mountain Lion is <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="a13a257a55fea6fd3a734729c8d40ac63c5754be" grtype="null" id="GRmark_a13a257a55fea6fd3a734729c8d40ac63c5754be_Gatekeeper:0">Gatekeeper</span>. By default, it only allows apps that have been signed by a developer or were purchased in the Mac App Store to run.</div>
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This is just one more step to make sure that malware or other nasty software doesn't accidentally find its way onto your Mac.</div>
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<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="6ca46df113ad389600d92af9a8da2134c88b2763" grtype="null" id="GRmark_6ca46df113ad389600d92af9a8da2134c88b2763_iCloud:0">iCloud</span></div>
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<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="f9987a4e24e83291a895eb9fe7f93533ac7dcdef" grtype="null" id="GRmark_f9987a4e24e83291a895eb9fe7f93533ac7dcdef_iCloud:0">iCloud</span> integration is coming to <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="f9987a4e24e83291a895eb9fe7f93533ac7dcdef" grtype="null" id="GRmark_f9987a4e24e83291a895eb9fe7f93533ac7dcdef_iWork:1">iWork</span> via an update, but the platform is better integrated into <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="f9987a4e24e83291a895eb9fe7f93533ac7dcdef" grtype="null" id="GRmark_f9987a4e24e83291a895eb9fe7f93533ac7dcdef_OS X Mountain Lion:2">OS X Mountain Lion</span>.</div>
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In Preview.app, for instance, users can easily upload or access documents from <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="a295ca0efe84f84f4b9e181b21bceeaf1c6f2c86" grtype="null" id="GRmark_a295ca0efe84f84f4b9e181b21bceeaf1c6f2c86_iCloud:0">iCloud</span> directly from the app.</div>
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It’s that time of year when a Mac owner’s fancy turns to thoughts of felines. Yes, those who lusted after Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard and Lion in summers past can finally get their paws on a brand new kitty: Mountain Lion.</div>
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As of the second we published this story, <a href="http://mashable.com/follow/topics/mac-osx-mountain-lion/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mountain Lion</a> — more prosaically known as OS X 10.8 — became available in the Mac app store. So long as you already have <a href="http://mashable.com/follow/topics/snow-leopard/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Snow Leopard</a> or <a href="http://mashable.com/2011/07/20/lion-clean-install-guide/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lion</a> in your cat collection, Mountain Lion is yours for the bargain basement price of $19.99.</div>
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Is it worth it? It’s a fair question. <a href="http://mashable.com/follow/topics/os-x-lion/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lion</a> seemed like a bargain at $30, but many Mac owners found the beast brought more pain than pleasure. Some longstanding features had been oversimplified; others vanished altogether (RIP “Save As.”) It made a half-hearted stab at looking like its mobile sibling, iOS, without really integrating any of its offerings.</div>
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Mountain Lion delivers on nearly all of its predecessor’s promise. But it doesn’t quite live up to Apple’s pre-launch hype.</div>
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Some 60% of Mac owners skipped Lion altogether, your humble reviewer included. So first of all, kudos to Apple for letting us prodigal Snow Leopard lovers return to the fold — without forcing us to buy Lion first.</div>
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Mountain Lion is a more mature kind of cat, one that delivers on nearly all of its predecessor’s promise. If you own an iPhone, an iPad or both, you’re going to love how much more connected all your devices are. If you’re a frequent tweeter, this is pretty much Twitter OS.</div>
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It doesn’t quite live up to all of Apple’s pre-launch hype, however. The integration of iCloud isn’t as intuitive as we would like. Using Messages, which is iChat combined with iMessages on the iPhone, can be an exercise in frustration; that should be smoothed out once Apple launches iOS 6 in the fall.</div>
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Another odd omission: Facebook integration. That is coming as an update in the fall, though we’re not sure why — it was included in the review copy Apple gave us, and seemed to post to the social network just fine.</div>
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The Good: Installation, Speed, Sharing</h2>
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Mountain Lion is a roughly 4GB upgrade; we found it a half-hour download from the Mac app store. (We hope the Apple servers are up to the challenge of providing it to thousands of users simultaneously). Installation told us it would take 30 minutes; it was done in 10.</div>
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The entire OS seems significantly speedier. We were especially impressed that you can now boot it up in less than 5 seconds on a top-of-the-line <a href="http://mashable.com/2012/06/14/retina-macbook-pro-review/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Macbook Retina</a>, and only a few seconds more on a Macbook Air.</div>
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Bouncing icons in the dock are a thing of the past; not that the animation has been retired, but there’s barely time for it to run. Stuff just loads.</div>
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The in-app sharing sheets that let you post to <a href="http://mashable.com/category/twitter/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Twitter</a>, once Mountain Lion has your account info, work simply, look beautiful and may make you want to use Safari as your default browser. (We’re only shunning it for its lack of pinned tabs.)</div>
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More apps could do with Twitter integration; it seems odd that you can put your iPhoto snaps on Flickr, but can’t tweet them. Still, the feature — which we expect every app maker is going to want to integrate — is off to a roaring start.</div>
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The Awesome: Reminders, Notifications, Dictation</h2>
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Ever wanted a To Do List that followed you on every screen you use? That’s Reminders, an app that showed promise on the iPhone and iPad and now appears for the first time on your Mac. Because <a href="http://mashable.com/category/siri/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Siri</a> uses Reminders, you can in theory dictate a day’s worth of doings to your phone while commuting, and have them automatically waiting on your desktop before you arrive.</div>
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Siri doesn’t appear in Mountain Lion itself, but Apple has done the next best thing and included its dictation engine. Tap the Function key twice (or tap once and hold) in any app and speak-write your way to success; it will learn the nuance of your voice. It’s like having <a href="http://mashable.com/2011/07/11/iphone-naturallyspeaking/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dragon Dictate</a> without spending a hundred bucks for it.</div>
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Notifications (for all those Reminders, appointments, Messages, and anything else any other app wants to tell you about) are nicely consolidated. They appear for a few seconds in the top right-hand corner, then corral themselves into a whole new area you can tap or swipe in from the side of the screen. You’ll find yourself checking this area often.</div>
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We were especially pleased by how well Notifications plays with others — in particular, erstwhile Apple nemesis Google. If <a href="http://mashable.com/2012/05/21/chrome-is-tops/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chrome</a> and Messages both want to tell you about the same chat message, for example, Mountain Lion defaults to the Chrome notification.</div>
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Nearly all of these neat new features, and many more besides, rely on Apple’s superb syncing service <a href="http://mashable.com/2012/06/11/icloud-update-wwdc/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">iCloud</a>. But the company has decided that iCloud should be barely visible.</div>
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You can sync text between devices in the Notes app, and your PDFs in Preview, yet there’s no such thing as an iCloud app where you see all your cloud-based documents at a glance. It would have been useful, especially considering you only have 5 GB of free storage on the service.</div>
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I found myself turning iCloud on a surprising number of times in different apps and System Preferences panes. It required me to create a new @me.com email address, for no reason that was immediately apparent.</div>
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The process was hardly intuitive, which is strange since the OS has already asked if you want to use iCloud, during installation.</div>
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<a href="http://mashable.com/2012/02/17/messages-os-x-beta/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Messages</a> should be the app that benefits most from iCloud, and in theory the app is genius. You get all of your AIM and Google Talk missives alongside your iMessages (texts from iPhones). You can send a quick message to any iPhone or iPad from your desktop. What’s not to love?</div>
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Only this: Apple has not yet integrated your phone number and Apple ID, not until <a href="http://mashable.com/2012/06/11/ios-6-revaled/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">iOS 6</a> launches in the fall. Send that text to an iPhone from your desktop, and it pops from the email address you use for your Apple ID, rather than from your phone number.</div>
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There are several unintended consequences here. Conversations get splintered, irritatingly enough, into multiple threads. You may not want to give the text recipient your Apple ID email address. Even if you do, they may not recognize it. I’ve sent a couple of Messages that got no response simply because my friends had no idea who it was from.</div>
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It would also be nice if Apple could load up your iMessage conversation history, which it has easy access to via the iPhone — and if it could keep track of both sides of a conversation no matter where else you had it, such as Google Talk. Your Messages app is going to look oddly empty for a while.</div>
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This is a tremendously feature-rich upgrade from Apple, one that breathes new life into a 12-year-old OS — and more than makes up for Lion.</div>
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Even though Facebook integration won’t be ready until the fall, and Messages won’t truly be ready for prime time until then, we see no reason why Mac owners should delay. It’s well worth the price of a few lattes. There’s a whole bunch of stuff it’s downloading for you even when your machine is asleep (a feature Apple calls Power Nap.)</div>
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Mac OS and the iOS are now joined at the hip in a dozen meaningful ways (such as Games Center, which will now lets a Mac owner play an opponent on the iPad, for example.) We can’t wait to see what their marriage produces next.</div>
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The blog <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="80d87e624f7843b3347334dff8a4f08aaaa62c72" grtype="null" id="GRmark_80d87e624f7843b3347334dff8a4f08aaaa62c72_iMore:0">iMore</span> <a href="http://www.imore.com/apple-iphone-5-and-ipad-mini-event-planned-september-12-iphone-5-release-date-september-21" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reports</a> that Apple will announce the new iPhone — possibly called the iPhone 5 — plus a new iPod Nano via a special announcement on that data. The products will then hit retail on Sept. 21.</div>
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Apple reps could not be reached for comment. During a call with analysts last week, though, the company repeatedly referred to a mysterious “fall event.”</div>
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The <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="fbdb1db7d6371c326342c9a0828ef9b2af71ab00" grtype="null" id="GRmark_fbdb1db7d6371c326342c9a0828ef9b2af71ab00_iMore:0">iMore</span> report comes after <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Guardian</i> also <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/jul/24/iphone-5-launch-expected-september?newsfeed=true" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a> last week that the new iPhone would be released in “mid-September.” <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Guardian</i> also reported that “the device will introduce a new 19-pin power and control connector on its base, dumping the 30-pin connector first introduced with the third-generation iPod in April 2003.”</div>
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Apple’s last iPhone release was the <a href="http://mashable.com/2011/10/04/apple-iphone-4s/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">iPhone 4S</a> on Oct. 4</div>
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Goodbye, Gmail Video Chat. Hello Google+ Hangouts</h1>
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If you enjoy video chatting over Gmail the way you’ve been doing it <a href="http://mashable.com/2008/11/11/gmail-video-voice-chat/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">since 2008</a>, better wave your last goodbyes to your buddy list.</div>
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Starting Monday, and continuing over the next few weeks, Google is going to be replacing Gmail video chat with Google+ Hangouts. “Unlike the old video chat, which was based on peer-to-peer technology, Hangouts utilize the power of Google’s network to deliver higher reliability and enhanced quality,” reads the <a href="http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/video-chat-face-to-face-to-face-with.html" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">explanatory blog post</a> written by the Gmail team.</div>
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“You’ll be able to chat with all the same people you did before — and, in fact, with Hangouts you’ll now be able to reach them not only when they are using Gmail, but also if they are on Google+ in the browser or on their Android or iOS devices.”</div>
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The search giant is eager to promote the use of its social network, and has in the past attempted to blur the lines between users of Gmail, Google Maps and other Google services. If you’re logged into any of them, the company says, you’re logged into <a href="http://mashable.com/follow/topics/google-plus/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Google+</a>.</div>
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Nefarious network-boosting purposes aside, <a href="http://mashable.com/follow/topics/google-plus-hangouts/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Google Hangouts</a> is clearly a superior technology. In our experience, Gmail video chat had a tendency to stutter and occasionally quit — a quality shared in the past with iChat video, but not with Apple’s <a href="http://mashable.com/follow/topics/facetime/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Facetime</a>, <a href="http://mashable.com/follow/topics/skype" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Skype</a> or Google Hangouts.</div>
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Hangouts also scales a lot better, making it much easier to add new people to the meeting. Audio is spectacularly good at long range. It’s likely the best choice for a company looking for a free alternative to <a href="http://blogs.cisco.com/tag/cisco-telepresence/page/5/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Cisco Telepresence</a>, for example.</div>
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And then there’s the feature that the Gmail team hints at in its blog — the ability to add moustaches, beards, halos and other personal decorations — not to mention <a href="http://mashable.com/2012/03/05/google-plus-hangouts-masks/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">cat and dog masks</a> — which will appear to follow you throughout the chat.</div>
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We live in such a visual world where images and videos are seemingly everywhere. And consumers expect to see images in your email creative. Moreover, with the popularity of reading email on mobile devices that are fully equipped to render HYML, the audience who requires text-only emails is shrinking.</div>
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It’s important to have a properly formatted email creative with a compelling template, as this will assist in driving audience engagement and potentially advocacy. But many users turn off images in <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="8f93c9d89924b6b63d60ecb9641af9bfe8f79249" grtype="null" id="GRmark_8f93c9d89924b6b63d60ecb9641af9bfe8f79249_email:0">email</span>.</div>
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In a recent study by Eloqua, 55% of consumers said they turn on the images in the emails that they receive. And 57% of consumers that state they check their primary personal email account on their mobile devices.</div>
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Far fewer consumers add sender addresses to their address book, which in most email clients will enable image rendering by default. Only 16% of consumers stated that they added an email marketer’s email address to their address book.</div>
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Follow these best practices to ensure that your subscribers can see and enjoy all of your images.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Adjust Size and Weight</strong></div>
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Talk with your email service provider (ESP) to understand the limits of image size and weight, as some ESPs will compress images that are too big, which will ultimately degrade the quality of the image.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Use Image <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="0e78ffed331f2023f0c9aad54e6484c9e5007a4a" grtype="null" id="GRmark_0e78ffed331f2023f0c9aad54e6484c9e5007a4a_Alt:0">Alt</span> Tags</strong></div>
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For those that don’t turn on images, make sure that your images have a descriptive text <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="961d64aea7204efe148c7093d4e056efe88fdef7" grtype="null" id="GRmark_961d64aea7204efe148c7093d4e056efe88fdef7_alt:0">alt</span> tag that acts like a call to action.</div>
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For example, if there is an image of a red sweater that has a star burst offering 15% off sweaters, an ideal <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="f92d4010c1c047f4bda72090d819098bad9db0df" grtype="null" id="GRmark_f92d4010c1c047f4bda72090d819098bad9db0df_alt:0">alt</span> tag to the image would read, “15% off sweaters” not “red sweater image.” Use <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="f92d4010c1c047f4bda72090d819098bad9db0df" grtype="null" id="GRmark_f92d4010c1c047f4bda72090d819098bad9db0df_alt:1">alt</span> tags that evoke the purpose of the image. If you can’t figure out what that should be for an image, then perhaps you shouldn’t be using it.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Link to Hosted Version of the Email Creative</strong></div>
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This is standard in most email marketing applications, but be sure to include a link at the top of your email template that simply says, “View email in your browser.”</div>
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Many times, marketers create emails that say, “Problem viewing images? Then Click Here to view in your browser.” This is too verbose and also in some email clients such as Gmail, the first words in the email creative get previewed and appended to the subject line. In this example your subject line would read, “Buy Our Best Products Now for 20% Off … Problem Viewing.” Simply offer a link to view the email in a browser.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Avoid Using Entirely Image-Based Email</strong></div>
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As mentioned, <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="823930ce9e49e93cf6471e924c168e009466d035" grtype="null" id="GRmark_823930ce9e49e93cf6471e924c168e009466d035_ensure:0">ensure</span> call-to-action images have <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="823930ce9e49e93cf6471e924c168e009466d035" grtype="null" id="GRmark_823930ce9e49e93cf6471e924c168e009466d035_alt:1">alt</span> tags and are additionally supported by text. Don’t put important disclaimers and required CAN-SPAM language in images. Rely on HTML tables and embedded tables with different colors to highlight any important calls to action, such as “Buy Now buttons.”</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. Test, Test, Test</strong></div>
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See which images are working and which are not. Most ESPs offer a click-overlay heat map that visually shows you where users are clicking most. Test different images with dynamic content approaches. Vendors such as Movable Ink provide an easy-to-use technology that is ESP-agnostic to insert dynamic images that can change and expire content after the email has been sent.</div>
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It has been said that “A picture is worth a thousand words,” so ensure that you’re using <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="c65dcdf0c7195f6dadd7953de8a9e3cdf2117dc2" grtype="null" id="GRmark_c65dcdf0c7195f6dadd7953de8a9e3cdf2117dc2_those:0">those</span> image-based words effectively and doing all that you can to make them render correctly.</div>
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<span class="GingerNoCheckEnd"></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07602603938053216160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425744117515539528.post-34675615608240327712012-07-27T21:57:00.000+05:302012-07-27T21:57:02.180+05:305 Essential Apps for Olympic Fanatics<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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1. Buddy TV Guide</div>
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<a href="http://www.buddytv.com/buddytv-guide.aspx" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Buddy TV Guide</a> allows you to navigate channels quickly and easily, so you won't miss your favorite Olympian's event. After you select channels, you'll be able to find them and watch at a moment's notice.</div>
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2. <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="d69e00f05b3467ada649419f55599d411a72f887" grtype="null" id="GRmark_d69e00f05b3467ada649419f55599d411a72f887_PlayUp:0">PlayUp</span></div>
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Keep up with the Olympics in real-time and socialize with other fans via <a href="http://www.playup.com/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">PlayUp</a>. This app also customizes your feed based on your location; for example, if you're located in the U.S., that country's team results would come up first.</div>
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3. Reuters Olympics London 2012</div>
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<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/reuters-olympics-london-2012/id541916493?mt=8" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Reuters</em></a> iPad and iPhone apps are great for sports photography fans. The app updates all the latest pictures from some of the Olympics' best moments.</div>
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4. NBC Olympics</div>
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<a href="http://www.nbcolympics.com/on-the-go/index.html" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">NBC</a> has taken its exclusive coverage further by introducing mobile applications. Follow your favorite teams or individuals and your country's medal count as the games progress.</div>
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5. <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="a7f403accc342f1bdc4365846e88c4e733d7e105" grtype="null" id="GRmark_a7f403accc342f1bdc4365846e88c4e733d7e105_OPlanner:0">OPlanner</span></div>
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<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/oplanner/id545347754" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="4963fc9876cee8a1f8d2afb2724a725d19cc11e7" grtype="null" id="GRmark_4963fc9876cee8a1f8d2afb2724a725d19cc11e7_OPlanner:0">OPlanner</span></a> makes it easy to keep up with everything Olympic. Loaded with the complete schedule of events, the app lets you search by sporting event, date, local time and even gender.</div>
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Plus, tag events you don’t want to miss, set up reminders and share events you’re particularly interested in with your friends on Facebook and Twitter.</div>
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Keeping up with <a href="http://mashable.com/follow/topics/olympics/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Olympic</a> events and your favorite athletes <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="526d4d3ad3f148ff7a5f683604d8ab521f951078" grtype="null" id="GRmark_526d4d3ad3f148ff7a5f683604d8ab521f951078_has never been:0">has never been</span> easier. Even in the past four years since the Beijing summer games, technology has expanded tremendously. We can follow live events from virtually anywhere.</div>
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While we can’t catch each and every live event, we can tune into our favorites with the help of several recently launched apps. <a href="http://mashable.com/2012/07/12/nbc-adobe-olympics-app/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">NBC</a> released mobile apps for <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="76cea29dda888d3a769e07d5d815e3c5375edf5e" grtype="null" id="GRmark_76cea29dda888d3a769e07d5d815e3c5375edf5e_smartphones:0">smartphones</span> and tablets in the U.S. <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="a8f1cf76d953854b7813d8102b8a6d7823a38393" grtype="null" id="GRmark_a8f1cf76d953854b7813d8102b8a6d7823a38393_this:0">this</span> week. The Buddy TV Guide allows you to easily search and find what you’d like to watch. Unfortunately, the availability of some applications depends on a user’s location; for example, the <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">BBC</em> application is not available in the U.S.</div>
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Cheer for your team on the go with the help of our favorite apps for this Olympic season.
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For most companies, selling 26 million of any product would be <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="eaf105adfca5469f8da0250822a63ee467d1d73d" grtype="null" id="GRmark_eaf105adfca5469f8da0250822a63ee467d1d73d_reason:0">reason</span> to jump for joy. For <a href="http://mashable.com/follow/topics/apple/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Apple</a>, however, when it posted <a href="http://mashable.com/category/iphone/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">iPhone</a> sales of just 26 million in the <a href="http://mashable.com/2012/07/25/apples-3q-earnings-infographic/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">previous quarter</a>, it was a disappointment.</div>
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Analysts had <a href="http://mashable.com/2012/07/24/apples-iphone-sales-fall-dragging-down-results/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">predicted</a> Apple would sell about 29 million iPhones, a drop from the 35.1 million sold the last quarter, but a manageable one. But 26 million is more like a free-fall — especially when you consider Apple’s iPhone sales <i style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">increased</i> over the same period in 2011, even though that year’s new model, the <a href="http://mashable.com/follow/topics/iphone-4s/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">iPhone 4S</a>, was still months away from being announced.</div>
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As CEO Tim Cook <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="b1c56f51dee199d98c82ecb46313e6526d6c3f10" grtype="null" id="GRmark_b1c56f51dee199d98c82ecb46313e6526d6c3f10_himself:0">himself</span> observed on Apple’s earnings call, speculation about the next iPhone — the so-called <a href="http://mashable.com/follow/topics/iphone-5/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“iPhone 5″</a>— may have played a part. After all, if you’re thinking about buying an iPhone, and you’re convinced Apple will debut its latest and greatest <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="89c867668a8148a638c5bf93007e01b47f677b11" grtype="null" id="GRmark_89c867668a8148a638c5bf93007e01b47f677b11_smartphone:0">smartphone</span> in a few short months, why wouldn’t you wait?</div>
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It’s not quite that simple, though. The same thoughts surely occurred to buyers last year, but there was no drop in sales until the summer, even though rumors were arguably even more rampant. There are two greater forces at work here: 1) The technologies that are rumored to be coming to the next iPhone are generational leaps in mobile tech, not mere incremental upgrades. And 2) <a href="http://mashable.com/follow/topics/android/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Android</a> is offering those very technologies, giving competing phones a greater edge.</div>
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So if you’re in the market for a <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="33799fe5c3c99fadbe00311e6f36e4589c9f0076" grtype="null" id="GRmark_33799fe5c3c99fadbe00311e6f36e4589c9f0076_smartphone:0">smartphone</span> today, is it a good idea to still wait patiently for the iPhone 5 (which, based on past history, is due to launch in the early fall) or should you start eyeing the competition? And why not get an iPhone 4S anyway? It’s still relatively new. Here’s what you should be thinking about:</div>
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Apple, of course, hasn’t said one word about what the next iPhone will be, or even if there’ll be one. However, per usual, there are dozens if not hundreds of rumors and alleged leaks about what features the iPhone 5 will have. A couple of the most talked-about abilities the iPhone 5 might have are 4G <a href="http://mashable.com/follow/topics/lte/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">LTE</a> and <a href="http://mashable.com/follow/topics/nfc/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">NFC</a> (near-field communication).</div>
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Anyone who’s used an LTE phone can tell you it’s a huge leap in connection speed over 3G technologies, which are what current iPhones all have (<a href="http://mashable.com/2012/03/07/iphone-4s-4g/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">misleading indicators</a> on the AT&T version be damned). There’s simply no way the iPhone 5 doesn’t have LTE. The connections give a speed boost to all data tasks — from watching HD videos to downloading email attachments.</div>
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However, this doesn’t come free. In addition to buying the new phone, you may want to get a new data plan, since LTE phones, by their nature, eat up data much more quickly. Also keep in mind that the carriers are pushing for users to switch away from unlimited plans. The carriers haven’t said anything about what sort of plans will be available for the iPhone 5 either, but it seems doubtful any unlimited plans will be in the cards, even “<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="c37777b70c8b611b613d583333855154a0125e0a" grtype="null" id="GRmark_c37777b70c8b611b613d583333855154a0125e0a_grandfathered:0">grandfathered</span>” ones.</div>
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Then there’s NFC, the extremely short-range wireless tech that enables mobile payments. This feature is becoming so commonplace on phones that it’s hard to see Apple ignoring it yet again. In addition, many see Apple’s introduction of Passbook in <a href="http://mashable.com/follow/topics/ios-6/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">iOS 6</a> as its first step into the mobile-payments space. Apple needs to have NFC in the next iPhone if it hopes to have any real influence there.</div>
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Besides the addition of LTE and NFC, there looks to be a strong chance Apple will <a href="http://mashable.com/2012/07/16/latest-leaked-images-suggest-a-4-inch-iphone-5/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">pump up the size of the iPhone’s screen</a> to at least 4 inches and <a href="http://mashable.com/2012/07/23/iphone-smaller-dock-connector/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">shrink the dock connector</a> to a mini-size proprietary plug. Both upgrades have obvious advantages, although a smaller jack would present an issue for anyone who uses a lot of legacy iPhone accessories. While Apple would be crazy not to release an adapter, it might not be included with the phone and it’s not necessarily something you’d carry around with you in any case.</div>
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At the same time, a smaller dock connector would help Apple improve on one of the features it holds up high: its thin design.</div>
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So waiting for the iPhone 5 seems like a good idea, mainly for the high-speed LTE connection and larger screen, but NFC and a potentially slimmer phone are nice, too (again, all rumor). However, if you wanted all those features and aren’t yet an iPhone user, you can get them all today from any number of handsets on the Android platform.</div>
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Besides all those hardware features, Android phones have better native camera apps than the iPhone’s. Newer Android phones like the <a href="http://mashable.com/follow/topics/htc-one-x/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">HTC One X</a> and <a href="http://mashable.com/follow/topics/samsung-galaxy-s-iii/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Samsung Galaxy S III</a> are equipped with burst modes and the ability to snap pictures while shooting video. On top of that, with the latest OS software, <a href="http://mashable.com/2012/07/02/jelly-bean-review/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jelly Bean</a>, Android phones can now match <a href="http://mashable.com/follow/topics/siri/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Siri</a> in terms of voice abilities.</div>
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It’s with the software, however, where Android falls down. Fragmentation is a huge problem for the platform, meaning once you commit to a device, it’s a big question mark as to when the latest version of the Android OS — or even the one before that — will be available to you.</div>
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As for the other platform options, <a href="http://mashable.com/follow/topics/windows-phone/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Windows Phone</a> and <a href="http://mashable.com/follow/topics/blackberry/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">BlackBerry</a>, both Microsoft and RIM are planning major upgrades — with new hardware — in the next several months. As a first-time purchase, neither are really worth considering until then.</div>
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While it’s generally a bad idea to wait for a mythical product with phantom features, the iPhone 5 is a special case. We can reasonably predict what some of the major upgrades will be over the iPhone 4S, and they are indeed major (LTE being the biggie).</div>
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The iPhone 4S is still a fine phone — it’s thin, it has a well-performing processor in the dual-core <a href="http://mashable.com/2011/12/16/apples-a5-texas/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Apple A5 chip</a>and of course there’s Siri. But speaking as someone who reviews competing phones regularly, it’s starting to look, well, old. In addition to obvious advantage of LTE, competing handsets are thinner, faster, lighter and have bigger screens.</div>
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The iPhone 5 looks sure to have most, if not all of those things, too, but it won’t get here for a few months. Should you wait? If you were thinking about an iPhone 4S, I’d say yes — at least for most people. But if you’re not yet married to Apple, the latest Android phones already have pretty much everything that will make the next iPhone special (probably).</div>
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Apple can blame rumors and speculation all it wants, but the bottom line is that the current iPhone is now a generation behind, technologically, the state-of-the-art phones of today. LTE, NFC and big screens aren’t incremental upgrades — they’re the features that will define smartphones for the next few years. For anyone dead-set on buying an Apple phone that will stay current for more than a few months, though, the smart choice is to wait.</div>
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A microchip version of the human body is currently in development. The final device won’t look much like a person, but it will host real human cells and have the same basic functions as 10 major human organs.</div>
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The <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="9a795b115e1c2bbc9ea52e8456b22e3c181d7465" grtype="null" id="GRmark_9a795b115e1c2bbc9ea52e8456b22e3c181d7465_device’s:0">device’s</span> makers hope it will become a high-tech testing ground for new drugs, replacing lab animals in some studies, they say.</div>
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Researchers at Harvard University’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have already re-created the functions of a few human organs on fingertip-size chip devices, including a <a href="http://www.livescience.com/8361-lung-chip-put-animal-drug-testing.html" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="9b196a3230f68aff7f119a57fc01a7a44f879c36" grtype="null" id="GRmark_9b196a3230f68aff7f119a57fc01a7a44f879c36_lung:0">lung</span>-on-a-chip</a> and a gut-on-a-chip.</div>
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The institute is <a href="http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewpressrelease/91/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">now announcing</a> it’s starting a project to develop 10 such chips and wire them together so they can interact in one complex system. Institute scientists will also build a controller for the chips that will send fluids in and out of the system and measure the biochemistry inside.</div>
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Just as a computer microchip holds an electric circuit, biological microchips hold circuits of hollow channels that can carry liquids. The chip’s channels are lined with human cells and designed to mimic an organ in miniature. The channels in the gut-on-a-chip, for example, are lined with human intestinal cells and seeded with the beneficial bacteria that naturally live inside people’s intestines, <a href="http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewpressrelease/80/harvards-wyss-institute-creates-living-human-gutonachip" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">according to the Wyss Institute</a>.</div>
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The gut-on-a-chip’s channels also stretch and compress, mimicking the muscular movements that human intestines make to move food along. Each chip is made of transparent, flexible plastic so scientists can observe what’s happening inside.</div>
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Researchers hope a human body-on-a-chip will be a better testing ground for new drugs. The National Institutes of Health think the device may be a faster, cheaper way of testing drugs, agency officials <a href="http://www.nih.gov/news/health/jul2012/ncats-24.htm" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">said in a statement</a>.</div>
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The Wyss scientists hope their system will be an alternative to rats and other lab animals, as many new drugs appear to work in animals, but don’t work when tested in humans, they say.</div>
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The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects has signed a $37 million deal with the Wyss Institute for the body-on-a-chip project. Meanwhile, the NIH has given out about $13 million to several other labs to develop other organs-on-a-chip.</div>
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Had problems using <a href="http://mashable.com/follow/topics/gtalk/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Google Talk</a> this morning? You’re not alone. Google’s instant messaging service has been down for two hours for most users.</div>
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The problem is affecting both Google Apps and Gmail users, though Google Apps customers appear to be suffering the most.</div>
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Google noted the first disruption of service at 6:40 a.m. on its<a href="http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&ts=1343343599000&iid=a6fb32beebebf8e85b0c986b09a4e69d" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">App Status Dashboard</a>. By 6:50 a.m., the disruption was changed to “service outage.”</div>
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At 8:50 a.m., the company added <a href="http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&ts=1343343599000&iid=a6fb32beebebf8e85b0c986b09a4e69d" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">this note</a> to its dashboard:</div>
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“Our team is continuing to investigate this issue. We will provide an update by 7/26/12 9:50 a.m. with more information about this problem. Thank you for your patience.”</div>
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In other words, don’t expect to get a lot of work done using GTalk for at least the next hour.</div>
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<a href="http://mashable.com/2012/06/21/twitters-outage-biggest-in-8-months/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Twitter isn’t down</a>, though, so users are discussing the <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/search/%22Google%20Talk%22" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">GTalk outage</a> on the service.</div>
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We’ll update this post with more information as it become available.</div>
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<span class="GingerNoCheckEnd"></span><span class="GingerNoCheckEnd"></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07602603938053216160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425744117515539528.post-70272010092623257252012-07-27T17:25:00.001+05:302012-07-27T17:25:38.076+05:30Day in the Life of a Future Facebook Phone<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A gentle trilling on the bedside table rouses me from slumber; I fumble for the familiar blue-edged <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="ba039f97589f91b14216ea5886223d383ce4cded" grtype="null" id="GRmark_ba039f97589f91b14216ea5886223d383ce4cded_smartphone:0">smartphone</span>, and click its single button — adorned with a thumbs-up logo — to quell the alarm.</div>
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The phone snaps to life; as per usual, it drops in a few notifications then takes me straight to my Smart Feed. I remember not so long ago, when my phone’s default screen was a tray full of apps. Why, I wonder, did I ever want that terrifying level of choice? Just remind me about my appointments and to-dos, take me straight to the feed and be done with it. I can always swipe to the side to access my Facebook apps should I need them.</div>
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I spend a happy few minutes idly flicking through the feed. There aren’t too many <a href="http://mashable.com/2012/07/26/facebook-q2-2012-earnings-call/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">sponsored stories</a> at the moment; it’s mostly <a href="http://mashable.com/follow/topics/instagram/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Instagram</a> shots and the occasional news headline. The <a href="http://mashable.com/follow/topics/facebook/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Facebook</a> OS has learned my habits; it knows that’s about all I can cope with first thing in the morning.</div>
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As I fix the coffee and <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="fb7441b542e4c51d88cb87f35ecfb8259acb7b7e" grtype="null" id="GRmark_fb7441b542e4c51d88cb87f35ecfb8259acb7b7e_potter:0">potter</span> about the kitchen, one new sponsored story does get my attention — it’s a local flower store, reminding me about my wife’s birthday tomorrow. (Evidently it waited until our phones were sufficiently far apart to pop up.) The store has grabbed a picture of her smiling, next to a bouquet it thinks appropriate based on past purchases.</div>
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Well, I don’t want to put <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">that</em> little effort into it. So I tap a button to turn the ad into a reminder; later in the morning, I’ll click on it again to call the shop, customize the bouquet, and send them a virtual card I’ve scrawled out on the screen.</div>
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On the train into work, I make a few quick moves in a couple of <a href="http://mashable.com/follow/topics/zynga/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Zynga</a> games — didn’t <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">their</em> fortunes turn around when the Facebook phone launched — then plug in my headphones. Instantly, the Smart Feed transforms into a selection of Spotify songs and viral videos. I tap through the latter so I can get a jump on conversations at the <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="ec4aa22b678703451a92b72a4444453c8489dcf5" grtype="null" id="GRmark_ec4aa22b678703451a92b72a4444453c8489dcf5_watercooler:0">watercooler</span>.</div>
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At my desk, the feed transforms into news stories (with a special preference for <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="4bbeff365419d4e546e3687042203fedca3cc5a3" grtype="null" id="GRmark_4bbeff365419d4e546e3687042203fedca3cc5a3_ones:0">ones</span> it knows my colleagues have clicked on). There’s nothing major; a couple more pieces speculating on <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="c572de0a2a4088743f237fde4ac0657602a517e7" grtype="null" id="GRmark_c572de0a2a4088743f237fde4ac0657602a517e7_iOS:0">iOS</span> 7, and how much it can compete with the Facebook OS. Rumor has it that Apple is working with Twitter, its new best friend, to put a different kind of news feed front and center.</div>
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Makes a lot of sense, as the comments point out; the company is going to have to do something radical to restore the luster of the iPhone, especially after <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/facebook-poaches-apple-engineers-to-build-smartphone-report/78273" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Facebook started swiping Apple’s best mobile engineers last year</a>. Besides, the Facebook phone is heavily subsidized by advertisers; it’s hard to compete with almost free.</div>
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I make a few free calls throughout the morning, using the phone’s <a href="http://mashable.com/follow/topics/skype/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Skype</a> integration. It’s as simple as holding the thumbs-up <span style="background-color: transparent;">button and saying my contact’s name. Most of my friends have a similar device; those that don’t, I can still reach via their desktop. Everyone keeps a Facebook tab open these days in case they miss a call.</span></div>
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Lunchtime, and my screen <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="7710e5c23556a88f7ae60efaefdcc9dcb3082de7" grtype="null" id="GRmark_7710e5c23556a88f7ae60efaefdcc9dcb3082de7_fills:0">fills</span> up with coupons from local merchants. I dismiss them all with a tap, head to my favorite sandwich place, point the phone at a QR code reader. Hey presto: my tenth sandwich is free. The Facebook OS was rolled out with a massive small business partner program; Zuckerberg always said that was where the big money was.</div>
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I spend much of the afternoon responding to Facebook messages, which is slowly replacing email across the company. But old habits die hard, so I have to swipe up to the Gmail app, too. Google was smart to get on the platform early, and Facebook was smart to build its entire OS on a modified and fully licensed <a href="http://mashable.com/follow/topics/android/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Android</a> kernel. That helped keep the peace between the two tech giants.</div>
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On the train home, an “on this day in history” news item catches my eye. Turns out it’s exactly a year since Facebook’s first faltering earnings call — the one in which Zuckerberg <a href="http://mashable.com/2012/07/26/facebook-phone-evidence/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">famously denied the company was “building” its own phone</a>. Well, of course it wasn’t building the phone <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">itself</em>, I smile to myself, turning the handset over and glancing at its <a href="http://mashable.com/follow/topics/htc/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">HTC</a> logo.</div>
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What we should have listened to was another quote from the call: “having a device wherever you <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="3c59a7f34c3556609ab11c40b7a9050a28677bde" grtype="null" id="GRmark_3c59a7f34c3556609ab11c40b7a9050a28677bde_are creates:0">are creates</span> more opportunities for sharing and connecting.” That was the understatement of the year.</div>
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But it gets me thinking, and after dinner I tap out a post on my Timeline, imagining an alternative reality in which Facebook didn’t spring its compelling mobile OS on an unsuspecting world. Imagine it: the stock <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="b8f557220c78892c25de104e25a296ac0ad311a1" grtype="null" id="GRmark_b8f557220c78892c25de104e25a296ac0ad311a1_stillslumped:0">still<a href="http://mashable.com/2012/07/26/facebook-stock-hits-new-low/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">slumped</a></span><a href="http://mashable.com/2012/07/26/facebook-stock-hits-new-low/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> around the $24 mark</a> instead of a few hundred dollars beyond it; the social network still getting dinged for its poor mobile apps; Apple and Google still ascendant. Perhaps it might be a better world, without this devilishly addictive device supported by just about every advertiser on the planet.</div>
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There’s not too much time to think about it, though. The NyQuil app wants my attention, offering to set my alarm now for a perfect night’s sleep. I yawn. Tomorrow is another ad-driven day.</div>
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5. Docking Station</div>
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<a href="http://mashable.com/category/google/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Google</a> on Thursday detailed its high-speed Internet network called Google Fiber, which runs 100 times faster than today’s average broadband connection.</div>
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The search engine giant is bringing the ultra-high speeds first <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="ff4c7f55942243df80630ecaf508f42dc1c40df1" grtype="null" id="GRmark_ff4c7f55942243df80630ecaf508f42dc1c40df1_to:0">to</span> Kansas City, Kan. <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="14ea5210bb8bb0614ca25837a983e03cbe98f680" grtype="null" id="GRmark_14ea5210bb8bb0614ca25837a983e03cbe98f680_and:0">and</span> Kansas City, Mo. In addition to offering two paid packages, Google is also rolling out a virtually free service for at least the first seven years. (Note: You still have to pay a $300 installation fee).</div>
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“No more buffering. No more loading. No more waiting,” the company notes on <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/super-fast-fiber-for-kansas-city.html" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">its blog</a>. “Imagine: instantaneous sharing; truly global education; medical appointments with 3D imaging; even new industries that we haven’t even dreamed of, powered by a gig.”</div>
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To get things started, the company divided Kansas City into small communities called “<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="652c3f3df8840370eafddfab8c905bfa555d1de1" grtype="null" id="GRmark_652c3f3df8840370eafddfab8c905bfa555d1de1_fiberhoods:0">fiberhoods</span>.” Each<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="1fd0deb0e40902940e6dfc09fb5b6560d2fcb72c" grtype="null" id="GRmark_1fd0deb0e40902940e6dfc09fb5b6560d2fcb72c_fiberhood:1">fiberhood</span> needs a high majority of their residents to pre-register to get the service. Those communities with a high pre-registration percentage will be among the first to get Google Fiber. Households in those communities can register for the service throughout the next six weeks.</div>
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Households in <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="52d1c42ad88f829491a7be1f18c2ddbb3a05086f" grtype="null" id="GRmark_52d1c42ad88f829491a7be1f18c2ddbb3a05086f_fiberhoods:0">fiberhoods</span> that qualify will be able to select from various subscription packages. <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="9bb5a4b8809d0126f984a9e9490879e222a4403d" grtype="null" id="GRmark_9bb5a4b8809d0126f984a9e9490879e222a4403d_Internet:0">Internet</span> will cost $70 a month, while Internet along with television will cost about $120. The free Internet service (with the $300 installation fee) is also available for $25 a month for 12 months.</div>
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According to the <a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/26/google-unveils-superfast-internet-in-kansas-city-mo/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New York Times</em></a>, a Nexus 7 tablet will come with the TV service package and serve as a remote.</div>
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“It’s easy to forget how revolutionary high-speed Internet access was in the 1990s,” the company said. “Not only did broadband kill the screeching sound of dial-up, it also spurred innovation, helping to create amazing new services as well as new job opportunities for many thousands of Americans. But today the Internet is not as fast as it should be.”</div>
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Google noted that the average Internet speed in the U.S. <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="60e81a415f127baecc397130a6ae1cdbc5c562af" grtype="null" id="GRmark_60e81a415f127baecc397130a6ae1cdbc5c562af_is:0">is</span> only 5.8 megabits per second (Mbps), which is a slight uptick in speed first made available by residential broadband 16 years ago.</div>
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“Access speeds have simply not kept pace with the phenomenal increases in computing power and storage capacity that’s spurred innovation over the last decade, and that’s a challenge we’re excited to work on,” it said.</div>
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The news comes as the White House recently launched a public-private partnership called <a href="http://mashable.com/2012/06/15/us-ignite/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">US Ignite</a> to build ultra high-speed broadband networks in communities around the U.S.</div>
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The <a href="http://mashable.com/2012/02/27/nokia-808-pureview/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Nokia 808 <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="2ffa0bc0364763487b42dd01f443f65838a16ea2" grtype="null" id="GRmark_2ffa0bc0364763487b42dd01f443f65838a16ea2_PureView:0">PureView</span></a> comes in several colors. It's heavier than your average phone, with the camera lens protruding from the back. By far its most interesting feature is the 41-megapixel camera, which takes amazing photos.</div>
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From the same picture, we zoomed in on the traffic. This is from the 12th floor of our building, and about three blocks away.</div>
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Close Up: Chrysler Building</div>
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From the same picture, the Chrysler Building isn't totally clear, but we can get in pretty close.</div>
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Workers put up a billboard for <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Campaign</em> across the street from <i style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mashable</i>.</div>
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Close Up: Men at Work</div>
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We can easily zoom in on the action.</div>
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A close up of pedestrians two blocks away. Again, we're 12 floors up.</div>
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A view down 23rd Street, headed east.</div>
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You can see the East River pretty clearly in this shot, taken from the previous one. It was only retouched slightly to bring up the sharpness.</div>
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New York's sea of buildings.</div>
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Close Up: Who's on That Roof?</div>
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Zooming in from the previous shot, we can definitely see figures on the roof across the street.</div>
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Another shot of 23rd Street, now with more of the traffic visible.</div>
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Close Up: Rooftop Patio</div>
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A lovely rooftop patio in the middle of the city.</div>
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Close Up: Get Your Hot Dogs Here!</div>
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From the street scene, we can easily spy food vendors and pedestrians. You can also almost make out the construction writing on the street below.</div>
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Details on this building are also not too blurry, considering how far it is.</div>
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The Nokia 808 Pureview blows other cellphone cameras out of the water — but its clunky interface makes it almost not worth the effort.</div>
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Earlier this year, Nokia said it would release the <a href="http://mashable.com/2012/02/27/nokia-808-pureview-photos/" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">808 PureView</a>, a phone with a 41-megapixel camera. That’s a number not found on many other cameras on the market, and Nokia claimed it would allow users to take jawdropping photos of far-off scenes that could be easily zoomed and manipulated.</div>
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<em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mashable</em> put the camera to the test to see if it lived up to the promise. You can see the gallery of images from our tests above. These images were taken on the roof of the building that houses the <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mashable</em> offices in Manhattan, about 12 stories up.</div>
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As you can see from the photos, the camera is beyond anything else you’ll find on a phone. The large file sizes really allow for close crops on details of photos. While adding more megapixels doesn’t equal a better quality image, it leads to bigger files that you can do more things with in post-production.</div>
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The 808 PureView also offers far more features than you’ll find on most phones, such as white balance and autofocus. All of this is accessible from the phone’s touch screen. While this can’t compare to something like a DSLR, for users wanting to pack a high-powered point-and-shoot on their phone, it’s perfect.</div>
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Unfortunately, the interface is the phone’s biggest downfall. It’s hard to figure out how to actually get the phone’s camera into 41-megapixel mode. It’s not a default setting at all, and you have to navigate through a series of obtuse menus to change your photos’ quality and size.</div>
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Given that the phone trumpets this feature, it should be visible on the camera’s main menu. The image sizes also had meaningless names, such as “PureView” and “Full Resolution,” to differentiate them.</div>
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Not making large images the default makes sense when trying to conserve space — a 41-megapixel image is roughly 34 megabytes — but it defeats the purpose of having such a powerful camera. While it’s a great fit for a phone, it lives in a clunky ecosystem that hides its potential.</div>
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5 Alien Planets That We Could Call Home</h1>
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The controversial exoplanet Gliese 581g is the best candidate to host life beyond our own solar system, according to a new ranking of potentially habitable alien worlds.</div>
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Gliese 581g shot to the top of the list — which researchers at the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo’s Planetary Habitability Laboratory (PHL) published last week — after a new study marshaled <a href="http://www.space.com/16673-gliese-581g-habitable-planet-existence.html" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">support for its long-debated existence</a>.</div>
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The <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="2a67cf0b4c274c3f67a013813127e3db1a825186" grtype="null" id="GRmark_2a67cf0b4c274c3f67a013813127e3db1a825186_exoplanet:0">exoplanet</span> was discovered in September 2010, but other astronomers began casting doubt on its existence just weeks later. Now Gliese 581g’s <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="9a63c2fae789535b23919e691cad14cc4efc359d" grtype="null" id="GRmark_9a63c2fae789535b23919e691cad14cc4efc359d_discoverers:0">discoverers</span> have rebutted their critics’ charges in a new paper, and have done so effectively enough to get the PHL <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="9a63c2fae789535b23919e691cad14cc4efc359d" grtype="null" id="GRmark_9a63c2fae789535b23919e691cad14cc4efc359d_onboard:1">onboard</span>.</div>
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Here’s a brief rundown of the PHL’s top five habitable alien planets:</div>
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1. Gliese 581g</h2>
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This rocky world — if it does indeed exist — is just 20 light-years away from our solar system. It’s likely two to three times as massive as Earth and zips around its parent star, the red dwarf Gliese 581, every 30 days or so. [<a href="http://www.space.com/159-strangest-alien-planets.html" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Gallery: The Strangest Alien Planets</a>]</div>
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This orbit places the planet squarely in the star’s “habitable zone” — that just-right range of distances where liquid water, and perhaps life as we know it, could exist.</div>
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Gliese 581g has at least four, and possibly five, planetary neighbors. The team that spotted Gliese 581g also detected another planet, known as 581f, circling much farther away from the star. But scientists are still arguing about that world’s existence, too.</div>
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2. Gliese 667Cc</h2>
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The same core team that spotted Gliese 581g discovered <a href="http://www.space.com/14444-alien-planet-super-earth-habitable-zone.html" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Gliese 667Cc</a> in February 2011. The planet orbits a red dwarf 22 light-years away, in the constellation Scorpius (The Scorpion).</div>
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The alien world is a so-called “super Earth” that’s at least 4.5 times as massive as our planet, and it completes an orbit every 28 days. At least one other planet resides in the 667C system.</div>
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3. Kepler-22b</h2>
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NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler space telescope spotted <a href="http://www.space.com/13821-nasa-kepler-alien-planets-habitable-zone.html" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Kepler-22b</a>. The telescope has detected more than 2,300 potential <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="1c976748d0dd246fef79815dae4bf8c85f5da53c" grtype="null" id="GRmark_1c976748d0dd246fef79815dae4bf8c85f5da53c_exoplanets:0">exoplanets</span> since its March 2009 launch. Only a small number have been confirmed so far, but the vast majority should end up being the real deal, according to researchers.</div>
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Kepler-22b, whose discovery was announced in December 2011, is a super Earth about 2.4 times as wide as our planet. If the greenhouse effect operates on Kepler-22b like it does on Earth, the alien world would have an average surface temperature of 72 degrees Fahrenheit, researchers say.</div>
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The <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="0d2fbd59091702b8464cd17d3320ff0216119426" grtype="null" id="GRmark_0d2fbd59091702b8464cd17d3320ff0216119426_exoplanet:0">exoplanet</span> is about 600 light-years away, and it orbits a star very much like our own sun.</div>
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4. HD 85512b</h2>
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<a href="http://www.space.com/12918-habitable-alien-planet-hd-85512b-super-earth-infographic.html" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">HD 85512b</a> is another super Earth — one that’s thought to be about 3.6 times as massive as our planet. The alien world is located about 35 light-years from us, in the direction of the constellation Vela (The Sail).</div>
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Astronomers announced the discovery of HD 85512b — and about 50 other alien planets spotted by the HARPS spectrograph on a telescope in Chile — in September 2011. The planet’s estimated average surface temperature is 77 degrees Fahrenheit.</div>
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5. Gliese 581d</h2>
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This world, which is about seven times as massive as Earth, orbits a bit farther out than its planetary sibling Gliese 581g.</div>
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When 581d was first discovered in 2007, many scientists regarded it as too cold to be potentially habitable. In the years since, however, atmospheric-modeling studies have suggested that the planet may indeed be able <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="c4e5ae8806a78e7b3d6dd340fea0c81877380deb" grtype="null" id="GRmark_c4e5ae8806a78e7b3d6dd340fea0c81877380deb_tosupport:0">to<a href="http://www.space.com/11692-alien-planet-gliese-581d-habitable-life-debate.html" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">support</a></span><a href="http://www.space.com/11692-alien-planet-gliese-581d-habitable-life-debate.html" style="color: #1e598e; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"> life as we know it</a> — provided a greenhouse effect warms 581d.</div>
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To determine if this is the case, researchers will likely need to directly study the planet’s atmosphere. That sort of work could be years off, since it would probably require the development of new and advanced telescopes.</div>
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