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Samsung Shows Off More Of What The Note II Can Do, Including Its Awesome New Multi-Window Interface Introducing GALAXY Note II VIDEO SAMSUNGmobile http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOX3HYDwTCY

Day 4 Discounted Apps Broken Sword : Director's Cut Pool Break Pro Order & Chaos Online Cogs Camera ZOOM FX Ski Safari Cut the Rope Where's My Perry? Endomondo Sports Tracker PRO RealCalc Plus Madden NFL '12 UK Bus Checker

Looking good and high tech. One question though... Can't all this and much more also be accomplished through this brilliant app: Tasker Instead of touching the NFC tag, one may just have to run the task and can be done on all androids without NFC also,

UPDATE: Again today approx. Rs 39 deducted by way of activating some cricket news pack/Caller Tunes without doing anything on my part. DND is already active since long. When called up to complain, the CC had the balls to tell why don't you use these services, they're nice. Now even after lodging the complaint, their automated looting machine is still trying to activate further new services but can't because the balance remaining is just 14 paise and this error SMS keeps on coming.. I don't have the patience/energy everytime to waste my time with this buggers. Will just throw away the SIM Card.

It's not completely banned as such. But some changes in how it should be transported. Small batteries like for mobile will not be affected much but there may be additional labelling/declaration/info requirement. New US regulations are expected to be published in December 2012 and comes into effect from 1st January 2013. This document gives a good idea about US regulation >> International Lithium Battery Regulation IATA also has a webpage and Comprehensive Guidance Document >> Transport of Lithium Metal and Lithium Ion Batteries Revised for the 2012 Regulations

This should be awesome entertainment... Full Masala... Amit Trivedi's Soundtrack is rocking. Haven't heard such unconventional lyrics+music rendered in Sowmya Raoh's husky voice with Rani Mukherjee's thunder thighs picturised in good old south style. Sample This VIDEO. Dreamum Wakeupum Official Video Song And The Lyrics: Dreamum wake upum critical conditionum Earthum quakepum hil dool sab shake upum Face to faceum dharti putram Top to baseum kama sutram Thighsum thunderum downum underum Sizeum matterum thinkum wonderum Jumpingum...pumpingum Throbbingum..thumpingum Wune runde mune naale Heart beatnum dhol peetnum Love lust double kasht bada dheetnum Body heatnum hot seatnum Calling fire brigade bhi defeatnum Same to sameum dil me utarum Top to baseum kama sutram Thighsum thunderum downum underum Sizeum matterum thinkum wonderum Jumpingum...pumpingum Streelingum..purlingum Wune runde mune naale

^^^ Not yet received, Will update. Shipped by infibeam very quick but First Flight Couriers taking it's own time. This looks like a good accessory for iPhone 4/4S. 1462 Sold! External Backup Power Battery Charging Case Cover For Apple iPhone 4 4s at US $ 14.99 >> http://www.ebay.com/...0480493812?var= Plus Free Screen Protector & USB Cable Features and Conveniences: Hard shell case prevents dust and dirt from accumulating on your iPhone Built-in battery provides your phone with extra power LED lights lets you know your battery status Package includes a screen protector and a Micro-USB data cable that plugs into the charging cases port Technical Specifications: Product Condition: New Manufacturer: Generic Battery Type: LiION Battery Capacity: 1900 mAh Colors: Your Choice! Black, White, Purple, Blue, Green, Red, Pink Compatibility: iPhone 4 (ATT), iPhone 4S (ATT), iPhone 4 (Verizon), iPhone 4S (Verizon), iPhone 4S (Sprint), iPhone 4 (Sprint), Package Contents: 1 x Apple iPhone 4 / 4S Extended Battery Case Screen Protector Micro-USB Cable

If anyone is using Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III, this may be of interest... New baseband for the Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III may improve signal strength

FAVI's $50 Streaming Stick Adds Apps, Streaming Services To Any HDTV With Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Source Favi SmartStick Official Website >> http://www.favientertainment.com/v/vspfiles/SmartStick_custom/index.html Why get a Smart TV when you can enhance your existing HDTV with a dongle? That's the precise inquiry FAVI is aiming to answer with its SmartStick, a device that lets you access streaming movies, music, apps, and games just by plugging it into your television's HDMI port. It runs Jelly Bean, the latest Android OS, and supports services like Netflix, Hulu, Epix, YouTube, and Pandora. Other features include a full internet browser, 4GB of memory, and the ability to wirelessly stream media from your computer via its MediaSHARE app. Since it runs Android, you can download apps from the Google Play store as well. The SmartStick's $50 price tag is hard to beat. You can also get a mini wireless keyboard and touchpad mouse for $39.99 for easier navigation. The FAVI Streaming Stick will be available this November, though you can pre-order it now for an October 30th ship date. Check the SmartStick promo video.

Motorola Makes it Official: No ICS for Motorola ATRIX 4G, Motorola Electrify and Motorola PHOTON 4G

Apple CEO Tim Cook Says Sorry To Customers... Writes an open letter to Customers which is featured prominently on apple website front page. This is unlike apple of the Steve Jobs era where you heard "You're holding the phone wrong"! He even goes to the extent of asking customers to use alternatives till they improve. Excerpts From The Letter..

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^ ^ ^ Google Play Accepted Payment Methods

True. As and when they launch, they are going to surprise customers and shock & awe competitors. Atleast that's what i wish.

Swiftkey 3 Keyboard has a 75% Discount from it's normal price of US $ 3.99 & is now available at Just Rs 59.78 >> https://play.google....3dpZnRrZXkiXQ..

Rovio's 'Bad Piggies' Arrives On The Play Store - Get Ready To See Pigs Fly! Play Store Link >> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rovio.BadPiggies From the creators of Angry Birds: an all new game from the PIGS’ point of view! Create the ultimate flying/crawling/rolling/spinning/crashing device and pilot the pigs safely to the eggs! The Bad Piggies are after the eggs again -- but as usual, nothing is going according to plan! Can you create the ultimate flying machine and steer them safely to their destination? Those tricky pigs have a few objects they can use, but they need your help to turn these into the perfect transportation! With more than 60 levels, and free updates coming up, you have hours and hours of pig-crashing, exploding, and flying fun! Get three stars on every level to unlock 30 more puzzles! HINT: Sometimes you need to play the level several times to achieve all the objectives -- try building a new device or steering in a different way to earn all the stars! Features 60 levels crammed with flying/driving/crashing fun! 30 additional puzzles unlocked by three-starring levels! Free updates! 4 sandbox levels to stretch your creativity! Ultra-special, ultra-secret, ultra-difficult sandbox level to unlock by collecting all the skulls! 33 objects to create the ultimate machine: motors, wings, fans, bottle rockets, umbrellas, balloons, and much more! Mechanic Pig Need help? This little piggy will build it for you! Mechanic pig pre-assembles transport for you! All you have to do is pilot it! Tweak his design to get all three stars! Bad Piggies Cinematic Trailer

@Dipan off-the-cuff, these are few questions. How good is the resolution quality? PC Like? Can different resolutions be applied? Like 1360X760 from 1920X1080. How good wireless keyboard/mouse work in terms of response connected through USB? Is is a viable option to use as a browsing/downloading device instead of normal PC? Any drawbacks?

Why no buyer has still given a detailed review as promised? Buyer's remorse to nahi hai na? Ya fir product dabba nikli?

Think Your Smartphone is Sluggish, Your Memory Card is The Culprit Source Source Source This was a revelation waiting to happen. After spending thousands behind that latest dual core android beasts, do you still think, it lags in performance. Your Memory Card is to be blamed for that... Reason perhaps Apple Still does not allow Memory Cards in iPhones after all this years!!! As per a recent study, "Revisiting Storage For Smartphones" at the Georgia Institute of Techbology on File and Storage Technologies.. Download Full Study Paper >> http://static.usenix..._papers/Kim.pdf With manufacturers focusing on the speed and number of cores a smartphone’s processor features, megapixel numbers, and network technologies like LTE, the performance of an Android handset should largely be based on its hardware, right? Wrong, according to a new study undertaken by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The type and brand of microSD storage installed in the device could just as well be the culprit. Their study that found that flash storage often accounted for a 100 to 300 percent drop in performance. In one instance the numbers dipped by an astonishing 2,000 percent. The researchers tested top selling 16GB embedded flash memory cards in several Android smartphones and found performance over WiFi varied between 100% to 300% across applications. In one flash memory test, performance dropped more than 20X. Ironically, benchmarking tests showed that some lower grade microSD cards performed better than some higher grade cards. As for naming names, Kim writes that Kingston's microSD card performs so badly that its results need to be removed from test data to get realistic averages. Transcend performs the best for random writes by as much as a factor of 100 compared to the competition. The bottom line is that the brand of microSD card you use in your device does make a difference in how fast it runs. Kim checked the launch time for eight popular apps including Angry Birds, Twitter and YouTube and found that Kingston's microSD cards offered up the slowest times for most of the apps. And for those who complain about how sluggish their Android model is, a change in the microSD card brand you use could make the difference. "A good chunk of time for users is spent waiting for websites to load ... [and for] applications to load," said Hyojun Kim, a Ph.D. student in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. And, while waiting for apps to load is annoying, a more nefarious impact of poor flash performance is that it depletes a smartphone's battery. Kim said wireless network performance has kept pace with most of today's mobile applications, as have the single and dual core CPUs being used in today's sophisticated smartphones. What hasn't kept pace is the bandwidth of NAND flash, he said. "Why would anyone want to see a 20-second wait time on their phone, particularly if the network is not the problem," he said. The research identified the problem with poor flash device performance to be rooted in random I/O from application databases such as heavy random writes. In flash memory, random write performance is orders of magnitude worse than sequential writes, Kim said. The smartphone tests involved the use of applications such as WebBench Browser, Facebook, Android Email. Google Maps, App Install, Pulse News Reader, and RLBench SQLite. The flash cards came from Transcend, RiData, SanDisk, Kingston, Wintec, A-Data, Patriot Memory and PNY. "Apart from the benefits of selecting a good flash card, there are some fundamental ways we're using storage in a bad way," he said, referring to the way many applications are created to write data randomly, which causes flash performance to fall of a cliff.

I only use virtual credit card for play store purchases. Not comfortable with Credit Card Data stored on google servers. There have been reported instances of wrong/unauthorised deductions by some app developers. There is also no second layer of security like verified by visa/Mastercard Securecode where you have to enter a second PIN in play store as is the case in india for credit card payments online. As the virtual credit card is generated only in rupee & one time use only, i keep somewhat higher gap so transaction won't fail due to Dollar/Rupee Exchange Rate. For Example, i generated Rs 14 Virtual Credit Card for this current purchases. It's a bit cumbersome to enter virtual credit card data every time but offers complete peace of mind and safety.

Here is the first lot of discounted apps/games, all at Rs 13.36 · Angry Birds Space Premium · Asphalt 7: Heat · Clouds & Sheep Premium · Draw Something · Granny Smith · Let's Create! Pottery · London Bus Checker · NFL Kicker 13 · Ocean HD · OfficeSuite Pro 6+ · Sudoku · Symphony of Eternity · Tasks : runtastic PRO : The Cat in the Hat - Dr. Seuss

Barnes and Noble introduce 7" Nook HD and 9" Nook HD+ Source Barnes and Noble has made the 7-inch Nook HD and it's bigger brother the 9-inch HD+ official this evening. They're quick to mention that the Nook HD is the lightest and highest resolution mid-size tablet on the market, and that the HD+ is the world's lightest full HD tablet with it's 1920 x 1280 resolution at 256 ppi. In fact, they're really talking up the screens on both the units, saying they offer reading and entertainment "like never seen before." The Nook HD checks in at $199 for the 8GB version, here are some other specs of note: 1440x900 243 ppi laminated display 11.1 ounces in weight 1.3GHz dual-core processor 1GB RAM Comes in "Snow" or "Smoke" $199 for the 8GB version, $249 for the 16GB version The Nook HD+ takes things up a notch: 1920x1280 256 ppi laminated display 18.2 ounces in weight 1.5GHz dual-core processor 1GB RAM $269 for the 16GB version, $299 for the 32GB version Both devices feature the Barnes and Noble store, with over 3 million books, HD magazines, catalogs and newspapers, as well as thousands of apps. They will also feature the newly announced B&N video streaming service which should launch this fall. The Nook HD and Nook HD+ are available for pre-order for U.S. customers today at Barnes & Noble, and will be available for pre-order next month in the UK http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXpD_4uQPtU

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Here’s the Chip Apple Is Using to Stop You from Buying Cheap Cables Source If you bought yourself an iPhone 5, and are looking for a cheap, third-party lightning adapter to save a couple of bucks, you might want to hold off. There's an authenticator chip in the official adapters, and third-party adapters probably won't work without it. Peter from Double Helix Cables found the obnoxious little chip while dissecting one of the new, official Lighting cables. Positioned between the cord's USB contact and the power pin on the Lightning plug, the chip seems to be the key to keeping Lighting cables and adapters proprietary. These kind of authentication chips aren't uncommon in more sophisticated accessories, but this is the first time one has shown up in something as basic as a charging cable, smack in the middle of the power line. According the Peter, the chip doesn't block the data lines, but you need data and power to connect by USB. That could mean any number of things. This could mean that it's less nefarious than a authentication system, that it's just for power regulation - but it looks like a serious microcontroller of some sort, it doesn't look like a garden variety voltage regulator that I've ever seen. It has a mirror-finish shiny metal exterior with lasered numbers on it, it does not look like a generic black IC. If it really costs $3.50 for a lightning plug, then it could be something quite high tech. Whatever it is, it's expensive and highly miniaturized. And the cable isn't going to function without it, that I can tell at this point. "There is basically no way [third-party adapters] are functional cables," Peter told Apple Insider. "You can't just build a Lightning cable by making something with the same shape and connectivity." That means that all those third-party connectors out there will fit the ports on your devices, sure, but they probably aren't going to actually work. What looks like a $10, $20, or $30 savings could very well wind up being a waste, so if you're in a hurry, official adapters are probably the best bet. If you aren't, you can sit tight and see if someone can figure out how to fake those chips, but it could wind up being pretty difficult. Peter put it this way in an email to us: It remains to be seen whether the chip can be reverse engineered. Nobody that I know of managed to crack the MFi program before, since digital Apple docks and other MFi certified stuff were always quite costly and only coming from well established name brands that participated in the program. I never saw any off brand, super cheap version of the iPod USB digital audio interfaces that cost hundreds of dollars. If the chip has some code on board that makes it authenticate with the iPhone, then it may be hard to duplicate for sure. If it's doing a "smart" function like pin assignment or something crazy like that, then it definitely is going to be mandatory. Apple has said it's a "smart" connector but it is horrifying that just a basic power charging/sync cord like this requires additional complexity. But until some serious engineers figure out exactly what the chips do (MFi people are under NDA so I don't think they can tell us without breaking NDA) then it remains open for debate why this cable is like this. It could take some serious engineering brain-power to get to the bottom of what this chip is actually doing. Until then, first-party is the only surefire option.