Sunday, February 9, 2014

Amosu Couture unveils iPhone 4S color series

Amosu Couture unveils iPhone 4S color series, charges 1299 quid for it

There’s no denying that the Apple iPhone 4 is one of the hottest looking pieces of technology around. However there are a couple of issues with its design – first, it’s almost two years old now so it’s getting a bit boring, and second, the phone sold in millions, so you can’t stand out much carrying it as too many people have it.

Well, here comes Amosu Couture with a solution for both of these problems. The company, which specializes in luxurious customizing of smartphones announced the iPhone 4S color series.

Both the rear and the front panels of the iPhone 4S are painted in bright colors, converting the Apple latest smartphone in what Amosu calls a “radiant fashion statement”. We are not sure it’s a statement anyone above the age of 18 would want to make, but still.

If you are interested, you’ll be able to purchase the iPhone 4S color in Sunshine Yellow, Ocean Blue or Valley Green for ��1299 immediately. You can also get another color on request and Amosu will even put your name or company logo on the back of the handset.

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Asus Transformer Prime now up for pre-order in Canada and the US

Asus Transformer Prime now up for pre-order in Canada and the US, costs $499

Eager to have a piece of the quad-core Tegra 3 tablet action, are we? In that case you’d be glad to know that you can book your Asus Transformer Prime by pre-ordering it through the company’s website right now.

The offer only applies to residents of Canada and US, for now as the pre-orders aren’t recorded by Asus themselves, but by some of their sales partners. Prices start at $499, which buys you a 32GB version of the slate.

You can double the internal storage for $100 more, while the optional docking station costs $149.

What we are still missing though is an exact launch date for the slate. It should be somewhere at the beginning of next month, but we guess we’ll have to wait another week to find out where exactly.

Now save your place in the Transformer Prime line by following the source link below and placing your pre-order.

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Digg launches new app for Android

Digg launches new app for Android

Once upon a time Digg used to be this really popular news aggregator site. But then reddit happened and Digg was pushed to the sidelines. Last year, the site was acquired by a company called Betaworks, who has since been in the process of revamping it, first by launching a brand new website that does not suck and an iOS app to go with it.

Continuing down that path, they have now launched a new Digg app for Android and thankfully, it’s not just a port of the iOS app. The new Digg app, now available for free on the Play Store, follows the same minimalistic design of the website and the iOS app, with clean white and black design. Your stories appear in a vertical column you can scroll through and click on to read. Unlike the web version, the stories open within the app itself and you are not taken to the site that hosts it.

The app presents a wide range of content by default but you can sign in and customize what articles you like to see. You can also connect the app to your Facebook, Twitter and Google+ accounts to share the articles you read. There is also a bookmarking feature for saving articles and a thumbs up option for liking them.

You can download the Digg app for Android from the link below.

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Monday, January 6, 2014

BlackBerry Z10 compared to the iPhone 5 on video

BlackBerry Z10 compared to the iPhone 5 on video, found to be noticeably better

It looks like RIM is all set to compete against the smartphone top dogs with its upcoming BlackBerry 10 OS. A recent video comparison suggests that BlackBerry Z10 is perfectly capable of matching the performance of the Apple iPhone 5.

The comparison also goes through some of the hardware highlights such as the display and battery capacity. BlackBerry Z10 comes with a 4.2″ display of 356 ppi density, against iPhone 5′s 4″ screen and 326 ppi density. Furthermore, the 1800 mAh removable battery in BlackBerry Z10 sounds impressive when compared to the 1440 mAh battery in iPhone 5, which can’t be removed.

The latest inclusion of BlackBerry Voice from RIM takes on the Apple’s Siri. The BB Voice application lets you text, dictate commands, e-mails etc to the phone. The new browser in the Z10 was also tested and it gave the iPhone 5′s Safari a pretty comprehensive beating.

BlackBerry 10 OS’s element however is said to be multitasking, as the latest RIM OS is capable of keeping work apps separately from the personal apps on the device. The specifications of the Z10 look very impressive on paper, but will we are yet to see if it has what it takes to re-take some of the ground it lost to the iPhone 5 and the Android army.

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Android inching closer to Apple as app revenues expected to double to $6

Android inching closer to Apple as app revenues expected to double to $6.8B

According to the latest report from ABI research, Android smartphone app revenues are expected to reach $6.8 billion – nearly twice more than last years numbers.

While that may sound like a lot, that’s only about 60% of the total posted by iOS – the clear leader in app revenue amongst all mobile OS’s.

While Apple’s 65% share in smartphone and tablet app revenue is hard to contend with, Google’s experience in online advertising is translating well into the mobile world, and is one area where Android apps excel – targeting online audiences through in-app advertisements. This is especially significant as some 90% of all apps are now free, and earn their cash through in-app ads.

Android’s open source approach is also more appealing to carriers, who have more incentive to choose Google’s OS because its ability to allow carrier billing for apps. Carrier billing has significantly higher completion rates than credit or debit cards.

When it comes to smartphones, Android app revenue is expected to rise to 66% of iOS totals next year. Apple may have something to say about that come next month, if the rumors are true.

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