LG Nexus 4 specs and pricing confirmed

 

The Carphone Warehouse just could not wait until next week and decided to put the next pure-Google droid for pre-order now with full spec, price and delivery date.

Here are the specs. The LG Nexus 4 has a 4.7 "LCD screen with 768 x 1280 and a Snapdragon S4 Pro chipset with quad-core processor at 1.5GHz and 2GB of RAM. In other words, is based on Optimus G, exactly as expected.

The camera is referred to as "8 + MP", so it's really an 8MP 13MP camera and  Shoots 1080p @ 30fps video, although it has only 8GB of non-expandable memory. This does not mean that there will not be a 16GB version later.


On the connectivity side, the LG Nexus 4 is quad-band 2G and tri-band 3G (no LTE), Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and NFC.

There's the question of the OS - the page with the specs do not seem to finalize and lists both 4.1 and 4.2, but still calls it «Jelly Bean». This would mean that the 4.2 version does not have major differences and it is not the Key Lime Pie (as you may recall 2.0 and 2.1 both Eclair, while 3.0, 3.1 and 3.2 were all Honeycomb).

The phone measures 133,9 x 68,7 x 9,1 mm, but the weight is still to be confirmed. The only color available is black.

Via gsmarena.com

LG Nexus 4 preorder σε site ,Specs,τιμή

 
Το Carphone Warehouse απλά δεν μπορούσε να περιμένει μέχρι την επόμενη εβδομάδα και αποφάσισε να διαθέσει το επόμενο pure-Google  droid για προ-παραγγελία τώρα,με πλήρη spec, τιμή και την ημερομηνία παράδοσης.
 
Εδώ έρχονται τα specs. Tο LG Nexus 4 έχει μια 4,7 "οθόνη LCD με 768 x 1280 και ένα Snapdragon S4 Pro chipset με επεξεργαστή quad-core στο 1.5GHz και 2GB μνήμης RAM. Με άλλα λόγια, είναι με βάση το Optimus G, ακριβώς όπως αναμένεται.

Η κάμερα αναφέρεται ως "8 + MP", άρα είναι πραγματικά μια 8MP κάμερα 13MP και όχι. Τραβάει 1080p @ 30fps βίντεο, αν και έχει μόνο 8GB μη-επεκτάσιμη μνήμη. Αυτό δεν σημαίνει ότι δεν θα υπάρξει μια έκδοση 16GB αργότερα.


Από την πλευρά της συνδεσιμότητας, το LG Nexus 4 έχει quad-band 2G και tri-band 3G (χωρίς LTE ), Wi-Fi, Bluetooth και NFC.

Όσο αφορά το λειτουργικό - η σελίδα με τα specs δεν φαίνεται να οριστικοποιεί και παραθέτει τόσο ως 4,1 και 4,2, αλλά πάντοτε το αποκαλεί «Jelly Bean». Αυτό θα σήμαινε ότι η 4,2 έκδοση δεν έχει μεγάλες διαφορές και δεν είναι η Key Lime Pie (όπως ίσως θυμάστε 2,0 και 2,1 και οι δύο Eclair, ενώ 3,0, 3,1 και 3,2 ήταν όλα Honeycomb).

Το τηλέφωνο μέτρα 133,9 x 68,7 x 9,1 χιλιοστά, αλλά το βάρος του είναι ακόμη επιβεβαιωθεί. Το μόνο διαθέσιμο χρώμα είναι μαύρο.

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Samsung Galaxy S III is official (video)

 
Samsung Galaxy S III

OS: Android 4.04 Ice Cream Sandwich
CPU: Quad-core 32nm ARM Cortex A9 1.4 GHz processor, Exynos 4212 Quad chipset
GPU: Mali-400MP
RAM: 1 GB
3G/ HSPA
Screen: 4,8", 4.8" 16M-color HD (720 x 1280 pixels) Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, Gorilla Glass
Camera: 8 Megapixel, Full HD video 1920×1080 pixels 30fps
Front Camera: 1.9 Megapixel, video HD
Memory: 16/32/64GB storage, microSD card slot
Wi-Fi n, GPS/ Glonass, Bluetooth 4.0, micro USB, 3.5mm audio jack, FM radio, TV-out, USB-on-the-go, NFC,Wi-Fi hotspot
Batery: 2100 mAh
Dimensions: 136.6×70.6×8.6mm
Weight: 133


The Galaxy S III is Samsung's new flagship smartphone and it's finally broken cover at the company's stand-alone Mobile Unpacked event here in London. With a steady stream of fakes, outright leaks and even event rescheduling, Samsung's claimed almost crazy levels of interest for its new smartphone. Weighing in at 133g (4.7 ounces) and whittled to 8.6mm at its thickest, the rounded-off design has more than a little bit in common with its Galaxy Nexus cousin. Of course, it's Samsung's new 1.4GHz Exynos 4 Quad processor doing the legwork, and there's 1GB of RAM to help it out. The display has been bumped up in size to a 4.8-inch HD Super AMOLED affair, sporting a 1280 x 720 pixel count. Happy snappers will have an 8-megapixel rear shooter to play with, and a 1.9-megapixel eye on the front will take care of those video calls. If you were wondering about radios, it's launching with HSPA+, but there's an LTE version in the cards. As for the interface, it's TouchWiz on top of Android 4.0 again, and there's new gesture functions to help you get around.





In addition to announcing its newest flagship, the Galaxy S III, along with some nifty photo-sharing features, Samsung has just revealed two more human-friendly features that aim to further differentiate the phone on the software side. These include SmartStay, which cleverly keeps the display from timing out by using the front-facing camera to detect when you're looking at the screen. Meanwhile, S Voice ushers in voice commands, and is the closest thing we've seen to a Siri competitor since Apple introduced that feature on the iPhone 4S. And we have to say, though Android users have long been reveling in voice-activated dialing and Google searches, the list of possible use cases here is quite impressive. In addition to initiating calls, you can wake the phone, request songs, capture photos and inquire about the weather. For now, Samsung says this feature will support eight languages, including, among others, Spanish, German, Korean and American / British English. Still, we wouldn't put it past Samsung to teach the GS III a few more languages once it gets that whole "launching in 145 countries" thing out of the way.




Camera
Samsung's Galaxy S III doesn't boast 41-megapixel captures or top-of-the-line optics. Instead, its camera's strengths are in its intelligent organization and social features, increasing the handset's appeal as a point-and-shoot alternative for casual photographers. Samsung's latest round of compacts and mirrorless dedicated snappers reaffirm suspicions that the company is taking a different approach to photography, focusing on connectivity and social enhancements, rather than updated sensor and low-light shooting technologies. While such decisions may prompt advanced shooters to bring their business to competitors, it highlights Samsung's strengths on a broader level, as a connectivity enabler, rather than a camera maker.

The company is clearly committed to growing its ecosystem and uniting product divisions in an effort to increase penetration throughout different categories, developing sharing tools that simplify workflows and increase appeal. Samsung's latest flagship smartphone packs standard specs, like 8-megapixel stills and 1080p video, but it offers a handful of software features that combine to make the device a compelling upgrade, especially from an imaging perspective. Join us past the break as we detail the Galaxy S III's photography enhancements, from Best Photo to Face Zoom.

Shooting enhancements

We don't blame you for not being impressed with the Galaxy's camera itself, but that's not the point -- software enhancements improve the shooting experience without boosting specifications. Both cameras can shoot HD video (the 8-megapixel rear-facing module captures 1080p, while the 1.9-megapixel cam up front records at 720p), and a new feature enables still snaps as you capture clips, with an on-screen shutter button popping up in the top right corner. The S III also offers a burst shooting mode at 6 frames-per-second for up to 20 continuous shots and a new Best Photo mode, which snaps eight consecutive images (also at 6 fps) of the same scene, highlighting the most appealing frame, based on parameters that include sharpness, contrast and the subject's expression. Best Photo allows you to save the pre-selected image, or any of the other frames before discarding.

Microsoft Makes $300M Investment In New Barnes & Noble Subsidiary To Battle With Amazon And Apple In E-books

Barnes & Noble has found a new, major partner in its fight to get an edge over Amazon and Apple in the market for e-books and the devices being used to consume them: it is teaming up with Microsoft in what the two are calling a strategic partnership, name yet to be determined.
It will come in the form of a new subsidiary of B&N that will include all of its Nook business as well as its educational College business. Microsoft is making a $300 million investment in the subsidiary, valuing the company at $1.7 billion in exchange for around 17.6 percent equity in the subsidiary.
The news leaves the door open for B&N to eventually spin these off into a separate business altogether — or even sell them to Microsoft. And it leaves a load of questions about what B&N will do next with the Nook, which is currently built on a forked version of Google’s Android platform.
The new company, referred to for the moment as Newco, will contain B&N’s digital business, as well as its College division. While Microsoft will take 17.6 percent, B&N will own 82.4 percent of the venture.

This is a key way of getting more content on to the Microsoft platform — specifically e-books content to ensure that its Windows 8 tablets will be able to compete not only against the best-selling iPad but also the Kindle Fire from Amazon, along with the rest of the company’s e-readers. The Kindle Fire has stolen a march among Android tablet makers and part of the compelling offer is not only the low price ($199) but also the fact that it contains so much content, including seamless access to all of Amazon’s e-book offerings.
This is also a progression — a very big one — of the funding etudes that Microsoft has been making to developers to make sure they are making apps for the Windows Phone platform, a way of getting more content on its platforms, which, it can be argued, may have come too late to the market. The first product to come out of the door? A Nook application for Windows 8, the companies say.
And given that education has been one of Apple’s bigger pushes this year, and the obvious and close links between education and e-reading, it’s not too surprising to see that B&N has also put its College division into this subsidiary. Microsoft, too, has been courting the education market — making its biggest-ever cloud-services deal in the education sector. Nevertheless they have a long road ahead of them. In January, Apple noted that there were already 20,000 educational apps for iOS and that there were already 1.5 million devices deployed in schools, numbers that will inevitably have grown in the last 4-5 months with the launch of the new iPad and numerous initiatives to spread the tablet in the educational sector.
And there is a legal twist to the deal, too: the two companies say they have definitely sorted out their patent litigation now: “Moving forward, Barnes & Noble and Newco will have a royalty-bearing license under Microsoft’s patents for its NOOK eReader and Tablet products,” the two write in the release below. If Microsoft doesn’t use this as an opportunity of possibly persuading B&N to swap over to Windows 8 for a version of the Nook, it will also give it a very interesting inroad into developing more for Android.
As for B&N and the future of these products… this deal looks like it could potentially pave the way for B&N to spin off this business into its own standalone operation, if not into the waiting arms of Microsoft itself — long speculated to be looking at ways of gaining a stronger foothold in the area of mobile devices to better implement its bigger strategy. The idea of a subsidiary was something that B&N had first floated back in January, when it noted that it was weighing up how best to separate its digital business to “maximize shareholder value.”
There are many more questions — such as what this could mean for the company’s broader strategy for growing the market for the Nook (international being a key push that the company has yet to make, apart from some baby steps); and how well, exactly, those products are doing for the company: IDC puts the Nook’s share of the tablet market at just 3.5 percent.

Via techcrunch.com

Galaxy S III picture points towards a 4.8-inch display

They reached upon this conclusion after they received the picture above with the phone set against a ruler. The length of the phone seems to be somewhere around 130mm, which makes it about as long as the Galaxy Nexus. The display itself seems to be a bit above 100mm. If you do the math it turns out to be around 4.8-inch diagonally, which is slightly greater than the 4.65-inch figure that was being floated around.
There is not much else to see except the presence of what looks like a physical Home button below the display. The constant appearance of this button keeps confusing us as we have already seen the phone having software keys within the display, as on the Galaxy Nexus. Then again, this is just a prototype device and the final device might not have this button at all.

Samsung is due to launch its Next Galaxy device at an event on May 3. We'll be at the event, reporting live, so make sure you come back then.

Samsung I9100G Galaxy S II ICS update now available

The original I9100 Galaxy S II started getting its Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update in March, but its TI OMAP-based I9100G cousin wasn't that lucky.
Until recently that is, as we started getting user reports that the I9100G ICS update is already seeding in several countries. It seems the rollout has now reached almost all the I9100G Galaxy S II units worldwide.
It's good to know that Samsung hasn't forgotten all about the less popular versions of the extremely popular Galaxy S II and is deliver their due ICS servings.
If you are not sure what differences between the two international Galaxy S II versions are, you should check out our comparison article.



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