We have reported that Samsung has officially announced its Galaxy S III Mini model with 4-inch display in Germany but there are no precise specifications about this flavor. Now we have something more interesting to share with you about this small but powerful smartphone.
Samsung Galaxy S III Mini comes with smaller display of 4-inch Super AMOLED with 800 x 480 resolution just as we expected. It runs on the latest Android Jelly Bean with TouchWiz user interface. It is powered by a at 1GHz dual-core STE U8420 chip instead of quad-core Exynos processor with 1GB of RAM. Even the camera is lowered to 5 megapixels.
With all of these new hardwares, the Samsung Galaxy S III will be sold for about 399 euros or $510 only. However we will see the official specifications to be announced by tomorrow. This smartphone is to set for sail in Europe due to high demand in the region for smaller screen smartphone. It is another iPhone killer from Samsung. Will Apple take this Galaxy S III to the court?
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This is the power of smartphone in today business. eBay knows that the future purchase products online, smartphone will play the most important role rather than PC. eBay has just pushed eBay Now app at Highline Stages in New York. This app will let users order and get product delivered in an hour. Now this features is only available in San Francisco.
David Wenig eBay President said, “What makes today unique? Speed. Smartphones. Access. During the last election, mobile commerce was a novelty. We now expect $10 billion of shopping annually on eBay mobile apps.”
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Finding Sony Xperia TX user guide? Now you can download it from official website sonymobile.com. The manual is in PDF format. In case you don’t know about the specifications, Xperia TX has a 4.55-inch touchscreen with 720p HD resolution, a 1.5GHz Snapdragon dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, a 13 megapixel camera, 1.3 megapixel front camera, 16GB internal memory, 1850mAh battery and a microsSIM.
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Motorola has just pushed the RAZR HD LTE across border to its neighboring Canada. Roger exclusively sells this terminal for as low as $100 with three-year contract. To fill the need to Canadian, Motorola sent this terminal with Ice Cream Sandwich (upgradable to Jelly Bean), a 1.5GHz dual-cre S4 CPU, and a 4.7-inch Super AMOLED HD display.
Are you interested in this smartphone? If you fed up with contract signing, you can choose the walk out with price tag of $600.
[Rogers]
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Samsung finally reveals 4-inch Galaxy S III mini in an event in Frankfurt, Germany. It turns the rumor into real. It was announced by JK Shin the company’s mobile chief claiming that the European market will see this smaller screen popular. It is to compete with the iPhone 5 as well.
For those who found the 4.8-inch Galaxy S III is too large then they can opt for this terminal while maintaining the same features. However seem like now the availability of Galaxy S III mini is still under consideration that even in the homeland Korea, it is still unavailable.
[The Verge]
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Google has launched its own tablet, the Nexus 7, in the market already. Of course we have seen several problems addressed by the users that the app won’t work smoothly on tablet as it is on mobile phone. It makes Android app for tablets behind the iPad. Now Google launches this Tablet App Quality Checklist for developers to make sure that their app will work smoothly on tablet.
It helps developers to enhance the following features such as quality and user interface. In addition Google plans to launch a special section for app for tablet just as what on App Store for iPad.
[TechCrunch]
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Recently HTC has released the Q3 revenues report of $2.397 billion. It is not surprise to see this drop since HTC has been struggling with Apple and Samsung. The profit keeps dropping compared to the $3 billion in Q2 of 2012 and even more serious when comparing with the $4.45 billion in October 2011.
HTC expected further drop but has better growth in China market in the near future. HTC didn’t done well with Android and now the company is working closely with Microsoft to bring Windows Phone 8 smartphone to the market including HTC 8X and 8S.
[TNW]
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Joe Lockhart, Facebook Inc’s head of global communications and a former press secretary for President Bill Clinton, is leaving the social networking company, Facebooksaid.
Lockhart, who is the latest high-profile executive to departFacebook following its disappointing initial public offering in May, is leaving 15 months after joining the world’s No.1 social network.
A Facebook spokeswoman said that Lockhart is leaving because he decided he wanted to remain on the East Coast, and did not want to move to California, where Facebook is headquartered.
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Good news for every Verizon Galaxy Tab 7.7 that now you can update to Android 4.0.4. It has been a very long waiting for top devices like this tablet. It is absolutely and adorable update for the users. Now you can jump from Honeycomb to Ice Cream Sandwich.
With this update, the version will spot with i815.LP10 number. The total size of the update is 293.1MB so make sure that your device is connected to a secure WiFi. The update will take up to 20 minutes depending on the connection speed. Again, you will see big improvement in term of UI and overall performance. We are waiting to see more update for other tablets.
[Verizon Wireless | Droid-Life]
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It is quite amazing but it won’t surprise us this way since we have already learnt from various sources analyzing the growth of Samsung over time and time. The fast growing of Samsung absolutely shakes the World market. Now Samsung has just release full Q3 earning report making the number to 8.1 trillion won which is about $7.28 billion. With this digit, it is double compared to the same period last year.
Mobile phone played the most important role followed by HDTV, and other chips. However the analysts found that Samsung can do better if it manages to settle thing with Apple or it will fall into a bad consequence just as in United States. Samsung need to take fast reaction from now.
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