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Microsoft Surface Windows 8 Pro Tablet To launch On Feb 9 For $899

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Jan 22, 2013

Microsoft Surface Windows 8 Pro Tablet To launch On Feb 9 For $899

Microsoft Surface Windows 8 Tablet is scheduled to launch on Feb 9 in United States and Canada for starting price of $899. Users can buy it from Microsoft retail stores or from retailer like Staples and Best Buy. Microsoft surface Pro will be available in two variants, 64 GB and 128 GB for $899 and $999 respectively.

Surface Tablets will not include Touch Covers, You can can buy it from Microsoft store by spilling out another $120, or you can buy a Type Cover, which is thicker and has mechanical keys, for $130. Microsoft also stated that more colors of Touch Covers like red, cyan and magenta would be added to the store in some next days. But there will be Stylus pen in the package of Surface Windows 8 Pro Tablet.

Its the first tablet from Microsoft coming up and that too running on Windows 8 Pro. It was announced in October last year.

Microsoft also announced that it will sell a standalone 64 GB Surface Windows RT, starting February 9 with a black Touch Cover. It will cost you $599.

Additionally, Surface Pro is powered by a 3rd Generation Intel Core i5 processor with Intel HD Graphics 4000, and with that x86 foundation comes the ability to run all sorts of Windows software along with 4GB of RAM. If we conclude than its basically an Ultrabook in a tablet form factor. It consists a 10.6-inch Full HD 1080p (1920×1080) display with 10-point multi-touch and pen input support. There are two variants of Microsoft Surface Windows 8 Pro Tablet, 64GB or 128GB solid state drive. Other features include full-size USB 3.0 port, microSDXC card slot, mini-DisplayPort, 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, and other odds and ends.

Company confirmed that in “coming weeks” Surface Pro Tablet will be available for purchase in 14 more countries. Those include Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland.

So from here who is going to buy Microsoft Surface Windows 8 Pro Tablet on feb 9? Stay connected with us for more.

Also upgrade your old versions of Windows to Windows 8 as Microsoft is going to end upgrade offer on January 31st.

Micromax Announces its New Samartphone A116 Canvas HD with 5-inch HD display

Sukhraj Singh

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Jan 21, 2013

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Micromax is becoming popular day by day as it is launching their smartphones with great specifications at very low cost. Micromax also giving the tough competition to the big players in the mobile industry. Now Micromax announced its new Samartphone A116 Canvas HD to its flagship. A116 Canvas HD comes with IPS 16.7 million color 5inch HD display and also packed with 1.2 GHz Quardcore MediaTek MT6589 processor with 1GB RAM.

The Micromax A116 Canvas HD also runs on the Android 4.1 JellyBean with 8 Mp main camera and VGA front-facing camera with 4GB internal space Which is expandable to 32 GB with SD card. It also has the great battery of 2100 mAh it offered up to around six hours of talk time and up to around 200 hours of standby time.

Micromax A116 Canvas HD Specs:

Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean)
5-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) HD IPS 16.7 million color display
1.2 GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6589 processor
1GB RAM, 4GB internal memory, 32GB expandable memory with MicroSD
8MP rear camera with LED Flash, VGA front-facing camera
3G, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth, GPS/A-GPS
2100 mAh battery

Commenting on the launch and association with MediaTek, Deepak Mehrotra, Chief Executive Officer, Micromax, said,

“At Micromax, we constantly strive to innovate and develop great technological experiences for our consumers. Today’s launch marks our association with MediaTek to bring forth our first quad core phone in this segment, offering consumers a great user experience with latest features and added functionality. We are excited with the success of Canvas 2, which has clearly established Micromax as number one player in the new 5” phablet category in India. We are looking forward to similar success with the new phone being unveiled today.”

Micromax A116 Canvas HD will be launched in the first week of February 2013. It will be available to buy of 14999 INR which is quite low for the Quardcore processor smartphone it will surely give tough completion to the other big players in the Mobile market.

Microsoft Windows 8 Upgrade offer for $15 will end by 31st January

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Sukhraj Singh

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Jan 20, 2013

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Microsoft windows 8 will be more costlier after 31st January. As Microsoft at the launch of windows 8 operating system announced that the update to windows 8 Pro will available for $15 for Windows 7 PC users for promotion of their product. Microsoft also gives the time period for this offer between 2 June 2012 and 31 January 2013. Additionally, Microsoft claims that 60 million licenses of Windows 8 have been sold to date.

Microsoft Windows 8 Upgrade offer is applicable for any Windows 7 PC that has been bought before or after the above mentioned date. It is applicable for those who purchase a new Windows 7 PC that comes pre installed with original versions of Windows 7 Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional or Ultimate, and that includes a matching and valid OEM certificate of Certificate of Authenticity (COA). But after 31st January the price for windows 8 pro will increase and will be around $120. which is quite a big amount.

As posted on Windows 8 blog

Windows 8 upgrade editions will be priced as follows starting in February:

The Windows 8 Pro upgrade edition will be available online and at retail for $199.99 MSRP (U.S.).

The Windows 8 upgrade edition will be available online and at retail for $119.99 MSRP (U.S.).

The Windows 8 Pro Pack will cost $99.99 MSRP (U.S.).

The Windows 8 Media Center Pack will cost $9.99 MSRP (U.S.).

If you have interested to have windows 8 for your PC or Laptop we’d strongly recommend you the upgrade offer for windows 8 pro. You can buy the windows 8 pro upgrade Here . Microsoft has also remind its users about the Windows 8 upgrade offer. If you want to have it on price of $15 you have to register before 31st january 2013.

HTC Butterfly To Debut In India Soon

Simranpal Singh

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Jan 18, 2013

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HTC Butterfly, International variant of HTC Droid DNA which was launched in US last year and also named as HTC Butterfly J in Japan. Even in China and Taiwan HTC has released it. Now its turn for India.

This latest flagship device From HTC will soon hit Indian Stores as company has teased its images on their official Facebook Page with tag “Guess what’s flying into town soon?”. Indian Site Androidos.in also reports that the device will be priced at INR 44,000 and its coming to India by the end of January.

HTC Butterfly is the first smartphone device coming in Indian market with 5-inch 1920x1080p HD Display. It is the powerful device already gained good sales in US and other markets where it has already launched. It is powered by a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro SoC running at 1.5GHz and has 2GB of RAM. HTC is offering Butterfly in 16 GB variant only but you can expand it upto 32 GB via micro SD card.

HTC Butterfly camera consists 8 Megapixel sensor with AF, BSI Sensor which can shoot video of 1080p, its front camera is of 2.1 MP for video chat. You can even take 6 megapixel pictures while shooting a video and this feature is called VideoPic. It runs on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and latest HTC Sense on board.

Currently if we believe above listed price (INR 44,000) $815 than it will be the most expensive smartphone device in India.

HTC Butterfly may gain good sales in India as if we go through its features, specs and all other things but price is looking to be expensive. Hope HTC will reduce its Price and will start gaining profit again as last year was not good for HTC. On the other hand HTC M7 may get launched along with HTC Sense 5 at MWC 2013 as its getting various rumors and reports these days.

From here who is waiting HTC Butterfly To Debut In India ? Share your views via comments.

Source: HTC India Facebook Page

Samsung’s 8-Core Exynos 5 Octa Processor

Sukhraj Singh

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Jan 12, 2013

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Samsung announced its 8 core Exynos 5 octa processor for mobiles and tablets in CES 2013. It uses the Novel architecture which provides more performance without sucking up the battery. Rather ten having a single Eight Core chip it haves the Dual Quard Core inside one is Quad-core ARM Cortex A15 and the other is quad-core Cortex A7. Cortex A15 deals with tasks like gaming and video playback and passes the easy tasks to Cortex A7 like texting and email.

The chip will be aimed at high-end smartphones and tablets. Surprisingly while announcing the processor the former U.S. President Bill Clinton has came their. However When this chip came to sale it will get though competition from the Nividia Tegra 4 which were announced earlier this week and will appear in devices in the second half of the year.

To show the live demonstration of the chip 3D video game was shown and it runs quite smoothly. This chip from the samsung also saves the 70% energy compared with current Samsung designs. Although the Exynos 5 Octa is officially announced as an eight-core chip, But actually the processor haves the 2 Quard Cores. We’ve got you all excited about the Exynos 5 Octa and their ‘s also the rumours it’ll be powering the Galaxy S4 when its released later this year.

Best 5 Gadgets Revealed At CES 2013

Simranpal Singh

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Jan 9, 2013

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As we guys know CES 2013 is going through in Las Vegas, US. This year at CES several new gadgets and technologies get revealed. Many new Smartphones, tablets, TV’s and all other types of gadgets are getting attention. So we are here to let you know best 5 gadgets revealed at CES 2013. Starting with

Vuzix M100 Smart Glasses

Yes, its the augmented reality Glasses similar to Google glasses. Its the best Gadget Vuzix showed off at CES 2013. Vuzix Smart Glasses M100 provides hands-free calling, photography, web browsing, and SMS messaging..also Navigation.

Its powered by 1GB of RAM and a OMAP4430 1GHz processor along with 4 GB onboard Storage. Vuzix hopes to have the glasses available by this summer for Android and iOS for around $500.

Samsung curved OLED TV

Samsung displayed the world’s first curved 55-inch OLED TV at CES on Tuesday. Considered the future of consumer electronics displays, the OLED technology is more energy-efficient and offers higher-contrast images than liquid crystal display. Samsung’s Curved OLED is just a concept right now, with no plans to bring it to market at the moment. LG also introduced Curved OLED TV at CES 2013.

Trakdot locates missing luggage

Lost your bag at Airport, Rly Station or at any place ?track your bag with Trakdot. The Trakdot Luggage tracker from GlobaTrac LLC acts like a homing beacon to monitor and locate your bags anywhere in the world in real time, with almost any mobile device.

The Trakdot Luggage device costs $49.95, one-time activation is $8.99, and there’s an annual service fee of $12.99.

Sony Xperia Z Water and Dust Resistant Phone

Sony’s flagship phone for 2013, the Xperia Z, comes with a 5-inch HD display, runs a version of Android 4.1, and is only 7.9mm thick. The smartphone has 2GB RAM and up to 16GB of memory space. This is expanable to 32GB via a microSD card slot.

Perhaps the most interesting and unusual feature of the Xperia Z is its water-resistant construction: Sony claims the phone can withstand being submerged in a meter of water for as much as 30 minutes at a time.

LG Smart Appliances

At CES 2013 LG showcased smart home technology appliances. Include connected washers and dryers, refrigerators, an oven, and the next-gen version of LG’s HOM-BOT vacuum – All of which are fully controllable using a user’s Android device by scanning an NFC Tag-on symbol found on the appliance.

That’s it from here. Some more articles like best 4 tv’s at CES 2013 will be coming your way.

For the time checkout this:

Checkout: What’s New In NVIDIA Tegra 4?

Karbonn A30 Review

Sukhraj Singh

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Jan 7, 2013

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Karbonn launched its latest Dual sim smartphone which runs on Android 4.0 ice cream sandwich in the market to compete with the major companies like Sony, HTC, Samsung, Micromax. This smartphone from karbonn has the 1G Hz Dual core processor with 512MB RAM and with 5.9 inches Display screen. It will give the tough competition to the big companies. Lets Review the features of Karbonn A30 in detail.

Design and Built Quality

It is the 6 inch smartphone which can be used as the tablet also. It is weights about 270g and its dimensions are 165 x 90 x 10 mm. It is like the Candybar. The build quality is quite good and seems that the Smartphone can take few bumps here and there. It has the 3.5 mm audio port on the top and had the volume button on the left and power button on the right. It has good back on which their are two speakers on the bottom and on top right their is the 8 MP camera with LED flash. It is quite big to be a Smartphone. Overall it has the good design and built quality.

Display

It has the 5.9 inch big Capacitive Multi Touch Screen in which you can view text and images better . It gives a display resolution of 800×480 pixels. The display of this phone is quite bright like the other high end phones of the big companies like HTC, Samsung, etc. In the 6 inch smartphone the tasks would be more easy to do and will be more fast.

Camera

Today people buy the phone because of its camera and it becomes the prominent feature of any phone. Karbonn A30 has the good quality 8MP rear camera which takes quite good quality photos its camera has the features like Autofocus, Face detection, Burst mode for capturing images continuously in rapid succession and Video recording. This smartphone also has the secondary camera for video calling. which are pretty good things to get at this price range.

Performance

This lovely touch bar is operated by Android 4.0 ICS and is powered by 1 GHz ARM Cortex A-9 Dual core processor. With this you can run multiple apps at once and switch between them immediately. Browsing and downloading becomes an easy affair. You can do your work very easily with this kind of Processor. It also has quite large battery of 2500 mAh battery that gives long talk time hours and standby hours too.

Verdict

Karbonn A30 has lots of features in it for lowest cost. All these features of Karbonn A30 if see towards some other manufacturer the price would be around INR 20,000. But now Karbonn is offering this handset for INR 11,500. we think that at this price range these features are best for a smartphone.

What’s New In NVIDIA Tegra 4?

Simranpal Singh

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Jan 7, 2013

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So as we know today NVIDIA announced its new Tegra 4 Processor at CES 2013 in Las Vegas. Its claimed to be the world’s fastest processor by NVIDIA. Tegra 4 processor is designed and built in order to give lightning-fast web browsing, stunning visuals and new camera capabilities through computational photography.

Currently its not clear on which device its its coming but we hope it will soon hit devices.

How’s Tegra 4 Faster Than Others?

This is the big question that how’s this processor is different from others? Let make it clear, ARM’s quad-core Cortex-A15 processor based NVIDIA Tegra 4 has 72 individual Nvidia GeForce graphics cores based on on the 28nm process.

In order to prove it NVIDIA showed off the chip’s graphical powers by having a Tegra 4-powered device push 4K-resolution video to an Ultra HDTV.

One more demonstration was given in order to prove Tegra 4 superiority, Huang CEO NVIDIA, compared a Nexus 10 tablet, against a Tegra 4-based tablet. The two tablets were set to load 25 high-traffic web sites: the Tegra 4 did it in 27 seconds and the Nexus 10 tablet in 50 seconds.

Tegra 4 is based on 4-plus-1 arrangement that of its predecessor Tegra 3.

Earlier we saw various companies launched different variants of their devices for US due to Tegra 3 incompatibility with 4G LTE network. But now problem is solved as Tegra 4 is fully compatible with 4G LTE.

Despite its power, its also energy efficient than Tegra 3 since it has the same architecture, with a fifth core that helps regulate energy use. With its power-efficient design, the Tegra 4 is said to enable up to 14 hours of video playback on smartphones.

Features of NVIDIA Tegra 4:

GeForce GPU with 72 custom cores
Quad-core ARM Cortex-A15 CPU, plus a 2nd Generation Battery Saver Core
Computational Photography Architecture
LTE capability with optional Icera i500 chipset
4K ultra-high-def video support

As discussed in beginning Tegra 4 also introduces new computational photography architecture. It improves image processing upto 10 times faster than old platforms. Huang, also demoed this feature to create an HDR instantly by capturing two images at exactly the same time. NVIDIA describes it as:

Among the Tegra 4 processor’s breakthroughs is its Computational Photography Architecture, which automatically delivers high dynamic range (HDR) photos and video by fusing together the processing power of the GPU, CPU and the camera’s image-signal processor.

That’s it. Stay connected with us for more news about it in upcoming days.

What Is HDMI And How’s It Different?

Simranpal Singh

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Jan 5, 2013

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HDMI is High-Definition Multimedia Interface, describes a new kind of cable for hooking high-definition TVs to things like cable boxes and DVD players. HDMI is a type of digital connection that’s capable of transmitting high-definition video and high-resolution audio over a single cable.

History of HDMI:

HDMI is founded by Hitachi, Matsushita Electric Industrial (Panasonic/National/Quasar), Philips, Silicon Image, Sony, Thomson (RCA) and Toshiba. Its development was started April 8 2003 and its first Authorized Testing center was opened in California, US. Thereafter several new ATCs were opened in several countries like India, China, etc.

HDMI products started shipping in autumn 2003. Over 800 CE and PC companies have adopted the HDMI specification (HDMI Adopters). HDMI began to appear on consumer HDTV camcorders and digital still cameras in 2006. Shipments of HDMI are expected to exceed that of Digital Visual Interface (DVI) in 2008, driven primarily by the Consumer Electronics (CE) Market.

In 2004, HDMI devices sold was 5 million in 2004, 17.4 million in 2005, 63 million in 2006, and 143 million in 2007 and sales grew year by year.

How’s HDMI is Different From Other Connectivity or Cables?

HDMI can handle high-definition video of up to 1080p resolution at 60 frames per second, which is the most bandwidth-intensive video format currently available. HDMI can be adapted to DVI (Digital Video Interface), via adapter cable or connector. However, the device that has the DVI connection must be HDCP enabled for the signal transfer to work. It also supports eight channels of uncompressed audio, enough for a 7.1 surround-sound system.

Detailed Video Format Support:

Video Formats – HDMI supports any format in the CE industry (PAL, NTSC, ATSC etc.)
Highest Resolutions – The highest resolution that the new HD DVD and Blu-ray movies will offer (up to 1080p) is fully supported in HDMI. Due to the extra available bandwidth, even higher resolutions are supported (1440p)
Colours in the billions – Up to 48-bit support for RGB and YCbCr makes way for over 1 billion colours. (48-bit support was added in HDMI 1.3)
Refresh Rate – Up to 120 Hz

Detailed Audio Formats Support:

Uncompressed (PCM) – PCM audio up to 8 channels at 24-bit sampling rates at a frequency of 192 Khz.
Compressed – Supports all the usual compressed formats; Dolby Digital 5.1 – 7.1, DTS etc.
SACD – HDMI supports up to 8 channels of one-bit audio used on Super Audio CDs.
DVD-Audio – Supports DVD Audio content since HDMI 1.1
Lossless – HDMI supports Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio

Due to its these superqualitiies HDMI is on top of all cables or interfaces. If you need to do things at this high reolution and 8 Channel Audio Quality than you need multichannel analog audio cables, but you’d need to run as many as eight separate cables to get the same quality.

Types Of HDMI:

Currently there are 6 types of HDMI versions:

HDMI 1.0
HDMI 1.1
HDMI 1.2
HDMI 1.3
HDMI 1.3a
HDMI 1.4

Different HDMI Cables:

Standard HDMI Cable – up to 1080i and 720p
Standard HDMI Cable with Ethernet
Automotive HDMI Cable
High Speed HDMI Cable – 1080p, 4K, 3D and deep color
High Speed HDMI Cable with Ethernet

Different HDMI Plugs Connectors:

Type A: consists of a 19-pin connector.
Type B: 29 pins connector.
Type C: 19 pins facilitate the three high speed TMDS channels, the TMDS clock channel, DDC channel, CEC Channel, a 5v power supply and hot plug detect feature.
Type D: 19 pins of types A and C but shrinks the connector size to something resembling a micro-USB connector

At The End:

As technology is developing at great pace so HDMI i also developing. We hope HDMI will become more standard connection option with increasing capabilities. Eventually, the cable jungle behind your home theater system will disappear, as all the audio and video cables are reduced to one HDMI cable between each component for both audio and video.

Different Types Of Cameras

Sukhraj Singh

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Dec 29, 2012

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A camera is the device that record images that can be stored directly or transferred to some other location. The images can be still or moving such as videos or movies. The Different types of cameras are described below

Still Cameras:

It is the type of camera used to take photographs. The photographs taken by these cameras are ‘still” means their is not any motion in the picture captured by these kind of cameras. the still cameras are of various types.

Instant Cameras: Instant camera is the type of camera with self developing films in it which develops the picture immediatly after it was clicked. The most popular self-developing film were formerly made by Polaroid Corporation.
Schmidt Camera: It is also referred to as the Schmidt telescope. It is used as the tool for astrophotographic to take the pictures of wide fields of view with limited aberrations. These cameras are used in scientific research in finding the news stars and solar systems,etc.

Digital Cameras:

It is the type of electronic camera which can capture still images as well as the pictures in the motion or we can say videos. we can do both these things by the same device. Digital cameras are incorporated into many devices ranging from PDAs and mobile phones to vehicles. Unlike film cameras digital cameras can display images on a screen immediately after recorded and thsese cameras can store and delete images from memory. Many digital cameras can also record moving video with sound. Some digital cameras can crop perform other elementary image editing.

Video Camera:

Video camera is the used to capture the electronic motion pictures. Modern video cameras have numerous designs and uses, not all of which resemble the early television cameras.

Professional Video camera: These may be used for film making in cinemas. These may be television studio-based or mobile in the case of an electronic field production. These cameras are generally controlled manually and in these cameras the automated operation are excluded.
Camcorders: These have combine camera and a VCR or other recording device in one unit. These are basically used to record the home movies.

Closed-circuit television (CCTV): These are generally use pan tilt zoom cameras and used for for security, surveillance, and monitoring purposes.These cameras are designed to be small, easily hidden, and able to operate unattended these cameras are often meant for use in environments that are normally inaccessible or uncomfortable for humans

SLR(single-lens reflex Cameras):

It is a camera that typically uses a mirror and prism system that permits the photographer to view through the lens and see exactly what will be captured. Contrary to viewfinder cameras where the image could be significantly different from what will be captured. The SLR cameras are made and manufactured by the Pentax, Contaflex, Canon, etc.