In the past we have seen low-end, mid-range and high-end Android phones. Brands like Sony Ericsson and Samsung have lots of models that can be reasonably called low-end and mid-range phones. But, so far none of them has been able to put across utterly smashing quality like that of the Nexus 4 at a mid-range price of 299USD for Nexus 4 8GB and 349USD for Nexus 4 16GB. That’s where LG has stepped into this cut-throat competition, and that’s right, it has stepped in with the big guns! Nexus 4 has been released in November 2012 with built-in Android v4.2 (Jelly Bean).

• It comes with a built–in memory of 8GB or 16GB, there is no memory card slot.
• A massive 2GB RAM with which you will not have to constantly worry as to the number of applications running in background as this phone can handle it all.
• The phone does not have much to brag about on the battery front with a moderate battery life but it can be called adequate.
•  It carries the Quad-core 1.5GHz Krait processor
• A Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset.
• 8-megapixel camera with LED Flash.
• Display of the phone is jaw-dropping with the True HD IPS Plus capacitive touch-screen and with the 4.7inches screen that sports 768 x 1280 pixels.
• The top of the phone has the 3.5mm headphone jack
•  Micro USB 2.0 charging/ PC connection port is at the bottom.

Nexus 4 has a lot to flaunt; looking bang-on imposing and classy at the same time with its 4.7inches Corning Gorilla Glass 2 screen and slender body with a thickness of 9.1mm. The screen is framed by metallic finishing which adds onto the imposing look. The device weighs around 139g, not exactly feather light, but it truly compensates that with the feeling that it gives, of holding a solid body and not a plastic piece of junk. It is slightly rounded at the top and bottom like its predecessors in the Nexus Range. This gives it a smoother look as opposed to that of a tile-like, angular shape, gives a comfortable feel to the hand too. The back of the phone has a slightly glittery and might I add, eye-catching look due to the Crystal Reflection impressed on the Gorilla Glass 2 on the back of the phone. The back also bears LG and Nexus logos. All these features merge seamlessly to give an overall look of grace and class.

Now that the Nexus 4 has entered the market, let us see how the competition reacts to it!

To give you an outline the major differences between iPhone and Android app stores,the major issues revolve round the environments in which developers needed to work, the size of the various app libraries, the overall quality of the apps, whether or not online casino apps were available, and the overall differences in user experience between iCloud and Google cloud.

Here we would like to elaborate on what floats developers’ boats. Developers develop apps because that is their business. For the vast majority it is their day job, and their quality of life is directly related to the quality of their apps along with their ability to market them.  Gone are the days when app developers did it for love; love comes into it, but so does the need to make a living.

There is little point in developing an app that people are unwilling to pay for. We are not claiming that Android users are cheap skates, in fact far from it, but experience has taught that an iPhone user is considerably more willing to pay for an app than an Android user.

Android users are aware that their operating systems are essentially free, so they assume that their apps should be so too. The problem with open source software is nobody wants to pay for it.  Making an app is not difficult if you know what you are doing. Making a  top class viral app that everybody loves and makes you very rich is another matter altogether. Angry Birds is now a cliché, but don’t you wish that you had come up with it?

There are many rubbish apps on the market, but the great apps are available for both platforms. It really doesn’t matter which platform, no developer is fussed. Everything is portable if it pays and nowadays you don’t even need Adobe Flash – you can play a casino game in http://www.luckynuggetcasino.com/au/online-pokies/ just in the browser, but you could as well download the app and avoid the Flash. Both options work equally well, so there’s a gaming option for every need and every device.

Smart phones have been the economy’s one great hope during the last few years of stagnation. In the course of a few short years, these phones helped to trigger a revolution in technology, with app creation quickly becoming a trendy and profitable business.

Unfortunately for smart phone fans, it looks like the phenomenon might be drawing to a close. Recent reports suggest that smart phone innovation is beginning to slow down, according to Information Week. The implications of such a development could be staggering, especially given the current fragile nature of the economy. The good news is innovation isn’t slow for all phone companies; some are growing stagnant at a faster pace than others.

The decreasing innovation of smart phones could negatively impact other businesses associated with the industry. Cell phone accessories — such as cases, screen protectors, headphones, memory cards etc. — could see sales dip with the decline of the smart phone. However, that doesn’t mean the accessory companies will stop making or selling cool complementary products.

iPhone 5

Now that Apple is firmly in the post-Steve Jobs era, customers can expect a slowing down of innovation. While current head honcho, Tim Cook, adamantly denies that his company is starting to go stagnant, the latest model of the iPhone suggests otherwise. New features will include a larger touch screen and a speed-up in LTE networking. These are certainly nice improvements, but they aren’t exactly groundbreaking. Remember how amazed everyone the touch screen was unveiled, along with a multitude of new apps? That sense of wonder didn’t accompany the unveiling of the the iPhone 5.

Lumia 920

Perhaps even less impressive than the upcoming iPhone is the Nokia Lumia 920 Windows phone. The big boast surrounding this flagship smart phone? You can use the touch screen while wearing gloves. While cold-weather tech junkies may applaud this development, it’s still a bit disappointing that they cannot expect more from Microsoft’s newest model.

The app arena has also slowed down for Microsoft, with the only big release being City Lens, a new augmented-reality app that is already proving popular with hardcore gamers. Virtual reality is considered the new frontier of smart phone technology, but the developments in this area have been underwhelming thus far.

Droid Razr

Google is trying to impress with a new line of Razrs — the Razr M, the Razr HD and the Razr Maxx HD. Again, there’s not too much to get excited with these new phones, unless you are truly obsessed with lengthening your phone’s battery life. For those of you anxious for an Android update, you’ll have to wait a bit longer for the new Android Jelly Bean 4.1, because it’s not featured on any of the new Razrs. Until then, you’ll have to be satisfied with a shopping spree for cell phone accessories. If nothing else, your new Droid Razr should at least look cool!

The lack of innovation in the world of smart phones may be disappointing for those accustomed to the constant innovations that have dominated the tech world since the first iPhone was released. But, as some argue, the lightning-speed innovations couldn’t have lasted forever. And there is always the off-chance the current decline is simply the mobile industry hitting a plateau. Perhaps a new breakthrough will appear by the end of 2013. Otherwise, you’ll just have to adjust to a slower pace of innovation.

Christopher Campbell During his undergraduate college days, Chris sold wireless services and hardware for one of the major providers. He combines that with his journalism degree to write about cellular phones, wireless networks, smart phones and other technology.

Latest from Google is the all new Android tablet named Google Nexus 7 comes available to few countries and those who have ordered the tablet the shipping out to customers begins. After shipping out the tablet, Google has released a new ‘Getting Started’ video for the Android 4.1 tablet as shown below.

Google Nexus 7

At a glance, the Google Nexus 7 features a 7 inch touchscreen display giving out resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels. The tablet gets a powerful quad core NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor which features 12 core graphical processing unit.

The multimedia part features a 1.2 megapixel front facing camera for a video chat, however the tablet lacks with front facing camera. The battery is powerful enough to provide juice up to 10 hours for web browsing, 10 hours of e-reading and up to 8 continuous hours to video playback.

Just from its launch date the device becomes popular as Google stop taking orders for 16GB version of Nexus 7 due to high demand. However Nexus 7 is still missing from many countries and we you visit store it displays a message:

Sorry! Devices on Google Play is not available in your  country yet, we are working to bring devices to more countries as quickly as possible. Please check back again soon.

Picture the scene. It’s 2010. Samsung’s new Galaxy S has proven to be flashy but full of bugs, and the iPhone 4 has decided that it doesn’t like left-handed people.  Out of the shadows, a new(ish) firm unleashes a sleek sexy new smartphone that took the best bits from both competitors, whilst working perfectly and not discriminating against southpaws.  The Desire was absolutely huge.  How, then, can HTC’s latest model compete with the current market?  The HTC One X.  Will it get the job done?

The first undoubted plus of the One X is the power that eminates from the processing.  With the first quad-core processor to be included in a smartphone, the One X operates with a true smoothness that really can’t be matched by anything outside of the tablet market.  Whether you’re viewing the latest YouTube videos or reading up on your e-books, there is a fluidity in operation here that really can’t be matched.

Image: Laptopmag

Secondly, the new integration of Beats technology is almost illegally exciting.  With doctor Dre’s headphones to be found on every third head in the UK and the US, the inclusion of a pair with every One X is a seriously big deal.  What’s even cooler is the integration of the technology, meaning that with the press of a button, the sound going through the headphones is instantly improved tenfold.  It’s a superb feature, and one that will make the One X an instant favorite amongst audiophiles.

The screen is also excellent: quite possibly the finest one we’ve seen on a mobile device thus far in terms of clarity and life-like display.  At 4.7 inches, it’s a whopper in terms of mobile screens, using a 720p display in order to make it’s presence felt.  Whilst it doesn’t quite have the same beautiful color display of the AMOLED screens that are favored by Samsung, its clarity is well worth the slight sacrifice.

Are there flaws?  Well, yes, there are.  Firstly, the lack of removable storage (what I like to call ‘the Apple sin’) is a real bugbear.  Essentially, this leaves you completely stuck with what you’ve got, and rules out the smaller HD models for anyone who likes to keep movies and music on their phones.  Bad show indeed.

Overall, though, it seems hard to argue with the HTC One X.  As long as you’re able to get around it’s fairly substantial bulk (that screen size comes at a cost), it’s a superb, sleek and easy-to-use piece of technology.  Good work. 

Charlotte Daniels is a freelance writer and tech fanatic working in association with FactoryFast Online Shopping.

There is no doubt that iPhone is the first mover in operating system and also in helping touch smart phone to manufacture at mass production level. This meant, Google that created Android on the very much same design and functions as the iOS with the Open Set Alliance was a direct assault at the iOS. Being open source and made by wide variety of mobile phone manufacturers, iPhone was confronted with a multitude of companies with the same OS.

What many people didn’t know was that Steve Jobs hated Android and held a strong belief that it was plagiarized from their iOS. He was angry, frustrated and wanted to lay waste Android for what it was. He told his autobiographer that android was a grand theft and he was willing to go to any length to fight this war. He threatened the creators of android saying he would not leave this matter alone.

iPhone Vs Samsung

Apple Inc that has a business worth 8 billion dollars with Samsung on components sued the company over potential theft of design and copying the iPad designs. Samsung is not only one of the leading electronics manufacturers but also has Android OS in their tablets and cellular phones. One reason why tablets and Samsung phones have been able to capture market is not only the less cost relative to that offered by Apple Inc but also the OS. Many people now prefer to use Android and not iOS. This means the iOS which was meant to be the only one in the market faced stiff competition and also had to share the market with android based electronics which many companies like Samsung were making.

War of Attrition

Even though Apple Inc has sued both Samsung and Motorola companies for the usage of Android it may be as vulnerable to damages as these two companies. Since the days of Steve Jobs when the litigation against other companies accused of stealing or duplicating Apple Inc technology, the company has also lost many rounds. The reason it has become a war of attrition is that all companies involved in the legal battle may have to pay damages if the court rules in favor of any one of them. That is to say Apple may have to face remaking or paying for its technology that it has fundamentally said was copied.

The Fight Continues

Even if these companies do come together after a settlement, the battle between Google Android and iOS of Apple is likely to go on forever. They both will be in the race to get market shares in both the tablet and smartphone platforms. Android being supplied freely and being open source has a tremendous advantage that it is used by many of the major electronics manufacturers and it can easily take the market share. Also the fact that Android has more apps on its free category in the Google play, the alternative to the app market, it poses great threat to the iPhone sales.

I am John S Lam from Pass Certification. Pass Certification has also contributed in the online expositions and provided the material about the Apple Certifications. (He Live in Valley Drive Philadelphia, and Blogging from In many Tech Commnunities.)

The most popular file sharing service available is Dropbox is now also available for your smartphones. The latest from Dropbox is a an app for mobile platforms including Android at initial level. Dropbox Android app have been updated with features which enables a user to automatically update photo’s taken from their device. This means your photo’s are now automatically backed up to Dropbox with this new updated app, (if you are worried with automatic updating you can disable it from settings)

Dropbox mobile app automatically uploads your photos videos to Dropbox using your wifi data plan (check your data rate before using this service). The uploads are neither compressed or re-seized they gets uploaded in original format as taken from your camera. The saved images are private and resides under your Camera Uploads. Rumors says the feature to soon arrive for iOS device as well.

At stat Dropbox is offering you with 500MB of free space for automatic uploads. If you wish to continue more uploading your photo’s and video’s you will get and upgraded 3GB of more space on your account, isn’t it cool?

via Dropbox Blog

Awesome Android application Awesome Quotes is regarded as one of the leading application in which you can find thousands of different quotes. One can find quotes of different authors as well as of anonymous and you can find quotes on almost every subject. The method of usage of application is really very simple.

In order to make use of this application the very first thing that you need to do is to open Awesome Android application Awesome Quotes, so that you can avail its different features.

How To Search Quotes:

On first page you will find variety of ways to search for your favorite quotes, you can go with any of them in order to select you favorite quote. These methods of searching includes:

• By Author
• By category
• By keyword search.
• By Favorites. (Previously marked favorite quotes)

Setting Your Favorite Quote As The Background:

Other than just reading your favorite quote (s), you are also allowed to set your favorite quote as the background of your Android application and for that all you need to do is to access the quote and select the “set as background” from the options provided. The best thing about application is that you can also set it in different font sizes and you are also allowed to drag and drop in any area of the background of your Android phone, this option gives an elegant look to the background of your Android phone, allowing you to read it whenever you want without any kind of restrictions.

Sharing Your Favorite Quote On Facebook:

With Awesome Android application Awesome Quotes now you can share your favorite quotes either on your own or your friend’s facebook wall, allowing you to share the message found in the quotes with anyone in your friend’s list.

Get awesome Android application Awesome Quote today and get the most out of it, as you can read, set as background or share your favorite quotes with anyone you want.