Smartphone industry is growing rapidly, every manufacturer seems to bring a phone that no one has ever seen, but its true that the era of buttons on a phone seems to be an old-fashioned. The word smartphone has transformed a phone with a piece of palm size touch screen. For a time back, Apple, Samsung RIM have been the favorite choice for customers while Microsoft was a bit slow, but surely they we attracting customers.

Today we have the new Nokia Lumia 920 with us to to review, the Finnish manufacturer’s first stab at smartphone which runs on Microsoft Windows Phone 8 operating system and a very-high end camera under the hood.

Nokia Lumia 920 Design:

Lumia 920, a phone that is available in vibrant colors, the reason was supposed to be as smartphone market which was dominated only with gray or matte black tones, or more if you go you could find a pebble blue, whereas as Lumia brand was introduced with colors and vibrancy. Likewise 920’s sister model Lumia 820 & Lumia 620 turned up to maximum factors as 920 is being available in eye-watering colors like yellow to red, white, gray, black. Lumia’s biggest fans might not have turned up with red yellow type colors but it still gives a good taste and people welcomes them.

The phone sits on a polycarbonate shell which not only has affected with the colors, but the internal display can also be adjusted according to exterior. On the phone icon’s turn to different colors scheme with an option of background in black on white only. I must say its striking design will surely get an attention when pull out in crowd.

Apart of the common smartphone design, Lumia 920 posses the same, with volume up down buttons on the right following up with a lock/unlock and a camera button, the large capacitive 4.5” Gorilla glass touch screen with windows button at the bottom of the screen. The charging & sync port right at the bottom of the phone. On the top of the phone is 3.5mm headphone jack along with Micro sim card slot.

Lumia 920 is little heavy and fat while holding. Along the Nokia’s recent line-up, this smartphone is build quality is fantastic and feels good to hold in hand – The Big Phone. The 185g phone is not at all slim & light in design and you can’t simply forget it in your pocket , but still it stands out of crowd.

Nokia Lumia 920 Better:

Nokia Lumia 920 is a 4.5” touchscreen model runs on state of the art latest Windows Phone 8 giving 1280×768 of resolution with PureMotion HD+, ClearBlack, Sunlight Readability Enhancement and Corning Glass 2,0. Although the phone is much big and bulky as compared to Apple’s latest iPhone 5. Overall, Lumia 920 offers best viewing and touchscreen experience indoor as well as outdoor. Alongside we tested the touchscreen  with gloves and yes it does work as advertised.

The 920’s is beating its heart on a Qualcomm Snapdragon Adreno 225 running on 1.5GHz processor speed which is quite efficient to fuel the overall smartphone functionality. 1GB of RAM comes on board, while the phone has 32GB of storage space with no space for extended memory (microSD card).

Nokia Lumia 920 Camera & Video Performance:

Now comes the most interesting part of the phone that was really worthy to review. Much could be written on Lumia 920 camera, However it does not have a 41-megapixel sensor or the oversampling technology which was made famous by Nokia 808 PureView, so we are not sure to which hardware of PureView technology has been advanced and put forward out here. But surprisingly, the camera stands out of the crowd compared to others.

The two majors things that Nokia Lumia 920 camera does better than other high-end smartphones out there is the photographs taken under low-light condition. The images really comes to better light through the powerful camera. In order to test these conditions we have taken side by side images with iPhone 5 and Lumia 920, results were in favor of Lumia’s low-light photography.

                                                      Image taken from iPhone 4

                                               Image taken from Lumia 920

The next part comes with image stabilization and we can sure that Nokia’s technology is lightyears ahead from others. Same comparison was carried out with a video made from Lumia and competition, whereas it resulted like day and night. Lumia 920’s optical assembly uses tiny springs across the lens which helps to absorb shocks and results are stunning. We normally take videos on the move, and the output feels like a shaky video, you will be surprised with the result video while on the move made with Lumia 920.

Finally the Windows Phone 8 has a different concepts of camera lenses, which lets you click your best shot in whatsoever light condition. Nokia Lumia 920 comes with Bing Vision, Cinemagraph most likely the Panorama and Smart Shoot lenses to capture different shooting moods  and requirements.

Closeup Mode on Lumia 920

Night Mode on Lumia 920

                           Day light photograph with Backlight Mode on Lumia 920

Nokia Lumia 920 Web Browsing:

The Nokia Lumia 920 web browsing experiences stands with Internet Explorer & search powered by Bing. A noticeable change for many users is the search bar placed at the bottom rather than the traditional bars at the top. Tabs, recent, favorites, refresh, back all buttons are found here. 

The browsing experience seems to be at the speed of light, the pages respond more quickly. The text displayed is quite sharp and crispy especially for white background page, although Lumia 920 does not support flash.

If you love Bing, then you might be impressive with its search, although like me if you are a Google fan then you have to dive into Internet Explorer settings and navigating to advanced settings and there you can change your default search provider. The choice remains all yours.

Nokia Lumia 920 Battery:

NFC technology is getting common nowadays and so does Lumia 920 also comes with NFC besides a Bluetooth. The battery is 2000mAh, as Nokia says it is enough for 400hours of standby, 6 hours of video playback and 67hours of talktime, with 10hours on 3G.

The notable feature is Lumia 920 charging mode, as its processor is so-called ‘Inductive charging’ which requires the unit to rest on a charging pad, rather than attaching it with a charging cable. So this is a unique feature and is quite charming getting user hassle free with charging cables and adapters.

Nokia Lumia 920 Price in UAE:

In Dubai Nokia Lumia 920 is going on sale for AED 2299/- There are many bundle offers running on the phone from retail shoppers, deals website as well from Etisalat & Du telecoms.

User comments on Nokia Lumia 920 Design:

Below are the comments collected from the users who had first time hand’s on experience with Lumia 920:

its quite big and heavy phone, the design of the phone is bulky where as there is some extra space beneath Windows button, if reduced would definitely help in getting a less weight and  more compact design.

I got shocked when I tried to fill Lumia 920 music gallery with my favorite songs and some of them was unable to play, while it was playing perfect on iPhone.

The phone experience some delay when changing the view between landscape and portrait under photo gallery.

If you think previous released Temple Run was awesome (addictive) you haven’t seen nothing yet, The most downloaded game recently titled was Temple Run 2 which was downloaded more than 20 million times within few days after its release. The developer to this game, Imangi Studios recently announced the popularity of the game with downloads hitting to un-believable count.

The game hit the no.1 sport on App Store free games in just eight hours of its release. Pretty kewl!! Still after a week being passed it stands at no.3 top grossing apps on App Store.

The Game: Temple Run Vs Temple Run 2

Temple Run previously launched in 2011 didn’t look like much which was designed as pixelated, some Playstation like graphics and unremarkable visual design. But this things were aside as gamers loved the way it played, the genre shifting 3D twist with runner on side scrolling made a good sensation to players mind. Although the previous version went popular with more than 170 million downloads since launch.

The new sequel Temple Run 2 made its way to the most downloaded app on App Store not making a bad impression on its start. The game is now powered with a new engine, with new characters and game theme. The character still run away from monster and monkeys, while you can climb the rope enjoying sunset. The developers added new graphics levels, so unfortunately it might work for some older devices.

A quick glance to Temple Run 2:

• Excellent new organic environmental objects
• Stunning graphics
• More powerups & achievements
• Character based qualities
• Increased monkeys!!

You’ll be not only enjoying the run around in jungles, instead the value added graphics and tons of excellent objects helps you build the interest.

If you have tried Temple Run 2 on your iOS or Android device, navigate to the link below:

App Store: Temple Run 2

Google Play: Temple Run 2

The search for a new or used car can feel like a massive struggle. Whenever you think you’ve found something perfect, it’s just been picked up by someone else a few minutes earlier. Either that or the selection just seems far too daunting. If only there was a way to keep tabs on up to the minute car sales, and be able to narrow down the search to just
what you’re interested in buying.

Luckily, Motors  has come up with just such a thing. If you own an iPhone or otherwise compatible iOS device then your days of fruitless searching are over. Say hello to Car Search app. It’s fast and simple to use, and makes searching for any type of car a piece of cake.

Just open up the app and hit the search button. Now you can specify exactly what it is you’re looking for, whatever that might be. If you know the make, but don’t know the colour, or know the number of doors it needs, but aren’t too fussed about how many miles are on the clock, you can add all these details and more. Once you’re done, just hit search and the app will return all the matching entries in the database, which you can then browse through at your own pace and even create a shortlist of your favorite to compare later on.

The app, just like the site, is being constantly updated. This means that if someone decides to put their car up on the site or the app at 4am, you can go to the site and look at that car straight away. But now, wherever you are, you can check the app on your mobile device, allowing you full access to every listing from wherever you are, whenever you want.

Having kids in your home and want them to have islamic knowledge in a fun way? Today we have a similar and interesting islamic app called Children Islamic Quiz (CIQ) which help your children to gain the essential knowledge of islam in a healthy and useful challenging activity.

Children Islamic Quiz also has a grading system which displays the progress of the child with the stamp and percent knowledge gained. Starting with the app is really easily as you can create a profile of your child with his/her name so that the app can track the scores throughout every levels.

The app runs on four different levels loaded with 200 random questions. The first level of the app is free to use each time the quiz runs, the answers are randomized so that children don’t memorize the location of the answer but exactly learn the answer. On completion of each level, child is awarded with a beautiful designed certificate with different colored seals to encourage the them move forward with excellent marks and get the golden seal.

You can download the app from below provided link, the app is free to use for level 1 only, to unlock all levels the app costs $4.99.

Children Islamic Quiz [Free] iTunes link

The Nokia 808 PureView is the first smartphone to feature Nokia’s PureView imaging technologies, which bring together high performance sensors, exclusive Carl Zeiss optics and Nokia developed imaging algorithms. With a default resolution of five megapixels and the ability to capture and condense up to seven pixels of information into one perfect pixel (known as “oversampling”) the Nokia 808 PureView provides the sharpest images imaginable and startling HD video on the device.

The Technology:

PureView Pro imaging technology doesn’t represents a change in smartphones camera performance but Nokia 808 is the very first device of its kind featuring PureView Pro camera technology which allows people to take even better images and video footage than ever before.

The Output:

Unprecedented camera control and versatility, combined with truly spectacular-quality images and video. Nokia 808 PureView sets new industry standards — it will give you around 3x lossless zoom for stills, and 4x zoom in full HD 1080p. For video you get:

Video resolutions: Full HD (1920×1080) 30fps, HD (1280×720) 30fps, and nHD (640×360) 30fps. Nokia Rich Recording for stereo audio recording in video Frame rates supported for video capture: 15, 24, 25, 30fps

Technical Specifications:

• 41 megapixel camera sensor
• Fullscreen 16:9 viewfinder with easy on-screen touch controls
• Xenon flash with operating range up to 3.5m depending on conditions
• LED for video recording
• Lossless zoom:
  • Still images: 3x
  • Video: 4x1080p [Default], 6x720p, 12x360p

You might be interested in Nokia 808 Full Spec & Images.

Nokia 808 Imaging Capability

Low Light:

The Nokia 808 Pureview was however clearly superior low light performance (also thanks to the oversampling) makes it possible to take pictures on the Nokia 808 PureView even under the most challenging of lighting conditions.

Zoom:

The Nokia 808 PureView has lossless zoom. Zooming is done by sliding the finger across the viewfinder in a vertical direction, and you get magnificent zoom to your images without bursting out the original pixels.

Bokeh effect:

Background blur, or “bokeh”, is the appearance or feel of out-of-focus areas in portrait and macro imaging. The longer the distance between your subject and the background, the more powerful the bokeh effect. The Nokia 808 PureView offers SLR-quality bokeh due to its very long 8.02mm focal length. Standard mobile phone cameras have a focal length of just 4mm.

Video:

The 4x lossless zoom and bespoke PureView oversampling technology enables the Nokia 808 PureView to shoot video in Full HD. The handset also includes best in class low light performance, continuous autofocus, Nokia Rich Recording and Dolby Headphone audio playback (exclusively to Nokia).

How 41 MegaPixel Camera?

When I introduced the 41 megapixel Nokia 808 camera smartphone they just surprised and most of them refused to accept the fact. So there might me a number of people around to whom I would set a detailed explanation of what happens behind the lens.

The starting point is a super-high-resolution sensor. This has an active area of 7728 x 5368 pixels, making a total over 41 megapixel. Depending on the aspect ratio you choose, it will use 7728 x 4354 pixels for 16:9 images/videos, or 7152 x 5368 pixels for 4:3 images/videos as is shown in image below:

 Fig:The image circle and the 16:9 and 4:3 image areas.

What happens next depends on the settings and whether or not you’re using zoom. But to give you an idea, the default still image setting is 5Mpix at 16:9, and for video it’s 1080p at 30fps. Using these settings, the zoom is around 3x for stills and 4x for video. Conventional zoom tends to scale up images from a relatively low resolution, resulting in poor image quality. We were convinced there must be a better way, and we found it.

via Nokia Products

Portable gaming experience comes with fresh and cooler look on PSP-E1000 with brand new arrival of Playstation Ice White body color. Sony has announced today its new Ice White PSP models arriving in stores within Europe and UK during July 2012 with a price tag of approximately around £89.99 or €99.99.

This is a great value summer gaming experience while remaining as cool as ice with its body color and you have an access to the entire PSP catalogue of games. The accompanying PSP Essential titles will be available for just £9.99/€9.99 each, so all in all you have a better gaming experience on the go while enjoying immersive high quality gaming on cheap price.

Image: Playstation Blog Europe

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe product manager Mayumi Donovan wrote on the EU PlayStation Blog.

"The Ice White PSP-E1000 is a great value summer gaming essential and the best way to access the entire PSP catalogue of games,”-”With a great range of accompanying PSP Essential titles that will be available for £9.99 / €9.99 (RRP) each, there has never been a better time to game on the go and enjoy immersive high quality gaming experiences at an affordable price.”

PSP Ice White E-1000 is a version of last year PSP Vita, where Sony refocused to attract younger audience with is slightly larger size then previous PSP-3000 model and a completed HD gaming experience.

via Playstation Blog

The heavy weight participants that have recently entered the web warfare are Google, Microsoft and Dropbox. The question is, who is the best and who is the worst. However, from the user point of view, we are flabbergasted as which should be our ideal pick. The sources of our bewilderment are the positive features in each of these, which are quite tempting. On the other hand, the balanced presence of demerits makes us thoughtful as well. We are, thus, clueless and the battle of Google v/s Microsoft v/s Dropbox continues with an open end. However, let us try to find out a proper answer to this question.

Microsoft and Google’s recent stance was really remarkable and they have launched services, such as SkyDrive and Google drive respectively to give Dropbox a run for money. However, Dropbox is also not a species to tolerate dejection. So, it has come up with improved services and lurkers such as Samsung, Sony and Apple. Let us take a closer look at what is the offer that each of them have for us.

Positive Features Of Services

Google Drive, the extended user end service of Google, has finally hit the market, thereby ending months of speculation. The good news that it offers us is that it comes with 5 GB free service and as much as 1TB in exchange of a nominal monthly fee. Added to this, a host of easy to operate sharing options comes as a bonus treat from Google. The Microsoft evolution, Sky Drive gets a fresh new look this time, with extended offers and novel propositions. Dropbox, joins the warfare with newly updated space for referrals along with improvisation and betterment of services and already present offers.

Let us have a neat idea on the positive offers they are presenting.

Pricing And Storage

Now Google claims to get bigger with a tempting storage space of complementary 5GB. So, the users will get greater opportunity to store more images, documents, contents and photographs now. Those higher resolution pictures, which had been a pain to store in Google until recently, will get squeezed inside the space without any laborious effort at all! In case if you still find the free storage space insufficient for you, all you need to do is to pay more $2.49 a month to get a bonus of 235 GB space. Options for power users are 100 GB of space for a monthly rental of $4.99 and $49.99 per month for 1TB in the cloud.

Microsoft’s stance is entirely different in this respect. It has rescaled its free space from 25 GB to 7GB! So, new users have to be satisfied with only 7GB of free space. However, it is still greater than Google. The lucrative offer that Microsoft makes is that a yearly package of 20GB will be available for $10, 50 GB for $25 and 100 GB for $50.

Dropbox’s offers might sound very nominal, being only 2GB free space. But, you can increase it to 500MBs extra with Dropbox referrals. So, you will achieve 16GB of free space at the end of it. The monthly and yearly pay plans are also quite profitable. With $9.99 a month you will get 50GBs of space. Likewise, you will get 50GBs a year with $99 and 100GB for $19.99 or the same space with yearly rate of $199 only. The powers users will be offered a group plan of $795 a year for 1TB. It will be enjoyed by five users in all, with individual space worth $125 a year per user. Some of the best online cloud services also performs well.

Sharing Options

Live document collaboration is a great feature being offered by Google Drive. A document can be worked upon with a group, while all the modifications you make will be synced back to Google Drive. The changes that you are entitled to, will also be backed by notifications pointing out the changes made in your document. You can extract out photos from Google Drive and attach them into the social networking sites and Google +.
Microsoft’s sharing looks much simpler. Sending large mail attachments will be easier with Sky Drive. An upload that you make shall only be accompanied by a web link by you to any recipient of your choice. This can be done in the form of posting in social networks or instant message.

Dropbox gives the option to share all the contents of its folder with every other Dropbox user. It will comprise of essential links to every file and folder you create. But, these will only be presented to them as readable and downloadable versions, without any permission to edit them.

Accessibility To Desktop Features

Till recently, Google and Microsoft lacked the Drop Box like desktop features. But the steep competition in the sphere has made them launch extensions that allow easy drag and drop options for the PC and Mac users just as they do with their desktop.

Sky Drive gives an additional feature to its users by auto synchronizing all the images in the folders and making them available all other devices running on Sky Drive. Fetch functionality option also enables users to access any file from their PC, fetch and divert it to any other system they are currently working on. But installation of Sky Drive is mandatory of course.

Mobile Applications

Mobile app is another sphere in this field that keeps the competition alive. The built-in Android apps feature in Google Drive is one of them. The users can share directly downloaded, uploaded and shared documents to their Drive account. But you cannot enjoy this privilege offline. Google reports that it is working to solve this iOS issue.

Microsoft presents Windows Phone apps with sharing options with iPad and iPhone. Sky Drive meant for iOS gives the user benefit to upload, manage and share photos and services even with a third party iOS application, which sounds very interesting.

Although Dropbox still lacks a Windows gadget, its plethora of smart apps includes iPad, iPhone, Blackberry and Android. However, it is needless to say that Dropbox is well aware of its lacuna and will sort it out soon. New Dropbox for Android sets free backup of your photos and videos, this is truly a great way to save your moments automatically.

The inspirational approach of Dropbox is clearly visible from the footsteps of Microsoft and Google. While Google’s USP us its easy sharing and collaborating options, more storage facility and iOS apps of Sky Drive is Microsoft’s USP. Drop Box takes it share of devoted users by virtue of hi end products and services. Thus, it is best to say that which is the best is solely dependent upon the end use of the user.

Alia Haley is a blogger by profession. She loves writing on technology and autos. Beside this she is fond of cars and fancy accessories. Recently an article on Google Vision attracted her attention. These days she is busy in writing an article on green future.

Redefine your tablet experience with the Motorola Xoom 10.1 inch tablet. Powered by Android 3.0 honeycomb – the powerful operating system developed by Google – and equipped with the latest mobile innovations, this tablet is here to take your experiences to an all new level. It comes with Flash Player support in order to grant you complete access to flash websites, letting you enjoy your favorite videos and play your favorite games. The 10.1” widescreen with high definition display elevates your viewing experience, bringing you image and video content that is more clear, rich, colorful and detailed than ever before.

The Power

For your continuously evolving tablet experience, the Motorola Xoom is well equipped by a dual core processor, i. e. each core runs at a speed of 1 GHz, giving you an amazing 2 GHz of processing power. Browse the web faster with this tablet, a level of performance that will not disappoint you. The sleek, design makes it appealing to the eye. It is lightweight and can go anywhere and everywhere with you. Packed with powerful features and backed by connectivity, its functionality will help make your tablet experiences a lot more efficient as well as enjoyable.

The Accessories

You have the option of expanding the power as well as the capability of the Motorola Xoom tablet with a host of different accessories. Smart docks do not just serve as places where you can charge your device; they make your tablet a great portable work station/ play station that matches your lifestyle and your personality. Use the Standard Dock to watch videos or listen to your favorite songs through external speakers while your device gets charged. You can also send high definition content to your television directly, or blast your music without having to attach external speakers, with the help of the Speaker HD Dock.

A Whole Lot More

The Motorola Xoom is equipped with a 5 megapixel camera on its rear side, with flash. Now you can capture videos in high definition – 720p. You can also view as well as edit photo and video content, and then display it on the HD screen of your tablet or on a HDTV which has HDMI connectivity. Posting your creations on social networking sites like Facebook, or on Picasa or YouTube just got a whole lot easier. The tablet also comes with a 2 megapixel front facing camera that allows you to connect with your friends, colleagues and family through video calling.

The tablet has micro USB ports, and HDMI facilities apart from WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity. The high definition multi-touchscreen with 1200*800 resolution is easy on the eyes, while the 32 GB capacity lets you store all your favorite content and more. The 1 GB RAM paves way for faster operations. The tablet is also equipped with GPS and various other location services like Google Maps, and eCompass.

Summary – All in all, this is one great tablet, considering the features it offers and the affordability factor. You will not be disappointed by all that it brings with itself.

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