Weekend and today's news

So for this weekend rumours and news, I want to talk about a few things: First, apparently some details emerged about the HTC One X + (codenamed Endeavour C2) that say that it will come with a 1.6GHZ Tegra 3 + CPU (the one that comes with LTE) and in single core mode it can hit 1.7GHZ, the same 4.7' SuperLCD 2 touchscreen unit as the One X, 8Mpx camera, 1GB of RAM, 32GB of internal storage and a new design that actually has its roots in the HTC One S rather than One X. It will include the same 1800mah battery and will be 9.3mm thick. It will run Jelly Bean and will have Sense 4.5 on top of it. Most likely the device will come this holiday. Also there are rumours about some tablets. One tablet features a 7-inch screen with 1280X768-pixel display, Android Jelly Bean with HTC's Sense UI atop, a Snapdragon S4 processor, a 3-megapixel rear camera and 1-megapixel front camera. The other tablet is rumoured to sport a 10-inch screen powered by a Tegra 3 processor. This is the same tablet that had leaked online just a few days back. Other specifications aren't clear, except for the fact it will come with 1GB RAM and will sport an unusual design. Another HTC Windows Phone 8 phone leaked this weekend and after the looks of it, it's a mid-range one. It comes with a SuperLCD 2 720p screen and a diagonal of about 4.3' and a 1.2GHZ dual-core CPU and 1GB of RAM aswell as 16GB of storage, NFC and a 8MPX camera with an F2.0, 29mm lens (they call them ultra wide angle) and 1080p Video Recording aswell as Beats audio. Originally called the HTC Accord apparently it will be called now HTC 8X. And also apparently the HTC 5 incher that was said to come to Verizon is legit. The screen size will be around 5 inches (5.01 inches more exactely) and if we believe the benchmarks it should have the 1080p screen and the S4 Pro with Adreno 320 GPU that was mentioned in the first place. While I still have a bit of doubts, I suggest to wait and see what mighty device this might be (sounds pretty sweet so far). Also fun enough, HTC launches new dual-sim based One S device (SC) to China. That might be their policy of fewer devices but I bet to disagree. After I just had a rant at them for their fake-policy they decide to do that. Nice HTC. You just dug your own grave. And to finish the HTC news for today, analysts are skeptical about the company state. Apparently HTC is already in the fourth consecutive quarter of profit loss. Apparently the One series wasn't so succesufull in Europe. Even though HTC is pulling out new dual-sim devices based on One S in China and and soon it will come on international markets with One X + and 8X, analysts say that is too late for HTC to save themselvs. So apparently after Nokia and Blackberry, HTC seems to have problems too. Seems like we are closeing in to a Samsung market domination and I'm not necessary sure that is a good thing. Let's get to Samsung. Leaks appeard of a dual-sim Galaxy Note 2 smartphone for China. While the leak is more than sure legit, we don't know if it will ever get out of China. The dual-sim model will have the same specs as the one sim model, that includes the quad-core CPU and 2gigs of RAM so I guess if you want a beefy dual-sim phone you should wait for this on. Funny thing though is that it apparently supports a microSIM and a Normal sized SIM cards instead of two microSIMs or two NormalSIMs. Also the Jelly Bean update for SIII is coming along nicely. I tried today the latest leak and I have to say that I'm impressed. Is a major improvement over ICS and I can't wait to see the final result. I hate when people say that it is worse compared to HTC one just because they are biased so I ain't even gonna comment. Also there are still no rumours about Galaxy sII Jelly Bean update. While Galaxy Tab 2 7, Note I, Note II, Note 10,1 and S III are confirmed/recieved the update, there is no word about Galaxy S II. Also apparently the Note 2 will come to Verizon. It will have the same specs as the international one, so keep it close people. Announcement following soon. Let's get to Nokia now: While they say that Lumia 920 has the greatest PureView image experience, that can't be said about video recording. Accoring to Damian Dinning the Nokia Camera guru the only difference between 920 and the 41mpx 808 in terms of video recording is that 808 records stereo sound while 920 records only mono sound. That is a bit dissapointing given the fact that Nokia announced 920 has 3 high-sensivity mics. Congrats Nokia! Also, while they faked some of the photos and the OIS clip, the Low Light performance of the 920 is actually indeed impressive. I don't understand while they faked it but the hardware is indeed capable of the low light performance Nokia claims. The OIS hasn't yet been tested since Nokia said it isn't ready yet. Are they hideing something? I guess we should wait and see. That's all for today folks! See you next time!

Amazon event and Apple announcement

So today there was an Amazon event were they launched a new Knidle Fire: the HD.
So the HD has a OMAP 4470 CPU (that Amazon claims to be faster than Tegra 3), 1GB of RAM, Wi-Fi with MIMO technology and a 8.9' 1920x1200 pixels and a ppi of 243 and all that for a whooping price of 300$. And there will also be a LTE version for around 500$ and that will come with 250mb of data traffic. First tablet has 16GB of storage and the the LTE has 32GB and there is no words about expandable storage. Both of them also come with goodies from Amazon, and will run an Amazon skinned version without Google services.
And also the old Kindle Fire recieved a spec bump with double the RAM and a 40% faster CPU (say OMAP 4470) and the price will be cut to 160$.
And there will also be a Kindle Fire 7' HD with OMAP 4470 that might be a different story from the spec bumped first gen and that might be with what Amazon wants to compete against the Kobo tablet launched the other day. The price of the HD is around 199$.
And they also launched a bunch of other readers that have a very nice 4 LED technology and fiber optics for better screen reading.
Not bad Amazon, not bad!
And also Apple announced that they will drop support for 3GS when they will launch the 5. They said that instead of 3GS there will be an affordable 8GB 4S introduced.
That's all for today folks! See you soon!

Moto's event

Motorola launched 3 phones today. What is interesting is each one of them has very small bezels. An almost edge to edge display for all.
Each one of them has a dual-core Snapdragon S4 CPU and 1GB of RAM.
The Razr HD and the Razr HD Maxx have a 720p scren. Razr HD has the same kevlar plating while MAXX has the same big 3300mah battery (RAZR HD has 2500mah)
The Razr M has a SuperAMOLED QHD screen and a 3mpx Front Faceing Camera.
All 3 have 8mpx camera and the usual set of features like WI-FI, GPS, NFC, LTE etc.
The interesting part is that at Motorola's event was present Eric Schimdt, CEO of Google, that basically said there are around 1.3 million Android Activations daily and almost 500 millions Android devices activated to date. Schimdt appearence wasn't surprising though since Google actually owns Moto. I guess when they saw Eric on stage everybody was thinking about a ne Nexus made by Moto to be announced.
Eric Schimdt was present because these 3 Moto devices are the first mobile phones to come with Chrome instead of the default WebKit browser. The first device ever to do that is Google's own Nexus 7.
All 3 come to Verizon in times for holdays with ICS. An update to JB is already in the works. Razr HD will come to EU aswell. There were no words about a global version of Razr Maxx HD though.

Today's news

And for today's news I want to talk about Nokia, Motorola, Apple and maybe Samsung and Sony. Nokia first then. As some of you might know, I used to own a Lumia 800. I absolutely loved it's shape and design but the software blew the amazing phone it was. If it had Android I would probably still have it. Today Nokia launched their (Lumia 800 and 900) sequels: the Lumia 820 and 920. First the 820 has a Snapdragon S4 dual-core CPU (same as 920), 8gigs of internal storage and micro-sd, 1gig of RAM, a 4.3' ClearBlack screen unit (assuming Super AMOLED WVGA) and an 8MPX sensor and of course Windows 8 but the design is nowere near the old 800. The 920 has the same CPU and RAM but comes with a fancy 4.5' Screen that Nokia calls Puremotion HD+ with a strange 1280x768 resolution. It appears to be a LCD unit. Also it has a Pureview branded 8.7mpx Image Sensor (different from 808 41mpx one - this actually kills the Pureview thing) that has Image Stabilisation and something called Floating Lens (allows more light to the sensor and better image stabilisation). From storage standpoint it has 32gb of storage and no micro-sd apparently. From a design standpoint: is gorgeous. This is the phone that follows the 800 and 900 from the design standpoint. Both phones have wirless charging and NFC. Even though they are appealing devices, they most likely won't save Nokia from going banckrupt. Now Motorola: They will anounce the Razr M and Razr HD soon. Both with 4g LTE. Both with S4 CPU. Both with 1GB of RAM. Both with Android. Both for Verizon. The M highlight is the 3MPX front facing cam while for HD is the 720p screen. More details to come. Also Moto will have a conference witb Intel where is expected a new Intel.powered Android smartphone. Now Apple: The IPhone 5 will launch on 12 september. Nuff said. The design is apparently the same design it has been leaked several times. Sony: They launched a new line of Xperia smartphones, all three with Android and S4. They have different designs and screen res (including 720p) and one of the has13mpx I believe. Samsung: A new SIII with 2GB of RAM for Germany, the Note 2 was launched and looks like the Note 1 combined with SIII. Also JB update for the international SIII is coming and from latest two leaks Samsung is testing more RAM to our devices. Last one has  833 mb of RAM. Will have to wait and see. And also there are rumourd about a new HTC Flyer 2 to feature Snapdragon S4 and to compete with Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire. And about Kindle Fire, there are new images about the sequel, Kindle Fire 2 and it looks ugly. There appeared some renders of a great slider Nokia device with MeeGO that never made it because of Nokia. Thank you Nokia! That looked like an amazing device. Also they talk about a mid range Lumia with WP8 with the same hardware as 610. My question: wouldn't be simplier to just update 610 to WP8, keep users happy, not spending money on a new device and not loosing users? Apparently not. Also the Lumias will come with a new encryption system that is based of unique keys planted in a chip so now custom ROMs and no hacks. And Samsung tries a new thing with the updates. They try to revive the interface to the latest version for every phone. The Note already recieved this update and it now has the Note 2 and SIII TouchWiz Nature UX Also there are rumours about an edge-to-edge Motorola smartphone for Q4 but...wait and see. Those are today's news. See you later                 Left is 920, righr is 820.                               Note 2                           New Xperias                              Iphone 5              Razr M to the left HD to the right

Today's news

I didn't necesarely posted anything new simply because there isn't.
I could talk about the endless JB leaks for SIII and about the endless tricks that HTC is pulling out of the sleeve to beat Exynos is benchmarks but is boring really.
There is only one good piece of rumour, or maybe two so take them with a grain of salt.
There are words about a 3G Nexus 7 so if that was what you were waiting for, have a bit of patience...for like 8 weeks or so.
And there is talk about a HTC 5 incher with a 1080p and quad-core S4. I personally don't believe on that, but you can keep an eye on Verizon press releases.
That's all for now, see you next time.
Bye bye

Back

So, apparently, someone close to me said that it would be fun if I write things on my blog so here is the first one after a long time. So today I decided to talk about the possibility of a new nexus device in early Q4.
Now, I don't really believe in something like that. I mean think about it. Every Nexus device to date came with a new OS. Nexus One with Froyo, Nexus S with Gingerbread, Motorola Xoom (yep folks, Xoom is also designed by Google but doesn't wear the name Nexus because Honeycomb wasn't open source at launch) with Honeycomb, Galaxy Nexus with Ice Cream Sandwich and Nexus 7 with Jelly Bean. There was Nexus Q but that is a home media player, and doesn't qualify for this game. A new Nexus device would mean a new OS, most likely Key Lime Pie. Now Jelly Bean is about 3 months old. A November release would mean 5-6 months which is very soon compared to the 8-12 months Google used to wait untill a new OS. If a new Nexus would be launch now that would likely mean the Nexus would come with Jelly Bean which would mean that Google goes the way of other OEMs like Sammy and HTC with many devices using same OS. That's also one of the reasons why I don't  believe the rumours about 4-5 Nexus devices made by each big OEM because it would come against Google policy about Nexus devices. Google currently has Nexus S, Xoom, GalNex and Nexus 7 updated to Jelly Bean officialy and it actually sells GalNex, Nexus 7 and Nexus Q trough the Google Play store so they recognize as Jelly Bean devices all three of then so a new device with Jelly Bean would be a bad decision. So most likely, if a new Nexus would come so soon, it will be Q1 2013 or Q2 same year. That being said, I'd like to conclude by saying that even if a new Nexus would launch tommorow, you can't go wrong with any of the actual Nexuses. Even the oldest one, the Nexus S is a great deal and is a device that still gets updates from Google. Anyway, at least for me, the Galaxy Nexus is the greatest mobile phone right now (not necessarely hardware but on the software side) and the Nexus 7 the greatest tab for it's money.
That being said, I'm back and damn...is good to be back in the tech world.

Ma mut...nu chiar...

    Si acum este timpul pentru un mic log din partea mea. Nu am mai spus nimic de ceva timp, in mare parte pentru ca nu am avut timp, in mare parte pentru ca nu am avut chef, in mare parte pentru ca nu m-am simtit in stare.
    In fine. Trecem la subiect. Multe telefoane...Galaxy S III, HTC One S, One X, One V, LG 4X si Optimus 3D II, Xperia S, Galaxy Nexus, Meizu MX, foarte multe despre care nu am de gand sa vorbesc neaparat. Poate un Galaxy S III cu foarte multe fuctii software si procesor quad-core Exynos de 1,4ghz si ecran SuperAMOLED HD merita amintit si HTC One X cu Sense 4.0, procesor Tegra 3 de 1.5ghz si ecran HD Super LCD II.
   Multe tablete si multe targuri. Nexus Tab, multe Asus-uri, Acer-uri si Toshiba-uri si cu Windows 8 RT si cu Android si chiar si cu ambele. A fost CES, Computex, Mobile World Congress si vor mai fi si altele in scurt timp. Au aparut o groaza de chestii...de la ochelarii speciali ai lui Google cu Android la un calculator miniatural cu Android 4.0 de 90$. Tablete romanesti accesibile si tot felul de chestii electronice. Foarte sweet.
   As vrea de fapt sa vorbesc despre mine putin. Putini probabili stiti ca initial am avut un Galaxy S. Ei bine, intre timp, mi-am luat un Galaxy S II, apoi un Galaxy Mini si mai apoi un Google Nexus S. Apoi am luat o tableta romaneasca, apoi am trimis-o inapoi, apoi am luat un Google Galaxy Neuxs, apoi am vandut Nexus S-ul si Galaxy S-ul iar, Galaxy Mini-ul a revenit mamei mele. Acum insa, sunt pe cale sa pornesc din nou pe inca un drum nou, sub forma primului telefon cu Windows Phone 7 din viata mea, si anume Nokia Lumia 800. Am mai avut Nokia si inainte. Nokia cu Symbian S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 chiar (sub forma lui Nokia N95 8GB), insa nu am mai avut un telefon cu Windows Phone pana acum. Asa ca...am ales sa incerc ceva diferit. Si cum IPhone-ul mi se pare prea scump si ordinar, am avut de ales intre Blackberry, Android sau Windows Phone. Si am mers pe Windows Phone. Sa nu fiu inteles gresit. Inca voi mai avea Galaxy Nexus-ul (pe care il iubesc efectiv) si Galaxy S II-ul (care e un power-house chiar si dupa standardele actuale) si inca cred ca Android e superior WP7, insa am vrut ceva nou. Si cum SIII, One S si One X sunt prea scumpe, Xperia S nu ma prea atrage si Galaxy Note e totusi mare am mers pe ceva mai mic, cu un singur nucleu si cu ecran de 3.7' AMOLED. Acum inca il astept (culoarea albastra) si sper ca voi fi fericit chiar daca este un pariu urias pentru mine (as fi preferat oricare alt Android insa chiar am vrut ceva nou - gandul imi spunea SIII, Note, One X, One S, Xperia S, dar inima imi spunea Lumia 800).
   Asa ca in asteptarea telefonului, am vrut doar sa va dau de stire ca ma mut pentru o scurta perioada, de la Android la WP7 (sau WP8 din moment ce Apollo sau WP8 sau W8RT se lanseaza pe 20 iunie si eu sper un update). Asa ca...Cius!