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Monday, February 27, 2012

Huawei Ascend D Quad at MWC [VIDEO]

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Quad-core processor. Android 4.0. The fastest phone in the world? That’s the claim Huawei is making about their brand new Ascend D Quad. These boastful statements are a fun PR ploy for launches, but their truthfulness is usually short-lived as bigger, better, faster, thinner, and whatever-elser devices seem to out-awesome their predessors on a daily basis. Even so, the D Quad is pretty impressive for an Android manufacturer who has come a long way in the past couple years.
CORRECTION: The D Quad leverages its own Huawei made 1.5GHz K3V2 processor, not an NVIDIA processor as mentioned in the below video.

While the D Quad leads with it’s 4 cores and Android 4.0, there are a few other reasons to consider this phone a beast, including:

4.5-inch screen
8MP camera
Front facing camera
Only 8.9mm thick

The D Quad has an 1800 mAh battery but you can upgrade to the D Quad XL with a 2500 mAh battery for extra juice. Of course that will come with some extra thickness too.
When Huawei first entered the Android scene in North America their devices worked and felt like they were, shall we say, more on the economical side. The D Quad completely diverges from that path. It’s meant to be a high end device, and from what I can tell after my limited use with the phone, it succeeds. Huawei is really becoming a contender, whether or not the D Quad remains the “fastest smartphone” for very long.

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Nokia 808 PureView smartphone has 41 MP sensor

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Nokia has launched a new camera phone -- Nokia 808 PureView -- boasting of jaw dropping 41 megapixel sensor. And if you think it is just one off, no it is not. As according to Nokia, it plans to introduce the same technologies into other handsets in the future too.

The high-density sensor comes paired with a Carl Zeiss lens and new pixel oversampling technology. The heavy weight sensor will allow the smartphone to shoot high-detail images at standard 5 and 8 megapixel resolutions while still providing the super clarity of large 38 megapixel images that users can crop down as needed. The high-resolution sensor also means that the phone can record 1080p HD video with 4x digital zoom with no loss of detail.

Unveiled on the opening day of ongoing Mobile World Congress being held in Barcelona, spain, Nokia 808 PureView runs on Symbian Belle operating system.

Other than 41-MP sensor, 808 PureView will also come equipped with several multimedia enhancements, including a Nokia Rich Recording, which enables audio recording at CD-like levels of quality. The Nokia 808 PureView also packs Dolby Headphone technology and Dolby Digital Plus for 5.1 channel surround sound playback.

There's 512MB of RAM, and 16GB of storage using a microSD.

According to Nokia, the 808 PureView will launch in May 2012.

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Adobe Releases Photoshop Touch For iPad 2 In The App Store

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Following an accidental and brief appearance in the App Store on Saturday, Adobe has officially unveiled its new photo editing app for the iPad 2. Photoshop Touch is available now in the App Store for $9.99.
The app was recently introduced for Android, and Adobe has now brought image editing tools to the iPad 2 that users of Photoshop on the desktop will recognize. The interface looks a whole lot like an Android app, but Adobe has packed some great features that make a compelling product.

Use popular Photoshop features designed for the tablet such as layers, selection tools, adjustments, and filters to create mind-blowing images.
Use your iPad camera to fill an area on a layer with the unique Camera Fill feature.
Select part of an image to extract by scribbling with the Scribble Selection tool. With Refine Edge, use your fingertip to capture even hard-to-select image elements, like hair, with ease.
Search and acquire images with the integrated Google Image Search.
Share images on Facebook and view comments right within the app.
Browse an inspirational gallery for the styles and results you’d like to achieve. Then follow step-by-step tutorials to easily learn techniques the pros use for great-looking results.
Use AirPrint for wireless printing of Photoshop Touch projects.
Upload projects to Adobe Creative Cloud* and open layered files from Adobe Photoshop Touch in Photoshop CS5.
Maximum image resolution: 1600 x 1600 pixels

Photoshop Touch’s goal is to let you edit your photos on the go without having to worry about where the images are stored. You can pull images from Google Images, your Camera Roll, or Facebook account in-app.

Complete with tutorials and features you’ve come to expect from Adobe, like layered image editing, Photoshop Touch is a powerful tool for the iPad 2. Due to the app’s hardware requirements, it will only run on Apple’s latest tablet.

The iPad’s touch-based interface will undoubtedly make for an interesting photo editing experience with Photoshop Touch. Adobe has made it easy to integrate its new app with your other devices thanks to Apple’s AirPlay and AirPrint features. File format compatibility allows you to start a project on the iPad 2 and finish it on your Mac running the desktop version of Photoshop.

Photoshop Touch is the first in a series of touch-based apps from Adobe inspired by the Creative Suite on the desktop. Adobe Collage, Adobe Debut, Adobe Ideas, Adobe Kuler and Adobe Proto are all due to hit Android (and presumably the iPad) later this year.

You can download Photoshop Touch for iPad 2 in the App Store now.

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Samsung unleashes 10-inch Galaxy Note at MWC in Barcelona

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The new 10.1-inch Galaxy Note is being promoted on large banners at MWC in Barcelona, and is being demonstrated by Samsung staff at the company booth. Unfortunately for Samsung, the announcement on the 10-inch Galaxy Note is not as newsworthy as the company would have hoped, with details on the tablet recently spilled on the firm's blog earlier this month.

The new Galaxy Note comes with an S-Pen stylus, runs Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), and has a punchy 1.4GHz Exynos dual-core processor. There is also a 3MP rear-facing camera, and a 2MP camera on the front for videocalling. The tablet has a 10.1-inch 1280 x 800 resolution PLS multi-touch display.

As with the 5-inch Note, the tablet features the S Notes tool, a place for bringing hand-written notes and web-content together, and also boasts pre-loaded apps for Adobe Photoshop Touch and Adobe Ideas.

TabTimes is reporting live from the show, and will be talking with Samsung tomorrow to find out more details on the new tablet.

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Dolby Sound technology coming to Nokia 700, 701 & 603

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Dolby Laboratories has announced it will be bringing its sound technology to more Nokia smartphones, specifically the Nokia 700, 701 and 603. The feature will be unlocked with a feature pack software update that Nokia will release, the timeline for which is not known at the moment. The update will bring Dolby’s renowned Surround Sound 5.1 to these Nokia smartphones.
“The new Nokia 808 PureView is the latest smartphone to showcase Dolby technologies, to deliver an outstanding entertainment experience that is perfectly aligned with this groundbreaking phone’s capabilities. Meanwhile, the software upgrade for other Nokia smartphones also unleashes the power of Dolby technology to bring cinematic 5.1 surround sound that transforms music, movies, and games into a personal surround sound experience like no other,” said Andreas Spechtler, Regional Vice President, EMEA, Dolby Laboratories.

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[MWC 2012]Hands on with the stylish LG Optimus L Series

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LG had a little bit of everything to show off at their booth at Mobile World Congress, from the huge screen of the Optimus Vu to the awesome power of the Optimus 4X HD. But another series Optimus devices was also announced that focused less on high octane hardware and more on pure style. The Optimus L Series is comprised of three handsets that sit squarely in the mid-range category, the Optimus L3, Optimus L5, and Optimus L7.

The Optimus L3 features a 3.2-inch display, 800MHz processor, and Android 2.3. The Optimus L5 and L7 both run Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich with the former sporting a 4.0-inch display and the latter with a 4.3-inch screen. The L5 carries the same 800MHz chip as the L3 while the L7 kicks things up to 1GHz.

With the L Series LG wants to bring good looking phones to a broader group of people. For those looking for both power and style, the Optimus 4X HD is the obvious choice, but at a lower price point you still get an Android 4.0 device with a bit of flare. Rounded edges, a soft touch back, and minimalist accents achieve LG’s goal of “machine in the front, human in the back” (sounds like some sort of robo-mullet). Otherwise, the L series phones are just what you’d expect from devices of their class.