The concept of Google Android 5.0 Nexus Prime

Most likely, the next few months Google will announce a new device in its Nexus family tablet form that is running the latest operating system Android, probably version 5.0.
 

Although yet to be announced but the report said, this is the product design is based on collaboration between Google and Asus. Equipped with touch screen 7 inch wide and can be applied at the price lower than the multi-featured tablet on the market today.
 
Immediately, the idea of ​​Google's tablet form has been the design out. A concept of Android tablet designer Bob Freking actually published recently attracted the attention of consumers.
 
By design, this tablet called Google Nexus Prime is equipped Android 5.0 operating system with features Jelly Beam is designed based on ideas from the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime.
However, according to this concept the property Nexus Prime touch screen 13 inches wide for giia FQHD resolution display density is 244 ppi, which is combined with the power of quad core processors, Tegra 3 from Nvidia.
 
List of other technical parameters of this concept also includes 12 megapixel camera on the back support 1080p video with HD camera on the front, great choice for making video calls. It also is said to be equipped with an HDMI port, microSD card slot, keyboard dock as an accessory and only 8.3 mm thick.
 
Obviously, this is a very attractive concept, which the user wants to transfer his ideas to the production partner for Google tablet.

BlackBerry Bold 9900 - the Smarphone peak of RIM

Along with the top products of other manufacturers, this year RIM also introduced the company's most advanced smartphone - BlackBerry Bold 9900.
Property powerful configuration, the touch screen high resolution, the new operating system with slim and beautiful design, Bold 9900 is the dream of many products believers BlackBerry in the holiday shopping season last year.

Design

The design of the BlackBerry Bold 9900 (BB 9900) retains the features as the previous generation Bold smartphone. Machine model larger than size BB 9700 and nearly 9000 original. Along with the weight of 130g, BB 9900 gives you the feeling of my hand. May be wrapped around neatly by a benzene ring in the form of shiny metal milling with delicate designs and polite. Dimensions 115 x 66 x 10.5 mm, this is the thinnest BlackBerry RIM today with a thickness of 10.5 mm.

The front of the machine is designed with a touchscreen and QWERTY keyboard in the traditional style of the BlackBerry. Above the screen is stastus LED lights, the sensor spacing and speaker phone. Between the screen and keyboard trackpad keys to navigate between the typical four. On the top of the screen lock button is made slightly concave to avoid unlock when you slide into the bag.

The right side is the keyboard volume controls, a very convenient option key allows you to add custom functions and use the default camera is available. On the opposite side of a Micro USB port for data connectivity / charger and headphone jack 3.5 mm. The lid is coated with a back three-dimensional carbon fiber-style and modern alternative to the leather cap style rounded as BB 9000.
The cap back also helps integrate antennae NFC NFC card reader and connect with other devices and accessories with own technology. The back is the logo on the lid Bold bright silver highlights on the black background of the case after both sides of this logo is the camera and layout Flash LED lights. When removing the battery can be seen inside the BB 9900 is beautifully designed; stand in the middle of a sim card slot above the yellow card slot supports up to 32 GB but not support removing the heat.

The keyboard and screen

Bold 9900 keyboard has the same design and layout with the Bold before, the keys are meticulously designed to create great feeling when in contact with the fingers. Especially among the key is split chrome bars help for input goods easily and accurately. Compared to the Bold last two versions, made softer keyboard allows you to speed up the use of which is responding correctly. Limit the overall durability of the keyboard does not seem like the "elder", so no chrome bar is fixed on the 9700 for sure.
Also the keyboard has some interesting features, including multiple keys keypad can not be set to speed dial. Dedicated keys for intuitive icons and shortcuts to execute commands such as * is to lock the screen / keyboard, while # is to activate or deactivate the silent mode. The use of numerals as well by simply holding down the Alt key to use them in any text input process.

RIM's new smartphone owners capacitive touch screen 2.8 inch TFT VGA resolution 640 x 480 pixels with pixel density of 286 dpi. Tests showed the brightness and contrast 9900 surpassed BB and iPhone 4 Samsung Galaxy SII only disadvantage of the Nokia E6; however, BB 9900 screen size greater than 2.44 inch of E6. The screen has high brightness and wide viewing angle so you can use in all light conditions. Equipped with touch screen BB 9900 will bring you much better experience of the past especially the Bold does not depend too much on the menu key and optical trackpad to navigate anymore.

Features

Bold 9900 is equipped with single-core Qualcomm processor speed 1.2 GHz and 768 MB RAM memory, is not large compared to the high-end smartphone running Android but can see BB 9900 has improved a lot compared to the previous versions. It has 8 GB of internal memory and support external memory up to 32 GB, but you will get 2 GB memory card comes factory. You have 512 MB to store the application but this is not all memory is used, you can see details of memory management in the application (Application Management). Although memory for applications, but seems less of BlackBerry applications are very light with 512 MB so you can freely install the application.
BlackBerry Bold 9900 OS using BB OS 7, this is the final version of RIM before moving on to QNX. This operating system has many new features advantages such as Vietnamese and NFC support HD video and bring more than experience. Platform operating system configurations running on the 1.2 GHz processor and Adreno 205 graphics card and perhaps the need a higher hardware is why the Bold previous generations have not run on BB OS 7 . The icons to the user interface is quite similar to the Play Book, however the function does not change much compared with the previous version.
Status Area is where the virtual keyboard layout allows you to quickly switch between functions such as cellular, Wi-Fi, NFC and Bluetooth. The custom mode is implemented simply by manipulating the speaker icon selected, the search function is also given to the home screen icon in the right corner of the screen. BB OS 7 allows you to search by voice and enable simple mic icon near the search bar.

Like previous versions of OS 7 sort of applications you use most top-down for convenient use. Also you can organize your favorite apps in a different tab. Navigate the user interface works smoothly and quickly but occasionally will be delayed while the machine is more exchange of data, or when you are installing an application from the BlackBerry Apps World. RIM's application store is organized well with the free application and you can pay for and manage these applications from your computer or directly from the phone.
In stock filter system application allows you to find applications in subjects such as free or paid, the application is rated the best or newest ... although some applications are not rich Android Market and App Store. BB 9900 is also equipped with GPS receivers in the machine with A-GPS support. Users can use BlackBerry Maps application pre-installed in the machine for navigation, but unfortunately this function to use your machine to be activated from the BlackBerry internet and only a single option is the navigation .
The multimedia applications are well supported, although not providing as experienced competitors have large screens. Experiment with 720p MPEG4 video machine for very smooth process. Speakerphone is good quality although not support rich format. With the keyboard volume controls include voice rises and falls and breaks you can easily adjust the music even when the screen is locked.
The office applications are the perfect support for the pre-installed Quick Office allows users to view all office document formats including popular PDF and also supports editing Word, Excel or Power Point . The software package also supports additional computer applications, recording and Notes. There is also a work manager that allows you to sort and organize the plan. Email is inherited advantages as the first smartphone from RIM to support all types of email mailing list and a fast processor, convenient to the sender.

Connect, browse

BlackBerry Bold 9900 supports quad-band 3G with HSDPA 14.4 Mbps and HSUPA 5.76 Mbps and Wi-Fi with dual-band (2.4 GHz 802.11 b / g / n, 5 GHz a / n) for connectivity unsurpassed. Other connections include Bluetooth, micro USB and NFC. NFC support is new to appear on the RIM smartphone than previous models, this advanced technology to connect and share data with other NFC devices simple and easy.
OS 7 for web browsing speed increased by 40% compared to OS 6. The social networking applications to better support multiple applications including theme Feeds: RSS and social positioning, message in a region. Twitter, Facebook, BBM, Yahoo, Windows Live Messenger, Google Talk also integrates Skype sadly lacking. Test shows when opening multiple tabs at once web browser still respond quickly and smoothly. You can also share your favorite sites to your friends or bookmark to the browser in a neat manner. Limiting the machine does not support Flash so you will not see the video from a web page.

Camera

Smartphone equipped with a 5 megapixel camera, the highest resolution you can get from a smartphone from RIM. Camera for better picture quality with true color and harmony. Camera key, however annoying when you take the portrait mode and to the resolution of the image you have in the advanced settings menu, the image quality of the BB 9900 is a proud thing for RIM song is just about average compared to segment rivals.

Camera BB 9900 which is owned fixed focus camera that is the receiver of all images from near to infinity without waiting on the camera focus as Auto focus. For general shooting, it may seem this is a good choice when you need to grab the moment with everything in sight focused on the image. Camera of the BB 9900 also supports 720p HD video recording. The image quality of video is pretty good but the camera is fixed-focus close-ups, so when the picture will be blurred.

Battery and pricing

Rim are proud of battery life on your smartphone from the competition, though the Bold 9900 battery 1230 mAh capacity less than the BB Torch 9800 (1300 mAh) and Bold 9000 original (1500 mAh). With the amount of users can be quite disappointing, but the tests showed that the machine has 307 hours standby time, talk time 6 hours 30 minutes. For normal use Bold 9900 survived for about two days, pretty good for a smartphone with touch screen. But if you frequently go out, you should buy a spare battery to avoid battery at work.

Nokia N9 - filled with unique personalities Smartphone

Nokia N9 is the phone is beautifully designed with the dominant colors, and is the first phone in the world equipped with the monitor buttons.

Design

N9 pretty impressive sight first monolithic design with smooth and does not have a button on the surface. The device achieved by the minimalist elegance but no where to be and in the products of Nokia.

Polycarbonate is made from solid materials with dimensions 116.45 x 61.2 x 12.1 mm and weighs 135 g. Nokia N9 has a surface curved claws on both sides with thinner thickness decreased from 12.1 to 7.6 mm. There are three colors to choose from are red, blue and black ....

HP uses touch screen 3.9 inch AMOLED capacitive resolution of 854x480, the highest among smartphone released to date by Nokia. The screen is also equipped with polarized ClearBack system for improved contrast. Nokia also proud of the AMOLED screen made of glass adjacent bearing surface, thereby displaying the image looks like floating on a finger or even look as if the picture is painted on the glass surface.

The physical buttons are omitted for the maximum limit in the two volume control and a power button / screen lock on the right.

The machine is a 3.5 mm headphone jack along with a microUSB port for charging and data synchronization; next microsim like a slot on the iPhone 4. Drawback is the plastic cover of the microUSB sometimes new plays to be pressed down.

Nokia's Smartphone running Meego owns two camera, behind the 8MP autofocus camera with dual-LED flash and Carl Zeiss optical lens; front camera is for video call. Interestingly, before camera is arranged at the bottom right of the screen, not at the top as usual.

Bottom edge is where the layout of the phone speaker.

Configuration

N9 is the Finnish manufacturer equipped with a fairly robust configuration with OMAP 3630 processor speed of 1 GHz with Texas Instrument's SGX530 PowerVR graphics and 1 GB of RAM. The phone also supports strong 3G connection with support for up to 14.4 Mbps download and 5.7 Mbps upload and work with most of the network bandwidth. The phone is equipped with accelerometer sensor, distance, sight and GPS. There is no FM radio but equipped N9 short range communication technology NFC enables easy connection with peripherals. NFC could replace the pairing process of the cumbersome traditional equipment by letting two devices close together they will automatically connect.

N9 also supports Wi-Fi n standard post. To get a smooth seamless design is also to accept the N9 does not support external memory card slot and can not remove the pin. Instead, Nokia offers two versions of the N9 internal memory is 16 GB version and a 64 GB version for those who like to store more multimedia content.

Meego

As the combination of Nokia's Maemo platform and Intel's Moblin platform, Meego was developed with the aim for both PC and phone market. But version 1.2 is built for Nokia N9 development as an independent section, codenamed Harmattan. Unfortunately, not developing fast enough Meego makes Nokia's CEO Stephen Elop has decided to use Microsoft's operating system (Windows Phone) smartphone's next for the company. Thus N9 will be the last Nokia smartphone to use Meego.

The main interface screen.

Like IOS, there are no widgets but Meego is designed to run optimally for multitasking and social networking with three screens: the first screen includes a menu of all installed applications on the popular Facebook , Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja, Zing, Skype ... Monday is the multitasking screen displays thumbnails of running applications arranged in chronological order that users access and you can zoom in or zoom out to make it easy to work with these applications. Finally, a warning screen with weather, email, calendar, alarms ... and updates from Facebook and Twitter.
Users can sort the applications by simple operation is hold and drag to switch positions. With the running application you can drag from any corner of the screen from any direction to exit and return to the main screen or you can choose quick pull down to close it without running in the background. On the other hand when opening any application if you want to fully close the window can be minimized by keeping it and click on the "X" in red at the top.

Option "Close All" will close all applications and back screen multitasking. However, rarely do you have to use this option because with that N9 1 GHz processor equipped with it can run smoothly with all 25 applications at once, though sometimes a little slow at loading as the software. Screen lock N9 meter displays a translucent white and the network announced such as "@" when there is new email. You can use the physical keys also double up or touch screen to lock the screen.

Also when you pull up from the bottom of the screen displays a row of four shortcut keys along the bottom of the screen include: telephone, messages, camera and browser, and you can switch between profile mode without unlocking the phone. At the top of the Settings page you will find not only the% of battery while the machine was estimated talk time and standby time and battery status.

Surf the web on the Nokia N9.

Although the picture is not as great a number of Android phones out there recently but N9 virtual keyboard is easy to manipulate in both horizontal and vertical styles. Web browsers are also supported fully HTML5 however unfortunately no flash as Symbian phones.

Play Angry Bird on the Nokia N9.

The music player application on the phone with a simple interface similar to iPod. Picture Album is classified into groups on the screen with links Artist, Song, Album, Playlist below. Also you can visit the store Ovi Music Album and download directly to your computer. Sound quality from the speakers loud and clear. Finally applications Video formats supported with plentiful including H.263, MPEG4-SP & ASP, H.264 BP / MP, WMV9/VC-1 and MKV. N9 does not support opening the clips from the application, instead you have to open through the entire film library.

Camera

N9 is equipped with two cameras front and rear, notably the following Camera 8MP resolution (3248x2448) with Carl Zeiss lenses for up to aperture f/2.2, so the machine has very fast shutter speed. The machine's sensors are specifically designed to support individual can both 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratio. In addition, dual LED flash light is also improved with 20% more brightness than the brightest dual LED flash that Nokia has ever produced. The camera application is simple to use, even without a dedicated shortcut keys but volume buttons serve as a 4x zoom controls. Autofocus feature also appears on the N9 with a minimum focusing distance is 10 cm and the machine will continue to focus to ensure faster shutter speed. In the event of manual controls, you can use touch focus - touch the screen to focus.

With a single core processor N9 maximum allowed video recording at 720p but you will be supporting 30 frames per second (fps) along with 16:9 aspect ratio control white balance and exposure.

Battery and pricing

For pin N9 is equipped with Li-ion 1450mAh battery (BV-5JW) for the talk time of up to 11 hours (6.5 hours with WCDMA) and standby time of up to 340 hours (420 hours for WCDMA) or 5 hours using 3G, 720p video playback. Experiment with music playback time machine for up to 50 hours. Thus N9 is one of the smartphone has good battery life, the higher the premium rivals like Android or HTC Galaxy SII Sensation.
The N9 is sold for about $ 13 million for the 16 GB and 14 million for the 64 GB.

Conclusion

With N9, Nokia has marked his comeback with a compelling software and great hardware. However this product will encounter difficulties when launched with Android and iOS rivals in the market. One of the factors that N9 does not have many expectations concerning the future of the applications for the platform Meego when Nokia is focusing primarily on Windows Phone (WP). Can not blame the change Nokia's strategy when it comes to WP and neglect Meego. WP give them a platform, ecosystem development and in particular the strong support from software giants Microsoft. Unfortunately, only slightly Meego N9 and too late to become the first step of the WP's upcoming smartphone running Nokia. However, Nokia N9 is always worth buying the product in the year for the young personality.

Galaxy Nexus can become "king of Android"

Here are the advantages will help the new Nexus phone Galaxy debut promising to become the most successful Android smartphone ever.

First advantage: Ice Cream Sandwich

Android's future is directly related to the Ice Cream Sandwich successful or not. According to Google, this operating system has many improvements like the new interface, multitasking is upgraded and function better informed. At least Samsung also held certain advantages that at the time of launch, Galaxy Nexus is the only device running this means thinking about Ice Cream Sandwich is thought to Galaxy Nexus.

Screen size

Prior to release iPhone 4S, large users expect Apple will introduce products that larger screen. Therefore, 3.5 inch screen of the iPhone 4S which disappointed many people. Galaxy Nexus 4.65 inch screen, more prominent compared to iPhone 4S, as well as to monitor most of the other Android smartphone sale.

Social Networking better

As mentioned above, Ice Cream Sandwich probably the main reason that customers choose to purchase your favorite Android Galaxy Nexus, but the ability to integrate social networks will also make the attractiveness of the Galaxy Nexus. According to Samsung, Ice Cream Sandwich will be released on Galaxy Nexus application "People" allow members to browse your social networking friends, relatives, colleagues and view pictures in high resolution. Considering the number of people who access social networks on mobile devices is increasing, this is the factor score for the Galaxy Nexus.

Commitment to upgrade

One of the biggest problems of the Android ecosystem is fragmentation. Typically, users have to wait a long time before the phone updated the latest version of Android. However, Samsung has assured that after the release, Galaxy Nexus will be the first phone to receive software updates and new applications.

Design excellence

Specifications of the Galaxy Nexus is really intriguing, but the phone itself has a design is extremely eye-catching appearance. Galaxy Nexus thin outer skin look beautiful and attractive from all angles, not only from the front.

The success of the product ahead

Motorola Droid X 2, HTC Evo product line. All are well known but it seems that Samsung is the leading attraction for customers. Samsung recently announced it had sold 30 million Galaxy Galaxy S and S II. Although this number does not attain in comparison with the Apple iPhone 20 million sold each quarter, but still impressive success in the village of Android. This is one reason for customers to spend more attention to the Galaxy Nexus.

For the brightest for iPhone 4S

Look at the fierce battle between Android and iOS mobile market, it seems every new Android phones are taken out for comparison with Apple's iPhone. With the advantages mentioned above, the current Galaxy Nexus is clearly the most viable candidates on behalf of the community to participate in the race Android with iPhone 4S.

The contribution of Google

Google has never been directly involved in developing an Android device on sale but the giants have to contribute is a big problem. In fact, maybe Samsung and Google to use it as a signal to consumers realize that this device will be able to give them the most value. Because of that, Google's participation is very important to the Galaxy Nexus and will put this equipment in a position of advantage over other competitors Android.