Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie - Predicted Features

Google I/O is an annual developer-focused conference held by Google. In 2013, the Google I/O is set for  May 15-17 at Moscone Center West in San Francisco. Google is expected to launch the successor to Android 4.2 Jelly Bean, which will be a new version of Android code-named Key Lime Pie or Android 5.0.   We have listed five key features that are expected from the next version of Android.

Android 5.0 – Key Lime Pie 

Even though Jelly Bean hasn’t been out for long, we are already looking forward to the next OS from Google. We have listed five features that might make it into the final build of Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie.

1. Profile Management

This feature will allow changing data and sound settings under different profiles.  This feature is already offered on Android Tablets running Jelly Bean and we strongly believe that Android smartphones will also receive this feature with Key Lime Pie. Looking at the competition, only BlackBerry 10 provides profile management on smartphones, so it would be advantageous for Android to include this feature for business and family users.

2. Social Integration Hub

Apart from actual phone calls and emails, many users are now spending long periods of time on social networks. There is strong possibility of a built-in social networking application that might be included in Key Lime Pie. Android has never provided such application in the past but with the growing amount of social networks, it might be one of the features that sets Android apart from the competition. Windows Phone and BlackBerry 10 already provide integrated social networking experience so Android will have to play catch-up and provide this option in the next version of Android.

3. Video Calling App

All android smartphones and tablets have a front facing camera but there is no native video conferencing application available. Video chatting is one of the few areas where Android has lagged behind from the competition since Apple has FaceTime, BlackBerry 10 has video chat built into BBM, and Windwos Phone also has Skype integrated into the OS.

Google already has used video calling technology in Google+ Hangouts, so it is only logical that they would bring the hangouts-like native application to Android devices. So far google has relied on its users to install the Google+ application. However, Google will have to provide the video calling abilities of the Google+ App as an standalone native application to allow for a widespread adoption.  This will not only make it easier for Android users to video chat with their friends andfamilies but it will also provide a seemless experince with google account.

4. Personalize Settings

Android has always been about customization and open-source development from day one. So we won’t be surprised if Google offered an option to rearrange the settings options by preference for making Android even more customizable. Furthermore, we would like to see a Stock Theme Mode that allows users to override the third party interface provided by the phone manufacturers.  This will allow everyday users to experience stock “vanilla” version of Android, which would be a great step for the future of Android.

5. Text Message Syncing

Google already provides Email, Contacts, and Calendar sync with your GMail account. However, text messages are not restored after changing sim cards or devices. There is a strong possibility that Google will add the ability to sync text messages to the cloud with Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie.

In our opinion, the five features listed above are completely realistic and plausible. Do you have any other essential features for Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie? Don’t forget to give us your predictions for in the comments below.

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HTC One

                                   

HTC is up with it's new flagship phone with 4.1.2 (Jelly Bean) out of the box and later upgradable to v4.2.2 (Jelly Bean) and powered by new Qualcomm’s new quad-core Snapdragon 600 processor, a remarkably powerful chip with Quad-core krait 300 CPU which is clocked at 1.7GHz and adreno 320 GPU which is  accompanied with 2GB of RAM inside, plus the standard set of radios and sensors: Bluetooth 4.0, NFC, Wi-Fi, DLNA, Miracast, an accelerometer, gyroscope, and GPS, there's even an IR blaster embedded in the power button which is a useful one for controlling the tv and guess what it run android on the new SENSE5 skin which has many features like blink feed and completely redesigned app launcher and has a  ultra-pixel camera  and Dual frontal stereo speakers with beats audio sound enhancement


The look is great and the uni body aluminium shell takes much time to manufacture. It has a 4.7 inch Super LCD3 capacitive touch screen, 16M colors with a resolution of 1920x1080p which gives a pixel density of 469 ppi (highest till now) and was protected with Corning Gorilla Glass 2. This comes with internal memory of 32/64 GB available in black, silver and red colors

Blink feed:
The new features of htc sense 5
simply pick the social networks, news and feeds you want to stay updated on and they'll all stream live to your home screen. 

Ultra Pixels Camera:

4 MP, 2688 x 1520 pixels, auto-focus, LED flash

Features:
video stabilization, HDR, streo sound rec. and 1/3'' sensor size, 2µm pixel size, simultaneous HD video and image recording, Geo-tagging, face and smile detection.

And capable of capturing 1080p@30fps also has a secondary camera of 2.1MP

This is where htc tried to show off their new camera technology ultra pixel (even commented on the pure-view technology which nokia is using in it's flagship phone nokia lumia 920) it takes low light pictures with a bit of brightness but unfortunately it did not go well in quality of pictures even in daylight photos lack the quality and also for manufacturing the ultra pixel camera lens is time taking ,so there is much delay in shipping the htc one to customers and the rate of production is also very slow

Sense Voice:

It includes dual built-in microphones that detect loud ambient noise and will then dynamically boost the in-call voice to compensate. 

Now about the battery it is a standard Non-removable Li-Po 2300 mAh battery whose performance is average it lasts slightly better than the Droid DNA

                                                               

I think it is the phone with most divergent opinions, for some it a great phone,for some it a an avg phone. Depending on the users use

No-doubt  it will be top in all benchmarks and a performance beast and those who want performance or mostly using for gaming can go for this phone where as people who uses camera more should be away from this phone

what do you think abt the phone? Does it suits you and why? leave it in the comments 

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Samsung Galaxy S4

Long wait has gone and samsung announced it's latest flag-ship phone galaxy S4

This time Samsung  mainly concentrated on the software part rather implementing the hardware and design 

Let's see the specs of the samsung S4

with the dimensions of 5.38x22.75x.31 inches and weighing about .29 pounds looking similar to galaxy s3 the s4 is a bit bigger than the S3 . It has a 5 inch super AMOLED HD display

with 1920x1080 resolution capacitive touch screen 

It comes in two variants same as S3 having Snapdragon 600 in one  variant for lte phones and new exynos octa-core processor for non-LTE country varient and these are accompanied with 2 Gigs of ram and these are powered by a battery of 2600 mAh

It also packed with 13MP rear camera and a 2MP front camera and has internal memory of 16 GB, 32 GB, 64 GB  and also supports external memory up to 64GB

Out-of-box it comes with android 4.2.2 with TouchWiz skin on it 

Nothing much to talk about the hardware may be the octa-core processor seems a little   interesting   but the benchmarks shows that it was out performed by the snapdragon 600 and the snapdragon 600 version of the S4 seems to be highly benchmarked but octa-core failed and hence nothing to say abt hard ware . Also has some features like wireless charging and screen that can react to gloves which were already introduced by nokia

But it Packed some interesting software components not much (i.e only eye tracking and gestures) . You can see the following video to know abt those software . 

Lets see how it  compeats with other devices in the market

The camera software in which we can pause a particular part and play other was same as in nokia Lumia 920 and the Regarding eye-tracking LG  claims  it already has patent rights on that let's see what Lg decides whether S4 has it's patented features or not when it realeses 

Finally to say the S4 launch was disappointing  

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History Of Android

Intro :-

Android is an mobile operating system (OS) from Google that is making waves in the mobile market. Almost all mobile set manufacturers, barring Nokia and Apple, have embraced and endorse this open source operating system based on the Linux kernels. And, why not? It's an operating system primarily developed for the mobile devices .

The overwhelming presence of Android has spawned an equally big market for application development using this operating system .

We shall see how Android and android based app development is a huge success in the following sections of this article .

Android Origin :-

Android was originally developed by a company of the same name. In 2007, Google which had the backed the Android development eventually bought the company and the operating system. Android started showing up in mobile handsets in 2008. Thanks to it being an open source software and open to customization the software started making news in the tech world. Google's alliance with a set of companies in the mobile handset arena (like Qualcomm, Samsung, HTC, T-Mobile and even Nividia and so on) fortified Android from any premature oblivion. The result is that Android mops up 75% of the smartphone market. Android has metamorphosed into various avatars and the latest version Jellybean boasting of features like Photosphere, Day dream, gesture typing, multiple accounts logins, faster loading gallery apps smooth UI and so on.

Android Widespeard :-

The main motive behind Android development was to empower the mobile handset user with more than just the basic functions. The developers of Android also wanted this OS to be freely available to ensure its rapid spread to many second level developers i.e. developers who create applications atop this OS. That objective seems to have been achieved. Google for its part entered into an alliance with manufacturers of mobile handsets like Samsung and HTC, the makers of processor chips like Qualcomm and Texas Instruments, and mobile service providers like Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile. This consortium called Open Handset Alliance ensured the continuance of Android with virtually every cog of mobile communication contributing.

Another factor is that the OS could be tinkered with and customized, and this was music to the open source developer community. The availability of easy to build tools and tutorials pertaining to Android app development meant that novices too could build and upload apps onto Google Play, an app store for Android related apps. Buoyed by the enthusiastic response from customers and the chance to monetize their creativity prompted many apps to be developed.

These days even google is trying to boost the android devices by their flagship nexus phones and tablets releasing at a cost price which is nearly  equal to the manufacturing cost of the devices and even got a great dev support and popularity  

Android today boasts of more than 79,000 apps catering to every whim and fancy of a consumer's taste.

Will Android sustain its popularity?

Today every second smart phone sold in the market runs on Android. The huge popularity and wide reach of this OS has ensured an every growing opportunity to grow allied businesses like app development, infrastructure and so on. Application development will only head north in the coming decades

Android app development- sky is the limit!

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LG Optimus G Pro Fully Unveiled Officially by LG

             





We already saw  LG Optimus G As Announced by NTT Docomo Carrier long back but full specs are not reviled and after a long wait LG Finally reviled The LG Optimus Pro

Regarding the build it is similar to Samsung devices and the specs are nearly same as the Optimus G and Nexus devices it is not a break through as the Optimus G and According to VERGE despite of plastic build it doesn't feel cheap and also said that the screen-to-bezel ratio is high and there is a six color light that makes home button glow at notifications . it's 9.4 mm thick same as the galaxy note-2 and the with dimensions 150.2 x 76.1 x 9.4 mm and gives a tough competition to note-2

It has a 5.5 inchw ips display ith a resolution of 1920x1080 at 400 ppi And this beast is powered by new snapdragon 600 processor which was announced in the CES last month which has a great performance consuming less power and it runs at a clock speed of 1.7 GHz and 2 GB of RAM and This is powered by a huge battery 3140mAh as the processor is also less power consuming when compared to previous snap-dragon processors this device should give a long battery life

The phone also packs two cameras One was a 13MP rear camera and Other one 2.1MP front camera . Main camera can capture Full HD videos and has special unique features Such as dual Recording and virtual panorama Using dual-recording we can capture videos from both cameras simultaneously and Using  virtual panorama user can take videos in 360 degree view either by recording vertical or horizontal environments

On-chip storage is 32GB and also supports SD card up to 32GB and out-of-box comes with Android 4.1.2 JB and sure it might get update 4.2 JB


No information regarding the cost of phone

Sure it will win on galaxy note-2 But Samsung might unveil the successor to note-2 with octa-core soon  we have to wait till the to see whether it win on Samsung ???

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Ainol Novo 9 Spark (Extremly Powerful Budget Tablet)

Ainol lanched Ainol 9 spark also known as Ainol firewire with quadcore 1.6Ghz Allwinner A31 CPU which is based on cortex-A7 architechture specially known for low power high performance which was coupled with a powerful PowerVR SGX544 MP2 GPU it has 8-logical cores and can able to play 4K videos with out any lag even Blu-ray 3D @30fps and also supports simuntanous 720p decoding  up to 4-channels and also INTEL mobile processors recently have been coupled with this GPU . Regarding RAM it has got dual channel memory of 2GB DDR3 64 Bits

It has a 9.7" IPS Display with a resolution of 2048x1536 (16:9 Aspect Ratio) and with 264 PPI which was extremely high for such kind of product and it also has a very huge 10000mAh battery which can last up to 20+ days in standby mode and it can play video and 3D games continuously for 10 hours and surf web for 10 hours .

It has a dual camera 5MP rear and 2MP front camera

USB-OTG ensures wired connectivity to devices such as 3G dongle , keyboard , mouse & handsfree . It comes with wifi but there are no GPS and Bluetooth  in the model in order to reduce the cost of the tablet .

It runs on Android 4.1.2 Jelly-Bean which is upgradable  to Android 4.2 Jelly-Bean later on . At present available in black and white colors and later four more variants will be released

and all these amazing specs just for $236 HERE and Rs.18,000 HERE in India and as a pre-order discount we can get it for Rs.16,000

And as per site the specs are as follows

Processor
Frequency	1.5Ghz
CPU	All Winner A31 (Quad Core)
Architecture	ARM Cortex-A7
Graphics Processing	PowerVR SGX544 MP2
Screen
Screen Size	9.7"
Screen Resolution	2048 x 1536, Retina Display
Screen Type	5 Point Capacitive
IPS Screen	Yes
Memory
Internal Storage	16G
RAM	2G DDR III - 64 Bit Dual Channel
Exapandable	Upto 32 GB (MicroSD
Connectivity & Ports
3G Support	Yes (Dongle)
Supported Dongles	Please refer to our FAQs section. We also have compatible 3G Dongle available with us.
WiFi	Yes
Bluetooth	N/A
USB Interface	Mini USB & OTG Support
HDMI	Yes
Others
Battery	10000 mAh
Camera	2M (Front) 5M (Back)
G-Sensor	Yes
In the Box	Tablet Unit, Charger, Datacable, Earphones, User Manual, Warranty Card
GPS	No
Software
Operating System	Jelly Bean (Android 4.1)
Google Play	Yes

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Micromax A116 Canvas HD

Micromax announced new Canvas A116 HD  which has a 5-inch IPS display with a 1280x720 resolution.
It runs with a powerful 1.2GHz quad-core (Cortex-A7) MediaTek MT6589 processor accompanied with 1GB of RAM . It replaced the Adreno GPU with PowerVR SGX5 which gives better game experience and also has dual-sim capability and got 4GB onboard store and supports microSD card up to 32GB . Regarding cameras it has a 8MP rear and 0.3MP front camera .



It also got a battery of 2100mAh . It also supports HSPA+ with speeds up to 42Mbps It runs on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean . After lanch it can up-gradable to Android 4.2 Jelly Bean

Micromax will release this phone in the first week of February and will take pre-orders after Republic Day and also said that it will cost less than $280(Rs.. 15,000)

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Huawei Ascend G615

Huawei recently announced new Ascend smartphone named G615.




It is powered by a 1.4GHz quad-core HiSilicon K3V2 processor with 1 GIG of RAM and it has got 8GB on-board storage and also supports memory card . It runs Android 4.0 and the Jelly Bean update will be avaible later in march , regrading its screen it is a 4.5-inch 720p LCD display with a pixel density of 330ppi .

It has an 8MP rear-camera with which 1080p HD recording is possible and a front camera with 1.3MP with 720p recording . It also has 2150 mAh battery . It support 3G with 21Mbps HSPDA , Wi-Fi b/g/n and a Bluetooth version-3.0 . also includes Dolby Digital Plus audio tech .







It weighs around 145g and 1.05cm thick .

This phone will be released first in the germany around $398 and later to other parts of world

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LG Optimus G Pro as announced by NTT Docomo

We saw the LG Optimus G it's a great phone which broke the previous phone benchmark's and now Japanese carrier NTT Docomo announces LG Optimus PRO









It has got a battery of 3,000mAh and powered by 1.7GHz quad-core snapdragon pro processor and 2GIGS of RAM which makes Android 4.1 feel more smooth and 5-Inch 1080p display which gives 440ppi like all the new phones and a 13MP camera and all other are like old Optimus G .

Regrading the body it is bigger than it's old flagship phone Optimus G .It measures around 10mm and has a physical home key button.

The two special features The first one is "Slide Apps" the applications like calender calculator ...etc stays on top of the UI whether any other app running or not and the second one is new video recording mode called as "Dual-Video" in which one can record picture-in-picture view from both front and rear camers

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HTC M7 rumored specs

Let's take a look at the leaked specs of HTC M7 which is the next flagship phone of HTC .

Processor :- Qualcomm Snapdragon quad-core 1.7GHz

RAM :- 2GB

On board storage :- 32GB

WLAN :- 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac

WWAN :- LTE 42Mbps HSDPA

Camera :- rear camera 13MP , f/2.0, 1080p and in front it got a 2MP , 1080p

Audio :- beats amplifier , stereo speakers

Bateery :- 2300mAh

OS :- Android jellybean

Display :- 4.7-inch , 1080p SoLux

The rumored design looks similar to HTC's windows phone and leaked pics show that it is running sense 5 on android jelly bean and the new sense is completely different than the other old sense devices it interchanged the positions of the home and multi-tasking buttons as you can see in the pics  

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SONY Xperia Tablet Z

Recently SONY announced their new xperia phones with dust and water proof in the cesand now they came up with the 10.1 Inch tablet with a resolution of 1920x1200 powered by the snapdragon pro 1.5GHz quad-core processor and 2 GIGS of RAM running android 4.1
The build of the tablet was great it was the thinnest tablet till now which was thinner than ipad mini (7.2 Inch)

and 8.1MP Exmor R camera Comes with 32GB on board storage and SD slot support and also has Wi-Fi, bluetooth , NFC and LTE and it highlighted the feature called "S-Force Front Surrond 3D" which will give better sound also expected to be water and dust proof and this tablet is available in both white and black and expected to be available in Q1 of 2013

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