Samsung Galaxy S3, HTC One X Are Among The 5 Best Smartphones of 2012

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It is not that difficult for someone to name five top smartphones in the market. You guessed it right, Samsung Galaxy S3 and HTC One X are top on the list with the best smartphones of the year. Apple's iPhone 4S which was however launched last year made it to the list because of its high demand. 

With increasing competition in Mobile Market manufacturers are coming out with astonishing devices to keep up with the others. Samsung, HTC and Nokia came out with wonderful handsets this year. Apple however lacks a new phone which is expected to come out later this year, however the iPhone 4S has managed to get a good place in the market because of its popularity. Below is the list of the best handsets to buy this summer.

Samsung Galaxy S III 

The Samsung Galaxy S III top on the list it sports a 4.8 inch 720x1280 Super AMOLED display, Android ICS withnew TouchWiz overlay, NFC, 2GB of RAM, 1.5 GHz dual-core processor, 8 megapixel rear camera, 1.9 megapixel front facing camera, 4G LTE and/or HSPA+ support, and 2100 mAh battery. 

Some Extra features include Smart Stay where the sensor notes when you are looking at the display and keeps the display turned on during this time, Direct call that will initiate a call when you lift the phone to your ear during a text conversation, Smart alert that vibrates your phone when you come back to it if there are pending notifications, S Voice voice command software, enhanced sharing functionality, and more. 

For many analysts, the Galaxy S III is the best Android handset ever.Popularity of S3 can be gauged from the sales figures of the handset. In one month and two days after its official release (May 29, 2012) Samsung sold out more than 6 million units of the handset across the world. As per market analysts, Samsung may sell more than 20 million units of the handset in six months of its availability.

HTC One X

The One X is one of the best looking smart phones ever. With its quad-core 1.5 Ghz Nvidia Tegra 3 processor, 4.7-inch Super IPS LCD2 HD display and a thinner design running HTC Sense 4.0 on Ice Cream Sandwich this phone has a balance of looks and performance.

It has a 8 mega-pixel camera with a fast shutter. It has 32Gb internal storage with no room for a microSD card slot. It comes with a 1800mAh battery which is unfortunately non-removable. You also get 25Gb of Dropbox space.

iPhone 4S 

The iPhone 4S is actually Apple’s 2011 phone. As far as specs and features are taken into account, the iPhone 4S is not as powerful as the leading Android phones of the day. 

The iPhone 4S has only a crammed 3.5-inch display, an 8 mega-pixel camera, 1GHz dual core Cortex-A5 processor and 512MB of RAM. Also it has Siri, iOS's Virtual personal assistant which was a key feature for its success.

Nokia Lumia 900 

The Lumia 900 is a gorgeous looking phone running Windows Phone 7.5 Mango OS. It has a 1.4 GHz Scorpion CPU with Qualcomm APQ8055 Snapdragon chip, Adreno 205 GPU and 8-megapixel camera. 

The handset boasts a 4.3-inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels. Windows Phone 7.5 Mango, the latest version of the firmware from Microsoft runs the handset. Sadly it won't get updated to Windows Phone 8.

Nokia 808 PureView

The 808 PureView is the best camera phone ever made. The 808 PureView runs on Belle OS from Nokia. The PureView has grabbed the attention because of its 41 mega-pixel camera with features like Carl Zeiss optics, up to 4x lossless digital zoom, geo-tagging and others. 

Besides this it also has an ARM 11 processor clocked at 1.3 GHz, 4 inches of AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with 360 x 640 pixels of display resolution, 16 GB of in-house memory, 1 GB of ROM and 512 MB of RAM.

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Samsung Galaxy S III

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Samsung finally unveiled its latest flagship device, the Galaxy S III ( the follow-up to last year's best-selling phone in the world ), after months of speculation, expectation, and anticipation.

The smartphone market moves on once more, with the hi-tech voice-controlled Galaxy S III likely to becomes a standard-bearer for Google’s Android operating system - and a device for the Apple refuseniks. 

The phone’s most innovative feature is built-in face-tracking and voice control - allowing, Samsung claims, for a more 'natural' control system.

Other innovations include what Samsung claims is a 'more intelligent' lock system, that keeps the screen 'awake' when the phone’s camera senses eyes watching it, rather than turning it off. 

The voice control system is called S Voice - and allows access to weather forecasts, web searches and scheduling, similar to iPhone’s Siri system.

Saying 'I want to take a picture' launches the camera application - and will work in eight languages at launch.

S Voice can also reply out loud - which Samsung claims will allow the system to be used while driving.

Available in blue and white, the phone will be launched at the end of May, starting in Europe, with other regions following.

Samsung played on its expertise in screens with a large 4.8-inch Super AMOLED screen running a resolution of 1280 x 720p - far bigger than Apple’s iPhone, and close in size to the smaller end of the tablet market.

Applications developed with an earlier platform version can cause issues with newer versions of the same platform. To minimize disruption Samsung provided some app porting tip on Android 3.0 (or earlier) to Android 4.0 to their website. For more information you can visit :

http://developer.samsung.com

Porting Guide for Ice Cream Sandwich #1

Porting Guide for Ice Cream Sandwich #2

More on :

http://www.samsung.com/global/galaxys3/index.html

http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/3/2995948/samsung-galaxy-s3-first-hands-on-pictures


http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/03/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-preview-hands-on


http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/25/samsung-announces-1-4ghz-exynos-4-quad-as-basis-for-galaxy-s3


http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/03/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-is-official


http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/03/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-camera-features


http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/03/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-software-hands-on

Tech Specs on :

http://www.samsungmobilepress.com/2012/05/04/GALAXY-S-III

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MWC 2012 : Asus PadFone

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Howdy guys! ASUS lifted the veil over its long-awaited redesigned 9.2mm thin Padfone at the Mobile World Conference 2012. 

The ASUS PadFone is an incredible 4.3" smartphone featuring a Super AMOLED qHD display, the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 1.5Ghz dual core processor and an ultra-sharp 8 megapixel digital camera, all wrapped in an exquisite design optimized for AndroidTM 4.0.

When placed inside the optional PadFone Station, it transforms into a 10.1" tablet with five times the battery life. 

The PadFone offers supreme versatility via Dynamic Display technology, which allows seamless transition between PadFone and PadFone Station screens. 

In addition, the PadFone Station offers an optional keyboard dock that essentially turns the PadFone into a full notebook PC. 

The PadFone also comes with the optional PadFone Stylus Headset, which is a Bluetooth stylus pen that turns into a headset for easy call pick-up.

More on :

http://www.asus.com/Mobile/PadFone

http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/27/asus-padfone-formally-launched-4-3-inch-super-amoled-display-s

http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/27/asus-padfone-hands-on-video

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Samsung : Transparent Flexible AMOLED Displays (New video)

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On the past we wrote an article about flexible paper thin AMOLED and transparent displays. Samsung Mobile Display, produced recently, a new short Video (in Korean) showing a transparent, flexible 3D AMOLED display based tablet. This is obviously just a concept device, and it'll take years before they'll be able to commercialize something like that, but it's still very cool.

Flexible OLEDs are still not available, but Samsung does plan to start producing these in 2012. The first screens will probably not be bendable ones, but Samsung will be able to produce them on curved surfaces. Several other companies (including Sony, AUO, LG, HP, Toshiba, TDK and others) are working towards flexible OLEDs. 

This technology is exciting device makers, too - check out Nokia's Kinetic prototype - a completely flexible mobile phone : 

The idea is that you can bend and twist the whole device to perform certain actions : for example bending it towards you is used to select an option or zoom-in on an image. 

Nokia didn't say what kind of display technology is used in this device , but it's most likely a flexible OLED. 

The display is 4" in size and has impressive viewing angles according to reports. In the past two years we've seen several companies present flexible/bendable OLED Prototypes: Samsung, LG and UDC, Toshiba, Sony, AUO and the FDC with UDC. Nokia is already buying AMOLED panels from Samsung and LG, so it's likely they are collaborating with one of the Korean makers.  Apple is also interested in such displays.

Transparent OLEDs have been commercialized already actually - TDK is producing 2.4" PMOLED screens, and the first product to use them is Lenovo's S-800 phone. But these rigid and simple displays are a far cry from what Samsung shows us in this concept. Enjoy the video!

 

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Samsung,Sony,LG,Toshiba on flexible paper thin AMOLED and transparent displays

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We are witnessing the greatest shakeup in the world of computing that has ever taken place.

Today's Mobile phones, PCs and TVs can already send e-mail, browse the Web, and keep you in touch with friends and colleagues via voice or text message. 

Tomorrow's handsets will add even more to the menu, morphing (as needed) into always-connected portable game consoles, full-featured TVs, and credit cards. Here's a quick look at what's coming :

Samsung Flexible AMO-LED Display at CES 2011 : 

Samsung showed off their flexible AMO-LED displays at CES 2011 Las Vegas. The displays are rollable, bendable and can even survive impacts from a hammer. Impressive stuff!

Samsung Transparent AM-OLED Display at CES 2011 :

We take a look at the transparent AMO-LED display technology from Samsung at CES 2011. By sacrifing some AMO-LED pixels as blank spots, Samsung has created AMO-LED displays that you can see right through.

Samsung Flexible AMO-LED and transparent OLED Screens :

Samsung's booth over at FPD 2010 in Japan was definitely the highlight. This is a showcase of various Samsung flexible AMO-LED and transparent OLED Displays :

- Clamshell 5 inch Dual Screen MID 

- 7 inch AMO-LED Display (Galaxy Tab) 

- Flexible and Foldable Displays 

- Transparent Display

A Demonstration of Samsung's Flexible AMO-LED Display :

Showing you that this display is indestructible!!! All other displays break with this test except Samsung Flexible AMO-LED Display. 

Sony's Flexible full-color OLED :

Sony has unveiled what is billed as the world's first flexible, full color OLED (Organic Light Emmiting Diode) 

LG 31 in OLED :

Thanks to OLED's being so thin, LG has been able to make this TV just 2,9 mm thick, and its staggering to behold, Read the full story following the source link below this video! 

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Toshiba flexes its paper-thin LCD muscle :

Toshiba found an interesting use of flexible LCD technology : user input. At SID 2010, the Japanese display manufacturer showed off an 8,4inch wide, 0,1mm thick SVGA panel that could be grabbed and physically bent to zoom in or out using Google Earth.

While it's a far cry from SDOF and perhaps not as entertaining as controlling the time-space continuum with forefinger and thumb, the bend sensor seems like an obvious addition to the gamut of crisp, rollable, data storing, energy generating flexible tech already in development. It's also worth noting that Toshiba isn't the only one working on the idea. IBM filed apatent application for "flexible displays as an input device" back in 2006. 

Sphere Multitouch Interactions on a Spherical Display :

Sphere is a multi-user, multi-touch-sensitive spherical display in which an infrared camera used for touch sensing shares the same optical path with the projector used for the display. Sphere has been developed by Hrvoje Benko, Andy Wilson and Ravin Balakrishnan at Microsoft Research. 

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