Highlighted Features of Samsung Galaxy S III

With its innovation Samsung has integrated some unique features in Samsung Galaxy S III which aren’t found in any other smartphones. Galaxy S III is programmed in such a way that it understands the intention of the user and responds accordingly.
This article exclusively depicts the unique features of the next galaxy – Samsung Galaxy S III.

    • SmartStay

SmartStay features is an intelligent feature which keeps the backlight on the phone switched on until you are looking at the phone so that you don’t have to touch the display again & again just to keep it alive. Hence with this feature Galaxy S III has the ability to track your eyes movements and control the backlight of the display based on it.

    • SmartAlert

With the Smart alert feature found on the Galaxy SIII will give a gentle vibrating nudge to let you know if you have any messages or missed calls. Your phone will vibrate to notify missed statuses when picked up after being idle.

    • S-Voice

Like Apple’s voice assistant Siri, even Samsung’s S-Voice listens & understands your voice before responding to it.
It is the advanced natural language user interface, to listen and respond to your words.
For eg: When your phone alarm goes off but you need a little extra rest, just tell the GALAXY S III “snooze.” Using this feature you can also control the volume, play your favorite songs, send text messages and emails, organize your schedules, or automatically launch the camera and capture a photo. There is no need to open an application to operate, just say what you want and it will do it for you.

    • Social Tag

Galaxy S III has the capability to keep track of your friends and family. The Social Tag feature matches people in photos to the profile images on their contact page and shows their status. So with a glance on the photo you can be up to date with your loved ones.

    • Wireless Charging

An optional feature, with the wireless charger kit for the Galaxy S III you can git rid of the cords and cables. This kit comes with a charging mat and replacement back door. The phone can be charged by just placing it on the charging mat which is in turn connected to the power source.

    • Pop Up Play

Pop Up Play shows the multitasking capability of the Galaxy S III. With Pop Up Play you can do two things at a time.
The video played can be moved anywhere on the screen while simultaneously doing other tasks (like messaging, email,web search).

    • All Share Cast

With All Share Cast feature the users can connect their Galaxy S III to their HD SmartTVwirelessly using WiFi technology to immediately transfer smartphone content to a larger display.

    • S- Beam, AllShare Cast, AllShare Cast Dongle, Buddy Photo Share, Face Recognition

Android™ Beam™ feature was initially developed by Samsung for the Galaxy Nexus device along with Google. Based on the user inputs and feedback now Samsung has come up with the expansion of Android Beam version called as S-Beam, a new NFC large file transfer service. S-Beam combines NFC technology with WiFi direct hence making it more powerful & faster. It means the communication is established using NFC but the files are transferred on the WiFi. With this feature you can transfer 1GB of movie file within 3minutes and a 10MB song within seconds by just placing two Galaxy S III devices back-to-back.
For AllShare Cast, AllShare Cast Dongle, Buddy Photo Share, Face Recognition features please watch the below video.

    • Direct Call

If you are messaging someone and instead feel like to call them then by just bringing the phone near to the ears S III will place a direct call to the recipient.

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Specifications of Samsung Galaxy SIII

After the months of rumors and speculations finally the Samsung Galaxy SIII is officially unveiled at the Mobile Unpacked event held in London yesterday 3rd May 2012. Galaxy SIII will be Samsung’s 3rd generation Galaxy S smartphone coming with a tag line as “Designed for humans and inspired by nature” which simply tells the GALAXY S III is a smartphone which recognizes your voice, understands your intention, and lets you share a moment instantly and easily.
Galaxy S III is packed with 4.8″ Super AMOLED touchscreen with resolution of 1280×720 powered by Samsung’s 1.4GHz Exynos Quad 4412 Soc processor running on the latest Android4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) version overlaid with the Samsung’s TouchWiz UI.

  • Some of the highlighted features of Galaxy SIII are:

– Voice recognition. Featuring Samsung’s “S Voice” technology, it is the advanced natural language user interface, to listen and respond to your words. For eg: When your phone alarm goes off but you need a little extra rest, just tell the GALAXY S III “snooze.” Using this feature you can also control the volume, play your favorite songs, send text messages and emails, organize your schedules, or automatically launch the camera and capture a photo.
– Motion control. For Eg: placing a direct call by just bringing the phone near to the ears when typing a message for a recipient.
– Eye Recognition. Featuring Samsung’s SmartStay technology, ability to track the eye movement of the user.
– large files/videos transfer using Android Beam NFC technology called as “S Beam”. With this you can transfer 1GB of movie file within 3minutes and a 10MB song within seconds.
– image capturing while video recording (similar to HTC One x)
– wireless charger gadget
– 50GB dropbox cloud storage.
For more features have a look at the Highlighted Features of Samsung Galaxy S III

  • Features & Full Specifications of Samsung Galaxy SIII Android 4.0.4 Smartphone:
    • System:

– Processor: Samsung’s 32nm ARM Cortex A9 based 1.4GHz Exynos Quad 4412 Soc processor
– Os: Google’s Android 4.0.4 IceCream Sandwich
– RAM: 1GB
– Memory Storage: 16GB & 32GB versions available. 64GB version yet to be lined up.
– microSD card slot available (upto 64GB)

    • Display:

– 4.8″ Super AMOLED touchscreen with 16Million colour HD
– Resolution: 1280×720
– Gorilla Glass technology integrated

    • Camera & Audio/Video:

– Rear Camera: 8 megapixel with auto-focus & face detection
– LED Flash
– Burst shots
– Full HD (1080p) video recording at 30fps
– Front Camera: 1.9MP
– Eye recognition
– Voice Recognition

    • Network & Connectivity:

– 4G model yet to come
– GSM: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
– UMTS 850/900/1900/2100 MHz
– HSDPA 21 Mbps, HSUPA 5.76 Mbps
– Wi-Fi a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi hotspot
– Bluetooth 4.0
– microUSB port
– GPS receiver with A-GPS
– 3.5mm audio jack
– NFC

– accelerometer
– proximity sensor
– gyroscope sensor
– digital compass
– Barometer
– RGB Light sensor

    • Battery & Dimensions:

– Large battery of 2100mAh capacity
– dimensions: 136.6 x 70.6 x 8.6 mm
– weight: 133grams

    • Release Date:

Expected to be released by May30th 2012 in two colors Marble White and Pebbel Blue.
In India Galaxy S III may be released in the first week of June 2012.

    • Price:

Price of Samsung Galaxy SIII for 16GB model is around $890 (Rs 35k to 38k).

  • Hands on video:

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Nokia Meego Phones coming soon

After the release of MeeGo based smartphone Nokia N9 in August 2011 Nokia had planned not to use the MeeGo Platform on any of its future handsets since it is partnered with the Microsoft for making Windows Phone as its flagship Os. But many users of Nokia N9 are fascinated even today with the amazing performance delivered by MeeGo. Anyways Nokia has again started to work on the smartphones based on MeeGo Os which is said to potential enough to compete with the Android Smartphones. These smartphones will be budget phones. This project may be referred to the Nokia’s Meltemi project. Recent release of the Nokia’s S40 based Asha smartphones did not contribute much to the selling numbers. So by bringing MeeGo it indicates that Nokia may be replacing its age old S40/Symbian platform with the MeeGo based Meltemi Os.

In the Android & Apple filled smartphone market new platforms from Microsoft, MeeGo and even Mozilla will give a good option for some of the users who are looking for a change.

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How does voip and free calling software work?

In this short article i will be explaining briefly about the working of Voip and the free calling softwares.
Technology is evolving drastically in the mobile industry.
Due to the advancement in the carriers from 2G standards to 3G or in the Wifi technology most of the smartphone users are utilizing this service for making free calls. Basically the free calls happen based on the VOIP technology (Voice Over Internet Protocol).

How does Voip work?
VOIP is a revolutionary technology. It is a protocol framed for transmission of text, images, voice and other multimedia signals over the internet. In other words, Voip is a method of converting our voice signals into digital data and transmitting it on the internet using the TCP/IP (Ethernet) protocol. Voip packs the data (data packets) before transmitting them over the internet. With voip you can make call all over the world using internet connection/wifi instead of your service provider’s network. Hence voip has many advantages compared to the traditional phone system like, the call rate are very cheap, most of the times they are free (depends on the source & destinations locations, mode of phone call (pc to pc etc)). Call can be placed using mobile phones, IP Phones, PC and even traditional telephones connected to the Voip adapter called as ATA – Analog Telephone Adapter. As the traditional telephone doesn’t have the Ethernet module inbuilt for digital data transmission so this ATA device helps to overcome this limitation. It basically includes the necessary software and hardware which converts our voice into digital and transmits it over the internet. Voip is also called as Internet telephony or IP telephony and is very helpful for business purposes. Cisco, Nortel, Tesco are some of the manufacturers of IP telephones

How does free calling softwares work?
Softwares like Skype, Viber, Tango are the free calling softwares which can be used on iPhones, Android, Windows Phone and Symbian Os based smartphones. With these software one can make free video/voice calls locally or over a long distance. They can be downloaded freely from the app store or directly from their website. These softwares use the voip technology for making calls. When we place a call using the software app listed above, it actually bypasses the network provider’s service (and its charges) and uses the internet for routing the phones calls. Usually these app providers have a voip server which basically services the clients (phone devices). All the phone calls goes through this server before reaching to the destination.

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Features of Snapdragon S4 Processors

Snapdragon CPU’s are high performance CPU’s of Qualcomm. Snapdragon soc model numbers like MSM8260A or MSM8230 are little hard to grasp. So qualcomm has framed a simple protocol for consumers w.r.t its Soc’s (System OChip) for the sake of easy understanding. It has divided its Snapdragon Soc’s into four categories. S1, S2, S3 and S4. S1 being the cheap and low power device whereas S4 is the most powerful device.
SnapDragon S4 soc (MSM8960) is the successor to the Scorpion CPU. S4 soc is based on the new microprocessor architecture called as Krait and it is the second generation CPU from Qualcomm. S4 is well suited processor for high end smartphones and tablets. Let us see what are the new features in this new architecture Krait.

Features of Snapdragon S4 (Krait) Soc:
– first mobile processor to be manufactured using the latest 28nm architecture
– new pipeline architecture increases the performance of krait over 60% compared to the existing qualcomm’s scorpion CPU micro-architecture.
– different configurations available like Single/Dual/Quad core with frequency range from 1.5GHz upto 2.5GHz per core and supports asynchronous symmetric multiprocessing for better performance and power efficiency.
– incase of a dualcore/quadcore the cpu’s are capable to work independently.
– includes dual-channel memory for processor to handle large bandwidth requirements in multicore systems.
– high performance Adreno GPU (Adreno225/ Adreno305) for high quality video and console quality gaming
– advantages like frequency scaling, low power consumption, better thermal performance and smaller size are achieved because of 28nm architecture.
– first fully integrated 2G/3G/4G Modem for fast internet browsing and app downloads. Supports standards like LTE multi mode, HSPA+, CDMA2000 1X, 1xEV-D0 Rel A/B, GSM, GPRS, and EDGE.
– uses ARMv7 Instruction set architecture for advanced process technology.
– Qualcomm’s hexagon DSPs low power engine used for high power efficiency.
– Connectivity options like GPS, Bluetooth4.0 WiFi and FM supported.
– Integrated HDMI v1.4 interface
– Video: HD 1080p, 30fps video playback and streaming

S4 is available in the following Qualcomm products:
APQ8064, APQ8060A, MSM8960, MSM8660A, MSM8260A, APQ8030, MSM8930, MSM8630, MSM8230, MSM8627, MSM8227, MSM8625, MSM8225

Video showing Snapdragon S4 QuadCore processor:

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