Blue Bugle: Mobile, Desktop & Web Technologies

D11 tech conference of WSJ’s subsidiary All Things Digital (allthingsd.com) has some interesting stuff going on. One of the recent interviews that happened was with Motorola Mobility’s CEO, Dennis Woodside and its Senior Vice President of advanced technology and projects, Regina Dugan. It was in this interview that you can watch here that Regina introduced us to two important innovations happening in Motorola. Now, as you well know how Google acquired Motorola and how it intends to develop the smartphone manufacturer into a part of its own, most of the discussion concentrates on how this will be achieved. There are certain important developments happening in Motorola’s research facilities, and they are thinking about solving some issues that plague smartphone users these days, such as authentication. One of the first things that Regina introduced us to is the electronic tattoo that can authenticate your phone. Remember how you get access to your smartphone’s functions normally. Y...

Let me start with an apology for little or no updates in the past few days. It has been quite a mess here in the Blue Bugle planet. It took me a while to get myself updated on what is happening in our industry. Today, I have been looking through my news resources, and one of the upcoming devices that is expected to make an impact is Samsung’s Galaxy Note III—the third installment of the very popular Note series. Exactly how popular the Note family has been, one might wonder. Initial update on Samsung website pointed us in this direction : Galaxy Note, the original, did sell about a million units each month to reach a target of five million in March last year. Later on, Korean news source, MK News did report this success continued in the exact fashion—ten million in ten months. The core of that article talks about how Note II, the successor to Note, reached a million sales in South Korea. Although not close enough to compete with the success of iPhone or Galaxy S family, Note has ...

There are a number of factors affecting the purchase of a smartphone, such as the display, operating system, processor power, and price. Among them, I believe durability is also pretty important. There are protective cases for all types of smartphones, although they more or less make the phone look weird. I have never used protective case on my smartphones, although some of them have really needed them. A few days ago, I picked up one of the most popular smartphones in the industry— Samsung Galaxy S3 . I was impressed by the amazing hardware features it offered. However, when I picked it up, I could immediately feel the cheap plastic build of the phone that turned me off a bit. Many of Samsung’s phones lack in build quality, and that is the reason why none of the Samsung smartphones is there in this list. In the low end, probably the only Samsung device that can withstand any wear and tear is X-Cover Xtreme. The same is the case with Sony. Xperia line of smartphones contains device...

Motorola does its market research pretty well. That is probably why they released Motorola Razr i to the European market and similar Razr M to the American market. In here, we will see what is so special about Razr i that distinguishes it from other smartphones. Tech Specs Here, we are going to compare Razr i with a very similar model, Droid Razr M. Feature Razr i Droid Razr M Display Super AMOLED Advanced; 960x540 pixels (qHD); 4.3 inches (256ppi) Super AMOLED Advanced; 960x540 pixels (qHD); 4.3 inches (256ppi) Protection Corning Gorilla Glass Corning Gorilla Glass Processor Intel Atom Z2460 2 GHz (single core) Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 1.5 GHz (MSM8960) dual core OS Android ICS available upgrade to Jelly Bean (4.1) Android ICS (upgradable) Storage 8 GB (MicroSD up to 32 GB) 8 GB (MicroSD up to 32 GB) Memory 1 GB 1 GB RAM Con...