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If you are looking for a Windows Phone 8 device, look no further than Nokia Lumia 920 (Check at Amazon or Best Buy ). Two of the major handsets running Windows Phone 8 are Lumia 920 and HTC Windows Phone 8X. Here, we will have a deeper look at Lumia 920 and see why it is a very good buy. The Technical Specifications We will begin with the technical specifications of the device. Feature Value Notes Display 4.5 inch LCD (IPS) Capacitive touch; 768x1280 pixels (WXGA HD+) Larger than Windows Phone 8X Pixel density 332ppi Better than the iPhone's Retina Display Screen protection Corning Gorilla Glass 2 Highly scratch-resistant Processor Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus (MSM8960) at 1.5 GHz (dual-core) The same processor used in Samsung Galaxy S3 LTE version, and HTC Windows Phone 8X GPU Adreno 225   RAM 1 GB   Storage 32 GB ...

Apple trademarked Retina Display in Nov, 2012. Retina Display is one of the major attractions of Apple’s top products. Introduced with the iPhone 4, during Steve Jobs’s reign, it sure sold quite a number of iPhones in two years. At this time, however, is Retina Display still relevant? Should Apple be actively marketing this feature at all? Let’s see. What Exactly Is It? Retina Display or any display at that matter has a particular ppi ratio (Pixels Per Inch). [ Learn about pixels ]. If, on a display panel, there are more than a fixed number of pixels in every inch, that display will be rich enough to avoid the pixelation issue given by older, low pixel-density devices. If you can see individual pixels, such a display looks rather dull. Look at this image below. One of half of the Apple logo is pixelated, and you can see the difference. Creating too many pixels and cramming them up within a display is a very expensive job. This is the reason why mainstream smartphone manufacture...

The following video has made an appearance from a German blog that managed to get their hands on a demo model of Z10, the upcoming BlackBerry 10 smartphone. (Turn on the captions while watching the video) Within the video, it’s quite evident BB10 has a nice, new user interface and quite a few apps. It also seems the operating system is much more responsive and well designed. BlackBerry 10 operating system based on QNX Real Time OS (RTOS) will be unveiled on January 30. We will look at the new technology applied on BlackBerry 10 OS and see what to expect when the smartphone actually hits the market. So far, the BlackBerry OS was available only on the devices that RIM manufactured. However, in the announcement made last year, Thorsten Heins, the chief executive of RIM, made it clear that other manufacturers may be able to license the BlackBerry 10 platform to make products based on that. This means, you may see a new Samsung, LG, or even Nokia device running BlackBerry 10 operatin...

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...

Facebook has yesterday unveiled a very important update to the social network, Graph Search. This is essentially the most promising search algorithm in effect within the social network. We all know the existing Facebook search system that returns more irrelevant results than relevant ones. With Graph Search, it is going to take a turn for good. Is this a competition to Google search? Let’s see… Facebook Graph Search is not a web search thingy. It is within Facebook and can search only what your friends and others generally have shared with you. For instance, you can do a search for “My friends who like Michael Jackson” and Facebook will give you a list of your friends who have liked Michael Jackson profile page. On the official Facebook Graph Search page , you have examples like this. Most of these searches have the keyword, “my friends” in them. This is probably an indicator used by Facebook to identify you are searching for a list of your friends who do a particular thing. Wh...

Have you ever thought how your smartphone responds to your gestures and movements so accurately? When you are playing a racing game on your phone, you simply need to tilt the device in order to steer the car in a particular direction. When you bring it close to your ear to talk, the display shuts off and touch inputs don’t work. When you move out, the smartphone display immediately gets brighter. In effect, your smartphone is really smart, isn't it? All of these are possible with the help of sensors inside your smartphone chip. In this post, let’s look at these sensors in detail. In most of the smartphones, you have these sensors—accelerometer, gyroscope, ambient light sensor, proximity sensor, etc. The sensors are built into handsets using Micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS). In this technology, very tiny mechanical systems are incorporated into a tiny electronic chip. The latest iPhone 5 has an accelerometer, three-axis gyroscope, proximity sensor, an ambient light se...

Amazon has enabled a new service known as AutoRip which enables downloading music CDs that you purchase on Amazon. This means, you don’t have to wait for the CD to arrive to listen to the new music, but you can go ahead and immediately download the music from Amazon into your personal cloud. However, the CD you are purchasing should have the AutoRip facility available. Check out the Amazon AutoRip website  to find some titles with this feature. If the title is AutoRip eligible, it will have the AutoRip icon on it. The one found on this image of The Haunted Man album. About Amazon Cloud Amazon has its own cloud storage offering, which gives you 5 GB of free storage online. The music you purchase with AutoRip option can be saved to this cloud platform immediately, and you can play it back with the Cloud music player. The compatibility of the music player is quite universal. The Cloud Player works as a web app, or you can install the specific app available for various mobile ...