Very few small business houses are able to make their ambitious dreams come true. Omate is one of them which raised more than 200,000 dollars in less than 3 days at kickstarter’s website. They will now be making a sleek looking smart watch, that will work with almost any android or Apple phone.
Asus is yet to make prices of FonePad HD 7 official, but the phone has started making appearances on online shops for about 230 Euros. The FonePad HD 7 has been spotted as ME372CG and it comes with Intel Atom Z2560 processor, 7 inch display, 1280×800 pixel resolution, 802.11n Wi-Fi, 1GB RAM, 8GB flash storage, webcam, 5 mega pixel camera, Bluetooth, and micro SD card slot.
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Microsoft, like many other companies, was caught off guard when the iPhone came out. They released WM6 around the same time the first iPhone was announced, WM6.5 came out 2.5 years later, after the iPhone 3GS was already out. So it took them two and a half years to release an outdated OS update and in the same time frame, Apple achieved a smartphone that was deemed affordable by many who resisted the previous models. I was in NYC when it launched, a lot of hold outs at work who for months said they will not switch to the iPhone came in with the 3GS in the first few weeks after it’s release.
WM6.5 was the fastest solution the could get out but it was still the old business oriented OS no one wanted. WP7 was the bigger effort that would make their OS suitable for consumers and WP8 was the real solution they wanted but couldn’t get out in time. They could have waited for 8 to be ready, just like Blackberry waited with BB10, it’s not looking so great for them.
Since the stock build of Android 4.2.2 for Samsung Galaxy Grand has been released, a ROM has been made available that is pre Rooted, Deodexed, Zipaligned as well. No application has been added or removed from the stock ROM.
Features.
The latest Android OS, 4.2.2 Jellybean build JDQ39.
Insecure boot.img (allows for elevated commands such as adb remount).
Rooted with the su binary and SuperSU app.
Deodexed for easy themeing and modding.
Here is a screenshot of the AnTuTu benchmark of it.
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I just noticed something very weird on my Lumia 920 after receiving the official Amber update. There is no Google search option in the Internet Explorer! Earlier, there were two options – Bing and Google and after selecting either, you could simple type in to the address bar to perform search by your favourite search engine. This is apparently happening to Windows Phone users in India.
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I first dipped my toes into the WP8 waters with the purchase of a 8X some months ago. I had been a WP7 user since the pre-Mango days (I jumped on when NoDo was a thing) and bowed out when Microsoft announced that they were pulling the plug on everyone who bought into the Lumia 900 marketing blitz. Nonetheless, I loved WP7 as it were, and I thought WP8 would be better. Alas, it seems it is not so.
Here are my reasons why I have one foot out the door.
The update situation is a total mess. Microsoft could have easily matched Apple here, and I have no idea why they didn’t. We have low end phones and high end phones shipping with GDR2, but the bread-and-butter phones like the 820 and 920 remain unknown as far as when GDR2 is actually going to be released. We have a loose timeframe, but I’m guessing the carriers are going to royally screw that one over super hard.
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