Apple iPhone 5S : The New iPhone in the Market

Apple iPhone 5S : The New iPhone in the Market

Apple calls it the 'Most Forward-Thinking Smartphone in the World'. Yup the most awaited Apple iPhone 5S is finally launched. And it is as per most of the rumours which were floating around.

iPhone 5s Features 64-bit A7 chip, All-New 8 Megapixel iSight Camera with True Tone Flash & Introduces Touch ID Fingerprint Sensor.

Featuring an all-new A7 chip, making iPhone 5s the world’s first smartphone with 64-bit desktop-class architecture for blazing fast performance in the palm of your hand. iPhone 5s redefines the best smartphone experience in the world with amazing new features all packed into a remarkable thin and light design, including an all-new 8 megapixel iSight® camera with True Tone flash and introducing Touch ID™, an innovative way to simply and securely unlock your phone with just the touch of a finger. iPhone 5s comes with iOS 7, the most significant iOS update since the original iPhone, engineered for 64-bit technology and featuring hundreds of great new features, including Control Center, Notification Center, improved Multitasking, AirDrop®, enhanced Photos, Safari®, Siri® and iTunes Radio℠.

The all-new A7 chip in iPhone 5s brings 64-bit desktop-class architecture to a smartphone for the first time. With up to twice the CPU and graphics performance, almost everything you do on iPhone 5s is faster and better than ever, from launching apps and editing photos to playing graphic-intensive games—all while delivering great battery life. Apple also engineered iOS 7 and all the built-in apps to maximize the performance of the A7 chip. iPhone 5s is the best mobile gaming device with access to hundreds of thousands of games from the App Store℠, the A7 chip’s 64-bit architecture and support for OpenGL ES version 3.0. iPhone 5s delivers incredibly rich and complex visual effects, previously only possible on Macs, PCs and gaming consoles.

Every iPhone 5s includes the new M7 motion coprocessor that gathers data from the accelerometer, gyroscope and compass to offload work from the A7 for improved power efficiency. Developers can also access new CoreMotion APIs that take advantage of M7, so they can create even better fitness and activity apps that go well beyond what other mobile devices offer. The M7 motion coprocessor continuously measures your motion data, even when the device is asleep, and saves battery life for pedometer or other fitness apps that use the accelerometer all day.

iPhone 5s introduces Touch ID, an innovative way to simply and securely unlock your iPhone with just the touch of a finger. Built into the home button, Touch ID uses a laser cut sapphire crystal, together with the capacitive touch sensor, to take a high-resolution image of your fingerprint and intelligently analyze it to provide accurate readings from any angle. Setting up Touch ID to recognize your fingerprint is easy, and every time you use it, it gets better. The Touch ID sensor recognizes the touch of a finger so the sensor is only activated when needed, preserving battery life. All fingerprint information is encrypted and stored securely in the Secure Enclave inside the A7 chip on the iPhone 5s; it’s never stored on Apple servers or backed up to iCloud®. Touch ID can also be used as a secure way to approve purchases from the iTunes Store®, App Store or iBooks Store℠.

iPhone 5s makes it even easier to take great photos with the world’s most popular camera. The all-new 8 megapixel iSight camera features a larger f/2.2 aperture and a new, larger sensor with 1.5μ pixels for better sensitivity and low-light performance, resulting in better pictures. These improvements, along with the Apple-designed image signal processor in the A7 chip and the new Camera app in iOS 7, provide up to two-times faster auto-focus, faster photo capture, automatic image and video stabilization, and better dynamic range. iPhone 5s introduces the new True Tone flash—the world’s first for any camera—that variably adjusts color and intensity for over 1,000 combinations, so photos taken with a flash appear more natural. iPhone 5s also includes a new Burst Mode, Slo-Mo video with 120 fps, a new FaceTime® HD camera for better low-light performance and audio-only FaceTime calls with iOS 7.

iPhone 5s features a remarkable thin and light, precision-crafted design that customers around the world love, including an anodized aluminum body with diamond cut chamfered edges, a stunning 4-inch Retina® display and glass inlays. iPhone 5s is available in three gorgeous metallic finishes including gold, silver and space gray. To complement iPhone 5s, Apple designed premium leather cases in six rich colors—beige, black, blue, brown, yellow and (RED)—with soft, color-matched microfiber lining.

iPhone 5s makes it even easier to connect to high-speed networks with support for up to 13 LTE¹ wireless bands, more than any other smartphone in the world. With download speeds up to 100 Mbps², you can browse, download and stream content even faster. iPhone 5s includes dual-band 802.11 a/b/g/n Wi-Fi support for up to 150 Mbps² and Bluetooth 4.0. iPhone 5s delivers an amazing 10 hours of talk time on 3G networks, up to 10 hours of web browsing on Wi-Fi and LTE networks and up to 8 hours on 3G networks, and up to 10 hours of video playback and up to 40 hours of audio playback.³

iPhone 5s comes with iOS 7, the most significant iOS update since the original iPhone, engineered to support the A7 chip’s 64-bit architecture, the new iSight camera and Touch ID fingerprint sensor. iOS 7 features a stunning new user interface, completely redesigned with an elegant color palette, distinct, functional layers and subtle motion that make it feel more alive. iOS 7 has hundreds of great new features, including Control Center, Notification Center, improved Multitasking, AirDrop, enhanced Photos, Safari, Siri and introduces iTunes Radio, a free Internet radio service based on the music you listen to on iTunes®.⁴

Pricing & Availability
iPhone 5s comes in gold, silver or space gray, and will be available in the US for a suggested retail price of $199 (US) for the 16GB model and $299 (US) for the 32GB model and $399 (US) for the 64GB model.

Samsung Galaxy Gear Smart Watch : IFA 2013 Berlin

Samsung Galaxy Gear Smart Watch : IFA 2013 Berlin

The Galaxy Gear is bigger than most watches and somewhat clunky — especially on smaller wrists. It also feels like a tiny, flat smartphone slapped onto a wristband

It's a companion that connects to the phone via Bluetooth, extending its functionality and, ideally, making it less necessary to reach into your pocket for your phone.

The Memographer, which takes photos and videos directly from your wrist, as well as the Pedometer, which tracks your physical activities, are nice enough to make us want to spend more time with the Gear.

The Gear is priced at $299.

The colours are Jet Black, Mocha Gray, Wild Orange, Oatmeal Beige, Rose Gold, and Lime Green. 

Memographer feature: Voice Memo lets users capture conversations or notes from their wrists and save those voice recordings into texts on their Samsung Galaxy phones. Auto Lock this automatically locks the smartphone screen any time that Galaxy Gear is more than 1.5 meters away from the smartphone, and then unlocks the smartphone when the companion devices are near each other again. Find My Device helps users find the location of their smart devices when they have been misplaced by making them beep, illuminate and vibrate.

Specs: Processor: 800 MHz processor Display: 1.63 inch (41.4mm) Super AMOLED (320 x 320) Camera: 1.9 Megapixel BSI Sensor, Auto Focus Camera / Sound & Shot Format: MP4, HD(720p) Playback & Recording Connectivity: Bluetooth v 4.0 Memory: 4GB Internal memory ＋ 512 MB (RAM)

World's first face recognition payment system - Uniqul

World's first face recognition payment system - Uniqul


Uniqul is the world’s first face recognition payment system. It enables customers to pay without having a wallet, card or mobile phone.

As per the company , they are using military grade algorithms to make sure that the security of the system is impeccable where your credit card information is stored for payment processing.

The whole transaction will be done in less than 5 seconds.

Uniqul gives merchants the chance to know its customers – leading to a more personalized and enjoyable shopping experience.

As for the pricing of Uniqul product,the individual users will be paying a monthly subscription fee as follows: As most people mainly visit shops near their work and home Uniqul decided to set the first fee level, 0.99€, to a 1-2 km radius from an user chosen point. Radius is dependent on the number of Uniqul terminals within the area. The next level, 1.99€, covers a specified city and is perfect for users who live and work within the same city, but want to use Uniqul in a wider area. The third level, 2.99€, covers a city and nearby suburbs, and is ideal for commuters who want the shopping convenience of Uniqul both when grocery shopping close to home and when buying lunch at work. The last level, 6.99€, is targeted towards frequent travellers who want total freedom from their wallet, and covers worldwide use of Uniqul.

New Google Nexus 7 : Sleeker and more Powerful

New Google Nexus 7 : Sleeker and more Powerful

Google has introduced a sleeker version of its Nexus 7 tablet with Android 4.3 Jelly Bean and it comes with a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro 8064 processor rated at 1.5GHz.

Nexus 7 brings you the perfect mix of power and portability and features the world’s sharpest 7” tablet screen - putting over 2.3 million pixels in the palm of your hand.

With 323 pixels packed into every inch, you can read text that’s sharper than the printed page, see images more vivid than the highest quality photo magazine, and watch videos come to life in vibrant 1080p HD.

The device, which touts a high-definition LCD display, comes with 5.0MP rear-facing and 1.2MP front-facing cameras, Bluetooth 4.0 and a micro USB 2.0 port for power and data transfer.

The new mobile operating system will allow users to access restricted profiles, limiting content for certain users. This can be used not only for parental controls, but also in places such as mall kiosks to limit accessibility.


The specs were not necessarily a surprise, especially after the 16 GB and 32 GB devices popped up on Best Buy's website hours before the event. The retailer's site listed the price for the 7-inch tablet at $229.99 for 16GB of memory and $269.99 for 32GB. You can find the full listing on Best Buy's site.

Google is also shipping a new 4G LTE version, priced at $349, which comes unlocked and will work with any carrier. It boasts nine hours of video playback and 10 hours of web browsing.

The all-new Nexus 7 will be available in the US beginning July 30 (with more countries coming soon!).

Google Chromecast : Stream Content from Netfilx, Google play and more to Television

Google Chromecast : Stream Content from Netfilx, Google play and more to Television

With Chromecast, you can easily enjoy your favorite online entertainment on your HDTV—movies, TV shows, music, and more from Netflix, YouTube, Google Play, and Chrome. No more huddling around small screens and tiny speakers. Chromecast automatically updates to work with a growing number of apps.

Chromecast is an HDMI dongle that communicates with video and audio apps — including YouTube, Netflix and Pandora — running on Android or iOS, and transfers that content to your big screen HDTV.

Users can then control content on the big screen using apps on their phones or tablets. Users can also "cast" content from the Chrome browser to the Chromecast. There's also beta support for bringing any Chrome tab to the Chromecast.

Right now, the Chromecast will support:

• YouTube
• Netflix
• Google Play
• Google Music
• Chrome for Windows, Mac and Chromebook Pixel

Chromecast is priced at $35 with 3 months of unlimited Netflix access and is a competition to Apple TV.

Nokia Lumia 1020 with 41 Megapixel Camera Launched Priced at $299.99

Nokia Lumia 1020 with 41 Megapixel Camera Launched Priced at $299.99

Nokia established a new benchmark in smartphone imaging with the arrival of the Nokia Lumia 1020, boasting a second generation 41 megapixel sensor. Unlike any smartphone in the market today the Nokia Lumia 1020 reinvents zoom, enabling people to discover more detail than the eye can see. With Nokia's innovative PureView technology, including optical image stabilization, the device is able to produce some of the sharpest images possible by any digital camera.

While the resolution is top-notch -- you'll be able to take 34 and 38MP pictures, depending on your desired aspect ratio -- the 1020 will also simultaneously take 5MP oversampled shots that are much more friendly for Facebook and SkyDrive sharing

The Nokia Lumia 1020's 41 megapixel sensor features leading ZEISS optics with six physical lenses, plus optical image stabilization, delivering crystal clear pictures even in low light conditions. It also captures blur free videos with stereo sound even at the loudest concerts thanks to Nokia Rich Recording, which handles sound pressure levels six times louder than conventional smartphone microphones.

Nokia Lumia 1020 Specifications :
Display size: 11.43 cm
Display technology: ClearBlack, AMOLED
Touch screen technology: Super-sensitive touch
Main camera sensor: 41 MP, PureView
Flash type: Xenon flash
Talk time (2G): 19.1 h
Talk time (3G): 13.3 h
Music playback time: 63 h
Wireless charging: Yes, with accessory cover
Processor name: Qualcomm Snapdragon™ S4
Processor type: Dual-core 1.5 GHz
Windowa OS 8

The Nokia Lumia 1020 will arrive first on U.S. shores exclusively with AT&T, with sales expected to start on July 26 at a price of USD 299.99 on a two-year contract.

The Nokia Lumia 1020 is then expected to arrive in China and key European markets this quarter. Nokia plans to ship an exclusive variant of the device with Telefonica to select European and Latin American markets. The Nokia Lumia 1020 will be available in yellow, white and black.

It mostly confirms to the Nokia Lumia 1020 Leak shots we earlier released.

Nokia Lumia 1020 Leak Shots , Specifications ahead of Launch

Nokia Lumia 1020 Leak Shots , Specifications ahead of Launch

The Nokia Lumia 1020, which is due to be announced later today, rumors of a 41-megapixel camera with the new handset also featuring a 4.5-inch AMOLED HD+ display with a 1280 x 768 resolution wrapped in Gorilla Glass 3.

The phone will be released under Pureview branding.Nokia's PureView camera on the Lumia 1020 will include a Xenon flash and F/2.2 lens, alongside a new Pro Camera application and the company's OIS stabilization. The camera app will provide access to white balance, ISO, focus, shutter speed, and other settings through a radial menu-like interface. We understand that Nokia's camera app is feature heavy, with options to toggle aspect ratio on photos and the ability to enable a "dual capture" mode that takes images at different resolutions at the same time.

Inside the phone will use a 1.5 GHz dual-core processor, although which exactly still remains to be seen. Then there is 2GB of RAM to play with and 32GB of internal storage. 7GB of SkyDrive space will also be included.

Keep tuned to get more on the 1020 later today, with Nokia's dedicated event starting today in UK.

Moto X from Google gets $500 million Marketing Boost

Moto X from Google gets $500 million Marketing Boost

Google is expected to allow its Motorola hardware unit to spend several hundred million dollars—and possibly upward of $500 million—to market the highly-anticipated device in the U.S. and some overseas markets, including in Europe.

The Moto X is the most intriguing of Motorola's upcoming phones. It's the first phone to be created and built entirely under Google's stewardship, and it carries the hopes of a reborn Motorola that can once again impress with its hardware. Motorola has already announced that the Moto X will be available sometime this summer, and the company has made a point to highlight that the phone will be assembled in the United States.

The Leaked images of new Moto X though reveal some glimpses of the phone but the large part of the phone is still under cover. At D11, CEO Dennis Woodside revealed that the Moto X would be manufactured in a 480,000-square-foot facility in Texas, making it the first smartphone to be assembled in the US.

Another selling point will be customization. Google is letting buyers of the Moto X to choose colors on the phone's front and back and engravings.

According to various reports it will have a dual-core processor, probably a Qualcomm S4 Snapdragon clocked at around 1.7GHz, 16GB of onboard storage, a 720p display and a 10-megapixel camera. See you soon Moto !!!

Voice calls back in Gmail via Hangouts Calling

Voice calls back in Gmail via Hangouts Calling


For those of you who have taken the plunge and are using desktop Hangouts in Gmail, Google+, and the Chrome extension, Google has heard loud and clear that you miss the ability to make calls from Gmail, so earlier this week, Google announced that it's back - and better than before! Even
better: calls to the US and Canada are now free from all countries where Hangouts calling is available. And international rates remain super, super low.

Launch also improves the desktop calling experience in a number of ways. For example: you can add multiple phone numbers and video participants to the same call; and you can play sound effects (like applause or laughter) with the Google Effects app.

To make a call from Hangouts, just look for the new phone icon in Gmail, or for the new "Call a phone" menu item in Google+ and the Chrome extension. And of course: if you haven't yet tried Hangouts in Gmail, you can always click your profile photo in the chat list and select "Try the new Hangouts."

Shazam gets $40 million backing from tycoon Carlos Slim

Shazam gets $40 million backing from tycoon Carlos Slim

Smartphone app developer Shazam has found an unlikely ally in the form of Carlos Slim, one of the world's richest men, who is investing $40 million to back the development of the start-up best known for helping music fans identify catchy songs.

Slim, ranked the world's top billionaire by Forbes magazine with a net worth of $73 billion, was brought in by one of Shazam's venture capital owners, Silicon Valley fund Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

British-based Shazam will use the funds to accelerate its expansion into television, where its recognition software can tune into an advertisement's soundtrack then link viewers directly to the brand's website.

Since its last round of funding in 2011, Shazam has achieved tremendous growth and expanded its service from music into television and advertising with the following results:

• The user base has more than doubled to 350 million people around the globe
• The number of monthly active users has tripled to over 70 million as people increasingly use Shazam on their mobile device to have a deeper experience of music, TV and advertising
• Sustained growth of more than two million new users each week.
• Sales of digital goods are now over $300 million a year through affiliate partners like iTunes, a figure that is doubling annually. 

 “Shazam’s expansion into television has moved the company into an entirely new phase of growth with interactive advertising generating new sources of revenue and partnerships with broadcasters encouraging a broader group of people to use Shazam more frequently.”  said Shazam CEO Rich Riley.  “We look forward to working with America Movil to launch these services in the region as we seek to increase our ubiquity throughout the world.”

Slim's investment takes the total backing that Shazam has secured since 2009 to $72 million.

Source : Reuters

JOBS : New Steve Jobs Movie

JOBS : New Steve Jobs Movie

Jobs is the New movie which is being made on the life of ex-Apple CEO Steve Jobs and how he became what he was.


The story of Steve Jobs' ascension from college dropout into one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of the 20th century is touted as the one of the most awaited movies in the technology world.

The role of Steve jobs is played by Ashton Kutcher.

Director: Joshua Michael Stern

Writer: Matt Whiteley

Stars: Ashton Kutcher, Josh Gad, J.K. Simmons

The World’s Fastest Ship - Incat High Speed Ferry Excels

Australian ferry builder Incat Tasmania’s world first high speed dual-fuel vehicle and passenger ferry is now officially fast with a lightship speed of 58.1 knots - (107.6 kilometres an hour) and a thrill for the designers of the 99 metre high speed vessel Francisco (Incat hull 069).

This is certainly the fastest ship in the world......of course there’s a few speed boats that could surpass 58 knots but nothing that could carry 1000 passengers and 150 cars, and with an enormous duty free shop on board.

Courtesy : Incat