HTC has a new flagship Android device, launched last Tuesday, the HTC One X+.

This Android phone uses a processor of 1.7 GHz quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 with 64 Gigabytes of internal memory and a 2, 100 mAh battery and using Android 4.1, this phone is a monster. It has the capability also to giving it up to six hours (50%) more talk time.

It has been said that HTC One X+ stole the spotlight of Samsung Galaxy S III.




HTC is launching the latest version of its Sense UI: Sense 4+ and it means that this new phone will have many great software improvements including “Tap and Go” pairing with Beats speakers and a camera mode of Self-portrait.

HTC also release a new web service that called “Get Started,” that lets users easily set-up and personalize their mobile experience from a desktop browser.

HTC One X+ will be in stores across Europe and North Asia starting this October and across South Asia this coming November.

Source: Mashable
Photo: Mashable

The tech giant released a minimalist picture which has a text “It’s almost here” and below is the big number “12” with a shadow of number “5.” And according to some reports, these numbers signify the release date of Apple’s newest iPhone, the iPhone 5.

September 12, 2012 is the date they are talking about. On this date, it said that it is the Apple’s first big event since the death of its father, Steve Jobs.

People are expecting that iPhone 5 will be thinner than previous iPhones. And there is also a rumor that this will have a bigger screen, supported with a nano-SIM card, LTE connectivity, thinner battery and a smaller dock connector.

For some tech savvy, Apple is a very secretive organization when it comes to their new products, so it is hard to find out what are they really keep.

Rumors spread that the current 30-pin connector at the base of the iPhone will also be replaced with a smaller one. Further, iPhone 5 will also offer a 4G high-speed wireless broadband connectivity in US in order to compete Android devices which has this capability.

And various reports said that the new device will be released to the market a week or two after the event, to allow Apple fans to have on their hands this latest gadget.

The event will be taking a week from now, it will be on September 12 at 01 a.m. Philippine Time.

The newest Flagship mobile phone of Nokia, The Nokia Lumia 920. When I read the specs, it truly made me say “WOW”.

Why “WoW”?

Have you seen a phone that takes photos that is blur-free and also the video when you are in any light condition? I don’t think so, but this Lumia 920 truly gives that, because it uses the PureView technology which has an Optical Image Stabilization and Carl Zeiss lens. Lumia 920 has also a 4.5” PureMotion HD+ display. “What the WoW!” It has a built-in camera with 8.7 Megapixel with a Short Pulse High Power Dual LED Flash for the camera. You can zoom in up to 4x and a camera focal length of 26.0 mm. Don’t worry guys it has a secondary camera that will give you a high resolution of 1280x960 pixels.

Camera features
•    Nokia PureView camera
•    Touch focus
•    Landscape orientation
•    Geo-tagging
•    Auto and manual white balance
•    Still image editor
•    Optical Image Stabilization
•    Lenses applications
•    Sensor size 1/3 inch
•    Sensor type: BSI
•    True 16:9 sensor
•    Pixel size 1.4 µm

Camera image formats
JPEG/Exif 

I never believe that this phone exists, but there are more features why it makes me “WoW”.

If you are an internet savvy, don’t worry! Because Lumia 920 has a WiFi network connectivity and WLAN IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n, “Wow, It means that I don’t need a Laptop, anymore?” To those who loves file sharing, Bluetooth 3.1 is your best partner.

It has an internal memory of 1000 MB or 1 Gigabytes. And you can have a mass memory storage of up to 32GB and 7GB in SkyDrive.

It has a Dual-core processor of 1.5GHz and Lumia 920 uses a Snapdragon S4 processor brand. According to Nokia Lumia 920 website, Snapdragon is a type of CPU core that enable your gadget to perform more applications like gaming, photography and business and personal productivity. To learn more about Snapdragon, click this link.

These are the other specifications of Nokia Lumia 920

• Platform: Windows 8
• User Input: Touch
• Battery Model: BP-4GW
• Battery Capacity: 2000mAh
• Battery Voltage: 3.7 Volts
• Maximum 2G/3G standby time: 400 hours
• Maximum Music Playback time: 67 hours
• Dolby headphone support
• one-piece polycarbonate body, and ceramic zirconium camera detailing and side keys.
• Dimension (Height x Width): 130.3  mm x 70.8  mm
• Thickness1: 10.7  mm
• Weight: 185  g

Photo: Nokia Philippines

O+ 8.7 Android Phone

Everyone loves this new mobile phone in town.

Introducing O+ phones, which first seen at Eat Bulaga. According to a website, it is an American phone company.

What is beautiful about this mobile phone?

This is not an ordinary TOUCHSCREEN phone but it has a capability to detect even just a single sway of you hand. If you want to  change the music or song, in just one sway of your hand you can change now the song without touching it.

And now, this mobile is available here in the Philippines to share its high-tech  features.

Where can I buy this?

Don't worry, here's the list of stores that sell O+ phones via Mattscradle.



Manila
Hello, 5th Ave – Robinsons Ermita
MX Midtown in Ermita
MX San Lazaro Mobilizer – SM San Lazaro, SM Sta. Mesa
MJ’s Appliances

Mandaluyong
Teleponetics – SM Megamall
MX Megamall
MX Pioneer

Las Pinas
GSN Wireless – SM Southmall

Makati
Avant – Greenbelt 4
MX Cash and Carry
Comcentre Shop – Parksquare 1

Muntinlupa
Avant in Alabang Town Center
MX Festival
GSN Wireless – Festival Mall Jr.
MX Muntinlupa

Caloocan
Cellway and Digicom in Victory Mall

Valenzuela
Intogadgets
Mobilizer
Techno Mobile
MX Valenzuela

Taguig
Market Market
Intogadgets
Comcentre Shop

San Juan
Mr Dynamic Telecm – Virramall
Intogadgets – Virramall
Mobilizer – Bridgeway and Bridgeway 2, Greenhills

Rizal
Techno Mobile – Sta. Lucia
Techno Mobile – SM Taytay
Comcentre Shop – Sta. Lucia
MX Sta. Lucia

Quezon City
Citylight, Techno Mobile – SM Fairview
Avant – Trinoma Mall
MX North EDSA
MX Trinoma
MX Cubao
Jr. MX Novaliches
Jr. MX E. Rodriguez
Jr. MX COD Cubao
Jr. MX Anonas

Pasay City
MX SM Mall of Asia

Pasig City
Jr. MX branch in Pasig

Marikina City
MX Marikina
Techno Mobile – SM Marikina
Citylight

Malabon
Techno Mobile Citisquare 1 and 2
Digicom

Are you looking for a phone that truly gives you a functionality galore  without spending so much money?

Cherry Mobile’s W3 has a Dual SIM or Dual Standby capability. If you’re a busy type of person and has many contacts from different telecommunication companies, this capability will really help you maintain your communication up.

Internet lover? Don’t worry because W3 has a WiFi capability to make you still connected to the world wide web. Explore the world of social networks because of its WiFi. And to make your connection super fast, it has a built-in Opera Mini 10.1 to experience the fullest connection you want.
   
Photography lover? Don’t worry! W3 has the power to capture your happy moments using its 3.0 Megapixel Camera.



W3 Specifications:

• Screen Type: TFT Capacitive
• Camera: at the back with 3 Megapixel
• Memory: Micro SD up to 8GB
• Entertainment: Multimedia Player and FM Radio
• Data Connectivity: WiFi, GPRS, EDGE, MMS, Bluetooth, USB Port
• CPU: Proprietary Single Core
• Cherry Zone: Cherry Music, Cherry Mail, Cherry Messenger and Cherry Shop

Sony has a new baby, the Sony Xperia ion.

Xperia ion has a fast capture 12MP camera and what’s best about it? Having no light is no more a problem because it uses an Exmor R™  sensor that uses on a mobile camera to bring pictures more light.

Are you a Video lover or Photography hobbyist?

This is the right phone for you because you can share your HD videos and your pictures in a crisp and vibrant colors on its 4.6 inches 1080p HD reality Display powered by the Mobile BRAVIA Engine. It makes the phone increase its images to make it brighter and words became sharper without the help of zoom in. It has an HD 720p front-facing cam that makes your video chat happy all the time.
   

Watching on HD Television

You can easily share photos and videos on a larger HD TV screen. Using its SmartDock for Xperia ion to connect your phone to your TV through HDMI.  By starting the special TV launcher home screen and control the contents of your phone using the television remote.

Here the Specifications of Sony Xperia ion:

Weight:

• 5.1 ounces
• 144 grams

Size:

• 5.2 x 2.7 x 0.4 inches
• 133.0 x 68.0 x 10.6 mm

Screen Specs:

• 4.55" touchscreen - scratch-resistant TFT
• 16 million colors, 1280 x 720 pixels

Platform:

• Google Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)
• 1.5 GHz Qualcomm Dual Core processor

Camera:

• 12 megapixel camera with auto focus
• 16x digital zoom, LED flash

Battery Power:

• Talk time (up to) 10 hours [1]
• Standby time (up to) 400 hours [1]
• Music listening time: 12 hours [1]

FOR ILLUSTRATIVE PURPOSES ONLY.

Facebook releases a new feature for mobile phones. Introducing "Find Friends Nearby", which it will help you find people withing your vicinity.

On this feature, if you want to add Mark Perez on your Facebook without being confuse by the thousands of other Facebook users with that same name, you have the power to do that now.

To function this kind of feature, the person you are looking for and yourself should both turn on this feature.

Do you find it useful or not?


Courtesy of Youtube.com and Mashable

SoftBank Corp, a Japanese company, announced that they were planning to start selling a smartphone that could detect radiation. Some parts of Japan are still off-limits and fears about radiation levels still exist. Pantone 5 107SH is the first smartphone to have the radiation detector as a company's response to the radiation concern.

Geiger Counters are the traditional devices used for measuring radiation, but according SoftBank founder and president, Masayoshi Son, smartphones are easier to carry and to use. Pantone 5 has also the ability to keep track off and display radiation location data by the use of Internet maps.

Pantone 5 will start to sell on July.

It is very convenient and very helpful to the people who are afraid of contacting any radiation and also to the countries that uses Nuclear Power Plants.



[via SmartPlanet]

Are sick of unwanted calls on your Android phone?

Introducing Call Blocker from NQ Mobile. This application is FREE where it allows you to block  with blacklists, block SPAM SMS, back up contacts, clear calling history, etc.  The latest Call Blocker with Premium features can now support Chinese, English, German, French, Portugal and Spanish languages. By blocking those unwanted calls, you could  protect your privacy.


 
There is a unique feature on this app. Its "Private Space" where all your private contacts', messages and call logs will automatically put on that space. And you could keep secrets by hiding the icon as displayed on the main screen, so nobody knows that you are using Private Space. You could also make more face spaces and if anyone wants your password, you could show her/him the fake one.

Call Blocker is friendly also to Android 2.0/2.1 (Eclair), Android 2.2 (Froyo), Android 2.3+ (Ginger Bread) and Android 3.0 (Honeycomb).

Coming Soon, New Samsung product using OLED displays. Samsung is currently selecting a new trademark terms for their new products that will use OLED displays; the terms are WAMOLED and YOUM.

To those who don't know what is OLED. OLED is stands for Organic Light Emitting Diode, a technology that 10 times thinner than your existing LCD TV. OLED is far advance than LCD or LED display because you can fold it or rolled it like a paper. It acts like any other colored display television or even your iPhone screen.

Samsung Mobile Display Co. filed a trademarks for new loop of AMOLED technology. It will be incorporated into a line of flexible AMOLED displays. These are the following trademarks filed by Samsung with the United States Patent and Trademark Office

• WAMOLED, 
• FAMOLED, 
• PAMOLED, 
• TAMOLED 
• YOUM.

YOUM flexible display, according to Samsung, uses a Thin Film Transistor (TFT) technology, allowing the display to be thinner that its traditional six-layered LCD counterpart. Unlike OLEDs, which use two layers of glass, the flexibility of the YOUM display is feasible thanks to its use of plastic and a thin film, thereby contributing to the display's light weight and durability. Samsung even goes so far as to call the displays "unbreakable".

The following pictures are drafted mock concepts of this flexible display technology that could revolutionize all sorts of devices. It could be an umbrella, a computer, a laptop monitor, a musical instruments and etc.






Info from Digital Trends

Samsung’s Galaxy Series Family has finally added their new family member, introducing Samsung Galaxy Mini 2. This Samsung Galaxy Mini 2 has a processor of 800 MHz and has as much as 512Mb of RAM which means that it runs faster than any mobile phones. It has a capability to multitask.

Samsung Galaxy Mini 2 has a bigger screen of about 3.27 inches with a resolution of 320X480 pixels HVGA screen. The platform it uses is Android 2.3 Gingerbread and it is good for the people that loves taking pictures because it has 3.15 Megapixel camera.

Here are the full specifications of the Samsung Galaxy Mini 2 S6500:

•     3.27 inches Capacitive Touchscreen(320×480 HVGA screen)
•     Multitouch
•     320 x 480 pixels, 3.27 inches (~176 ppi pixel density)
•     800MHz Adreno 200 GPU Qualcomm MSM7227
•     3.15 MP camera (2048×1536 pixels)
•     VGA video recording at 25 frames/second
•     MicroUSB v2.0 and 3.5mm earphone jack
•     Wi-Fi, Bluetooth v3.0
•     3G Connectivity, HSDPA 7.2Mbps
•     GPS/A-GPS
•     Accelerometer sensor, Proximity sensor and Digital Compass
•     1300mAh Li-on battery
•     Weight     105.3 g
•     Battery           Standard battery, Li-Ion 1300 mAh
•     Stand-by     Up to 540 h (2G) / Up to 420 h (3G)
•     Talk time     Up to 11 h 20 min (2G) / Up to 6 h 50 min (3G)
•     Memory     Card slot     microSD, up to 32 GB
•     Internal     4 GB storage, 512 MB RAM