Samsung Finally Reveals The Galaxy S5 – The New King Of Android Phones

The wait is finally over as Samsung has unveiled the Samsung Galaxy S5 at the
 Mobile WorldCongress 2014. Building up on the highly successful and wildly
sold Galaxy S4, the new Galaxy S5 is quite an improvement over its predecessor.

The phone hosts a 2.5 Ghz quad-core processor with 2GB of Ram. To support the
 added firepower, the phone also boasts a bigger battery which samsung claims,
 will last 20% longer than Galaxy S4 on a single charge. So when it comes to the
raw processing power,Samsung has once again ensured that its flagship phone
 has the best hardware in the competition.
The S5 has a 5.1-inch Super AMOLED panel sporting the same 1920×1080 pixel
 full HD resolution as before. Just like the S4, this offers superb visual quality,
 though with a slightly lower 430ppi pixel density. The display offers great contrast
and brightness levels while color  reproduction is pretty amazing.

The phone has a 16 Megapixel camera at the back that also supports 4K video
 recording. The enhanced camera also offers real time HDR processing for
further enhancing the photo quality. Overall, the camera interface has been
 improved and the picture quality is phenomenal.

For those of you wishing for something new in design, you’ll be disappointed
 as the phone retains most of the design features of its predecessor. The
 curves and the build is almost the same as the S4. However, the back has
 been redesigned with a new soft dimple finish. The phone is being offered
 in 4 colours, black, white, blue and gold. With the new finish, Samsung
has finally gotten away with the plastic, glossy finish seen in the Galaxy
line before.

So whats cool about the new Samsung Galaxy S5 other than increased processing
power and a larger screen? Well, the phone has a fingerprint scanner embedded
 in the front home button. This fingerprint scanner will offer greater device security
 and privacy. Furthermore, there is even a heart rate monitor at the back of the
phone that can be used to monitor your heart rate.

The phone runs on Android 4.3 Kitkat and hosts several Samsung specific apps
like before. There are also some trivial changes to the front interface which
distinguish it from the S4. The Phone will hit the market in April of this year with
the price tag still a secret. However, there is no doubt that the S5 will sell like a hot
cake like its predecessor because it offers great  refinements and is undoubtedly
the best Android phone in the market right now.

Would you buy the new S5? Let us know in the comments section!

Nokia Finally Releases Its First Android Based SmartPhone. Here Is All About It

BY UBER GEEK - FEBRUARY, 24TH 2014

For those of you who know the finer details of their smartphones, you’ll know that Nokia’s smartphones have been running different variants of Windows OS for mobile devices. But this year, the Finnish company took things in a completely different direction by unveiling their first series of Android smartphones at the 2014 Mobile World Congress.

The company has revealed it’s new Nokia X series of Android smartphones which will run Android OS, with a few modifications. This Nokia X is not only the name of the smartphone series but also the name of the operating system.

This “three way mashup” uses the Android 4.1 as a base and adds element of the Asha and Windows phone lineups creating an OS that can run Android apps, although with no access to the Play Store since Nokia will be curating the user’s app experience.

Currently, the range will have three phones spanned over three different price ranges. The lowest in the range is the Nokia X, a phone with a 4-inch screen and a dual core 1GHz Snapdragon processor. The next in line is the Nokia X+, which has a larger internal memory and a slot for a micro SD card. The phone at the high-end, the Nokia XL, is also the largest (as the name suggests) and a 5-inch screen, a 5 megapixel rear camera and a 2 megapixel front camera.

This new development by the world famous mobile company is certainly amazing, especially since Windows and Google have been competitors in the tech market for years now. But the X series of phones will give users a slightly different experience from what they would be expecting upon first hearing the phrase “Android Nokia”.

Twitter outrage as WhatsApp gone down for hours days after Facebook purchase

By: Dion Dassanayake

twitter users first posted their frustration around 7pm this evening after opening the messaging service and seeing it fail to connect to servers.

Two days ago the app available for Apple iPhones, Blackberrys and Android devices was bought by Facebook for $19 billion (£11.4bn).

WhatsApp took to Twitter around 8.15pm to confirm that the service is experiencing problems and they are working to fix the issues.It is not clear if the problem is localised to certain regions or if it is affecting users worldwide.
the WhatsApp Status account tweeted: "Sorry we currently experiencing server issues. we hope to be back up and recovered shortly."

Tech website BGR India reported that a WhatsApp spokesperson they spoke to did not give them a timeframe for how long it would take to fix the hitch.

WhatsApp users came in droves to Twitter to tweet about not being able to access the service with many joking about how soon it came after the Facebook acquisition.

Twitter user The Craft posted: "Facebook buys WhatsApp. WhatsApp stops working. FAB."

Sophie Thompson tweeted: "Its like Facebook bought Whatsapp and purposely stopped it from working so everyone would resort back to group messages on Facebook instead".

Tweeter Liat added: "Facebook is in a relationship with WhatsApp and it's complicated".
On Thursday Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg hailed the acquisition of WhatsApp and said the service was on track for one billion users worldwide.
Speaking about WhatsApp, Mr Zuckerberg said: "No one in the history of the world has ever done something like this."

Apple, Google cracking down on 'Flappy Bird' clones

By Andrew Webster In the wake of Flappy Bird's demise, an army of clones has risen up to take its place — but Apple and Google may now be preventing that from happening. Currently when you search "flappy" in Google Play or the App Store, you'll see game like Flappy Fish, Flappy Pig, or Splashy Fish pop up. However, several developers are reporting that both Apple and Google have since clamped down on obvious clones, disallowing games that are clearly built to cash in on Flappy Bird's sudden burst of popularity. On Friday, Ken Carpenter, from studio Mind Juice Media, tweeted that his game Flappy Dragon was rejected by Apple, with the company telling him "we found your app name attempts to leverage a popular app." After that initial tweet, several developers responded saying that they had seen or received similar responses from both Apple and Google. In some cases, it's making developers consider changing or resubmitting games they've already made. Developer Paul Pridham from Mad Garden, for example, who previously worked on titles like Punch Quest, is debating whether to resubmit his cthulhu-themed clone Flapthulhu to the App Store with a new name. You can currently play the game on Windows. An Apple spokesperson said that the company isn't simply rejecting games with "flappy" in the name, but instead titles that are clearly trying to trick customers, making them think their app is replacing or associated with the original. Google has yet to comment. According to Carpenter, when Flappy Dragon was pulled from Google Play, the company told him "do not use irrelevant, misleading, or excessive keywords in apps descriptions, titles, or metadata." "I had included a sentence about Flappy Dragon being the best flappy game now thatFlappy Bird was dead," Carpenter tells The Verge. When he submitted a second time, with the description removed, the app was again rejected. He was finally able to get the game on Google Play by changing the name to Derpy Dragon, which is currently available to download. It also appears that the decision to crack down on clones doesn't just impact new games submitted to the app store, as several current games appear to have changed their names. As Ouriel Ohayon points out, Flappy Bee, one of the early games to take advantage of the "flappy" name, is now known as Jumpy Bee. Whether or not the name was changed in response to a request from Apple is currently unclear, but it seems that both Apple and Google have simply been slow to react to the wave of "flappy" games hitting their stores. For those developers who were able to get in early, they managed to leach some success off of a very lucrative game. Everyone else looking to make a quick buck appears to be out of luck. "It makes no sense to me," says Carpenter.

Look At These Big-Screen iPhone 6 Concept Photos

by Jordan Crook

In 2012, after five generations of iPhone, Apple switched up the size of their flagship smartphone. Rather than sporting a 3.5-inch display, as it had for five years, the iPhone 5had a 4-inch display making it longer, thinner and lighter than any generation before it.

This year, it’s entirely possible that the same shift will occur, with reports suggesting that Apple is working on two separate models, a 4.7-inch version and an XL 5.5-inch version.

Wondering what that might look like?

So is designer Federico Ciccarese, who has put together these concept designs for larger screened iPhones with metal frames.

Take a look:

Of course, there’s no guarantee that Apple’s iPhones will look anything like this. They may very well keep the flat back design language of current models, rather than Ciccarese’s curve (which is likely in homage to the much-beloved iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS).

Plus, the edge-to-edge display is a bit of a stretch.

But rumor season for the iPhone has only begun — now is the time to dream big.

Google Adds 'Relationships' Option to Voice Search on Android

by Adario Strange

Another piece of Google's voice search puzzle fell into place on Tuesday as the search giant announced that Android users will now be able to voice search on their smartphones by relationship terms in addition to name searches.

The update, as described by Google, will bring up any contact you've designated as having a particular familial connection to you in the "relationship" field in your contacts tool on Android. This additional functionality is meant to allow a user to now speak a phrase such as "call mom," or "text sister" to initiate those actions without the user needing to say the person's name as it's listed in their contacts.

In order to launch contacts on your Android handset via voice you first need to allow the Google search app to access your contacts and the profile information attached to each person or place.

However, during repeated testing of the update on a Moto G handset running Android 4.4.2, we were unable to get the relationship voice function to work automatically, despite a number of attempts using various listing configurations. Rather than simply recognizing the relationship assigned to the contact in the People contacts app, Google still asked "who is your brother?" prompting us to pick a contact to assign the designation of "brother."

Despite that, the system's "name" search by voice worked perfectly, which indicates that the update, which is being rolled out on Google's side, may be reaching some users sooner than others.

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