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CES 2012: RIM announces BlackBerry 7.1 OS update

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CES 2012: RIM announces BlackBerry 7.1 OS update

Research in Motion has formally announced the BlackBerry 7.1 update for its smartphones. Finally, some much demanded features like mobile hotspot, WiFi calling, universal search etc will become available. RIM has also introduced a BlackBerry Tags feature that involves using a Near Field Communication chip in select handsets. RIM will be rolling out the BlackBerry 7.1 OS update in phases and Indian users may have to wait a few weeks.

BlackBerry smartphone users will be delighted to receive a feature rich update for their handsets any time starting this week. Of course, the roll out would be region-wise after intensive testing with mobile operators.

The heavily demanded feature finally embraces BlackBerry smartphones and will let users turn their smartphone into a mobile hotspot for sharing the data connection. A BlackBerry 7.1 OS updated smartphone can connect up to five smartphones/laptops/tablets at a time. In certain regions, the WiFi calling feature will let users make calls over the WiFi network in select areas only.

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BlackBerry Maps has been updated to show special offers, discount coupons and other deals for select regions. We doubt it will be available for India immediately upon release.

RIM finally makes use of Near Field Communication in select smartphones that have the BlackBerry Tag feature. BlackBerry Tag activates the connection to share files, contacts and multimedia over BlackBerry Messenger.

Even BlackBerry Messenger gets a well deserved update with loads of customisations in store for fanatics. Apart from animated avatars and a new set of smileys, BlackBerry Messenger now supports the increased character count to 160 characters for personal messages. Besides that, users can now choose from ten colours for chat bubbles. Camera integration lets a captured image be set as a BlackBerry avatar.

RIM has also revamped universal search, which now gets auto-suggest feature with Bing search engine support. The new BlackBerry Curve 9360 and 9380 smartphones have an FM radio software and users can now enjoy listening to their favourite radio stations anytime.

CES 2012: Motorola Droid 4, Droid Razr Maxx unveiled

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CES 2012: Motorola Droid 4, Droid Razr Maxx unveiled

Motorola has introduced two new smartphone models running 2.3 Gingerbread at the on-going Consumer Electronics Show 2012 in Las Vegas, USA. The new Droid Razr Maxx is basically a better version of Droid Razr XT910. Both these smartphones come with Android 2.3 Gingerbread and can be upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update that is due in few months.

Motorola had launched Droid Razr back in October 2011 and only two months after that the company has introduced a better version – Droid Razr Maxx. However, the Droid Razr Maxx will be released in the USA with CDMA network support and there is no word as of now if its GSM version would be released elsewhere. This phone has been constructed using Kevlar plastics and the display is built using technology.

The Droid Razr Maxx features 4.3-inch Advanced touchscreen display with qHD (960×540) pixel resolution. This handset is just 9mm thin and packs a 3300mAh battery that offers battery life of 21 hours.

Under the Kevlar Plastics built chassis lies a dual-core 1.2 GHz mobile coupled with 1 RAM and 16 GB ROM out of which only 11.5 GB is available to the user. Besides, Motorola will include a 16 GB in the package. Droid Razr Maxx comes with an 8 megapixel camera at the back and 1.3 megapixel camera in the front.

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Motorola Droid 4 is the fourth generation smartphone in the Droid branding family and features network support. This smartphone comes with same design philosophy as the Droid Razr and sports a slide out full keyboard.

The Droid 4 features 4-inch touchscreen display that supports qHD (960×540) pixel and is said to be built with scratch or scrape resistant glass. On top of that, Motorola states that the smartphone comes with water-repellent nanocoating for splash resistance. Motorola claims it to be the thinnest 4G LTE smartphone measuring just half an inch.

By default the Droid 4 comes with a 16 GB on-board memory and carries a with up to 32 GB memory card accommodating capacity. Motorola has added Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread update by default and would be upgradable to the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Motorola claims of adding government grade (FIPS 140-2) for email, calendar and contacts apps.

The Droid 4 handset has an 8-megapixel camera with capability of 1080p HD and the front facing 1.3 megapixel camera capable of recording 720p HD. Other features include FM Radio, WiFi, 2.1 and A-GPS.

Both Motorola Droid 4 and Droid Razr Maxx smartphones will support Verizon’s CDMA networks exclusively in the USA. At this moment, there is no information available about the price of these handsets.

CES 2012: Dragon Go comes to Android

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CES 2012: Dragon Go comes to Android

Nuance Communications, a US-based multinational software developer that provides speech and imaging applications, has announced its latest innovation for devices at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, USA.

Named Dragon Go, the service allows users to access mobile content simply by using their voice from over 200 trusted and reliable sources that include AccuWeather, Ask.com, Bing, Dictionary.com, ESPN, Facebook, Twitter and Wikipedia, to name a few.

The software application searches local as well as international data on the basis of what users say. Dragon Go combines learning and innovations from Nuance’s Dragon voice recognition and linguistics engine to make speech recognition simpler and more accurate, thereby providing better support than many existing applications available today.

Dragon Go has been launched internationally as of now, but it will soon make its way for the Indian audience.

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Sources familiar with the development had told The Mobile Indian, “We are ready with a new speech recognition application for the Indian market and will be launching it soon.” Sources further added that this application will not be just a replica of the international version but will be fully optimised and trained to understand Indian accents, which will be a great leap for any speech recognition software.

Nuance had some time back released its Dragon naturally speaking software. The helps users create emails, documents and spreadsheets. Users are just required to talk to their mobile device, and the software converts speech to text. As per the user’s requirement, voice can be converted to SMS, email or any other text document.

Although there has been no information on Dragon Go’s price, we hope that it will carry a user friendly price tag to be used on a larger scale.

Driving assistant app on Android &#151 iOnRoad

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Driving assistant app on Android &#151 iOnRoad

The idea behind iOnRoad is to help people avoid collisions while driving, and with most users carrying smartphones with high cameras and processing power, this is very useful.

The app is available for free download on Android. It uses a camera, which keeps an eye on the road ahead, monitors traffic and warns the user at relevant times. It comes either with audible alert, or colour code. The app may run either right in front so the users can view it all the time, or it may run in the background.

It takes some time when the smartphone gets the signal, but within 30 seconds it shows the current speed, a green lane and the vehicle in front is showed with colour codes and risk levels. The app helps if users have had a slight lapse of concentration.

The iOnRoad also keeps an eye on lane drift, as well as of cars ahead that suddenly slow down. Currently, the app works well with any device that has a 1 GHz processor, or runs Android Froyo or higher.

The app iOnRoad improves driving for users with advanced smartphones. The app asks users for permission to take pictures and videos from the phone’s camera, and it accesses the phone’s features to make calls as well. It also asks for permission to write in the USB storage and the card, and accesses the device GPS system. The app is not all that seasoned in the market, so users need to be careful before they grant these permissions.

CES 2012: Nvidia announces direct touch tech for Tegra 3

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CES 2012: Nvidia announces direct touch tech for Tegra 3

Nvidia, the popular graphics and mobile chip solutions provider, has announced its latest touch technology, Direct Touch, for devices based on its Tegra 3 processors, at the ongoing Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, USA. The touch technology, according to its creators, will be far better and much more accurate than the technologies we use today.

However, it will only be applicable to upcoming Tegra 3 devices like the Asus Transformer Prime, Lenovo IdeaPad K2, and Acer Iconia Tab A700.

The Direct Touch technology allows applications to recognise touch and gestures, resulting in better and smoother actions when coupled with the latest quad core and a speedier graphics engine.

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This is only basic information revealed by Nvidia as of now, but more about the applications and devices is expected to come soon. Hopefully, we will also witness the revelation of a new Application Programming Interface (API) from Nvidia, which will allow developers to make use of this new technology to the fullest.

As The Mobile Indian reported earlier, Asus Transformer Prime is expected to come to India in February this year, and we can hope for the arrival of this technology with the tablet during its launch then.

So, until we get more information, stay tuned.

CES 2012: Nvidia shows Rs 13K tab with quad core processor

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CES 2012: Nvidia shows Rs 13K tab with quad core processor

Popular graphics and mobile chip solutions provider, Nvidia, has showcased a 7 inch tablet, which the company claims has identical hardware specs to the Transformer Prime tablet but with a much pocket friendlier price tag of almost Rs 13,000. The device is being manufactured by Asus.

The tablet, which was unveiled during the ongoing Consumer Electronics Show 2012 in Las Vegas, USA, has not been named and will compete with low cost tablets like Amazon’s Kindle Fire.

Nvidia’s chief executive officer, Jen-Hsun Huang, did not share much about the specifications of the tablet during his presentation at CES. However, he said that the 7 inch tablet will be based on Nvidia’s latest quad core – Tegra 3, and will feature the latest Google Ice Cream Sandwich operating system.

Huang also pointed out the fact that the Nvidia Tegra 3 processor is not exactly a quad core processor as it also features a fifth core that is meant for low performance computing and applications.

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Asus Transformer Prime is the first tablet ever to feature the Nvidia Tegra 3 processor and it will soon get the Android Ice Cream Sandwich update as well. Asus also plans to come out with a version of the Transformer Prime tablet as soon as March this year. Besides, the tablet will also get the capability via an update which is expected in just a few weeks.

The tablet is expected to be announced by the second quarter of this year but till now no official confirmation has been received on this.

Follow India-Aus cricket series with Cricbuzz app

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With fever of India-Australia cricket series at all time high, cricket-focused website Cricbuzz has announced a new SMS based application that will let one access cricket updates on his/her mobile phone anytime, anywhere.

Since it is an SMS based application, you can catch all the cricket action live on your mobile phone, even if you haven’t subscribed or GPRS services. The app, named @cricbuzz, is a simple SMS base brought to you by txtWeb that lets you keep track of live scores, match highlights, cricket trivia, coaching tips, country schedule, news, etc.

You just need to send an SMS to +919243342000 to get the updates. To get the live scores for India matches, you have to send @cricbuzz; for detailed scores for current live India matches, send @cricbuzz score; for statistics of current match, send @cricbuzz stats; to cricket trivia, send @cricbuzz triva, to get International schedule, send @cricbuzz schedule; and for latest cricket news, send @cricbuzz news.

Vimeo launches app for Android, Kindle Fire and Windows Phone

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Vimeo, a video viewing which is already there on the iOS, is now coming to Android, Kindle Fire and Windows Phone. The apps allow users to like, share and comment on the videos, conduct search and of course watch their videos, just the way users do it on the website of Vimeo.

Users can download Vimeo for free and they will be able to run it on any device which runs on Gingerbread or above. The stock sharing options of are also there, so they will be able to share videos through different social networks. To watch a video on the Vimeo app, users do not need to log in but if they do so, they get all the features such as commenting, saving and accessing Watch Later list as well.

The iOS version of the app will be getting an update in the later part of January, which will bring a new design for iPhone version while optimising it for the iPad.

Commenting on the development, Joe Schmitt, lead mobile developer at Vimeo said, “With mobile devices making up approximately 15 per cent of our site traffic, we recognise the importance of expanding our platforms to allow people to access Vimeo from as many devices as possible.”

CES 2012: Motorola to launch wireless charger

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CES 2012: Motorola to launch wireless charger

Mobile phone manufacturer Motorola has released a teaser for its new charging technology, which will be revealed soon at the Consumer Electronics Show 2012 in Las Vegas, USA, this week.

The technology, as per Motorola, will rid users of wall chargers and a bunch of cables that keep tangling our lives. The teaser video, which shows a wall charger crying because it isn’t being used, surely points at a much more efficient charging technology than we have seen in the past.

Wireless chargers are not new as products like Power Mat have been around for quite a long time now. Power Mat uses induction based charging technology, or electromagnetic waves that transmit current to recharge batteries. Although not very efficient, this technology lives up to its reputation in terms of wirelessly charging devices like mobile phones.

Another form of wireless charging or current transfer was invented by a company called WiTricity, which managed to overcome the limitations of inductive charging by making electricity available over greater, wire-free distances. Both Intel and Toyota have showed keen interest in this technology and it hence proves its technical prowess over existing technologies.

What Motorola will come up with in this regard still remains a big mystery but it will soon be unveiled at the Motorola press conference during CES.

CES 2012: Toshiba to announce world’s slimmest tablet

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CES 2012: Toshiba to announce world’s slimmest tablet

Tokyo based electronic equipment manufacturer, Toshiba, is all set to announce the world’s slimmest tablet during the Consumer Electronics Show 2012, taking place in Las Vegas this week. Named the Toshiba Excite, this new tablet will take on slim tablets like Samsung Tab 7.7 and Apple iPad 2.

Toshiba Excite is just 7.62 mm thick, which is by far the lowest when it comes to tablets. Till now the title of the slimmest table in the world was held by Samsung Tab 7.7 with a 7.9 mm thick profile.

Apart from just being the slimmest tablet, Toshiba Excite features a 10.1 inch LED backlit display with WXGA (16:10 ratio) resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels, a 5 megapixel rear camera and a 2 megapixel camera in the front. To power all this, the tablet features a 1.2 GHz TI OMAP 4430 processor coupled with 1 of DDR 2 RAM.

It will have 3.2 Honeycomb operating system, which we hope will be replaced with Google Android Ice Cream Sandwich. The Excite will have 64 GB of along with an expandable memory of up to 32 GB via card.

Despite the slimness, there have been no sacrifices on the functionality part as the tablet still retains a bigger battery pack which, according to the company, will be capable of powering this 10 inch tablet for a good 8 hours.

The product will be unveiled in the coming days and that’s when we will know its price and worth. So stay tuned.

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