Android Vs Dandroid ( Does Dandroid Destructs android /??

Dandroid Features

AOSP themed
Knox free with Selinux set to permissive.
deodexed
debloated (476mb)
App Ops
init.d scripts
Google Keyboard
4.4 Clock
CM4.4 Calculator
4 Way reboot menu
Tethering hack (bluetooth included)
All language support
4.4 Ringtones/system sounds
Added Flashlight/Torch toggle
Google Wallet
Note 2 camera, with fast and slow motion record
Multiwindow all apps enabled.
Disabled scrolling cache
Modded SecMms.apk (Enewman17 is a beast)
*Screen on/off toggle for incoming SMS: located in Messaging settings
*Increased SMS limit per hour
*Disable SMS to MMS auto conversion
*Options for backup SMS
*SMS with email... send text message to an e-mail address
*Increased MMS Video Recording Quality and Size
*Enter as new line in messaging
*Enabled SMS Auto Combination: Re-assembles multi-segmented messages, to veiw as one message. *CSC Feature*
*Enabled MMS as single view... no more slide show. *CSC Feature*
*Enabled Call Back Number in Message settings, *CSC Feature*
*Enabled Quick Text Templets and button: New button next to attachment in Messaging *CSC Feature*
*Enabled Delete Button in Messaging header, *CSC Feature*
*Enabled many other messaging features, Alias, multi lock, blacklist....
*Added SMS and MMS read reports.
*Enabled Split view with a toggle
*More internal MMS size limit increases.

Latest Android Features 

Faster multitasking

Android 4.4 takes system performance to an all-time high by optimizing memory and improving your touchscreen so that it responds faster and more accurately than ever before. This means that you can listen to music while browsing the web, or race down the highway with the latest hit game, all without a hitch.


The future is calling

The new phone app automatically prioritizes your contacts based on the people you talk to the most. You can also search for nearby places and businesses, your contacts, or people in your Google Apps domain.


A smarter caller ID

Whenever you get a call from a phone number not in your contacts, your phone will look for matches from businesses with a local listing on Google Maps.


All your messages in the same place

Never miss a message, no matter how your friend sends it. With the new Hangouts app, all of your SMS and MMS messages are together in the same app, alongside your other conversations and video calls. And with the new Hangouts, you can even share your location and send animated GIFs.



Emoji everywhere

Sometimes words can’t express how you feel. For that, there’s Emoji, the colorful Japanese characters, now available on Google Keyboard.

Print wherever, whenever

Now you can print photos, documents, and web pages from your phone or tablet. You can print to any printer connected to Google Cloud Print, to HP ePrint printers, and to other printers that have apps in the Google Play Store.


Pick a file, any file

From apps like Quickoffice, you can open and save files on Google Drive, other cloud storage services, or your device. And with quick access to recently used files, it's easier than ever to send the file you were just working on.

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Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Neo Review

FEATURES

POWER YOUR LIFE
WITH THE HEXA-CORE PROCESSOR
The Galaxy Note 3 Neo with its powerful hexa-core processor helps you enjoy your favorite movies, play games, draft presentations and multi-task seamlessly.

SCRIBBLE THE LIFE
YOU WANT TO LIVE
Activate the Air Command function with the S-pen which lets you access five useful features- Action Memo, Scrapbook, Screen Write, S Finder and Pen Window.


YOUR WINDOW TO
A BEAUTIFUL WORLD
The Galaxy Note 3 Neo with 13.95 cm (5.5'') HD Super AmoLED Display gives your eyes a delightful viewing experience helping you do more and explore more.

UNLIMITED ENTERTAINMENT
WITH CLUB SAMSUNG
Download your favorite songs, watch movies, and enjoy Live Performances and Live TV in 9 Indian Languages.

SPECIFICATIONS & ACCESSORIES

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Samsung SM-G870 Galaxy S5 Active

The trustworthy @evleaks tipster has delivered yet another interesting rumor. Apparently Samsung is working on a SM-G870 model, which should be released as Galaxy S5 Active.

The Galaxy S5 flagship was announced at the MWC in Barcelona last month. It features a top-notch hardware and is dust and water proof, so lots of people decided the Active version is probably retired.

if Samsung will just upgrade the water resistance, but it may as well add some military certifications such as impact resistance or MIL-STD-810G certification - that's salt, dust, humidity, rain, vibration, solar radiation, transport and thermal shock resistance.
Evleaks suggest the phone will launch on AT&T and Sprint among other carriers later this year.

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Adobe Expands Its Marketing Cloud With Predictive Tools

Adobe kicks off its Digital Marketing Summit in Salt Lake City, the company is announcing a number of new features and products in the Adobe Marketing Cloud, its suite of products for digital marketers.

It’s the kind of announcement that’s best outlined with a quick list, and one of the big themes is Adobe’s ability to cover the full “digital marketing lifecycle,” from making ads to managing the campaigns, measuring them, and making money.

One thing that we did get a chance to discuss in a little more depth was an addition to the Marketing Cloud’s core services that Adobe is previewing today. It’s called Marketing Mix Planning and is supposed to allow companies to optimize their full range of online and offline marketing. That includes online display, search, and social ads, as well as TV, print, PR, and events.

Adobe will be able to look at historical data to make predictions about how changes in the mix of marketing spend will affect overall performance: “It removes a lot of the guesswork.” He added that to accomplish this, Adobe will be integrating with the third-party data sources that customers choose.

A new Master Marketing Profile that creates a single view of customers across all marketing channels.
A central repository for all the media assets used by a company across the Marketing Cloud.
Support for measuring and targeting marketing messages through Apple’s iBeacon technology for in-store positioning.
Adobe Experience Manager and PhoneGap Enterprise, which are supposed to make it easier for developers to build apps and for marketers to adjust the content without any coding.
The ability to measure which ad campaigns are driving downloads and other user behavior across Apple’s App Store, Google Play, and other mobile app stores.

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Nokia X Review

Nokia’s weird foray into Android is the Nokia X, a small, affordable smartphone that uses Google’s mobile OS, painted up as though it were almost a Windows Phone software variant. It’s a strange beast, with a chunky candybar design that blatantly screams ‘Nokia,’ and a price tag aimed at emerging markets. There’s a good chance Microsoft will kill it as soon as it takes over Nokia’s hardware business (now set for April) but in the meantime, does the Nokia X offer users a way to claw back some of the market share they’ve given up to low-cost Android devices?

Basics

    4-inch, 800×480 display
    3MP rear camera
    Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 dual-core 1GHz processor
    512MB RAM, 4GB on board storage
    Up to 32GB expandable storage via micro SD
    28 days standby battery, 10.5 hours talk time , 4.5 hours web browsing time

Pros

    Light, cheap and effective

Cons

    Sluggish OS and web navigation

Design

The Nokia X isn’t fancy, but it’s also not a bad-looking device by any means. It resembles many of other Nokia devices, with defined edges and a thicker case, plus a polycarbonate back that’s matte and smooth to the touch. The case manages to feel like a single-piece design despite the fact that the back is removable because the phone itself pops out from the wraparound cover, instead of having just simple back panel that snaps on and off like on similar phones from Samsung.

The home screen itself takes cues from Windows Phone, with icons arranged in a tile-like multicolored array. The icons can be adjusted and reconfigured, and set to take up either a 2×2 or 1×1 spot in the grid, and there are widgets accessible to the home screen, too, including ones specific to Nokia and standard Android ones built into third-party apps. It’s a different take on Android to be sure, and a far cry from a stock experience, but it’s also a system that I find far preferable to most other OEM UI reconfigurations, including Samsung Touchwiz.



The Nokia X comes in a variety of colors, and as Nokia is prone to do, it executes well on the brighter range of the spectrum. The black version I managed to get my hands on is also good looking, though much more understated than its candy-coated cousins.

A weird feature of Nokia’s take on Android is the single capacitive button it uses, which is simply a back command. This is kind of like a Home button, but contextually aware, so that it goes back a screen no matter where you are, with exiting an app being the final step in any chain. Pressing it on the home screen brings up a Windows Phone-like linear list of recently opened apps, too.

Performance

This phone isn’t the most cracking handset on the block, and if you’re used to a top-end device like the iPhone or latest Galaxy S, you’re going to notice sluggishness, especially when browsing media-rich content and websites, or even a homescreen with a lot of icons. But overall, the experience does alright with limited resources, and never manages to become genuinely frustrating.

In terms of the field of devices against which it competes ,it’s much more of a standout, offering more than competent access to Facebook, the native web, Twitter and other Android standbys in a package that’s both slick and affordable.

The dual-sim Nokia X also offers the ability to change easily between networks, and it has tremendous stand-by battery life. You can have the thing idle for weeks at a time and it’ll still be ready to go when you need it, which is a key concern in markets where access to power might not always be possible. If you’re using the cellular network constantly, battery life dips quickly and falls far short of either the iPhone or any other flagship Android device, but for infrequent use, the Nokia X outperforms either.

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Automatic Album Maker Moment.me Launches A New Service For Mobile Event Websites

Apps that help users make sense of their ever-growing photo collections through automatic organization and curation would seem to make sense, and offer a service people need. But over the past year or so, we’ve seen these types of startups fail, pivot or simply stagnate. Everpix is no more, for example. Tracks shifted, launching a new app called Kanvas for photo-editing. Flayvr has yet to see mainstream adoption.

These “microsites,” as the company calls them, are meant to serve as online pop-up shops for events, including things like concerts, sporting events, film festivals, and more. Today, information about an event can be found across the web, on the sites belonging to the artist, the band, the promoter, the sports team, the venue itself, and on blogs and social media, Moment.me co-founder Eilon Tirosh explains.

The new microsite creation service essentially repurposes Moment.me’s aggregation technology for this (the team hopes, eventually profitable) new venture, allowing event organizers, bands or teams to quickly launch a mobile website that serves as the hub for everything there is to know about the event in question.

The idea is to make building the microsite as simple as using any other consumer-facing service, with no coding required. After entering in the event time and location (or pulling in those details from a Facebook page), the service then pulls in the top content from social networks including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, while also allowing for further customization, like adding maps, details on where to eat or drink nearby, links to ticket or merchandise sales, sharing features, and more. The resulting sites work well on any form factor, whether desktop/laptop, tablet or mobile phone.

 

While the basic microsite builder will remain free, over time, the company plans to introduce premium features for commercial events that will allow for additional customization or levels of engagement. Moment.me is also in discussions with others in the event industry, like ticketing companies for example, for further integrations.

Site creation is currently available online, though the company notes it will also be offered within the Moment.me iPhone application.

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Nokia Lumia Icon review

Nokia Lumia Icon for Verizon Wireless is the most capable smartphone to come out of the Finnish manufacturer to date. A successor to the Nokia Lumia 928, the carrier-exclusive Windows Phone handset ticks all the boxes of a proper flagship smartphone - from the chipset, through the camera and the display, all the way to the premium build and finish.

They include the beefy Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 chipset, as well as the capable 20MP PureView camera with Carl Zeiss optics.

 Features

    Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support
    Quad-band 3G with 21.1 Mbps HSDPA and 5.7 Mbps HSUPA support
    Tri-band LTE Cat4 support, 150Mbps downlink, 50Mbps uplink
    5" 16M-color 1080p ClearBlack AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, Corning Gorilla Glass 3, Nokia Glance
    20MP PureView sensor (15MP effective), 1/2.5" sensor size, Zeiss lens, Optical Image Stabilization, dual-LED flash
    1080p@30fps video recording; 2x lossless digital zoom
    1.2MP front-facing camera with 720p video recording
    Windows Phone 8 GDR3 OS with Nokia Black
    2.2GHz quad-core Krait 400 CPU, Adreno 330 GPU, Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 chipset, 2GB of RAM
    Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band
    GPS receiver with A-GPS and GLONASS support
    Nokia HERE Drive+ with free lifetime worldwide voice-guided navigation
    32GB of built-in storage
    Active noise cancellation with a dedicated mic
    Wireless charging with optional accessories
    Built-in accelerometer, gyroscope and proximity sensor
    Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
    microUSB port
    Bluetooth v4.0 with A2DP and file transfers
    SNS integration
    Xbox Live integration and Xbox management
    NFC support
    Digital compass
    Nokia MixRadio

Drawbacks

Mediocre battery life
Somewhat thick for a flagship
No microSD card slot
Over the top carrier branding somewhat spoils the design
Lack of support for Nokia Glance Screen

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AirSnap Helps You Take Beautiful Group Selfies By Pairing Two iOS Devices (AirSnap Free Download)

How many times have you stepped out of the group to click pictures, feeling left out as others posed? Or have there been instances when you’re jostling to get back for a group picture after setting the timer of a camera shutter? While there is Samsung NX Mini, which comes with an LCD screen that flips 180 degrees for taking selfies, it still requires users to make adjustments in the frame. Ditto for camera-fitted mobile phones that need a lot of work in getting that perfect selfie.(AirSnap Free Download For ios devices)


GlobalDelight, an iOS app developer based in the Indian coastal town of Udupi, is today going live with an upgrade of its Camera Plus app, loaded with a new feature called AirSnap that helps users capture photos and videos remotely by pairing two iOS 7 devices  (using Bluetooth or wi-fi) like iPhones, iPads or iPod Touches. Both the iOS 7 devices need to be loaded with Camera Plus app, which converts one of the devices into a remote trigger and the other one for capturing images, videos.


AirSnap allows users to control flash, switch between camera modes, see instant previews on the trigger device and select front and rear cameras. All these features make it so much easier to manage group photos where no one wants to be left out.


Among features I liked while playing around with the app was the customized experience it offered for different iOS devices. For instance, AirSnap has a customized floating capture bar for Camera Plus on the iPad so that users don’t end up straining their fingers while reaching for the capture button.

There are some standard features too that help enhance the quality of images and videos. Pix’d is a feature for instance that fixes color, skin tones.

As part of the new release, Camera Plus 3.5 has also been upgraded with several cool features. A “Soft Flash” for iPads helps brighten images along with a 720p video capture option. AirDrop sharing and the ability to pause and resume video recording on-the-go are among other cool additions.

The app allows standard social sharing across Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, iMessage, AirDrop, and helps Instagram users to fit entire images into the square format before uploading them.

AirSnap focusThe latest release of Camera Plus also makes it easier to focus and hunt down that perfect shot. Along with “Lumy”, a slider feature on the screen that analyses prevailing light conditions and adjusts brightness accordingly, the photos should get clearer too.

Apple has recently been granted patent for a wireless iPhone camera remote control, underscoring how the company is moving into the wearable computing era. AirSnap kind of follows that trail too.

“Apple seems to be bracing itself for the introduction of wearables era. It looks like an external device that can control and trigger photos and videos remotely. We just hope they open up their API’s so that Camera Plus can leverage it,” said Guruprasad Kamath of GlobalDelight. AirSnap marks an evolution for the most popular app developed to date by GlobalDelight – Camera Plus. The app has seen close to 25 million downloads and has nearly 9 million active users.

Some of the past features such as the option of storing images and videos in a password-protected “Locked Roll” have been retained, but it comes at an extra cost through in-app upgrade.

GlobalDelight might not be as well known in India as the country’s biggest technology companies such as Infosys and Wipro, but it’s not an alien in the Apple app store. Over six years since it was first established as a subsidiary of Robosoft Technologies, GlobalDelight has launched several apps  such as Game Your Video (3.5 million downloads) and Camera Plus, which has seen close to 25 million downloads to date.

Robosoft/GlobalDelight is inspiring a whole new breed of entrepreneurs from small towns in India to build software products. Based in Udupi, which is more famous for its temples and local cuisine, a team of 35 engineers have been cooking apps at GlobalDelight since 2008, totaling over 35 million downloads on the Apple App Store to date.

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How To Plan Your Next Mobile E-Commerce Website

In this article, we’ll walk through all of the vital steps when planning a highly converting mobile e-commerce website. The most important questions you need to ask are:
Who are we building this mobile website for?
How will we measure conversion success?
What design factors affect mobile e-commerce conversion rates?
What is the ideal product page?
Let’s get started.So, Who’re We Building This Mobile Website For?
The mobile customer is someone we are constantly learning about as mobile adoption becomes more widespread and filters into everyday life. To plan a mobile e-commerce store, we need to put ourselves in the mindset of the mobile customer and understand their intentions and mood.

PHONE USAGE LOCATIONS
The mobile device is a life-invading piece of equipment. We use it in diverse situations:
while watching TV;
while shopping or on a night out;
in bed or in the bathroom;
while eating a meal (a pet hate of mine!);
when bored or waiting at our desk, at a train station or as a car passenger.
In each situation above, the person’s mind will be in a different state and may or may not be in “purchasing mode.” We also use mobile at different times of the day.

How does this help us? Well, for example, you could strategically place different banners on the home page of your mobile e-commerce website, such as price promotions, discounts or coupons, perhaps offering early-morning discounts for commuters, while offering TV dinner viewers something else in the evening (something like “Bored of watching soaps? Grab a DVD bundle now!”).
THE MAIN TYPES OF MOBILE SHOPPERS
Columbia Business School identified five types of mobile shoppers in showrooms and stores: exploiters, savvys, price sensitives, experience-seekers and traditionalists. I have gone one step further by thinking about how people use their phones outside of the showroom to decide whether to purchase products.
The comparer
The comparer browses products in brick-and-mortar stores while price-checking on their mobile device. They might buy in-store, using the online price as negotiation leverage. However, if the online offer is strong enough and the product is available, they will purchase on their phone there and then or when they get home later.
The deal lover
This person loves a bargain, and when they are in store, they’ll look for an online voucher, a Groupon deal or something to save them from buying at the high street price. They differ from the comparer in that they want to believe they are getting a special deal, a limited offer or an exclusive promotion (think Secret Escapes’s exclusive deals or Booking.com’s lowest-price guarantee).
The social shopper
Constantly connected to a range of social channels, the social shopper follows celebrities, industry leaders and brands on Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest, seeking out the latest fashion trends, gadgets and the like. Clicking through everything from vintage-filtered photos to heavily liked dresses, they just have to buy to be ready for the weekend.
The time passer
This person just needs to pass the time while waiting for someone or something. They are normally an impulse buyer, browsing stores they already know (a form of direct traffic) for the latest products. They might subscribe to news feeds or email lists and click through from direct promotion in social channels, too.

How Will We Measure Conversion Success?
We need to define what conversion success looks like. Typically, a conversion falls into one of the following categories:
Purchase
The visitor has completed a purchase transaction.
Social promotion
The visitor might follow your social channel; share, tweet or like your product or brand; write a review; subscribe to a newsletter; etc.
Complete a task
The visitor has completed some task, whether playing a game, filling out a poll, entering a competition, etc.
We then need to set ourselves some SMART goals (as defined by Paul J. Meyer) to track and measure our success. These goals will also help us focus on the project and not get carried away with over-spec’ing or over-designing the website. So, what are SMART goals?
Specific
The goal should be unambiguous and should define what we are trying to achieve.
Measureable
How are we going to measure this? By what method? We could go further by saying who will be responsible for reporting this and whom they will report to.
Attainable
How will this goal be achieved? What needs to be done to make this happen? Do we have the budget, skill and time?
Relevant
Is this in line with our overall vision? Is the market ready? Are we the right people to do this?
Time-bound
How quickly can this be achieved? When are we going to start and finish?
Below are three sets of goals we’ve set in the past. These would directly affect how one goes about designing and developing a mobile e-commerce store.
SMART GOALS 1
Specific
Increase mobile e-commerce conversions by 35%.
Measurable
Segment sales report in Magento.
Attainable
Do this by creating a responsive e-commerce store.
Relevant
This aligns with our overall conversion targets and goals to adopt mobile technology.
Time-bound
Accomplish it within three months of the website’s launch.
SMART GOALS 2
Specific
Increase the average order on mobile by £5.
Measurable
Combine the segmented sales report in Magento to give an average daily order value.
Attainable
Improve upselling and cross-selling on product pages, and recommend complementary products in the shopping cart.
Relevant
This aligns with our overall conversion targets.
Time-bound
Accomplish this within 30 days, and then continually improve through testing and iteration.
SMART GOALS 3
Specific
Reduce bounce rates to below 56% for top-level categories.
Measurable
Analyze the report of page visits within a set time period in Google Analytics.
Attainable
Improve loading time to below four seconds on a 3G network, and improve the landing page design.
Relevant
Although not a direct conversion itself, this would improve all other conversion rates by keeping users on the website for longer and increasing the number of pages visited by each user.
Time-bound
Test over a 14-day rolling period, iterating on the design until we hit the target.
Tip: Print these goals in a large font size and put them where the whole team can see them. Ask the team members how their work will contribute to the shared goals. If a task doesn’t contribute at all, then question whether it’s needed.
What Design Factors Affect Mobile E-Commerce Conversion Rates?
Let’s go through the factors that affect how customers browse an e-commerce website, from a mobile perspective.
HIERARCHY AND NAVIGATION
Space is at a premium on mobile. We don’t have the luxury of providing mega menus for users to browse multilevel categories. Therefore, we need to prioritize key features and content and provide a search box that’s easily accessible in a consistent location. The adoption of off-canvas navigation is becoming widespread as users start to understand how to use it.

TRADING USABILITY AND LOADING TIME FOR BRANDED NAVIGATION
Sometimes you need to make a tradeoff. When we developed Crockett & Jones’ mobile website, our branding guidelines and the company’s heritage and reputation for quality led us to a more pictorial menu system, to reinforce the brand. We experimented with five intuitive navigation methods:

TRADING USABILITY AND LOADING TIME FOR BRANDED NAVIGATION
Sometimes you need to make a tradeoff. When we developed Crockett & Jones’ mobile website, our branding guidelines and the company’s heritage and reputation for quality led us to a more pictorial menu system, to reinforce the brand. We experimented with five intuitive navigation methods:

FINGER FRIENDLY
All of those critical calls to action should be large enough to be pressed by a finger. According to “Finger-Friendly Design: Ideal Mobile Touchscreen Target Sizes,” that’s about 57 pixels wide for a finger and 72 pixels wide for a thumb. The article also notes, “This is consistent with Fitt’s Law, which says that the time to reach a target is longer if the target is smaller. A small target slows users down because they have to pay extra attention to hit the target accurately.” I would say that most of us have overlooked this fact for many years, especially as we adjust out of our 1024 × 768 mindset.
This is very important for all areas that are common to mobile e-commerce websites:
navigation of category tree;
search buttons and filters (especially checkboxes that require precise touch);
all buttons, including “Add to cart” and “Pay now securely”;
form fields to enter billing and shipping details;
thumbnail pictures of products;
swiping for product photos, instead of tapping left and right arrows.
CONTRASTIVE COLOR AND LIGHT CONDITIONS
Whatever color palette you choose, strong contrast is imperative for buttons and calls to action. If an object blends in, users will likely miss it.
Consider the lighting conditions of your mobile users and how to accommodate them in the look and feel of the website. Try turning off the lights, going out into bright sunlight and huddling under a reflective lamp to see how your color palette performs. You can adjust the CSS to account for different lighting conditions with what are known as light-level media queries.

@media (light-level: normal) {  p {  background: url("texture.jpg");  color: #333 }}
@media (light-level: dim) {  p {  background: #222;  color: #ccc }}
@media (light-level: washed) {  p {  background: white;  color: black;  font-size: 2em; }}

Although no browser currently supports these, light-level media queries are a cool feature that will hopefully be adopted soon because mobile devices really are used in different lighting conditions. This sort of technology could improve conversions with mobile usage in dark and bright sunlight. One could even imagine swapping promotional banners for daytime and nighttime!
Tip: Don’t be afraid of red buttons. Conversions have increased on a ton of websites that switched to red for strong contrast. Test and iterate!

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Cloaq Promises A New Way To Post & Share, No Email Or Phone Number ( Cloaq Latest Review)

A team of engineers, who have asked to not be identified by name, are working to develop a new platform for anonymous posting called Cloaq (pronounced “cloak”). This upcoming web and mobile platform, they tell me, will combine the anonymity of apps like Secret and Whisper, with the ease-of-use of more public platforms for sharing, like Twitter, Medium or WordPress.

(Oh, and no, it’s not this Cloaq. It’s a different one.)

The team has sent me several lengthy and mysterious emails detailing their project, but I told them that I couldn’t, in good faith, cover them, unless I knew who they were, and why they were qualified to build such a thing.

Though I’ll stick by my agreement to not reveal their names, what I can say is that the team at Cloaq are not seasoned startup veterans hailing from the Valley, but rather a group of engineers whose backgrounds include both senior and consulting roles within larger organizations where they couldn’t have fudged their technical capabilities.

Their decision to hide their names is more of a gimmick, it seems.

Explains one, the team “decided that, in order to stay 100% focused on product, we will take our core theme of anonymity a bit further and remain cloaked ourselves.” In addition, the group “will not be publicly speaking or responding to press inquiries and will basically remain faceless and nameless beyond ‘Team Cloaq.’”

Yep, definitely not seasoned startup guys here.

Unlike other anonymous movements like Anonymous (with the capital “A”), Cloaq is not just the title given to a loosely defined organization that anyone can join. Instead, despite Cloaq’s attempt at (ahem) cloak-and-dagger intrigue, the company sounds like your usual startup. Engineers quit their day jobs to build something they’re passionate about. They even have some initial funding from private investors.

The product the engineers have in mind is interesting, though the actual execution has yet to be revealed, and could easily make or break this thing.

How It Works

Like anonymous “social” apps, Cloaq will allow users to post content, which appears in the timeline of those following you. This isn’t entirely different, on its own, from something like Secret, but there are a number of other features that make Cloaq sound unique.

For starters, the anonymous posts can be of any length, and can be tagged with a category for searching and sorting. Of course, you can be pseudo-anonymous on blogging platforms today, especially on Tumblr, which is already home to a number of “anonymous” personalities, including some of those in the tech industry would know, like Startup L. Jackson or that angry Jesus Christ, Silicon Valley guy (gal?).

However, what Cloaq says would be different on its platform is that it won’t even collect users’ email addresses or phone numbers at signup, like Secret or Tumblr or Twitter or anyone else these days, would do.

“So, even if there is a hack… there is no personal information to retrieve,” explains a Cloaq co-founder. “That’s my only beef with Secret. It’s really fun to use and consume micro-content on, but I still wont post anything that I wouldn’t want coming back to me, because they have my personal information.”

Instead, with Cloaq, you simply enter a password and get assigned an @id number, which serves as your handle of sorts. And if you want to publish something that’s totally cloaked, you can choose to not even have your @id number associated with it. It will still show up in the streams of those who follow you, though.

These numbers will start at @alpha1 and go through @alpha9999 before moving on to @beta1 through @beta9999, and so on. The co-founder adds that while Cloaq can handle password resets via security questions, those who forget their Cloaq ID could be out of luck, which is why they’ve tried to simplify them.

Like blog posts, Cloaq posts can have a title, photo and content, though the title and photo are optional, which lets Cloaq work for long-form and short-form content alike. There will also be standard features, like a Popular section, favoriting and flagging functions, and comments among other things. To cut down on abuse, Cloaq will have a no-tolerance policy for racism, prejudice hate speech, and threats. Users’ accounts making those sorts of posts will be immediately frozen.
Timing May Be Right, But Cloaq Has A Lot To Prove

“This platform to give intelligent people a way to speak their minds freely,” explains a co-creator. “We want to give people a way to really be their true selves, and express their true beliefs, ideas, op/diinions and suggestions without the natural reservation that comes with living in the public social media age, and worrying about what their friends, family or followers will think of them, or how they will be judged,” he adds.

In theory, it sounds like the time could be right for a service like Cloaq, as the shift to mobile continues amid the fallout from exposure caused by putting our personal info in the hands of social networks, which were later mined and archived by governments, it was revealed.

But simply building an “anti” public social network is not enough, as a number of services in the past, including the Diaspora project, or alt Twitters like Identi.ca and the earlier version of App.net, have previously shown. Cloaq, however it turns out, will still have a lot to prove. Especially since they’re playing the tease.tec

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Users Pay For Their Friends’ Subscriptions - WhatsApp For Android Latest 2014 Update

Today WhatsApp, Facebook’s new $19 billion messaging darling, has released an update to the Android version of the app.

Among a few new privacy-related features, the update also brings with it an interesting new feature that lets users pay for their friends’/families’ subscriptions, regardless of the platform.

As it stands now, WhatsApp is free for the first year of use, and then requires a $.99 yearly subscription. By letting users pay for their friends’ subscriptions, Facebook and WhatsApp may be promoting the invitation of new users onto the platform.

In terms of WhatsApp monetization, Zuck has been perfectly clear.

Right now, there is no plan to release ads onto the WhatsApp platform, and to that point, subscriptions aren’t a huge priority either. What’s important right now is growth, and letting users invite and pay for their friends is a good place to start.

In related news, WhatsApp is said to get voice calling in the second quarter of this year.

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GamePop Review: The Android Gaming 2014

There’s a rush on to be the first Android console maker to strike the right chord with consumers, and there’s no shortage of contenders. Bluestacks is one such contender, and their GamePop is finally ready to ship to consumers. It’s a unique take, packing 500 top Android games into the console pre-loaded and ready to go, all for $6.99 per month. But can it avoid the pitfalls of other Android consoles out there and rise to the top?

Basics Features

HDMI out
USB power
RF controller connects via dongle
Distribution planned via cable providers

Design

The GamePop looks nothing like its original concept designs, which came in two forms: a standard, cube-like GamePop and a GamePop Mini with a more minimalist look. The final version is much closer to the GamePop Mini, with a small candy-bar type design that plugs into USB for power, and HDMI to connect to your TV, with a special dongle for communicating with the controller unit.

The construction of the console and the controller is composed entirely of a high-gloss, none too impressive plastic, but the console itself has a decent form factor since you can hide it away behind your TV without adding much to the visual clutter of your home entertainment setup.

As for the controller, it boldly calls itself “the finest game controller ever designed for enjoying the most popular games and apps on TV” on the packaging, but that’s far from the truth. It’s designed to be a remote control, that fits ergonomically in the hand when used vertically, but that is also oddly lopsided when used horizontally – as you would for the bulk of your gaming needs.

It also has just a D-pad and XYAB buttons (in addition to buttons for touch input, settings, home, and help) and works as a gesture controller for controlling touch-based input on the Android-powered console. But it’s extremely limited vs. competing controllers, including Bluetooth ones made for Android devices, and something like the Nvidia Shield handheld game console, because it lacks shoulder buttons and joysticks.

That might be fine for casual gamers, but it’s not going to fly with anyone who wants to play something more in-depth, and the controller itself isn’t ergonomically pleasant to use no matter what your level of interest in video games. Once again, it has that plasticky feel, and there’s no substance or weight to it, either. Plus, the pointer-style touch input leaves a lot to be desired, but I’ll discuss that more in the ‘Performance’ section below. Suffice it to say, this controller isn’t going to win any awards for being essentially a first-gen Wii remote in a less pleasing shell.

Additional Features
The GamePop is designed to offer all-you-can-eat gaming without nickle-and-diming users, on a Netflix style model that provides a rotating library of software so users never get bored, but also get to experience the best that mobile gaming has to offer. There are some benefits, and a few problems to this approach vs. those taken by GamePop competitors.

The main advantage is that you can get started right away, without having to find and download software first. You just navigate through the GamePop’s home screen, which organizes apps by category, popularity and just in a straightforward and comprehensive list. You can also search for your favorites with virtual keyboard input.

The downside of this is that while there’s a lot to choose from, it doesn’t feel terribly well curated. Software selection seems to have been made based on what’s most popular, not what makes the most sense for a living room console gaming experience. So while playing Jetpack Joyride on a big screen with a simple hardware controller seems to make a lot of sense (albeit with noticeable lag between button press and on-screen reaction), other titles like Candy Crush Saga and Fruit Ninja aren’t necessarily as natural a fit for the GamePop’s control scheme.

Other problems arose, too, including titles displaying a “No connection” message to the Play store when selected, which presumably means they were taken down from Google’s Android software marketplace but not removed from the GamePop library. It’s probably something that’s easy enough to iron out, but not a terrific look for first impressions.

Performance

The GamePop does its job admirably well, in that it runs an interface that makes sense for TVs and does indeed present Android software on the big screen, in a reasonably effective manner. But like other Android consoles before it, it ultimately won’t light any fires under the major console competitors, and the experience lacks enough polish that it’s hard to see any consumer becoming a regular, devoted user of the service.

Another major hit for GamePop’s performance score is the way the virtual pointer works. Far from being one-to-one, it’s relative, so that when you hit the edge of your TV screen and keep moving the controller, it resets the basic positioning, meaning you have to reset it again by going back to the other side to get some semblance of ‘point where you want the pointer to go’ control back. A button on the controller acts as a finger press in tandem with the pointer, which is a clumsy way to enact touch-based input on a home console. This makes it frustrating to play anything like Fruit Ninja.


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The GamePop was revealed with a fair amount of hype, and at a time when there was much more optimism about Android consoles and how they might work with consumers. Now, nearly a year later, the hardware is here and it’s striking much the same note as its competitors, which is to say a sour one.

Bluestacks seems to have realized that targeting consumers directly isn’t the right strategy to pursue, however, and has rethought its distribution model entirely: The new GamePop won’t only be sold direct to shoppers (pre-orders should still be delivered to those who made them, according to the company), but will instead be marketed as a gray label product to cable companies, giving them something they can use to sell their bundled cable and Internet services to users. In that context, I can kind of see GamePop working in a limited fashion, especially if it refines the bugs in user experience it currently has and refines the controller hardware. Similarly, it wouldn’t surprise me if I checked into a hotel room in the next couple of years and found this setup attached to my TV as part of the in-room entertainment package.

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iOS 8 Latest review 2014 ( iPhone 6 With iOS 8)

Apple has just shipped iOS 7.1, which brings a number of small enhancements and some considerable performance improvements to older devices, but now the way is clear for iOS 8, and already the rumor mill has started cranking. 9to5Mac, which generally has reliable information for first-hand reported rumors, revealed today a couple of details about Apple’s next big mobile OS, which should bring significant changes for Maps.

The Maps saga began when Apple dropped Google Maps for its own, homespun version with iOS 6, and the reaction wasn’t exactly overwhelmingly positive. Apple earned praise for its Maps visual design, but the data was lacking compared to Google, which is understandable given that Google had a massive head start on building its own mapping effort. With iOS 8, the gap should narrow, according to 9to5Mac’s new report, however, as acquisitions of small companies like BroadMap, Embark and HopStop are leading to a major overhaul of the iOS Maps database, making information more reliable.

The breadth of info will also increase, with new points of inters, new labels and better labeling and presentation of streets and other visual representation of information. Finally, after leaving them out of its own Maps solution two years ago, Apple is planning to add public transit directions, which is an oft-requested feature by users. iOS 8 transit directions will be based on data obtained through the acquisitions mentioned above. Embark and HopStop specifically offer a lot of expertise with public transit, so that’s a very promising signal that we’ll get something good with transit in IOS 8.

9to5Mac reports that iOS 8 wil be able to do train, subway and bus routes, and to offer “enhanced directions to major airports,” which might mean taking into account additional, specialized modes of transit like shuttles. It’ll launch in major cities in the U.S. first, and then should expand to smaller metro areas and internationally following that, the report claims. A new mapping view will also be included in addition to transit directions, letting you see nearby stops clearly. Users can request directions for a later time, too, which will take into account route closure times.

Another feature coming later is an augmented reality interface for Maps, which would allow users to see nearby points of interest overlaid on top of a live feed, sort of like Yelp’s Monocle feature. That’s not necessarily going to hit with iOS 8, but instead should arrive in “the coming years.”

Added to 9to5Mac’s earlier report about iOS 8′s so-called ‘Healthbook’ app, this is shaping up to be yet another substantial major iOS update. It’s not likely going to be as dramatic a shift as the visual overhaul of iOS 7, but sounds like it should add a lot in terms of features and functionality for users across a range of different categories.

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Sony Xperia M2 First Look Review

The gathering of new innovations in Barcelona is over.Tech lovers know what I’m mumbling about.It’s the MWC 2014.The people who missed the opportunity to be in this event or those who didn’t get anything of it don’t need to worry as like always you guys have your knight in shining armor the craplore  for taking you there.This particular year there wasn’t any amazing smartphones or tablets like the year before but still a great event with some handy gadgets for all.Today we will give you one of the best product of this years MWC which actually impressed a lot of people.It’s the first installment of the products as we will provide with all the bests of the occasion.So fasten your seat belts for the ride.

Xperia M2

Sony is a big brand with great range of products and in recent time they made a name of themselves in the market of smartphones.Now they came in the last MWC that ended a week before with some great products.One of them was the Sony Xperia M2. With this they are hoping to get a good grip on the market of smartphones.This is a mid-range product of the brand which will attract a lot of people.The device got a 4.8 inch display.Good modest screen for my point of view.The dimensions of the M2 is 139.6 x 7.1 x 8.6 mm and weights around 148 grams.The weight isn’t that much and for so it’s easy to carry.The processor of the mobile is Qualcomm Snapdragon quad core 1.2Ghz and 1 Gb of ram.It runs on android 4.3 (jellybean).The camera of the Sony Xperia M2 will satisfy the people who loves to take photos as it got 8 megapixels of camera with 4x  digital zoom.The concern to the smartphone users is the battery life of the mobiles but it got a 2300 mAh of battery that’s  allow us upto  8 hours 25 minutes of video playback nonstop in a single charge as the company assures.The connectivity of the device is LTE,NFC & bluetooth 4.0.

That’s all we got about it.They still didn’t give us a price but from some sources we got an amount which will be around 289 euros and probably will be available in the global market from April.Let’s see what happens. If you want for more detail information always go to the official site of sony.

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Sony Smartband vs Xperia Tablet Z2

New day and to make this new day special to our beloved readers we came with something new as we always intend to give the best to you guys.Last time we said that we are going to give you the gadgets that impressed us the most in the MWC of this year and we gave you the Sony Xperia M2 as the first installment of this series.Today we are going to introduce with two more Sony products which will come to the global market soon.Now directly going to the point

Sony Smartband

Many gadgets came to market and also more are coming to enhance the life but the gadget that makes great buzz among all is the smartbands as they are smart as they named and also very fashionable,so people can use them as an accessory to look better.Many brands came with smartbands in the market and now Sony have came with their smartband.The Sony smartband is quite light weighting only 21 grams.That’s like a feather and so it’s quite comfortable to wear.It’s comfort level is an asset for the smartband which will make it popular among people.The manufactures believe in a single charge this device can be use approximately 3 to 4 days according to the usage.

Now coming to the main thing that most of you are thinking right now while reading the article is what’s exceptional about the device than the others which are already in the market.The thing that makes it better than all the rest of its class is the comfort level of this device and above all the Lifelog.The smartband constantly connected with our smartphone through bluetooth  that keeps every single of your activity tracking and when I say everything that means almost everything you need to know about yourself. The device is available in eight colors which means you can choose the color you like the most to keep a match with your wardrobe.It’s also waterproof so no need to take it off if you go to swimming or taking bath.The price of the sony smartband is around 99 euros .If want to know about the product go to Sony mobiles official site where you can find everything you need to know.

 Sony Xperia tablet Z2

The second gadget that I’m going to talk about is a tablet.They named it Sony Xperia tablet Z2.The tablet may have impressed the less among all the products that Sony came upto as people are not into tablets anymore like they used to in the past.But still it’s a great device and I actually liked it.The tablet operates on Android  4.4.2 Kitkat.The Triluminos IPS Display of 10.1-inch X-Reality and Live Colour LED Full HD resolution 1920 x 1200 is mesmerizing.The thing that makes me go crazy about the device is it’s only  6.4 millimeters thick,a Qualcomm snapdragon 800 and a ram of 3GB.A powerful force to reckon with.Stylish design and weights 439 gm,so easy to carry and for me a great choice among tablets.Like I said for more detail information go to the official sony website to learn more about it.

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Moz Analytics -Top SEO Tool Free Sign up.(Moz SEO Tool Review 2014)

What’s SEOmoz?

SEOmoz, as most of you might know, is considered as one of the most reputed SEO firms out there. They had so much popularity that in order to keep project count under control, they charged 1000$/hr.

Now SEOmoz has moved from being a consultancy to a SEO product firm. They have a PRO subscription where you will find

Pro webinars (Register for upcoming seminars as well as watch old seminars. You can’t download them though. However the PPT will be available for download)
Pro Tool (The meat of the SEOmoz PRO subscription)
Private Q&A (You can ask private questions directly to the guys at SEOmoz and get reliable answers directly from the PRO SEO’s)
What SEO Tools Does SEOmoz Pro Have?

There are a number of tools SEOmoz gives you. I personally use very few of them (Probably because I don’t have enterprise clients)

Tool #1: Open Site Explorer

This tool, in my opinion, is why most people have a subscription for SEOmoz.

Open Site Explorer is one of the best tools out there to analyze the competition and find out about their link building strategies. It gives you a host of metrics in a matter of seconds that will probably take you days or even months to figure out manually.

Tool #2: Keyword Analysis Tool

This tool gives a brief idea about the level of competition for the keyword based on the top 10 ranking pages.

While it’s a good tool to get an overall idea about the competition, I wouldn’t rely on any tool to completely predict for me whether I should go after a tool or not.

For e.g. if you see Wikipedia, EzineArticles etc. on the first page, chances are that the tool will report it as competitive based on the domain authority. However, in most cases, the presence of sites like ezinearticles and so on is a signal that the keyword ranking is achievable.

SEOmoz keyword analysis is smart in many cases. It simply does not take into account just the domains authority alone. It also looks at page authority and a host of other metrics to calculate competition.

Tool #3: Rank Tracking Tool
This is another useful tool in the PRO subscription. Their rank tracking tool updates every Tuesday automatically. If you have a lot of keywords to track, then this tool is really great.

Recently Google introduced many changes in the way their engine works which broke many online and offline rank checking tools. It’s also not possible to manually check a lot of keywords from our computer/network since Google will give a temporary ban if they detect scraping behavior.

Tool #4: On Page Optimization Tool

This tool will act as your personal SEO assistant for on-page SEO tasks. Simply give it a URL and keyword and it will grade your on-page SEO based on several factors.

You will then be presented with a page where you can see where you need to improve on in order to be better at on-page SEO.

One thing I really don’t understand is why SEOmoz suggests that we remove the keyword tag if it’s there. Agreed that most search engines that matter does not use meta-keywords for rankings, but why ask to remove if it’s present?

In my opinion, less tech savvy audience might get confused with such suggestions. Overall, the tool is a great addition for your SEO arsenal.

Tool #5: Social Media Monitoring Tool

Monitor blogs, RSS, Twitter, and other social media sites for your keywords and phrases. This is a service similar to Topsy. The main aim of this tool is to get rid of all the clutter generated by social media and bring to you what’s important.

Tool #6: SEO Web Crawler


Crawl your site and see if there are any issues. I don’t really use this tool much since I use Google Webmaster tool and they provide the same service. The advantage of using Webmaster tools is that it helps see how your site appears to Google.

In some cases, you might not be able to use Webmaster tools (Where you may have to do SEO audit of sites). In such cases, you can use this SEO Web Crawler tool to get a general idea about the crawalibilty issues of your site.

Tool #7: Competitive Link Research Tool

You can check and compare your site with your competitor’s site. You can gain insight into which sites are linking to your competitors and whether you have acquired links from those sites to your website and so on.

I tried comparing Google with Blekko and Bing. A sample of the result is given below.
competitive link research

Tool #8: Linkscape Visualization and Comparison

If charts and graphs excite you, you are going to love this tool. What the Linkscape Visualization and Comparison tool does is compare two URL’s and give you some metrics in a graphical format.
Tool #9: Link Acquisition Assistant

This tool gives you an overview of how to get links by manually searching on Google. Instead of manually typing it out, you can fill in a few details and SEOmoz will generate a list of queries that you can simply click and search Google for possible link partners. Not a lot of fun, but saves you time with all sorts of queries you have to think and type on Google.

Tool #10:  Historic Pagerank Checker

As the name suggests, you can view the Page Rank change of a URL over time.

Tool #11: Term Extractor

This tool is something like a reverse on-page SEO analysis. When we give this tool a URL, it goes to the URL and comes back with terms that it thinks is relevant to the page.

This SEOmoz review will not just focus on the tools. There is a lot more than just using tools for doing SEO. You also get access to PRO only webinars, private questions and the full access to the directories list.

Here is the list of the most recent PRO Webinars hosted

Mining Social Data for Fun and Profit
Understanding Your Audience Using Social Media
Content for Local Sites & Local Search
Future-Proofing Your SEO: 2012 Edition
Everything You Don’t Know About Infographics
Head-Smacking Content Strategies
Why and How Startups Should be doing SEO
Actionable Keyword Research for Motivated Marketers
The End of Search Without Social
Gamify it! Using Game Mechanics to Improve Your SEO, Social, and User Engagement
Even after doing SEO for these many years, there are some golden nuggets you’ll get from these webinars.

You can also use the SEOmoz add-ons for your browser and instantly analyze the quality of the site by browsing pages on the website.

The biggest perk is the ability to organize your SEO efforts via helping you group them via campaigns. Each site you work on can be made into separate campaigns and you can automate rank checking, link analysis and so on.

You can expert data and use Excel to work with the data as well.

Who is The SEOmoz Pro Subscription For?

In my opinion, not everyone requires a paid option. They have plenty of free resources available for beginners (Their blog, Q & A section, Beginners SEO Guide, Whiteboard Fridays and more).

Their plans start at 99$ a month. So, if you are on a budget and have to go into credit card debt for paying for a moz subscription, don’t!

You’ll probably make the best use of these tools if

You can afford to pay 99$ a month without losing sleep over it
You have basic SEO knowledge and want to go advanced
You are an analytic geek. You absolutely love numbers and graphs
You do SEO for multiple sites of yours, or you do SEO for clients or you do SEO for your own business website
If you are just starting out and have no real idea about SEO, save money by first reading their free beginners guide. Then follow their blog for a while and then after 5-6 months, start a PRO subscription.

However if time means money for you or you want some of the best SEO tools to analyze your competition right from the start of your SEO, you’ll simply love SEOmoz pro tools and resources.

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Samsung Galaxy S5 Vs S4 Review 2014

The Samsung Galaxy S5 is finally here, taking its place at the top of Samsung's range and arguably as the face of Android itself.
There's been a lot of anticipation and hype, almost too much to live up to, but the Samsung Galaxy S4 is almost a year old and has faced incredibly stiff competition from the likes of the HTC One and the LG G2. Samsung is no longer the only big name in Android and the need for a shiny new flagship has never been greater.

The Samsung Galaxy S4 has a 5 inch 1080 x 1920 Super AMOLED screen with a pixel density of 441 pixels per inch. In our review we said the Galaxy S4 had the best display you could find on a smartphone and it's certainly still up there.
The Samsung Galaxy S5 marginally ups the size to a 5.1-inch Full HD display and it's still Super AMOLED, so not a massive change. In fact if anything it's slightly less sharp as that extra 0.1 inch brings it down to 415ppi.

Samsung s5: It's the smartphone that Samsung says its going back to basics with and now it's here. Is it going to make as much impact as its predecessor the Galaxy S4?

Some things have stayed largely the same as the S4. There's still a full HD screen albeit it’s jumped up to 5.1-inches and includes adaptive display technology, the quad-core processor has been tweaked and looks-wise it doesn't look radically different from the S4.

Is there enough reason to make the upgrade? Here’s what to expect from the company’s next Android flagship.

Samsung Galaxy S5 vs Galaxy S4: It looks different, but not too much
We expected Samsung would look to change things up a bit with the Galaxy S5, design-wise. The Galaxy S4 looked much like the Galaxy S3, made a bit bigger and thinner. It's time for a new look.

The bad news (at least for us) is that Samsung hasn’t decided to go down the metal body route as many of the rumours had speculated sticking with the plastic body that gives it a very similar look and feel to the S4. The back now has perforated design and there's a plastic cover to conceal the charging port to give its IP67 certified dust and water resistant (not water-proof) credentials.

If you are interested in colours, the S5 will be available in Charcoal Black, Shimmery White, Electric Blue and Copper Gold. Yes, Copper Gold. It's not as great a departure as we hoped for, but the S5 seems like an improvement so far.

The Galaxy S5 jumps from a 13-megapixel camera packed into the Galaxy S4 up to a 16-megapixel main camera that now offers auto focusing at a super-quick 0.3 seconds and a new Selective Focus mode so you can shoot photos then change the focal point later. It’s similar to the refocus app that’s already available for the Nokia Lumia 1020. Other notable features include a new HDR Live mode to balance the light and dark portions of photographs, a 2-megapixel front-facing camera and a new Phase Detection Auto Focus technology that's normally found in DSLRs.

Whether you call it 4K or Ultra HD, it’s the same thing and now the Galaxy S5 is capable of shooting 4K footage at 30fps. HDR mode on the S4 was one of the most impressive features and now HDR video stabilization has been added to keep footage shake-free.

The Samsung Galaxy S4’s 2,600mAh battery did an excellent job keeping the Android handset going throughout the day and with marginally improved 2,800mAh battery in the S5 we can expect it to deliver similar stamina levels. The most interesting new feature is the Ultra Power Saving mode that springs into action when battery is low, turning the display black and white closing any apps that sapping battery life. Samsung says that in this mode the S5 will last 24 hours in standby with just 10 per cent battery.

The Galaxy S5 runs a version of Android 4.4 KitKat, currently the newest version of the Google mobile OS. However, the style and look of vanilla Android is (as usual) wiped away by the custom TouchWiz interface seen on virtually all of Samsung’s phones.

Samsung has tidied things up a bit, however, which on first inspection is an improvement on the old TouchWiz. We'd still prefer plain old Android, but progress is still progress.
As well as supporting fifth generation Wi-Fi 802.11ac and 2x2 MiMo to increase data transfer speeds, Samsung is introducing an interesting new feature called Download Booster. Based on Wi-Fi technology, it essentially boosts data speed by combining Wi-Fi and LTE at the same time to deliver the fastest possible connection.

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Code Instruct Android app Challenge Review

Code Instruct presents Andriod App Challenge in association with Pravega'14 - The IISc Science, Tech, and Cultural Fest

Android App Challenge is a training-cum-competition series that helps you learn technical skills and compete with students from across the country. The objective of the challenge is to help students develop an understanding towards innovative next generation technologies and techniques.

Structure of the event

Regional Level Workshops: Code Instruct Android App Challenge in association with Pravega'14, IISc Bangalore would be organized in your campus.

Regional Level Competitions: After the workshop, a regional level competition will be held among the participants to shortlist the toppers.

Grand Final Competition: Top participants from each regional center would participate in a Grand Final during Pravega'14 - The IISc Science, Tech, and Cultural Fest to compete with each other and bring out the champions.

The Code Instruct Winter Training cum Internship Program is a fast paced internship and training program for engineering students to explore and learn android application development at a lightning pace! This is the program where learning happens not by listening, but by doing! Each participant will develop different applications using different libraries in android. The program is going to be fast, exhaustive, challenging and fun at the same time.

Workshop Content:

Introduction to Mobile Application Development

Role of Android in mobile industry

Introduction to Android SDK and its setup

Building the Application Framework

Designing User Interfaces

Activities, Services, Intents, Broadcast Receivers

Resources, Menus, Content Providers, Dialogs, Notifications

Working with Data, Multimedia, Location

Publishing the developed application into Play Store

Highlights of the program:

Interactive lecture sessions 

Encourages participants to think and come up with new application ideas

Group discussions to encourage innovation 

Opportunity for online examination and certification

Certificates issued to all participants 

Good multimedia content to help students grasp the material easily 

Career guidance by experienced faculty 

Workshop  conducted by IIT Kanpur graduates

Certificates:

Certificates given to participants from Pravega 2014 - IISC Bangalore, Code Instruct & Skyfi Education Labs Pvt. Ltd.

Certificate of Participation to all the participants

With Online Examination Scores for those who qualify

Without Online Examination Scores for those who donot qualify

Certificate of Merit to the top-performers

Benefits to the Participants

Participation & Merit certificates given to participants from Code Instruct & Skyfi Education Labs Pvt. Ltd.

Improved job opportunities in IT Sector

Exposure to industry

Face job interviews with confidence

Opportunity to interact with IIT Kanpur alumni to discuss career options

Pre-requisites

Enthusiasm to learn about new technologies

Basic knowledge about using computers

Basic knowledge on Programming

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