iPhone 5

Apple iPhone 5

The iPhone 5 is 10 months old. That might not sound old but in the fast moving world of
top-of-the-range smartphones, the iPhone 5 could be considered middle-aged, paunchy and
preoccupied with looking at ads for hair transplant treatment.

Other manufacturers have upped their game, with Samsung now a very real threat to Apple’s
long-time dominance of top-of-the-range smartphones. The feature-packed Galaxy S4 has had
strong sales, but not as strong as Samsung hoped.

iPhone 5, codenamed N41/N42 and model number iPhone5,1, was the fourth major redesign and the
second major improvement to the iPhone's display. It went from a 3:2 aspect ration to a more
cinematic 16:9. The density stayed the same, at 326ppi, so that resulted in a size increase to
4-inches and pixel count increase to 1136x640 to fill up all that extra space. It allowed for an
extra row of icons, an extra message, and extra everything in general.

The excitement of the rumour mill, the titillation of every leaked photo led to higher than ever
levels of expectation over the iPhone 5 features, and while the announcement was greeted with some
derision at the lack of perceived headline improvements, the record sales tell an entirely different
 story.

Despite its internal problems HTC has created a sculpted masterpiece in the HTC One, while
even Sony has produced a truly competitive phone with the water-resistant Xperia Z. That's
before we even get into Windows Phone 8 and Blackberry 10..

Difference between iPhone 4 and iPhone 5:

Though the pixels-per-inch (PPI) are identical, the iPhone 5 display gains an extra half-inch of 

real estate. This ups the resolution and shifts the aspect ratio to an oblong 16:9. Longtime 

iPhone users may find it strange at first, but will soon appreciate the extra room for apps, 

photos, and web pages.

Apple also opted for a thinner display in the new model. Combining a layer of touch sensors 

also brings those pixels closer to the surface. The company also boasts of 40 percent greater 

color saturation in the iPhone

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MICROMAX CANVAS KNIGHT

Exclusive Micromax Canvas Knight A350 

Micromax is a telecommunications company based in Gurgaon, Haryana, India. It is a manufacturer of wireless telephone. 

Micromax has made the handsets available through all leading outlets across the country, reaching out to the market with 150% mobile penetration. 

Micromax is the largest Indian domestic mobile handsets company in terms of units shipped during the quarter ended March 31, 2010.

Connectivity
Wi-Fi	Yes
Wi-Fi standards supported	NA
GPS	Yes
Bluetooth	Yes, v 4.00
NFC	No
Infrared	No
DLNA	No
Wi-Fi Direct	No
MHL Out	No
HDMI	No
Headphones	3.5mm
FM	Yes
USB	Micro-USB
Charging via Micro-USB	Yes
Proprietary charging connector	No
Proprietary data connector	No
Number of SIMs	2
SIM 1
SIM Type	Micro-SIM
GSM/ CDMA	GSM
2G frequencies supported	GSM 850/ 900/ 1800/ 1900
3G	Yes
3G frequencies supported	900, 2100
SIM 2
SIM Type	Micro-SIM
GSM/ CDMA	GSM
2G frequencies supported	GSM 850/ 900/ 1800/ 1900
3G	Yes
3G frequencies supported	900, 2100
Sensors
Compass/ Magnetometer	Yes
Proximity sensor	Yes
Accelerometer	Yes
Ambient light sensor	Yes
Gyroscope	Yes
Barometer	No
Temperature sensor	No

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Google sells Motorola to Lenovo

Google sells Motorola to Lenovo for $2.91 billion

Google is selling Motorola Mobility to Lenovo, giving the Chinese smartphone manufacturer a major presence in the US market. Lenovo will buy Motorola for $2.91 billion in a mixture of cash and stock. Google will retain ownership of the vast majority of Motorola's patents, while 2,000 patents and a license on the remaining patents will go to Lenovo. At the deal's closing, Lenovo will pay Google $660 million in cash and $750 million in stock, while the remaining $1.5 billion will be paid out over three years.

Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing said that although his company doesn't have "an effective plan yet," it has confidence that it can turn the currently unprofitable Motorola's fortunes around. Yuanqing also stated that, within a year of the Motorola acquisition, Lenovo expected to sell 100 million smartphones worldwide. In 2013, Lenovo shipped an estimated 45 million smartphones, a 90 percent growth from the previous year.

"Lenovo has the expertise and track record to scale Motorola Mobility into a major player within the Android ecosystem," Google CEO Larry Page said in a statement. "This move will enable Google to devote our energy to driving innovation across the Android ecosystem, for the benefit of smartphone users everywhere."

Google initially bought Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion back in 2012, but it said at the time that it was mainly interested in the company's patent portfolio. Now, Google is offloading its subsidiary's handset business, which has been losing hundreds of millions each quarter since the purchase. Google will hold on to Motorola's ambitious Advanced Technology and Projects group, however, and it previously sold off Motorola's set-top box unit for over $2 billion.

Though patents are a large part of what drew Google's interest to Motorola in the first place, those patents haven't been as helpful as Google initially hoped. Google seems to have highly overvalued Motorola's portfolio, which hasn't been able to bring in nearly as much in royalties as either company seemingly expected. It also hasn't been able to use those patents very aggressively, seeing them fail when used in an attempt to block sales of the iPhone. The entire ownership of Motorola has been something of a headache for Google, and it appears that it's finally time for Google to cut its losses.

That's good news for Lenovo, which has been vocal about its intention to move into the US smartphone market this year. Lenovo hasn't made much headway with that until now. It made a bid for BlackBerry late in 2013, but its offer was ultimately blocked. Now, it'll see a much stronger start with the purchase of Motorola. Motorola actually marks Lenovo's second acquisition announcement this month: just last week it said that it had reached a deal to buy IBM's x86 server business.

The purchase of Motorola plays to Lenovo's experience in taking an established brand and building upon it. It purchased its ThinkPad business from IBM in 2005, and has gone on to create a continually successful line of laptops from it. Lenovo is certainly hoping to do the same with Motorola, which has consistently built strong devices but has often struggled against competitors with more marketing muscle.

"The acquisition of such an iconic brand, innovative product portfolio and incredibly talented global team will immediately make Lenovo a strong global competitor in smartphones," Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing said in a statement. "We will immediately have the opportunity to become a strong global player in the fast-growing mobile space."

In an alleged email to employees, which has been leaked to TechCrunch, Page said that he believes Motorola will do better under a company that can fully commit to a focus on smartphones. "The smartphone market is super competitive, and to thrive it helps to be all in when it comes to making mobile devices," Page wrote. "It’s why we believe that Motorola will be better served by Lenovo."

On a conference call discussing the acquisition, Yuanqing said that Woodside and Motorola's existing management team would be staying on board. Yuanqing also said that he felt the two brands were complimentary, and that both the Motorola and Lenovo brand would remain in use where they were already strong. "A detailed plan will be made after we close the deal," Yuanqing said.

We will become a much stronger number three smartphone company," Yuanqing said, referencing Motorola's position as the third-place Android smartphone manufacturer in the US. "Motorola brings a strong brand, brilliant engineering, great products, and outstanding relationships with retailers."

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http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/29/5358620/lenovo-reportedly-buying-motorola-mobility-from-google

Google Edition expansion: Sony Xperia Z

Sony Xperia Z Google Edition

First, let's start with the new rumor about the Sony Xperia Z. All of the indications point to Google keeping the Nexus line as is with one flagship phone, one 7" tablet, and one 10" tablet that bear the official Nexus branding, but the Google Edition brand could conceivably expand to any and every flagship device made by an Android hardware partner. The newest rumor is that Sony is preparing the Xperia Z to join the Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC One in the Google Edition line. 
The info comes from an alleged Sony insider speaking to Android Geeks. The rumor hasn't been confirmed by any other sources, but given how active Sony has been in the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), it is a natural progression for the company to offer up a Google Edition model of its new flagship. The Sony Xperia Z hasn't yet been released in the U.S., but is expected to launch on T-Mobile in the next couple weeks. 

According to Android Geeks' source, Google and Sony are working together to offer a Google Edition of the Xperia Z, but the device isn't expected to be announced until July. Sony has already released an early build of an AOSP ROM for the Xperia Z back in April, but it is quite buggy and certainly not ready to be a daily driver. So, teaming up with Google should speed up the work on that considerably.

The report says that the Sony Xperia Z. Google Edition would likely launch with Android 4.2.2; but given the timing of the device, we're not sold on that part. If the device isn't even announced until July, we would expect to see it if not launch with Android 4.3, then have the update ready very soon afterwards. And, the assumption is that the device will be made available in the Google Play Store for $599.

One of the very nice things about the addition of the Xperia Z to the Google Edition line is that the hardware doesn't have as much proprietary gear as the Galaxy S4 or HTC One. The specs of the Xperia Z Google Edition would be the same, including the 5" 1080p TFT display, Snapdragon S4 Pro, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of storage, microSD card slot, 13MP camera, and the same dust and waterproof design. Unlike the Galaxy S4 Google Edition where the gesture features and eye-tracking are inaccessible, and the HTC One which will have Beats Audio, but no Beats switch and no optimizations for the Ultrapixel camera. The Xperia Z on the other hand doesn't have those sorts of customizations, so users will get the full hardware with just the IR blaster turned off, but that can be made functional with a simple app from the Play Store.


So, the question still remains: what manufacturers and devices will join the Google Edition lineup next? Given that Motorola doesn't have any new devices yet, and the fact that the Moto X is expected to be close enough to stock Android anyway, we think it's safe to rule it out of the equation. That leaves a fairly limited number of options. 

We don't really expect to see smaller Android manufacturers like Archos, Fujitsu, Kyocera, Lenovo, Panasonic, Pantech, and Toshiba to join the fun, because while those companies do have some market share in various regions, they don't really have the global reach of the top-tier manufacturers. We have specifically left Oppo off of that list, because while the company does fit in with those others, we can't help but get excited about an OPPO Find 5 Google Edition, even if it probably isn't likely. 


That leaves a few big names that could add to the lineup, including Acer, Asus, LG, Huawei, and ZTE. And, we don't want to leave out the possibility that Samsung may add a second device to the mix. Just as an educated guess, we'd say that adding the LG Optimus G Pro and Huawei Ascend D2 make the most sense on the smartphone side of things, although if Google wants to round out the lineup with a phablet, the Huawei Ascend Mate would also be a solid choice, because we're not sold that Samsung would put both the Galaxy S4 and the Note III in the lineup. We can imagine that ZTE is pushing hard to be part of the lineup, but we're not sure that the company has made enough of a name for itself in the U.S. yet.


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REVIEW OF GRAVITY-2013

REVIEW OF MOVIE GRAVITY 2013

starring: Sandra Bullock plays a scientific engineer

                   

The film was directed by Oscar® nominee Alfonso Cuarón. Alfonso Cuarón's incredibly exciting, visually amazing film is about two astronauts floating in space. The title refers to the one big thing almost entirely absent from the film: it's like The Seventh Seal being called Levity or Last Tango in Paris Chastity. With gorgeous, tilting planet Earth far below in its shimmering blue aura, a bulkily suited spaceman and spacewoman veer, swoop and swerve in woozy slo-mo as they go about their business tethered to the station, like foetuses still attached to their umbilical cords. The movie's final sequence hints at some massive cosmic rebirth; a sense that these people are the first or last human beings in the universe, like something by Kubrick.

     

Sandra Bullock plays a scientific engineer, Dr Ryan Stone, who after six months' specialist Nasa training has been allowed into space to attach a high-tech new scanning device to the Hubble telescope. She is under the watchful supervision of Matt Kowalski, a genial and grizzled space veteran played by George Clooney. The voice of Houston mission control is played by Ed Harris, in playful homage to Ron Howard's 1995 space-disaster classic Apollo 13. Only this time it is him telling them about the problem. Soon, a terrifying situation. Director and co-writer Cuarón brilliantly manages to create both awe at his glorious space vistas, and knuckle-gobbling tension at what's happening in the foreground. It's like a bank heist in Reims cathedral – in space. You could find yourself asthmatically gasping with rapture and excitement at the same time. After it was over, I was 10 minutes into my tube ride home before I remembered to exhale.

Since its release, various specialist observers have un sportingly emerged to say that the science involved in Gravity is fanciful and wrong. No matter. What makes Gravity so gripping, and so novel, is that it behaves as if what everyone is doing is happening in a world of commonplace fact: like a movie about two drivers on a runaway train or hot-air balloon. A movie set in space tends to trigger an assumption: that it is set in the future (although not the case with Star Wars). If it is not like Apollo 13, about the bygone era of space exploration carried out by guys in quaint crew cuts, then it is going to be set in some made up futurist world about space exploration in aluminium-foil costumes and spacecraft doors opening and closing with zhhh-zhhh sounds – a world that may or may not involve extraterrestrial creatures, but which importantly and patently doesn't exist; a movie whose effects depend, at least partly, on the assumption that what is being shown is not true.

Gravity isn't like that. It's not sci-fi, more a contemporary space thriller. It's happening in the here and now. That is why it is so absorbing, although you may have to abolish your own scepticism-gravity – suspending disbelief at the idea that Stone's training would have allowed her to be reasonably familiar with the control panels of Russian and Chinese spacecraft with their Cyrillic and Chinese letterings. Of course, these aspects may have been cunningly devised by Cuarón so that his movie can blast off in Russian and Chinese territories.

The movie draws, broadly, on the style, if not the substance, of that dystopian tradition stretching from Kubrick's 2001 (1968): it is comparable to Alien (1979) or Dark Star (1974) or Silent Running (1972), in that it adopts something of their downbeat, quasi-realist behaviour, applied to something notionally real; it has some of their flashes of humour and horror and tension, but it is without cynicism or satire, without monsters or talking computers. Incidentally, the deeply scary question of what happens if you accidentally become detached from your spacecraft and float irreversibly off into space brought back memories of Brian de Palma's little-liked Mission to Mars (2000). But importantly, it's supposed to be real.

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ROYAL ENFIELD

Royal Enfield's Continental gambit to go global

The first all-new Royal Enfield motorcycle in over five decades and probably the most significant ever to be made in India by the venerable firm was unveiled yesterday in Goa to the national media. The Continental GT marks a tectonic shift for the maker of the Bullet but this bike goes beyond the nostalgic Royal Enfield offering and in so doing moves away from its staple diet yet has traditional and modernity residing in one happy package.

The inspiration for the new bike is an iconic machine from Royal Enfield's British past, the 250cc single cylinder Continental GT which was then - in 1965 - the fastest quarter-litre bike sold in the UK. The new bike evokes the same theme of performance for the present day but has a raft of modern features that Are subtly blended into the package to deliver practical yet mellow motorcycling for the times. In the pipeline for the better part of over half a decade, the company took its time to soak in the heritage and also to understand ways and means to balance tradition and every day practicality while yet conforming to contemporary legislation before making the new machine.

Built around its single cylinder UCE (unit construction engine which is the only bit borrowed from the existing Bullet portfolio, this engine has been bored out to 535cc and is perhaps the most powerful and torquey motor ever to roll out of the firm's Chennai facilities. It is however what is built around it that marks the Continental GT as one to watch out for. A completely new frame designed and developed by Harris Performance of the UK, frame makers of Grand Prix racing machines for decades along with some of the best and proven suspension and cycle aggregates from the best component specialists worldwide makes this a truly evocative machine.

The Continental GT though is to be views not just as a big milestone for the company (which it sure is) but for the fact that it heralds an all new approach by its maker to make a bike for the global markets. The global market for bikes with an engine displacement in the range of 250cc to 750cc is estimated to be in the region of around 800,000 units

The firm which commissioned its all new manufacturing facility at Oragaddam near Chennai earlier this year has seen not just the numbers go up but thanks to the new manufacturing processes, the waiting time for its models has been steadily being shaved off. Already the monthly average output  is to the tune of around 20,000 bikes a month and with the new Continental GT being so brilliantly price positioned, expect this number to increase dramatically. At an on-the-road price of Rs 2.14 lakhs in Mumbai, it is seriously hard to ignore, whatever be your kind of motorcycling.



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MOTO G

Moto G dual-SIM smartphone to land in India with Android 4.4 KitKat: Report

While it has already been confirmed that Motorola will be launching the dual-SIM version of the Moto G in India in early-January 2014, and that the smartphone would be receiving a 'guaranteed' Android 4.4 KitKat the same month, a new report says the model that will ship in India will come pre-loaded with Google's latest iteration of Android.
Omio News Blog in a report has revealed Motorola's plans for the rollout of Moto G with the latest Android iteration in various countries.

The report quotes Mark Randal, Senior Vice President, Supply Chain & Operations, Motorola who while replying about Android 4.4 KitKat rollout plans for Moto G said that the company will be shipping the smartphone with Android 4.4 KitKat after Christmas. Considering that in India, the Moto G will be launched next year, in early January, it is quite evident that the device will be running Android 4.4 KitKat out-of-the-box.

Further, the report notes that the Motorola Moto G will release in two waves (as we confirmed during the press conference) , the first wave includes countries namely Brazil, France, Germany, Mexico and UK, while the second wave includes US, South East Asia and other countries. Randal also revealed that the Motorola Moto G will be launched with Android 4.3 Jelly Bean in first wave countries, though they will also receive the Android 4.4 KitKat update by the end of January.

On Thursday, a tweet by Guy Kawasaki confirmed that the Motorola Moto G dual-SIM variant would be making it to the Indian market, as well as Brazil. While Motorola has already confirmed that the Moto G will be arriving in India, it has yet to reveal the precise plans for the type of retail availability.

The Motorola Moto G also features water-resistant nano-coating on the inside and outside. The Moto G packs a 2070mAh battery, which Motorola claims can deliver up to 30 percent more talktime than the Apple iPhone 5s.


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i phone 6

iPhone 6 "Air" Concept Unveiled: Better Than the First?

An intriguing new iPhone 6 "Air" concept has been unveiled, courtesy of brightknight08.
The concept design greatly differs from an earlier iPhone Air concept that surfaced, featuring an all-new design with a iPad Air-like body tapered to the bottom and new customizable colours. There are new buttons as well, including a backlit proximit sensor in place of the home button and a silent button featured at the top that also functions as the iPhone's power button.

Brightknight08 packed a 4.6-inch display in the iPhone 6 "Air" with full HD screen resolution and 450 ppi, which would make for a top of the line device. What do you think of the concept? How does it stack up to the previous iPad Air and iPhone 6 designs? Let us know what you think with a comment.

Apple’s next-generation smart phone, the iPhone 6, could take the curved displays recently made famous by LG and Samsung to a new level of design.
The Cupertino-based tech giant is already rumored to be making major changes to its future iPhone line, including larger screens that could push the next smart phones to ‘phablet’ size. While Apple has been hesitant to join rival Samsung in the ‘phablet’ sector of the smart phone market, the company has apparently realized the vast untapped potential that lies there. One element of smart phone design Apple has repeatedly stated it will stick to, however, is the ability to hold any iPhone with one hand.
Apple’s rumored next-gen iPhones would ensure this, as the company’s unique curved display panel would allow for a larger screen without losing the accessibility of a smartphone you need just one hand to operate.

Along with the curved design, future iPhones are being rumored to feature a pressure-sensitive display that would be able to detect how strongly a user interacts with the device, which would “assign specific functions to the weight of the hand on the screen,” according to Inferse.

Two new Apple iPhones could release in "the second half of next year," according to a Bloomberg source.
The next-generation iPhone models would be offered with 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch curved glass displays, according to the report. While release dates have been projected from as early as Q1 to as late as September, the Bloom berg report is the first to circulate with actual clout. There are also details about new touchscreen sensors in development, which could greatly improve the drawing and handwriting apps on the iPhone and iPad. Apple could even "sell the devices as professional-level artistic devices if it introduces those kinds of features," says Tech Crunch.
According to a new report by Japanese magazine Mac Fan, the sixth-generation iPhone will be designed to ease Apple consumers to the change, coming in with a 1,920-by-1,080-pixel 5-inch display (420 ppi) customized with thin sides so that the user can easily operate the device with one hand. The report also claims the device will get a release date in September.
Previous reports pegged the iPhone 6 at just under 5 inches with a 4.8-inch screen that would stick to Apple's "unwavering principle of one-hand use," according to KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.
More on the iPhone 6: Release Date, Specs Rumors
Apple's sixth-generation iPhone could get a release date next summer, according to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster.
In a research note published Friday, Munster added that the iPhone 6 will be a "blockbuster" and will include a "large screen option." Munster believes Apple will push the smart phone's release up from fall, which would mean there would be less than a year between iPhone releases. Previous reports have suggested either a Q1-Q2 release or a September launch.
Munster also believes Apple is working on a computerised wristwatch, dubbed the "iWatch," and a television set.
New reports suggest that the sixth-generation iPhone is going to pack some serious specs changes, with a large IGZO display likely coming from Sharp and a 16MP camera sensor via Sony. Citing Asian publication reports, Patently Apple claims that while other suppliers are still in the running, Sharp has begun to pull away from the pack. The components manufacturer is strengthening its relationship with Apple just in time, as Samsung is also being gently pushed out of the picture.
Sharp is offering a competitive advantage, according to the Patently Apple report: "Sharp will be the first company in the world to achieve commercial production of high-definition LCD panels for smart phones. The highly efficient production levels achievable with 8G glass substrates will be made possible by an optimized production process as well as by IGZO technology's ability to enable smaller thin-film transistors and increased light transmittance."

Apple is also looking to double the next iPhone's camera from an 8MP to a 16MP that will revolve around "the 16 million pixel complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor," technology, according to another Patently Apple report. Sony and Samsung are the current front-runners, but the feature could go to Sony.
"Sony is likely to supply Apple with the new sensors for next year's iPhone 6, though final testing has yet to be completed," the Apple tech site said.
The iPhone 6 may not be the only 'phablet-sized' smart phone Apple is prepping for 2014, however.
Analyst David Hsieh of NPD Display Search claims that Apple will release a 4.7-inch iPhone 6 and another iPhone at 5.7 inches in Q1-Q2 of 2014. The reports suggest Apple will be pushing innovative displays that will also result in a 12.9-inch iPad with higher resolution, a MacBook Air with a Retina Display, an Apple TV and the iWatch.
According to Gotta Be Mobile, Hsieh's report isn't coming out of left field, as it "'fills in the blanks' left from Tim Cook's summer brag. During Apple's earnings call in July Tim Cook told investors and customers to look forward to, 'amazing new products that we will introduce in the fall and across 2014.'"
NPD DisplaySearch has a solid track record with displays, having accurately predicted the iPad 3's Retina Display a few months before its release, so this report can't be treated like it's any other rumor. Still, these iPhone claims are a bit surprsing considering the most recent rumors suggested that Apple had settled on a 4.8 to 5-inch display screen, which lead some to believe the company was still reluctant to release an iPhone with a display over 5 inches at full 'phablet' mode. However, an iPhone at 5.7 inches would put the smart phone in the same boat as the Galaxy Note 3, helping the company reach multiple levels of the smartphone market. A Q1-Q2 release date also goes against a recent claim from Jefferies & Co. analyst Peter Misek, who suggested a September 2014 release date was in the cards for the sixth-generation iPhone.

One rumor that may hold some weight is the expectation that Apple will take the use of sapphire crysal—which was laser cut into the home button of the iPhone 5S for fingerprint scanning—to a new level with their upcoming devices. A recent report with Taiwanese sapphire maker sources not only suggests that iPad 5 and iPad Mini 2 could feature the sapphire crystals for fingerprint sensors, but also says that Apple is planning on using the sapphire crystals for the iPhone 6 home button and touch screen.

The DigiTimes report seems to fall in line with a recent Apple patent that regards a process that would add sapphire laminate over a device's touch screen glass. This could be used on future iPhones, iPads and the rumoured iWatch, as well. The patent explains that two sapphire sheets would be laminated together-creating structure only 1mm thick or less.

Some other new iPhone 6 rumors suggest that Apple could offer some impressive new technology in the new flagship smartphone—solar technology.
Back in February, Apple secured a patent for the use of solar panels in portable devices. "This 'integrated touch sensor and solar assembly' would involve integrating social cells into a touch screen by using electrodes that can pull double duty as a solar cell and a touch sensor," says CNET. The integration, according to the patent, would also help save surface area on the device.
Other rumors suggest that Apple is looking to hire a someone with expertise in "thin film deposition technology" and in solar industry. Apple has has applied for four other solar-power-related patents in the past several years.
The iPhone 6 could also debut with a curved, wraparound screen, according to a recent Apple patent filing. The iPhone, in this case the 6, would feature a wraparound AMOLED screen that appears to feature similar dimensions to the iPod Nano 4. The patent adds that the screen can be "unrolled" or "unfolded" thanks to a unfolding hinge that allows the screen to double in size when desired. Facial recognition, gesture control and the layering of screens to create a 3D screen were also discussed in the patent.
Another feature rumor for the iPhone 6 entails the use of sonar instead of infrared sensors, according to a report by Apple Insider. The report claims that the technology could "detect slight changes in ambient sound and send corresponding signals to a processor which then compares the two to determine whether an object is in close proximity to either of the mics."
A "smart bezel" feature that would display information around the screen has also been rumored as a possibility for the iPhone 6 in another Apple patent filing released.
"The primary display could be used to convey visual content to a user, and the secondary display could be used to guide a user providing inputs to the device. For example, the secondary display could be selectively illuminated to provide one or more indicators that represent where or how a user can provide inputs to the device," the patent reads.



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http://www.designntrend.com/articles/9117/20131115/iphone-6-air-concept-video-release-date-rumors-specs.htm

WONDERS

Sardar Patel statue of unity: Tallest statue in the world has tall multi-media to get 'lovers of the nation' on board

On Thursday, Gujarat chief minister and BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi laid the foundation of the Sardar Patel statue in Kevadiya.

Set to cost a whopping Rs2,074 crore, the statue is being touted as the tallest statue ever at 182 metres which is twice the height of the Statue of Liberty.

India’s first Home Minister, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was also known as the Iron Man of India and he helped unify the country after the British granted independence to India.

For this project, a website www.statueofunity.in   has been created that is up to date with information about the project.

Detailed infographics with the project details in addition to pages that explain the concept of the Sardar Patel statue of unity are on the website.

The website clearly states, "India cannot afford to bury the life of a man as great as Sardar Patel, into oblivious pages of history. To keep him alive in the hearts of generations to come is the only tribute that he can be commented with. It is thus in order to make Sardar Patel a source of inspiration every generation, that such a massive and divine statue is being built/project is being undertaken."

Interestingly, Mahatma Gandhi the father of the nation recently had a 70 feet statue built in Patna which is the tallest statue of his, but it is a dwarf compared to the much taller Patel statue that is set to stand at 392 feet.

The website has measurements of the tall statues of the world like the Spring Temple Buddha, Ushiku Dalibutsu, Christ the Redeemer, Statue of Liberty and The Motherland Calls which are all either religious or tributes to the motherland.

A statue to Sardar Patel seems a little farfetched as the nation's pride and the world marvel that it seeks to be.  India which is rated badly in terms of human index has several international bodies sanctioning funds to help the poor. In a country where there aren't enough toilets and the poor go hungry to bed almost every night, the funds could have allocated in a more efficient way.

Interestingly the Sardar Patel museum in Ahmedabad lies closed and in need of a lot of infrastructure work, perhaps the museum should get some urgent attention first.

But the statue seems to be the main agenda of the moment as media strategies to get "lovers of the country" on board seems in full swing.

With full page ads in all leading national newspapers as well as TV ads on all leading news channels and general entertainment channels, the social and multi-media campaigns have been full on.



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