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amsung Galaxy S – Your iPhone 4 Alternative
There’s no such thing as a perfect smartphone and even the best of its kind often reigns for just a few months. Today, we have a real winner from the world’s second largest mobile phone maker Samsung. Considered Android’s finest smartphone that won’t blink in the presence of the formidable iPhone 4, the Samsung Galaxy S defines the start of what it means to have a superb flagship Android smartphone from here on.

Its breath of features makes it the natural direct competitor to Apple’s iPhone 4 which was released at about the same time. Feature for feature, it holds a candle and even trumps the iPhone in many areas.

The Best Screen After the Retina

No smartphone on the planet can match the 4th generation iPhone’s gorgeous Retina display at 640 x 960 pixel resolution. The most they can do at this time is to have a larger screen at a Wide-VGA resolution (480 x 800) using new technologies like Super AMOLED.

That’s what the Samsung Galaxy S has and gets the same multitouch capacitive touchscreen and 16 million colors but at a larger 4-inch display size. It’s just as brilliant and as readable under the bright midday sun as the in-plane switching LCD on the iPhone 4. It also comes with proximity and accelerometer sensors. But the Galaxy S edges it with its Swipe text input feature.

Flagship Android Features

As the best Android smartphone todate, the Galaxy S has the following upscale features that have made it the benchmark against which future Androids will be judged.

The Samsung Galaxy S is powered by the same 1 GHz ARM Cortex A8 CPU used in the Apple A4 cluster that powers the iPad and the iPhone4. Its Android v2.1 Eclair is open to upgrade as soon as Samsung re-layers the new 2.2 Froyo with its signature TouchWiz UI.
It’s a tri band UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA on 3G and a quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE on 2G. Local data connectivity includes local hotspot surfing with the latest WiFi 802.11 b/g/n with DLNA, the latest Bluetooth 3.0 using WiFi protocols and microUSB v2.0.
SatNav get a GPS receiver with A-GPS support and preloaded with Java-based digital compass and Google Maps.
Its imaging may sport a typical high end 5-megapixel camera with continuous autofocus, geo tagging, touch focus and face/smile detection, but its video recording is tops with 720p resolution at 30fps. There’s also a front-facing secondary VGS camera for 3G video calls.
Onboard memory gets a 512 MB RAM and 1GB ROM for its OS and application files. User in-built memory is capped at a generous 8 GB that is supplemented by up to 32 GB of microSD external memory expandability.
Mobile entertainment on the Samsung Galaxy S edges the iPhone with a stereo FM radio with RDS. You get the same media players that support more of the popular audio and video files the iPhone misses out. There’s a TV out to let you watch your high resolution images and videos on a larger monitor. It doubles up as a 3.5 mm audio jack for wired stereo headphone listening on top of the A2DP profile support for wireless stereo headphones.

Its 1500 mAh Li-Ion battery delivers up to 13.5 hours of talk time and 750 hours of standby time in 2G.
Samsung Epic 4G: The Fastest Android Phone Right Now
When it comes to personal planning for the day, nothing does it better than a good Smartphone. This has led to the development of many and differentiated designs which are geared at the satisfaction of everybody’s needs. The Samsung Epic 4G on the other hand stands out from the rest. This is an incomparable smartphone which has been designed to think better than the users. The available features and efficiency are more than those of personal computer.

This is the Sprint edition of the Galaxy S with an addition of the slide-out QWERTY keyboards and has access to the Sprint’s WiMAX Network. This has made the Samsung Epic 4G better than the Captivate and Vibrant in every aspect. The device is a lot more than the given specs and lives to its name; ultra-fast mobile connectivity and cost only 250 dollars with a contract of two years.

The design used on the Samsung Epic 4G lies in the line of fashion conscious and executive friendly. It has a 4.3 inch screen which has an excellent finger repellent and its great shape makes it inevitable. Its dimensions are 4.9×2.5×0.6 inches which in spite of it being a bigger phone makes it unique in every way. It has a QWERT keyboards with all advantages of the space making it the best there is in the market today.

The most notable feature of the Samsung Epic 4G is the unique Super AMOLED touch screen display unit. This is the part dominating the from of the smartphone and blends in well with the phones body to an extent that its unnoticeable when the screen is off. It’s unique in that it allows a brightness of 4-inch WVGA (which is 800×480) to shine with an excellent glow. The default screen colors are much cooler than its predecessors and pop more to the red/blue end of a spectrum. The default fonts are also excellent and make it stand out from the rest of Smartphones which include the iPhone 4.

The screen of the Epic 4G is essentially designed for good quality displays. It is excellent when playing videos or when playing games. With a 1GHz processor, the phone permits no lagging when playing games or watching movies. It is much better than its siblings the Captivate and Vibrant. Some people might find the screen a little dim but adjustment of the brightness can easily be done. This can be done in the brightness adjustment settings from the default to your most preferred.

The slide-out keyboards is the key differentiator of the Epic 4G from the rest of the models. This slide-out QWERTY keyboard adds to the width and thickness of the phone but getting used to it takes much less time. This helps supplement the onscreen keyboards which is commonly used in sending text messages. The keyboard is not an afterthought design but rather a predetermined addition. It blends in well on the phone and its functionality is excellent in every way. If looking for an exceptional smartphone with all the features incorporated in one device, the Samsung Epic 4G is the right phone for you.
Samsung mobile phones have become synonymous to innovation. Every handset of Samsung writes a new story of success for the brand. Today Samsung holds the second position in the international market due to the high sales of its awesome mobile phones. Samsung phones are available in all categories and are very easy to operate.

In the ocean of mobile phones you can find basic phones, camera phones, multimedia phones, touchscreen phones, 3G phones, business phones, tab cum smart phones and so on. These handsets are available in all form factors be it simple candybar, slider, flip or QWERTY. You can find them from the cheapest possible price to the expensive one.

Every Samsung phone comes with some innovative features of current technology. Lately, the brand has released the most innovative handset of current time in the form of Samsung Galaxy Tab. It is a combination of a tablet PC and a smart phone, for the very first time any brand has brought such an innovative device. Samsung Galaxy Tab has been appreciated across the globe and is highly demanded in the market by the tech savvy people.

Samsung Galaxy S is still in high demand due to its amazing performance though many new Samsung mobile phones have been launched in the market. This handset is preferred for its highly advanced and wide touch screen. Apart from display screen, the internal features like software used in the handset is also admirable. A few moths back, Samsung Nexus S has been launched in the market. This handset is the joint effort of Samsung and Google and has got expected success in the international market.

Samsung is going to launch a huge heap of new mobile phones in the market in a couple of months. Some of these upcoming Samsung phones are Neo, Nexus S 4G, Galaxy Pro, Infuse 4G and Samsung Galaxy II. All these handsets are jam packed with hi-end features of current mobile technology. In fact, some of these handsets are going to support 4G networks together with 2G and 3G networks.

If you are looking for cheap Samsung phones then you should check out various mobile phone deals provided over them by many leading service providers. Online shopping is the best way to find out a good number of cheap Samsung phones.

Apart from mobile phones, Samsung is also widening its area in a new field called tablet PC. Very soon the brand is going to launch two or more Samsung tabloids from its end. But these tabloids will be not supporting GSM voice communication capabilities. Some of these tablet PCs are Galaxy Tab 8.9 & 8.9 3G, Galaxy Tab 10.1 & 10.1 3G, P7100 Galaxy Tab 10.1v, Galaxy S WiFi 5.0 and Samsung Galaxy Tab 4G LTE.


Mexican carrier suggests iPhone 4 without antenna woes due September 30

A semi-official confirmation has appeared today concerning an alleged iPhone 4 revision supposed to fix the nasty antenna issue, better known in the headlines as Antennagate. The bomb was dropped by a high-ranked carrier executive who publicly promised his company would have an improved handset on sale by the end of September.

Mexican carrier Telcel announced the arrival of iPhone 4 to the country this past Friday and their director of value added services Marco Quatorze told Spanish-language site CanalMX that Telcel, which is the biggest carrier in Mexico, will at first sell the existing iPhone 4 version offered elsewhere, the one with the known antenna deficiency.

A bit later, beginning on September 30th, Telcel will carry “a new device” without the reception malfunction. It’s unclear why the carrier would want to sell the “flawed” iPhone 4 and replace it with a newer model less than a month later. Apparently, those who buy the familiar iPhone 4 model from Friday, September 3 onwards, will be given an option to switch to a revised model, he said.

Read more at CanalMX (original in Spanish, Google translation)

Christian’s Opinion

Take this information with a grain of salt because it’s based on Google’s translation of the original article and we don’t know whether Quatorze acted on the rumors or if he relayed the actual insider information. Speaking of which, September 30 chimes in with the expiration of Apple’s free bumpers program that Jobs announced at the iPhone 4 presser.

Apple’s boss told the gathered media that the offer will be valid for every iPhone 4 purchased through September 30, adding this:

We’ll re-examine this in September and decide whether to keep going or maybe we’ll have a better idea.

It would appear Apple already had a better solution in mind back then. Otherwise, Jobs would have never dropped a casual hint of a “better idea.”

Mexican carrier claims new iPhone 4 for October

Apple could still be planning a hardware replacement program for the iPhone 4 according to new rumours that have surfaced in Mexico.

At the Q&A of the Apple Antennagate press conference, Steve Jobs detailed how the company would be giving away a free bumper to everyone that has bought or buys an iPhone 4, up until 30 September, and that when questioned later said that Apple would “re-examine this in September and decide whether to keep going, or maybe we will have a better idea”.

Well fast forward a couple of months and CanalMX, a Mexican based tech site, is quoting an executive at Mexican carrier Telcel as telling them that Apple will release a revised version of the iPhone 4 by the end of September to address the highly-publicized antenna issue.

According to Marco Quatorze – Telcel’s director of Value Added Services – through the wonders of Google Translation, the iPhone 4 sold currently in Mexico will at first be the same hardware as that sold in the US as you would expect. However Quatorze then, according to the site, detailed that a new device that does not have the “malfunction of the reception” would be introduced.

Whether or not Quatorze would be privy to such information is unsure, or it might be that Google’s translation tool has led to a misunderstanding of the report, however as we questioned back at the Antennagate press conference, you have to wonder why the 30 September date as been set and why Steve Jobs, the company’s CEO, was so evasive in answering the question at the time.

And you thought those Apple Antennagate stories where over and done with.


iPhone 4 review

iphone 4 arrives June 24. Pre-order your today.


Apple iphone 4 features

iphone 4.In so many ways, it’s a first.

While everyone else was busy trying to keep up with iPhone, we were busy creating amazing new features that make iPhone more powerful, easier to use, and more indispensable than ever. The result is iPhone 4. The biggest thing to happen to iPhone since iPhone.


Facetime Phone calls like you’ve never seen before.
People have been dreaming about video calling for decades. iPhone 4 makes it a reality. With the tap of a button, you can wave hello to your kids, share a smile from across the globe, or watch your best friend laugh at your stories — iPhone 4 to iPhone 4 over Wi-Fi. No other phone makes staying in touch this much fun.

One-tap simple.

FaceTime works right out of the box — no need to set up a special account or screen name. And using FaceTime is as easy as it gets. Let’s say you want to start a video call with your best friend. Just find her entry in your Contacts and tap the FaceTime button. Or maybe you’re already on a voice call with her and you want to switch to video. Just tap the FaceTime button on the Phone screen. Either way, an invitation pops up on her iPhone 4 screen asking if she wants to join you. When she accepts, the video call begins. It’s all perfectly seamless. And it works in both portrait and landscape modes.

Two cameras made for video calling

iPhone 4 has two built-in cameras, one on the front above the display and one on the back next to the LED flash. The front camera has been tuned for FaceTime. It has just the right field of view and focal length to focus on your face at arm’s length. So it always presents you in the best possible light.

Share what you see with the back camera

Imagine your sister is away at school and can’t make it to your son’s birthday. So you’re cheering her up with a FaceTime call. As the cupcakes come out, your son’s eyes light up, and you just have to share it. Tap a button, and before you can say, “Make a wish,” iPhone 4 switches to the back camera, and to the birthday boy’s big moment. Another tap switches back to the front camera and to you.


iPhone 4 Technical Specifications


Size and weight1

Height: 4.5 inches (115.2 mm)

Width: 2.31 inches (58.6 mm)

Depth: 0.37 inch (9.3 mm)

Weight: 4.8 ounces (137 grams)

Cellular and wireless

  • UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA (850, 900, 1900, 2100 MHz)
  • GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)
  • 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi (802.11n 2.4GHz only)
  • Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR wireless technology

Location

  • Assisted GPS
  • Digital compass
  • Wi-Fi
  • Cellular

Power and battery2

  • Built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery
  • Charging via USB to computer system or power adapter
  • Talk time:
    Up to 7 hours on 3G
    Up to 14 hours on 2G
  • Standby time: Up to 300 hours
  • Internet use:
    Up to 6 hours on 3G
    Up to 10 hours on Wi-Fi
  • Video playback: Up to 10 hours
  • Audio playback: Up to 40 hours

Camera, photos, and video

  • Video recording, HD (720p) up to 30 frames per second with audio
  • 5-megapixel still camera
  • VGA-quality photos and video at up to 30 frames per second with the front camera
  • Tap to focus video or still images
  • LED flash
  • Photo and video geotagging

Capacity3

  • 16GB or 32GB flash drive

Color

  • White or black

Display

  • Retina display
  • 3.5-inch (diagonal) widescreen Multi-Touch display
  • 960-by-640-pixel resolution at 326 ppi
  • 800:1 contrast ratio (typical)
  • 500 cd/m2 max brightness (typical)
  • Fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating on front and back
  • Support for display of multiple languages and characters simultaneously


Bumpers for iPhone 4

Dress up your iPhone 4 with a Bumper. Choose one of six colors — white, black, blue, green, orange, or pink — and slip it around the edge of your iPhone 4. With metal buttons for volume and power, two-tone colors, and a combination of rubber and molded plastic, Bumpers add a touch of style to any iPhone 4.


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