Samsung unveils all metal, ultra-slim Galaxy A5 and Galaxy A3

Samsung announces the ultra-slim Galaxy A5 and A3 smartphoneswith full metal unibody design and Android 4.4.

Samsung has announced the company's slimmest phones till date - the Galaxy A5 and Galaxy A3. The smartphones are launched under Samsung's Galaxy A series and are meant for “young consumers seeking practicality and functionality”.

The Samsung Galaxy A5 has a 5-inch Super Amoled display with 720 x 1280 pixels resolution. The smartphone has an ultrathin 6.7 mm body. It has a 1.2 GHz quad-core processor with 2GB of RAM and runs Android 4.4. The smartphone has a 13 MP rear camera and a 5MP front camera. It has 16 GB internal memory expandable via microSD card slot. The Galaxy A5 is backed by a 2300 mAh battery.

The Galaxy A3 has a 4.5-inch Super AMOLED display with 540 x 960 pixels resolution. The smartphone has a 6.9 mm body. It has a 1.2 GHz quad-core processor with 1 GB of RAM and runs Android 4.4. The smartphone has an 8MP rear camera and a 5 MP front camera. It has 8GB internal memory expandable via microSD card slot. The smartphone is backed by a 1900 mAh battery.

Both the Galaxy A5 and A3 will be launched in November and will be available in a wide range of colors including Midnight Black, Pearl White, Platinum Silver, Champagne Gold, Light Blue, and Soft Pink. The official pricing of the smartphones has not been revealed yet.

Recentlly, Samsung also launched the metal framed Galaxy Alpha for Rs. 39,990 in India. It has a 4.7 inch 720p Super AMOLED display with 2GB RAM and runs Android KitKat. The smartphone has a thin 6.7 mm body, 32 GB internal memory and an octa-core SoC. The Galaxy Alpha has a 12 MP rear camera and a 2.1 MP front camera. It is backed by an 1860 Mah battery. Read: Samsung Galaxy Mega 2 Phablet launched in India at Rs 20,900

Source: Samsung

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Micro Phone Lens could turn your smartphone into a 150x microscope

The $42 lens could turn your smartphone or tablet camera into a power microscope.

Thomas Larson of Seattle has developed a Micro Phone Lens that attaches to your smartphone or tablet’s camera and offers a 150x magnification microscope.

The Micro Phone lens just sticks to your devices camera and can be pulled off when you’re done. Users just need to press on it to adjust the focus and use the default camera app. All you need is a light source and a microscope slide to view the things around in detail. The recommended camera resolution for the lens is 5MP and according to the site, the final product will be able to resolve features as tiny as 1.5-1.6 microns.

The project has raised money via the crowd funding site - Kickstarter. Larsen has already reached past his $50,000 goal through the site. The Micro Phone Lens is quite inexpensive as it comes for $42 only (which will get you the lens plus the full assortment of accessories). At this price the lens is a lot cheaper than dedicated microscopes with a comparable magnification which makes it ideal for home or school use.

Researchers at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a new 'light-bending silicon chip' that can turn your smartphone into a projector. The new chip eliminates the need of expensive and bulky lens used in traditional projectors. Ali Hajimiri and his team added that soon the technology would be incorporated into a smartphone to change it into a projector, with no need for a separate lens.

Source: Kickstarter

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Google increases Android security with continuous malware scanning

Google's new Android security feature will check your smartphone constantly to make sure that installed applications are not infected with malware

Google has announced a change in its Android security system that will ensure that apps on your smartphone are safe from malicious software. "Verify Apps" by Google earlier used to scan apps for malicious code at the time of installation. "From now on, the program will expand and will continuously check the device even after installation to make sure that apps are “behaving in a safe manner," Google announced in a blog post.

The continuous app scanning will mean that if an app changes permissions on a later day, (like the ability to access your calendar, read your messages, etc.), Google’s Android Verify Apps program will keep a check on them and make sure they are not affected by malware. The new continuous checks use the same app-scanning technology that Google already uses for Android and also in its Chrome browser. Google adds that the regular “Verify apps” feature in Android has been used more than 4 billion times till now.

Verify Apps is a part of Google’s Android “bouncer” program released in February 2012. These 'Bouncer' scans check every app in Google Play Store against a list of known malware bugs and if an app is flagged as malicious, the app will send a warning to the user asking them not to install the app or Google may even block it. The Verify Apps feature is enabled for Android devices running v2.3 or higher.

The new security feature comes after a fake anti-virus app Virus Shield was discovered on the Google Play Store last week. The top rated app was available for $3.99 from the app store and claimed to protect your smartphone from harmful malware. After thousands of users downloaded the app, it was discovered that the app actually didn't do anything. Google has since then removed the app from the Google Play store.

Source: Android Blog

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Android 4.4.3 arriving soon, features leaked online

After various rumours of the upcoming Nexus devices, some fresh details of an upcoming Android update has been leaked on the web giving an idea what Google will be bringing to the mobile platform

A new Android update is expected to arrive soon as a change-log including some fixes has been leaked. The new update will be 4.4.3, so this is definitely not a major release, rather a slight bump from the current Android version. This also means that there won’t be any major changes in terms of looks of the UI.

The update was seen on a Nexus 5, however there is no confirmation regarding the release date. We are presuming that the update should arrive on or just before Google’s upcoming I/O event along with a pair of new Nexus devices.

Here is the list of fixes that are expected to arrive in the 4.4.3 update:

• Frequent data connection dropout fix
• mm-qcamera-daemon crash and optimization fixes
• Camera focus in regular and HDR modes fixes
• Power Manager display wakelock fix
• Multiple Bluetooth fixes
• Fix for a random reboot
• App shortcuts sometimes got removed from launcher after update
• USB debugging security fix
• App shortcuts security fix
• Wi-Fi auto-connect fix
• Other camera fixes
• MMS, Email/Exchange, Calendar, People/Dialer/Contacts, DSP, IPv6, VPN fixes
• Stuck in activation screen fix
• Missed call LED fix
• Subtitle fixes
• Data usage graph fix

Source: Android Police

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NEOBUX vs CLIXSENSE Strategy!

All you need to start earning online!

In this blog I am going to show you my latest strategy using the two most profitable PTC (Paid To Click) websites and how I make a very nice income from both.

If you don't know what's this all about I'll explain to you.
Paid To Click websites (usually known as PTC's) are marketing pages that pays their members for simply watching their sponsor's advertisements for some seconds. They usually also pay comissions for referrals clicks.

These are the two PTC I'll talk you about:

1)

2)

These sites were launched in 2007 and paying their members instantly since that date.

Neobux specs:

• Low referral renting and recycling fees;
• Lots of ads through the day;
• Helpful toolbar;
• Huge community and well organized forum.      

 Clixsense specs:

• 8 tier referral program;
• Sign up comissions;
• Earning game opportunity (Clix Grid);
• Earings toolbar.

Now, make sure to be signed up for both of them, if you are not you can simply click the following links:

NEOBUX

CLIXSENSE

How to earn through each of them.

Neobux

This is a very powerfull PTC who got members earning around $2500 pure profit a month. Incredible isn't it? Well, the truth is that anyone can get a monthly profit of $1000 in just a few months, but that would require a huge investment and some years to get the investment back.

If you don't have any money to invest, don't worry, I didn't needed that.

The first thing to do is to download the toolbar and have it installed in your browser, this will allow you to be alerted each time a new ad is available to click. If you spend lots of time surfing, then you'll easily afford to rent your first referrals.

Remember: NEVER LOOSE YOUR PATIENCE!

After you get your first $0.60 I recommend you to rent your first 3 rented referral pack, and after that try to afford to extend them for 150 or 240 days, then repeat the process until you get as many referrals as you wish.

Recomendation: Recycle any referral with an average below 0.6 who does not click  for 5 days.

All this process may sound a little boring, but after the first months you'll see your earnings flow and get more enthusiastic.

Clixsense

This PTC it is a little different from Neobux as you will not be able to rent any referrals but you still have the possibility to download his toolbar to help you get many ads through the day.

My advise for you here is to invite all of your friends into this community where you'll find many flash games and a grid (ClixGrid) where you can try your luck to earn some prizes that can go up to $5!

This is a great website because you can afford commissions from your referrals purchases and from their referrals up to an 8 tier downline.

Why is that so good?

Easy to answer, let's imagine you get 100 referrals and each one get 1 referral and that repeating for the next 6 tiers, that means that you'll earn from 800 referrals instead of 100. Can you imagine how much you can earn a day from them? That's a lot of money a day, believe it.

Neobux VS Clixsense Strategy!

Let's see how it is possible to maximize your earnings combining these two awesome and trusted websites.

At this point you already realized that you need referrals to have REAL EARNINGS, right? Let's focus on this: Not every Neobux member is a Clixsense member and vice versa, so, if both of them are advertising places, why not spend some of your earnings advertising each other?

That's right! That means that you'll be advertising and earning referrals for free!!

Attention: If you already rented some referrals in Neobux, don't forget that you need to keep some earnings to extend them.

How much will you spend advertising?

That depends on you, but you are in the perfect places to do that!

Neobux offers you the possibility to advertise for as low as $5 and at Clixsense for only $2.35!! Want it easier then that??

That's all for now, click, rent and advertise until you get as many daily income as you wish, and all of this can start today and with NO COST!!

What are you waiting for?

Sign Up today!!

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Top 4 Most Expensive Luxury Android Phones, Ranked By Ridiculousness

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In the world of luxury smartphones, style is worth much more than substance. Forget about fast processors or HD displays; buying a luxury smartphone is all about standing out from the crowd with a ridiculous device that puts Daniel Craig's gadgets to shame. Conspicuous consumption? Yes. Newest internals? Hell no.

Gawking at such pointless excess can only make one feel better about the phone in one's hand. Sure, it's annoying to not be able to instantly receive the latest Android update, but at least you didn't shell out over $5,000 for yesterday's specs. Here are the most ridiculous luxury smartphones we could find:

Lamborghini T700

Lamborghini teamed up with Prada and Ferrari to create the T700. The body of the phone is crafted from "diamond cut" metal and crocodile skin. Sapphire glass covers the touchscreen. The phone comes in 5 colors with just 650 editions per color. It's got a 3.7-inch display, runs Android 2.3 and has a paltry 5MP shooter. Price: $2,750 

Ridiculousness Level: 2

Tag Heuer Racer

Tag Heuer Racer was inspired by a Formula 1 race car. It features "poly-carbon and titanium" accents, a shockproof rubber chassis and a "customizable 3D-interface." It looks pretty, but the specs are predictable underwhelming, including a 3.5-inch display with 480x800 pixel resolution, a 1GHz processor and Android 2.3 Gingerbread.
Price: $3,700
Ridiculousness Level: 3

Aston Martin Aspire

The Aston Martin Aspire comes in black, white, silver, gold and rose gold. There's almost nothing else to say about the phone, other than that. It's got an 800MHz single-core chip with a microSD card slot and a 5MP shooter. In other words, it's a Samsung Galaxy Ace that costs way more.
Price: $1,300
Ridiculousness Level: 4

Vertu Ti

The latest entry is Vertu's, which was announced today. The Ti is encased in titanium, has a sapphire crystal display and is handmade in England. In addition to the luxury stylings, you also get 24-hour concierge service. Internals are better than the bunch, but not by much: we're talking a 3.7-inch WVGA display, Snapdragon S4 processor and Android 4.0.
Price: $10,000
Ridiculousness Level: 5

A lot of people wonder: how do they sell these phones? The answer is simple: the more ridiculous the price tag, the more press coverage. The more press coverage, the more sales. 

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Google faces $5 billion antitrust fine in India

Unlike the US and EU, Google cannot escape with a settlement package in India. If found guilty, the Internet giant may be slapped with a fine of $5 billion.

Even as Google wrapped up its antitrust case with the European Union, the search engine giant is still under an antitrust scrutiny in India and faces hefty fines up to $5 billion, if found guilty.

Google, however, has reiterated extending full co-operation to the antitrust body Competition Commission of India (CCI) in its investigation. Google has pointed out that the two-year long review conducted by the US antitrust watchdog was in its favour.

"We are extending full co-operation to the Competition Commission of India in their investigation. We're pleased that the conclusion of the Federal Trade Commission's two year review was that Google's services are good for users and good for competition," a Google spokesperson is quoted as saying.

The CCI has been investigating into the allegations that Google abused its dominant position in the Internet search engine space after a complaint by the Consumer Unity and Trust Society (CUTS) in 2012. A similar complaint was lodged by a wedding website later.

Unlike the anti-trust cases in the US and European Union, Indian laws don't permit settlement process. Moreover, complaint filed with CCI cannot be withdrawn.

It's notable the CCI has referred the issue to investigation arm -- Director General (DG) -- for a detailed investigation after finding prima facie evidence of violations. According to reports, the DG is expected to soon submit its report, which also includes comments from the third parties.

Source: TOI

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