Fly Mobiles has launched a low-budget Android phone Fly F40+ especially for giving smartphone experience to customers at a low price point. The Fly F 40+ runs on Android mobile operating system not the latest though but still to be called as a smartphone with Android mobile operating system.
Dell India on 7th August 2013 announced the new Inspiron All-in-One 20 with Capacitive Touch screen display powered by 3rd Generation Intel processor to provide superior performance and powerful graphics with simple space-saving design.
Lenovo India, which is already very active in computing devices space in India with their Desktops, Laptops, All in One and recently launched Smartphones has not entered the low cost tablet space with the Lenovo A1000 Android Tablet with 7 inch display and calling feature. The A1000 is decently loaded when it comes to specifications and features and offers nice build quality at appealing price point of Rs. 8999 only.
Lenovo has also launched 4 more tablets along with it across portfolio including- Lenovo A3000, S6000, ThinkPad Tablet 2, IdeaPad Lynx K3011. Lets have a more detailed look at each of these products.
Karbonn Mobiles launched Karbonn A11+ the low end Android smartphone in India. Karbonn A11+ is a low-end smartphone aimed at providing users with Android experience at low pricing. With the big screens trending and being much in demand, Karbonn managed to include a 4.7-inch screen with a FWVGA display powered by 1 GHz processor which comes with dual SIM support. It has a 3.2-megapixel auto focus camera with LED flash and a 0.3-megapixel front-facing camera. Running on ICS Android 4.0 operating system it only supports EDGE data service where India is moving to 3G.
Samsung’s TouchWiz is a custom UI layering on the Android mobile operating system. The latest 4.2.2 update on some of the Galaxy devices have been started rolling out and some of the devices ship with 4.2.2 installed. Touchwiz no wonder is just a layering on Android but it still changes a lot of things which make it different from the vanilla rom which is released by Google.
Android 4.2.2 has a prominent feature of lock screen widgets which seem to be very useful for some users. TouchWiz does not enables this by default but instead we have to change it in the settings in order to activate lock screen widgets. Below are the steps to be followed to enable the lock screen widgets on Samsung TouchWiz.
Now your lock screen widgets are activated and you can now swipe on the lock screen to change lock screen widgets. To add lock screen widgets swipe left on the lock screen and select more by tapping on the ‘+’ icon.
Samsung today on 5 August 2013 announced the Samsung Unpacked 2013 Episode 2, the second iteration to the yearly Unpacked event. Early this year Samsung announced Galaxy S4 in New York City at the first unpacked event on March 14th and now for the first time holding another unpacked event in the same year for another big unveiling.
Samsung Unpacked events are generally for flagships announcements and after Galaxy S4, Samsung has the next Note waiting. Though there has been no clear news that what will be announced but it is expected for Note 3. The Unpacked 2013 Episode 2 is scheduled for September 4th just before IFA in Berlin itself. Samsung had launched the Note and the Note II in 2011 and 2012 IFAs respectively and Note III was expected at this IFA itself but it looks like they will give Note a separate launch event.
Summarising the rumors, Note 3 is expected to arrive with a 5.7-inch Full HD Super AMOLED display, 13MP rear camera and Android 4.3 JellyBean OS. It is expected to pack the latest Exynos 5 Octa 5420 and Snapdragon 800 processor varying with region and 3GB of RAM. It is also expected to come with LTE advanced (LTE-A) support for selected markets.
The Samsung Unpacked 2013 event on 4th September, 2013 in Berlin, Germany at 7:00 PM CEST (10:30 PM IST) would be live streamed on Samsung’s YouTube channel probably.
Source : Fonearena
If you all remember Facebook had launched Facebook Home for Android and HTC First the Facebook dedicated phone which though resulted in a complete failure. The basic idea behind all this was to take Facebook experience to a new level with Cover Feed and Chat heads. Chat heads came to Facebook Messenger with the update to every Android device but Facebook Home which was the Facebook dedicated launcher which has Cover Feed was limited to some devices only.
Chat heads are the floating popup bubbles which has the contact’s display picture as the icon image and expands to full messenger on tapping. This looks very cool on the device giving a different experience to coversations. We think this really counts in innovation unleashing the power of Android and replacing notifications for Facebook Messages with chatheads. Facebook Messenger also overrides the default messaging app and can be used replacing it which adds on to its use case.
These popups can be irritating for some in the case when they receive so many notifications. Facebook does not force you to use this feature instead if you are not comfortable you always have the option to revert back to the original notifications. To get back the original notifications follow our guide below
