Nokia’s last Symbian smartphone, the 803: 4-inch AMOLED, Symbian Belle and the largest camera sensor you’ve ever seen

Information has been appearing in dribs and drabs about Nokia’s last Symbian smartphone, the Nokia 803, but a trusted source of ours has come through with some details that vary a bit from earlier reports. For starters, the Nokia 803 will run Symbian Belle and serve it up on a 4-inch AMOLED display instead of the smaller 3.5-inch screen that had been reported. An HDMI-out port, microSIM support and NFC are all a go as well. We have also been told that the Nokia 803 will feature one of the largest camera sensors — if not the largest camera sensor — ever seen on a mobile phone. The Nokia 803 is currently expected to be released in the May timeframe.

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Apple becomes third-largest Mobile Manufacturer

SAN FRANCISCO: An outbreak of iPhone fever made Apple the third hottest mobile phone maker worldwide at the end of 2011, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC).

Apple jumped into the third spot globally from fifth place in the final quarter of the year due to a record-breaking quarter for iPhone shipments, IDC said in figures available online Monday. 

Apple vaulted over South Korea's LG and China based ZTE in the mobile phone market rankings, IDC said. 

Nokia remained king, shipping 113.5 million mobile phones in the final quarter of the year to claim nearly 27 per cent of the market. 

Samsung was second with 22.8 per cent of the market, or 97.6 million handsets shipped. 

Apple sold 37.04 million iPhones in the quarter which ended on December 31, giving it a market share of 8.7 percent. 

A total of 427.4 million mobile phones were shipped in the final months of 2011 in a 6.1 percent increase from the same quarter a year earlier, IDC said. 

IDC warned that the growth rate in the fourth quarter of 2011 was weaker than the 9.3 percent seen in the prior three-month period of the year. 

"The mobile phone market exhibited unusually low growth last quarter, which shows it is not immune to weaker macroeconomic conditions worldwide," said Kevin Restivo, senior research analyst with IDC's Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker. 

"The introduction of high-growth products such as the iPhone 4S, which shipped in the fourth quarter, bolstered smartphone growth," he said. 

"Yet overall market growth fell to its lowest point since the third quarter of 2009 when the global economic recession was in full bloom." 

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Review : Samsung Champ Deluxe Duos

The dual SIM phone has a 2.8 inch screen, Qwerty keypad, 1.3 megapixel camera, MP3 player and FM radio etc.
Samsung has a new dual SIM handset - Champ Deluxe Duos.

Deluxe Duos (C3312) comes with a 2.8 inch display with Smart Touchwiz user interface that is intuitive. Native apps for sites like Facebook and Twitter are also there, besides Samsung's ChatOn Multi IM feature that offers new ways of instant messaging on the mobile.

ChatOn connects everyone in a single easy chatting service as it supports multiple platforms including Android, iPhone OS, bada OS, BlackBerry OS etc. It also supports group chats and multimedia transfer.

Champ Deluxe Duos has a virtual Qwerty, Hindi language input, native Facebook and Twitter apps, and all messengers including Yahoo, MSN, GTalk, etc. In addition, it comes with Bluetooth 3.0 connectivity at 24 Mbps, push mail with Activesync and Opera Mini Browser.

"Consumers are increasingly using their mobile phones to share files, data and music in addition to accessing SNS from their phones. The large display of the Samsung Champ Deluxe Duos and its TouchWiz interface provide a superlative mobile experience to consumers while dual SIM support ensures that users get maximum benefit by choosing the relevant tariff plans and at the same time separate their personal life from their professional life," said Ranjit Yadav, country head, mobile and IT, Samsung India.

The 1.3 megapixel camera, MP3 player, FM radio and 3.5 mm earphones jack make sure that the user gets an entertaining multimedia experience.

The phone comes with an offer of unlimited free music and games along with hundreds of Smart apps. There is a 2 GB free data offer from Airtel as well.

The phone has the new TouchWiz 2.0 Lite with new graphics and a homepage that is expandable to seven pages. The dual SIM phone also comes with a dual standby feature that keeps both the SIM cards active at the same time.

The SIM switching key helps the user to switch between the two SIM cards with a single click and without rebooting the device.

Champ Deluxe Duos is priced at Rs 4,790.

With the launch of Champ Deluxe Duos, Samsung has a range of 9 dual SIM phones, with three of them being touchscreen devices.

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5 Best & Free iOS Games in the Appstore

Many of you want to play the best games but with so many apps in the AppStore, you are not able to do that. Here, I’m listing the 5 best and free games for your iOS device with the download link given in the title of each game. Check these games out:

Zombie Life 
You are a Zombie, newly risen in an unfamiliar town. Build your carrier, get a home and live life as you want but don’t reveal your zombie nature to the world.

There are different features and hairstyles and clothing options that will let you customize your look. You can decorate your home with cool and beautiful stuff. Scare the people but remember- it’s just for fun.

Contract Killer: Zombies 
You have killed a lot of criminals. Now, it’s time to save the humanity. Save the zombie-infested city by killing zombies. Explode the zombie brains and get the best gaming experience and hours of excitement through this game.
There are a lot of survivors and you have to help them all. Get bonuses for headshots and multi kills. This task is for you. Are you ready?

Stupidness 3 
One of the best games available for your iOS device, that will let you have more fun than Stupidness 2. If you have played the previous part, then you’ll surely like this one, too.
This app has a lot of highly unusual questions. Let your friends and family try it out and laugh how stupid they can be by their answers. Answers to questions are also provided, if you need them. You can post your IQ on Facebook.

Tap Fish 2 
Have you played Tap Fish? Well, incase you don’t know-It’s the best aquarium app for your iOS device.
In this game, you have to rise a baby Clown Fish. Feed them, decorate the tanks and see your fishes grow. You don’t know what you’ll get when you breed Blowfish and Clown Fish. Check it out through this amazing, simple yet addictive game. I’m sure you’re going to like it as there are many other cool features that I haven’t discussed yet.

iNstein College
Learn, play and have a good time-all with this single app. Do you know that you can boil the liquid if you continue screaming at a glass full of water for 80 years? Many other facts are there. Take classes and get diplomas with this amazing free game.
There are easy, normal and pro subjects. Easy courses are those that are for children. If you are an adult, you should try normal and Pro courses. You can also share your knowledge with your Facebook and Twitter friends.

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5 Hot Keyboard Apps for Android

It's an all too familiar scenario: You went ahead and bought a shiny new Android smartphone, but now, you realise that-having used physical keyboards all this while-you're finding it rather tough to adjust to typing on a touchscreen.

Add to that the fact that most smartphones running the Google OS don't come preinstalled with the best touch-typing software. But have no fear; help is at hand in the form of myriad alternatives. Check each one out to see what's right for you.

SwiftKeyX

The more you use it, the more SwiftKeyX adapts to your typing style to present to you eerily accurate word predictions. Reviews across the interwebs, including user polls, have awarded it glowing epithets, including the keyboard for "fat-finger typists", "the virtual keyboard Google would be crazy not to acquire" and it even makes it to various lists of essential apps for Android. 

The downside? Swift KeyX is free for use for just one month, after which you will have to shell out Rs 205 to use it further. Still, one month should be enough to figure out if it is indeed the keyboard for you. 

Swype
It's no guarantee, but there's more than a fair chance that your Android phone comes preinstalled with two types of virtual keyboards - the normal Qwerty and SWYPE. (Go to Settings > Locale and Text.

Alternatively, Settings > Language and keyboard). Activate SWYPE and you're ready to go... Now, unlike the traditional poke-to-type keypads, this software lets you input text by merely gliding along the alphabets of a word - this, without you having to lift your finger.

For example, to write MUMBAI, place your finger on M and then glide it over each of the subsequent alphabets U-M-B-A-I. Of course, sliding your fingers over your touchscreen keyboard will mean that you touch many unwanted alphabets, but SWYPE's inbuilt algorithm is intuitive enough to discard the rest and only use the letters you intended.

Type a new word, and you have the option to add it to your dictionary list so it readily appears the next time you input it. Oh, and just in case your phone doesn't come with SWYPE, you can get it for free at swype.com.

TouchPal
It is similar to SWYPE, but has a few tricks of its own that may turn out to be exactly what you were looking for in your virtual keyboard. For example, it lets you blind type on your touchscreen after you have gotten used to the keypad layout.

It does this by more or less learning your input patterns. It also studies the curves as you glide along the keypad to predict the words that you want to type. Seriously, though, these features must be seen to be believed. TouchPal also supports some unique gestures - swipe up to input a number and swipe down for a special character.

And one can even cut, copy and paste from the keyboard itself. Currently, it is free for use as part of public beta. Check it out at www.cootek.com.

ICS Keyboard
In 2010, a company called BlindType demonstrated superb text-prediction software that worked with Android. But before the company could release its product, it was snapped up by Google. Now, some of that technology has made its way to the keyboard in IceCream Sandwich - the latest version of Android.

Well-meaning hackers have taken this keyboard out from ICS and put it up on Android Market for people using older versions of the Google OS. Features in the free version of ICSK include multi-touch, built-in dictionary, configurable auto correction, speech to text (select languages only), custom vibration intensity (haptic feedback), long press "Enter" key to bring up smiley alternatives and even long press on the "/" key in URL mode to bring up domains.

Go Keyboard
This free app on the Android Market is easily one of the best-looking keyboards for the Google OS. In fact, users can choose between various themes that are available for download. Other features include auto-correct as you type, multi-point touch keyboard, support for slide input. And if you are someone who likes to personalize their apps, you will love the customization options-position of various keys, size, smileys and so on-that Go Keyboard offers.

via TOI

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Must-Have Android Apps For Business

Any time you move to a new phone, you've got to determine if the software you've grown accustomed to or dependent upon will work on your new device. If you're moving from one device to another that uses the same mobile OS, this isn't a huge issue, but when moving from, say, a Blackberry to an Android smartphone, you have some big decisions to make.

There's a great deal of valuable software in the Android Market that can help you make the switch. Finding it is the hard part. Here are my suggestions for must-have apps that can help busy road warriors integrate a new Android phone into their daily routine.

Android Agenda Widget. Whether you are a C-level exec or a busy soccer mom, having your schedule in front of you when you turn on your device is a must. Unfortunately, the Android Calendar widget leaves a great deal to be desired. Android Agenda Widget from Everybody all the Time comes to the rescue. With its ability to display multiple calendars and support a number of different display sizes, this free Android widget fills a huge hole and makes it easy to keep your next appointment in front of you.

Go Weather. Everyone I know loves the HTC Clock & Weather widget. It's too bad you'd have to root your non-HTC device with a custom ROM to enjoy the same features. Fortunately, plenty of Android Market developers have jumped in with their own weather apps that provide a similar look and feel to HTC's popular widget. One of my favorite freebies is Go Weather.

Like the HTC widget, the app can display not only the current time and weather conditions on your home screen, but extended local forecast information. The app supports skinning and full-motion HD video, and has live wallpaper as well as a status bar icon that displays current temperature information for the location you're currently "following." This temperature status bar alone is worth installing Go Weather on any device you have.

Launcher Pro. Android's stock program launcher is okay, but there are better launchers out there at very reasonable prices. Take Launcher Pro, a free launcher that provides access to not only the standard Android application tray but also an unlimited number of scrollable docks. Launcher Pro also uses less memory than HTC's Sense UI widget. The $3.49 registered version gives you access to the app's custom home screen widgets.

Note: Using Launcher Pro on a Sense UI device might disable the interface.

Google Voice. Any Android phone can benefit from Google Voice. Its deep OS integration allows free, unlimited text messaging through your standard cellular data connection. Regardless of your carrier or voice and data plan, Google Voice's coveted visual voice mail features let you manage your voice mails like online emails, including filing and archiving. Sprint users get the added benefit of using their standard cell number as their Google Voice number without having to port their number to Google Voice, thanks to an agreement between Google and Sprint.

Google Maps with Navigation. Although Google Maps is a standard application from Google, not every Android device has it installed. This might be the case for you if your wireless carrier has a branded navigation app. In that case, installing and using this free, turn-by-turn navigation app is high on my recommended application list. It's one of the best free navigation apps available, and its data connection dependency for map delivery insures that you've always got the latest maps for your geographic area.

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