HTC is looking to make a big splash at this year’s Mobile World Congress. Today’s tidbit is leak of their new flagship device now being dubbed the HTC One X.
Featuring a 4.7 inch, 720p display this monster of a phone seems to be following an underlying theme at this year’s event of bigger, faster, more powerful smartphones. It will be running Android 4.0 ICS and will apparently be of their first devices to utilize their HTC Sense 4.0.
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Sony Mobile has released a beta of the Android 4.0.3 ROM for certain Xperia handsets. These include the Xperia arc S, Xperia neo V and Xperia ray. Compared to the alpha ROM released back in December, the beta enables GSM radio and FM radio functionalities, which means you can make and receive calls and browse the web. However, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth functionalities are still unavailable.
The new beta ROM includes features such as the new lockscreen, which includes the ability to control the music player and launching the camera. Sony will also include the face unlock feature found on the Galaxy Nexus in the final version, but it is currently unavailable. Other new features include the ability to bring up a list of messages that you can send after you decline a call and a new dialler app which features the highly useful quick dial mode.
Apart from this you get the usual Ice Cream Sandwich goodies, such as the new multi-tasking view and notification screen where you can use the swipe gesture to remove items from the screen. The beta ROM does not include the usual Google applications, however, such as Gmail, Google Maps, Android Market, etc. but they will obviously be added in the final version.
The ROM is now available for download on Sony's website but before you go ahead and download it do keep in mind all the limitations of the current ROM mentioned above. There are also some issues, such as having to unlock the bootloader, which means you won't be able to download the final version when it comes out a couple of months later. So make sure you go through all the warnings and instructions in the source link below before you install it on your phone.
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The theme of this day is the last creation of Arjun Arora. Compatible with S^3/ Anna and Nokia Belle.
You can download this theme from our Symbian^3 Themes Section
Samsung's Android lineup in the United States just got a serious dash of toughness with the addition of the Rugby Smart for AT&T Wireless.
The handset is built up to mil-std 810f military spec standards. It is dust proof, shock resistant, and can be be submerged in 1m of water for 30 minutes. Extreme temperatures are also handled by the device.
The phone specs include a 3.7" WVGA Super AMOLED display, 4GB of built-in memory, and 5MP snapper, capable of shooting 720p videos. Full connectivity suite is present sans LTE. The OS on tap is Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Strangely, the CPU and amount of RAM are not available at the moment.
The Samsung Rugby Smart measures come at 122.4 x 65.9 x 12.19mm, while its weight tips the scale at the highly acceptable for a rugged device, 119 grams. Its battery has 1650mAh capacity.
The handset will be available exclusively for AT&T on March 4 for $99.99 with a two-year contract. The carrier has released a handy video, which showcases some the talents of the Samsung Rugby Smart. See it below.
We are already itching to find out how tough it is in our hands, so expect some live impressions from the Samsung Rugby Smart in the nearest future.
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Rielle Hunter sued former Edwards aide Andrew Young and his wife in 2010 over the tape of "a personal and private nature" and other intimate items the couple said she left in a box of trash. Hunter lived with the Youngs while she was pregnant with Edwards' baby, hiding out as the former North Carolina senator ran for the White House. Young, a longtime aide to Edwards, initially said he was the father.
Both sides claimed to be getting what they wanted from a legal settlement signed Thursday to end a two-year legal battle that has provided fees to at least 15 lawyers between the two sides.
The Youngs agreed to give up their claim of ownership to the tape and other property, which has been locked in the vault of a North Carolina courthouse for the last two years.
"We are very pleased that this settlement achieved all that she had ever hoped to achieve with this lawsuit," said Allison Van Laningham, one of Hunter's lawyers.
The order also mandates that the tape will be destroyed within 30 days, however, ensuring that Hunter won't have possession of it either.
"There were no 'winners' as such, in that each side had returned back to it that which it believed was its own property, although it was mutually agreed that certain materials should, per the court's order, be destroyed," said David Pishko, a lawyer for the Youngs.
Pishko also said there is nothing in the settlement to prevent Andrew Young from testifying against his former boss at his upcoming criminal trial, the start of which has been delayed while Edwards seeks treatment for a heart condition.
Edwards was indicted in June on six felony and misdemeanor counts related to campaign finance violations. Federal prosecutors accuse Edwards of knowing about the nearly $1 million provided by two wealthy political supporters used to pay for luxury hotels, private jets, medical bills and other costs associated with hiding his pregnant mistress from the world.
Much of that money flowed to Young, who with his wife, Cheri, traveled and helped care for Hunter as Edwards ran for president. He is expected to be a star witness for the prosecution.
"It has been suggested that one purpose of this lawsuit was an effort to intimidate and harass Andrew and Cheri Young who are expected to be witnesses in the criminal prosecution of Ms. Hunter's paramour, John Edwards," Pishko said. "If that was in fact the case, it has failed miserably."
As part of Thursday's settlement with Hunter, the Youngs also agreed not to talk publicly about the tape. Andrew Young previously has said the tape shows Edwards engaging in a sex act with a pregnant woman. Hunter has said in court filings the tape is hers.
The settlement won't impede the making of a proposed movie based on the scandal. Young has sold the screen rights to his story to a group that includes the Oscar-winning writer and producer Aaron Sorkin.
The settlement also ordains that Hunter will also regain possession of other items the Youngs had, including a photo of Hunter and pictures of her with her child. There is also a tape showing the birth of Frances Quinn Hunter, who turns 4 years old Monday.
But the wording of the settlement also raises doubt that every copy of the sex tape featuring Edwards and Hunter will actually be destroyed.
The Youngs and two of their lawyers still face contempt of court case for providing copies of items that had been under seal in the state civil case to federal prosecutors. The Youngs' lawyers have said they turned over the items in response to a grand jury subpoena.
Young has also acknowledged meeting with federal investigators before he was ordered to hand over all copies of the sex tape in his possession to the state court.
"The Youngs shall make a good faith effort to have any copies of the video currently in the possession of the United States Government destroyed," the settlement order says.
Federal prosecutors in the Edwards case have not disclosed in pretrial hearings whether they have a copy of the tape.
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The Italians are on a roll with the hands-on videos. After a hands-on video of the Acer CloudMobile by Cellular Magazine, we now have a trio of hands-on videos of the latest LG smartphones by Telefonino.net.
The first one, which we have embedded below, is of the Optimus 4X HD, which runs on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and has a 4.7-inch HD display.
As you can see in the video above, LG's UI customizations aren't as extensive as Samsung or HTC's. You can easily tell that the phone is running on ICS, but they have added some touches that would help them differentiate their product without going overboard. The lockscreen, for example, is different, with a new unlock method, large date and time display and the presence four shortcut buttons below. The homescreen has a different dock and different animation for homescreen navigation. LG has also changed the way you add widgets on the homescreen by adding a Honeycomb-like drawer at the bottom.
The application menu is similar to stock ICS but includes another tab for downloaded apps. You can see more customizations in the video, such as the use of different icons and a navigation bar at the bottom of the browser.
You can check out the Gingerbread running Optimus 3D Max and Optimus Vu in the second and third source links below, respectively.
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To measure which quotes resonated the most on Twitter, we analyzed more than 170,000 tweets sent during the event. In addition to identifying highly retweeted candidate quotes, we test drove our beta "sentiment score" algorithms under development at Yahoo! Labs to identify positive and negative tweets mentioning candidates' names. Mixed positive and negative tweets are indicative of "controversies." Here's what we found:
Ron Paul, a known favorite among social media mavens on all platforms, was the most retweeted speaker of the night. Twitter reacted strongly when he talked about birth control pills: "Guns don't kill, criminals kill," he said. Ergo, birth control pills "can't be blamed for the immorality of our society." The reaction to this statement scored highly on our controversy score, as supporting tweets were accompanied by the tweets of users who hastily disapproved.
However, Paul found most favor with Twitter users for his "Planned Parenthood should get nothing" remark, his most retweeted quote and one followed by a spike in positive sentiment.
As mentioned, Newt Gingrich's most retweeted quote was: "I am inclined to believe dictators. It is dangerous not to," which he unleashed during his discussion of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The reaction on Twitter was not favorable — according to our sentiment model, Gingrich reached his highest negative sentiment peak in second half of the debate right after this remark.
The reaction to Mitt Romney suggested he should show more of his lighter side, which heavy retweeting of "Like George Costanza said, when they are applauding, stop." He also got attention for his final talking point, telling the moderators that "You get to ask the questions you want, I get to give the answers I want." Unlike the Seinfeld reference, which is followed by a positive sentiment increase, this quote is shortly followed by one of the two highest negative sentiment spikes registered for Romney. The other spike (close in magnitude) occurred during an exchange on "Romney care."
Finally, Rick Santorum's most retweeted remarks dealt with education, when he explained his reasoning for having supported the educational reform bill known as No Child Left Behind. When the audience booed, he commented: "Politics is a team sport folks." He then added: "I'm a home-schooling father of seven, I know the importance of customized education."
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Ron Paul: "Planned Parenthood should get nothing"
Ron Paul: "The [birth control] pills can't be blamed for the immorality of our society"
Newt Gingrich: "I am inclined to believe dictators"
Mitt Romney: "You get to ask the questions you want, I get to give the answers I want".
Ron Paul: "Guns don't kill, criminals kill"
Rick Santorum: "Politics is a team sport folks!"
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The Oakland-based institute revealed its inquiry into the widening controversy in a terse statement posted on Wednesday on its website, hours after the San Francisco Chronicle said it was discontinuing an online blog that Gleick had been writing for the newspaper.
"The Board of Directors of the Pacific Institute is deeply concerned and is actively reviewing information about the recent events involving its president ... and documents pertaining to the Heartland Institute," the board statement said.
Gleick himself went public about the matter on Monday with a statement confessing that he had posed as someone else to obtain internal memos from the Heartland Institute, a think tank that argues skeptic positions, among them that climate change is not caused by human activity and that health hazards from tobacco have been exaggerated.
In that statement, carried on the Huffington Post website, Gleick admitted a "serious lapse of my own professional judgment and ethics."
Even before his mea culpa, Gleick, a renowned authority on global freshwater issues and winner of a MacArthur "genius" grant, had resigned last Thursday as chairman of the American Geophysical Union's Task Force on Scientific Ethics.
DEBATE AND DENIAL
The scandal illustrates the increasingly harsh tone in the public and political debate over global warming, despite the consensus among mainstream scientists that rising levels of heat-trapping "greenhouse" gases, primarily caused by human activity, are altering the planet's climate.
Heartland is among a group of skeptic organizations that have written extensively about the so-called Climategate case in which thousands of climate scientists' emails were hacked via the University of East Anglia in Britain.
The initial batch of those emails were released in 2009 and a second set in December 2011 as a major climate conference was getting under way in Durban, South Africa.
Heartland cited those emails in claiming that the scientists who wrote them were trying to cover up evidence that cast doubt on human-caused climate change. Five separate investigations later found no wrongdoing on the part of the scientists. The source of the hacking was never identified.
Gleick has admitted that he obtained various internal Heartland documents -- including a fundraising plan, a meeting agenda and a budget -- by soliciting them under someone else's name, then forwarding them anonymously to members of the media and other climate scientists.
One of those lists dozens of major U.S. corporations from a wide range of industries as donors to the Heartland Institute, among them tobacco and energy companies. Another lists consultants Heartland has paid, one of them hired to devise a "climate education project" for public school children.
In a written statement on Monday, Heartland Institute President Joseph Bast acknowledged that all of the documents Gleick circulated were authentic except one, titled "2012 Heartland Climate Strategy," which Bast called a forged memo.
Gleick claimed he received this document anonymously in the mail and that it provided the impetus for him to use a false identity in requesting additional records from Heartland in a bid to verify its source.
'BLINDED BY FRUSTRATION'
"My judgment was blinded by my frustration with the ongoing efforts -- often anonymous, well-funded, and coordinated -- to attack climate science and scientists ... and by the lack of transparency of the organizations involved," Gleick wrote.
Bast said release of the allegedly forged document had damaged Heartland's reputation, and he threatened legal action. "Gleick's crime was a serious one," he wrote.
"The documents he admits stealing contained personal information about Heartland staff members, donors, and allies, the release of which has violated their privacy and endangered their personal safety," Bast said.
The incident has raised concern among climatologists that scientific credibility might be tarnished.
"We think it unfortunate that this has the potential to deflect the conversation away from the scientific consensus that the climate change is taking place," said Christine McEntee, executive director of the American Geophysical Union.
It also raised ethical questions for journalists. Alana Nguyen, executive producer of the San Francisco Chronicle's website, said the newspaper had discontinued Gleick's unpaid blog because it was part of a feature reserved for local "luminaries."
"We decide who is a luminary," she said. "That kind of admission is something that affects your reputation in the community, and we strive to have people with a good reputation in the community."
Any journalist who obtained information in the way Gleick did would be fired from a traditional newsroom, said Kelly McBride, senior faculty at the Poynter Institute journalism school. She said reporters should not use information from the memos that Gleick obtained without taking pains to verify it.
(Additional reporting by Deborah Zabarenko; Editing by Steve Gorman and Tim Gaynor)
The survey suggests that while Obama's election-year tax plan targeting people making at least $1 million a year has won broad support, it has done little to shift people's basic views in the long-running partisan war over how best to tame budget deficits that lately have exceeded $1 trillion annually.
"Everybody should be called to sacrifice. They should be in the pot with the rest of us," Mike Whittles, 62, a Republican and retired police officer from Point Pleasant, N.J., said of his support for Obama's tax proposal for the wealthy. But Whittles said he still prefers cutting government spending over raising taxes because of federal waste and what he calls "too many rules, too many regulations."
Sixty-five percent of the people in the AP-GfK poll favor Obama's plan to require people making $1 million or more pay taxes equal to at least 30 percent of their income. Just 26 percent opposed Obama's idea.
Yet by 56 percent to 31 percent, more embraced cuts in government services than higher taxes as the best medicine for the budget, according to the survey, which was conducted Feb. 16 to 20. That response has changed only modestly since it was first asked in the AP-GfK poll last March. The question on Obama's tax on the rich was not asked previously.
The poll showed that overall, more people have a positive view of Democrats than Republicans, a ray of hope for Obama and his fellow Democrats with the approach of November's presidential and congressional elections. Fifty-four percent in the poll gave Democrats favorable ratings compared to 46 percent for Republicans, similar to results in January 2011, at the start of the newly elected Congress in which Republicans have run the House and Democrats wield a slender Senate majority.
Though embraced by congressional Democrats, Obama's proposal on taxing millionaires more has virtually no chance of passage by Congress in the political heat of this year's campaigns. But it stands as a rallying cry for Democrats — about 9 in 10 of whom supported the plan in the poll — and it contrasts with proposals by the remaining major GOP presidential candidates, who would lower the current 35 percent top income tax rate.
Obama has spent months touting his plan, nicknamed the Buffett rule after Warren Buffett, the billionaire who has complained that the rich don't pay enough taxes and that his own tax rate has been lower than his secretary's. The wealthy Mitt Romney, a leading GOP presidential contender, has released tax returns showing he paid a rate of around 15 percent the past two years.
Illustrating the wide acceptance for Obama's tax proposal for the rich, the poll showed it was supported by nearly two-thirds of independents and 4 in 10 Republicans. It also won backing from 6 in 10 whites and half of conservatives, two groups that traditionally are more likely to support the GOP, as well as by 6 in 10 people earning at least $100,000 a year.
Not everyone supports the idea.
"If their money goes to taxes, how will they afford more employees, better equipment, better vehicles?" said Republican Cheryl Mickler, 31, of Hope Mills, N.C.
As for the differing strategies for deficit reduction, more than three-fourths of Republicans and the largest share of independents preferred cutting government services. Democrats leaned toward tax increases, but by a narrower 49 percent to 38 percent.
Republicans have an 8 percentage point advantage over Democrats in the public's trust for handling budget deficits, essentially unchanged in recent months.
The GOP has the same edge for protecting the country, an issue it usually dominates. Peoples' trust in the two parties is about even for handling the economy, taxes and job creation.
Congress continues to receive dismal reviews from voters. Just 19 percent approve of the job Congress is doing, virtually unchanged from last December. That's not far from Congress' worst-ever approval rate in the brief history of the AP-GfK poll of 12 percent last August, shortly after Obama and lawmakers resolved a stubborn standoff over raising the debt limit.
"We put them there to do their job and they're not doing their job," said Gary Witalison, 54, a residential painter in Fish Creek, Wis. "They're not working things out. Work together."
The AP-GfK poll was conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs and Corporate Communications and involved cell phone and landline interviews with 1,000 randomly chosen adults. It has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4.1 percentage points.
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AP Deputy Director of Polling Jennifer Agiesta and News Survey Specialist Dennis Junius contributed to this report.
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Another “Advanced Phone Camera” comes out and another Nokia N8 vs (insert random phone here) video comes out from the guys over at Beste Products. Normally during these things I tell you watch the video and “make your own decision”. Even though from the video it’s abundantly clear that the N8 is the winner.
This time however it is actually a push in my mind, as you can see from the above shot the N8 has a more natural color while the Xperia has a hair more detail. Of course you would kind of expect this because the N8 records in 720p and the Xperia records in 1080p. The Audio is a push in my mind and I think the N8 handles the light coming in the windows a little better than the Xperia in the office.
What I am really waiting for is the Nokia N8 vs the rumored Nokia 808 with “pure view”. I’d like to hear your thoughts on this camera smack-down. I am giving the slight edge to the N8, but of course I own the N8 Soo….even though I try to be impartial on this test I don’t think I can be. I can’t help but to cheer for the “home team”.
Romney said the shift, as people live longer, is needed to steer the giant benefit programs toward economic sustainability.
Speaking to the Detroit Economic Club — in cavernous Ford Field, where the Detroit Lions football team plays — he also made a play for primary election support in Michigan, which votes on Tuesday along with Arizona.
Romney said previous steps to toughen government emission standards had "provided a benefit to some of the foreign automakers" at the expense of American companies. He said future changes should be worked out cooperatively between government and industry.
Campaigning in the city where he was born, Romney described himself as "a car guy" who has a Ford Mustang and a Chevy pickup and whose wife, Ann, drives "a couple of Cadillacs." Aides said they were model year 2007 and 2010 SRX vehicles, one each registered in Massachusetts and California.
Romney said his proposals for Medicare and Social Security would begin in 2022, meaning no current or near-retirees would be affected. He also said he favors adjustments to curtail the growth of future benefits for the relatively well-to-do, so "lower-income seniors would receive the most generous benefits." He had described his Social Security proposals previously.
The two programs provide retirement and health care benefits to tens of millions of older Americans.
Beginning in 2022, Romney said, "we will gradually increase the Medicare eligibility age by one month each year. In the long run, the eligibility ages for both programs will be indexed to longevity so that they increase only as fast as life expectancy."
Under current law, the age for collecting full Social Security benefits is gradually rising from 65 to 67. Medicare is available at age 65. In both cases, the age is set in law, and Romney's suggestion that it be tied automatically to increases in the life expectancy of Americans would mark a major change.
He spoke in the run-up to a pair of primaries that mark his latest tests as he tries to break free of Rick Santorum and his other persistent but underfunded rivals in the presidential race.
He is widely expected to win Arizona. Neither he nor his rivals is airing television ads in the state, a reliable sign that all sides view it as a closed case.
Although public and private polls in Michigan show Romney has erased much or all of an earlier deficit, he still faces a stiff challenge from Santorum in the state, where the disparity in television advertising is not as overwhelmingly in Romney's favor has it has been elsewhere.
It is an unwritten rule of Michigan politics that presidential candidates appear before the Detroit Economic Club. Santorum addressed the group several days ago, and officials familiar with the details said Newt Gingrich's camp had been in discussions for an appearance as late as last week. A spokesman for the former House speaker did not respond to a request for comment.
Romney's commitment caused a spike in interest, and as a result, the former governor spoke in the huge stadium. He stood on a makeshift stage set up on the 35-yard line, with his audience on the stadium floor ringed by thousands of empty stadium seats. Goalpost uprights were visible above the black draping that served as his backdrop. United Auto Workers protested outside.
The event's optics were widely criticized. When asked who chose the venue, Romney's campaign pointed to a letter from the Detroit Economic Club citing the 1,200-person crowd. The club blamed security concerns for moving the event from an atrium inside the stadium complex down onto the field. The Secret Service provides Romney's security.
Later Friday, Romney campaigned deep into more conservative western Michigan, headlining a rally at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo after stopping at a restaurant in Mount Clemens.
Santorum, meanwhile, intensified his effort to score an upset on what amounts to Romney's political home field.
The former Pennsylvania senator greeted parishioners Friday at a packed Catholic Church fish-fry dinner in Walled Lake, Mich., and then spoke for 55 minutes to a small crowd in the Detroit suburb of Lincoln Park.
Santorum said Romney's plan to limit tax deductions for charitable gifts by high-income people would hurt churches and civic groups. He called for sharp cuts in federal spending and regulations, and new restrictions on government entitlement programs that he said make Americans dependent on government. These were parts of his "economic freedom agenda," which he plans to enact in his first 100 days in office.
By contrast, Romney rarely strays from economic issues as he presses his case that as a former businessman he is best equipped to help restore an economy still recovering from the worst recession in decades.
"I not only think I have the best chance. I think I have the only chance" of defeating Obama, Romney told his midday audience, although he quickly added with a nervous-sounding laugh, "Maybe I'm overstating it a bit."
While aides earlier had touted the speech as a major economic address, Romney seemed to pre-empt himself earlier in the week when he called for across-the-board income tax cuts of 20 percent to help the economy grow and begin creating jobs in large numbers.
He repeated that proposal, along with his calls to cut the corporate income tax rate and abolish the estate tax.
On Medicare, Romney also supports changing the program to give beneficiaries a choice between the traditional setup and one in which the government provides them with a monthly payment that can be used to purchase private coverage.
"With these commonsense changes, we will have fixed our balance sheet," Romney said. "Instead of $62 trillion in unfunded commitments hanging over America's future, we'll have a balance sheet that is actually in balance."
In all there are 30 Republican National Convention delegates at stake in Michigan next week, 29 in Arizona.
LG will officially hit the MWC 2012 floor on February 26 - that's Sunday but we already have a pretty good idea what devices the Korean manufacturer will showcase. The Optimus L series was announced just a couple of days ago - the L7, L5 and L3. The 5" Optimus Vu was announced last week.
The LG Optimus 4X HD, successor to LG's first dual-core device - Optimus 2X, was announced yesterday. While the 3D Max went official two days ago.
So the cat is pretty much out of the bag prior to the Mobile World Congress and there should be no surprises. Now thanks to Italian website Telefonino.net there are a bunch of hands-on pictures and videos of the new LG Optimus smartphones, which we plan to organize for you guys to enjoy.
The LG Optimus 4X HD is LG's first quad-core device. On the front there's a 4.7" 720 x 1280 HD-IPS LCD touchscreen that offers around 312 pixels per inch. It runs on the latest Android version - 4.0.3 with a heavily customized skin over it.
Here's the video of the 4X HD in action.
Here's Telefonino.net original article.
The Optimus Vu is a direct competitor to Samsung's Galaxy Note. It has a 4:3 768 x 1024 display ranging 5 inches in diagonal. A dual-core 1.5 GHz processor does the heavy lifting and Android Gingerbread 2.3.5 runs on the front end.
LG Optimus Vu
It also offers a hardware pen interface just like the Note so you can draw on it.
LG Optimus Vu
Here's the Optimus Vu in action.
Here's Telefonino.net original article.
Successor to the Optimus 3D, the Optimus 3D Max comes with Android Gingerbread 2.3.6, a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor and dual 5 MP cameras on the back.
LG Optimus 3D Max
It's thinner than the Optimus 3D but really doesn't come as a huge improvement to its predecessor.
LG Optimus 3D Max
Here's the Optimus 3D Max in action.
Here's Telefonino.net original article.
The Optimus L7 got pictured too. The full specs are still a mystery, we know it's a dual-core device, runs Android 4.0 ICS and has a 4.3" "floating mass display", meaning its closer to the surface of the device.
LG Optimus L7
There's a 5 MP camera on the back complete with a single LED flash.
LG Optimus L7
There's also NFC aboard. We're eager to get our hands on the L7 at the MWC and we will bring you more information.
Here's Telefonino.net original article.
The Optimus L3 is a small device with a 3.2" display up front.
LG Optimus L3
It runs on Gingerbread and should be reasonably priced.
LG Optimus L3
Here's Telefonino.net original article.
The LG Optimus LTE isn't exactly new. It's almost identical to the Nitro HD, which we've already reviewed.
It too go a video preview. It's running on Android Gingerbread, has an 8 MP snapper, a dual-core 1.5 GHz processor and an HD 720 x 1280 4.5" display.
The MWC 2012 is ready to begin and we've got our foot in the door, ready to bring you the full coverage. We'll see these devices soon enough so stay tuned.
Here's Telefonino.net original article.
Do you like Clocks? Do you like your country? Then we have the perfect match for you!
Our member tonizg has developed some pretty nice clocks in 2 variants, non-transparent and semi-transparent, featuring the country map on the back. In total there are 44 countries available: Australia, Austria, Belarus, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Czech, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, FYRM, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Montenegro, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, UK, Ukraine, USA and Wales.
You can get them for free on this topic at our forum. If your country is not in the list, just keep checking since he is continuing to develop these clocks for other countries.
We also have many other clocks in different shapes and sizes, so don’t forget to also take a look at our Symbian^3 Modding section.
Nokia has been making great strides in the last few months with big announcements at all the major events lately. The Mobile World Congress in Barcelona will be no exception.
Until recently, an announcement from Nokia has always been met with a bit of trepidation. During the darker days, these were often ominus and often meant bad news was on the horizon. Lately however the announcements have taken a more positive note with the relationship between Microsoft and Nokia seemingly blossoming. One can only hope the announcement follows suit with the recent trend. The official announcement can be found below.
On Monday, February 27, the first day of Mobile World Congress, Nokia will host a press conference, where it will announce significant industry news. The press conference will be hosted by Stephen Elop, Nokia’s president and CEO. Due to the pending public transportation disruption, doors will be opened, and accredited media admitted starting at 08:00 a.m. CET.
All attendees to the Nokia Press Conference must have an official Mobile World Congress pass identifying them as accredited media. Unfortunately, admittance to the press conference without accreditation is not possible.
We strongly encourage all attendees to register and collect their badge over the weekend. Please note, badges can only be collected in person and cannot be collected for other attendees. On Monday, February 27, MWC registration at the Fira opens at 07:00 a.m. CET.
Due to space limitations, admittance to the Nokia press conference will be on a first-come, first served basis.
For those unable to attend, we will offer a live webcast of the press conference at: www.nokia.com/mwc
http://press.nokia.com/2012/02/24/media-alert-nokia-press-conference-at-mobile-world-congress-doors-open-at-800-a-m-cet-live-webcast-planned/
We’ll be watching the press conference live and blogging as the announcement happens.
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Chavez, who is running for re-election this year, spoke for more than four hours on a folksy, upbeat broadcast, pausing only so supporters could send greetings, messages of encouragement and reports on home construction and new soy plantations from around the country.
At one point, an apple-cheeked boy clad in the red of Chavez's socialist political movement appeared via a video feed from the western city of Maracaibo and recited a poem about the president's illness and how he will overcome it.
Chavez, 57, invoked the revolutionary language of both Cuba and his own country, and vowed to see the campaign through even after revelations of his cancer's comeback cast his health and stamina in doubt.
"I will live! I will live!" cried a bespectacled Chavez, pounding the table in a hall in the Miraflores government palace during the live broadcast.
The president took over the national airwaves hours after lawmakers granted him permission to absent himself from the country while he has a potentially cancerous tumor surgically removed, a formality required by the constitution.
He said he would leave Friday and undergo surgery early next week to remove the growth, described as about an inch (2 centimeters) in diameter located in the same area where Chavez had a baseball-size malignant tumor taken out last year.
The constitution says the vice president may take the president's place during temporary absences of up to 90 days, and the National Assembly may extend that for 90 days more.
Opposition politicians called for Chavez to put his No. 2 in charge while he's recovering in Cuba, which could take weeks if he stays for radiation therapy like he did last summer.
"We can't have what happened last year, the president purporting to govern from Cuba," said Alfonso Marquina, a lawmaker and spokesman for the opposition bloc in the National Assembly. "Because in the absence of the president, the government is the vice president."
But Chavez is not naming a substitute and plans to continue making decisions and signing decrees from abroad. Instead he went on the attack Thursday with an animated, near-uninterrupted speech in which he warned that the opposition will resort to dirty tricks by starting rumors about divisions within the military to destabilize his government while he undergoes surgery.
He also railed against the "unpatriotic bourgeoisie" and said social initiatives such as housing for the poor will disappear if his opponent, Henry Capriles, wins Oct. 7.
"A capitalist state is never going to subsidize anything," Chavez said, his hands carving the air in front of him as he spoke.
Comfortably seated at the head of a wooden conference table and flanked by Cabinet ministers, a beaming Chavez told jokes, broke into song, bantered and urged glum-faced supporters to cheer up.
"We are going to win by a knockout," he said.
Chavez spoke again at a political rally held later in the evening in a Caracas theater. Images broadcast on local television showed Chavez wading through the packed auditorium, shaking hands and stopping to kiss a baby swaddled in the red, blue and yellow of Venezuela's flag.
"I have faith the 'comandante' is going to be well," said Raquel Ramirez, an unemployed 29-year-old woman clutching a rosary and holy cross as she prayed outside the theater. "His people need him."
Speaking to the crowd, Chavez thanked them for their well-wishing and recalled how he recently dreamed about an encounter with Jesus Christ.
"He told me, 'Chavez, get up, it's not time to die'," Chavez recalled.
The president said he's "preparing to face the worst."
Referring to the tumor, he said: "The possibility that it's malignant is greater than it not being (malignant)."
The rally ended with Chavez singing folk songs alongside musicians from Venezuela's vast central plains, the socialist leader's birthplace. He wrapped his arm around his eldest daughter, Rosa, as he sang about the South American nation's battle for independence from Spain.
Chavez said earlier this week the same doctors who removed a cancerous tumor from his pelvic region in June would be operating on him. The firebrand president had already undergone chemotherapy last year, and in October declared himself "free of illness."
In a letter sent to the National Assembly requesting permission to travel, Chavez described the need for surgery as "urgent."
"I know the news of this new surgery has caused concern among the vast majority of my countrymen. I say it from the heart: I'm certain that we will win this battle," Chavez wrote in the letter. "I will return as I always return: With more energy, more enthusiasm, more happiness."
Chavez has denied rumors the cancer had spread aggressively, but also said his doctors don't know if the new lesion is malignant.
"I have faith that the 'comandante' is going to be OK. His people need him, and good people should live," said Raquel Ramirez, an unemployed 29-year-old who held a string of beads with a cross attached as she prayed for his health near a theater where a musical homage to Chavez was planned for later.
Some hoped that the election, not disease, will force him from office.
"Cancer is a terrible sickness that shouldn't be wished on anybody," said Jose Hernandez, a 48-year-old businessman who backed Chavez in 1998 but has grown disenchanted with Venezuela's swing toward socialism. "I hope he recovers, but I would be a hypocrite if I didn't say I hope he lives to pay for the damage he has caused."
"I hoped for a lot from him, but he convinced me he wants a nation of poor people where everyone depends on the government," Hernandez said.
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Associated Press writer Jorge Rueda contributed to this report.
HTC will hold its MWC press conference in less than 48 hours, so there is still time for some leaked product images, right? The company's upcoming One S mid-range device has just emerged fresh from yet another photo shoot, where it happily posed alongside an HTC Sensation.
Previously, known as HTC Ville, the One S is going to be positioned under the quad-core One X, and bound to pack a serious punch for a mid-range device. The smartphone is expected to feature a dual-core CPU, 4.3" AMOLED display, 8MP camera, Beats Audio, and Android 4.0 ICS with Sense 4.0.
As you can also see from the photos above, the HTC One S is seriously slimmer than the Sensation - a welcome change from the current HTC offerings.
We will be covering the HTC press conference on Sunday live, so expect the full scoop on the One S, together with the rest of the company's lineup.
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Researchers at the country's National Institute of Psychiatry say they have successfully tested the vaccine on mice and are preparing to test it on humans.
The vaccine, which has been patented in the United States, works by making the body resistant to the effects of heroin, so users would no longer get a rush of pleasure when they smoke or inject it.
"It would be a vaccine for people who are serious addicts, who have not had success with other treatments and decide to use this application to get away from drugs," the institute's director Maria Elena Medina said Thursday.
Scientists worldwide have been searching for drug addiction vaccines for several years, but none have yet been fully developed and released on the market.
One group at the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse has reported significant progress in a vaccine for cocaine.
However, the Mexican scientists appear to be close to making a breakthrough on a heroin vaccine and have received funds from the U.S. institute as well as the Mexican government.
During the tests, mice were given access to deposits of heroin over an extended period of time. Those given the vaccine showed a huge drop in heroin consumption, giving the institute hope that it could also work on people, Medina said.
Kim Janda, a scientist working on his own narcotics vaccines at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, said that based on some earlier research papers he had read, the Mexican vaccine could function but with some shortcomings.
"It could be reasonably effective but maybe too general and affect too many different types of opioids as well as heroin," Janda said.
Mexico, a major drug producing and transit country for drugs smuggled into the United States, has a growing drug addiction problem. Health Secretary Jose Cordoba recently said the country now has some 450,000 hard drug addicts, particularly along the trafficking corridors of the U.S. border.
Mexican gangsters grow opium poppies in the Sierra Madre mountains and convert them into heroin known as Black Tar and Mexican Mud, which are smuggled over the Rio Grande.
Every year, the heroin trade provides billions of dollars to gangs like the Sinaloa Cartel and the Zetas. Since 2006, cartel violence has claimed the lives of over 47,000 people in Mexico.
(Additional reporting by Jorge Lebrija; Editing by Anthony Boadle)
It's slim and smart, and wears Prada. This little devil is too sexy to hang out with the other droids. It puts on its evening shoes and goes to town. It hates being chased by paparazzi but always turns its better side to the cameras. We'll see what the other droids think about that.
And by other droids we don't mean a certain Armani-clad Samsung Galaxy S. We're talking about some pretty scary dual-core smartphones with massive screens and the latest in connectivity, imaging and entertainment.
LG Prada 3.0 official photos
We're looking at the third phone designed by Prada and built by LG. And it's only the first smartphone to come out of this partnership. LG and Prada go back a long way and their latest creation isn't supposed to be just another Android smartphone.
With Prada kindly supplying the glitz, the thrills are entirely on LG. They've made sure the LG Prada 3.0 gets nothing short of a flagship treatment. Leading the long list of features is a 4.3" NOVA display, which pumps out 800-nits of brightness. There's a 1GHz dual-core Cortex-A9 processor ticking inside and RAM aplenty. An 8MP auto-focus camera and full HD video earn the LG Prada extra points.
But it seems a no brainer that the audience targeted by the Prada Phone by LG 3.0 couldn?t care less about the nuts and bolts. Chipset, megapixels, nits and mbps belong in the fine print, with all the acronyms. Here's the rest of the fine print anyway, for all of you who think 3.0 is the best sounding part of the phone's name.
Quad-band GSM and tri-band 3G support21 Mbps HSDPA and 5.76 Mbps HSUPA speed4.3" 16M-color IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen (480 x 800 pixels) with 800-nit brightnessAndroid OS v2.3.7 Gingerbread with custom monochrome skin, ICS confirmed1 GHz dual-core Cortex-A9 CPU, PowerVR SGX540, TI OMAP 4430 chipset, 1GB of RAM8 MP autofocus camera with LED flashUp to 1080p video recording @ 30fps Dual-band Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n; DLNA, Wi-Fi Direct and Wi-Fi hotspotGPS with A-GPS connectivity; digital compass8GB internal storage, microSD slotAccelerometer, gyroscope and proximity sensorStandard 3.5 mm audio jackmicroUSB port1.3MP secondary video-call camera, HD videoStereo FM radioExceptional video playback Leather-like pattern of the back cover doesn't look good in plasticColor icons and widgets make a mess of the monochrome UIAwkwardly placed camera button, no half-press Not the latest in processing power, screen resolutionPassive lockscreen notificationsThe LG Prada 3.0 is all about making an impression and it gets busy right away. We're about to start exploring the handset and - in our usual routine - we'll have to get past the Prada packaging to discover the Android device inside.
The LG Prada 3.0 in hand
The Prada phone by LG 3.0 oozes elegance but it also packs quite a punch. There's plenty to keep us busy and little chance of anyone getting bored. A warning may be in order though, for geeks like us, who can't tell Saffiano leather from croc skin to save their life. Bear with us through the tour of the exterior. You'll be in familiar territory in no time with our usual benchmarks and tests.
