There is rustling emerging on the interwebs that the Note 3 won’t have optical image stabilization that many of its competitors have or are planning to include.
Instead, it will have the 13mp camera arrangement found in the S4.
So, will this put you off buying the Samsung Note 3 if this turns out to be true?
The one missing feature on Windows Phone is a collation of notifications.
The next software update, GDR3, to be released in October, will include this feature.
Good news.
After another day has passed with the Lumia 925, this is what has occurred.
I have installed the following apps – 6sec, Adobe Reader, Amazon Kindle, Amazon Mobile, App Social, BBC iPlayer, Bing News, Bing Sport, Bing Finance, Bing Weather, DotDot, eBay, Flickr, gMaps, Google, HD Photo Viewer, ITN News, LinkedIn, Metrotube, Natwest, Nextgen Reader, Paypal, Photosynth, Podcast Lounge, Podcatcher, Pro Points Calculator, Shopsavvy, Sky News, SkyDrive, Skype, SophieLens for Nokia, thetrainline.com, Topgear News, TripAdvisor, Tunein Radio, TV Guide, TV Catchup, twabbit, Vyclone, Whatsapp , WordPress and Zite. With regards games, I have only installed a few so far – Jetpack Joyride, Mirrors Edge, AE Bubble, CosmosConquest, Temple Run and Word Twist.
As you can see many familiar apps are present. Also don’t forget Nokia include their Pro Cam and Smart Cam camera apps, Nokia Cinemagraph, Nokia Glam Me (I used this for my twitter avatar and lost 10 years and became slimmer), Microsoft Office and OneNote, Panorama, People app that merges if required social networks, Nokia Music (free or paid £3.99pm) streaming service and a great photo editing app Creative Studio.
Over the last few days I have taken many photos and used Creative Studio to edit these. Have a look at the various options available with the camera apps and editing. All photos are in an album on my Flickr. Click here.
The time is displayed permanently on the lock screen when screen off. I really like this. What I did find installing all the apps, is that I eventually got a message that I had reached the maximum 15 background running apps and to allow another app to run in the background I would have to stop another.
I have been using Nokia Maps turn by turn and it works well. Once during the course of a day, it stopped working. I have no idea why either. I also have a live tile for my commute. Tapping on this takes you into commute assistance gps mode. You get turn by turn but without the voice. The live tile updates itself near the commute time to give you a live eta.
I like the live tiles showing me at a glance what’s going on. But I wish there was a notification tile to capture everything from all apps.
I had an issue with a screenshot emailed to myself from my iPad. It displayed as an embedded photo, so I couldn’t detach it. If you email a photo, it is compressed. There is no option either to override this. Apparently, this is for speed and smoothness. However, the workaround is using HD Photo Viewer.
I have turned off SkyDive auto photo upload as in auto mode it reduces file size if on a mobile network. The workaround is to manually select which photos and these stay full size even when using your mobile Internet.
Using Windows Phone is a different experience. In many ways it is far more enjoyable than other operating systems. At times it is too simplistic.
One of my favourite websites Lostinmobile , owned by Shaun McGill, posted a list his 51 phones / pda’s he has owned.
Below is my list, so can you recall yours?
Acer – Liquid, M900
Motorola – Motofone F3, StarTac
Nokia – 5110, 3210, 6210, 6230, 1100, E71, Lumia 620, Lumia 925
HTC – S710, Hero, HD2, One, Touch,
Palm – Zire 71, m505, m515, Tungsten T3, Treo 650
O2 – Xda IIs, XDA Exec, Mini S
HP – 914c, iPaq 4700
Samsung – Omnia i900, i600, i780, Galaxy S3, Galaxy S4, Galaxy Note, Galaxy Note 2, i780, S4 Zoom
Apple – iPhone 4, 4S, 5, iPad, iPad 2, iPad Mini
i-mate – 8502, 9502
Sony Ericsson – K700i, M600i,
MWg – Zinc II
Huawei – Ascend P6
T-Mobile – Dash, Pulse
ZTE – Open
Ericsson – T28, T10s
Fujitsu Siemens – n560, Loox 720
Blackberry – Curve 8900, Curve 8520
Sony – Xperia Z Tablet
Finally. Google has updated it’s Play Store developer policies and now forbids notification bar ads, forced home shortcuts or bookmarks for advertising purposes.
Other aspects allow Google to block apps with misleading information, fake reviews, excessive and useless tags, deceptive developer behaviour or dodgy website names.
This is a huge change and badly needed.
Windows Phone is the number 2 operating system in Latin America. Android is first.
This traction is good news and hopefully with the new software improvements and hardware, the future looks rosy.
The Samsung Galaxy Golden sports a 3.7-inch Super AMOLED touchscreen, powered by a dual-core 1.7 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 400, Android 4.2 Jelly Bean and includes software such as the S Health fitness app and a business card scanning app. The phone comes in a champagne finish.
Currently available in Samsung’s home territory, but one does wonder is there any form factor left that Samsung doesn’t manufacture.
So Blackberry claim that there app store has 120,000 apps.
Well, the Verge did some investigations and found that one company, Hong Kong-based S4BB has published just under 47,000 apps to BlackBerry World since launch.
No I wonder what the quality of those apps are like?
We are all waiting for Apple to release new iPad models, Google just announced the new Nexus 7 but don’t forget about the new Amazon Kindle’s.
An Amazon mystery device (codename: Apollo) running Android 4.2.2 has shown up on GFX Bench. It has a 2560 x 1600 pixel display, Adreno 330 GPU, and a 2.3GHz CPU, Snapdragon 800 processor, 8MP main camera, a front shooter, 2GB RAM, optional cellular connectivity, and 16/32/64 GB internal storage.
Plus it will feature tight software integration with all its media and shopping services.
Oppo is about to release its new N1.
It has released two adverts. One using the sex sells and the other with a loo roll.
I just don’t get the ad theme, do you?
