Huawei Ascend P1 Smartphone Powered By Android 4.0

The Huawei Ascend P1 smartphone was first officially appeared at CSE in Las Vegas this year. The company has taken enough time to make a gorgeous phone. This phone officially has been released this May. The Ascend P1 is not only a Huawei’s fastest phone but also a thinnest phone ever with a slight hump. The real beauty of this phone is hidden inside its display, because Ascend P1 has a brilliant 4.3″ Super AMOLED display. The vivacious colors of its display is really stunning.

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Desktop Builds Of Firefox ‘Mobile’ OS Available

Earlier this month, Mozilla Foundation announced the development of a new standalone mobile OS under the Firefox brand – Firefox OS. The effort was supported by several operators throughout the world, and also received support from ZTE and TCL Communication Technology. Firefox OS is expected to arrive commercially on 2013. But, the development team has already released a desktop build of the mobile OS, this week.

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Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Update May Come To Galaxy S2 And S3 Soon

Google has released Android 4.1 Jelly Bean earlier this month after its inauguration in Google I/O last month. Since, then different mobile vendors are rolling out Android Jelly Bean updates for their devices. For instance, HTC confirmed that its One series smartphones will get Jelly bean update. Now, the folks at SamMobile reported that Samsung is going to to push out Android 4.1 Jelly Bean to its latest devices(Galaxy S2 And S3) in the market.

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Apple Using In-cell Display To Make iPhone 5 Screen Thinner

Wall Street Journal has reported that Apple’s next flagship phone will have a thinner screen. According to the newspaper, the phone at present is being manufactured by Asian component makers. Apple has used a new technology called in-cell which makes the smartphone’s screen thinner. The US technology giant is striving to improve technological features (like thinner screen) to beat its competitors such as Samsung. For making this thinner screen, the company has worked together with Sharp, Japan Display Inc and LG.

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The Korean Alternative Of Rapsberry Pi Linux Computer Packs Quad-core CPU In $129

Compact Linux computer hardware packs have been of a lot of interests to the Linux fans. This February, the $35 Raspberry Pi ARM board created a huge buzz. The only drawback of the Rapsberry Pi ARM board was its low configuration. But, a Korean hardware manufacturer called Hardkernel has launched an affordable high ended alternative. The Hardkernel’s new ODROID-X board equips with a Samsung Exynos 4 processor, a quad-core CPU clocked at 1.4GHz, a quad-core Mali 400 GPU, 1GB of RAM, six USB host ports, an Ethernet adapter, headphone and microphone jacks, and an SDHC card slot for storage.

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Filmmaker Decides To Live Open-Source Life For One Year

Open-source is more of a complete philosophy than a mere notion. Whereas once the term was somehow applied only to open-source coders and programmers, it has far wider meanings now. In fact, it can be a lifestyle in itself. And that is precisely why, Sam Muirhead, is going to live one whole year in a very open-source way to show how the philosophy can translate into everyday life.

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Two Thirds Of US Users Now Prefer Smartphones

Recently, research firm Nielsen has published a research report about the growing rate of smartphone users. According to the report, two third of new mobile buyers are now settling for smartphones instead of feature phones. Smartphone users have also reported to be the majority (54.9%in June 2012) among US cellphone users. No doubt, smartphones are dominating the mobile phone market. The market is, however, fragmented among different platforms and vendors.

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[Tutorial] How To Add Jelly Bean Keyboard On Your Android 4.0 Device

A new version of Android called Jelly Bean brings many new features which are being ported to custom ROMs. And there is one feature I really found incredibly useful. It’s the Jelly Bean keyboard that can be imported in Ice Cream Sandwich. This new keyboard brings a better prediction algorithm. It also sports different styles, which many of you will probably like. That’s why I will show you how to install it on your Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich device and enjoy faster typing.

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