Galaxy S Gets Blink Detection And Face Unlock Features

After a lot of wait and speculation and eager anticipation on the end of the users, Samsung is finally rolling out the Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) upgrade for Galaxy S II users. Samsung did a detailed post recently about this update and that how the company worked things out to deliver it. Included in the post are details and a number of new features that Galaxy S users also get to have, such as Face Unlock and Blink Detection.

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Neonode Beat Apple By Three Years With The Swipe-to-Unlock Patent

A small but feisty Swedish company, Neonode figured out how to integrate a slide to unlock feature in its phones, long before Apple even considering making an iPhone. Jason Mick from DailyTech researched in the patents archives and managed to give us a comprehensive report about his intriguing findings suggesting that “Apple’s “slide to unlock” patents should be invalidated or narrowed both in Europe and in the U.S.”

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T-Mobile Offers Additional Support For Unlocked iPhone From Jan 30

Unlocked iPhones have been increasingly in demand. Some users get the device unlocked officially from Apple, which typically costs quite lot more than the normal price tag. Others choose to unlock it themselves through different tools. T-Mobile officially doesn’t carry iPhone but the carrier has announced that it will support any unlocked iPhones that switch to it. This is definitely a welcome move by T-Mobile and will make things all the more easier for users tooling unlocked iPhones.

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Romanian Developer Brings Android FaceUnlock To iPhone

If iPhone 4S owners had a good reason to envy the high end smartphones from Apple’s rival companies, that was the face recognition option delivered by the latest Android handsets, such as Galaxy Nexus. Well, now a Romanian team of developers, gathered under the name of Webcode, took care of this and brought to iPhone owners the Face Unlock feature.

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AMD Updates A-Series Processors, Includes Unlocked Chips

Chipmaker AMD release updates to its A-series desktop and notebook Fusion processors with bumping clock speeds and adding overclocking to the desktop line. The two unlocked editions are the AMD A8-3870K and AMD A8-3670K. Both chips can be overclocked by about 500MHz on the CPU side, and 200MHz on the graphics processor side (GPU). There is a difference in the number of GPU cores between the two: 380 vs. 400. There is 6 desktop and 8 laptop processors have been announced.

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Apple Bringing Virtual SIM to Fight With SIM Unlock

We have heard about this virtual SIM in back 2010. But that time Apple introduced MicroSIM, now Apple got patent for Virtual SIM for iPhone and may be for iPad too, which will help them to fight with SIM Unlocker and give more space in iPhone case for battery or any other hardware. Here we have the detail diagram and technology behind this new thinking.

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