Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 makes life a pleasure

Even before the gates of the Mobile World Congress 2013 turned up featuring the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0, a great companion for creativity and easier planning of everyday life. Galaxy Note is a concept that combines a tablet with the S Pen, interactive pen, and call function. Samsung's Note family contains a Note for every taste and lifestyle.New Galaxy Note 8.0 is the ultraportable family member size larger. With its eight-inch display, it is still small enough to take anywhere, but big enough to note on. Hold it with one hand instead of putting it in your lap when typing, cutting, pasting, drawing, reading or watching videos.

The advanced technology behind the Galaxy Note 8.0 will take your experience to new heights and you can do several things in a way like never before.Everyday Creativity as the mood becomes a piece of cake. It will be the planning of your daily life as well. Share the screen and do much at once.Planning with S Planner and calendar templates in S Practical Note. Cut out a picture from one window using the S Pen and drag it over to the other window.Create your own content. Watching movie in one window, while nets in the second. Or use Note 8.0 as a universal remote control and smart TVs, set-top boxes and Blu-ray players.

You can also read e-books with the Galaxy Note 8.0. With the Advanced e-reader turns your note to an e-reader. The screen automatically adjusts itself so that the brightness and contrast makes it pleasant for the eyes to read on the screen for hours. No more sore eyes even when Dick is too exciting to put down. Smart Stay ensures that the screen saver is not activated as long as you keep your eyes on the screen.

Facts Galaxy Note 8.0: Galaxy Note 8.0 combines tablet with S Pen, and call function. Equipped with the Android operating system 4.1.2 Jellybean. Size 210.8 x 135.9 mm, weight 338 grams. Eight-inch WXGA (1280x800, 189 ppi) TFT screen. 1.6 GHz A9 quad-core processor and 16/32GB memory + 2GB (RAM). PIC micro sd up to 64GB. Battery 4.6000 mAh. Camera 5-megapixel rear and 1.3 front. Equipped with Wi-Fi 802.11 a / ​​b / g / n (2.4 & 5 GHz) Wi-Fi Direct, AllShareCast, BT4.0, USB2.0. 

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Samsung Galaxy S4 5-inch 1080p display will be mass produced

Samsung Galaxy S4 5-inch

A Korean news site DDaily reports that the Samsung Galaxy S4 five-inch display, will be mass produced from the end of February and shipped for commercial release in early March.

The display is a dead cert to debut on the much-anticipated Galaxy S4, which a recent spate of forecasts and conjecture suggests will be launched sometime after mid-April.

While popular panel-makers in Japan and Korea, namely Japan Display, Sharp and LG Display, have already begun large-scale manufacturing of LCD panels boasting a full HD resolution, Chinese manufacturer are reportedly struggling to reach stable yield to cope with demand.

According to sources, only a small amount of full-HD panels for premium smartphone products will be shipped from China this year, which could potentially lead to an initial shortage of the year’s biggest flagship releases, including Apple’s iPhone 5S.

Aside from a five-inch 1080p display, the Galaxy S4 is also mooted to feature an eight-core Exynos processor, also showcased at CES – plus a 13-megapixel camera and built-in wireless charging capabilities.

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BlackBerry Z10 review

BlackBerry's previous generation of touch-driven smartphones felt a lot like Nokia's early attempts to knock Symbian into shape for touchscreen. With the Z10, however, the company threw everything out and started fresh.

BlackBerry 10 that powers the phone is a modern operating system with a brand new gesture-based interface and support for powerful dual-core CPUs. If you think dual-core Krait is old news on Android, you'd be right, but the Z10 is closer to the iPhone in this regard - the OS has been optimized to run on very few devices (just one right now, one more on the way), allowing for maximum efficiency.

Then BlackBerry equipped the Z10 with a 4.2" WXGA screen - slightly bigger and sharper than the iPhone 5's retina display - but kept the package more compact than certain massive droids. Then came all the connectivity features, hardware ports and slots.

Here's what they ended up with, the good and the bad of it:

Key features

• Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE, tri/quad-band UMTS/HSPA, optional 100 Mbps LTE
• 4.2" 16M-color WXGA (768 x 1280 pixels) capacitive touchscreen TFT
• Dual-core 1.5 GHz Krait, 2GB RAM, Adreno 225
• BlackBerry 10 OS; advanced on-screen keyboard; Office document editor
• BlackBerry Hub with extensive social networking connectivity
• BBM with video chat and screen sharing
• 8 megapixel auto-focus camera with face detection and Time Shift; LED flash, 2MP front facing camera
• Full HD (1080p) video recording at 30fps; 720p recording with front-facing camera
• 16GB storage, microSD card slot; built-in Dropbox and Box integration
• Wi-Fi a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi hotspot; Wi-Fi sync
• Bluetooth 4.0
• NFC
• standard microUSB port, microHDMI
• 3.5mm audio jack
• GPS receiver with A-GPS

Main disadvantages

• Brand new UI has a steep learning curve
• BlackBerry World missing key apps
• BlackBerry Maps are even worse than Apple Maps
• Camera offers little control over image quality

As with any newborn platform, there will be growing pains - sparse app market and iffy maps for one. The biggest concern is whether the sleek new interface will put people off (both current and new BB users). It's fast and intuitive once you get used to it, but doesn't have the level of familiarity of the iOS or Android (which honestly took years cultivating).

That's the mission ahead of the BlackBerry Z10. It can't single-handedly recapture the market and bring BlackBerry to its former RIM glory, instead it sets the stage for future devices (the Q10 is a couple of months away).

That's not to say that the Z10 won't achieve popularity - with quality hardware and software, the Z10 can easily net both people who need a BlackBerry but are tired of the aging BB OS 7 devices and new users who are equally tired of iOS and Android.

So, revolution or evolution? The hardware is miles ahead of Berries of old, but you'll have to jump over to the next page to see how it stacks up against current Androids and the iPhone.

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MicroSoft Surface Pro 128GB Ship in 2-3 weeks..

128GB Microsoft surface pro

Another update provided by Microsoft at the end of this week regarding the availability of its sold-out 128GB version of the Surface Pro.

According to a blog post surface a February 15  said that those ordering through the Microsoft online store in the U.S. can place an order for the 128GB model and have it ship in two to three weeks.

The new post also provided updated information for those wanting to "reserve" the Intel-based PC/tablet hybrid Surface Pro devices. Up until now, Microsoft officials have declined comment when asked whether users would be able to pre-order Surface Pros.

Here's the latest Surface Pro availability guidance:

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HTC M7 / HTC ONE Release Date

HTC M7  Another monster smartphone.  You may just be right as word continues to spread about the HTC M7 - although the volume of reports from various sources make it likely it will be called the HTC One.

The HTC One X and One X+ look to be on their way out at the top of the Taiwanese firm's tree, with the HTC One the hotly-tipped successor.

HTC is looking to break the dominance enjoyed by Samsung and Apple over the past year and recapture the success it had with the original Desire.

HTC M7 / HTC One name

In case you're confused: the HTC M7 and the HTC are one and the same thing; at least, according to the rumour mill. Here's why:

Although not officially announced, HTC boss Peter Chou has already flashed us the M7 briefly during an appearance at the firm's end of year party in Taipei.

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