No Galaxy Nexus for India, says Samsung

Samsung has confirmed it will not be launching the Galaxy Nexus in India. Samsung India on its Twitter account said that the company will not bringing out the Galaxy Nexus in the country, rather it will come up with a “big thing”, which is being speculated to be the Galaxy S III smartphone.

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus was launched in October last year. It was the first device to come with the latest Android 4.0 operating system, Ice Cream Sandwich. Since then, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus has launched in various markets such as the U.S.,U.K., Singapore, Japan and Korea.


This is not the first time Samsung has not launched its Nexus device in India. Its first Nexus device, Nexus One, was also not released in India. In fact, the second Nexus device, Nexus S, was launched months after the device was globally released.
News that the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is not coming to India is certainly going to disappoint many Galaxy enthusiasts. It's notable that Samsung previously promised that the Galaxy Nexus will arrive in India in first half of this year. Back in January, Samsung had said the Galaxy Nexus would be launched in March but never provided precise details.
Meanwhile, Samsung is promoting its “next Galaxy smartphone”, which is scheduled to be launched today in the U.K. According to reports, Samsung will be taking wraps off the much-awaited Galaxy S III.






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Facebook adds organ donor feature

Facebook has added the new organ donor feature on Timeline, which allows 900 million members to share their donor status with others. The feature has been been rolled out in only the U.S., so far. One can go to the Life Events section on their timeline, click on Health and wellness and then click on organ donor. They can then fill in all the required and relevant information. It also has a link to the databases where people can register as official donors, while users can choose to share this information only with those they like. Millions of people stay connected on Facebook, while most of them visit their Facebook page at least once a day. This move seems a good way of helping those in need and also exhibits the strength of the social networking site and its capability to be a part of such a noble cause. 

Mark Zuckerberg revealed in a an interview on Good Morning America that the organ donation initiative has been inspired by disasters, like last year's earthquake and tsunami in Japan and also the social network's role in keeping people connected. Zuckerberg also mentions his girlfriend, Priscilla Chan, studying to become a pediatrician. "Our dinner conversations are often about Facebook and kids, and the kids that she's meeting. She'll see them getting sicker, then, all of a sudden, an organ becomes available, and she comes home and her face is all lit up because someone's life is going to be better because of this."


The social site will be partnering with Donate Life America, a national organization that works with local groups to increase the number of registered donors. About 114,000 men, women and children are presently waiting for a lifesaving transplant, said Aisha Huertas Michel from the organization and thousands more are in need of tissue or corneal transplants. This would further encourage people to donate and register officially and also serve as a platform to initiate conversations about organ donation.






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Samsung launches their interactive Smart TVs in India

Samsung Electronics on Sunday launched smart television for the Indian market that would allow users to control TV through voice or motion commands. Users can turn the TV on or off, activate select applications or search for select content in the web browser - without touching the remote. 

The smart interaction is available on the company's 2012 flagship smart TVs, including the LED ES8000 series, LED ES7500 series and the plasma E8000 series. The price of these smart TVs would range from Rs.45,000 to Rs.2.65 lakh. 


"South West Asian consumers have been quick to adopt mobile technologies, like smartphones and tablets that allow them to make their content accessible wherever they go," said B.D. Park, president and CEO, South West Asia and managing director Samsung India Electronics at Samsung's South West Asia Regional Forum 2012. 


"They expect not only greater accessibility but greater, more compelling content - all of which are needs met through Samsung's vision for the future of smart TV," he added. 




The products are built on three parameters - smart interaction, smart content and smart evolution. The firm also unveiled Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 310, expanding its Galaxy range. Available in 3G and WiFi versions, the product would be available in South West Asia from April. 


Equipped with Android 4.0, the tablet features WiFi Direct and built-in social networking features such as ChatON, Samsung's cross-platform communication service. Currently the company has over 40 percent market share of tablets in India. Samsung India reported a sale of Rs.20,000 crore in 2011. 

Snapdeal launches an Android app

Snapdeal.com can now be accessed on smart devices that run Google's mobile OS. The app enables access on the go and offers users thousands of brands across various categories. Earlier this year, the e-commerce company launched their WAP platform and the Android app further extends their presence on mobile devices. The application is compatible with Android 2.2 and upwards. The app also offers a range of products and services to browse through based on the user's location. Furthermore, there are integrated payment options with an integrated "One time password" function. As with Snapdeal's desktop services, Cash on delivery exists as a payment option, even through the Android app.

Rishabh Arora, Head – Mobile Initiatives at Snapdeal.com says, "There are millions of Android users in India and this app will be a great way of reaching out to these users and providing a seamless shopping experience on their smart phones. We will continue to optimize the features and work towards building one of the best Android apps in this domain. We are in the process of rolling out apps for other platforms like iOS & Blackberry too." It is interesting that Snapdeal chose to launch for Android before they launch for iOS. Perhaps, the largest percentage of Snapdeal mobile customers were Android users.

The Snapdeal app will let you see products in categories, including Restaurants, Health & Beauty, Entertainment or Branded products like Mobile phones, Electronics, Perfumes, Watches, Bags and Sunglasses. The app is location enabled, so you can see deals around you based on your location. You can also see what's going on in your locality and see the distance of the deals from your current position. Finally, if you see a product or a deal you like, you can share its information via the social networks, like Facebook and Twitter. The Snapdeal app for Android is available for free from Google Play.

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Nokia 808 PureView to launch first in India and Russia, this May

Nokia has announced it will begin rolling out the Nokia 808 PureView cameraphone in select markets in May. The Finnish mobile giant also announced that India, and Russia, will be the first two markets to get the PureView on retail shelves.

The Symbian Belle-based Nokia 808 PureView, orPureView 808 as it was first known, literally stole the show when it was unveiled at MWC 2012, receiving the Best Mobile Device award at the prestigious event.

Even in our own ThinkDigit Weekly Poll, which asked readers “Which top-end smartphone unveiled at MWC do you most fancy?” the Nokia 808 PureView won out, displacing the quad-core processor powered flagships – the LG Optimus 4X HD, HTC One X (read our review), and Huawei Ascend D Quad – at least in terms of reader interest.


In the meanwhile, the Nokia 808 PureView has also won the award for Best Imaging Innovation for 2012 from the Technical Image Press Association (TIPA). Jo Harlow, Head of Smart Devices at Nokia, spoke about the importance of the device in the entire smartphone industry, saying:


“PureView has completely raised the bar on imaging performance for the whole smartphone industry - and Nokia is not stopping here. We’re going to carry on developing PureView for our future smartphones in ways that will again revolutionize the imaging experience.”

The Nokia 808 PureView features an extra-large 41MP sensor, along with high-performance Carl Zeiss optics and new pixel oversampling technology. Offering a maximum image resolution of 38MP, the Nokia 808 PureView’s camera sensor condenses 7 adjacent pixels into one, downsizing it to an extra-sharp and light-sensitive 5MP or 8MP image. Max image quality at 4:3 aspect is 38 MP, while at 16:9 aspect is 34 MP.


The Nokia 808 PureView’s also features a built-in Xenon flash, alongside a LED light for video. It can handle 1080p HD video recording at 30 fps, with stereo sound, and 4x zoom. Nokia has also included the Nokia Rich Recording feature, which enables audio recording at CD-like levels of quality, previously only possible with external microphones. It also comes with Dolby Headphone technology, transforming stereo content into a personal surround sound experience over any headphones and Dolby Digital Plus for 5.1 channel surround sound playback.


While all this makes the Nokia 808 PureView the greatest cameraphone to date, Nokia has decided not to put too much juice into the rest of the phone’s specifications – it features a relatively low-resolution 640x360 pixel Gorilla Glass AMOLED display, albeit with a 16:9 display.


Other specifications include a single-core 1.3GHz processor, 512MB of RAM, 16GB built-in storage, USB-on-the-Go, Bluetooth 3.0, HSDPA 14.4Mbps, HSUPA 5.76Mbps, Wi-Fi N with DLNA, GPS and A-GPS, stereo FM radio, and even NFC.


Check out the video below to see the reviews of Nokia 808 PureView

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Honda Smart Home System for better energy management unveiled

Japanese carmaker Honda unveiled this week a house the company has built in the city of Saitama to demonstrate its ‘smart home’ system.

The Honda Smart Home System (HSHS) controls in-house energy supply and demand, helping manage both the generation and consumption of energy, as well as integrating the use of electric vehicles.

The HSHS installed in this demonstration test house consists of CIGS thin-film solar cell panels, a home battery unit (rechargeable battery), household gas-engine cogeneration unit and hot-water supply system, and the Smart e Mix Manager. The Smart e Mix Manager, the core of the HSHS, is a comprehensive energy management device, which applies optimal control to electricity supplied from the commercial grid and generated by each energy device that composes the system. The Smart e Mix Manager reduces CO2 emissions from the home and, at the same time, provides a backup supply of electricity, so that the house can be self-sufficient in the event of a power outage or disaster. 

The company has also signed an agreement with the city’s E-KIZUNA Project, which will see three houses built in the vicinity of Saitama University equipped with HSHS to demonstrate smart community living.

Gmail now translates your emails

Google graduated three new features from Gmail labs, one of which translates your emails that are in other languages. According to a post by Jeff Chin, Product Manager, Google Translate on the Gmail blog, the team was curious as to how users would utilize the automatic message translation they launched in Gmail labs in 2009. They heard back from a lot of Google Apps for Business users saying that the feature was in fact quite desired for those working with local teams around the world and also from people who wanted to read newsletters from various parts of the world. Another person wrote in to Google saying that he set up the Translate feature for his mother's e-mail, thereby avoiding long explanatory phone calls. 

Message translation ended up being quite the popular Gmail Labs feature, therefore, they graduated it from Labs to the real world. Over the next few days, Gmail will be rolling out the ability to translate within email to everyone. If you get an e-mail in a language, other than what your default is, then you can click on the "Translate message" tab in the header on the top of the message. If you don't need certain languages to be translated, then you can choose to not translate them. Or, if you would always like messages to be translated, then you can set the feature to Always translate. If you don't see the "translate message" tab for some reason or accidentally turn off translation for a particular language, then you can click on the down arrow next to Reply at the top-right of the message pane and select the Translate message option in the drop-down.

Two other features that Gmail graduated are a small title change and Smart Mute. The title change is small. Instead of reading ""Gmail - Inbox (20) - user@example.com.” in your browser tab, you will now see, "Inbox (20) - user@example.com - Gmail". The point of this title change is to help you more clearly see, if you have any unread messages and how many you have. Gmail has also made improvements to Smart Mute so you can help keep 'noisy', unwanted threads out of your inbox.

In addition to graduating these features from Labs, Gmail will be retiring some other features. Features you will no longer see are: Old Snakey, Mail Goggles, Mouse Gestures, Hide Unread Counts, Move Icon Column, Inbox Preview, Custom Date Formats and SMS in Chat gadget. Gmail says that they're not retiring the SMS in Chat feature, just the gadget it comes in. 






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