Next iPhone is supposed to ‘Liquid Metal’

This is expected for next fall iPhone 5 according to a report put on a metal alloy called Liquidmetal. The (housing) material should be as light as plastic but strong as aluminum. The rights to have Apple as early as the year 2010, the material used to date but not yet.

The Californian company has acquired the rights to the Liquidmetal technology (or its use) for 30 million dollars from the same company. How ‘ Computer World ‘reports, Apple has the metal alloy have hardly used or not at all, but something that should change as the development and construction of the iPhone 4S successor.

Liquid Metal – Technology & Company

‘Computer World’ relies, in particular on a report by the Korean news portal ‘ ETNews ‘that seeks to have this information in turn learn from “industry sources”. Thus in this report that Apple plans to use this alloy for iPhone 5, presented to the next Apple phone at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June in San Francisco.

In addition, recently emerged reports that Apple’s manufacturing partner Foxconn is currently more staff would be hired. This could be an indication that Apple and Foxconn are currently preparing the manufacturing process and testing.

Sales and profit drop at HTC continues

HTC again recorded a strong decline in revenues and profits. This is clear from the preliminary financial statements for the quarter 2012, published by the Taiwanese company. Thus, the revenue amounted to only 67.79 billion Taiwan dollars, the equivalent of some 1.7 billion euros.

After 104 157 000 000 Taiwan dollars in the same period last year, this represents a decline of about 35 percent falls dar. much stronger with the minus 70 percent of the net profit. This is the previous calculations show overall 4.464 billion Taiwan dollars (119.9 million euros). In the first quarter of 2011, there were 14.833 billion Taiwan dollars.

Already in autumn 2011 had HTC pointed to a bad trend in sales volumes and associated revenues and profits. However, it still holds firmly that in the second quarter of 2012, the trend is to be initiated. The great hopes are being presented at the Mobile World Congress Models of One series .

Adhub Market, Samsung also is aimed at mobile advertising

Samsung has become a very powerful company in the smartphone market. Might like about their handsets but their position is indisputable proof of it is the success it has had over 2011. However, now we have to talk about terminals, or at least not directly.

The Korean company has announced the creation of a platform for mobile ads: Adhub Market. With it, wants to compete against other greats like Google and Apple, companies that have shown a major concern for an industry that is constantly growing .

The movement is entirely logical: Samsung has an important role in mobile telephony, is the leading manufacturer of Android smartphones and today one of the companies with more financial muscle to launch a range of products that goes beyond this kind of devices. This point is important because Adhub Market will also work on other platforms such as Smart TV.

However there are two details that are interesting. On the one hand it’s funny how in this sense Samsung tries to do something similar to what Apple has already begun at the time with iAds. The other, and perhaps this is the most controversial, is the fact that we will see how this platform is in conflict with the interests of Google, Android and mobile advertising. We look at the issue of official information is currently quite low.

The F250 Alcatel cares about the sound on your calls

Phones Alcatel has unveiled a new DECT phone, in addition to caring for the design, the French company has sought to improve sound during telephone conversations, that after all is what it is when we are on the phone.

The new Alcatel F250 incorporates the sound system, responsible for reducing background noise when we hold a conversation even with hands-free running.

The rest of their phone functions must cite the management of calls to important numbers and we can associate a particular tune and tone differential internal or external calls, which can be performed on up to five computers at home, which is the most we can expand the internal line.

The Alcatel F250 and can be purchased for 30 euros.

Design Patent: Nokia with new Windows Phone?

The Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is apparently planning the introduction of another new smartphone operating system with Microsoft’s Windows Phone. This place information at least as close to a patent application filed in the United States.

The website ‘ NokiaPort.de ‘encountered in the records of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office patent on a design from Nokia. This shows schematic representations of a smartphone, which will apparently be equipped with standard equipment features advanced touch screen phones.

The patent was indeed Nokia only in mid March 2012 awarded fact, applying for patent protection, however, was already in August 2011. The request was apparently on the 10th August filed the exact same date that a video came to the public, which apparently contained images of the rendering in the design patent apparatus shown.

The video is now available due to copyright claims not by Microsoft. According to ‘ Live Side ‘correspond to the details shown on screenshots of the video exactly those features which are also visible in the design patent. Among other things, described the phone over a narrow strip below the screen, the capacitive touch buttons contains, how it should be seen in the pictures from the patent application.

Supposedly speaks for a planned launch of a smartphone with this design also means that Nokia has been brought all the equipment for which it has applied for a design patent, ultimately, in the form of real products on the market. It is still unclear, of course, despite signs that the Finns, the device shown here is actually on the market.

The third update for the Nokia 800 is now available Lumia

Good news for owners of Nokia Lumia 800 . The Finnish company has announced that it is available or na new software update. This is the third version comes from the release which shows the commitment by Nokia to have one of their terminals daily star.

The main novelty of this update is the increased battery life. An issue widely criticized by users. As Nokia explains in his blog can now enjoy up to 30 hours during normal use in our Lumia. That is, check email, surf the internet, make phone calls …

In addition to a longer duration this update also brings improved low in the Nokia Music. So far nothing is known about the possibility of tethering and as we have come in the coming months, we do not know for sure when.

Although the update is already available launch was not comprehensive and will be staggered over the next four weeks. So if you prove to update now and do not leave, do not worry. Sooner or later, from today until April 18, come to our Lumia 800.

New Windows Phone SDK support weaker units

Like Microsoft in a new tab in the Windows Team Blog announced a new software development kit (SDK) for the mobile operating system Windows Mobile 7 is available. The updated version 7.1.1 includes improved compatibility and support for weaker units.

Now it is in fact possible developers, apps for Windows Mobile 7 in Microsoft’s new desktop operating system Windows 8 to write, until now, the SDK was only up to and including Windows 7 compatible. However, it is noted explicitly that the official support for Windows 8 only with the release of the new operating system finds its way. The update will come primarily to good developers who want to develop Windows 8 and Windows Phone seventh Because the SDK 7.1.1 should work side by side with the Visual Studio 11 and facilitate the development for both platforms.

In addition, the Redmond accomplish with the new kit comprising a first step towards assisting less-equipped devices: The software giant relaxes the requirement of 512 megabytes of RAM for smartphones, allowing manufacturers now obstruct even the half of memory. The new SDK offers an emulator for the now-supported facilities.

Indonesian and Malaysian as well have been supported languages ​​added. Also fixes made their way into the update, such as the Microsoft Advertising SDK. The installation of the update is fairly short in three steps, but depending on the workload due to the new support for two types of equipment a little time to complete.

Apple updates, for better and for worse, the content displayed on the iPad

Apple has always been a company committed to providing the best user experience and Apple in the mouth this means controlling the content and as we see if they consider it necessary to improve the user experience.

Given this premise, the company has decided to take action to experience the new iPhone is the best.

The negative. Apple has limited iPhone Safari to display images at a resolution of approximately 1Mpx. This means that although we try to display a higher resolution image, it will be re-scaled to a more appropriate resolution (according to Apple) for the tablet’s browser. The good news is that if we keep the image in the library system will be kept at full quality.
The positive. In that attempt to improve the user experience, the company has increased the quality of the videos from iTunes Movie Trailers, so we can see high quality video (no known resolution, but is supposed to 1080p) from our iPhone and make the the new screen maximum thereof.

iPhoto for IOS gets one million unique users in less than ten days

Building on the launch of new iPhone , Apple also revamped iLife suite of applications for IOS completing the set with iPhoto. Today, two weeks after that launch, Apple has confirmed to The Loop to iPhoto for IOS has won more than one million unique users in just ten days.

And we’re talking about unique visitors, making sure we are talking about more than one million downloads in the period. Its price is around $ 5, so assume $ 5 million net for Apple in just over a week. Not bad for a management application and photo retouching.

The launch of third generation iPhone (which has sold three million units during its first weekend) must have contributed to these downloads, but the application works well on iPhones iPad 2 and 4 and 4S. Would not surprise me to see how this figure rises exponentially as the new tablet is released in over twenty countries after tomorrow in the second wave.

“The technology will be included in future Lumix phones,” John C. Panasonic Lopez

And we close the series of interviews with those involved in the MWC 2012 with Panasonic, a newcomer (again) to Europe after a withdrawal that tells us in the interview John C. Lopez was due to the difference between phone technology in Japan and Europe. The fever has caught up the smartphone and for that return.

In the video interview talks about their mobile Eluga , stars of the newly finished mobile fair, and advances that are being studied and the inclusion of the Lumix tecnolología in future mobile phone photo of the company.