Showing posts with label 2012. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2012. Show all posts

Sunday, November 23, 2014

Shopping Tips for Smartphone Tablets on Black Friday 2012

You may just want a new iPhone, iPad, or maybe the best-selling Samsung galaxy S3 and other android device, or Windows Phone 8 smartphones entering this year, but the price is somehow relative higher than you can afford. Don’t worry, as the holiday shopping season is almost around the corner. Due to a series of stores kick off some of its hottest "Black Friday" deals on that day, so it is the best time of the year for shopping. There are substantial discounts offered.

Until today, the Black Friday deals ads of Amazon, Best Buy and Wal-Mart have leaked online in the days. And For the first time, Disney Stores, Sears and Kohls are among the stores offering at least some of the same Black Friday deals to customers a few days before Black Friday.

It seems difficult to catch up all of that information to get a best Black Friday Deals. A smart and measured approach to buying will preserve your holiday budget.
Heres how to do Black Friday the smart way:1. Research the deals and compare the prices 

Thanksgiving is just two weeks away, now you should start mapping out a strategy now. Make sure which smartphone or tablets you want and how much you want to spend. Check out decide.com to help you, which uses data to help you whether you should buy the product or not.

Lists of websites already have posted stores Black Friday deals. Check out sites like bradsdeals.com and the blackfriday.com that list hours and circulars for the holiday weekend.2. Use social media: like Facebook and TwitterFollow your favorite stores Twitter feeds and click the "Like" button on their Facebook pages. Stores will use their social networks to update shoppers on deals and store hours, says Carey Rossi, editor-in-chief of ConsumerSearch.com. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., for example, unveiled its Black Friday deals on Walmart.com, its Facebook wall and mobile app on Thursday. Those who sign up to get email, download the app or "Like" its Facebook page will be among the first to get early access to special Black Friday store items to buy online and via the mobile app.

Meanwhile, Kohls Facebook fans will receive exclusive savings during the holidays through Friday flash sales.

3. Spread out the shopping: 

Consumers will Start Holiday Shopping Earlier this year.

Wal-Mart will start its first Black Friday sale at 8 p.m. Thanksgiving Day, two hours earlier than last year. It then will have two more rounds of sales events, including a 10 p.m. sale on electronics and another sale at 5 a.m.

Wal-Mart is also guaranteeing shoppers that it will have three of the most popular items if they are in line inside the store between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day. The three include Apple’s iPad 2: an Apple iPad 2 for with Wi-Fi plus a $75 Wal-Mart gift card for $399.

Macys, Kohls Co. and Best Buy Co. will open again at midnight following Thanksgiving. Sears Holdings Corp. said its Sears stores will open at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving and will stay open overnight until 10 p.m. Friday. For the first time, Sears will allow members of its free loyalty club called Shop Your Way to buy some of the early-bird specials online as early as Sunday, Nov. 18.4. Use your smartphone and tablets For the first time, Macys, through a partnership with eBay, has a Black Friday app that will let customers browse and shop for specials specific to the local store. Starting Nov. 15, customers will be able to view Black Friday specials on their mobile devices and create personal shopping lists they can edit and share.
Starting Nov. 19, Wal-Mart will again have a Black Friday local store map available to view and print on Walmart.com and its local Wal-Mart Facebook pages. But this year, customers can view an interactive local store map on the Wal-Mart mobile app and click on items to see the price, product description and location in the store.

Here is Walmart Black Friday full ad leaked: Galaxy S3, unreleased Samsung Stratosphere 2 and other Android handsets spotted:Android Smartphones$100 Walmart Gift Card for every Android smartphone purchase (with new two-year contract, therefore it’s available with the purchase of any of the following on-contract handsets) – offer valid from from November 23 through December 1
$129 Samsung Galaxy S3 – with new two-year contract
TBD Motorola Droid RAZR M – with new Verizon two-year contract
$49.88 HTC One X – with AT&T new two-year contract
$79.88 Samsung Galaxy S2 – with new T-Mobile two-year contract
$49.88 Samsung Stratosphere 2 – with new Verizon two-year contract
$0.97 Samsung Captivate Glide – with AT&T new two-year contract
$89.88 Motorola Photon Q – with new T-Mobile two-year contract
$39.88 LG Optimus Logic prepaid smartphone – $50 in savings
$39.88 Kyocera Hydro prepaid smartphone – $60 in savings
$45 unlimited Straight Talk plan
$55 unlimited Boost Mobile plan
$80 Verizon prepaid refill card: 2GB traffic, unlimited talk and text
$19.98 Virgin Mobile prepaid refill card: 1GB of trafficAndroid Tablets$129 8GB Nabi 2 – $70 in savings
$99 8GB Barnes & Noble Nook Color Tablet – $60 in savings
$49 7-inch Ematic TabletAccessories$12 Plantronics Bluetooth Headset
$39 Plantronics Voyager Pro Bluetooth Headset – $40 in savings
$14.96 cell phone charger
$39.88 Virgin Mobile 3G/4G Hotspot – $80 in savings
$19.88 iFrogz Boost speaker – $20 in savings
$14.99 Sony Earbuds with Mic – $14 in savings
$179.95 Beats by Dr. Dre Solo HD Headphones – $20 in savings
$10-30 off all Beats headphones

Will you be purchasing a new smartphone or cellphone for the upcoming holiday season? Do you have any other good shopping tips for Smartphone and tablets? Leave your comments.

Thursday, November 20, 2014

Top 5 high end smartphones worth buying for the 2012 holiday season

Smartphone war starts ahead of holiday season. Starts with iPhone 5, then Windows phone 8 follow up, such as Nokia Lumia 920, Windows Phone 8X by HTC, Samsung ATIV S. The Nexus 4, announced yesterday and rumored for about 50 years before, goes on sale directly from Google starting November 13. The Smartphone war is heating up as smartphones play a bigger role this holiday season.

Thinking about buying a new smartphone for yourself or as a gift this holiday season? People are spending a whole lot of time with their smartphones these days, so heres a list of the top smartphone choices to make sure its time well spent.1. Nokia Lumia 920
The Nokia Lumia 920 is the new flagship smartphone of the Windows Phone 8, which features a 4.5 inch PureMotion HD+ display, LTE, 8.7MP PureView camera, 1.2MP front camera, 1.5GHz dual-core processor, wireless charging, 2000 mAh battery,1GB of RAM, and 32GB of internal memory , Nokia Maps, Nokia Drive, Nokia City Lens. Nokia claims its new handsets are “the world’s most innovative smartphones”. I know many of you have already added it to your list this holiday season, so do I. Now Nokia Lumia 920 is available in Canada (at Rogers). More units will be shipped in the near future.2. Windows Phone 8X by HTC
The Windows Phone 8X by HTC is a premium Windows Phone 8 device that packs a punch with a beautiful 4.3-inch HD-resolution super LCD 2 Lcd, a powerful 1.5GHz dual-core processor, impressive 8MP camera with HTCs custom Image Chip technology and a very-wide-angle 2.1MP front-facing shooter on the other side. Customers will enjoy the feel of the pure unibody design in California Blue, access to Windows Phone’s Live Tiles, immersive studio-quality sound with Beats Audio™ and incredible camera capabilities of the Windows Phone 8X by HTC.3. LG Nexus 4 runs on Android 4.2
The Nexus 4 has a 4.7-inch, 1,280 x 768 pixel resolution display, a quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro processor from Qualcomm, 2 gigabytes of RAM, an 8-megapixel rear camera, a 1.3-megapixel front camera and either 8 or 16 gigabytes of storage. It also has NFC, a micro USB port and micro HDMI output. For bells and whistles, Google is touting built-in wireless charging (though you’ll need to supply your own compatible charging mat) and a Photo Sphere feature that can shoot 360-degree panorama photos but it doesn’t support 4G LTE. LG Nexus 4 runs on Android 4.2, which comes with a lot of new features, like updated Google Now, and multiple user accounts. It also adds a Swype-like trace keyboard, built right into stock Android.

    See also: Android 4.2s four best new features4. Samsung Galaxy Note 2
If you are interested in larger Lcd, then galaxy note 2 may be your best choice. The Galaxy Note II will be featuring HSPA+ and 4G LTE connectivity, a 1.6GHz quad-core processor, a 5.5-inch HD Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 1280 x 720, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, an 8 megapixel auto focus rear-facing camera with a 1.9 megapixel front-facing camera, S Pen stylus, Bluetooth 4.0, a 3100mAh battery, 2GB of RAM and microSD card support up to 64GBs. The Galaxy Note II will also be coming in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB models along with a white or black color to choose from.5. iPhone 5
“The iPhone has always been an innovator since its 2007 release and its true potential really came out with the 4 and 4S models, but the iPhone 5 is the king of them all,” said junior Caleb Hughes.

The iPhone has a 4-inch LED-backlit IPS TFT display featuring 326ppi pixel density with 640 x 1136 pixels and also has Gorilla Glass, features a A6 chipset with 1.2GHz dual-core CPU and of course the PowerVR SGX543MP2 GPU, 1GB RAM, has an 8-megapixel on the rear and a 1.2MP on the front, as well as 1080P HD video, geo-tagging, HDR, panorama, LED flash, autofocus and face detection. The iPhone 5 comes in 16, 32 and 64GB versions, which is running iOS 6. Price of the iPhone 5 is relative high than other smartphones.

With shoppers getting ready to kick off the holiday season the day after Thanksgiving — or sooner — retailers are ready for consumers to pull out their smartphones or tablets, NRFs Shay said. So Which one is your next mobile device as the holiday gift ?

Thursday, September 18, 2014

CES 2012 Nokia Lumia 900 4G LTE for AT T



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Tech Specs:

Nokia Lumia 900
General and Software
Countries USA – AT&T
Series Nokia Lumia
Other names or variations Nokia Lumia 900 – Nokia Ace
Form Factor Candybar
Operating System Windows Phone 7.5 Mango Commercial Release 2
Physical Keyboard No – On-screen alphanumeric keypad and QWERTY
Announced 9 January 2012
Status Available Q1 2012
Additional Navigation Control Camera Key – Volume Keys - Power/Lock Key - Windows UI keys (Back, Start, Search)
Browser & Internet Internet Explorer 9 Mobile
Hardware graphics acceleration
SVG, HTML 5, CSS3, SV, XHTML, DOM and more
Java MIDP 2.1
Display
Size, diagonal 4.3 inches
Display Resolution WVGA – 800 x 480 pixels
Generalized Pixel Density 217 ppi

TFT – AMOLED – ClearBlack technology – Toucscreen – Capacitive – 16M colors
Connectivity
WAN / Network 2G GSM: 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz
WAN / Network 3G UMTS: 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100 Mhz
WAN / Data GPRS Class B / EDGE Class B
HSDPA+ Cat14 21 Mbps / HSUPA Cat6 5.76 Mbps
4G LTE 700 / 1700 / 2100 MHz
Wireless LAN WLAN IEEE802.11 b/g/n
Bluetooth Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP, EDR
USB MicroUSB 2.0 – Mass storage – Charging connector
Audio jack 3,5 mm Yes
GPS / Location Based Services GPS – A-GPS – CellID – WiFi positioning - Bing Maps
AT&T Navigator
Nokia Maps (available as a free download)

Diversity antenna array to maximize RF performance
Camera
Camera Resolution (max) 8 megapixels – Carl Zeiss lens - 3264 x 2448 pixels
Camera secundary 1 megapixel – 1280 x 720 pixels - F number/aperture: 2.4
Camera Focus Autofocus
Camera Flash Dual LED flash
Camera Zoom (max) Zoom digital 3x
Image Capture Formats JPEG/Exif – XMP
Additional Camera Features Camera F number/aperture: 2.2
Camera minimum focus range: 100 mm
Camera focal length: 28 mm
Geotagging – Touch Focus - Carl Zeiss Optics - Exposure Compensation - Fast one-click photo sharing - Auto and Manual White Balance
Media
Audio Player MP4, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+, WMA 9 and 10
Video Player MPEG4, H.263, H.264, 3GPP, AVC, WMV, AVI, ASF
Video Recording 720p HD (1280 x 720 pixels)
Video Recording Frame Rate 30 fps
Video Playback 720p HD (1280 x 720 pixels)
Video Playback Frame Rate 30 fps

Video secundary camera 640 x 480 pixels, 30 fps
Loudspeaker Yes
Radio FM AT&T Radio - Stereo FM radio with RDS
Voice Recording Yes

Zune – Video player – Video recorder - Video streaming - Video Stabilization - Continuous Auto Focus
Processor and memory
Processor / SoC Qualcomm APQ8055 + MDM9200 (WCDMA)
Processor Clock Speed 1.4 GHz (single core)
RAM SDRAM 512MB
Internal memory 16GB (14.5GB availables)
Memory Card Size Supported No slot for micro-SD cards
Sensors
Accelerometer Yes
Digital Compass Magnetometer sensor
Proximity Sensor Yes
Ambient Light Sensor Yes
Additional features Gyroscope
Notifications Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
Power
Battery Type Nokia Battery BP-6EW 1830mAh
Talk time 2G: up to 7 hours – 3G: up to 7 hours
Stand-by time 2G: up to 300 hours – 3G: up to 300 hours

Video playback time up to 6.5 hours
Music playback time up to 60 hours
Divers
Messaging SMS, MMS, IM, Email (POP3, SMTP, IMAP4) Gmail, Nokia Mail, Yahoo Mail, Outlook Mobile, Windows Live/Hotmail
Games Yes, downloadable – Xbox Live
Color Cyan – Black
Phone Book Yes
Organizer Yes
Agenda Yes
Calendar Yes
Task Yes
Notes Yes
Voice memo Yes
Predictive text Yes
Watch Yes
Alarm Yes
Diary Yes
Calculator Yes
Documend Viewer Yes
Flight mode Yes
Weight 160 grams (5.6 oz) 90 cc
Dimensions 127.8 x 68.5 x 11.5 mm (5.03 x 2.7 x 0.45 in)

Nokia Drive (available as a free download)

Xbox Live – Marketplace - App HighlightsESPN Sports Hub - AT&T U-verse Mobile

Graphics formats: BMP – PNG - WMF - EXIF - JPEG - TIFF - WBMP - GIF87a – GIF89a
Package contents

Nokia Lumia 900

SIM Door Key

Nokia Fast USB Charger (AC-16U)

Nokia Charging and Data Cable (CA-190CD)

Quick Guide and Product Information Bulletin


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