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 ?

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LG unveils 5 5 inches QHD LCD display will feature in the upcoming G3

Today, LG has announced their next generation 5.5-inches Quad High Definition AH-IPS LCD screens for smartphones. The panel has been verified as QHD and passed the Norway based international testing and certification organisation for electrical products, NEMKO.

Fortunately, LG has confirmed that the company will feature its new Quad HD screen panel for its forthcoming flagship smartphone, that will be officially available in the first half of the year. And we know where the Koreans are planning to plant the units in, as we have already been rumored with the yet to go official LG made front runner smartphone G3 to feature 2K display.

The certified 5.5-inches Quad High Definition AH-IPS screen has got 2560 x 1440 resolution display, which is said to screen in images four times higher resolution of High Definition panels and 1.8 times higher resolution than Full High Definition displays. The panels pixels-per-inch is marked at 538, which meets full 100 percent RGB color reproduction standard. The newly introduced panels are said to enter in the mass production shortly. This ultra-slim panel is only 1.2 millimeters in thickness and measures only 1.15 millimeters on the bezels, making it the narrowest available in the market.

"This product fulfills the core qualities of smartphone displays, which are high resolution and slim design, and I believe the consumers can enjoy vivid images that are close to real life with this display. LG Display will continue to maintain technology leadership in the super high-resolution smartphone display market above 500 ppi resolution, which will take off this year," said Byung-koo Kim, Vice President and Head of LG Display’s IT/Mobile Development Group.

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Samsung teases Unpacked 5 event in a new video

Samsung seems to be full stream ahead with its upcoming front runner smartphone from the Galaxy S fleet, the yet to be announced, flagship Galaxy S5. Hours back we even got a view to the unannounced phones total design language, with the help of cases surfaced on the Amazons database, made by Spigen.

The official trailer video from the South Koreans YouTube account that buffered in and out from yesterday, looks to be in full dedication for the number, "5", with each words that appeared on screen is again squared by five. Its not just the number are talking here about, but also at the end of the footage, Samsung Mobile tends to notify the public about "The Next Galaxy". And after all this coming to a real deal until date, it will be a night mare if Samsung will not go official with the Galaxy S5 at their upcoming Mobile World Congress trade show event Unpacked 5, scheduled on 24th of this month, in Barcelona, Spain.

The latest reports from the rumor mill suggest us seeing a phone with Quad-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 or 805 processor, speeding at 2.5GHz, 5.25-inches Quad HD Super AMOLED screen of 2560 x 1440 resolution display marked at 560 pixels-per-inch, three gigabytes of LPDDR3 Random Access Memory (RAM), 20 megapixels primary shooter with a two megapixels front facer, fingerprint scanner on the physical home button, 4G LTE Cat4 connectivity support, 3,000mAh powered battery and running Android version 4.4 KitKat out of the box.

               

Source: Samsung Mobile (YouTube)

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5 Tricks to Use Keywords in Your Blog Posts

1. Use keywords in your blog post title.
One of the best ways to incorporate keywords into your blog posts is to use them in your blog post titles.  However, dont sacrifice a titles ability to motivate people to click through and read your entire blog post.  Learn 3 tips to write great blog post titles.
2. Focus on using just one or two keyword phrases in each blog post.
To maximize the traffic that comes to your blog via search engines, focus on optimizating each of your blog posts for just one or two keyword phrases.  Too many keyword phrases dilutes the content of your post for readers and can look like spam to both readers and search engines.  You can learn more about using specific keywords to maximize search traffic by reading about long tail search engine optimization.

3. Use keywords throughout your blog posts.
Try to use your keywords (without keyword stuffing) multiple times in your blog post.  For best results, use your keywords within the first 200 characters of your blog post, several times throughout your post, and near the end of the post.  Take some time to learn more aboutkeyword stuffing and other search engine optimization donts.

4. Use keywords in and around links in your blog post.
Search engine optimzation experts believe that search engines like Google place more weight on linked text than unlinked text when ranking search engine results.  Therefore, its a good idea to include your keywords in or next to the links within your blog posts when its relevant to do so.  Be sure to read about how many links are too many for SEO before you start adding links to your posts.

5. Use keywords in image Alt-tags.
When you upload an image to your blog to use in your blog post, you usually have the option of adding alternate text for that image which appears if a visitor cannot load your images in their Web browsers.  However, this alternate text, can also help your search engine optimization efforts.  Thats because the alternate text appears within the HTML of your blog post content as something called an Alt-tag.  Google and other search engines crawl that tag and use it in providing results for keyword searches.  Take the time to add keywords that are relevant to the image and post in the Alt-tag for each image you upload and publish on your blog.

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Asus Zenfone 5 First Impressions

The Asus Zenfone 5 is a low-cost Android phone with a large screen. It may not be all that phones like the Samsung Galaxy S4 are, but it certainly seems to get you a lot for your money.

UK prices for the Zenfone 5 havent yet been announced, but as its set to sell for $200 without a contract in the US, this should prove to be one of the cheapest ways to get a 5-inch screen phone.

Asus Zenfone 5 – Design

As a relative newcomer to phones, its not surprising that Asus has kept the design of its new Zenfone mobiles pretty simple. The Zenfone 5 is a plastic phone with a single-piece plastic battery cover that comes in five different colours.

The one piece of Asus visual stamping is the texture of concentric circles that youll see under the screen. It feels a little light and basic compared with something like the HTC One, but the Zenfone 5 should sell for around half the price of our 2013 phone of the year.

It weighs 144g and is 10.3mm thick. Its light enough, but its not super slim. But again, superlatives are really not what the Asus Zenfone 5 is all about.

Asus Zenfone 5 – Screen and Specs

The screen too lives in a comfortable middle ground. Its five inches across and the resolution is 720p, where other high-end phones this size use 1080p displays. However, given the phones expected price were more than happy to live with 720p.

Its sharp and the IPS panel provides respectable image quality. Colour reproduction wasnt quite spot-on, but the phone may ship with Asus Splendid, an app that lets you fine-tune the colour temperature and saturation to your own tastes. Our demo model wasnt loaded with the final software so we cant be sure though.

The Asus Zenfone 5 is a mobile that has sprung from the strong relationship between Intel and Asus. It uses an Intel Atom processor, the dual-core 2GHz Z2580. Its a very capable processor for a budget phone like this.

Asus boasted during the launch of the phone that it could outperform virtually every mobile processor seen in an Android phone. Our experience has been Intel Atom chips are often a little poorer with tasks in which power matters – mostly gaming – due to relative lack of optimisation on the developers side. However, things like the Zenfone range are out to change that. And the raw power youre getting means the Zenfone 5 is a bit of a bargain.

Asus says the phone will have 4GB, 8GB or 16GB, but this will depend on the demands of the market in question. An 8GB or 16GB model seems likely for the UK. Asus Zenfone 5 1

Asus Zenfone 5 – Cameras

The Zenfone 5 does pretty well in the camera department too. It has an 8-megapixel main camera with a fast f/2.0 lens. This is a great start, but when camera performance relies so much on things like shutter lag and the software image engine, were not going to praise the phone too much yet. Well wait for the final review unit.

The main camera does have a LED flash, though, and theres a 2-megapixel front camera for selfies and video chat.

Asus Zenfone 5 – Software

One thing that could trip this phone up is software. We saw the phone running a largely vanilla version of Android 4.3, but itll launch with a new custom ZenUI. Although it promises plenty of extra features, including a rather interesting camera one that groups sensor pixels in low light to improve performance (i.e. it reduces resolution), it could result in a phone with more lag than wed hope.

Few custom UIs get their navigation completely right too, and Asus hardly has the most experience in the market in this field.

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LG Intros World’s Slimmest Full HD Screen with 5 2″ Display 2 2mm Thickness

 While Samsung is still trying hard to commercialize the flexible Lcd displays, it now seems that LG will soon be coming up with the World’s Thinnest 1080p LCD Screen which comes at just 2.2mm thickness and has 5.2 inches of Screen Size. This thinnest Lcd from LG has been officially showcased and comes with the 2.3mm of Bezel which is a truly commendable job. Though the bezel on the device will be much greater than the 2.3mm, we can say that it will have one of the thinnest bezel ever. While the phones are getting thinner and thinner, it’s difficult to accommodate the larger battery in these devices.

LG Electronics calls this tech being used behind the Lcd as the Advanced One Glass Solution (OGS) which will be realized commercially very soon in its next generation of devices which will be available as soon this December 2013. The technology behind this involves the insertion of Dual flexible printed circuits between the LCD Panel and the touch film which results in 30% fewer lines on the Panel. Every pixel is RGB, and the Lcd can output 535 nits of brightness which is surprisingly higher than any 1080p Screen in the market which can currently produce.

We are also hearing the rumours that soon this display will be realized in the Optimus G2 smartphone which will be releasing very soon. By utilizing 1,080X1,920 pixels consisting of Red, Green, Blue (RGB) sub-pixels, the panel is a true Full HD display. Finally, measuring contrast in real-life surroundings with Ambient Contrast Ratio results in a reading of 3.74:1 based on 10,000 lux, which confirms the perfect performance even in Bright sunlight conditions.

Do let us know in the comments section about your thoughts on this World’s thinnest Display by LG Electronics.

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Apple iPhone 5 Information

iPhone 5 prototype is rumored to have three different versions. From a pull out qwerty keyboard to a new Apple OS its incredible how much more advanced the iPhone 5 will look. Weve been looking at exclusive photos from the biggest tech blogs and other resources and with recent rumors of it being sold on Craigslist for $200 its amazing that the seller didnt ask more for it. Its the iPhone 5 you could have sold it from $1,000 to $20,000 and someone would have bought it. Its long rumored that iPhone 5 would be the game changer that solves all of the previous iPhones problems. Including the dreaded dropped call problem that plagued the iPhone 4. With the Introduction of the iPhone 5 Apple is turning the game on its competition yet again. Even HTC and Googles Android operating system cant hold a light to the New Apple iPhone 5. Even if youve already upgraded the iPhone 4 the new iPhone 5 will surely please all your senses and is way worth the amount of money.

With the launch the Apple iPhone 5 will be available from AT&T Verizon Sprint And T-Mobile as well. No formal mentions have been made who will exclusively be offering it first. But Im pretty sure with the recent AT&T and T-Mobile merger which is being blocked by Congress AT&T will be the first to do so followed by Verizon and then Sprint. other network carriers in other states will shortly follow suit but for now well have to go by what we know. The iPhone 5 has three distinct prototypes, its been lost by a high ranking employee and sold on Craigslist for $200, New Apple OS and is almost ready for launch. Excited I am and you should be as well. The iPhone 5 isnt just going to blow your mind but blow millions of peoples minds as well. The only reason why any Cell Phone Carrier is making any type of money is if you carry the iPhone 4 and iPhone 5 you sure to bring in millions of more customers and your profit per quarter will be going up. Its why so many people are eager to carry the iPhone 5 and why Apple is at the top and will remain at the top of the game.

Even without Jobs to be head of the company hes still head chairman of the board. Which means he still has a lot of say but doesnt have to be in the public eye. With his own health issues and his ultimate wish for privacy. Its no wonder why hes taken the reigns of the company and handed them to someone who can handle the rigorous job duties. Jobs will continue to produce products and innovate the whole line. Right now Apple is banking on their mobile line and other platforms against there own foundation of products including the MAC and Macbooks. But as always people will pay for Apple Products because in all honesty its what people want. The touch software loaded on all Apple iPhones iTouchs iPods, etc is perfect and amazing. While other developers phones are freezing up or un trust worthy. The Apple iPhone 5 is sure to please and make a lot of people happy, very very happy. So if your looking to save your money for an Apple iPhone, then save it up for the iPhone 5 which is coming out very very soon.

If you have an upgrade coming hold it off, for those of you out there saying theres going to be bugs there isnt. Ive seen photos and heard first hand how amazing the new iPhone 5 will be which with the the final prototype they choose will sure sell millions of units in the first day alone. The Apple iPhone 5 is sexy sleek and looks to be more than eye candy. The New Apple OS thats going on it is only what you can dream about. With better camera, video, lighter, and runs faster. The New Apple iPhone 5 will get any Apple enthusiast on his or her heels to see it touch it and play with it. I for one will be getting to the Apple Store the day it comes out and an more than happy for the New Apple iPhone 5. I will always and only have an Apple iPhone, my next being the iPhone 5 because my 3GS has been dropped more than you wanna know, dropped in a fish tank, water, and still works. Its been sat on, ran over and yet still works. So you can see why myself and so many others are loyal Apple fans. So if your looking to upgrade or get a new phone especially the Apple iPhone. Just wait your time out and when the Apple iPhone 5 hits the shelves go out and buy it.

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