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LG abandons Windows Phone

LG no longer wishes to continue the adventure Windows Phone. Will therefore only its smartphones running Android. The launch of Windows Phone 7, LG was among the first students to embark on this new adventure. By offering multiple phones, the manufacturer has tried to attract a wide audience with differentiated models (especially with a sliding keyboard). Unfortunately sales are not there, so much so that LG has decided not to propose new smartphones on this operating system.

Information was given a few hours ago a spokesman for the Korean company in Korea Herald:

     LG has no immediate plans for terminals and Windows Phone will instead focus on Android.

     The total number of Windows Phone sold worldwide is not significant.

     [But it] will continue its efforts in research and development.

Several reasons for this decision: the inability to customize the software, the new entry (eg Acer) or the connection between Nokia and Microsoft. The latter is significant in that Android is in the same situation between Google and Motorola. For now nothing concrete has materialized, but it is rumored that the father of Android could use to value the company he bought for billions of dollars. Read on »

Windows Phone 8: smartphones and tablet LTE prepared by Huawei

It seems that Microsoft is preparing a big launch for Windows Phone 8 Apollo and continue to emerge in recent statements by the producers who join the wagon in the parade scheduled for autumn 2012. Today is the turn of Huawei, a manufacturer in the rapidly growing smartphone market (we saw a few days ago, the financial results) that Android in addition to Windows Phone has also chosen through an agreement with Microsoft.

Absent the launch of Windows Phone Tango in China, Huawei will provide Microsoft with the OS still support the next generation because of a dedicated team of 70 engineers who work in contact with Microsoft. Not only mobile but also Tablet with Windows 8 and the first rumors also known as LTE.

At the moment it comes to two devices, the first mid-range (about 300 $) and based on Android while the second could be a Windows Phone 8 by 4 inches even if there are no known information. About the tablet seems that the model will arrive a new version of the FHD 10 MediaPad however characterized by the Windows 8 Form and LTE.

We will then see if these rumors turn into reality, Huawei has demonstrated with Android being able to produce excellent models and prices for the top of the range was even equipped one of its chipsets. Definitely some Windows smartphones and tablet by Huawei would be a great springboard for the next generation of Microsoft device. Windows Phone 8

Pixel Qi: manufacture makes energy efficient tablet screen with iPad resolution

The US-Taiwan Pixel Qi has a 10-inch tablet screen can display the same resolution that was introduced as the new iPhone, but much more energy efficient would be. The manufacturer of screen panels let out a press release a 10-inch screen panel have developed – like the screen of the new iPad – can display a resolution of 2048 by 1536 pixels.

According Pixel Qi are the color, contrast and viewing angles are also better than that of Apple’s tablet. Still, the screen significantly less power, according to the manufacturer.

Using graphs, the company tries to show that the screen almost as much energy as that of the iPad 2, which has a resolution of 1024 by 768 pixels. This could be due to the 3Qi technology of the company, which among others allows screens with or without backlight to work. Read on »

HTC Media Link HD: first leak

We have already had occasion to speak briefly of HTC Media Link HD at Mobile World Congress: it is a small box / wireless HDMI which enables streaming of content from a TV phone with Sense 4, we present to you today, and a closer due to a deepening of the colleagues of The Verge.

During an event held in Seattle, during which were shown coverdelle which we have already spoken, in fact, HTC has shown the operation of his small accessory: it HTC Media Link HD basically creates a Wi-Fi hotspots which can only connect appropriate devices HTC, all configurable within a minute, wireless included.

We defined a box, but the reality is that this HTC Media Link HD is a great accessory half of those smartphones that can be used, in which there are also a USB port used for food, one HDMI certainly not disdain, and a reset button for the emergency.

But simplicity is not its only strong point, thanks to dual-screen is in fact possible to transmit content and in the meantime continue to use your smartphone normal, although the autonomy of such a combo is to be verified.

Unfortunately we have no information on availability and price of this attractive accessory that HTC Media Link HD, at a reasonable cost, could easily become a best-buy, at least for those who already have a new HTC One.

Barclays PayTag: mobile payments add for NFC to any smartphone

Barclays PayTag – The mode of payment via NFC (Near Field Communications) is booming and more and more manufacturers adding this hardware to their mobile phones. But what about those terminals that have no integrated NFC? Barclays wants to bring these transactions to those phones with its Barclays PayTag, which turns any mobile phone card payments for short-range wireless connection.

The card, launched the first in the UK, is basically a piece of plastic with a quarter the size of a conventional credit card, it sticks to the back of the smartphone, with no extra connections, cables, or dangerous or laborious installations, and can instantly make small payments without having to resort to cash or wallet card sacr our passing it through a reader. The first transactions available will be limited to 15 pounds, on a trial, which will rise to £ 20 (about 25 Euros) as of June. Barclays NFC card will be distributed exclusively – for now – including Barclaycard customers of Great Britain, and is a project based on the VISA has made predictions that predict the 50% increase in the number of NFC mobile payment terminals in the UK, spending a total of 150,000 units this year. Read on »

Lava Xolo X900, the first Intel Atom smartphone for sale this week

Lava Xolo X900 – Intel has come rather late to the smartphone market. It is not going to make a smartphone, which has prototypes, but only as a sample of what they can do, as other brands of processors have, are only prototypes. But Intel has finally focus on smartphones and tablets with Intel Atom, more miniaturized and without a fan so you can use these devices in flat and with little or no ventilation.

The same Intel CEO Paul Otellini announced that this week it will launch the first smartphone with an Intel, and even seemed to be the Lenovo K800, it looks like it will be the Lava Xolo X900 the first to go on sale. Read on »

Intel Letexo: hybrid tablet-ultrabook with Windows 8

Intel Letexo – In the future of Intel there are many products that transcend the simple ultrabook with new designs and types. Among these have already been announced tablet and a new and interesting segment may be that of ultrabook hybrid convertible with a touchscreen.

Adding to this equation Windows 8, optimized for touchscreen thanks to the meter but also features visual “dekstop”, is easy to think that the hardware is just a perfect ultrabook Intel Letexo convertible tablet and is the first example of these new devices. Read on »

iPhone 4S to 559 euros by April 19 with Bennet

We highlight an exciting new offer on the iPhone 4S (16 GB version) that can be used from next April 19 at the store Bennet. The Apple iPhone 4S price applied to holders of Bennet Card is in fact equal to 559 euros, which is lower than the prices charged by online retailers (which, however, we must add the shipping costs as opposed to buying a physical store). This offer will end on 2 May but, as is easily understood, the pieces will be available probably limited and is expected to be exhausted in no time. The offer is contained in the new flyer Bennet and may be exploited in a variety of retail chain operating mainly in northern Italy.

For the complete list of stores in the chain you can find more information by logging at this address. As mentioned in the opening, in order to exploit the offer is necessary to be holders of the Bennet Card, that in each case is free and is released immediately from the point of sale.

For more details on the interesting promotion that breaks down to $ 100 list price of the iPhone 4S (still pretty hard), we suggest you head to the nearest store Bennet.

NOOK Simple Touch with GlowLight display

Electronic devices currently have a life cycle of approximately one year and if Barnes & Noble maintains that pace of life l qu new report claims the arrival of a new version of NOOK Simple Touch could be real. According to Reader Digital of this NOOK Simple Touch have managed to find a brochure that shows what would integrate the new reader “simple” B & W, direct competition to the Kindle Touch.

The booklet reveals that integrate GlowLight a screen that enables intelligent lighting to suit any lighting conditions, ie, increasing or decreasing the intensity. Unlike other readers with electronic ink does not allow adjustment of illumination intensity. Read on »

new iPhone with 4-inch: yet rumor

new iPhone – Increasingly, the rumors concerning the possibility that Apple could take a bigger screen size than the usual 3.5 inches used since the first generation of the iPhone and many also wonder what will be the approach taken by designers to change the current size . A rumor of the last hours suggests the possibility of enlarging the size of the display, bringing to 4 inches, increasing only the height of the display and changing, therefore, the aspect ratio of the latter.

All models of the iPhone and iPod Touch up to date products, in fact, have always been equipped with a 3.5 inch screen with a 3:2 ratio, allowing developers to build their own applications to a single screen size. With the arrival of the Retina display in 2010 (iPhone 4), the display resolution has increased significantly, but the size of the display in his appearance remained intact, while forcing developers to adapt their applications to the new high resolution.

With the likely change in the size of the display of the new iPhone, Apple seems to have two roads to avoid creating too many problems to developers and increase the number of pixels to maintain the same resolution on a slightly larger display, or maintain the number of pixels by increasing the resolution. In this way, an existing application can be adapted easily to the display of the new device, without the need to make special modifications.

As highlighted by The Verge, a possible solution that Apple could be taken to obtain a 4-inch would be to increase only the height of the display to reach a 4-inch diagonal, changing the ratio of the size (from 3 : 2 to 9:5), and maintaining the width of 640 pixels. This would lead to a display with a height of 1152 pixels against 960 of the current one.

This solution would provide a larger display without revolutionizing the interface that accompanies IOS from birth, thus allowing you to view the classic interface of the homescreen with five rows of icons instead of four, without making any further revolutions. What do you think of this possible solution? Would you like an iPhone simply “longer” or prefer a device design completely revolutionized, even as far as size? new iPhone