Nokia 808 PureView 41-megapixel sensor sized-up and explained (sample pictures)

News

  • February 29, 2012 at 1:18 pm

2

Nokia 808 PureView phone back and front

One of the most interesting devices to come out of this year’s Mobile World Congress is the Nokia 808 PureView. The 808 runs Symbian Belle over the company’s current crop of smartphones running Windows Phone. What makes it special is the new 41-megapixel camera sensor — no that’s not a typo — paired with Carl Zeiss optics, which Nokia has aptly named PureView.

Nokia hasn’t gone completely crazy, jamming more pixels into a tiny sensor and letting you handle crappy 41-megapixel files. First of all the sensor size is 1/1.2 inch, about five times larger than the typical 1/3.2-inch sensor found in most mobile phones. Because the sensor is bigger, the pixel size is still 1.4µm, the same as most current phones. You can actually see the 808 PureView sensor below at the bottom right, compared to an 8-megapixel and a 5-megapixel sensor this thing looks enormous. When you combine the Carl Zeiss f/2.4 lens and a Xenon flash the entire camera array takes a substantial amount of real estate.
continue reading

LG Optimus 4X HD official: 4.7-inch quad-core Tegra 3 smartphone with Android 4.0

News

  • February 23, 2012 at 5:38 am

0

LG Optimus 4X HD Tegra 3 Android smartphone

It’s no secret that we will be seeing a lot of Tegra 3 devices at MWC 2012, but LG has just beat everyone else to officially announce the first quad-core smartphone, named Optimus 4X HD (a.k.a. LG X3). Looking past LG’s lengthy naming convention, the new smartphone will certainly become the flagship for its 2012 lineup. It’s a massive 4.7-inch device with a 720p HD IPS LCD display running on the 1.5GHz quad-core (or 4-PLUS-1 as NVIDIA calls it) Tegra 3 SoC. Inside that 8.9mm thin body, you’ll find 1GB of RAM, 16GB of built-in storage and a not too shabby 2,150mAh battery.

The Optimus 4X HD will be running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and we’ve already seen that Tegra 3 SoC grabbing a 4,412 Quadrant score, handily beating other ICS devices like the Galaxy Nexus (full review here).
continue reading

Rumored LG X3 flexes its quad-core Tegra 3 muscles in Android 4.0 benchmarks

News

  • February 15, 2012 at 12:36 pm

0

LG X3 smartphone render

NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 quad-core SoC is said to appear on more than one device at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona by the end of the month. One of these is the LG X3, which we first saw last month.

We’re pretty sure this will be LG’s flagship Android handset for 2012, with a 4.7-inch screen and 720p resolution. It will run Android 4.0 Ice Cream sandwich on a, as mentioned, 1.5GHz NVIDIA Tegra 3 chip, which features some pretty smart power saving features so hopefully it won’t be too taxing for its 2,000mAh battery.
continue reading

Scalado Remove mobile device software technology lets you remove unwanted ‘objects’ from your photos on the fly

News

  • February 14, 2012 at 10:25 am

0

Scalado Remove mobile device imaging software

We’ve all more or less faced the same issue. You’re trying to take the picture of a loved one or a postcard worthy photo of a beautiful monument, yet all these other moving ‘objects’ keep coming into your frame. Well you could take a number of photos and then use a PC photo editing application, like Photoshop, to get rid of unwanted people in the photo but that’s hardly very convenient. The solution comes from Scalado, a mobile device imaging specialist. The company has just announced a new software technology called Remove that allows you to remove unwanted objects from images on the fly.

First, you take a shot with your mobile device’s camera, then you select unwanted objects from the captured image by using your device’s touchscreen. The software takes a number of additional shots and using some clever imaging technology, stitches them up on the fly to produce a cleaned-up result. Of course Remove only works with moving objects, i.e. people or other members of the animal kingdom.
continue reading

Quad-core Tegra 3 HTC Edge smartphone becomes the HTC Endeavor

News

  • February 12, 2012 at 6:09 pm

0

HTC Endeavor leaked image

We’ve been following the HTC Edge in its long road of becoming the world’s first quad-core smartphone for some time now. The Edge was first leaked back in November last year and while we are expecting an official announcement soon, it seems that it has been renamed to Endeavor.

Besides the name change, the HTC Endeavor is still the same at heart, said to be running on a quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 SoC maxing out at 1.5GHz. It will have a large 4.7-inch optically laminated 720p HD display — optical lamination gets rid of the air gap between the touchscreen and the front glass, improving image quality and touch experience. HTC’s new flagship smartphone with run on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich with HTC’s new Sense 4.0 UI.
continue reading

Acer CloudMobile 4.3-inch optically laminated HD Android 4.0 smartphone revealed

News

  • February 10, 2012 at 4:16 pm

0

Acer CloudMobile 4.3-inch HD Android 4.0 smartphones

Well, well, Acer must be bursting with pride, as its until now announced smartphone won the iF design award for 2012. The Acer CloudMobile is a curvy Android smartphone to be presented at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona at the end of this month. The device is the first phone to offer AcerCloud technology, hence the name, which in real terms means that it gives you access to your data, like photos, documents and music, from Acer’s cloud storage.
continue reading

Samsung Galaxy S Advance gets £350 pre-order price, shipping in time for MWC

News

  • February 3, 2012 at 2:45 pm

0

Samsung Galaxy S Advance Android smartphone

Samsung already made it clear that the Galaxy S III won’t be making it to MWC 2012 in Barcelona this month. Instead we’ve been promised other “exciting new mobile products.” One of these new products is the 4-inch Super AMOLED Samsung Galaxy S Advance, which was announced early this week.

Well now we have confirmed pricing and a shipping date for the smartphone loaded with a 1GHz Exynos 4210 dual-core SoC, 768MB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage and a 5-megapixel rear and 1.3-megapixel front cameras. The device is already up for pre-order in the UK for around £350 ($550) including VAT and without a contract. Shipments are expected to begin on the week of February 27th, i.e. the same week as the MWC.
continue reading

Samsung Exynos 5250 dual-core 2Ghz SoC coming in Q2 2012, could be dating a tablet at MWC

News

  • January 27, 2012 at 5:37 pm

0

Samsung Exynos 5250 SoC

There is huge war raging behind the scenes on which chip will power the next generation of mobile devices. We have increasing demands from our smartphones and tablets and system-on-a-chip (SoC) manufacturers have to find ways of multiplying processing power, pushing more pixels on higher resolution screens while staying as power-frugal as possible. Samsung SoCs are a force to be reckoned with and last year’s Exynos 4210, found in the Samsung Galaxy S II, Samsung Galaxy Note and Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7, literally crushed all other chips in benchmarks.

We heard of Samsung’s next generation Exynos 5250 SoC last November, and during its latest earnings call, Samsung said that it has already begun sampling to manufacturers and the 5250 will go into mass production in Q2 this year.
continue reading

LG CX2 ‘Optimus 3D 2’ 4.3-inch 3D Android smartphone leaked in press renders

News

  • January 24, 2012 at 3:32 pm

0

LG CX2 'Optimus 3D 2' Android smartphone

Though we admit we are not completely sold on 3D phones, we’re always interested to see what the next generation will bring. Last year was dominated by two 3D phones the HTC EVO 3D and the LG Optimus 3D. Following the leaked LG X3 quad-core monster-phone, the latest leaked handset for LG’s 2012 lineup is a new 3D smartphone codenamed CX2 or as we’ll be calling it, the Optimus 3D 2.

Similar to the original Optimus 3D it will have a stereoscopic glasses-free 4.3-inch display, however instead of only relying on 3D content, this new LG 3D Android smartphone will be able to do a 2D to 3D conversion on the fly. The device is rumored to be running on a new TI OMAP 1.2GHz dual-core processor. It will has dual 5-megapixel rear cameras capable of shooting in 3D and a 1.3-megapixels front camera.
continue reading

LG X3 quad-core Tegra 3 4.7-inch 720p Android smartphone makes its first appearance

News

  • January 21, 2012 at 10:21 am

0

LG X3 smartphone render

We pretty much know what a flagship Android handset will be like during 2012. You can rest assured it will have a 720p resolution with a large 4.5-4.7-inch screen, run Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and have quad-core (like the Nvidia Tegra 3) or very fast dual-core processor.

A new leaked handset by LG fits this profile perfectly, and is set for a face-off with HTC’s rumored Edge for the title of the first quad-core smartphone. The LG X3 (final retail name be different) is said to be a quad-core Tegra 3 handset with a 4.7-inch 1280×720 display, 8-megapixel rear and 1.3-megapixel front cameras and NFC capabilities.
continue reading