Wednesday, 25 July 2012

Mozilla Firefox OS

Mozilla Firefox OS, the upcoming mobile operating system, will come out by the beginning of 2013. Mozilla Co. has taken its concentration off from desktop to mobiles and now, it is creating a browser-based operating system for smartphones. The operating system has got the assistance of several major telecom companies, showing up as a sturdy rival against Google and Apple in the smartphone market. The operating system which was formerly termed as “Boot to Gecko” has now been renamed as Firefox OS and it will be an open mobile ecosystem based on HTML5. TCL and ZTE, leading device manufacturers, have announced that they will create phones that will have Firefox OS already and these Firefox OS powered smartphones will come in Brazil next year and a bit later in USA. The phones powered by it will be easily affordable and Firefox OS might be widely adopted.

Microsoft Surface vs. Apple’s iPad

Microsoft Surface vs. Apple's iPad hit the news few days back. Microsoft security essentials update has revealed that it will be soon revealed that who is the next leader in the tablet and ultra books market. Microsoft unveiled its new and stunning tablet as a competition to Apple’s ipad. It is more like a war of post PC era. Buyers normally go for those devices that offer more features and are more user friendly. Though people have gotten used to the iPad it is still possible that Microsoft’s tablet might just be the next big thing in the market. For right now Apple has done a great job be selling a huge number of iPad’s and the numbers are still increasing. Microsoft can be considered a newbie but it is possible that it takes away the market share by incorporating those things that are missing in iPad.

Facebook Launched Speedier iPhone App

Facebook launched speedier iPhone app comes this summer showing us a bit of the Facebook advance technology. The updated app will be exactly the same; the only thing which will be different is the speed of the app. Facebook advance technology will knock out the sluggishness of the current Facebook app for iPhone and put up a rebuilt that is incredibly faster. According to New York Times, the new speed is “Blazing fast”. Facebook’s current iPhone app is hell sluggish and painfully slow. Facebook has brought out a solution for that by revisiting the app and recoding the entire app completely, using the standard Objective-C coding language to build the whole thing up again. Through this, sending messages, updating statuses, uploading pictures and everything on Facebook iPhone app will get extremely speedier. The updated Facebook app will be released in just a few days.

Samsung Galaxy S III

Samsung Galaxy S III is the new phone introduced by Samsung. This new flagship phone is the next big thing in the mobile market. Starting from the features to the new look, everything is of high class. The phone was release on May 2012 and in many countries simultaneously. Since then it has received huge orders and due to shortage of supply of components Samsung might just face problems in catering to the demand of this new phone. It has got an 8 mega pixel camera and weighs only about 133 g. This new android touch screen phone has quite big screen but it does not have an effect on the weight of the phone. For right now it is available in two main colors. One is Pebble Blue and the other is Marble White. But it still outshines most of the phones that are available in the market.