WeChat Dilengkapi Fitur Multimedia, Bakal Geser BBM?

Aplikasi chatting asal China, WeChat, makin populer. Dengan beragam fitur multimedia yang canggih, WeChat sudah menjangkau lebih dari 100 juta pengguna di berbagai negara.

Aplikasi WeChat yang dikembangkan Tencent, perusahaan teknologi asal Shenzhen, China, ini dapat digunakan pengguna ponsel pintar dengan sistem operasi iOS (AppStore), Android (Google Play), Windows Phone (Marketplace), dan Symbian. Aplikasi ini didukung jaringan wi-fi serta jaringan data 3G dan 4G.

Aplikasi ini pertama kali diluncurkan di Weixin, China, Januari 2011 lalu, tetapi waktu itu baru khusus untuk masyarakat China. Pengguna internasional baru dapat memanfaatkan WeChat setelah Tencent menyediakan dukungan berbagai bahasa pada Oktober 2011. Sampai Maret 2012, menurut CEO Tencent Ma Huateng, jumlah pengguna WeChat sudah mencapai lebih dari 100 juta.

Pengusaha Indonesia yang sering ke China, Calvin Lukmantara, bercerita kepada Kompas, Selasa (28/8/2012), ketika ia berada di China, ia melihat betapa aplikasi chatting ini sangat populer mengalahkan aplikasi QQ. Di China, ungkap Calvin, BlackBerry Messenger malah tidak populer. "Saya baru mengenal WeChat setelah ke China. Awalnya saya pakai aplikasi QQ, tapi rupanya QQ kalah populer dibandingkan WeChat yang baru satu tahun muncul di China," ungkap Calvin Lukmantara.

Pengembang aplikasi WeChat memperluas penggunaan chatting ke berbagai negara dengan menyediakan sejumlah bahasa, selain bahasa China dan Inggris, juga bahasa Arab, Hindi, Indonesia, Italia, Jepang, Korea, Malaysia, Polandia, Portugis, Rusia, Spanyol, Thailand, dan Vietnam.

Sebelumnya kita pasti pernah tahu ada aplikasi chatting, seperti Whatsapp, IM Plus, eBuddy, GoogleTalk, BlackBerry Messenger, iMessage, dan lainnya. Tetapi, apa kelebihan WeChat dibandingkan aplikasi chatting yang pernah ada?

Aplikasi percakapan singkat ini dapat digunakan melalui teks, suara, gambar, dan video. WeChat menyediakan video call HD secara gratis. Chatting grup juga dapat berbagi foto secara pribadi.

Nah, yang menarik, kita dapat menambah teman baru dari seluruh dunia dengan cara menggoyang-goyangkan ponsel. WeChat langsung mencari teman pada yang sama juga mengocok ponselnya. Kompas sudah mencoba beberapa kali dan menemukan teman dari Jakarta sampai Milan, Italia.

Kita juga bisa mencari teman yang dekat dengan lokasi (misalnya di seputar Jakarta) dengan cara mengklik "Look Around".

Registrasi aplikasi ini sangat mudah. Bisa lewat akun Facebook atau lewat nomor ponsel. Nah, kita juga bisa menemukan kawan yang sama-sama menggunakan WeChat baik teman Facebook maupun teman yang terdaftar dalam daftar kontak di ponsel.

Kelebihan lain dari aplikasi WeChat ini adalah sesama teman dapat mengirimkan pesan suara. Ini berarti untuk lansia yang sudah sulit mengetik di ponsel dapat memanfaatkan WeChat secara maksimal. Hanya dengan "Hold to Talk", kita sudah mengirimkan pesan suara.

WeChat memiliki fitur-fitur yang mengekspresikan emosi, juga ucapan selamat.

WeChat juga dapat memberikan peta lokasi kita secara real time dengan mengklik Location, mengirimkan kartu nama (Name Card), mengirimkan foto (Photo), mengirimkan foto terkini saat itu dengan memotret dengan Camera, dan melakukan Video Call.

Saat ini belum banyak orang Indonesia yang memanfaatkan WeChat pada ponsel pintar mereka. Namun, dalam waktu dekat ini diperkirakan aplikasi WeChat bakal booming di Indonesia, bahkan dapat menggeser popularitas BlackBerry Messenger. Fitur multimedia yang tersedia dalam WeChat inilah yang menjadi nilai tambah yang menjanjikan. Apalagi WeChat dapat digunakan di berbagai sistem operasi. Nah, Anda sudah mencoba WeChat?
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Optimus G, "smartphone" The first quad-core LG

Electronics company LG introduces its first quad-core smartphone called the LG Optimus G. This smartphone was first marketed in September in Japan and South Korea.

Optimus G reinforced with a quad core processor Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro 1.5 GHz speed. He became the first LTE smartphone in the world to use Qualcomm processor.

According to LG, S4 Snapdragon processor performance 40% faster than the previous-generation Snapdragon processor.

Other kitchen runway, Optimus G reinforced with 2GB RAM, battery 2.100mAh, and running the operating system Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

Span of 4.7-inch screen resolution of 1280 x 768 pixels. As one of the major companies that produce displays, LG Optimus M equip screen IPS LCD technology with high definition (HD). While touch screen technology G2 Touch Hybrid.

Optimus G bersensor 13MP camera with LED flash and a 1.3 MP front camera.

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Facebook Ask Employees Use Android

Facebook reportedly appealed, or in some cases even forced, his servants to take their Android devices.

Why? Apparently the social networking company was upset by Android apps slow, full of bugs, and often have problems with the connection.

To improve the quality of their application, Facebook told the employees to replace their iPhone with Android devices in order to "feel yourself" what kind of Facebook app on Android.

How are believed by management would motivate employees to be more serious in improving the quality of the Facebook for Android app.

Unclear how many Facebook employees who switched to Android, or how widespread these policies are implemented within the company.

Clearly, the Facebook app for Android is lagging behind compared to similar apps on the iOS platforms like the iPhone and iPad.

Last Friday, Facebook issued an update applications for the iOS platform is now made ​​with Objective-C programming, which is the native iOS platform codebase. As a result, the Facebook application on iPhone and iPad to be more flexible and faster so more comfortable to wear.

On the other hand, Facebook for Android app relies on HTML5 that allows the distribution of updates to the user but has speed constraints.

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South Korea Develops 3D Without Glasses Film Technology

 Researchers in South Korea are developing technology that could pave the way filming Casino 3D without the need for special glasses.

The technology uses a special coating so that when people see the movie screen, a 3D image is created. In this way, the brain creates a kind of illusion.

The research was conducted at Seoul National University and published in the journal Optics Express.

"This way, people can view 3D images without glasses. Saved approximately projector is being used and not just one," said Professor John Koshel of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona, who examined the study.

He describes the technology of 3D images in cinema created using stereocopy; technique projecting 2D images through special filters.

With the naked eye, the two images appear to rest on each other. However, when using special glasses, the left lens will help the eyes to see the image and the right lens, the other images.

TV director has tried similar technology but the viewer should be at some point to see the 3D image.

Electronics company that manufactures television sets also have implemented such technologies and allows a family sitting at a specific place watching a 3D movie.

However, such technology is not applicable to audiences totaling tens or even hundreds of like in the movies.

South Korean team mimicked these technologies but adapted to a wider coverage.

Scientist who led the study, Byoungho Lee, a professor at Seoul National University, said more research is needed.

But this technology is the "low-cost technology to produce 3D movies without the use of special glasses

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Logitech Presents Keyboard Can Be Washed

If electronic devices are generally hostile to the water, not so with the latest product output Logitech keyboard. Because computer companion device that just is not a problem with the liquid.

Page TGDaily recently outlined that Logitech keyboard output that can be treated like a kitchenette with pots or pans. Amazingly, the K310 keyboard type it is waterproof and resistant to deep water submerged 27.9 centimeters (cm). But you need to pay attention to the keyboard USB cable as part of it is the only one that is not watertight.

Beyond that, you need not worry if you spill a drink on the keyboard. If you want to clean the stains, dust or crumbs, simply rinse the keyboard with water.

According to the Logitech, the drainage hole at the back of the K310 keyboard types that prevent water from sticking around the device. So that could be spared any damage, as well as liquid spills will dry out faster.

Advantages other keyboard is that you no longer need to worry if the symbols on the keys will fade after exposure to water. Because Logitech created the symbol by laser printing and coated, so it did not affect these symbols.

In addition to the plug-and-play USB keyboard that is compatible with Windows XP through Windows 7, also has 12 unique keys as shortcuts for browsing, email, media playback, etc..

Before circulating in other countries, the keyboard is planned for the first time will be launched in Europe in October. With a selling price of $ 60 to $ 70, or around Rp 569,400 - Rp 664,300. The plan is the K310 will be made by 5 million units

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Chrome for iOS Update Getting Through The 'Sharing Option'

Google has released an update for its Chrome browser for iOS through version 21.0.1180.77, reported by GSMArena page on Thursday (08.23.12).

The biggest change to update the Chrome browser for iOS that features sharing options. So now you can tap on the 'Share' on the drop down menu at the top right of the page will appear to share via social networks Google+, Facebook, Twitter and e-mail.

Other changes include the stability and improvement of the security and fixes to bugs

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DNA tests Trees Reduce Illegal Timber

Call it CSI: Singapore. But unlike the television show Crime Scene Investigators are popular, here detectives hired to look for evidence of the suspected wood by shop owners as part of the global illegal timber trade worth billions of dollars.

The detectives will take wood samples and examined in the laboratory, run DNA tests that would indicate the species and origin of a piece of wood. They will also keep track of timber and timber products from the forest to the store to ensure that the delivery of the goods does not violate the law.

"It's like CSI program coupled with saving the Earth," said Jonathan Geach, executive director of the Double Helix Tracking Technologies, a Singapore company that has been developing and commercializing DNA testing for wood, and is the only company in the world to do it.

Every two seconds, according to recent research from the World Bank, an area of ​​forest the size of a football field cleared by loggers. Each year, illegal logging is spent forested areas the size of Ireland.

Money earned from a trade estimated by Interpol to reach $ 30 billion per year is not taxable and are often run by organized groups to fund crime and conflict. Deforestation contributes to global warming due to increasing carbon emissions, and cause erosion due to loss of water catchment areas. This eliminates the livelihoods of forest peoples and disrupt the global timber prices.

Until now, the fight against illegal timber trade waged through regulation and preventive efforts, but was not so successful. Currently the focus is on the use of the criminal justice system and law enforcement techniques.

The new law punishable by imprisonment and fines pushed many companies around the world for more hard to find out where they got the wood, rather than having to pay for their negligence.

Gibson Guitar Corp., which produces some of the most expensive guitar in the world, agreed on Aug. 6 to pay a penalty of $ 300,000 after admitting that there is a possibility of buying ebony from Madagascar they are doing is illegal.

Labeling errors, lies the origin or the replacement of wood species for other species are common practices in the timber trade. Authorities said that progress in the industry and the declining price of DNA testing increasingly allows companies to comply with new regulations in the United States and Europe regarding earlier practices.

Retail business such as Kingfisher, Marks & Spencer and timber wholesaler Simmonds Lumber Australia has been using the technology or are planning to include these tests in their business practices.

"We see this as a step forward," said Jamie Lawrence, adviser wood and forest sustainability in Kingfisher, the largest home improvement retailer in Europe. Kingfisher has been using the services of an ad-hoc DoubleHelix to uncover fraud cases wood supplies, says Lawrence.

With genetic testing equipment has been reduced, the size of the workbench prototype is in testing phase. If successful, laboratories around the world can run a cheap DNA test timber within two years.

A laboratory run by Andrew Low, chief scientific DoubleHelix and one plant geneticist, is the vanguard of the global battle against illegal logging.

In the laboratory located at the University of Adelaide, South Australia, the method of DNA extraction from wood, the table or the floor being refined - a breakthrough to commercialize the test for timber importers, home improvement stores and law enforcement agencies. "Like humans, trees also have a unique DNA," said Lowe.

"DNA is present in every cell of wood and you can not faking it," he told Reuters news agency.

In early 2011, Lowe can extract DNA from the decades-old wood and get an accurate result. It leads to an increase in business and DoubleHelix now has 14 clients who use their services, with the majority of the testing done in Adelaide.

In 2004, Lowe and his colleagues extracted DNA from oak from the Mary Rose owned by King Henry VIII, which was sunk in 1945 and salvaged in 1982.

When DoubleHelix began peddling his services in 2008, the story of DNA is difficult to sell. But when the new law in the U.S. is starting to show its teeth in the last two years, and tougher regulations will be implemented in Europe from 2013, they increased the number of clients, said Kevin Hill, founder DoubleHelix.

In two years, the company plans to market the DNA extraction technique permits Lowe to global laboratory, because the timber industry worth $ 150 billion are under pressure to filter out illegal timber.

However, highly accurate DNA testing has limitations due to the absence of a genetic map of a comprehensive global tree. But the mapping is very expensive and time consuming. For teak trees alone can spend $ 1 million.
Currently available data bases for 20 new species of trees, especially wood of valuable tropical forests. Meanwhile, Kingfisher shops alone has 16,000 wood products, which is of course difficult to track one by one.

The weak link in the supply of wood in the midst of the forest and sawmill, where the stolen wood and forest derived from illegally harvested timber can be inserted between the legal. DNA testing can solve this, according DoubleHelix and their oldest customers, Simmonds Lumber.

Simmonds selling merbau imported from Indonesia, where half of the illegal timber logging, according to the World Bank study. By using DoubleHelix system, each shipment tracked merbau logs from the forest to the sawmill using DNA samples to ensure that no other wood included. DNA samples are then matched with data from the sawmill to the warehouse Simmonds in Australia.

But Simmonds alone can not provide the higher prices on wood products that have been tested for DNA because of the fierce competition in the timber trade. "DNA rather than marketing and increased stocks gain additional margin," said executive director John Simon.

Cost of DNA testing and verification services is $ 250 for each container, or 0.5 percent of the value of the timber. DoubleHelix said that the main goal is to make cheap DNA test so that each company will do it and solve the problem of illegal timber trade.

DNA testing has an impact in the lawsuit, said Shelley Gardner, logging program coordinator in the Department of Agriculture and the Forest Service in the United States. "Every time we deal with the court, they defend themselves by saying that DNA testing is an inhibitor. It's only small cases. When talking about the actual trade, I think this test will give a big impact, "he said.

Currently, no one knows for sure how many illegal timber products on the market, so the detective work silently. Working closely with international NGOs, they plan to test in stores Australia in the next few weeks, before heading to Europe and the United States, said Geach

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Miimo, Robot Lawn Mower from Honda

Honda launches tech robotic household products, the lawn mower memilkiki own senses. The robot, named Miimo will enter the European market next year with a target of 4.000 unit sales a year.

Machinery for 2100 euros or USD 25 million was passing like iRobot's Roomba vacuum cleaner. Being able to cut the grass as high as 3 millimeters and will not destroy the plants in pots. In addition, Miimo can recharge the batteries themselves.

Robot-made Honda, like ASIMO could talk and walk, often criticized as impractical toy. But Honda found Miimo is a useful product.

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Samsung Has Officially Releases Galaxy S Duos

Samsung has officially released the latest Droid smartphone through Duos S7562 Galaxy S models, reported by GSMArena page on Wednesday (22.08.12).

Smartphones made ​​by the manufacturer of technology based in the city of Seoul that looks more compact than the Galaxy S III, but based on the model name refers to the model specification Galaxy S. Model S ICS droid Duos S7562 is equipped with a screen that has a 4-inch WVGA TFT screen, single-core processor with Cortex-A5 CPU clocked at 1 GHz, 512 MB RAM and Adreno 200 GPU.

Resolution 5-megapixel rear camera and video recording at VGA resolution. Galaxy S Duos has dimensions of 121.5 x 63.1 x 10.5 mm and weighs 120 grams and measures similar to the Galaxy S.

Galaxy S Duos is a dual-SIM device that allows both SIM cards are active simultaneously and Samsung have called "Dual SIM Always on".

For example, if you are receiving a call on one of the cards and someone contacts you on the other card, then you will get the option to 'forward' the call is on the cards that are currently active.

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Why Android logo does not appear as Facebook status updates

Above the title question is one of the questions frequently asked by users of Android in the Android forums or forum Facebook world. And if the question was also addressed to me, certainly I do not know how to answer because I am not a member of the team or apartment developmentnya Facebook's Zuckerberg. hehehehehe

There are opinions that say that Facebook considers all of HP's Android platform is the same as all the usual HP so that sometimes appear on the FB status via mobile or via mobile. Yuppps .... seems reasonable but not completely bener. Why? Let us think that all of HP's smart in principle is the same. HP is HP, and it's definitely Mobile. If ga mobile means HP is not .... not true ....!??
Second, although both HP, in fact almost all of HP's Android smartphone is definitely called a kind of do not care to be where the price level. Why is that? Because the Android OS, virtually all existing smart applications in the Android Market could be run in accordance with the Android OS version number is taken as v2.1 Eclair, Froyo v.2.2, v2.3 or v3.0 Gingerbeard Honeycomb and able to carry out tasks nan routine of our daily essential such as Push Email, or just a minimal Office Viewer application talaga. And many are free too loh in the Android Market.
Third, is the experience when some time ago when a status update on Facebook For Android, all the update status on Facebook to the note via Android. But slowly then, update status on Facebook For Android then returns to normal mobile or cellular.
Then why did this happen?
Indeed there is no official confirmation of the statement of Google or Facebook itself. Instead of formal confirmation, many Android users are furious with the Facebook because even still be able to display the status update feature via a Blackberry. Even later the old players like Apple Iphone denger-denger also can not display via iphone on Facebook. Indeed, what is the difference between the Blackberry with its own Android Iphoneatau. Well, this finally led to speculation that there is play between Facebook and Blackberry.
And as with any OS, Blackberry is still an OS. Just like Google Android or IOS Apple. Opinion from the wild when it comes up Google's plans to create a social network called Google + which is still in project completion.
It is this last statement is believed some Android users who make why Facebook finally makes Android tick off. With the advent of Google + will automatically create a competition between social networks more stringent. It is perfectly reasonable for a user with Android, automatically all the data we can be synchronized with Google Android without the re-register, because the Google database will automatically synchronize all of your Android with all applications that integrate with Google. Like what, most accessible is the data account on Youtube, Picassa, GMail, GMaps, Blogger and other applications that berafliasi with Google.
This is what makes up the appearance helm with Google +. In other words, although not register Google + project has not run anything, Google has started a smart way to start with the big mega projects, ... ANDROID! Bete is that? Back to the foregoing, Google + can enter your data as the user's Google + just by signing in with your username and password as the user's Google account. Loo ...... Well it makes sense if the Facebook so upset with Google Android and remove the list of official status update theirs. If you talk dirty business ethically, Facebook has to understand the disease narcissistic than the HP that sometimes they are more concerned with how cool Update Status eg via Blackberry. Though not all Blackberry users are able to use his Blackberry optimally. So what happens when this question is addressed to the Blackberry users, why choose Blackberry, might be the answer because pengin status update on Facebook could be cool, so looh via Blackberry .... In addition to the automatic Blackberry Blackberry user can use the facility's messenger for free via the Blackberry Messenger (BBM). The existence of stigma in the community that the BB is more expensive items plugged condition that "Blackberry's goods Mahal, Mahal Item must be cool, definitely Pake BB Cool, Cool huh Update via BB, want to chat cool, use of fuel." It must have been nglihat this condition is not ..? And this was the one who becomes a commodity fertile for Facebook to develop its business. So Facebook actually implementing the fulfillment of Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory about the need for respect and for self beraktuliasi. With the absolute theory of human needs, Blackberry users have made a valued status and actualize according to the social features of the Blackberry's.
So all is not understood why ijo Android robot logo you do not want to appear in your Facebook status update?
Live to fight the winner and the last remains a winner. All the defense business of social networking leader Facebook as the world's number one would be legal because Facebook has a prerogative over all appearance of the materials that appear on Facebook. And if this is not done up could be a golden times Facebook will soon be over and Google will soon be replaced by +. Could Mark Zuckerberg imagine if suddenly the instant and rapid Facebook users into Google users + just because a user's Android ..? And of course he did not want to suddenly appear when the slogan, "Living With Gadgets Android Cool, Cool Interacting with Google +". Moreover, the competition to become the world's most popular internet website actually does occur between Facebook and Google itself behind the scenes. Still less confidence see the Maps application on Facebook. Whose was it? Google competitor's bro. Yahoo .... Bing!

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HTC CEO Admits Wrong Strategy

HTC CEO Peter Chou acknowledges the problems in his company, which led to its strategy in the smartphone market is not working. But he hopes this situation will gradually recover.

Although HTC and One X One S is quite successful and steal the show, but two flagship smartphone the HTC unable to boost performance in this year as a whole.

HTC's financial statements in the second quarter showed a 26.8 percent decline from the same period last year. And this situation seems not to be improved in the third quarter.

Quoted from TechRadar, Thursday (8/16/2012), this Taiwan-based company was then adjust projections in the third quarter in the range of USD 2.3 billion to $ 2.7 billion, down 23 percent from the second quarter.

As a result, the Taiwan government is reportedly considering to take action to bail-out for the HTC in order to save the GDP (gross domestic product) state.

A memo from the CEO Peter Chou said, he acknowledges the existence of an internal error in the company. Chou said that HTC have risen quickly in order to quickly recover.

In the first memo dilanir Wall Street Journal, the Chou highlighted a number of important points such as 'multiple areas' that need to be repaired.

Chou also said HTC have problems in executing a number of strategies. "We agreed to do something, but do not do it. In other words, the execution failed," he said.

To restore the condition of the company, Chou urged all his men to focus on the HTC brand One with a clear intention and not tangled bureaucracy. Chou believes they are given the responsibility to talk about this more, but without producing decisions, strategic direction, or sense of urgency.

"I hope we can improve communication within the company," he said. However, Chou expressed his company's financial condition is still running fine.

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Sony PlayStation Mobile Services Ready to Roll

Sony will launch a cross-platform gaming service PlayStation Mobile before the end of this year. Similarly, the Japanese company confirmed.

Services formerly known as PlayStation Suite will provide applications for a series of devices including the Sony PlayStation Vita, smartphones, tablets and a few Android devices.

To boost sales of the PlayStation Vita, besides preparing PlayStation Mobile, Sony also announced the PlayStation 3 owners can use the Vita as the controller starts later this month.

Reported by the Telegraph, Thursday (16/08/2012), other than that Sony introduced a service called Cross Order, which allows gamers to pay the same game for the PlayStation 3 and Vita at once.

Sony also will add service to the PlayStation Plus Vita, and presents a catalog of PlayStation One game into the portable console.

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He is the Best Android Phone 2012

A variety of smart phones based on Android coloring technology market today. Starting from well-known brands, like Samsung, until the phone made in China. Then, as to what the best Android phone? One of them, the phone Android should be able to do some pekerejaan at once with the support of the processor that is comparable to a desktop computer work.

1. HTC One X
HTC has four cores with one-fifth as an assistant. This smart phone has a 1.5 GHz processor and a mobile multitasking. One of the best parts of the HTC battery last longer X is two-fold compared with the other HTC Android devices.

Some other features of the HTC One X include 1 GB of RAM with 32 GB of memory built-in. 4.7 Screen, Camera 8 megapixel (MP), and 720 p HD resolution. Android 4.0 operating system ICs. Software such as an ice cream sandwich and Edge One possibility would make the HTC X one of the favorite Android phones in 2012.

2. MOTOROLA BULLET
This phone has a quad-core processor of the Tegra 3. With a capacity of 1.5 GB of RAM. 12 MP camera with image sensor with the best quality picture in HD.

3. SONY Xperia S
This phone comes with a dual core 1.5 Ghz, 1 GB RAM, 4.3 "HD 1280 720, 1750 mAh battery. In fact, the data storage capacity of up to 32 GB. Sony has always been known for the quality of the picture, as evidenced by a 12 MP camera full HD.

4. SAMSUNG Galaxy S3
Samsung Galaxy S3 with ultra thin design and a width of 9 mm. Samsung Galaxy S3 will come with 1GB/2GB of RAM, 4.6-inch AMOLED screen 720 in 1280. Do not forget the 12 MP camera with a special sensor that makes the picture becomes more clear and beautiful. In fact, the 1.5 GHz quad-core processors. With an excess of it, no wonder the samsung to be the best Android mobile phone manufacturers today.

5. Meizu MX
Meziu MX is a phone with a Tegra 3 GB/2GB RAM, a Quad Core processor at 1.5 GHz. 8 MP camera, 16 GB ROM, 1600 mAh. This phone can also be paired with Ice Cream Sandwich Android and Exynos processor. However, the detailed features have not been disclosed by the company. Meizu phones have gained a place in China

So, what options your Android phone? With all sorts of convenience provided by the manufacturers of mobile phones, making users more confused to choose.

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Google Earth pyramids findings Trigger Controversy

Angela Micol, archaeological research, claimed to have found two pyramids in the desert of Egypt, earlier this week. Micol, who studied the pictures from the air to search for the man-made features, find the two pyramids are using Google Earth.

The first site is located just 2.4 kilometers from the ruins of an old town called Dimai. Formation consists of one large square and three other smaller features. These small features parallel to the northern star, just like the Pyramids of Giza. However, even its greatest feature is not in accordance with this straight line.

The discovery of the second pyramid is about 19 kilometers from Abu Sidhum, city on the edge of the Nile. Striking features of the plateau with the triangular plateau that has eroded. Center of this triangle has a circular feature, most likely a well or mound.

Micol claimed if the findings are supported by Nabil Selim as an Egyptologist. Selim said if the two pyramids were not previously known to exist. These findings also have been sent to several experts for analysis. "The image speaks by itself, it is clear what is contained all of these buildings. Although the research requires the field to verify if they in fact are the pyramids," says Micol.

However, the discovery has sparked controversy from other archaeologists. Sarah Parcak, an archaeologist from the University of Alabama, United States, expressed doubts about the findings Micol. "Report of Google Earth is coming from someone who is not Egyptologist, archaeologist, or a remote sensing expert," said Parcak. In addition, the added Parcak, the location of the discovery of any doubt, which is about eight kilometers west of the Nile Valley.

More subtle criticism delivered Robert Litman, an archaeologist from the University of Hawaii and is also director of excavations at Tell Timai Egypt. "Maybe it was a pyramid, but perhaps also other structures," he said. Geological evidence is needed to validate the process of building the pyramids and is different from other structures.

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Month, Android Game Console Project Achieves 8.6 million U.S. dollars

Ouya construction project, the console with the Android operating system, managed to collect a donation of 8.6 million U.S. dollars within a month.

This is a fantastic achievement from the console that has not proven its effectiveness to compete with an established console made by Sony or Microsoft.

Ouya donations received from the last session Kickstarter crowdfunding month of July 9 and ending August 9.

Only the 850 000 target set by the U.S. dollar, the direct targets are met in just eight hours since the session began and the number of donations continue to soar until stopped at 8,596,475 dollars.

A total of 63 416 people use the term backers or donors who donated money in a different nominal. A matter of time fund a 8.6 million U.S. dollars flowing into account Ouya team and will boost manufacturing operations console based Android operating system.

Ouya is intended to play console games are usually available for Android smartphone or tablet.

One of the ideals of the main promoters of this project, Julie Uhrman, is bringing the fun of video games from the palm of the hand back into the living room. That is, the owner of Android Ouya can play games on a television screen equipped with a controller like the other consoles.

Kickstarter ongoing throughout the project, many parties have expressed interest in developing special game Ouya. Square Enix just call claiming to be ready mem-porting their game, Final Fantasy III to the proper version is played on a television screen.

The most recent, is Namco Bandai, Tekken fighting game franchise owner, to the Ridge Racer race, also expressed his commitment to this market segment.

With the achievement of the target donation, Ouya plans to bring the interaction with his supporters through social media like Facebook, twitter, reddit, Google +, and on the official site under construction, www.ouya.tv.

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