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2013年10月3日星期四

Samsung purportedly working on a 16MP Galaxy S4 Zoom cameraphone

The latest rumor suggests Samsung has a new camera-centric smartphone in the works – the Galaxy S4 Zoom, which will feature a 16MP camera sensor.

The Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom will be less powerful than the Galaxy S4 flagship. It will pack a 4.3-inch qHD Super AMOLED screen and run on a dual or a quad-core processor.

The rest of the rumored specs include 8GB of internal storage, a microSD card slot, Bluetooth 4.0, Wi-Fi a/b/g/n and GPS receiver. The Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom should run on Android Jelly Bean skinned with Samsung’s own TouchWiz UI.

As the rumor has it we can expect the Galaxy S4 Zoom to launch in June or July with SM-C1010 model number.

That’s all we know so far. If Samsung is indeed preparing such a smartphone we guess other leaks will follow soon.

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Google releases YouTube Capture app for the iPhone and iPod touch

After being dropped out of iOS 6 by Apple, the YouTube app became a standalone application that had to be downloaded from the App Store. But one of the biggest shortcomings of this app was that it was meant only for content consumption, and there was no way to upload videos from it.

Google has now released a separate application for the iPhone and iPod touch, whose only purpose is recording videos and uploading them on YouTube. You can shoot and do quick editing to your videos from within the app itself or upload one of your existing videos.

Unfortunately, the app is currently not available for the iPad. To check it out in action on an iPhone, watch the video below.

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GSMArena.com loads faster now, thanks to our new deal with MaxCDN

At GSMArena.com we’re always looking for a way to improve the browsing experience for our users. The latest change is behind the scenes, so you’re not going to see it, but you’ll feel it – we’ve started using a CDN, which tangibly reduces page load times.

The Content Delivery Network or CDN, as it’s more commonly known, is a network of servers around the world, which serve static data (images, CSS, static html and scripts) to your browser and is a great way to improve page load times for websites with visitors from all over the world.

This way, regardless of where you are in the world in relation to our central hosting servers, your browser will always fetch the web pages and images from a CDN server that’s close to you, speeding up page load times as data doesn’t have to traverse half a world of Internet infrastructure any more.

This change should have the biggest impact on page load times for our readers in Europe, but readers in Asia, Australia and Africa should also feel a bump up in speed when browsing GSMArena.com. Load times should improve for our US-based readers too, but since the site loaded pretty fast from there already, you might need a stopwatch to notice the difference.

Thanks to MaxCDN, who made us an offer we could not refuse.

Motorola Droid Froyo update starts making its way OTA

Rejoice Droid users! Even though Motorola already released its successor, the Americans haven’t forgotten about the original Droid. It’s getting a fresh new software update as we speak, bringing all the goodness of Froyo 2.2 to the QWERTY-packing slider.

With Froyo becoming available as an OTA update to Droids as well, the share of the latest version of the OS should receive another boost and start closing the gap to Eclair. At the moment only 4.5 percent of all androids have been blessed with Froyo, while Eclair accounts for nearly 60 percent of all devices.

Here’s hoping that the Droid GSM-loving cousin will get the same treatment in the near future.

Apple sold 3 million iPads (big and small) in opening weekend

Apple managed to sell a million iPads a day since the iPad 4th generation and iPad mini hit their first wave of stores just three days ago.

Apple didn’t specify how many iPad mini’s and iPad 4′s were sold but the total number is still worth mentioning.

The 3 million are all Wi-Fi only models and Apple expects the Wi-Fi + Cellular options of both tablets to ship in a few weeks in the US with more countries to be added later this year.

According to Brian White, a Topeka Capital Markets analyst, the iPad mini was sold out at around 60% of surveyed Apple retail stores in the US.

The 3rd generation iPad set record sales in its first weekend back in March by selling 3 million units. Releasing a new iPad as soon as Apple did doesn’t seem to have slowed the pace at which their tablets sell, even if we’re talking about two separate devices this time around.

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2013年10月2日星期三

Gameloft announces 2012 game lineup

Gameloft announces 2012 game lineup, Dark Knight Rises is the biggest name on the list

Gameloft has come forward with a few tidbits about what we can expect from them for 2012.

Apart from a host of big-name titles, which include the highly-anticipated Dark Knight game, Gameloft has plans to integrate in-app purchases as well as a bevy of social features into all of their upcoming releases.

If you’ve played mobile games, then the ever-familiar Gameloft logo has popped up on your handset or tablet on more than a few occasions. With a recorded profit of more than $24.1 million in 2011, the France-based company has quickly become one of the leading game developers in the mobile sector.

Apart from the Dark Knight game, Gameloft revealed that they have also scored the rights to Men in Black 3, Ice Age, The Avengers, The Amazing Spider-Man, My Little Pony and Littlest Pet Shop.

These titles are expected to be delivered across almost any mobile platform you can imagine, including feature phones, smartphones, tablets, as well as the Amazon Kindle Fire.

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2013年10月1日星期二

Intel shows off the working of next generation 14nm SoC

Intel has officially announced its newest SoC, which is the world’s first chipset built on 14nm architecture. At the on-going Intel Developer Forum 2013 event in San Franciso, Intel’s CEO Brain Krzanich showed a functioning laptop that was running on the 14nm Intel SoC.

Brian did not reveal any details about the device, but we got to know that the latest chipsets will start shipping by the end of this year.

Intel’s CEO also told the audience that tablets running on the Intel silicon will be available at a price point, which is below $100 this holiday season. Unfortunately, he did not reveal on what platform the tablet would run on and there is no word on who’s going to build it either.

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