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Friday, February 15, 2013
3D Nokia backs 3D printing for mobile phone cases
Nokia is releasing design files that will let owners use 3D printers to make their own cases for its Lumia phones
Files containing mechanical drawings, case measurements and recommended materials have already been released by the phone maker.
Those using the files will be able to create a custom-designed case for the flagship Lumia 820 handset.
The project makes Nokia one of the first big electronics firms to seriously back 3D printing.
In...
iPhone 6 set to land in Q2, says analyst
he sixth-gen iPhone could be along sooner than expected, a mobile
industry wonk forecasts, amid a welter of recent speculation around the
handset.
After unveiling the fourth and fifth-gen iPhones in October 2011 and
September 2012 respectively Apple is widely expected to stick with the
now-established Q3 date for introducing the next model.
Not so. Or at least not if we can believe Canaccord Genuity analyst T. Michael Walkley.
In a note to investors, Walkley claimed that Apple is most likely to
drop a “higher-end iPhone” during the second quarter. That suggests that
the company could return to releasing new iPhones in June, as it did
with the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4.
The former Piper Jaffray number cruncher also backs reports
that...
Samsung Galaxy S4 launch looms as 5-inch 1080p display enters mass production this month
amsung will begin manufacturing its new full HD AMOLED smartphone
panel later this month, adding weight to rumours it is gearing up for an
imminent launch of the Galaxy S4.
Citing unnamed “industry sources”, Korean news site DDaily reports
that the five-inch display, which it teased at the Consumer Electronics
Show (CES) in Vegas last month, will be mass produced from the end of
February and shipped for commercial release in early March.
The display is a dead cert to debut on the much-anticipated Galaxy
S4, which a recent spate of forecasts and conjecture suggests will be
launched sometime after mid-April.
While popular panel-makers in Japan and Korea, namely Japan Display,
Sharp and LG Display, have already begun large-scale manufacturing...
iPhone 6 'about to enter production, packs 4.8" screen'
he iPhone 6 is preparing to enter production ahead of its mooted
launch date in June, reports indicate, as the start of a new year brings
a slew of new rumours around Apple’s plans for 2013.
In a note to investors, Jefferies analyst Peter Misek claims that
Apple is already undertaking trials of the next iteration of the iPhone
and the fabled iPhone Mini, presumably in the environs of its Cupertino
campus, before they enter production in March.
Misek also corroborated persistent rumours
that the iPhone 6, also informally dubbed the iPhone 5S, will be home
to a 4.8-inch screen, up from the four-inch display that debuted on the
iPhone 5.
That tallies with a separate report from the China Times, also
claiming that Apple...
Samsung Galaxy Fame coming to Three
he Samsung Galaxy Fame is coming to Three, the network has confirmed,
offering cost-conscious smartphone-fanciers the chance to get up to
speed with the latest version of Android.
Unveiled earlier this month, the Fame sits squarely in the low-cost
smartphone space once occupied in the Galaxy Ace, with a spec sheet that
takes in a 3.5-inch display, a five megapixel camera and a 1GHz
processor.
Impressively for a phone that you’ll probably be able to pick up for
around £200 on pay as you go, it also runs Android 4.1 Jelly Bean out of
the box and packs NFC chips to enable users to swap content with
NFC-enabled phone owners simply by touching their devices together.
And in a nod to the nature-inspired user interface tweaks of its...
Samsung Galaxy
As well as all the headline features of Jelly Bean (think: the
card-based voice activated digital assistant wondrousness of Google Now
and the series of optimisations called Project Butter), the Ace 2 will
apparently also get a taste of Samsung’s Nature UX interface.
First-sighted on the Galaxy S3, this offers nature-inspired interface
options such as the Smart Stay intelligent sleep mode, which uses a
phone’s front-facing camera to detect owners’ eye movements and more
efficiently determine if the phone is in use.
Source:...
Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean update imminent?
amsung Galaxy Ace 2 owners can look forward to getting up to speed
with Android Jelly Bean soon, reports suggest, after it emerged that the
phone-maker has started work on test versions of the software.
According to sources cited by Sam Mobile, the phone, which shipped
with the superannuated Gingerbread iteration...
