iPad mini to be closer in size to Samsung’s Note?
Apple could be taking a cue from frenemy Samsung with its next iOS device, offering a gadget that’s a bit larger than most cell phones, but about half the size of a tablet.
According to Japanese Apple news site Macotakara, Apple’s working with LCD suppliers to get a 5-inch panel with a pixel density high enough to be able to call it a Retina Display. That’s according to “a reliable Chinese source,” the site said.
That smaller device would arrive sometime next year, Macotakara suggested, and sport either a 1,600 by 960 pixel or 1,280 by 960 pixel resolution — either of which would be a first for an iOS device.
This is just the latest in a series of reports claiming Apple’s working on iOS device that falls somewhere between the iPhone and the iPad. Earlier this month, a report from the Korea Times cited an unnamed Samsung official saying Apple this year would be releasing an iPad with a 7.85-inch screen. That’s as opposed to the current iPad’s 9.7-inch display. Days before that, there was a report from VentureBeat saying Apple was eyeing a slightly-smaller 7.1-inch panel instead.
Muddying up both these claims is the idea that these panels could actually end up being for a next-generation smartphone instead. A report from Reuters last week suggested as much, claiming that Apple was vying to pick up a slightly smaller 4.6-inch display for a new crop of iPhones with screens larger than the 3.5-inch panel the iPhone’s shipped with since its introduction.
Apple is under considerably more scrutiny when it comes to the components it buys. The company has a very small variance in its product sizes, offering just a handful of configurations, and keeping sizes the same from generation to generation. This has been under particularly tight control with Apple’s iOS family, which just recently jumped to a fourth possible screen resolution with the third-generation iPad.
By comparison, most of Apple’s competitors — notably Samsung — have taken a different approach by building its notebooks, handsets and tablets at varying sizes. For instance, Samsung’s Galaxy Note device, which has a 5.3-inch display, pulls double duty as a phone and a tablet. Earlier today Samsung said it’s sold 5 million units of the Note globally since launching in February. Other such efforts include LG’s Optimus Vu, and the ill-fated line of Dell Streak devices.
Source: Cnet
Convert Amazon WMV to Sony Tablet S for playback
From Sony Tablet S tech space, it can play WMV, MP4, and H.264 videos at up to 1080p resolution, but Sony Tablet S can not to play Amazon WMV video format, because WMV for Amazon Store have DRM protection, if we want to watch Amazon WMV videos on Sony Tablet S, we need to remove DRM protection form Amazon WMV.
This guide is how to remove DRM and transfer Amazon videos to Sony Tablet S
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Google Play bug installs Russian email app on some Samsung Android devices
A strange event today has a lot of Samsung Android owners rightfully worried about malware on the Android Market. We’ve received a raft of tips from users who have discovered an app titled “МТС Мобильная Почта” (MTS Mobile Mail) on their Samsung devices, an app they never installed and are finding it difficult to uninstall.
As near as we can tell, the issue appears to be this: Samsung has several pieces of software that it installs on it devices but that aren’t in the Google Play store (for obvious reasons). However, every single Android app has an app name that identifies it on the Android system, in this case the “unique” name is com.seven.Z7, which identifies Samsung’s email app. What appears to have happened is that Russian developer OJSC Mobile Telesystems gave that unique identifier to its “МТС Мобильная Почта” app, and so these Samsung devices were tricked into thinking it was an update to Samsung’s email client. Since Google Play allows for automatic updating of all apps, it was installed on many devices.
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Stream/transfer iTunes videos into Sony Tablet S for playback
Sony Tablet S the best Android Tablet, it support 1080P movies playback, so we can watch 1080P movies on Sony Tablet S during the trip. I think you must have iTunes media files and want to play iTunes videos on Sony Tablet S. As we know, movies, video, TV shows, music purchased from iTunes stores are locked with Apple’s DRM protection. Only authorized equipment can play these videos. Then how to play iTunes videos on Sony Tablet S without authorized.
Download iTunes Video Converter form iSoftcoupon.com, install and run it. The iTunes Video Converter support remove DRM protection form Apple’s file, and convert iTunes video format to MP4 for Sony Tablet S. If you’re Mac user, you can try Mac iTunes Video Converter.
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Galaxy Note gets Android 4.0 later rather than sooner
Samsung joyously announced today that a new “premium suite upgrade” including Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is headed to Galaxy Note owners sometime in the second quarter. This sounds great, unless you remember that Samsung told us to expect Ice Cream Sandwich on the Galaxy Note in the first quarter of 2012.
With Q1 wrapping up soon, it looks like the announcement of the forthcoming upgrade amounts to a note from Samsung asking Galaxy Note users to please excuse Android 4.0 for being tardy.
According to a statement from Samsung, the upgrade package will also include extra multimedia features and new apps optimized for the Galaxy Note’s S Pen stylus. One of the new features is something called S Note that the company says will further integrate written or sketched content with other digital data:
S Note also includes the innovative Shape Match and Formula Match applications that help correct and digitize geometric shapes and even solve numeric formulas hand-drawn with S Pen, increasing your on-the-go efficiency and productivity. You can draw tables and grids which are instantly digitized, saving time and effort. Moreover, by using the S Note’s integrated knowledge search engines, users can quickly search, and obtain information.
To help ease the disappointment of the Ice Cream Sandwich delay, Samsung is now offering what’s become the standard consolation prize of global digital culture–Angry Birds.
Download the brand new Angry Birds Space and you’ll even find special extra levels available just for the Galaxy Note. On top of that, a special package of 30 extra levels can also be accessed free if unpacked in the next three months.
That should serve as a nice distraction while every other phone around you is getting upgraded to Android 4.0, and perhaps even Android 5.0.
Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57402369-1/galaxy-note-gets-android-4.0-later-rather-than-sooner/
Watch 1080P Blu-ray movies on the Sony Tablet S
Sony Tablet S like the new iPad, if the video code is H.264, then we can play 1080P videos on the Sony Tablet S. The Full HD videos often form Blu-ray movies, then how to watch Blu-ray movies on the Sony Tablet S without Blu-ray drive.
Free download Blu-ray Ripper from iSoftcoupon.com ( Get 15% off ), install and run it on your PC( if you are Mac user, you can try Blu-ray Ripper for Mac ), Click “Load Blu-ray” button to load your Blu-ray Disc, or Blu-ray folder into Blu-ray to Sony Tablet S Converter, the Blu-ray Ripper also can rip/convert DVD to Sony Tablet S video format, just click “Load DVD” button.
Click “Profile” to choose “Android MP4 Video(*.mp4)” as output format, click “Settings” to change Video Encode as “H.264″, change “Video Resolution” as “1920*1080″, change “Frame Rate” as “29.97″, “Video Bitrate” as “1500 kbps”, Click “OK” to save settings and retune to main interface.
Click “Convert” button to rip Blu-ray movies to 1080P H.264 MP4 video, when it finished, you can transfer 1080P Blu-ray movies into Sony Tablet S, and watch Blu-ray movies on Sony Tablet S anywhere anytime.
HTC One X could be Sprint’s first LTE smartphone
HTC did its best to wow Android fans and mobile industry insiders alike when it unveiled the HTC One X at Mobile World Congress. The company’s first quad-core smartphone, the One X, hasn’t even landed stateside, yet it’s making waves and spawning plenty of speculation.
AT&T first confirmed plans to bring a version of the One X to the U.S. but sadly it will be a dual-core handset, not HTC’s cutting-edge device run by quad-core processors. Now a new rumor has surfaced with tech site s4ru.com claiming the phone will be scooped up by Sprint. Citing unnamed sources at the carrier, the One X will be Sprint’s first 4G LTE device and could land in stores as soon as June 10.
If this report is true, a big letdown (again) is this HTC One X’s lack of quad-core computing power. Said to be called the “Jet,” the handset looks to be a splitting image of the watered-down model expected to hit AT&T right down to its 1.5GHz dual-core CPU. Other components apparently include a 4.7-inch LCD (1,280 by 720 pixels), 1GB of RAM, and Bluetooth 4.0.
With the LTE smartphone, if you want to watch DVD movies on the HTC One X, you can use DVD to HTC One X Converter to convert DVD to MP4 for HTC One X, if you want to watch 1080P Blu-ray movies on the HTC One X, you can use Blu-ray Ripper for HTC One X to rip Blu-ray to MP4 movies, HTC One X Video Converter can let you to watch MKV video, AVI vide etc HTC One X not support video format.
How to copy DVD movies to Sony Tablet s for playback
If we can watch our favorite DVD movies on the Sony Tablet S, that is a how enjoy affair. Sony Tablet S with 1280 x 800 pixels resolution Sony Tablet supports we watching HD videos on it. Thus, Sony Tablet S cannot support playing DVD movies directly that it just supports achingly few video formats: H.264, H.263, MPEG 4, and WMV. So if we want to watch DVD movies, we need to convert DVD to H.264 MP4 video format.
How to rip DVD to MP4 and copy DVD movies to Sony Tablet S for playing
Step 1: Free download Aiseesoft DVD Ripper form iSoftcoupon.com (Get 15% off), install and run it. Click “Load DVD” to load your DVD files in to the DVD to Sony Tablet S Converter, the powerful DVD Ripper for Sony Tablet S support we convert DVD IFO, DVD Disc, DVD VIDEO_TS, etc DVD files to H.264 MP4 for Sony Tablet S. If you want to watch Blu-ray movies on the Sony Tablet S, you can also load Blu-ray movies in to the amazing ripper. If you are Mac user, you can try Aiseesoft DVD Ripper for Mac.
Step 2: Click “Profile” to choose “Android MP4 Video(*.mp4)” as out put vide format. Click “Settings” to change “Video Resolution” as “1024*720″, “Video Frame Rate” as “24 fps”, and “Video Bit rate” as “1500 kbps”. With this settings we can watch 720P HD DVD movies on the Sony Tablet S.
Step 3: When we finished settings, we can click “OK” to save changed, and retune to DVD to Sony Tablet S Converter main interface. Click “Convert” button to start convert DVD movies to Sony Tablet S video format. When it finished, we can copy DVD movies into Sony Tablet S via USB cable. And now we can watch DVD movies on Sony Tablet S anywhere, anytime.
FBI asked Google to unlock Android phone
The FBI applied for a search warrant ordering Google to crack open a screen-locked Android phone seized in an investigation, a security researcher says.
The affidavit applying for a search warrant asks Google to “provide law enforcement with any and all means of gaining access, including log-in and password information, password reset, and/or manufacturer default code (“PUK”), in order to obtain the complete contents of the memory” of a confiscated phone, researcher Christopher Soghoian said.
The smartphone was apparently seized from Dante Dears, allegedly a founding member of a California street gang who is suspected of violating his parole by running a prostitution ring, TGDaily.com reported.
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How to play MKV videos on the Sony Tablet S
The Sony Tablet S offer supports to a wide range of 1080p (Full HD) and 720p HD videos at 30fps, including MPEG4, H.264, H.263, WMV, DivX, Xvid, VC-1 format. The mkv is a container format, it can contain different audio and video codec, if the MKV is use this video & audio code, the media player can play MKV video well, but media players also have audio or video limitation, so we can’t make sure all the mkvs can be played well by media players. Then how to play all MKV videos on the Sony Tablet S? We may need to convert MKV to the MP4 for Sony Tablet S.
How to convert MKV to H.264 MP4 for Sony Tablet S.
Aiseesoft Total Video Converter (Go to iSoftcoupon.com to get 15% off) can help us to convert MKV videos to android mp4 video format for Sony Tablet S. You can also can load backup Blu-ray MKV movies in the MKV to Sony Tablet S Converter, if you’re mac user, you can try Aiseesoft Total Video Converter for Mac.
Click “Add Video” to load MKV files into the MKV to Sony Tablet S Converter, Click “Profile” to choose “Android MP4 Video(*.mp4)”.
Click “Settings” to choose video encoder as “H.264″ then you can change resolution up to 1080p (1920*1080), and watch 1080P Full HD movies on Sony Tablet S, or 720P videos on Sony Tablet S.
Click “OK” to save your settings and retune to main interface, click “Convert” button to start convert MKV to H.264 1080P MP4 for Sony Tablet S.