Get ready for the Galaxy S5: Samsung to launch Galaxy S5 in Jan 2014

The Samsung Galaxy S5 is set to be one of the biggest smartphone launches of 2014

According to South Korean media sources, Samsung is planning to expedite the presentation and launch of its latest high-end smartphone. The Galaxy S5 unveiled as soon as January 2014 ahead of a release in February. The previous models in the line, the Samsung Galaxy S3 and S4, were launched in May 2012 and April 2013 respectively. It may be a party of five in the next three months, as the Nexus 5 smartphone that's expected to be announced next week could be joined by the Galaxy S5.

According to the media source in South Korea, Naver, Samsung's decision to fast-track the new model is because Galaxy S4 sales has been low, and the company hopes various new technologies in the Galaxy S5 will help turn the slump around. The company sold around 10 million Galaxy S4 phones worldwide within one month of the smartphone's release.

The source Naver is a site made up of ex-Samsung employees, and we do know that the Korean electronics giant really wants to upgrade its smartphone to compete with the iPhone 5S.

Rumors suggesting that the Galaxy S5 will be equipped with a 64-bit, eight-core Exynos 5430 chipset. This chip will feature Heteregenous Multi-Processing (HMP) technology that allows all eight cores of the processor to work simultaneously. In the current eight-core chips that Samsung uses in its Galaxy S4 and Galaxy Note 3, only four of the eight cores can operate at a time.

Samsung co-CEO Boo-Keun Yoon revealed that Samsung plans to connect all of its devices together with the new operating system, Tizen – co-developed by Samsung and Intel.

Samsung Galaxy S5 is also expected to have a 16-megapixel camera with optical image stabilization and better performance in lowlight conditions. The recently unveiled Isocell sensor is also expected to debut with this smartphone. According to GSMarena the new lens has been designed to fit in its slimline range of smartphones.

Earlier reports point towards a waterproof and dust-resistant body and a curved and unbreakable screen. Rumors suggested that the Galaxy S5 might finally feature a metal housing in place of the flimsy-feeling plastics Samsung typically uses.

Samsung has recently unveiled the world's first smartphone with a curved screen, named Galaxy Round.

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Samsung Galaxy S6 Concept Smartphone

It’s hard to imagine what will the Galaxy S6 look like, but the guys from Apple Conspiracy wants it to tout a plastic unibody with a new protective nano coating called hyperskin, “a plastic you won’t be mad about”.

The Galaxy S6 concept flaunts a beautiful GravityUX on top of Android 6.0 (but what the code name will be…. Nobody knows!). The phone concept also has an 18MP camera with 4K high frame rate video recording. The most worthy part of the concept is a battery that could last a week of heavy usage off of a single charge.

Last but not least, the Galaxy S6 concept will have a 4.5-inch S-OLED display with a stunning 2K display. These are, of course, simply dreams and desires as the concept has technologies that we have yet to implement, but the folks from Apple Conspiracy say:

It includes technologies we have yet to implement, but it’s our only way of giving justice to the so-much-used word “innovation” without just being a marketing term. In our opinion, only in next couple of years we could have some real progress in this matter. But new models have to be launched in ever shorter time intervals, and justify their “innovation” by masking the real problems.

Let’s hope in two years that innovation won’t just be a marketing term so we can actually see something like this in the future.

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Huawei Ascend P6 - The world's slimmest smartphone

  

Huawei has taken the world by surprise by bringing the world’s slimmest smartphone-Ascend P6. After the success of Ascend P6 in the world, it was launched in Pakistan. With a 6.18mm sleek metallic body, no other phone in the market even comes close to the Ascend P6. The smartphone comes with a brilliant 4.7 inch IPS LCD touch screen and is available in three colors; Black, White and Pink.

Huawei is now the third largest smartphone maker in the world and operators in over 140 countries. It was therefore a pleasant surprise when they launched their Ascend series in Pakistan.

Huawei has introduced the Ascend P6 with 5-Megapixel front camera-the highest resolution front camera that no other smartphone offers. You can take impossible beautiful self-portrait without compromising on any other features. You can effortlessly turn your snapshots into perfect portraits with the P6’s facial enhancement feature. You can snap through tricky photo situations with IMAGESmart technology’s Auto Scene Recognition. The phone equipped with 8-Megapixel back camera. With the Ascend P6’s 8-Megapixel camera, capturing the little things got easier. You can even get up close and personal with its 4cm shooting distance.

The phone comes with the Smart Power-Saving feature, helps you to save up to 30% of your phones battery life with the smart 3-level – chip, hardware, and software – power-saving mechanism. You can switch off apps that run in the background when you are not using them - giving you more power without sacrifice.

The Ascend P6 runs Android 4.2 Jelly Bean with Huawei’s Emotion UI on top. It’s powered by a 1.5GHz quad-core processor, 2GB RAM and 8GB of internal storage. The Ascend P6 is available for only Rs. 40,000.

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NASA funded for 3D Printer that prints food

The future of food unveiled. NASA funded the development of a 3D printer that prints food. So, one day the astronauts may press a couple of buttons on their computer that will send command to 3D printer to print a delicious home cooked meal for them. The idea is that they wouldn’t cook their food in the normal manner; they will simply print it out from the basic ingredients such as oils, water, salt, and carbohydrate powders.

The prototype of 3D printer released what can print food in the US this week. A video released on Internet shows the printer creating a kind of pizza pie, complete with dough, tomato sauce and cream cheese, which is then cooked on a heated surface. It’s a huge step for technology. The printer is in early stages of development and the process is still inadequate, however, the technology is expected to pick up quickly. Perhaps it will soon be able to create a roast lamb, with potatoes chips, green and mint sauce.

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Apple cutting the production of iPhone 5C in half

APPLE has halved production of its new cheaper, plastic-cased iPhone only a month after its release due to low demand in Chinese market. It is reported by a Chinese website C Technology that the company will reduce its current 300,000 unit-a-day pace to 150,000.

No comments have made by Apple on the reason for the cutback, but if the report is accurate, the most likely reason would be because of poor demand for the iPhone 5C as compared to Apple’s flagship iPhone 5S. Both phones were released last month; most people have been buying the iPhone 5S than the 5C

Apple developed low price version of iPhone5C especially for China and India. In China, demand for the 5C has been so low retailers were forced to lower the sale price even further.

Furthermore there's no delay to order a 5C on Apple's own website. Yet the company warns orders for the 5S is on back order.

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