Samsung to unveil Galaxy Round Flexible display Next Month

Samsung is set to announce a curved display smartphone known as the Galaxy Round next month as reported by CNET .

"We plan to introduce a smartphone with a curved display in South Korea in October," D.J. Lee, Samsung's mobile business head of strategic marketing, said at an event launching the Galaxy Note 3 smartphone.Samsung has  filed for a trademark for the Galaxy Round name itself.

LG is also gearing up a flexible display smartphone called the G Flex as we posted earlier.

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Cyanogenmod Installer App Hands On

With CyanogenMod becoming an official company, it announced plans to push out an app that would make installing CyanogenMod easy. Now CyanogenMod gets installed to your device with just few clicks .  ROM installation was considered a tough job and there were chances of having problems. Now you just require a app from play Store and it will do rest of the job for you .
For the Demo see the Video:

Current Device Supported are : maguro, crespo, toro, toroplus, grouper, flo, mako, manta, skyrocket, hercules, i9100, i9300, d2att, d2spr, d2tmo, jfltexx, quincyatt, quincytmo, t0ltetmo, m7ul.

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Use Google Now in any Language

This mod allows you to continue using Google Now as you're used to, but without having to compromise with your own language of choice - Whether it be Spanish, French, Swedish or any other language that is supported as of Jelly Bean(4.1 and above).This modification is done by Sletmo.
Root is required for this. To install the modified version of Google Now, all you have to do is replace the existing system app (either Velvet.apk or GoogleQuickSearchBox.apk) with the modified version.

Installation Instructions:
1. Download the file from below link. 
2. Remount /system with read/write permissions
3. Copy the apk to /system/app/Velvet.apk
IMPORTANT - If Velvet.apk does not already exist in /system/app/ it could be having another name. If GoogleQuickSearchBox.apk is there, replace that file instead.
4. Remount /system with read-only permissions again
5. Install the apk as you would the normal way

Download Link
dl.dropbox.com/u/22829424/Velvet.apk





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LG's first curved OLED smartphone

Samsung already announced that it is going to make flexible display phone by the name Youm . A new report from The Wall Street Journal claims that LG is prepping a new handset known as the "G Flex" .

It will be and 6 inch OLED  display though little else is known at this point in time.LG  introduced a curved 55-inch OLED TV panel and 5-inch plastic OLED panel as a demonstration .It would be nteresting to see how the companies will implement such a screen to make it pocket friendly. 

 The LG G Flex is expected to debut in November.

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Samsung Cheats Again with Note 3 Benchmarks

Earlier this year, Samsung  was caught boosting benchmark results of  Galaxy S4 ,as reported by AnandTech . Now Samsung has been caught cheating on benchmark tests once again and this time with the Galaxy Note 3.

http://nox73i.blogspot.in/

Galaxy Note 3 showed a 20% increase in scores for GeekBench 3, but when it came to Linpack test the result was as much as 50% higher.Samsung Galaxy S4 scores too were disputed by reviewers. Antutu, GeekBench, Linpack, Benchmark Pi etc  give scores based on various parameters, such as web browsing, graphics rendition, data read/write rate etc.

"We noticed an odd thing while testing the Samsung Galaxy Note 3: it scores really, really well in benchmark tests—puzzlingly well, in fact,We also found a way to disable this special CPU mode, so for the first time we can see just how much Samsung’s benchmark optimizations affect benchmark scores” Ron Amadeo reports for Ars Technica.

It seems Samsung is trying to polish the octa-core Galaxy S4 reputation.

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Android KitKat contest to win Nexus 7 goes live in India

Those complaining about the Android KitKat contest limited to the US and some other countries can now rejoice. The Android KitKat is live in India and we can confirm that the special contest packs have reached stores.The contest runs till November 15, 2013.

Unlike US, there is no option to directly key in the code on the company's website, and one will have to send an SMS. Users will have to text – SMS KITKAT <space> <8 digit code>.

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Android 4.4 KitKat Confirmed

Android’s Sundar Pichai Pichai says in a Google+ post that he's just returned from meeting with hardware partners in Asia, and he adds that there are now over 1 billion Android activations. He goes on to say that he "can’t wait to release the next version of the platform that is as sweet as the candy bar that’s one of our team’s favorites."
Each Android version is named after a dessert: Cupcake, Donut, Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich, and Jelly Bean. As everybody finds it difficult to stay away from chocolate we decided to name the next version of Android after one of our favorite chocolate treats, Kit Kat!

Wanna confirm :Visit http://www.android.com/kitkat/

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Microsoft buys Nokia

Microsoft’s Windows Phone ranks third in the smartphone operating system market behind Google’s Android and Apple’s iPhone software.Good news for Microsoft is it is now ahead of Blackberry's market share .

Nokia made 82 percent of the 8.7 million Windows Phone handsets shipped in the second quarter. In the same quarter last year, there were 4.9 million Windows Phones shipped.Nokia has been the driving force behind the Windows Phone platform and finally Microsoft acquired Nokia for $7.2 billion.

"It's a bold step into the future -- a win-win for employees, shareholders and consumers of both companies," Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said in a statement.

img source:http://nokiagadgets.com

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