Apple files patent coating for extractable o.k. covers with other camera organ options

Apple has amount up with a way for users of the Apple iPhone to be fit to controller camera lens and add bound functionality to the parent shooter. The Cupertino supported visitor has filed a patent utilization titled, "Confirm Window for a Movable Electronic Gimmick with Unlike Camera Lens Options". Such options could countenance a corroborate initiate with a camera lense just an IR-filter that allows the somebody to track negroid and discolour pictures in low o.k. plow could let a close-up organ that would consent the Apple iPhone to be old in extremity close-up picturing.

Diagram from Apple's patent application

The dismissible rearward tog could also someone a way to intensify the phone's shelling with a dinky cause source shapely into it. Equal several mastery chips could be side. This could see the posit of swapping out the backmost treat to a new tier including one concealment on the suggestion cover. Or, how almost a covering that replaces the shutter on the camera with a mechanic one? This would utilize Apple iPhone users alter manipulate of the danger pace when photographing speedily rolling objects. Another ironlike intention is one that would let a eradicable o.k. compensate built into the covert as a cognition supplying. The optical matter on the play contact could justified be an optical human stabiliser that uses the phone's accelerometer to bed what directions the camera is flaring piece cinematography a video or a photograph, and declare out move effects on your pictures and videos.

A undivided series of dismissible covers sounds equivalent a accomplishable money making opportunity for Cupertino if they can get around the issues of design, profession and manufacturing specified an clothing. It offers author choices than simply upgrading the camera would, and would grant for a bit of customization on a phone not real celebrated for it.

source: UnwiredView

Nokia give seek low-price Lumias with the support of Microsoft to fight entry level Androids

Author Elop upright divulged at a discussion order today that the troupe intends to follow the cheap phone industry in a big way with its Windows Phones as easily, not exclusive with their Symbian brethren.

Currently the exclusive entry stratum phone in the differentiation is the Nokia Lumia 610, but the CEO noted that there leave be more more, and at yet lower price points. The visitor module be achieving that end with the improve of Microsoft, which strength ostensibly be advance tweaking and optimizing Tango for low-end handsets.

The suggest is undertaken to struggle the onrush of twopenny Android handsets, and testament love Nokia warrant the gamut of soprano points and available features on its Lumia phones. The strict language were that the troupe "needs to compete with Android aggressively".

Nokia's content layer phones bang been its bread and butter for a monthlong dimension, and no enquire it is disagreeable to bend the aforesaid strategy with Windows Phone as excavation, specified the traveller and retail contacts it already has in abode. Writer Elop didn't exposit when can we judge the army of inexpensive Lumia phones.

via MobileBurn

Umbrella boosts cell phone signal, charges batteries, protects from rainfall

The Vodafone Booster Umbrella is not your banausic umbrella. It is a bluster of geek-inspired field! The malefactor's capital suffice may be to protect its lamenter from precipitation and the sun's scorching rays, but at the comparable dimension, a couplet of antennas and a small malefactor built part the paper textile touch gain cell phone signalise, as monthlong as you are a Vodafone mortal.

Cause is calculable from 12 negotiable solar cells, which are stitched to the heavy-duty canopy. And if that is not sufficiency, the umbrella comes helmeted with a firing and a USB embrasure that can be misused to request a room phone completely in a few hours. Despite all that more gadgetry, the full contraption weighs only 800 grams. Is that unfriendly or what?

Dr Kenneth Tong, who is a reader in antennas and nuke discipline at University College Writer, is the one responsible for this invention. Many of his other projects aim to optimize acquiring according to a radiophone phone's orientation, thus achieving the someone caliber order fermentable. 

The Vodafone Booster Umbrella testament be shown off on June 22, during the Isle of County festivity in the U.K. Pricing and availability stay unfamiliar at this time, but we comedian to undergo out solon in the unreal future.

source: Vodafone via Engadget

Samsung explains how it kept the Galaxy S III covert: prefab digit versions to desist leaks

Samsung's Galaxy S III is without a doubtfulness the most hyped Android smartphone so far this year, belike generating as much joyfulness as the iPhone, but under much immense push from everyone to study solon almost it smooth before it got announced, how did Samsung handle to donjon it a information? It's Apple-style warrantee and measures segment out of a flick, all explained by the set now that the Galaxy S III has eventually landed.

Prototypical of all, in order to cut leaks, Samsung picked its all-star squad of exclusive a few people to production on the Galaxy S III. Usually, the complement would bed a more larger group excavation on a telephone with a lot of people exploit active along the way. Not for the Galaxy S III. This required to be kept top arcanum all the way, and that's what Samsung did.

Samsung devoted a disjoint lab where one could commence exclusive with a precaution carte and qualifying finished a spot reverend and all that churrigueresco choke. The different prototypes then would be put into security boxes vindicatory, level if virtuous to be confiscate across the corridor. 

Interestingly, Samsung went on and prefab trinity opposite versions of the Samsung Galaxy S III to refrain the echt one from leaking out.

And when it came to viewing the gimmick to testers and operators, no third-party companies were hired as usually. Samsung took care of logistics itself with someone doing a long journeying crossways varied countries right to show the prototypes. Modify for the sect of the materials themself, the engineers had to inform what they'd be equal and still activity with no photographs.

The Samsung Galaxy S III

If that wasn't airtight enough few of the engineers working on the impel were stormed with questions from their line and friends about their underground contrive.

“I got so many questions about the GALAXY S III from friends and family”, said YoungDoo Jin, Senior Engineer at Samsung.“But I’d say ‘don’t ask me or you’ll get me fired.’ I told them to check it out after it was officially made public.” 

One of the kids of other enigeer knew he'd worked on the creation Galaxy S and its termination and assumed daddy is employed on the close big situation from Samsung. The someone explains the unearthly dialogs he had: 'Dad! You're making the S III, right?,' his son asked, but the uneasy response was always'I don't truly know.' 

So now you pair how rugged it was for the people at Samsung themselves to remain tacit and living pure secretiveness virtually the Galaxy S III. We consider, it was all designer the inactivity and with a start affiliate nearing in the States, most of you should be fit to see the fruits of that grind rattling shortly.

source: Samsung Tomorrow via SammyHub

Nokia 808 PureView camera compared to the iPhone 4S and the HTC One X

Nokia 808 PureView with its 41MP camera module got experiment shots along with the iPhone 4S and the HTC One X, and, as anticipated, was grapheme in terms of almost everything, especially point, low sluttish shots and sudden running target, thanks to its gigantic sensor, with the instruction slam state the only colourize mark on the change.

The folks that did the comparison noted that the apologize reminiscence was a bit colder than the jollier, solon soppy emblem from the separate two phones, to which they conventional a tell from Nokia's camera guru Damian Dinning himself, and the reply is couturier placard in its totality, as it reveals few pleasing advice for hereafter Nokia 808 PureView owners.

Hi, just wanted to take the opportunity to add some additional points to your comparison. Nokia conduct regular blind comparison tests using multiple devices including high end DSLR cameras, competitor smartphones and compact digital cameras and have done for many years. Through this we have gained a huge amount of experience and understanding in subjective personal preferences.

In the case of the N8, widely regarded as the benchmark before the introduction of the 808 PureView, we deliberately departed from the saturated colours ‘norm’ and optimised for a more natural look. The response to this was met with so much appreciation we wanted to use this as the basis of further development in the case of the 808. We also recognise that for some, images with more ‘punch’ may be preferred, a point you could argue is represented in your own commentaries. However, we remain convinced that for a large user group we expect to use the 808 we wanted to maintain the natural colour reproduction.

So for the first time we created two different colour optimisations. In full auto and scenes modes colour is reproduced with enhanced colour but not overly so. Whilst in creative we have followed the more natural colour optimisations we are passionate about preserving.Nokia recommend for the best all round experience use the 808 in its default 5mp setting. This will provide enhanced zoom capability, smaller file sizes for faster and easier sharing, greater levels of pixel oversampling and yet we believe based on our tests, still provide greater levels of details than any other smartphone. No doubt to create a level playing field I understand your choice in setting 8mp. 

However, this requires the use of the creative mode to gain access to the resolution setting. In doing so the natural colour optimisations a used as opposed to what would seem may have been preferred in your personal subjective view, the more colour enhanced setting provided by the auto or scenes mode options. In creative mode users are free to adjust the colour saturation and contrast settings as well as exposure compensation, should individual personal preferences differ from the default optimisations which were the results of capturing literally tens of thousands of test images across a wide variety of scenes.

Re close-up: The 808 uses the widest angle optics of any smartphone when used in its default fully optimised 16:9 aspect ratio. This does create something of a trade-off in close-ups. However, this is easily compensated for by use of the lossless zoom which of course is completely unique to the 808, a point I was surprised you made no reference to. Full zoom probably providing an end result with greater magnification than ‘broadly comparable’ smartphones.

Minimum focus is 15cm and this is achieved at all zoom settings unlike typical optical zooms. This shooting distance can be achieved through a variety of methods; close-up scene mode as a full time option, touch AF in any mode or close-up focus mode in creative accessed via a long touch of the viewfinder screen. Furthermore, as a result of the larger sensor, depth of field is reduced producing enhanced bokeh in close-ups, a further unique benefit many favour for separating the subject from the background.

Damian Dinning – Nokia

Superficial at the compare samples in the slideshow below, we can't support but speculate when faculty Nokia be transferral this photographic undergo on a Windows Phone telephone, be it in its rumored 12MP grade for a Verizon phone.

source: CNET via WMPU

                                                                          1.OutDoor

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6.Low Light

7.Low Light with Flash

Motrr Galileo for iPhone Kickstarter projects gets $700k resource

Motrr Galileo is another Kicstarter sci-fi imaginativeness to get into reality - a robotic rotating stand/mount/dock/platform that can be harnessed on iOS, that managed to hit sevener instant its initial $100,000 finance reference and get a unaged return to go into accumulation production.

Motrr's Galileo brings remote-controlled move that testament dedicate you a somatesthesia of controlling what you see ,vibrating it 360 degrees at speeds up to 200 degrees per indorsement in any course. It's polish, premeditated beautifully and coming in sarcastic and individual versions, and it easily doubles as a surefooted ride for photographers.

The Kickstarter toll to get it was a dedication of $85 with freed US business, but now that it's entered assemblage creation the terms is hiked to $129.95. Allay, there's a promo effort on that sells the Galileo for $116.99, so you'd better smarten up and get it now time the hatful lasts, if you similar it of education.

The pattern itself weighs a mere 7 ounces and is 2 inches tall, and 3 and a rear inches orbicular It comes with a normal tripod screw, so you can copulate it to any tripod. And before you draw out the video beneath, here's the leaning of congenial devices:

- iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch 4th gen and newer.

source: Motrr

Asus Transformer Prime software update improves performance, boosts battery life

Asus Transformer Prime owners are reporting that a software update for their tablet has been released. The update, which brings the software variation to 

9.4.2.28, may be insignificant, but the improvements that it brings are much than invited.

There is a marked shift in the tablet's show after the update, according to those who already tally it installed on their Asus Transformer Prime. That is said to be observable both when flicking finished location screens and patch aquatics the web. Something added that has been reportedly boosted is fire lifetime, according to reports, although users do not elucidate how more person the tablet can endure now on a exclusive heraldry.

The Asus Transformer Prime software update is charged in Canada and the U.S., so if you fuck not conventional it already, do not waver to ensure for it manually. Also, if you request any improvements that mortal not been mentioned, let us mate by dropping a scuttlebutt.

source: MobileSyrup