ZTE Mimosa X specs - first smartphone with Icera 450 plus Tegra 2

You might know Nvidia bought Icera base band company back in 2011, after that we saw some changes in Nvidia Tegra roadmap, Nvidia promised to integrate Icera base band chips with Tegra earlier 2013 with Grey SoC’s. But ZTE announced that they are launching a smartphone at Mobile World Congress 2012 called Mimosa X which is powered by Nvidia Icara 450 base band chip and Nvidia Tegra 2. ZTE Mimosa X has a 4.3inch 960 X 540 resolution qHD display, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, 5 megapixel camera and all the necessary connectivity’s a smartphone should have.





Icera base band chips will integrate with Grey Tegra SoC’s, Wayne will be the next SoC for Nvidia with a new 28nm fabrication which will be more battery friendly for smartphones, Icera 450 chip packs with HSPA+ modem capable of reaching 21Mbps, Radio Interface Layer (RIL) for Android and many more. Icera 450 integrates lot of features plus RIL, Nvidia claim this will be good news for smartphone manufacturers because it will take less space, means slimmer smartphones we can except in the future.

World's first quad-core smartphone LG Optimus 4X HD

The big Korean company LG announced their flagship quad-core smartphone at Mobile World congress 2012. This quad-core smartphone called LG Optimus 4X HD will be the first quad-core smartphone. LG introduced the world’s first dual-core smartphone last year powered by Nvidia Tegra 2, this world’s first quad-core phone with Nvidia Tegra 3 (also known as Kal-El). CEO of LG’s mobile division Dr. Jon-seok park said “we introduced the world’s first dual-core smart phone Optimus 2X one year ago this year the successor of 2X, But speed in itself isn’t what makes LG Optimus 4X HD unique, it’s the benefit we’re bringing to customers with the HD multimedia experience in a mobile form factor.”






















This LG Optimus 4X HD will be feature Android Ice Cream Sandwich with 4.7inch IPS display. You can expect decent battery life from this smartphone because it will feature 2150 mAh battery and at the same time thickness will be only 8.9mm. Checkout more specs below.

• Operating System - Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich
• Processor – Nvidia Tegra 3 (Kal-el) at 1.5GHz
• RAM – 1GB with 16GB internal storage plus expandable up to 32GB.
• Camera – 8 megapixel rear and 1.3 megapixel front.
• Battery – 2150 mAh
• Connectivity – Bluetooth 4.0, NFC, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, DLNA, MHL, SHSPA+ 21Mbps.

Most powerful laptop in the world 2012 - Origin EON 17-X

Origin introduced a gaming laptop which has the best gaming specs comparing to other brands. Origin is known for custom gaming PCs, they build high-end gaming PCs and they customize PCs for customer requirement. This laptop called Origin EON 17-X powered by Intel Core i7 3960X which is a hexacore (6 cores) processor with 15MB cache running at 3.3GHz (3.9GHz turbo mode), single or dual GTX 580M 2GB VGAs, if you go for dual then you will get two GTX 580M in SLi mode or you can have a Quadro 5010M if you are into 3D editing.
EON 17-X comes with Dual Layer Blu ray burner; it has 3 USB 3.0 ports, HDMI 1.4a, Express Card 54mm and 34mm, 7.1 High-Definition audio with Internal 3W Subwoofer. EON 17-X has a 17.3 full HD 1080p LED display, this laptop supports 32GB of DDR 3 1333MHz quad channel RAM (max up to 1866MHz), hard disks up to 1TB or SSDs up to 512GB with RAID 0, 1, 5. This EON 17-X Origin prices start at 3200$. Checkout more details below.

Samsung Galaxy S 2 (top selling phone) vs Huawei Ascend P1 S (slimmest phone)

Today my comparison between Samsung Galaxy S II and Huawei Ascend P1 S. two big companies from China and Korea. Chinese company Huawei founded in 1988 and they are leaders in telecommunications equipment and the second largest supplier for mobile telecommunications infrastructure equipment. Huawei recently stepped in to smartphone market with Android support and came up some superb products, for e.g.: Huawei Honor, MediaPad, and IDEOS X 6. At CES 2012 Huawei demonstrated a smartphone called Ascend P1 S which is only 6.7mm in thickness so Ascend P1 S is the slimmest smartphone in the world.





Samsung is a big company from Korea and founded in 1938. Samsung manufacture all kind of consumer electronics currently have, TVs, refrigerators, setups, laptops, PCs, phones and smartphones. Recently Google and Samsung came up with some good smartphones, for e.g.: Samsung Galaxy S II, Samsung Galaxy Note, Galaxy Nexus, Galaxy Tab. Some reports say Samsung sold 10 million Galaxy S 2 units worldwide. Now let’s get back in to the step by step comparison.

HTC's slimmest phone Ville specs and video leaked

Mobile vendors are getting ready for the Mobile World Congress 2012. But before that a Youtube video appeared in the web and which claims HTC Ville, this is the device that is rumored to feature 8mm in thickness and aluminum unibody design. According to rumors this device will feature Android 4.0 with Sense 4.0, 4.3inch Super AMOLED screen with 540 X 960 resolution, 1.5GHz dual core Snapdragon S4 processor with Adreno 225 graphics, 8megapixel camera rear and 0.3megapixel front facing camera, HSPA+, Blutetooth 4.0 and 1650mAh battery.











Unlike Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S3 or S2 this new Snapdragon S4 code named Kait CPU will have 60% more performance comparing to the older version. Comparing to Adreno 220 this new Adreno 225 will have 50% more performance. You can see in the video this HTC Ville is not running the final version of the software because of that it has some lags while operating, but we can expect a super-fast HTC Ville with Sense 4.0 at Mobile World Congress.

Draw to search in Google with “Unofficial Google Image Search By Drowning”

Google image search is getting better day by day; recently Google introduced “instant search results” which gives you results while you type. A developer called Franz Enzenhofer developed a web app called “Unofficial Google Image Search By Drowning” which is an advanced Google image searching tool, when you open this app you can see an open white area to draw all have to do is draw a shape which you want to search in the Google image search, similar shapes will show up in the results, this is a good option when we don’t the exact name of the shape.









“Unofficial Google Image Search By Drowning” application offers more than drawing, you can take a photo from your webcam and do a search or just drag and drop images to the white area similar results will appear. This developer used HTML5 canvas, CoffeeScript, HTML5 drag/drop API, jQuery to develop this app, according to the developer Franz Enzenhofer, this application works like this, when you draw something in the HTML5 canvas and press search, the image will get converted in to base64 data uri then the image will send to a Heroku server and the image will be uploaded to Amazon S3 The Amazon S3 Image URL gets communicated back to your browser. Finally similar images will show up. So it's time to checkout the free application.