Shame its not designed and advertised with everyone in mind, suppose anyone can use it if they wanted....although it is pink!
iBall Presents India's First Safety Phone For Women Yet another device that promises to protect ladies in the country.
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With an aim to make the women of the country feel safe, iBall has launched the iBall Andi Uddaan. It is the first phone with an SOS button at the back of the phone. So basically if a woman finds herself stuck in a sticky situation, pressing the SOS button sets on a loud siren. It also sends of messages and calls automatically to five pre-defined contacts along with the person's current location, based on geo codes.
Capitalising on the accessibility and effectiveness of social media, the phone then sends out a Facebook update too. It also sports a pre-installed app called 'ICE' that allows the user to add personal details including blood group, medical history, and details of persons to be contacted in emergency. The phone also lets you send SMSes to up to 10 people SMS via GPS tracking, when a person enters or exits an area.
Andi Uddaan comes with a dual-core 1.3 GHz Cortex A7 Processor, 512 MB RAM, and 4 GB of internal storage with a 32 GB microSD card slot. It packs in a 2000 mAh battery and is powered with the latest Android 4.2 Jelly Bean OS. The back camera is enhanced with 8 MP auto focus with dual LED flash. It is priced at best buy special introductory price of just Rs 9000 (MRP Rs 10,990) and comes with free accessories worth Rs 1200 that includes a flip cover, extra back cover, little pink purse, and scratch guard.
Two ex-HTC employees have launched their new smartphone brand, with London-based Kazam today announcing seven new smartphones.
Nov 5 2013
The Kazam Trooper range of Android smartphones which will be the budget range from the new UK brand.
Launching a smartphone brand from scratch in the current highly-competitive market may seem like a crazy thing to do, but that is just what a pair of ex-HTC employees has done.
On Tuesday, Kazam has launched seven new Android smartphones, hoping that a range of features such as dual-SIM card slots and free replacement of your smartphone screen will be enough to convince customers to buy one of its phones.
Kazam is based in offices in London's Mayfair but has a 50-strong R&D team based in China where the company's smartphones are designed and built.
"Today's announcement proves that Kazam is not about gimmicks or corporate bulls**t, but delivering real value, by taking a fresh approach to mobile. It is not enough to simply stand for one thing, Kazam must continue to invest in areas often over looked, posing difficult questions and challenging convention," said James Atkins one of the co-foudners at Kazam.
The company claims it will be able to challenge the big guns like Apple and Samsung by focusing on "quality, relevant technology, and disruptive pricing."
Pricing
However Kazam has yet to announce specific pricing or UK release date for the new range of phones, simply saying pricing "will be announced in line with consumer availability." A spokesperson added: "[Kazam's] pricing strategy is focused on delivering value to people and they are committed to disrupting the industry standard."
Initially Kazam planned on only selling the phones SIM-free through its website�but the company is now in discussion with retailers, distributors and mobile phone networks with discussions "bearing fruit" and Kazam phones will likely go on sale on a SIM-free, pay-as-you-go and contract basis�
The company is also pinning its hopes on a number of more unique features which all phones in the Trooper and Thunder ranges will offer. All phones will offer dual-SIM card slots, a replaceable battery and a screen replacement scheme which will allow owners to replace a smashed smartphone screen once during the first 12 months of ownership.
The company is also offering a service called Rescue which will give the company's support staff remote access to your phone to help solve any problems you might have. It is a similar service to the one Amazon introduced on its latest Kindle Fire tablets called Mayday.
Thunder and Trooper
The seven phones which have been announced are split between two ranges - Thunder and Trooper. The former is the more premium range and features two smartphones: the Thunder Q4.5 and the Thunder Q5.0.
While these are pitched as the company's premium devices, the specs reveal that compared to high-end smartphones like the iPhone and Galaxy S4, they fall some way short.
The Q4.5 screen for example has a resolution of just 480 x 854 pixels, giving it a pixel density of 217 pixels per inch (ppi), some way short of the cutting edge screens on the likes of the HTC One which has a pixel density of over 400ppi.
While pricing has yet to be announced, with specs like these we suspect the Thunder range will not be as expensive as an iPhone or HTC One.
The Trooper range features five smartphones ranging in screen size from 3.5in to 5.5in with all running Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean) which is now two generations out of date with Google having launched Android 4.4�just last week.
Frustrated
James Atkins and Mike Coombes announced in June they were planning on launching Kazam as a range of smartphones focusing on the European market. Atkins and Coombes both left HTC in March where they were head of marketing for the UK and Ireland, and head of sales respectively.
When asked why he and Coombes left HTC, Atkins�told�IBTimes UK�in August:
"It's not to say we got frustrated with the industry, but we started to question the way things were being done and like we all do, [we] would occasionally have a conversation about how we would do it differently."
Up-hill struggle
To say Kazam faces an up-hill task to compete in the smartphone world would be an understatement, but Atkins claims he is very aware of the challenges ahead:
"It is a bold move and we recognise that. We are not deluded, we recognise that we are not going to open the order book and have to hold back the hordes of people. We are going to have to stand out, we are going to have to be different."
Mobile data consumption nearly doubled this year, thanks in part to giant smartphones
BY NATE SWANNER ON 24 DEC, 2013
According to research by Chetam Sharma, a wireless carrier consultant, we're using about double the mobile data we did last year. In 2012, US customers used about 690MB monthly via their smartphones and 3G/LTE tablets. Now we're using 1.2GB every month. That's a lot of photo uploads and streaming music!
This study represents data streamed over a wireless network, so no WiFi was accounted for. This is all mobile, and we're using it right up. Though the US is far and away the most data consumptive nation around, the numbers are up worldwide. Across the globe, the average data use per month went from 140MB to 240MB, keeping with the same growth trend.
Sharma attributes some of that growth to the expansion of LTE technology. With all major carriers having LTE in one form or another - and Verizon absolutely demolishing the rest of the field in both coverage and customer base - data just gets to us faster. He also attributes the proliferation of smartphones with larger screens for the jump. Bigger screens are more pleasant to view stuff on, so people use them more, right?
We think background data also has a bit to do with this uptick, but probably a slight amount. We'd have to agree that larger devices are a big factor, just as mobile browsers improving a great deal are. We also found it interesting that 1.2GB was the median number, here. It makes us think we should re-evaluate our data plans a bit.
Budget products usually struggle in the market akhi due to various reasons and often don't last very long until someone else comes along and decides to offer something cheaper.
Urine powered batteries are here to charge your mobile as you pee, paid for by Bill Gates
It might sound like something from a sci-fi movie but urine powered batteries are a reality, and Bill Gates is funding them.
The Bill Gates Foundation is funding further research by Bristol Robotic Laboratory who discovered the new power source. It's efficient enough to charge a smartphone which the scientists have already shown off. But how does it work?
Using a Microbial Fuel Cell micro-organisms take the urine, break it down and output electricity - to put it simply. On a scale large enough to charge a smartphone there are several cells into which the urine is passed via tubes. The unit creates electricity and also expels a broken down version of the waste making it safer to dispose of.
While we don't expect to see people carrying around urine bags instead of charging blocks anytime soon, this could be a great technology for areas of the world where electricity is hard to obtain. This technology could be implemented on a large scale for both treating waste and powering the grid in the future.
This is a really huge step in the direction of a truly carbon neutral future where nothing goes to waste.
Not sure if I mentioned this before, but I definitely told someone from here that this was on the working. Well anyway, here it is. If this spreads to the mobiles, within a few years, Windows will become the best selling operating system for mobiles because with Windows, you can do exactly what you can with a computer. This will be a sure winner.
Windows 8.1 machines running Android apps to descend upon CES 2014?
It's no secret that consumers have been slow to warm up to Windows 8 or Windows 8.1, the latter of which was released this past October. Could the sagging adoption numbers and legions of people who are clinging to Windows XP and Windows 7 be pacified by a machine that runs Windows 8.1 but is capable of supporting Android apps? It sounds like we'll soon find out.
You might hear the term "PC Plus" quite a bit during CES 2014, which will begin on January 7. PC Plus refers to the concept of a Windows 8.1 machine that also runs Android apps. We're talking about laptops here, not tablets. Aside from that (big) detail, this is not exactly a new idea.
Bluestacks, an Android emulator for Windows and Mac OS X, is able to perform the task of running Android apps on traditional desktop operating systems. While Blackstacks simply ran as a separate program within Windows and OS X, the relationship between Windows 8.1 and Android apps could work differently with PC Plus, according to Patrick Moorhead, an analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy.
"There are three [possible] implementations, including dual-boot, which would be a fast-switch mode where you press a button and within seconds you're in Android," Moore told Computer World. Another approach includes the use of a virtual machine, though software emulation is a possibility as well.
If the PC Plus Windows 8.1/Android concept takes off, it'll be interesting to see what this does for Windows 8.1 adoption numbers down the line.
This cannot be undone and I am sure it will be greatly appreciated.
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