Samsung Galaxy ace plus doing well in the mid-range segment of mobile handsets especially for those who just move from the basic handsets to something techy. The Korean house Samsung bring up in the category of Galaxy an plus version of its ace in 2011 with 1 Ghz processor, Touch Wiz 4.0 UI and the video quality made reasonable to VGA (640 x 480 ) @ 30fps.with resolution same at HVGA (320 x 480) and the pixel density is also lesser at (~158).

Samsung did a wonderful job of upgrading the Galaxy Ace Plus with Android Gingerbread 2.3.6. and Touch Wiz 4.0 UI.A good 512 MB of RAM helps in the overall performance with internal memory of 3GB which can be expanded up to 32GB.The Plus version of the Samsung Galaxy is comes up to 3.65“display. This newer version has only one “Home” button while the other two are move to the touch- sensitive section. The back section of this new Ace had 5-megapixel camera along with an LED flash below it and the speaker opening to its right. What disappoint me is that there’s no physical camera button. I felt galaxy Ace plus light weighted measuring it to 114 g. If we talk about its thickness then we end up measuring it to 11.2mm thinness

The home screen looks vibrant and organized with all new widget style in Touch Wiz 4.0 and seven home screens to arrange all your widgets and shortcuts.The camera remains the same on Galaxy Ace Plus with a 5-megapixel snapper capable of shooting at a maximum resolution of 2560 x 1920 pixels. 3X zoom. Samsung upgrade galaxy ace plus here by introducing VGA video recording (640 x 480 ) @ 30fps. The codec support is limited to 3GP/H.263/H.264/MPEG4. No Divx/Xvid support present here. The browser supports Flash and playing a 720p video on YouTube was no issue for the phone

Surfing around to media-rich websites was smooth and page loading didn’t took much time with an advancement search option for a title song directly on YouTube or simply Google it right from the Music Player. Biography of the singer can be searched on the net right from the player.

All necessary connectivity options are present in this mobile. 3G, Wi-Fi b/g/n, Wi-Fi hotspot, stereo Bluetooth 3.0, microUSB port, GPS receiver with A-GPS and TV out. Samsung’s offering free Bluetooth headset along with the phone. Samsung offers only some pre-loaded apps like ChatON (their own cross-messaging platform), KIES 2.0, Social Hub, etc.

The Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus carries a 1300mAh battery, a little lesser than the 1350mAh battery found on the old Galaxy Ace. Samsung need to sink in 1500mAh beneath the cover.

A missing front view camera, average video recording and a low display resolution are the major drawback which stops the Galaxy Ace Plus from being called the Best Budget Android handset device. Other than that, the 1Ghz processor impresses as a performer and the refined TouchWiz UI with Android 2.3.6 Gingerbread gives the user a fluid experience. All-in-all, the Galaxy Ace Plus outperforms the old Ace and is recommended at that price tag. It won’t disappoint you except for a few drawbacks.

Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus Specification

1. Quad-band GSM and dual-band 3G support
   7.2 Mbps HSDPA support
   3.65″ 16M-color TFT LCD capacitive touchscreen of HVGA (320 x 480 pixels) resolution
   1 GHz ARM Cortex A5 processor, Adreno 200 GPU, Qualcomm MSM7227A chipset; 512MB of RAM available to the user
   Android OS v2.3 (Gingerbread) with TouchWiz 4.0 UI customization
   Swype text input
   5 MP autofocus camera with LED flash; geotagging, smile detection3 GB of internal storage, microSD slot
   Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n and DLNA
   GPS with A-GPS connectivity; Digital compass
   microUSB port (charging) and stereo Bluetooth v3.0
   Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
   FM radio with RDS
   Document editor
   File manager preinstalled
   Samsung Apps brings a few nice apps for free
   Accelerometer and proximity sensor
   1300mAh battery

Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus cons

Ø VGA video recording @30fps is nothing special
Ø No secondary camera
Ø No shutter key
Ø Average loudspeaker performance
Ø No ambient light sensor
Ø No DivX/Xvid video support out of the box

Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus Price

MRP of Rs.16,240.

In MWC 2012 Samsung brought a new member of its Galaxy family. It’s just like its other members but have a special new feature and it can be said that Samsung is taking lead in technology by presenting Projector feature in its new mobile model Samsung Beam.

User interface and OS:

Samsung Beam comes with a 4.0 inch capacitive touch screen with 50 inch of crisp HD image through its 15 lumens projector which is clear enough even to work in bright area. To make feature of projector more user friendly company accompanies it with an app to make the projector feature more easy to use. It has 8GB of internal memory and support expandable memory upto 32gb.

Samsung Beam runs on Android OS 2.3 Ginger bread and has 1ghz dual core cortex-A9 CPU. Camera is 5mp with Auto Focus and LED flash, 720p video can be recorded at higher frames at 30 fps which is good and still images max resolution is 2592×1942 pixels and also it has a 1.3MP secondary camera which is and is good enough for video conferencing call. This handset is support s EDGE/GPRS, 3g, WIFI, DLNA, wifi hotspot, usb 2.0 Bluetooth 3.0. This phone is a complete multimedia package as it has capability of becoming a mini home theater.

Samsung Beam Specification:

• Android OS, v2.3 Gingerbread
• Dual-core 1 GHz Cortex-A9 with 768mb RAM
• 8gb internal memory and supports microSD card up to 32gb
• GPRS, EDGE, HSDPA 14.4 mbps, HSUPA 5.76 mbps
• Bluetooth v3.0 with A2DP support
• USB v2.0 micro USB
• Camera primary 5.0mp with AF and LED flash, secondary 1.3mp
• Built in nHD projector
• Standard battery Li-Ion 2000 mAh
• Dimension 124 x 64.2 x 12.5 mm
• Weight 145.3 g

Samsung Galaxy Beam price and Release date:

Samsung has not yet announced its release dates and price but according to rumors it will be available in Q3 of 2012 and according to its specs it should not cost more than 20k in Indian market. Will keep you update if any more info comes regarding Samsung Beam.

The Galaxy S2 has become one of the biggest selling and most popular of all of Samsungs mobile phone range since it was originally released in 2011 and the company is currently estimated to have sold more than 20 million of the S2 mobiles in that time. Despite this the company has been comparatively slow in making this Android 4.0 upgrade available for users of the S2, compared to some of the other Samsung phones.

The company’s Galaxy Nexus smartphone was given the status of being the first handset for a mobile device to have Ice Cream Sandwich, when it was upgraded to feature the system last November. However, despite this, sales of the Galaxy S2 have remained extremely strong and with the operating system now set to be available for users of the phone – at least in the UK – it is likely to remain one of the best-selling of all the Samsung phones available.

“Samsung UK can confirm that the rollout of Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) on Galaxy S2 will be available from week commencing March 19, however the availability of software upgrades in the UK will be dependent upon each network’s own software approvals process,” the company stated.

Samsung is the 3rd largest mobile seller company in this technologically advanced world where every company want to become no.1. Samsung released Galaxy S2 in April 2011 and it was a huge success cause of its big screen and really good internal memory and some other great features of that time.

This year Samsung is going to launch Galaxy S2 successor named Samsung Galaxy S3 with bigger screen 4.6 inch faster than its predecessor with 1.8Ghz processor and 2GB ram for greater multi tasking and HD gaming. Enhanced 12MP camera for better photography and with latest android update ice cream sandwich update. Even having these greater feature it will also be thinner than its old bro. Galazy S2 was 8.5 mm thick and Samsung Galaxy will be only 7mm thick.

Samsung Galaxy S3 may have a new Ultra ISO camera mode enhancement that will get rid of led usage and we can get more great quality photos even in low light condition. It will feature new TouchWiz interface and apps for easier social sharing and connectivity.

Galaxy S3 will have a new Flexible OLED display its will brighter and clearer than any mobile screen available now. Lets wait and see what will be the final specs. Subscribe site for faster updates

• Samsung Galaxy S3 Specification:
  
• 1.8GHZ Dual Core Processor with the support of 2GB ram
  4.6 Inch AMOLED screen supporting 1280×720 resolution
  12MP camera with Ultra ISO mode
  Flexible Brighter OLED display
  Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich
  New TouchWiz interface
  Bluetooth, Wifi

Samsung Galaxy S3 price and release date:

Price and Release date not yet confirmed. May be it will be release last of Q2 2012  Will update this space when its released so bookmark site for that update.

It will replace your normal home window and do more stuff than your windows can do. The most amazing feature is you can do blind like the you do in original windows like this.

This is not only feature of this window but there are more features like you can access cooking and recipe guide right within your window from internet. Check time and date, access internet office related documents, watch media, video, use twitter see your twitter feeds and updates, check out latest weather from window widget or you can see the weather through your windows too and get the latest news and even you can add more widget to make it more useful and helpful.

I have detailed the parts of windows so check it out and be amazed.

Download the picture below and see the detail of the future home windows

With the rapidly advancing personal computer market — everything from laptops and desktops to tablets and smartphones — it’s easy to forget that the television market is moving forward by leaps and bounds of its own. It wasn’t long ago that a television was a bulky, square box with a low-resolution picture — perhaps not even a digital image.

Times change, however, and so do televisions. First came the LCD televisions which revolutionized the television market. The consumer was now able to have high definition, widescreen video at home, and the home theater business surged with new opportunities and innovation. Following this initial burst of new technology, plasma televisions came onto the market and offered even better picture quality, with brighter colors and more natural whites and blacks.

nd, recently, the market has again been upended by a superior technology in the form of LED-backlit televisions. LED televisions offered a highly energy efficient backlight, along with colors equally as vivid — if not more so — as those seen on plasma models. Because LEDs are extremely small and efficient, LED models offered the thinnest televisions ever on the market. They also come in at the lightest — making them perfect for that magazine-like mounted television.
The high consumer demand for these superior television models is driving production up worldwide; coinciding with this increased production, generally, is lower cost for the consumer. As has been the case with all major technological breakthroughs, a drop in price means an increase in consumer adoption. By midway through 2011, manufacturers expect LED penetration rates to reach fifty percent in the US market alone — that’s a huge majority when there are three competing technologies.

LED televisions have also paved the way for LED panels becoming common place in many other applications, including laptop and computer monitor displays, mobile phone screens, and in-dash automobile displays. The LED backlight is simply the lightest, brightest, most color-rich display technology available, with one of the most highly anticipated models in 2011 being Samsung’s LED television sets that offer 3D.

Every once in a while, the technology industry stumbles upon a technology that instantly becomes the best of the best, and truly indispensable for a variety of uses. LED technology is one of those discoveries, and LED televisions are poised to continue their takeover of the world market on account of their superior picture quality, unparalleled thin form factor, and energy-friendly consumption rates.

With the dimensions of 99.8 (W)x 59.8 (H)x 18.6 (D)mm and weighing at 165.7g without the battery and memory card, the ST550 is a very compact camera overloaded with features. With a complete black body and a gold lining running between it, the camera is a sure treat for the eyes. With a solid metal body at the back to hold theLCD, the front panel has a clean piano finish.

On the front, the camera features a 1.5”, 61K LCD. A trend setter by all means, Samsung st 550 is the first camera to feature a front LCD screen for portrait shots. To activate, simply start the camera and tap on the front LCD. Somehow, the touch sensitivity on the front LCD is not that responsive, as you have to tap hard to activate it. A very innovative feature in itself, the front LCD is put to very good use which we will talk about in the feature section.

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Whatever Toshiba can do, Samsung can do… um, equally well? Evidently that’s the game being played over at IFA, as the latter company has issued a 640GB portable hard drive of its own nary 24 hours after Tosh did likewise. The unspeakably cute S2 portable is getting a much-needed capacity bump, making the largest drive in the line 640GB. In related news, the company’s 3.5-inch S3 Station external HDD has seen its maximum storage level creep north to 2TB, though storage freaks will have to wait patiently until "early next year" in order to take one home. Prices for both remain a mystery, but if we had to guess, we’d put the MSRPs about a penny under whatever Toshiba settles on. Call it a hunch.

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The camera hosts a powder finish metallic, dark gray, plastic exterior and is curved lusciously. The entire body’s smooth, with no jagged edges, making it one of the most ergonomic compacts around. The grip side of the camera protrudes out more than the rest of the body, and smoothly curves back in on the lens side of the camera. Nested besides the lens, is a small textured rubber grip for your right hand’s middle and ring finger, giving you that extra bit of grip and comfort while yielding the camera.

Even the shutter button’s positioned perfectly – not too far away from the right side of the camera, and not too close either – just in place for the last link of your index finger to rest on comfortably. The zoom toggle ring’s placed neatly around the shutter button, and is easy to access. Besides it sits the metallic mode dial with a textured rim that helps you change modes with easy. The power button rests on the other side of the shutter button, and it hones the glowing blue ring (when your camera’s powered up), giving it that snazzy high-tech look. Call me shallow if you like, but I just love the way this blue light looks.

Moving on – the facing side of the camera has a unique toggle towards the top that lets you change f-stop and shutter speed with ease in manual mode. Its functionality is limited though, making it feel like nothing more than a filler for the empty space. Below that lie the three buttons – function, effect and preview. The effect button is a cool feature that allows you to add really good effects such as warm, cool, forest, retro etc. looks to your pictures before they’re taken. Apart from that, you can pick from a plethora of styles including the standard sepia, black and white, amongst others, and tweak your sharpness, brightness, contrast settings on the fly as well.
Besides these buttons there’s a 3-inch LCD display that hones 460,000 pixels, which is far denser (hence gives more detailed output) than the standard 270,000 dots screens you see on most compacts.
While its bulk makes it really hard to fit the camera in your pocket, the WB500 exudes style and ergonomics, while being tough and sturdy as well.

Design
The unit has all the bearings of a typical Samsung design released in the past 3 years. The bezel is their regular high piano gloss finish, with a shiny surface going all the way down to the oval stand. The monitor is pretty light, weighing in at 4.45 kg. The back panel is fancier than the front. We have little flowers etched out, or rather magnified snowflake patterns all around. Why have they done this, I have no clue, as designs should be where the eye can see them, not at the back of a screen.
The bottom panel has the Samsung logo printed in the center, with a thick transparent hard plastic strip accenting on the bottom edge. This edge is curved too, and the center houses a thin blue LED strip that lights up when the power is on. All in all this section looks good, and reminds the user  of the older TV models. They have this same design.

The build quality is overall pretty sturdy, there are no loose corners or weak joints. There is one thing I want to make a complaint about: the stand, at least in our package, did not come attached, and this model has a weird ball and socket style joint between screen and stand. Once fixed it is sturdy, though fixing it can be a pain as it is not well illustrated in the manual, and it takes a bit of trial and error. Also, the joint allows the screen to rotate on one single vertical axis (up to down), and not left to right which can sometimes be required in LCD monitors. In the package we get a CD with essential stuff like a user manual and drivers, plus Samsung has thrown in a nice soft blue cloth to the clean the unit. Overall the monitor is quite no frills, and that is a good thing as USB ports, speakers etc. are not really what make a good monitor.

Features and specs
This monitor is a 16:9 screen measuring 21.5 inches. The resolution is 1600:900, and the brightness is 300 cd/m2. Contrast is rated at 15,000:1 dynamic and 1000:1 native. Response time is at 5 ms (gray to gray). They have a name now for this feature, Samsung calls it Magicspeed. The features of the monitor are expectedly numerous, as is typical to the brand. There is proprietary stuff thrown in like Magicbright and Color effect, which actually is nothing but a set of presets, which we will go over in the performance section. Lastly the viewing angle is 170 degrees. Samsung has not mentioned it anywhere, but we are assuming that this monitor is a TN panel, as the viewing angles are not that hot when actually looked at from the side, and the cost is less. Samsung does state 16.7 million colors which would be 256x256x256 steps in the Red, green and blue parts of the pixel. 256 would then obviously mean 2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2 (8-bit). It is a fact that general TN panels are generally only true 6 bit, not 8 bit, meaning that the pixels cannot actually have 256 different levels of gray… but brands use something called frame rate control or FRC to dither their way into 8 bit color. Thus we are also assuming that the panel is an 8 bit one, albeit enhanced 8 bit. I wish Samsung and all brands provided this info directly to customer, so there are no assumptions to be made.

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