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Apple is going to launch the new iPad mini tablet on 23rd October, 2012. Worth a notice is that this launch will happen 3 days ahead of launch of Microsoft Surface Tablet. iPad mini is expected to hit shelves in November , 2012. The iDevice is expected to have 7.85 inch display and extremely thin Aluminium body.

Is it a phone? is it a Tablet? these were the first questions asked when the Samsung Galaxy Note (N7000) was first introduced in September, 2011. It was the first phablet, if you may, which carried a 5.3inch display – the largest phone display yet. And amazingly enough, it carried a stylus by the name S-Pen.

Now after a year of continuous success of Galaxy Note, Samsung has launched Galaxy Note 2. The device is as amazing as it can be. The giant leap from Dual-core 1.4 GHz ARM Cortex-A9 processor to the  Quad-core 1.6 GHz Cortex-A9 processor is astounding. As if dual core wasn’t enough for Samsung to keep competition way out of sight, the processing power in Galaxy Note 2 just got doubled.

The Note devices have been by default LTE compliant and keeping shoulder-to-shoulder with the emerging high speed connection technologies.

Dimensions:The new Samsung galaxy Note 2 admeasures, 151.1×80.5×9.4mm  and weighs 183gms. It comes with revolutionary sensitive stylus called the S-Pen. Screen size is 5.5inches (biggest ever in a phone).

Display: This is one field where Samsung has always been on the leading edge and continuing their legacy, the Galaxy Note 2 has Super AMOLED capacitive touch screen. The screen resolution 720x1280pixels ensures a complete HD videos viewing experience with 16:9 ratio. Display has a Cornign Gorilla Glass for clear display quality.

Memory and Storage: Note 2 has been released in variety of internal memory options. Buyer can select between 16GB, 32GB and 64GB internal memory options. The phone comes with a whooping 2GB of RAM. It will surely give weaker laptops a run for their money.

Camera: Samsung made the first android Camera and showed the world the diversity of Android OS. The camera resolution has been kept at 8MP (being a standard in current days) and is same as the camera in Galaxy Note released last year. The picture quality is good at 3264×2448 pixels. Camera also features autofocus and a LED based flash. Video resolution is 1080p @ 30 frames per second. Front camera resolution is 1.9MP, good enough to make video calls.

The phone comes preloaded with Android 4.1.1 Jellybean OS. An OS which helps users reach the pinnacle of optimal use of the phone specs. The phone also has Mali400 GPU (same as Galaxy Note 1) for best quality graphics rendering in its class.

Battery: Last but not-at-all the least, the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 carries a 3100 mAh Lithium ion battery which simply does not go out. Best battery in its class. The only other phone to compete in this respect will be Motorola Razr Maxx HD. But it aint got the specs to compare to this device.Its a bang for the buck.

The new latest Apple iOS6 is making news everywhere, but little is known that the so-called “new iOS” is still ages behind the “old Android Gingerbread 2.3″. The new iOS 6 is released in Septemeber, 2012 and the old Android 2.3 got released in Septemeber, 2010.

For the purpose of comparison lets pick up the story from the past. In Septemebr 2010 if you wished to pick up the latest and best phones, you had the option of getting either the iPhone 4 or the Samsung Galaxy S (Fascinate). At present the choice still remains limited to these two stables : either you’ll go for the Apple iPhone 5 or Samsung Galaxy S 3.  Ofcourse there are some features which iOS still doesnt have, like the multi-tasking, but hey! lets not go there, right said Apple?

Galaxy S would be running the Android 2.3.6 and iPhone would have iOS 5. Lets start the comparison spec by spec and feature by feature. First thing that comes to notice is the difference in the display size. Samsung Galaxy S has 4 inch display, the iPhone 5 received 4 inch display just now, no point in comparing with iPhone 4 screen size. Advantage, Samsung Galaxy S.

Apple claims to have added 200 features in the new iPhone 5. One of the most advertised feature (featured in their “Smile” TV ads) is the panorama mode. Guess what? the panorama feature already existed in Samsung Galaxy S ever since September, 2010.

Another feature which the iPhone 5 now claims to have added is cancel a call with message feature. A feature where you have several preset messages which can be sent to caller while cancelling their call. Guess what again? The Galaxy S (we are not even bringing the advanced versions of Galaxy S2 and Galaxy S3 here) already had this feature 2 years ago.

Feature of Social sharing (over facebook, twitter and other networks) and  file uploading (to websites like rapidshare or megashare via attachment) feature which has existed in Android Gingerbread 2.3 and the same features are now finally emerging in the iOS6.

Siri, the lady who speaks in your iPhone will never come to iPhone 4 or older iDevices. The much hyped “voice navigation”on Apple Maps which iOS6 has, has been there in android since Gingerbread, 2 years ago. More so, you cant port an iOS to older device which doesnt have it. For Android, you got numerous options. Even the 2 years old Galaxy S can have the latest Android OS Jellybean ported on it, ofcourse you will have performance issues due to older hardware, but you can still keep up with changing Tech trends with same old device.

Apart from the OS features, there are many common features like advanced displays are again the last ones to be brought up by Apple.

The hullabaloo around the new Apple iPhone 5 is hard to go by unnoticed. We are being overwhelmed by the reviews about the phone specs and features. It is also being termed as the best iPhone yet. Yes! It is the best iPhone yet! It has the much needed Bigger screen,tall and thin body and a better camera. And yet, the most exciting part is under the hood. It’s the new A6 processor.

Several benchmarks have been run on the device to determine the power it got. An not surprisingly, the benchmarks run by using Geekbench and SunSpider clearly tell us that the new A6 processor is almost twice as fast as the A5 processor in iPhone 4S.

The discovery about the new architecture in A6 was made by programmers who browsed the Xcode 4.5 compiler. The code supports the armv7 architecture (currently used in A4 and A5) and also armv7s which is gonna be there in A6. In order to quantify the difference between the two architectures you’ll have run benchmark on the latest release of Geekbench.

The early reports about the A6 processor benchmarks stated that the processor runs at 1.0 GHz. However the benchmarking softwares used do not have the capability to utilize the full prowess of armv7s architecture. New benchmark run in updated software shows that A6 processor can run at 1.3 GHz.