Samsung did it again !!!

If you are planning to buy Samsung galaxy S2 from any of the US carriers (Sprint,ATT,T-Mobile,Verizon) Hold it.
 They are all running the ginger bread version of Android. And Samsung announced that it will update it to ICS(Ice cream sandwich) in February. Its mid-May and there is no update in the horizon.

 They have updated all the foreign carriers who carry the S2.

 In the mean time samsung has released its galaxy S3 with ICS. So there probably won't be an ICS update for the galaxy s2 owners in the US.

 Again I repeat if you are in the market for a new android phone and looking at Galaxy S2 Hold it.

Either go with the ones that has the ICS or wait till you get the galaxy s3.By the time US gets the S3 google will come with a different version of android and you will be stuck with the obsolete version of android.

 Better go with iphone.(I really didn't want to say this but I said it).

 Here are few pictures of the galaxy s3.

Death dosen't make someone god

On Android:

 Steve had vowed "I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this," and "I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40bn in the bank, to right this wrong". --- Steve was reported as having sworn to "destroy Android".


On Bill Gates:

 Jobs saying of Gates: "Bill is basically unimaginative and has never invented anything, which is why I think he's more comfortable now in philanthropy than technology. He just shamelessly ripped off other people's ideas."

This comes from a man who didn't spare a penny for  philanthropy.

 This is how great people reply:

"I don't think that's something we need, some wealth to find root for that one out of a million type person. For most people being able to do mathematics, being able to read, these are great things, and our capacity for doing that needs to expand," Gates said.

Gates added of Jobs: "Over the course of the 30 years we worked together, you know, he said a lot of very nice things about me and he said a lot of tough things." Jobs was, indeed, mercurial.He explained: "He faced, several times at Apple, the fact that their products were so premium priced that they literally might not stay in the marketplace. So the fact that we were succeeding with high volume products, you know, including a range of prices, because of the way we worked with multiple companies, it's tough."

I hope you will reflect on what you've done with your talent and energy. I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you work to address the world's deepest inequities, on how well you treat people a world away who have nothing in common with you but their humanity.

 These are the words of a real human - Bill Gates.

Thanks for reading.


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Let's talk iphone

 Today apple sent out invites to the journalists and publishers regarding the iphone release.

 The invitation was very creative.

 Just by using the icons of calendar app,clock app,map app and phone app they conveyed the message.At the bottom of these icons there is the message stating "Let's talk iPhone".

Apple will be unveiling its next iPhone October 4th at its Cupertino headquarters.

 Here is the invitation for you:

 Nice touch.


Would Steve be there?

Apple looses its iphone.... Again!!!

 So again this year apple has lost its iphone 5 prototype in a bar.Surprising????

 How could such a thing as losing in a bar can take place successively?

 There is a subliminal marketing involved in the loosing of the phone.

 Last year when the expectation of iphone 4 was less or people didn't think much of iphone as they were already satisfied with the iphones they had.

 At that time sprint came up with the fast 4G with HTC EVO.4G had 7 mbps speed.And the phone itself was cutting edge.It had 4 inch screen.Its the first wimax phone.The phone itself can act as a router (tethering) and can connect up to 5 devices.

 So everyone started to talk about the happening thing.And were expecting the EVO.Apple didn't even had the plans to release its phone.Seeing peoples expectation about the EVO apple started to worry.It thought the the demand for the iphone 4 would decrease if most of the people who were planning to switch switched over to the EVO.

 It needed some news of the iphone to come out.So what would it be?It can't be anything related to the feature of the phone.

 So the news of the lost iphone came out.People started to talk.Now iphone is on their attention again.

 History repeats again this year.

Another apple employee looses his upcoming iphone 5 in a bar and then again securities and the police officers search for it again.Here you go they have your attention again. Just increasing the tempo of their release.Had it not be lost we wouldn't care and there would be no news.

 Now there is news all over.

Verizon and Google Motorola takeover

 As I mentioned in my previous post ,Verizon also feels the same way that Google's takeover of Motorola may bring stability to disputes.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Verizon's Senior VP and Deputy General commented on Google bid for Motorola Mobility Holdings stating, "At first glance, to the extent that this deal might bring some stability to the ongoing smartphone patent disputes that would welcome development."

 Even thought verizon's words are comforting for Google and android it is not.Verizon's ultimate aim is to promote iphone.Actually it is pushing apple for releasing iphone 5 sooner.And when it is released verison will use all its advertising resources to promote and push the iphone and where as leaving the motorola android phone promotion on the company itself.

 Had google hadn't taken over motorola that would be a greater hit for motorola.Since google has the android market and other advertising resources it will use them to promote the android based motorola phones.But this will take up some of the advertising revenue.

 On the other hand apple will be enjoying free advertisement from verizon.If apple releases its phone on the other two networks(sprint and t mobile) and if verizon advertises for iphone then it will be a free advertisement for sprint and t mobile as well for the subscribers who dosen't want to switch.

 We have to wait for a month to see how this is all played.