Tim Cook will announces iPhone 5 on October 4th

Finally apple gonna make their move and announces next iPhone generation on 4th October. While the iPhone 5 is a much-anticipated handset, the event itself has a lot more importance for Apple than many previous ones.

That’s because it will be newly installed CEO Tim Cook’s first big product introduction, and the place where the public will get a first lengthy impression of him that may well set the tone for Cook’s new role.

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Android Tips : How to set up Hotmail for Android

Recently I found an interesting article about synching Hotmail to Android. Previously i was a Blackberry user, synching email is never a problem. But i have change to Android system now and Hotmail is actually my main email for my work. My previous other Android phone never setup hotmail account since i just setup google account to access the market.

Thus, here is a guide for you who looking on how to sync the hotmail in your Android devices. First thing first your device must running Froyo and above because Microsoft has activated Exchange ActiveSync for Hotmail from there. It also syncs up your Windows Live Contacts and Calendar with the phone. Pretty handy and badass as gmail ;P

First, you put in your email address and password, then you hit "manual setup" (not "next"), then choose "Exchange". From there, you'll see the following...

• Domain\Username: Clear out and put in your full hotmail address
• Password: if not pre-filled, obviously put in your hotmail password
• Server: m.hotmail.com
• Check "Use Secure Connection (SSL)"
• "accept all SSL certificates" can uncheck

After all the setup complete HOLA! You got your hotmail sync with your android phone ;)

Nikon V1 and J1 goes official! 1 System

Not long ago i posted up a post mention Nikon upcoming EVIL system and today, Nikon V1 and J1 officially unveiled. It come with 5 colors - white, pink, red, silver and black

According to Nikon, their system is known as "1 System" Mirrorless Camera. Both model V1 and J1 are identical to each other. Both camera come with 10.1 Megapixels CMOS sensor - CX-size (13.2mm x 8.8mm) sensor with a 2.7x crop factor and ISO as high as 3200 only. In addition, a 3-inch LCDs, 10fps shooting, high-res electronic viewfinders, and full HD (1080/30p) video capture -- though 720/60p and 1080/60i modes are thrown in for good measure.

The J1 come with a built-in flash, auto-noise reduction on movie clips, a 73-point AF system, dual-core EXPEED processing engine, a 29 minute cap on single movie files which far greater than the five minute ceiling on its earlier DSLRs and a ritzy phone detect system.

Meanwhile the V1 boasts an EVF and supports an external flash, as well as a mechanical shutter, stereo microphone input, a "multi-accessory port" and a magnesium alloy chassis.

Nikon offer quite alot good lens for this 1 System. A 10-30mm f/3.5-5.6, 30-110mm f/3.8-5.6, 10mm f/2.8 and a 10-100mm f/4.5-5.6, and a customized Speedlight (SB-N5) flash will also be in tow.

Nikon J1 will be on $649.95 (Ext RM2,000) and Nikon V1 will be on $899.95 (Est RM2,700). Both camera come with 10-30mm f/3.5-5.6 kit lens.

Author's note: Great! I have been waiting for Nikon EVIL system since last year when the news was speculate around. However i am disappointed with what they can offer on this new line. First thing first the 2.7x crop factor sensor is not attractive! The sensor size is so small, so i doubt on the image quality especially for lowlight.

What attract me could be the lens they offer. But pricing not available yet. With the price offer by Nikon V1 and J1, i'll rather pay more attention on other cams such as Sony Nex, Olympus Pen or Lumix gf series which offer better sensor and similar price range. However, i am interested to know how the dual-core EXPEED processing engine perform.

Check out the ads for Nikon V1

for more photo of the camera and lenses, head on to Dpreview.

So, would you get Nikon J1 or V1 or go ahead to any direct competitor like Samsung, Olympus, Sony or Panasonic?

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Istagram goes update! Version 2.0 re-engineering the camera

Recently Istagram just received an update to version 2.0, adding an revised interface and more features. The new version of Istagram allowed faster image processing and the ability to save its processed images at higher resolution.

The app still only shares low-res versions of files but allows you to save full resolution versions to your 'phone (10x larger in the case of the iPhone 4). The latest version also adds four more processing filters and the option to add or remove borders from the existing ones.

Below are the new features :

• Live filters
• Four new filters : Amaro, Rise, Hudson, and Valencia.
• Instant tilt-shift
• High-resolution photos - 10x larger than before
• Borders now optional
• One-click rotation
• New icon

Supported iOS versions and devices
Instagram v2.0 is supported on iOS 4.2.1 and above.

Supported devices include:

• iPhone 4
• iPhone 3GS
• iPod Touch (3rd & 4th generations)
• iPad 2
• iPad

Instagram 2.0 is free and is available at Apple’s iTunes-based App Store.

HTC Rhyme - Phone for ladies

HTC announced new mid range phone that target for ladies user! HTC Rhyme, come with pretty cool and cute color!

HTC Rhyme packed with 1GHz Qualcomm MSM8255 Snapdragon, Adreno 205 GPU and 768MB RAM. The screen size measured on 3.7-inch WVGA display. At the back it has 5 megapixel snapper with 720p camcorder. It come with 4GB internal storage.

One of the main highlight is the HTC Rhyme come with new sense UI, HTC Sense 3.5 and running on Android Gingerbread 2.3.

The most interesting part about the Rhyme is its retail package. It comes with a docking station, a "sports armband", a Bluetooth headset and a "Charm cable" that has a small cube, which lights up for incoming calls and messages. There is also a nice in-ear wired headset with music controls. All the accessories will come in the Rhyme color.

My opinion, yea cool color but not on design. It look pretty same with HTC Desire S. HTC Sense 3.5 still look pretty same with current HTC Sense 3.0 - not a major change.

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Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo will get Android 2.3.4 update first

Wow I didn't have time to do review for my SE Xperia Neo and here come a news for me! According to Sony Ericsson, the Android 2.3.4 firmware update would be rolling out to the 2011 range of Sony Ericsson Xperia handsets from October. Xperia Neo will get the update first, yay for me! The latest firmware updates the build number from version 4.0.A.2.368 to 4.0.1.A.0.283.

On this new update, it'll have :

• Video for Google Chat
• 3D Panorama for camera
• SWIPE input text system
• Screen capture
• Enchantment to Facebook inside Xperia

Check out some screenshot below.

 

 

 

 

 

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Android Ice-Cream Sandwich Will Be Available For All Screen Size

Different from Honeycomb which is tablet only Android OS, news from Android Developer's Blog reveal that the new Android OS, Ice-cream Sandwich will be running on all screen size. Honeycomb app's developer that has design their apps to run on large screen have to do some changes to the apps since Android apps are forward compatible. At this moment, the before mention developers has only 2 choices which is to prevent installation for smaller screen or to support smaller screen with the same APK.Official Android Developer's Blogger state that they prefer the later options.

Author's note: It is common sense that Honeycomb developers will have to take the effort to upgrade their apps so that it would be compatible on all new device running on Ice-cream Sandwich, else there are limiting their apps to the vast users.This might not be a very good news for developers(if you are an Android apps developer, this news probably wouldn't be your 1st source) but this is definitely something exciting for the users. Hope that when the Honeycomb apps are compatible with smaller screen, they will make it compatible with older Android OS too?

Source: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/