Nokia Lumia 920 coming to India in Jan 2013

For Nokia fans who’ve been waiting for the launch of the Nokia Lumia 920 and 820 in India, there is good news. The devices are likely to be launched in January 2013, reports Tech2. The report also states that the smartphone will support 9 Long Term Evolution (LTE) bands in India for 4G connectivity.  It will not support 4G completely however as 4G is currently run on 2300Mhz in India. Lumia 920 is supporting LTE 2100 Mhz and 2600 Mhz bands, according to Nokia’s website.This is more that the iPhone 5, which supports only five LTE bands.“After spending about an hour with the handset, we must say that the Lumia 920 has huge potential when it launches in India next month. Nokia is still tight lipped about the pricing, but we’d guess it would be anything between Rs 35,000 to Rs 40,000. The device is built like a tank and the finish and choice of materials easily rivals the top dogs like the One X and even the iPhone 5.

Microsoft forges ahead with retail store expansion plans

The company is continuing its transformation from a simple software company with the announcement of its first six stores planned for 2013.

Microsoft unveiled the first six locations for its next wave of retail stores for next year.

The company has been in the middle of a broader transformation to further connect with consumers beyond its Windows software. That has included moving even further into the hardware business with its own tablet, the Surface, going beyond its Xbox 360 video game console and the ill-fated Zune media player. A key part of that strategy has been its growing chain of retail stores, which give it a chance to directly interact with people.

How the Bar Code Took Over the World

In 1948 a supermarket executive came to the Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia with a request. He wanted a technology that could encode information about his products. Two graduate students, Bernard Silver and N. Joseph Woodland, took up the challenge. Woodland became obsessed and dropped out of school to concentrate on it. That winter he was sitting on Miami Beach, dragging his fingers in the sand, when he had an idea for a series of lines of different widths that functioned like elongated versions of the dots and dashes of Morse Code—in other words, a bar code.

Woodland died on Dec. 9, but his invention is so successful that it’s almost invisible. Cereal boxes, soup cans, books, and magazines all have universal product codes. Anything you buy in a supermarket or department store does, too. Companies like Amazon.com (AMZN) use multiple bar codes to track packages. They’re so common we barely even recognize them as technology.

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Lytro camera review

Don't let that cute design fool you. Lytro, the world's first commercial light field camera, is the culmination of nearly twenty years of research -- a project that once occupied an entire wall facade, and has since been miniaturized into something that fits in the palm of your hand. An impressive feat, sure, but not as arresting as the end result: the ability to refocus pictures, even after you've taken them.

To achieve such magical endeavors the Lytro camera uses heaps of custom software (armed with a custom .lfp file format) coupled with some serious silicon to measure not just color or the intensity of light, but its direction, too. The latter is achieved with an eleven "megaray" sensor, which is bolted to an f/2.0 8x optical zoom lens, all encased within that sleek body. Seeking to save us from unfocused mishaps, the technological tour de force also unlocks some considerable creative potential. 

WSJ: Acer Iconia B1 tablet hitting in early 2013, priced at around $99

More info on that ultra budget tablet from Acer that made a sketchy FCC appearance roughly a week or so ago: The Wall Street Journal's been chatting with a "person with direct knowledge," who offered up an intriguing price tag of "around $99" for the Iconia B1. The slate is said to feature similar specs as older Amazonand Barnes & Noble devices, including a 7-inch 1,024 x 600 display and a 1.2GHz processor. As for availability, the device will apparently be targeted at developing nations, with no word on whether it will make it to the US.

The Brazilian iPhone Is Actually an Android Device

iPhone is a powerful name. It conjures up a the vision of a meticulously crafted phone, something that's a pleasure to hold and pleasant to look at. Most of all it makes you think of an Apple device. Well in Brazil, that's not necessarily the case. The "iphone" that came out there this week rocks Android 2.3.

The phone comes from a Brazilian electronics company called Gradiente secured exclusive rights to the "iPhone" name in the country back in 2008, rights that it will continue to hold until 2018. As such, the new Brazilian iPhone is very much the opposite of the one you usually think of. In addition to running Gingerbread, it boasts a 320-by-480 pixel display, a total lack of multi-touch functionality, a 700MHz single-core ARM processor, and 2GB of storage. One more key difference: it has no capital 'P'. Sounds enticing, no?

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Apple iPhone 5:

The Most awaited phone this year is easily The Apple iPhone 5, iPhone 5 would get a bigger 4″ display and a more powerful Processor. iPhone 5 will offer 4G and it will be LTE network compatible. The camera of iPhone 5 will be amazingly powerful 8MP dual led flash. Its storage capacity will be boosted up to 64 gb. Its new iOS 6 is expected to have a digital music locker. The price of iPhone 5 factory unlocked version is expected to start with $699. This Soon to be launched iPhone is for sure the best phone designed ever by Apple.

The Future of Mobile Networks: Beyond 4G

The Olympic Stadium in London being dismantled and transformed on Sept. 13, 2012

• Carriers worldwide will begin their first small-cell deployments next year, with the aim of creating dense layers of 3G and 4G capacity. The goal of these shrunken cells is to put massive amounts of bandwidth precisely where people are using it: in malls, arenas, public plazas, urban parks, and busy business districts.
• The first wave of small cells, mounted on outdoor street poles and ceilings, could just be the beginning. A consortium of technology companies and universities brought together by the European Commission is investigating a concept called the super-dense network, which could put multiple tiny cells in every room. We’re not just talking networks on the small scale, but on the human scale.
• The consortium has the rather ungainly name of Mobile and wireless communications Enablers for the Twenty-twenty Information Society. Fortunately, it’s using the moniker Metis for short. With the help of a €16 million (U.S. $21.2 million) grant for the European Union, Metis is tasked with identifying the network technologies beyond the LTE-Advanced standards being developed today.
• These so-called 5G technologies could take the form of new radio air interfaces, new cellular architectures such as heterogeneous networks and wide-area mobile mesh, and even the virtualization of the network itself, says Jan Färjh, head of standardization and industry for Ericsson (ERIC), the network vendor spearheading Metis. Färjh uses the word “could” because no one in the consortium knows what form the network of 2020 and beyond will take. These new technologies are on the bleeding edge and it is Metis’s goal to determine which are technically and commercially feasible.
• “We have to be prepared for the world 10 years after LTE and LTE-Advanced
• To that end, Metis is opening up multiple fields of investigation, digging into research projects in the labs of such academic institutions as Aalborg University in Denmark and Poznan University of Technology in Poland. Though the big vendors and carriers like Alcatel-Lucent (ALU), Nokia (NOK), and Telefónica (TEF) are all there, Metis is also reaching beyond the traditional wireless industry to include companies such as BMW (BMW). One of the big areas Metis will explore
• In addition to car-to-car connectivity, Metis will also look into making devices nodes in ad hoc networks. Instead of communicating directly with a tower, our phones and gadgets could relay their data among one another in a giant mesh, eventually offloading data into the mobile network proper through the most efficient connection, or combination of connections. These are concepts being explored by startup Open Garden and the Commotion open-source mesh-networking initiative.