LG G Watch and Samsung Gear Live available on Indian Play Store

After just one day of announcement Google has launched LG G watch and Gear Live on Indian Play Store. Both devices were announced at Google I/O yesterday. They're among the first smart watches to run Android Wear. LG Watch is priced at 14999 INR and is available in black and silver color. It ships by 8th July( as mentioned), so basically its kind of a preorder. However for Gear Live, it still says coming soon. As far as pricing goes, it is priced slightly higher 15900 INR. Both this devices carry price less  than Samsung Gear series running Tizen. [zilla_alert style="yellow"] Featured Image: Play Store Source: UnleashThePhones.com [/zilla_alert]

Dominance of the word "MINI"

The mini version of the flagship is a fact, not a surprise. Samsung starting with s3 mini, got shear disappointment with the device and ultimately discontinued the device, leaving no signs behind than just its information on internet. When a flagship is shrinked down in size and specs, MINI version comes into existence. And the adjective Mini, dramatically drops the proud of having a smartphone in the public domain and also in the competitive market which is growing day by day. Do we actually need MINIs in the market? The answer is two sided - YES OR NO, as it varies from people to people. Samsung, HTC, Micromax, etc follow this fact, and upto certain level succeed, while it's hype isn't too high for people like actual Flagship which represents it's core values, while MINIs don't.

MINIs just represent how a think can be shrinked down, to make it little affordable for public. When a MINI is launched it retains some of the flagship trademark like Aluminium body of HTC ONE(M7) with HTC ONE Mini. However, I'd say behind every MINI follows hypocrisy, specially during it's advertisements to a certain level and more-less towards  the newspapers we read. And during starting weeks of the launch of MINIs, manufacturers spread the ethics of hypithesis. I'm not criticising MINIs, it's just a general reality.

Not equally treated like the actual Flagship 

 

It's true that FLAGSHIP is treated like Nexus, I mean  with royalty. Its simply because, to release a update requires a lot of human effort and optimisation as per different carriers, different countries and up to a certain level lot of sweat. And since Android updates are for free, Mid rangers are generally ignored. Just imagine if you were asked to pay for the update, what you'd do ? So the effort behind developing a update can be recovered with the price of FLAGSHIP, as the actual production is less than what we purchase in the market, even at the whole sale price.

MINIs as per current scenario, get updates, but up to certain level. All I meant to say is MINIs get updates more than MID RANGERS and Less than Flagships. Like HTC ONE M7 was launched with Android4.1 and currently it's running on Kitkat. Its younger brother HTC ONE MINI was launched with Android 4.2 and is also running on KitKat currently. However you can expect the future updates for HTC ONE, but not got ONE Mini.

MINIs are sometimes medium speced devices with higher price 

Let's take HTC ONE MINI in mind. It has 1.4dual core processor, 1 GB Ram, and 720p display. You say the specs are of medium ranger device. But the device was launched with the price of about 33k INR and is now available for about 29k INR. The price of high in terms of spec, but due to aluminium construction and 4 Ultra Pixel camera, the price went up though retaining the true signature of it's predecessor HTC ONE m7 . The same is the case with s4 mini.

 

However, Sony's is still not  in MINIs business..

Should Samsung Drop Android for Tizen ?

 

As we all know , Samsung is working on it's tizen OS for a while . And frankly there are no Mobile devices running it , but Samsung slowly is releasing this OS with a camera and now with the Samsung Gear devices . With this Samsung is slowly releasing the fact that Tizen will be a major OS in the Samsung devices . Currently its in developing stage . No one can get rid of the fact that the royalty that Samsung has in terms of Mobile services is because success of Galaxy Series  which runs on Android yeah !

 

And without that nothing could have happened . But with this one question arises ? After the Tizen is fully developed Will Samsung drop Android ? There are two types of answers obviously : Yes or No , and it may differ from people to people . But in my case No , never . Samsung over it's development years has realised the importance of Android , and they can never afford to do that and risk their market share . Every new thing needs new time to mature and so will be Tizen . It will at-least be 3 years more for the apps development which will the major issue .

 

Tizen apps are coded via C++ and the extension .tpk , while Android apps are coded in Java with the .apk extension , which directly makes impossible to run apks on it . But through the app called APCL , it is possible to run .apk within .tpk . Well that proves that there will be no problem of apps for Tizen guys until the OS is fully developed . Read my article about IS ANDROID THE BASE OF APPS FOR EVERY NEW OR UPCOMING OPERATING SYSTEM'S? here . Samsung want's to be leader in every sector of technology , right ?

 

Imagine if he a Tizen phone is launched , but it's sales won't be as high as Galaxy series , which is famous specially in India , capturing many areas of market . Android soon will be the leading OS in the world , due it's increasing popularity . There are two situations that Samsung not may , it will face : 1.Whether to drop Android 2. Use it along with Tizen . 2nd situation feels much more logical . Samsung from it's existence is known to take advantage of every thing possible  and it really makes everything Consumer Appealing . Hopes are high from Samsung and there's no melodrama expected from them.

 

The bright side maybe not to drop Android completely , but use it to it's core until the full maturation of Tizen and to launch the both version of it's flagships running Android and Tizen ,and to allow to run .apks within .tpks

 

[Note : Featured image from Tizen's official website]

Galaxy Golden now available on Flipkart for 29,999 INR ( $498.53 )!

 

 

Samsung maybe in October or November launched this phone at a loyalty price of 51,900 INR . It was the first Android Phone , that was ever seen . It was kinda weird and the flip concept of the phones  died few years ago  . It wasn't the powerhouse though , average specs between high end and low end device   . And the world wasn't sure for what this phone was meant for . This phone had dual touch screen , with a kind of gold finish at the back

 

But , now , this phone is available on Flipkart as well as Snapdeal for around 29,999 INR , strange ! right? And there's no official word from Samsung about his price cut  . However , it is worthy to be noted that Galaxy Note 3 Neo also received the  price cut from about 38 INR to 33 INR .

 

Key Sepcs :

• 1.7 dual core processor


• 1.5 gb ram


• dual touch screen display


• 1820mAH battery


• Android 4.2 JB ( out of the box)


• 8MP rear camera

 

Source : NDTV Gadgets

Is Google really thinking Android as open source ?

This is the thought , for what most of the customers and people out there have sympathy for . For every upcoming OS , apps're a necessary thing , otherwise though OS is good , but it becomes boring as we spend time with it . While we know , Android is the most portable OS in the world , which can adjust itself to any environment , its advantages are uncountable . Like What Nokia did with X line  . That  undoubtedly proves that Android is Open - Source . Though this term is questioned sometimes by people  ,  like now Google is asking manufacturers to have Powered By Android branding during phone boot up  and Google removing Cyanogen Mod app from the Google Play Store . Well the answer given by Google wasn't practical at all - " THE APP WAS HELPING PEOPLE VIOLATE THE PLAY STORE POLICIES AND EVEN VIOLATE THEIR WARRANTY "

 

Also previously there were reports that Samsung may kill Magazine UX  , to promote Google Services as some kind of deal with between two . Also there are reports saying Samsung to completely be with Tizen , killing Android . But that strategy is confusing , because that's huge risk that  Samsung is taking on , as Samsung became famous due to Android , right ? The Cyanogen Mod app removal from Play Store was the first step of doubt , that whether Google is really thinking Android as open source . While third party devs , make the use of it's friendly environment to it's core .

 

While the Open Source word is truly confirmed by the JOLLA , Blackberry people . Their OS like Sailfish and BB10.2 .1  can run apks and you can side-load them to the device   , which is the same case with Nokia X line-up which is running on Android Open Source Project  .  While there were rumours about Windows Phone 8.1 may have apk support , but that may not be true at all or maybe , let's see .

 

All the above said facts , conclude that Google is considering Android to be Open Source , but at some points don't !

 

 

Samsung Galaxy s5 psychology round-up

Samsung recently announced it's Samsung Galaxy S5 , and also yesterday or day before yesterday , launched it's flagship in India , but prices aren't revealed yet .. Many bloggers covering the S5 event , were not amused with Galaxy S5 , as the phone received an average rating . Well , Samsung people were confused while making decisions  for Galaxy S5 , weren't they ?

Samsung releases a triple SIM Phone - Galaxy Star Trios , listed on Brazilian site

Samsung has listed Samsung Start Trio - the triple sim phone on company's Brazilian site following LG ( in Brazil) . However there 's no news about pricing as well as availability of the device . It is Samsung's first triple sim phone  , following LG . It's a pretty low-end device in terms of specs , so performance may not be that smooth as you would expect  ..

Two Important points for Android's great and great success : 1. Free and 2. Freedom

 It's now about 5 years when world's first Android Phone was released in Oct or Sep 2008 . That was HTC Dream ladies and gentleman. It was running Android 1.0 and later up to Android 1.6 . iPHONE 1 was released in 2007 and as we are quite aware , Apple went to fill their bank accounts with millions and millions dollars that were made by iPHONE's huge and huge success.Android Inc. was taken over by Google later google started developing it. As my title mentions FREE and FREEDOM.  Since 2008 to 13 , Android at a light year speed has gone to almost one person of a family and it's growing fast and fast enough. Android's PLAY STORE is also considerably developing fast. It may take over iOS's APP Store.

Rumors about Nokia's BUDGET ANDROID ! Examining facts

Last two months about +Nokia's rumors had been at the top stage in the world? Is Nokia really working on a Android , well budget or expensive tends to be the side story , is Nokia really on ANDROID is the main story . Well first shots leaked 'bout the Nokia's Android guy , then via NDTV Gadgets , news was spread 'bout Nokia dropping the idea of Android and working on the wearables and then again some shots leaked 'bout Nokia's dual sim MoneyPenny  dual sim Windows Phone phone and Nokia's BUDGET Android phone .. Well , Nokia actually went with Windows Phone considering it's different from  Samsung that was mining Android with it's smartphones ocean , and actually thought of developing Windows Phone , to which it succeeded to the level , that was actually wasn't expected by the people . Actually Windows Phone developed  because of Nokia .

How Android is taking over the world !

It wasn't too far , 2008 , the world's first Android phone came out , HTC Dream , though Android 1.0 eclairs was far behind in ethics and functionality  on comparing with today's KitKat and older verions , it was definitely better than Microsoft's Kin series which was a total bullshit and a commercial failure .. iOS was one of the game changer since 2007 , and then came the competitor Android  and ya , some features really made the Android stand apart from earlier versions of iOS that wasn't really named as iOS , but used to come in the first gen iPhone ...HTC DREAM .......

What is Samsung's psychology behind launching phones ?

+Samsung Mobile  is the world's one of the most respected  mobile brand and in the world it's kicking it's sales record every year , leaving  Steve Job's  Apple behind ..... The one thing which most the people would have noticed is what is Samsung's psychology that made it's success in the world surpassing other brands .............In my case , India when Samsung actually Indian market with Videocon partnership , it's promise was about being a leading manufacturer in India within a decade or 2 decadee , that was actually in the year 1993 or maybe 1995 .... Now it's 10 days left to 2014 , and it's about 19 years since it's debu ( taking 2014 as base) , and in India  it's now the leading mobile manufacturer , leaving Apple and all other stuff behind ..
Getting huge profit , i in this article won't be talking about other Samsung products , but only Mobile ...

Samsung Galaxy Grand Updated to Android 4.2 ! What's new ( First Blog post)

Actually i wasn't expecting this , much favor from the +Samsung Mobile  regarding updates which it redirects to phones from it's servers ........... But users of the Galaxy Grand were in favor and they finally were blessed with an Android 4.2 update from the Korean Manufacturer , so what's new ? Let's find out ........