Nokia Offers Real Time Traffic Updates In Mumbai & Delhi
Nokia has launched a real time traffic updates service for Maps / Drive applications on Symbian and Windows Phone devices .
The service is currently available in Delhi & Mumbai and will be launching in other cities later .
Nokia says it has covered 1500 Km of roads across these two cities . The service can be activated by updating the Maps application .
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Dell Quits Smartphone Sales In US For Now
Dell has confirmed in a statement that it is has backed out of smartphones in the US market .
Dell will stop pushing its Android based Venue and Windows Phone based Venue Pro saying they had " run their course " .
However dell will not quit smartphone business , and will later release more devices during late 2012 .
Dell can possibly reenter the market with Windows 8 based tablets later this year.
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Google Drive Will Give 5GB Free Cloud Storage
Leaked screenshot of Google Drive suggests that the service will have 5GB of free cloud storage .
TalkAndroid also says that the service will be launching in the week of April 16th . While previous rumors suggested free space of 1GB and 2GB , 5GB sounds better .
More information about how Drive will integrate with other Google services and what functionality it will offer is not known yet.
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Nokia Carla Screenshots Leak Revealing New Browser And Keyboard
The upcoming update to Nokia Belle OS codenamed " Carla" appeared in leaked screenshots .
The screenshots show the improvements and UI changes . The on screen keyboard is slightly modified ,
Browser is also updated to a new version , Music player also has refreshed UI and lock screen now has swipe to unlock instead of unlock button .
Nokia Carla OS will be coming to native Nokia Belle devices which are Nokia 603 , 700 , 701 and Nokia 808 PureView .
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Use Your Phone's Front Camera As a Joystick
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZC8fX1HHx3A[/media]
Some games are really difficult to be played using on screen joysticks .
Researchers at Keiko University have developed a joystick that uses front video camera of smatphone or tablet .
The elastic joystick sits over the front camera and can be physically moved in any direction , which causes it to deform and markers on the underside of it are traced by video camera . Translating into physical motions in the game . However , it will require special software support for the joystick to work , and it will have processing overhead for tracking motions using the camera .
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Nokia has launched a real time traffic updates service for Maps / Drive applications on Symbian and Windows Phone devices .
The service is currently available in Delhi & Mumbai and will be launching in other cities later .
Nokia says it has covered 1500 Km of roads across these two cities . The service can be activated by updating the Maps application .
Source
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Dell Quits Smartphone Sales In US For Now
Dell has confirmed in a statement that it is has backed out of smartphones in the US market .
Dell will stop pushing its Android based Venue and Windows Phone based Venue Pro saying they had " run their course " .
However dell will not quit smartphone business , and will later release more devices during late 2012 .
Dell can possibly reenter the market with Windows 8 based tablets later this year.
Source
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Google Drive Will Give 5GB Free Cloud Storage
Leaked screenshot of Google Drive suggests that the service will have 5GB of free cloud storage .
TalkAndroid also says that the service will be launching in the week of April 16th . While previous rumors suggested free space of 1GB and 2GB , 5GB sounds better .
More information about how Drive will integrate with other Google services and what functionality it will offer is not known yet.
Source
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Nokia Carla Screenshots Leak Revealing New Browser And Keyboard
The upcoming update to Nokia Belle OS codenamed " Carla" appeared in leaked screenshots .
The screenshots show the improvements and UI changes . The on screen keyboard is slightly modified ,
Browser is also updated to a new version , Music player also has refreshed UI and lock screen now has swipe to unlock instead of unlock button .
Nokia Carla OS will be coming to native Nokia Belle devices which are Nokia 603 , 700 , 701 and Nokia 808 PureView .
Source
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Use Your Phone's Front Camera As a Joystick
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZC8fX1HHx3A[/media]
Some games are really difficult to be played using on screen joysticks .
Researchers at Keiko University have developed a joystick that uses front video camera of smatphone or tablet .
The elastic joystick sits over the front camera and can be physically moved in any direction , which causes it to deform and markers on the underside of it are traced by video camera . Translating into physical motions in the game . However , it will require special software support for the joystick to work , and it will have processing overhead for tracking motions using the camera .
Source
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Click here to view the article