Sony C6603 Yuga Release Date Pegged for February 2013: A Big Threat to Samsung Galaxy Note 2?

 

Japanese phone maker Sony launched its hot selling flagship smartphone in India, the Xperia S, at CES in 2012, following its split with Ericsson. A couple of months back the company finally unveiled its much talked about Sony Xperia SL at IFA in Berlin, which is also now available in India and is designed by Sony to give stiff rivalry to the smartphone behemoths like Apple iPhone 5 and Samsung Galaxy S3. To some extent the Rs 30,000 priced smartphone is proving itself to portray high competition in the premium Android market. 

However, now the Xperia lineup creator is in news againfor its mammoth 5-inch C6603 Yuga device, which has been recently leaked in the tech arena by a Android Schweiz report boasting a crisp 1080p HD display and a sharp rectangular body. The upcoming device is claimed to be coming with 1.5GHz quad core processor, 2GB RAM, 12MP rear camera and a v5 inch HD display with 1794 x 1080 pixel resolution. 

Also, from the images leaked it is easy to chalk out that the device has a unibody design, which futher means, Yuga will have a non-removable battery. Moving on, reportedly the phablet will have a glass clad back panel similar to iPhone 4/4S and Nexus 4 with glass backs. Besides that the device has some pretty thin bezels and looks like a high-quality device. 

As of now, there is no confirmation from Sony’s end on the pricing and the existence of the Yuga phablet. However, rumors suggests that Sony might launch the new flagship device at the Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona scheduled for February 2013. 

Well, these are still not the final specs of the upcoming Sony Yuga phablet and there are increased chances of variation at the time of launch, however, if the rumors turn out to be true, the new Sony phablet will sizzle the market condition s of the phablet category, and the top sales maker that, Samsung Galaxy Note 2 will get most affected.

Also unveiled at IFA 2012 event in Berlin on August 29, Samsung Galaxy Note 2 reached the Indian shores in September at a price of Rs 39,990 boasting 5.5 inch Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen display with 1280 x 720 pixel resolution, 1.6GHz quad core processor, 2GB RAM, micro SD card slot supporting 32GB, 8MP rear camera, 1.9MP front camera, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, DLNA, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi hotspot, Bluetooth with A2DP and a massive 3,100 mAh Li-ion battery.

Flaunting its phablet USP, Note 2 has an improved stylus with a rubbed tip for better touch response. Also, the Air View feature of the device lets the users control it by hovering the S-Pen stylus over the display without touching.

As the Galaxy Note 2 is based on the design of the Galaxy S3, it has some key features that are available in the latter including improved handwriting recognition, Photo Note, AllShare Play & AllShare Cast, Samsung TouchWiz, Samsung Kies Air, Smart Stay, Direct Call and Screen Recorder.

Source: http://www.gizbot.com

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Best Mobile Events 2013

Based on their success in 2012 it is safe to say these are the best mobile events for next year:

The Mobile Show

This is a Conference and exhibition that will take place in April of next year in Dubai, about the best mobile innovations. It’s widely considered the largest mobile solutions and technology show and it’s aimed at professionals who might be interested in purchasing mobile app development technologies, mobile commerce technologies, mobile advertising solutions, mobile content strategies, mobile health technologies and Mobile enterprise technologies.

Mobile World Congress 2013

This congress which will be held in Fira Gran Via, in Barcelona, Spain, from February the 25th to February the 28th, is the world’s largest mobile industry event. More than 67,000 industry senior-level executives and professionals attended it this year so it’s supposed to be even better this year. 1,500 companies will contribute by showing their latest mobile innovations to make this the largest mobile Exhibition in the world.

Mobile Apps Showdown

This exhibition which will be held on January the tenth consists of different app producers showing their apps and putting them to text. If you’re an app fanatic I advise you to go to find out about the latest apps and if you’re an app producer make sure you have your space at the show to show up your app.

Apps World NorthAmerica 2013

This congress will be held at Moscone Center West, San Francisco on February the seventh and February the eighth. It will give you an insight to some of the world top technology brands. 5000 developers, device manufacturers, mobile operators, mobile marketers, industry professionals and platform owners are expected to turn up so if you think it will interest you don’t doubt to sign up.

Apps World Europe 2013

This congress will be held in London, at Earls Court nº2 on October 22 and 23. This great event will bring together , operators, platform providers, marketers and developers for international brands who will give us insight into the mobile and technologies industry.

Appsters awards

2013 will be the year of the second Appsters awards. It will be held in Roof Gardens in Kensington and will choose the best bapps accross 12 categories. App quality is guaranteed because the AQuA (App Quality Alliance) will put each app through a severe control test. If you’re into apps or part of the app world this is really a must-attend thing. 

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MWC 2013 Barcelona Will Have Mobile World Live TV Again

The award-winning Mobile World Live TV will return in 2013 to broadcast live from Mobile World Congress via a dedicated channel across Catalonia, reaching over 100 attendee hotels and 19,000 bedrooms. Mobile World Live TV will also be available to more than 70,000 event attendees throughout the event via numerous monitors strategically located within the Fira Gran Via venue. In addition, the channel will be streamed live to our selection of apps and to the Mobile World Live website.

What’s On?

Programming on Mobile World Live TV will feature live interviews with C-Level executives and industry luminaries, news bulletins, panel discussions on hot topics with industry specialists, product launches and on-the-ground reporting from all major press events.

Our Mobile World Live keynote programmes will also return in 2013. In 2012 Mobile World Live TV broadcast exclusive keynotes from Ericsson, Ford and Google.

Check out the 2012 Mobile World Live TV broadcast here.

Get Involved

Advertising opportunities for Mobile World Live TV are still available. We also welcome editorial pitches. We are open to receiving interview requests, information about your product launches or device demos, and submissions to be included on our wide-ranging panel discussion sessions. Contact the MWL editorial team today to get involved.  Click here to learn more about advertising on Mobile World Live.

About Mobile World Live TV

Mobile World Live TV is brought to you by Mobile World Live, an online B2B service dedicated to providing the mobile industry with daily news coverage and analysis of the biggest global market developments, complemented by weekly video content offering exclusive interview access to the highest-profile C-Level executives in our industry, as well as special features that analyse mobile’s most topical issues.

Launched in 2010 and now visited by up to 200,000 unique monthly users, www.mobileworldlive.com has established itself as the industry’s most respected online portal for the mobile communications industry.

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Barcelona GSMA MWC 2013 - A Virtual Fly-Through of FIRA Gran Via

Here is a virtual fly through of the new Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2013 venue.

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Android seen in 75% of smartphones

The Android OS accounted for three out of every four smartphones shipped in Q3, according to new figures from IDC.

The firm says that Android smartphone shipments worldwide reached 136.0 million units in the period, accounting for 75 percent of the 181.1 million smartphones shipped. The year-on-year growth rate was 91.5 percent, nearly double the overall market growth rate of 46.4 percent.

"Android has been one of the primary growth engines of the smartphone market since it was launched in 2008," said IDC’s Ramon Llamas. "In every year since then, Android has effectively outpaced the market and taken market share from the competition.”

Apple’s iOS was a distant second place to Android on 26.9 million, but was the only other mobile OS to amass double-digit market share for the quarter (14.9 percent).

Phones running BlackBerry (4.3 percent), Symbian (2.3 percent), Windows (2 percent) and Linux (1.5 percent) accounted for the remainder.

IDC: Top-6 smartphone mobile operating systems, shipments, and market share, 3Q12 (m units)
Operating system	3Q12 shipments	3Q12 market share	3Q11 shipments	3Q11 market share	Y/Y shipment change
Android	136.0	75.0%	71.0	57.5%	91.5%
iOS	26.9	14.9%	17.1	13.8%	57.3%
BlackBerry	7.7	4.3%	11.8	9.5%	-34.7%
Symbian	4.1	2.3%	18.1	14.6%	-77.3%
Windows Phone 7/ Windows Mobile	3.6	2.0%	1.5	1.2%	140.0%
Linux	2.8	1.5%	4.1	3.3%	-31.7%
Others	0.0	0.0%	0.1	0.1%	-100.0%
Total	181.1	100.0%	123.7	100.0%	46.4%

"The share decline of smartphone operating systems not named iOS since Android's introduction isn't a coincidence," said IDC’s Kevin Restivo. "The smartphone operating system isn't an isolated product, it's a crucial part of a larger technology ecosystem. Google has a thriving, multi-faceted product portfolio. Many of its competitors, with weaker tie-ins to the mobile OS, do not. This factor and others have led to loss of share for competitors with few exceptions."

Source:http://www.mobilebusinessbriefing.com and IDC 

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Mobile World Congress Barcelona Leadership Summit 2013

The GSMA Leadership Summit is an exclusive, invitation-only event taking place on the afternoon of Monday, 25 February 2013 at Fira Gran Via, the new home of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

The Leadership Summit is a unique event where CEOs and government ministers from around the world gather to discuss industry priorities with their peers in a private setting. We expect that this year’s event will bring together approximately 500 attendees, including CEOs and board members from mobile operators and vendors and ministers and senior government representatives from around the world.

Under the theme of “Mobile: Creating New Value”, this year’s Leadership Summit will explore the critical economic, investment and innovation issues facing the mobile industry and will offer perspectives on how mobile can create a Connected Economy that delivers greater value for consumers, businesses, governments and for players across the mobile ecosystem.

The Leadership Summit programme will feature a series of thought-provoking keynote speeches, as well as a dynamic, interactive panel session focusing on “New Opportunities for Innovation”.

The Agenda will be as follows:

 

 

13:00	Leadership Summit Attendee Arrival
13:00-14:00	Networking Lunch
14:00-15:45	Welcome and Opening Address Keynote 1 – Global Economic Perspective Keynote 2 – Investment Perspective Keynote 3 – Innovation Perspective
15:45-16:15	Networking and Refreshment Break
16:15-17:45	Panel Discussion - New Opportunities for Innovation Against the backdrop of the continued global economic downturn, the world’s mobile operators face greater challenges than ever before. As the number of mobile connections worldwide continues to steadily climb and mobile network traffic explodes, how are operators dealing with new burdens on network infrastructure and the implications for established business models? In a rapidly evolving market filled with traditional and non-traditional competitors, how can operators ensure their central role in the mobile value chain? Is it possible for operators to gain an innovation edge in today’s Internet-speed world? This wide-ranging session will address these pressing topics, among many others.
17:45-17:55	Chairman’s Award Presentation
17:55-18:00	Closing Remarks
18:00-19:30	Cocktail Reception

 

Source: http://www.mobileworldcongress.com

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Information on Smartphone Screens and Colour Fidelity

 

A touchscreen is the central feature of any smartphone these days, but not many handset displays actually manage to reproduce colours accurately. Let's take a look at how a few of the latest models compare. 

Whether watching a video, surfing the web, sending photos to your friends or simply making a call, the touchscreen is a key feature in any modern multimedia-enabled smartphone—along with the processor, of course. Mobile phone screens keep getting bigger and bigger in size, and contrast has improved over time to reach a respectable level in both high-end and entry-level handsets. Smartphone screen viewing angles are usually wide enough keep things easy for users to see, but colour fidelity still tends to vary considerably from one handset to another.

Bright, eye-catching colours are evidently still supposed to appeal to unsavvy consumers. Just take a walk around your local TV shop and you'll see the extent to which manufacturers use gaudy 'in store' colour settings to grab our attention. The same is true of certain smartphone screens, with colours that are so eye-popping they end up bordering on fluorescent. Compared with older smartphones, current screens may have been toned down to gain a certain amount of neutrality, but colour fidelity can still be quite different from one model to another. That's something we see every week when we measure the average Delta E of the smartphones we review.

Delta E measures colour fidelity. The Delta E should be as close to zero as possible—the lower the Delta E, the more accurately colours are reproduced. For smartphones, a good Delta E should be less than or equal to three. Past three, the higher the reading gets, the less accurate onscreen colours will be.

Some handsets, like the Galaxy S2 with its Super AMOLED screen, for example, have several picture modes (three, in fact) with different screen settings that in turn make the Delta E vary. Plus, the original black version of the phone has a Delta E of almost 15, whereas the white model that arrived later pushed that down to 6.8. That's slightly better than the older Galaxy S. Things are therefore clearly moving in the right direction, as OLED screens seem to be getting more neutral with their colour reproduction—although, to be honest, they couldn't get much worse!

The Apple iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S have very similar Delta E readings. Still, our sensor measured colours that were more accurate in the iPhone 4 than the 4S, which was released later. Plus, the 3GS—which doesn't have a Retina display like the more recent iPhones—does a little better with colour reproduction than the two more recent phones. The LCD iPhone screens therefore haven't got more accurate over time. We can only hope that the iPhone 5 (which is rumoured to have a 4-inch screen) does a better job.

Like with TVs, several types of screen technology can be found in today's smartphones. Apple has its own Retina technology, Samsung uses AMOLED (along with Nokia and HTC) and Super AMOLED, while Sony has borrowed the LCD technology from its Bravia TVs. Basically, all these types of technology give good overall results, with high contrast—even infinite contrast with AMOLED—and all have seen colour fidelity improve. However, there's still some way to go to get the sacred Delta E of three or under. But these high-tech, high-resolution screens are no longer reserved for top-of-the-range mobiles, as they're increasingly trickling down into mid-range models.

LCD vs AMOLED: Which Gives a More Accurate Image?

If we exclude the original, black Samsung Galaxy S2, tested at its initial time of release without using the various colour profiles (which we then tested in the updated white version), LCD and AMOLED technology work out at the following averages:

Perhaps because the technology is older and better mastered, LCD screens tend to give slightly more accurate results than AMOLED screens—with colours that are 20% more accurate, on average. However, there's hope for AMOLED yet, as the HTC One S AMOLED screen is almost as accurate as the LCD display in the One X. Almost ...

Let's hope that Samsung and LG will pay closer attention to the colour settings in their upcoming OLED TVs!

 

Where Next?

Like monitors 10 years ago, TVs five years ago and like laptop screens today, colour fidelity isn't at the top of smartphone manufacturers' lists of priorities. But they're starting to think about it, and starting to change things slowly but surely.

There's little doubt that sometime in the not too distant future, all mobiles will display accurate colours out of the box, as is the case with most monitors and TVs these days (in Cinema/Movie mode).

We very distinctly remember monitor and TV makers telling us our colour readings were pretty much pointless, as no-one cared about accurate colours. Today, however, no manufacturer worth its salt would launch a poorly calibrated TV or monitor. It just wouldn't be acceptable. Maybe soon it won't be for smartphones either ...

OLED For Higher Contrast 

Although colour fidelity seems to be generally a bit less accurate in OLED screens, this type of technology has the upper hand when it comes to contrast. In fact, contrast is so good it's practically infinite in OLED screens, thanks to a black that's pretty much perfect. LCD screens can't compete on that front. 

 

Source: http://www.digitalversus.com


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