According to the stats revealed by various sources, RAZR MAXX boasts an impressive eight hours and twenty five minutes. On part of Motorola’s 4G Droidzilla, it is a huge achievement where it has beaten many of its other competitors which, despite being 3G, cannot match MAXX’s battery life. 4G LTE phones are notorious for their short battery life. In some phones, this battery life does not even have the power to last more than four hours. In speed however, these 4G LTE phones are blazing fast as compared to their 3G counterparts. Despite the high speed, ridiculously weak battery life was a prize consumers were not prepared to pay.

For months now, manufacturers have been experimenting with the different forms of lithium batteries, trying to eke more power out of it. Motorola, by no means the first mover in this regard has come on top. With smartphones getting slimmer and slimmer everyday, decreased battery life was a problem that came with the sleek devices. Motorola however, has been able to pack a mind boggling 3,300 mAH battery in its (still) razor thin RAZR MAXX.

Motorola was one company which was facing massive competition from left, right and centre. They have certainly upped their game with a series of impressive Android devices after which, the company finds itself in the league of the big players which include several notable smartphone manufacturers.

According to several news reports, the release of Samsung Galaxy SIII is expected in the first quarter of 2012. With that being just around the corner, Android fans are avidly waiting for the big news.  To date, Galaxy SI and SII have been the most powerful devices to have come out of Samsung’s factory and both of these phones have given Apple’s much hyped iPhone a tough competition. Many neutral sources even ranked Samsung’s Galaxy a mark above the iPhone. The Galaxy series of Samsung has received a very encouraging response.

Although Samsung’s Galaxy SIII was rumoured to be released in the first quarter of 2012 but the latest reports have hinted that Korean company does not plan to go ahead with the launching of the phone until April. Some of the other rumours regarding the specifications of the phone make it very clear that SIII will definitely be the most powerful machine thus far. With a 12 MP camera and a 1.5 GHz quad-core processor, SIII might just claim the biggest chunk of market share once it is released. Its mammoth HD screen, which is one of the most praised features of its predecessor SII, already has many raving for the upcoming mega device.

All the specifications of SIII and even the release date are still unconfirmed but Samsung has the knack of surprising people. We will have to wait and see just how pleasant SIII’s surprise will be for Android fans.

Avail your warranty

Many of us think of using the mobile phone warranty only when our handset bothers us. Mostly, the mobile phone dealers and distributors offer warranty for mobile phone accessories as well. The warranty period for such accessories is shorter than that for mobile phone and if you somehow damage your battery and charger within this period make sure to first check the warranty and later consider other options.

Check your source

Not all sellers and resellers opt for selling cheap replicas and fake goods and are therefore, well reputed among the regular customers. A little research or simple discussion with friends can lead you to one such seller who you can trust for buying genuine batteries and chargers. A sound reference also works fine in such situation but an authentic seller remains the best way to buy original items.

Examine closely

While buying a so-called original chargers and batteries, you are advised to watch it closely. If you have had examined and inspected the original charger and accessories, you would be unable to distinguish between the fake and real ones. One thing, however, that can still help you here is the quality of outer coating, smoothness of the edges, reading on the label, logo, and most of all weight of the chargers and batteries. A fake charger and battery is heavier than the original one. Having a closer look at the battery and charger is likely to help you in buying the original items.

Price also matters

Price is a big factor that separates a genuine item from the fake one. Some mobile phone retailers and distributors boldly sell the fake items on the rates of original ones and make it difficult for regular buyers to suspect the deal. In most cases, to stay on safer end, such distributors sell the replicas on lower rates. The reason for low price is of course the usage of cheap raw material and unsafe technology used in these items. Various other factors reduce the production cost of fake batteries and charges.

Now the year 2012 is in front of us with full of promises and speculations as mobile manufacturing companies trying to develop the technology of state of the art. It is expected that Android based mobiles and iPhone will have tough competition as both companies are trying their level best to become the leading manufacturers. From the beginning of mobile age Nokia has attracted a loyal fan base for its wide array of attractively styled mobile phones that team high-end functions with user friendly interfaces. Nokia has just held the top spot in mobile phone industry due to the reliability and toughness of its sets but now as it has its competitor Apple and android based mobile companies has been manufacturing more high tech sets with unmatchable facilities and applications.

Apple is the most popular mobile manufacturing company these days. The company, during its first iPhone launch sold some 270,000 iPhones in the first 30 hours alone. iPhones have become choice of many people and captured the whole market due to their brilliant multi-touch screens, easy user interfaces, gorgeous looks, high-grade cameras, great media player and fantastic selection of apps; it also offers super fast 3G web browsing and push e-mail etc. Apple has launched its various iPhones with wide variety of storage form 16GB up to 64 GB with the services of 2G, 3G and 4G. In 2011 Apple has also launched its most awaited iphone 4S, which is another break through for Apple. The new iPhone 4S is loaded with awesome new features like face recognition system, SIRI, extreme downloading and video chat on 3G and 4G which will be no longer restricted to WiFi only.

Besides Apple, Samsung, HTC and Sony Ericsson are also striding hard to become market competitors. Samsung’s Glaxey SII is surely the most popular smart phone in the market. With various other high-end smart phones from other manufacturers as well. In the coming year 2012, we expect many other breakthrough mobiles from Apple and Samsung. In short, we can say that mobile phone manufacturing companies will take flawless lead in 2011.

Recent statistics for a website showed that more traffic is attracted by the Android phones as compared to the iPhone. Visits for the Android users grew to almost 350 percent from the end of 2008 till the ends of 2009 whereas the visitors for iphone grew by only 170 percent. People are always looking for more advance applications, games and software’s for their Android handsets whereas iPhone users made less downloads to their cell phones. This clearly shows that the Android cell phones are attracting people’s attention towards advance technology more effectively.

Although, these statistics show quite positive signs for Google Android, there could be some reasons where it may fail to acquire the greater market share. This may happen because most of the people are not concerned about the software. They just look at how appealing a cell phone is in terms of its design and shapes. Fewer limitations in a cell phone do not matter for people who are not technical savvy and they just neglect these limitations, if the cell phone is attractive. We know that iPhone has made its ground and is widely acceptable for the users despite of its limitations but Android’s success will depend a lot on its cell phone models. Nobody can guarantee as to which cell phone is going to be accepted in the market and which one is not. However, the statistics seems to be going in the favor of Google Android.

In order to build up monopoly in the market and sell more and more devices, the manufacturers are in a leg-pulling race to compete other manufacturers with better and better graphics capabilities with dedicated processors. To attain high quality graphics of games in mobile phones, manufacturers have to enable mobiles to paint hundreds of thousands of pixels at same time and not only 2D pictures or videos but also rendering of complex 3D environments.

Qualcomm and Nvidia are two most famous chip set manufacturers and are putting up their best efforts to make mobile graphics better for ultimate gaming experience. In 2009, Qualcomm bought graphics operations of AMD to enhance its capabilities. ARM is considered to be the manufacturer of world’s most smart phones’ general-purpose processor has also been lately putting great emphasis on its graphics processors. Nvidia on other hand is a most popular graphics chips producer of computers has also jumped in mobile graphics processors. According to a senior official of Nvidia, we have noticed lately that mobile phone is all about its display and purely relies on graphical interface to interact with user.

One of the biggest challenges faced by companies like Qualcomm and Nvidia was to develop graphics processors for mobiles and provide advanced processing without draining battery in 20 minutes. On other hand in computers, the graphic cards are beefed up with power supplies and cooling fans. However, the companies managed develop advanced graphics processors, which render same complex scenes and use less than one percent of energy as compared to desktop graphic cards.

With due efforts, manufacturers of graphics processors have now reached the same level as of gaming consoles. Now gamers connect their mobile phones with big screens and play games like pros.

Our clients cannot be pried out from their computers in order for us to work on what it is needed and having a centralized place from where to work reduces both costs and effort. This is why the idea of mobile remote support is so basic that is almost taken for granted at this point. This is also why it is so estrange that even when sometimes most of the work is done on a mobile device; the idea of smartphone remote support has not caught on as strongly.

Think about it, the same ideas that applied to needing a remotely based support are exacerbated on a smartphone. The remote access for mobiles phones is a must if our clients are with their “computers” (incidentally shaped like phones) most of the time. If something goes wrong or if is that time to change anything, a visit or a drop-off can become a nightmare. Smartphone remote support is a technology that can save IT professionals and their clients many headaches and most importantly; money.

Now, the idea in itself seems grandiose but in order to achieve actual remote access for mobile phones, the “access” part is always a complication. The number of combinations between the mobile device’s OS and the operator’s computer can be an interesting number game for lunch. The fact is that when using smartphone remote support the service that you rely on must be able to handle all OS’s be it mobile or not.  Thankfully, the services available get rid of this issue with comprehensive multi-platform support and other perks. Remember that not everyone in the company is going to be confortable with a single smartphone and as long as we are not dealing with public officials, most people like to have only one device for all of their needs.

I’d like to think that smartphone remote support will become a basic fixture in all of the IT’s agendas very quickly. As I mentioned before, it is a powerful tool which has already become more than the standard for the industry in all other types of devices. Remote access for mobile phones should start to be regarded in the same way and in that manner save us all from the inconveniences that we’ve already surpassed on devices which are not smartphones.

iPhone 4S is powered with the A5 processor, which is a dual core chip used in iPad 2. It has 800 MHz clock speed with RAM of 512 MB and maximum available storage up to 64 GB. The new iPhone 4S is a quadband supporting UMTS, HSDPA, HSUPA, GSM and EDGE. The front display is the same 3.5-inch 960 x 640 Retina display. It has 326ppi (pixels per inch) which is surly a cool thing to have as it is the highest quality in today’s available mobiles.

From software perspective also, iPhone 4S is a giant with iOS 5 running in it. iOS 5 made many minor and some major improvements and enhancements. The important thing to talk here is Siri, the digital helper. It is only found in iPhone 4S which makes other iPhone users jealous of it. Due to heavy data of voice recognition, Siri require heavy processing which is only possible in A5 processor and to use it, you will need an active data connection.

Siri can literally do a lot of things that we can’t even imagine, it can send messages, emails, find restaurants, get directions, check weather updates and much more. The best thing about Siri is that it can understand the casually spoken accent. The more interesting thing is that it can guess from context that what a person is trying to say. For instance, if you want to send message to your wife to remind her to pick dogs from boarding while going from work to home, you will just say ‘ tell my wife don’t forget the dogs’ and Siri will send message to your wife ’don’t forget the dogs’.

iPhone 4S also have a longer battery life due to bigger battery. The camera of iPhone 4S is also one of the best camera in market. The camera has quite fast speed for capturing images. In short, we can say that iPhone 4S is right now the best smart phone in the market and you should surly get your hands on this smart phone.

Although the application can be used in Britain, it should really prove its salt when users are abroad. It’s powered by Wi-Fi service Boingo, which includes over a million hotspots worldwide. These hotspots include public areas like airports, hotels, bars and restaurants.

It also appears to be very straightforward to operate, you don’t have to continually add your card details every time you log in and the charges are not allegedly for a prepaid chunk of data or time. Instead, the application tells you how much it will cost you to log on and you can spend as much data or time on that connection as you want. You pay by the minute.

There have been plenty of horror stories connected with consumers unwittingly drumming up obscene roaming charges abroad in recent years. Although some telcos have a built in cap which kicks in if the user strays over a paying threshold, there are many reported instances and situations which have become extremely costly.

Users would need a Skype account to use it, and an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch running iOS 4.1. The application is free from the Apple Store, and connection prices vary from country to country. At the time of writing, Spain, US and UK all start at 3p per minute but the average rate is 11p a minute. Users who buy cheap PAYG mobiles to go abroad with to avoid data roaming can now rethink their strategy.

Keeping this fact in mind, a new app has been designed that helps drivers to find their desired locations while keeping their attention directly on the road. The app, Wikitude Drive works on Android OS and navigates the driver via camera images of actual road, it also helps driver to avoid any kind of obstacle as it will be visible on camera. The app extracts information from various sites like Wikipedia, Foursquare, Yelp and other online portals. It then collects the points of interest of user such as, restaurants, gas pumps, hotels, shops, etc. The app uses GPS and digital compass (built into many smart phones) to mark exact destinations displayed on screen. This technique is called augmented reality and was long awaited by the manufacturers of this app. According to them the main idea was to draw the driving instructions directly into reality rather than abstract map.

According to a research, when the eyes of driver are off the road for even one second to look at GPS map while driving at 100 Km per hour, the driver is blind for 28 meters, which makes 92 feet. It is obvious that it take at least two or three seconds to understand where to go, which makes driver unable to see what is happening on the road. This app is warmly welcomed as it has tried to solve major traffic safety concern. Now the suppliers of this app has launched it around the world for mainly Android smart phones but some other smart phones are also supported.