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The Nokia touchscreen feature phone, Asha 300 is now available in the UK market. Unlocked Mobiles is selling the Nokia Asha 300 for £84.98 (VAT incl.) in unlocked and SIM-free version. This phone was officially announced in October 2011 together with Asha 303 phone. In India, the Asha 300 is already arriving since December last year. Inside, new Nokia Asha 300 phone sports a 1GHz processor, 128MB of RAM, 140MB of internal storage, and a microSD card slot. It packs a 2.4-inch resistive touchscreen display with 240 x 320 resolutions, a 5-megapixel camera, a 1,110mAh battery, and runs Nokia’s S40 OS. In term of connectivity, there are Bluetooth 2.1, 10.2Mbps HSDPA, and 2Mbps HSUPA. View the original article here

Amazon unveiled a pretty major update to their Cloud Player service that launched early last year. The update makes the Player more independent from Cloud Drive and offers a free, automatic audio quality upgrade, similar to iTunes Match. The audio upgrade program is pretty neat – music on your hard drive will be scanned and matching songs (that Amazon has the rights to) will be upgraded to a high-quality 256Kbps version and they won’t even have to be uploaded. That will work on songs already in your Cloud Drive (plus you can access the original files). From now on, when you buy a song from Amazon, it will be automatically be imported into Cloud Player too. Songs you’ve purchased previously will be imported too (again, if Amazon has the rights to do so). You can now manually edit track metadata, but you can also just use the data provided by Amazon for your imported tracks. Music used to be stored in Cloud Drive but now the Player will use separate dedicated storage. Your current track...

Posted in: Windows Phone July 29th, 2012, 13:47 by Kyle Many people were unhappy with the Windows Phone 7 lack of native screenshot capture support. It wasn’t the WP7’s deal breaker, but still it was a feature the competition was offering for quite some time. It seems Microsoft took the complaints seriously and Windows Phone 8 has native support for taking screenshots. The Windows Phone 8 emulator confirmed we will be able to take screenshots on the new Window Phones. It’s done by pressing the Start and the Camera keys, just as rumored (F2 and F7 in the emulator). The shots are saved in a dedicated Screenshots folder in the Picture Hub. We, as reviewers, are really happy to see this feature implemented into the WP8. We are sure developers would also appreciate it. But what about you, the regular users? Source • Via View the original article here

Smartphones, feature phones, mobile phones. What’s the difference? You may think it’s easy to distinguish between them all, but sometimes there’s not much difference between them. Here’s our breakdown of the three. As a rule of thumb, the best way to differentiate the three groups is to keep in mind its features and therefore, cost. If a phone just makes a phone call, sends a text message and offers very little else, it’s mobile phone. If it offers a high-megapixel camera, enables you to edit Microsoft Office documents and photos then it’s a smartphone. And anywhere in between is probably a feature phone. To explain things further, let’s look more in detail about the differences. Mobile phones These are usually the most affordable phones on the market. A great example of this is the Nokia 100. While a mobile phone doesn’t come packed with a high-end features, what it does offer is a brilliant battery life. This one has a standby time of 840 hours – well over a month – for example. A m...

If you search for weather forecasts and conditions fairly often on your smartphone you might have noticed how Google displays the latest conditions depending on your location right in the browser itself. It has now extended this nifty addition to tablet browsers as well. Web weather works entirely in the browser and can be brought in the exact same way as on smartphones. Do ensure that GPS is enabled on your tablet and then type out weather on Google.com. You will be presented with a 10-day forecast along with temperature, precipitation, humidity and wind-speed information. The tool is entirely interactive and you can slide along the timeline to see more information. [Via - Google+] Dhruv Bhutani is a tech enthusiast who tries to keep a tab on the latest and greatest in the mobile and telecom sector. He is currently using an iPhone 4S and a Nokia Lumia 800. Catch him on Twitter @DhruvBhutani , you can also reach out on Facebook and Google+ View the original article here

Kyoto, Japan – Mooklet Project today is pleased to announce the update of Mooklet, an iPhone application that lets users publish a photo book as an HTML5 web application. The new “Social Gallery” feature is a function that enables users to interact with each other by collecting other users’ votes and exchanging comments about published Mooklets. Anyone can participate by using the “Gallery” button. There are the two modes for gallery viewing: “Popular” and “New”. “Popular” mode shows Mooklets with high user ratings at random. And “New” mode shows Mooklets in descending order starting with the newest post. Although it was possible to share Mooklets and opinions via Twitter, Facebook or Email before, by using the “Social Gallery”, communication between Mooklet users is now easier than ever! Mooklet for iPhone is an app that allows users to create an animated “Photo Story Book” from iPhone’s photo library in just a few minutes. Since users can give out a published Mooklet as a “HTML5 bas...