After launching BB10 and three of its devices in Q1 2013 BlackBerry has not been able to do much of the profits. During the Q1 earnings call, BlackBerry announced that they shall launch a BB OS 7.1 handset very soon and on 13th August 2013 we have it announced.
World’s most awaited phone of the year Apple iPhone is ready to hit the markets. AllThingsD reported that Apple will unveil the next iPhone at an event on September 10, 2013. It will be exactly an year for the iPhone launch on September 12, 2012 to this September 10, 2013 which was too predicted by AllThingsD.
Fly Mobiles has launched a low-budget Android phone Fly F40+ especially for giving smartphone experience to customers at a low price point. The Fly F 40+ runs on Android mobile operating system not the latest though but still to be called as a smartphone with Android mobile operating system.
Dell India on 7th August 2013 announced the new Inspiron All-in-One 20 with Capacitive Touch screen display powered by 3rd Generation Intel processor to provide superior performance and powerful graphics with simple space-saving design.
Karbonn Mobiles launched Karbonn A11+ the low end Android smartphone in India. Karbonn A11+ is a low-end smartphone aimed at providing users with Android experience at low pricing. With the big screens trending and being much in demand, Karbonn managed to include a 4.7-inch screen with a FWVGA display powered by 1 GHz processor which comes with dual SIM support. It has a 3.2-megapixel auto focus camera with LED flash and a 0.3-megapixel front-facing camera. Running on ICS Android 4.0 operating system it only supports EDGE data service where India is moving to 3G.
Samsung today on 5 August 2013 announced the Samsung Unpacked 2013 Episode 2, the second iteration to the yearly Unpacked event. Early this year Samsung announced Galaxy S4 in New York City at the first unpacked event on March 14th and now for the first time holding another unpacked event in the same year for another big unveiling.
Samsung Unpacked events are generally for flagships announcements and after Galaxy S4, Samsung has the next Note waiting. Though there has been no clear news that what will be announced but it is expected for Note 3. The Unpacked 2013 Episode 2 is scheduled for September 4th just before IFA in Berlin itself. Samsung had launched the Note and the Note II in 2011 and 2012 IFAs respectively and Note III was expected at this IFA itself but it looks like they will give Note a separate launch event.
Summarising the rumors, Note 3 is expected to arrive with a 5.7-inch Full HD Super AMOLED display, 13MP rear camera and Android 4.3 JellyBean OS. It is expected to pack the latest Exynos 5 Octa 5420 and Snapdragon 800 processor varying with region and 3GB of RAM. It is also expected to come with LTE advanced (LTE-A) support for selected markets.
The Samsung Unpacked 2013 event on 4th September, 2013 in Berlin, Germany at 7:00 PM CEST (10:30 PM IST) would be live streamed on Samsung’s YouTube channel probably.
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Google yesterday on 2 August 2013 announced a security application called as Android Device Manager which shall be coming later this month. Android Device manager is just like Find My iPhone Service which remotely locates lost devices and allows to prevent any damage to the data on the lost phone.
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Alike Find My iPhone Application, Google Android Device Manager also maps the lost or stolen Android device in real time. This service would allow to ring your device so that the user can know if the device is in vicinity or else he/she also have the option to secretly wipe out data so that the information does not get into wrong hands. Sony Mobile had announced a similar service recently called as My Xperia which has similar features and it also uses Google account. My Xperia application started rolling for customers globally last month.
Still features like remote monitoring and remote locking have not been announced yet. We hope Google would roll out more features gradually as they complete developing. The service would work on Android 2.2 and above. An Android application for this service is also expected to be seen soon on the Google Play Store that would let you easily find and manage your devices.
