Jolla phone release date announced

 

Jewel, the Finnish company formed by ex-Nokia employees, has announced the date of release for the first phone of fish sailing ever. The launch will take place in Helsinki on November 27 and will be ready to buy for those who pre-ordered 450 devices. Marc Dillon, one of the founding members of la Jolla, made the announcement yesterday in the slush, the main Conference home to Northern Europe and Russia.

 

Jolla was formed by staff leaving Nokia as the company went All in with Windows phone and left promising operating system Meego. The Meego operating system is a platform for open source software based on Linux that works using HTML, the primary programming language that the majority of web sites use and also joins the flourishing Tizen and Firefox OS operating system in the mobile world. Fish candle is the iteration of la Jolla of Meego and you can run Android applications, as well as applications designed in HTML. The eponymous Jolla phone will come preloaded with the Yandex.Store, an Android app store. While it may not have much brand recognition in the Western world Yandex is a company of Russian Internet that operates the greater search engine in Russia with a 60% market share, and they are well known for the development of a series of products and services based on the Internet. Yandex shop is billed as an app store for Android available in android 2.3.3 + with 85000 more applications and after downloading on my Nexus 4 I can confirm that they have all the big names - opera Brower, Facebook, Skype, Adobe etc..

Also pre-loaded to provide allocation of duties is Nokia are here maps, which have been constantly expanding their mobile presence and can be found on smartphones Windows Phone 8 as well as iOS, Android, FirefoxOS, and TizenOS when a phone comes to market.

La Jolla launched its origin decision is a logical movement that promotes DNA, the Finnish operator that will commercialize the phone from La Jolla and will be present at the event's launch in Helsinki. They say

Finland is our domestic market and DNA will be the operator in the world first to sell phones in la Jolla. However, all customers pre-order from countries in both 1st and 2nd pre-booking campaigns will be served in the order of precedence who have gotten their original orders. In addition, Jolla phones will be gradually available via jolla.com direct online sales.

Jolla have also expressed on your website

At the same time, we will start deliveries of mail in the order of reservation.

Then, a new phone and a new operating system enters the smartphone market. CoolSmartPhone to publish photos and initial impressions as soon as it becomes a phone and I'm very anxious!

Have they previously asked a Jolla phone? Is it too late? Only time will tell it, shoot at the end of November.

Google finally release the Nexus 5

In what has possibly been the most drawn out build up to a phone being announced the LG made Google Nexus 5 has finally been announced.

Spec wise it’s pretty much as we expected. The full spec is as follows.

The Nexus 5 seems like it’s going to be the phone to own, for weeks people have been holding off getting one phone or another. Now the wait is over, you can finally decide just head over to the Play Store it is available from £299 for the 16GB and £339 for the 32GB.

Just in time for Halloween, we have two new treats for Android fans. First, we’re excited to unwrap our latest platform release, KitKat, which delivers a smarter, more immersive Android experience to even more people. And second, we’re introducing Nexus 5—a new Nexus phone developed with LG.

The first thing you’ll notice about KitKat is we’ve made the experience much more engaging: the book you’re reading, the game you’re playing, or the movie you’re watching—now all of these take center stage with the new immersive mode, which automatically hides everything except what you really want to see.

Bringing more Google smarts to Android 
Behind the polish on the screen is the power under the hood. Take the Phone app, which for most people hasn’t really changed since the days of flip phones. Now, we’re making calling easier than ever, by helping you search across your contacts, nearby places, or even Google Apps accounts (like your company’s directory), directly from within the app. And with the new Hangouts app, all of your SMS and MMS messages are together in the same place, alongside your other conversations and video calls, so you’ll never miss a message no matter how your friends send it. This is just a small taste of KitKat—learn more on our site.

Google has always focused on helping users get immediate access to the information they need, and we want to bring this same convenience and power to users on Android. With the new Nexus 5 launcher, Google smarts are deeply integrated into the phone you carry around with you, so getting to the information you need is simple, easy and fast. Swipe once from the home screen to get Google Now literally at your fingertips. Put Google to work for you by saying “OK, Google” to launch voice search, send a text, get directions or even play a song you want to hear. And in the coming weeks, we’re enhancing Now with important new card types that bring you information about contextual topics that interest you such as updates from a favorite website or blog.

Reaching the next 1 billion users
Building a platform that makes mobile phones accessible for everyone has always been at the heart of Android. Until now, some lower-end Android phones couldn’t benefit from more recent Android releases due to memory constraints. With KitKat, we’ve slimmed down Android’s memory footprint by doing things like removing unnecessary background services and reducing the memory consumption of features that you use all the time. We did this not only within Android but across Google services like Chrome and YouTube. RAM (or memory) is one of the most expensive parts of a phone, and now Android can run comfortably on the 512MB of RAM devices that are popular in much of the world, bringing the latest goodies in Android 4.4 within reach for the next billion smartphone users.

Introducing Nexus 5
Along with our sweet naming tradition, we also introduce a new device with each platform release to showcase the latest Android innovations. For KitKat, we partnered with LG to develop Nexus 5 — the slimmest and fastest Nexus phone ever made. Its design is simple and refined to showcase the 5” Full HD display. Nexus 5 also keeps you connected at blazing speeds with 4G/LTE and ultra fast wifi. The advanced new lens on Nexus 5 captures more light for brighter night and sharper action shots. And with optical image stabilization, you no longer have to worry about shaky hands and blurry pictures. A new HDR+ mode automatically snaps a rapid burst of photos and combines them to give you the best possible single shot. Learn more on our site.

Nexus 5 is available today, unlocked and without a contract, on Google Play in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Japan and Korea (and coming soon to India), starting at $349. Just in the time for the holidays, Nexus 5 will be available soon at the following retailers: Sprint, T-Mobile, Amazon, Best Buy and RadioShack.

Android 4.4, KitKat, which comes on Nexus 5, will also soon be available on Nexus 4, 7, 10, the Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC One Google Play edition devices in the coming weeks.

How’s that for a treat?

Lenovo to release the A10 an Android powered laptop

Lenovo have long skirted around the edge of the Android world, releasing the occasional smartphone with no real success. This time, however, they’re aiming at their core marketplace with the A10 android powered laptop.

This is another strange bit of toe-dangling though, because what is an android laptop if not a tablet with a keyboard attached. This niche has been dominated for years by the Asus Transformer series, who’s TF101 became an instant classic when it was released with its docking dual battery keyboard (despite it running Honeycomb!).

Here’s what we know of the spec list:

1.6GHz quad core Cortex A9 CPU2GB RAM32GB internal storagemicroSD card slot0.3MP front facing cameraStereo speakers10.1-inch HD flip over display with a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels and 10 point touch compatibilityAndroid 4.2

So what will the A10 offer that the latest Asus Transformer Pad TF701 won’t? Not a lot it seems until you get to the price – $250. At the current exchange rate that’s about £155 versus the TF701's expected tag of about £600.

Clearly this means Lenovo aren’t aiming to be a giant killer with the A10 then. But what they could take a chunk out of is the Chromebook customer base.

I’m a big fan of the Chromebooks, in fact I’m typing this article on a Samsung Series 5 right now, but the entry level models weigh in at around £200. With the Lenovo’s extra features and apps this would be a very tempting alternative.

Bai Peng, vice president and general manager, notebook business unit, Lenovo Business Group said,

Lenovo claims that the A10's battery support is up to nine hours of continuous video playback – which needs to be scrutinized under review. “With the recent explosive growth in Android-based, smart connected devices, customers are relying more on Android apps for both work and play. Why should they be required to switch and duplicate to use their laptop? Lenovo’s A10 brings ultra-portability and dual-mode benefits to Android users at a reasonable price. Thin and light, with multiple modes and user-inspired innovations for an outstanding user experience … the A10 is uniquely Lenovo.”

After the rumours of Lenovo buying HTC it’s good to see them already reinvesting in Android with an innovative and good value product.

AnTuTu release a new (non fraudulent) version of their benchmarking app

As part of my role here at Coolsmartphone I get a lot of devices to review and more often than not I’ll run some benchmark tests just to see how it compares to the competition. Recently we heard that manufacturers have been able to trick some benchmarking apps into giving a higher score.

The developers for popular benchmark app AnTuTu decided they wanted to do something about this and they’ve released a newer version of their app. Called AnTuTu X which supposedly stops manufacturers cheating. It hasn’t made a huge difference on my Note 3. See below.

Original AnTuTu

AnTuTu X

So we can see that the new app scores my Galaxy Note 3 slightly lower. Then what? How long before the new apps results can be faked?

The app description doesn’t really explain how it’s going to remain reliable either.

Description
A special edition of AnTuTu Benchmark to prevent fraud and cheating!
The X editor for the Ainol & Ramos device!!
AnTuTu Benchmark X Edition is free benchmarking app that helps users to know deeper to their Android devices, without fraud and cheating!

Google Play Store Link – Antutu

Samsung to release curved display on a smartphone

 

OLED (Organic LED) televisions with curved screens were first demonstated at CES in 2012 and the technology has hit the market this year for anyone with curved walls to buy.

Samsung have confirmed that they will be releasing a smartphone based on the same technology with a plastic curved OLED display.

Speaking at the recent Galaxy Note 3 event, DJ Lee, Samsung’s head of strategic marketing for mobile said:

“We plan to introduce a smartphone with a curved display in South Korea in October”

It is thought that the new curved smartphones will form part of Samsung’s Active range.

This could of course be the first step in the development of foldable or wearable smartphones and could well lead to a whole new generation of devices that are completely different in style to those that we currently use on a daily basis.

No more details have been revealed about this curvy smartphone and therefore it is a waiting game however you can be sure that as soon as more details are revealed we here at Coolsmartphone will bring them to you.

Android / iOS BBM release date set for this weekend…

Blackberry were once a major player in the smartphone world.

Their devices allegedly played a major part in the orchestration of the London riots via the use of the secure Blackberry messenger platform and now users of iOS and Android can rejoice for finally BBM is coming to the rest of us lucky users.

In a press release (which can be viewed in full below) Blackberry have announced that BBM is set to be unleashed on the world this weekend, September 21st and 22nd.

Available as a free download from the Play store or iTunes, the BBM platform gives each individual user their own Blackberry PIN (a unique identifier) that enables other users to see if you are online, and to show when messages are delivered and read.

BBM will come with chat, groups and file sharing at launch with channels to follow.

The app will work with all versions of Android from 4.0 (ICS) upwards  from 21st September and iOS 6.0 onwards from 22nd September. There is no word yet of an app for Windows Phone.

Instant mobile to mobile messaging with privacy and control you can count on, that lets you know that your message is read, is a free download for Android and iPhone customers.

Sep 18, 2013

Waterloo, ON – BBM™ – the iconic mobile social network – will begin rolling out for Android™ and iPhone® customers around the world from September 21. Previously exclusive to BlackBerry® (NASDAQ: BBRY; TSX: BB) smartphones, BBM will be available as a free download in Google Play™ and the App StoreSM. Customers will be able to download BBM by visiting http://www.bbm.com/ from their smartphone browser.It’s immediate. BBM is always on so you are always connected. And because messages on BBM are typically delivered and read within seconds, it’s the closest thing to a live conversation.You trust it. BBM always tells you that messages are delivered and read. BBM conversations come alive on a private network you can count on.You control it. BBM allows you to choose your contacts and how you share your information. BBM uses a PIN so you don’t have to give anyone your phone number or email address.

“BBM is a very engaging messaging service that is simple to use, easy to personalize and has an immediacy that is necessary for mobile communications,” said Andrew Bocking, Executive Vice President for BBM at BlackBerry. “With more than a billion Android, iOS, and BlackBerry smartphones in the market, and no dominant mobile messaging platform, this is absolutely the right time to bring BBM to Android and iPhone customers.”
BBM for Android and iPhone features:
BBM Chat – Enjoy real, immediate conversations with friends on Android, iPhone and BlackBerry smartphones. Not only does BBM let you know that your message has been delivered and read, it also shows you that your friend is responding to the message.

More than chat – With BBM you can share files on your phone such as photos and voice notes, all in an instant.

Keep your group in the loop – Multi-person chats are a great way to invite contacts to chat together. BBM Groups lets you invite up to 30 friends to chat together, and go a step further than multi-chat by sharing photos and schedules. And, with Broadcast Message, you can send a message out to all your BBM contacts at once.

Post Updates and stay in the know – BBM lets you post a personal message, profile picture and your current status, and lets your contacts know instantly in Updates.

Your unique PIN – Every BBM user has a unique PIN that maintains your privacy, so you don’t have to give out your phone number or email address to a new or casual contact.

BBM will be available as a free download for Android smartphones running Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean (Android 4.x) beginning at 7AM EDT on September 21. BBM for iPhones running iOS 6 and iOS 7 will become available for each market on the App Store schedule of 12:01 AM local time on September 22. For more information, or to download BBM for Android or iPhone, visit www.BBM.com.
BBM will continue to evolve quickly. Later this year, BBM Channels will provide a forum for active, real conversations between you and the people, brands, celebrities, artists, service providers, communities and more, that matter to you. By creating a Channel, individuals and brands can engage their friends and communities in conversations sparked by their thoughts, ideas and passions. Subscribing to a Channel will let you join conversations with people who share your interests. In addition, BBM Video calling and BBM Voice calling are planned for availability for Android and iPhone in a future version.
About BBM
BBM has more than 60 million monthly active customers on BlackBerry alone, and the overwhelming majority use BBM an average of 90 minutes per day. BBM customers collectively send and receive more than 10 billion messages each day, nearly twice as many messages per user per day as compared to other mobile messaging apps. Messages on BBM are typically read within seconds, reflecting how truly engaged BBM customers are.

Facebook for iOS updated following release of iOS 7

 

The release of iOS 7 saw a whole new visual style for Apples devices.  This of course means that apps that previously fit in with the design styling now will need an update to fit in with the new styles.

One of the first third party apps to see an update is the official Facebook app which today sees a new release which has ”a new look designed with iOS 7 in mind.”

With Facebook 6.5, it’s now easier to navigate the app—you can quickly switch from News Feed to your friend requests, Messages or Notifications; just tap along the bottom of the screen.  You can also tap the “More tab” on the bottom right to see options like your Timeline, groups, events and more.  In addition, the app looks right at home within iOS 7 with new design elements including a translucent bar at the top of the app which will change dynamically as you scroll through different photos and posts.

The update will be available from the App store later today.

Nissan release a smartwatch too. Yes Nissan, and it’s rather good too.

I tell you what we need right now. Another smartwatch. Oh yes. How about a watch made by … a car company? Hehehe… yeah. I’ll bet that’ll be really tacky and cheap.

I bet it’ll just be a bad design with the car logo wedged on. Hang on, I’ve got a photo of it here somewhere, let me just open it up…

Oh.. oh wait. Aactually, it’s rather beautiful. I like it.

This is the Nissan Nismo Concept Watch and it’ll connect you to your Nissan Nismo car. Apparently Nismo is the performance / tuning side of Nissan. Hmm.. I’ve never heard of them personally but they’ve sent us a picture of the Nissan Juke Nismo version too..

Woaha.

OK. I’ve been proved wrong on both counts. So, what we have here now is a very nice looking watch and a rather sporty vehicle. The watch itself lets you monitor how efficient your Nismo is, including average speed and your MPG. Connect via Bluetooth and you’ll instantly access telematics and performance data, but it’s not all about your car. The watch also lets you capture biometric data via a heart data monitor, plus it’ll track and rate your “social media performance” on Twitter, Facebook and elsewhere via their “Social Speed” software.

The Nismo Watch will use a lithium battery and gets charged via micro-USB. Nissan reckon that you’ll get over seven days of use under normal usage conditions, which is very decent indeed. No pricing as yet, but you can bet it’ll be an extra if you buy the Nissan Juke Nismo. It’ll be available in black, white, plus black and red.

Simply put, this watch will look after you and let you keep in touch with your car. So, for the second time in less than a week, it’s a fantastic reason to post this image once more.

Nissan Enters Wearable Technology Space with the Unveil of the Nismo Watch Concept

Nissan launches first smartwatch to connect car and driver performance

· First smartwatch concept to connect driver and car
· Nismo Watch showcases Nissan’s intent to deliver biometric data that enhances driver performance and efficiency
· Nissan is investigating heart and brain monitoring technologies for future wearable tech

Rolle, Switzerland, 9th September, 2013 – Nissan will become the first car manufacturer to create a smartwatch designed specifically for drivers of Nissan Nismo cars. The Nissan Nismo Concept Watch will be the first smartwatch to connect a driver to the car and will provide drivers with real-time biometric data.

The watch, unveiled today ahead of its display at the Frankfurt Motor Show (10th – 22nd September 2013), is Nissan’s first step into wearable technology and epitomises its ‘fan first’ approach to performance.

The Nissan Nismo Watch will allow drivers to:

- monitor the efficiency of their vehicle with average speed and fuel consumption readings;

- access vehicle telematics and performance data while on track;

- capture biometric data via a heart rate monitor;

- connect to the car using a smartphone app via Bluetooth Low Energy;

- receive tailored car messages from Nissan;

Gareth Dunsmore, Marketing Communications General Manager, Nissan in Europe, commented: “Wearable technology is fast becoming the next big thing and we want to take advantage of this innovative technology to make our Nismo Brand more accessible. On track, Nissan uses the latest biometric training technologies to improve the performance of our Nissan Nismo Athletes and it is this technology we want to bring to our fans to enhance their driving experience and Nismo ownership.”

Earlier this year, Nissan launched the Nismo Lab – a bespoke, mobile laboratory that features the latest, advanced biometric training tools such as brainwave technology and JukeRide – a cutting-edge performance analysis tool, that captures live biometric and telematics data from the race cars and Nissan Nismo Athletes during races. Nismo’s vision is to take these digital age technologies and make them available to athletes from other disciplines and to Nissan owners through future wearable tech. Three key technologies have already identified for future development:

- ECG (Electrocardiogram) – to measure the intervals of the R-R rhythm of the heart, and identify early fatigue;

- EEG (Electroencephalogram) Brainwave – to monitor the drivers’ levels of concentration and emotions, and help athletes to get ‘In The Zone’;

- Skin Temperature – to record core body temperature and hydration levels;

The Nismo Watch will also track and rate the user’s social performance across Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram via Nissan’s proprietary Social Speed software.

The sleek Nismo Watch will be available in three colours – black, white and the flagship black and red. The watch design was inspired by the Nismo ring and is reflected in a seamless, futuristic and ergonomic design. The simple user interface can be controlled by two buttons and is secured onto the driver’s wrist via a simple snap-fit mechanism.

Even the packaging will have a unique n Nismo identity.

Dunsmore concluded: “We have brought the Nismo experience to life in every aspect of the watch, including its packaging, which will be made using tyres and rubber from the racetrack. As Nismo is the performance arm of Nissan, we wanted a way of integrating Nismo’s heritage in racing into this futuristic innovation.”

The Nismo Watch will use a lithium battery and will be charged by micro-USB, with a battery life of over seven days under normal usage conditions.

iPhone 5C instruction manual, case leaks might reaffirm September 20th release date

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As the impending announcement of Apple’s upcoming fall lineup approaches later this month, an increasing amount of sources are pointing to a September 20th release date. On Monday, @evleaks released two images of Case-Mate cases for the iPhone 5C along with an estimated ship date of “9/20/2013 8:00:00 AM,” adding even more fuel to the fire. This date is also in line with the vacation blackouts issued by AT&T, T-Mobile, and Apple for later this month.

Case-Mate showing off iPhone 5C cases, with a very specific shipping estimate: “EST. SHIP DATE 9/20/2013 8:00:00 AM” pic.twitter.com/ZeLFyIyVxw

— @evleaks (@evleaks) September 3, 2013

CTechCN has also managed to get its hands on images of what it claims to be the iPhone 5C instruction manual that will come packaged with Apple’s cheaper model. Photos of the front page of the manual have appeared in various leaks before, but this is the highest quality leak of the packaging for the iPhone 5C so far.

Images of the cases and the instruction manual can be seen below.

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HTC release Blue One and One mini

As well as releasing the two new Desire phones today, they have also shown off the Blue version of the HTC One and HTC One mini to give a wider range of colour options.

The original One now comes in Silver,Black, Blue and Red and the Mini is available in Silver, Black and now Blue. Gears took some snaps of the red HTC One too.

Check out the gallery below full of photos, or have a read of our HTC One mini review or HTC One review. Oh, and don’t forget the huge hands-on video overview we managed to get in Barcelona, it’ll really show you what the devices are capable of.

My name is Dan, I am 30yrs old and from Torquay,Devon and have been into phone tech for over 10 years either running sites or taking part in helping others. I was also the official Sony Ericsson blogger for MWC one year.

I am currently using a Nexus 4, Lumia 920 and Xperia T. My main area of expertise on the site is network news and future technologies such as DC-HSDPA and LTE

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