A Fair Comparison

Samsung Galaxy SIII is lightweight however; iPhone4S is thinner and sleeker than it. SIII’s 4.8-inch screen gives a high quality display than iPhone’s 3.5-inch Multi-Touch Retina display. The storage capacity is great in both the phones but 4S doesn’t have a card slot for a micro SD card. Also, there is no NFC capability. However, iOS 5 has done a great job and have introduced features like Siri and iCloud. SIII takes the advantage in a way that it offers Quad core processor which does fastest processing than Apple’s A5 Dual core processor.  Moreover, Android OS, v4.0.4 also called Ice Cream Sandwich let you enjoy cool features like S Voice, Social Tag, Smart Alert, Smart Stay, S Beam and All Share Play and Cast. Both phones have something best in them now its upto you whether you like the spectacular Galaxy SIII or the magnificent iPhone 4S.

Amazingly above 50% people of Australia, Norway, UAE, Sweden and Saudia have switched to Smartphones and in Denmark, Ireland, Spain, USA, New Zealand, Switzerland and Netherland above 40% users of Smartphones have been reported. While taking feedback from US citizens, researchers found that above 80% people take Smartphones with them wherever they go.

Google conducted this research to find the impact of Smartphones on peoples’ lives and the way people are replacing these trendy gadgets with their mobile phones. The whole world is becoming smarter and adopting smart ways to communicate and connect. The time is near when all the cell phones will be replaced by stylish and trendy Smartphones.

1. Water Bottle

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Without water life isn’t possible and to get clean water everywhere isn’t feasible. 4000 Ultra Filtration Bottle is just a life saver and it can filter rain water or pond water. This cool water bottle is also made to store clean water in areas where natural disasters have struck.

2. Lantern

The lantern was considered essential in the old days but in these days of power shortages Battery Powered Lantern is no less than a blessing as it gives super bright light. Rayovac SE3DLN Sportsman Xtreme 300-Lumen LED Lantern is one such gadget. It also helps you during adventurous trips e.g. hiking and camping etc.

3. Alarm Clock

Alarm Clock has been the most annoying thing in the morning ever since you were a school going child but without the alarm clock you can’t wake up early and reach your required destination on time. Technology has done wonders and now you don’t have to get frightened by high sound of an alarm clock. Philips HF3470 is one such alarm clock that has a light which slowly brightens up, impersonating the natural rise of the sun. Other devices like Chumby can play your favorite music like MP3 tunes or even radio.

4. Toilets

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Technology has smartened the toilets also. The smart toilets feature a commode that has an automatic lid and automatic flushing capability. Also you can listen to music with a music player fitted in a bathroom. Toto has also manufactured green toilets which have cut 90% of tissue usage

5. Washing Machine

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Washing clothes have always been hectic and you can’t wear dirty clothes for long. You have to either wash them in a tub or in a washing machine which has dozens of knobs for different controls. But now washing machines are more advanced. All you have to do is to put clothes in it and it automatically controls all functions i-e cleaning, washing and drying.

6. Thermostats

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Thermostats have their usage in air conditioners and refrigerators. When the mercury in the tube rose up because of temperature change, air conditioner or refrigerator would start up but now technology has done marvels and Programmable digital thermostats are used that allow you to set hourly heating and cooling schedules. Also Nest Learning Thermostat let you to control the thermostat through your Smartphone even when you are outside your house

7. Cable Boxes

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Cable Television is an ultimate source of entertainment and now you don’t have to go through the messy work of changing the channels as TiVo offers you a hard drive that you can plug in between your cable box and your television set and it automatically gets to know about your favorite channels. The DVR changes and records the channels and you always have your favorite programs recorded.

8. Solar Oven

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Now you don’t need gas or electric oven to cook your food as the sun is there to do all the work. The Global Sun Oven can heat up to 300 degrees and you can cook your food at your desired temperature. It is also helpful in power and gas outages.

9. Phone Chargers

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Just as mobile phones have become a necessary part of life; so are the phone chargers. If your phone battery dies out then without a phone charger it is only tech garbage. Solar Cell Phone Charger is a cool gadget that gives your phone enough power to make a phone call, send a message, or search up some information.

10. Vacuum Cleaners

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Cleaning your house is now much easier with the innovative vacuum cleaner iRobot Roomba. It cleans your house without making noise and charges automatically; you have to only empty the dirt and debris.
So, get these innovative gadgets and make your life easier.

It will not be wrong to say that these days Facebook is the fastest means of communication as we all upload our activities through status and photos. If the world is Global Village Facebook is its Colony. Marks Zukerberg is a smart person and he is using intelligent strategies to increase the popularity of Facebook. A couple of months ago he introduced Timeline just to facilitate the users in a better way. The timeline also helps the users to keep an eye on how much time they spent on Facebook. If you have activated Timeline on your Facebook Profile the following apps will help you to make better use of it;

1. Goodreads

Goodreads is the best place for people who are fond of reading, it’s a social network that link you with other people who love to read interesting books. You can connect with Goodreads members through your Facebook Profile and see what they have read. Views and reviews of the members will suggest you a good and worth reading. Goodreads will help you to improve your intellectual ability and reading power.

2. Causes

Causes is an app that help people to explore their philanthropic side and support Non-Profit Organizations in the accomplishment of their mission. Causes came into existence in 2007 and since then above 170 million people are supporting multiple causes of different NGOs. If you want to support Causes, join this site through your Facebook Profile and donate money. You can also ask your friends to join Causes and support philanthropic acts.

3. The Onion

The Onion is a social reader app just like the Washington Post, BuzzFeed, Yahoonews. You can connect to this social reader through your Facebook Account and read and watch different interesting stories.

4. BranchOut

BranchOut is an app of Monster.com which is a favorite site for job seekers. Now you can enjoy its professional social network on Facebook. BranchOut app will help you to link to your friends and get knowledge about their professional work and experience. Additionally, you can also use this app for job hunting and select any one that best suits your qualification and experience.

5. RunKeeper

Do you work out daily? Do you wana know about the frequency of your daily workout? Try RunKeeper that will help to to track workouts. When you will be connected to RunKeeper through your Facebook Profile a list of your friends who are using this app will appear before you. This app helps you to choose new and different suitable routes for running, jogging and racing so that you can achieve maximum fitness. RunKeeper also show fitness report according to route you select for racing/running.

6. Spotify

Music lovers will find this app really interesting as they can connect with their friend’s music choice through Facebook profile. Spotify display all the recently played songs and playlist and if you want this app to work privately for you, like other other apps you can also set it to “only me” option.

7. Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes sounds funny but it is really an interesting and fun oriented application that helps you to know the movie-taste of your friends. You can track which movies your Facebook friends have seen and liked, your friend’s activities and reviews act like a suggestion box for you whenever you wish to see any interesting movie.

8. Foodspotting

Foodspotting is the favorite app of food lovers who love to get info about yummy food. Here you can upload pics of food, suggest different dishes to your friends. This is a wonderful app for people who are fond of eating delicious and unique dishes and instead of browsing restaurants they prefer “word of mouth” while selecting dishes to eat.

Try these apps on your Facebook Timeline and enjoy social networking.

Users of Nokia Lumia are already enjoying many wonderful applications, Apps Highlight and Nokia Collection are among best apps available for this stylish phone. Following is the list of applications that will be available to Nokia Lumia customers;

1. PGA Tour app

The PGA Tour has launched new and improved app on Windows Mobile Platform so that Mobile customers can enjoy the live broadcast of the PGA Tour. This app has been developed in collaboration with Nokia and it will be available exclusively to Nokia Lumia users.

The PGA Tour app will be available from late June 2012. Executive Producer of PGA TOUR Digital Scott Gutterman said, “We are excited to work with Nokia to provide this app for the PGA TOUR,” said. “We are committed to providing the highest level of live PGA TOUR coverage, and this app will better inform and entertain PGA TOUR fans.”

2. ESPN

Game lovers will be excited to know that now they can get live updates about the games on Nokia Lumia Smartphones and sports updates about tennis, NASCAR and the 2012 Olympics will be provided soon.Furthermore, the ESPN Fantasy Football app will be launched soon.

3. Games

Rovio in partnership with Nokia will launch some really innovative apps for Windows Phone. CEO of Rovio Mikael Hed said, “Nokia is one of our longest-standing partners, and Windows Phone and Lumia are of strategic importance to Rovio. We are very committed to bring our games to Lumia devices, and are looking forward to delighting our fans on the Windows Phone platform.”

4. Paypal Application

Paypal offers best payment solution; soon you will enjoy its services on Nokia Lumia as Nokia and Paypal are working together to do something great for users of Windows Phone. Vice President of Mobile at PayPal Hill Ferguson said “We’re excited to work with Nokia and Microsoft to bring PayPal to Nokia users across the globe, and to continue to innovate the way our consumers shop and pay anytime, anywhere and in anyway.”

5. AOL Entertainment HUB

Be ready to enter the world of entertainment as AOL Entertainment Hub is about to change your definition of entertainment. Director of Mobile First products at AOL Sol Lipman said, “The live tiles on Nokia Lumia helped us create an awesome app that makes it easy to stay in the know on what’s happening in Film, TV, Radio, Concerts and Music right from your home screen.”

6. Box app

None other than Box knows best the sharing needs of customers and now improved and secure sharing will be more than possible. VP of Platform Engineering at Box Matthew Self said “We’re committed to powering secure collaboration and content sharing for today’s workers across all platforms and devices. We believe that Windows Phone will play a meaningful role in enhancing mobile productivity across businesses of all sizes, and we’re excited to work with Nokia to bring an unparalleled experience for both users and IT to its Lumia Smartphones.”

7. Time Magazine App

TIME has publicized that its magazine app for Windows Phones will be available soon. This app will allow users to get weekly updates and enjoy video based content of media on their latest gadgets.

8. Groupon

Groupon will soon introduce upgraded suite of applications that will be available exclusively to users of Nokia Lumia for 6-months. VP of Mobile of Groupon Mihir Shah said, “Our new and exclusive Groupon app for Nokia Lumia customers combines the intuitive Windows Phone Metro UI with location-based data to deliver deals which are both personalized and location-relevant for users. We look forward to continuing to partner with Nokia to evolve and innovate our app experience further.”

9. Tridots

Tridots facilitates you to improve your driving style by communicating with other people, it also let them share their driving effectiveness through social sites.President of Left Lane Network, Inc David Fleck said “Consumers are increasingly paying more attention to the eco friendliness and costs of operating their vehicles. Tripdots provides a wealth of easy to understand information that helps users monitor the health of their vehicles while having fun. The Nokia Lumia Windows phones provide best in class experience with Tripdots and we are very happy to be working with Nokia to deliver the service worldwide.”

10. Newsweek

Do you wana stay in touch with world affairs? Newsweek will provide you a wonderful opportunity to keep an eye on world and its matters. Chief Digital Officer at Newsweek & The Daily Beast Daniel Blackman “We’re thrilled with how The Daily Beast app looks and works on the new Nokia Lumia smartphones and excited to be partnering with them as part of our robust mobile strategy.”

Google Guide for summer vacation offers you exciting tips with the aim to make your summers cool and adventurous. Following are some useful tips that will help you in your summer plans;

Google Search

The majority of people all over the world love to travel across different countries or within different cities of the country especially in summer vacations. Well traveling is not an easy job you have to go through different processes if you wana travel by air, from selection of flight to confirmation and from boarding to reaching a new destination you have to be very careful.

Google can help you in this regard by presenting details of your travelling and trip, you can take help from Google and whole information will be presented before you through Search Category.

Hotel Finder

Hotel Finder service of Google will help you to select the right place at an affordable price that you are looking for; Landmarks, images and reviews will guide you about selection of the right place to stay with your family.

Google Maps for Android

Google Maps for Android will act for you as a local guide. Google has improved the apps so that you can use Google at its best; Directions for biking walking, driving transit, voice based navigation has been included in this application.

Google Translate

Google Translate will help you to understand different languages if you are planning to travel in a different country or different region. Additinaly, if you are conscious about food Google Googlers will guide you about the menu of your food. This application can be downloaded on android and i0S gadgets.

Google+ Instant Upload

If you love to capture every moment of your trip and want to keep your precious moments safe you must use Google+ Instant Upload service. You can share every single picture of your trip instantly, Google+ Instant Upload is best for you if you often lose your gadgets because by saving pictures in private forlder you will never lose your beautiful memories.

Enjoy the holiday season of summers with your family and live life at its best.

Features of 5 Star Assurance Program

Customer satisfaction is main motive of Hyundai and all the programs are designed and offered to satisfy customers in an enhanced way. Assurance Program offered by Hyundai is named as “5 Star Assurance Program” because it will offer following 5 major services to its customers Santro and Next Gen i10 customers.

1. Total Maintenance Assurance

This program will offer 3 years of free maintenance; service and repair will be part of this plan that also includes service of parts and material according to required (Standard) period.

2. Motor Assurance

Motor Assurance is a broad program that will offer complete motor assurance for Re 1.

3. Warranty Assurance

This program offers the extended warranty for the third year.

4. Roadside Assurance

24×7 Roadside Assurance is also part of the 5 Star Assurance Program.

5. Exchange Assurance

The loyalty offer of Rs 15,00 will be offered as service of the 5 Stars Assurance Program.

Santro and Next Gen i10 add a handsome profit in the annual revenue of Hyundai India and it is the main reason behind Hyundai offer. This valuable program is offered to Santro and Next Geni10 customers so that they can enjoy added services which are mostly needed when cars come on road.

A Fair Comparison

Galaxy S III offers more network options and gives 4G connectivity along with 2G and 3G. However, it is heavier than Galaxy S II with a weight of 133g. The new smartphone can process your applications faster with Quad-core 1.4 GHz processor. Also, OS is upgraded to Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich and storage capacity is greater. SII as 4 hubs and All Share offers smart convergence. While the  addition of new features  in SIII like S Voice, Social Tag, S Beam All Share Play, All Share Cast and other cool features makes this mobile more attractive. Now it’s up to you which mobile phone you choose whether you want the innovative S II or the new masterpiece S III.

Last year, Hangouts On Air was launched on Google+ but this facility was provided to the limited number of users. This service enabled them to broadcast themselves and their stuff with friends and fans, that was a wonderful opportunity and helped them to connect with their fans in a unique and most interactive way. People who enjoyed this service use it for several creative purposes and proved the world that when something new and unique is showcased live for whole world it’s result are far reaching.

After the success of Hangouts On Air, Google has decided to provide this service to all the users of Google+. This improved service and unique feature of Google+ will do a lot for the celebrities and artists who wish to communicate with the global audience through the most interactive platform.

Following facilities will be enjoyed by users of Hangouts On Air;

Enable Hangouts On Air

Enable Hangouts On Air is an interesting and interactive feature of this service that will enable the users to broadcast their live Hangouts for the whole world from multiple channels for instance YouTube and Google+ Stream.

Track Number of Viewers/Fans

Hangouts On Air offers you a facility to track the number of viewers/fans who watch your content live.

Record, Reshare and Take Quick Feed Back

There is lots more in this new feature; when you will go offline public recording of your content will be uploaded on your very own and personalized YouTube Channel as well as on the Google+ Post. In this way you can conveniently take quick feedback when broadcasting will be completed.

Sign in your Google+ account and see how many Hangouts On Air are waiting for you. Hurry up and don’t miss any broadcast.

1. Motorola Spice XT

The Spice of Life

The young, fast-moving and budget friendly Motorola Spice XT is the top class phone that will add a spice to your life. It works on Gingerbread 2.3 Android and features a 5MP camera and 3.5inch touch screen. Moto Switch Interface is an amazing feature and makes the phone more interactive. The Swype touchscreen keyboard is easy to for typing and long battery life lets you talk upto 8 Hrs.

2. HTC One S

Stylish Masterpiece

The stunning HTC One S is simply a masterpiece and the thinnest phone yet. It features an 8 MP camera and works on Android 4.0 OS. It offers wide range connectivity and long battery life. The Beats Audio gives you an ultimate music experience.

3. Samsung Galaxy Nexus

Star of Galaxy

This superstar Smartphone operates on Android 4.0, also called the Ice Cream Sandwich. The 5MP camera can not only capture great photos but also it can record full HD 1080p video. It can voice type your message by just listening and can translate up to 20 languages. It offers 4G LTE Smartphone connectivity. Face unlock feature and Android Beam are some of its cool features.

4. HTC One X

Uniquely Designed

One X is a uniquely designed phone that features a powerful quad core processor.  It features a 4.7 inch screen and 8 MP camera. It also has the continuous shooting capability and you get high quality videos. Wi-Fi connectivity offers fastest web-browsing.

5. Motorola Pro+

Professional at its best

Motorola Pro+ is a remarkably efficient Smartphone both personally and professionally. It is powered by 1.4GHz processor and operates on Gingerbread (Android 2.3). It features a QWERTY Keyboard for intuitive text typing. 3G HotSpot connectivity gives you the fastest connection with the internet. It comes with Pre-loaded quick office connect and up-to-date Google mobile Services like Google Maps with Navigation and Google Talk.

Have you got your own Android phone??? If not, do check our list of top 5 Android phones of 2012.