Just In | Samsung Galaxy S2 New Commercial Mocks Apple iPhone Users [Video]

Samsung has released a new advertisement that mocks the “typical iPhone user” who are shown waiting outside of Apple store to purchase the new Apple smartphone model, iPhone 4S and shows their disappointment for the design of iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S to be strikingly similar.

iPhone 4S vs Samsung Galaxy S2

Various typical reactions from the Apple users are showcased in the ad including the disappointment on the exterior design of the iPhone 4S with one of the iPhone fans proclaiming, “If it looks the same, how will people know I upgraded?” and are shown worried about its battery life.

While the iPhone users wait in the line, they see Samsung Galaxy S2 users already have in their hand Samsung Galaxy S2 - the next best thing.

The ad goes on to tout the Galaxy S II's large screen and 4G data capabilities, concluding with one of the Samsung users saying, "Yeah, it's a Galaxy S II. This phone...is amazing."

The ad draws a comparison between the 2 market leaders, Apple iPhone 4S and Samsung Galaxy S2 in which Samsung boasts the Galaxy S2 as the “iPhone killer” and the “the next best thing” in Smartphone Market.

Take a look at the commercial below that pokes at iPhone users

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Now Available | Top 10 Apps for iPhone 4S [2011]

Bought your Apple iPhone 4S after a brainstorming comparison with the best-of-the-best Smartphones, downloaded and upgraded to iOS 5 or rather jail broke it?
Now, its time for you to find and download the top-notch apps for your new love - iPhone 4S.

Following is a list of the Best 10 Apps For iPhone 4S

• Real Racing 2

** New in iOS 5: Play wirelessly on your HD TV through AirPlay, challenge friends to a split screen multiplayer race with Party Play and enjoy enhanced visuals – for iPhone 4S only! **

Get ready for the most exhilarating handheld racing experience! Take control of 30 officially licensed cars, each with unique performance characteristics. Feel the thrill of authentic pack racing action in an incredible 16-car grid – the first on iOS!

Price: £1.99

Download Link for Real Racing 2

• Spotify

Get free access to Spotify Premium now! With Premium you'll get access to 15 million tracks from thousands of albums and artists on your iPhone, iPod Touch & iPad. If you haven’t tried Premium before, you can try it on your mobile for 48-hours, completely free. You don’t even have to enter credit card details. Simply download this app and log in*.

Price: Free

Download Link for Spotify

• Find My Friends

Find My Friends allows you to easily locate your friends and family from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Install this free app on your iOS 5 device and sign in with the Apple ID you use with iCloud. Adding a friend is easy – just send a request to see their location. Once your friend accepts using the Find My Friends app, you will then be able to see that friend’s location on a list or on a map. 

You can also choose to share your location for a limited period of time with a group of friends.

Use Find My Friends to keep track of your traveling companions when you’re on vacation. Or to see if the kids are home from school. Or to find the friends you’re meeting for dinner.

Price: Free

Download Link for Find My Friends

• Songza

Songza has playlists for everything, and we make it outrageously easy to find the right one.

*100% free. No audio advertisements & no monthly listening limit. 

*Stream thousands of original playlists made by music experts. 

*Peruse a curated playlist library organized by activity, genre, decade, mood, & culture. 

*Collect your favorite playlists & share them via Facebook, Twitter or email.

Price: Free

Download Link for Songza

• Instagram

11 million users love Instagram! It's a free, fun, and simple way to make and share gorgeous photos on your iPhone.

Pick from one of several gorgeous filtered effects or tilt-shift blur to breathe a new life into your mobile photos. Transform everyday moments into works of art you'll want to share with friends and family.

Share your photos in a simple photo stream with friends to see - and follow your friends' photos with the click of a single button. Every day you open up Instagram, you'll see new photos from your closest friends, and creative people from around the world.

Price: Free

Download Link for Instagram

• Turntable.fm ~ play music together

turntable.fm is now available for your iPhone!

turntable lets you play music together with your friends and other people online. Each DJ takes a turn playing a song and the entire virtual room hears the song. You can vote on whether the song is awesome or lame and if it receives too many lame votes, it gets skipped. 

turntable is also truly social. You can chat with people in your room or fan your favorite DJs so that you can find them later. Help people discover new great music or just sit around and listen to the best curated music experience online.

Price: Free

Download Link for Turntable.fm ~ play music together

• HowStuffWorks

Are you one of the millions of fans of HowStuffWorks.com, our podcasts, our videos, our superstar experts? With the new HowStuffWorks App, you will finally have access to over 30,000 articles, podcasts and videos all in one place! 



The HowStuffWorks app not only gives you instant access to a massive collection of articles and podcasts right on your iPhone or iPod Touch, but also gives you direct access to our famous podcasters and HowStuffWorks experts! Tweet with the HowStuffWorks crew while you listen!



Stream our amazing popular podcasts while reading any article in the app or chat directly with the podcasters -- even read their newest blog posts. Want to get a new episode ASAP? Set up a push notification and you’ll instantly be the first in the know! All 2,000+ of these great shows are now immediately available in the HowStuffWorks app!



Price: Free

Download Link for HowStuffWorks

• iMovie

Make beautiful HD movies anywhere with iMovie, the fast and fun moviemaking app for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Designed for the Multi-Touch screen, iMovie puts everything you need to tell your story at your fingertips. Browse and play projects in the Marquee view. Make a movie in minutes by adding video, photos, music and sound effects. Then give it the Hollywood treatment by adding a theme, titles and transitions. And you can share share your movie with the world – right from iMovie.  

Price: £2.99

Download Link for iMovie

• FarmVille by Zynga 

Plow, plant and harvest on the go 24/7! FarmVille, the most popular game on the web, is now available on your iPhone and iPad. Current FarmVille players can access their existing Facebook farm, and new users can create a farm.

- Connect to your FarmVille farm on the web!

- Choose from a variety of seeds to grow beautiful fruits and vegetables!

- Earn coins and XP to decorate your farm or expand your acreage. 

- Work faster with vehicles like tractors and seeders, and rear livestock including cows, sheep, and pigs. 

- Exclusive iPad/iPhone/iPod items available! 

- The more you help your neighbors, the faster you’ll level up. 

- Support for multitasking (for iOS4 users only)

- Login to multiple FarmVille accounts using the Logout feature in the Options page

- Work on Co-op farming jobs

- Crop Mastery, Collectible and Bushel Notifications!

- Use your Biplane and Super Combine!

Price: Free

Download Link for FarmVille by Zynga

• Cards

The new Cards app from Apple lets you create and mail beautifully crafted cards personalized with your own text and photos — right from your iPhone or iPod touch. Take a quick snapshot and with a few taps and swipes, an elegant thank you note or “wish-you-were-here” card is on its way to any address in the world. Choose from 21 designs and customize your card with a personal message and photo. Then select an address from your Contacts and place your order in seconds. All your cards are saved automatically, so it’s easy to send an invitation or birth announcement to more than one person.

Price: Free

Download Link for Cards

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How To | iOS 5 Upgrade Procedure : Error Free

Apple released its iOS 5 this week offering its users to upgrade to the latest version of iOS, but what came as a big disappointment was that while upgrading, the users came across Error '3200' , '3002' , '3004' and '3014' messages. The reason being - overwhelmed Apple servers and overburdened User's connections.

While the iOS 5 comes as a massive update to all the Apple users - bringing in more than 200 new feautures - resulting in web surge, what it ended up in was Error messages being reported by users while upgrading to iOS 5 with no solution available for the problem making most of the upgradation processes to fail.

But what might help you in upgrading your iDevice successfully are the following guide that just might work out for you. Take a look!

First of all you need to install the IPSW firmware for your iDevice.
IPSW firmware for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPad, iPad 2, iPod Touch 3G and iPod Touch 4G can be downloaded directly from the links below without using iTunes :

iPhone 3GS

iPhone 4 (CDMA)

iPhone 4 (GSM)

iPad

iPad 2 (CDMA)

iPad 2 (GSM)

iPad 2 (Wi-Fi)

iPod touch 3G

iPod touch 4G

After the IPSW firmware is downloaded, there are 2 options for you to select from :
Note : Backing up your iDevice before upgradation is highly recommended.

Option 1:

Hold the 'Alt' key (Windows) or 'Option' key (Mac) and click on 'Restore' in iTunes which asks for the location of the IPSW firmware that was downloaded earlier. Then, the update process would follow.
Note : You can download the latest version of the iTunes from here.

Option 2:

After the downloading, close iTunes and disconnect your iDevice from your PC. Then you shall copy-paste the IPSW file to the following path.

• For Windows Users

%APPDATA%Apple ComputeriTunesiP{one|ad|od} Software Updates

• For Mac Users

~/Library/iTunes/iP{one|ad|od} Software Updates

Now, connect back your iDevice and open the iTunes. The iTunes would automatically detect the IPSW file from the above location. Afterwards, hit the Update Button on the iTunes. Then, the update process would follow.

If the process makes your iDevice totally inoperative or if Error '3194' is reported, put your iDevice in DSU mode and then you might try restoring while in recovery.

If the Error reported states 'An internal error has occurred', it means that the Apple servers have been overwhelmed and the you show try the upgradation process after some time.

Good luck mates.!

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Review | Smartphone War : iPhone 4S vs iPhone 4 vs iPhone 3GS vs Samsung Galaxy S 2 vs Motorola Droid Bionic vs HTC Titan [Detailed Comparison]

In a race for the best smartphone, we are going to conduct an detailed comparison of the 6 best Smartphones - iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, Samsung Galaxy S II, Motorola Droid Bionic and HTC Titan - currently available in the market and figure out the best of the best.

iPhone 4S

Just as we helped our reader to figure out the best tablet with our last post 'Review | Tablet War : Kindle Fire against Top 5 Tablets', with the launch of iPhone 4S after all the rumors of a iPhone 5 launch, the best smartphone battle has certainly heated up and now in this post we are going to figure out the best smartphone out of iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, Samsung Galaxy S II, Motorola Droid Bionic and HTC Titan.

HTC Titan

With a plethora of Smartphones to select from, to get your perfect-one it may require a long brainstorming session.So to make the going easier for you, we are going to find which smartphone should you pick and which one you should kick.

In this comparison, we are going to judge these smartphones on the following 8 criteria's:

1. Operating System
2. Processor
3. Touchscreen
4. Storage and Memory
5. Camera
6. Connectivity
7. Battery Life
8. Price

Here they follow :

1. Operating System

• iPhone 4S runs on iOS 5
• iPhone 4 runs on iOS 4
• iPhone 3GS runs on iOS 4
• Samsung Galaxy S II runs on Android 2.3.4 with TouchWiz 4.0
• Motorola Droid Bionic runs on Android 2.3.4 with custom skin
• HTC Titan runs on Windows Phone 7.5 Mango

Edge : iPhone 4S

iPhone 4S

2. Processor

• iPhone 4S uses a dual-core Apple A5 processor
• iPhone 4 uses a single-core Apple A4 processor
• iPhone 3GS uses a ARM Cortex A8-based processor
• Samsung Galaxy S II runs on 1.2GHz dual-core Samsung Exynos processor
• Motorola Droid Bionic uses a 1GHz dual-core TI OMAP 4430 processor
• HTC Titan runs on 1.5GHz single-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor

Edge : iPhone 4S

3. Touchscreen

• iPhone 4S has a 3.5inch screen and a screen resolution of 960x640 pixels
• iPhone 4 has a 3.5inch screen and a screen resolution of 960x640 pixels
• iPhone 3GS has a 3.5inch screen and a screen resolution of 480x320 pixels
• Samsung Galaxy S II has a 4.3inch screen and a screen resolution of 800x480 pixels
• Motorola Droid Bionic has a 4.3inch screen and a screen resolution of 960x540 pixels
• HTC Titan has a 4.7inch screen and a screen resolution of 800x480 pixels 

Edge : Samsung Galaxy S II

Samsung Galaxy S II

4. Storage and Memory

• iPhone 4S comes with a 1GB RAM and options of 16 , 32 and 64GB storage space
• iPhone 4 comes with a 512MB RAM and 8GB of storage space
• iPhone 3GS comes with a 256MB RAM and 8GB of storage space
• Samsung Galaxy S II comes with a 1GB RAM and options of 16 and 32GB storage space
• Motorola Droid Bionic comes with a 1GB RAM and 16GB storage space
• HTC Titan comes with a 512MB RAM and 16GB storage space

Edge : iPhone 4S

5 .Camera

• iPhone 4S has a front-facing VGA camera and a rear-facing 8MP autofocus camera with LED flash along with video recording at 1080p at 30fps 
• iPhone 4 has a front-facing VGA camera and a rear-facing 5MP autofocus camera with LED flash along with video recording at 720p at 30fps 
• iPhone 3GS has a rear-facing 3MP camera with no LED flash
• Samsung Galaxy S II has a front-facing 2MP camera and a rear-facing 8MP autofocus camera with LED flash along with video recording at 1080p at 30fps 
• Motorola Droid Bionic has a front-facing VGA camera and a rear-facing 8MP autofocus camera with LED flash along with video recording at 1080p at 30fps 
• HTC Titan has a front-facing 1.3MP camera and a rear-facing 8MP autofocus camera with LED flash along with video recording at 720p at 30fps 

Edge : Samsung Galaxy S II

6. Connectivity

• iPhone 4S is a world phone which supports both CDMA and GSM
• iPhone 4 is a world phone which supports both CDMA and GSM
• iPhone 3GS supports only GSM
• Samsung Galaxy S II supports both CDMA and GSM
• Motorola Droid Bionic supports only CDMA
• HTC Titan supports only GSM

Edge : Tie between iPhone 4S, Samsung Galaxy S II and iPhone 4

iPhone 4

7. Battery Life

• iPhone 4S has a 8-hour battery life
• iPhone 4 has a 7-hour battery life
• iPhone 3GS has a 5-hour battery life
• Samsung Galaxy S II has a 7-8.7hour battery life
• Motorola Droid Bionic has a 10.8-hour battery life
• HTC Titan has a 6.8-hour battery life

Edge : Motorola Droid Bionic

Motorola Droid Bionic

8. Price

• iPhone 4S is priced at $199/$299/$399 for 16/32/64GB memory options
• iPhone 4 is priced at $99
• iPhone 3GS is priced at $99
• Samsung Galaxy S II is priced at $199
• Motorola Droid Bionic is priced at $299
• HTC Titan is priced at £498

Edge : iPhone 4S

iPhone 4S

Judgement

With all the specs listed above, all the smartphones stand very close to each other on the 8 criteria's on which we have compared them. But what makes iPhone 4S stand out is a feature called 'Siri' that allows users to connect with the interface and get all the functions done just by speaking them out to the phone. Be it composing messages, asking questions like the weather conditions or setting reminders, everything is just that much more easy. This feature surely leaves behind all its rivals and emerges as the clear winner.!

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Review | Tablet War : Kindle Fire vs iPad 2 vs Galaxy Tab 10.1 vs BlackBerry Playbook vs Motorola Xoom vs HP Touchpad [Detailed Comparison]

In a race for the best tablet, we are going to conduct an detailed comparison of the 6 best tablets - Kindle Fire , iPad 2 , Galaxy Tab 10.1 , BlackBerry Playbook , Motorola Xoom and HP Touchpad - currently available in the market and figure out the best of the best.

With a plethora of Tablets to select from, to get your perfect-one it may require a long brainstorming session.

Galaxy Tab 10.1

So to make the going easier for you, we are going to find which tablet should you pick and which one you should kick.

In this comparison, we are going to judge these tablets on the following 8 criteria's:

1. Operating System
2. Processor
3. Touchscreen
4. Storage and Memory
5. Camera
6. Connectivity
7. Battery Life
8. Price

Here they follow :

1. Operating System

Arguably the biggest difference among the all 6 competitors.

• Kindle Fire runs on its own special OS 'Android 2.x' rumored to be Android FroYo
• iPad 2 runs on Apple's iOS 4.3
• Blackberry Playbook runs on RIM's own Tablet OS
• HP Touchpad runs on webOS 3.0
• Galaxy Tab 10.1 & Motorola Xoom run on Android 3.0 Honeycomb

Edge : Reader's Choice

2. Processor

All the 6 units use dual-core processors. 

• Kindle Fire uses a 1GHz Texas Instruments OMAP chip
• iPad 2 runs on 1-GHz dual-core Apple A5 custom-designed processor
• Blackberry Playbook uses a 1-GHz dual-core Texas Instruments OMAP
• HP Touchpad runs on 1.2-GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor
• Galaxy Tab 10.1 runs on 1-GHz dual-core Nvidia Tegra 2 processor
• Motorola Xoom uses a 1-GHz dual-core Nvidia Tegra 2 processor

Edge : iPad 2

iPad 2

3. Touchscreen

• Kindle Fire has a 7inch screen and a screen resolution of 1024x600 pixels
• iPad 2 has a 9.7inch screen and a screen resolution of 1024x768 pixels
• Blackberry Playbook has a 7inch screen and a screen resolution of 1024x600 pixels
• HP Touchpad has a 9.7inch screen and a screen resolution of 1024x768 pixels 
• Galaxy Tab 10.1 & Motorola Xoom have a 10.1inch screen and a screen resolution of 1280x800 pixels

Edge : Blackberry Playbook

Blackberry Playbook

4. Storage and Memory

• Kindle Fire comes with a 512MB RAM and 8GB of storage space
• iPad 2 comes with a 512MB RAM and options of 16 , 32 and 64GB storage space
• Blackberry Playbook comes with a 1GB RAM and options of 16 , 32 and 64GB storage space
• HP Touchpad comes with a 1GB RAM and options of 16 and 32GB storage space
• Galaxy Tab 10.1 comes with a 1GB RAM and options of 16 and 32GB storage space
• Motorola Xoom comes with a 1GB RAM and 32GB of storage space

Edge : Tie between Blackberry Playbook & HP Touchpad

HP Touchpad

5 .Camera

• Kindle Fire doesn't have a mic or a camera
• iPad 2 has both front-facing and rear-facing camera
• Blackberry Playbook has a 3-megapixel front-facing and a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera
• HP Touchpad has a 1.3-megapixel front-facing and no rear-facing camera
• Galaxy Tab 10.1 has a 2-megapixel front-facing and a 3-megapixel rear-facing camera
• Motorola Xoom has a 2-megapixel front-facing and a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera

Edge : Motorola Xoom

6. Connectivity

• The Kindle Fire only connects to the web via Wi-Fi, there is no 3G, no Bluetooth and no GPS.
• iPad 2 comes with Wi-Fi, 3G and Bluetooth support
• Blackberry Playbook comes with Wi-Fi, coming soon 4G connectivity, Bluetooth, micro USB and HDMI output support
• HP Touchpad comes with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and micro USB support
• Galaxy Tab 10.1 comes with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth support
• Motorola Xoom comes with Wi-Fi, 4G connectivity, Bluetooth, micro USB, micro SD and HDMI output support

Edge : Motorola Xoom

Motorola Xoom

7. Battery Life

• Kindle Fire has a 8-hour battery life
• iPad 2 has a 10-hour battery life
• Blackberry Playbook has a 7.5-8hour battery life
• HP Touchpad has a 8-hour battery life on being heavily used and 9-10 hours for regular use
• Galaxy Tab 10.1 has a 9-10hour battery life
• Motorola Xoom has a 8-8.5hour battery life

Edge : iPad 2

8. Price

• Kindle Fire is priced at £199
• iPad 2 is priced at £439
• Motorola Xoom is priced at £499

Edge : Kindle Fire

Kindle Fire

Judgement

Try it before you buy it!

At a price as low as £199, Kindle Fire is considered to be a steal by many. But at that amazing price the device doesn't offer some basic features like no 3G or Bluetooth connectivity. So, Amazon will have to upgrade it sooner or later if it dreams of competing with iPad 2 or Galaxy Tab 10.1

Apart from the Kindle Fire, Motorola Xoom and Blackberry Playbook come loaded with features. But our recommendation to our readers would be to first gets a hands-on experience of the tablet and then pick the best of these best tablets up for the grabs!

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Just In | iPhone 5 Specs Leaked

Vodafone incidentally gave a sneak peak into the specs of the much-awaited iPhone 5. If the specs outed by Vodafone are anything to go by, the all-new iPhone 5 would soon be arriving with in 16GB and 32GB storage flavors along with 2 color options - black and white - as speculated earlier.

As seen on the Vodafone SureSignal listing, Vodafone is going to come up with a whole new range of phones along with this much-awaited iPhone 5. Although Vodafone has already removed the page of SureSignal listing, but a snapshot of the link confirms this alleged 'leak'.

If rumors are anything to go by, the next-gen iPhone 5 would not feature a 64GB capability, as in iPod Touch and iPad. Also, the phone is expected to have a 8MP or higher resolution camera and would feature the same A5 proccesor as in iPad 2.

On being asked to comment on how this alleged 'leak' happened, Vodafone played it safe stating that it would 'look into' the matter soon.

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Coming Soon | Apple iPhone 5

Apple Inc. is gearing up for its new launch - the Apple iPhone 5.

Rumors had it that the iPhone 5 may be launched anytime in September 2011 but according to latest rumors, the iPhone 5 may hit the shelves in October, sadly.



As the all-new Apple iPhone 5 has been flooded in with a whole lot of new features, the anticipation for getting one-of-these in the market is sky high.

As a result, Apple has already ordered 10 million Apple iPhone 5 in advance so as to deal with this huge demand.

So, coming to the features, the users of Apple iPhone 5 are really in for a treat.
The features are listed as below:

• iOS 5 : This all-new iPhone OS would feature in the new iPhone which is expected to come with around 200 changes as compared to the old OS. It would include concept of direct manipulation along with multi touch gestures, new notifications system, news stand and iMessage.
• iCloud : This feature would help in operating iTunes for wireless remote access of music from computers and mobile devices. It would also help store photos, calenders , documents and other useful data on the phone without actually storing it in phone's phone memory.
• Designing : The phone would feature a teardrop design making the iPhone slimmer and lighter than its previous versions. Also the back cover would be of aluminium rather than of glass as in iPhone 4. It would have a 3.7-4.0 inch corner to corner display with  curved glass on its top which would offer more privacy in public areas to the users.
• Camera : It would include a rear 8MP dual LED flash camera and a front camera which would support video calling. If rumors are to be believed, the rear 8MP camera would be a 3-D one which would capture images in 3-D and record 108p High resolution videos.
• Hardware : The phone would feature a upgraded 1GB RAM along with a 1.2-1.5 GHz core A5 Processor which would make the phone work faster and make it more reliable. Along this, it comes with a embedded SIM design and other chip sets which would make phone thinner. It comes with 3memory options i.e. 16/32/64 GB.

To go with all these superb additions are some more like a fire-proof body, advanced gaming and wireless charging.

So, a slimmer-thinner-and surely, a better iPhone 5 is ready to people go crazy and would help Apple Inc.to remain at No.1 position in smartphones sales across the globe!

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