LG Optimus L7 Goes On Sale In UK, Gets A £299 Price Tag!

Back at Mobile World Congress in February, LG unveiled the Optimus L7 Android phone. Today, it has gone for sale in the land of the Brits.

Sporting a 4.3” inch capacitive touch display with WVGA resolution and providing enough real estate to comfortably browse the web, view videos or get comfortable with messaging.

LG Optimus L7 features a five megapixel camera on the back to capture decent quality pictures and video and is also assisted by a LED flash. Under the hood, the LG Optimus L7 Android phone is powered by a 1GHz Cortex A5 single-core (!) processor. But then, it runs Android 4.0 OS.

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Microsoft just announced that it’s latest operating system, Windows 8, will continue to support the well-received Windows Media Center feature that was also seen in Windows 7 and more. However, going by the pricing model of Windows 8, it will be available as an opt-in feature.

DVD playback support will therefore be not natively available in Windows 8. Apparently, the move comes as a consequence of the fact that DVD sales have been decling year over year and these days most of the media consumed by a common user comes from online/ web respositories.

Microsoft Windows 8 already supports plenty of codecs and video playback formats as compensation to the loss. And of course, there are always third party softwares available as pleasantires if you don’t want to hit that -per-use ‘Add Features to Windows 8’ icon in the Control Panel.

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HTC has been doing fairly well with its Android smartphones.Interestingly, most of the HTC phones are blessed with larger displays than the competition and most of them officially allow unlocked bootloaders.

The whole HTC Android phones community was beaming with joy, but that had to change someday, and that day has come. It is being reported that the AT&T’s version of HTC One X, the HTC One XL will not support bootloader unlocking.

The HTC PR was quick to release a relevant statement but has assured that unlike AT&T HTC One XL, upcoming HTC Android phones will resume unlocker bootloader support. Meanwhile, the HTC One XL AT&T phone is all ready for the big reception.

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Microsoft’s Xbox 360 gaming console has been a tremendous success since its original launch and has been widely acclaimed thereafter. There’s been word in the air about Microsoft working on the next generation of Xbox already, and now here’s comes a new tid bit.

Flextronics, a company that’s been manufacturing Xbox 360 hardware units is said to be discretely working on the next generation Xbox hardware. In fact, reports say that a seperate division of the unit has been set up solely for working on the new Xbox consoles.

The new Xbox console is expected to sport a powerful AMD processor, extremely enhanced graphics, deep integration with  the next genertion Kinect Xbox accesory an integrated touchscreen and much more.

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It’s been a while since I have written about the upcoming iPhone, but during this void nothing seems to have changed significantly. Yes, the device is still under the wraps and hasn’t officially made to the surface, but that won’t stop the flow of speculations and rumors. Will it?

According to a report by iLounge, the new iPhone is up and ready for a significant overhaul, and that has everything to do with the screen size of the device. The latest report mentions that the iPhone will boast a metal back with a larger display on the front.

The transition of the screen size will not affect the width of the screen but only the length, which according to the report, will be increased by as much as 10mm. Whether it will be called the iPhone 5 or something else, it will be sporting the new Gorilla Glass 2 for more protection.

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At the Samsung Unpacked 2012 event in London, Samsung finally announced the Galaxy S3 Android phone officially making it public and falsifying quite a number of speculations and rumors that inevitably made headlines until this day.

The London’s Earl’s court was filled with enthusiasts and eager press restlessly waiting to get the first take on Samsung Galaxy S3 superphone. But, all that’s done now and the phone itself is very much official. So, let’s take a look at what cosmic diversities Samsung has packed inside its newest Galaxy phone.

To begin with, Samsung Galaxy S3 features a 4.8” HD Super AMOLED display, an amazing 8 megapixel primary camera, a 1.9 megapixels front-facing camera, advanced face recognition, incredible storage options, a quad-core processor, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS and much more. More incredible details after the break.

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Galileo is one of the many cool Kickstarter projects that’s well funded by people like you and I who like the concept and love the finished product. Simply put, its a mount for your iPhone that can be controlled via another iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Android phones, Windows Phone or a web app during a video call/conference.

Motrr, the company that makes Galileo has made an SDK available for developers to get creative with the product and come up with an entirely new software or just integrate Galileo into their existing app. Though its an interesting product and will sell like hot cakes, I doubt if many people will put it to use as intended or find any use of it in the regular course of day. It’s an awesome gadget, I just don’t think everyone has an extra iPhone to leave it on the mount for remote monitoring or given its screen size leaving it couple of feets away while on a video call might not be that great of an experience. After watching the videos I understand time-lapse could be an interesting use of this gadget.

I might be jumping the gun, after all I am yet to get my hands on it, but if you end-up buying one as well, be sure to let us know how often you put it to use.

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Thanks to Facebook, Google and a gazillion other companies who feed on user information for advertising dollars, “Privacy” has now become a unique selling point.

Most of these companies track user behavior and use other user related information to show relevant advertisements and improve product experience for the user. With so many privacy policies floating around it’s hard to tell who is tracking what.

I think technology and competition is the worst thing ever happened to user privacy and given the recent mishandling of user information, I am just as concerned as you are! So, few weeks ago, just when Kevin Rose announced that Oink will shut down, I left him a message on G+ urging him to consider working on a product that puts privacy ahead of everything else!

Here is a part of what I wrote to Kevin..
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I used iPhone for years and using Windows Phone is a breath of fresh air, it smells freedom! OK – That was a little dramatic, I never had an issue with Apple’s control over iPhone and the App-store, in fact I liked it that way. It kept low quality, malware and other information-stealing applications away from the users. I felt protected That’s that!

I moved to Windows Phone, Nokia’s Lumia 900 about a week ago and I’ve had an awesome experience with the Windows platform so far, but not so much with the applications. It’s clearly a half-assed attempt from some of the biggest and most popular names in the app world.

When it comes to app quality, it goes without saying that my point of reference are apps running on iPhone. So when I use some of my favorite applications like Facebook, WhatsApp, Hulu, etc.. I can’t help but compare the user experience of these apps with the ones on iPhone and the results are below average at best.

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Over a decade ago, I bought my first mobile phone, Nokia 3310 followed by a Nokia 6600 and Samsung’s PCH-10 (briefly) before I became a hardcore iPhone user. After 3 years and 3 different versions of iPhone, I dared to try something new and refreshing and I finally did with Nokia Lumia 900.

This is not a complete review, these are my first impressions as I’ve only been using this phone for the past 24hrs.

Lets take the good, the bad and the ugly approach and talk about things I liked the most (The Good) followed by things that could have been better (The Bad) and few that are outright worst (The Ugly)!
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