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Check for Samsung Galaxy E7 Benchmark Confirmed Specs

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Check for Samsung Galaxy E7 Benchmark Confirmed Specs
Samsung Galaxy E7
(Galaxy E7 with NEW metal design)

 

Samsung Series – A Glance:

Last week Samsung Galaxy E7 and Galaxy E5 news was flying in the air and now, it turned to a new discussion of about Samsung’s new line of mid-range smartphones plans. Samsung Galaxy E7 specs revealed by GFXBench confirmed that the handset is in the good working process and Samsung is moved ahead planning a new line with it.

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Samsung E Series is on a roll in the smartphones market and now more approved comes the Samsung Galaxy E7 specs that leaks through a new benchmark listing. Axed with the upcoming U series, Samsung E Series is alive and in kickable process.

Samsung in this year comes with a lot of new Android handsets in the mid-range and low-end areas of the market and more specifically the details about two models of the upcoming E series was uncovered by SamMobile that revealed that the most of the features are found to be common that includes the Qualcomm Snapdragon chip user and the non-removable battery.

E7 as SM-E7000:

 

Samsung SM-E700 that had been surfaced from Samsung via a User Agent profile will be launched as Samsung Galaxy E7 that act as a alternative to the Galaxy A7 phablet. It is believed that it will be coated with:

  • 720p resolution
  • 5.5″ screen with 267ppi pixel density
  • Clocked at 1.5GHz processor
  • Classic 32-bit architecture
  • Android 4.4 KitKat
  • Benchmark Confirmed Specs:

Benchmark Confirmed Specs

(E7 as SM-E7000)

 

Benchmark Confirmed Specs:

  • Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 Processor
  • 2 GB RAM
  • 16 GB internal storage along with microSD support
  • 5.5-inch Super AMOLED with 1,280X720 pixels (Galaxy E7)
  • 5 MP front camera
  • 13 MP back camera
  • Android 5.0 Lollipop OS
  • 2950 mAh battery capacity

Samsung Galaxy E7 benchmark performance

(Benchmark Confirmed Specs)

 

Samsung Galaxy E7 now as SM-E7000 consists of a 5.5-inch Super AMOLED screen of HD display with a resolution of 1,280 x 720 pixels, 1.2GHz Snapdragon 410 quad-core 64-bit Snapdragon 410 processor that clocked at 1.2GHz and backed by 2GB of RAM. with 16GB of internal storage but not with a microSD card slot and with 2,950mAh battery capacity.

Called by a nick-name Sammy – Samsung always provides good cameras and Samsung Galaxy E7 also consists of a 12MP snapper on the back and in the front with a 5MP sensor. Other feature includes:

Though the benchmarked version came up that it would be sailing on Android 4.4.4 but the latest reveals that the E7 will be with 5.0 Lollipop android OS.

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As per the previous rumors, Samsung Galaxy E7 is expected to have a metal frame or a metal unibody. Assuming that the Galaxy E7 release date will be in the second half of 2015 and price-wise, it is expect ed that the Galaxy E7 will be going for a pricey, if it comes with a full metal unibody or a metal frame.   Samsung Galaxy E7 will be the first new smartphones form Samsung that created with the company’s new philosophy of redesigning their lines and though Samsung said that they would cut back on the number of smartphones from being released by the next year but on viewing the Galaxy sales in 2014 which dropped down much severly, it seems the Galaxy E7 new model will be highlighted more in stores. If you are looking to buy your next smartphone, go to pixmania deal shop page to get awesome deals

 

Infographic – The Smart Home of Future

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Infographic – The Smart Home of Future

It’s undeniable that we are becoming fully-immersed in the Internet of Things (IoT) era. Our lives, homes, phones, cars, electronics, music, refrigerators—even clothing!—are growing increasingly connected. And smart technology is only going to get more intuitive and unified as the years pass.

At Control4, we live and breathe this stuff. It’s what makes us “tick.” We’ve been perfecting the automated home for over 10 years now and it’s amazing to see how far it has come. Besides the obvious cool factor, one of the biggest benefits of a smart home is that it gives individuals and families the ability to have their home work for them, just as it fits their lifestyle. It can be catered directly to their specific wants and needs.

Motion detectors can light up a pathway for your furry friend to reach the food bowl in the middle of the night. Your home theater can automatically adjust the blinds, temperature and lighting to accommodate your ideal movie-watching experience. With a one-button press, your entire home can shut itself down, locking the doors and arming the alarm, all at once as you leave for work in the morning. This isn’t the future, this is NOW.

We couldn’t help but wonder what people of today think the “house of the future” will look like—or what they want in their own futuristic smart home. So we took a survey and compiled some of our favorite responses into an infographic. Some may be possible, many are quite interesting, and a few are just downright outlandish.

So…What do you want in your futuristic smart home?

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Infographic credits: http://www.control4.com/

A Few Things That May Surprise You About Digital Signage Solutions

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A Few Things That May Surprise You About Digital Signage Solutions

We’re you’re in business in the twenty-first century, delivering the right message to the right audience can mean the difference between unparalleled success and utter failure. Today, consumers are bombarded by a multitude of messages across an ever-expanding field of media, which means differentiating your brand and standing out from the competition is harder than ever. That’s why digital signage solutions are more popular and more in demand than ever before: panel display, universal mount, and freestanding modules, along with full outdoor displays and custom-cut LCDs, all deliver your message with professionalism and poise, and can now be found everywhere from college campuses, business districts, airports, bus stations, roadways, to the suburban mall or fast food joint. No matter the location and software used, marketers are able to engage their audience with this new exciting technology.

Digital Signage Solutions

Dynamic digital signage provides much more than what dated, stand alone, paper billboards of yesterday could offer. While having a static billboard may now seem obsolete, the principle behind their operation still remains a stalwart feature of how we broadcast messages. All that’s needed is a computer with a network interface, and on-screen data can be updated to real time. Multiple screens in a multitude of locations can be updated simultaneously. Importantly, animation, scrolling text, and sound are easily incorporated, revolutionizing the static interface of the traditional billboard.

People seem to enjoy and respond positively to screen-based advertising. According to recent research, over 80 percent of consumers watched digital signage, 70 percent said that digital signage was entertaining, and 41 percent claimed they would be more likely to visit a retailer or other location based on digital signage alone. More consumers could recall the products from digital advertising compared to standard television ads watched in the same day.

There are other ways of measuring ROI than dollars and cents. Measuring digital signage marketing efforts have traditionally evaluated their impact in terms of sales. One newer solution for marketers is the use of Anonymous Video Analytics (or AVA), where cameras embedded in digital signs record audience facial responses and impressions, which are then measured and tabulated. While protecting viewers’ privacy, the feature records length of observation, gender, age, and other categories—invaluable information for the modern marketer. The longer the exposure time to the message, the better. Studies have been performed comparing audience responses to digital versus paper billboards, calculating the resulting metrics via exposure time. Over a period of several months, results show that more people view digital signage than paper-based, and importantly, they look at the advertisements for longer periods of time.

High-end commercial LCD monitors for digital signage are available in a wide variety of display sizes. LCD units include backlit displays, media boxes, hosting, licensing, and multiple-year service contracts as part of the typical packages available for installation. Customizable video and animation, text and graphical elements for logos, and cloud-based content management are also often included. Software packages include document workflows for managing and sharing documents and document output management for fully secured printing, scanning, faxing and copying. Data is completely secured and includes DRM. With all the available options and cutting-edge technology, it’s now a piece of cake to find commercial digital signage solutions that offer exciting new avenues of revenue for all businesses, no matter what state, size, or strategy. Don’t be afraid to ask, shop, and research around to find the best deals and best packages.

Micromax Yu phone with cyanogen power comes to Light

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Micromax Yu phone with cyanogen power comes to Light

Micromax + Cyanogen = Remarkable Revolution:

On 11th dec 2014 Thursday, Micromax just started sending invites for its scheduled event on December 18 in where there is expectation for the first Cyanogen-based smartphone under its new YU brand to set to light. But its official page doesn’t much brings the news about the handset and the inward details regarding the new YU series smartphone still remains mystery. Last month, Micromax declared about its new YU brand in partnership with Cyanogen and its first handset under the brand name was expected to be proclaimed by this month.

micromax yu phone cyanogen

(Micromax Yu phone with cyanogen power on the way)

When stayed tuned continuously, a few preliminary leaks have been indicated that it would come with the features such as:

  • CyanogenMod OS version
  • Powered by a 64-bit CPU processor.

As the device confidently expected to be released in India on coming on December 1, its market availability will be rumored within 2-3 weeks after the declaration.

 

(video by MRModding)

Micromax co-founder Mr.Rahul Sharma told PTI that “This cynogen based smartphones will be a game changer to whole world but not just in India only and added that  YU has been striving hard for building an ecosystem with this type of the connected devices in order to provide customized experience to its users. With great encouragement and confidence, Mr.Rahul Sharma firmly believes that  Cyanogen will be the right partner to help us in delivering a differentiated experience in the mobile ecosystem and in together submitted to challenge the limits of possibility to create a new world.” Also he added that the brand will link directly with the end-users and provides with the boot loader access, so that they would get help to come up with software upgrades that they need in their phones, he added.

micromax cyanogen phone

The CEO of Cyanogen Mr.Kirt McMaster prescribed that he and his company got great excitement about this partnership and would share a common vision around a powerful user-focused mobile experience. It’s just the commencing as the partnership unfolds and Micromax + Cyanogen = Remarkable Revolution. Awesome new innovations are on the way from this collaboration.

 Recommended reading; How to Recover Deleted messages, contacts from Android phone

Cyanogen’s operating system that sails on Android is very much capable of delivering rich software advancements on mobile devices that optimize:

  • Performance
  • Customization
  • Security
  • Privacy features

Mr.Sharma in a negative tone said that the brand will eat Micromax’s market share and with the deep cheerfulness he added that the brand is aiming for the digital natives and tech enthusiasts who expects more out of their phones and are constantly improving in that. Additionally a forum for raising their ideas and those who wants incorporate in the software updates will be done every fortnight.

Mr.Sharma furtherly added that this remarkable revolution product with no doubt will give the best value for money in the world and line up with more products in the up-coming days which will be available and marketed through online channels.

Micromax narrates that the “Micromax + Cyanogen = Remarkable Revolution” quotes is in the breathe for the past one year and under the Project YUreka. Project YUreka idea was to engage directly with the consumers and bring discovering that would solve the consumer issues not as just the software or hardware upgrades and in taking the shape of a new brand ‘YU’.” Now, YU is carrying out the discussions with the e-commerce players for online trade. And apart from smartphones, YU also concentrating in bringing other smart devices to the Indian market.

 

Micromax’s official partner – Cyanogen, gave a huge blow to potential OnePlus One buyers in India and clarified that the OTA updates will not possible for OnePlus One that sold within the country. In its company blog post, the statement underlined that If a user in India goes for OnePlus One global device in channels outside of India they will receive our OTA firmware updates and this excludes OnePlus One regional devices sold directly in India. As totally committed to exclusive partnership in India with Micromax that will be launching its first Cyanogen OS device under new YU brand.

YU Brand’s App Challenge for Indian Developers:

Micromax to promote its new brand, recently goes for the announcement about the ‘Apps for YU’ challenge and invites Indian developers to develop apps for its upcoming YU brand of smartphones which will be sailing a custom Cyanogen OS build that is based on Android.

Also read; How Safe is Android- Insight into Android Security Issues

The company also placed certain rules and regulations for the participations such as:

  • Register via YUPlayGod forum
  • Submit an app on or before 5th Jan, 2015
  • Apps can be depend on the categories such as
    • Personalization,
    • Camera
    • Privacy
    • Battery
    • Audio.

The company also added that the 30 days old apps can enter the contest. It is believed that the contest results will be declared on 10th Jan, 2015.

The company also surprised that the best app would be featured on Micromax’s new YU smartphone and the winner will receive Rs.1,00,000 as prize and the top three entries would get YU phones and top ten developers will receive YU commodities. In a statement, the company added that the submitted apps will be judged by a YU member’s panel on the conditions such as:

  • App idea
  • Code completeness
  • Functionality
  • UI/UX
  • Memory and optimization

The selected app will get a chance to go for live on the YU device with the full credits given to the app developer says the company.

Following this announcement, Mr.Rahul Sharma Micromax Co-Founder, says that the “Driving our journey towards the smartphones revolutionizing by this challenge, Micromax calls developer community in order to share their vision of reinvention and ingeniousness and feeling encouraged as because as a country they have an immense pool of talent and CyanogenMod serves as an excellent platform to bring that alive.

Based on the last declaration about its new YU brand in partnership with Cyanogen, Micromax is going for its first handset under this brand in upcoming December.

 

Apart from new themes app challenge contest that act as a store front for Cyanogen OS users, Cyanogen,  now goes for a “Themes Design Challenge” and this competition is same as that of the ‘Apps for YU’ and called the artists and content creators to submit original theme packs for the Cyanogen OS.

 

Infographic: The People Behind the Biggest Apps in the World

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Infographic: The People Behind the Biggest Apps in the World

With the proliferation of the smartphone in the world today, we have seen the emergence of a huge choice of phone applications that can make our lives easier or just give us more leisure options. This has also opened up a whole new world of business that many shrewd people have taken advantage of. The area of phone application development has grown rapidly over the last number of years buoyed by the ubiquitous nature of the smartphone in daily life. Building applications especially those that become popular has made a number of individuals very wealthy or potentially wealthy ‘on paper’.

Some phone applications are used solely for leisure like the gaming app choices but some the messaging options like SnapChat and WhatsApp have changed how people communicate. This info-graphic examines those people behind some of the more well known phone applications. Read about how these individuals developed these ideas and how they have gone on to make them very wealthy or on the way to being so.

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From Charles Forman who created ‘Draw Something’ and Markus Persson who set up ‘Minecraft’ and many others, the area is interesting as it shows how a small piece of ingenuity and some development skill allowed these entrepreneurs to make their name in the world of smartphone application technology.

Smartphone App Development: iOS vs Android

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Smartphone App Development: iOS vs Android

Every day the smartphone industry looks new heights in the sales of smartphones. While buying any smartphone, people keep in mind that which mobile operating system they should opt for.

This article covers two smartphone operating systems, Android and iOS. Both are popular and most used.

Till today, more than 1 billion smartphones have been sold. Android covers the largest market share of 80% and has popularity in developing countries where per capita income is low, whereas iOS sits in second place with a 15% market share and popularity in nations with high per capita incomes and developed countries.

Around 1.4 million apps have been published on Google Play Store and 85% apps of them are free while out of 1.3 million iOS apps published on iTunes, 25% are free and 32% apps have in-app purchases.

Between Android and iOS apps, iOS apps give more profit than android apps. There are 67% shopping apps for iOS and 33% shopping apps for Android phones. E-commerce sites get 60% visits from iPhones while 39% visits from Android phones. The average order value from iPhones is $118 and from Android phones is $112. Let’s talk about tablets, e-commerce sites get an 87% share of visits from iPad and 11% share from android tablets. The average order value from iPads is $160 and $107 is from android tablets.

Every month iOS apps see 19% of increase in sessions while android apps see an 18% increase in sessions. In the second quarter of the year 2014, iOS apps have generated $100 million revenue while $60 million revenue by android apps.

More information can be found in the below infographic.

Smartphone app development_ iOS vs Android

 

 

Image courtesy: Nine Hertz

 

About the author: 

Gaurav Sharma is a founder of Attrock.com, a Digital Marketing Manager at Nine Hertz and an Online Marketing-Tech Blogger.  He has expertise in SEO, ASO, PPC and other parts of Online Marketing fields. He is an enthusiast and love to explore new stuffs. You can check him out on Facebook and Twitter or mail him personally.

5 Technology Tips for Small Businesses

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5 Technology Tips for Small Businesses

Are you technology-oriented at your small business? Is what you’re investing on technology enough to take advantage of all it has to offer? Here are some of the most important points to remember when it comes to pumping up your small business and getting technology to make things easier and more optimized for you.

technology tips for small business

 

  • Explore outsourcing for some admin operations

 

Outsourcing is a fast, reliable and cheaper avenue for small businesses that experience time constraints with a small and limited staff. By employing the assistance of virtual employees, you can save on expenses, including office space, and conserve energy and time in order to focus on more immediate things that need your attention. Having remote, off-site employees answering your calls or responding to email queries and performing other functions would be a good way of managing your time.

 

  • Know your analytics data

 

Having your own website and online store and making things as responsive and customer-friendly as possible all add up to a few good reasons that will help your business along. But how do you determine what strategies work best or what results you are getting? To get the answers to this, you need to keep up with your analytics.

Several platforms for getting analytics data are available, letting you be aware of your website traffic and your online sales data. Make sure to always include this part on your to-update list as it could mean more improvement and more revenue for your small business.

 

  • Don’t skip the security and make sure to back things up

 

With so many data loss dangers lurking all over the web, it is must for businesses to back all their information up so as not to lose anything. Small businesses need this as much as bigger companies do. With a small operation, the business relies very much on data and so the need for backup is strong.

Backing up data can be achieved through several options. You can opt to purchase kits or go for a remote backup service such as the highly popular cloud storage, offered by many platforms such as Dropbox and Google Drive. By going in the cloud, you can maximize data storage without going for expensive kits.

 

  • Consider investing on employees’ personal devices for business

 

Since technological devices are present in all aspects of life these days, whether at home or at work, many employees tend to bring their own devices on the job. With this in mind, you can consider investing on personal devices for work use, going for a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) scheme that could maximize work efficiency in the office. You already have mobile options at hand when running the business, so why not let your employees in on it, too, and let them always be ready and on-the-go?

 

  • Opt for teleconferences and other remote communication options

 

With so many aspects of the business that you’re tending to, you and your employees could find yourselves in places far from the office. Consider this: you’re staying at home making calls to valuable contacts or at a lunch meet-up with business partners and you need to keep up with your team’s progress, what options could you have for fast connection and communication?

The answer lies in teleconferencing. Whether you’re Skyping or using GoToMeeting or other options to continuously collaborate with your team while you’re away, it is a good thing to keep in mind how important this technological avenue is.

These technology tips are the basic things that you need to keep in mind for your small business. Get your business going with these and make sure you are going the right way where technology is concerned.

Ethan Robinson is an Australia-based online marketing strategist who constantly works with local and international clients. He is currently partnering with US-based Small Business Expo to get more SME owners together and build business-impacting networks.

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