Samsung versus Apple smartphone buyers

Users of iPhones are on average better educated, younger and wealthier than those who prefer competing solutions smartphone Samsung (CIRP).Thus, while one of the counter-ads Samsung launched against rival mocking Apple iPhone phone owners, suggesting that the Cupertino company's products are sought only for "nerds elders", in reality the situation seems to be different. So-called nerds are actually well educated young and financially better than Samsung smartphone owners.




The study compiled by the U.S. indicate that most users of iPhone phone falls in the age cohort 25-34 years old, college graduates and have average or above average income. The same study shows that although most users of smartphones Samsung fall in the same age group 25-34 years, the proportion of those who hold a graduate degree in higher education is lower, and the number of low income is higher .The observed differences can be explained quite easily if you look at the offer Samsung products. Unlike Apple, which has so far offered only in premium products, generally more expensive than the market average and accessible to a limited category of users, Samsung has chosen a generalist approach, launching smartphone models for all tastes and pockets.

Zeus attack the social network

He began his "career" as a virus that steals credit card data, but has come to "steal" likes and followers on Instagram. The popularity of applications has led hackers to think of such a possibility to commercialize user accounts and work on them.Virus victims are five times more valuable than credit cards robbed by the same guy on the program.
Intention is one that can bring money, 1,000 followers is "selling" $ 15, while 1,000 likes worth $ 30 on the black market. Market "swallows" almost anything Hotmail accounts , Twitter accounts ($ 20 for 1,000 such accounts, while Google and Facebook are selling more expensive ($ 100 for 1000 "chunks").  
According to Reuters, some artificial popularity online can be beneficial (because, you know, bring online popularity in the online environment). Experts argue that online social data collected from Instagram are more important than me about a book you think, for example.

Blackberry is at end of the road

Nokia and HTC are going through difficult times, but their position seems downright encouraging when you look at the direction it is heading BlackBerry. After the release of the long delayed BlackBerry OS platform 10 and the first terminal they use, the company has obtained than mediocre performance and decided at the last moment, to announce the availability of a partnership or a sale.
Now, BlackBerry is facing a bad stock situation, its indications losing about 38 percent in the last six months. Although initially it was rumored that BlackBerry shareholders will redeem the entire shareholding and to solve problems away from the capital market, the company announced today that it has appointed a committee whose purpose is to create a partnership opportunities discovery or sale of the company.
In fiscal quarter which ended in late May, the company announced that it sold 6.8 million BlackBerry terminals, only 40 percent of them but based on the new BlackBerry OS platform. Performance was below the expectations of analysts, who were detained at the outset anyway, even Windows Phone range from Nokia managed to attract double the number of customers. While scoring a quantitative increase from the previous quarter, higher number of terminals sold was accompanied with financial losses, and the company decided to officially announce the opening of opportunities for collaboration or sale.
In my opinion it's a shame it's downright dramatic. It is the best example that poor management can put down a company as strong as RIM.
Unfortunately failed to keep pace with customer needs with market trends and not least with the technology. The largest mobile phone manufacturers, and here I am referring to Nokia, Motorola, RIM (Blackberry) came in a situation that no one would have imagined.
And all thanks to Apple, which has managed to dominate the market with the iPhone for a few years. The only ones who understand that something has to change were those from Samsung, so strengthened their position in front of the Nokia, RIM and HTC.Only those who will be able to truly innovate will survive and will dominate the market.
Now it would be very interesting to see some big mergers that lead to innovation, technology and design. All that remains is to wait.

Youtube App is back to Windows Phone Store

It seems that one of the applications with problems is YouTube after it took a long time to get a decent alternative to the iPad now, Windows Phone owners have a lot of problems. A while ago Google forced Microsoft to bring out from Windows Phone Store YouTube application available at the time, but now have returned with a better option.
The idea was that Google and Microsoft to work together on new application to create a viable product. A Microsoft spokesman confirmed that the application will be available today. In May, when Microsoft attacked Google on software giant search engines complained that there are no advertisements included in the Microsoft.
The revenue Google AdSense were affected and suffer. And Microsoft had problems with Google's policies, they even EU complaining about Google's refusal to provide access to metadata Youtube. Finally, the new version of the application comes with support for video uploads, live video streaming and voice search.

iPhone 5S will be released on September 10

Sources close to the company have confirmed to the U.S. the next or the next iPhones will be officially announced on September 10, 2013. That information comes after several weeks in which cases, renderings, jacks and cameras of the following smartphone created by Apple have reached the internet.
Tension grows in the market in terms of hypothetical giant creations led by Tim Cook. After intense speculation that Apple will try to capture the mainstream market with new terminals, plastic and colored the other day I learned that his replacement Steve Jobs himself pressed by shareholders to speed the pace of innovation in Cupertino. With a possible fingerprint sensor hidden somewhere in the casing, the iPhone 5S should be, in many respects, similar to the current flagship of the Americans. If we find out information about an iPhone and 5C or iPhone Lite at the same September 10, that will be a unique opportunity for us to clarify what websites and online publications have the greatest justice and published the first accurate information about famous iPhone software.
The new devices will be preloaded with the new OS, while the same firmware update will be available for the entire range of iDevice in recent years a few days earlier to start selling iPhone 5S. 
Opposite rumors that it would be nice to see them confirmed Apple event, but chances are that this does not happen, the clock intelligent and revolutionary Apple Apple TV in the form of a modern Smart TV is possible with a tiny degree of probability materialization. Instead, OS X Mavericks would be out of beta around the same date. 

Motorola will launch in this fall Nexus 5

Initially it was believed that the successor of Nexus 4 will be made ​​also by LG, new refutes rumors continue this partnership. However, Google seems to have chosen the less risky to produce model Motorola Nexus 5 in factories.
The exact configuration is not known, but the expectation is for a phone with large 5.2-inch screen capable of playing 1080p resolution images. The latest information on the list of specifications put a Snapdragon chipset with quad core 600 1.5 GHz, respectively 9MP camera.
Nexus 5 is the first model smartphone comes with Android 5.0, codenamed Key Lime Pie. 

iOS 7 with Favorite Places

Apple released on August 7 IOS7 Beta 5. Among the new features and interface cosmetics of which have solved some of the complaints of those who tested the original version, but slipped an option that will make you frown on those who value privacy: list of places frequented.
Formed in Beta 5 Frequent Locations is an option that is deeply buried in the settings, it can be found by navigating through Settings, Privacy, Location Services and finally, System Services. Using GPS or A-GPS location, this module stores all places frequented software, the user can view places, the number of visits made ​​and even the hours he spent time there.Information not always a high accuracy, but they are detailed enough to displease those who care about their privacy. Fortunately, the option can be disabled, but will be turned temporarily without any user will be used whenever the option of locating the phone or tablet with Find My iPhone service
This service tracking and storing private data is not new to iOS, the company had to face a scandal two years ago, which is otherwise available for the Android platform. This time, however, we are given a colorful interface, more details and a button to disable the service, leaving users the choice between privacy and smart services.

YouTube open Live Streaming Service

YouTube Live Streaming service opens access for users with more than 1000 subscribers, the new limit is 100 subscribers. Otherwise, anyone with a YouTube account with at least 100 subscribers can have their own online TV channel, which render their own creative content and live events.
Live Streaming function can be activated Account page features by selecting the Enable button in the right section put YouTube Live. Since Expanding Live Streaming is done gradually, it may not appear immediately Enable button for all eligible users, the need to visit the Account page features several times.
However, even those who do not yet meet the criteria to have its own channel on YouTube Live part of new options, such as changing the automatically generated thumbnails for videos with custom images, inserting links to online stores or other websites in videos uploaded, or directing users to video playlists. 

Samsung announces a new event

Samsung breaks the silence and calls on members of the press on a new launch event, called "Unpacked 2013 Episode 2". Without leaving too much room for interpretation, company officials used the famous phrase "notes the data" to indicate a product launch Galaxy Note series.
Arrived exactly a year after its predecessor Galaxy Note II, the new smartphone promises to have a larger screen, 5.7 inch, supporting 1080p. Depending on the region, could be installed chipset Exynos Octa model with octa-core CPU, or more modest Qualcomm Snapdragon 800, equipped with quad-core CPU. Regardless of the particular chipset, 3GB RAM totals and camera installed on the back of the case will include 13MP.
Also rumor Samsung announces experimenting with flexible OLED panel, an OLED panel and a standard LCD of unknown nature, but it is not clear which one will be used. 
GALAXY Note III will be accompanied by other devices, probably could be brought intelligently clock, other phones in the Galaxy series. Likelihood to see their first Tizen OS phone is quite low, but not out of the calculation. 

Changhong Z9 with 5000mAh Battery

Direct from China comes a terminal called  Changhong Z9 equipped with a battery with 5000mAh battery .This model is an Android smartphone with a mega battery and which strangely kept below 9 mm thick.
And that's not the only feat of its kind in China, since Lenovo P780 and Oppo Find 7 are two smartphones in the same country, which would come with 4000 mAh battery.
Terminal facilities rather thinking of a phablet and include a 5.5-inch 720p display, an 8 megapixel rear camera with LED flash, a MediaTek quad core 1.2 GHz, 1 GB RAM and Android 4.2. Unfortunately, this handset is likely to remain only in China and Europe will not go too soon, but I hope to continue the trend of large batteries.

Galaxy S 4 cheating on optimization

Samsung has offered an official statement on this issue. According to this, the maximum frequency of 533 MHz GPU Full Screen is used for applications that require maximum power of their hardware, but is limited to 480 MHz for demanding applications such as games. The list of tests specified in the source code is used for products considered safe to run at maximum frequency. These explanations are consistent with what was found and our assumptions, but the idea of ​​using this mode gives rise to anomalies and the occurrence of differences in performance between two different versions of a test that actually use the same code. Perhaps the best idea would be the complete elimination of this optimization or providing a maximum rate control options.Performance test results are not always a real indicator of performance tested products, but they offer concrete and repeatable results that are the only way for an objective comparison. Because of this importance, they were sometimes abused by hardware manufacturers who have tried to obtain higher scores than normal. After the video card drivers and modified routers with firmware optimized for testing mobile phones turn came.
Using a higher frequency than the nominal is not new, some modern processors and graphics chips with a higher Turbo frequency that can be achieved when the necessary resources are increased and temperatures allows silicon chip. According to the analysis made ​​by Anandtech, but the case is different. Although, as stated by the manufacturer, Bench GFX GL Benchmark 2.5.1 and 2.7 use the same code for 3D tests, only the first of them started increasing the frequency to 532 MHz, while the second run at 480 MHz only.

 

Discovery originally started Beyond3D forum, where a user noted that the maximum frequency of the chip GPU Exynos 5 Octa (Exynos 5410), which is implemented in some models of the Samsung Galaxy S 4 gets a speed increase of about 11 points only during certain tests. Normally, PowerVR SGX544MP3 GPU is clocked at a maximum frequency of 480 MHz, it can be verified by an order of the Android Debug Bridge. During running some tests, but it goes to 532 MHz, providing a speed increase to be reflected in test results.
As specified Imagination Technologies PowerVR SGX544 maximum frequency and SGX545 chip is 532 MHz and it has been used without problems and solution Intel Atom Z2670. From this point of view, Samsung's not be criticized for anything serious GPU running on parameters set by the manufacturer and can not be considered as dangerous frequencies supratactat the physical integrity of the phone. This mode is only available for Galaxy S phones based on chip Exynos 4 5 Octa, which are very rare in Romania, model 600 sold locally using the Qualcomm Snapdragon solution incorporating a different graphics core.

Most likely, Samsung has chosen frequency of 480 MHz for reasons of consumption and heat dissipation, the chip is still very strong at this level. Tactării choice of the higher frequencies that can not be achieved but only if running certain software applications is a decision that Samsung will have to uphold.

Maybe all entries are just a primitive method TwDVFSApp.apk activation peak frequencies for applications that are not intercepted by the automated module mentioned above, however, that maximum performance is achieved only in some tests will give buyers the impression that Samsung tried to cheat. Or can we even attempt to make the book cheating, as they tried in the past and manufacturers of video cards. How will choose Samsung to fix this image problem we see in the days ahead.