iOS Dominates Android Among Airline Passengers

iOS Dominates In-Flight Wi-Fi Access (Gogo via Apple Insider)


In-flight Wi-Fi provider Gogo reported that iOS users account for the lion's share of mobile devices accessing the company's ground-to-air Wi-Fi network, with iPhone owners comprising some 73 percent of all traffic originating from smartphones.

According to Gogo, an in-flight Wi-Fi provider operating on 1,800 aircraft across ten carriers, including United, Delta and American Airlines, some 84 percent of all mobile devices connecting to its service have been identified as running Apple's iOS. Products using rival operating system Android account for the remaining 16 percent.

While iOS still rules the skies, the OS saw a decline from a 96.8 percent share in 2011, while Android use grew 400 percent over the same period.

Breaking down the statistics by device, smartphones and tablets combine to make up 67 percent of portables being used to access the internet in-flight. Tablets enjoy the most use with a 35 percent share, while laptops and smartphones comes in at 33 percent and 32 percent, respectively.

Apple's presence is dominating, with the iPhone accounting for 73 percent of smartphones recorded, compared to Android's 26 percent. Handsets running on BlackBerry and Windows didn't break the 1 percent mark.

Gogo said that passengers spend most of their time surfing the Web, with Apple's Safari being the most used browser, followed by Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Google's Chrome. Other Internet activities ranking high on the list of things to do while traveling include writing emails, accessing social media sites, checking sports scores and shopping.

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amazing concept phone:Kambala

The main idea of the project is to combine a mobile phone and wireless headphones. Material – a multilayered polymer, in which all electronic components are located inside in the form of layers. If you squeeze the phone, then in his mid appears earpiece, which is inserted into the ear. Thus the mobile phone turns into a headset. The inner surface of the phone is a continuous flexible screen, as well as a layer of sensors, which transmit the image from inside the phone on the outside – there is a layer of paint that can take any color – just like a fish flounder. When you wear this headset is automatically masked in your head and almost disappears. Instead of the joystick – sensitive strip on the edge of petal headphones.

HTC Windows Phone 8J Concept is a Quad Core Handset With 5 Inch 1080p Screen

Designer Shaik Imaduddin has created a few interesting concepts, like theXbox 720 tablet and now he’s back with another gizmo related to Microsoft: the HTC Windows Phone 8J concept. I guess we can call this model HTC 8J, just like we called the newcomers with WP8 from HTC 8X and 8S. Here’s the beautiful 8J:

This model increases the diagonal size to 5 inches and the resolution to 1080p. HTC Windows Phone 8J features a quad core Snapdragon S4 Pro processor, just like the modern Android handsets, plus 2 GB of RAM and 64 GB of storage. It also has a 16 megapixel camera at the back and a 3.2 megapixel front shooter. Both are capable of 1080p capture, apparently. Shaik Imaduddin did a fine job with the design and this model keeps that distinctive bar at the bottom just like the HTC 8S, with the Search, Start and Back buttons.

Since the diagonal is 5 inches here, the temptation is great to think about a stylus, but we can only speculate on that. A powerhouse like this would rather run Windows Phone 8.5 or maybe a future version of the Microsoft mobile platform, since I’m not so sure that the current one supports Full HD resolutions. A beautiful design, that we really find interesting. How about you?

Google Nexus 7 announced at I/O event

As expected, Google unveiled the Nexus 7 at their developer event yesterday, which will be the first reference tablet for Android. The device, whose hardware is produced by Asus, will be the first device to use the next version of Google’s mobile operating system, 4.1 codename Jelly Bean.

The tablet is aimed squarely at the Amazon Kindle Fire, one of the best selling Android tablets of the year. It exists in the same 7″ form factor and $200 price point as the Fire, but offers Jelly Bean, the full Google Play store and some much more powerful hardware.

While the Kindle Fire is similar to the BlackBerry PlayBook, with a slow dual-core processor and half a gigabyte of RAM, the Nexus 7 includes a powerful quad-core Tegra 3 processor that debuted on the flagship Transformer Prime last year, as well as a full gigabyte of RAM. The display is also improved, with resolution being 1280 x 800 compared to the Fire’s 1024 x 600. Internal storage is still small, at 8 GB for the $200 model and 16 GB for the $250 model.

Jelly Bean includes a number of new features and changes to the already mature Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, as you’d expect from a point release.

Perhaps the biggest upgrade is ‘Project Butter’, which aims to get the whole OS running at a smooth 60 frames per second, through the addition of triple buffering for the UI, improved Vsync, changes to the CPU governor and the new Systrace tool for developers. All of this has really paid off, with the device feeling a lot more fluid than its predecessor.

The notification menu has been reworked, allowing you to see more information on incoming notifications and take action on them without needing to leave the notifications menu. The settings menu has been cleaned up, too. The lock screen now has a shortcut to Google Now, a context-sensitive search and information kiosk. Widgets now are more elegantly resizeable, and will gently displace other widgets or icons in their path. Offline voice recognition has been added. The camera UI has been updated. Chrome has been made the standard browser for the OS – that means no Flash.

Google and Asus have certainly worked well together to produce a tablet of this quality at such a low price point, and it’ll be interesting to see how Amazon respond with the follow-up to their Kindle Fire tablet, which is expected to be coming soon. Jelly Bean went beyond what I expected as well – I can’t wait to get it running on my Galaxy Nexus!

HTC J Butterfly impresses with 5″ 1080p display, Japan-only for now

This week HTC and KDDI au announced their first 1080p smartphone, the HTC J Butterfly. The J Butterfly has a massively pixel-dense 1920 x 1080p display that measures just five inches across. This is enough to put it barely into phablet territory, but the massive increase in display makes it one-of-a-kind.

The new display can play back Blurays and other Full HD content at native resolution without stretching, making it a media powerhouse. The fun continues with a powerful Snapdragon S4 Pro quad-core processor running at 1.5 GHz, 2 GB of RAM and 16 GB of internal storage – backed up by up to 32 GB of additional storage via micro SD. The phone features the same rear camera as the HTC One X, with the wide-angle front-facing 2.1 megapixel camera from the Windows Phone 8X by HTC.

A comparison between the iPhone 5 and J Butterfly, courtesy of The Verge.

The J Butterfly is running Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, although a version with a UI similar to the Sensation that is apparently preferred in the Japanese market.

The J Butterfly looks to be a beautiful phone, and I’ll be curious to see the first reviews when it is launched this December. We should also see more 1080p displays in other smartphones, as the pixel density and image quality of the Super LCD 3 screen will mean that it’ll be hard to make acase for the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 and its 5.5″ 720p screen. Exciting times!

Samsung Galaxy S IV Render Comes From Romania, Seems Cut Out of Galaxy S III

Since Victor Greavu, a designer with Romanian name sent us a render of the Samsung Galaxy S IV that has a Romanian language interface, we can conclude that this is the Eastern European version of the new Galaxy S. Although at first sight I was tempted to criticize this design, since it’s basically the display of the Galaxy S III cut out, it could actually work…

What if Samsung really created such a device, a mere frame surrounding a display and hiding a very thin body with hot hardware? How about a dual core ARM Cortex A15 processor inside? How about a Full HD 5 inch display? I’m sure both will make their way onto the Samsung Galaxy S III and I can bet that the camera resolution will jump past 10 megapixels and include some sort of new stabilization. S Voice is also expected to be improved, as well as gestures.

If the new Galaxy S does have such thin bezels, since you’ll keep touching them, it may be a good idea to implement some side swiping gestures. I imagine a system a la BlackBerry 10 OS, but that’s thinking a bit too far… So, while Victor’s design is too simple to actually impress, it may be a hint to what’s coming.

Samsung Galaxy S4 and TouchWiz 6.0 Get Fresh Concepts From Nikolai Prettner

Another day, another take on the Samsung Galaxy S4 design, this time from Nikolai Prettner. He also envisions the new TouchWiz, version 6.0, that he describes in the image below. TouchWiz 6.0 brings a big revamp of the whole concept, in order to truly compete with other smartphones and launchers on Android devices.

As far as the Samsung Galaxy S4 goes, it features a 12 megapixel main camera, a 4.5 megapixel front facing HD camera, a 1.9 GHz quad core processor and a 1080p Super AMOLED Plus flexible display, with a 5.1 inch diagonal. Other specs include an SD card slot, LTE, HSPA+, light sensor, wireless charging and 2650 mAh battery. The device comes in 16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB versions. This handset runs Android Key Lime Pie 5.0 with TouchWiz 6.0, S Gestures, S Voice, S Note and S Music.
The design involves an aluminum frame, plastic back, flexible plastic screen and everything weighs 102 grams, so 10 grams less than the iPhone 5, but with a much bigger size. The thickness is also 7.5 mm, 0.1 mm less than the iPhone 5. TouchWiz 6.0 brings an improved S Voice, while the screen has S Note capabilities and S Gestures allows you to create custom gestures and trigger various features. The concept sounds very realistic to me. Does it sound the same to you?
[Thanks Nikolai Prettner]

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“Another World” Smartphone Seems Inspired by Tron

November 20th, 2012 (8 votes, average: 2.63 out of 5)
Wooseok Suh designed a very interesting concept smartphone called Another World, that somehow reminds us of Tron. The idea is to have a very clean interface and design, that blend together seamlessly. There seems to be a center ring on the phone, displaying its features, that are shown on the surface of the device with projections or similar mechanisms.

Another World Phone is a very thin device, with a slightly curved facade and a pretty long body. That central ring of the phone may remind one of the iPod’s center ring and I can’t really figure out if the entire front of the device is a display, or only the upper part. Anyway, the idea is very original and if the UI truly involves laser projections on the surface of the device, it’s an even more original phone, but one that’s not very comfortable.
I imagine that the ring on the front has a corresponding circular area at the back, which hosts the camera sensor. For some reason I’d imagine HTC or ASUS designing such a device and selling it as a fashion phone or haute couture item made of carbon. Ready for the Tron Phone?

Pixel Perfect Hour Glass

Title says it all. A perfect gadget anyone wants to own, I suppose? [Pavel Balykin via yankodesign]

Calliper Style Radio

Like a precision calliper tool, 08 Radio by Mikael Silvanto lets you precisely find the station you want by sliding the entire radio unit up and down the scale. [via yankodesign]

Pebble Key Port

Designed with many slots so that user can easily group their keys into categories such as car keys, home keys or office keys. [via tuvie]

Microsoft Arc Mouse

When you go advanced in all your computer equipments, the next best thing is to get a futuristic mouse. [via geekandhype]

Apple's Jobs was open to making a smaller iPad: executive

Steve Jobs was receptive to Apple Inc making a smaller tablet, a senior executive said in a 2011 email revealed on Friday, fanning speculation it plans to make a mini-iPad to take on cheaper gadgets from Google Inc and Amazon.
An Apple mini-version of the market-dominating 10-inch iPad could counter increasing inroads made by tablets such as the Kindle Fire and Nexus 7. But the company has never confirmed the intensifying talk of such a launch.
Vice President Eddy Cue urged then-chief operating officer Tim Cook in January 2011 to build a 7-inch tablet, according to an email from Cue that Samsung Electronics presented as evidence in a U.S. patent trial.
In an email addressed also to software chief Scott Forstall and marketing head Phil Schiller, Cue said he believed there was a market for a 7-inch tablet and that "we should do one."
Cue's brief email was introduced on Friday as part of a high-wattage trial that will play out in a San Jose courtroom this summer and is expected to transfix the technology industry.
"There will be a 7-inch market and we should do one. I expressed this to Steve several times since Thanksgiving and he seemed very receptive the last time," the executive wrote in the email. "I found email, books, Facebook, and video very compelling on a 7-inch. Web browsing is definitely the weakest point, but still usable."
Cue had previously forwarded an article entitled "Why I just dumped the iPad (hint: size matters)". He wrote: "Having used a Samsung Galaxy, I tend to agree with many of the comments below (except actually moving off the iPad)."
Apple and Samsung are going toe-to-toe in a patents dispute mirroring a struggle for industry supremacy between two rivals that control more than half of worldwide smartphone sales.
The U.S. company accuses Samsung of copying the design and some features of its iPad and iPhone, and is asking for billions of dollars in damages and a sales ban. The Korean firm, which is trying to expand in the U.S. market, says Apple infringed some of its key wireless technology patents.
Cue, who rose to prominence overseeing the iTunes and Apps stores, became the company's senior vice president of Internet software and services in September. His email was introduced by Samsung during a cross-examination of Forstall on Friday.
In the email dated January 24, 2011, Cue said he had broached the idea of a smaller tablet to Jobs several times since Thanksgiving, and the co-founder was receptive "the last time."
That appeared to run counter to Jobs' famous dislike of smaller tablets. In 2010, Jobs told analysts on a conference call that 7-inch tablets should come with sandpaper, so users could file their fingers down to a quarter of their size.
"There are clear limits of how close you can physically place elements on a touch screen before users cannot reliably tap, flick, or pinch them," Jobs, who died in October after a years-long battle with cancer, said at the time.
"This is one of the key reasons we think the 10-inch screen size is the minimum size required to create great tablet Apps."
Apple still dominates the global tablet market, but rivals are closing in. Google unveiled the Nexus 7 in July to strong reviews. And Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet, with a price tag about half the iPad's, has encroached on Apple's market share. Analysts say smaller, cheaper tablets entice cost-conscious buyers unwilling to spend $500 or more for an iPad.
COURT FIREWORKS
The trial began this week and has already granted Silicon Valley an unprecedented peek behind the curtain of Apple's famously secretive design and marketing machine.
Forstall described the early days of the iPhone's top-secret inception. The smartphone that went on to revolutionize the mobile industry was developed in a building engineers nicknamed the "purple dorm." Security was so tight employees sometimes had to swipe their badges four times just to get in, he said.
Earlier on Friday, Schiller told a packed courtroom that Apple's strategy in maintaining its market momentum is to "make the product the biggest and clearest thing in advertising."
The 15-year Apple veteran told the jury the company has spent about $647 million on advertising for the iPhone, launched in 2007, and over $457 million for the two-year-old iPad.
Dressed in a dark suit and yellow tie, Schiller -- who favors blue jeans and is among a handful of executives reporting directly to CEO Cook -- said Samsung's copying of Apple's designs has hurt its sales and disrupted its marketing.
"I was pretty shocked at the appearance of the Galaxy S phone and the extent it appeared to copy Apple products," he told the jury, adding that he was even more shocked when he saw the Galaxy tab. "I thought they've done it again, they're just going to copy our whole product line."
Justin Denison, Chief Strategy Officer for Samsung Telecommunications America, took the stand after Forstall, stressing that the world's largest technology company by sales was also no slouch when it came to design and marketing.
Denison told the court Samsung spent $1 billion on U.S. product marketing in 2011 and employs over 1,200 designers.
Before Schiller took the stand, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh rejected Apple's request for severe sanctions against Samsung over the conduct of one of the Korean firm's attorneys, though she said such conduct risked tainting the jury.
A Samsung statement this week contained links to documents Koh ruled could not be admitted at trial. Attorney John Quinn, of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, acknowledged he authorized the statement but said it was not designed to sway the jury.
Apple had asked Koh to punish Samsung by ruling that Apple's phone design patents were valid, and had been infringed. Koh rejected that request but said there may be a post-trial investigation.
"I will not let any theatrics or any sideshows distract us from what we are here to do," Koh said.
The case in U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, is Apple Inc v. Samsung Electronics Co Ltd et al, No. 11-1846.

Pillow Remote Control

Pillow Remote Control. The sofa pillow with the distinctive difference–its also a remote control. Never again will you have to ask, “wheres the remote” And youll never lose this remote in between the cushions. Because it IS a cushion– with a built-in 6-in-1 universal remote control! Fast, easy set-up with pre-programmed automatic code searching. The Pillow Remote Control has databases containing codes for over 500 remote control devices. Its easy-to-click fabric buttons make changing channels a breeze. Power-saving auto shutoff feature shuts off remote functions after 60 seconds of inactivity. Remote has a wide-range transmitter with infrared LED built in. A fun way to watch TV or home theater, and a real conversation-starter. Uses 2 AAA batteries (not included). Never lose your remote again with the fun 6-in-1 Pillow Remote 

Converge USB Charging Hub

A USB charging hub is one ordinary accessory that we have all come to take for granted. I mean, how many people would actually give a second look to this particular USB accessory? Not many, I suppose. Thinkgeek has a mind to change your viewpoint by introducing the $39.99 Converge USB Charging Hub, where it will be able to juice up to a quartet of exhausted device batteries via USB in style and comfort. When you are done, just stash away the cables in the back – and you know what they say, out of sight, out of mind.

All you need to do is plug the power source into your nearest outlet and you are good to go. Just bear in mind that USB might stand for Universal Serial Bus, but that does not mean it is capable of powering up Tony Stark’s Iron Man suit or the Blackberry Torch, Blackberry Curve, or the Barnes & Noble Nook. Don’t ask me why those devices are exempted, but then again, going with what the majority of people use is always a better idea than supporting more obscure devices.