WWDC 2014 FIRST IMPRESSIONS: Ios8 aka Android 4.X.X

It's wwdc2014 where apple gives it's fans a sneak peak of what they've got underneath their sleeves. As every year passes all i can see is android dolls deeply integrated as a custom skin called ios. Though apple fans would cold heartedly disagree, that's the jaw dropping truth.

My fist impression on Ios8 was "meh". Second was "what the fish". Well one thing is for sure. Apple dropped all its trails on Google to thin air and I regret for not guessing out the obvious about ios. "It's not what Steve Jobs would have done" may claim some fans but this is not the time for hypothetical situations. Copying isn't wrong as long as you claim it to be. We call it sharing and apple calls it copying. When they bring in new features I don't understand how one can blindly and proudly say it's an unique feature. Apple you do know that you're still on plant earth don't you?. Accept who inspires you and follow them. Ego kills every good think that can happen. An outstanding example is apple maps which apple replaced it for Google maps and removed Google maps from its app store and we all know what happened.

I understand bringing new features aka android features or freedom to an ecosystem is important so is keeping quiet about childish patents when the claimer actually copies.

My words for ios8 is "WELCOME TO ANDROID B**CHES". "Ok Google = hello siri"

IOS(8)=》IOS (GOOGLE)

App review:

Ever been worried about your smartphone or tablet getting stolen or ending up in the wrong hands? I know I have and I'm sure everyone else has as well. Its so easy to misplace a smartphone and if it ends up in the wrong hands, your security and safety could be at risk. To counter this there are several solutions available to remotely manage your device. One of the best ones is called 3CX Mobile Device Manager. They offer apps for both Android and iOS  http://www.mobiledevicemanager.com/blog/ and the app let's you remotely control your device from another smartphone, tablet or PC provided you have a data connection. You can remotely send texts from your device, while its contents as well as lock it and more with just a click of a button. Its a solid built security solution that just works. Its available for free from the Google Play store just search 3CX.

ARE YOUR EYES SAFE?

Now a days we get smartphones with the best displays out there like apple's retina, samsung's AMOLED and so on. These displays have been challenged on visibility outdoor and for that competition they are doing really a great job. There are different types of screens like TFT, LCD & LED or AMOLED. All of these are really doing great in the recent times. With all the viewing angles and color complexion and vividness being so great depending on the technology the manufacturer uses to make it better, but there is one problem that everyone faces when it comes to night time use. I use my phone during the night times or when i hit the bed. The worst part is that when i just power up my phone's display the brightness from the screen really pokes my eyes. I know this happens to not just me but for everyone who uses their phones at night time. There where applications like the UC-Browser when i use to use my nokia X-6 and it had something called night theme and it could bring down the screen brightness of the phone even below the minimum the manufacturer has set or may be the color theme that were used would have made it appear so dim. It was so pleasant for my eyes and It was more comfortable to read. This kinda cool and awesome feature was bound only to the application itself and wasn't available for such a control all over the phone's display.The absence of such a feature that can be used in every application caused my eye sight to go poor as i continued to use the Galaxy s2 and now my s4 at night times. Its needless to say that the minimum brightness from the screen is bright enough to poke one's eyes during night reading in a complete dark condition. I realized that i can't let my eye site get worst and then is when i remembered the night theme i use to use in the UC-browser. I went to the play store and searched for NIGHT MODE and there it was!.

This application on what i saw thought i could give it a try and installed it right away on my galaxy s2 and the application wasn't even hardly a MB. Not only do you get to set your brightness level but also you get additional setting to make it more comfortable for your eyes. Frankly i never played with those additional setting as i preferred to use with the default ones. Check how bright my screen looks under normal condition.

Now i get into the application and all i had to do was to hit the start button and before that i would ask you to set the brightness to your desired level and here for me 50% is what pleases my eyes. I got into the application and this is how it looks before i start the night mode.

Now you see a start button there don't you? just adjust your brightness level and hit the start button and see the magic happen.

Its brilliant and amazing. Now not only don't i need to check in apps that if they have a night theme but i just needn't even worry about turning on my phone in the night to check all i want to without shrinking my eyes to reduce the poke. This works every where you go cos its has the capacity to reduce the brightness on your phone or table's screens no matter of what kind of screen it is. It reduces to something more minimum than that of the brightness that the respected manufacturers limit. It just works everywhere.

This is how the same home screen looks when i turn the night mode on. This is really amazing to use. You can stop this anytime by just switching back to the night mode app and just tap the stop button. This will not damage any of your hardware. I can promise you that its gonna work just fine. I have been using this for the past few months to confirm on it and it works. give it a try and share this article if you like it.

THIS APP IS ANDROID EXCLUSIVE.

Dog fight: windows phone 8 vs ios6 vs android 4.x

As every one was excited about the windows phone 8 event held some time back i would like to say that they have bought some wonderful improvements to the next line up from this fall

           

Its something really great that they not only came up with a completely new level of how windows phones use to work but also bought more and powerful hardware support.

Now this is what we actually call ecosystem. The windows ecosystem is really amazing to see it evolve without disturbing the growth of the sub platforms of windows powered devices.

with windows phone 8 they open the eyes for all and for everything

*they have promised multi-core processors ( please not that the windows phone 8 could support on devices up to 64 cores. well i then guess windows 9 is far far away)  

        

*they have made native coding available from windows phone 8 and that's gonna bring all the new and most wanted as soon as possible or on the release for other platforms

*As we already know that the window phone market place climbed to a tremendous reach of 100,000+ apps in a very shot span of time and with native code enabled i assume in early 2013 they will be having more or less of what android play store or apple's app store would offer

* havok vision engine suit will integrated with the windows phone 8 os for  brilliant interfacing and graphic details over the games, Now that's real big step for the windows phone platform.

*the best of all they render with Direct X for all 3D graphics and with this the graphic experience created for the pc can be expressed with no change over the phones we will be using as they share the same rendering method with the directX and this will really gonna be awesome on the gaming part.

*when it comes to app development windows has made it look unique. Which i mean to say that the developer will have to develop the app only once for any one of the platform and they will be easily ported the others in the ecosystem

for example if i develop a game for the windows 8 system. they will and also can be used with the windows phone 8 and windows 7.5 and this all can be done without a change in it.

*with native coding available developers can easily port apps with the least changes to be made to make them run on the windows phone 8 and windows 8

*now this will lead to a very high market place gain. windows phone 8 doesn't need any kind of separate app development method. the one made for the 7.5 will support the 8 too so is for the 7.5. so by this am really happy to say that Microsoft had made a breakthrough over fragmentation over the devices and the OS

*from windows phone 8 all updates will be received OTA all over the world. now that's a big deal and the OS supports 25 more languages than what iOS6 promised

*on the multi-core processing Microsoft has made sure that all the manufacturers use qualcomm's chip-sets as they are all 22nm technology and offers drastic battery performance and better processing.

Now that's what i call planed processing, Powerful yet efficient

there are lot many exciting features about windows phone 8 but these some mentioned above amuses me the most
*windows phone 8 now delivers video calling on the devices even with applications like skype and so on. even the skype call's data will render in the background when multitasking and when we get a call i doesn't so it different than a normal network received call and when answered gets into the app.. All these new steps are mind blowing and tempting.

          

*When it comes to ios for the past 5 years we see the same UI and now with ios6 there aren't much too after watching what windows phone 8 has to offer. when it comes to UI i would say that android made sure there is something new to see and feel but that went well only with the nexus devices. the custom skins of the other manufacturers is really a turn off and spoils really what the android had to offer. that's where windows unit made clear that there will be no custom UI allowed. that's really a good step by Microsoft.

*the re-sizable home screen tiles they bring a lot more than a wigit, It can act as icon to the app and when expanded to the desired size gives information about what is going on with that application according to the size maximized or minimized. now that's something really innovative and really satisfies for the people who wanted wigits to be available for the windows phones.

*the new voice assistant makes you feel like you are talking to another person to do your tasks on your need

the phone responds and understands what you want to do like your friend. i would rather say it performs better than siri and samsung's s-voice. it was really impressive what Microsoft have bought in to this windows phone 8

*this voice assistant can possibly do everything with voice control on the phone what you do with your fingers to access and i would like to say that no other assistant does it other than audible on the windows phone 8

*the NFC on the windows phone 8 will and as far as i have seen makes the most of it. almost every app can be used with nfc on multi-player mode or transferring contacts or any information one would like to share but this works over every app including the 3rd party applications, but when it comes to the other os it works only with the native apps! this is big. and Microsoft has seeded it.

* the complete wallet experience which you wanna hold like your credit card payments made, credit card payment yet to be made and to who

*the coupons you get on offers. its a digital wallet that can hold everything your physical one can hold. now that's something new too compared to the google wallet.

* with nokia map integration on the windows phone 8 they get turn by turn navigation and we know nokia maps are the best when it comes to navigation

*the real-time multitasking is the best of its kind as it renders data in the background. and this is not just for the native apps but also for the 3rd party applications too which all os doesn't have access to

*with abolition over fragmentation am really glad to say that windows phone has a bright future as with windows phone 8 they bring satisfaction to the hardware manufacturers, consumers & developers

such innovation is yet to see in any of the mobile os.
*unlike the ios the windows phone 8 offers expandable memory slot like present in android and promises to perform really to its best. so we can expand the memory in the future without disturbing the present data. so can applications be moved to the expanded memory location. that's so cool what android offers and this works on all 3rd party applications.

there was a question asked whether people would go for the windows phone ditching their android/ios devices

my answer and why

yes i would ditch my android/ios device for a windows phone 8 

why?

*pure windows phone experience which can't be felt with android because of the manufacturer's custom skin which really is not appreciable

                

*with ios am bored of see the same stuff for the past 5 years as with each update there are few noticeable changes and nothing new.

* there is no fragmentation in the windows phone os but with apple and android they are  suffering so

*the seem to be having a promising os support which android doesn't deliver.

*windows phones are smoother and will perform better with the windows phone 8.

conclusion:

i really feel that windows phone 8 is tempting compared to any other os so far.

ios6 is not really that impressive and waiting to see what google's got to deliver at this month's fall.

for all i have seen windows phone 8 will be my choice of OS from now on than hanging on and suffering with boring ios and fragmented android with custom skins.

windows phone 8 will do all your pc can do because the windows phone as well as the desktops works with the  same rendering engines and architecture so one can say that as powerful hardware your windows phone 8 is that much pc experience in the form of 

*performance

*graphics

*uniform availability of apps for all windows 8, windows phone 8 & windows phone 7.5-7.8 with just developing it once and porting apps with native coding

thus with windows phone 8 i personally guarantee that one can perform all which is done on a windows operated desktop.

now that's cool and obviously go for such a powerful os than for ios6 or the upcoming android

the sad part is that the current windows phones running the 7.5 won't be getting updated to 8 as windows phone 8 is made keeping in mind for multi-cores, performance, gaming and so on. so Microsoft has promised a 7.8 update that bring the home screen of the the windows phone 8 and the navigation related stuffs delivered by nokia, they also port the camera application with most of the windows phone 8 capabilities and so many more.
so can't say widow's 7.5 users are left aloof.
Microsoft has promised that they will give software updates for their devices for at least a minimum span of 18 months from the day of the device released to the market.
can't wait for windows phone 8 coming this fall.
just waiting to get one and let go of my galaxy s2   

Ios 6 event tomorrow at 6pm

The event's keynote starts Monday, 6 p.m. London time.

Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference is about to start tomorrow and as usual, it's a big industry event - one, which has seen the announcements of new iPhones, new iPods and iOS versions in recent years.

Eye-witness photos of the Moscone West convention center, where the event is held, show the place is being rigged up for tomorrow's event. And the new banners confirm the highlight of the opening Keynote will be iOS 6, the next iteration of the mobile OS.

Get great discounts on iOS, Android, OS X, Steam and other games thanks to the ‘Because We May’ campaign

We just talked about some great discounts on EA games on the App Store. But why should iOS users have all the fun? Now thanks to the ‘Because We May’ campaign, you can get great discounts on Android, OS X and Steam as well.

The purpose of this campaign is simple. Developers should be allowed to price their apps as they please. If they want to drop their prices because they want to promote their titles, they should be free to do so. Through this campaign, some of the developers have come together and offered to price their games at a discounted rates for the duration of May 24 to June 1. It also helps highlight the application stores that give the freedom to the developers to price their games whatever they want to.

You can go to their website and choose from some very popular titles, such as World of Goo, Osmos, EDGE, Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, Riptide GP, SHADOWGUN, Fieldrunners, Super Meat Boy, Braid, etc., all at heavily discounted rates.

If you are a developer and want to take part in the campaign, you can just register on their site and then your game will be listed there.

If you are a user, well, what are you waiting for? Click the source link and start downloading.