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Time For Fashion Phone Show With Samsung Diva Or Samsung Wave

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Things are hard. But that hasn’t deterred mobile phone maverick Samsung from letting go a new line-up of fashion-centric mobile phones targeting the feminine sector of its markets. One of them is the Samsung S5150 Diva, a basic clamshell handset that oozes with femininity that has few rivals out there. Another is the Samsung Wave. And who’s going to buy one now after most people have already purchased their dream HTC or Android phones? Well, Samsung made sure the new phones are affordable enough that it can settle for loose change this  season. It can serve as a second handset you won’t mind losing.

 

At a Glance

The Samsung lady handset is your basic tri band GSM/GPRS/EDGR mobile phone that comes housed in sleek clamshell body pockmarked with 3D sculpted cube pattern that that gives it a novel feel in your hands. It measures a compact 94.0 x 47.0 x 17.4 mm weighing 82.8 grams that makes it friendly to the pocket or handbag. You won’t get 3G and WiFi and this is understandable on a budget phone like this. You can surf the net on GPRS/EDGE speeds and you get wireless data connectivity with Bluetooth devices with its Bluetooth 2.1 support.

 

There’s capable 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera with QVGA video recording. It has Beauty Effect for beautifying portrait shots and a Lomo Effect for getting that clear old style shots. Its 2.2-inch QVGA TFT LCD display supports 16 million colors. When the clamshell is shut closed, there’s a small monochromatic display hidden under the sculpted textured body. It gets illuminated to show date and time, battery status and flashes alerts for scheduled appointments, incoming calls and text messages.

 

On the road entertainment starts with capable media players that plays all your popular audio and video file formats and sports an FM radio. There’s Bluetooth A2DP capability for supporting wireless stereo Bluetooth earphones. Internal memory is quite modest and thanks to its microSD slot, your media files can be stored using a microSDHC card of up to 32 GB. Talk time is a decent 7 hours and standby time is 7.8 hours from its 800 mAh lithium-ion battery.

 

Like recent Samsung mobile phones, this one uses the TouchWiz user interface which gets some nifty enhancement to five it a feminine look and feel. In addition, your get an application called Wish List that keeps track of your must-have items in a shopping list.

 

There’s also an “etiquette mode” that can silence the handset when you’re in a social gathering or business meeting. You also get the usual browser and email client application with customizable homescreen for icons that can instantly access your IM and social networking accounts.

You can visit Moby1 to compare all the best mobile phone contracts. You can find the best Samsung S5150 Diva contracts being offered.

The Financial Model Behind Tekedia Broad Industrial Average (TBIA)

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TBIA Calculation

As noted in a white paper, there are two divisors for TBIA calculation and it is by no means a simple mathematical average. To obtain the daily value of TBIA, the sum of the prices of all 30 stocks is divided by two divisors. The divisors are adjusted in case of stock adjustments like splits, spinoffs, etc. The goal is to ensure that none of such events distort or alter the numerical value of TBIA. We categorized the stocks into two groups:  A and B (more on the classification later). All chosen stocks in the index have fair market cap in the exchange. The equation for TBIA calculation is as follows:

 

Tekedia Broad Industrial Average (TBIA)

In the equation above, p represents the prices of the component stocks and d is the divisor. Any stock with price of N85 was included in Category B. The value of da is 0.1343330 while db is 0.5064900. With these numbers, the Index will not be overly affected by one stock movement. It is also important to emphasis that for Category A, one Naira stock movement contributes N7.50 while for Category B, it will have an effect of about N2. Heavy hitters like Nestle and Guinness are in Category B and we have statistically adjusted for their influence in the index.

 

For TBIA to remain undistorted despite structural changes like splits, spinoffs, etc which ideally can change the sum of the component prices, it will be updated whenever Nigerian Stock Exchange announces a change. The optimization goal is for value of TBIA before and after the event to coincide:

 

Tekedia Broad Industrial Average (TBIA)

Components Stocks

There are many standards we put in place before a stock could make it into TBIA. It must have an appreciable market capitalization, at least N10 price, among other factors. By the close of business on Friday, August 12, 2011, we cutoff and qualified those with above N10 and respectable cap. We now apportioned so that most of the industries could be included.  So, there are some industries you will not see in the Index and what that means those industries may not be having huge impacts in the stock exchange All Share Index. Insurance has no representative and only three banks made it. To ensure a technology company is included, we qualified NCR despite not meeting our price criterion, an exception.

 

Now with the selection of the stocks, we moved any stock that is more than N85 into the high price Category B. Others went into Category B.  Using the formula explained above, we automated the process. Daily updates will be done.

 

For more on TBIA or TBIA 20, click here.

A Curious Examination Of The Samsung Galaxy Tab

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The iPad has truly revolutionized the way we use and think about computers. Most people were laughing at the idea (and judging by the previous failure of tablet PCs and slates, which have been around for about a decade now), but they soon realized that it’s actually happening. Apple, with their strong user base, good marketing and good product, obviously, has once again done something that no company could do before.

 

The iPad can be used by anyone, it looks great, it’s very easy to use and can do most tasks a normal user would want: surf the Web, watch TV shows, movies and listen to music, edit documents, etc. Of course, other manufacturers noticed the huge market that just opened before them, and they started working on their own tablets. The first ones to come out with a (very) similar device were actually unknown companies in China, who started making and selling copies of the iPad, in smaller and even bigger sizes, and running on the free and open source Android OS.

 

The bigger manufacturers thought that was a good idea, and created their own Android based tablets. The first one to announce such a device was Samsung, with their Galaxy Tab, rumors of which have been around ever since the iPad was officially declared a big success. And now, about a year later, the rumors came true and the Galaxy Tab has been officially announced and set for release. The new tablet is pretty impressive, and has a lot of strong points that will make it a good competitor to the iPad.

 

The Galaxy Tab comes in a 7 inch format, which is smaller than the iPad’s 10 inches, and more comfortable for mobile use, as many polls show (Apple themselves said they’ll release a 7 inch version this winter). The device is very easy to hold in one hand, thanks to its 375 grams of weight and 11.9 mm thickness. The build quality is high – the device is made of durable plastic with scratch resistant Gorilla glass covering the screen.

 

The hardware specs are also impressive: the Samsung Galaxy Tab has a 1 GHz ARM Cortex A8 processor (with the fastest video chip on the market, available only on Samsung devices, the PowerVR SGX540) and 512 MB of RAM, which will be more than enough for most tasks, and should be enough for a future Android 3 upgrade. There are 16 or 32 GB of internal memory, depending on the model (poor Sprint users in the US get only 2 GB) with the possibility to extend it using an external micro SD card (up to 32 GB supported right now). It also has 2 cameras, one on the back for taking photos and one on the front for video calls (you can switch between them of course, but the resolutions are different). The 3 megapixels of the back camera are more than enough to take decent shots, but you sure will look weird when doing so with a pretty giant (for a camera) device.

 

The OS is of course, Android 2.2, which supports Flash inside the browser and gives you the ability to do pretty much anything with the help of over 100,000 various apps on the marketplace. The screen is a strong point of this device. Samsung has always been known for manufacturing high quality LCD panels, and the 1024×600 widescreen unit inside the Galaxy Tab doesn’t disappoint – it’s bright, has a great contrast and very vivid colors.

 

Other specs include support for HSPA (7.2 and 5.76 Mbps download/upload), Bluetooth 3.0, DLNA, Wifi b/g/n, and integrated GPS. The 4000 mAh battery should last for 4-6 hours of constant use, which is a bit on the low side (to be fair, the iPad has 2 such batteries inside, which doubles the lifetime), but maybe a software patch (for better app and processor frequency handling) could fix that.

 

Overall, the Samsung galaxy Tab is certainly a worthy competitor to the iPad. It is much more portable, and gives the user more freedom of use and more features (video calls using Skype is one of the best examples). The performance is very high, and it should be able to handle most tasks you can throw at it.

 

If you’re in the market for a tablet, you should definitely check out some of the mobile offers you can find for the Galaxy Tab.

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/5384975

What Does The Future Look Like For Non-Motorola Android Handsets?

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When Google bought Motorola, the future for non-Google-owned Android handset manufacturers looked somewhat dim, predictably because Motorola would now have a direct interface with Android’s parent company and could therefore get access to more integrated links between hardware and operating system, potentially opening up a divide between Motorola handsets and those made by HTC, LG and other companies. If you’re looking to upgrade your O2 handset in the next year, you might see a significant difference in Motorola’s Android popularity.

 

Suspiciously, their statements were all the same. Let’s take a closer look:

 

“We welcome today’s news, which demonstrates Google’s deep commitment to defending Android, its partners, and the ecosystem.” – J.K. Shin, President of Samsung’s Mobile Communications Division.

 

“I welcome Google‘s commitment to defending Android and its partners.” – Bert Nordberg, President and CEO, Sony Ericsson.

 

“We welcome the news of today‘s acquisition, which demonstrates that Google is deeply committed to defending Android, its partners, and the entire ecosystem.” – Peter Chou, CEO, HTC Corp.

 

Notice something of a pattern? “Defending Android” comes up quite a lot, and that’s probably because it’s the same information they were all given by Google, to ensure that they presented a united front, rather than the reality, which would’ve resulted in Shin, Nordberg and Chou giving a somewhat more sombre quote.

 

If other iOS devices were released, they would never perform as well as the ones made by Apple, and the same could soon apply to Android and Motorola handsets. So if you’re thinking about what phone to buy as an Android user, it might be worth taking a look at Motorola’s lineup over the coming year, as you will more than likely see them become the primary Android platform.

[Life Series] Before You Buy A New Home, Four Things You Must Know

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Getting the home of your dreams is one great choice you have to make. But with the current property market conditions, there are some things you need to consider in your purchase, along with some tips that apply to any purchase decision for a new home.

Your Finances

Knowing the limits of your finances is the first step to making a sound investment. Marshal your financial muscle to come up with a sufficient deposit for the property to lower your mortgage amortization. In addition, obtaining a mortgage may be difficult these days what with the credit crunch and banks setting up high acceptance criteria to release a mortgage.

If you have the savings to take care deposing a substantial percentage of the property cost, say from 30% to 50%, you stand a good chance of getting your mortgage approved these days.

The typical mortgage loans are based on 3 times your main annual gross income plus 1.5 times a secondary income source if you have one. Married couples enjoy 2.5 times their joint income.

The sale of your previous property will also play a vital role in the financial department. Understanding the benefits of selling your house for cash, also known as ‘we buy houses’ companies can be a great option to consider if you need the funds quickly for your new home purchase. With such a boost in your finances, you can have an easier time securing a mortgage and have more flexibility with your budget for the new home.

Know the House you Want but keep an Open Mind

Knowing how your dream house should look like helps to define what you’d be looking for but that’s just a guide. Unless you have the finances to build one from scratch exactly as you envision it to be, you can be more realistic and get one closest to your dream house from the many fine homes and real estate projects already available for the picking. You only need to get your mortgage in order to move in.

Just don’t over indulge in your first home. But keep an open mind as your agent or broker showcases the property inventories within your budget. Lowering your expectations can get you far with today’s realities but sometimes, you might get some surprise with really good bargains on houses that can be better than what you have in mind. Indeed, you can check home available for sale in Tennessee and other parts of United States.

Viewing your Options

Whichever house you choose, you need to have a site visit. Better yet, have a shortlist of 3-4 properties to visit. Your real estate agent knows the routine and will in fact prompt you to join a tour of any of the property in his inventory. It’s what they do best and clinching a sale often happens in tours that impress their clients.

With a scheduled visit to your shortlisted properties, make the most of your time by learning what you can about the place. Here are some things you should do.

Get a feel of the neighborhood. Buying as home comes with the community it is set in and living with neighbors you like is part of the reason you want to go home at the end of the day. Talk to one or two you may meet during the visit and ask questions about the property you’re getting. You can also gauge their friendliness that way.

The site visit is often meant to impress you with the façade and all things visible about the property. But do check a little deeper. Operate the bathroom and kitchen faucet, turn on the lights, check the wiring, phone line, etc. You may have to ask a friend who is a home builder to accompany you in the tour to check them if you’re not familiar.

Taking the Plunge

Real estate agents would love to get your decision after the tour. But unless it’s the last property item on your short list and is the most impressive, defer your decision. You can enter into a negotiation in price at around this time as well if the property is the one closest to your heart. You can even take a second tour if you have to and your agent won’t mind. As your investment of a lifetime, spend the time to weigh your options before taking the plunge. Once you do, your agent can take care of the rest. You only need to hand over the initial deposit and you can move in.

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