Thursday, January 31, 2013

Volkswagen Golf 4Motion

After that Scandinavian group test whose photos were spreaded all over the Internet, the first member of the seventh-generation Golf siblings is now released. The all-wheel-drive system is now produced by Haldex and became more efficient: the equipment became lighter and has faster power management between the axles according to the demand, which also results at a 4.54 l/100 km fuel consumption. This system will be initially offered with the TDI 105-hp 1.6L and 150-hp 2.0L diesel engines, with a price addition of € 1.800.

Aston Martin Rapide S

Among all the car brands and models the current market offers, there are lots of very traditional ones and many others which have received much bigger changes through their history. Dealing with this tradition – or its lack – is one of the automakers’ several struggles when creating a new vehicle, because making right or wrong decisions imply receiving excellent or terrible acceptance. After studying press and public’s opinions for Rapide, Aston Martin now gives it the half-age facelift trying to hit the best possible formula.

There are very few brands like Ferrari or Lamborghini, which prefer to stabilish an identity among its cars by implicit items such as the colors, the engine sound or the overall shape of several external parts. On the other hand, the English automaker here referred is much more similar to Porsche, for example. Since Aston Martin maintains even some of the car names through decades, it’s not hard to expect its vehicles to have very little changes. The problem with that is these cars have started to look too much like versions of a single vehicle, even with their size and price differences. So the automaker decided to follow the path of applying small facelifts, in order to avoid the expenses of new projects too early and only give a different look to cars which, as a matter of fact, have already been approved by everyone when it comes to the other aspects. The four-door’s name received the “S” as standard, not as a new trim level. The biggest external update is at the front grille, which changed the two-part design for a bigger single element paired with a new hood. Besides, the aerodynamics was improved with a new rear spoiler. Aston Martin has managed to make its luxury sedan look young again, not as a whole new model but with an interesting renewed impression, pretty much like what Porsche Panamera will receive with its own facelift, planned to the next months.

But a luxury sports car isn’t made only of style. The sophisticated part is made with an improved acoustic treatment and lots of items such as the Carbon Exterior package, which brings rear diffuser, rearview mirror caps and tail light surrounds using the mentioned material. Not to mention the Piano Black package for the interior, sports perfored two-colored leather seats and all the custom options for colors and materials which are usually offered by the high-end automakers. Besides, the performance part is taken care by the V-12 5.9L engine, which is now mounted in a lower position to meet the current European safety regulations. It was improved to achieve 550 hp and 457 lb-ft, an 80-hp and 14 lb-ft increase from the last phase: Aston Martin states its 0-60 mph time became 0s4 better, with the top speed getting to 190 mph – the consumption rate stays at 14.3 l/100 km, though. The driving has borrowed the Adaptative Damping System from DB9 and Vanquish, allowing the driver to select between three modes: Normal, Sport and Track, but operates along with road condition detectors in order to always find the best possible combination of the driving settings.

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

BlackBerry 10 launched

Launch of BlackBerry 10; OPPA! BB Style!!

OPPA!! BB Style. Yes, Canadian technology premier Research in Motion, regularly known as RIM, Company that developed BlackBerry mobile OS platform and BlackBerry mobile phones, are going to make history in mobile industry today.

"We expect tomorrow to really be the kickoff for the introduction of Blackberry 10," RIM's Chief Marketing Officer Frank Boulben told ABC News in a phone interview. "We have been engaged for quite a period of time with the two main constituents -- the carriers and the developers -- and we've already said we are in the labs of more than 150 carriers around the world."

Though, Apple said earlier that there would be 240 carriers serving iPhone 5 by December and that was enormous in mobile phone launching history, the numbers are yet to confirm. But Boulben points out that BlackBerry 10 is an entirely new operating system that doesn't share a single line of code with previous BlackBerry software; the iPhone 5 and iOS 6, by contrast, was essentially an upgrade. "We are highly differentiated in four areas," Boulben said. The first is with communications -- RIM has designed the software around a messaging hub and new multitasking features. The second: the touch keyboard, which predicts words as you are typing them. Lastly, RIM says it’s BlackBerry Messenger and its BlackBerry Balance feature, which separates work from personal uses on the phone, set it apart.

At Wednesday's event BlackBerry will show its new handsets in detail. RIM is expected to release a touch-screen device called the Z10 and another with a physical keyboard. AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon have said they will carry devices that run the new software. Boulben also said RIM will highlight major differences between BlackBerry 10 and the other leading mobile phone platforms.

There’s another good news for developers also. Alec Saunders, RIM’s Vice President of Developer Relations told, “Our goal is to get as many applications out in the store as we can”. Good luck guys- get the most outrageous applications out from your basket.

****PRESS RELEASE OF RIM****

BlackBerry 10 Launch Event Available Via Webcast on January 30th, 2013

WATERLOO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - January 28, 2013) - Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM)(TSX: RIM) will be broadcasting the BlackBerry® 10 launch event on January 30th, 2013, via webcast. The event will happen simultaneously in New York, Toronto, London, Paris, Dubai, Johannesburg, Jakarta and Delhi. This day will mark the official launch of its new platform - BlackBerry 10, as well as the unveiling of the first two BlackBerry 10 smartphones. Details on the smartphones and their availability will be announced at the event.

A live webcast will be held beginning at 10 am ET, which can be accessed via http://www1.rim.com/newsroom.html.

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Hyundai HB20X

Talvez você lembre da intenção principal que a Hyundai teve ao iniciar toda esta empreitada que atende pelo nome de HB20. Para alcançar uma participação de mercado pelo menos no nível de Citroën, Renault e Peugeot, por exemplo, a coreana manteve a excelente fama iniciada com os modelos mais caros mas agora a estende às categorias de volumes maiores. Em outras palavras, depois de criar um compacto exclusivo para o Brasil, quem poderia duvidar que o próximo passo seria competir entre os aventureiros urbanos?

Como era de se esperar, as imagens oficiais e a publicidade da marca dão a ideia de que este carro consegue transpor trilhas que na realidade pertencem ao naipe de legítimos jipes. Os fatos, no entanto, são que o HB20X traz alterações de monta bem menor, porque sua intenção na verdade não é tão grande assim. A Hyundai brasileira acaba de colocar em prática o que os concorrentes da novidade com certeza farão assim que os seus modelos chegarem à época das novas gerações: aproveitar as vantagens de prever estas versões desde o começo do projeto. Carros como 207 SW, Fox e a própria Palio Weekend surgiram todos antes de este gosto virar uma moda tão forte, de forma que quando ela chegou os fabricantes precisaram recorrer a adaptações. Já o HB20 é um dos primeiros a contar com tal variação de nascença, o que lhe permite resultado visual bem melhor: ele troca o excesso de apliques de plástico, por exemplo, por parachoques exclusivos. Seu ar mais agressivo se faz com aspecto mais volumoso e itens como a grade dianteira bem maior, combinando com o bom gosto dos demais acessórios como o rack de teto e as rodas de liga leve exclusivas. É nada mais que repetir em escala de menor preço o que fabricantes como Audi e BMW fazem há alguns anos com os pacotes esportivos: projetá-los em paralelo com o desenho padrão do carro permite a esses kits complementar o estilo do mesmo, em vez de bifurcar as atenções.

Além disso, a ausência de mudanças mais extremas como o estepe direcionado à tampa traseira só volta a confirmar que a Hyundai deixou os extremos para seu crossover compacto, que terá a base do HB20 mas chegará nos próximos anos. As únicas mudanças da cabine foram os bancos com dupla costura, pedaleiras em alumínio e o volante revestido em couro na versão Premium, o que tem seu lado bom e ruim: trata-se de ter mantido um interior cuja qualidade já tem ótima aceitação do público, mas simples mudanças como cores de revestimentos e de luzes teriam dado ar muito mais condizente com a proposta da versão nova. O carro sempre usa o 1.6 16v flex de 128 cv, e a versão Style (R$ 48.755) traz de série airbag duplo, ar-condicionado, computador de bordo, Bluetooth, direção hidráulica, farois de neblina, rodas de liga leve aro 15”, sistema de som multimídia (sem CD player) com comandos no volante, trio elétrico e cabine com bancos em azul e console em preto. A Premium (R$ 51.255) soma ar-condicionado mais sofisticado, banco traseiro bipartido, chave multifuncional, palhetas Aeroblade, sensores de estacionamento e crepuscular, vidros com função one-touch e a curiosa opção de trocar o sistema de som por um que traz CD/MP3 player mas perde a conexão Bluetooth, esta opção sem custo extra. É uma pena que os preços sejam salgados já usando o câmbio manual: a caixa automática de quatro marchas passa as versões respectivamente a R$ 51.955 e a R$ 54.455.

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Karbonn S1 Titanium

Karbonn S1 Titanium for INR 10,990.00 only

Indian mobile phone manufacturer Karbonn unveiled their Android dual SIM smartphone S1 Titanium’s price tag in their website. It’s INR 10,990.00, appx US$205.00. Not good enough if compared with other Indian mobile brands and too much costly from Chinese brands, but, good choice for mid-range customers.

Karbonn S1 Titanium comes with 1.2 GHz Quad-Core Processor, powerful for multi-tasking or big game. Corporate people or teenage gamers whatever you are, you’ll find S1 Titanium workable. 1GB of RAM enough for power users also. There is 4GB of internal memory to store your most useful apps, work files, games or images or video moments of your beloved ones. You can add up to 32GB of external memory in S1’s microSD card slot to store many more of your works and enjoyments.

Wanna click a beautiful moment? Karbonn S1 Titanium’s 5.0 mega pixel auto focus rear camera will shot anything perfectly from dark night to shiny day as it has LED flash light also. Front facing VGA camera will work as web cam for video calling as well as regular camera to take pictures and videos.

Karbonn S1 Titanium

Multi-touch capacitive 4.5 inch IPS display screen with 540 x 960 pixels resolution is much better than regular 480 x 800 pixels display. You can watch eye catching movies without irritation, play games vibrantly and work flawlessly hours after hours.

This Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operated dual SIM (GSM+GSM) quad band phone has GPRS/EDGE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, USB connectivity. Its 1600 mAh battery will empower up to 4 hours of talk time and 200 hours of stand-by time. Though, only 1600 mAh battery is not enough for today’s high resolution and powerful games or apps because, it’ll drain out quickly and may become very hot. Karbonn should check this matter urgently and improve battery power. It seems they are quite known of this issue as they’ve mentioned in their official website to download Task Killer from Google Play to kill all the unwanted apps running in the background.

It is clear that they are after Micromax A116 Canvas HD, which got fabulous attention recently in Indian mobile arena and within Indian customers. Now it is to see what customers choose from these two similar models. Micromax A116 Canvas HD with better features and higher price or Karbonn S1 Titanium with much lower features with a good amount of discounted price (in terms of comparison with each other), whichever wins customers choice will be a good example of business competition in the history of Indian mobile business.

Huawei unveils three Ascend series smartphones

Largest touchscreen smartphone launched by Huawei in CES 2013

In Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2013, Huawei unveiledthree of their flagship Ascend series smartphones. Huawei Ascend Mate, HuaweiAscend D2 and Huawei Ascend W1 will probably be three most outrageous handheld phone device of this quarter. You want bigger screen, go with Huawei Ascend Mate. Want highest resolution mobile camera of this time? Grab Huawei Ascend D2. Oh! You don’t want to use Android OS? Try Huawei Ascend W1 with revolutionary Windows Phone 8 OS. Huawei sets a new standard to choose between several best options from their own product.

Huawei Ascend Mate

Here's some major features of these three Huawei upcoming smartphones.

Model: Huawei Ascend Mate

Processor: 1.5 GHz quad-core Hi-Silicon K3V2

RAM: 2.0 GB

Display: 6.1 inch HD IPS+ LCD Touch Screen Display

Camera: Dual Camera with 8.0 MP Rear Auto-Focus Main Camera

OS: Android 4.1 Jelly Bean

Extra Memory: MicroSD card support up to 32 GB

Size: 163.5mm x 85.7mm x 9.9mm

Weight: 198 gram

Speciality: Massive 4050 mAh battery, no HOME button

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Huawei Ascend D2

Model:Huawei Ascend D2

Processor: 1.5 GHz quad-core Hi-Silicon K3V2 Processor with power saving technology

RAM: 2.0 GB and Internal Memory: 32 GB (No MicroSD card slot)

Display: 5.0 inch Full HD Super Retina Fast Response IPS Panel Display (Resolution:1920x1080@443ppi)

Camera: Dual Camera with 13.0 MP Auto Focus Rear Camera and 1.3MP Front HD Camera.

OS: Android 4.1 Jelly Bean

Extra Memory: No external card slot

Size: 140.0mm x 71.0mm x 9.4mm

Weight: 170 gram

Other Speciality: Massive 3000 mAh Battery, Supports Dolby Surround sound, Water resistant display, Aluminum body and metal frame and no HOME button.

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Huawei Ascend W1

Model: Huawei Ascend W1

Processor: 1.2 GHz QC Snapdragon MSM8230 Dual Core Processor with Adreno 305 GPU

RAM: 512 MB and Internal Memory: 4.0GB

Display: 4.0 inch IPS WVGA LCD Touchscreen with OGS technology

Camera: Dual Camera with 5.0 MP Auto Focus Rear Camera

OS: Windows Phone 8

Extra Memory: MicroSD card support up to 32 GB

Size: 124.5mm x 63.5mm x 10.15mm

Weight: 130 gram

Other Speciality: Able to import contacts from Android phones.

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All the three models would be available in this first quarter and maybe within February.

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Audi A6 Allroad

Se você acompanha as novidades automotivas do mercado brasileiro com certa frequência, com certeza lembrará que o ano passado foi muito importante para a Audi no país. Tivemos toda uma ampliação de sua linha, com modelos de todos os tamanhos e preços chegando sem tanto atraso e até acompanhados de outros até pouco tempo atrás improváveis. As novidades de 2013 também têm enorme importância, mas cada uma pelos próprios motivos. A primeira é esta perua, que segue uma tendência muito famosa no Brasil.

Suspensão elevada, revestimentos externos em plástico preto, detalhes como rack de teto e estribos laterais, cabine um tanto mais “rústica”… A receita dos chamados “aventureiros urbanos” começou em meados dos anos 1990 com duas peruas, uma na Europa e outra no Brasil. Volvo V70 Cross Country e Fiat Palio Adventure deram duas interpretações diferentes ao nicho de mercado que de início fez fama por representar a união entre a vocação familiar de uma station wagon com toques mais aventureiros vindos dos SUVs. A questão é que em poucos anos esse conceito convergiu aos crossovers, de forma que hoje em dia essas peruas têm um público bem mais restrito e precisam de maiores esforços para continuar agradando. Em outras palavras, é necessário que estejam em perfeita sintonia com o que seus clientes desejam. A faixa de V70 e A6 Allroad tem enormes diferenças da de Palio Adventure e VW Space Cross, mas todas vêm apenas em decorrência das faixas de preço – o conceito, no entanto, é o mesmo. O segundo batalhão é bem mais conhecido pelo brasileiro, em que as peruas compactas focam numa profusão de acessórios maiores e menores mas sempre em especial no exterior, para conseguir um visual bem diferenciado das versões comuns. O interior até recebe mudanças, mas ali a regra é oferecer o pacote de itens mais completo. Ou seja, o resultado é uma versão de topo com visual exclusivo e algum preparo para o off-road leve, mas sem investir demais.

Já quem faz parte do mercado de luxo e decide levar uma perua do segmento que também inclui a Peugeot 508 RXH tem outros objetivos. Eles também gostam da ideia de jovialidade trazida pelos acessórios exclusivos, mas não perdem o gosto pela discrição. E os que precisam se afastar dos centros urbanos ainda apreciam os equipamentos que trazem real aptidão para o fora-de-estrada, como a tração integral. No caso da Allroad, os vários protetores em preto e prata com revestimento em aço inoxidável dão um destaque interessante por não destoar do carro e nem tentar fazê-lo parecer outro. A jovialidade implícita pelas belas rodas é continuada no interior, em que os detalhes cromados fazem um par de ótimo gosto com os revestimentos em couro marrom. Os itens de série incluem ar-condicionado bizona, central de entretenimento com GPS e tela retrátil, teto solar panorâmico e volante esportivo. Já a segurança vem com os vários tipos de airbags, câmera de ré e indicador de pressão de pneus, entre outros. Vale observar a suspensão a ar adaptativa, que em terrenos acidentados eleva o veículo em 35 mm, mas em altas velocidades privilegia a performance e o rebaixa em 15 mm. Ele traz o motor 3.0 V6 TFSI, que gera 310 cv e acelera de 0 a 100 km/h em 5s9, e que ficou 20% mais econômico: a marca informa média de 8,93 km/l, sempre usando tração integral quattro e câmbio S-Tronic de sete marchas e dupla embreagem. Foi confirmado o preço de R$ 354.900.

Huawei Ascend Mate: Largest Smartphone

Chinese telecom giant Huawei expecting to build a good impression on mobile phone users through presenting their dynamically motivated Ascend series smartphones. Over the years smartphone manufacturers hoisted various significant technological experiments to deliver one of a kind smartphone of the time over to their customers to grab all the attention and business. 2012 was a successful year for manufacturers in terms of business and productivity. Motto was to challenge other rival companies to make bigger and better gadgets. There ware several chaos allover the telecom world also.

Huawei Ascend Mate, Huawei Smartphone, Largest screen mobile

Though, it's much late for Huawei to unzip their tote and expose their line of bigger phones, as several large screen smartphone already splashed out. But, better late than never. So, they've unveiled their largest screen smartphone Huawei Ascend Mate with a other flagship products like HUAWEI Ascend D2 and HUAWEI Ascend W1 at CES 2012.

Here's some salient features of Huawei Ascend Mate…

6.1” HD Display Screen
1.5 GHz Processor
Magic Touch
Emotion UI

Release Date: Not yet released, announced at CES 2013. Expected release in February.

SIM System:Single GSM microSIM

Network:

2G: GSM/GPRS/EDGE: 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 Mhz

3G: UMTS/WCDMA/HSPA+: 850 / 900 / 1700 / 1900 / 2100 Mhz

4G: Not yet confirmed

Build:

*Processor: 1.5 GHz Quad-Core Hi-Silicon K3V2 with 16 core super GPU and QPC and ADRX smart power-saving technology.

*RAM: 2.0GB

*In-Built Memory: Not disclosed yet

*Expandable Memory: MicroSD card support up to 32 GB

Huawei Ascend Mate with Samsung Galaxy Note

Body:

*Dimension H x W x D: 163.5mm X 85.7mm X 9.9mm

*Weight: 198 gram

*Available Color: Crystal Black, Pure White

Display:

*Size: 6.1 inch

*Type: HD IPS LCD Multi Touch Screen with Corning Gorilla Glass

*Screen Resolution: 720 x 1280 pixels @241 ppi

*Display Colors: 16 Millions

Camera: Dual camera

*8.0 MP Rear Autofocus Camera with LED Flash and upto 4X Zoom

*Image Resolution: 3264 x 2448 pixels

*1.0 MP HD Front Facing Camera

Connectivity:

*Bluetooth: Yes V 4.0 LE with EDR

*WLan / Wi-Fi: Yes Dual band 802.11 a/b/g/n with DLNA, Wi-fi Direct and Wi-fi Hotspot

*GPS: aGPS

*USB: Micro USB 2.0

*3.5mm Audio Jack

Media Player:

*Audio: MP3, WAV, WMA, MIDI

*Video: AVI, MPEG4, 3GP, AAC+, Enhanced AAC

Messaging: SMS/MMS/EMS

Email: POP3/SMTP/IMAP4

OS: Android 4.1 Jelly Bean

Sensors: Gyro Sensor

Voice Command: YES

Ringtones: MP3, MIDI, Polyphonic

Battery:

*Capacity: 4050 mAh

*Stand-by Time: Up to 9 days

*Talk Time: Not yet furnished

SAR Value: No specific SAR data found

** FCC and IC limits for SAR Value is 1.6 W/kg averaged over 1 gm of human tissue.

Final info will be added later after commercial release.

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