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Samsung Might Reportedly Discontinue Its Galaxy Note Lineup - www.yitit.com

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Samsung has been an important player in the smartphone market who also normalized the trend of big screens. More than a decade ago, Samsung launched the Galaxy Note series which featured comparatively bigger screens than the rest of the competition. While Apple wasn't keen to increase screen sizes, it did eventually caved in. Now, reports are pointing out that Samsung might be discontinuing the Galaxy Note lineup starting next year.

Samsung Does Not Have Any Plans For Next Year's Galaxy Note Smartphone, Might Add S Pen to the Galaxy S21 Ultra

With the Galaxy Note series, Samsung brought forward a new method to control your smartphone - the S Pen. Classed as best for creativity and precision controls, the S Pen has received plenty of updates over the years. So why is Samsung doing away with its Galaxy Note lineup? Probably due to the ongoing global health crises, Samsung might have decided to forgo its long-running Galaxy Note series in the future.

The report from Reuters coin that Samsung does not have any plans to develop future Galaxy Note smartphones for next year. If the report is anything to go by, what will be the future of the S Pen? In lieu of the given scenario, Samsung will potentially add a stylus to its Galaxy S21 Ultra - the company's high-end smartphone which launches early in the year.

However, the S Pen will not be part of the Galaxy S21 Ultra as a package but will be sold separately. The S Pen, on the other hand, was bundled with the Galaxy Note smartphone every year. Is Samsung trying to pull off an Apple approach with the S Pen?

As for the Galaxy Note team at Samsung, it will not be focusing on the Note devices for next year. Instead, the team will now be giving their attention to foldable smartphones. There's no official word from Samsung, so do take the news with a grain of salt.

Samsung released the Galaxy Note 20 in the second half of this year and since we're all looking forward to the Galaxy S21 now, we might see the S Pen switch soon. As for the empty slot in the second half of the year, it is possible that Samsung will release the Galaxy Fold 3 in the same time frame.

With improvements pouring every year on the Galaxy S and Note series, Samsung has already bridged enough gap between the two series. Henceforth, it will make perfect sense for the company to forego the Note series. However, as mentioned earlier, the word is not official so be sure to take the news with a grain of salt Galaxy Note

What are your words on the scenario? Share your views with us in the comments.

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Samsung Announces Galaxy S with Android 2.1 - www.yitit.com

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World's top manufacturer of mobile phones have yesterday announced its latest flagship product, the Galaxy S. The latest smartphone will run on the Google Android 2.1 OS with 1.0 Ghz CPU. This is the latest in Samsung's Galaxy series of mobile phones taking advantage of Android OS.

The phone is also said to have 4 inch AMOLED capacitive screen with 800x480 pixel resolution. It will also have the following features built into the handset:

Wi-Fi, BluetoothA-GPSUp to 32 GB support for micro-SD card (16GB included)5 Mega Pixel camera with LED flash and auto focusSmart Life bundled software for social networking

The price and availability has not been announced yet but if it was for us, it should range between $500-$700.

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Samsung Official Press Release

LAS VEGAS, March 23, 2010 – Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., a leading mobile phone provider, today introduced the Galaxy S (Model: GT-I9000), a smartphone that makes users’ lives more convenient, more exciting, and more integrated. JK Shin, president and head of Samsung Electronics’ Mobile Communications Business announced the global launch of the Galaxy S at his keynote speech at the International CTIA Wireless 2010. The Galaxy S will be available in Europe, North America, Latin America, Australia, and Asia soon.

The Android-powered Galaxy S incorporates a 4-inch Super AMOLED screen and a 1 GHz application processor that enables vibrant HD videos, rich augmented reality content through Layar Reality Browser, and advanced LBS (Location Based Services). The ‘Social Hub’ provides always-on social networks connectivity allowing users to enjoy communications with their friends, colleagues, and families whenever they want and wherever they are.

The Galaxy S is designed to provide immersive, intelligent and integrated experiences, with the power to enrich people’s lives through best-in-class services and technologies. The Galaxy S will allow users around the world to experience the “Smart Life,” which Samsung anticipates will shift the way that consumers view smartphones and how they interact with them in their daily lives.

The Galaxy S immerses users in a world of rich multimedia. The large 4-inch Super AMOLED display delivers unrivalled screen quality, with less reflection, free viewing angles and super-fast touch-response. The mDNIe (mobile Digital Natural Image engine) – a technology used in Samsung’s best-selling LCD and LED TVs – boosts an even sharper and crisper viewing experience for photos, videos, and e-books. It creates a perfect environment to record, edit and play HD video, to browse the Internet, and to read your favorite e-books. A variety of applications from Android Market™ allows users to even more extend the benefits and excitement of smartphone experience. Plus, users have access to Google™ mobile services, such as Google Search™, Gmail™, and Google Maps™.

Living a “Smart Life” requires intelligence, and the Galaxy S delivers just that by utilizing personal preferences to gather information online that each user needs and wants. With a user-defined daily briefing, lightning-fast processing speeds and location-based search options like Layar Reality Browser – the Galaxy S gives users the information they need wherever and whenever needed. The Galaxy S represents the next level of intelligence in smartphones.

The Galaxy S integrates every aspect of life in a smart and sophisticated way. In addition to wireless integration with a variety of other devices, such as notebooks, TVs and cameras, the highly advanced Social Hub plugs users quickly and conveniently into their complete world of social networking and email.

“The Android-powered Galaxy S will set a new standard for smartphones,” said JK Shin, president and head of Mobile Communications Business. “The Galaxy S is the perfect device for people in all corners of the world who want that extra edge; to be more effective, productive, better connected, and in tune with their smart life – both personal and professional – all in a very easy and simple way.”

Other Key Features

• Daily Briefing: Offers instant access to weather, news, stocks, and the scheduler.

• All Share: Enables inter-device connectivity via DLNA (Digtal Living Network Alliance) technology.

• Home Cradle: Enables use as a digital photo frame, table clock, calendar, and music station.

• Write and go: Jot down an idea first and later decide on a format such as SMS/ MMS, email, calendar or memo.

• Swype: Provides fast and easy way to input text on screen while on-the-move.

• ThinkFree: Apps to view and edit Microsoft Office 2007 documents.

• Smart Alarm: Wakes up with a natural alarm sound and automatically turned-on display light.

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5 Most Useful Apps in Ovi Store - www.yitit.com

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Content marketplaces (read: App Stores) have become the central part of modern day Smartphone and consumer devices. Application stores are basically an evolved version of Digital Distribution Platforms, which were already popular in the PC industry. I’m sure most of you would have heard of Download.com or Steam etc. Though Apple made the concept popular for mobile devices.

By 2009, almost all the major smartphone platforms have their own content stores now. The App Store, Android Marketplace, Windows Mobile Marketplace, etc. are some prime examples. But none of these stores has an audience of the magnitude of Ovi Store by Nokia. This is because of the fact that Nokia is the market leader in the smartphone industry, and the have the largest consumer base in the world.

The Ovi Store itself is divided into four main categories: Applications, Games, Audio & Video and Personalization. But my focus today would be on the Applications category, which is the most attractive to a power user. Another thing about Ovi is that it personalizes the range of available applications according to your device. So my list would naturally consist of applications that easily run on Series 60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 devices. Of course there would be versions of these applications that also run on Series 60 5th Edition or other versions of 3rd Edition.

So lets get started with my roundup of the 5 most useful applications in Ovi Store. At the end I would also list two personal recommendations, which are actually pretty cool to use. And of course you can also share your favorite applications via the comment section below.

YouTube

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We get things started with the No. 1 video sharing service in the world. Of course YouTube also has a mobile version which allows you to do pretty much everything you can on the desktop version, and can stream videos via the RTSP protocol – or Flash player depending on what is supported on your device. But the experience isn’t that smooth and videos would often hang up in the middle.

The solution for this problem is YouTube for Series 60, the official YouTube application for Symbian devices. The application is a Free download from the Ovi store and runs on all Series 60 3rd and 5th edition phones. It lets you search for videos and can play them in full screen with no onscreen controls. The videos are fast and responsive plus you can fast forward/rewind them without the need of buffering.

One thing you should take note of here is that you can’t sign into your YouTube account from the application so you wont be able to rate, favorite videos etc. But this is one deficiency the application more than makes up for thanks to its straight forward interface. On a side note, you’d need a high speed connection to get a smooth viewing experience, which means only Wi-Fi in Pakistan.

Gravity

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Gravity is undoubtedly the best fully featured twitter client for the Series 60 platform. Its best features include its fast and highly responsive user interface which is a breeze to navigate, built in support for picture/photo sharing via TwitPic, TwitGoo, MobyPicture, Posterous, Yfrog or img.ly, and audio alerts for updates, replies, direct messages etc.

It supports multiple services including Ping.fm and Laconica, along with multiple user profiles thanks to its tabbed profile organization. You can also define up to 10 search queries to keep tabs on your products and brands. You can also create user groups with multiple accounts and filters. All in all, this is a must have twitter client for your device. You can get this application on a trial basis or for one time only purchase (costs $10), but it is totally worth it.

Windows Live

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The No. 1 instant messaging service is also available for your cell phone. True there are other mobile clients out there which let you connect with a ton of services at once, but none of them provide a full featured experience like Windows Live Messenger does. The official client from Microsoft supports many features of the desktop version including full support for voice and video. You can share files and photos with your contacts and do pretty much anything you can on desktop version.

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But that’s just one part of the service, Windows Live integrates with your phone’s contact list and adds a tab of Windows Live Contacts, with all their contact details for quick information. You can fire up their live space with a simple press or drop them an email, thanks to the full integration of Windows Live Hotmail in the Messaging application. You can also create blog posts for your Live Spaces blog and post photos as well.

Qik

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Qik is perhaps the best live streaming service for mobile devices. Sure there are others like Ustream but their clients are very buggy and I’ve never been able to get them to work without trouble. Qik was pretty straight forward to use though. I just downloaded the client from Ovi Store and setup an account on phone. I was streaming in 2 minutes. The interface is pretty easy to use, and is very similar to the Camera application we have on our devices.

You can set videos as public and private and have them automatically posted to several social services including Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. You’d obviously need a decent internet connection, like 3G or HSDPA but it also works on Wi-Fi so we can still use it here in Pakistan.

Pixelpipe

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I was really excited when I first heard about Share Online on the Series 60 devices. Being able to take pictures and upload them instantly to the internet was awesome. Sadly, the only officially supported services were Flickr, Ovi Share and Vox. So what if you wanted to share with others like YouTube or Facebook? Thankfully Pixelpipe came with a solution. This Share Online extender integrates with the application and allows you to upload stuff to almost all the popular (and semi-popular) social services on the web.

All you have to do is setup an account and sharing destinations (pipes) and you’re all set. A single upload will post to all your services and you can also add tags, captions and geographic information. You can send to specific services too with Pipe tags in captions like @facebook for posting only to your Facebook albums. A really useful and simple application for those who live their life on the internet.

That’s it for the top applications on Ovi Store. All of the applications (besides Gravity) are free downloads, and must have for anyone who likes to do more than just calls and text on their phones. But that’s just my opinion, you are bound to have your own preferences so please do share them in the comments. Or share any Series 60 application you like even if its not on the Ovi Store. Who knows the developer might take note and put it up there.

And as promised, here are two bonus applications which I find rather interesting. P.S. I use these a lot.

Midomi Music Search

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Midomi Music Search is something which I always wanted on my device. My phone already comes with Nokia Say and Play, which lets me speak an artist, album or track name and it plays it. But what Midomi does is completely different. You can discover music in totally unique ways with this application.

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For starters, you can hold your phone to any playing music track and Midomi will tell you what song that is, pretty much like Samsung Jet could do. But where Midomi beats the competition is that you can also search for music by singing a song in your own voice, or by just humming a tune. I’ve tried it so many times and it has never failed for me. After discovering the song, you can buy it online via Nokia Music Store, watch videos, read more details or lyrics etc. Its a really fun application to use.

Nokia Mobile Server

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Don’t let the name fool you. The Nokia Mobile Web Server app actually puts your phone on the web. It is an application from Nokia Beta Labs, a research division at Nokia. It doesn’t necessarily mean that this application would ever see mainstream release, but I really hope it does.

With this application, you can access your entire phone from the Web. And I do mean everything, which includes, contacts, messages, gallery, and even your camera. You can use the internet to take photos, send messages or check phone logs – really neat feature. Unfortunately, covering this application on a whole would require a dedicated article so I’ll keep it for a future time. But don’t let that stop you from trying it out yourself.

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Microsoft Kills Project Catnip-www.yitit.com

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Microsoft Kills Project Catnip

Microsoft has announced that it is halting Project Catnip, a Progressive Web App (PWA) for Windows Insiders. The Windows maker has cited "technical limitations" behind this decision, but added that it continues to explore other options. The company made this announcement while releasing the latest Windows 10 Preview Build:

We’re no longer planning to do external testing or a public release of our “Project Catnip PWA” for the Windows Insider Program. Due to some technical limitations, we were not going to be able to offer the experiences we wanted to for Insiders through the PWA. We’re still looking at solutions for some of the features we investigated in the PWA. Thank you as always for your enthusiasm.

Project Catnip was first introduced at Microsoft's Ignite 2018 conference after which it was released to a handful of Insiders. It was supposed to be an app that would run across different platforms, including Android and iOS, to give Insiders a platform that offers access to Insider program news, Insider profiles and achievements, build flight information, and more.

Basically the app was supposed to be a one stop solution to help Windows Insiders navigate through Microsoft's Windows Insider Program (WIP).

Microsoft hasn't detailed exactly where it was facing technical limitations, but Insiders would certainly want the company to come up with an alternative platform or solution where they could have access to all their WIP news and updates.

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