HTC Butterfly J: the first smartphone with full HD

The rumor of a HTC smartphone displaying Full HD became reality since the HTC Butterfly J appeared on the Japanese page of the official website of HTC. Propose the manufacturer in Japan with the first mobile operator KDDI. HTC Butterfly J have a Super LCD screen 3 5 inch display 1920 by 1080 pixels, which gives it a pixel density of over 440 ppi. Until now, the Sony Xperia S which had the density of pixels the higher the market (342 dpi on its 4.3-inch screen). But HTC Butterfly J should be compared rather (for the size of the screen) Galaxy Note II (267 dpi screen on its 5.5 inches) and LG Optimus Vu (256 dpi on its 5-inch screen). The terminal features a Snapdragon S4 SoC integrating Pro APQ8064 quad core processor clocked at 1.5 GHz....

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More than one billion smartphones in the world

According to a study by the firm Strategy Analytics , there are now more than one billion smartphones in use worldwide. In one year, the market grew from 708 million in the third quarter of 2011 to 1.038 billion at the end of September. "We believe that 7 people in the world has a smartphone," says Neil Mawston, Strategy Analytics. This figure was reached in the third quarter, it took 16 years for the industry of smartphones to achieve this result since the inception of the first device of its kind, the Nokia Communicator which was released in 1996. Strategy Analytics announced a penetration rate of around 60% in the United States and Europe about 40% on average. The course of the second billion smartphones will be reached in less...

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The GoPro HERO3 arrived

Live in San Francisco, GoPro has just announced its new line of cameras GoPro HERO3 a new range includes three new products: White Edition, Silver Edition and Black Edition. The design is retained, it is also part of what made ​​the brand successful for previous versions. The new cameras are thinner and lighter and integrated WIFI. Our favorite is for HD HERO3 Black Edition, it is 30% smaller and 25% lighter. Image resolution 4 times greater up to 12 million pixels, a processor and two times faster shooting 3 times faster. Cameras are available for pre-order on the site GoPro.com priced at € 249 (White Edition) - € 349 (Silver Edition) and € 449 (Black Edition with remote control included). ...

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Asus Padfone 2 quad core, increased autonomy and 4G LTE

Asus Padfone was surprised with this hybrid device that offers to "transform" a smartphone into a tablet. Rather than transformation, it is actually inserted into a slot in this smartphone tablet dock. The latter then works with the smartphone's hardware but has its own battery. A two in one that could even act netbook with the keyboard with the first proposed Padfone. It has not been discussed with the Padfone 2. Exit the dual-core processor of the first draft, Asus has opted for a SoC Snapdragon CPU with quad core clocked at 1.5 GHz. It is supported by 2 GB of RAM. The terminal can display 1280 by 720 pixels on its screen Super IPS + 4.7 inches . It is also equipped with a main camera sensor with 13 megapixels . A burst mode allows you...

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Web development: Google launches a stable version of SDK programming language Dart

A year ago, Google unveiled its own web programming language, Dart, designed to eventually replace JavaScript. This new object-oriented language is clearly an ambitious project because the goal is to create a structured language, flexible but easy to understand and use, while ensuring high performance on all browsers. To run code written in Dart must be a native virtual machine is a server-side compiler that converts the JavaScript code for modern browsers. So the language can not be used at the moment in development environment, should although most modern browsers natively integrate Dart virtual machine, starting with Chrome ... Google has also released the first stable version of the software development kit (SDK) programming language...

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Comparison of Microsoft Surface tablets RT Windows, Apple iPad and Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1

Microsoft Surface tablets Windows 8 coming on October 26 on the market in several countries including France. Their prices and their specifications were unveiled yesterday by Microsoft and it is now possible to engage in some comparisons with the competition. This is what I propose in this comparative table showing the major tablets available on the market (of course there are many others, but these are the three main competitors and best-known) tablets Windows 8 Microsoft Surface , Apple iPad and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 , freely inspired and adapted from the one published yesterday by All ThingsD. Found between these three main competitors in the market some common characteristics, such as the presence of similar sensors (gyroscope, compass,...

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iPad Mini: Confirmed keynote October 23

Apple has confirmed the event of October 23 . The American press has therefore to be invited to San Jose to attend a new keynote. The iPad mini should make its entry into the tablet market a few days before that of Microsoft. The invitation shows the Apple presentation of a product "little." This would correspond to the revelation of the New iPad mini version. The date of October 23 is also significant since the Cupertino company can present its product 3 days before the revelation of Microsoft. On October 26, the tablet surface will also entering the world of high tech. Apple also wants to play the card of the year-end holidays. Early November with marketing, consumers can purchase this plan for Christmas. An effective method to compete...

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Samsung Galaxy Prime: Specifications and photo

While it has not yet been officially announced, we unveil the first benchmark the performance of the  Samsung Galaxy Prime (code named "GT-i9260"). It should run on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean with traditional TouchWiz overlay, it is equipped with a 1.5 GHz dual core processor, 1GB of RAM, a 4.65-inch screen AMOLED Super HD resolution of 1280 x 720, an 8 megapixel camera, a micro USB port, the NFC, Bluetooth, a storage space of 8GB or 16GB and a microSD slot (up to 64GB). The price of the device could be around € 500, for more information, it will be the end of the year, when it should be formalized by Samsung. With these features and the price, it should be positioned on the mid-range of the manufacturer. One thing is certain, after...

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iOS6 on iPhone 5: Everything you need to know on passbook

Article written by Julien Saumande. An engineer by training, he has created Phoceis in 2002. Phoceis is a consultancy business and marketing that accompanies digital brands in the development and implementation of their digital strategy, on mobile devices and nomadic. The company has positioned itself in the mobile industry since 2008 and has developed one of the first applications of m-commerce from the App Store. Nearly a month after the release of the iPhone 5, back over four weeks of news around the new "connected commerce" iOS6 of the passbook. Passbook: If you missed the beginning ... The Passbook is a new application appeared with version 6 operating system iPhone iOS6. Fifteen days after its release, nearly half of iPhone users...

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Twitter acquires mobile application creator Cabana

The specialist in the creation of mobile applications Cabana announced on his website that he was bought by Twitter . Launched in February 2011, this service offers mostly a visual editor to easily design mobile applications ... The official blog of Cabana, we learn that the particular social network is clearly more interested in the service team and the application itself. Indeed, it is an "acquisition-employment" or "acqui-hire" - an operation quite common in Silicon Valley can buy both an idea and a technology team. The team Cabana, who took the time to know that Twitter in recent months, will therefore join the team today the social network to develop tools to assist developers. The application Cabana, in its current form, should...

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Specifications of the tablet Microsoft Surface RT

On this site, you can discover a section to the surface under Windows 8 says "coming soon" and another for running Windows Surface RT. While prices start at € 489 (see our article ), here are the final and complete specifications of the tablet that Microsoft signed entry in the field of public touchpads. Surface RT is available in versions with 32 GB or 64 GB of internal flash memory. A memory card slot microSDXC will expand. On its touch screen multi-point (5 points simultaneously) 10.6 inches called "ClearType HD Display", it displays 1366 by 768 pixels . This results in a pixel density of 148 ppi (pixels per inch). This is 44% less than on the screen of the new iPad (264 dpi) . Microsoft has also chosen a 16:9 aspect ratio for display. The...

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Apple to seeing you on October 23

Rumours of a conference held by Apple on October 23 just to confirm with invitations sent to the press. On the invitation, we discover the Apple logo on a coloured background. On the flyer you can read a terse We've got a little more to show you. We have a little more to show you. The "little" could refer to the screen size of the iPad Mini (ie 7.85 inches). The "small" variation of the iPad is actually expected. If the announcement is very likely, the questions now focus on prices, versions (WiFi and WiFi/3G?) And specifications. Apple reigns supreme in the tablets with the iPad. However, the firm Tim Cook is not present in the tablet segment with less than 8 inches screen, where Google and Amazon are just a hit with the...

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Microsoft Surface tablets

Of the two versions of Microsoft Surface tablets propose the model with embedded processor ARM architecture will be cheaper and therefore more public. The question of price is truly central. It was also very well seen with the Nexus 7 tablet Google. But, in fact, Microsoft has just announced the price of its tablet surface RT. The site Techcrunch had been able to access them on the Microsoft site before the page is removed. It discovered the price of the tablet running Windows Surface RT. They range from € 489 to € 694 . This is because a cold shower remembers Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, said they would begin at $ 300. We finally deal with prices comparable to those of the iPad . Thus, the RT area with 32 GB of internal memory but...

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Wii U: little lag expected between the GamePad and HDTV

There will be one time between the image displayed on the screen and the GamePad HDTV. That's the bad news. But the good news is that it will only be of the order of 1/60th of a second . Michel Ancel is to lead the development of the game Rayman Legends for the Wii U, the Nintendo Power said. Speaking on the subject, developer Ubisoft announced: "  It's crazy because the game runs in full HD [HDTV on], it is streamed to the screen GamePad and remains at 60 frames per second . And time on the GamePad is of the order of 1/60th of a second, an image of late. It's crazy, it's so fast. It is almost instantaneous. That is why it responds so well. He [the GamePad] can be used as an input device in the real game-design.  " An image of...

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