City's drivers in New York will be able to feed parking meters across five boroughs with smartphones

New York City drivers will one day be able to feed the meter with their smartphones.
Starting in early 2015, drivers will be able to use an app to pay for parking instead of digging for change or their credit cards

Drivers in New York will use an smartphone app to pay for there parking meter they will then enter the ID number of the meter to pay. These meters are making it easier for everyone to get around New York City and will be a boost for business across the five boroughs

The new technology also allows drivers to add time without having to run back to the meter. Those without apps on their phones can do the same by calling a toll-free number.

All 14,000 parking meters across the five boroughs will be linked to the smartphone app.

Under the program, drivers would enter the location of their car using the identification number on the parking meter.
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Apple And China Mobile Deal

SAN FRANCISCO — A long-sought deal to sell the iPhone through China Mobile should enable Apple to boost its profits and build customer loyalty in an important, growing market.
China Mobile, the world's largest wireless carrier, boasts more than 750 million mobile accounts, an audience that had been mostly walled off from the iPhone until Apple and China Mobile hammered out a multi-year sales agreement after years of thorny negotiations. The companies announced the deal Sunday (Monday in China).

Analysts doubt the China Mobile breakthrough will prompt Apple Inc. to introduce an extremely cheap iPhone as the Cupertino, Calif., company clings to a higher standard of quality. That approach is likely to ensure that smartphones running Google's Android software remain the top-selling devices in China.

Even so, investors are pleased to see Apple fill a gaping hole in the iPhone's sales network. Apple's stock rose more than 3 percent Monday, propelled by analysts projecting that the China Mobile deal could lift iPhone sales and Apple's earnings by more than 10 percent next year.
But even with China Mobile Ltd.'s vast state-owned network, marketing power and massive customer base, the iPhone still faces significant hurdles in the world's most populous nation.
Apple's smartphone is already available in China through two smaller carriers, China Telecom, and China Unicom. Although it is popular with well-heeled Chinese consumers, the iPhone is losing market share to lower-priced smartphones from Samsung and local brands. Most of the less expensive iPhone rivals rely on Android, which Google Inc. launched five years ago as an alternative to Apple's then-dominant smartphone.

Now, more than 80 percent of the smartphones sold around the world run Android, compared with 13 percent for the iPhone, according to the research firm International Data Corp.
That pecking order isn't likely to change, even if analysts prove correct in their predictions that the China Mobile deal will help Apple sell anywhere from 10 million to 40 million iPhones next year. Those numbers should help Apple increase its iPhone sales volume from 150 million devices in its last fiscal year, but it won't make that much of dent in overall market share. More than 1 billion smartphones were sold in 2013 alone, including 528 million in Asia, according to IDC.
"China Mobile and Apple working together isn't fundamentally going to be a game changer in the smartphone market," said Forrester Research analyst Frank Gillett.

In September, Apple did introduce a lower-priced iPhone called the 5C, but it's only $100 cheaper than the high-end 5S. Apple and China Mobile didn't announce pricing or the terms of their agreement. The average price of iPhones in Apple's most recent quarter stood at $577, which is likely to be more expensive than most Chinese consumers can afford.

Although Apple might eventually introduce a slightly lower priced iPhone designed especially for the Chinese market, Gillett said the company "is never going to go chasing the bottom of the barrel."
The iPhone 5S and 5C will go on sale in Apple and China Mobile stores beginning Friday, Jan. 17. China Mobile customers can register for phones starting Wednesday.

There are still plenty of higher-income China Mobile customers that have been pining for the iPhone, especially the 5S in a gold-plated color that is considered a sign of prestige in China. A key issue is whether it leads to additional sales or only prompts existing iPhone owners to switch to China Mobile.

The timing of the China Mobile deal is ideally set for a surge in iPhone sales. The release will come just two weeks before China's Lunar New Year holiday at the end of January, a big gift-buying season.

But any lift that Apple gets by becoming China Mobile's new luxury phone could quickly fade, said another Canalys analyst, James Wang.
"We expect this advantage can only last three months and Samsung will bring out its next flagship model soon," he said.

Samsung also caters to less-affluent households in China by selling its line of smartphones through a mix of carriers with prices as low as 1,000 yuan ($150). Other smartphone makers, including Huawei and Xiaomi, also sell cheap smartphones in China.

Apple has been selling the iPhone primarily through China Mobile rivals China Telecom Ltd. and China Unicom Ltd., which have more than 450 million accountholders combined. China Unicom pays 2,500 yuan ($410) of the iPhone's 5,499 yuan ($900) cost in exchange for a customer signing a two-year contract to pay a minimum of 186 yuan ($30) per month.

Analysts believe China Mobile will have to match those terms to achieve significant sales.
The existing sales channels haven't been enough to prevent Apple's market share in China from slipping. Apple's share of China's smartphone sales declined to 6 percent in the third quarter from 8 percent a year earlier, according to research firm Canalys. Meanwhile, Samsung's share expanded from 14 percent to 21 percent.
About 50 million iPhones have been sold in China in the past 2 1/2 years, according to analyst estimates. That translates to about 15 percent of the nearly 313 million iPhones that Apple sold during that span.

Apple CEO Tim Cook sees much bigger things to come. Earlier this year, he told the official Xinhua News Agency in January that he expects China to surpass the United States as the iPhone's biggest market.

Apple's stock rose $18.18, or 3.3 percent, to $567.20 in afternoon trading Monday.
Bringing China Mobile on board took Apple years to pull off. The talks between the two companies began in 2009, China Mobile President Li Yue said last year.
Apple's negotiating position likely improved as China Mobile's subscriber growth slowed and gave the carrier more incentive to add the iPhone to its lineup, Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Brian White wrote in a Monday research note.

"This has been the most difficult carrier agreement for Apple to negotiate in its history," Write said. "However, we believe the opportunity for the iPhone to expand its reach within China Mobile's wireless subscriber base will prove to be well worth the wait.

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$100 Smartphone Jokes

 

 

$100 

Two couples were playing cards. John accidentally dropped some cards on the floor. When he bent down under the table to pick them up, he noticed that Bill's wife was not wearing any underwear! Shocked by this, John hit his head on the table and emerged red-faced.
Later, John went to the kitchen to get some refreshments. Bill's wife followed him and asked, "Did you see anything that you liked under there?" John admitted that, well, yes he did. She said "You can have it, but it will cost you $100."
After a minute or two, John indicates that he is interested. She tells him that since Bill works Friday afternoons and John doesn't, John should come to her house around 2:00pm on Friday.
Friday came and John went to her house at 2:00 pm. After paying her $100 they went to the bedroom, had sex, and then John left. Bill came home about 6:00pm.
He asked his wife, "Did John come by this afternoon?"
Reluctantly, she replied, "Yes, he did stop by for a few minutes."
Next Bill asked, "Did John give you $100?"
His wife thinks 'Oh hell, he knows!' Finally she says, "Yes, he did give me $100."
"Good," Bill says. "John came by the office this morning and borrowed $100 from me. He said that he would stop by our house on his way home and pay me back.

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A teenage girl walked into a bank with several glass jars filled with quarters. After running them through the automated counting machine, the teller announced, "That came out to $793.75. Tell me, young lady, how long have you been hoarding all those quarters?"
"All year," replied the girl, "but my sister whored half of them."

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Half Century Age Difference
A knockout young lady decided she wanted to get rich quick. So she proceeded to find herself a rich 73 year old man planning to screw him to death on their wedding night.
The courtship and wedding went off without any problem, in spite of the half-century age difference. On the first night of her honeymoon, she got undressed, and waited for him to come out of the bathroom to come to bed.
When he emerged, however, he had nothing on except a rubber to cover his 12 inch erection, and he was carrying a pair of earplugs and a pair of noseplugs. Fearing her plan had gone amiss, she asked, "What are those for?"
The old man replied, "There are just two things I can't stand: the sound of a woman screaming,... and the smell of burning rubber!"

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If God had wanted you to go around nude, He would have given you bigger hands!

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A woman was driving down the road one day only to find herself behind a horse trailer being pulled by a pick-up truck. As they were driving along, the back door of the horse trailer came loose and swung open, exposing the rear end of the horse inside. Eventually, gastric and bowel processes completed, the horse's tail lifted and -- voila -- the woman's windshield was covered in horse stuff.
Now the woman's first instinct was, of course, to turn on the windshield wipers. Unfortunately, this only made the situation worse and as the woman tried to gain control of the car and keep it on the road, she heard a siren. Craning her neck out the window to steer the car onto the shoulder, she noticed that the siren was sounding from directly behind her and followed her onto the shoulder.
Sitting in her car, trying to regain her composure, a state trooper came alongside and asked the woman for her license and registration. Now, it was readily apparent from even a cursory glance, what had happened to the windshield of the woman's car and she was shocked that the trooper appeared so callous and had not even enquired as to her safety. "What do you want my license and registration for?" asked the woman.
"You were driving erratically," replied the state trooper.
Now, almost apoplectic, the woman began fumbling through her purse. As she presented the requested documents to the state trooper she asked, sarcastically, "I suppose you want to sell me a ticket to the state trooper's ball, also."
The state trooper fixed her with a long, hard gaze, drew himself up to his full height and replied, "Ma'am. State Troopers don't have balls!"
After a momentary pause, the trooper's face turned several shades of red. He handed back her license and registration, strode back to his car and drove off.

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Adult Jokes a MUST READ

First Condom
“I recall my first time with a condom, I was 16 or so. I went in to buy a packet of condoms at the pharmacy. There was this beautiful woman assistant behind the counter, and she could see that I was new at it. She handed me the package and asked if I knew how to wear one. I honestly answered, ‘No, this is my first time.’
So she unwrapped the package, took one out and slipped it over her thumb. She cautioned me to make sure it was on tight and secure. I apparently still looked confused. So, she looked all around the store to see if it was empty. It was empty.
‘Just a minute,’ she said, and walked to the door, and locked it. Taking my hand, she led me into the back room, unbuttoned her blouse and removed it. She unhooked her bra and laid it aside. ‘Do these excite you?’ She asked.
Well, I was so dumb-struck that all I could do was nod my head. She then said it was time to slip the condom on. As I was slipping it on, she dropped her skirt, removed her panties and lay down on a desk.
‘Well, come on’, she said, ‘We don’t have much time.’ So I climbed on her. It was so wonderful, that unfortunately, I could no longer hold back and KAPOWWWWWWWW, I was done within a few moments.
She looked at me with a bit of a frown. ‘Did you put that condom on?’ she asked.
I said, ‘I sure did,’ and held up my thumb to show her.
She fainted.”

New York Bar
Frank was getting ready to go on a trip to New York for the first time, and was talking to his friend Bill.
Bill: “While you are in New York, there is a bar that you have to go to. When you walk through the front door, you are handed a free drink. Then you can go to the back room and get laid. Come back up to the bar, and you get another free drink. Then you can get laid again. It goes on like this all night.”
Frank: “That sounds unbelievable. Have you really been there?”
Bill: “No, but my sister has.”

A man is out shopping and discovers a new brand of Olympic condoms. Clearly impressed, he buys a pack.
Upon getting home he announces to his wife the purchase he just made.
“Olympic condoms?”, she blurts, “What makes them so special?”
“There are three colors”, he replies, “Gold, Silver and Bronze.”
“What color are you going to wear tonight?”, she asks cheekily.
“Gold of course”, says the man proudly.
The wife responds wryly, “Why don’t you wear Silver? It would be nice if you came second for a change.”

“My teenage daughter came home in a rage.
‘I’ve just done sex education in school today, Dad! You lied to me! You told me if I have sex before my sixteenth birthday, my boyfriend will die!’
I put down my paper: ‘Oh, he will, sweetheart, he will.’ ”


An American businessman is entertaining some overseas business guests on the golf course.
The first guest, who is from Italy, tees off and hits a good shot 200 yards down the fairway. As the American businessman knows a small amount of Italian he says: “Buon tiro”, which means “Good shot”. The Italian businessman replies: “Grazie”.
The second guest, who is from France, tees off and hits a fantastic shot that lands on the green thirty feet from the hole. As the American businessman knows a small amount of French he says: “Tir fantastique”, which means “Fantastic shot”. The French businessman replies: “Merci”.
The third guest, who is from Japan, tees off and amazingly the ball goes straight in the hole, a hole in one! The American businessman doesn’t know many Japanese words or phrases but when he dated a Japanese girl during his overseas business trips she used to moan when he made love to her and she would shout out “Ura-ana, ura-ana”, and which he repeats to his Japanese guest. The Japanese businessman replies: “What do you mean, wrong hole?”

A family is at the dinner table. The son asks his father, “Dad, how many kinds of boobs are there?”
The father, surprised, answers, “Well, son, there are three kinds of Boobs. In her 20′s, a woman’s are like melons, round and firm. In her 30′s to 40′s, they are like pears, still nice but hanging a bit. After 50, they are like onions.”
“Onions?”
“Yes, you see them and they make you cry.”
This infuriated his wife and daughter so the daughter said, “Mum, how many kinds of ‘willies’ are there?”
The mother, surprised, smiles and answers, “Well dear, a man goes through three phases. In his 20′s, his willy is like an oak tree, mighty and hard. In his 30′s and 40′s, it is like a birch, flexible but reliable. After his 50′s, it is like a Christmas Tree.”
“A Christmas tree?”
“Yes – the root’s dead and the balls are just for decoration.”

The year is 2222 and Mike and Maureen land on Mars after accumulating enough frequent flier miles. They meet a Martian couple and are talking about all sorts of things.
Mike asks if Mars has a stock-market, if they have laptop computers, how they make money, etc. Finally, Maureen brings up the subject of sex. “Just how do you guys do it?” asks Maureen.
“Pretty much the way you do,” responds the Martian.
Discussion ensues and finally the couples decide to swap partners for the night and experience one another. Maureen and the male Martian go off to a bedroom where the Martian strips. He’s got only a teeny, weeny member about half an inch long and just a quarter inch thick.
I don’t think this is going to work,” says Maureen. “Why?” he asks, “What’s the matter?” “Well,” she replies, “It’s just not long enough to reach me!”
“No problem,” he says, and proceeds to slap his forehead with his palm. With each slap of his forehead, his member grows until it’s quite impressively long.
“Well,” she says, “That’s quite impressive, but it’s still pretty narrow…”
“No problem,” he says, and starts pulling his ears. With each pull, his member grows wider and wider until the entire measurement is extremely exciting to the woman.
“Wow!” she exclaims, as they fell into bed and made mad, passionate love.
The next day the couples rejoin their normal partners and go their separate ways. As they walk along, Mike asks “Well, was it any good?” “I hate to say it,” says Maureen, “but it was pretty wonderful. How about you?”
“It was horrible,” he replies. “All I got was a headache. All she kept doing the whole time was slapping my forehead and pulling my ears.”
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Nearly 50% of Canadian mobile users say their device is on hand 24/7

TORONTO - If you can't bear to let your smartphone out of your sight for even a few minutes, you're not alone.

According to the results of a recently released online poll, almost half of Canadian smartphone owners said they keep their device with them pretty much 24/7.

About 42 per cent of the respondents in the survey, conducted by Harris-Decima for Rogers, said they keep their phone within reach for 90 to 100 per cent of the day.

The average response was 70 per cent of the day, or almost 17 hours.

And when people said they took their phone everywhere, it seems they meant it.

Only one in four respondents said they never take their phone into the washroom, while a similar number said they do so all the time or often. Three in four respondents between 16 and 44 said they do it all the time or often.

Smartphone owners were also asked how often they usually find themselves trying to sneak a peek at the screen in various situations. Just over half of the respondents said they'd check their phone at least once while on a date, while one in four said they'd find a way to see the screen at least once an hour.

Younger daters in particularly said they'd check their phone while out with someone. Nearly 70 per cent of 16- to 29-year-old respondents said they would pull out their device at some point, versus just 23 per cent of those 60 and older.

When asked about looking at their phone at work, about one in four said they never do it, a similar number said they do so less often than once every two hours, and nearly half said they check it at least once an hour.

While hanging out with friends, 15 per cent said they wouldn't look at their phone at all, while 56 per cent said they would at least once an hour.

Pollsters also asked how smartphone owners most used their device to communicate. For respondents between 16 and 29, the average response was that just over half of their communication was typically via text messaging, and just 12 per cent was with phone calls. They also said about 15 per cent was through social media and seven per cent was by emailing.

The users most likely to regularly talk on their smartphones were over 60. On average, they made calls just over 40 per cent of the time to communicate with others, about a quarter of their chatting was via text messaging and 21 per cent was emailing.

The overall average for all the respondents was that 37 per cent of their communication was through texting, 27 per cent by calling, 16 per cent was emailing, nine per cent was through social media, and three per cent via instant messaging.

Canadians were split when asked whether they thought mobile communication would replace most of the physical interactions they would have with people within five years' time.

About 39 per cent of respondents said they agreed with the idea and the same number disagreed, while 22 per cent weren't sure.

The survey was conducted with 1,009 people between Nov. 21 and Dec. 2.

The polling industry's professional body, the Marketing Research and Intelligence Association, says online surveys cannot be assigned a margin of error because they do not randomly sample the population like traditional telephone polls.

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Israel Reports Security Issues With Samsung Smartphone

Israeli researchers at BGU Cyber Security Labs have reported security flaw with Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone which can be exploited by hackers to access encrypted data. The latest series of Samsung Galaxy smartphones has generated high sales volume for Samsung. The company offers Galaxy series smartphones based on Knox architecture which uses container technology to keep personal and secure data on the same device.

The security loophole in Samsung Knox software platform provided with Galaxy S4 may allow malware to get access to secure data. Hackers can possibly install code on the mobile device and their could lead to data stealing from the secure network. The team working on the project at Ben Gurion University in Israel marks the security loophole as category one, which is considered serious vulnerability.

Samsung responded to the news statements by saying that Knox architecture cannot be compromised by malware. The vulnerability is not as serious as the research team has marked it. The company will investigate the issue further and if required, will issue an update. Samsung official statement maintained that the Galaxy S4 mobile device which the Israeli team used was not loaded with all the software provided for the enterprise user. Samsung added that the company takes all security issues very seriously.

Galaxy S4 users need not panic as the security flaw is not a serious threat. In case any urgent update is needed, Samsung will ensure safety of smartphone users by offering it at earliest. By October 2013, over 40 million Samsung Galaxy S4 devices were sold in US by the company, generating better sales than Apple iPhone 5. In first month of its launch S4 sales were over 10 million handsets.

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Smartphone Jokes A Must Read

Merry Christmas All xxx 

# 9
A man is in a hotel lobby. He wants to ask the clerk a question. As he turns to go to the front desk, he accidentally bumps into a woman beside him and as he does, his elbow goes into her breast. They are both quite startled. The man turns to her and says, "Ma'am, if your heart is as soft as your breast, I know you'll forgive me." She replies, "if your penis is as hard as your elbow, I'm in room 1221."

# 8
A young man walks up and sits down at the bar. "What can I get you?" the bartender inquires. "I want 6 shots of Jagermeister," responded the young man. "6 shots?!? Are you celebrating something?" "Yeah, my first blowjob." "Well, in that case, let me give you a 7th on the house." "No offence, sir. But if 6 shots won't get rid of the taste, nothing will."

# 7
A businessman boards a flight and is lucky enough to be seated next to an absolutely gorgeous woman. They exchange brief hellos and he notices she is reading a manual about sexual statistics. He asks her about it and she replies, "This is a very interesting book about sexual statistics. It identifies that American Indians have the longest average penis and Polish men have the biggest average diameter. By the way, my name is Jill. What's yours?" He coolly replies, "Tonto Kawalski, nice to meet you."

# 6
One night, as a couple lay down for bed, the husband gently taps his wife on the shoulder and starts rubbing her arm. The wife turns over and says: "I'm sorry honey, I've got a gynecologist appointment tomorrow and I want to stay fresh." The husband, rejected, turns over and tries to sleep. A few minutes later, he rolls back over and taps his wife again. This time he whispers in her ear: "Do you have a dentist appointment tomorrow too?"

# 5
Bill worked in a pickle factory. He had been employed there for a number of years when he came home one day to confess to his wife that he had a terrible compulsion. He had an urge to stick his penis into the pickle slicer. His wife suggested that he should see a sex therapist to talk about it, but Bill indicated that he'd be too embarrassed. He vowed to overcome the compulsion on his own. One day a few weeks later, Bill came home absolutely ashen. His wife could see at once that something was seriously wrong. "What's wrong, Bill?" she asked. "Do you remember that I told you how I had this tremendous urge to put my penis into the pickle slicer?" "Oh, Bill, you didn't." "Yes, I did." "My God, Bill, what happened?" "I got fired.." "No, Bill. I mean, what happened with the pickle slicer?" "Oh...she got fired too."

# 4
A man was visiting his wife in hospital where she has been in a coma for several years. On this visit he decides to rub her left breast instead of just talking to her. On doing this she lets out a sigh. The man runs out and tells the doctor who says this is a good sign and suggests he should try rubbing her right breast to see if there is any reaction. The man goes in and rubs her right breast and this brings a moan. From this, the doctor suggests that the man should go in and try oral sex, saying he will wait outside as it is a personal act and he doesn't want the man to be embarrassed. The man goes in then comes out about five minutes later, white as a sheet and tells the doctor his wife is dead. The doctor asks what happened to which the man replies: "She choked."

# 3
A guy walks into a bar with a pet alligator by his side. He puts the alligator up on the bar. He turns to the astonished patrons. "I'll make you a deal. I'll open this alligator's mouth and place my genitals inside. Then the gator will close his mouth for one minute. He'll then open his mouth and I'll remove my unit unscathed. In return for w itnessing this spectacle, each of you will buy me a drink."

The crowd murmured their approval. The man stood up on the bar, dropped his trousers, and placed his privates in the alligator's open mouth. The gator closed his mouth as the crowd gasped. After a minute, the man grabbed a beer bottle and rapped the alligator hard on the top of its head. The gator opened his mouth and the man removed his genitals unscathed as promised. The crowd cheered and the first of his free drinks were delivered.

The man stood up again and made another offer. "I'll pay anyone $100 who's willing to give it a try". A hush fell over the crowd. After a while, a hand went up in the back of the bar. A woman timidly spoke up. "I'll try, but you have to promise not to hit me on the head with the beer bottle".

# 2
A small white guy goes into an elevator, when he gets in he notices a huge black dude standing next to him. The big black dude looks down upon the small white guy and says: "7 foot tall, 350 pounds, 20 inch dick, 3 pound left ball, 3 pound right ball, Turner Brown" The small white guy faints!!

The big black dude picks up the small white guy and brings him to, slapping his face and shaking him and asks the small white guy. "What's wrong?". The small white guy says; "Excuse me but what did you say?". The big black dude looks down and says "7 foot tall, 350 pounds, 20 inch dick, 3 pound left ball, 3 pound right ball, my name is Turner Brown." The small white guy says, "Thank god, I thought you said 'Turn around. '"

# 1
There was this couple who had been married for 50 years. They were sitting at the breakfast table one morning when the old gentleman said to his wife, "Just think, honey, we've been married for 50 years." "Yeah," she replied, "Just think, fifty years ago we were sitting here at this breakfast table together." "I know," the old man said, "We were probably sitting here naked as jaybirds fifty years ago." "Well," Granny snickered, "What do you say...should we get naked?" Where upon the two stripped to the buff and sat down at the table. "You know, honey," the little old lady breathlessly replied, "My nipples are as hot for you today as they were fifty years ago." "I wouldn't be surprised," replied Gramps. "One's in your coffee and the other is in your oatmeal!!!!

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Future Samsung Smartphone

Future smartphones from Samsung Electronics may feature a unique foldable dual display, which could make the devices literally transformable. The smartphone manufacturer has filed a patent for such a design of handset.

The same patent coincides with the company’s recent disclosure as it aims for the development of smartphones with foldable displays. It aims to complete development and unveil the new concept handset by 2015. Thus, technology enthusiasts now have another thing to look forward to.

The patent filing for the foldable dual display describes approaches that would support handset that would in turn operate on multiple displays. Thus, new design of smartphones would require new interfaces that would accommodate new form factors. It would also alter the current functions of smartphone applications.

Interesting features of the patented device

The newly patented design would also feature touch gesture of users through connected touch screen displays. It would also display data based on detection and its control method. The patented design of a new device would also take several modes like bendable flexible displays or dual displays connected by hinge.

It would be a portable handset that would set a bookmark of an e-book that would be displayed in a display. Pages could be moved while the e-book is displayed to respond to folding of dual display. That would be interesting.

It would also be possible to use that proposed design to facilitate video conference where second touch screen display could showcase document file or white board as shared by participants. Lastly, it would also be interesting how the newly patented smartphone would function when used for mobile gaming. The device would possibly provide game information simultaneously to two actual players.

Uncertainties about the patent

However, information about the same patent indicates that the filing was made in the first quarter of 2012. Thus, many analysts doubt if the 2015 target would be achieved. It should be noted that not all patent applications actually turn into products. Patent filings also present unclear and non-specific ideas about timing of product launches to the market.

This is not unique to Samsung. Even its rival, Apple Inc has filed many patents in the past that did not turn into actual products. But since the patent filings are active, other companies may not have the chance to develop similar designs of products since those are already patented.

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Shopping On The Increase In Hungry

In Hungary, consumers now use nothing but their mobile phones to buy goods online. Although their share is a meager 2%, the figure is expected to grow in the near future as smartphones gain ground. These devices offer varied functions and a pleasant user experience. The majority (70%) prefers computers for shopping but more and more people (7%) use both devices at an equal degree. The latest installment of eNET and Telekom’s research series titled “Report on the Internet Economy” focuses on the relationship between online shopping and mobile phone usage.

Smartphones as the new online shopping devices

As many as 47% of regular Internet users aged 18+ have smartphones, and the ratio will continue to increase in the near future, in line with international trends. The possibilities offered by smartphones include online shopping; the question is not whether or not more people will use their mobile phones to buy goods on the Internet but which shopping method users will choose to adopt. From this perspective, the reaction of online vendors to the advent of smartphone shopping is also important. Developing shopping applications for smartphones is one way for webshops to prepare for the market changes; the other involves web pages optimized for mobile phone screens.

Online shopping: mobile phone or computer?

eNET’s research conducted in September 2013 heralded the arrival of a small percentage of consumers (2%) who leave their computers behind and do all their online shopping on their mobile phones. A much larger group, 70%, prefer to buy goods online with their computers. It is a common feature of the two groups that they use only one type of device. Between them are the people who use computers and smartphones at an equal degree for online shopping (7%). The remaining 21% use neither device, which means that they are in fact unlikely to be online shoppers. 

Compared to conventional mobile phones, smartphones offer a very different experience and change users’ habits. Easier navigation elevates online shopping to an entirely new dimension. Within the group who use only one device to buy goods, there is no significant difference between mobile phone and smartphone users. However, there is more variance in the other two groups. Within smartphone owners, the share of those who use both their phones and their computers for shopping on the Internet is a higher 12%. But a lower 14% use neither device. The reason for the difference is that a smartphone is better suited to the online shopping process than a conventional mobile phone, so it gains importance next to the computer.

The difference between those who prefer computers for shopping (70%) and those who also use mobile phones (7%) is not limited to the size of these groups. Their demographic characteristics are also different. Only 25% of those who buy goods on both computers and mobile phones are older than 40 years. On the other hand, the weight of that age group is a higher 44% amongst those who prefer to shop online on their computers.

Parking, motorway usage and lottery

September’s online survey by eNET also examined what people bought with their mobile phones. The results indicate a rather limited range of goods; 65% of the respondents chose none of the products listed. Only parking fees, motorway usage fees, and lottery or similar games of chance scored above 10% each. The largest group (15% each) pays for parking and motorway usage; they are followed by those who buy lottery or similar gambling (11%). All other goods listed, such as bonus coupons, travel tickets or entry tickets, scored less than 10% each.

Unsurprisingly, the characteristics of those who pay for parking and motorway usage with their mobile phones are very similar. Both tend to be males aged 30-39 living in Central Hungary, and hold higher education degrees. There are many Central Hungarian men amongst those who play lottery or other games of chance with their mobile phones, too, but in this case the dominant age group is 18-29, and most people are secondary school graduates.

The future: shopping with mobile phones? 

Even though shopping with mobile phones constitutes just a narrow slice of the overall online retail trade volume in Hungary, the varied functions of mobile phones (and especially smartphones) definitely point towards expansion, especially as these devices gain ground. As more and more smartphone functions are used every day, the role of online shopping will increase. The “mobile only” trend has already appeared and changed the online shopping habits of some Hungarian consumers. As the phenomenon becomes wide-spread, more and more people will use their phones actively; and that road leads to exclusive mobile phone usage.

this just goes to show that we now all use our smartphone's for just about anything yes even www.google.com and google+

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New HTC One 2 Smartphone To Be Released In 2014

The HTC One 2 or the HTC M8 (if we're going by the codename) HTC One 2 will have a 2014 release date and is set to be the next flagship smartphone from HTC replacing the award-winning HTC One.

The upcoming feature smartphone isn't set to be launched until next year and will be looking to take on the likes of the Samsung Galaxy S5 and the future Apple iPhone 6.

Whilst little is known about HTC's next flagship smartphone there are rumours that can help us create a picture of what HTC will be looking to launch when it takes on the smartphone world next year.


The HTC M8, a.k.a the HTC One 2, has surfaced yet again, this time appearing with its Wi-Fi certification.

According to the Wi-Fi certification, the HTC One 2 will indeed come with a Wi-Fi antenna capable of switching between the 2.4 and 5GHz bands.

It will also support all the Wi-Fi standards (a, b, g and n) including the latest 802.11ac variety.

Also known as 5G Wi-Fi, 802.11ac can deliver ludicrously fast wireless connections with better range, reliability and power consumption.

What we know about the HTC M8

So far, we've heard the M8 will come with a punchier 2.26GHz Snapdragon 800 quad-core processor paired with the Qualcomm Adreno 330 GPU and 2GB of RAM. Less verified rumors suggest HTC was looking to boost the M8 to an octa-core processor and 3GB of RAM.

On top of this, the screen may be a solid 5-inches with the same 1920 x 1080 resolution. The whole machine is believed to land with Android 4.4 KitKat.

As for its exoskeleton, the phone will look relatively the same as its predecessor, and be constructed with a metal body. Turn the phone around and HTC may pack the camera sensor with 10MP Ultapixels. This smartphone is set to be one hell of a new Smartphone.

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Smartphone's With No Screen

Future Smartphone's may not have any screen at all. Scientists are now working on a very new type of Smartphone which will surpass any Smartphone that is on the current market today.

The new phone's will solely rely on voice recognition you tell the phone what to do and the phone will do it. Let's say you want to put a post on Google+ all you will have to do is say to your phone what you want to post then say post to Google+

You may ask how do you get pictures on  it. This future phone will have a camera and all sorts of sensors you will say take photo but this will be in 3D or may be 4D. You will be able to command your Smartphone to either post your pictures or store them in the cloud.

This phone may also be your wallet may drive your car to work for you and control you house cleaning robot.

When will this phone be ready well i believe they already got it but we will not see this for a few years yet.

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Smartphone App That Will Steal Your Pin Number

In what could be a chilling development for smartphone users, apps - or malware - can guess your device's personal identification number (PIN) by quietly using its camera and microphone.

Researchers at the University of Cambridge who developed the pin scimmer app which they said can correctly guess 30 percent of four-digit PINs after two attempts, and more than 50 percent of PINs after five tries.

"The microphone is used to detect touch events, while the camera is used to estimate the smartphone's orientation and correlate it to the position of the digit tapped by the user," researchers Laurent Simon and Ross Anderson said.

Reseachers  tried to minimize battery drain, which could alert a user that something unusual is going on.

The researchers also made tweaks to disable the LED that goes on if the camera is being used.

On the other hand, the researchers found longer PINs may be easier to crack because the app can get more information and has a better chance of being more accurate.

"Our work shows it's not enough for your electronic wallet software to grab hold of the screen, the accelerometers and the gyro; you’d better lock down the video camera, and the still camera too while you’re at it. (Our attack can use the still camera in burst mode)

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HTC One Mini and HTC One Max banned in the UK after Nokia wins patent battle

The continuing smartphone patent wars have left a couple of new casualties by the wayside, with the HTC One Mini and HTC One Max smartphones banned for sale in the UK after a judge ruled in favour of rival Nokia.

The patent in question covered the modulator structure for a transmitter and a mobile station and applied to a whole range of HTC handsets. Judge Arnold ruled in favour of Nokia, with the infringing devices banned from sale from 6 December.

Nokia has clarified that this ban refers to the HTC Desire X, HTC One XL, HTC One X, HTC One S and HTC One V, although Judge Arnold stayed the order against the HTC One as “the potential harm [of banning the handset] to HTC outweighs that to Nokia.”

“HTC's evidence is that the consequences of an immediate injunction will be catastrophic for its UK business because the One is its flagship model. HTC paints a dramatic picture of what will happen,” said Arnold in the official, first reported by Foss patents.

HTC tried to argue that the infringement concerned just a “very small component” and that Nokia was only interested in the money. Judge Arnold responded by saying “All patent owners are only interested in money. The whole purpose of a patent is to enable the proprietor to extract money from exploitation of the patented invention.”

In the final ruling, Arnold noted that the UK smartphone market was worth about $7 billion to vendors in 2012 and is projected to be worth $9 billion by the end of 2013. Apple and Samsung dominate with 39 per cent and 33 per cent market share respectively, with Nokia accounting for only 6 per cent and HTC only 3.

The ruling is especially difficult for HTC, as the UK represents its biggest European market, with the HTC One, HTC One Mini and One Max accounting for around 70 per cent of sales. An official statement from HTC noted that they had filed “an urgent application to appeal.”

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New G Flex Curved Smartphone

LG has announced that they will be holding a launch event for their curved-screen device, the G Flex, on 3 December, with the phone launching in France in February 2014.

This will make the G Flex the first handset of its kind to hit western markets. The use of curved displays has emerged as the latest trend for smartphones, although actual commercial sales have been limited to ‘experimental’ models (such as the Galaxt round in South Korea.

Neither prices nor contracts have yet to be confirmed and Orange have only stated they will be supplying the handset in France.

The screen of the G Flex is 6-inches across the diagonal and curves from top to bottom. LG promise that this shapes the device to the contours of the user’s face, improves durability and also provides a more “immersive” viewing experience.

The smartphone also includes a 2.26GHz quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM, and 32GB of internal storage. There’s also a 13-megapixel rear-facing camera, although the screen resolution is rather below the standard for high-end smartphones; 720x1080 resolution with 245 ppi.

In addition to its curved  display, the G Flex also has the unique feature of a “Self Healing” coating on the back of the device. LG claim that this will allow the device to easily recover from scratches and nicks from daily use.

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Smartphone's Are The Future

Smartphones are the future, as well as the present. For the majority, the smartphone has become an integral asset. It makes perfect sense, a computer in your pocket with all the benefits of a phone. Being connectable everywhere is now, as they say, key.

Instagramming your lunch, tweeting on the bus, checking in at the Pav; all regular events. Yet this instant information at our fingertips comes at a price. While the common denouncement is that it stifles direct contact, converting us all into smartphone dependent drones, this article isn’t about that. The real price we pay is mobility. While the software technology for smartphones has leaped forward in the past five years, the less glamorous development of longer lasting batteries has lagged way behind.This has resulted in creating incredibly fast and complex software which drains the battery in less than.

Long gone are the days of the Nokia 3310 (13 years have past in fact) and with it have the reality of having a phone last a battery cycle for three full days. Currently, the iPhone 5 can last up to 660 minutes browsing on WiFi. That’s eleven hours at probably the bare minimum anyone would use with their phone, not accounting for making calls, taking pictures or using 3G data(and definitely not accounting for 4G). This lifespan is further reduced when the iPhone 5 is running on the new operating system of iOs 7; it loses 200 minutes of battery time.

While people may argue that the iPhone is notoriously poor for battery life, the competitors do not significantly increase this figure. This brings us to the crux of this article: the phenomenon of what I shall coin as “Socket Trawling”, in reference to the deep sea fishing technique. Anyone who has a smartphone that is anymore than a year old should instantly know what it refers to. Noticeable in most public spaces, “socket trawling” or “cruising for sockets” refers to all those around you with their smartphone plugged in and charging. For those amongst us without the funds to update to the latest modules it’s the search to continue our daily fix. The transition from being king/queen of Snapchat to holding completely a lifeless phone is a harsh slap from reality. No longer are you constantly included in six way Whatsapp conversations nor in on the joke of the moment. By the time you get home to charge your phone, the invitation for that coffee may have long past.

This is where Anymobilesmartphone comes in to play, as soon as we know of a future Smartphone with a battery that will last for days may be weeks we will let you all know?

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Shopping On Smartphone's On The Increase

Top  retailers, today announced the results of its Mobile Commerce Index for Thanksgiving Day, which showed substantial increases in retail trends including apparel, health and beauty, and home goods, as well as substancial sales increases in Smartphone's and tablets.

It just goes to show that a worldwide trend is now apparent, because we all across the globe are shopping more and more on our Smartphone's

The Index is the largest collection of data on commerce sites specifically designed for smartphones, as opposed to non-optimized desktop sites with mobile traffic.

Optimised sites produced the following Thanksgiving Day results:* this data has been collected by various data analytics across thousands of site's that we all use on a daily basis. 

• 7,218,935 visitors (66.92% iOS; 32.68% Android)
• 46,069,186 page views (66.49% iOS; 33.08% Android)
• 117,850 orders (69.82% iOS; 29.99% Android)
• $92.55 average order value ($93.71 iOS; $90.01 Android)
• 32.67% of total e-commerce traffic came from smartphones
  

*The above numbers do not include data from apps or tablet properties.

Compared to 2012, the Mobile Commerce Index showed the following year-over-year gains views increased 102.62%

• Average order value increased 15.71%
• Mobile sales increased 258.18%

“Even though Thanksgiving Day visits were up 69 percent, revenue increased by 258 percent,”  Consumers are becoming increasingly comfortable shopping on phones. Smartphone's are going to be the furure as we bin our computers and use our ever more increasingly complex phone's

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Worldwide smartphone shipment rise

Worldwide smartphone shipments are expected to surpass the 1 billion unit mark in 2013, representing a 39.3 per cent growth over 2012. In addition, by 2017, total smartphone shipments are expected to approach 1.7 billion units, resulting in a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18.4 per cent from 2013 to 2017, according to a report by International Data Corporation (IDC).

Not surprisingly, the Asia Pacific region alone has a 52.3 per cent market share (and accounts for over half of the total smartphone shipments), followed by Europe and North America that account for only 18 and 15 per cent respectively. From a volume perspective, emerging markets including Asia Pacific, Latin America, and Middle East and Africa (MEA) will all post market-beating growth rates from 2013 to 2017.

According to the IDC’s forecasts, by 2017, Asia Pacific’s market share will further increase to 58.3 per cent, while Europe and North America’s share will decrease to 15.5 and 11.2 per cent, respectively (see table below). Although developed markets will see market share erosion, they will nonetheless see volume increases during the same time period.


Demand for cheaper smartphones

Despite a number of mature markets nearing smartphone saturation, the demand for low-cost computing in emerging markets continues to drive the smartphone market forward. And while a number of trends co-exist in the global smartphone market, none has more of an affect on driving market growth than the steady decline in average selling prices (ASPs).

“The game has changed quite drastically due to the decline in smartphone ASPs. Just a few years back the industry was talking about the next billion people to connect, and it was assumed the majority of these people would do so by way of the feature phone. Given the trajectory of ASPs, smartphones are now a very realistic option to connect those billion users,” said Ryan Reith, program director with IDC’s worldwide quarterly mobile phone tracker.

In 2013, IDC expects smartphone ASPs to be $337 (Rs 21,049), down 12.8 per cent from $387 (Rs 24,172) in 2012. This trend will continue in the years to come and IDC expects smartphone ASPs to gradually drop to $265 (Rs 16,552) by 2017. ASPs in the emerging markets will post single-digit CAGR declines from 2013 to 2017, led by Asia/Pacific (see table below). This will enable more users to afford smartphones for the first time, and in many cases, allow users to bypass purchasing feature phones altogether and go straight to smartphones.


“The key driver behind smartphone volumes in the years ahead is the expected decrease in prices. Particularly within emerging markets, where price sensitivity and elasticity are so important, prices will come down for smartphones to move beyond the urban elite and into the hands of mass market users. Every vendor is closely eyeing how far down they can price their devices while still realising a profit,” said Ramon Llamas, research manager with IDC’s mobile phone team.

Smaller vendors lead the way

The Android operating system has enabled a number of new manufacturers to enter the smartphone market and many of these handset vendors have focused on low-cost devices as a way to build brand awareness.

In India, while big guys like Samsung and Nokia still dominated the market, their share has been steadily dropping, mainly driven by intense competition from local vendors. Among the local vendors, most of the larger ones (like Micromax, Karbonn, Intex and Lava, etc.) have successfully transitioned their lead in feature phones to smartphones. In fact, they accounted for over half of the total smartphone market in the second quarter of 2013.

In addition, according to a report released by CyberMedia Research (CMR), India’s overall handset shipments in the third quarter of 2013 (July-Sept 2013) crossed the 69.2 million unit mark, recording a year-on-year growth of 10.9 per cent. While the smartphones segment recorded a 152 per cent Y-o-Y growth, the feature phone segment witnessed its first ever negative Y-o-Y growth of 0.8 per cent in the Indian mobile handset market.

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Sydney smartphone brand launches six tough devices

Australian smartphone and tablet vendor Aspera has launched a range of inexpensive water-and-shock resilient devices.

The company, whose flagship R5 smartphone will retail for $399, is looking to build reseller relationships in Australia.

Six high-visibility coloured devices were launched in all, each rated IP67 for protection against non-corrosive liquids and dust.

Four of the devices are dual-sim mobiles: two Android 4.1 smartphones and a pair of feature phones.

Rounding off Aspera's range is a 3G Android tablet and a battery power pack.

The top of the range Aspera R5 smartphone features a quad-core 1.2Ghz processor, 1GB of RAM, 4GB of internal memory and accommodates expandable microSD memory. Its screen spans 4-inches, has a resolution of 854-by-480 and the smartphone has a rear 8MP camera, along with a 1.3MP front facing camera.

Common design features include body joins re-enforced with screws, protective seals over the charging port, toughened scratch resistant glass and rugged outer body for shock absorption.

Aspera has an exclusive distribution agreement with Scholastic Australia. 

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Smartphone Fireball App

Researchers have designed a smartphone app that sends back information to users about their meteor sightings.

Called Fireballs in the Sky, it was developed by a team at Curtin University in Australia.

The app can return details on what created the fireball and where it came from in the Solar System.

Prof Phil Bland, who helped develop the app, said it could be used from anywhere in the world.

"If we get enough observations we can determine a trajectory and send that information back to you - for instance, you might get a message that the rock that made your fireball came from the outer asteroid belt, or that it was a chunk of a comet," he commented.

Users are asked to point at the sky where they think the fireball started and click on their phones. Then they are asked to do the same for where they think it ended.

Prof Bland told BBC News that the app used a phone's accelerometer, GPS, and compass to provide data of sufficient quality that it could be used to create a crowdsourced smartphone fireball network.

"Essentially, members of the public can help us track anything that's coming through the atmosphere," he said.

With enough observations the team can work out where the fireball came from and send that information back to users.

"Its wonderful to see one of these things; its even more amazing to know where the object that made your fireball came from in the Solar System," Prof Bland said.

The app was the brainchild of the Desert Fireball Network, a Curtin University project designed to track down meteorites as they fall to Earth, by capturing meteors and fireballs on camera.

The researchers have placed cameras in various remote locations throughout Australia. And capturing fireballs in images as they streak through the sky allows the team to calculate the orbit and origin of meteorites - and to determine where they have landed.

Researchers did similar analysis to track the origins of the Chelyabinsk asteroid that broke up over Central Russia earlier this year.

"Australia is a really great country for meteorite searching because it is flat and there's not much vegetation or grass around, making it easy to see a small black rock on the ground," Prof Bland, who leads the Desert Fireball Network, explained.

The free app was produced in collaboration with the software company ThoughtWorks and Curtin Geoscience Outreach.

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Cheap Smartphones In The USA

NEW YORK (AP) — Motorola will start selling a cheap smartphone in the U.S. more than a month ahead of schedule.

The company says it was able to produce the Moto G phones faster than expected. The U.S. launch was initially planned for January. But it is going on sale Tuesday.

The phone starts at $179 without a contract requirement. That compares with $600 or more that people must typically pay for high-end phones without traditional two-year service agreements.

With the Moto G, Motorola is trying to offer a device that is closer to what's currently available on leading high-end phones, although it won't work on the faster 4G LTE networks.

The version out Tuesday will work only with GSM networks, the type used by AT&T, T-Mobile and most carriers around the world. It won't work with Verizon and Sprint, which have CDMA networks. Verizon says it will offer the CDMA version early next year. There's no immediate word on Sprint's plans.

The phone's 4.5-inch screen, measured diagonally, is capable of high-definition video, but only at 720p, not at the better, 1020p standard found in leading phones. The resolution is 329 pixels per inch, which is comparable to the 326 pixels in the latest, 4-inch iPhones but short of the 441 pixels in Samsung's 5-inch Galaxy S4.

The $179 price is for a phone with 8 gigabytes of storage, not the 16 gigabytes typical with high-end phones. A 16-gigabyte version is available for $199. The rear camera can take images at 5 megapixels, which is less than leading phones.

In the U.S., Motorola is targeting so-called prepaid accounts. Under those plans, customers pay for devices up front, but are not tied to two-year service agreements. Credit-challenged customers who don't qualify for traditional plans often sign up for prepaid accounts.

Motorola is owned by Google Inc. Moto G, however, won't get Google's latest Android operating system, Kit Kat, until early next year.

The phone launched two weeks ago. It's currently available in Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Peru, Britain, Germany, France and Canada.

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