How the Galaxy S4 made me realise WIndows RT has a future!

   Earlier today the guys over at Clove posted this lovely little diagram above and it got us thinking: about where phones are at the moment. Something which especially stood out was Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon 800 processor. 

   The Snapdragon 800 is set to be one of the most powerful mobile processors available and it will be clocked at 2.2GHz maximum speed. The dual-core Core i5 in my laptop is clocked at 2.7GHz and while it's more powerful at the moment it's only a matter of time before ARM-based processors out do the Intel and AMD chipsets in our laptops. 

   That ladies and gentlemen is why I think Windows RT has a future and will become increasingly influential in the coming years. A big thanks to the Samsung Galaxy S4 and Clove for helping me reach that conclusion!

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Samsung axe their keyboard docks for three tablets according to UK-based Clove.

   Samsung may well have create eight of the top ten Android devices which are currently in use, but it seems they are going to perhaps upset some more of their customers in the one department which they are not currently dominating and that's the tablet market.

   Clove, a company who offer unlocked mobile devices and accessories have confirmed that after a "post last week regarding building greater customer satisfaction by providing accessories (their post is interesting and you can find it here), Samsung have confirmed to us that they are no longer producing a popular keyboard dock for a range of their tablets."

   The South Koreans have reportedly discontinued the "popular keyboard dock" for the Galaxy Note 10.1 and both varieties of the Galaxy Tab 2, so both the 7.0 and the 10, because of 'supply issues'. We're not exactly sure what that means and it seems that Clove don't either their post goes on to say how:

"We [Clove] have had a number of customers waiting for us to supply these docks, many of whom had been waiting since November... It has not been disclosed as to what ‘supply’ issues Samsung are having."

   These keyboard docks will apparently be replaces with two separate accessories, which naturally will be more expensive than the current option. Instead of a simple keyboard dock, consumers will be prompted to buy a Bluetooth keyboard and a tablet stand, this seems wholly unnecessary when there is a perfectly good solution which is in demand at the moment.

   Understandably Clove are quite annoyed with the situation, as Samsung customers will undoubtedly be. Clove added that:

We have been provided a part code and indicative price for the keyboard, but no images, description or dimensions.  It sounds crazy but this is the truth.
We find this extremely disappointing and believe a company the size of Samsung should be able to deliver such an accessory, especially as over the Christmas period there was a massive push on tablets with a cashback offer up to £50 and by all accounts this was very successful for Samsung.
Those customers who have invested in Samsung and bought one of their tablets have now been limited by not having the keyboard dock. Whilst not all customers would want the dock, for professional users this was a very practical solution.
Many customers would no doubt be happy to wait to a point, providing they were updated, but as with many accessories from Samsung there seem to be infinite delays.  Samsung has had great success over recent months and it seems they are putting more effort into getting handsets out than getting the accessories that existing and new customers want.

   This is a strange situation, it's not like those tablets are at the end of their product cycle and they certainly weren't over the Christmas period while Samsung was busy pushing them with lots of cashback offers for people who wanted one of the tablets.

Clove Via Slashgear.

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28/05/2012

This is geek heaven.

   Ok, so there's a couple of reasons why you'd buy the Nokia Lumia 900. Firstly, it might be because of it's gorgeous Amoled screen, maybe it's because of it's lovely industrial design or it might be because you like Windows Phone (unlikely, I joke). 

   But, this phone might just have got a tiny bit more attractive, especially if you L-O-V-E Batman. If you do then you can head over to Phones4U and pick up your limited edition of the phone, complete with Batman logo on the back and custom wallpapers and tiles tailored towards your bat fetishes. This is basically a repeat of what the company did with the Lumia 800 a while back, and there will also be a Dark Knight rising version too!

   There's been no confirmation as to how many of the phone will be made but we expect there to be more than enough to go around! But, go out and grab it just incase!!!

The Galaxy S3 and the UK.

   I'm not sure the best way to break this to you because the UK is a tad obsessed with Samsung and their Galaxy devices, but the device has been delayed across the whole set of countries. Clove was first out the block to let us know, telling customers g that “Samsung has confirmed a delay in the arrival of the first stock” with an exact date for availability “still to be confirmed.” There's also a minor delay with the “Marble White” version if you chose that version instead.

   Clove have specifically said the Marble White Galaxy S III is now expected in stock on June 1, instead of May 30 . The “first stock” of the blue is “expected to arrive week commencing 5th June, but this is still to be confirmed.”

   On a slightly more positive note, if you happen to be in London and more specifically on Oxford Street between Monday and Thursday, remember to get yourself to The Carphone Warehouse store there because they’ve got phones in “popup internet cafe” where the computers have instead been replaced by Galaxy SIII handsets.

   The cafe itself will run for three days – Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, with the handset going on up for you to buy on Thursday. If you pop down then there's also a chance for you to win a handset with a Galaxy SIII being given away daily.

Mobile displays: LG's wonder screen.

   There's been huge advancements in display technology on mobile technology this past two years, but it looks like LG may have just unleashed their best technology to date. 

   Their new screen is 5" and manages to pack in full-HD resolution (that's 1920x1080!), this makes a pixel-density of 440 pixels per inch. Something which simply blows Apple's 'Retina display', with 329ppi, out of the water! LG claim that the naked eye will be unable to discern individual pixels, and the use of Advance High Performance IPS technology means you’ll be getting realistic colour reproduction, wide viewing angles, as well as brighter images and low power consumption.

   In other news:

• Asus has teased a new set of Transformer tablets which are slated to be arriving at Computex 2012, which is in early June, it'll be interesting to see what they've got planned this time. Hit the advert below for the official teaser.

• Nokia's Lumia 610, which has 256MB of RAM and a single-core 800Mhz processor has today found itself banned from more apps. The list now includes; Angry birds, Skype, PES 2012 and Tango, we're sure the list could go on. It's also worth noting other apps such as Nokia Maps and IMDB have been known to crash on the phone so it's hard to recommend it at the moment.
• RIM is restructuring and is said to be shedding 2000 jobs.
• Facebook is again rumoured to be having a stab at a Facebook phone and is reportedly hiring ex-Apple engineers to work on the device/s.

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