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Apple's New iPad Launches Across India Apple's New iPad will launch in India on April 27, 2012 and be sold for a week exclusively through 45 Reliance Digital & Istore by Reliance Digital outlets across 16 cities. The Wi-Fi only version of the product with 16GB memory is priced at Rs 30,500/- while the Wi-Fi + 4G version with 16GB memory sells for Rs 38,900/-. Apple announced the New iPad, its third generation tablet, on March 7, 2012. The New iPad features 9.7-inch Retina Display with 2,048 x 1,536-pixel resolution, A5X chip with quad-core graphics, 5 megapixel iSight camera with advanced optics and 1080p HD video capability, Wi-Fi, 4G LTE and 3G connectivity; and 10 hour battery life. Siri didn't make it to the device, but there is voice dictation instead. The Retina display packs 3.1 million pixels, 64 per inch, over a million more than an HD TV. The A5X chip features quad-core graphics to drive the pixel packed retina display and smooth mu...

Apple fans from around the world say that the most exciting moment in their lives is to unpack a new Apple gadget . And this moment has a special smell . A group of the artists, who called themselves Greatest Hits, decided that the smell of the new Apple products had to go down in history. And so it was created in collaboration with the perfumers from Air Aroma company. It took several months to finish the work. The fragrance will be shown at the contemporary art exhibition in Australia (Melbourne). So what is the smell of Apple? The authors of the idea say that the fragrance cannot be confused with anything. This is the scent that everyone feels while unpacking the new product from Apple: the smell of the box, covered with polyethylene, printing ink on cardboard, the smell of paper and plastic, the fragrance of the aluminum laptop that has just been taken from the Chinese transporter, polystyrene, adhesives, and rubber. The fans of Apple products might be in the ecs...

Samsung sold 40 million smartphones in the first quarter against Apple's 32-33 million according to ACI Research analyst Edward Zabitsky. [via Forbes] It gets worst for Apple, according to Zabitsky, because Samsung internally manufactures $60-$80 worth of the components that go into its smartphones, while Apple manufactures just $25 worth. Ironically, Apple buys a lot of its smartphone components, including memory chips and displays, from Samsung. "Samsung's internally sourced displays, processors, and memory require a low incremental cost to produce," says Zabitsky. The competition from Samsung is poised to intensify with the release May 3 of the Galaxy S3. Samsung's new flagship smartphone is expected to feature an a Exynos 4412 quad-core processor, a low power retina quality AMOLED display and a LTE/CDMA baseband processor, all internally manufactured.

Samsung on Thursday, April 19, 2012 announced an upgrade to its entire NX range with three new compact system cameras (CSC) : the NX1000, NX210 and NX20 All three NX models feature a 20.3 Megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor and built-in Wi-Fi connectivity. They can shoot stills at 8 fps and support 1080p Full HD recording. Additionally they support the NX series' i-Function system and pack usability features such as Smart Auto 2.0 shooting modes and the Smart Link Hot Key to share photos using Wi-Fi. NX210 and NX1000 The NX210 is an upgrade to the NX200 announced on September 1 at IFA 2011 in Berlin. Samsung's 100 series NX cameras (NX100, NX200, NX210) target photo enthusiasts who are looking for compact sized cameras that are easy to use but support interchangeable lenses. Samsung NX210. Photo Credit: Samsung The 100 series cameras are styled to look like compact cameras and are smaller in size than the 10 series NX cameras. They have no built in flash or elect...

Nikon on April 19, 2012 announced its new entry level Digital SLR - Nikon D3200 – the successor to the D3100 announced in August 2010. The Nikon D3200 features a new DX-format CMOS image sensor with an effective pixel count of 24.2 million pixels, against the 14.2-million pixels image sensor on the D3100. The new sensor improves ISO sensitivities to ISO 100 - 6400, from IS0 100-3200 on the D3100. With the new sensor comes a new processing engine, Expeed 3. (The D3100 featured the Expeed 2 processing engine.) Nikon D3200. Photo Credit: Nikon The Guide mode on the D3100, which won the iF Communication Design Award 2011 from International Forum Design GmbH of Hanover Germany for making the camera very easy to use, has been further improved in the D3200. The D3200 features more assist images and text explanations of scenes to make it even more easier for the entry level user than the D3100. The D3200 features a 3-in., approx. 921k-dot TFT LCD monitor with wide viewing an...

Panasonic announced the`DMC-GF5 camera, its latest offering from the Lumix G Micro Systems range, on Thursday, April 5, less than a year after the launch of DMC-GF3 in April 2011. An evolutionary upgrade, the new offering from Panasonic's Lumix G Micro Systems range features a newly developed 12.1 MP CMOS sensor, redesigned Venus Engine, multi-process noise reduction system and 0.09 sec CD (contrast detection) AF (autofocus) system. (The GF3 featured a 12.1 MP sensor with 0.18 sec CD AF). The GF5 can shoot at 4fps compared to the 3.2 fps on the GF3, and features a 3.0-inch 920K dot LCD that improves on the GF3's 460K dot LCD. A touch-control system allows users to set focus on a subject just by touching the screen and users can even release the shutter to snap a photo directly from the touch screen. Once a user locks onto a subject by a touch, the camera will track the subject with the AF tracking function, even if the subject moves. Pinpoint AF allows for ...