Windows Phone and a $1000 Bet on Experience: "

Those who are already in love with their current handsets, regardless of the OS they are running under, will certainly not feel the urge to switch to Windows Phone.

But for those who are not as happy with their current choices, Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform might prove just the thing.

The company is certain that its OS can deliver a far better experience than rival mobile platforms, and states it at any given time.

The last one to claim that the experience Windows Phone can deliver would easily top Android or iOS was Brandon Watson, director for Windows Phone 7 at Microsoft.

In a comment to a blog post from an unhappy iPhone-Android user, Brandon Watson notes that any handset running under Windows Phone Mango (the next OS version) can deliver a far better experience than any of the two rival platforms.

Moreover, he bets $1000 that the experience on Windows Phone will be far better than what the two have to offer.

“Take Windows Phone for a spin. I’ll send you a developer phone with the new Mango OS on it. Give it an honest run, and if you don’t love it more than either of your iPhone or Android experiences, I’ll make a $1000 donation to the charity of your choice,” he states.

The said user, Scott Adams has had some unpleasant experience with both Android and iOS platforms, and noted them all in a blog post, claiming dropped calls, poor battery life, hard to use touch keyboards, and the like.

According to Watson, Windows Phone comes to the market with a better experience, eliminating all of these issues so that users can enjoy the most of their friends and of their lives.

“If Androids dream of electronic iSheep, people dream about people – and that’s what you will get with Windows Phone. Keep in constant contact with those most important to you with Live Tiles, groups, messaging threads, and native Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn,” he noted.

“And no special instructions on how to hold the phone to make calls. Oh, and the battery lasts a long time.”

You will find the said blog post here. See the comment section for Brandon Watson’s words, and also have a look at what others have to say.

How Did Amy Winehouse Die? Drugs? Alcohol? Rupert Murdoch?: "

Amy Winehouse as she returned back to the U.K. after doing a few shows in Brazil earlier this January. See more pics of Amy here.

We really thought Amy would pulled it out following her extended Caribbean vacations over the past couple years, but obviously the city of London would eventually succeed in taking her life. It’s very sad to hear about an extremely successful, critically acclaimed celebrity checking out way ahead of her time, but that’s the unfortunate reality of today’s mega famous. The industry will ride your ass while sucking every penny out of you and then coldly jump ship when you either refuse to play by the rules or simply unable to make anymore money. It’s the harsh reality of the modern entertainment industry.

Aside from the various conspiracy theories, there are very few facts floating around at the moment. All that people know right now is that she was found dead at her London home. This comes just more than a week after Amy was spotted walking around her Camden digs looking very healthy—or at least not like someone who was gonna mysteriously pass away in 10 days.

Here are a couple pics from the set that some are claiming might be Amy’s final candid photos in public:

RIM dropped a strong hint on Monday that it was about to unveil more BlackBerry 7 devices. The company promsied that “new BlackBerry devices are coming with our new OS” and invited users to check back on Tuesday for details from a BlackBerry 7 Fan Night. When asked if it involved more than the Bold 9900, one follower was told only that they would “have the answers tomorrow” with a wink.

Although the Bold 9900 is the only model RIM has been willing to talk about so far, several models are known to be in the works of which many, if not all, should arrive within the next few months. The highest-profile candidate is the Touch 9860, considered a successor to the Storm and possibly RIM’s real range leader for the year. Also coming relatively quickly are a new Curve and possibly the Bold 9790.

Other candidates could be the Curve Touch and the Torch 2.

In spite of discussing BlackBerry 7 and the Bold 9900 as far back as early May, RIM has yet to ship a single device and isn’t thought to be doing so until late August. RIM has allegedly been facing setbacks and been trying to fast track approvals to get phones out on time in spite of bugs.

Nokia C2-03: Dual SIM Touch and Type Phone Price in INDIA: "

Nokia C2-03 is a Dual SIM with Touch and Type phone recently launched. The Nokia C2-03 is a slider Touch and Type S40 device, remembers up to 5 SIM cards settings and comes with easy to swap SIM feature.

The C2-03 is the third touch and type phone from Nokia and the first one to feature Dual SIM as well. Featuring 240 x 320 pixels screen resolution the Nokia C2-03 sports a 2 MP camera, video recording, music player, jack, and can play music up to 35 hours.

Apart from this, the Nokia C2-03 Dual SIM Touch and Type Phone comes with 10MB onboard memory which can be expanded up to 32GB to store your photos, videos and music files.

The handset is equipped with a standard battery for up to 400 hours of standby time and weighs 118 grams.

Price & Availability: The Nokia C2-03 will be available in Q3 2011 in India for Rs.4,850.

Also known as Nokia C2-03 Touch and Type

GENERAL 2G Network GSM 900 / 1800 – SIM1 & SIM 2

GSM 850 / 1900 – SIM1 & SIM 2

Announced 2011, June

Status Coming soon

SIZE Dimensions 103 x 51.4 x 17 mm

Weight 115 g

DISPLAY Type TFT resistive touchscreen, 56K colors

Size 240 x 320 pixels, 2.6 inches

- Handwriting recognition

SOUND Alert types Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones

Loudspeaker Yes

3.5mm jack Yes

MEMORY Phonebook 1000 entries, Photocall

Call records Yes

Internal 10 MB

Card slot microSD, up to 32GB, 2GB included

DATA GPRS Class 12 (4+1/3+2/2+3/1+4 slots), 32 – 48 kbps

EDGE Class 12

3G No

WLAN No

Bluetooth Yes, v2.1 with A2DP

Infrared port No

USB Yes, microUSB v2.0

CAMERA Primary 2 MP, 1600×1200 pixels

Video Yes, QCIF@15fps

Secondary No

FEATURES Messaging SMS, MMS, Email, Push Email

Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML

Radio FM radio; FM recording (country specific)

Games Yes + downloadable

Colors Chrome Black, Golden White

GPS No

Java Yes, MIDP 2.1

- Dual SIM

- Easy Swap SIM support (no reboot required)

- MP4/H.264/H.263 player

- MP3/AAC/WAV player

- Organizer

- FlashLite support

- Voice memo

- Predictive text input

BATTERY Standard battery, Li-Ion 1020 mAh (BL-5C)

Stand-by Up to 400 h

Talk time Up to 5 h

Music play Up to 37 h

Miranda Kerr Has a Lunch Date With Her Boys and Hits the Salon Solo: "

Miranda Kerr stopped by a nail salon in LA today before meeting up with her two main men, Orlando Bloom and Flynn, at the Four Seasons Hotel for lunch. The model mom wore a floral-print midi dress and neutral pumps for her day out. Miranda and her son, Flynn, are back home after taking a weekend trip to Santa Barbara together to visit some friends. The trip came after a big milestone for the Bloom-Kerr family …………………………. Full Article at Popsugar

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It’s a done deal, Vikings get Donovan McNabb from Redskins: "

Donovan McNabb’s arrival in Minnesota has been a rumored scenario for at least five years, ever since Brad Childress left the Philadelphia Eagles to take over the Vikings in 2006.

Childress is long gone now, but another former Eagles assistant — new Vikings head coach Leslie Frazier — helped make those rumors a reality on Wednesday, just in time for McNabb to help bridge the gap from Brett Favre to rookie Christian Ponder.

The Vikings acquired McNabb, the former Syracuse University star, from Washington for a sixth-round draft pick in 2012 and a conditional sixth-rounder in 2013, two people with knowledge of the transaction told The Associated Press. They requested anonymity because McNabb has yet to officially sign his restructured contract.

In order to make the deal happen, McNabb had to agree to restructure the five-year, $78 million deal he signed with the Redskins because the Vikings don’t have enough cap room to fit him in with the way the deal is structured. The terms of his new deal were not immediately available.

McNabb gives the Vikings a veteran quarterback while they groom Ponder, who was drafted 12th overall out of Florida State in April, to be the team’s long-term answer at the position. The original preference for Frazier and the Vikings was to have Ponder start Week 1 in San Diego, with a capable veteran backup there just in case.

That was before the NFL lockout prevented players from working out with coaches all summer and put Ponder behind schedule in his development. That made it more important for the Vikings to add an accomplished, experienced quarterback they think can win games with a roster full of veterans while Ponder gets up to speed.

From the sounds of it, Ponder isn’t conceding anything just yet.

HTC has released two ‘Facebook phones’ of late – the Qwerty-packing ChaCha and the Salsa, the latter being a compact bundle of fun, which wears its dedicated Facebook button just beneath its screen.

HTC’s Salsa: spiced with Facebook favours

While the designers of the ChaCha had obviously looked over the shoulder of a BlackBerry owner or two, the Salsa’s style keeps things in-house with a nod to the HTC Desire’s odd little chin at the bottom of the phone, which seems to be getting less pronounced with each incarnation.

That and the bright blue Facebook button are the only distinctive features on the front, which otherwise only has the usual four touch-sensitive Android buttons nestling beneath the 3.4in touch screen, with a VGA front-facing camera and wide, thin loudspeaker above it.

It’s comfortably pocket-sized at 109 x 59 x 12mm and 120g and makes efficient use of the sides with a slimline volume rocker, micro USB port and large camera shutter button. On the top are a power/sleep button and 3.5mm headphone jack. The nicely sensitive touch screen delivers 480 x 320-pixel resolution. Par for the course really, but sharp and vibrant with it.

The operating system is Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread which is very nearly the latest version (that would be 2.3.4) but despite the front-facing camera, there’s no support for video calling.

The 800MHz processor might seem a little underpowered on paper for the job of dealing with the 2.1 version of Sense, which can be quite intense on the graphics. Yet, in practice, it coped with multi-tasking just fine. So you can have music playing while surfing the web and check your emails, though it can start to stutter if you push it much more than that.

Casino Mobile Apps spread Like Wildwire: "

Gambling is an inevitable activity that anyone could learn. It’s not actually bad as most people describe it. You just don’t let it consume yourself in a way that you’ll end up losing everything. It is just a matter of strategy and techniques. Using the webster dictionary, gambling is being defined as an act to bet on an uncertain outcome. It’s risky in the first place but people are just strong willed to rely on their luck that much. The probability of winning is most of the time 50-50 but nevertheless, it doesn’t them stop of doing it.

The most common place to do gambling is inside the casino. All forms of betting can be found in here starting with the slot machines, roulette, poker, craps, baccarat, blackjack and a lot more. Sometimes, people who has included the casino in their daily living has made the place their second home. Most of them are rich people and has the capacity to bet big time. They are those people who doesn’t need to be in the office to earn because people are working for them

Not everyone has the convenience of time. Most often their are working outside to earn. Being inside the casino takes time and most especially need a large amount of money. However, technology has taken its part to makes things happen. Online casino has been created for them. With just few clicks in your computer and you’re on.

Then came the smartphones. People on the go still have the chance to play in the casino. Casino game apps has been customized to be just like the online casino in your computer. The popular video slots could also be found along with some other famous games

Various mobile platforms has been utilized and there is no way that gamblers could avoid betting. Most of the apps are free to download but the betting is just the same. Playing in the casino comes in handy as it reached the gadget that has been of every individual most of the time. If your phone can access the website of the online casino then all the things you can do in there which includes the online roulette be accessed. Some games even come in mobile format for the convenience of the users.

Rovio wants Angry Birds to Have a Billion Fans: "

Angry Birds‘ developer Rovio is betting everything it has on the franchise, and will be expanding it rather than looking towards new IPs.

“We are betting everything on Angry Birds,” Rovio head Peter Vesterbacka said, according to VentureBeat. “We want to be the first entertainment brand with a billion fans. That will take us two or three years to do. Next year, we want to be the leading entertainment brand in China.”

The developer is pushing out into China in an attempt to reach out to the fans there, and they hope that Angry Birds can become a worldwide entertainment brand. In order to keep the brand going, Rovio will be taking inspiration from Nintendo and following the Mario route of endless spin-offs. I bet you can’t wait for Angry Birds Tennis.

Rovio’s strategy of putting all their bird eggs in one angry basket is probably the safe one when you consider they already have 250million downloads and scooped the coveted Grand Prix award at the Develop Awards last night.

The “Sex and the City” ladies have been entertaining audiences for years. We’ve followed the exploits of Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon and Kirsten Davis for 94 television episodes and two movies. Given the fact the second flick sucked balls and the ladies are creepin’ on menopause (if not already there), the franchise is looking into replacing the cast with a much younger group of ladies.
Say what? It’s almost sacrilegious to think of other actresses playing the iconic roles of Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte. But if the Daily Mail is correct with their report, then we should brace ourselves for this huge change. The rumored prequel will follow the characters’ adventures in New York City during their twenties. The plot will be based off the two books written by SATC writer Candice Bushnell- “The Carrie Diaries” and “Summer and The City“.

As you would expect, the original ladies don’t think messing with the SATC formula is a good idea. Sarah Jessica Parker told the Los Angeles Times earlier this year, “I don’t think we can pretend to go back… It’s creating two histories. It’s like, ‘Oh I didn’t know that about Carrie Bradshaw.” Kristin Davis also chimed in and told E! this February, ‘We’ve discussed our history in the show already so for all of our fervent fans who listen to what we say, why would we rewrite that?”. Personally, I’m all up for the change. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

According to Daily Mail’s article, the four young ladies above are the top choices to play the four characters. Gossip Girl’s Blake Lively would play Samantha Jones, while Bieber’s main lady Selena Gomez would step into Charlotte York’s conservative wardrobe. Emma Roberts and the other Olsen sister, Elizabeth Olsen, would portray Miranda Hobbes and Carrie Bradshaw respectively.

With exception to Olsen’s potential casting, I’m kinda happy with the names being thrown out there. Lively would be perfect as a young Samantha. That girl just oozes sex. I can also see Roberts capturing the essence of a young Miranda to pitch perfection. Gomez never really resonated with me, but she’s kinda growing on me and casting her as the waspy Charlotte would be hilarious.