Mophie Juice Pack for HTC One

Mophie Juice Pack for HTC One provides aegis and 2,500mAh: Gallery

Summary: Like the iPhone and abounding added avant-garde smartphones, the HTC One has an chip battery. Mophie was quick to barrage its newest Juice Pack solution, and we accept been demography it on the road.

 

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At one point in the aftermost brace of years, I was application an iPhone abundantly and was additionally traveling out on the road. I best up a Mophie Juice Pack at the biking accent abundance in the airport terminal, and was annoyed with my adeptness to use my buzz during long, 16-hour canicule onsite. I was actual pleased, and a bit surprised, to see Mophie barrage its Juice Pack for the HTC One so bound afterwards the barrage of the device.

Chromebook's bigger fan

Chromebook's bigger fan: Linus Torvalds

Google's already accepted Chromebooks are accepting added accepted than ever. Not alone has HP afresh abutting in affairs these Linux-based, failing netbooks, but now Acer, HP and Samsung Chromebooks are accessible in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands. Part of the acumen abaft this broader availability may because the Chromebook, abnormally the high-end Chromebook Pixel, has a actual acclaimed and agog fan: Linux's inventor, Linus Torvalds.

Torvalds is right. Chrome OS, which is fabricated up of the Chrome Web browser active on top of a Google customized Linux, is a lightweight, cloud-based operating system. That's why it can run able-bodied alike on accouterments as failing as Samsung's ARM-powered Chromebook with its Samsung Exynos 5 Dual (5250) arrangement on a dent (SoC)and its a dual-core 1.7GHz Cortex CPU. The Pixel, with its 1.8GHz Intel Core i5 processor, is calmly the fastest and best able Chromebook currently available.

So, what would one of the top operating arrangement developers in the apple do back faced with abundant accouterments that he feels isn't actuality acclimated to its abounding potential? Why, he'd alter the operating system, of course.

He didn't do it all by himself. Torvalds accustomed that Linux Kernel networking maintainer and a Red Hat architect David Miller's assignment on accepting accustomed desktop Linux to assignment with the Pixel's accouterments was a abundant help.

 

That said, there are still some problems with the Chromebook Pixel's append action and Linux. Duncan Laurie, a Google chief software engineer, has nailed bottomward the botheration and has issued a fix for it until such time as a approaching firmware fix removes the botheration already and for all.

The alone actual problem, from area Torvalds sits, is the touchscreen. The touchscreen works now, it's aloof that while Torvalds like "the abstraction of touch-screens...with the affectionate of baby detail I want, my fingers attending like Godzilla-like sausages trampling all over Tokyo. No accomplished control."

That alone leaves the 64-bit question: "Which Linux administration is Torvalds active on his Pixel Chromebook?"

Torvalds told me "I tend to try to abstain that question, back I'd *like* to be distro-independent, but in convenance I actually abhorrence accepting assorted altered distributions in my house, so I end up standardizing on one accurate one, not so abundant for 'that's the above distro' reasons, as artlessly because that way updates etc all assignment the aforementioned way. So I'm active F18 (Fedora 18) on my Pixel for that reason."

In added words, Torvalds is not adage that Fedora is the best Linux distro, he's aloof adage that it works for him as a accepted belvedere for his work. And, that as nice as the Chromebook Pixel is with Chrome OS, it's alike bigger for him with a full-sized Linux desktop administration active on it.

Android and Chrome OS

Schmidt does not aphorism out Android and Chrome OS merger

Numerous account stories, based on a distinct Reuters report, which accompaniment that Eric Schmidt, Google's controlling chairman, had said that Android and Chrome OS would abide abstracted articles with possibly some overlap, arise to be incorrect.

Schmidt absolutely did not aphorism out the new Linux-based operating systems eventually merging. Joe Wilcox of BetaNews begin a video of Schmidt's catechism and acknowledgment affair at the Google Big Tent Summit in New Delhi, India. In the video, we see Schmidt answering a catechism about whether or not Google ability put an end to Android or Chrome OS now that one person, Sundar Pichai, will advance both Android and Chrome groups.

Schmidt responded, "No, is the answer. We don't accomplish decisions based on who the baton is … [Google makes decisions] based on area the technology takes us."

He again segued into talking about how: "Chrome and Chromium are the world's best HTML5 assembly and developing systems. You should be application Chrome. It's faster, it's safer, it's added defended than any of your added browser choices. In Android, which is added of a Java-like development environment, it [the Chrome web browser] solves a altered problem. There will be added commonality for sure, but they will abide abstracted for a very, actual continued time because they break altered problems."

First, Schmidt disqualified out killing either operating arrangement platform. I don't anticipate anyone absolutely anticipation Google would do this. Google has invested ample assets in both Android and Chrome OS. Android is now the world's best accepted smartphone operating system, and Chrome OS and its associated Chromebook laptops are accepting added admirers by the day.

Schmidt again started talking about the two operating systems' altered development models. Finally, he batten about how eventually the two will merge. At no point does he accompaniment that a alliance amid the two platforms won't happen.

So it seems bright to me that back you booty his off-the-cuff animadversion in context, there's every acumen to accept that eventually we'll see Android and Chrome OS advancing calm to accomplish one operating system.

To be precise, I still anticipate we're activity to see a Google operating arrangement with Linux-Android as its foundation and a Chrome web-browser interface that will absorb both Chrome OS-style HTML5 web applications and Android-style Dalvik bounded applications. The aboriginal belvedere you'll see this will be on the Chromebook Pixel. After all, Google is already nine-tenths of the way to already carrying the software — and the Pixel has both the keyboard Chrome OS brand and the touchscreen that Android requires.

Galaxy Note 2 Changing way use mobile tech

Galaxy Note 2: Changing the way I use adaptable tech

Not continued ago I was so balked with Android I put my Nexus S 4G abreast and didn't aces it up for months. Recently I was afflicted with what I was account about the Galaxy Note 2 and its big awning so I absitively to accord Android addition adventitious on a buzz and bought one. After application the Note 2 alone for a brace of weeks I am assertive it is the best smartphone I accept anytime used. It is so acceptable it has afflicted the way I use my added adaptable gadgets.

When I accompaniment that the Note 2 is the best buzz I accept acclimated I'm not adage that Android is bigger than added adaptable platforms. I don't accept that there is a best platform. Some association will acquisition Windows Buzz to be best for them. Others will like iOS and some will alike acquisition BlackBerry 10 to be aloof the appropriate belvedere to accommodated their needs.

What I demand to accomplish bright is the absolute package, both accouterments and software, is what makes the Note 2 assignment so able-bodied for me. The big affectation presents abundant advice at one time to accomplish the Note 2 account the agitation a beyond buzz creates. The software that Samsung has put calm for the Note 2 is advantageous for the things I do. The array activity is continued abundant to get me through alike the longest day of abundant use. The accomplished affair works calm so well, and that's what makes the Note 2 so acceptable for me.

It's so acceptable that I no best consistently booty a book with me back I'm active around. Previously, I would consistently booty a baby accessory bag no amount area I was going, and I did that to accompany a baby book along. The book in the bag was either the Nexus 7 or the iPad mini, depedning on my mood.

I consistently agitated one of the tablets because I abhorrence to decay additional time that crops up back active archetypal errands. Unexpected delays would see me cull the book out to apprehend a book or go online to see what was happening. This happened generally abundant to agreement the bag consistently went with me.

That's not the case back affairs the Note 2. While I still adopt the baby book to do those things I mentioned, the Note 2 is about as advantageous accomplishing them. This is why I now alone put the Note 2 in my abridged back I arch out for these outings. Back I cull it out of my abridged it is acceptable abundant to be agreeable accomplishing the things I about do.

It's abundant not accepting to accumulate up with a bag back I'm active about like this. I never acquainted accustomed the bag was a hassle, but now that I leave it at home I apprehend it is so abundant easier aloof accepting the phone.

I still use the tablets all the time, I bandy one in the bag back I'm active about for work. Alike if the Chromebook is activity to be my assignment apparatus I like accepting a baby book in the bag back it takes little space. The 7+ inch affectation is so acceptable for abounding things I do that I like accepting one forth to do them. It's not capital to accept the book but I like accepting it aloof in case.

What accepting the Note 2 has accurate to me is it is acceptable abundant in a compression to alter that baby tablet. It's not absolutely as advantageous but it's abutting abundant to footfall in admirably. I don't feel I'm giving up adequacy back I use the Note 2 instead of the tablet, and that's a big thing.

I'm not about to say the Note 2 will absolutely alter a baby book for me. I don't accept that it will. But it's still hasty to me how able-bodied it fills in back needed, and that's afflicted for the bigger the way I do some things. That's a actual big accord to me.

Android apps on the Surface Pro

Why active Android apps on the Surface Pro is bad for Microsoft, Android, and developers

Microsoft aloof got 750,000 new apps for its Surface Pro book after accepting to lift a finger. This is acknowledgment to BlueStacks absolution an optimized adaptation of its Android App Player for Microsoft's newest tablet.

Problem is, plastering over the gaps in Microsoft's app ecosystem by installing an Android adversary is not activity to break annihilation — and it could accomplish things a lot worse.

One of the better challenges of absolution a new chic of accessory is ambience up an ecosystem of apps to abutment it. Do it appropriate — as Apple did with iOS, or Google did with Android — and it can be a solid foundation for massive sales.

Do it amiss —a acceptable archetype of this was BlackBerry's admission into the book bazaar with the PlayBook—and it agency that the adverse accessory will be absorbed to a activity abutment apparatus until addition pulls the plug.

Following the absolution of Windows 8, Microsoft is adverse the challenges of architecture its own app ecosystem. Apps are a cornerstone of the new platform, and the Redmond behemoth needs to advance and animate developers to body acute apps for the platform, apps that will animate bodies to embrace the new belvedere and buy new hardware.

Suddenly, Surface Pro users accept admission to three abode of a actor Android apps, all a few clicks away.

Now, in the abbreviate term, decidedly for those bodies who accept invested in a Surface Pro tablet, this is a acceptable thing. It gives them admission to a accomplished host of apps that aren't currently accessible for the platform.

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Why active Android apps on the Surface Pro is bad for Microsoft, Android, and developers

Summary: Installing an Android adversary on a Surface Pro book is not the way to go to adhesive the gaps in Microsoft's app ecosystem.

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

By Adrian Kingsley-Hughes for Accouterments 2.0 | February 12, 2013 -- 20:53 GMT (12:53 PST)

Microsoft aloof got 750,000 new apps for its Surface Pro book after accepting to lift a finger. This is acknowledgment to BlueStacks absolution an optimized adaptation of its Android App Player for Microsoft's newest tablet.

Problem is, plastering over the gaps in Microsoft's app ecosystem by installing an Android adversary is not activity to break annihilation — and it could accomplish things a lot worse.

One of the better challenges of absolution a new chic of accessory is ambience up an ecosystem of apps to abutment it. Do it appropriate — as Apple did with iOS, or Google did with Android — and it can be a solid foundation for massive sales.

Do it amiss —a acceptable archetype of this was BlackBerry's admission into the book bazaar with the PlayBook—and it agency that the adverse accessory will be absorbed to a activity abutment apparatus until addition pulls the plug.

Following the absolution of Windows 8, Microsoft is adverse the challenges of architecture its own app ecosystem. Apps are a cornerstone of the new platform, and the Redmond behemoth needs to advance and animate developers to body acute apps for the platform, apps that will animate bodies to embrace the new belvedere and buy new hardware.

Suddenly, Surface Pro users accept admission to three abode of a actor Android apps, all a few clicks away.

Now, in the abbreviate term, decidedly for those bodies who accept invested in a Surface Pro tablet, this is a acceptable thing. It gives them admission to a accomplished host of apps that aren't currently accessible for the platform.

Problem is, what's acceptable for Surface Pro owners today is not acceptable for the belvedere as a whole. It agency that developers can finer avoid the beginning belvedere and instead focus on platforms that are added advantageous — iOS and Android. That's a cinch way to anticipate the belvedere from anytime affective above the beginning stage.

It seems that BlueStacks is aggressively targeting Windows 8 users. The aggregation has already partnered with Lenovo, which is bundling the Android App Player on its Idea-branded customer PCs. BlueStacks is acutely base a gap in the market, and at atomic one OEM believes that all-embracing Android is the appropriate move back it comes to Windows 8.

Trying to fix the shortcomings of one belvedere by shoehorning addition alongside it is not acceptable for anyone. It's not acceptable for Microsoft because it is highlighting its failings back it comes to creating an app ecosystem, and confusing developers from all-embracing the platform. It is not acceptable for Android because it will assuredly accord users a patchy acquaintance back some apps don't assignment as expected. And it is additionally not acceptable for app developers, who may able-bodied end up actuality abhorrent for problems that accept annihilation to do with their app, but instead with the way it is actuality run.

And not to acknowledgment the actuality that Android already suffers abundant from breach problems after abacus emulators into the mix.

Windows 8 and the Surface Pro accept to angle on their own two feet, and borrowing apps from the Android ecosystem isn't activity to advice either in the continued term.

iPhone 5 vs HTC Droid DNA

iPhone 5 vs. Droid DNA: Which buzz should you get?

No eventually does Apple appear the iPhone 5 than HTC and Verizon amplify with the Droid DNA. Where the iPhone 5 is abbreviate and sophisticated, the Droid DNA is big and atrociously powerful. Where Apple is anodized aluminum, HTC is soft-touch polycarbonate. Where iOS is constant beyond all Apple's adaptable products, HTC Sense changes up the Android interface for adequate or for ill. From atom to bit, the iPhone 5 and the Droid DNA couldn't be added different. So if you're attractive for a new buzz on Verizon, how do you accept amid them?

HTC Droid DNA

The HTC Droid is huge. It's not allotment tablet, allotment phone, if such things affair you, but with a 5-inch screen, it's about as big as a buzz can get. What's more, that 5-inch awning houses and absurd 1920x1080 (1080p) awning at a retina-rupturing 440ppi. It's the biggest, densest affectation on the bazaar today. However, all that screen-power is actuality apprenticed by the aforementioned Snapdragon S4 Pro horse-power that drives other, abundant abate displays, like the 720p Nexus 4. HiDPI comes at a achievement price, afterwards all. The cameras are both excellent, with an 8 megapixel f/2.0, 1080p sensor with BSI on the back, and a 2.1 megapixel, 1080p sensor, additionally with BSI, on the front. The bad account is that the array is alone 2020mAh, which some will acquisition adequate and others won't, and Verizon is alone alms the Droid DNA with 16GB, no more. And that's not a lot of amplitude back you're ambidextrous with 1080p.

The Droid DNA shops with Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean, but should get an Android 4.2 amend at some point. As accepted with HTC devices, instead of the banal Google experience, you get the Sense interface, in this case, Sense 4+. You get 5 Home screens, adorned, of course, with the iconic HTC clock. You've additionally got a apartment of Amazon media apps, whose alive capabilities should advice abate the accountability on the 16GB of accumulator (technically 11GB already the OS and apps are factored in), and a few added pre-installed apps, address of Verizon.

In the Verizon Droid DNA review, Phil Nickinson of Android Central summed it up like this:

The simple actuality is this: Alongside the Samsung Galaxy S3, the HTC Droid DNA is the best Android buzz you can get on Verizon. Display, power, camera, and it's active Jelly Bean out of the box. What added do you need?

In the U.S., the Droid DNA is absolute to Verizon, admitting versions of the aforementioned basal phone, with altered names, will acceptable appearance up on altered networks, abnormally internationally, at some point.

• Complete Verizon Droid DNA review
• HTC Sense 4+ walkthrough

Apple iPhone 5

The iPhone 5 has a actually re-engineered unibody aluminum anatomy to acquiesce for a bigger 4-inch awning in a buzz that's 12% abate by volume. It's taller but not wider, thinner and additionally lighter. That 4-inch awning uses in-cell technology to amalgamate the blow sensor appropriate into the LCD so the pixels attending corrective on. At 1136x640 and 326ppi, it's still backlit LED, and still IPS, and while boilerplate abreast the biggest, it's still one of the best avant-garde panels on the market. Apple additionally formed their own, manually-set Apple A6 processor this time, based on ARM v7s, for aerial achievement and accomplished ability management.There is CDMA, HSPA, and all-embracing LTE. And you can get it in 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB versions. There's still no NFC or wireless charging, however.

iOS 6 comes loaded on the iPhone 5, and includes a new, arguable Maps app, some abundant extensions to Apple's basic assistant, Siri, abysmal Facebook integration, Passbook for tickets and vouchers, and enhancements to FaceTime, Mail, Safari, Photo Stream, Panorama, and Accessibility. And because Apple makes both the accouterments and the software, there's no affiliation cost, no added interface layers, and a seamless acquaintance overall.

iTunes has the bigger all-embracing agreeable footprint, so if you're into affairs your music, TV, and movies, there's a bigger adventitious Apple will booty your money than anyone else. They additionally accept the chargeless iCloud account for backup, restore, and sync, as able-bodied as Apple Retail Stores with Genius Bars which, if you anytime breach your phone, you'll actually accede a analgesic service.

In the iPhone 5 review, I summed it up as follows:

Taller, thinner, faster, lighter, brighter; the iPhone 5 represents annihilation added nor beneath than the latest, adamant abundance on the Platonic ideal Apple has been appetite appear for about a decade. Redesigned in every way but shape, compromised but accurate to its purpose, the iPhone 5 is already afresh the best iPhone Apple has anytime made, and one of the best phones anytime made. Period.

The amount on-contract amount for an iPhone 5 is $199 for 16GB, $299 for 32GB, and $399 for 64GB, apart and off-contract is $650, $750, and $850 respectively.

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The Droid DNA has actually the biggest, sharpest awning on the market, and if authentic pixel body is your measure, the best one too. HTC Sense is a alloyed absolution -- some adulation it, others abhorrence it. Like the Verizon crap-ware that comes pre-installed, however, you'll accept to basis and beam a altered ROM, like Cyanogen, to get an acquaintance that's afterpiece to stock. Also, while Android Central didn't appointment above array or achievement issues, added reviews accept begin them ambiguous (but then, the aforementioned could be said about the iPhone.) 16GB of accumulator is anemic, however, no amount how you allotment it. Still, but for that, and from a authentic tech and blueprint perspective, the Droid DNA is arguably the baddest ass Android buzz on the planet now. And if you're on Verizon, or accommodating to about-face to Verizon, and don't demand an iPhone, it absolutely looks like the buzz to beat.

The iPhone 5 manages to fit a 4-inch awning into a buzz that's absurdly attenuate and light, and congenital like annihilation abroad on the market. iOS 6 is iOS 6 on every iPhone that supports it, so there's no third-party band on top of the amount operating system. That's either a additional or a negative, depending on how you feel about iOS. There's additionally no crap-ware, however, and no carrier pre-installed anything. There's additionally 32GB and 64GB options if you demand to abundance added apps and media on your iPhone. And you can get the iPhone 5 -- the aforementioned iPhone 5 -- on about any carrier you choose. You can additionally get iTunes agreeable in added countries than any added media store, and Apple Retail provides the best chump affliction in the business.

If you're on Verizon and demand an LTE phone, and the alike the abstraction of 1080p affectation sends you affection racing, get the HTC Droid DNA. Otherwise, for best people, best of the time, the cliche charcoal accurate -- get the iPhone.

Windows, iOS and Android Devices

Microsoft goes accessible with its plan to administer Windows, iOS and Android accessories

On January 15, Microsoft went accessible with its artefact portfolio for managing iOS, Android, Windows 8, Windows RT and Windows Phone 8 accessories from the cloud.

Microsoft admiral aggregate about the capacity about the company's alleged Billow OS administration affairs during a 30-minute Webcast for columnist and analysts on January 15.

The Redmondians are alms IT managers two primary means to do this: Via Windows Intune cloud-management account and/or via its Systems Center 2012 systems-management suite. Microsoft is accession its systems- and mobile-device administration apparatus as allotment of its Billow OS, which is acceptable the company's uber-brand for all of its articles from its Server and Accoutrement division, including Windows Azure, Windows Server, System Center, SQL Server and Visual Studio.

Microsoft agilely formed out the fourth adaptation of its Windows Intune account (codenamed Wave D) in December 2012. Since that time, alone new users accept had admission to this version, which adds the adeptness to administer Windows 8, Windows RT and Windows Phone 8 devices. Existing Windows Intune users accept had to delay until this anniversary February to get the latest adaptation of the service, which is hosted on Microsoft's Windows Azure accessible cloud.

Microsoft originally added iOS and Android accessory administration capabilities to Windows Intune with Adaptation 3. But the new adaptation of the Intune account is beneath codicillary on the Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync agreement for managing best adaptable accessories (other than Android-based ones).

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    Microsoft finalizes System Center 2012 Account Backpack 1

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Microsoft additionally appear the aboriginal account backpack for its SystemS Center 2012 artefact in December 2012. SP1 adds the adeptness to administer Windows Server 2012, SQL Server 2012 and Windows 8. The Configuration Manager SP1 basic is what's enabling mobile-device management.

Both of these administration articles additionally accredit sideloading of accumulated apps on Windows and Windows RT adaptable devices. Intune provides a Aggregation Aperture app out of the box, which is accessible from the Windows Store. Companies can abide the aperture with corporate/line-of-business apps it wants its users to install. Admins optionally can use a Windows Intune add-on for Configuration Manager to apparatus the aggregation aperture app for centralized distribution.

Microsoft additionally appear during the Webcast that Windows Azure Casework for Windows Server is now about accessible to Microsoft's hosting-service providers. Azure Casework for Windows Server, which Microsoft appear  in analysis anatomy aftermost year, adds some of Windows Azure's capabilities to Windows Server. These add-on casework accommodate hosted basic machines; abutment for high-density Web sites; a service-management portal; and a service-management programming interface (codenamed Katal). Microsoft may opt, at some point, to accomplish Azure Casework for Windows Server accessible to its beyond customers, as well.

Microsoft admiral additionally apparent a Web-app-performance ecology account active on Windows Azure and accompaniment to System Center 2012 SP1 accepted as Global Account Monitor. Global Account Monitor is in examination now and will be final in March 2013.

Microsoft is alms Windows Intune at two amount points: A $6 per user per ages adaptation that doesn't accommodate Software Assurance and Microsoft Desktop Optimization Backpack (MDOP) tools, and a $11 per user per ages adaptation that adds Software Assurance/MDOP.