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Samsung announces the winners for the Galaxy Note S Pen App Challenge

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 01:06 PM PDT

If you remember, about two months ago, Samsung started the Galaxy Note S Pen App Challenge to get the development community to unlock the potential of the Galaxy Note. Samsung just announced the winners and handed out over $200,000. If you own a Galaxy Note, now is the time to try out some of these cool apps. Hit the break for the full rundown.

Best Overall App – Grand Prize – $100,000

  • "Monkey Write * Learn Chinese" by Chiu-ki Chan (Square Island LLC): Learn to write Chinese with Monkey Write – a game that makes it fun to learn. Chinese characters are written in a specific order to give them structure. Follow the stroke numbers to learn to write each character.

Best Overall App – Second Prize – $50,000

  • "Maze Racer" by Roger Peters (SmartyPantsGaming) and David McCanless: Maze Racer is a simple maze inspired game where you draw a line from start to finish. In Maze Racer, you get rewarded stars based on how quickly you reach the finish. Maze Racer is optimized for precision from the S-Pen over traditional finger input.

Best Overall App – Third Prize – $25,000

  • "Drawing Pad" by Christopher Lott and Daren Murtha (Murtha Design): Drawing Pad is a mobile art studio with a beautiful user interface that puts the fun into creating art. Drawing Pad provides amazing realistic textured brushes with the pressure sensitivity data of the S Pen.

Popular Choice – $2,000 and a Galaxy Note

  • "SignDoc Mobile" by Softpro North America: Professionally capture user handwritten signature using pressure sensitivity of the S Pen

Honorable Mention – $2,000 and a Galaxy Note

Full press release:

Samsung Mobile's Developer Challenge Brings New Apps to Galaxy Note Users

 

Samsung awards Grand Prize to "Monkey Write * Learn Chinese" educational app optimized for the Galaxy Note's S Pen

 

DALLAS – April 23, 2012 – Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile), the No. 1 mobile phone provider in the United States1, announced the winners of the Samsung Galaxy Note™ S Pen™ App Challenge.

"The goal of the Challenge was to tap the S Pen's unlimited potential for content creation engagement with the ingenuity of the Android app developer community," said Dale Sohn, president of Samsung Mobile. "The results exceeded our expectations, both in terms of quantity and quality. This challenge is just one example of our constant expansion of the S Pen integrated apps ecosystem."

Entries were judged by a five-member panel of representatives from AndroidCentral.com, AT&T, BlueRun Ventures, Gameloft and Samsung Mobile. The judges evaluated the apps based on the quality of the idea, S Pen integration and overall user experience.  The challenge included a "Popular Choice" category, which invited the public to vote on submissions online.

The winning submissions include:

Best Overall App – Grand Prize – $100,000

  • "Monkey Write * Learn Chinese" by Chiu-ki Chan (Square Island LLC): Learn to write Chinese with Monkey Write – a game that makes it fun to learn. Chinese characters are written in a specific order to give them structure. Follow the stroke numbers to learn to write each character.

Best Overall App – Second Prize – $50,000

  • "Maze Racer" by Roger Peters (SmartyPantsGaming) and David McCanless: Maze Racer is a simple maze inspired game where you draw a line from start to finish. In Maze Racer, you get rewarded stars based on how quickly you reach the finish. Maze Racer is optimized for precision from the S-Pen over traditional finger input.

Best Overall App – Third Prize – $25,000

  • "Drawing Pad" by Christopher Lott and Daren Murtha (Murtha Design): Drawing Pad is a mobile art studio with a beautiful user interface that puts the fun into creating art. Drawing Pad provides amazing realistic textured brushes with the pressure sensitivity data of the S Pen.

Popular Choice – $2,000 and a Galaxy Note

  • "SignDoc Mobile" by Softpro North America: Professionally capture user handwritten signature using pressure sensitivity of the S Pen

Honorable Mention – $2,000 and a Galaxy Note

  • Games – "Speed Draw" by Ferdouse Khaleque and Kabir Khaleque
  • Productivity – "Papyrus" by Andrew Hughes (Steadfast Innovation)
  • Media – "FlipaClip" by Visual Blasters team members Jonathan Meson and Tim Meson
  • Sports – "Playcall" by Sargon Benjamin
  • Entertainment – "Colors! For Galaxy Note" by Jens Andersson (Collecting Smiles)
  • Travel – "Map Note" by Base 2 Applications, LLC
  • Social – "Authorgraph" by Evan Jacobs (To the Reader, Inc)
  • Lifestyle – "Makeup Paint" Modiface Inc.
  • Education – "iAnatomy" by Anouk Stein, M.D.
  • Other – "bConnected @ Ball State for Galaxy Note" by Ball State University team members Kyle Parker, Valerie Morris, Ryan Bitzegaio, Brandon Smith, Ian Gibson and Brice Brenneman

 

Developers used the Samsung S Pen SDK to integrate S Pen functionality. Winners, app entries and more information on the Challenge can be found at http://galaxynotespenchallenge.com/. More information on the Samsung Galaxy Note, an all-in-one device that allows users to communicate in a unique, personal way, can be found athttp://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/cell-phones/SGH-I717ZBAATT.

 

1 Number one mobile phone provider in the U.S. claim for Samsung Mobile based upon reported shipment data, according to Strategy Analytics, Q4 2011 U.S. Market Share Handset Shipments Reports.

 

About Samsung Telecommunications America

Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC, a Dallas-based subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., researches, develops and markets wireless handsets and telecommunications products throughout North America. For more information, please visitwww.samsungwireless.com.

 

About Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies with 2010 consolidated sales of US$135.8 billion. Employing approximately 190,500 people in 206 offices across 68 countries, the company operates two separate organizations to coordinate its nine independent business units: Digital Media & Communications, comprising Visual Display, Mobile Communications, Telecommunication Systems, Digital Appliances, IT Solutions, and Digital Imaging; and Device Solutions, consisting of Memory, System LSI and LCD. Recognized for its industry-leading performance across a range of economic, environmental and social criteria, Samsung Electronics was named the world's most sustainable technology company in the 2011 Dow Jones Sustainability Index. For more information, please visit www.samsung.com.

Huawei Ascend G312 (U8680) Arrives At FCC’s Door Step, Reveals T-Mobile MyTouch Branding

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 11:55 AM PDT

T-Mobile is bent on keeping their MyTouch branding alive and well and there’s no secret that the company has been in cahoots with Huawei to become the hardware manufacturer of the next gen device.  That being said, a device strongly resembling the Ascend G312 has reared its little frame over at the FCC revealing the MyTouch moniker and dubbed the “U8680″.  Could this be the next qwerty variant of the MyTouch line?  The FCC docs and pics reveal that there is compatibility with HSPA, UMTS, EDGE and GPRS technologies.    We know the device Huawei plans to release is a 4-inch WVGA res’d device which will have ICS 4.0 on board.  There will also be a 1.4GHz Qualcomm MSM8255T SoC and 1GB or RAM running on the device.  For now, we’ll just have to speculate until an official announcement is made by Magenta.  Feel free to hit up the source link below for more FCC goodies.

source: FCC

Sign up for updates on Samsung’s Next Galaxy event

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 11:47 AM PDT

Desperate for the arrival of the Galaxy S III (or whatever it will be called!) and feeling like May the 3rd just won’t come quick enough? Official registration is now open so why not head over to Samsung’s Next Galaxy website and sign up for updates on the big event in London. It looks like you need to sign up in order to receive the link with the live stream of the event, that sounds like a good enough reason to us to get your registration in.

TalkAndroid will be live and direct in London on the day. If you want to tune in and follow the event, you better click the link below to get started.

 

Samsung Mobile Unpacked 2012 registration

LG releases the Optimus 3D Max in Europe Today

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 10:44 AM PDT

 

LG is proud to push the Optimus 3D Max to the masses in Europe today. Although the whole mobile 3D hasn't really taken off like manufacturers had hope, LG still had a device it wants to share and throw in the mix. The LG Optimus 3D Max sports the following features: Android 2.3, 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 1GB RAM, 8GB internal storage, 5mega-pixel  rear cameras with  3D video and capture, VGA front-facing camera, 4.3-inch WVGA 3D screen protected by Gorilla Glass, and Near Field Communication (NFC).

This year's  Mobile World Congress is where the LG Optimus 3D Max was announced along with a few other devices from LG. This particular LG phone is packed with a new 3D Converter to bring to life 2D content and display content from the likes of Google Earth and Google Maps into glasses-free 3D. The device will offer high resolution conversion to your TV via Mobile High-Definition Link (MHDL). Even as we discussed in March, Gameloft has jump aboard the 3D train and announced a number of games that will feature 3D play and will be available in LG’s Smart World.

Jump past the break for the full press release.

LG LAUNCHES SECOND-GENERATION 3D SMARTPHONE IN EUROPE

(SEOUL–Korea Newswire) April 23, 2012 — LG's latest achievement in the glasses-free 3D space — the Optimus 3D Max — will kick-off its global roll-out today starting in Europe. As first seen at Mobile World Congress 2012, the second-generation 3D smartphone boasts an enhanced chipset and more enticing 3D entertainment features in a slimmer and lighter body.

"We are deliberately pushing the limits of mobile entertainment innovation with the Op-timus 3D Max," said Dr. Jong-seok Park, President and CEO of LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company. "This device has evolved significantly since we introduced the first Optimus 3D at Mobile World Congress in 2011. Our second generation glasses-free 3D smartphone is as thin and light as any other high-end smartphone while still de-livering a spectacular picture in either 2D or 3D."

The Optimus 3D Max now includes a new 3D Converter which allows for a greater va-riety of 3D content as it converts 2D content from Google Earth, Google Maps and oth-er mapping apps into 3D. Visitors at MWC 2012 also raved about the device's unique 3D video editor which allows the editing of 3D video on the phone in real time. And the 3D Hot Key mounted on the side of the phone enables users to easily toggle between 2D and 3D. The Optimus 3D Max includes 3D-style cubicle icons in addition to its customizable icons which can be amended by applying the users' own photos through the Icon Customizer feature.

Additional features, which will be available through an upcoming maintenance release (MR), include a HD Converter to offer high resolution content to be viewed on a TV connected through MHL (Mobile High-Definition Link) and Range Finder, which cal-culates the distance between the camera and a subject as well as the dimensions of an object through triangulation.

As for its new form-factor, the Optimus 3D Max is 2mm slimmer and 20g lighter than its predecessor, measuring only 9.6 mm thin and weighing 148g. The 5MP camera on the rear captures both photos and video in 3D using its dual lenses. The recorded material can be viewed directly on the smartphone in glasses-free 3D or on a 3D capable computer monitor or TV.

More evidence involving a possible T-Mobile Galaxy Note surfaces

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 10:29 AM PDT

Just a couple of days ago we showed you a leaked user agent string for the Samsung SGH-T879. Immediately the speculation was that it could be the Galaxy Note for T-Mobile. Now we present you with exhibit B: leaked Android build screenshots. Supposedly they’re taken off a T-Mobile Galaxy Note. As you can see the model number is the same, but that alone isn’t enough evidence.

As TmoNews points out, the leaked ICS build for the AT&T Galaxy Note is the same build number (IML74K.144) and the build servers and time stamp match up with Samsung’s official build information. Official Samsung builds have build numbers suffixed with the baseband version instead of a decimal number. This pattern exists with other official ROMs from the Vibrant, the Galaxy S 4G, the Galaxy S Blaze 4G, and the Galaxy S II. Of course it doesn’t hurt that the images are scaled down from 1280 x 800 and it looks like the TouchWiz interface from Android 4.X.

So there you have it. None of this means that we will definitely see the Galaxy Note on T-Mobile, but it’s always nice to have a second piece of evidence. I sense Exhibit C isn’t far. Stay tuned.

source: tmonews

HTC DROID Incredible 4G spotted briefly on DroidDoes.com

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 09:03 AM PDT

Reports have been coming in that Verizon had silently posted the HTC DROID Incredible 4G for sale on DroidDoes.com. The page listed complete specs, pricing and the option to buy it now. Unfortunately it seems that someone decided to pull the page down almost as soon as it was put up. Just to recap, the DROID Inc 4G is rumored to have a 1.2 dual-core processor, 1 GB of RAM, 4.3 inch qHD (960 x 540) display, Sense 4 and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Feel free to check out the source link below in the chance that you might get another lucky glimpse of this elusive HTC smartphone.

source: droiddoes

Play Store Newbie Review: iSlash [Game]

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 09:02 AM PDT

iSlash landed in the Play Store about 10 days ago and it already surpassed 50,000 downloads. Since it was already a hit with iOS users, this isn’t a surprise. This one is for all you puzzle fanatics. I like iSlash because it trains your eye/hand coordination as well as your thinking skills. As with many puzzle games, the premise is simple but the task isn’t. Each level consists of a playshape. Your job is to destroy most of it by slashing your finger. Simple right? There’s just one problem, you have to avoid the ninja stars or you lose. Your rated by how much time it takes you as well has how many slashes it took to complete the task at hand. You can advance with one star, but you only feel satisfied with three stars. It’s quick and easy to play and it’s free. Hit the break for the full features, our hands on video, and download links. Let us know what you think.

FEATURES
* 100 Levels and more to come for FREE
* OpenFeint support
* Global Leaderboards
* Achievements
* New stars and Bonuses introduced as you advance
* Original soundtrack
* Frequent updates to keep you slashing

 

Click here to view the embedded video.

 

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Play Store Download Link

UK Launch date available for the ASUS Transformer Pad TF300T

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 09:00 AM PDT

The next ASUS Tranformer Pad TF300T will be launching in the United Kingdom at the end of May this year.  This device will be a budget-friendly alternative to the Prime. It will be powered by NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 CPU, Android 4.0, 8mp camera, 10.1″ display, 16Gb of internal storage, and more.  The price of this tablet will start at £399, which will include the keyboard dock. Being that this launch price is well below the Prime, I would think ASUS could see some pretty decent sales numbers. At launch it will be available to only one retailer, then toward the end of June spread to other retail store for wider sale.

To all our reader in the US, this tablet is already available for order. Hit the break for the detailed UK press release.

Incredible performance meets style and value

United Kingdom (April 23, 2012) – Announced at Mobile World Congress in February, the new ASUS Transformer Pad is a powerful, yet affordable, tablet with a host of features onboard. Available in three stylish colors, the ASUS Transformer Pad is aptly named thanks to the mobile dock that allows it to transform from a tablet into a notebook. When docked, total battery life is rated up to 15 hours, while also increasing productivity with a full QWERTY keyboard, multi-touch touchpad and USB/SD Card ports. Housed in the Transformer Pad is a powerful NVIDIA® Tegra® 3 Quad-core CPU, ASUS SonicMaster technology for an incredible audio experience and an 8MP auto-focus camera that shoots crystal clear photos. The Transformer Pad is running the AndroidTM 4.0 operating system (Ice Cream Sandwich) that is upgradable and features exclusive software for added productivity.

The Transformer Pad comes in three stylish colors: Royal Blue, Iceberg White and Torch Red. It also boasts an elegant concentric patterned finish that hints at the ASUS Zen philosophy found in the ZENBOOKTM and Transformer Pad Prime. With a profile that’s 9.9mm thin and 635g light, the Transformer Pad can easily be carried around all day, and when combined with the ASUS exclusive Mobile Dock, it turns into a productivity workstation. A QWERTY keyboard and multi-touch touchpad offers a true notebook experience, while a USB port and SD card slot provide additional storage options.

Powering the Transformer Pad is NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 4-PLUS-1TM quad-core CPU with an integrated 12-core GeForce® GPU that provides superior performance, multi-tasking, smooth Full HD 1080p video playback and console-quality gaming. The “PLUS-1″ is an extra battery-saver core in the CPU that handles low-power tasks like active standby, music and video, and is transparent to the OS and applications. It offers the best combination of ultra-performance with low power consumption – up to 10 hours on the Pad and extended up to 15 hours when combined with the Mobile Dock.

Pricing and availability

The ASUS Transformer Pad TF300T will be priced SRP £399 (including VAT) for the bundle configuration that includes the mobile keyboard dock, and available to order online from early May at Currys (www.currys.co.uk) and PC World (www.pcworld.co.uk) and available in-store at Currys and PC World from late May, and then widely available from all retailers from late June.

The Royal Blue model will be available at launch, whilst the Iceberg White model will be available late June and Torch Red model available late July.

We will announce exact dates nearer the time via our Facebook fan page at www.facebook.com/asusuk.

 

Deal Alert: Amazon Offering AT&T HTC One X Smartphone For Only $150

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 08:40 AM PDT

We know you all love a good deal or two, so we’re happy to share with you all a super find for those of you interested in the mouthwatering AT&T HTC One X smartphone. Amazon Wireless has the device available for pre-order for a not-too-shabby price of $149.99 for both the white and grey versions of the smartphone— $50 less than what AT&T is offering the smartphone for. That’s not even the best part too— the offer is available for both new and existing customers. Very nice indeed. In case you’ve forgotten, the 4G LTE version of the One X features:

 

  • 3G/4G/4G LTE connectivity
  • Android 4.0
  • 1.5 GHz dual-core processor
  • 4.7-inch HD 720p touchscreen
  • 16 GB memory
  • 8-MP camera + Full HD 1080p video capture
  • Wireless-N Wi-Fi
  • Bluetooth 4.0

 

If you’re interested, you’ll want to jump on this deal right away before its too late, so be sure to hit the source links for more details.

source: Amazon Wireless Grey | White
via: Android Police

 

MIPS-based Android 4.0 tablet to emerge from Philips

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 08:23 AM PDT

Philips is positioned to release a new line of tablets to it’s consumers, at least in China for now. This tablet will feature Android 4.0 aka Ice Cream Sandwich. Unlike most tablets powered by an ARM or x86 processor, the up and coming Philips 7″ tablet will house a MIPS CPU. This low-powered processor isn’t the popular choice among manufacturers, but that could change.

Google has taken more notice of the MIPS processor by reporting plans to offer better support. Google will bundle support in their developers kit by including a compiler for MIPS. As this processor is mainly found in low end, low priced tablet, we may see an up turn in the use of MIPS since Google has turn its attention to supporting it. To follow, we can expect to see developer support for applications being compatible with MIPS-based tablets, sharing the attention with ARM and x86.

This Philips tablet most likely will not be found on shelves on the United States, but will first be launched in China. Stay tuned for more information.

source: liliputing
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