Samsung’s new Android smartphone, the Galaxy S3 has finally been officially announced in an event held at London. The grand launch of the phone covered many new features like TouchWiz 4.0, S-Voice (Samsung’s proprietary voice recognition software), camera app (with exciting new features), news reader, and much more.
Samsung Galaxy S3 has managed to create a league of its own in the smartphone arena this year, because of it’s alluring hardware specifications. [Read more...]
HTC has managed to create a new buzz in the smartphone industry with its new smartphone, the HTC One X. The HTC One X is a flagship phone of HTC One Series of smartphones. The other smartphones in this series are the HTC One V and HTC One S.
HTC One X has some great unique features which makes it stand out from the rest of the smartphones in its league. The phone runs on 1.5GHz quad-core Tegra 3 processor, which has been proven to be a boon for Android gaming apps. NVIDIA Tegra 3 has great processing power, which makes applications even more snappier than a dual-core processor. The phone also comes installed with the newly developed HTC Sense 4.0 and Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich”. [Read more...]
According to the official word, HTC One S will be launched in India by next month. Lennard Hoornik, president of HTC South Asia Pacific, said “HTC One S will be launched in the Indian market in May.”
HTC One S is a phone from HTC’s ‘One’ series, the other phones being HTC One V and HTC One X (the flagship product of the HTC One series). HTC One series features Android “Ice Cream Sandwich”, HTC Sense 4.0 and Beats Audio™. [Read more...]
In most recent news, it looks like Samsung Galaxy S3 will be getting water repellent technology by P2i. P2i is a company which makes “Liquid Repellent Nano-Coating Technology & Industrial Coatings”. P2i is in talks with Korean smartphone giants, to supply them with liquid repellent nano-coating technology.
P2i’2 COO Eric Cohill has also said “There is major interest from carriers in the US to discuss criteria to help against water ingestion for customers.” The company is also interested in creating a standard of performance (water-repellent) for smartphone manufacturers, “We’re working with major carriers to create a standard of performance which can give OEMs something to work to when creating smartphones.”
P2i’s technology has only been implemented by Motorola (in Xoom 2) so far. It is important to note that it is water repellent technology, not a waterproof technology. Their technique implements nano-coating technology, which(nano-coating) is approximately 1000 times thinner than a human hair. The liquid repellent nano-coating helps to save the electronics from accidental splashes and spills.
Use of this technology, is expected to help OEMs (Original equipment manufacturers) to reduce repair costs due to liquid getting inside the electronics.
As already mentioned, P2i is working with Korean giants to bring this technology to the market. P2i in the interview has also mentioned that they’re also in talks with some ‘fruity companies’ ( Any guesses? 
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The Samsung Galaxy S3 is really creating buzz around the smartphone community and it would not be wrong to say that it too, might get water-repellent technology. Samsung Galaxy S3‘s confirmed ‘official’ feature list is yet to be released on the internet. Though, it is speculated to come with 1.8GHz quad-core processor, TouchWiz 5, 12MP camera and much more!
If this technology becomes a standard, the smartphone market will really get exciting. What’s your opinion about this? Do leave a comment below!
[Source: Techradar]
