Facebook scheduled to introduce HTC-based Facebook Home Android OS smartphone on April 4th Event

The cooperation between HTC and Facebook to produce another HTC-based Facebook smartphone has been rumored a lot. Previously, there’re reports that said HTC Myst would be the Facebook smartphone, with detailed specs leaked online already. Whether this report is true or not could be seen in the coming days, as Facebook has introduced various medias to take part in an April 4^th Android event. Facebook just sent invitations for its Android-related media event (showed in the picture below) on April 4th, which reads “Come See Our New Home on Android.” According to sources, Facebook would call this new Android-related Facebook experience “Facebook Home…”

As reported, Facebook and HTC are selling their phone and OS as a lifestyle brand, not specifically for its hardware or software. Facebook and HTC previously hooked up on the Salsa and Cha-cha devices which frankly flopped. This will be a deeper, forked version of Android rather than a Facebook-ified version of Sense. Of course, the hardware and software for this phone are competitive with the current mobile device landscape.

5 Best and Most Popular Laptops in the Market for You to Choose From

With the fast developing, more and more laptops are emerging in the market for people to choose from. However, many people do not know how to choose a laptop and which laptop would be the best for them. Here I have make a collection of some best and popular laptops in the market as a reference for you. You can take a look at these laptops when you plan to buy one. Check them below:

Apple MacBook Pro with Retina Display

Apples MacBook Pro with Retina Display has been rated as the best high-end laptop. The newly redesigned MacBook Pro with Retina Display combines an amazing screen with just enough of the MacBook Air design to feel like a new animal, and to take its place as the best of the current MacBook breed. The unprecedented high-resolution screen on the new MacBook Pro with Retina Display makes images -- even simple text -- look beautifully clear. Despite a redesigned, lightweight body, the powerful components, including an Nvidia GPU, compare well to recent high-end desktop replacements. Overdue new ports, including USB 3.0 and HDMI, are welcome.

Top 6 best and most popular Easter movies to watch for Easter 2013

With the approaching of 2013 Easter, people are busy preparing for the 2013 Easter celebrating in their own ways. As a Christian holiday and festival, Easter celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ after his crucifixion at Calvary. The festival is also famous as Easter Day, Easter Sunday, Resurrection Day and Resurrection Sunday. For the Easter Day celebrating, there would be various Easter jelly bean candies, chocolate bunnies, marshmallow chicks, and the beautifully decorated Easter baskets filled with multi-colored eggs. People all celebrate the holiday in their own ways to commemorate the Christian faith. Besides these, watching Easter related movies is also a good way to honor the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. If you’re now hard to decide which movie to watch for 2013 Easter, the below Easter-themed movies I collected would be of great help to you.

 The Easter movies mentioned below have been widely popular for a long time. These top Christian films for Easter are chosen specifically because they commemorate in a passionate and powerful way, the life, mission, message, sacrifice and resurrection of our Lord, Jesus Christ. If you're looking for a movie with an Easter theme to add to your DVD collection this year, you must be able to get one here. Check them below.

Newly announced Sony Android smartphones – Sony Xperia SP and Sony Xperia L specs and images

Before the official announcement from Sony, there have been reports and rumors on Sony Xperia SP and Sony Xperia L smartphones. Now, very soon after the release of Sony Xperia Z in Los Angeles, Sony officially confirmed the announcement of two new Sony Android smartphones, the Xperia SP and Xperia L. The official release of the two new models is set to be this spring, not long for us to wait.

As for the specs, the two new smartphones could also satisfy people’s desire. Smaller than the Xperia Z, but larger than the Xperia L, the Xperia SP features a 4.6-inch 720p HD Reality Display, running on the Mobile Bravia Engine 2. Inside, you'll find a 1.7GHz dual-core Snapdragon processor. The rear-facing 8MP camera is capable of capturing 1080P video.

8 best NFC smartphones based on Android, Windows Phone 8 and BlackBerry

In the current smartphone market, no doubt NFC has been a very important feature for a good smartphone. NFC technology has been poised to reach critical mass, at least in the U.S., for years now. The NFC could enable everything from using your phone as a digital wallet, serving as a secure and convenient method of identification, to even unlocking your home's front door. Nearly all top-rated smartphones, except iPhone 5, come with NFC circuitry baked right in. Today, I would like to list some smartphones that have been considered to be the best NFC smartphones in the smartphone market currently.

HTC Droid DNA (Verizon)

Unquestionably the best Droid device Verizon has ever sold, the HTC Droid DNA is much more than a mobile fire-breather. Running Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and powered by a 1.5GHz quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro processor, the DNA also uses NFC for easy Bluetooth pairing. The handset has built-in Qi wireless charging, too.

Samsung finally officially announced Galaxy S IV with bundle of new software features

The long rumored Samsung Galaxy S IV has been finally announced by Samsung on the New York City’s Radio City Music Hall. Just as reported, Samsung didn’t disappoint people by introducing a Galaxy S 4 smartphone with a bigger screen, better camera and faster processor than its predecessor Galaxy S phones.  The new LTE smartphone has brought a vast improvement over its predecessor, the Galaxy S III. The Galaxy S 4 has a super AMOLED display with density of 441 pixels-per-inch, a 13-megapixel rear camera and a 2-megapixel front camera. The smartphone weighs 130 grams and is 7.9 millimeters thick. Depending on the market, the smartphone will come with a 1.9GHz quad-core processor or a 1.6GHz Samsung Exynos 5 eight-core processor. Other features include up to 64GB of storage, 2GB of low-power DDR3 RAM and 802.11ac Wi-Fi.

The Galaxy S 4 is Samsung's shot at a number of competitors, including the Apple iPhone 5 and the HTC One. But while those competitors make their bones on proclaiming premium hardware, Samsung has tried to add more competence to Galaxy S 4 with bundle of new software features. The below are all the new software features you can experience on Galaxy S 4.

Leaked HTC Myst with detailed specs reportedly to be Facebook phone

The rumors and reports about a Facebook phone have gone hot. All Facebook addicts are longing to find such smartphones. Very recently, some freshly leaked details for an upcoming HTC Myst seem to confirm rumors of a new "Facebook phone."

Sony Xperia SL and Xperia L appeared on British shopping sites for a possible recent release

Sony has got a lot of big movements in 2013. Just after the official release of the widely popular Xperia Z and Xperia Tablet Z devices, there come another two handsets. Though Sony Xperia SP and Xperia L have not been officially released, these two devices have landed on the British shopping sites like Amazon、eBuyer, LamdaTek, etc. Lamda Tek indicated that the Xperia SP and Xperia L would be officially saled on March 19^th at £312.98 and £219.18 respectively, while the Ireland telecom leaked that the two devices would be outputted on March 14^th with £389.79 and £270.46 respectively.

According to the information leaked, the Sony Xperia SP C530, codenamed HuaShan, would get translucent buttons on the bottom of the screen panel, which has power button and lock button just like Xperia Z, and takes advantage of virtual touch control. The Xperia SP would feature a 1.7GHz Qualcomm MSM8960T dual-core processor with an Adreno 320GPU chip. The 720P (1280x720) screen would deliver amazing visual effect for users to watch HD movies on Xperia SP.

The Sony Xperia L is codenamed as TaoShan, which features a 4.3" 854x480 pixels screen display, 1GHz Qualcomm MSM8227 or MSM8627 quad-core processor, 8MP camera with Exmore RS sensor, 8GB ROM, 1,700mAh battery and expandable memory space via mcroSD card slot.

Smartphone duel – Apple iPhone 5S vs. Samsung Galaxy S IV in phone design, screen display and CPU

Without any question, the upcoming Apple iPhone 5S and Samsung Galaxy S IV would be the top popular smartphones in the world. Also, there’s no need to say what severe battle it would be between these two smartphones. We can predict that both smartphones would feature exciting functions and breakouts when out, though we still have got very few detailed information about the specs of these two phones. In this post, I would like to make a brief comparison between Apple iPhone 5S and Samsung Galaxy S IV. As the detailed specs of both phones are still to be seen, the comparison would only focus on several parts: phone design, screen display and phone CPU.

Apple iPhone 5S vs. Samsung Galaxy S IV – design

The iPhone 5S has been reportedly most similar to its previous brother, the iPhone 5, with very little changes. The reports go that the iPhone 5S would come with glass front, a 4 inch screen and an aluminum body form the bulk of the design. The Samsung Galaxy S IV would come with some new aesthetic changes in phone design. Though the plastic battery cover and the slim body design would arouse some complaints, the phone would be protected well. The Samsung Galaxy S4 will have a decidedly less curvy facade and this means that it will be able to use more of its space than the previous model.

Apple iPhone 5S vs. Samsung Galaxy S IV – screen display

As usual, the screen trajectory continues with the new Samsung Galaxy S4. This means that the pixel resolution on the new model will be significantly larger and there is a larger screen to boot too. Samsung Galaxy S IV would reportedly sport a 4.99" full HD (1920x1080) Super AMOLED screen display. The screen display is reportedly to be possible flexible which means that the phone will be  tougher. Without doubt, the bigger screen size and the higher number of pixels deliver satisfactory visual effect for people to watch HD movies on Galaxy S IV.

On the other side, Apple is reportedly to feature the IGZO panel technology on the iPhone 5S. The IGZO panel used by Apple will be from the brainworks of Sharp and will help the company achieve better performance at reduced power consumption. The IGZO tech uses a unique screen refresh technique that only refreshes the screen when anything is moving inside it, and the screen does not refresh for static images, thus saving on power. The screen will refresh at a default rate of 60Hz.

Apple iPhone 5S vs. Samsung Galaxy S IV – CPU

The Samsung Galaxy S IV is reportedly to take 8-core Exynos 5 Octa SoC processor. The catch here is that out of the 8 cores, 4 have their engines running at peak rpm and the remaining cores are designed to work for the more home purpose and silent applications. The extreme four cores comprise of the Cortex-A15s running at 1.8GHz, while the silent cores are Cortex-A9 cores clocked at 1.2GHz. This simply means that the S4 guns for efficiency.

For those addicted to the power of their smartphones hitting the roof, and think they will be disappointed with the half hearted fury of the S4’s CPU, the GPU has a surprise for them, and the Mali-T658 will be the GPU. ARM states that this’ll offer 10x the power of the current-gen Mali-400 chipset.

As for the iPhone 5S, the iPhone will potentially have a 2 core CPU and a 4 core GPU. Of course, these numbers don’t amount to much when compared to the double 8 figures of the Samsung Galaxy S4’s CPU/GPU combo. But Apple is all set to introduce a slew of top end games for the iPhone. The competition is not out yet.

Foxconn reportedly to have started the production of Apple 'iPhone 5S' as the current iPhone 5

The rumors and reports about the so-called iPhone 5S, the next Apple iPhone, have been a big hit in the world. Various kinds of bloggers, analysts and sources are reporting the information they have got about the next iPhone. But all these are to be confirmed. Very recently, another report about the next iPhone has been available for all anticipators. That’s the Japanese Apple blog MacOtakara reported that Foxconn is starting to ramp up production of Apple's iPhone 5 successor, by citing a source familiar with the matter.

The site noted that because the design of the "iPhone 5S" is substantially the same as the company's existing handset. Thus it is quite convenient to manufacture the two models on the same production lines. In a note to investors in January, Jefferies analyst Peter Misek estimated that production of the next-generation iPhone would begin in March ahead of a launch expected in either June or July. He also predicted that Apple will be launching a second smartphone alongside the 5S, possibly a much-rumored low-cost version targeted at developing markets. This is quite similar to the latest rumor that Apple would release an iPhone 5S with A7 chip and fingerprint security and a cheaperfiberglass model in June.

As rumored, the iPhone 5S will sport A7 Chip, iOS 7 and Super HD Camera, a fingerprint reader, swype keyboard and a 128GB storage as the biggest drive available. There might be 6-8 different color options for the new iPhone 5S. The phone body might be thinner with larger screen of 4.5/5 inches.

Apple to release iPhone 5S in August and new iPad and the next iPad mini in April

According to the latest news from iMore, Apple might release the next iPhone, mostly named iPhone 5S, in this summer, August preferred. Also, right before the official release of iPhone 5S, Apple is preparing an April event to announce its next generation iPad, presumably the iPad 5, and the potentially iPad mini 2. iMore claims these sources are from people who are familiar with Apple’s plans.

As reported, the iPhone 5S will likely be a spec upgrade on its predecessor, with improved camera optics and a more advanced processor anticipated. If the rumors are accurate, consumers can expect a better camera housed inside the same design as the iPhone 5 as well as incremental improvements on the goods under the hood.

Apple just launched the iPad 4 and the first iPad Mini last November. If the report turns to be true, Apple has made a very quick turnaround of iPad product line. Though there appeared some leaked pictures of the iPad 5, the iPad 5 detailed specs is still not quite clear. So is the next generation of iPad mini. But what seems unlikely is that Retina will be included in the next gen model.

For more details, stay tuned. I would get more detailed information on the next generation of iPad, iPhone and iPad mini. 

Sony to soon release unlocked Xperia ZL for U.S. in black, white and red

During the near past CES 2013, Sony had successfully attracted a great deal of eyes by introducing the Xperia Z and Xperia ZL. Since the release event on CES, as the flagship of Sony, Xperia Z has gained great interest around the world. However, the Sony Xperia ZL is no slouch, as long as no water involved.  If you’re longing for an Xperia ZL, you’ve got the good news. Sony has officially added the Sony Xperia ZL to Sony U.S. web site. People could sign up on this page to get when the smartphone is available for ordering. Besides the black and white color options, a red version is also displayed.

Currently, the Xperia ZL has been confirmed to be launching in Russia, Canada, Germany and US. There’s been no detailed information about the Xperia ZL price. But it is believed the Xperia ZL would be mostly priced the same as Xperia Z, which is reportedly to be priced equal to Samsung Galaxy Note 2. Sources indicate the phone will be sim-free and will have LTE antennas available for several bands. The Sony web site lists three colors for the device – red, black and white. The inclusion of the red variant is a nice surprise after that color was shown at an event for South East Asian markets.

A quick look at the Sony Xperia ZL specs:

* 5-inch display with 1920×1080 resolution

* 1.5Ghz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro processor

* Adreno 320 GPU

* 2GB RAM

* 16GB internal storage, expandable via microSD up to 64GB

* 13MP rear camera, 2MP front camera

* 2,370 mAh battery

* Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean

Sony to release Sony Xperia C670X with a 4.8in 1080p screen and Snapdragon 600?

2013 has been a very productive year for mobile electronic products for Sony. Just on the beginning of 2013, Sony released Xperia Z and Xperia Tablet Z to celebrate the new year. On the MWC 2013, Sony showed off the Xperia ZL and the Xperia Tablet Z, though no unannounced models. But unannounced models are starting to pile up in the rumor mill, the latest is the Sony Xperia C670X.

The newly rumored models of Sony smartphones could be originated to the models of Sony Xperia series. Recently on some pages there appeared Sony C680X. As we all know, the Xperia ZL model name is the C650X, while the Xperia Z is model named C660X. Thus it is quite normally for people to wondering whether there would be C670X. As for the possibility, such kind of guess is mostly reliable, according to a tipster who told XperiaBlog.net.

A rendered frontal image of the Sony Xperia C670X has been leaked online. Still, if it's real, judging by 4.8” diagonal of the screen, we estimate the phone will measure 133.7 x 70.1mm. That’s slightly shorter but wider than the HTC One (137.4 x 68.2 mm). The Sony C670X has no hardware buttons on the front, which accounts for the height difference. The C670X reportedly will have a 4.8” 1080p screen, a Snapdragon 600 chipset with a quad-core Krait 300 CPU at 1.8GHz, a 13MP camera Exmore RS camera and will run Android 4.2 Jelly Bean. Judging from these rumored specs, the C670X sounds like an HTC One competitor.

Another guess about this new smartphone is that will the C670X/C680X duo relate to each other as the Xperia Z / ZL (C650X/C660X)? It’s yet to see in the future for the official details.