Samsung Galaxy S4

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The Samsung Galaxy S4. The phone everyone wants to check out, and then probably buy. The most pre-registered phone ever with some retailers. And the handset that brings a hugely impressive screen in a phone that's SMALLER than its predecessor.

We loved our short time with it at its launch in New York, and while it's an incremental update that doesn't add anything that we haven't seen on other phones in terms of features, the overall packaging is hugely impressive.

We can't wait to get this beauty in our labs for more in-depth testing, as the internet, media, camera and more all offer so much to play with. Let's hope that battery holds up, eh?

Hands on: Samsung Galaxy S4 review

Nokia launches Lumia 920 and 820 in India, 620 coming in February

Nokia Lumia 620, Nokia Lumia 920, Nokia Lumia 820

Nokia is launching its Lumia 920 flagship in India today alongside the Lumia 820. The phones will be available in brick and mortar stores as well as through Nokia's online store with free shipping starting tomorrow and will cost $697 and $504 (RS 38,199 and RS 27,599)respectively.

The budget Windows Phone 8 offering Lumia 620 will be available in India from February but the price and exact date aren't available just yet.

The Lumia 920 isn't exactly on the cheap side - you could get a Galaxy S III for less and a Galaxy Note II for about the same. The Lumia flagman is, however, cheaper than a brand new iPhone 5.

HTC's Windows Phone 8X and 8S, which are the other available WP8 smartphones in India are also priced lower, but that's to be expected given their more modest specs sheets.

To refresh your memory the Lumia 920 has a 4.5" ClearBlack IPS display on tap with the PureMotion HD+ technology, which ensures higher framerates for lower motion blur. There's an 8.7 MP snapper on the back with PureView technology for enhanced low-light performance and Carl Zeiss optics. The device is powered by a dual-core Snapdragon S4 with two 1.5 GHz Krait cores.

The Lumia 820 uses a lower-grade dual-core Krait chip, 8 MP camera with 1080p video recording and a 4.3" ClearBlack AMOLED display of WVGA (480 x 800) resolution.

Finally the Lumia 620 has a 3.8" WVGA screen (again ClearBlack technology), 5 MP camera and a dual-core 1 GHz Krait processor.

All three smartphones are running on the Windows Phone 8 platform.

Thanks, Aswin Bhojarajan for sending this in!

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If You Need to Stay Updated, Find the Best Apps for You

If you need to receive alerts about certain aspects related to your work or your personal life, then finding the best apps that accomplish this for you is one of the most convenient benefits of having a Smartphone. This way, you're not tied to your computer. Since there can be a multitude of apps available, it's good to make your own top top 10 app list to choose from. This you can do by looking at other such lists that experts have published. Cross-referencing a few of them is a good way to narrow down what apps seem to stand out. Still, since these apps need to suit your purposes, if you don't see something that seems best for you, keep looking. I know I actually wasn't completely convinced about a very popular app, and when I looked a little further, I was so pleased to find something just right for me. Nonetheless, I find that it's always good to start with published lists to get an idea of what's out there, what's the latest, and what stands the test of time. It may take a bit of doing, but in the end, the convenience of having just the right apps on your Smartphone will be worth the research.

Nokia Lumia 800 How can saves on 3G downloads compared to iOS and Android

Every day we’re finding more reasons why we love our Nokia Windows Phone and we’ve just found a new one, as the great Windows Phone 7.5 OS has managed to automatically help us to save money on our monthly phone bill. Join us as we show you what we’ve found on our Nokia Lumia 800.

When it comes to using our smartphones, we always try to be as careful as possible not to exceed our minutes, texts and data usage each month, but with so much to say and do with our Nokia phones, it’s not always the easiest thing to do. Well now our Nokia Lumia 800 has stepped in to help us out.

While we were sitting on the train home from yesterday, we thought we’d catch up on downloading the latest apps and songs we’ve been meaning to try out on our Nokia Windows Phone. So we quickly activated 3G on our handset, got connected and got down to business at the Windows Phone Marketplace.

As usual it hadn’t crossed our minds that downloading so much content might push us over our monthly limit (hey, we’re stupid like that), so we were busily downloading when Windows Phone 7.5 decided to save us from ourselves and stepped in with a great little feature that we hadn’t spotted until now.

Any time you try and download a large file over 3G on your Nokia Windows Phone, the Windows Phone 7.5 OS automatically steps in and puts the largest files in a queue to be downloaded when you’re in range of a Wi-Fi connection, saving you money and letting you download the file faster.

Of course you might be more sensible about your downloads then we seem to manage, but for us this great feature on our Lumia 800 is our new best friend and we can’t wait to see how much money we’ll have saved on our monthly bill (which we’ll no doubt then somehow manage to go and spend on something else).