5 Innovative features predicted to be in iphone 5

 There is a Rumour that iphone 5 will release in this yearend (most probably this October).As the Apple every year launches new product with innovative features. It’s almost quite certain that the next iPhone to be released would be the iPhone 5 – although it would be the 6th gen iPhone (considering 3GS and 4S on the line). As to the sentimental factor, the iPhone 5 was probably the last iPhone project Steve Jobs was working on. Something on the lines of Steve’s disapproval for a 4-inch screen on the iPhone was heard on many websites recently – indicating something about the iPhone 5 specs.

Many of these innovative features of iPhone 5 listed below !

     1. Wireless Charging

          Well… this iPhone 5 specification would give you break! But you never know the wireless charging is really creating a mass appeal. It could be possible with the inductive wireless charging technology. If you could juice up the battery of iPhone 5 then this will be a big hit. So until iPhone 5 release date comes and the Apple release new smart phone with super cool iPhone 5 features, imagine charging this smartphone without cable.

    2. Fire-proof iPhone
               New iPhone 5 is likely to be the fire-proof and the company has organized a patent app for highly developed material which is halogen-free flame retardant. It could be incorporated in the iPhone 5 specifications to build this new iPhone 5 and other Apple products.

     3. iPhone 5 Could Have A Quad-Core Processor

             Stunned with this iPhone 5 feature?? Well, why not to be…This would mark the beginning of a new CPU-arms race in the market. A dual-core processor for a smartphone has become a common thing these days. One of the chief competitions between Samsung smartphones running Android and Apple smartphones running iOS is the processor each boasts of. The A5 has outdone most Android-supporting processors that other companies have come up with, but according to certain rumors, Apple could be one-upping the race with an all-new, better-than-A6, quad-core processor!

   

    4. iPhone 5 Form Factor Could Be Bigger Than iPhone 4S?
         Unlike iPhone 4, we’ve not had any testing prototype leaked out accidentally. This means all we have is speculation built upon speculation. Still, there are certain clues – like the 4-inch iPhone 5 screen – which could give a bit of a hint as to the form factor. We’re expecting a normal, iPhone 4S kind of a form-factor. All those rumors about a curved-glass display are out the window. In a lawsuit between Apple and Samsung, Apple suggested Samsung to go for curved-glass form-factors – which kind of proves that Apple isn’t taking that up for its iPhone 5.Of course, we could expect the iPhone 5 to grow a bit bigger than the palm-friendly iPhone 4S or iPhone 4. There has been a constant need raised by iPhone users as to the screen size – and this 4-inch thing could probably be the answer to the need. But thenthe iPhone 5 could only have the display screen larger – not the whole body. That would make UI bigger, but the palm-friendliness remain unaltered.

   5. NFC Payment
             According to the reports, this NFC (Near Field Communication) technology is under testing and if it comes, then user will be able to make countless payment through scanner. However, according to the ibtimes, the analysts at Jefferies are expecting that this NFC technology will be revealed in the iPhone 5S (probably next version of iPhone 5). Such iPhone 5 features will definitely create waves in the market.

More than these sometime before the rumors began spreading like wildfire, there was this strange but thoughtful remark about iPhone 5 supporting Nano-SIMs to make the design compact – or keep it unaltered (from iPhone 4S) despite a size-increase in the display.

 With these Innovative features Apple very sure break the market this year.

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Apple's App Store breaks the 25 billion downloads mark

Apple has recently registered it's Appstore to the 25 blillion downloads list. The Apple Appstore download counter shows that Apple has now served it's download mechanism to provide access to 25 billion app downloads since the service was started.

Apple has announced that there has been 25 billion downloads from the App Store to date. The countdown to 25,000,000,000 apps began on February 17th when Apple said it would give away a $10K gift card to the person who downloaded the app — or filed a claim in its non-purchase form -- that broke the record .
Apple has run similar promotions like this in the past, celebrating 10 billion App Store downloads a year ago and 10 billion iTunes Music Store downloads in 2010. There have also been markers at the 1B song and 100M song milestones.

From a development standpoint, the 550,000 iOS apps have generated an average of 45,000 downloads each, although the figures will be skewed by the most popular apps like Angry Birds, Facebook, eBay, Twitter and others, which have done tens or even hundreds of millions of iOS downloads.

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Android vs iOS vs Windows Phone 7 : A mobile encounter

If You're a first time shopper or you wanted to upgrade to another mobile platform, here are some of the comparisons between the IOS, Android and Windows phone 7. This gives an exact idea of how these mobile platforms stack against one another.


TOTAL DEVICES




Before getting in to which platform to choose, You should know how many devices are there for you to choose from each one. As Android is a free distributed it consists a wide range of devices. There are just 100 devices from the biggest manufacturers like Samsung, Motorola, HTC, LG, Sony Ericsson and Acer. But, when you consider Asus, Amazon, Barnes&Noble, Toshiba and some other companies the number easily goes into hundreds.
While the fresh Windows Phone 7 has currently a total of 20 devices available and IOS is available around 11 models of  iphone, ipad, ipod touch.

TOTAL APPS

  When coming to the Apps IOS leads the way with many apps. Not only there are more apps in App Store than in Android market, it has more quality apps and less garbage. On the other hand free os Android also has major share of apps. Android is expected to cross Apple by the end of the year, but it didn't take place.

Windows is the new mobile platform and looking at the figure 43,000, it doesn't seem to be a bad number.

TABLET OPTIMIZED APPS



  It is no wonder that the market dominating iPad has the most tablet optimized apps. Android tablet doesn't have more apps. Developers are not developing them because they are not selling and it is soon going to change. But for now iPad has the most dominant apps in the market.It’s worth noting that the iPad and Android tablets can all run smaller-screen phone apps, but they look better on Android than they do on iOS.

Windows Phone doesn’t run on tablets, instead Microsoft is preparing windows 8 for future tablets.


UNAPPROVED 3rd PARTY APPS

   Casual users may not worry about this stat, but if you want maximum freedom in the software you install, you’ll want to pay attention. Apple and Microsoft both employ the walled garden approach, with apps needing to go through an approval process before being made available for iOS or Windows Phone.
iOS and Windows Phone devices require a jailbreak (hack) in order to install unapproved apps.

While the Android market allows almost anything and allows you to install 3rd party apps by downloading from the web. 




CLOUD INTEGRATION 

One of the buzz words of 2011 is cloud, it lets you store your data on remote servers.It can save precious flash storage and help you to effortlessly keep multiple devices in sync.

Google is no stranger to the cloud, with Gmail and its numerous free web-based services like Google Music, Google Docs, Google Voice.Android doesn’t have an integrated cloud service. Android users can, however, use third-party apps like Dropbox or Box.net to access cloud files.

Apple manges it's cloud using iCloud which serves less as direct file storage and more as an invisible syncing of content. You can also backup your entire device via iCloud. Defined by the lack of effort it requires, iCloud is easily the most advanced yet simple cloud service for any device.

Microsoft’s SkyDrive is its cloud service, but it isn’t nearly as seamless as iCloud. It doesn’t even come preinstalled on Windows Phone, requiring a marketplace download. Like third-party service Dropbox, SkyDrive is more of a file locker than an invisible syncing service. 


VOICE CONTROL 

 Android and Windows Phone have had limited voice control for ages, but Apple stole their thunder with the arrival of Siri.
Google is reportedly scrambling to come up with its own answer to Siri, but right now Apple’s assistant is in a different league than Android Voice Commands or Microsoft's Tellme. While the other two platforms allow for dictation and specific voice commands, Siri lets you speak in natural language. It isn’t perfect, and it will improve over the next few years, but it’s more far-reaching, it creates the illusion of a conversation, and it rids you of the burden of memorizing specific commands.
The only catch with  Siri  is that, at this moment, it’s only available on the iPhone 4S. By this time next year, though, Siri will likely be on the iPad 3, iPhone 5, and possibly a new iPod touch.


MULTITASKING

  While they use different methods, all three platforms now have multitasking. Power users will insist thatonly Android offers true multitasking, but for most of us, the app-switching experience will be the same on iOS and Windows Phone.
All offer switching between apps — playing music, GPS navigation, VoIP calls, email notifications, and many other tasks to happen in the background.


NAVIGATION

 All platforms provide a variety of voiced turn-by-turn GPS navigation options, but Android has a big advantage with Google Maps Navigation, which is excellent and integrated with Android Voice Commands, is free. There is a growing number of free and cheap navigation apps for all platforms, but few rival Google’s service.
 


SEARCH



    Being Google’s platform, Android is tied to Google search. Few people have a problem with that. Being Microsoft’s platform, Windows Phone is tied to Bing. Many people would have a problem with that.
While those platforms offer search that is integrated into the OS, iOS requires you to open the browser to search. The caveat to add is that iPhone 4S owners can search the web from anywhere by querying Siri to “search the web for ___.’ iOS defaults to Google, but also gives you the option to switch the default search engine to Yahoo! or Bing.


DUAL CORE DEVICES



     In addition to LTE and the cloud, 2011 also saw the advent of dual-core mobile devices. Much like 4G, Android’s greater volume of devices has it leading the charge here too. We could nail down the exact number of dual core Android devices, but after a week or two the stat would be obsolete. Just know that Android has many more than iOS or Windows Phone.

Apple’s iPad 2 and iPhone 4S both have the dual-core A5 chip. Windows Phone is still waiting for its first dual-core device.



THIRD PARTY KEYBOARD APPS



   Typing on a virtual keyboard can be a pain. It’s easy to tap out the wrong word, and built-in autocorrect suggestions can sometimes do more harm than good. Having the option of using innovative new keyboards can be a perk.
Right now Android is the only platform that lets you customize the on-screen keyboard. In addition to the default Android keyboard (or default manufacturer keyboard), you can choose to install a trace keyboard like  Swype or SlideIt, a prediction algorithm keyboard like Swiftkey, or even a bizarre gesture-based keyboard like 8pen.


NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION (NFS)

 While Near Field Communication (usually used for mobile payments) hasn’t quite taken off with retailers (yet), it’s a nice future-proofing feature to have on your phone. Android currently has a small handful of phones with  NFC chips (including the Galaxy Nexus and Nexus S), but it still trumps the number of NFC devices that the other platforms have: zero.


SHOWCASE PHONES 

 
     Reading about the three platforms is one thing, but it always helps to see each in action. If you’re heading to a store to get some hands-on time, you’ll want to compare the best that each has to offer.

For Android, that’s the  Galaxy Nexus. As Google’s latest flagship device, it runs the latest version of Android (Ice Cream Sandwich), has a gorgeous 4.65 inch Super AMOLED display, and it runs on Verizon’s speedy LTE network in the US.

The iPhoe 4S is Apple’s showcase phone. While it wasn’t the revolutionary iPhone 5 that many were hoping for, it still offers significant upgrades, including Siri, a dual-core A5 processor, and an 8MP camera.

The Lumia 800 is the flagship phone that Windows Phone has been needing, but, unfortunately, it’s still only available in Europe. If you can get your hands on the Lumia 800, it has solid specs and runs the latest version of Windows Phone, Mango.


SHOWCASE TABLETS

  While it isn’t officially endorsed by Google as a flagship tablet, the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime is, at this moment, the best tablet that runs Android. It packs a quad-core Tegra 3 processor, an impressive display, and it will run Ice Cream Sandwich sometime in January.

Until the iPad 3 arrives in a few months, the iPad 2  is obviously the Apple flagship tablet (aside from the original iPad, it’s the only Apple tablet). It has a slick (and thin) design, the dual-core A5 processor, and Apple’s unparalleled library of tablet apps.
Windows Phone isn’t designed for tablets; Windows 8 will eventually be Microsoft’s tablet OS.


FINAL VERDICT


We aren’t here to crown a victor in the mobile OS wars. If anything, sales will determine that. From that perspective, Android handily leads in market share, but the iPhone and iPad are the hottest-selling individual devices. But — apart from sports, elections, and other competitions — we don’t live in a world of universal champions. The best platform is whichever OS works for you.

The two big dogs — Android and iOS — each offers its own clear take on the mobile OS experience. The rivalry closely resembles that of Windows vs. Macintosh: one is closed and tied to specific hardware, the other is licensed and available on everything under the sun. Apple is playing the same part, but Google’s OS has replaced Microsoft in the other role.

Whether Microsoft can rebound and make this a three-way race remains to be seen; it’s a steep hill to climb, and the company’s hesitance to enter the US market with its Nokia partnership doesn’t bode well. But smartphones aren’t going anywhere anytime soon, and the company will have years to stage its attempted comeback.

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Future of Apple ipads

      Apple is going to release a two new ipads in 2012 but it is unknown that apple is going to use same A6 processor in them or not.Some tech insiders are felling that Apple will release a first verision of newest ipad in spring as usual.That may be ipad 2S and ipad 3 will be relesaed later in the same year.There is some evidence to suppot this ipad models.A few days ago Digitimes technical newspaper announced that ipad 3 was headed into production.

        Apple is also very intrested to release an another revolutionary version of ipad that may be ipad 3.

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