Nokia PureView 808 – 41 mega pixel camera – Pre-launch review

The company who brings product in market first, gets the benefit of early bird launching. Then same brand name gets used in various similar products. For example, In India, Colgate was the toothpaste brand came first. So many people asks shopkeeper to give “Babool’s Colgate”. So In India Colgate has become a substitute name for tooth paste. Nokia got the same benefit in India in mobile market. Everyone will agree to the fact that, mobile reached to every single person in India mainly because of Nokia. So the equation was – mobile means Nokia. However, in last few years first Motorola, then Sony Ericson and now Samsung is responsible to end this monopoly of Nokia in Indian mobile market.

Now Nokia has again geared up to penetrate deep in Indian mobile market and is keeping all faith in Nokia Lumia. Similar to Nokia, Computer OS giant Microsoft has lost the wave in Mobile market. Therefore both Nokia and Microsoft will be benefitted if Nokia mobiles running on windows OS become popular.

Nokia understands the people pschycology very well and knows that, people will not notice you till you show some miracle. Nokia is about to bring this new miracle with the launch of Nokia PureView 808 mobile. In coming few weeks Nokia Pureview 808 mobile will be launched in India. Nokia is going to take mobile cameras to new height with the launch of Nokia PureView 808. The camera in Nokia PureView 808 is going to be of 41 mega pixels. This is really unbelievable. Nokia is using satellite technology to bring 41 megapixels camera in Nokia PureView 808.

Usually satellites have excellent quality remote sensors to get the pictures of Earth’s surface from space. These remote sensors are used in Nokia PureView 808 by keeping the efficiency same size is reduced. This is why you can also do HD recording in Nokia PureView 808. The experience of Nokia PureView 808 was provided to people who were present in Nokia Strategy Meet during cricket IPL season.

Set top box and DTH Set top box difference. Things to consider while buying Set top box in India

In India, after digitization, TV transmission is going change. This change in TV transmission will start from 1^st July 2012 in 4 metro cities of India. With respect to this announcement, customers in India will have to choose either “Direct To Home (DTH) set top box” or “Cable set top box”. Of course It is customer who is going to get benefitted out of this change. However, I saw that, there are many people who are confused about this change and don’t know what are the important points to be considered before buying DTH or Cable set top box. Following are the few points I feel one should consider while going for purchase of Set Top Box in India. First of all let’s understand digitization.

What is Digitization of TV services –

TV signals are currently distributed in India in analog format as well as digital format. Most cable operators within country provides analog format TV services whereas all DTH operators provide digital format TV services. Digitization means that all household TV sets using cable services would receive digital TV signal through Set Top Box. As a part of digitization every cable operator will be legally bound to transmit digital signals, which can be received at subscribers home through set top box only.

Comparing DTH and Cable Service at high level-

At high level if we compare DTH and Cable set to box, then I will say DTH is better. Because, DTH receives signal directly from satellite and reach to the TV through Set top Box; hence the picture quality is extremely good. However, the primary requirement of DTH is, the sky should be clean else disturbance in signal is observed. Signal disruption is a common problem in rainy season in India. Also DTH is costly and few may not find suitable financially. Cable set top box is attached to TV using fiber wires and it is cheaper as compared to DTH service.

DTH providers in India are Dish, Airtel, Sun, Videocon whereas for cable connection in Mumbai, we have Hathway cable, In cable, DigiCable, Den Cable providers. All these DTH and cable providers work as per rules and regulations set by TRAI however, quality of services will vary depending on the company network capabilities.

Windows Azure – Shared Access Signature for Azure Blob Storage Container

My client has amazing chemical gotcha in his mind. One moment he says something and next moment he asks me to do exactly opposite of it.

Anyways, He asked me to create a Private container in Windows Azure Blob storage and then asked me to give rights to access the container for 1 hour. This is where I came to know about creating Shared Access Signature for Blob Storage. Shared Access Signature can be used in scenarios Azure Blob Storage container is private & still you want to give access to it for certain time duration say 10 days.

Following is the example how Share Access Signature can be created for Windows Azure Blob Storage container and how you can retrieve data from it. For demo purpose I am using development storage. As usual, let’s create a simple cloud service project and add a sample web role in it. Then add a page SharedAccessPolicyDemo.aspx in the web role. I added 2 buttons & few labels on the page to create Shared Access Signature for a private container and access data present in the blob. My final Solution structure is as follows –

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HTC one V – an android 4.0 powered smart phone from HTC - Features and Review

In the field of smart phone, along with BlackBerry, one more company penetrated deep in the market. The name is HTC. Initially, in the starting age, “smart phones mean HTC” was the trend. After that, Samsung and other few companies stepped into smart phone and HTC had gone on back foot. Now HTC is trying to rise again with new series of smart phones.

Great things in Small Packages

HTC describes their new smart phone HTC one V as “Great things in small Packages”. Main change in HTC 1 V lies in the size!!! The new HTC one V is rectangle in shape however corners are curved. Because of this curvature HTC one V has become easy to hold in hand.

Display

 It's a 3.7in LCD panel with a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels. The only downside is that the surface is less oleo phobic (lacking affinity for oils) than other smart phone screens so fingerprints are more vivid.