It seems like the Samsung Galaxy Note is getting some special treatment with the recently announced Premium Suite software upgrade. This should cheer up fans of the smartphone who might have been disappointed with the Android 4.0 update delay, considering the luck other Galaxy devices are flaunting. Apart from the Gingerbread to Ice Cream Sandwich transition, the package has been developed to offer several other revamps and tweaks in the system. This involves certain additional multimedia features and a suite of fresh applications optimized for the S Pen. The list includes S Note, an app which allows users to merge sketches and notes with other multimedia content.

The S Note application is equipped with numerous templates to be used for different tasks, apart from Shape Match and Formula Match. The latter is meant to draw and correct geometric shapes as well as solve numeric formulas. Digital cards can be created using the My Story feature. The Samsung Galaxy Note Premium Suite software upgrade is expected to roll out in the second quarter of 2012.

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All of us use our smartphones to click pictures, and why not? Today smartphones have some state of the camera hardware and software that enable you to click like a pro. Apps like Instagram and alike have been the next thing in mobile photography as they aid the user to click some really nice pictures with their smartphones. Here’s another such app that takes mobile photography to a whole new level. The Revolution Mosaic iPhone app will bring together 3,60,000 photos and stitch them together into one large mosaic. The app is still under development but will be hitting the app store soon.

Here is how the app will work:

When the revolution begins and the app launches, it will display an empty white space at first. It will be up to mobile users like you to fill that white space with photos from your phone. When you upload a photo, it will appear as a tiny dot in the white space of your screen. Every day, as users from around the world keep uploading photos, the number of dots will increase until a mosaic begins to form. At any time, you can pinch and zoom into the mosaic like a map, and clearly see the tiny photos that make up the larger mosaic.

The final mosaic that the app makes will be submitted to the website and will be available to the user. The final mosaic will be available for purchase through the app and the official website as a 48″ by 72″ poster. The app will be available somewhere around the month of May.

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India's mobile subscriber base will increase by 9 per cent this year to 696 million, according to research firm Gartner. Currently, India has 638 million users as per the end of 2011. The mobile service penetration in India is currently at 51 percent and is expected to grow to 72 percent by 2016, the research firm further stated.

While commending Indian telecom operators for innovate management, Gartner has also exhorted operators to improve their margins. It is to be noted that in the union budget 2012, the Finance Minister has proposed to increase the service tax after which many telecos said they will increase tariffs to compensate rising expenditures. Gartner has also pointed that India has tremendous opportunity in mobile data revenue as the country is yet to witness deep penetration of broadband. Infact, previous studies have also revealed that many Indians first used internet on their mobile phones.

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Online retail giant, Amazon is planning to bring three new models of its popular Kindle Fire tablet this year. Among them includes two 7 inch devices with different resolution and an 8.9 inch one, according to a report of China Economic News Service. Out of the three, one 7 inch Kindle Fire will have a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels resolution while the other 7 inch Kindle will have 1024 x 800 pixel resolution. The 8.9 inch screen based Amazon Kindle tablet will feature 1920 x 1200 display.

There is however no information regarding the price or availability. It must be remembered that the latest version of tablet - the Kindle Fire was launched in India in December last year after its international launch in September that year. So, we can hope these tablets to come to India soon after their launch - probably after a two month gap. The current Kindle Fire is an Android version of Amazon's Kindle eBook reader. It has a 7 inch multi-touch display with 600×1024 pixel resolution. It has 1 GHz dual core processor with Android 2.3 operating system. Kindle Fire is meant for reading digital books, digital comics, web browsing and casual movie streaming (due to limited on-board storage). However, the Kindle Fire tablet was criticized heavily for its undermining hardware and also several drawbacks were found in the software implementation.

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Opera just released the latest version of its server-accelerated Mini web browser for Android. Opera Mini 7 brings several new features, including improved hardware acceleration, which should drastically improve its smoothness. The Speed Dial screen has also been updated and you are now allowed to select the number of buttons you see there. Previously, Speed Dial was set to show 9 of your bookmarks and there was no way to alter that.

Naturally, the data compression, allowing you to save up to 90% of your data traffic is still Opera Mini 7′s key feature. The new release also comes with the mandatory host of bug-fixes, performance tweaks and compatibility improvements and can be downloaded from the Play Store right away. Alternatively, you can also visit m.opera.com from your Android browser to download the update. The option for installing non-market apps should be enabled on your phone for that to work, though.

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