Research In Motion (RIM) is getting prepared to strengthen its application base on the new BlackBerry 10 beta platform The company has released development tools and developer alpha devices ( test devices ). RIM is also enticing app developers with a minimum revenue commitment of Rs 5 lakh ($10,000) for every app made by them that is approved on the BlackBerry OS 10 platform. It has been stated by vice president of developer relations, RIM that RIM will guarantee developers of quality apps a minimum of $10,000 in annual earnings, if the developer's revenue comes in under the $10,000 mark during their first year; RIM will pay them the difference. For RIM’s amazing offer the apps must first meet a strict new quality certification program of RIM's app team. After that it will be approved for sale in the App World. This is not the end. The next move is that the app must generate at least Rs 50,000 ($1,000) on its own before RIM's offer of Rs 5,00,000 comes into play.

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Formally Samsung has announced Galaxy Chat Smartphone with QWERTY keyboard and candy bar form factor. This new Galaxy Chat runs on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS. This youth focused Smartphone comes with two megapixel camera at the back for quickly clicking photos and sharing over social networks.

Device Specifications:

• 3.0 VGA">QVGA touchscreen display
• TouchWiz UI layered on top
• ChatON instant messaging application
• 4 GB onboard storage
• 32 GB expandable memory with a micro SD card
• Bluetooth 3.0
• WiFi support
• Micro USB 2.0 port
• S Planner apps
• Quickoffice Editor

This month Samsung Galaxy Chat will be launched in Spain and then will be made available in other markets that include Europe, Latin America, Middle East, China, Southeast Asia, and Southwest Asia. Till now Samsung has not revealed the price.

Source : Phonearena

Everyone is now looking at popular custom ROM makers CyanogenMod to provide details after the release of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean that when they will be releasing an update to CyanogenMod. The team has taken to Google+ but they did not provide an ETA for the update. They did provide a few details about the update itself. CM10 is the next update, keeping with the tradition of giving the update the same number as the position of the alphabet the Android version is named after (‘J’ in Jelly Bean being the 10th letter).
Since Jelly Bean is not a major update over Ice Cream Sandwich, the way ICS was over Gingerbread, there won’t have to do any major rewriting as they had to do for CM9, which means the update should arrive relatively quicker. The team is not 100% sure about this as Google still hasn’t revealed the source code for Jelly Bean. Features like Project Butter are also incorporated. If your v handset was compatible with CM9 then it should be eligible to get Android 4.1 as well. Presently team is working on releasing a stable version of CM9, after which they will focus on CM7 and CM10.

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Samsung has unveiled an Android app that will help you feel the spirit of the upcoming Olympic Games which are going to start on July 27. This application will help the users to take Part 2012 and offers tours of the Olympic venues, info on the UK, the latest news and it will even let you participate. You are not allowed to take part in the real games but at least in the augmented reality games. Take Part 2012 features 360-degree panoramas the venues of the games and the Top 10 list of British attraction (according to David Beckham). You can check them out in your free time. You can also play number of games like 100m Sprint, 110m hurdles, 100m freestyle swimming and double-trap shooting, plus Penalty Kicks and Archery augmented reality (owners of the latest Galaxy phones are promised HD graphics). Individual and country leader boards will be there for game. News and polls about the games will be there. The polls will show you what people around the world think. This being a promo app, it will also include a tour of the Samsung Galaxy S III, Samsung’s Olympic Games Phone. You can get this from Play Store free of cost.

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According to the latest reports Samsung's ChatON instant messaging service will soon get video calls. It has been reported that this will work over both Wi-Fi and 3G/4G internet connections, just like FaceTime on iOS 6. Firstly it is expected that Android version of the client to get video calls , although seeing the functionality making its way to clients for other platforms is quite likely. Samsung introduced ChatON service less than a year ago as an alternative to Apple's iMessage and RIM's BBM. ChatON allows group chats, file transfer, and other neat stuff with other ChatON users. ChatON can be used on iOS, Bada, Windows Phone, as well as BlackBerry Smartphone’s in the addition of Android devices. This is the unofficial information as Samsung has not confirmed it. There is no official information revealed that when video chats will arrive on ChatON. But it seems that first birthday is a perfect opportunity to launch the new feature.

Source : Phonearena