The Jolla Smartphone is now official and it's simply called Jolla. The device is running the company's Meego-based Sailfish OS, which is now officially confirmed to support Android apps.

Jolla's specs are not completely revealed at this point. The phone packs a 4.5" display at the front and 8MP snapper at the back. There is 16GB of built-in storage, and user can expand that through the on-board microSD card slot. The battery is user replaceable, which lets half of the phone to snap out of the other half and as a result giving access to the battery. This Smartphone is available in these colors - light blue, green, white and orange.  Users will be able to interchange their back covers. After that, Jolla's Sailfish OS will identify which color is on and will adapt the theme of the UI to the color.

 Source : gsmarena

Nokia might release a Smartphone with 16-element camera lens by Pelican Imaging. Pelican Imaging claimed that the company is in talks with at least one manufacturer to bring their latest module in a Smartphone by 2014.The Pelican camera features 16 lenses, snaps images when the shutter is pressed and captures depth information at every pixel. The technology enables the photographer to change the focus point of the image even after the shot is captured. Also user can change the image backgrounds, scale any part of the image, and combine elements from multiple images into a new picture.

Source : gsmarena

Many Smartphone accessories adding optical zoom have been seen in past but none of them are like Snapzoom.

It has no lens system of its own so it enable the users to safely and simply mount their Smartphone to a pair of binoculars, to a microscope, or even a telescope to add extra magnification.

The story of Snapzoom started earlier in 2012 when Daniel Fujikake and Mac Nguyen tried shooting photos and videos through a pair of binoculars with an iPhone. Though they were happy with the results but an easy way of keeping the Smartphone aligned with the binoculars' eyepiece was not available at the time. Finally, the Snapzoom project was born and brought to Kickstarter where it received $55,000 funding it pledged for in a matter of days.  

Snapzoom can work with pretty much popular Smartphone like an iPhone, Android, Windows Phone handset, even the massive Samsung Galaxy Note II. 

The retail version will cost $75 once it is in market. Early adopters can grab it for $70 via Kickstarter or for $90 with a set of Bushnell binoculars. The accessory can be expected to be sale by September 2013.

Source : phonearena

Despite of the recent launch of iPhone 5, which is still to be made available in various parts of the world, Apple is now reportedly working on another version of the iconic Smartphone. As per the Next Web," It has found references of the next generation iPhone running iOS 7 operating system in its website logs. As per the logs, the device has unique hardware identifier - iPhone 6,1 and was running on iOS 7. Interestingly, the IP Address of the device belonged to Apple Cupertino headquarters".
iPhone 5S smartphone is expected to be launched in the mid of this year. Apple has iPhone 5 as the flagship Smartphone in its present line up. The incomparable hardware identifier of its daily models is iPhone 5,1 while 4G-LTE models have iPhone 5,2. The declaration of the new iPhone and iOS 7 can be expected at the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference 2013 which is likely to happen in June. Apple might give a sneak peek to the iOS 7 with new version of Apple Maps in the late first quarter of this year.

Source : Themobileindian

In-house developed application, Find My iPhone, with driving directions has been updated by Apple. This app which was meant to locate the lost iPhone only, can now also give driving direction to the spot where the iPhone has been located.
Previously Apple had unveiled the Find My iPhone application using which a user can not only locate his iPhone but can also wipe out data from the device remotely either by using the app on other iOS devices or by using the app's web interface.
Although, looking at the fearful stories and debacles caused by the latest Apple Maps app that stranded some users in Australia in the middle of a jungle rather of a city, it becomes hard for users to judge whether the real location or driving directions are accurate or not.
With the support of this app, one can also show a custom message on the iPhone, play sounds for two minutes at a full volume or even remotely wipe all data on it. This updates now arrives with three major buttons - Play Sound, Lost Mode and Erase on the Map View. To use this app, users needs an active iCloud account associated with the lost device, and the access device to be running iOS 5 or later version. Users can easily download the updated Find My iPhone app from the Apple App Store.

Source : Themobileindian