FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELTS . ***ANDRIOD 3.0*** IS ALL SET TO COME..

Google has released its Android 3.0 (code-name Honeycomb) software development kit (SDK) preview, allowing mobile developers to get an early hands-on with what the first tablet-only version of the Android operating system has to offer. With Honeycomb, built from the ground up for devices with larger screen sizes, there's a new "holographic" user interface, as Google describes it, plus improvements to multitasking, notifications, widgets and more.

Now that the SDK is public, we can get a look at what Honeycomb includes, how it will look and yes, in typical Google fashion, we can even check out the new Android Easter eggs tucked away in the SDK, too.

For Testing Only

The SDK offers non-final APIs (application programming interfaces) and is for testing purposes only. Google says its release - a few weeks ahead of the final version - is intended to allow developers time to familiarize themselves with the new UI patterns, APIs and capabilities. But a word of warning - Engadget went hands on with the kit yesterday and said it was "extremely slow - nearly to the point of uselessness." Yikes.

If you're just curious about its insides and don't need to test anything yourself, it may be better to just stick with the news and forum postings for now, from the sounds of it.

New Features

Some of the notable new features in Honeycomb include the following, according to Google:

• UI framework for creating great apps for larger screen devices: Developers can use a new UI components, new themes, richer widgets and notifications, drag and drop, and other new features to create rich and engaging apps for users on larger screen devices.
• High-performance 2D and 3D graphics: A new property-based animation framework lets developers add great visual effects to their apps. A built-in GL renderer lets developers request hardware-acceleration of common 2D rendering operations in their apps, across the entire app or only in specific activities or views. For adding rich 3D scenes, developers take advantage of a new 3D graphics engine called Renderscript.
• Support for multicore processor architectures: Android 3.0 is optimized to run on either single- or dual-core processors, so that applications run with the best possible performance.
• Rich multimedia: New multimedia features such as HTTP Live streaming support, a pluggable DRM framework, and easy media file transfer through MTP/PTP, give developers new ways to bring rich content to users.
• New types of connectivity: New APIs for Bluetooth A2DP and HSP let applications offer audio streaming and headset control. Support for Bluetooth insecure socket connection lets applications connect to simple devices that may not have a user interface.
• Enhancements for enterprise: New administrative policies, such as for encrypted storage and password expiration, help enterprise administrators manage devices more effectively.

More details on the developer features are here.

For End Users, a New UI

One of the most dramatic changes in Honeycomb, from an end user's perspective at least, is the completely revamped user interface (UI) that looks nothing like the one you see on Android phones today. From Google's own Developer site, there are number of new screenshots and details about the UI changes.

These include:

• System Bar: The notifications bar from the Android phone has been transformed into a "System Bar," which now lives at the bottom of the screen. From here, you can access notifications, system status and the soft navigation buttons (Back, Home and Recent Apps). On some Android phones, recent apps didn't have its own dedicated button, but was invoked by a long press on the Home button - that's how it works on the Nexus S, for example.
• Action Bar: The Menu area from Android phones has become the Action Bar on Honeycomb. Now at the top of the screen, this bar provides access to the contextual options, navigation, widgets and other content, as dictated by the application currently running. If anything, the Action Bar calls to mind the way the Mac OS works, where the application you're in dictates the menu choices seen at the top of your screen.
• Customizable Homescreens: Honeycomb comes with five customizable homescreens which users can add widgets, app shortcuts and wallpapers to. Each homescreens offers a launcher for access to all the applications and search box for apps, contacts, media files, Web content and more. Recent Apps: Visual multitasking is enabled through the Recent Apps button, as described above. Now its own button on the System Bar, the most recently accessed apps will display with a snapshot of its actual state when you last viewed it.
• New Keyboard: Honeycomb's soft keyboard offers reshaped keys which have been repositioned for better targeting. New keys, including Tab for example, have been added, too. Also, can us juvenile if you wish, but a dedicated emoticon button is lots of fun. (Well, on phones it is.)
• Better Copy-and-Paste: The copy/paste functionality has been given an upgrade too. Now, a press-hold activates the "select" function, then you can drag the arrows to adjust the size of the selected area. From the Action Bar, you can copy, share, paste, Web search or find.

Connectivity Options: Honeycomb offers built-in support for the Media/Photo Transfer Protocol, which lets you sync with a USB-connected camera. You can also attach USB or Bluetooth keyboards. Bluetooth tethering is supported and Wi-Fi connectivity has been improved.

New Standard Apps

Also new in Honeycomb are major updates to the standard Android applications, the Browser, Camera and Gallery, Contacts apps and Email.

• Browser: The updated browser now offers tabbed browsing, "incognito" mode for private browsing and the bookmarks and history are in a single unified view. Automatic sign-in for Google sites is supported, as is bookmark sync with Chrome, multitouch gestures for JavaScript and plugins and there's an improved zoom and viewport mode.

Camera and Gallery: The camera app takes advantage of the large screen with easy access to exposure, focus, flash, zoom and the front-facing camera, the latter which is designed for video conferencing. Photos in the gallery can now be viewed fullscreen, too

Contacts: The updated contacts app has a two-pane UI and Fast Scroll. Contact info is presented in a card-like UI, too.

Email: The email app also uses a two-pane UI for organizing messages. You can select multiple messages at a time and then perform an action with the Action Bar. There's a new Email homescreen widget for keeping an eye on email at a glance.

SEMICONDUCTOR AND ITS APPLICATIONS

Semiconductor devices are electronic components that exploit the electronic properties of semiconductor materials, principally silicon, germanium, and gallium arsenide, as well as organic semiconductors. Semiconductor devices have replaced thermionic devices (vacuum tubes) in conventional modern computing. They use electronic conduction in the solid state as opposed to the gaseous state or thermionic emission in a high vacuum.
Semiconductor devices are manufactured both as single discrete devices and as integrated circuits (ICs), which consist of a number—from a few (as low as two) to billions—of devices manufactured and interconnected on a single semiconductor substrate.
The main reason why semiconductor materials are so useful is that the behavior of a semiconductor can be easily manipulated by the addition of impurities, known as doping. Semiconductor conductivity can be controlled by introduction of an electric field, by exposure to light, and even pressure and heat; thus, semiconductors can make excellent sensors. Current conduction in a semiconductor occurs via mobile or "free" electrons and holes, collectively known as charge carriers. Doping a semiconductor such as silicon with a small amount of impurity atoms, such as phosphorus or boron, greatly increases the number of free electrons or holes within the semiconductor. When a doped semiconductor contains excess holes it is called "p-type", and when it contains excess free electrons it is known as "n-type", where p (positive for holes) or n (negative for electrons) is the sign of the charge of the majority mobile charge carriers. The semiconductor material used in devices is doped under highly controlled conditions in a fabrication facility, or fab, to precisely control the location and concentration of p- and n-type dopants. The junctions which form where n-type and p-type semiconductors join together are called p-n junctions


SEMICONDUCTOR APPLICATIONS

All transistor types can be used as the building blocks of logic gates, which are fundamental in the design of digital circuits. In digital circuits like microprocessors, transistors act as on-off switches; in the MOSFET, for instance, the voltage applied to the gate determines whether the switch is on or off.
Transistors used for analog circuits do not act as on-off switches; rather, they respond to a continuous range of inputs with a continuous range of outputs. Common analog circuits include amplifiers and oscillators.
Circuits that interface or translate between digital circuits and analog circuits are known as mixed-signal circuits.
Power semiconductor devices are discrete devices or integrated circuits intended for high current or high voltage applications. Power integrated circuits combine IC technology with power semiconductor technology, these are sometimes referred to as "smart" power devices. Several companies specialize in manufacturing power semiconductors.

SOURCE:WIKIPEDIA.ORG

APPLICATIONS OF SUPERCONDUCTORS

The followig are the applications of superconductors:

Superconducting magnets are some of the most powerful electromagnets known. They are used in MRI and NMR machines, mass spectrometers, and the beam-steering magnets used in particle accelerators. They can also be used for magnetic separation, where weakly magnetic particles are extracted from a background of less or non-magnetic particles, as in the pigment industries.
In the 1950s and 1960s, superconductors were used to build experimental digital computers using cryotron switches. More recently, superconductors have been used to make digital circuits based on rapid single flux quantum technology and RF and microwave filters for mobile phone base stations.
Superconductors are used to build Josephson junctions which are the building blocks of SQUIDs (superconducting quantum interference devices), the most sensitive magnetometers known. SQUIDs are used in scanning SQUID microscopes and magnetoencephalography. Series of Josephson devices are used to realize the SI volt. Depending on the particular mode of operation, a Josephson junction can be used as a photon detector or as a mixer. The large resistance change at the transition from the normal- to the superconducting state is used to build thermometers in cryogenic micro-calorimeter photon detectors.
Other early markets are arising where the relative efficiency, size and weight advantages of devices based on high-temperature superconductivity outweigh the additional costs involved.

Promising future applications include high-performance smart grid, electric power transmission, transformers, power storage devices, electric motors (e.g. for vehicle propulsion, as in vactrains or maglev trains), magnetic levitation devices, fault current limiters, nanoscopic materials such as buckyballs, nanotubes, composite materials and superconducting magnetic refrigeration. However, superconductivity is sensitive to moving magnetic fields so applications that use alternating current (e.g. transformers) will be more difficult to develop than those that rely upon direct current.


source: wikipedia.org;youtube.com

HOW THIS WONDER (MOBILE) CAME INTO EXISTENSE

In today's world, most people communicate through the use cellular phones. It's hard to believe that fifteen years ago cell phones were a rarity. Below is a history chronicling the dawn of the cell phone to its current state.

1843 - A skilled analytical chemist by the name of Michael Faraday began exhaustive research into whether space could conduct electricity. Faraday exposed his great advances of nineteenth-century science and technology and his discoveries have had an incalculable effect on technical development toward cellular phone development.

1865 - Dr. Mahlon Loomis of Virginia, a dentist, may have been the first person to communicate through wireless via the atmosphere. Between 1866 and 1873 he transmitted telegraphic messages at a distance of 18 miles between the tops of Cohocton and Beorse Deer Mountains, Virginia. He developed a method of transmitting and receiving messages by using the Earth's atmosphere as a conductor and launching kites enclosed with a copper screens that were linked to the ground with copper wires. Congress then awarded Loomis a $50,000 research grant.

1973 - Dr Martin Cooper, is considered the inventor of the first portable handset. Dr. Cooper, former general manager for the systems division at Motorola, and the first person to make a call on a portable cellular phone.

1973 - Dr. Cooper set up a base station in New York with the first working prototype of a cellular telephone, the Motorola Dyna-Tac. Mr. Cooper and Motorola took the phone technology to New York to show the public.
1977 - Cell phones go public. Public cell phone testing began. The city of Chicago was where the first trials began with 2000 customers, and eventually other cell phone trials appeared in the Washington D.C. and Baltimore area. Japan began testing cellular phone service in 1979.
1988 - this year changed many of the technologies that had become typical in the past. The Cellular Technology Industry Association (CTIA) was developed to lay down practical goals for cellular phone providers. This included research for new applications for cell phone development. A new standard was placed with the creation of the TDMA Interim Standard 54, in 1991 by the Telecommunications Industry Association.

In spite of the unbelievable demand, it took cellular phone service 37 years total to become commercially accessible in the US. According to the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, today there are more than 60 million customers with cellular phones, even though wireless service was just invented nearly 50 years ago. The cellular business was a $3 million market 25 years ago and has grown increasingly to close to a $30 billion per year industry.

Our friends over at Chinavasion are at it again with another crazy USB gadget, this time its a UFO USB Webcam, with a built in fan and a mic.

Our friends over at Chinavasion are at it again with another crazy USB gadget, this time its a UFO USB Webcam with a built in fan and a mic.

This fun USB gadget looks like it just landed on earth, and it features a 1.3 megapixel camera which is capable of recoding video at 640 x 480.


Here’s the specs.

• Main function: webcam with MIC, fan, and built in white LED lights.
• Additional function: Digital camera and video for computer
• Imaging Sensor: 1.3 megapixels
• Webcam Sensor Resolution: 640×480 VGA
• Video:
• 16-bit color
• Lens image focus of 5cm ~ infinity
• Frame rate: 35FPS
• Connection: USB.0
• Power supply: USB Powered
• System: Windows 98SE / 2000 / ME / XP / Vista, Macintosh OS compatible
• Certifications: FCC, CE
• Dimensions: 75mm x 225mm (diameter x height)

There is no word on pricing as yet.

MOBILE NUMBER PORTABILITY

After a long wait and numerous missed deadlines, mobile number portability (MNP) is finally here. Set for a nationwide roll-out today, MNP will usher in an era of new freedom for mobile subscribers in the country. The technology will allow subscribers to change their mobile service provider without the fear of losing their old mobile number.

This means users will be able to retain their old mobile number even after they decide to change their service provider. And yes, the service is available for both postpaid and prepaid customers and also on both GSM and CDMA platforms.

Here’s all about how MNP works in six simple steps.
1.Send an SMS to 1900 in following format: PORT - eg. PORT 9999999999.
2.You will get an SMS reply that contains a unique porting code.
3.SMS to the preferred operator quoting the unique code. This code is valid only for a few days, and one must apply again if it expires.
4.Your existing operator will check with new operator & if there are no dues then approval will be given for porting.
5.You will get an SMS on the time and date when porting will take place. Rules mandate that process be completed within 4 days of applying.
6.After porting is complete, wait for an SMS from your new operator confirming the switch. Your phone may be dead for about 2 hours when the porting takes place.

ENJOY YOUR NEW SERVICES THEREAFTER..

PHONES TO LOOK OUT FOR......

Huawei had let on earlier in the month that it’d be releasing three low-cost Android handsets into the Indian market – the Ideos X5, X6, and the low cost U8150. Though expected to launch for less than Rs. 8,000, the still inexpensive Huawei Ideos U8150 will retail for Rs. 7,000

While the phone does not steal the title of cheapest Android phone away from the Micromax Andro A60 or the upcoming Intex device (pegged for Rs. 5,500), it does offer a capacitive touchscreen, 3.2MP camera, and Android 2.2 Froyo right out of the box.

The Ideos U8150 has been launched in partnership with Aircel, with subscribers getting special postpaid data plans – up to 2GB data free. Check out the full specifications of the phone below:

 

Model	U8150
2G Network	GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network	HSDPA 900 / 2100
	HSDPA 1700 / 2100
Dimensions	104.1 x 55.9 x 12.7 mm
Weight	102.1 g
Display	2.8-inch (240x320) capacitive touchscreen, 256k colours
Camera	3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels, geo-tagging, video recording CIF
OS	Android OS, v2.2 (Froyo)
CPU	Qualcomm MSM 7225 528 MHz processor
Memory	256 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM
Storage	microSD expandability, up to 32GB
GPRS	Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
EDGE	Class 10, 236.8 kbps
3G	HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps
Connectivity	Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth v2.0 w/A2DP, microUSB v2.0
Audio support	3.5 mm audio jack, MP3/WMA/eAAC+ formats, FM radio
Video support	MP4/H.263/H.264 formats
Colours	Black body / blue, red, yellow backpanels
Battery	Standard battery, Li-Ion 1200 mAh
Stand-by	Up to 288 h
Talk time	Up to 9 h

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