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Summer has arrived and is here to stay. This summer, one can enjoy the true flavours of the season with an extravaganza of brilliant and feature-rich phones that can light up happiness and spread cheer. The year 2012 is raining phones. Yes, even in the season of summer, great phones are pouring, one after the other. Here’s a look at the best and the latest, which brighten up one’s life with their irresistible features and true value for money.

Samsung Galaxy S3

This summer witnesses the launch of one of the most awaited phones so far, Samsung Galaxy S3, which is the advanced successor of Samsung Galaxy S II. What more? It comes with the good news that the phone does live-up to the much hyped expectations around it.

Being the next version of the most admired Galaxy S II, Samsung Galaxy S3 is loaded with cutting-edge technology and futuristic product features. With its 1.4 GHz quad-core processor, this is definitely one of the most powerful smartphones available in the market till date. The 1GB memory, along with 1.4 GHz quad-core processor, offers lightning fast response times and excellent user experience.

Looks, weight, and display, are the other categories where Galaxy S3 scores top. With its sleek stylish looks, and 4.8 inch wide display, Galaxy S3 is surely beauty with the brains. The 306ppi pixel density on the new Amoled screen provides striking HD display, making it a feast for the eyes. A weight of just 133g makes it one of the lightest in the segment and a true powerhouse. What more, the phone is also loaded with a whole new bunch of innovative features. Now one can not only talk to his phone, but can also look at it and the ‘smart’; phone (well it’s actually 1.9 megapixel front camera) recognizes it. Priced around £500, which is well justified by phone’;s technology and features, this is definitely one of the coolest picks of this summer.

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iPhone 4S

Some names are legends, and iPhone is the classic example for this fact, and while the iPhone 4s is not new it is still a great phone. It is a phone that continues the tradition of the most loved iPhone. With an 800 MHz Apple A5 dual-core processor, along with 512 MB of memory, iPhone 4S offers impressively great user experience, exceptional multi-tasking capacity and fastest processing. Yet another striking feature of iPhone 4S is its Retina display with 326ppi pixel density that offers crystal clear clarity, providing an out of the world visual experience.

If smart phones are all about feasting one’s five senses, this is it. Just next to the heavenly visual experience, and a feather touch UI, iPhone 4S also offers excellent voice recognition software Siri, which performs varied functions on voice commands and can even find answers for user’s questions from the Internet.

This wonder widget is priced at $499 for 16GB edition, £599 for the 32GB version and a whopping $699 for the latest 64GB capacity, and is up for grabs this summer.

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HTC One X

Another smart pick of this summer could definitely be HTC One X, priced around £470. With its fresh looks, intuitive features and powerhouse performance, this smart phone has a lot to offer. The phone comes with a 4.7 inch display and 720p HD resolution, providing superior image quality and visual effects. The 8 megapixel camera along with HTC ImageSense lets one capture and shoot captivating images and full HD videos. Adding to this is its Tegra 3 chip 1.5GHz quad core chip, and 1 GB RAM that ensure extensive multi-tasking capability.

p>The phone also comes with the latest, super cool Android Ice Cream Sandwich and makes way for some of the coolest gaming experience. The HTC Sense 4.0 provides an added advantage of HTC Car, which is an intuitive driving companion capable of navigating one to a geo-tagged photo. The HTC One X has specially addressed the audio experience needs of today’s music freak gadget geeks. It has built-in, highly advanced Beats audio software that makes one to relish the musical experience for hours.

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Spring being the season of blossoms, there are plenty of such fabulous offers for the tech lovers, making this season more colourful and enriching.

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As the world of technology continues to offer up new gadgets for us to enjoy, smartphones are expected to retain their dominance over the mobile markets. Offering a great host of features, smartphones often come with a high price tag and this means the threat of damage and breakages is a major concern for owners. Finding the best out of the rugged smartphones is therefore a priority – but what are the toughest models on the market?

1. Samsung Galaxy

The S2 model already boasts user memory of 16GB with expandable memory card slots offering an extra 32GB alongside a thinner, sturdy design. However, rumours for the S3 suggest that a metal casing could become a standard feature of future designs, putting the Samsung Galaxy range top of the list.

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2. Nokia Lumia

Made of a smooth one piece body, this model uses curved Corning Gorilla Glass to give it the strongest, most resilient design possible. With a 1400MHz CPU, 16 GB of built in memory and 512 MB of RAM the phone performs well too.

See larger image Nokia Lumia 900 4G Windows Phone, Black (AT&T) (Wireless Phone) List Price: $499.99 USD Release date April 8, 2012.

3. Motorola Defy

The first waterproof smartphone, the Motorola Defy has a lot of positive attributes. The model is constructed from a combination of soft-touch plastic and Gorilla Glass – which is known for its durability. This helps to prevent the screen from being scratched whilst all openings and ports are well covered so that water is unable to reach the internal components.

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4. BlackBerry and iPhone

According to research by Square Trade, you are least likely to drop your BlackBerry after one year of ownership. Unfortunately, a high malfunction rate on the models puts them in second position on the Square Trade’s list of durable smartphones, with the now out-dated iPhone3GS taking pole position.

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5. HTC Velocity

Of course, strength isn’t all about resilience and a smartphone needs to have tough credentials when it comes to storage. Everyone knows that the attraction to smartphones lies in their apps and without enough storage space or processing power to run these your smartphone will be left redundant.

The HTC Velocity is perfect for this and offers an incredible 1GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage with the possibility to expand through a microSD slot. As the maximum size of some smartphone applications, such as those used by BlackBerry, is just 128KB this means users could store an almost limitless amount of these on the HTC if using similar sized programs.

This means that smartphone choice has never been more diverse and the future of mobiles is sure to see bigger and more resilient models flood the market.

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In keeping with the tradition of graphics chip manufacturers releasing various cards with different performance aspects, NVIDIA has announced the launch of the GeForce GTX 670. This card, much like the GeForce GTX 680 will feature a graphics chip based on the Kepler graphics architecture.

Performance on a Tighter Budget

The top of the line, single-processor graphics processor offered by NVIDIA is the GeForce GTX 680. Unfortunately, many of those cards are in the $600-700 range, which is outside the budget of most people. For those looking for performance at a more reasonable price, the best solution is to go with the GeForce GTX 670.

The suggested retail price for a GeForce GTX 670 card is about $400, but even with the lower price, you will still get good performance from the card in your games.

According the NVIDIA, the GeForce GTX 670 can outperform the closest competitor’s cards by as much as 45%. In addition, the card can match the competitor’s higher-end cards in 25 of the most demanding games. While this may seem great, I caution the numbers until I can see independent testing results.

Along with the launch of the GeForce GTX 670, NVIDIA also provided the following numbers of comparison:

The 301.34 NVIDIA, and the AMD Catalyst 12.4 drivers were used during the testing. In addition to the performance increase, the GeForce GTX 670 consumed 170 watts of power compared to 200W for the Radeon HD 7950.

Availability

The GeForce GTX 670 is available right now from many graphics card suppliers. This includes ASL, ASUS, Colorful, ECS, EVGA, Gainward, Galaxy, Gigabyte, Innovision 3D, Jetway, Leadtek, MSI, Palit, Point of View, PNY, Sparkle and Zotac.

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Welcome to tonight’s main event! Facing off in a battle for the ultimate Smartphone is the iPhone 4s (of course) and the highly competitive Droid 4. This battle is sure to be of epic magnitude and has, in fact, been brewing with tension for some time now. The current champ, iPhone 4s has seen great competition from the Droid 4, but has managed to remain the ultimate smartphone champion over the years. The iPhone 4s is the wily veteran with more experience, smarts and technique than its younger opponent. iPhone 4s is definitely the fan favorite. In the opposing corner, the Droid 4 comes into the fight in better shape and with vibrant optimism.

Are you ready? Let’s get it on…

Round One: Storage Capabilities

In the first round, the iPhone 4s and Droid 4 went toe to toe in the battle for ultimate storage capacity bragging rights. In this hard fought round, Droid 4 came out hitting hard with 16 GB of storage space and a removable 32 GB memory card. However, the iPhone 4s answered right back with 16, 32 and even 64 GB models. While, it was a close round, the iPhone 4s seemed to be more on the offensive the entire round, landing more punches, including 16 GB more memory than its Droid 4 opponent.

Winner: iPhone 4s

Round Two: Processor

The second round was continued domination by the iPhone 4s, as it came shooting out of its corner with a powerful dual-core A5 processor chip. The Droid did its best to compete, but simply yielded in comparison with a Dual-Core 1.2GHz , Dual-Channel RAM Processor. The round was tighter than it seemed, but when the bell sounded, the iPhone 4s seemed to put up more of a fight coming off of the previous rounds domination in the storage capabilities category. But Droid 4 still had something to prove in the next round.

Winner: iPhone 4s

Round Three: Design

In the third round action, the iPhone 4s seemed to be continuing with its domination of the fight as it threw haymaker after haymaker, landing several headshots, but then its attack quickly turned to exhaustion and sloppiness. Droid then capitalized with a more attractive design and easier to use interface. iPhone 4s may have had an impressively sleek design and plenty of fun apps, but the Droid 4 answered right back, mirroring and eventually edging out the iPhone 4s’ design capabilities.

Winner: Droid

Round Four: Price

In round four iPhone 4s came back into the fight with motivation and redemption on its mind. The iPhone 4s does not like to lose. But still fighting hard, came Droid 4 with furious body shots and thunderous jabs. All and all, these two smartphones matched up fairly evenly in the price round both coming in with their lowest price of $199.

This round is a draw.

Round Five: Operating System

This was the final round and with the iPhone 4s having won two rounds already, Droid 4 with one and a draw in the previous round, Droid 4 needed to win the Operating system final round for there to be a split decision. With that in mind, Droid 4 came out giving everything it had left in the tank for the final round, utilizing the Android 2.3.5 (Gingerbread) operating system. To counter, however, the iPhone 4s knew the fight may come down to the final round and had subsequently been saving a little something extra in reserve. That something extra was “the world’s most advanced operating system,” iOS 5. While, Droid 4′s operating system landed substantial jabs and body shots, iPhone 4s’ threw Droid 4 off balance, eventually landing a knockout blow. Droid 4 was down; 4…5…6 and iPhone 4s stood in its corner with the confidence of knowing Droid 4 would not likely get up. 7…8…9… Droid 4 stumbled to one knee, but fell once more. 10… you’re out and iPhone 4s is the champion of all smartphones.

Winner: iPhone 4s

The overall winner of this smartphone battle – the iPhone 4s!

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With the price of printing equipment and CD duplication coming down over the last few years it has become more budget friendly for small businesses. In few thousand dollars you can acquire semi-professional printing machines and CD duplication.

However if, the need is solely for small runs of 10s or 100s then this is sufficient. Print quality for these inkjet dependent systems is usually appropriate, although it doesn’t go up to the professional criteria of electronically printed or screen printed CDs.

So what happens though when you need one thousand CDs by the next day for an immediate mail out? Or your customer needs a specific match of their business brand colors (not something usually achievable using inkjet print). In these cases, it is time to outsource it to a professional duplication business. At higher quantities the price is probably on par with working the task in-house, because of the economies of scale that larger sized duplication businesses gain from.

You will also gain from enhanced lead times (majority of businesses offers one to two day turnaround) and much greater quality prints. In order to make the task easy and right easy as possible, it is advantageous for you as a client, to make sure the order is accurately placed to prevent any errors or hassles.

The first step is to select a duplication business. Many businesses promote on the web and because of the intense competition in this industry there are some very affordable deals offered.

Bear in mind that the most affordable doesn’t automatically mean the lowest cost. A good idea is to ask for a print sample to see how good both the services of your selected duplication business and look the quality of the prints and more importantly the content of the disc.

Next is to supply artwork on a CD duplication template provided by the duplication company (most duplication companies have themes and templates that are downloadable in their website). Any type of fonts need to be provided or preferably changed into outlines. An experienced CD duplication business will have a design team that can help with this.

It is also very important to provide the master CD in a format that can be used. Remember that a duplication company will usually copy what you send without looking at the master CD. It is usually thought that this method has been finished before the master CD sent in.

For instance if you are copying an audio CD, do not send it in a data CD of MP3 or WAV files. It is most likely that these will be copied without looking at the files. The basic rule is that you get back what you give in for duplication.

Other typical errors are WMV files or Quicktime instead of video DVD discs. If you need any help in building a master CD then a right duplication business will have a disc authoring division to help.

Make sure that you also make the business knows your deadlines or time conditions. If the discs needed for a particular time on a given day (say for an event) make sure that the individuals that you ask to do the job knows this. It is a very good thought to generate an order via email stating the number of copies needed, features like kind of printing, price and turnaround time. This composed order will prevent any communication problems and serves as a supporting document of your needs if things go wrong.

In conclusion, it is a fair basic process of outsourcing your DVD or CD duplication needs, yet as with most things it pays to be arranged and small plans will go a long way. Do not forget that these CD duplication businesses are copying thousands of discs a day so they don’t guarantee that problems will not happen during the process, but they make sure that they can still manage the process in a fast and accurate manner.

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