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More Original Equipment Manufacturers to produce Windows Phones

Announcements made at Mobile World Congress ( MWC ) in Barcelona, Spain indicate Windows Phone will be manufacctured by 13 more OEMs. The list follows: Nokia, Samsung, HTC  Huawei Additional OEMs to manufacture mobile devices with Windows OS Foxconn, Gionee (New Delhi, India), JSR, Karbonn Mobiles, Lava (Xolo), Lenovo, LG, Longcheer (Shanghai) and ZTE This is going to be interesting. Manufacturing based in China and India would provide very healthy competition which is going to be tough. India's own Askash phones may also join (speculation) in this group which appears to be android based. With so many new vendors and the vast population who are already very mobile, this market is going to grow and Microsoft will see better times for its Phone OS.

Forget about Cable TV get Aereo

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How much do you pay for watching TV over the cable?  How many channels they offer and how many of them do you really watch or really want?  Are the fees they charge reasonable considering what you want and what they offer?  What about channels they offer and charge for them? You want to get away from the Cable TV guys? Here is your chance. Well, Aereo will at least make it lot cheaper for the users. It may not offer 3 to 400 channels (very few useful or the ones you care to watch) but the price is very good, about 8 to 10 times lower. It is only available in some cities now but spreading rapidly. I guess it will take a long time to reach the Hawaiian Islands. The cable companies are not keeping quite and the battle appears to be raging and reaching the  highest legal  levels . This following quote is from  Bloomberg  regarding this case: "The justices yesterday agreed to hear an appeal by media companies including Walt Disney Co. (DIS)’s ABC, 21st Century Fox I

LG G Flex the World's first curvaceous smart phone from LG

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Priced at around $672.00 LG's LG G Flex - G series phone is World Number 1 curved smart phone. It has (deformable) 6" HD Display and that is how you get the immersive & cinematic viewing experience True-to-life colors like in most of the recent phones 13 MP camera to snap up crisp images and videos. Thanks to organic LED screen you can bend it. I have to wait and see if bending makes for an immersive experience. It is ergonomic. It has self-healing paint and that should take care of bend/unbend operations and I am not sure how many of such bends. Here are some screen shots and of course a Video from the LG Site embedded in this post. The video is here: