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Why buy an iPhone when there is Android for everyone Posted: 20 Jun 2011 06:57 AM PDT A few reasons why you should buy an Android phone and not an iPhone Popularity of Android mobile phones in increasing rapidly, the graph of Android's success has take several sharp peaks in recent years probably because of its versatility. People from across the world have poured their love on Android and undoubtedly iPhone has been most affected by that. Android Logo Android was not a very big name when iPhone was launched, with more than 100,000 high quality apps on Apple Store, it made sense why people were so excited to get an iPhone. Other than that, one can't deny that Apple iPhone is a very good gadget but once Android opened its own Market, its success gained momentum. Also Read: Google expands reach of Android Market to more countries Now, the situation is that Android is the most popular operating system in the world for Smartphones as well as Tablet PCs. So, today I am going to discuss with you some of the reasons behind this abundant success of Android. Android is Open Source Android is an Open Source Operating System Android is an Open Source operating system from Google which means that any company can use it for their devices without paying a single cent to Google whereas other operating systems like Symbian or Windows Phone 7 comes at a price which ranges from $15 to $25. Since Android is customizable mobile phone manufacturers can create unique user interface for their gadgets. Over these years, several companies have adopted Android for their Tablets and Smartphones, I am not sure about the exact statistics but about 7 of every 10 mobile phones launched in the market in 2010 ran on Android (the actual results may vary). Android Market Android Market: There are apps for everyone and everything As I said before, one of the highest contributing factor to iPhone's success was its App store. Just like iPhone, Android also has a dedicated application store with apps for every sort of Smartphone, the last number I remember was 220,000 apps (it must have raised by now). What's a Smartphone if it doesn't have intelligent apps for business, entertainment and connectivity, Android has everything that you may need and thus is very tempting. Accessing Multiple Apps simultaneously Multitasking on Android: Why wait when you can do everything at once Multitasking, high quality multitasking can be experience in the latest version of Android for Smartphones (Gingerbread) and Tablets (Honeycomb). Most high-end Smartphones that run Android has powerful processor and high RAM that enables users to access high on RAM apps simultaneously. It is a great thing, you can listen to music while playing games and the interface would be as Swift as it was before and you can also edit your documents while keeping emails alerts active in the background. Supports Rich Media Content Flash Content for Android: Truly Experience the rich media content on Cell Phones Almost all the Android Mobile Phone have support for Adobe Flash. Some high-end Smartphones like Samsung Galaxy S2 or Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc have support for Adobe Flash 10.3 that gives them Tablet like web-browsing on their Smartphone. Most websites today have rich media content like flash work, animation and embedded videos, what's a web browser that can't display websites the way they are meant to be displayed. Also Read: Samsung Galaxy S2 – The iPhone killer launched Flexible Mobile Devices Android Phones: There is a phone for every budget iPhone comes in just one model and that too costs a mighty Rs. 32,500 ($722) whereas Android comes in a huge range of handsets ranging from as little as Rs. 5,500 ($122) to as high as Rs. 32,000 ($711). By this I am not saying that you can get iPhone like features in a cheap handset but if you want a phone that runs Android operating system, you can get it for 5,500 bucks. Most of the phones that cost more than Rs. 25,000 ($555) are at par of better than iPhone, you are intelligent enough to guess why people buy Android over iPhone. Also Read: Best Android Mobile Phones that you can buy Wi-Fi Hotspot Wi-Fi Hotspot: Access internet on several devices on one network This is a feature that not too many people know about, Mobile phones running on Android 2.2 (Froyo) or higher have Wi-Fi Hotspot feature that turns your cell phone into a Wi-Fi hotspot to which other people can connect and access internet. Choice of Data Carriers In United States, iPhone comes with AT&T and Verizon while in India it comes with Airtel and Aircel, you cannot choose any other data carrier unless you get in unlocked whereas Android phones work with almost every data carrier there is for example HTC recently launched T-Mobile's Shadow and Sprint's Touch in United States and in India you can use Android phone with any network you like. So, these were some the reasons in favor of buying an Android mobile phone rather than going for an iPhone. What do you think about this? What would you purchase an Android phone or iPhone? Leave a comment down below with your reply. Thanks. Please share your thoughts with Wizard Journal using the comment form below and also your friends using the social bookmarking icons.

26 billion bits of Data transferred at KIT, Germany in a second Posted: 19 Jun 2011 11:57 PM PDT KIT, Germany breaks its own record by transferring 26 billion bits of data Information Technology Sector is expanding, India being one of the biggest IT hubs in the world but something more interesting happened a month ago. A Technical College in Germany did an astonishing experiment by transferring a massive 26 terabits (26 billion bits) of data in a single second which was projected across a single laser beam across 50 km. High Speed Data Transfer This was world's biggest feat in data transfer performed by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Germany. With this experiment, they also broke their own record set in 2010 of transferring 10 terabits (10 billion bits) per second. KIT scientists, led by Prof. Leuthold attribute this experiment to a new data process that they have developed. This new technology of data transfer is termed opto-electric decoding method as reported by Nature Photonics journal. Fun Fact: 26 terabits or 26 billion bits of Date is equivalent to data that can be stored in 700 DVDs The method is purely based on calculation at highest data rates such that it can broken into smaller bit rates and processed electrically. "A few years ago, data rates of 26 terabits per second were deemed utopian even for systems with many lasers. And there would not have been any applications. The challenge was to increase the process speed not only by a factor of 1,000, but by a factor of nearly a million for data processing at 26 terabits per second," ~ Prof. Leuthold, HOD Institute of Photonics and Quantum Electronics and the Institute of Microstructure Technology at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Germany. "Our result shows that physical limits are not yet exceeded even at extremely high data rates," he added explaining the constantly growing data transferred every single day on internet. "With 26 terabits per second, it would have been possible to transmit up to 400 million telephone calls at the same time. Nobody needed this at that time. Today, the situation is different," Leuthold added. It is definitely a potentially useful scientific achievement, the faster the date travels, less time consuming it would be to send high amounts of information over large distance or even in smaller areas. It could be very useful in space technology especially in transferring pictures of spatial object captured by probes. What do you think about this new process developed in data transfer? Leave you comment down below. Thanks. Please share your thoughts with Wizard Journal using the comment form below and also your friends using the social bookmarking icons.

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