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First Dual Core Smartphone by LG

The first dual core smartphone by LG is Optimus 2X, LG working with Google Android is said to be launched next month in Korea and later to Europe and Asian countries. Optimus 2X has Nvidia Tegra 2 processor which is the mobile processor with advanced features, it has 2X faster mobile browsing speed, 5X speed for gaming and etc., the processor is of 1GHz , Android 2.2 platform which can be upgraded to 2.3 in the future, the smartphone has a 8 megapixel camera 1080 pixels video recording and 1.3 megapixel front camera.

The phone has 4-inches WVGA (Wide Video Graphics Array – usually comes with 800×480, 848×480, or 854×480 display resolutions) screen, it has 8Gb memory which can be extended to 32 Gb using memory card, as for gaming purposes the phone has 3D touch interfaces, gyro sensor,  accelerometer (are the motion sensors which continuously calculate the position, velocity and orientation). Other features of the phone are 1500 mAh battery, HDMI mirroring and DLNA compatibility.

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Google, Apple to fight over Nortel’s patents

Nortel is a Canadian telecom company once a giant in its field with more than 90000 employees has now come to auction due to its bankruptcy. The company is auctioning its patents, there are more than 4000 patents coming into auction which are grouped into six categories so that many companies can buy their patents instead of a single company getting all their patents.

Apple and Google are participating in the bid. The auction also contains the 3g and 4g patents which draws these companies into the bid yet they have not disclosed their bidders. There is also an estimation that the patents are of a billion dollars worth.  Since Apple is facing lots of litigations this auction might be a useful thing in this time. The 4g is a cellular wireless standard which is fully secure Internet protocol based mobile broadband for laptops, smart phones and etc, it has a downloading speed of  100 Mbps for fast mobility communication and 1Gbps for slow mobility communication, previous versions were the pre-4g  mobile WiMAX and first release 3g long term evolution. Norton was also one of the first firms to have this WiMAX technology.

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Google Latitude on Apps Store

Google Latitude is finally launched on Apple’s iTunes based Apps store which was before a web based version, to avoid certain confusions with the Maps application on iPhone.

Google Latitude lets you to update your location and can be viewed on the google maps, you can also view your friends location on the map who have also opted for the same and have turned on the share location, this is done through their google account. There are many options which lets you either show your exact location/ show only the city/ even we can hide the location to all your friends or to specific list. Latitude also detects your location automatically or it can be even done manually, as it basically maps your cell phone to the google maps.