BLOG RULES

BLOG RULES

·       When you start, keep it up! Remember a blog is personal. It’s a conversation. If you start and then all of sudden stop, it can appear that you don’t care. Show courtesy and if you are going to stop, tell your followers that this will happen.

·       Be personal and friendly. Avoid management speak and jargon. Use a natural tone of voice to express your thoughts, ideas, points of view and observations. Think how you would talk to a friend in the café or bar. Colloquial English is often the most effective way to get a message across.

·        Give people a reason to read you. The key here is to have something to say, rather than something to sell. Remember you are sharing content in order to build a dialogue as well as engagement.

·       No hard sell! A lot of blogs I’ve read promise ‘get rich quick’ or ‘earn money while you sleep’ claims that are such a turn off! Don’t end up looking like a bad second hand car salesman – that’s the quickest way to damage the reputation and goodwill you need to build with your readers.

·       : Don’t think a blog is a web page. A web site can contain product and service information and a blog can help drive traffic to a web site (and vice versa). Remember you are sharing opinion and insight. More complicated stuff should be left to the web SITES

Iphone 5c

                       IPHONE 5C

The iPhone 5C features iOS, Apple's mobile operating system.^[3] The user interface of iOS is based on the concept of direct manipulation, using multi-touch gestures. Interface control elements consist of sliders, switches, and buttons.^[4] Interaction with the OS includes gestures such as swipe, tap, pinch, and reverse pinch, all of which have specific definitions within the context of the iOS operating system and its multi-touch interface. Internal accelerometers are used by some applications to respond to shaking the device (one common result is the undo command) or rotating it vertically (one common result is switching from portrait to landscape mode).^[4]

The iPhone 5C is supplied with iOS 7, released on September 20, 2013.^[5] Jonathan Ive, the designer of iOS 7's new elements, described the update as "bringing order to complexity", highlighting features such as refined typography, new icons, translucency, layering, physics, and gyroscope-driven parallaxing as some of the major changes to the design.^[6] The design of both iOS 7 and OS X Mavericks (version 10.9) noticeably depart from skeuomorphic elements such as green felt inGame Center, wood in Newsstand, and leather in Calendar, in favor of flatter graphic design.^[6]

The phone can act as a hotspot, sharing its Internet connection over WiFi, Bluetooth, or USB, and also accesses the App Store, an online application distributionplatform for iOS developed and maintained by Apple. The service allows users to browse and download applications from the iTunes Store that were developed withXcode and the iOS SDK and were published through Apple.^[7]

iOS 7 adds AirDrop, an ad-hoc WiFi sharing platform. Users can share files with any Mac with OS X Lion or above, iPhone 5 onwards, the iPod Touch (5th generation), iPad (4th generation), or iPad Mini.^[8][9] The operating system also adds Control Center, which gives iOS users access to commonly used controls and apps. By swiping up from any screen–including the Lock screen–users can do such things as switch to Airplane mode, turn Wi-Fi on or off, adjust the display brightness and similar basic functions of the device. It also includes a new integrated flashlight function to operate the reverse camera's flash LED as aflashlight.^[10]

The iPhone 5C functions as a media player, and includes Apple Maps and Passbook. The mapping application includes turn-by-turn navigation spoken directions, 3D views in some major cities and real-time traffic.^[11] Users can rotate their device horizontally to landscape mode to access a collage of album covers.

The 5C includes Siri, an intelligent personal assistant and knowledge navigator. The application uses a natural language user interface to answer questions, make recommendations, and perform actions by delegating requests to a set of Web services. Apple claims that the software adapts to the user's individual preferences over time and personalizes results.^[12] iOS 7 adds new male and female voices, new system setting functionalities, a redesign to match the rest of the operating system, and integration with Twitter, Wikipedia, Bing, and Photos.^[13]

Facebook comes integrated through Apple's native apps. Facebook features can be directly accessed from within native apps such as Calendar which can sync Facebook events, or use Facebook's like button from within the Apple App Store.^[14][15] iTunes Radio, an internet radio service, is also included on the iPhone 5C. It is a free, ad-supported service available to all iTunes users, featuring Siri integration on iOS. Users are able to skip tracks, customize stations, and purchase the station's songs from the iTunes Store. Users can also search through their history of previous songs.^[16]

             SAMSUNG 4S

 

The screen features a 5-inch (130 mm) (sometimes stated as 4.99-inch)^[12] PenTile RGBG Full HD Super AMOLED screen with 441 pixels per inch andCorning Gorilla Glass 3.^[13]

The S4 comes with either 16 GB, 32 GB or 64 GB of internal storage, which can be supplemented with up to an additional 64 GB with a microSD card slot.^[14]

The S4 GT-I9505 includes a multiband LTE transceiver and both models feature an infrared LED that can serve as a universal remote control.^[5] In June 2013, a version of the S4 was released in South Korea with support for LTE Advanced networks. It is the first smartphone ever produced with support for LTE Advanced.^[8] This model includes a quad-core 2.3 GHz Krait Snapdragon 800 processor.

Built into the 2600 mAh battery is near field communication (NFC) connectivity, which allows users to perform non-touch payments at shops that employ specially equipped NFC cash registers. The SC-04E model has a FeliCa secure element, unlike other models which contain an NFC-A secure element. The NFC-A secure element on the SC-04E is provided on the SIM card. The battery also supports wireless charging through the Qi standard.

The S4 supports the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) video format.^[5][6][15]

In addition to the touchscreen, the S4 has several physical user inputs including a home button located near the bottom of the screen, at the bottom of the S4 is the primary microphone and the microUSB port for both data connections and charging; it also supports USB host and MHL 2.0. There are volume keys on the left side and a power/lock key on the right. At the top there is a 0.14-inch (3.6 mm) headphone jack, the secondary microphone, andinfrared blaster. The backside of the S4 has the 13-megapixel camera and LED flash, and at the bottom left edge has the loudspeaker.^[16]

Samsung Galaxy S4 Retail Box with the S View Cover

Samsung's official accessory for the S4, the S-View Cover, utilizes a hall effect sensor in the phone which detects when the cover is closed and displays battery status, time, and other phone statuses in an area of the screen visible through a window on the cover.^[17]

Notably, the S4 does not include an FM radio receiver, as previous models did.^[18]

The S4 is widely available in two color finishes: Black Mist and White Frost; however, selected regions have gold pink and gold brown.^[19]

The S4 comes in two variants that differ primarily in the internal hardware:

Quad-core variant[edit]

This S4 version for North America, most of Europe, parts of Asia, and other countries has Qualcomm's Snapdragon 600 SoC containing a quad-core 1.9 GHz Krait 300 CPU and an Adreno 320 GPU.^[20][21]

Octa-core variant[edit]

Further information: Exynos and Big.little

This S4 version has Samsung's Exynos 5 Octa (octa-core) system on a chip (SoC) chip containing the first ARM Big.little heterogeneous architecturecentral processing unit (CPU). The eight core CPU comprises a 1.6 GHz quad-core Cortex-A15 cluster and 1.2 GHz quad-core Cortex-A7 cluster.^[9][22]The cluster of four faster "big" A15 cores is paired with the cluster of four slower, more power-efficient "LITTLE" A7 cores. Initially, at any given time, only four cores will be active, either the quad Cortex A15, quad Cortex A7 or a mix between them. The switching of the active cluster is performed on demand by the chip firmware, with the migration of the running software from outgoing to incoming cores taking 20 µs. Since then, an update has been released to utilize all eight cores simultaneously. The CPU emulates a single quad-core processor to the operating system and applications.^[20][22][23] The SoC also contains an IT tri-core PowerVR SGX 544 graphics processing unit (GPU). The GT-I9500 version of the S4 does not support LTE.^[24] The E300K/L/S versions support LTE, with the Cortex-A15 also clocked at 1.6 GHz.^[25][26][27]

Software[edit]

Further information: Android (operating system), TouchWiz, and S Voice

S4 using TouchWiz

The S4 ships with Android 4.2.2 and Samsung's TouchWiz Nature user experience. Eye tracking features have been extended on the S4; the new "Smart Scroll" feature can be used to scroll while looking at the screen by slightly tilting the phone, and "Smart Pause" allows the video player to pause videos if the user is not looking at the screen. "Air View" implements gestures and other functionality (such as previewing images or messages) by holding or swiping a hand or finger slightly above the screen, similar to the "S-Pen" features utilized on Samsung's Galaxy Note series. The "Group Play" feature allows ad hoc sharing of files between Galaxy phones, along with multiplayer games and music streaming between S4 phones. The S4 also introduces Knox, a suite of features which implements a sandbox for enterprise environments that can co-exist with a user's "personal" data. Knox also incorporates use of the ARM TrustZoneextensions and security enhancements to the Android platform.^[28]

The camera app implements numerous new features (some of which were first seen on the Galaxy Camera), including an updated interface, and new modes such as "Drama" (which composes a moving element from multiple shots into a single photo), "Eraser" (which takes multiple shots and allows the user to remove unnecessary elements from a picture), "Dual Shot" (which uses the front-facing camera for a picture-in-picture effect), "Sound and Shot" (which allows the user to record a voice clip alongside a photo), "Animated Photo", and "Story Album" among others. Other new pre-loaded apps include WatchOn (an electronic program guide that can utilize an infrared transmitter on the top of the phone as a TV remote), S Translator, the workout tracker S Health, S Voice Drive, S Memo, TripAdvisor, and an optical character recognition app.^[29]

Updates[edit]

Between June–July 2013, Samsung began rolling out an update to the firmware; the update allows apps to be moved to the SD card, freed 80 megabytes of space, adds stability to the camera, and adds a new feature that increases legibility on the display.^[30] For the S4 variants on AT&T and Verizon, this update removed the ability to apply the previous bootloader exploit known as "Loki".

In early August 2013, the Google Play Edition variant of the S4 began to receive an update to Android 4.3. By the end of 2013, Samsung plans to release updates to Android 4.3 to all of the carrier S4 variants.

To prevent grey market reselling, models of the S4 manufactured after July 2013 implement a regional lockout system in certain regions, requiring that the first SIM card used on a European and North American model be from a carrier in that region. Samsung stated that the lock would be removed once a local SIM card is used.^[31]

Model variants