Samsung ATIV S is the first Windows Phone 8 smartphone

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 Samsung ATIV S is the first Windows Phone 8 smartphone

The Galaxy Note II wasn’t the only flagship device that Samsung announced at its pre-IFA press conference. The company has also revealed the first ever Windows Phone 8 smartphone – the Samsung ATIV S.



The ATIV S is built around a 4.8-inch Super AMOLED display of HD resolution and has Gorilla Glass 2 on top for extra protection. Powering the smartphone is a 1.5GHz dual-core Qualcomm Krait processor and 1GB of RAM. At the back, there’s an 8MP camera with 1.9MP snapper at the front.

Measuring 137.2 mm x 70.5 mm x 8.7 mm the Samsung ATIV S weighs 135 grams and packs a beefy 2,300mAh battery. Connectivity options include Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 3 and NFC. Windows Phone 8 supports memory expansion slots and the Samsung ATIV S makes use of that, bringing a microSD card slot to allow expansion of its 16GB or 32GB built-in storage.

Pricing and availability is yet to be confirmed, but we're guessing the smartphone will hit the shelves immediately after Microsoft officially releases the Windows Phone 8 OS.

Making the Samsung ATIV S company are three new Windows 8-powered tablets – the 10.1” ATIV Tab, and two 11.6” ATIV Smart PC and ATIV Smart PC Pro.

source : samsungmobilepress.com

Nokia Codes

Nokia secret codes

Some codes do not work on some phones.


*#06# - International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI Number).
*#0000# - Displays your phones software version, 1st Line : Software Version, 2nd Line : Software Release Date, 3rd Line : Compression Type.
*#9999# - Phones software version if *#0000# does not work.
*3370# - Activate Enhanced Full Rate Codec (EFR) - Your Nokia cell phone uses the best sound quality but talk time is reduced my approx. 5%
*#3370# - Deactivate Enhanced Full Rate Codec (EFR) 
*#4720# - Activate Half Rate Codec - Your phone uses a lower quality sound but you should gain approx 30% more Talk Time.
*#4720# - deactivate the Half Rate Codec.
*#7780# - Restore factory settings.
*#7370# - Hard Reset or swithch on yhe phone while pressing *, 3 and call buttons.
*#7760# - Manufactures code.
*#2820# - Bluetooth device address.
*#746025625# - Sim clock allowed status.
*#92702689# (*#WAR0ANTY#) - takes you to a secret menu where you may find some of the information below:
1. Displays Serial Number.
2. Displays the Month and Year of Manufacture
3. Displays (if there) the date where the phone was purchased (MMYY)
4. Displays the date of the last repair - if found (0000)
5. Shows life timer of phone.
#pw+1234567890+1# - Shows if sim have restrictions.
*#7328748263373738# - resets security code.
*#73# - Reset phone timers and game scores.
12345 - Default security code

Mozilla Firefox 4: New Betas For Desktop PC and Android Mobiles

           Mozilla Firefox 4.0 is now in beta 8 stage for PC operating systems, and beta 3 stage for the Android mobile OS. While it already has considerable momentum on the PC (desktops/laptops), we are particularly waiting to see the impact it makes on the mobile platform. As a freeware app, and being one that is already well-recognized, Firefox has the potential of taking a majority market-share as a web browser, on an OS that is fast growing in user numbers.

 Availability of Firefox on mobile is pretty much restricted only to Nokia's Maemo (N900) and Google's Android OS (2.0 and above). Both are Linux operating systems in essence, running on non-x86 processors. Firefox browser for the PC on the other hand, is available to many x86-based operating systems, including Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and FreeBSD.

The desktop version of the browser, Firefox 4.0 beta 8, brings new features - some of the top ones are listed below:
- Visual overview of all open tabs, for sorting/grouping.
- Improved Firefox Sync, meant for desktop and mobile devices.
- HTML5 support, including WebM video format.
- Hardware acceleration (via GPU) for some rendering operations.
- JägerMonkey, a new, faster JavaScript engine.
This is scheduled to be the last beta, before the final/stable version releases in early 2011.

Firefox 4.0 beta 3 for mobile (formerly codenamed Fennec) brings these features among others:
- Firefox Sync feature built-in.
- Add-ons (somewhat like extensions).
- Option to "Save as PDF".
- Password Manager.
- Support for Android-style menus and keyboards.
- Support for uploading files.
- Supports playing video in Full-screen.
- The "Awesome Bar" and "Awesome Screen".
You can download Firefox Beta for mobile, either through scanning QR code or install by browsing to the mobile site directly using Android's default mobile browser.

source: mozilla Mobile

How to view malayalam fonts in web pages

Some of my friends asked me how to view Malayalam fonts in websites, they see only some boxes instead of the actual font. You might have also noticed this, not only Malayalam but also with other foreign languages. So my first post is about viewing malayalam fonts(or any other languages) in websites. This is not a new thing, but as there are newbies around the net every time, I decided to write a post about it.
The web browsers like Mozilla and internet explorer have a greater support to many fonts, but some other browsers including chrome have less support for fonts. In that case we need to manually add the fonts used by the websites in our computer. The commonly used fonts have an extension .TTF or .FON. first we need to download this font file from the internet and add to the fonts library.

The steps and screen shots are shown below

1.Download the font
some commonly used malayalam fonts are

Malayala Manorama
DOWNLOAD Manorama.ttf

Deshabhimani
DOWNLOAD MLW-TTREVATHI.TTF

Deepika
DOWNLOAD mlkr0ntt_TTF.ttf

Other commonly used fonts
DOWNLOAD jacobs mal medium.TTF
DOWNLOAD AnjaliOldLipi.ttf

2.Right click and copy the file

3.Open Control Panel
   Start>Control Panel

4.Open Fonts folder
 Start>Control Panel>Fonts

5.Paste the fonts
Edit>paste

6.Now close and reopen your browser.
   Now you can read the fonts...Enjoy.
   Thanks for reading.