Samsung to Shift From Plastic to Metal for the Next Generation Galaxy Smartphone?

Samsung is planning to move to a metal case design for its premium Galaxy smartphone devices, according to the Electronic Times. Currently, the company uses plastic for its smartphones.

The Wireless Business Division of Samsung Electronics reportedly decided on August 29th to build a line for producing metal (magnesium and aluminum) cases at its Gumi plant.

The company plans to commence sample development and pilot production at the Gumi plant with mass production starting next year in its Vietnamese plant.

"Mold engineers above class A were recently temporarily transferred to Vietnam one after another,” said a Samsung official. “Currently, considering the manpower resources of the Vietnamese plant, there seems to be no problem with building the production line in six months.” 

Since the release of Galaxy S3, Samsung Electronics has acquired the economy of scale with a single model, and became capable of using metal cases. Samsung Electronics is planning to apply the metal case to some premium smartphones starting early next year, and then to several other models. 

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Facebook Gets Shared Photo Albums

Facebook is rolling out a new Shared Photo Album feature starting today, reports Mashable.

The world's largest social network announced shared photo albums on Monday, 
a new feature that allows multiple users to upload images to the same album. 
The album creator can share access to as many as 50 "contributors," 
who can each in turn share up to 200 photos. Previously, users could only
 upload photos to albums they created, and each album was limited to 1,000 
total photos. The new shared albums have three available privacy settings: public, 
friends of contributors and contributors only.

The project was spearheaded by Bob Baldwin a software engineer at Facebook
and his colleague Fred Zhao. A company-wide hackathon was held in January
and about a dozen engineers worked through the night to create the feature.

"I think one thing that's really fun about creating products at Facebook is that you're
never quite sure how people will use the product in the end," Baldwin said.
"We're really excited for launch because we think people will use [shared albums]
 in ways that we're not even thinking of."

Album creators will have the power to delete or modify any photo in the album but
contributors can only edit photos they've uploaded. Currently, there is a 200 photo limit
per person; however, that may increase in the future. Also, the ability to create an album
has yet to make it to mobile; however, you can contribute to an album from a mobile device.
The feature is not available for Page albums.

Facebook is rolling out Shared Photo Albums to select English users today and will expand it
to all English users before it finally reaches international users.

Micromax’s biggest, most expensive phone launched

 Indigenous smartphone manufacturer Micromax has launched its biggest-ever and most expensive smartphone in India. The new phone, named Canvas Doodle 2, has a 5.7-inch screen; the upcoming SamsungGalaxy Note III is also said to have a 5.7-inch display.

Available on online retailer Snapdeal, the new Micromax phone has been priced at Rs 19,990, making it the most expensive handset by the company. The listing says the phone will be dispatched in five days.

The new Canvas Doodle 2 has previously been teased by Micromax via its Facebook page with the tagline "Can your imagination get bigger?" The phone is not listed on the company's website as of now.

Micromax Canvas Doodle 2 has screen resolution of 1280x720p, same as that of Canvas HD and Canvas 4. It is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core processor, backed by 1GB RAM and comes with 12GB internal storage. This dual-sim smartphone will run on Android4.2 (Jelly Bean) and come with Micromax's 'Blow to Unlock' feature.

The manufacturer has used a 12MP camera with dual-LED flash on the back and a 5MP shooter in front. The listing on Snapdeal mentions connectivity options like 2G, 3G and Wi-Fi. The 2,600mAh battery of the phone has been rated at 8 hours of talk time on 2G network.

Micromax has said it will launch a total of 30 smartphones this year and has tasted success with handsets likes Canvas HD and Canvas 4.

Samsung Releases Samsung Wallet, Its 'Passbook' App for Android

Samsung has released Samsung Wallet, a new app that brings Passbook functionality to its Android devices. This app also looks a lot like Apple's Passbook.

Samsung Wallet is a one-stop destination for your boarding passes, membership cards, coupons, and event tickets. Start adding Tickets from applications you love! Look for ‘Load to Samsung Wallet’ button within your favorite application, press it, and you are set.

Features:
- Optimized for HD and Full-HD Samsung devices
- Store and manage tickets, coupons, mobile boarding passes and membership cards in one convenient place
- Offers 5 default categories for easy management of Tickets. You can also add categories for more personalization.
- Customizable time and location-based reminders to show the Tickets at the right time and place.
- Synchronize all your Tickets to multiple devices using Samsung account
- Receive and store Co-marketing offers
- Create your own tickets manually by using ‘Create my ticket’ feature
- Discover grocery coupons and digitally save them to loyalty card of participating groceries

Supported Devices
- Mobile devices
. Galaxy S3
. Galaxy S4
. Galaxy Note 1
. Galaxy Note 2

Twitter Updates #Music With New Ways to Discovery Artists, Scan Music Library Feature, and More

Twitter has updated its #Music app today to bring new ways to discovery music by focusing on artists that you follow on twitter or other artists on the top tracks. The app also scans your music library now to suggest more relevant artists to you. Finally the app has been localized in more languages now. 

A fresh approach to finding new music by using Tweets and follows to power discovery. The most popular new music and emerging talent on Twitter right now. Follow your favorite artists and see which artists they follow.Listen Now via iTunes, Rdio, or Spotify.

What's New In This Version:
We've added a bunch of new ways of discovering music. Listen to artist's top tracks, similar artists, and the artists that your favorite artist follows on Twitter. 

We also scan your iPhone's music library now to suggest more relevant artists to you. And we show you the artists that you've Tweeted about so you can always get back to them. 

Finally, we've localized #music into all of your favorite languages. If you're one of those good looking people living in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, or Switzerland then we've got you covered!

You can download Twitter #music from the App Store for free.

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