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Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini Specs, Price, Pictures, and Release Date Leaked

Few days back Samsung Germany issued Media Invites with a teaser saying, “How Big Small Can Be” in German Language hinting towards an addition of a new member in the family of Galaxy series. This new addition in the family of Galaxy series is said to be of Galaxy S3 Mini. The launch of Galaxy S3 Mini was confirmed by JK Shin, the head of Samsung Mobile Communications to the Korean Media. The company is planning to launch a 4-inch Galaxy Mini on October 11. Before the Korean company could announce the Galaxy S3 Mini on the Media Event planned for the day after today, on October 11, the Galaxy S3 Specs, images, and price were leaked the day before it goes live in front of the world.

Galaxy S3 Mini Specs were leaked by a German website called MobileGeeks. This German website claims to have hands on the Galaxy S3 Specs, images, and pricing information before the Smart Phone could get ready for the Media Event planned for October 11.

Galaxy S3 Mini Specs:

The leaked Galaxy S3 Mini Specs before the official unveiling are as follows:

The name of the Device is said to be Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini GT-I8190

Display: 4.0 inch Super AMOLED display with 800 × 480 pixels, 16.67 million colors, capacitive touchscreen, multi-touch

CPU: STE U8420 dual-core 1.0 gigahertz

Wireless standards: 14.4/5.76 HSPA 900/1900 / 2100, EDGE / GPRS 850/900/1800/1900

Camera: 5 megapixel with auto focus and LED Flash, Resolution 2592 x 1944 pixels / VGA front

RAM: 1 GB

Flash memory: 16 GB, MicroSD card slot (32 GB max.)

Operating System: Google Android 4.1 “Jelly Bean”

Connections: Micro USB port, 3.5mm -Headset

Wireless: Bluetooth 4.0, WiFi a / b / g / n 2.4/5GHz, DLNA, NFC (UICC, optional)

Battery: 1500 mAh

Dimension: 121.55 x 62.95 x 9.85 mm

Housing Material: Plastic

Galaxy S3 Mini Picture:

The leaked image of the Galaxy S3 Mini portrays the same shape as of the Galaxy S3, but the size is small than the Galaxy S3. Therefore, we can Galaxy S3 Mini the brother of Galaxy S3.

Galaxy S3 Mini Release Date:

The release date of Galaxy S3 Mini is October 11 and it is confirmed.

Galaxy S3 Mini Price:

The price of the little brother of Galaxy s3, Galaxy S3 Mini is expected to be around $513.

If the price stated above is near to the release price, then Samsung will for sure bash the market of Apple’s iPhone 5 by releasing a solid competitor, Galaxy S3 Mini.

Before this Galaxy S3 Mini goes out on sale, do you think that it will give a tough time to the newly released iPhone 5? Do let us know your thoughts in the comment section below.

October 10, 2012
iPhone 5 India Release Date Scheduled for October 26 by Apple (Report)

As the iPhone 5 sales are taking pace around the globe, the next biggest country is about to get the official iPhone 5 treatment soon this month. The same country where billions of Apple fans were anxiously waiting for the iPhone 5 to come, so they can get their hands on it and enjoy all the latest features that Apple has introduced it. The country is India. The same country that got iPhone 4S officially launched a year ago by Apple with the help of its carrier partners. This time the same country would be getting the iPhone 5 taste later in this month of October.

The report of the iPhone 5 release date in India comes from BGR.in that reported about the iPhone 5 official launch to be made by Apple directly, rather than relying on its carrier partners. The iPhone 5 India release date is set for October 26 that has been confirmed by multiple sources of BGR.in.

Multiple sources have confirmed to us that Apple is preparing to launch the iPhone 5 in India on the last Friday of this month, which happens to be October 26. As we had exclusively reported earlier, Apple will be distributing the iPhone 5 in India on its own rather than relying on its carrier partners.

If we recall the keynote of the iPhone 5, the tech giant company’s C.E.O, Tim Cook vowed to sell the iPhone 5 in over 100 countries by the end of this month. Apple has already sold the iPhone 5 in about 50 countries following the official launch started from U.S.A. Apple made the iPhone 5 available in 28 more countries on September 22. Now, Apple has to complete the target of fifty more countries including India to complete the mission of selling iPhone 5 in more than 100 countries by the end of October 2012.

Apple iPhone 5 Price in India:

The iPhone 5 Price in India would be priced the same as of the iPhone 4S price when it was launched officially. The iPhone 5 price might be slightly high than of the iPhone 4S official launch price.

Apple iPhone 5 Carriers in India:

It is highly expected that Apple will launch the iPhone 5 on the two famous carriers at first that are Aircel and Airtel. After that, the iPhone 5 would be available on different carriers that will be offering Nano SIMs for the iPhone 5 and special tariff plans.

October 10, 2012
Zagg is offering iPad Mini Screen Protectors Prior to the Launch

Apple is expected to roll out Media Invites by the end of this week or within this week for the launch of the upcoming iPad Mini. The Media Invites for the iPad Mini were speculated to be rolling out on October 10 with the unveiling to be done on October 17 and the iPad Mini would go on sale in early November. Following this preceding rumor regarding the iPad Mini Media Invites and iPad Mini Sale to start in November, Zagg the well known iPhone case manufacturer has started to advertise on its website regarding the iPad Mini Screen Protector. Zagg is offering the iPad Mini screen protector before the official launch of the iPad Mini or the iPad Mini announcement is confirmed.

This might sound strange to some of you, but this is not strange or anything new that Zagg is doing. This is the sole practice of every case manufacturer to start manufacturing the cases, screen protectors, and other accessories for the upcoming product of Apple only by seeing the Mockup of it. The case manufacturers play a blind game by offering cases and other accessories before the official product is even announced.

We can say that these case manufacturers are playing a blind game of poker in which they got two possible outcomes with the probability of 50-50. The two possible outcomes are Pass or Fail. Either the case manufacturer will win the game by making the cases before hand and some how Apple announces the same product or the case manufacturers will fail the game if the product is not the same as of the mockups. Sometimes these early predictions for the upcoming product can lead to a big loss. Something similar happened at the time of the iPhone 4S announcement. The early predictions lead to a big loss for the case manufacturers.

However, at the time of the iPhone, the case manufacturers were lucky and they made the same design that Apple released. The mockups of the iPhone 5 were of the same shape that Apple had planned. In other words, we can say that the iPhone 5 was leaked prior to launch in the form of Mockups. With the help of same Mockups, different case manufactures started to make screen protectors and iPhone 5 cases.

Coming back to the iPad Mini Screen Protectors by Zagg, Zagg is offering the iPad Mini Protectors at a price of 24.99€ with no rock firm shipping or availability date of the Screen Protectors. Indeed the website says to subscribe for the updates. As soon as the iPad Mini is released, you will be notified about the screen protectors when they are on sale.

October 10, 2012
iPad Mini Leaked Photos Gets a Closer Look (Images)

It is expected that Apple would be announcing the upcoming member of the family by next week. The new member of the family would be named, “iPad Mini/Air”. Before Apple could plan for an official launch of the iPad Mini by the start of the next week, we have already seen the mockups of the iPad Mini before the official launch goes live. Living in the world of Apple Technology where products are innovated after a year and is leaked prior to the month of announcement is ordinary. Every time Apple plans to announce a new product lineup, it is leaked few months before the official launch. This has been happening with every Apple product.

As we all know that the iPad Mini is on the horizon and the leaks are on the verge like always. Following the leaks regarding the iPad Mini from the scratch, today we came across some snap shots of a closer look of the iPad Mini Mockup posted by Sonny Dickson on his Twitter account. The snapshots posted by him show a closer look of the iPad Mini Mockup in comparison with the New iPad (iPad 3).

The above mockups of the iPad Mini compared with the iPad 3 shows clearly that Apple has planned for the same iPhone 5 dock and the same speaker grill for the iPad Mini. Moreover, the shape of the iPad Mini is more like of the iPod Touch 5.

However, the diminished YouTube.app icon on the iPad Mini renderings gives us an idea of how the iPad Mini will look like. On the same hand it tells us about the mockups are the same that we have been seeing in the past.

The story of the mockups doesn’t end here. Thought the mockups of the iPad Mini bring a new turn in the story. The mockups that we have seen above is of WIFI only and the one we are going to show you now would be of WIFI+3G or can be of 4G LTE.

The mockup of the iPad Mini shown above is the one compatible with 3G services or possible 4G LTE Service. Few hours back we told you about the possibility of 4G LTE coming to the iPad Mini. This closer look of the iPad Mini Mockup puts more weight on the possibility of the iPad Mini 4G LTE Model showing up the next week. As we have seen that Apple has changed the size, design, dock, and the speaker grill in the iPad Mini, we can expect 4G LTE Technology to come in the iPad Mini as well.

What do you people think about iPad Mini 4G LTE Model, Makes sense?

October 9, 2012
Apple iPad Mini to Support Cellular Network with 4G LTE (Proof)

The highly anticipated Apple’s iPad Mini Media Invites are going to roll out soon. The expected date for the Media Invites was rumored to be October 10 that is a day away from today. Before the Media Invite rumor could fly on the Internet, we reported about the iPad Mini production that started at Foxconn Brazil Plant. Soon after the news of production started at Foxconn Brazil Plant, we told you another news about the iPad Mini leaked design that included the back panel and the front panel of the iPad Mini with LCD.

The leaked internal and external components of the iPad Mini hinted towards one thing that no one noticed clearly. The leaked components showed a physical evidence of a Nano SIM in the interior part. The presence of Nano SIM tray in a 7.85-inch iPad Mini increases our doubt level for cellular network availability in the iPad Mini. It was highly anticipated that a WIFI Model of the iPad Mini would be released by Apple to compete with its competitors.

However, Taiwan Media came up with an iPad Mini Mockup showing a black band on the top of the iPad Mini Mockup that is usually found in the iPad WIFI+3G models.

The news about the iPad Mini 4G LTE Model is not rock solid, but we expect Apple to release a 4G LTE compatible iPad Mini model this October. The leaked components that showed the physical presence of the Nano SIM Card Tray in the iPad Mini makes the rumor of 4G LTE more prominent. If Apple fails to provide 4G LTE in the iPad Mini, we can expect a 3G service in the iPad Mini that will be beat out the Nexus 7 and other tablets like Amazon Kindle Fire. However, the issue over here is not about the presence of 4G LTE in the iPad Mini or not, the real challenge for Apple would be regarding the Battery. Apple will need to work more on the battery life if they are planning to bring in the 4G LTE in the iPad Mini or a 3G service in the iPad Mini.

October 9, 2012
What Apple says about the Purple Haze Effect in the iPhone 5 Camera

Apple didn’t announce one thing with the unveiling of the iPhone 5. Apple left it to be discovered by its loyal fans. After making a phenomenal sales record for the iPhone 5, Apple wanted to throw a party for its employees, when suddenly the hidden feature became known and they cancelled the party. The feature that was spotted in the iPhone 5 is not present in the iPhone 4S or in its preceding versions. This feature was specially made for the iPhone 5. The name of this feature is “Purple Haze”. The name sounds more like a Café or some sort of hanging out lounge where people go out for a hangout. This feature is not located in the MAPS or somewhere related to it.

This special feature can be found in the camera of the iPhone 5, when it is directly exposed to the sunlight or any bright side. Then only one can take the full advantage of this special feature integrated by Apple in the iPhone 5. While you are thinking or looking forward to know more about this feature, before that we would love to show you some real time snaps that have this amazing Purple Haze feature. The snaps were taking from an iPhone 5 in the bright sunlight. When the snaps were saved to the camera roll, they had this new feature showing upon them the same time. Below you can have a glance of the new amazing feature.

The iPhone 5 Purple Haze Effect

As you can see in the above picture, the iPhone 5 Purple Haze Effect is clearly shown. This effect comes alive when the camera is exposed to bright light or directly to the sunlight. This amazing effect soon converted into a disaster for people owning an iPhone 5. They started to complain Apple about the hidden feature on which Apple was surprised and said that we forgot to mention about this feature on the iPhone 5 unveiling (Joke).

The reality about this iPhone 5 Purple Haze Effect is when the iPhone 5’s Camera is pointed directly towards the sun or some bright light, the pictures taken in these circumstances result in having this Purple Haze on them. On other words, the purple haze effect occurs when the camera is pointed towards near an extremely bright light source while capturing a video or picture in still mood.

Therefore, today Apple released a support document about this iPhone 5 Purple Haze issue while taking the picture or making a video in extreme bright light.

Symptoms

A purplish or other colored flare, haze, or spot is imaged from out-of-scene bright light sources during still image or video capture.

Resolution

Most small cameras, including those in every generation of iPhone, may exhibit some form of flare at the edge of the frame when capturing an image with out-of-scene light sources. This can happen when a light source is positioned at an angle (usually just outside the field of view) so that it causes a reflection off the surfaces inside the camera module and onto the camera sensor. Moving the camera slightly to change the position at which the bright light is entering the lens, or shielding the lens with your hand, should minimize or eliminate the effect.

Guess what. Apple told in the above statement that you are holding the iPhone in wrong direction and this issue is normal. Indeed, consider it as a camera effect.

How to Stay Away from the iPhone 5 Purple Haze Effect?

In order to minimize this iPhone Purple Haze Camera Effect, you need to follow the advice of Apple. The advice is simple and clear. You need to move the camera from the place where there is bright light and try to take pictures where there is low light because the iPhone 5 got some improvements for the low light capturing.

The iPhone 5 Purple Haze Problem is a Hardware Fault?

If you were asking us about the iPhone 5 Purple Haze Effect, we would love to have it on our iPhone 5. To have this problem on our iPhone 5, we went to the next level by taking our iPhone 5 into the bright light of the bulb. We opened our camera, pointed it right below a bulb, and took a snap to see if this amazing effect occurs or not. Amazingly, the amazing effect didn’t occurred. Below are the results.

iPhone 5 Purple Haze Test 1:

iPhone 5 Purple Haze Test 2:

iPhone 5 Purple Haze Test 3:

After testing the iPhone 5 camera on three different energy source we didn’t got any Purple haze Effect on the images above. However, we cannot conclude the issue with any significant answer or solution, all we can say is that this issue lies in some iPhone 5’s and not in all. According to comments on different blogs, few people are facing this issue and some are not. We will test the iPhone 5 Camera in the sunlight and will let you know the results. Stay tuned with us.

While we wait for the sun to rise, until then fill out the question below and let us know if you are facing purple haze issue on the iPhone 5 or not.

October 8, 2012