Google android plan revealed....

A new tablet from Samsung, a new
phone from LG, an updated operating
and an improved Nexus 7 are among
Google’s plans for its event next week,
reports suggest.
Taking place on the same day as
Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 launch
in San Francisco, Google is planning a
New York event where it is widely
expected to unveil at least one new
Google Nexus telephone as well as an
enhanced version of its existing Nexus
7 tablet that will add more memory
and 3G capabilities.
Perhaps the most exciting product,
however, is a 10” tablet developed
with Samsung codenamed ‘Manta’.
Running an updated version of
Google’s Android. Sources told The
Next Web that it will offer a 2560×1600
pixel (16:10) resolution, which the site
claimed “will offer around 300 pixels
per inch (PPI) compared to the new
iPad’s 264 PPI”.
The device, expected to be called a
“Nexus 10”, will be among the first to
offer Android 4.2, which will offer
incremental improvements over the
current Android 4.1. New features will
include enhancements to the camera
functions, adding a panorama mode
that will, Google hopes, rival that
provided by Apple for iOS6 by adding
horizontal and vertical functions.
It will also add a ‘tablet sharing’
function that will allow different users
to easily sign in to the same tablet.
The event’s tagline is ‘The playground
is open’, leading many to suspect it
will feature a range of devices. Google
is widely expected to introduce a
range of Nexus devices, although it
has previously announced only
individual products with Asus, HTC
and Samsung. Nexus is the brand that
Google has used to produce the next
generation of Android hardware.
The current flagships are the Nexus 7
tablet and the Samsung Galaxy Nexus
mobile phone. However, the latter is
no longer Samsung’s top device,
having been usurped by the SIII.
Android 4.2 is also expected to
feature a new Gmail app that will add
minor additions such as swipe to
delete and pinch to zoom.
Many analysts assume that Google will
use the new Nexus phones to
promote Android partners who are
currently struggling to challenge the
dominance of Samsung.
The move will also assuage industry
concerns that Google’s purchase of
Motorola will lead to the American
company giving the firm preferential
access to Android. Google maintains
that there will be a ‘firewall’ between
the two businesses.
Although images have appeared
online claiming to show the new
devices, the most plausible evidence
of the existence of at least one new
device appears to come from a
Google software engineer posting
pictures to his Google+ page that
purport to come from an LG Nexus 4
device.
The Next Web claimed that the LG
Nexus 4 will feature a quad-core 1.5
GHz Qualcomm APQ8064 Snapdragon
processor, 4.7-inch 1280 x 768
display, 2GB RAM, 16GB storage, an 8-
megapixel rear-facing camera (and
1.3-megapixel front-facing snapper)
and a 2100mAh battery.

Nokia ousted from smartphone top five

Nokia has dropped out of the top five
global smartphone vendors, with its
place being taken by BlackBerry
manufacturer RIM.
Samsung extended its lead as the
world's top smartphone vendor in the
third quarter of 2012, followed by
Apple, according to IDC's quarterly
tracking survey .
Nokia, once the top smartphone
vendor in the world, fell out of the top
five for the first time since IDC began
tracking the market in 2004.
"Nokia's share losses have meant
gains for competitors," said Kevin
Restivo, an analyst at IDC. "The
company's transition away from
Symbian-powered smartphones to
ones shipped with Windows Phone
has left ample opportunity for rivals to
steal share away from Nokia over the
past 18 months.
"However, the smartphone market is
still relatively nascent, which means
there's room for multiple vendors and
operating systems to flourish,
including Nokia."
Nokia's place in the top five was taken
by Research In Motion, the Canadian
firm that makes BlackBerry
smartphones. Its shipments and
market share declined year-on-year
but its position in third on the list was
helped by the greater decline of Nokia
and by a slumping HTC, which was
ahead of RIM this time last year but
fell to fifth in the last quarter.
Making up the top five was Chinese
firm ZTE, which is fourth in the IDC list
with a 4.2 per cent share of the
market.
The figures show that Samsung
dominates the market, with a 31.3 per
cent share, while Apple is second with
15 per cent. However, IDC's data
includes only the first week of iPhone
5 sales.
In overall mobile phone shipments
Nokia remains in second place
globally, with 18.7 per cent of the
market, ahead of Apple's 6.1 per cent
but behind Samsung's 23.7 per cent
share.