Samsung Galaxy J1 mini With 4-Inch Display Goes Official

Samsung was rumoured to be working on a mini-variant of the Galaxy J1 for months. The South Korean company has finally introduced the smartphone in Philippines. The Samsung Galaxy J1 mini is now listed on the company's Philippines site without any details about availability and pricing. We can expect the smartphone to go on sale soon.

The new Samsung Galaxy J1 mini is a new variant in the company's Galaxy J series which already includes Samsung Galaxy J1,Galaxy J1 4G, and Galaxy J1 Ace. The Galaxy J1 mini features a 4-inch TFT display with a screen resolution of 480x800 pixels. The smartphone is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core processor clubbed with a 768MB of RAM. It packs 8GB of built-in storage and supports expandable storage via microSD card (up to 128GB). The handset sports a 5-megapixel rear camera with no flash. There is a 0.3-megapixel front-facing camera. The dual-SIM Galaxy J1 mini supports Micro-SIMs and comes with GPRS/ EDGE, Bluetooth, 3G, GPS, and Wi-Fi connectivity options. The smartphone runs Android with no word on exact version.

It is backed by a 1500mAh removable battery which is rated to deliver up to 8 hours of talk time on 3G and up to 7 hours of video playback time. It measures 121.6x63.1x10.8mm and weighs 120 grams. The Galaxy J1 mini will be available in Black and Gold colours.

To recall, the Galaxy J1 was launched at Rs. 7,190 in January last year while the Galaxy J1 Ace was unveiled in September at Rs. 6,300.

Virtual reality set to transform filmmaking

Chris Milk stepped onto a TED Conference stage and took the audience on an awe-inducing trip into the future of movies. While much of the early attention on virtual reality has focused on use of the immersive technology in video games, Milk and his US startup Vrse are using it to transform storytelling and filmgoing. "We have just started to scratch the surface of the true power of virtual reality," Milk said. "It's not a video game peripheral. It connects humans to other humans in a profound way... I think virtual reality has the potential to actually change the world." He had everyone in the Vancouver audience at TED , which ended Friday, hold Google Cardboard viewers to their eyes for what was billed as the world's collective virtual reality experience. Google Cardboard gear is literally that -- cardboard

Explained: Camera Improvements in the New HTC 10

With the HTC 10, the Taiwanese company is promising to undo the past wrongs in the cameras of its previous flagship phones. The camera has long a weak point in HTC devices. At first, HTC sacrificed image resolution in the M8 and made the size of individual pixels larger to capture more light (what HTC called Ultrapixel). But the resulting 4 megapixel images were often fuzzy, especially when cropped or enlarged. To fix the issue, in its next flagship - the M9 - HTC went with smaller individual pixels in a 20-megapixel camera last year, but it still underperformed in extreme situations, such as indoors and close-ups. In the HTC 10, the company attempts to strike a balance with larger individual pixels (1.55µm), but not as large as before and a 12 megapixel sensor in its camera coupled with a ƒ/1.8 lens. HTC accepts that in the imaging performance in the M9 was not up to the kind of spec of what they really like to see in a flagship. HTC is giving a slight boost to the selfi...

Freedom 251: 30,000 Units Sold, Components for Up to 2.5 Million Will Be Imported

Ringing Bells, the makers of the Rs. 251 smartphone - the Freedom 251 - confirmed to Gadgets 360 on Tuesday that it has still only accepted payments for 30,000 units of the phone. It also added that the components for these phones will be imported, and only assembled in India, not made here. Ringing Bells stopped accepting orders on February 19, and claims to have received over 70 million registrations. The company President and Director both repeatedly stated that the price of the phone would be made possible through economies of scale, and making the phone in India to cut out import costs. Economies of scale? However, in a discussion with Gadgets 360 the company revealed that it had only sold 30,000 units of the phone on day one. The company has now confirmed that it has not sent out the payment emails to anyone else who registered - "we were working out details of cash on delivery, which we are announcing now, so we will be sending emails to the first 2.5...

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