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Singapore based Bubble Motion has just made their voice social app Bubbly available worldwide. Bubbly, a free app lets you share short voice updates with your friends and followers. You can also follow celebrities, sports stars and other popular users and hear their updates in their own voice. Bubbly links to Facebook and Twitter so your existing friends on other social networks can hear your audio updates too. According to the company, the service currently has 16 million users and last month alone, they added 1 million users.

Download the free app from Apple App Store or Google Play.

UNWIRED 2012 is organised by former journalist Alfred Siew, and a number of like-minded tech and media professionals in Singapore. This year marks the third time this conference is running in Singapore. The event is backed by big players in the industry and considered by many as the first truly independent mobile and wireless event in the country. Speakers are not placed based on sponsorship and you get to hear from distinguish speakers from Google, StarHub, HP, Tellabs, Samsung and more.

The event is on May 31, 2012 so sign up early to avoid disappointment.

Rovio's CEO Mikael Hed revealed plans to bring Angry Birds Space to Windows Phone 7. According to Hed, "We are working closely together with Nokia to bring our games to their platforms,” Hed said. “Our mutual goal is to bring the best possible experience to our fans, including all fans using Windows Phone devices.” There’s obviously no launch date yet but Windows Phone 7 fans should now be happy to know that there’s favorite time wasting game may get a sequel in the not so distant Future. Look out for it.



Source: MobileTechWorld

Are you yearning for a white Lumia 800? If you are, you can now head over to SingTelShop.com to order youself one of the more rare looking Nokia devices. Available now for $349 you can order and renew a line or get a whole new one. And if white isn't your thing, you can of course still get black, cyan or fuchsia for the same price.



Source: SingTelShop

Angry Birds Space, the long-awaited sequel to the award-winning, best selling iOS game of all time, is set to launch later this month. In preparation for the event, Angry Birds developer Rovio has been doing a lot of promotion with NASA, including sending a pair of iPads up to the International Space Station. Their latest marketing effort: A zero-gravity live demonstration aboard the International Space Station Astronaut Don Petit stars in the video. After shooting a plush angry bird across the length of the station, Petit explains the concept behind weightlessness, and how planets affect trajectories. That discussion then transitions into shots of actual Angry Birds Space gameplay. In the game, the motion of the angry bird projectiles will change based on the location of gravitational bodies. We're not sure if the folks on the ISS will be able to spare the bandwidth to get the new game when it comes out, though we're sure they'd be glad to have something new to play with to pass the time. For those of us who are Earthbound, Angry Birds Space will be available for download March 22 on PC, Mac, iOS, and Android devices.

The actual gameplay can be seen after the 3 minutes mark of the video.

The New iPad has just been announced and this thing is packing a Retina display, potentially making this the most pixel-packed slate on the market. The 9.7-inch screen plays host to 3.1 million pixels in a 2048 x 1536 arrangement -- that's 264ppi. It's not just a higher resolution though, the screen also boasts improved color saturation. Of course, what would a new iPad be without some updated guts. The new model has an A5X processor and quad-core graphics chip. Apple even claims its newest sliver of silicon can deliver four times the performance of a Tegra 3 which is very amazing.

There's also a new iSight camera on board that's quite similar to the version inside the iPhone 4S. It's only five-megapixels, but it does have a backside illuminated sensor with a five element lens. It's also capable of capturing 1080p video, which should come as no surprise. We're also excited to see the keyboard sporting a brand new dictation key that lets you speak instead of type -- yes, just like on Android. The new software inside will also let you use the slate as a portable WiFi hotspot... so long as the carriers are game. It even has the ability to recognize at least some bezel gestures, as revealed during its iPhoto demo.

Perhaps most exciting though, is the new connectivity options -- you guessed, LTE! The new iPad is sporting 21Mbps HSPA+, but it's also rocking an LTE radio capable of pulling down 73Mbps on both Verizon and AT&T here in the US. Outside of the states Rogers, Bell and Telus will also be scoring 4G flavors of the iOS tablet. Amazingly enough, even with an LTE antenna on board, Apple is still claiming to get 10 hours of battery life. That's probably partially do to the slightly increased weight of 1.4lbs, though the 9.4mm thickness is nothing to sniff at.

The new iPad will be available March 16th, starting at $499 for the 16GB WiFi model and scaling up to $829 for the 64GB version with 4G. So, on the price front, nothing has changed. Pre-orders start today in the US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia, with much of the rest of the globe to follow on March 23rd.



Source: Engadget

Nokia’s Lumia 610 doesn’t have the slick unibody casing of the 800 or the huge screen of the 900, but it does have a bargain price tag. Pushing Windows Phone to a new price point – and into fresh markets – the fourth Lumia takes advantage of Microsoft’s new, pared-back minimum hardware specifications with just 256MB of RAM and an 800MHz processor. Style-wise, the Lumia 610 is more reminiscent of the Lumia 710 than its more expensive siblings, with a slick metallic band that runs around the bezel and up across the top edge of the phone – where the microUSB and headphone sockets are – and a selection of interchangeable back panels. Nokia plans to offer multiple color options, and is really pushing the concept that its recent phones offer more choice of hues than the aver age black smartphone lump. In the hand, it’s reasonably sturdy though obviously not as premium in its feel as other Lumias. The touchscreen – still running at WVGA resolution – is responsive and we didn’t notice any great impact from the slightly slower processor. Still, this is all prototype hardware and non-final software, so we can’t draw any final conclusions until the tweaked version of Windows Phone 7 is available to support the new hardware specs, itself expected in April.



Source: SlashGear

There have been mentions on HTC's upcoming Sense 4.0 (to run on top of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich) on the new "One" series since the end of January but it was only now we have more exposure on at what the Taiwanese company was preparing. HTC Sense 4.0 is trying to make Android a little nicer and more intuitive on the HTC One X, HTC One S and HTC One V. HTC delivered the next generation of their custom UI as promised, which is already known and preferred among Android enthusiasts. The integration is deep within Contacts, E-mail, Messages, Dialer, Browser and even Settings. The new user interface is colorful, elastic (when you're scrolling) and brings a couple of new bells and whistles to the table. For a more detailed look, check out the hands-on below!



Source: PocketNow

Apple is sending out invitations that shows a close up on what appears to be an un-released iPad, with the tight zoom subtly calling attention to the display's image quality. From the hardware-related leaks we've seen so far, it's seemed pretty much confirmed that Apple will be quadrupling the pixel count for the iPad 3, compared to the displays used in the iPad and iPad 2. There's still some uncertainty about the processor selection in the iPad 3, and if it it will feature an A6 chip or something called the A5X. In that vein, it's unclear if the iPad 3 will remain powered by a dual-core processor, or be the first Apple mobile device with a quad-core chip. There will be more to share when the event draws closer.



Source: PocketNow

Huawei is making their mark at Mobile World Congress with the announcement of three formidable smartphones. The Ascend D, however, is boasted by the company as "the world's fastest quad-core smartphone".

The Ascend D is running on a custom Huawei K3V2 1.5GHz quad-core CPU. It packs a 4.5" 720p display in a package that is around 9mm thick. Running on Ice Cream Sandwich, it has the obligatory three button configuration. It has an 8MP camera on the rear and 1.3MP camera in the front, Dolby 5.1 surround sound support, and an 1800 mAh battery.



The Ascend D XL adds a 30% larger battery when compared to the Ascend D, providing up to a day of additional battery life, according to the company.

And finally we have the Ascend D1, a more midrange device that has a 1.5GHz dual-core CPU with all specfications similar.

Sony again surprises us at this year's MWC with 2 stylish killer smartphones in the form of Xperia P and U. We now have a look at the specifications of the fantastically looking twin smartphones.

The Xperia P sits between the U and the S in Sony's 2012 line-up. It's powered by the same dual-core chip as the Xperia U, but sports an aluminum chassis that feels great, and fits really nicely in the hand. With 4 inches of qHD resolution, the Xperia P's screen should represent a nice balance for mid-range buyers, too. Speaking of the display, Sony's introducing its new WhiteMagic technology with the Xperia P, which is designed to improve visibility in bright sunlight. Little information was on offer about how this actually works, but the results when the device was placed under a high-intensity lamp were plain to see -- icons and text in the UI remained clearly visible.



The Xperia U replaces last years Neo as Sony's entry-level smartphone. Aside from the design changes, Sony's brought some impressive hardware to the table, with a 1GHz dual-core Ericsson chip and a 3.5-inch WVGA "reality display" screen. Followers of high-end Android hardware might turn up their noses at WVGA on any device, but on a 3.5-incher, photos, videos and the UI still look crisp, and color quality is among the best out there.



Source: Android Central

HTC has announced three Android smartphones in Barcelona, which they are calling it the HTC One Series. Although Mobile World Congress only starts tomorrow, HTC wanted to be among the first to show us the new things they have in store for this year. The One X, One S and One V will be available globally in April. We now have a look at the specs of the HTC One Series smartphones.

The HTC One X is the company's flagship device from this point of time and it's HTC's first smartphone to come with a quad-core 1.5 GHz Nvidia Tegra 3 processor. It also comes equipped with a 4.7″ 720p HD touchscreen, 8 MP autofocus camera with LED flash and backside-illuminated sensor. The One X has 1080p full HD video recording, and the ability to capture a photo while recording a video. Other specs include 32 GB of built-in storage, 1 GB of RAM, HSPA, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, DLNA and NFC. Powering the One X is a 1,800 mAh battery and it's only 130g light.



The next announced device is the HTC One S. It is equipped with a 4.3″ 960×540 touchscreen and a 1.5 GHz dual-core Qualcomm S4 processor. There is also 16 GB of built-in storage, 1 GB of RAM, 8 MP autofocus camera with LED flash, BSI sensor, 1080p full HD video recording, and the ability to capture a photo while recording a video. Powering up the One S is a 1,650 mAh battery and it weighs 19.5g.


Last but not least is the HTC One V. The One V is classified as a budget phone and thus has the potential to also become the best selling smartphone. The One V has a 3.7″ 480×800 touchscreen, a 1 GHz processor, 5 MP autofocus camera with BSI sensor, LED flash, 720p HD video recording, and the ability to capture a picture while recording a video. There is also 4 GB of built-in storage, 512 MB of RAM
HSPA, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and a 1,500 mAh battery to power up the One V. The One V weighs at 115g.



All three smartphones making up HTC's new One series will launch running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich with HTC's Sense 4 on top. Sense 4 marks the first design change for HTC's UI overlay in many years, no matter how subtle that change may be. And we're sure hoping that HTC has managed to cut down on system resource use by Sense as well.


The HTC One series: HTC One S (left), HTC One X (center), and HTC One V (right)

Source: Unwired View