Top 10 Android Phones of 2012

10. ZTE Grand X | from £200 | ztedevices.co.uk

ZTE’s big-screened bruiser is a mighty handset for a budget price, with a 4.3in, 960×540 display, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and a heart carved from the still-respectable Tegra 2 Processor. It’s not great for games but if you’re a film fan on a tight budget, this big-screened Android is your dream date.

9. Sony Xperia P | from $380 | sonymobile.com

The Xperia P is the middle sibling of Sony’s NXT series phones. But where does this leave it in the rankings? Sitting pretty on the benefits of both throne or perched awkwardly on the fence of indifference? The 4in, 960×540 screen is super crisp, helped by Sony’s classy OS skin. In fact, the P is a multimedia marvel. Photos are up there with smartphone luminaries, and movie – watching is an enjoyable experience. Mind you, there’s no SD card slot, so you’ll have to make do with the built in 16GB. Well-made, intelligent and easy on the eye, the Xperia P packs in high-end features at a budget-conscious price.

8. LG Optimus 4X HD | $650+ | lg.com

On contract, this Optimus smartie from LG can be found for a fair bit less per month than korean rival Samsung’s Galaxy S III, offering you big-budget power and pixel on a shoestring. Inside the 4X HD you’ll find a 1.5GHz quad-core Tegra 3 chip, which comfortably handled everything we could throw at it, including the most processor-hungry games Android can muster. That said, the battery life is so-so, about 7 hours. A beautiful screen quad-core power and quirky UI tweaks set this Android apart from the rest of the pack.

7. Motorola RAZRi | $560 (8GB) | motorola.com

It seems a long time since Motorola made a splash in the choppy smartphone waters. Will this water resistant 2GHz mobile prove to be more than a drop in the ocean? The latest model in Moto’s RAZR line has the highest clocked mobile chip to date and splash-proof body that melds aircraft-grade aluminium and woven Kevlar. It’s sleek ar just 8.3 mm thick, but still manages to squeeze in a 2000mAh battery and a 4.3in qHD screen running almost edge to edge. Top-notch build quality, snappy camera and intel power combine to help Motorola back into the smartphone party.

6. HTC One V | $400 | htc.com

Popping up like a spiritual successor to one of our old favourites the HTC Legend, this budget smartie manages to combine premium build with a budget price tag. Vibrant, solidly built and snapper-friendly, the HTC One V is one of the finest budget phones around.

5. Sony Xperia T | $650 | sonymobile.com

For its latest Bond phone, Sony has taken the Xperia S and made its successor truly worthy of 007. Parking slick looks with Sony’s own Android Tweaks, it’s worthy of any jet-spying, world – saving spy. A grown-up handset for movie buffs and Facebook fiends, the Xperia T offers a well-built, classy alternative.

4. Samsung Galaxy Note II | from $880 | samsung.com

The 5.55in-screened Note II blends the giant-friendly first Note and iPhone-slaying Galaxy S III into a beefed-up, S Pen-toting Jelly Bean device. But is it any good, and how silly do you look making calls on one? Big and beautiful, the Galaxy Note II is easy to love thanks to its huge screen, slick multitasking and S Pen extras.

3. HTC ONE X+ | $770 | htc.com

The impressive HTC One X has had its kinks and knots ironed out, returning with added grunt, speed and stamina. So is it now special enough to replace the Samsung Galaxy S III as top Android? With more power, space and battery life than the One X, the One X+ improves on an already brilliant phone.

2. Google Nexus 4 | $455 (16GB) | google.com/nexus

Nexus has really come into its own in 2012. The nexus 7 tablet is the iPad’s only real contender. And with the better than retina Nexus 10 slate as the Nexus 4′s launch buddy, is this Google’s gadget Holy Trinity? Forgive a few flaws and Google’s Nexus 4 flagship smartphone will give you the best of Android on the cheap.

1. Samsung Galaxy S III | from $840 | samsung.com

Like Muhammad Ali at the height of his powers, the Galaxy S III wants to dazzle you with variety and charisma. If the Galaxy S II put other smartphone on the ropes, the S III is looking for a knockout punch..

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Samsung beats Nokia, finally on overall numbers as well!

IHS iSuppli reports are out and according to them, Samsung shipped more mobile phones than Nokia in 2012.
This is the first time in 14 years that Nokia has been anything but first. Even currently they are second and by a huge margin at that. According to iSuppli in 2012, Samsung holds 29% whereas Nokia is at 24% with Apple coming third with 10%. Fourth and Fifth spots are held by ZTE (6%) and LG (4%) respectively.

Now, this ranking is based on mobile phones and not just smartphones. Yet, the impact of smartphones is clearly visible. Apple, which just sells iPhone holds such predominance that it is second in overall shipments when it doesn’t sell much in a country like India. Samsung obviously have had a turn of luck since the advent of Android. They made the right decision and with some amazing products like Galaxy series and Note series they are holding the fort against Apple and beating rest of the competition.
The important thing to note here is not that Samsung has crossed Nokia. The important thing is that it is not shocking. If anything, people might ask how did it take so long. This denotes the change in mindset of people.
Once I remember, a person could go without a Nokia charger anywhere as there was bound to be someone with the same charger. Now, the same status has been achieved by microUSB. On the contrary, it is increasingly becoming difficult to find a Nokia’s charger lying around. Numbers reflect a downfall that is in people’s mind for a long time now.
Another important stat that I found was that Global Handset shipments was up just 1%. That is measly and shows that most probably we have reached a plateau. Smartphone shipments on the other hand have increased almost 35%.

People are replacing their feature phones with smartphones and they are doing it fast. Android, with its variety and availability from less than $100 to $500 is taking the baton in this shift. It also denotes that there is a lot of market that can be tapped albeit in the smartphone section only.

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Keep your Google Contacts Up-to-date with a Google Script

If your Google Contacts is missing important contact information of your friends and family members, you can ask them to update their entries directly.

You have several incomplete entries in your Google Contacts. Some entries are missing phone numbers, others don’t have any mailing address associated with them while in the case of close friends and family members, you don’t even have a record of their birthdays.
How do you get this missing information from contacts and complete your address book?
You can always send them an email or make a phone call and fill-in the missing details manually or there’s a new and better alternative – you can ask your contacts to directly update their own records in your Google Contacts.

Ask Friends to Update your Google Contacts

It works something like this. Your selected contacts are sent a unique URL that points to a web form. They can fill-in the missing data, press the Submit button and all that information is directly added to your Google Contacts. Simple.
To get started, go to your Google Contacts and create a new group (let’s call it Personal). Now put one or more contacts into this new group – all these group members will get an automatic email from you requesting them to update their own records in Google Contacts.


Next open this Google Script* and follow these steps:

1. Choose File -> Make a Copy to create a copy of the script into your own Google Drive.
2. Update the values of NAME and GROUP variables with the actual values.
3. Go to File -> Manage Versions and Save a new version.
4. Go to Publish -> Deploy as Web App, choose “Anyone, even Anonymous” under “Who can access the app” and click the Deploy button.
5. Go to Run -> Initialize to authorize the script. Choose Run -> Initialize to run the script.

[*] If you have trouble accessing the Google script, please download code.zip and copy-paste the content of the three files into script.google.com.That’s it. All your contacts who are part of that particular Google Contacts group will now receive an email from you (screenshot A). When any of these contacts update their details through the form (screenshot B), you will be notified of the change via email.
Also see: Mail Merge with Gmail and Google Docs

Screenshot A: Your friend gets an email requesting them to update their contact information.

Screenshot B: They can fill the form and their details are added directly into your Google Contacts.

The project is created using Google Scripts and the entire source code is available online. If you ever wish to disable the Google Contacts form, open the same Google Script in your Google Drive and unpublish the web app (under Publish -> Deploy as web app).  Source: Amit Agarwal

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Narendra Modi retains Gujarat, stage set for Delhi move

Ahmedabad: Narendra Modi has once again defended his Gujarat citadel. The incumbent Chief Minister scored a massive win on Thursday with the BJP winning 120 seats out of the total 182. 

As per the final Gujarat Election Results 2012, the BJP has won 120 seats, while the Congress finished a poor second with only 56 seats. 

Modi’s challenger Keshubhai Patel of Gujarat Parivartan Party (GPP) failed miserably in his mission to uproot the man who had taken over from him as Chief Minister in 2002 and has never looked back since. The GPP has won only two seats - one of the two winners being Keshubhai himself. Others won four seats. 

An emphatic victory for Narendra Modi means that the chorus within the BJP for a bigger role in the party’s national affairs is set to grow. Modi has also won his Maninagar seat beating Shweta Bhatt of the Congress. He is expected to address his supporters at 5 pm. 

As the BJP has crossed its 2007 tally of 117 seats, Modi may very well become the face of the BJP for 2014 general elections. 

However, officially, the BJP today parried questions on whether he will be the party's prime ministerial candidate in the next Lok Sabha elections. 

"Modi bhai has always been an important leader in the BJP...We are not a dynastic party which is led by a Yuvaraj. We function in a pure democratic fashion," BJP chief Spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad said. 

He was asked whether the third straight victory in Gujarat has defined Modi as the prime ministerial candidate for the BJP in the next Lok Sabha election in 2014. 

The party should be allowed to rejoice in its performance-led victory in the state, Prasad said, adding that Modi fought against all forms of vicious campaigns against himself at different levels in the state as well as internationally.

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