Samsung has launched its highly anticipated Galaxy S3 smartphone. It runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich but Samsung has added its own clever features, or ‘easter eggs’, which are scattered around the operating system. See also: Group test: What's the best smartphone?
Discover all the nifty things the Galaxy S3 can do
We’ve put together this list of 10 neat tricks that the Galaxy S3 has up its sleeve which you might not know about.
See also: Samsung Galaxy S3 vs HTC One X comparison review.
Samsung Galaxy S3: S Voice
The voice recognition software that comes with the Galaxy S3 is called S Voice. To access it while using the phone simply double tap the Home button. You can also access it from the lock screen by saying "Hi Galaxy" or a customised command. Four additional voice commands can then be set each with its own task like opening the camera app for example.
Samsung Galaxy S3: Smart Stay
Samsung has added a lot of extra software features to the Galaxy S3. One of the main ones is called Smart Stay. This uses eye-tracking technology to recognise when you are looking at the screen. If you are then it automatically disables the screen timeout. Smart Stay can be switched on and off from the Display settings menu.
Samsung Galaxy S3: Multi-tasking
The Samsung Galaxy S3 runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich which has a multi-tasking function called 'recent apps'. While most smartphones running this version have a dedicated key for this, the Galaxy S3 just has Home, Menu and Back.
You can still access the recent apps part of the operating system by holding down the Home button – for about 2 second. You can then switch between open apps or close them by swiping them off the screen to the left or right.
Samsung Galaxy S3: Direct Call
The Galaxy S3 has a number of features which are activated by motion. Direct Call will automatically call a contact if their log, contact, or message details are on the screen and you move the handset to your ear. Direct Call can be switched on and off in the Motion section of the settings menu.
Samsung Galaxy S3: Tap to top
Give the Galaxy S3 a double tap on the top, next to the headphone socket, with your finger to scroll to the top of your contact list, email list or email messages. Tap to top can be switched on and off in the Motion section of the settings menu.
See also: Samsung Galaxy S3 vs Apple iPhone 4S comparison review.
Samsung Galaxy S3: Smart alerts
The aim of Smart alerts is to notify you of any missed messages or calls you receives while your Galaxy S3 was not is use – sitting on a desk for example. The next time you pick it up it will vibrate to alert you to any missed calls of messages. Smart alerts can be switched on and off in the Motion section of the settings menu.
Samsung Galaxy S3: Camera quick launch
You can also use the motion control to quickly open the camera app. From the lock screen you just have to tap and hold the screen with one finger, then rotate the handset into landscape mode and the camera app with open.
Samsung Galaxy S3: Take a screenshot
If you want to take a screenshot on the Galaxy S3 you have to turn on 'Palm swipe to capture' in the Motion settings menu. Swipe the screen from left to right or vice versa with the side of your hand to take a screen shot.
Samsung Galaxy S3: Palm touch to pause
If you're listening to music or watching a video and need to pause it then you can do this by simply covering the Galaxy S3 with the palm of your hand. This can be switched on and off in the Motion section of the settings menu.
Samsung Galaxy S3: Pop-out video player
If you feel the burning desire to do something on the Galaxy S3 while watching a video simultaneously, you can. When using the video player app there is an icon in the bottom right corner to make the video play in a pop-out window. You can move it around the screen by dragging it and carry on with other tasks. Just tap the video to go full screen again.
9,000 O2 customers face porn company money shot - Crave
If you've been a naughty boy, something's about to fill your slot that'll leave you moaning. A letter, that is, from porn-peddler Ben Dover, demanding compensation if you're suspected of pirating adult movies.
British adult entertainment company Ben Dover Productions, also known as Golden Eye International, is tossing off letters to the users of 9,124 IP addresses on O2, accusing them of illegally downloading blue movies and begging to be satisfied.
The porn company won a court order in March that forced O2 to shoot over the details of customers who may have downloaded pirated copies of its films.
The smut-mongers will now write to the people associated with those IP addresses, after the High Court has approved the intended text of the letter. A judge toned down the language of the first letter, which the company says will "seek to find out more information regarding evidence of an infringement of our copyright."
The judge blocked the company from threatening users that O2 would "slow down or terminate your internet connection." Golden Eye was also banned from demanding a £700 money shot from each user. Instead, each user has the opportunity to dispute the claim, as the court acknowledges that an IP address cannot necessarily be tied to a person.
If they admit it, users must individually negotiate a settlement. And if they do not respond within 28 days, they could be found liable, which would be quite a blow.
The company claims it's been pounded hard by piracy -- harder even than mainstream movies, because pirates cannot replicate the cinematic experience. The company is also chasing websites that it argues encourage online piracy, as well as pirates of physical DVDs.
Is this the right way to address piracy, whether of porn or any other types of movie and media? Go down in the comments and tell me your thoughts, or come hither to our Facebook page.
New iPhone 5 specs 'outed' – is it enough power? - Techradar.com
We may have heard some of the iPhone 5's early specs if a new leak is to be believed.
We may not know the release date of Apple's newest smartphone, but according to a leak from 9to5Mac the new handset will be packing a new CPU to provide next-generation speeds.
According to the tip, the CPU will be the sexily-monikered S5L8950X – whether Apple would see fit to jump on the quad core bandwagon remains to be seen as there's no indication of clock speed here.
Update or not?
However, the leaked chip name still works with the A5 label, which sounds like it might not be a huge update from the dual-core chip seen in the iPhone 4S, although 9to5Mac posits this may be because it's working on a low-power 32nm chip.
It will also likely be coming with 1GB of RAM, in a similar fashion to the new iPad 3, which probably won't stay at the sharp end of the market for long (we're already seeing 2GB variants of the Galaxy S3).
But before crowing about how underpowered the iPhone 5 will be, remember Apple's always been fairly resource-light with its iOS platform and signs are pointing to an even more advanced and agile platform in iOS 6.
So the upshot of this possible leak: the iPhone 5 will have just enough of a specs update to make it next-gen, but not as much as the rest of the market. Hardly a shock, right?
From 9to5Mac
O2 Porn Sharers Set For Legal Rogering From Ben Dover - techweekeurope.co.uk
Porn pusher Ben Dover has won a court case that will see suspected illegal downloaders of his films threatened with legal action.
The High Court has approved the text of a letter which will be sent out to over 9,000 O2 broadband customers who might have illegally shared adult films made by Ben Dover Productions.
The pornographers won a court order in March, forcing the ISP to disclose details of IP addresses linked to alleged copyright infringement. The company is planning to send the O2 customers letters threatening court action unless a settlement is reached.
However, because of the particularities of the case and the company’s previous experience in “speculative invoicing”, the text of the letters had to be agreed in court.
Deny everything
Ben Dover Productions, owned by Golden Eye International, was founded by British adult actor, director and producer Ben Dover, also known as Lindsay Honey. This is not the first time his company has cracked down on alleged copyright infringement.
It was later alleged that the campaign was targeting innocent individuals and that the speculative invoicing relied on the embarrassment of those targeted agreeing to the fine to avoid the threatened court action, regardless of whether they were guilty or not.
In March, Golden Eye went to court in an attempt to obtain the details of over 9,124 IP addresses from internet service provider O2. The High Court ruled that the ISP must hand over their details, but threw out another 12 claims.
The juge also deemed the proposed £700 fine to be “unsupported and unsupportable”, telling the company to individually negotiate a settlement sum with each defendant.
Because IP addresses can be shared, faked and hijacked, they cannot serve as reliable evidence. Hence, the bill payer cannot automatically be assumed to be guilty of any alleged copyright violation, and therefore any claim made by Ben Dover Productions couldn’t move forward unless the recipient of the company’s spectulative invoicing letters admitted their own guilt.
This is why “precise wording of the order and of the letter of claim” had to be decided at a court hearing. Suspected sharers of the X-rated material will be given 28 days to reply after the judge called a 14-day limit requested by Ben Dover “unreasonable”.
“In our first letter we seek to find out more information regarding evidence of an infringement of our copyright,” spokesman Julian Becker told the BBC. “Depending on the response to our letters we will then decide our next action.”
A statement from O2 said: “We are pleased that the court has taken a robust approach and controlled the tone and content of the letter Golden Eye proposes to send to our customers. We are also pleased that the judge acknowledged the unique position we are in, and agreed that we have approached this issue in a reasonable way.”
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