he meeting was attended by Apple’s CEO Tim Cook and Samsung’s CEO Choi Gee-sung and head of the mobile division, Shin Jong-kyun and lasted for nine hours on Monday and seven hours on Tuesday. It was presided by Judge Joseph C. Spero and took place at the request of U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh last month.

Apple is currently suing Samsung for copying their designs and to get Samsung’s products off the market whereas Samsung is suing Apple for using their wireless technology patents and asking Apple to pay royalties. This meeting was held in the hopes of the two companies forming an agreement but that did not happen.

A couple of days ago we ran a story  that stated the Carla update for Nokia Belle has been cancelled. However, we have now been contacted by Nokia regarding this matter, stating that this is not the case at all.

What we know as Carla was essentially the codename for Belle Feature Pack 1. According to the Nokia employee who spoke to us, the Carla update, or Belle FP1 as it will be known as, is not cancelled and will start rolling out shortly. The first phone to run on this update will be the upcoming Nokia 808 pure view and soon some of the existing Nokia devices, which includes the Nokia 700, 701 and 603, will be updated to Belle FP1. Older phones such as the N8 and the E7 won’t be getting this update, but there is something else called the Nokia Belle Refresh being planned for them.

The Belle FP1 update is supposed to bring features such as new set of widgets, improved browser with HTML5 support, Dolby Headphone, new version of Nokia Maps, improved notification bar and multitasking view, and the Microsoft Apps. The update will also increase the clock speed on the Nokia 700 and 701 from 1GHz to 1.3GHz.

Best Video Chat App:
There’s something about Skype we can’t ignore. It’s without a doubt the BEST tool for voice and visual communication between families, long-lost friends, corporate suited jackasses and even your pets! Just download it anyway if you respect that front camera on your device.

Best Instant Messaging App:
Instant messengers will never get tired of getting coded from every corner of the world. Though, only few could make place with the best. One such app is IMO. One word, AWESOME! The app just keep surprising us every time we’re working around it. It has everything you ever wanted an IM to be.

Best Address Book App:
The pre-installed address book on Android looks rusty and in bland. You want a smarter option for it, don’t you? Then go for the smarter one! Smarter Contacts is by far the best free address book app we have come across.

Best Voice Recording App:
Tape-a-Talk Voice Recorder is a nice and intuitive way of keeping voice records. It doesn’t put limits to the recording time, whether it’s video or audio, which is a great thing. The free version is best for students who rely on taking a video or voice memo of things to remember.

Best Budget Tracking App:
So you spend money like leaky tap. Care to control that disease you have? Then downloadMoneyWise and keep track of your every expenditure and never blame yourself for forgiving that chump as an act of help who you forgot giving a 100 bill.

Best Launcher App:
Tired of the same old same (read: tasteless) stock launcher and wish to get some taste of ICS on your ill-fated device without even installing ICS? Sounds strange? But it’s possible now with LauncherPro. You have to see it to believe it, it’s so darn awesome! It completely revamps the interface and gives a whole new meaning and a whole new edge to launch and maintain apps on your device. Your phone will never be the same old same phone ever again. Go ahead and give your phone the makeover it needed. At least from software point of view.

Best Browser App:
Dolphin Browser HD makes it to the best app for browsing hands down on your large screen device. It is super smooth and fast than the stock browser of Android. Though it has a small base of add-ons, it still gets the work done, and that too, without a fuss. Download it today.

Best System Monitor App:
Again we have come across two apps which makes sense as best apps for this category, namely PC Monitor and Elixir2. The users may find Elixir2 a little too over the top of application management, since it provides a lot of features for the standard user with basic needs. Even then, these two apps are a must have on any Android device.

Best File Management App:
Yes, we know. You have cried nights to figure out how to properly explore the device without creating a havoc with your device and your brains. We’re saying this out of experience as we ourselves have gone into acute depression for the very same reasons. But you haven’t found a solution yet. Don’t worry, ES File Explorer is there for the rescue. It has no fall shorts like other apps and is very light on resource. Let’s never get lost in your hoard of folders to hide your favorite stuff.

Best Video Player App:
And lastly a great video player for our readers. Though we’re sure many of you have already their hands done on this one particular app, it still needs a mention. The MoboPlayer is the one-stop ultimate player for all your movie playing needs you’ll ever have. Plus it has interface like that of iPhone/iPod video player! Plays all the popular video formats, even the ones your phone doesn’t support, without a hitch and has support for subtitles even. Do we need to say more?

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The Penta T-Pad IS701R is a powerful tablet solution at an very affordable price. The tablet is better than Aakash tablets in many ways as discussed previously. It also comes with the reliability of BSNL.

Following are the features of the tablet:

• The tablet comes with Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) with a 7-inch resistive touch screen (800 x 600 pixels).
• The processor inside is ARM11 IMAP201 running at a clock speed of 1GHz and 256MB DDR2 RAM.
• There are three physical buttons at the front for ‘Home’, ‘Options’ and ‘Back’.
• All the ports are at the bottom of the tablet which consists of a microSD card slot, miniHDMI port, 3.5mm audio jack, miniUSB port and a hard reset button.

• The device also has support for Android Market, so that you can download apps on the device like all the other Android phones.

• The HDMI port can be used to plug the device to LCD/LED HDTV and display the contents.
• Plays all the popular audio video formats, even including 720p HD movies.

Following are the specification of the tablet:

The world-wide edition of the Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos is now official.

It’s been a while since we saw the dual-mode version of the phone get announced  for India. Now we finally have the two-SIM-slot variety intended for for international GSM markets.

Specs-wise, the Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos is no surprise. There’s a 3.5” HVGA (320x480px) LCD screen, 5MP camera with VGA video recording, 832MHz processor, 512MB RAM and Android 2.3 Gingerbread. The user-available on-board storage space is supposedly 3GB, but there’s a microSD slot as well. The battery on this one is mere 1,300 mAh unlike the one on the CDMA variety, which is 1650 mAh. But hey, perhaps CDMA networks strain battery consumption harder.

The good news are that at 11.5mm thickness, the new dual SIM variety of the Galaxy Ace Duos is as slim as the original galaxy Ace  and it’s less than 10g heavier.

The smartphone comes with Samsung’s proprietary ‘Dual SIM always on’ feature, which automatically forwards calls from SIM 2 to the SIM 1 when when the user is talking on SIM 1, meaning there are no calls missed calls.

The Galaxy Ace Duos will launch first in Russia this June but it will later roll out to the rest of Europe, CIS, Latin America, Southeast and Southwest Asia, Middle East, Africa, and China.

The GSM+CDMA version costs $340 in India, so we should probably expect similar pricing with the worldwide edition as well.

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