Google Unveils New Nexus Smartphone and Tablets

Google yesterday announced its new line of Nexus Smartphone and Tablets, all powered by New Android 4.2, a new flavor of Jelly Bean operating system that was planned for launch yesterday in an event which got cancelled due to Hurricane Sandy.

Nexus 4

Nexus 4 is next in line Google smartphone, manufactured in by LG, that comes with a quad-core processor, a 4.7″ (320 ppi) display and wireless charging – a technology that is getting momentum these days.

While Nexus 4 is seemingly powerful enough under the hood, it also features the latest version of Jelly Bean, Android 4.2— claimed to be the simplest and smartest version of Android yet.

Here are other specs of Nexus 4:

• CPU: Quad-core 1.5 GHz Krait
• Chipset: Qualcomm APQ8064 Snapdragon
• GPU: Adreno 320
• OS: Android OS, v4.2 (Jelly Bean)
• Design:
  • Dimensions: 133.9 x 68.7 x 9.1 mm
  • Weight: 139 g (4.90 oz)
• Display:
  • Type: Gloria Glass protected true HD IPS Plus capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
  • Size: 768 x 1280 pixels, 4.7 inches (~318 ppi pixel density)
• Memory:
  • 8 or 16 GB storage
  • 2 GB RAM
  • No card support
• Connectivity:
  • Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, dual-band, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot, Bluetooth v4.0 with A2DP, NFC, USB v2.0 (MicroUSB)
• Camera:
  • Primary: 8 MP, 3264 x 2448 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
  • A front facing camera too
• Battery:
  • Standard battery, Li-Po 2100mAh
  • Stand-by: Up to 390 h (3G)
  • Talk time: Up to 15 h (3G)
• Price:
• 8GB for $299;
• 16GB for $349;
• Available unlocked

      Nexus 7:

Nexus 7 comes with 800 x 1280 pixels, 7.0 inches display with corning glass protection.

Nexus 7 is built by ASUS and comes with a NVIDIA® Tegra® 3 quad core processor. Patented 4-PLUS-1™ design gives you processing power when you need it while it will save battery when power isn’t required by the device or apps.

Nexus 7 comes with over 9 hours of HD video playback, 10 hours of web browsing or e-reading, and up to 300 hours of standby time. Nexus 7 can be charged wirelessly too.

Here are other specs for Nexus 7:

• CPU: Quad-core 1.3 GHz Cortex-A9
• Chipset: Nvidia Tegra 3
• GPU: ULP GeForce
• OS: Android OS, v4.1 (Jelly Bean), upgradable to v4.1.2
• Design
  • Dimensions: 198.5 x 120 x 10.5 mm (7.81 x 4.72 x 0.41 in)
  • Weight: 340 g
• DISPLAY: LED-backlit IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
• Size: 800 x 1280 pixels, 7.0 inches (~216 ppi pixel density)
• Memory:
  • Internal: 16 or 32 GB storage
  • 1GB RAM
  • No cardslot
• Connectivity:
  • Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth, NFC, USB,
  • Cellular support: No
• Camera: 1.2 MP rear camera
• Battery:
  • Standard battery, Li-Ion 4325 mAh
  • Usage:  Up to 10 h
• Price:
• 16GB for $199
• 32GB for $249

Nexus 10

Google trusted Samsung for building its power tabled. Nexus 10 is the highest resolution tablet on the planet with a 10.055″ display at 2560-by-1600 (300ppi), that’s over 4 million pixels right in your hands.

It comes with a powerful battery that will get you up to nine hours of video playback and more than 500 hours of standby time.

With a set of front-facing stereo speakers, you can watch movies right from your Nexus 10 and they simply sound awesome.

With Android 4.2, you can add multiple users and switch between them instantly right from the lockscreen.

Here are other specs of Nexus 10

• CPU: Dual-core 1.7 GHz Cortex-A15
• Chipset: Exynos 5250
• GPU: Mali-T604
• OS: Android OS, v4.2 (Jelly Bean)
• Display:
  • LED-backlit IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
  • Size: 2560 x 1600 pixels, 10.1 inches (~299 ppi pixel density)
• Memory:
  • Internal: 16/32 GB storage,
  • 2 GB RAM
  • No cardslot
• Connectivity:
  • Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, Bluetooth NFC, USB
  • Cellular support: No
• Camera:
  • Primary: 5 MP, 2592х1936 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
  • Secondary: 2 MP
• Price:
  • 16GB for $399
  • 32GB for $499

NADRA Chip CNICs – A New Technology soon coming your way

Technology is on its way, nobody knows where it will land but it is really serving humanity at its apex. Introduction of latest technology, equipments in every walk of life has enabled the mankind to save a lot of time, money, hitches and in some way security matters. Yes it is the time when it is about to bring in a big revolution in Pakistan as NADRA (National Database and Registration Authority) has just announced to introduce Chip-National Identity Card. This is a fully new technology to Pakistan as it is being said that old cards will be replaced by these new CHIP-CNIC. Up till now it seems to be a really very good project regarding both the data processing and security.

According to NADRA, the soul purpose of this CHIP-CNIC is to identify the terrorists as it will help them to have fool proof security and identification which will really help in terrorism control activities. Six engineers have been trained in France for IT who will assist in this project in Pakistan. This chip is thought to be a blessing in security purpose as it will also be able to help security agencies regarding identification issues.

Further details and its features are still pending and will be published as we come across, meanwhile NADRA says, this chip costs around $4 to $5 abroad and it is aimed to provide this in Pakistan at much cheaper rates, around 80PKR. It is an electronic chip, connected to security mains and will have complete bio data of a respective person. This chip will firstly be issued to deportees and later on all existing NICs will be replaced by this new Chip-CNIC.

This Chip-CNIC is a big step towards getting rid of identity theft as in previous days it had become really easy to duplicate or make a fake copy of NIC and to misuse it but it will be almost impossible to fake it or to by-pass this security – yet nothing is impossible.

This is all for now, we will update you as soon as we get more details about this.

Verify NADRA CNIC Through SMS

ٹیکنالوجی کی دوڑ میں نادرا بھی کسی لحاظ سے پیچھے نہیں۔ جس کا ثبوت یہ ہے کہ نادرا نے ایس ایم ایس کے ذریعے کمپیوٹرائزڈ قومی شناختی کارڈ کی تفصیلات حاصل کا نظام متعارف کروا دیا ہے۔لہذا اب اپنے شناختی کارڈ کی تفصیلات کی تصدیق یا تصیح کے لئے نادرا کے دفتر جانے کی ضرورت نہیں۔

Simply verify their CNIC by sending an SMS to 7000.

Write CNIC Number without dashes and send it to 7000. In response you will get name and father’s name of that particular CNIC number holder (in urdu fonts).

Example: write 3740149922830 and send to 7000

Charges: Rs. 10 plus tax per Message (Around Rs. 12 including taxes)

At the moment this service is available for Mobilink, Telenor and Warid customers while Ufone and Zong are in process to get listed.

One may think that this is a privacy loop hole, however, as it does not provide any contact details of the CNIC holder and only reveals the name and father’s name – so it is acceptable and helpful in many means.

Talking about benefits, this service will really help the public in there general as well as special matters as you can easily verify someone’s details to check the scam or fake ones, these credentials can really help out in business deals as well as personal contracts where you need to be sure about the real person.

This service will also be helpful to law-enforcement agencies as they may be able to get more details as compared to public because there is another special number for them. They can get CNIC information by sending the number at 7001.

Subscribers will get details through cellular companies which would collect data in real time communication from NADRA National Data Warehouse. This is thought be a secure data transfer as service numbers are labeled as “Special Numbers”.

NADRA is also supporting law-enforcement agencies and govt. to implement and cope up with prevailing law and order situation. This step is regarded as a good initiative as it will support telecom infrastructure as a big advancement and will led others to bring these kinda changes and revolutions. A lot of thing are on their way but still a BIG job is to be done.