iPhone 5: First Test Photo?

As anyone who follows our regular series of "Test Photo" features knows, we enjoy checking out pictures captured by unreleased phones. The holy grail of such a pursuit is, of course, tracking down an image from the next iPhone. And we think that we've found one.

This (very attractive) photo claims to have been taken by an iPhone 4, but the rest of its EXIF data tells a different story: although the image has been cropped to 2235x2291 (5.12 megapixels), the original picture was a much larger 3264x2448 -- or just shy of eight megapixels. What's more, the lens was recorded as a 4.3mm f/2.4, which is closer to that of a point-and-shoot than the iPhone 4's actual 3.85mm f/2.8. (Remember that the upcoming HTC Runnymede is said to have an aperture of f/2.2.)

Now you may recall that we were recently tripped up by an image that seemed to have been captured by an unannounced iPad, but was actually taken by an iPhone and then uploaded by an iPad running software that altered the EXIF data. We suppose that a similar scenario is also possible here, but there's one compelling piece of evidence which suggests that this is indeed a genuine iPhone 5 photo: it was supposedly shot by an Apple engineer eating his lunch at work. 

Source : www.pocketnow.com

Sony Ericsson’s 2011 Xperia line will get Android Ice Cream Sandwich

If you’ve bought (or will buy) an Xperia smartphone released this year, you won’t have to worry about software updates for a while. Not long after announcing that the 2011 Xperia line would receive Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread updates, Sony Ericsson has now told SoMobile that all its Xperia devices made this year will also be upgraded to Android Ice Cream Sandwich.

Of course, Android Ice Cream Sandwich could be out only in November, so the updates may not arrive as soon as you’d want. In any case, it’s good to see confirmation from SE that they’re planning to keep customers happy.

The Xperia smartphones announced this year are: Xperia Arc, Xperia Arc S (pictured above), Xperia Ray, Xperia Play, Xperia Neo, Xperia Neo V, Xperia Pro, Xperia Mini, and Xperia Mini Pro. That’s quite a big gang of handsets that SE needs to push updates to, isn’t it?

Source :  www.Unwiredview.com

How fast windows 8 boot ? Click to see !

Can't afford to upgrade to an SSD to reduce your boot times? No worries, Microsoft has you covered, or at least that's what the company is claiming, although you'll have to upgrade to Windows 8 to reap the benefit of 30 to 70 percent faster boot times.

As you might've already gathered, we're not talking about cold boot here though, as Microsoft has come up with a new way to nearly power off your system. Although the company doesn't seem to have come up with a proper name for it yet, the MSDN blog talks about "fast startup" as something of a hybrid between hibernation and a cold boot.