Qt Quick 1.0 officially launched

Nokia has launched Qt Quick 1.0 today. Qt Quick is a collection of three technologies:

* QtDeclarative - the native library in Qt delivering native integration and the Qt Quick UI runtime
* QML - the Qt MetaObject Language, allowing declaration of User Interfaces and Experiences
* Qt Creator support for QML-based projects and code integration.

For the last year, QML and QtDeclarative has been available to both early adopters as well as mainstream developers through code pushed to gitorious as well as Qt 4.7.0 and 4.7.1 releases. Today the final piece of the puzzle has been launched: Qt Creator with the Qt Quick Designer.

Qt Quick Designer is a WYSIWYG editor for QML UI's, allowing you to visually create and arrange your UI's while staying in perfect sync with your QML code. This does not use a separate generative step like Qt Designer did – but directly manipulates your QML code. You can get Qt Creator along with the Qt Quick Designer and all the other features supporting Qt Quick from the downloads page.

In the near future some additional features for Qt Quick will be made available. This includes use-case specific elements for pinching touch interaction, free form touch interaction, support for Right-To-Left layouting and many other features and suggestions.

The team has also started last fall to build Qt Quick components for MeeGo and Symbian. While work is still continuing at a brisk pace on the MeeGo style, the Symbian style has now been fully transitioned to gitorious.org, allowing anyone to try it out on their Symbian ^3 device. This makes creating new Apps with native look and feel a lot easier and obsoletes the task of each developer having to creating reusable elements such as buttons, ListItems and so forth. Prime your ‘git clone’ and head to http://qt.gitorious.org/qt-components. To provide feedback you can use bugreports, and if you want to discuss you can use the mailing list or IRC.

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Comparison of night calling rates for F&F numbers by all networks

Written by Administrator Monday, 28 February 2011 21:29

It’s precise that all of you that you don’t get enough time in day duration because it is always in a rush and in that particular time you can’t afford to chit chat with your dearest ones, or else your boss will fire you from the job ! Isn’t that right ? Then of course you can hang up with your buddies during night by simply calling them down and say whatever you want but afraid of the calling rates ? That’s why the telecom companies offer attractive and affordable night calling rates, whether you require to call on On-Net number’s or Off-Net numbers but what comes more reasonable is the F&F calling so that once you add your beloved one in the F&F and you’re done with it but not every telecom company offers same reasonable rates for night calling,

so that’s why if you are a night owl then you should consider having a look over the comparison of night calling rates for F&F numbers by all telecom networks in Pakistan, as under different networks packages launched for youth:

Djuice (Jaagtay Raho)

First in the line-up for F&F calling rates comes Djuice Jaagtay Raho offer dedicated to youth for enjoying every single moment of night calling without any worries to the rates. It also offers specific time schedules during night time from Midnight to 8 A.M which varies through certain call rates as follows:

(12am to 1am): If you attempt to make calls to your F&F numbers during the time window of 12am-1am then you will be charged Rs.4 per hour.(1am to 6am): Every calls made to F&F numbers during 1am-6am will not charge you, except the Call Setup charges which will be applicable @5paisas(6am to 8am): Well usually the time duration of 6am-8am isn’t the very right time to call down your buddies because the night is already over but if you make calls to F&F numbers during this time, your call will be charged @Rs.4 per hour.

This was over with Djuice Jaagtay Raho plans for the new generation to gossip with their beloved ones all night. However, Rs. 4 is applicable for daily subscription fees to this offer by Djuice. Have a look at what Ufone is offering for its valuable customers:

Ufone (Uth Package)

When Ufone Uth package was introduced, mostly all of the customers were diverted to this package because it’s highly targeted to youth of Pakistan, after all what its package name, is just that fits it right, so have a look at the calling rates offered by Uth package to F&F numbers:

(12am-5pm): Now the time duration of 12am-5pm seems to be quite convenient and long enough to make calls to your F&F numbers whenever you want and so your call will be charged @Rs.2.99 per hour during this time window, if you are a Uth Package holder.

This is what that beats the Djuice offer because of its time flexibility/availability and cheap call rates applicable per hour. But, Rs.1 is applicable in terms of daily service charges if you are a Uth Package holder. Next to Ufone have a look in what Jazz Jazba has to offer for its precious customers:

Jazz Jazba

Jazz Jazba is a vibrant package for youth of Pakistan to must have, because of it’s convenient other offering’s such as SMS bundle offers and not to mention the F&F calling during night which are as follows, which undergoes a specific package that has to be subscribed by Jazba Customers:

(Midnight-5am): Guess what ? There aren’t any charges applicable if you make calls from Midnight-5am on 3 F&F numbers only. Here if you aren’t charged to make calls during the night, on the other hand, the limit of F&F numbers which will be included in this time schedule is restricted to 3 numbers only.(5 AM – 5 PM): From 5 AM – 5 PM if you make calls to F&F numbers, your call will be charged @Rs.1.99/hour.

You can avail this package against a daily package fee of Rs.1+tax and daily charges which are applicable @Rs.3.99+tax. After that have a look into what the latest Glow 1 and Glow 2.0 has to offer for the new generation in terms of calling rates to F&F numbers during night:

Glow 1 and Glow 2.0

Make a gang of friends and add it in your Glow Gang numbers to make calls during night and go on with the gossip to share the happenings in your daily life, with Glow 1 and Glow 2.0 and these packages are nearly same but variation comes to the F&F numbers as you can extract from the following, but wait Glow 2.0 subscribers can also take advantage of extended time limit for calling on F&F numbers during weekends:

Glow 1 (11pm-8am) in Weekdays: If you are a Glow 1 subscriber, you can add up to 10 favorite on-net numbers only where if you make calls to those numbers during 11pm-8am your call will be charged @Rs.2.99 per hour.Glow 1 (11pm-8am) in Weekends: There is no variation to the call rates which are identical @Rs.2.99 per hour to on-net F&F numbers, besides the night time if you make calls during 8am-11pm you will be charged sameGlow 2.0 (11pm-8am) in Weekdays: If you make calls during 11pm-8am in weekdays to five off-net favorite numbers, you will be charged @61 paisas per minute and if you make calls to five favorite on-net numbers, you will be charged @Rs.2.99 per hour.Glow 2.0 (11pm-8am) in Weekends: If you make calls on five off-net favorite numbers in weekends and during 11pm-5pm your call will be charged @61 paisas per minute and if you make calls to five on-net favorite numbers during 11pm-5pm, your call will be charged @Rs.2.99 per hour. The time limit is extended during weekends mainly on Saturday and Sunday.

For Glow 1 subscribers Rs.1 +Tax will be charged only on the first On-net Glow Gang call made in a day, whereas for Glow 2.0 subscribers Rs. 1 +Tax will be charged only on the first Glow Gang off-net call made in a day. Last but not the least has a look into what Zong has in its sleeves for its customers.

Zong Free Package

Under Zong free package you can make calls to all Zong numbers late night which is as follow:

Late Night Offer (Midnight to 7:00 am): If you are the Zong’s free package subscriber, you can make calls to all Zong numbers from Midnight to 7:00am @Rs.3.99 per hour.

Daily subscription fee of this Package is Re.1, but look at what you are getting that these calling rates during night time isn’t only for F&F numbers, instead it is for all Zong numbers.

“Now which telecom company customer you are, you could be anyone of the above but if you feel that any of the package for night calling best fits your need context to your present networks then you shouldn’t wait to go for it”

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Official Android 2.3.2 update for Samsung I9000 Galaxy S leaks

Yesterday the official Gingerbread update for the Samsung I9000 Galaxy S leaked in the XDA Developers forum. This means that the Galaxy S will indeed get the Gingerbread treatment, as we reported this weekend.

 

Note that this is the 2.3.2 version of Android and not version 2.3.3 that was released for the Google Nexus S and Nexus One earlier last week.

The leaked source code is still in a beta stage and some people report that either it's not working properly, or they can't get it to work at all. For most users though there seem to be no problems.

Update, we already gave it a spin, check out our first impressions and benchmarks here.

Nevertheless, approach with caution and read the XDA forum carefully before doing anything. Happy flashing!

Best of all, devs have succeeded in rooting the software already.

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Samsung's Exynos 4210 gaming side shown off at the GDC 2011

The Samsung Orion SoC (Exynos 4210), packing a dual-core 1Ghz ARM Cortex A9 CPU and the Mali-400 graphics, has been making comfortable at this year?s Games Developers Conference. There, the Exynos 4210 was showcased runing 3D games in 1080p@60fps.

An experimental platform using the same chip found inside the Galaxy S II (a dual-core 1Ghz ARM Cortex A9 CPU and the Mali-400 graphics) was used for demoes at the ARM's booth at the GDC 2011. The Exynos 4210 didn't even blink while running a complex 3D game demo in 1080p at 60 fps.

Amazing, indeed. An ARM representative even said that if it wasn?t for the limitations of the HDMI v1.3 port that was used, they could have outputed the same game in stereoscopic 3D in 1080p. Unfortunately, that's only possible over the latest HDMI v1.4 standard.

The Samsung Galaxy S II will be the first one to feature the Exynos 4210 SoC. The phone is expected to be released in late May for around ?650. Some regional versons will make use of a Tegra 2 chip instead.

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LG promises at least one next-version update for each Optimus

Written by Administrator Tuesday, 01 March 2011 11:17

What you expect when you buy an android smartphone of your choice ? Well it could be anything in your concern but you may want your smartphone to upgrade after you unwrap it from the box, isn’t it ? But at that initial stage of buying that android device doesn’t assures you that if it will ever be updated or not. On the other hand, Google casts foremost new edition of Android every six months however there is no way of assuring that your device will ever obtain a newer firmware than what it came with out of the box. And this often happens that the bestseller smartphones are able to get an update in near time but failures are spotted backwards.

With these things keeping in mind, LG is committed to endow with as a minimum one next-edition revise to all of its Optimus smartphones. Apparently, LG's Director of Global Communications, Kenneth Hong made a statement that LG's "viewpoint is to be proficient to put forward at least a one-level raise for all Optimus smartphones pioneered in 2011 and ahead of"

For example if you buy an LG Optimus which runs on Froyo then your smartphone will be able to get at minimum a one-level upgrade which will make this smartphone to run on Gingerbread. Moreover, if you buy a Gingerbread operated mobile phone of LG then you will get an update for that too.

At this instant such a pledge is certainly a good move and a positive approach but it's besides a solemn obligation by the firm. LG has been dishonorable on the subject of making available after-sales software renewals to its devices and this might be the indication of a big twist in the company's values and strategies to implement in the upcoming time.

Regrettably, there aren’t any words to verify that if the update will take how much time to hit the devices, as it wasn’t a part of the conversation by Ken Hong. But what do you think that at least one software upgrade seems to be enough for your smartphone to not let itself chase behind the smartphones which are really damn hot ?

Important: Do bear this in mind that word of honor given by LG for the update is only assured for carrier-free never-locked versions of the LG phones.

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Safe Eyes Parental Control Suite

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Here's the Samsung Galaxy S on Gingerbread, benchmarked

Our hands were itching to try the leaked Gingerbread update for the Samsung Galaxy S and to give it a spin to see what's what. The update doesn't bring anything spectacular in terms of looks; only the notification bar has changed icons and looks, but the rest of its is basically the same old TouchWiz 3.0.

  

The new version of the Samsung custom launcher that will launch on the Galaxy S II is sadly unavailable here. At least you get the download center that Gingerbread brings. Plus the leaked ROM feels surprisingly bugless for a beta release.

We also ran a few benchmarks to see if it's noticeably faster than its Froyo-running twin brother. Here are the results:

 

Compared to a Froyo-powered Galaxy S, these results are obviously better, which is pretty good considering that this is not a final version of Gingerbread.

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Nokia N8 Producers winners announced, win zero-gravity ride

December last year, Nokia started the Nokia N8 Producers contest - where up-and-coming filmmakers can take a crack at shooting a short with the N8 and win a zero-gravity trip on a specially modified plane.

Of all who submitted their videos to the Nokia N8 Produces challenge, nine won the big prize. They get to feel what it?s like to float in weightlessness and also got a lot more coverage on their short films.

Here?s one of the winning videos, which does gravity-defying tricks closer to the ground. You can check out the other eight videos here.

All these videos were shot on the Nokia N8 to showcase both the abilities of the filmmakers and Nokia?s flagship camera phone. We?ve also seen what the N8 can do in the hands of professionals - in case you missed them, check out The Commuter and the stop-motion short Dot.

Here?s a video chronicling the zero-g ride - from the ground, to weightlessness and back to solid ground shot by one of the Nokia N8 contest winners.

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Carbide.ui Symbian Theme Edition 4.0 released

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Carbide.ui Symbian Theme Edition 4.0 releasedForum Nokia has released new version 4.0 of Carbide.ui Symbian Theme Edition. The latest version delivers a new UX that has been designed to boost the productivity of theme designers. The UX was created by going back to first principles and rethinking how designers can most efficiently create themes. This has resulted in changes that include:
Richer Component View: With faster refreshing, improved iconography, status indication, and filtering, reviewing components is now faster and better aligned to theme-development needs.
Unified Properties View: All properties of a component -- and the tools to manipulate them -- are now in one place. New tools, such as a slicer to create nine-part components, are also available.
Tabbed Preview: Preview screens are now grouped into convenient tabs, making it easier to find and display specific previews. This, in turn, enables the impact of component changes on the UI to be evaluated speedily.
Colour and Gradient Editor: An improved colour-selection tool makes editing common colours and gradients straightforward. Get an instant preview of any change, then use the colour picker to sample colours from any source.
Export to PDF: Export all preview screens to a PDF document -- at full resolution. Designers can now easily evaluate and share theme ideas without having to first install them on a device.
Automatic Updates: Whenever updates to Carbide.ui become available, an automatic alert is shown in the tool. Then, a single click is all that's needed to get the latest features and functions.

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