According to the information on the page, the device would cost N110,000+ (yes, there’s actually a plus sign). We take this to mean that the device may cost a bit more than that upon availability. You will recall that the price was changed initially from N105,000 to N110,000 initially, and MTN which opened up pre-orders at N110,000 have also moved their price to N120,000.

In any case, if you are in the market for one and you would want to pre-order from Airtel, you would find their pre-order page here.

You should also check out our hands on and impressions of the device here and keep your eyes peeled for our full review which would be up shortly.

On sale later this year. Ten times more powerful than the PS3, right, with ultra-HD graphics. Play games on the move, listen to music, watch movies and catch-up Tv also available.

APPLE iTV  

Tipped to be Apple’s game changer. Expect voice control, slick interface, app store like those on iPads and iPhones, and games for the big screen.

NINTENDO Wii U 

Follow up to the Wii, which revolutionised computer games with the motion control in 2006. Chat with other players on video during games. 3.5m sales since last year

Microsoft Xbox One 

Microsoft unveiled its new games console, the Xbox One, yesterday. We learned the console can read your heartbeat; recognise and respond to your face and voice; play games, music, films, TV and Blu Ray discs; browse the internet; make Skype calls and conference calls; and, in its split-screen Snap Mode, do two of the above at once.

Source: Metro UK, theGuardian

The new Xbox, christened the “Xbox one” ditches the traditional Xbox look for a less adventurous “cable decoder” type look, and the look is deliberate. Microsoft is aiming beyond just games with the XboX one, It plans to take over your whole the duties of your family entertainment system.

Inside the unassuming case, it would be running a special stripped down version of Windows which can run Windows apps like internet explorer and Skype (which was announced during the event), a dedicated gaming Xbox OS that handles the games and a third middle-ware OS that interfaces between the first two OSes. All three Oses will run on 8GB of RAM, 8-core CPU, USB 3.0, WiFi direct, Blu-ray, 500GB HDD, HDMI input and output, 802.11n wireless and an undisclosed “system-on-a-chip” GPU.

The hit feature of the last gen Xbox–the Kinect has also been completely redesigned as well. It now features a 1080p wide-angle camera that can apparently read your heartbeat while you are exercising and monitor multiple reference points on up to 6 skeletons. Along with the Kinect, the Xbox controller is also redesigned and includes 40 design changes and impulse triggers that let you feel the feedback directly in the triggers themselves. The new Kinect and the new controller work together to recognize players and perform some in-game gesture based actions by moving the pad. Smart Glass, Microsoft’s companion app for the Xbox has also been revamped and brings a “fully integrated experience” to the Xbox One.

“Xbox On” a new feature (and probably the most impressive), which powers on the console instantly via voice by saying…you guessed right…”Xbox on” also debuts on the Xbox One. The Xbox on feature goes beyond just turning on the console to bringing voice control to the Xbox, commands like “watch tv” to switch to tv or “snap explorer” to snap the internet explorer to one side of the screen, much like the multitasking snap on windows 8 and RT can be issued to the Xbox one. If like me, you will feel awkward talking to your console, you can also accomplish all of that via gestures.

As for content, Microsoft announced that EA’s NBA Live, FIFA, UFC, and Madden along with Forza Motorsport 5 would be among the first set of games available for the Xbox one. They also promise “more than 15 exclusive titles” including Quantum break from the makers of Max Payne. Like I mentioned earlier, the Xbox One goes beyond games, and Microsoft promises to have exclusive downloadable content including a new action series based on the popular Halo franchise produced by Steven Speilberg.

On the downside, the Xbox One would not be backward compatible with Xbox 360 discs or live arcade due to hardware compatibility issues. No pricing or availability information was disclosed as well.

So I took that as a challenge, first the site got redesigned, making it more eye-pleasing, interactive and responsive (smart enough to realize what screen you are browsing on, and format content accordingly. While we are still working behind the scenes to optimize the old content for the new design and tweak performance, We have also moved beyond the site to our apps.

At launch, we were one of the few, if not the only online “blog” that offered our readers apps to get full content, pushed to their devices. I’m happy to announce today, that we are rolling out new apps to even better the experience of consuming content starting with android and Windows 8 and RT with other platforms coming really soon.

You can download the new Techsuplex app from Google Play and Windows store right away, for other platforms you can get the older apps for BlackBerry and Playbook from our Mobile app page.

We’ll keep everyone posted as the new apps for BlackBerry, BlackBerry 10, Playbook OS, Nokia S40 and S60, iOs and windows phone hit their respective stores. Please share the app with everyone you know and spread the word. Below are some of the features and screenshots of the apps.

The Techsuplex for android app features:

• Fully native.
• Integrated sharing via email, SMS and other android apps (eg instapaper, pocket, etc)
• Built-in HTML 5 support for web and articles
• Sliding left menu with grouping by categories.
• In-App Podcast streaming or download to play offline
• In-App Image Viewer (support pinch zoom)
• Integrated Video with in-app video Player
• Brand new style and theme to meet Android design guideline
• Dark and light theme option
• In-built comments
• Robust user controlled options eg sync interval.

The Techsuplex for Windows 8 and RT features:

• Fully native build.
• Latest article view
• Sorting via Categories and tags
• Windows 8 metro design
• Live tile notifications
• In-App Image Viewer
• Integrated Video with in-app video Player
• Integrates to Windows search, so you can search the blog from windows.

Screen Shots:

Some of the quirkiest products of the imagination can be seen in a collection of photographs gathered from the Netherlands Ministry for Culture and Science Library.

Among examples whose practical uselessness you can only marvel at are a wooden swimming costume from the U.S, a revolver gun which takes a picture when you pull the trigger a conical face protector from Canada which was intended to protect wearers from snow storms (1939).

Perhaps others were simply ahead of their time. Forget the ghetto blaster and the iPod – the man who invented the portable radio in a straw hat, so you could carry your music around on your head, was the real genius (1931).

Source: Metro, Netherlands Ministry for Culture and Science Library, Hot Spot Media

First the confusion arises from what we consider BIS here. BIS is not data alone. The term BIS refers to the service BlackBerry offers (asides data) to your device, e.g push emails, push notification, data compression etc. In most other parts of the world, you pay for a generic data plan and get BIS either as a free or paid add on. I’ve explained BIS thoroughly here, so read that if you want more details. When BlackBerry said BIS would not be needed to use BlackBerry 10, they meant, their server isn’t required to push your emails or do compression, etc any longer. That it isn’t required doesn’t mean it can’t. When you bridge an old BlackBerry device on a BIS plan to a Playbook and use the BIS to surf, the data is still compressed. The decision to support BIS or not on a BlackBerry 10 device is solely a marketing decision by your network and nothing else.

I have got two BlackBerry 10 devices at the moment, one running on a BIS plan only, the other running on a generic data plan. Both have all the full features, including BBM video and voice.

BlackBerry 10 supports BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS plans), Dedicated BlackBerry 10 plans and generic data plans. The ONLY difference with these three plans is this: For dedicated BlackBerry 10 plans, your plans come with unlimited emails and BBM. So even when your data cap is exhausted, you will still have access to BBM and emails. On the other plans, if there is a data cap, you will be cut off from every service when it is reached. Additionally, there’s the economics of choosing which plan is better suited for you, but that I’ll skip

Last thing to note is that for each of the three kinds of plans, you need to use the appropriate Access Point Name (APN), so I would include a table with the appropriate APNs below:

I’ll recommend the following much older posts if you want more in-depth explanation:

How BIS works vs How BlackBerry 10 plans will work with regards to “unlimited” data.

Is BlackBerry 10 the end of BIS plans?

BlackBerry 10 will work with your BIS plan

If there are any questions, let me know in the comments.

Here’s the change log for the leaked build:

• Android 4.2.2 – Build ID: JDQ39
• New S4 Lockscreen: Multiple Widgets, two Unlock effects (Ripple and Light), improved ripple effect than Android 4.1.2, ability to change clock size and set a personal message
• New Screen modes (From S4): Adapt Display and Professional Photo
• Daydream
• Driving mode
• Actionable notifications
• New Additions in Notification Center
• Completely revamped Settings UI (Tabbed interface – Exactly like the S4)
• Addition of Voice controls (Let’s you control various parts of the phone using voice commands – Galaxy S4 feature)
• Gallery modes have white background (When changing gallery modes to 3D the background changes to white)
• Full screen Samsung apps
• New S-Voice (from S4)
• New smart switch widget

If you know what you’re doing, and you want to try the leaked firmware out, (at your own risk obviously) here’s what to do.

• Download the leaked firmware: I9300XXUFME3_I9300OJKFME1_ILO.zip.
• Unzip the file
• Open Odin 3.04 (already included in the firmware package)
• Restart phone in download mode (Press and hold Home + Power + Volume down buttons)
• Connect phone and wait until you get a blue sign in Odin
• Add I9300XXUFME3_I9300OJKFME1_HOME.tar.md5 to PDA
• Make sure re-partition is NOT ticked
• Start flash, sit back and wait a few minutes.
• If you encounter any issues with the firmware (Any FC, Bootloop etc)
• Boot into recovery mode (Home+power+vol up)
• Choose to wipe/factory reset. (THIS WILL ERASE ALL OF YOUR DATA INCLUDING YOUR INTERNAL SD CARD!)
• Then choose reboot and you should be good to go!

Source: Sammobile

With so many distractions around you, whether on desktop or mobile, its getting increasingly harder to get any productive work done nowadays. That is, unless you equip yourself with tools to improve your work/play ratio. Here are such tools that will help you get things done.

Evernote

You know that important idea you get that is genius at the time and you promise you will brainstorm on as soon as you get home, only to forget it as soon as get home. Rage ensues and Hulk just wants to smash!!! With Evernote, that never has to happen. It allows you to jot down notes and take pictures and leave voicenotes as well. The hitch is that most of this content is unavailable offline unless you subscribe to the paid version. There’s a free version anyway so you can use that before you splurge on a paid version.

Get it at: Evernote website, iOS , Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone, Windows, Windows 8 and RT, Mac OS X

Google Keep

Note keeper just like Evernote that launched earlier this year. Not as robust as Evernote but it lets you upload images and what’s best is that its completely free. The problem is that Google has a penchant for getting rid of products that don’t work. Let’s hope it does.

Get it at: Google Keep page ; Android

Dropbox

Cloud storage for your files and documents which comes in extremely handy when you forget to carry a flash drive around or you need you documents on hand on your tablet or phone. Gives you upto 5gb storage on the free option which boosts higher on the paid one.

Get it at: Website, iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Windows, Mac, Linux,

Google Drive

Competitor to Dropbox which as of recent now shares storage space with your Gmail Account so much more space for free. It also ties with your Google Docs account so your typed documents, spreedsheets and presentations are saved automatically to your drive. Share files or folders with people so that it can be a great collaborative tool when working on projects.

Get it at: Website, iOS, Android

Google Docs

Imagine Microsoft Office but cloud based. A lot of companies offer cloud based office options now but this is handy to me since it ties into my Google Drive account. I am writing this article right now infact in Google Docs. When your internet goes off, it goes into offline mode so you can still keep on using it and as soon as your internet comes back on, it syncs your work and saves everything. It also saves after every word you type and when you are collaborating on a document with someone, you see the changes and words been typed in real-time. Also, Google owns Quick Office and I heard that they plan to incorporate it into Google Docs so expect more robustness soon.

Get it at: Website

Any.Do

This is a reminder app available on all popular mobile platforms. Easy and nice interface which lets you set schedules for all days of the week and lets you set reminders. When you get calls, it also gives the option to call now, later or schedule a call back at some other time. Online account allows you to sync your events across different systems and devices

Get it at: Website, iOS, Android

Cam Scanner

Who needs to go to an internet cafe or business center to scan a documents when your smartphone is a perfectly good scanner on its own. Lets you scan and edit the image and enhance. Perfect for that late night when you have to turn in a scan of your passport for Visa, amongst other uses.

Get it at: iOS (4.99 Pro), Android

So, many productivity apps out there so watch this space for updates on ways to make your time more productive.

I’ve got an  editorial on this issue here, but Odumu Oghenetega sent his opinions on the issue as well, and I decided to put it up as well. If you have opinions on this or any other issue, feel free to mail them to tips@techsuplex.com and we would consider putting it up. -Editor

BlackBerry will be making a bold step this summer by offering the much loved BlackBerry messenger (BBM) to android and Apple’s iOs. BBM being exclusive to BlackBerry meant only BlackBerry owners could make use one of the more popular messaging platforms in Nigeria where the BBM craze never ends and BlackBerry phones sell like “Garri” a lot due to this exclusive feature. In the just concluded Blackberry Live conference, the BlackBerry CEO mentioned that BBM had hit around 60 Million users and was expanding to both android and iOs users meaning BBM is set to hit an even greater amount of usage.

The ability to connect with other BlackBerry users from your android and iOs device means that the crave for BlackBerry in Nigeria and generally for the exclusive BBM feature might decline. On a positive note BlackBerry will likely to go head to head with the now famous Whatsapp Messenger which is also multi-platform and is available on budget “dumb” phones through to expensive “Smart phones”. With BBM offering more features than Whatsapp, Whatsa pp will be facing stiff competition. BlackBerry are surely taking a gamble with this move but with the popularity of BBM in the Blackberry World, moving to andriod and iOs is a gamble worth taking.

The gamble depends on how well the application becomes popular on both Google Play and Apple App store. Provided you are running at least android Ice Cream Sandwich or iOs6 on iOs devices, you will be able to download the BBM application once its available in the summer.

Written by Odumu Oghenetega, our Newest contributor at Techsuplex follow him on twitter @StamfordGeezer

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It’s mating season. I caught the buzz and almost had a phonegasm. Yes…almost because I am still trying to make screen and case of this cross-phonilation. It is quite evident that the phonoverse will be experiencing the Darwinian state of survival of the fittest in a short while. We are supposed to breed according to our kind and one of the biggest things that came out of my kind is the BBM but according to the folks at RIM starting this summer the ‘droids and iphies will be carrying our babies. How long before the Microsoft guys join the queue. If this isn’t the definition of sleeping with the enemy then I’m a feature phone through and through. But what do I know, I’m just that device that you look to when you want to make all your major life decisions and they can only be human anyway.

Speaking of human, the owner finally decided to get off her backside and get on the scales this morning. I could almost hear the bed crying for joy. It took the mattress 49 seconds to regain its shape. I felt so sorry for the digital scale. It creaked under her weight and finally settled at 126 in the kilogram marker. The owners face and next actions showed that she was tired of herself.(Finally, we were on the same page)  In fact, I only caught the cross-phonilation buzz courtesy of the random and not so random steps she took this morning. We ended up at the gym and I’m being made to stare at this male specimen that looks like a life sized version of Johnny Bravo.  I don’t think the owner was particularly impressed but she stayed and listened.

I was sent into her handbag a little later, left to pursue my own interests. I took the time to detect other phones around me there were quite a lot of my kind running the OS 6 and 7 mostly. The biggest shock was detecting a Q10. By the Phoneracles! I never knew those had even been shipped to these parts. I most definitely had not been keeping up with the wires. I decided to do some more phishing and that was when I came across the S4. I had heard some chatter about the S4 but I wasn’t exactly prepared for what I detected. I’m sure 3 would be glad to give way to big brother 4. Air gesture?Smart Scroll Pause?Universal Remote Control? Oh well, it is built for play! If I wasn’t built so sturdily my screen would have turned green!

I came up for air in sweaty palms as the owner exchanged numbers with some other humans. I held my own even though I noticed one of the other two devices was a Lumia 920. Then there was the Tecno N7. I couldn’t get myself to allow the owner input the digits from that device into me. I chose to freeze up.  The owner tried again and again and finally gave up. She offered some apology about Blackberries and hanging and the owner of N7 even chipped in a joke about batteries that die at will. On a good day, I would have proved her wrong, but I have learnt to choose my battles, and this was my war. I got tucked back into the darkness of the bag, much to my joy as I really wanted to get as close I possibly can to the Q10. I had already noticed there was a virtual and physical keyboard. And then I discovered Q10 was out of range. Story of my life! First Z and now Q?

And then the most wonderful thing happened…