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Themer: The Elegant Launcher

Many Android themes aren't too elegant, particularly those included by default on many handsets. Themer, however, manages to surface the best with a voting system, allowing its members to favourite themes they particularly like. The result is that the most innovative, interesting and intelligent rise to the top.

Themer allows users to switch between different homescreens with one click, browsing through a user-generated database of themes to find the one that best suits their needs.

Themer deals with the wide range of apps used by Android users. Instead of including icons for Pandora, Spotify, Google Play Music and so on, theme-creators instead just include a music icon. The first time you press that, it'll ask you which of the music apps installed you'd like to use. From then on, whichever theme you install will open that app.

Samsung Galaxy K Zoom

The Samsung Galaxy K Zoom is a phone-camera hybrid. The Samsung Galaxy K Zoom is the sort of device you might imagine resulting if you put a compact camera and a phone next to each other and pushed them together really hard. It has the dimpled back styling of Samsung’s latest phones, and looks just like a normal phone from the front. But on the back is a giant lens housing that sticks out and alters the weighting of the phone substantially.

The Samsung Galaxy K Zoom's impressive 10x optical zoom gets you up close with your subject without losing image quality. It has plenty of power for most tasks and it has the latest Android software too.

KEY SPECS

Display: 4.80-inch
Processor: 1.3GHz
Front Camera :2-megapixel
Resolution :720x1280 pixels
RAM: 2GB
OS: Android 4.4
Storage: 8GB
Rear Camera: 20.7-megapixel
Battery capacity: 2430mAh

Samsung Galaxy Alpha: A High-End Android Smartphone

Samsung Galaxy Alpha, a high-end android smartphone device produced by Samsung Electronics.

The Galaxy Alpha is Samsung's first smartphone to incorporate a metallic frame, although the remainder of its physical appearance still resembles previous models such as the Galaxy S5. It also incorporates Samsung's new Exynos 5430 system-on-chip, which is the first mobile system-on-chip to use a 20 nanometer manufacturing process.

Specifications

The Galaxy Alpha's overall design is an evolution upon that of the Galaxy S5, incorporating a chamferred metal frame and a dimpled, plastic rear cover.With a thickness of 6.7 mm (0.26 in), Samsung considers the Galaxy Alpha to be the company's thinnest smartphone.

International models of the Alpha utilize an octa-core, Exynos 5430 system-on-chip; consisting of a bank of four 1.8 GHz Cortex-A15 cores, and four 1.3 GHz Cortex-A7 cores. The Exynos 5430 is the first ever mobile system-on-chip to use a 20 nanometer HKMG manufacturing process.

The international model will also be the first device to incorporate Intel's XMM7260 modem for category 6 LTE Advanced support. U.S. models will include a 2.5 GHz Snapdragon 801 processor instead; both models will include 2 GB of RAM.

The Galaxy Alpha features a 720p 4.7 in (120 mm) Super AMOLED display, and also incorporates a 12 megapixel rear-facing camera, fingerprint and heart rate sensors, and a removable 1860 mAh battery. The device includes 32 GB of non-expandable storage, and runs Android 4.4.4 "KitKat" with Samsung's TouchWiz software suite.

OTA Provides Updates On Your Devices

Over-the-air programming or OTA, is the wireless delivery of new software or data to mobile phones and tablets.

Important Feature

One important feature of OTA is that one central location can send an update to all the users, who are unable to refuse, defeat, or alter that update, and that the update applies immediately to everyone on the channel. A user could "refuse" OTA but the "channel manager" could also kick them off the channel automatically.

As mobile phones accumulate new applications and become more advanced, OTA configuration has become increasingly important as new updates and services come on stream.

OTA via SMS optimises the configuration data updates in SIM cards and handsets and enables the distribution of new software updates to mobile phones or provisioning handsets with the necessary settings with which to access services such as WAP or MMS. OTA messaging provides remote control of mobile phones for service and subscription activation, personalization and programming of a new service for mobile operators and telco third parties.

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