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Rarely talk over smartphone? Don’t like the idea of some providers offer? And don’t want to pay a lot of money per month but still want to have plenty of data? T-Mobile has the plan that you might have been waiting for, if you know where to find the plan.

T-Mobile has a plan that offers 5GB of 4G data, unlimited SMS, and 100 minutes of talk time, for only $30 per month you can have all of those services. According to CNET’S report, this is the cheapest prepaid plan from any of the major U.S carriers. While some plans that have been made by other providers as well as Verizon’s pay-as-you-go which starts at $60 for only 500MB of data, $70 to get you to 2GB, the ST&T’s prepaid plan that includes 1GB of data with the price of $65 per month, and Sprint’s pay-as-you-go-plan which offers unlimited data with the price of $70, T-Mobile has a breakthrough with its newest plan of smartphone services.

Regarding to the plan made by T-Mobile, it is not listed on its official web site, it is not because the search was not completely done, but according to CNET’s reporter, a few weeks ago after getting the news of T-Mobile’s plan, the reporter tried to check it on T-Mobile’s “Bring Your Own Phone” page but he got no prepaid option there. If you do a search for T-Mobile’s prepaid plan, you will be redirected to its prepaid site. The home page of the site shows you the impression that plans begin at $50 per month for 500MB of 4G data. Even so, if you check for the page listing all prepaid plans, then scroll down to the bottom; you will discover the magical $30 option.

On the site, if you want to use the plan as your smartphone data services, you have to either order a SIM card for your phone, which will cost $10, or buy a new phone instead. You will also find a small notation if the plan is prevailed only for new activation.

However, the speed of T-Mobile’s plan is fairly decent, and if your device is Nexus 4, this plan can be used to share connection with your laptop and it can work fine. When we come back to the term of “new activation only”, this could mean that you cannot switch to this plan from anything you’re on now, it might also mean that if you want to activate a new line of service, T-Mobile might not let you port your previous number to the new line.

I think there are many different smartphone plans that could fit to your needs. Whether the T-Mobile is good or not, we cannot generally make the conclusion as it has a plus on its connection service and also cheap price, while other weaknesses still found.

Cloud services give you the alternative hosted services . It provides you services through internet and a single connection around the world wide . Cloud services use the idea of computing resources which are the customers’ want. The companies will rent the hardware and software to their customers who use their service . It is very simple when you want to get a service through web browser . It will remove the day-to-day hassle from IT management an it will give permissions to the new companies.

Cloud services offers three advantages for you. The available advantages are the infrastructure , platforms, SaaS (Software as a Service) . The cloud services have become more popular due the downturn of economic aspects . It gives you more flexibility with hosting services , and also the cloud services provide you with both public and private cloud services. The flexible services also convenient for any folk.

The definition of Cloud Services is a set of internet service provider with high-scaled solutions. You can interact with internet solutions without any hesitation. You’ve proven the internet solutions by the existence of Google and Yahoo’s email . Even you can make a desktop client solution which processes data hosted in a cloud engine software and you can also access them from your iPhone . That’s impressive! Moreover, you can control your cloud computing with an iPhone which always in your pocket. Imagine that, how easy this life is.

How could the iPhone related to Cloud Services? iPhone provides three ways which can afford the users to keep them connected to the internet such as EDGE, 3G, WiFi. If you are the iPhone users, you already realize if you won’t be able to create your work such as design and presentation on iPhone. What makes iPhone very impressive is because of its ability to review information and make small , byte sized responses . In the other words, the iPhone will never replace the function of your computer and your laptop. That’s why you have to keep the data in two devices (iPhone and computer), and cloud computing will help you for this. You can save your data in Cloud engine software will ease you to review your daily activities from iPhone. You can find the cloud engine software easily in online market. However, iPhone is the only device which is made to fulfil your needs on cloud services by control it on cloud control panel.

Using iPhone to control your cloud services is easy and of course a simple way. You can even control the cloud services anytime you want and anywhere you are. All of cloud services is the important thinng on the computing and the IT maintenance landscape, because of its beneficial function and flexibility. Maintaining data with cloud computing is another advanced technology that we have never seen before.

Recently Inq Mobile has announces an application that offers more social-media services than Facebook Home, but it is closely to Facebook Home in the operation. The application that has been launches by Inq Mobile was SO.HO. The company wants to be the first thing you see while picking up your Android device by replacing the role of your launcher that is usually appear as well as TouchWiz, HTC Sense, stock, and so on. Not only offering easy access to check Facebook updates, SO.HO comes to let you see updates also from Twitter and Instagram.

Using SO.HO on your Android smartphone will ease you to see notifications from Facebook, Twitter and Instagram in one screen, and then you can check one by one of them right away. To get started using the application, you will need to install the most recent version of SO.HO, on your Android. After that, connect the social media accounts you want to see the updates from. Once you have finished the step, you can simply switch social media accounts from the top left-hand corner menu.

The format for social media feeds is comfortable on the eyes, and it includes in-line images so that you do not have to open any other application to view them. If you used to apply a manufacturer launcher, you may feel if the quick launch icons along the bottom of the screen you notice is a bit out of place, it is because SO.HO application mimics stock Android 4.0. If you want to top off the appealing look of this home replacement, it is also featured a bit of function too. This social media menu will let you post quickly the updates to Facebook or Twitter, and also offers a straight link to Instagram though it doesn’t take you right away to the photo sharing menu. Moreover, you can also like or leave a comment on things included in the application.

If you are intended to make SO.HO as the first thing you see when you click on the Home button, it is important to make sure that you select the application as default when you are given the option. If not, you can still benefit it as a standalone application to access all three services at once.

According to the information given by the owner, Inq Mobile, SO.HO application is still in beta and the company will be adding more of its users’ favorite social networks in the future.

Most of procrastinators say if learning languages drains more time and spends certain costs. That statement is just a reason since the latest technology has been making our life easier. Let’s say some applications which help us learn languages completely simple, they’re such a reflection how easy our life is. Similar to Babbel for mobile and Rosetta Course – samples of language learning applications – Duolingo comes to enter the ring and it has a lot of promise.

Duolingo is a language learning application that turns learning a language into a game, more than the other applications do. Once you launch this application, you are given a few hearts that represent your health pool that you do not want to lose during learning each level. Hearts can be lost if you answer the questions incorrectly. After finishing a lesson with hearts remaining, you will get an achievement to track your progress in the application.

To use this application, you just need to install a free copy of Duolingo for your Android device. This application is quite easy to manage, if you already have an account of Google+ or Facebook, or other social networks account, you can simply login using one of the account. But do not forget to make sure to check out the privacy settings on both of these social media options before you tap OK.

Duolingo currently has relatively limited language choice bit it is still sufficient if you are trying to learn one of the more popular languages but the Chinese language is still missing. You may opt for Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, or Italian. Besides that, Duolingo offers English translation to all of languages served except German.

While this application compared to the previous language learning application named Rosetta Course, the methods of Duolingo app is pretty similar to Rosetta Stone’s. In this application you are instructed to pick the picture that matches the words mentioned at the top of the screen. Duolingo requires a little bit more interaction while checking your answer than the other applications. As a bonus, this application offers some more practical exercises for learning the words, spelling and associated grammar.

Overall, Duolingo offers more features than other language learning applications have. Whether the method used is better or not, it actually depends on the student who uses the application. What do you think about this application?

All this time, we have acquainted with photo sharing application as well as the Instagram. But do you know if there is a quick photo sharing application named Analog Camera? If you feel it’s still strange to you, then let me explain through this blog post.

Analog Camera is a simple photo editor coming from RealMac software (the same folks who ever made the to-do-list application, Clear). Similar to Clear, the application has a minimalist design and intuitive controls that ease you to do photo sharing job quicker and easier.

Like other applications, the Analog Camera surely has the good and the bad side. This application is known and seeded to be an excellent photo sharing application for its capability of turning the sharing photos activity into an easy three-step process. The intuitive interface only requires swipe gestures to navigate the application. On the other hand, this application does not have basic fine-tuning controls that are usually found in another photo sharing application. Instead, in Analog Camera, you won’t see brightness, contrast, or saturation control.

Generally, Analog Camera is not a full-featured photo editor in the same pitch as applications like KitCam or PhotoToaster. This application only offers a couple of features which favor convenience and quick sharing. Once you launch this application, you will immediately find the viewfinder that will let you take a photo right away. On the top of this application, you will see thumbnails of your picture library which needs a downward swipe to see the picture, also, you will find the image in square form, so there is no need for landscape shots in this application.

Apart from the bad side of the application features, Analog Camera has nine filters that let you touch to see how each filter affects your photo look. The filters are not incredibly exciting but at least they are serviceable for quick photo sharing. Anytime you want to take another picture or grab one from your picture library, you can do a simple swipe down cancels the current project so you can start fresh.

Through Analog Camera for iOS, you can post photos to Facebook or Twitter with message attached along them. You also have the option to save the image to your camera roll, send photos via e-mail, or open it for further editing steps. Besides that, Analog Camera has better photo editors available although this could not be easier for quickly shooting a photo, sending it out in a minute or less, and slapping on a filter. In other words, this application has swipeable interface that makes sharing photos a snap and to add too much more might only slow the process.

The bottom line is the Analog Camera is good just the way it does. It will ease you in snapping photos quickly, adding filters and sharing. While if you need tons of frames, filters, and sliders to fine-tune your photos, you have to go look for elsewhere.

Steven Sinofsky said if it is too early to determine the winners and losers in PC industry since it evolves with new form factors. The former boss of Windows sees if Windows 8 is just doing fine, despite analyst reports that PC sales have declined, in part; it is because of tepid consumer interest to the 7-month-old operating system. Sinofsky revealed “It’s hard for me to look at selling 100 million of something and not be happy” at the D11 conference held on Thursday.

It can be said if the Windows 8 sale, since it has been launched, has reached the number of 100 million licenses. When asked why those Windows sales still have not regained PC sales overall, it is suspected to be Sinofsky suggested patience. The leader said if it would take a long time to make things play out and when it is going, you have to resist the urge to pick winners and losers.

At the earlier today, Microsoft started to shift course a bit with the OS. It came up with a series of new functions and features for Windows 8 which will be coming up in an update later this year, and of course some shortcomings of the operating system will be announced.

If we go back to talk about the Windows 8.1, we will probably know if the biggest reset of Windows 8.1 will be called as “Start tip” which refers to something of a half-step toward taking back the Start button that has been wanted by many critics. While clicking on the Start tip, it won’t take you to the familiar Start menu found in the previous version of Windows; instead, it will take users to the PC’S start screen to be customized if you want.

When being interviewed, Sinofsky did not talk about the Windows update so much. He talked more about software development and some of the challenges of innovating in a large organization nowadays.

"It's really just a classic Microsoft challenge -- you have all these people, and you want to align them," Sinofsky said, according to a live blog of the event by The Verge. "It's a management challenge, there's no shortage of ideas. You have to get them all on the same path.” He also did not declare about his departure from Microsoft corp., just a few weeks after the Windows 8 launched.

At d11 conference, Steven Sinofsky stated if his exit from Microsoft corp. was truly his choice. He is now teaching at Harvard Business School and sure about what he is doing and what he will do next. He also added if he compare his life while in sabbatical and his life now, he realized if he learned by writing and teaching.

A number of sources report that HTC is going to release a huge 5.9-inch smartphone in the second half of the year. The handset will be larger and more powerful. The Taiwanese analyst, Laura Chen said if this fall should be more convenient and sophisticated.

Are you a big fan of HTC devices? If yes, then you have to read this!

Apart from the ultra large screen size, other details tipped for the device is an upgraded processor, though the specific is still unclear. If we consider the HTC’s history of making cooperation with Qualcomm, we can infer that Qualicomm’s Snapdragon 800 chipset could power the phablet.

Fertile handset tipster @evleaks has also seemingly collected evidence that HTC is now trying large, pointing to a forthcoming HTC devices with the codename T6. Considering that rumor pans out, HTC phablet could boast a screen size similar to Samsung’s much-anticipated Galaxy Note 3.

Newly unveiled details for HTC’s new phablet T6 include 2GB RAM, a quad-core 2.3 GHz processor, a 5.9-inch 1080p HD display, 16GB internal storage and a rear camera that uses the same ultrapixel image processing like the HTC One has. T6 also powered by Android Key Lime Pie, the device may feature a large 3,300mAh battery, a digital stylus, and something we have not seen from an HTC phone in some time, it’s the microSD expansion slot.

Amid the finer points of T6, TheUnlockr media reported an updated version of Sense UI with a more customizable Blinkfeed experience. HTC is also issued to be cooperating on a protective case with an additional 1,250 mAh battery life. The earlier HTC rumors are reinforced with the analyst’s statement, Chen, who said that HTC plans to introduce an M4 smartphone in June that should be offered on a global market. Coming to the third quarter, HTC must be ready to announce an updated take on the Butterfly device.

Peeping at the near term, Laura Chen suggests that many things seem to be on the upswing to HTC, stating that “the worst is over” for the handset maker. After the HTC One has been launched, through a slow start, the company has successfully sold five million units.

The question is, could the new HTC phablet surprise and grab people’s attention in the global market? Let’s wait and see how the handset marketing will be going.