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Highest Grossing Movies of 2012

1	Marvel's The Avengers	BV	$623,357,910	4,349	$207,438,708	4,349	5/4	10/4
2	The Dark Knight Rises	WB	$448,139,099	4,404	$160,887,295	4,404	7/20	12/13
3	The Hunger Games	LGF	$408,010,692	4,137	$152,535,747	4,137	3/23	9/6
4	Skyfall	Sony	$283,700,000	3,526	$88,364,714	3,505	11/9	-
5	The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2	Sum.	$283,023,753	4,070	$141,067,634	4,070	11/16	-
6	The Amazing Spider-Man	Sony	$262,030,663	4,318	$62,004,688	4,318	7/3	10/14
7	Brave	BV	$237,236,938	4,164	$66,323,594	4,164	6/22	-
8	Ted	Uni.	$218,665,740	3,303	$54,415,205	3,239	6/29	10/25
9	Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted	P/DW	$216,391,482	4,263	$60,316,738	4,258	6/8	10/18
10	Dr. Seuss' The Lorax	Uni.	$214,030,500	3,769	$70,217,070	3,729	3/2	7/26
11	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	WB	$179,663,000	4,100	$84,617,303	4,045	12/14	-
12	MIB 3	Sony	$179,020,854	4,248	$54,592,779	4,248	5/25	9/9
13	Wreck-It Ralph	BV	$173,079,576	3,752	$49,038,712	3,752	11/2	-
14	Ice Age: Continental Drift	Fox	$161,075,066	3,886	$46,629,259	3,881	7/13	-
15	Snow White and the Huntsman	Uni.	$155,136,755	3,777	$56,217,700	3,773	6/1	9/6

-boxofficemojo.com

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Best Phone brands of 2012

source :http://www.mbaskool.com/fun-corner/top-brand-lists/3911-top-10-global-mobile-phone-brands-2012.html?start=1

10. HTC 

Taiwan based smart phone and tablet company has a net income of over $1.3 billion. Its Android operating system phones have helped boost its sales.  HTC was also awarded as the Device Manufacturer of the Year. 


9. Sony 

8.  Motorola

Telecom giant Motorola, which is into mobile phones, smart phones, tablets, networking etc, holds a strong position in the global market. After its division, it market was considerable affected and hence lost out on a significant market share.

 7. Blackberry

Business smart phones from Research in Motion Blackberry, have been known for their push mail and BBM chats worldwide. Global income of nearly $600 million makes it one of the most popular mobile brands and its recent change of positioning helped in increasing its target base too.

6. Huawei

With a global reach of over 140 countries, Chinese Huawei is one of the biggest players in the mobile handset industry globally. With revenue of $19 billion, the company which has over 140,000 employees, is easily one of the most influential global brands.

5. LG

With a sale of over 116 million handsets, LG mobile phones are one of the biggest mobile manufacturers of the world. The South Korean brand has a huge global presence.

4. ZTE

Chinese giant ZTE is one of the biggest telecommunication companies. Owing to the immense presence in China and also subsidiaries in Australia, Germany, USA and Hong Kong, ZTE has one of the biggest market shares in the world.

3. Apple

With a net income surpassing $25 billion, legendary visionary Steve Jobs' brain child Apple is easily one of the most recognized global brands in the world. With the iPhones and iPads capturing the market and making waves, Apple is one of the top three brands in the telecom handset segment.

2. Nokia

One of the undisputed market leaders for over two decades, Nokia with sales in over 150 countries, is still one of the biggest mobile handset players with a substantial market share. Revenues of over $38 billion, makes it one of the most powerful companies in the world.

and the best mobile phone company in the world 2012 :

1. Samsung

With the increasing popularity of Android OS smart phones, Samsung has leaped to the apex of the mobile handset industry. With quarterly sales crossing 28 million worldwide, Samsung mobiles phones hold the maximum market share in 2012.

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The Cherry Mobile Flare made it to TOP 3 in best smartphones in www.pinoytechblog.com

3. Cherry Mobile Flare

A lot of you may be wondering why I placed the Cherry Mobile Flare this high. Allow me to explain. This phone changed (skewed even) the meaning of “budget” smartphone. If you’re talking about a budget smartphone in today’s standards, it should have at least a 4-inch screen and a dual-core processor. Because of the Flare, people can’t help but compare other phones having almost similar specs to its price and it’s unfair really… to the other brands that is. And because of the Flare, we’ll expect to see more similarly priced and specc’ed smartphones early next year.

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Famous Failures

So, I've been scanning through my facebook posts and found this. I was extremely inspired and shocked at the same time. here's the photo :

Albert Einstein : He wasn't able to speak until he was almost 4 years old and his teachers said he would never amount too much

Michael Jordan : After being cut from his high school basketball team, he went home, locked himself in the room, and cried.

Walt Disney : Fired from a newspaper for "lacking imagination" and having no original ideas.

Steve Jobs : at 30-years-old he was left devastated and depressed after being unceremoniously removed from the company he started.

Oprah Winfrey : Was demoted from her job as a news anchor because "she wasn't fit for television."

The Beatles : Rejected by Decca recording studios, who said "we don't like their sound-they have no future in show business

so, also these very successful people experienced failures and devastation in their lives. So we must strive, fight and struggle for our dreams because at the end of the day,

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Samsung Galaxy S3 vs Iphone 5

iPhone 5 vs Samsung Galaxy S3 - Design, Screen and Power

source : http://www.trustedreviews.com/opinions/iphone-5-vs-samsung-galaxy-s3

 

The iPhone 5 is here, and selling by the million, but the Samsung Galaxy S3 is trumping it month after month in sales figures if uSwitch are to be believed. It's not just about the number of units sold though, the real question is which one you should spend your heard earned cash on, is it the iPhone 5 or the Galaxy S3?

They're both feature packed phones so we put them into the Thunderdome to test their mettle. Two go in, one comes out...

iPhone 5 vs Samsung Galaxy S3 - Video Comparison

If you want a detailed analysis on the Samsung Galaxy S3 and iPhone 5, you should read on below. There are plenty of insights to be found right here.

However, if video is more your thing then watch our brand new video comparing the white iPhone 5 with the black Samsung Galaxy S3. We preferred the black S3's looks over it's pebble blue and white siblings but you can decide for yourself below.



UPDATE: November 2012
According to uSwitch, the Samsung Galaxy S3 is actually the most popular phone in the UK at present, with the iPhone 5 taking the second place position. You'd be right to question the legitimacy of these claims, which the company says are based on live searches, pre-orders and pay monthly sales, but it's an interesting suggestion and there's some complementary evidence to suggest it may well be the case. The agressive patent wars between Apple and Samsung also suggest that Apple clearly recognises the massive threat Samsung poses to their domination of the smartphone market.

Apple usually keeps its cards close to its chest and the it has announced so far about iPhone 5 sales is the five million units sold in the phone's first three days. Samsung, on the other hand, has been less secretive. At the beginning of November, Samsung announced that the Samsung Galaxy S3 had sold 30 million handsets in its five months of life. This was the company's aim for the whole year, according to Samsung's JK Shin, talking back in September. The phone has proved an incredible success and keeps going from strength to strength.

Is this really more than the iPhone 5 has sold, though? At present there's no sure-fire way to know, as Apple simply hasn't released its figures. Sales of the latest iPhone have been strong, though, and Samsung is certainly a long way from winning the sales battle, but let's get to the meat of the subject - which is better the iPhone 5 or Samsung Galaxy S3.

UPDATE: Two months on - living with the iPhone 5 and Samsung Galaxy S3We've spent a good old while with these two phones, and have come to some conclusions about which is right for you. Below you'll find the same old specs comparisons if you want in-depth technical info, but here's what they're actually like to use.

Firstly, the difference in feel, thanks to the metal and plastic finishes respectively, soon fades away - more so than with the previous iPhone 4S. It's down to the type of metal used in the iPhone 5's construction. The new iPhone is made of aluminium, and it feels so very light that it doesn't quite have the solidity of the previous-gen models. A bit like a size-0 model, the iPhone 5 is teeny but it doesn't quite feel as healthy as some of the old phones.

Conversely, you get used to the plastic bod of the Samsung Galaxy S3 after just a short time. Quite how lightweight its plastic armouring is only becomes apparent when you take the battery cover off. And who really does that too often?

The adaptability of us humans makes us get used to things terribly quickly, and it helps on the screen front too. Upon first getting hold of the Samsung Galaxy S3 it felt that bit too big, but two months on it just doesn't. We even got used to the 5.5in Galaxy Note 2 pretty quickly.

However, if you have small hands you should definitely take note of the size issue. Even adaptability has its limits.

The giant screen of the Samsung Galaxy S3 makes it our top choice for web-browsing. With a screen this big, this high-resolution, there's so need to even thing about using mobile sites any longer. On this front, the Samsung Galaxy S3 has the edge over the iPhone 5.

On the fun front, though, the iPhone 5 has this argument on lock down. With such a healthy games and apps ecosystem, we found that we downloaded far more games with the iPhone 5 than the Samsung Galaxy S3. Yes, we spend more money but had more fun (or wasted more time) in the process.

If either gaming or web browsing are your key priorities, the choice seems a fairly easy one. Have other priorities? Check out the rest of our comparison below.

Design
iPhone 5 - 7.6mm thick, metal casing, non-removable battery
Samsung Galaxy S3 - 8.6mm thick, plastic casing, removable battery

Apple has taken aggressive measures to make the iPhone 5 as thin as possible. The rear layer of glass has gone, the phone uses a teeny nano-SIM and the screen technology merges its constituent layers to squish everything down as far as possible. As a result it's just 7.6mm thick, a full millimetre less than the Samsung Galaxy S3 - which is 8.6mm thick.

It's extremely impressive, and Apple has also tweaked the design of the phone to make it feel a bit less severe in the hand, despite being mega-thin. Its edges are slightly bevelled, rather than stepped, so it feels little more… hand-friendly. You still might want to grab a case for the utmost in hand comfort though. Crucially, the new etched aluminium back is much less slippy than previous versions and build quality is exceptional.

There is one slight issue, though, that's a bit of a problem if you opt for the black version of the iPhone 5. As its rear is aluminium, it is quite scratch-prone. In the black edition, any scratches are clearly visible as they reveal the bright silver of the aluminium underneath.

It's not such a problem with the white version, but has already left many new iPhone owners a little annoyed. Apple has admitted this issue, but says it's normal for an aluminium device.

Check out the iPhone 5's new design in our iPhone 5 preview gallery >

Samsung's great white (well, pebble blue, black or white) hope for 2012 has an all-plastic finish that uses a flimsy, ultra-thin back cover.  This is the one part of the phone that has caused the most criticism, as it doesn't make it feel all that much like a device you should be spending £500 on, even if in practical terms it's just as tough.


The Samsung Galaxy S3 is also significantly larger than the iPhone 5, thanks to its ginormous 4.8in screen. It's 71mm wide, while the iPhone 5 is around 58mm wide. Our top recommendation is to get hold of a Galaxy S3 before buying if it's on your hit list. Some will find it a bit too big for comfort.

Accessories
iPhone 5 - new-design Earpod headphones, new Lightning power connector
Samsung Galaxy S3 - microUSB charge cable, Samsung noise isolating IEM earphones, adapter

We don't normally compare the accessories of phones when we give them the head-to-head treatment, but Apple's accessories this time around are of note. The iPhone 5's headphoneshave been given a completely new design, one you just don't see elsewhere.



The headphones are called Earpods, and they're not the typical iPhone buds of old, or the common noise isolating IEM type either. They're small, made of plastic and are designed to nestle into your ear canals, offering a bit more noise isolation than the earbuds of old.

They're incredibly comfortable and fit securely too, and crucially for fellow train/coach/car/plane passengers, the Earpods leak much less sound to the outside world. They also sound pretty good too. Apple has completely redesigned the sound ports to boost bass and even out mid-range. The result is a surprisingly good listen, with good bass response and a notably wide sound stage. That said, they still don't block out external noise enough for our liking and we're only talking good for a £25 set of earphones - don't ditch your custom IEMs just yet.

The power cable of the iPhone 5 is also different, using the new 8-pin socket rather than the 30-pin type that has been in use for years. Apple calls it Lightning, which linguistically fits-in rather nicely with its Thunderbolt computer port. You also get a power adapter for the cable and a SIM removal tool.

Samsung's Galaxy S3 is more ordinary in its approach, though no less useful. It features a microUSB charge cable, a power adapter to plug this cable into and a standard pair of Samsung-branded IEM noise isolating earphones. The latter offer some external noise isolation but aren't actually that great when it comes to sound quality.

Screen
iPhone 5 - 4in IPS, 1,136 x 640 resolution
Samsung Galaxy S3 - 4.8in Super AMOLED, 1,280 x 720 resolution

Every generation of iPhone since the original of the species back in 2007 has uses the same size screen - 3.5in. That has all changed with the iPhone 5. It now has a widescreen 4in display of 1,136 x 640 pixels. 

It's this change of screen style that will make the iPhone 5 able to offer a larger screen without making the phone any wider. Pixel density is the same as the iPhone 4S too, although the new aspect will make it much better to watch movies on.

Many apps have already been tweaked to support the new longer screen while older ones will just leave bars where the extra pixels now live.


The Samsung Galaxy S3 cares a lot less about how wide it is than the iPhone 5. With a gigantic 4.8in display, the Galaxy will be too wide for some hands - it's a whopping 7.6cm across. Screen pixel density will be comparable to the new iPhone, though, with 720 x 1,280 spread across the display.

Cameras 
iPhone 5 - 8MP, LED flash
Samsung Galaxy S3 - 8MP, LED flash

Although many elements of the iPhone 5 have been improved hugely over its predecessor, the camera has only been given a slight upgrade. It's still an 8-megapixel sensor, and it still uses a pretty standard LED flash. Its aperture is f/2.4 and it uses a five-element lens. Like the iPhone 4S, the sensor offers backside illumination.


The Samsung Galaxy S3 has an 8-megapixel sensor and reams of features including image stabilisation, touch focus, 1080p video capture and an LED flash. However, its image quality is at best on-par with the iPhone 4S's camera (and outperformed by it in some conditions) and we hope that the iPhone 5 will offer some significant improvements.

The iPhone 5 also offers an impressive looking panorama mode - just tap and pan to automatically create an image. Unlike other similar panorama modes we've seen this one keeps the full size image, giving you up to 28 megapixel images - nice.

Battery
iPhone 5 - 1440mAh
Samsung Galaxy S3 - 2100mAh

The iPhone 5 hasn't gotten a huge battery increase over its predecessor.  The iPhone 4S has a 1430mAh unit, and the iPhone 5 a 1440mAh unit. It'll last for 40 hours of audio playback, or up to eight hours of talk time, with 3G enabled.

Also, like previous iPhones you can't swap out the battery on the iPhone 5, so if you're caught short without power you're done for... well, your phone is anyway.

Samsung made a particularly strong effort with the latest Galaxy's battery, outstripping most of its rivals by around 20 per cent. For example, the HTC One X uses an 1800mAh unit and the Sony Xperia S a 1750mAh battery. 

In spite of the larger screen and only slight capacity increase, the iPhone 5 betters the stamina offered by the iPhone 4S. Apple must have put some real effort into this.

Verdict
More than is often the case, the battle between the iPhone 5 and Samsung Galaxy S3 is the very definition of the case between iOS and Android, between Apple and Google. The Samsung Galaxy S3 is more flexible, with expandable memory and a more malleable OS. However, the metal body of Apple's phone feels a lot more premium, and is a much friendlier design for those with less than giant hands. And with the larger 4in screen, it won't feel quite so tiny next to the Samsung Galaxy S3, either.

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The Cherry Mobile Flare

The Cherry Mobile Flare - Android ICS 4 Inch IPS display for only PHP 3,999 ? How Cool is that?

Okay, to be fair, the Cherry Mobile Flare doesn’t exactly look bad. In fact, it looks like it costs more than the Php3,999 that I paid for it (after standing in line for 4 hours). A CD-R King saleslady even mistook it for one of the small new Xperia phones when I was out looking for a cheap micro SD card for my Flare. However, there’s nothing unique or inspiring about it. It’s literally just a black slab of plastic with a screen that dominates the front of the device. Below that gorgeous IPS display are 4 capacitive buttons: home, menu, back and search. Above the screen is the speaker grill when receiving calls, the 1.3mp front-facing camera, and the proximity and light sensors.

Running along the left side of the Cherry Mobile Flare, you’ll find the volume rocker toward the top and the micro-USB port near the bottom. The right side of the phone is absolutely devoid of any hardware controls and other details, save for a small notch on the back cover to help you pry it open when you want to get to the battery, SIM cards or microSD. At the top and on the lefthand side is the 3.5mm headphone jack while to the right is the power/lock button. On the bottom, you’ll find the microphone pinhole for voice calls or recording audio. The 5mp camera and LED flash can be found at the back, along with tiny Flare branding in the middle and the Cherry Mobile branding closer to the bottom where the loudspeaker grill is at. source : noypigeeks.com

The Screen: Gorgeous 4 Inches of IPS

The 4 inch IPS display of the Cherry Mobile Flare is one of its obvious key selling points, and it has a resolution of 480 x 800 (WVGA). That equates to a pixel density of 233ppi, which is really sharp when compared to other phones that you can get at similar price points. For example, the Galaxy Y has a pixel density of 133ppi while the Optimus L3 has an even crappier 125ppi. Color reproduction is also quite remarkable, and it really showed when I used on of my favorite multicolor wallpapers on the lockscreen. It’s really nice to wake up the device and be treated to colors as rich and vibrant as the Flare is capable of. Viewing angles are also great, but not especially so. While most budget smartphones out there come with cramped 3-3.5 inch low resolution screens, the Flare is an absolute steal with its larger, sharper and more vibrant IPS display. A larger screen means better enjoyment when watching movies, playing games, and reading articles on the web, simply because of how much more detail the screen is capable of.

However there is a downside to the Flare’s screen. It’s only a two-point touch, multi-touchscreen, meaning it can only recognize two simultaneous screen presses at any given time. Two-point touchscreens on most smartphones are a bit flawed because they have a hard time recognizing simultaneous key presses that are spaced close together. So it will sometimes recognize key presses from two different fingers as just a single key press. This wouldn’t be much of a problem if it were just about navigating through the UI, but there are other areas of the phone’s usability that this affects, which we’ll get to a bit later.

The Chipset: Dual Core on a Budget

Another key selling point of the Cherry Mobile Flare is that it comes with a 1.2 GHz dual core Qualcomm MSM7627A CPU coupled with an Adreno 203 GPU. Not only does the Flare have a gorgeous display, it’s also quite fast and zippy. In fact, when I was first standing in line to buy the Flare, I knew what the specs were but still had some tempered expectations. Needless to say, I was quite impressed by how responsive the Cherry Mobile Flare was when navigating the UI or running various games and apps.

“Not only does the Flare have a gorgeous display, it’s also quite fast and zippy.”

Of course, user experience can be rather subjective. What about hard numbers? I ran the Flare on 3 popular benchmarking apps. Quadrant and AnTuTu are popular benchmarking apps that measure CPU, I/O and graphics performance, while KFS Benchmark is a graphics benchmarking tool that measures framerates through 3 different OpenGL 2.0 tests that stress vertex throughput, fill rate, and draw calls.

I scored a 2,929 on Quadrant, which is better than what Galaxy Nexus and Atrix 4G users scored. I also ran it through AnTuTu v3.0.1, although this time I got 6,319, which is slightly worse compared to the Galaxy Nexus. Finally, I ran it through KFS, where it averaged 25.393 FPS (frame rates per second). When it came to the KFS tests, the Flare performed quite well in the fill rate test, topping out at 32.965 FPS while the vertex throughput and draw calls were stuck at 22.793 and 22.761 respectively.

These are very respectable numbers that show that the Cherry Mobile Flare is able to perform on par with a phone like the Galaxy Nexus. To put things in perspective, The Galaxy Nexus still sells for a little more than Php15k in the gray markets. You’re getting almost that same level of performance for just Php3,999. Cool, huh?

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